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tA KDNEf.UAY MORNING, SEPT 21.
THK WEATHER AND THE CROPS.
The continued heavy rains of the last
ten days have been very detrimental to the
cotton crop. Prom all parts of the btate
we havo accounts of injury done, and in
some instances lamentable “calculations”
of the great falling off in the crop from the
excessive moisture and gales.
THK BTATK FAIR.
We acknowledge the receipt of an invi
tation from Mayor Huff to visit the State
Fair, which takes in Macon on the
23d, 24tb, 25th and 26th of next month.
Ample preparations aro feeing made for
this exhibition, and we learn that the
grounds, naturally beautiful, have been
greatly improved under the good taste and
indefatigable exortions of Mayor Huff.
We hope to be able to attend and witness
the samples of Georgia thrift, industry
and geDius which will bet Len presented.
THK 221) SENATORIAL DISTRICT.
The returns from this District show
that Col. Simmons, the Democratic candi
date, has been elected by a very large
majority. In the election last fall the
District was carried by the Radicals.
Tho great ohaDgo which has takon plaoo in
this District cannot be attributed alone to
tho personal popularity of Col. Sim
mens, though we believe ho is person
ally as strong in the affections of the peo
ple as any man in the District. The
Democratic masses rallied to his support
with great enthusiasm, bceauso they knew
Col. Simmons was a truo man anl a
thorough Domooraf.
Wo congratulate tho people of tho State
upon this acquisition to real Democratic
strength in the Senate. Col. S. was a
good soldier and an ablo and accomplished
officer during tho late war, a valuable
member of tho Legislature in 1865-6, and
wo know that as a member of the ap
proaohing Legislature he will tako a high
rank as an intelligent, upright and fearless
protector of the people’s rights-
ORGANIZATION OF THK LEGISLATURE.
As tho time for the meeting of the Le
gislature approaches, considerable interest
is being manifested in tho organization of
that body, and tho names of several
gentlemen are suggested by their friends
in connection with tho scvortl offiocs to
bo filled.
For President of tho Sonate, wo bear
montioned Hon. Wm. M. Roese, of Wilkes;
Hon. R. E. Lester, of Chatham, and Hon.
R. B. Hinton, ot Marion. Either of these
gentlemen wonld make a good presiding
officer, and the friends of caoh scorn to bo
warmly enlisted in bis favor.
For Speaker, we have heard of the
names of but two gentlemen—Major J. B.
0 urn icing, of this city, and Colonel M. 0.
Smith, of Muscogee. Eastern Georgia
claims that as the Fifth proved herself in
the late election the champion Congres
sional Distriot in the State, her claims
to the favor and indulgence of the party
should be gratified by the selection for
Speaker of ono of the distinguished gentle
men whose services so largely contributed
to our unparalleled success, and points to
Major Camming as a gentleman well
known in this State and combining all the
elements necessary for a good and useful
“ Speaker." However, if a majority of
the Democratic members should be of a
different opinion, we are quite sure that
Colonel Smith will receive the hearty
support of all true Democrats from every
section of the State. We teel authorized
to say in advance, that whoever may bo
selected by a fair caucus as candidates of
the party, will lie warmly supported by
the honest men of the Legislature. And
in this connection it may be well to
insist that tlie party bold a caucus
and select from themselves tlie men to be
elected to tho different offices. Lot us
not, bcoausc wo havo a majority in both
houses, conclude that nothing can bo
gainod by such a oourse. It is the only
way to prevent a largo majority from bo
ing torn, by fouds and cliques, and its
power destroyed by dissentions between
its own members. Besides, the Radicals
will, perhaps, bo 6trong enough to take
up some “ moderate” Democrat, make a
bargain with him about a division of the
spoils, and hence givo us muck trouble.
To avoid all this, let tho party meet in
caucus, carctully consider the claims and
morits of each gentleman, and then make
a selection.
This oourse will be quite as necessary
in tho selection of candidates for State
House and other offices. Let us have
true and tried Democrats, of the full blood,
in every case. This can be best secured
by tho adoption of the caucus system.
We can’t afford to wrangle among our
selves over theso offices. The country re
quires that tho best men should be selected,
and representatives should hear this con
stantly in mind and endeavor to discard
personal preferences when they run counter
to the general will.
TRKASUBT FOLLHCB, OB WORSE.
We pointed out the other day how the
Government was paying for three months
six per cent, interest on old bonds and five
per cent, on new—eleven on both—while ■
boasting of its financial ability, economy !
and success. Negotiations like these are
neither in the spirit nor letter of the law,
but a violation of both; and as if this re- j
cord against tho interests of the Govern
ment was not bad enough, it becomes ne
cessary to notice the continued accumula
tion of gold in the Treasury, where seventy
four millions are held, although no interest
is payable till November, when some
eighteen millions more will be added,
making the Treasury coin balanee fully
ninety-two millions. It is very properly
said that if the weekly sales of gold were
doubled, the interests of the Government
would not be compromised, while the com.
mcrcial business of tho country would be
improved. The fall trade, now opening
auspiciously, depends in part, it is thought,
on the stability of gold, which must be en
sured by larger sales.
But the speculators, having a sharper
eye to making money for themselves than
the Government has for the public inter
ests, continue to manipulate the gold mar
ket, while the Secretary of the Treasury, '
once a week or so, doles out his million of
dollars. Many of these speculators are
foreigners, who, with others, oombine to
control most of the gold—say from $8,000,-
000 to sl4,ooo,ooo—which enters into the
business transactions of the street. Be
sides this amount, four or five millions are
in the hands of a clique, for purposes of
speculation. In view of this speculation
and its probable effect on business, the
Secretary of the Treasury is asked to pay
off the “ noticed” Five-Twenties on pre
sentation, in gold, and thus to save inter
est for the Treasury. For every million
redeemed he will save 1} percent., or
three times the amount allotted by Con*
gress for the expense of printing and nego
tiating the bond?. If Mr. Boutwell pie
fers to allow double interest to the syndi
cate, and thus makes the country pay
more for the negotiation of the new loan
than was authorized by law, he must ex
pect to suffer. He has coin in hand to
pay without delay. If not used, it is and
will be of no value to the Government, but
accumulate to the detriment of business
and to aid speculators.— New York Ex
preu.
THK COTTON CROP.
The Oolnmbns Enquirer , published in
the centre of the finest cotton region in
the world, still adheres to its opinion that
the growing crop will fall much below
three millions of bales. In its issue of
Tuesday last we find the following :
“We heard, yesterday, of a Muscogee
planter who made one hundred and twen
ty bales of cotton last year, who has this
year planted the same land in cotton that
he did last year, and who is offering to
sell his growing crop as thirty bales at the
ruling price! In view of such facts as
this, and of the wonderfully short receipts
as compared with the corresponding dates
of last year, it is not easy to measure the
faith of some men who still talk of a crop
exceeding three millions of bales.”
THK STATE ROAD—ANOTHER ARREST.
Charles P. McCaila, late book-keeper of
the S.ate Road, has been arrested upon
an affidavit charging him with embezzle
ment of the funds of tho road. McCaila,
our readers will remember, has been the
leading spirit in pointing out the small
thieves who have been already arrested,
and has been active in discovering and
furnishing evidence to convict them. He,
in cum, is now arrested for tho same of
fense. We give below the evidence of the
chief witness against him, as delivered
before Justice Butt, on Saturday last, as
we find it in tho Constitution ;
B. F. MOORE WAS SWORN.
A book was offered to witness, and
Major Hargrove demanded the cause of
its introduction in evidence. Colonel Far
row stated that the book would show that
largo balances were standing over, etc.,
with no credits, etc.
After considerable discussion, the Court
ruled that the book could be introduced.
Witness said that he had been keeping
books seventeen years, and had kept the
books of the Western and Atlantic Rail
road for some part of that time. Witness
examined the book and said that there was
a batauee of two hundred and six dollars
in favor of tho Western and Atlantic Rail
road with no credit, said amount due
from the Cincinnati, Cleveland and Co
lumbus Railroad, and also that there was
a balance in favor ot the Western and
Atlantia Railroad from the Cincinnati and
Dayton Railroad of four dollars and forty
eight cents, with no credit.
At thisjuDcturc tho Stato proposed so
provo that other roads wero indebted on
tho books to the State Road, and that
theso sums had been collected by defend
ant and do credits made. This eamo with
in the resting of tho Court, and the State
was required to amend tho warraut, when
about a dozen other railroad companies
wero added. Counsel for tho defendant
said that they would admit getting the
money but would show where it went to.
Witness stated that there was a balance
due on the books from tho Mobile and
Ohio Railroad, of two hundred and forty
nine dollars, with no credits.
Also, from the Michigan Central Rail
road, of two hundred and eighty-seven
dollars, with no credits.
Also,‘that there was a balance due from
tho Pensacola aod Mobile Railroad, of one
hundred and ninety-two dollars, with no
credits.
Also, of $Bl from the Terre Haute
Railroad, with no oredit.
Also, of $lO from the Pennsylvania &
Louisville Railroad, with no crodits.
Also, of sl3 from the Virginia and Ten
nessee Air Lino Railroad, with no credits.
Also, of $77 from tho St. Louis and
Terre Haute Railroad, with no credits.
Also, of $54 from the Memphis and St.
Louis Packet Company, with no credits-
Also, of $7 from tho Milwaukee and St.
Paul Railroad, with do credits.
Also, of sl2 from the Paduoah and Gulf
Railroad, with no credits.
Also, of $77 from tho South and North
Alabama Railroad, with no credits.
Also, of $7 from the Indianapolis and
BloomiDgtoD Railroad, with no credits.
Also, of $7 from tho Burlington and
Missouri Railroad, with no credits.
Also, of $6 from the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad, with no credits.
Also, $8 from the Boston and Albany
Railroad Company, with no credits.
Also, of $372 from tho Louisville and
Cincinnati Short Line Railroad, with no
oredits.
Also, of SSO from tho Tennessee Coal
River Railroad, with no credits.
Witnesses stated that all these balances
wero duo on the 31st of December, 1870,
and that if they had been paid, the pay
ments should havo been credited on the
books. Cos). Farrow said that these roads,
with others, owed about $15,000, which
he expected to provo was received ana not
accounted for by the defendant. Witness
examined tho book generally,and said that
there a great many unsettled balances in
the books duo from other railroads to the
Western and Atlantic,with no credits.
Witness said the book contained the
handwriting of kimsiif 1 Mr. Blako and de
fendant.
Witness next examined cash book, and
stated that no oredits of tho amounts due
by the foregoing railroads had been made
sinoo January 1, 1871. Witness further
stated that he has been for some time past
employed in bringing up tho books of tho
Western and Atlantic Railroad, and that
none of them show any entries of reoeipts
or disbursements by defendant sinoe Janu
ary 1, 1871. Witness was shown a num
bet of letters from offioers of the said rail
road companies to defendant, enclosing
checks for certain amounts cf money.
CROSB EXAMINED.
Does not know that any of tho balances
have been paid. Has not seen any vouch
ers or statements of money paid out by
defendant. Has not looked over all the
papers. Does not know that defendant
has used any of this money, nor that de
fendant now has any money belonging to
the State Road. Knows nothing about it
except from the books and letters. The
usual course is for the book-keeper to take
the treasurer’s receipt for money. It
sometimes happens that money is kept a
short time without, making an entry.
Would not make memcrandas of money
received, but would keep it in the original
package- If it was to be feared that any
thing would be wrong, money might well
be placed in bank, and not turned over.
When witness was book-keeper, he did uot
receive money. If the treasurer had not
been bonded, and was in arrear, it might
have been proper to put money in bank.
We learn that in addition to the counsel
present that Col. Bleckley and General
Toombi will appear for the defense, and
General Ganreli and Collier & Mynatt.
At the conclusion of Mr. Moore’s evi
dence the Court adjourned until 8 a. m.,
i Tuesday.
The name or Gen. Joseph E. John
ston has been suggested by a correspond
ent of the Savannah Republican as a can
didate for Mayor of that city. If the
people of that city desire a change in
their municipal government, we are quite
sure they could not select a truer, better
man than General Johnston. His selec
tion as Mayor would be a well merited
tribute to his worth and do honor to the
city. .
Good Words. — IFe call upon the people
to let neither dimension, nor vice, nor pre
judice, nor bayonet fear , deter them from
duty nor drive them from the true interests
of the nation. A few votes may be bought
at the expense of public treasure, or con
trolled by corrupt schemes, but American
honor still remains with the people of the
true Democracy to relieve the nation of
that distress, oppression and misrule which
have been entailed upon it by the present
corrupt administration.
[Thomaston Herald.
Counsel in State Road Investiga
tions. —We understand Governor Bullock
has employed as counsel in the prosecu
tion of parties engaged in the State Road
swindles Hon. Benj. H. Hill, of Athens;
Hon. J- W. H. Underwood, of Rome, to
gether with Attorney General Farrow, of
this oity.— Constitution.
BEAST BI’TLKK.
The canvass in the Radical party in
Massachusetts, for a candidate for Gover
nor, waxes warmer every day. Butler has
been for some weeks canvassing the State
to secure the nominatioc, while many of
the leading Radical papers in and out of
the State have poured hot shot into his
aspirations for Gubernatorial honors.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
(Rad.) thus photographs this Radical
monster for the benefit of its readers:
B. F. Butler, of Massachusetts, the
yoke-mate, in many respects, of Colonel
Fisk, of New York, is making in our best
gatbered-up aod most sterling Common
wealth, Massachusetts, the spectacle which
has saddened the friends of human nature
since the flood ; an enemy, by night, sow
ing tares. There is something terrible, at
times, in the world “smartness,” so trite
in use here. To see the man with a trick
put down the man with a character is less
melancholy than to see the crowd look on
ard langb. The smart mountebank in the
square of a city, lecturing to a multitude
of sturdy, unworldly, simple people, and
applying his nostrums, can scarcely give
concern to either priest or physiciao ; but
to see this same quack debauching a noble
community of freemen, entrusted by a
temperate and benevolent age with the
choice of their rulers, would te alarming
if we did not know that all things unsound
aro short. This person is in the hey-dey
of his career. He has notoriety, position,
fortune, spirits, splenetic splendor of taunt
and repartee, the applause of babes, suck
lings, growlings, and cowards (that un
interesting minority of mankind), aod the
half sympathy of certain men like Wen
dell Phillips, whose once kindly, manly
impulses, overgrown by the accumulating
vanity of supernumerary publicity, preach
us the old sermon that our virtues, over
ripe, are ody our vices. His overvaun
ted record in the war—which, sifted,
amounts to this, that he was a successful
Provost Marshal, forager, and quarreler,
and brutal in all three—has been raised
by unsound biographers like Parton into
an uneasy eminence which has imposed
upon the public sentiment of Massachu
setts. With matchless audacity he is now
attempting to make capital out of “ the
number and bitterness of his assailants,”
but there is not one notable man amongst
these who was not originally outraged by
Butler, and generally for no other ref son
than discovering the dangerousness of the
man. Mr. Butler’s power, if it be power,
in debate, requires invariably that he
should first steal something ot a confiden
tial nature, and then misinterpret it, anil
there is no service one cun render him equal
to purloining a private letter or telegram.
Conceive of a man expecting to be illus
trious in our history, stealing a hotel regis
ter to photograph the entries upon it, that
lie might injure a fellow-officer in his dis
tant constituency. And yet Butler’s mili
tary and public record is not far above
this in respectability. He is my beau ideal
of the President of the Irish Republic; he
would get more enthusiasm than O’Con
nell, because he would be less consistent,
and all his hangings would be popular be
cause they would be so many and so in
discriminate; he would abandon his party
oftener, declare war with more proclama
tion, and have a corrupter government
than any since the days of Brian Bora.
And when we come to conceive the offi
cial editor and the official newspaper of
this supposititious government by Butler,
there fancy fads us; this newspaper could
only be published; by Boss Tweed, and
edited mutually by Patriok J. Meahan and
Brick Pomeroy. Gath,
The Ku-Klux Troubles In South Caro
lina.
The following is tho reply of Senator
Scott to the President in regard to the de
nial of outrages in Spartanburg county,
South Carolina:
Huntingdon, September 12,1871.
To the President of the United States:
Sir—On the Bth instant a dispatch, da
ted at Charleston on the 7th, was publish
ed in tho leading newspapers, stating in
effect that a number of the citizens of
Spartanburg oounty, including the United
States Commissioner and other officers,
had addressed a letter to me referriog to
the statements and affidavits submitted to
you with my letter of the Ist instant, and
declaring upon inquiry they were unable
to hear of any outrage having been com
mitted in that county since the sub-com
mittee of which I was ohairtnan left it,but
on the contrary there was profound peace
and quiet in the oounty. I was glad to
loam that there was even a probability
of my informant having been mis
taken, and rested satisfied that your
Excellency would delay any further action
until this conflict of statements was cleared
up. lam this morning in receipt of the
letter alluded to in the dispatch, and of
other communications on the same subject,
all of which I take pleasure in laying be
fore you for your consideration. The ag
gravated case mentioned in the papers
submitted to you as having occurred in
Spartanburg county was that of a man
named Qninn, who was stated to have
been brutally whipped in Pacolet town
ship, in that county. The letter of Col.
Gabriel Cannon and another letter of Dr.
A. W. Cummings, both reaching me to
day, and are herewith submitted, taken
together show that the outrage was com
mitted in Union county, a short distance
from the line of Spartanburg county,
while Quinn was there on a visit to his
brother-in-law ; that Quinn is a citizen of
Spartanburg county, and that one of the
persons arrested for the offense is also a
citizen of that county. This correc
tion of the former statements would,
therefore, show that instead of vio
lence having been renewed in Spar
tanburg county, as before stated, it
has been renewed in the border of Union,
near Spartanburg, upon a citizen of Spar
tanburg, and in all probability by citizens
of Spartanburg. The disclosure of what
had occurred in the counties alluded to,
and the state of feeling existing there, sat
isfied at least a majority of the sub-com
mittee that if violence was again commit
ted by disguised men no remedy existed
either in public sentiment or the local tri
bunals, and it was in that belief that citi
zens were informed that your attention
would be called to any renewal of such
offenses with a view to a more rigid
remedy. It was for the purpose of dis
charging that- duty that I before addressed
you, and iu again doing so I invite your
attention to the whole correspondence
transmitted with this and my former let
ter. No one will rejoice more than lif in
the counties affected by these occurrences
the rights and privileges of all citizens can
be secured and protected without resort to
the extreme limit of power entrusted to
you by law. Yours, &c.,
John Scott.
A Joke on Greelet.— Horace Gree
ley, L L. D., is on his tour of the West
and Northwest. He arrived at Lafayette,
Indiana, and met with a most cordial re
ception. A fair was being held, and the
city, in expectancy of his arrival, was
crowded with people. He was escorted to
the fair grounds, and there delivered an
address, strictly confining himself to sub
jects of agricultural interest. In tho after
noon he attended a grand banquet, given
by the Hon. James Howe, at his residence,
and in the evening a reception was given
at the house of Colonel Williams, the
entire city turning out to greet the distin
guished guest. A correspondent _ tells a
decidedly good joke in connection with the
visit of Mr. Greeley. While looking at the
various agricultural implements on exhi
bition at the fair, he was introduced to
Mr. W. S. Lingle, editor of the Lafayette
Courier. Bowing politely, Mr. Lingle
said he was exhibiting on the grounds a
new corn sheller, an invention of his own,
and he asked Mr. Greeley to go with him
!to inspect it. Mr- Greeley willingly as
; seated, and the two started off- Mr.
: Lingle led the way to the pig sties, and
| showed Mr. Greeley the meanest looking
hog ia all Indiana, Its nose was two feet
: long, and its back as sharp as a carving
j knife. Its legs were like those of a crane,
| and its tail couldn’t have been curled with
! the tongs of a belle. Mr. Lingle pointed
to this wonderful quadruped with infinite
pride and said : “Tnere, sir, is my patent
corn sheller. What do you think of it?”
Mr. Greeley looked at Mr. Lingle, and
then at the wonderful bog. Presently a
broad smile beamed on his face, and he
turned away without uttering a word,
feeling, doubtless, completely “sold.”
The dramatized Edwin Drood makes
John Jasper guiltless, and brings Edwin
cut alive and healthy.
A St. Lonis woman, not quite making
up her mind to sewer-cide, whiled away
sixteen hours in a cistern. She recovered
without a stomach-pump.
A Pittsburgh poet has “dropt upon
thy grave some natural tears, but wiped
them soon.” He doesn’t say so, but its
more than likely that be then went off
and wrote some resolutions to inflict upon
the newspapers.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1871.
[communicated.]
Augusta and Hartwell Rail
road.
Editors Chronicle <t Sentinel :
Having read, with some surprise, a
communication in the Constitutionalist,
sigDcd and evidently from “ Dark Cor
ner,” taking to task severely the good
people of Augusta for their failure to see
gcod things in the present organization of
the A. & H. R. R. Cos., and to tush fran
tically to the aid of the marlpots who have
come down here to show our people how
build railroads without a dollar of money
in bank to the credit of the eminent (?)
President, the able and efficient Director,
from Australia, and the worthy Secretary,
from the Philadelphia prison, to say
nothing of the bankrupt contractors. I
say it is my purpose, briefly, to show why
any faction exists, if any does, and why all
have not the same confidence in the or
ganization that seems to have taken such
strong possession of “ Dark Corner.”
The only paragraph that shall be
specially noticed is the last one of (he
labored effort, where the “ Casey faction”
are threatened “ a touching up” at the
pens point (the mighty instrument of little
men) by “ Dark Corner.”
The public may not be posted as to
what caused tho formation of “ a faction,'
and wo desire to impart the information.
Sometime after the close of the war,
when the monarchs of the North could
find nothing further in our poor down
trodden laud to steal, they sent amoDg us
a horde of needy adventurers, who have
turned their attention to stealing our poor
promises to pay—that is, oar State bonds.
It was at this juncture that Chapman and
his crew turned their attention to Georgia
—the poor lemqn South Carolina having
been squeezed dry. He ingratiated him
self by big representations of the immense
capitalist who sent him South—John I.
Biair and others, and for two years he
fed the “ Casey faction ” on promises,
which, upoD investigation, were found to
be “as baseless as the fabric of a dream.”
Then it was that Dr. Casey resolved that
ho at least would have nothing to do
with a man of whom we had collected in
dubitable facts to prove was the ver
iest imposter and scoundrel—utterly
unworthy the confidence of aDy one, and
more devoid of truth than the wind is of
substance.
liis worthy Secretary—one Charles 1L
Abbott, formerly of the Moyamensing
Penitentiary—about this time, said that
he could send George D. Chapman to the
like institution at Milledgevilie, and upon
tho undisputed theory that a thief knows
a thief, we were forced to admit that Ab
bott must know Chapman thoroughly,
or at least his statement verified others
which we were then receiving from New
Haven. It was then that tho “ Casey
faction" was formed, if there is such a
faction in existence.
No one, not even “Dark Corner,” will
assert that Dr. Casey has not labored early
and late for the success of the Augusta &
Hartwell Railroad ; but he, as well as
others who are posted, know that the
road, as at present organized, has no
prospect of building evoD ten miles of the
road. A recent visit to New York con
firms this belief.
Who is E. Hanford, tho man who is to
build the road ? Look at Bradstreet’s Re
ports of the Ist of July, 1871 — in Bank
ruptcy. Refer to Dunn’s Reports to see
the standing of E. Hanford & Cos., “Con
tractors” —not quoted. Now, as a friend
of the A. & 11. R. R, we see no hope
from these new mighty contractors. In
our opinion, the company which follows
the name of E. Hanford . is composed of
George D. Chapman and William H.
Thorpe, of “Derby” and “Port Royal”
railway fame.
Within a week we havo been in
formed that the contract which was
so highly approved by the direction, at the
late love feast, is being hawked about tbe
streets of New York for sale for cash and
a little chance at the stealings.
We wish to put a question to “Dark
Corner” and his sanguine friends. If the
notes and acceptances of H. I. Kimball,
President of the Brunswick and Albany
Railroad Company, are being protested in
Atlanta, daily, what do you think will be
come of Hanford, Chapman & Co.’s paper
when they fasten their talons upon our too
confiding people ?
Kimball’s road, which runs through a
low, level, piney country for the greater
part of its length, and which had been
graded for upwards of sixty miles before
the war, lias had State aid to the amount
of $23,000 per mile in gold bearing seven
per cent, bonds.
Kimball is a smart business man, and
far more genteel than many of the hungry
horde, whilst Chapman is the merest tyro,
who does not know how to buy a mule in
a business-like manner, and his road,
which is to run through a rough but pro
ductive country, only has State aid to the
amount of $15,000 per mile, and that in
currency bonds.
Tho direction may pass complimentary
resolutions to Geo. D. Chapman, and may
unanimously elect Charles R. Abbott Sec
retary, but tbe fact is still patent that the
road is not built nor likely to be by Chap
man’s crew.
Those who are friends ot the A. & H.
R. R. enterprise should unite to take the
charter from the Northern shysters who
have fastened upon it, for we will risk our
life on the assertion “ that if you would
dump forty thousand tons of epicao into
the lower regions, it would not vomit up
three bigger scroundrels” than Chapman,
Thorpe and Abbott. M.
Letter from Greene.
Greensboro, Ga., Sept. 16,1871.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
On my arrival at Greensboro, the first
object worthy of attention was anew hotel
at the depot, designed as a railroad eating
house, which, according to the present
schedule, will be a convenient arrange
ment. I learn that trains will be fed at
this house as soon as its provisions are
complete, and am assured, from the repu
tation of its proprietors, that satisfaction
will be given to the traveling public. Those
who may have business in the town will
find pleasaut accommodations at this house,
be saved from baggage tax, and take the
tTains day or night without any trouble.
The GreeDC Suporior Court is always an
occasion of interest, not only to her own
citizens, but to visitors from surrounding
counties. By common consent, or ic ac
cordance with an established custom, the
people come together to see each other,
and talk over the political, religious, social
and nraterial interests of the oountry; to
see the new inventions of agricultural and
horticultural implements, and machines for
facilitating domestic labors, the best pro
ducts of the stable and the farm, which
are generally, more or less, on exhibition.
No where do we witness more of intelli
gence, sobriety and deoorous conduct, and
hearty and cordial greetings among men,
than in Greene. With the crowds of old
and young in the streets the past week, I
have not seeD a single one drunk, or heard
any indeoent laegaage.
The Court opened on the 12th instant,
with a oharge to the Grand Jury, by his
Honor Judge Robinson, replete with clear
and forcible expositions of the Penal Code,
and urgent appeals to observe and obey it
as the only sufficient protection to the life,
liberty and property of the citizen.
Os the visiting gentlemen of the Bar
present were General Toombs, of Wilkes ;
Judge J. L. Harris, of Baldwin ; Hon.
Augustas Reese, Cols. Billips, McHenry
and son, and the Messrs. Fosters and
Thurmond, of Morgan ; Col. Winkfield,
of Patnarn ; Col. Jordan, of Jasper; Maj.
McDaniel, of Walton, and Judge Rrister,
of Taliaferro. .
On Tuesday mormog W. D. Atkinson,
Esq., of Greene county, a young gentle
man of fine promise, was examined
pretty thoroughly in the various branches
of the science, and admitted to the prac
tioe.
Several civil cases have been up for
trial, some quite heavy, and eliciting con
siderable interest, ana though this docket
has been vigorously prosecuted, ic will
hardly be cleared the present week. Only
a few criminal cases ; and one of them
was a negro charged with disturbing re
ligious worship and carrying concealed
weapons, was tried, found guilty, and
made to pay one thousand dollars, or serve
six months on the ohain-gang. Let others
who are disposed to do like conduct take
warning.
The crops in some portions of the county
are quite poor, the cotton generally will
be a failure, but it is thought enough of
oorn will be made for home consumption.
Some of the planters talk zealously of ex
perimenting in the Western grasses, which
I presume will be extensively sowed the
present season. These grasses are said to
yield more, with less trouble, and less in
jury to the land, than any;of the stock
grain in use among ns. If Greene county
resorts to this, as a desideratum in her
economy, what should others do ? The
streets and commons of Greensboro, and I
learn many places in the country, abounds
with as fine grazing as can be found in
Georgia. The Bermuda grass grows lux
uriantly, and where enclosed is mowed
about twice a year, and makes a superior
quality of hay. Many of the citizens raise
their winter supplies, and quantities are
brought into market and sold. The finest
looking cattle I I ave seen anywhere in
Georgia are on the commons of this town.
Yet with these advantages I wish them
abundant success in the cultivation cf the
Western grasses, and lope every other
oounty that can, will imitate their ex
ample. Traveler.
[From Hie Atlanta Constitution .]
State Road Matters.
SOME VENTILATIONS ON A SMALL SCALE.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 14, 1871.
Editors Constitution : I promised, in a
communication to you some days since, to
give you information as to some pecula
tions (or rather as I suppose to be) of a
few State Road officials during the time
that Foster Blodgett fvas Superintendent.
In doing this, I must sav I owe no ODe of
those persons any ill will If they are not
guilty of the charges alleged against them,
no one will be more pleased than I. If
they are guilty, I wish them punished, as
they have brought contumely upon the
Republican party of Georgia.
To fully understand the matter, I must
give you the leading men, or rather the
heads of the meohanioal departments un
der Colonel Blodgett James Mullins was
Master Machinist; a Mr. WilsoDjiis book
keeper; Josiah Sherman, superintendent
of car shops; W. T. Newman was book
keeper for this department; William
Farnsworth (an honest man) was foreman ;
A. L- Harris was Master of Transporta
tion, Supervisor aDd Assistant Superinten
dent, and had full swing. Os this reign
of terror I wish to give an acoount of to
you and the public. It seemed to me that
Blodgett was aD assistant, as Harris issued
all orders, signing all his titles, which
seemed as numerous as some of the crown
ed heads of Europe.
It seems Blodgett gave all up to Harris
(the boy from Porkoplis), to run, and so
he did, and run it with a vim. Here the
writer saw trouble arising and he address
ed a letter to Colonel Blodgett, notifying
him that all things were not going on as
it should in the carpenter’s department.
Whether ho received tho letter or not, I
cannot say, though this Ido know, there
was no abatement in that which, if I
should say it, I would call stealing. The
first move made on the Stato Road chess
board, under this re'gn, was the removal
of Mr. Farnsworth, as I suppose he was
too honest tor certain purposes. Mr. Wy
mer taken the place of Farnsworth. He,
too, was soon decapitated, not, probably,
being as pliable as potter’s clay, aod a
Mr. Hutchens was placed in position as
foreman of the carpenter shop as, I sup
pose, he filled the bill.
The next movo in order was, J. G. W.
Mills’ plaoo was to be filled. It was sup
plied by a man being shipped from Ohio,
notwithstanding a petition was gotten up
and signed by all the employees of the
shops and yard, asking the appointment
of a Mr. South to Mills’ placo during his
(Mills’) secretaryship. This petition, I
have no doubt, failed on account of
South’s name. At this time the passage*
of Scripture was fully exemplified that
“ Where thecaaroass is, there will carrion
crows be gathered together." It seemed
to me all worthless men, if they had fought
in Federal ranks, were prefered to Geor
gians, who had lived here a life time, and
paid tax to build this important road.
Yes, indeed, I know they were discharged
and worthless ex-Federals retained. I think
this will give an insight as to the running
of the road ac this time, and now I will
proceed to give some items: Mr. Harris,
I will commence with first, though he may
have settled up fair and square, I think it
will do no harm to overhaul his acoount
and see if the matters ot which 1 speak
have been paid for. I commence thus:
A. L. Harris, to State Road Car
penter Shop Dr.
For one dray load of furniture, con
sisting of tet-a-tet, child’s car
riage, towel rack, child’s chair,
two old cane seat chairs, seat
reset, workmen’s wages about...s 50 00
One water tank, Workmen’s wages 42 00
Lumber plained, 2,000 feet at $3
per bundled 60 00
Wages for Mr. Muller for work on
house at $3 50 per day 64 50
One pump piston, William Sherer
& 00., workmen’s wages 130 00
Walnut lumber, about 1,000 feet,
worth near ten cents per f00t... 100 00
Poplar lumber, 1,000 feet at $3 per
thousand 30 00
You may suppose the charges extrava
gant; so they are. Nevertheless they ap
proximate near the amount as staffed.
Take, for instance, the two old chairs Mr.
Farnsworth sent them to repair of cane
seats. The workmen charged 90 cents
each to put in new seats, of which Harris
was duly notified. He (Harris) said that
he could not pay any such prices, but or
dered them fixed up, in the result of which
I will give you:
A. L. Harris, to State Road Car
penter Shop Dr.
To repairing two chairs,
1 y ard damask, $3 per yard $ 3 00
2 pounds curled hair, 50c. per 1b... 1 00
Canvas, gimping, tacks, etc 1 00
Upholsterer’s wages, $4 per day.... 8 00
Yarnishing, workmen’s wages, etc.. 2 00
sl6 00
Thus you may see what became of the
State Road funds. I still have more in
store for those that were in power, and
will be able to provide these Facts.
A Letter from the Great De
faulter,
Washington, September 14. —The fol
lowing is a complete copy of Major
Hodges’ letter of confession :
Washington, Sunday, Sept. 10.
Gen. B. W. Brice :
Dear Sir—l have to inform you that I
am unable to close my accounts, and that
I owe the frightful amount of above
$450,000, which sum I have lost during
tho last few years in stock speculations,
goiug deeper and deeper in the hope of
retrieving myself. I have no excuse or
mitigation of my course to offer, and pro
pose to take the full consequences of my
sin. I had thought a week ago of es
caping from New York, but believe I
have done better in returning here to de
liver myself up, as I felt I was bound to
do. I can, of course, make no pretence of
excuse for the systematic deceit I have
practiced on you, and the advantage I
have taken of the speoial position I have
held, and feel that you especially have
cause to be justly inexorable against me.
I have been led on by the infatuation
that alwaja attends the course I entered
on, hoping always to recover my loss and
conoeal my crime.
I believe it is really a relief to be forced
to a discovery, for I have been in a hell
on earth for years, and ths alternations
of hope and fear J have go.ae through, and
the constant care to avoid detection were
becoming too strong. I desire to turn over
all the property I have as a small _ set off
against my deficiency, and aftergiviag any
information that will assist in settling my
accounts, or if possible in recovering a por
tion of what I have lost, I expect to take
the fail punishment awarded for my of,
sense.
In justice to two parti* a in this city,
tbrough whom f have made some specula
tions, I wish to say that they are perfectly
mnocent of any knowledge that I was
using public funds. There ate_ small bal
ances with each ot these parties to my
credit whenever accounts are closed. _
The losses I made were almost entirely
in New York. With one house there",
whose accounts I hold subject to your
order, I endeavored to induce them to
make good the amount lost with them,
which they knew was public money, but
they have refused. I have beep tryiDg to
make up my mind to this confession for
some days, and was on the point of doiDg
so this afternoon in your office, but I could
not bring myself to say it and wanted time
to write to my innocent wile, whom this
frightful information will kill. God for
give me for what I have done to her and
my children. All I ask from you or the
authorities is that, if possible, some small
sum may be left her. I enclose the keys
of my safe and box containing all my old
accounts, etc. My present vouchers, re
ceipts, etc., are in the hands of ay olerks,
who are all of them perfectly innocent ot
any knowledge of my deficiency. I shall
remain at my house No. 423 K street, till
informed of what action you have taken
concerning me. There is no fear I will go
away now. J. Ledtard Hodge,
Paymaster.
General Brice says this morning that it
will appear upon investigation that the
Treasury Department is responsible for
the failure ot the Government to discover
the defalcation sooner. Gen. Brice also
denies the report that Hodges, after sus
picion had first been attached to him, was
allowed to draw any checks, except such
as were necessary to transfer balances to
proper officers.
Hodges’ disbursements during the last
six years sinoe the war, have amounted, as
the records show, to the enormous sum of
$29,371,450 for payment. Treasury cer
tificates for the county alone, for a con
siderable time, ranged from $400,000 to
$500,000 per month. These large disburse
ments, with the necessary credits, have af
forded an opportunity for stupenduous
frauds, which he covered up by means of
false and fraudulent official returns, state
ments and accounts. The actual amount
of Hodges’ deficit, as determined by a care
ful examination, is $473,939.
I COMMUNICATED. I
Tlie Railroad from Alliens to
Clayton.
To the President and Directors of the
Georgia Railroad and Banking Com
pany :
Gentlemen— Permit me most respect
fully, in behalf of your stockholders, num
bering between twelve and thirteen hun
dred, and in the interest of the city of
Augusta, to call your serious attention to
several most important facts, demanding
immediate consideration:
The first fact is, that the commerce of
of Augnstu has greatly declined, notwith
standing her merchants are men of large
experience, of real capital, and of genuine
gnterprise. In some cases business has
declined as mucli as fifty per cent., while
in every case, without exception, there is a
falling off. I, of course, allude to our dry
goods and grocery merchants, with whom
there is no buoyancy, no life, as in former
days. Our business has, in a large de
gree, gone to Atlanta, and it ought to be
recovered, and it can be recovered by
proper and timely efforts. Now is the
golden moment which must be seized, or
else the opportunity is forever lost.
The second fact is, that a large element
in the success of Atlanta comes from Ten
nessee, North and East of Knoxville, to
say nothing of portions ot North Carolina
and Upper Georgia, now partially lost to
Augusta, and which must be soon lost
altogether, unless steps are promptly ta
ken to prevent so sad a catastrophe, but
which can be diverted from Atlanta and
restored to Augusta by wise and energetic
action.
The third fact is, that your road is deri
ving its most profitable reveuue from its
Athens Branch, which, acc rrding to your
last report, in May, 1871, amounted to
the sum of $135,612 64, of which the
Athens Station yielded $85,495 59, which
is more than double the business done at
the Augusta Station, and nearly double
the best stations on the road, Atlanta
alone excepted. I call it the most profita
ble revenue, because it is derived from lo
cal, in contradistinction to through freights,
which, as a general rule, are by no means
as profitable as local freights. It thus ap
pears that the Way Stations of the Athens
Branch only yield $50,117 05. The length
of your road is 231 miles, of which the
Athens Branch makes 40 miles ; and the
whole business of all the stations amounts
to $701,285 50. Now by the rule of pro
portion, if 231 miles yield $701,285 50,
what should 40 miles yield? The answer
is $121,434 63; but the actual yield of
the Athens Branch was $135,612 64, to
say nothing of its shaie of the Union
Point Station, showing a yield of $14,-
178 01 in excess of its pro rata share.
These figures demonstrate the value of the
Athens Branch to your company, and
more especially the value of the Athens
Station. Again, the Augusta Station does
a business amounting only to $34,549 25,
while the Atlanta Station shows a business
of $214,450 28, according to your report,
which two items being compared, demon
strate that the business of distribution by
commercial operations is at Atlanta, and
not at Augusta; Atlanta Station doing
more than six times the business of Au
gusta Station.
The fourth fact is, that this large busi
ness at the Athens Station of $88,495 89,
will soon be lost to Augusta and your road,
unless the Northeastern Railroad is
brought under the control of your road,
The engineers are now making the surveys
with a view to definite location, and put
ting the road under contract. When com
pleted to Poplar Springs, on the Chatta
hoochee ridge, it will connect with the
Air Line Railroad at that point, and thus
open steam communication eastward to
Baltimore, and westward to Atlanta ; and
then Athens will cease to be in any respect
tributary to Augusta and your road, unless
under your control. You announco a
great truth in your ronort when you say,
"In fact, consolidation in management
(not capital) has become necessary to suc
cess with almost every road, and the com
pany that isolates itself will soon find its
business drawn away by competing routes
whioh favor a more enlightened and liberal
policy, and its own road a stage route of
by-gono times compared with the light
ning express of to-day.” This necessity
of consolidation will control the North
eastern Railroad Company, which must
consolidate with the Baltimore interests,
for to stand alone is impossible. If this
Northeastern Company consolidates with
the Baltimore interests, it requires no
peneration to see how Augusta and your
road will fare. They will dry up ; Augusta
will lose her best field for cultivation, and
your company will lose at least
of her present resources for dividends.
For it is evident that the Athens Station
nets $40,000, which constitute tho eighth
part of an eight per oent. dividend, now
usually declared and anticipated in the
future; for, beyond doubt, the expenses of
the Athens Branch are less than any other
forty miles of the entire road. Fifty-five
and a half per oent, of the gross earnings
of your road cover the expenses for the
year ending April 1, 1871, and the Athens
Station alone could pay more than fifty
three per cent, of its gross earnings and
still have $40,000 leit to appropriate to
dividends. So it is demonstrated by these
figures that the Athens Branch, and es
pecially the Athens Station, are of yast
present importance to your road and to
the city of Augusta.
The fifth faot is, that the charter of the
Northeastern Railroad Company imposes no
restrictions upon the freights ot the road,but
leaves the matter to the sound discretion
of the Company ; and hence, if this North
eastern Railroad Company is left to consol
idate with the Baltimore interests, the
freights can be so laid as to force every
pound of produce and other things, and
every passenger, to go eastward towards
Baltimore, or westward towards Atlanta,
without leaving an iota for Augusta and
your road, sow, it is evident that what
ever (he Baltimore interests can do, Au
gusta and your road can do, under like
circumstances, and must do to protect
themselves. Well, if these two bodies, the
city of Augusta and your Company, will
no v take hold of this Northeastern enter
prise and build the road to Clayton,
whero U will intersect tho Blue Ridge
Railroad, and control the route tkenee
to Knoxville, whioh, it ia reported, can
now be done, the present business of the
Athens Station coming from upper Geor
gia can not only be retained, hut greatly
enlarged, and much of the business now
done at Atlanta can be diverted from Ten
nessee, and concentrated at Augusta, and
so her ancient prestige as a distributing
point for Middle Georgia be restored.
For with a direct route to Knoxville, un
der a consolidated management controlled
by your Company, Augusta will become
a grand distributing point, being many
miles nearer the great teeming West than
she is at present.
It is now pretty certain that the Blue
Ridge Road will be completed, and this
fact, if no ether existed, ought to arouse
Augusta and your Company to action-
By timely action, Augusta ana your Com
pany can head off all other interests and
get control afthe route to Knoxville. Let
Augusta and your Company shoulder the
North Eastern Railroad at once, and thus
secure the route to Knoxville to their own
control, and the benefits to both will, in
time, snrpass all present computation.
While Augusta and your road will stand
secure from any future competition, At
lanta will enjoy enough from other sources
for reasonable ambition, and her future
will not be dimmed in the least. But to
pretermit the present golden opportunity
naw urged will be disastrous, in the ex
treme, to the great interests confided to
you, gentlemen, and prove the ruin of tho
beautiful city whose well being is involved
in your road.
The sixth and last fact is, that your
stockholders in convention in 1870 fully
authorised you to commit your Company
to the line of policy now contended for and
arsed upon you. You, therefore, had a
preliminary survey of the route from
Athens to Clayton promptly made and
estimates for oost submitted for your in-
formation. _ Since that date the North
eastern Railrosd Company has been duly
organized and now has secured the right
of way to most of the lots of land by each
ot the competing routes, by way of Jef
ferson and by way of Harmony Grove.
In all these respects, then, your path is
rlain, and you may proceed without delay.
Whether it is best to consolidate the
stocks of the two companies need not no»
be agitated, though it is expressly authori
zed by the charter of the new company.
I am satisfied that your dividends, under
this order of affairs, will bo, at least, ten
per ceDt. ; and that the commercial im
portance of Augusta will surpass all former
experience.
. And here I close this communica
tion, exhorting you to ponder well
the facts presented for your considera
tion and give them such reflection as their
importance demands; and there can be
no doubt that your conclusions will coin
cide with mine in this vital matter.
Augustus.
TBE MILITARY IX JEfFERSOX.
A WHITE MAN KILLED BY A NE
GRO.
THE NEGRO TAKEN OUT AND
KILLED.
A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS STA
TIONED AT BARTOW.
It seems that our neighbors in Jeffer
son oounty aro to be the first in this State
to experience to its fullest extent the beau
ties of tho Ku-Klux law. Wo regret to
learn of a very unfortunate occurrence in
that county, which resulted in the death of
two men, and which has caused a com
pany of United States soldiers to be quar
tered on the county. Reports from the
county and conflicting, and
it is difficult to get a correct acoount of
the unfortunate affair. On yesterday,
however, wo saw several gentlemen, from
whom we got what we think will be found
a true version of the matter. It seems
that the first act in the drama
WAS THE KILLING OF A WHITE CITIZEN,
a respectable young man, named Joseph
Coleman, who lived in Jefferson oounty, a
few miles away from Bartow. Mr. Cole
man was killed by a negro named Bug
Pierce, who also lives near tho phcc
above mentioned. About this killing
there are two stories, each diametrically
opposed to tho other. One account says
that about three weeks ago Mr. Coleman
and a party of men went at night to the
house of Pierce for the purpose of offering
him violence. The negro refused to let them
enter the house, and as Mr. Coleman at
tempted to enter the window, Pierce shot
him dead with his gun. This is the Radi
cal veision of the affair. The other ac
count and the one which respectable gen
tlemen pronounce the true one, and the
one which the character of the parties
shows to be correct, puts the matter in an
entirely different light. Pierce, who had
the well deserved reputation of being a
turbulent and a dangerous character, had
committed some offence, and a Magistrate
had issued a warrant for his arrest. Mr,
Coleman and his companions were consti
tuted a posse to execute the warrant, as
the negro’sj reputation led them to ex
pect resistance, and they went to his
house at night. When they arrived there
Pierce refused to be arrested, and when
Mr. Coleman attempted to perform his
duty, shot him down like a dog. After
the death ot Coleman, the negro continued
to resist arrest, and the posse finally left
the place with their dead comrade. After
the murder had been committed Pierce be
came alarmed
AND FLED THE COUNTRY.
He succeeded in making his escape, and
went directly to Atlanta, where, we have
no doubt, he visited the Executive Mansion
and poured his harrowing tale into his bo
vinity’s ear. After staying some time in
Atlanta, he again started on his travels, and
went to Washington City to consult the
Federal authorities upon this “fearful
Ku-Klux outrage.” From Washington he
went to New York, where he stayed for
some time. In Washington he procured
assistance and came back to his home last
Friday night, bringing with him a guard
of three United States soldiers, procured,
we believe, from the garrison at Atlanta.
Having murdered an officer of tho law in
the most cruel and cold blooded manner,
the Government sent him back with
bayonets to brave an outraged community.
Tho soldiers accompanied him to his home
and garrisoned his house until Saturday,
when the oivil authorities issued a war
rant for his arrest, upon a charge of mur
der. The warrant was executed and
PIERCE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY,
to await a preliminary examination. On
Saturday night, while Pierce was under
the charge of an offiier, a party of dis
guised men suddenly appeared upon the
scene and seized and secured the officer
before he could rff r aoy resistance. A
cart and harness on the place wero then
taken and a mule hitched to the vehicle.
The negro was tied and put in the cart
and carried away by the party. What
became of the prisoner after this eaa only
be conjectured. It is believed, however,
that he received summary punishment for
the murder of youDg ColemaD. The oart
came back to the place next morning, but
none of the party of the previous night
with it. In the meantime it is said that
Tgg three soepiers
furnished by the Government came to the
conclusion that they bad better get out of
that neighborhood as soon as possible, and
they D eat a rapid retreat to the railroad
and to Atlanta. The boys in blue are said
to have made remarkably quick time. The
soldiers must have given an alarming re
port at headquarters, for on Monday eve
ninr the train brought down a Captain and
twenty-six men to Bartow.
At last accounts the soldiers—who be
long to any infantry organization—were
quartered near the depot, but had taken
no action. It is reported that they have
instructions to arrest a number of the cit
izens living in the vicinity of Bartow, and
there is a good deal of excitement in the
neighborhood.
In the absence of any positive informa
tion from the place, we give the above
particulars as they were gathered by our
reporter, but think that they will be found
substantially correct.
The Rain and Crops.—Since the
storm of last week this section has had rain
enough for a tidal wave, and the whole
faoe of the earth is flooded. Cotton is, of
course, sufferingly seriously. It has had
no sunshine assistance to recover from the
effects of the cyclone, and the consequence
is the bolls are dying, and the young fruit
cannot mature. We are assured that the
damage on the Jordan and Lockett places
is much greater than was supposed last
week, and that the same may be said of
all other places in this and surrounding
counties. It is now evident that South
western Georgia will gather the shortest
crop of any previous year, and that we are
safe in announcing the crop a disastrous
failure. —Albany Neva.
Colonel Cutts, on his return to Ameri
cas, from his canvass over the line of the
proposed road from Americus to Newnan,
writes a letter to the Americus Republican,
in which he gives an encouraging account
of the enthusiasm of the people on the
line for the road, for the enterprise. He
says $300,000 have been subscribed on
the line of the road, and that Atlanta
proposes to give $200,000 to assist in
building it. Colonel Hinton, of Buena
Vista, writes to the same paper that
$60,000 have been subscribed in Marion
county to the road.
Mr. Greeley to the people—" Office
seeking is our deadly upas." The people
to Mr. Greeley—" You pass.’’
NEW SERIES—VOL. XXIV. NO. 39.
THE CODE.
DUEL SUNDAY MORNING BETWEEN
TWO GENTLEMEN OF AUGUSTA.
ONE OF THE PARTIES SERIOUSLY
WOUNDED.
On last Saturday rumors were rife on
the streets of a duel to be fought by two
gentlemen of this city. As hopes were
entertained of an amicable adjustment of
the affair without a resort to the field, no
mention was made of the difficulty. No
settlement, however, was effected, and on
Sunday morning the duel took place, re
sulting in one of the combatants receiving
a serious wound, while tho other narrow
ly escaped losing life. From what we
have been able to gather
THE DIFFICULTY ORIGINATED
as follows : We do not expect to give the
details of the quarrel, nor is it necessary
that they should he given. Suffice it to
say that on the night of last Friday, Capt.
Wm. M. D’Antignac, of this city, and Mr.
Deil, of St. Louis, Missouri, who has
been residing in Augusta for seme time
past, had a difficulty about some trivial
matter. Words passed between the par
ties, and the quarrel finally resulted in
Capt. D’Antignac striking Mr. Dell. Before
the fight could progress any further, a num
ber of gentlemen, who were standing by,
interfered and prevented any further hos
tilities. Anxious to avert, if possible, any
trouble, mutual friends attempted to adjust
the quarrel and effect a reconciliation. At
last, we understand, a temporary arrange
ment was brought about, which, it was
believed, would prevent a meeting. But
this, it seems, was n<st to be the case.
ON THE NEXT MORNING,
Mr. Dell sent a friend—Mr. G. E. Ratcliffo
—to Captain D’Antignao, bearing a per
emptory challenge. Tho invitation was
promptly accepted, and tho challenged
party named as his friend, Mr. J. B. Har
riss. Tho preliminaries (or a hostile meet
ing wero arranged, and time, place, and
weapons chosen. In tho meantime, a re
port of what was going on got out, and
was pretty generally discussed on the
streets. A nurnbor of gontlemen wero
anxious to stop the duel, and at a lato
hour on Saturday evening someone went
before Justioo Olio and got that Magis
trate to issue a
WARRANT AGAINST THE PARTIES,
for the purpose of having them arrestod
and making them give bonds to koep tho
peace. The warrants were given to a po
liee offioer to serve. Mr. Dell, who suspeot
ed nothing, was found at bis room, arrest
ed, and carried to the City Hall. Captain
D’Antignao, suspecting what was on foot,
had concealed himself in a friend’s room,
near tho river, but was seen to ontor by
the policeman on that beat, who informed
the arresting officer of his whereabouts,
and he was also taken to tho City Ha.ll.
Tho parties appeared before Judgo Olin,
waived a preliminary examination, and
gave bond eaoh in the sum of one thou
sand dollars to keep tho peace. After tho
proceedings beforo tho Magistrate, friends
again interposed to sottlo the matter.
They had some hope of success at first, but
found, finally, that all attempts at media
tion would be useless, and therefore aban
doned them. At a late hour
THAT NIGHT THE CHALLENGE WAS RE
NEWED
and, after a consultation between tho
seconds, the meeting was arranged to tako
place next morning at Bevon o’olook, near
Granitevillc, South Carolina. Tho next
(Sunday) morning, at three o’clock, the
parties left town —one ot tho principals and
his friend on the Wilmington train, tho
other party and his second on the Char
lotte train. Both of tho railroads ran
near Graniteville, and all tho parties got
off at that place. Accompanying tho par
ties were some ten or twelve persons who
had gone do.vn to witness tho duel, and
Dr.°. Campbell, Carter and DeSaussuro
Ford, who went to give medical assist
ance in case it should be rendered neces
sary by the termination of the meeting.
THE PLACE
chosen for tho enoounter was a .spot just
outsido of tho oorporatc limits of the little
manufacturing town of Graniteville. It
was not a grass plat or a forest glade, but
a level sandy platform, washed by the
water of tho freshet of last summer. The
woaponswere Colt’s navy revolvers, loaded
by gunsmiths in Augusta ; tho distance
was fifteen pace;.
the naHT.
Mr. Harriss, the second of Captain
D’Antignae, was selected to give tho word
—after a proposition to dischargo tho pis
tols and reload them on the field had been
made and rejeotod—and the men wore
handed their weapons and placed in posi
tion. Mr, Harriss repeated tho usual
formula, and at tho word the parties firod.
Tho discharges wore almost simultaneous,
parties at a short distance thinking that
but one shot had been fired. Mr. Dell
was uninjured, but Capt. D’Antignao had
a vory narrow escape. His antagonist’s
ball entered the left lappcl cf his coat, and
passed out near the &ra» without raising
the skin.,
Mr. Doll was then asked if he was satis
fied, and replying in the negative, tho Jucl
proceeded. The word was again given,
and both pistols discharged almost at tho
same instant. Captain D’Antignao was
uninjured, but the ball from his pistol had
placed the other combatant hors du com
bat. The ball entered Mr. Dell’s right
log, a few inches above the knee, inflicting
a flesh wound, and passed into the left
leg, makirg a wound of a serious charac
ter. This, of course, put an end to the
duel. Mr. Dell bled a great deal, and it
was feared that tho femoral artery had
been severed. The physicians were sum
moned to the spot, and all the appliances
of their art put into requisition.
COMING HOME.
The question now was how to get home.
The reports of the pistols, and the news of
the duel, had aroused the village of Gran
iteville, and there was reason to appre
hend that the authorities would make a
raid on the party. In order to avoid any
thing of that kind, the unwounded princi
pal, his second, and most of the specta
tors, chartered a wagon and carne across
the country—some seventeen or eighteen
miles—to Sandbar Ferry, where they were
met by carriages, and brought to the city.
The wounded man and his friends waited
at Graniteville until a train arrived, and,
in order to avoid detection and arrest on
the way, got in a close car. They made
the trip safely, and reached Augusta Sun
day afternoon.
mb. dell’s wound
is considered a rather serious injury,
though it will be several days before the
physicians can give any positive opinion
about it.
The duel is the first which has been
fought near this city in years, and, of
course, formed the chief topic of conver
sation on the streets yesterday.
A Requisition from Scott.— lt was
reported on the streets yesterday that
Bcott, the carpet-bag Governor of South
Carolina, has been informed of the duel
which took place near Graniteville, in his
dominions, on last Sunday morning, and
that be intends making a requisition on
Bullock for all the parties connected
with the affair. Making the requisition
would probably be the easiest part of the
affair. -
Teacher— “Mary, dear, suppose I woro
to shoot at a tree with five birds on it, and
kill three, how many would be left.”
Mary—four years old —“Three, ma’am.’’
Teaoher —"No, two would be left.”
Mary—"No there wouldn’t, though;
the three shot would be left, the other
two would be flied away.’’
Quarantine Unmoved.
The yellow fever in Charleston seems to
bo such a small affair, and is reported dy
ing out so rapidly, that tho peoplo in Au
gusta have recovered from their recent
scare. There is so little apprehension of
the disease being brought here from that
city that tho enforcement of the quaran
tine regulations is no longer oonsiderd
necessary.
On yesterday tho Inspector of Quaran
tine, whoso duty it has been to ventilato
cars and baggago from Charleston, was re
lieved from duty, and we learn that tho
quarantine has been done away with. We
oODgratulate the citizens of Charleston
upon this event, and trust that Savannah
and Wilmington will soon remove all ob
struction upon communication with their
oity. We can assure them that so far as
Augusta is concerned oar authorities only
aoted in obcdionco to the highest of all
laws—the law of 6clf-prcservation. They
believed that thore was danger to our citi
zens from the fovor, and they adopted
measures to protect them. Believing now
that the danger has passed away, tho re
strictions have been removed. Our inter
ests are too nearly identical with thoso of
Charleston for us to wish to injure that
city. Tho authorities here have acted not
frem choice, but from necessity.
The MoCalla Investigation.—Tho
Atlanta Sun says tho Court mot Tuesday
morning to proceed with the oharges mado
against Maj. C. P. McCalia. Hon. B. H.
Hill appeared as counsel with Cos), Farrow
in tho prosecution, but the ease was not
proceeded with. Mr. Hill rose and pro
posed a postponement of tho examination
to somo indefinite timo—giving Major
MoCalla full opportunity to mako out an
exhibit of his account —remarking that ho
might bo innooent, and he had no wish to
prosecute one who was not guilty; where
upon Major Ilargrovo, for tho defense,
arose and said that tho proposition was
acceptable, coming as it did from tho
prosecution, and further romarked that ho
and his client were ready at any moment
to givo an account of all tho money that
had over oomo into Maj. MoCalla’s hands.
Being thus agreed to, tho investigation
was poßtponoo :rdefinitely.
Wo think it likoly that this ia the last of
any proseeution of MoCalla, and that this
suspension of proceedings is a virtual
abandonment of tho case, and wo shall
never more hear tell of it.
The Relief Law Again Before the
Supreme Court.—The Atlanta Sun says
that in tho argument of tho caso of Col. C.
11. Wellborn, of that oity, vs. Hon. War
ren Akin, beforo tho Supremo Court Fri
day, Hon. Milton A. Candler, of Dcoatur,
raised somo now points on tho Reliof Act
of 1870.
Our readers will recollect that the Su'
preme Court has, during its present ses
sion, hold that tho Relief law is constitu
tional and valid. Mr. Candler yesterday
presented theso points not heretofore
mado:
Ist. That tho act, on its passago by tho
Houso of Representatives, was not read
three times, as required by tho Constitu
tion.
2d. That this act has rofercnco to more
than one suhjoet matter—whereas tho Con
stitution requiros that all laws shall have
referenoo to one, and only one, suhjeot.
3d. That the Constitution requires that
all laws, to bo valid, shall be general in
their operation, and that this law is not
according to this requirement.
Mr. Candlor was a Senator, and knows
something of tho unlawful proceedings ol'
the late peculating Legislature. Wo learn
that he offers the Journals of the House,
besides other evidence, that tho bill was
not read tho three different times, ns re
quired by tho Constitution. If this ba
truo, tho Court cannot, it would soom,
framo an excuse for sustaining tho law
again.
Interesting Case.—The u Atlanta Con
stitution says: Justioc Johnson had an
interesting case beforo him Tuosday. A
negro, named Dave Parish, of Augusta,
sued tho Telegraph Company for damages
for not delivering a telegram to him in
time on the 4th of July last, although it
was in (he office when he called for it. Ho
claims to be damaged in the sum ot SIOO,
having boon idle ever sinoo, etc. Justioc
Johnson dismissed the suit upon tho pay
ment of costs by the Telegraph Company!
E. M. & B. H. Thrasher for plaintiff ; L.
E. Bleckley for defendant.
We Second the Motion !—The Feder
al Union has anticipated us in doing what
we had for some time past intended to do,
viz: named Hon. Wm. M. Reese as a
proper person to be olccted President of
the Senato when the Legislature meets.
Judgo Reese is a truo man—one in
whom tho peoplo have ooDfidcneo, and who
can bo relied upon in any emergency—in
short, tho right man for that placo ; and
wo trust his modesty will not interposo ob
stacles to prevent his friends from bestow
ing upon him tho honor ho so richly
merits. — Athens Watchman.
Was There Foul Play?—An entire
family in Faisson Township, Sampson
county, N. 0., died very recently, and un
der such peculiar circumstances, that tho
neighbors havo suspected foul play, and
have, therefore, taken measures to have
the matter investigated. O.i tho evening
the 6th inst., Mr. Exutn Morris, the father
ot the family, was taken suddenly very ill
with burning pains across his stomach,
lie rapidly grew worse, and expired tho
next day. On the 9th, Mrs. Macinno
Morris, the wife, aged forty, also died,
having suffered in a similar manner. On
the 11th, a child named Ruth, daughter of
the above, and aged only eight months,
was taken ill and died, and on tho 13tli,
Charles, son to the above couple, and aged
four years, also died. There were grounds
for suspicion, and the stomachs of the two
children were taken out and sent to
Wilmington for the purpose of making an
analysis of their contents. Mr. Morris was
an old and highly respected citizen.
Goon Showing. —The Petersburg, Va.,
cotton mills publish a statement showing
the financial operations of the establish
ment for eleven months of the year ending
August 81. The net profit is shown to be
equal to twenty-five per cent, on tbe capi
tal stock. The company pays a rent equal
to two and a-ha)f per cent, on its capital
stock. The managers believe that no
other cotton manufacturing company in
the United States can make a showing of
profits equal to its own, and invites com
parison.
Admitted to Bail. —On yesterday Mr.
Benjamin Wales, of Burko county, who
has been confined in the jail of this coun
ty for sometime past, under a charge of
murder, made application for bail to Judge
Gibson. The application was based upon
an affidavit of his physician, that he was
in bad health and that confinement was
seriously detrimental to him. Judge Gib
son ordered that he bo released upon giv
ing approved bond in the sum of ten thou
sand dollars.
Using the Telegraph.— Wo under
stood last evening that A. L. Harris, cx-
Mastcr of Transportation, now under ar
rest on a charge of cheating and swindling
the State, was engaged yesterday in ex
tensive _ telegraphic operations—sending
and receiving quite a number of dispatches
during the day.— Atlanta Sun.
Explanatory.— Dr. H. F, Campbell
requests us to correct a paragraph in the
account of the recent duel, published in
yesterday morning’s issue. He did not go
to Graniteville with the party in the capa
city of surgeon, but for the purpose of
trying to effect a settlement between the
parties before they resorted to hostilities.
A Rock Island oonstable makes tho fol
lowing return: “1 exeouted this spccnoy
by trying to read it to John Mack, but he
was drivin’ oattle on horso back and run
faster than 1 could, and kopt up such a
h —l of a hollcrin I don’t know whothcr
he heard or not. This is tho best I oould
do, and don’t know whothor tho spooney
is served according to law or not.
“Attest: Eli Smith, Cont.”
