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WEDNESDAY JULY 10.
A PLEA FOBUBEKhSY.
Congressman Roottevelt to the New
York Delegates to the Baltimore Con
vention,
Robert 15. Roosevelt, member of Con
green from New Y*ok, Imw adilrossed the
follow! iic’ letter to the delegates from
the State of New York to the Democrat
ic Convention at Baltimore, giving his
ri ii >n f>>r supporting Horace Greeley
as the only Presidential candidate who
ean possibly defeat General Grant :
New Yohk, Juno 16.
I)r:u; Hi it Having been among the
fiit Democrats to endorse the action of
the Cincinnati Convention, and to take
an open and active part in favor of its I
candidates, I feel that I owe to my par
ty, and especially to yon who are en
trusted at the present juncture with a
responsibility which is all-important, an
explanation of my conduct and of the
reasons which controlled mo. 1 have
had certain advantages from my official
position forjudging of the temper of
the people, and am convinced that a
mistake now would be fatal to our party
and disastrous to the country. When
the proceedings of the Liberal Conven
tion were communicated to Washington
most of the Democratic memhersof Con-
gress looked upon the result as unfortu
nate anil offering no possibility of a combi
nation against the corrupt, centralized,
despotic and dangerous power which
now rules the nation. The first impres
sion was that it was out of the question
for the Democracy to accept as their
leading candidate ono who had been
their life-long and bitter opponent, but
it was not many days before an unex
pected sentiment manifested itself among,
the people and made itself felt with
their representatives at Washington, and
it became apparent that groat changes
had taken place in tho public mind.
Democrats from all portions of tho
Union announced tlioir approval of the
selection of Horace Greeley, while largo
and influential classes of both adopted
and native-born citizens welcomed his
nomination enthusiastically. Especially
was this apparent at tho South, where the
whites of both parties are anxious to unite
upon him -tho ono side to prevent further
outrages upon tlioir liberties and prop
erty, and the other to gain or recover
social position among tho peoplo with
whom they hail made their homes. If
the negroes were still adverse it was on
account of their being universally band
ed in tlioir arbitrary loyal leagues and
ignorantly acting under tho orders of
their leaders. But while tho black veto
is of little importance in the locality
where it mainly exists, provided the
white vote is united against it, any pos
sible injury arising from its loss would
be fur more than counterbalanced by
tho adherence of the Irish vote at the
North, where overy ballot is of conse
quence. The explanation of this ex
pression of public opinion is to bo found
in the changed relations of parties. The
Democrats having been defeated conclu
sively in several of their positions, have
accepted tho expressed will of the
people, and universally agreed to abide
by tho late amendments to tho Constitu
tion and to give the blacks equal rights
with white men. This made it possible
for them to unite with the Liberal Re
publicans in the support, of Mr. Greeley,
who has always been as prominent an
advocate of universal amnesty as lie lias
been a resolute and determined foe to
corruption and peculation in official
life, and who moreover was convinced
by the illegal course of tho present Ad
ministration of tlio danger to our institu
tions in the concentration of power in a
centralized, unscrupulous, and ir
responsible government. These mutual
concessions left but a single point of
difference between Mr. Greeley and the
Democracy. He was a protectionist,
while they were supposed to be free
traders. I use the words “supposed
to be," advisedly, for, to judge by the
votes of the Democratic members of j
Congress, there was a little other dis
tinction between these and the Republi
cans on this question, many of them be
ing decided and prominent protection
ists, and voting invariably with the ex
treme high tariff' advocates of the other
side. But this-difficulty, such as it is,
was entirely removed and disposed of in
the best possible manner by the Cincin
nati platform in being relegated to the
Cougresssional districts, as it is a matter
purely for the representatives of the
people in looking after the interest of
their constituents, questions of revonuo
being expressly coutided to that branch
of the Government by tho Constitution.
At present heavy imports being a fiscal
necessity, and much capital having been
tempted into unnatural channels by un
kwise legislation, and not to bo imme
diately removed without heavy loss, tho
doctrine of free-trade is hardly a practi
cal issue, although it is sure to revive in
a few years if the Democratic party is
not. destroyed.
There are three prominent matters of j
dispute at prosent affecting the country;
the first is the great question of corrup
tion in office; the second is centraliza
tion of power in opposition to the inde
pendence of tho States, and tlio third is
the demand of the colored people for
negro supremacy under special law's,
placing the whites at a disadvantage
with them. Upon these essential doc
trines Horace Greeley is a Democrat,
while upon tlio tariff both parties have a
loose hold on their members. If he can
be accepted ho offers us an almost abso
lute certainty of triumph, as he will not
only relieve our party from the unjust j
insinuations made by our enemies in !
reference to our good faith in accepting .
the results of tlio civil war, but will l
bring to our support a large body of
dissatisfied Republicans. His strength j
among the latter, although apparent al
ready, will not bo fully manifested until i
he is nominated at Baltimore, for with- i
out that endorsement he lias not the
elements of snecess, and individuals
are loath to join a hopeless cause.
There are signs of a great uprising
of the people to express the disapproval
so generally felt with the preseut Ad
ministration, but without that his eloe
tion after such endorsement is as near a
certainty as a future event can be. Al
readv liis probable nomination has i
secured ns tlie great States of Now York j
and Pennsylvania, and brought about a j
valuable and powerful combination in
Indiana, while it makes every Southern '
State, with one possible exception, abso
lntelv certain in his favor. Os Mr.
Greeley’s integrity and devotion to the
canse of an honest- government, it is un
necessary to speak between ns who know
him and among whom he has lived the
better part of his life. On the other
questions involved his opinions are
equally well known, and accord perfect
ly with the acknowledged views of the
Democratic party. On essential issues
he is therefore entirely in accord with
us, so that we make no sacrifice of duty
or of honor in accepting the advances of
the party which has nominated him and j
asked for our support and assistance.
On the other hand, if he is not accept
ed the dissolution of the Democratic
party would seem inevitable. No straight
out Democrat has a probability of elec
tion, while no Liberal Republican could
now be chosen so as to bring in tlie sup
porters of tlie Cincinnati movement,
even if one could be found as popular as
Mr. Greeley. We have, therefore, to
consider the comparative advantages of
moderate concessions, which can after
wards, at the proper time, be again pre
sented for the consideration of the pub
lic, or we must prepare to meet a crush
ing and overwhelming defeat with its
concomitants of disorganization and dis
integration. The movement in favor of
Mr. Greeley has gone too far to be
stopped; the Liberal Republicans are
formally committed to him, and his se
lection has taken so firm a hold of the
Democracy as to insure its destruction
should he be repudiated; this dissatisfac
tion even, perhaps, going so far as to
assume the form of a bolt from the Con
vention if a less popular candidate
j should be chosen at Baltimore. These
1 are the reflections which have influenced
i me in the stand I have taken, and I
| think it only just to myself to submit
| them to you for your consideration. The
i present crisis is a serious one, involving
t nothing less than the permanency of the
great principles under which our conn
try lias flourished for so many years,
and which can onlv be preserved anil
restored through this movement. Tlie
responsibility of tho occasion rests with
the delegates to the National Conven
tion soon to meet at Baltimore, and at
so grave a time von will not regard it
as presumption on the part of any pub
lic man to express his views of national
and party necessities. With great re
spect, I remain your obedient servant,
Robert B. Roosevelt.
LETTER FROM HORACE GREELEY.
Ills Position hi Regard to the Demo
crats.
[Prom tho Hartford Times (Democratic),
June 2<;.]
The following is an extract from a
! private letter to a gentleman in this
State. Though it was never intended
for publication, the gentleman to whom
it was addressed has deemed it of
sufficient interest and importance to
justify its publication:
New York, .Tune It, 1872.
* * * I have no possible claim to
Democratic support and never made
any. The Democrats will, of course, he
governed by a consideration of their own
interest. It is nowise proper or proba
ble that they should be influenced in
making their decision by any considera
tion personal to myself, and if they
could be Ido not desire it. Hence, I
have said nothing to any Democrat un
less he first addressed me, and, even
then, I have gono no further than to say
that, if I should be elected, I would
treat all those who supported me alike,
not asking whether they had been in tiie
[last. Republicans or Democrats. * *
Yours, Horace Greeley.
Davis Declines. — Chicago, June 27.
—The following is a copy of a letter sent
by the Hen. David Davis to the Presi
dent of the Columbus Convention, de
clining tlio nomination for tlie Presi
dency :
Bloomington, June 24, 1872.
lion. K. M. Chamberlain, President of
file Columbus Convention, Boston,
Mass.:
Mv Dear Hir— Tho National Conven
tion of Labor Reformers, on February
22d, last, honored fno with nomination
as their candidate for the Presidency.
Having regarded that movement as tho
initiative of our policy and purpose to
unite various political elements in com
pact opposition, I consented to tho use
of my name before tho Cincinnati Con
vention, where a distinguished citizen of
New York was nominated. Under these
circumstances I deem it proper to retire
absolutely from the Presidential contest,
and thus leavo friends, who were gen
erous enough to offer me tlioir voluntary
support, to obey their convictions of
duty, unfettered by any supposed obli
gations. Sympathizing earnestly with
all just and honest means by which the
condition of labor may bo elovatod and
improved, I am, with great respect,
yours truly, David Davis.
Judge MoCdtghen, of thf. Cherokee
Circuit. —Governor Smith lia.fi filled the
vacancy in tho Judgeship of tho Chero
kee Circuit, occasioned by tlio death of
Judge Parrott, by the appointment of
C. D. McCutchen, Esq., of Dalton, Ga.
A better selection could not have been
made. Tho writer knows tho Judge
well. He is a first-class lawyer and a
gentleman of unusual moral worth. He
possesses overy quality for a number
ona Judge. Ho lias bruins, legal knowl
edge, high honor, unfaltering nerve, and
a heart as broad as out-doors. There
is not a moro generally esteemed citizen
in Lie Hoetion. Os pure life and habits,
he is an exemplar of morality. He is a
solid member of the church.— Atlanta
Constitution.
We cordially endorse all that is said
of Judge McCutchen by the Constitu
tion. We have known the Judge for
several years, and a better, nobler
man cannot bo found in tho State.
110 is a good lawyer and will mako a
good Judge.
Honorary Degree Conferred Upon
Grant.— Tlio friends of President Grant
have just discovered that he is a fit sub
ject for tlie degree of LL. D. from Har
vard College. It would be rather diffi
cult to say of wliat laws Grant can bo
doctor, unless it be of tlie system of re
wards and punishments—reward of his
relations and friends, and punishment of
the South for daring to question his title
to the permanent occupancy of the Pres
idential chair. God being willing, and
the people remaining true to the main
tenance of their interests, Grant will be
invested with another degree by tlio pa
triotic voters in November—that of D.,
I). and D., politically—one which lie
will have the satisfaction of knowing he
has earned in his relentless crusade upon
constitutional liberty.
Grant and Dolly Varden in Africa.
—Tlie following story is told, showing
why Dr. Livingstone, when found by the
Herald's correspondent, refused to ac
company the latter back into the so
called civilized world:
“Stanley says hefonndDr. Livingstone
clothed «(i natural , sitting in a large
watermelon, eating bananas, and had
a long conversation with him. The
Doctor, of course, asked all the news,
and at first determined to return, but on
hearing that General Grant warn still
President of tho United States, and that
a horrible new fashion had been intro
duced, in the shape of the Dolly Varden,
said he didn’t think he could stand
civilization under such circumstances,
but thought lie could take a short trip
up tho country, about four or five
thousand miles, and thus amuse himself
until Spring, when both Grant and the
Dolly Varden will have gone out.”
Baltimore Preparing.— Tho Resident
Committee to make arrangements for
the approaching National Democratic
Convention met on Wednesday night,
John W. Davis, Chairman, at tho Grand
Opera House. Banners, with the coats
of arms of the States will be suspended,
aud the seats of delegates will be desig
nated by silk markers. Three thousand
feet of evergreen will be distributed
around the dress eirele and galleries.
The arrangements for the comfort and
convenience of the press will be com
plete, and every facility extended to its
members, with two hundred reporters’
desks to be provided. Ono entrance to
to the Opera House will be set apart ex
clusively for delegates and another for
visitors. There will be a ratification
meeting in Monument Square ou the
uight of the last day of tlie Convention.
Staunton Wesleyan Female Insti
tute. —The closing exercises of this In
stitute took place June lt>th, in Staun
ton. The following items relate to
young ladies from Georgia in the school:
The Valedictory Address was delivered
by Miss A. A. Walker. Final Essays
before the Young Ladies’ Christian As
sociation were read by Miss Sallie
Russell, Augusta, and Miss Jennie
Eambo. An Essay was read before the
Lee and Jackson Literary Society by
Miss Lucy P. Harris, Among the
graduates in one school was Miss Loula
L. Dickenson; among the graduates in
two schools, were Miss A. M. Harlan,
Miss Mattieß. Miller, Auguste, and Miss
Sallie Russell, Augusta; in three
schools, Miss Milly Cobb; in four
schools, Miss Anna Horton, Augusta;
Miss Jennie Rambo ; in the six schools,
Miss Evelyn Rooney; in seven schools,
Miss A. Walker. The following
graduated : Miss Rambo, Miss Rooney
and Miss Walker.
Maj. Hargrove, of Rome, Ga., is re
ported in a fair way to become Gov.
Hargrove, of Idaho.
GOOD WORDS.
i In a late number of tho Lancaster
I Intelligencer, one of the most outspoken
■ Democratic journals in Pennsylvania,
i the following admirable article appeared,
i It is so appropriate at the preseut time
| that we earnestly invite public attention
j to it:
i We think there ought to be universal
acquiescence on tlie part of Democrats
in tlie decision of the Baltimore Con
vention, if the nominations are made in
accordance with the time-honored usages
of tho party. A National Convention is
the highest party tribunal known in this
country, and its decision should be ac
quiesced ill unless public policy and the
good of the country required that it be
disregarded. If the Baltimore Conven
tion presents a platform and candidates
preferable to those adopted at Phila
delphia, no Democrat can give a valid
excuse for refusing to vote the ticket.
Party organizations in this country serve
a good purpose. They enable those who
favor certain governmental principles to
carry into effect tho views they enter
tain. Tlio first tiling to he looked into
is tlio ultimate objects and tho imme
diate purposes of political parties, and
it is the duty of every good citizen to
give an active support at the polls to
that party which most nearly represents
his political opinions. Few intelligent
men find'all their ideas fully covered by
the creed of any political party, but,
with practical good sense, they generally
act in Republican governments with tho
organization which most nearly agrees
with them. Thus is the object of a freo
government carried out and tho greatest
good to the greatest number secured.
More sound common sense, in the
same number of words, is rarely met
with in any journal.
GOOD OMENS.
It is with great pleasure that we recog
nize the harmony that prevails in our
several State conventions as they occur,
and the cordial hand that is extended to
all men having, in substance, the same
ends in view. In this spirit of concord
and conciliation there is good promise
for tlie future, when tlio great contest is
fully come between the friends of good
government and the friends and apolo
gists of bad government. There is an
ovidont determination to abolish all nar
row differences in tho presence of a great
crisis, and forgetting tlie things that are
behind, combine for tho restoration of
wliat all thoughtful men soo in peril
from party usurpations and oxcossos—
constitutional government.
Tho spirit, wo repeat, which animates
tlioso conventions is a most admirable
one. It shows that the gravity of the
situation is fully apprehended, and that
tlioro is a cordial and hearty desire to
meet in honest and practicable ways the
obligations which it imposes. Hail it
been otherwise, had discord got in to
work the mischief which discord and
division rarely fail to work, a severe
shock would have been given to tho
hopes which now animate tho country.
Wo are in tlio midst of a great struggle,
and have to fight a, though corrupt and
crippled, still powerful antagonist, hav
ing all tlio advantages which immense
patronage and kindred powers can give.
It becomes us, therefore, to husband
our resources, consolidate our numbers,
and to bring into harmihotis order our
forces, letting no trifling differences of
opinion separate what success impera
tively demands should be joined to
gether. If all who are opposed to Grant
and Grantism can be brought together
and fight upon one common platform,
there can be no possible room for doubt
ill at Grant and Grantism would be over
whelmed.
To effect this combination is tho task
now before all patriotic citizens, and it
is, therefore, apparent that a very great
responsibility is resting upon those who
are giving shape and form to the con
test. Asa preliminary to the Presiden
tial oleotion, there is a great deal, for
good or evil, in the character of State
tickets. Thus far our friends have act
ed with conspicuous wisdom in making
excellent Stato nominations, and the
strength which they will add to tho
nominees of the Baltimore Convention,
whoever they may be, will be very great.
In Pennsylvania and Indiana, especial
ly—tlicso occur to us particularly—the
tickets aro headed by unexceptionable
names, giving strong assurances of suc
cess if proper efforts are put forth.
By continuing this course of harmony,
co-operation, and good nominations, we
can reasonably look forward to tlio ac
complishment of the great ends in view.
Washington Patriot.
WHAT THE STATE PRESS SAY OF
THE STATE DEMOCRATIC CON
VENTION.
From time to time, as our limits per
mit, we shall present under tho above
caption extracts from tlio comments of
our Stato cotemporaries upon tho recent
State Democratic Convention :
[From the Savannah Ropublioan.]
Contrary to the expectations of all,
this body lias met, conducted its busi
ness in order and without any serious
division of sentiment, and adjourned in
peace. It cannot bo denied that there
were divisions of opinion upon tho true
policy of the Democratic party—some
advocating co-operation with the Cin
cinnati movement and others opposing—
but we rejoice to say that both wings
went into the Convention animated by a
spirit of harmony. All seemed to con
cede that Georgians could not afford to
divide in this timo of peril, however
they might differ. Tho co-operationists,
who were largely in tlio majority, deter
mined, not to sacrifice, but to forego
almost any expression of opinion that
would alienate tho minority, and we
take a real pleasure in saying that Gen.
Toombs and Judge Stephens, the acknowl
edged leaders of the latter, gave, through
out the deliberations, evidence of their
desire for harmony. They throw in no
fire-brand to create strife. In this they
wero met more than half way by the
majority. The Business Committee,
animated by tho friendly spirit referred
to, contented itself with a declaration o
devotion to the ancient faith of the
party, and a recommendation that our
delegates to Baltimore be sent without
instructions to act on all questions as
they may deem wisest and best under
tho circumstances. In this tlie majority
yielded nothing, and the minority wore
satisfied. The report was unauimons.
and received the sanction of the entire
Convention.
As regards the gentlemen sent as del
egates to the National Convention, it
will be seen that warm partisans on both
sides were, as a rule, avoided,
aud solid, substantial men, who have
taken little part in the angry contro
versies of the day, sent to represent the
Democracy of Georgia. This, we feel
quite sure, will be approved by the
people.
On one point it may be proper to make
a remark in order to'correct, in advance,
any false impression that some disorgan
izes may seek to make regarding the
sentiment of the Convention on the
nominations to be made at Baltimore.
Near the close of the session a delegate
rose and offered a resolution pledging
the Democratic party of Georgia to
abide the action of the National Democ
racy. Tliis was promptly laid on the
table by a large vote, and* on the motion
of a gentleman who, perhaps, was the
strongest advocate of Mr. Greeley to be
found in the body. The reason was
threefold: First, the resolution was ont
of order, the Convention having voted
to refer all matters in relation to princi
ples and candidates to the Business
Committee without reading, and that
committee had made its report and been
discharged from further dntv. Second
ly, it was superfluous, as tlie Conven
tion, in the act of sending delegates un
instrubted to the National Convention,
virtually pledged itself to abide the ac
tion of" that body, and was already
bound faith to respect it. Third
ly, tho resolutions previously reported
and adopted by the Convention were a
compromise, and agreed to as the settled
and only action of the body on the sub
jects to which they relate, and the in
troduction of this new matter was a
l violation of that understanding. TJieee
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1572
reasons, we think, are entirely satisfac
tory for the eourso adopted by the Con
vention.
But, as the correspondents of several
1 irreconcilable papers have thonglit prop
er to allude to this action as significant
of the sentiments of the Convention re
garding the nominations to be made at
Baltimore, in order to repel every such
suggestion, we would here state our con
viction, derived from free intercourse
with the members, that four-fifths of the
body approved the resolution, and under
proper circumstances would have cheer
fully made it a p'art of the record.
Os the per sonnet of the Convention, we
have no hesitation in saying that it em
braced a larger share of the ’utelligence
and respectahilitv of the State than any
similar body that has assembled for
years. Alarmed by tho crisis, the peo
ple appear to have put their interests in
the hands of their very best representa
tive men, and we have no doubt they
will approve all that has been done.
Asa matter of interest to our people,
it may not be improper to add that,large
as was the body and coming from nearly
every county in the State, the approval
of the State administration of Governor
Smith was universal. Tlie Greeley men
and the anti-Greeley men, alike, gave
our excellent Executive a cordial en
dorsement, and had the Convention been
called for gnbemational purposes, he
would have been nominated for re-elec
tion, perhaps, without a dissenting voice.
[From tho Macon Telegraph & Messenger.]
The late grand Convention of the
Democracy of Georgia displayed singu
lar moderation and magnanimity in all
its proceeding. Though it was patent
to the least observant, that an enthu
siastic and overwhelming majority of the
delegates were for Cincinnati, as tlie
best and only hope of defeating Grant,
tlioso of our brethren, and their distin
guished loaders, who favor an independ
ent nomination for tho Presidency wero
treated with every mark of courtesy,
kindness and forbearance. When tlioir
greatest orator spoke on Tuesday night,
lie was listened to patiently and respect
fully, nor did one of Georgia’s favorite
sons, who worn loudly'called for in oppo
sition, join issue with him on this occa
sion. The people were willing to hear
both sides, but the eloquence of the
gods could not divert them from their
purpose.
So the next day, in convention, there
was no Buncombe ; no brutum fulmcn
from arrogant speakers ; no gaseous
gall-bags emptying their bitter contents
upon opponents; no direct and trenchant
assertion in set phrase of that policy
which, as sure as the advent of the 9th
of July, will be proclaimed trumpet
tongned at Baltimore to tho nation. Oil
tho contrary, conciliation marked every
movement, and the kindest deference to
tho few, but honest, gentlemen present,
who, while in full sympathy with the
multitude, yet differed upon tlio lino of
action which should l>o adopted. One
of tlieir best men, a name e/arum ct
venerab'ile, was placed on tlio Committee
of Resolutions, and tlie report of
that committee, while it foreshadowed
tlie will and determination of the Demo
cracy to he no laggards when tlio tocsin
is sounded, even though it be Greeley
against Grant, carefully avoided offen
sive antagonisms and irritating allu
sions.
Another evidence of tlie general desire
to harmonize even the conflicting opin
ions of a singlo county, was afforded in
the voto upon tho report of the Commit
tee on Credentials, which, while affirm
ing the right to their seats of tlie dele
gation appointed in regular form, still
recommended that all of tho representa
tives of the Fulton Democracy be ad
mitted to the Convention. The vote on
this question, however, w r as in no sense
a test of tho strength of parties. Thus
the writer can testify that many of the
most pronounced opponents to tlio views
of Messrs. Stephens and Toombs voted
against the substitute of Mr. Simmons,
and favored the seating of both dele
gations with tlie hope of reconciling the
differences of our Fulton friends.
Tn tho afternoon session, too, oven
IllLiicl HCCUon of CTcoitoxxiclxt,
the Convention preserved its equanimity
and self-control. Passing a resolution
unanimously approving of tlie discreet,
honest and able administration of Gov.
Smith, they yet tabled tho proposition
to endorse liis re-nomination in advance,
because by special announcement of tho
Executive Committee, the gubernatorial
question did not come under tho pur
view of this Convention. So even to
the last moment, nothing sensational or
inconsistent with the regular proceed
ings was entertained or allowed to be
interpolated upon the minutes. In short,
tlio attitude of tlie Democracy of Geor
gia is calm, self-reliant and dignified.
Scorning to instruct her patriotic sons
in the Convention at Baltimore, she yet
sends tried, moderate and reliable men,
who will utter no uncertain sound when
tho question of combining all elements,
North and South, for tho defeat of our
arch-enemy, Grant, conies to bo con
sidered.
Inasmuch, then, as it is now no longer
a question of doubt, from the action of
the entire North and West, that a third
candidate will not be presented at Balti
more, in tlie name of all that is sensible,
how can Democrats divide on the ques
tion of Greeley and Grant, when tho
two are in mortal antagonism notv,
whatever may have been the record of
either in the past? We once knew a
benighted traveler wrecked and bemired
by tlio wayside, .who was succored by
liis worst enemy, taken home, warmed,
fed and sent on his way again. What was
tho result? That nlan’s eumity was
transformed into gratitude and love,
and ever after lie was ready to do battle
in behalf of his quondam foe.
Thus is tho South stituated—over
taken by tlie tempest of Radical tyranny,
robbed, trampled under foot, her peo
ple at the mercy of Federal tax gatherers
and gleaming bayonets, hero comes the
nominee of Cincinnati bringing the olive
branch of peace, and strong arms and
stout hearts to tho rescue, albeit they
wero once our enemies and persecutors.
Shall wo reject tlieir sympathy and
succor, aud sullenly hug our chains,
and prefer defeat and ruin to such an
alliance? We trow not. Let ns rise
above the atmosphere of ancient pre
judices and feuds, and, preserving our
organization and identify as Democrats,
striko hands with the Liberal Republi
can movement on the platform of Con
cinnati (if our National Convention so
advises), and combine overy energy for
the redemption of the country from the
dominion of tlie despotic Grant.
SOUTH CAROLINA ITEMS.
A moccasin five feet long was caught
in tlie Columbia Park on Friday.
Mrs. Mary Morg, ngod 70, of Union,
badly broke' her, leg by a fall last Tues
day.
Two United States soldiers are re
ported by the Union Times as indulging
in a free fight, in the jail at that place.
After being locked up they tried to set
fire to their cell.
Mr. T. M. Smith, of Lynchburg, who
had, accompanied by his sister, gone to
Wofford College, Spartanburg, to witness
the graduation of their brother, died
suddenly Tuesday night.
Something now in this latitude is
promised at the next term of tlie Circuit
Court for tho Btli inst., to be held at
Anderson Court House, in the shape of
a breach of promise case.
We learn that a simoon passed over a
small section of Laneester county a few
dav ago, destroying about fifteen acres
of "cotton upon the plantation of Mr. E.
B. Mobley—literally parching it to cin
ders.
Grant’s night riders continue their
nocturnal visits to different parts of
Union county. A number of men have
been arrested lately and released, but
Robert Davis and Joseph Burgess are
among the victims.
The residence of Mr. John Walker,
near Double Branches, in Pickens coun
tv, was totally destroyed by fire on Fri
day last, and the entire contents of the
building were consumed, except a couple
of feather beds and a piano.
Tlie clemency of His Excellency, says
the Columbia South Carolinian, toward
the negro convicts of the penitentiary is
producing its legitimate fruits. Murder,
burglary, arson, and kindred crimes are
on the increase in the larger cities and
towns in this State, where these jail
birds have found refuge. Every ex
change comes to ns with records of
these criminal acts, and in several in
stances where the perpetrators have
been detected or traced, they bear the
unmistable features of pardoned or es
caped convicts.
W. T. Dent, of Cave Springs, walks
to the front, or as near there as he
can get, with 34 bushels of wheat from
one acre. He plowed deep, and sowed
two bushels of seed wheat, without
manure. Corn grew on the land last
year.
ATLANTA LETTER.
[Special Correspoudonce of the Morning News.]
Atlanta, June 29, 1872.
THE STATE EOAD LEASE.
The most important facts yet devel
oped by the committee on the State
Road lease were brought to light yester
day. One of the lessees testified that,
soon after the lease was effected, a mo
tion was made iq a meeting of his col
leagues to raise 3180,000. Os this sum
onlj 350,000 was actually paid up.
During the discussion which arose upon
the motion, Kimball is represented as
having urged the payment of the whole
amount asked for, as compensation for
services rendered ; for to these services,
he said, the persons present owed their
seats as lessees i
too “sick” to testify.
This evidence was given by an ex
lessee, who asked that the other les
sees might lie pro,sent and contradict
him, if they could. Two of them de
clined, while two others attended, and
wero put through a most trying and sift
ing .examination. Ole of them com
plained of being sick before the exam
ination was concluded# and, upon his
own urgent request, was excused.
STARTLING TESTIMONY.
Tlio testimony of the ex lessgo was too
startling to be kept secret. It was soon
whispered about, and created great ex
citement. and consternation among the
friends of the lease. The testimony does
not connect Bullock with the transac
tion, at least as tho party for whom tho
money was to bo raised ; n>r does it ap
pear that the money was to bo paid to
members of the Legislature or of tho
lobby. Ex-Governor Brovq, it is said,
has an explanation of this transaction, but
it has not been made public, and I do
not know wliat it is. lie is one of the
lessees who declined to to preseut at
tho examination of the person alluded to
above.
THE LEASE TO BE HF.I ASIDE.
It is understood that tiie committee
will make a strong and prtbably unani
mous report against the legality and val
idity of tho lease, and that it will report
a resolution to ask tho Legislature to
adopt it, requesting tho Governor to in
stitute proceedings in tin proper court
to set it aside. It lias already been in
timated that the lessees am ready to re
turn the road if the Stato will reimburse
them for the improvements they have
made, and the additional rolling stock
they have furnished. If Ihe case gets
into court, it will probably remain there
many years ; for w liat, with the tedious
ness of legal proceedings, Ihe ingenuity
of counsel, and tho non-iesidence of
some of the witnesses, it could bo kept
afloat for a long time.
THE STATE NOMINATING CONVENTION.
Tlio Democratic State Executive Com
mittee, as yon have seen, have called a
Convention at this place on the 24th day
of July, to nominate a candidate for
Governor and to select Presidential Elec
tors. It was thought advisable not to
name a later day, as it is generally un
derstood the Legislature will change the
time of our State election, and bring it
on the first week in October instead qi
November. It seems to be tlio general
desire that the Stato election shall be
separated from tlio Presidential election,
and thus avoid all pretext for Federal
interference. Tho people should lose
no timo, therefore, in organizing and se
lecting their best men ns delegates to
the Convention.
THE RINGS AT WORK.
It is not probable that the Gubernato
rial Convention will be unanimous in the
choice of a candidate for Governor.
Indeed, it is now well understood that
the holders of Bullock’s spurious bonds,
certain railway and canal “ rings,” aud
certain local interests aud factions; to
getn**r tlio “sore-heads” and ‘Lotto
pointed office-seekers, are Hard at work
trying to find a candidate to beat out
Governor Smith. Some of these parties
had a meeting for consultation at the
National Hotel yesterday, when it was
determined to send out agents and can
vassers into different parts of the State,
one of whom was to leave for Southwest
ern Georgia this morning, fathers have
gone, or will go, in other directions.
The use of money is freely talked about
by these people, and the amount already
on hand—s2s,ooo —is mentioned as an
evidence of strength!
THE DISOROANIZERS TO BE EXPOSED.
The parties to this movement of the
“lings” are known, and will be exposed
at tlie proper time. I allude to’the sub
ject now, to put the peoplo on their
guard. Ono of the parties approached
a leading citizen of North Georgia dur
ing tlio Convention this week, and urged
him to become a candidate ; but he
promptly declined, saying ho was for
Smith. Another one suggested to a dis
tinguished gentlemen that he organize
a movement in Eastern Georgia in oppo
sition to the present incumbent. The
answer was profane, but very emphatic
against any such folly.
HOW IT IS TO BE DONE.
Meanwhile, there has been some co
quetting between these Democratic
“ soreheads’’ and “ ring” men, and the
leaders of the African forces in tho
State. If a satisfactory representative
of the bondholders, tlio disappointed
brigade, and the lobby cannot be nomi
nated, then it is hoped soino dissension
may arise in Jtlio Democratic party,
either in Georgia or at Baltimore, which,
with tlie co-operation of the Radicals,
will enable the coalition to carry tlie
eloction.
JtTDOE OF THE CHEROKEE CIRCUIT.
lion. C. D. McCutchen, of Dalton,
was yesterday appointed Judge of the
Cherokee Circuit, to fill the vacancy oc
casioned by the death of Judge Parrott.
He is represented to be a man of high
character and decided abilities.
IIOYT.
Hoyt was yesterday sentenced to seven
years in the penitentiary.
OOEEOHBB.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Ernest A. Garlington, son of Gen. A.
C. Garlington, lias heon admitted to
West Point.
A fire broke out at the dry kiln of the
Atlanta Box Company on Monday morn
ing, destroying lumber to the amount of
about SSOO.
A firo occurred in tlio “Georgia
House” bar-room, Savannah, Sunday
morning. Damage, about SI,OOO. Cov
ered by insnraneo.
Bishop Beckwith preached and admin
istered the rite of confirmation to thir
teen candidates at St. Philip’s Church,
Atlanta, on Sunday.
Mr. John Kittle, of Athens, has given
the University of Georgia two thousand
feet of lumber for tlie purpose of en
closing the College grounds.
Mr. J. T. Taney, of St. Mary’s, Ga.,
en route North for his health, died at I
the Marshall House, in Savannah, on
Friday night, of consumption.
T. G. Campbell, negro Senator from
Mclntosh eounty, is now in Atlanta jail,
charged witli marrying a white woman
to a negro man in Fulton county.
George S. Thomas has been appointed
and commissioned Assistant United
States Attorney for Georgia with a salary
of two thousand dollars per annum.
In Savannah, Mr. Hugh McAvoy fell
from the roof the Georgia Infirmary, a
distance of thirty-five feet, on Saturday,
breaking his left wrist and two or three
ribs.
The Atlanta Constitution, of Tuesday,
says: The town is “ full up” on the
canteloupe question. One gentleman in
Augusta shipped here four thousand
canteloupes.
A man named Young alias Simmons,
attempted to victimize a number of At
lanta merchants on Saturday by pur
chasing goods under false pretences.
The game did not succeed.
The caterpillars have entirely disap
peared from the rice plantations on the
Savannah, Ogeechee, Altamaha and Sa
tilla rivers. The damage done was not
so extensivo as at first reported.
George S. Cobb, charged with robbing
the express office in Atlanta, and who
was confined in Ludlow jail, New York,
being recently transferred to the Atlanta
jail, lias given bond, and is out of
prison.
A little son of Mr. Ed. Clowdis, of
Cherokee countv, Ala., was killed near
Coosaville last tuesday. They were go
ing home from Rome and the males be
came frightened, and the lad was thrown
from the wagon a*J killed.
A BIG MEDICINE MAN.
A Black Alan Practicing the Black Art
with Black Vials—His Arrest anil
Subsequent Faint as a Feint.
The Marlboro’ (S. C.) Times reports
that W. S. Merrv, a good-looking col
; ored man, lately from Georgia, made his
! appearance ou the plantation of Air. W.
IS. Mowry. He had a black carpet-bag,
j which contained a number of vials, filled
with a black mixtnre. He professed to
tell fortunes, and claimed that he could
out-coujure old Nick himself. He as
serted that he could take one of his
vials, shake it, aud by looking in it show
any man his enemies; that he could
shake one of the rials and put it down
by the side of a road, and it would jump
to tho other side, and that any one com
ing within five steps of tlie vial would
not live five minutes after. These sto
ries made a wonderful impression upon
tlie minds of the hands engaged on Mr.
Mowry’s plantation. All of them, big
and little, old and young, men, women
and children, had their fortunes told.
Some of them could not have been very
good fortunes, for soon everybody was
at dagger’s points with everybody else.
The husband was set against, the wife;
the father against tho son; the mother
in-law against tho daughter-ill-law, and,
of a verity, a man’s foes were those of
his own household. In tho midst of
all these commotions, Merry kept in
view liis leading idea, that of get
ting fifty cents from each person
whose fortune he told. Ho generally
did a cash business, yet lie would, oc
casionally, tell one on short time. —
; Among those whose fortunes lie told on
time was one Allen Stony. When Stony
paid him, from some cause Merry cut at
tho throat of the other with his knife,
aud was only prevented from seriously
injuring him by tlie interference of a
third person. Merry also tried to ont
one Simon Smoot, whose fortunes he
had just told for cash, showing that he
was just as willing to cut for cash as on
credit. Tho proceedings above enu
merated led to Merry’s arrest. When
first arrested ho breathed out threateu
iugs and slaughter against all,taking
part in his arrest; avowed himself a
member of Lowery’s baud; said fifteen
others were leagued with him, and that
the indignities offered him should ’bo
speedily and thoroughly avenged. Not
deterred, however, by liis threats, those
who had taken him into custody brought
him before Trial Justice McColl. Sev
eral warrants had been taken out against
him. It soou appearing to Merry’s sat
isfaction that the prospect was good for
his staying in jail for a pretty lengthy
period, lio resorted to a ruse to recover
liis liberty. He pretended to become
suddenly ill, appeared very faint, and
asked for water. Just about the timo
the water was arriving, being very eager
to get it, lie arose, looking very sick and
weak, and tottered a step or two forward
as if to meet it, and—“sloped,” and
nothing is known of liis present where
about. Before, his sudden departure,
Merry stated that he really knew nothing
about fortune-telling or conjuring, but
finding that the colored people about
there were so ignorant as to believe him,
he had concluded to raise a littlo money
by playing, fortune-teller and conjurer.
A New Plan for the Grocery Trade.
—A now plan of dealing is being intro
duced into the retail grocery trade in
England to induce cash payments for
grocercies and also to make new custom
ers, and is said to be a decided suc
cess. It is styled tlie “bonus system for
cash payments for groceries,” and con
sists in allowing a bonus of 2J per cent.,
payable at the end of each six months,
on all purchases made during that time.
At the timo of each cash purchase a
metal check is given showing the amount
of tlie purchase. These are preserved
by the buyer, and when tlio timo of re
demption arrives—twice a year —tlie
checks show tho amount on which the
holder is entitled to 21 per cent., and is
pain in goods. The Him originating
this innovation make their first semi
annual redemption on the 14th of last
month, and stato that it has proved a
great success. Many of their customers
who hitherto had been taking credit for
periods of one to three months now will
ingly pay cash, and their trade has been
greatly increased at tlie same timo. The
success of this firm lias induced many
others to adopt the same plan.
Obscene Literature—Startling Rev
elation. — In tho New York Court of
General Sessions, on Friday, tho case of
Joliu Meeker, charged with selling ob
scene literature, was taken up. Assist
ant District Attorney Fellows, in his
opening remarks to the jury, made tlie
startling statement that the young ladies’
seminaries in that city and vicinity were
actually Hooded with books and pictures
of the most indecent kind, surrepti
tiously introduced, some times hidden
in boqnets of flowers, some times in
parcels of nuts and candy, by such men
as tlie prisoner.
Look Out, Landlords. —A few days
ago a man registering himself as J. B.
Bennett, St. Louis, Mo., stopped at
Brown’s Hotel, in Winnsboro, 8. C.,
and made himself very conspicuous
among the leading colored Radicals,
and when about the hotel, attempted by
inuendoes, shrugs of the shoulders and
making notes in a memorandum book,
to lead the landlord and others to be
lieve lie was a Government official or
detective. He even went so far as to in
quire of the landlord if he could have a
strong room in the fourth story of tlie
hotel for special purposes. Now for the
sequel : Bennett slipped off on the night
train going South, leaving liis hotel bill
unpaid.
Change in Cotton Contracts.— At a
meeting of the Board of Managers of
the New York Cotton Exchange, it was
resolved to amend Rule First by insert
ing tho words “ from Ordinary to Good
Middling,” in tlie form of contracts,
instead of the words “ from Good Ordi
nary to Good Middling. ” Tliis amend
ment is to effect only those contacts
made after this time, which fall due
after January Ist, 1873.
What Parker Has Picked Up.—The
Columbia correspondent of tlio Charles
ton News lots the following paragraph
drop concerning tho thrift of the present
State Treasurer of South Carolina : •
A Republican who ought to know says
that Parker has five hundred thousand
dollars invested in five-twenty United
States bonds, which he has picked up
since he has been conducting tho
cial affairs of this prosperous Common
wealth.
Apologetic. —We find tho following
statement in tho Athens Banner, of Fri
day :
The editor of tlie Banner was quite
seriously disabled on Wednesday in an
attack made upon him by Robert H.
Lanlpkin, and has not been able to give
usual attention to this issue of the
paper. As the difficulty which resulted
in his severe injury grew out of his in
terest in the election which takes place
to-day, he withholds, at the advice of
friends, a statement of the circumstances
until the excitement of the day is over,
when all the facts shall be given to the
public.
Mere “Flapdoodle.” —At that queer
Grant meeting in Abbeville, South Caro
lina Judge Orr declared the Democrats
could not support Greeley, because he
is a dyed-in-the-wool Republican.
Judge Hoge followed, and declared that
no true Republican could countenance
Greeley, because that bucolic philoso
pher had sold out to the Democracy.
Judge Orr, you see, was to hook the
whites, while Hoge kept the blacks
from straggling. The Chairman, no
doubt, explained that it was the old
story—yex pays yer money and yer
takes yer choice.
Savannah was interviewed on Satur
day by a Florida prodigy en route to
to Vermont. He is ten years of age,
weighs one hundred and ten pounds,
and measures thirty-nine inches around
the waist. He says that Jacksonville
possesses another, fourteen years of
age, weighing one hundred and forty
nine pounds.
BRUTAL TREATMENT OF A WIFE.
A Man (’bains liis Wife to a Heavy
Weight ami Burns Her Mouth With a
Poker to Prevent Her Driukiug.
[From the Pittsburg Loader, Thursday.]
Last night one of the Mayor’s patrol
had his attention drawn to a bare-headed,
lightly draped woman, who had a heavy
chain padlocked to her neck, aud a large
metal weight weighing fully thirty
pounds attached thereto. Thinking she
was an escaped lunatic ho at once took
her into custody, and lodged her in the
lock up. She gave her name as Eliza
Martin, and stated while they wero re
lieving her of her bonds that the chain
and weight had been placed on her by
her husband, aud that his cruel treat
ment had been such that she left
home with the intention of drowning
herself. She was met on Market street
by a couple of young men who dissuad
ed her from the rasli act, and she was,
when captured, wandering about the
street in an almost exhausted condition.
This morning Mayor Blacknioro insti
tuted au investigation, and there she in
formed him that her husband’s iiamb is
Arthur Martin; that ho had been iu the
habit of treating her in the way that was
seen the night before. Slie also said
that on last Friday ho had deliberately
heated a poker red hot and burned her
with it, and that his object in doing so
was to prevent her from drinking liquor.
Tho woman’s appearance was miserable
in tlie extreme, and if her statements are
correct, wo have hero a sample of cruel
ty in our midst hardly second to that
practiced by tho most savage barba
rians.
Martin was arrested this morning at
tho instance of Chief of Police Irwin,
who made an information charging him
with assault and battery. A leader re
porter visited him in cell No. 6 at tho
lock-up, to seo wliat manner of man it
was»tliat could chain liis wil'o and abnso
her as ho is alledgeil to bavo done. Wo
found him to lie a rather large, respecta
ble looking individual, of probably fifty
years of ago, and giving no outward
signs of being such a brute as was sup
posed. He, in short, looks like a sober,
well-to-do drayman—that is, we under
stand, liis business—and one not likely,
so far as we could judge, to be guilty of
the conduct presumed against him. But,
nevertheless, appearances in tliis instance
wore deceptive.
Wiiat to Do in Case of Sunstroke. —
Dr. 11. C. Wood, in lAppincott's Maga
zine for .Tnly, says in regard to sim
strolco: •
Now that tho true nature of tho dis
ease is known, the method of treatment
becomes most obvious, and we learn not
merely what to do, but what not to do.
As heat is the cause of tho symptoms,
common senso points to tlie abstraction
of the beat in some way as tho mode of
cui'o. And here again vivisection comes
in play. I have taken an animal, coma
tose, paralyzed by heat, apparently
dying, and plunged it into a bucket of
cold water. Tho temperature of tho suf
forer at once rapidly fell until it reached
the normal point, and just in proportion
that of tlie water in tlie bucket rose. As
the animal cooled respiration became
more regular, the unsteady wliurr of the
heart was stilled, by and by tho eye lids
were lifted, and out from the glassy eye
came the beams of new life. If the
period of unconsciousness had been
short, tlie animal was in a few hours ap
parently as well as ever ; if long, the
animal would recover sufficiently to
recognize its surrounding, and to strug
gle for release, but when allowed to
escape the paralyzed limbs and the slow
imperfect progression indicated the pro
found injury the nervous system had
received, and in a sow hours tlio animal
would be dead.
The lessons of those experiments aro
too plain to be overlooked. Whatever
is to he done is this diseaso must he
done quickly. Clinical as wall as experi
mental observation enforces this doe
trine. There should in such oases bo no
waiting for the doctor. Tho remedy is
so simple, tlie death so imminent, that
tlio good rtrtimtriiiiJi pUbaxiig l>j ulumltl
save liis brother. The good Samaritan
must, however, have a cool head to bo
useful. Not cveryman who falls uncon
scious ou a hot day has sunstroke.
There is fortunately one criterion so
easy of application that any ono can use
it. Go at once to tho fallen man, open
liis shirt bosom and lay tlie hand upon
tlie chest ; if the skin bo cold you may
rest assured that, whatever may be tho
trouble, it is not sunstroke. If, on the
contrary, the skin is burning hot, tho
ease is certainly sunstroke, and no timo
should be lost. The patient should be
carried to the nearest pump or hydrant,
stripped to his waist, and bucketful
after bucketful of cold water bo dashed
over him until consciousness begins to
return, or the intense heat of the sur
face decidedly abates.
Tiie Pork Corner Contestants.—
Ono of the numerous questions of
mercantile usage or honor which fre
quently arise among business men lias
just been considered by tlie Board of
Officers of the Cincinnati Chamber of
Commerce, and tho decision, which was
announced by the President yesterday,
was the subject of much earnest and
animated discussion on ’Change. The
case in briefVas this: One pork packer
having contracted to sell another a cer
tain amount of city brand mess pork,
when the contract matured did deliver,
moss pork with his own brand on, but,
which was packed elsewhere—in Louis
ville, wo believe—tlie original brand be
ing erased and his own substituted.
The buyer refused to receive this in set
tlement of the contract, aud tho seller
subsequently delivered an equal amount
of mess pork, tho brands of which were
satisfactory to tho buyer. So far as tlio
financial or money value of the transac
tion was concerned, it was sett,led be
tween the parties. But tho buyer pre
fers charges of fraud against tho seller
in delivering other than the city of Cin
cinnati packed pork on a contract call
ing for city brand. The case has been
tried by tlio Board of Officers, and tho
decision, if it is really a decision at all,
reached by them, is somewhat peculiar.
It either goes too far or it does not go
far enough. A man cannot be guilty
and innocent at the same time. Tho de
cision was virtually that tho charge of
fraud against tho seller was not sus
tained, but that tlio attempting to fill
the contract in tho manner stated was
“irregular and unmercantile, and as such
should be condemned. ” This, we sup
pose, refers to the whole operation—the
scratching off of ono brand, tlie substi
tution of anothor. and the attempt to de
liver one article when another had been
sold. Collaterally, the Board also de
cided that city packed, city branded, or
city mess pork, as the terms were used
here, was that only which was packed in
this city. Tho Board, we presume, is
not confined by tho rules of the courts,
otherwise the decision of questions not
in the complaint might bo considered
extra judicial. Tlio Board did not find
the party guilty of the charge, but of
something else which was not charged.
Tt made a report of its finding to tho
Chamber, but made no recommendation
to the Chamber for its action, as it wus
bound to do under its constitution if tlie
party was guilty.— Cincinnati Gazette,
21 st.
Pass Him Around. — The facts hefo
witli appended are derivod from a re
sponsible source, and an anxiety to pre
vent other communities from being im
posed upon, induces us to give publicity
to this statement. One T. Cary Colo
married a lady of high respectability
in this eounty, and afterwards decamped
from this section, leaving his family
without protection. Ho went to Florida
and there married another lady. When
the facts became known, he was indicted
for bigamy and lodged in jail. The
proof was abundant to secure his con
viction, but he made his escape on the
23d of May last from the jail of Colum
bia county, Fla., and has not been heard
from since. He is al aiut 45 years old,
five feet ten inches in height, weighs
about IGS pounds, has bine eyes, coarse
auburn hair, with a beard nearer red
than any other color, and possesses a
mean countenance, according to our in
formation. He is very religious, and
claims to he a Hard Shell Baptist
preacher.
Our exchanges will confer a favor by
giving the purport of this information iu
their columns, and in all probability ar
rest the carerr of this gay Lothario in
other places. —Anderson {S. C.) Intelli
gencer.
Consumption in Delaware.—Statis
tics prove, says the Wilmington lte.pub
lican, that there are more people die of
consumption in Delaware than in any
other State in tho Union, in proportion
to population. The deaths from this
disease are more prevalent jn the States
on the seacoast, and less in those Stutos
in'tho interior of the oontinent.
NEW SERIES—VOL. XXV—NO. 28.
Vulgarity in Dress.— Tho corres
pondent of a St. Louis paper recites an
incident seen by him on Broadway a
fair days siueo, as follows :
A sweet young tiling tripped down
tho street before me Saturday—a laven
der silk profusely frilled, and something
more than tho regulation stick-out be
hind. I had my eagle off-eye and my
lynx-like nigh on this palpitating bump
er, when an unusual depression oc
curred ; a convulsive action took place a
few feet below. On swept the collapsed
Indy, and she loft behind three Heralds,
one Sun, a fragment of paper muslin,
and the Christian Observer (not mo, by
any means, but the paper, Observer and
Watchman), all hung carelessly over an
old black shoe-string.
Probably there is a good deal of
imagination in this, but if the young
women who indulge in tho unsightly
abomination known as panniers wero but
to see themselves in profile, the odds
are very largely in favor of tlieir abstain
ing from further use of them. Tt is a
somewhat curious fact f hat while male
attire is becoming quieter, year by year,
that of the gentler sex is rapidly rising
to all sorts of extravagances of form aud
color, the most outre combinations of
both being eagerly sought after on all
sides. Another pitiful satire on good
taste aud decency is the Dolly Varden
fever. It seems to have taken badly
with tlie rural mind and tlio domi-mondo,
, and yot wo have tho Dolly Varden gaiters,
nocktios, hats, cups, chewing gum, and
every other conceivable and inconceiv
able thing to Which tlio name of Dickons’
pretty littlo heroine ean ho applied,
with or without rhyme or reason.
This oxtravaganco of dress does not
speak particularly well for tlio re
finement of the female sox, and some
stand should bo taken to prevent its
spread. In England the absence of tlio
Princess of Wales from the Court lias
led to an increase in these fantastic de
signs, but, with her return, comes an
order that ladies with square-necked
drosses will not bo admitted to tho
drawing rooms, ami decency and re
spectability must be maintained. It is
somewhat hard to say it, but tho ladies
of the present day are, in tho ball-room,
as lavish in tlio display of tlioir persons
as the veriest cocotte, while tlrti fantastic
shapes and colors of their dresses in the
promonudo cannot fail to attract atten
tion, and, not unfrequently, invite in
sult. Tho Princess of Wales is doing
hor best to stop this among the ladies
of England, and it is to bo regretted
that wo have not some Princess of
Wales hero to teach our American wo
men modesty and moderation in dress.
—Detroit Free Cress.
Threatened Suspension of the Quar
antine. —Another effect of tho whole
sale plundering of tho Treasury of South
Carolina, is the fact that l)r. Lobby,
Health Officers, of the Port of Charles
ton, announces that owing to tho want of
funds for quarautino purposes, lio will
probably be obliged to rniso tlio quaran
tine from Georgetown to the coast of
Georgia, on tho 18th of July. He has
made every effort to obtain tho money
nooossary ($2,500) to maintain the quaran
tine until next Fall, by a personal ap
peal to tho Stato Treasurer, but without
success, and ho now sees no resource
but to raise the quarautino, and aban
don the coast to its chances of infection.
Tho crew of tho quarautino boat at
Bull Iliver have already got tired of
waiting for tlioir pay, and abandoned
the boat last week ; but Dr. Lebby has
already made private arrangements to
pay another crew for the present, at
least, and tlio quarantine is ro-estub
lisliod.
With tlio ponitentiary and jail doors
thrown open and criminals turned looto
to depredate upon tlio lives and property
of tlie citizens, because of a lack of
money to feed tlio convicts while dis
charging the sentences of tho Courts;
with tho inmates of tho Lunatic Asylum
robbed of the appropriations made for
tlioir support and oaro, and a long lino
of coast country exposed to tlio unre
stricted advent of infectious diseases
ami doatli, where, in civilized history,
can bo found a case parallel with that of
the peoplo of South Carolina? And
yet, there aro men, “native and to tlie
manor born,” who have tlio shameless
audacity to urgo upon tlio peoplo tho
support of Grant and his subservient
ring of State plunderers. “Oh, shame,
where is thy blush ?”
Machinery for Making House-Shoes.
—The manufacture of horse-shoes of old
and accepted patterns has kept far in
advance of any improvement in this
class of dovioos ns concerns tlioir form,
attachment to the hoof, or means, of
holding firm upon tlie roadway traveled
on—all of tlioso points susceptible of
advantageous change. According to
tho accounts given iu the French papers,
tho methods of production now employ
ed in the fabrication of this important
article, in France, aro noteworthy for
tlieir simplicity anil for tho excellence
of the shoes produced.
Tho machinery used for this purpose
is described au comprising a rolling
mill, a shaping maoliino, two steam
hammers, and two punching machines,
with, of course, dies for each sizo of
shoe made. The value of all tho
machinery aud appliauoes is said not to
exceed eight thousand dollars. The
hammers require fiftoeu-liorse steam
power, and a six-horse engine suffices
for all tlio rost; but, it is added, a iif
teen-horse, engine would probably an
swer all purposes, on account of the
facility and completeness of operation
characterizing tho various details.
With tlio above machines, a company
in Paris turn out two thousand shoes a
day, with six laborers and throe appren
tices, and tho space occupied by tlie
factory is by no means extensive. The
production is constant; when working
only during the day, the fires aro cover
ed iqi at night, but when working night
and day, thoro is of course a consid
arablo economy of fuel and working ex
penses. Tho engines are worked with
the lost heat of the plate-furnace, as in
rolling mills. In point of durability,
the shoes mado in this manner aro said
to be very superior.
Effort to Rebuild the “Burnt Dis
trict” in Charleston. —A number of
enterprising reconstructionists of the
right kind are moving in an effort to
inaugurate a plan which will promote
tho rebuilding of tho “burnt district”
in Charleston, which embraces nearly
one-fourth of the city. Among tho plans
proposed is ono by Messrs. Alfred Ber
nard, H. A. Cohen and otliers, petition
ing tlie City Council to release all per
sons building in the “burnt district”
from city taxes for a number of years, to
lie fixed by the City Ceuncil, As an
eamost of tlioir faith in the enterprise,
Messrs. Bernard and Cohen havo already
started, and aro now building two very
pretty (French style) houses on New
street, and within a few days will com
mence five moro in tho same neighbor
hood.
Savannah and Charleston Railroad
Bonds. —From a notice of S. W. Fisher,
the Treasurer, we obsorve that tho cou
pons for interest on tho first mortgage
bonds of the Savanmali and Charleston
Railroad Company, which mature J illy
Ist, 1872, will bo paid on and after that
date at tho banking bouse of H. H.
Kimpton, financial agent for tho Stato of
South Carolina, at No. 9 Nassau street,
New York.
Internal Revenue Taxes.
We print for the information of those
interested the following schedule of arti
cles and occupations now subject to lax
under the amended revenue laws, as pre
pared in the Treasury Department:
Spirits. —No. 1. Spirits distilled from
apples, peaches or grapes, per gallon, 70
cents.
No. 2. Spirits distilled from materials
other than apples, poaches, or grapes,
per gallon, 70 cents.
No. 3. Rectifiers (special tax), S2OO.
No. 4. Wines, liquors, or compounds*
known or denominated as wine, and
made in imitation of sparkling wine or
champagne, hut not made from grapes
grown in the UnitedStat.es, and liquors,
not'made from grapes, currants, rhubarb
or berries grown in the United States,
but produced by being rectified or mixed
with distilled spirits, or by the infusion
of auy matter in spirits to be sold as
wine, or as a substitute for wine, in bot
tles containing not more than One pint,
per bottle or package, 10 cents.
No. 0. Same, in bottles containing
more than one pint, and not more than
one quart, per bottle or package, 20
cents.
No. (1. And at the same rate for any
larger quantity of such merchandise,
however put up, or whatever may l>e the
package.
No. 7. Dealers, retail liquor (special
tax), $25.
No. 8. Dealers, wholesale liquor (spe
cial tax), SIOO.
No. 9. Manufacturers of stills (special
tax), SSO.
No. 10. Stills or worms manufactured,
each S2O.
No. 11. Stamps for distilled spirits in
tended for export, each 25 cents.
No. 12. Stamps, distillery warehouse,
each 10 cents.
No. 13. Stamps for rectified spirits,
each 10 cents.
No. 11. Stamps, wholesale liquor deal
ers, each 10 cents.
No. 15. Uigurs and cheroots of all de
scriptions, domestic or imported, per
thousand, $5,
No. 1(5. Cigarettes, domestic or im
ported, weighing not over throe pounds
per thousand, perMsl 50.
No. 17. Cigarettes, domestic or im
ported, weighing over three pounds per
thousand, per M $5.
No. 18. Manufacturers of cigars (spe
cial tax), $lO.
No. 11). Snuflfof all descriptions, do
mestic or imported, and sunll' Hour sold
or removed for use, per,pound, 32 cents.
No. 20. Tobacco, chewing and smok
ing, tine cut, cavendish, plug or twist,
cut or granulated, of every description,
tobacco twisted by hand or reduced into
a condition to be consumed, or in any
manner, other than the ordinary mode
of drying and curing, props red ’ for sale
and consumption, even if prepared with
out being pressed or sweetened, and all
lino cut shorts and refuse scraps, clip
pings, cuttings and sweepings of t.obae
co, por pound, 10 cents.
No. 21. Stamps for tobacco or snulT
intended for export, each 1() cents.
No. 22. Dealers in leaf tobacco
(Bpecial tax), $25.
No. 23. Retail dealers in leaf tobacco,
annual sales not over SI,OOO (special
tax), $5.
No. 21. Retail dealers in leaf tobacco,
annual sales over SI,OOO, fur every SI,OOO
over SI,OOO, 50 cents.
No. 25. Dealers in manufactured to
bacco (special tax), $5.
No. 20. Manufacturers of tobacco
(special tax), $lO.
No. 27. Peddlers of tobacco, when
traveling vtitli two horses, mules or
other animals, first-class (special tax),
SSO.
No. 28. Peddlers of tobacco, when
traveling with two houses, mules, etc.,
second-class (special tax), $25.
No. 29. Peddlers of tobacco, when
traveling with one horse, mule or other
animal, third-class (special tax), sls.
No. 30. Peddlers of tobacco, when
traveling on foot or by any public con
veyance, fourth-class (special tax), $lO.
Auy person who soils or oilers to sell
and deliver manufactured tobacco, snuff
ami cigars, traveling from place to
place in town nr through ••nnnt r.v. shall
be regarded as a peddler of tobacco.
Fermented Liquor, —No. 31. Fer
mented liquor, per barrel, sl.
No. 32. Brewers, annual manufactures
less than 500 barrels (special tax), SSO.
No. 33. Prowers, animal manufactures
not less than 500 barrels (special tax),
SIOO.
No. 34. Wholesale dealers in malt
liquors, SSO.
No. 35. Retail dealers in malt liquors,
S2O.
Hanks awl Hankers, —No. 30. Hank
deposits, por month, 1-21 of one por
cent.
No. 37. Bank deposits, saving, &<•■.,
having no capital stock, per six months,
i of one per cent.
No. 38. Bank capital, per month, 1-24
of one per cent.
No. 39. Bank circulation, per month,
1-12 of one per cent.
No. 40. Bank circulation exceeding 90
por cent, of capital, in addition, per
month, 1-0 of one per cent.
No. 41. Banks, on amount of notes of
any person, State bank or State bank
association, usod for circulation and
paid put, 10 percent.
Noth.— The tax on income expires by
limitation with the assessment on in
oomos for the calendar year 1871. The
repeal of the tax on gas takes died.
August 1,1872.
Raiouoad.s ani> thb Taxes.- Sown
time since wo published a statement
from a Washington dispateli to the Ba
vanuah News, stating that the Georgia
Railroad wan duo the Government one
hundred thousand dollars for taxes.
Upon investigation wo discovered and
published the erronoousness of this re
port, and subsequent events demonstra
ted that it was the Central and not. the
Georgia Railroad to which the dispatch
had reference. A few days ago the
JVcwm had another dispatch,to the effect
that Collector Fanning, of this revenue
district, had been instructed to bring
suit against the Georgia Railroad for
ono Jimidrod thousand dollars on ac
count of taxes unpaid. Believing that
this, like the other, was a mistake, we
did not copy it. The N' H’h, however,
gives tho following explanation of the
mutter : It appears that a paragraph to
the effect that the Commissioner of In
ternal Rovcnuo had declined to go to
law to decide the question of tho legality
of the tax assessed on the scrip dividends
of the Now York Central Railroad, misrep
resents tho ease. The facts are, that the
Commissioner having decided against the
rood, it becomes the duty of the Assessor
to make an assessment of the tax, which
tho Collector, under the law, is bound
to collect, if by destraitU, on the prop
erty of tho company without going to
law, which would so long delay the col
lection of a tax. The action of the Col
lector is based upon a section of the In
ternal Revenue law, which ho believes
to be too plain to be misunderstood.
Instructions have been issued by the
Commissioner to the Assessor to make
assessments on all scrip dividends de
clared within a certain period, also to
make assessment of tho tax due under
the income law that has expired, and to
collect tlie same before being barred by
statute of limitation. This includes in
come returns as well as taxeson interest,
on bonds, dividends and individual prof
its. Tho only recourse of parties from
whom such assessments are collected is to
bring suit against tho Commissioner fur
tho recovery of such moneys, and there
by test tho constitutionality of his decis
ions. The above applies to various cases
from Georgia now ponding in this De
partment, including those of the Central
and Georgia Railroad and Banking Com
panies.! . _
Stickino Type l'on tup. Om> White
jj at On Monday two of the composi
tors employed oh the New York Albion
agreed to sot one thousand ems of type
(solid brevier,2BJ ems wide) for the pur
pose of deciding which candidate they
would support in tho coming Presiden
tial campaign. One of them, Jlarry I!.
Henon, is a strong Greeley man jwhile tho
other, W. .T. Thompson, isasnpporterof
Grant. The conditions were, that the
man who lost should become a support
er of tho other’s candidate. The con
test commenced at 1 o’clock. Henon
set his thousand ems in forty-six min
utes, Thompson coming to the mark
two minutes later, Thompson says tho
old white hat is always in luck.