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Clientele ani> Sentinel.
WEDN ESDAY JULY 17.
National Democratic Nominees.
FOR PRESIDENT,
H orace Grreeley,
Os New Yoke.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
B. Gratz Brown,
Os Missodbi.
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC NOMINA
TION.
The National Democratic Convention
at Baltimore has, with great unanimity,
adopted the nominees of the Liberal
Republican Convention which lately
assembled at Cincinnati. This una
nimity is the surest index that the
action which has been taken was the
l>est practicable —best for the interests
of the country—lxist for the interests of
the party, and is the highest guaranty
of success. The issue is made np; it is
Grant or Greeley—centralism or consti
tutional reform—a statesmanship which
eau rise no higher in domestic adminis
tration than disfranchisement and a
rigid enforcement of cruel laws as a
mode of effecting their repeal, and to
consequential damages in foreign policy
—and a statesmanship which would heal
bitterness by universal amnesty and im
partial suffrage, and adjnst national
grievances by fair arbitration.
We confess wo do not hesitate. We
prefer Greeley—a Republican Ixifore the,
war but a Republican who recognized
openly, publicly, as a fundamental arti
cle, of political faith, that governments
derive their just powers from the con
sent of the governed, and was willing, in
the days of secession, to let “ the erring
sisters go in peace,” to Grant—to a Demo
crat by profession before and during the
war, whose name and fame comes by the
sword, and whose civil acts, under a plea
of Ku-Kluxism, endorses the Winches
ter Rifle as the best law for the Southern
people.
In accordance with custom, we place
the names of Horace Greeley, of New
York, and 15. Gratz Brown, of Missouri,
at the head of our editorial column as
the nomincos of the Democratic party
in convention assembled.
The adoption at Baltimore of the Cin
ciunati nominees strengthens the reac
tion which first took form at Cincinnati.
We believe that this adoption will bring
other accessions of a million voters at
those points at the North and Most
where the battle after all is to be fought
—an accession which will assuredly
bring victory to the Conservative ranks,
overwhelming Grant and Radicalism.
MINORITY REPRESENTATION.
Home time since we published a review
of a work by Halem Dutclier, Esq., on
“Minority Representation,” giving an
account of a movement now in progress
in Europe and the United States, to give
minorities in political and corporation
elections an amount of representation in
the Legislature or Board of Directors
equal to their proportionate part of the
entire vote east, so that if the minority
party lias one-third of the votes,it should
have one-third of the representatives or
directors ; if one-fourth, a fourth, etc.
Now, so far as respects minority
representation in joint stock company
elections, the principle was years ago
recognized and acted upon in Georgia.
In Prince's Digest, tlio curious inquirer
may find the act passed December (i,
1810, to incorporate tlio Bank of Au
gusta, and tlio section thereof bearing
on the election of directors reads thus:
Hee. HI. In all future elections of di
rectors, the number of votes to which
each stockholder shall bo entitled shall
be according to the number of shares
held, in the proportions following—that
is to say, for olio share, and not more
than two shares, one vote; for every two
shares above two, and not exceeding ten,
one vote; for every four slinroa *d>*>vo
ten, and not exceeding thirty, one vote;
for every six shares above thirty, and
not exceeding sixty, one vote; for every
eight shares above sixty, and not ex
ceeding one hundred, one vote, and for
. very ten shares above one hundred, one
vote.
This “ sliding scale,” ns it was called,
was also applied to the original charter
of flic Planters' Bank and to others, the
idea being to attain that representation
of minorities of which lilr. Dutclier’s
book treats, and to provont a few grsat
stockholders running the company ac
cording to their own absolute will.
Lately, in Illinois and in West Virginia,
this principle lias beep ordered to be
applied by law to all elections in joint
stock or incorporated companies, and
the same step lias been mooted in New
York and Nebraska, and will, no doubt,
have a yet wider acceptance. The im
portant pecuniary results of any such
change in the present method of elect
ing Boards of Directors will at once
strike every capitalist, and in a recent
number of the New York Heal Estate
/’<■<■(«•</, a journal of extended circula
tion among the moneyed meu of that
city, wo lliul it stak'd as highly prob
able that the next New York Constitu
tional Convention may revise corpora
tion Jaw in this respect, according to
someone of the methods treated by Mr.
l)‘s. work. Tu its political aspects,
minority representation has not as much
to recommend it as in finance, but there
are some cases of gross oppression of
the minority, as in the instance of our
unhappy neighbors of South Carolina,
w here a division of the law-making power
proportionate to the voting strength of
parties would oeomplish substantial and
much needed justice.
HOW THE NOMINATION IS RE
CEIVE!*.
So fur as imr observations extend, the
nominations o/ Greeley nnd Brown have
lioeu received here with satisfaction.
There is no affectation of sentiment, nor
is there that effusion of enthusiasm
which attaches to great personal popu
larity or hallowed associations, each as
the nomination of Jefferson Davis or
Alexander H. Stephens would have called
forth. There is nothing in the earlier
political record of Mr. Greeley which
would call forth enthusiasm among onr
people. He has always Ih*cu a bitter,
powerful political enemy, but always an
honest, open one—bold aud unremitting
in his assaults as a partisan, yot bold
enough to brave, time and again, the
condemnation of bid own party when its
propositions or acts were in opposition
to his convictions.
In the stormy days of secession, when
the war clouds wore about to burst npou
us, he did not hesitate—almost single
handed and alone, without eveu the
conutctianee, much less the support, of
those who should have given supportj
(thestraights)to Mr. Greeley,Jbut openly
and boldly declared: “let the erring sis- I
tors go in peace.” Nor again, when the
Radical chunor was tor the blood of the
unfortunate, because un»uccessful,did he
hesitate to go down, arm in arm, with
that pearless Democrat, Charles O'Cou- 1
nor, to strike the fetters from Jefferson j
Davis, the cherished leader of the Lost
Cause, becoming Ilia bondsman. While
these acts excite admiration aud grati
tude, they alone would prove insufficient j
to produce the deep-growing satisfaction
which the nomination of Horace Greeley :
aud Grata Brown has produced, and isl
producing. Rut it is because the in- '
•sliucts of the people teach them that j
this nomination is the dawn of a better ,
day for them, in that reaction which, j
originating at Cincinnati, has been estab- j
lialu and at Baltimore. Henceforth the two J
great parties of the country will turn not
upon crushing the South and the bayonet
and Kn-Klnx laws, permitting drum
head courbmartials, but upon concilia
tion. The suggestion of Greeley, the
advocate of upiyersal amnesty, At Cin
cinnati, so alarmed Is*® Radicals in Con
gress tfiat. tbey permitted # Jong stride
to the attainment of that fotyf
red prayer of General “M*|
us have peace,” by extending am
nesty ; and that provision of the Ku-
Klux bill which permitted the President
to snspend the writ of habeas corpus
at will, was suffered to expire without
hope of resurrection. Already Grant
men are telling the people of the South
that General Grant will do a better part
by them than Horace Greeley. But the
groans that come from the hundreds or
more who experience Exeeutive clemency
and good will, torn from their wives and
families as they now liuger through life in
chains at Elmira, and the rattle of those
chains toll us: beware of the I‘resi
dential prayer, ‘flet us have peace.”
When the Chappaqna Farmer reaches
the White House there will lie an end
of Kn-Klnx imperialism. Peace and
prosperity comes with Greeley and
Gratz. This the people know: Horace
Greeley is a better Peace man before the
war and since the war than Ulysses
Grant; and with peace comes prosperity.
THE NEW YORK HERALD SAILS
( ATI 111 NO "/• i:i 1- OI*UL Ait
BREEZE.
The Now York Herald appears as if
about to veer. It now disseminates
Tilton’s attacks upon Grant. Air. Bout
well ought to send down a financial
agent to inquire of the litraid's politi
cal tack. It will never do to have the
World sailing a Greeley craft, the
Tribune a Greeley craft, and the Express
a Greeley craft and the Herald a Gree
ley craft. There would lie no competi
tors left but that old canal boat, the
Timex, and Harper’s paper shell.
ATLANTA AGAIN.
Politics seem to run high in Atlanta.
The Convention called to select dele
gates from Fulton to the State Demo
cratic Convention meets to-day. The
friends of .Mr. James have put in the field
as their ticket Alessrs. J. H. Mecaslin,
Clark llowell, Anthony Alurphy, H. P.
Wells, H. B. Spencer, J. A. Hayden.
The supporters of Governor Smith will
vote for Judge William Ezzard, J. AI.
Calhoun, AI. Mahoney, W. T. Newman,
W. P. Johnson, AV. G. Gramlin. We
hope the State Convention will be
spared the necessity of again choosing
between two rival delegations.
TAKING COMFORT.
A largo number of tlio ablest and
most influential of the Republican
papers of Pennsylvania refuse to support
the nominees of the packed Radical
Convention for Governor and Auditor
General. <)n tho contrary, they candidly
admit that Hartranft and liis associates
are unworthy the support of honest
men; that they have brought disgrace
upon their party, and they advocate the
election of tho Democratic nominees.
They still bear allegiance to Grant,
however, and claim that the party in
Pennsylvania is sufficiently strong to
elect Buckalew in October and defeat
Greeley in November. They take com
fort from the example of Indiana, which
went Democratic in October, 1808, by
001 votes, and then gave Grant a majori
ty of 0,000 the month following. The
indications are that Pennsylvania will
do much better than Indiana. She will
give herself an honest Government by
electing the Democratic candidate and
greatly assist in giving tho wholo coun
try an honest administration by casting
her heavy vote for Greeley.
THE CABINET TAKING THE
HTUM l‘.
Grant, is about to call into tho field
all of his Cabinet Lieutenants. There is
hot work ahead, and the Chief sees that
he will have to fight it out if it takes all the
Summer, and every available man from
the Cabinet down is put into service. So
far Air. Secretary Bout well is the only one
that is to be sent South —into Virginia
and North Carolina. Tho selection of Mr.
Boutwcll to such an impecunious State
as North Carolina is a happy one, and
illustrates the stragntic powers of the
Chief. Air. Boutwcll goes into tho field
that Littlefield amlSwepson have swept
and garnered. There is no doubt but
that bo will deliver some profound ex
position of financial principles, which
will greatly edify those who suffer by
the scarcity of currency and the price
of gold, especially among the wards of
the nation—if accompanied by practi
cal operations sustained by drafts upon
the secret service fund, by way of illus
tration.
THE BOLTERS’ CONVENTION.
As we anticipated, tho twenty-five or
thirty self-constituted representatives of
the Democratic party of the United
States, who met in Baltimore to super
vise the action of tho National Demo
cratic Convention, are dissatisfied with
the nomination of (Ireeloy and Brown
and the adoption of the Cincinnati plat
form. Carrying out the threat made
at tlieir meeting on Tuesday, they have
issued the customary bolters’ “Address”
to the people, and called n second Con
vention. The address has not reached
us, but its character may be easily im
agined. The argument used will be, we
presume, that the Convention having
failed to adopt a Democratic platform
and refused to nominate a Democratic
candidate, the party is not bound by its
action. The Convention has been called
to meet in Louisville, on the third of
September, but the bolters will hardly
bo able to get together again. They
seem to be profoundly ignorant of the
fact that in nine out of every ten States
the Democratic party, as an unit, favor
ed tho endorsement or nomination of
Mr. Greeley, and that the action of the
Convention was a foregone conclusion
weeks before it met. In most of the
States it may prove a difficult matter to
find enough men who will consent to
act as delegates in so silly an assem
blage. The manly action of the dele
gates from Pennsylvania who voted
against Mr. Greeley’s nomination should
have admoished Alessrs. Duncan & Cos.
of the futility of their opposition. They
will find the example of tho Pennsyl
vanian.'* imitated by all the other Demo
cratic opponents of the Cincinnati move
ment and the Bolters’ Convention will
never assemble.
ONE OF THE RADICAL AGENCIES.
The Grant party arc making every
effort in their power to carry the North
Carolina election. It is Tin important
contest in more than one n»pt-‘4, A
Governor, all the State officers and
eight Congressmen are to be chosen, and
the election takes place on the first
of August—so early in the campaign
that tin! resuU »ill have a marked effect
on the contest in iiilu'V States, lhe
Administration noil UL ’W.'rt.ißg like
beavers, and there is no lack ot speakers
or money. Cabinet officers and other
Govonnneut dignitaries are to take the
field for their chief, and those men in
the North State whof:)i) he bought need
only name their figures. WlwU'e speeches
and bribes fail, intimidation —of whhih
the State has already had swell a bitter
taste—will be attempted. The follow
ing dispatch from Washington shows on
what a formidable scale this agency will
be employed :
Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, hav
ing heard that the Department of Justice
was exhibiting unusual activity in send
ing such spies and informers .os W hit
lev to North Carolina, in order to cause
a reign of terror aud thus carry the
State election on tin- first of August
next, went to-day to the Department of
,1 usti.ee and examined the books to un
certain this increased expenditure for J
merely partisan purpoos. He found
that Instead of the old sum of $5,000
formerly appropriated to the uses of the
United States Marshal, they had this
year given L. T. Carron $'223,000, of j
w hich $65,900 had life!! advanced in the
last sixty days, and $40,000 in the last
ten days, qp the prospect of the Ad-'
ministration carrying North Carolina
btvcauic more difficult.
Notwithstanding these preparariossof
the enemy for victory at any price, the
North Carolina Democracy seem not a
whit discouraged. The people are work
. ing vigorously aud earnestly, their ablest
men and most brilliant speakers have
taken the stump, aud they expect to
win a victory as complete as it will be
overwhelming.
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN
HORACE GREELEY AND THE
HON. MOSES M. STRONG, OF WIS
CONSIN.
[From tho Milwaukee News, July 2.]
We have been furnished forpnblicatiou
the following copy of correspondence,
wltich explains itself ;
Mineral Point, Wis., June 15,1872.
Hon. Horace Greeley —Sib : I have
the honor to enclose yon a scrap cut
from the Milwaukee Sentinel (Grant
paper), giving an imperfect account of
the proceedings of the Democratic Con
vention of this State. I send you this
for the purjiose of calling your attention
to the second paragraph of the “ plat
form” (which is correctly reported), and
of asking you whether the assurance it
expresses is well founded.
It is my purpose to “ stump” this
State, which I think we can carry, in
behalf of the only candidate who can
beat Grant, und desire, if you can prop
erly give it, an affirmative answer to the
above question for public use in the
campaign.
A r ery respectfully,
Your oliedient servant,
Aloses M. Strong.
Tho paragraph referred to is as follows:
“That the exposition and elucidation
of the platform of tho Cincinnati Con
vention by Horace Greeley, in his letter
of acceptance of the nomination for
President, furnishes a satisfactory assur
ance to the American people that lie
will, if elected, administer the Govern
ment upon the principles enunciated
in that platform.”
New York, June 21.
Dear Sin—T have yours of the 15th
instant. I did certainly intend in my
letter of acceptance to pledge myself
unreservedly to the doctrines of the Cin
cinnati platform, and especially to the
principle of choosing the best men to
aid in administering the Exeeutive
branch of tho Government, regardless of
past differences. Yours,
Horace Greeley.
Hon. Moses AI. Strong, Aimers! Point,
Wis.
A NEW REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
CALLED FOR.
We find tlio following in the New
York Eveniny Post:
A Cincinnati paper says that Air.
Richard Smith, of that city, is engaged
in getting the signatures of prominent
Western politicians to a letter to Gen
eral Grant, asking him to retire from
the Presidential contest and leavo the
National Committee to nominate some
new candidate. Air. Smith and those
acting with him, it is said, argue that
certain defeat will follow the Republi
can party under General Grant, while
under some new candidate, there is a
chance of defeating Greeley.
The Post deprecates this change of
front in the faco of the enemy—first, be
cause “Air. Smith and his friends over
rate Mr. Greeley’s strength and
second, because “they miscalculate in
supposing that anew nomination would
secure more Republican votes than
Grant can get., or that it would take any
votes from Greeley.”
In any view, says the Washington
Patriot, that may he taken of it, it is
at least significant that there should be
a call for General Grant’s retirement,
and for the putting forward of anew
candidate now, after his nomination lias
been formally made at Philadelphia.—
That it is a sign of conscious weakness
is clear enough. Dismay is evidently
tilling tho hearts of Grant’s supporters,
and the possibility of their defeat in the
approaching contest is coining homo to
thorn in a very solemn and serious way.
Tho Post's recent aolirso in falling away
from the Reform movement, which it
for a while sustained, and falling back
to the support of Grant, whom it fora
while arraigned with justice and vigor,
is very extraordinary, It tries very
hard to make the most of a had case by
endeavoring to show that there is no
popular movement among tlio people
against tlio Republican party; that “ the
present election, therefore, is narrowed
down to the old strugggle and on the
old lines between tlio Democratic party
and the Republican party ns they have
been oiga" ; '"id for tho last ton years;”
that “Mr. Greeley is really the. candi
date of tho Democrats only;” and yet
the Post concedes that he will, if nomi
nated at Baltimore, receive “ 75,000 or
100,000” Republican votes.
It is very difficult to conscientiously as
sume and maintain a position which you
know to be untenable. This is the pre
cise dilemma of the Post. It tries hard
to shut its eyes to indisputable facts,
and then endeavors to persuade itself
that the facts do not exist. It knows
full well that there is a profound dis
content in the public mind with the
present drift of things ; that Grant and
his Administration have proved a la
mentnblo and disgraceful failure, and
that a tide is in process of rising which
must inevitably sweep the dominant
party out of power ; and yet it will not
sec, and, pushed to the wall by stern,
but, to it, unwelcome truths, and a com
bination of irresistible circumstances, it
seeks refuge in blindness and attempted
self-delusion. All this is very vain. Tho
J’ost cannot add a particle of strength
to Grant—whom, while it feebly at
tempts to support, at heart despises him
—by any sham pretence that ho is not
weak, or nny affected belief that the
people are with him, or any endeavor to
force tho contest in the lino of old and
extinguished issues.
The German and Irish Vote.— The
New York Times is authority for the
following statements of the German and
Irish vote. The four States in which
the German vote w ill exercise a great iu
iluence are Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois. The total German vote of
these States lias been estimated at 124,-
9(58, divided as follows :
Pennsylvania 32,029
Ohio 36,578
Indiana 15,611
Illinois 40,750
Total 124,968
The States in which the Irish vote will
exert a strong intlueuce arc California,
Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Mis
souri, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The
total estimated Irish vote of these States
is 311,369, divided as follows :
California 9,070
Connecticut 11,273
Illinois 20,027
Indiana 4,449
Missouri 9,164
Nett Hampshire 2,051
New Jersey 14,464
New York. 88,134
Ohio 12,102
Pennsylvania 140,625
Total 311,359
The Young Democracy.
Kill tors ('A r<,.. &• Sentinel :
I would bog leave through the col
umns of your paper to suggest the pro
priety of the young men of Richmond
county organizing themselves into a
Young Democracy. This step has already
been taken by the young men of Atlanta,
and much good' accomplished thereby.
The young men of Richmond conuty
constitute a large portion of the voting
element of the county, and if properly
organized could accomplish much good
in tin 1 present campaign.
The question before tire couutry to lie
decided during the present campaign » s
not whether Greeley or Grant shall be
President, but whether we shall have a
Representative Republic or a Centralized
Despotism. Now, under the existing
circumstances, I think it is essential that
nil the elements opposed to centraliza
tion should bo thoroughly organized,
aud that wheu organized, wo should en
deavor by all possible means to hurl
Grant, the usurper and despot, from the
position which he has, (pr the past four
years, disgraced. ...
I hope Up} suggestion will meet witn
the approbation and support of the
young Democrats of the county.
Young DemocexUT.
Forney says of the Radical party in
Pennsylvania, which refuses to change
Hartranft:
They court an inevitable defeat, ami a
defeat, too, which they and the thick
and-tlun ring organs assert must resnlt
in the overthrow of the Presidential
ticket in November, not only in Penn
sylvania, but, as a necessary conse
quence, in the nation.
PROGRESS OF THE SOUTHERN
PACIFIC RAILROAD.
This stupendous railroad project ap
pears to have gathered a fresh impetus
from the election of the Railroad Kaiser,
Thomas A. Scott, to administer its
affairs. The new President addresses
himself to his work with a dash and con
fidence of success characteristic of his
numerous previous lmld strokes in rail
road polities. Accompanied by John
W. Forney and others, he has recently
made the tour of Texas along the pro
posed route of the Southern Pacific
Railroad.
The party, on their return, were ac
corded an enthusiastic reception at New
Orleans, on the 4th instant, at the Cot
ton Exchange Hall, which was crowded
with the solid business men of the
Crescent City from all departments of
trade. By special request Col. Scott
made a talk on railroad interests.
In the course of his remarks he spoke
enthusiastically of the great resources
of Northeastern Texas, which he had
for the first time in liis life visited, in
company with Col. Forney and General
Dodge. The party started from Shreve
port and went to the end of the road,
traveling by private conveyance over
two hundred miles. Col. Scott said :
Aly object in coming to this part of
the world was to look after the building
of the Texas Pacific Railroad imme
diately ; and for that purpose we found
there all that we need—a reasonably
strong population in numbers, a hardy,
active people, plenty of timber, plenty
of water, and a good natural location for
the road. And with all these facilities,
I may say that the work is about to com
mence, and within the next two weeks
from this time the contractors will be
on the line to run due west, with the
view of extending tho road directly
through to San Diego, on tlio Pacific ;
and think I am safe in saying to the
people of New Orleans that within the
next six years, from this day, we shall
have the privilege of going through to
San Diego on a train of cars from this
town —will complete tho Texas Pacific
Road, which starts from Shreveport on
tho one point, and Texarkana on the
other, these two lines running nearly
westward and coming together forty
miles west of Dallas, at Fort Worth, and
running through to the Pacific.
*******
We want in connection with the Texas
Pacific Road as it progresses, outlets
from it at this eml. Wo want outlets to
New Orleans,. Vicksburg, to Memphis,
to St. Louis and to any other point that
will build a railroad to Shreveport or
tlio vicinity of the line at any point that
it will intersect with us.
It strkes me your people are particu
larly interested in the construction of a
road that will connect with that great
work as it progresses.
Within two years we will have the
two converging lines built, embracing
five hundred miles of the rich lands of
Texas. As wo bring that line to the
Red river—so uncertain at times in its
navigation—we want reliable connec-j
tion with New Orleans by rail. [Cheers. 5
I think it is the duty of New Orleans t<
take up that subject in very great earn'
estuess now. Ido not think it can bf
commenced a day too soon, and that
your people should take up the matte
and build a railroad from this to Raton
Rouge or any other point you can. Y*u
will, undoubtedly, control a very huge
portion of tho business we, can make by
that line.
It is unnecessary for me to di Me
upon what that road will do when/fin
ished; that is perfectly understood by
tho people of tho South ; it has linen
discussed for twenty years and ought to
be known to everyone connected with
commerce. When it is finishedit will
open up the richest part of Texas, New
Alexico and Arizona, clear through to
the Pacific. It appears to rno ymr peo
ple ought to take hold now of tjie work
necessary to be made between Shreve
port and this city.
After leaving the lino of Go Texas
Pacific Road, we started from Dallas
and went down by the Central Road to
Houston, Austin, Galveston, xnd then
came around by Brashear City to New
Orleans; and in all that country them is
now developing a trade which you can
bring to your town, and you can do it
easily by constructing two lines of rail
road —one from New Orleans to Houston
and one from New Orleans to Shreve
port. By so doing, all that traffic should
conic to New Orleans.
I want to impress upon you as strong
ly as I eau, to-day, the necessity of doing
these two tilings for the commercial
benefit of New Orleans; and I want par
ticularly to say to yon, build that road
from hero to Shreveport, or aid any or-
Ipinirr.ifinn tlinf voojr I f .-.X J! — .1.
so. Ido not want you to do it through
mo; but take hold, and make some or
ganization among you here to take up
the subject. Build the throe hundred
miles of railroad. It ought to be built
for thirty thousand dollars a mile, with
a capital of nine million dollars, and
will put you in connection with all Texas
on every hand, and clear through to the
Pacific coast.
So far as the Texas Patti lie Road itsolf
is concerned, the question has been
asked mo twenty times since I have been
in tlio South, as to whether the Texas
Pacific Railroad was not connected with
Eastern lines in a way that would tend
to divert trade from the city of New Or
leans and other Southern ports. To
that I have but one reply to make, and
I make it hero : it is in no way connect
ed with any interest or any connection
whatever ; it stands there a perfectly in
dependent corporation ; and if the peo
ple of New Orleans will make a highway
to it, they shall have as good a chance
for its trade as anybody on earth.
[Cheers.] Thereto,e I should like to
hear that subject discussed among your
people and some plan adopted by which
you can bring it about.
My statements in relation to railroads
are always to the point. We are going
to build the Texas Pacific Railroad.
Wo want Now Orleans to take hold and
build a road to come to the end of the
Texas Pacific Rond and take a share of
that trade. Will you doit? [Cheers.]
Colonel Forney was next introduced
to the meeting, and said, among other
things ;
And now, when it comes to return
home and reveal to the people of the
North what we saw, what we learned and
unlearned, I confess I shrink from the
beginning—having seen so much and
gathered so much that I fear having
doubted, before wo saw the country, to
be correct —when the plain statement of
our journey is made before our people.
[Cheers.] And there was nothing more
interesting to mo than the manner in
which the people had adjusted them
selves to the events of the times, the
cordiality with which they accepted the
situation, the heartiness with which
they were addressing themselves to the
practical duties of life, and their ignor
ing of all the bitterness of the past, and
then their eagerness to meet us more
than half way, missionaries as we felt
ourselves from the great North, coming
here with our great chief, bearing no
gifts but those of friendship, no promises
but those that were to bo fulfilled, no
works but works of redemption, no tri
umphs but those of civilization. They
met us not only as friends, not only as
brothers, but in the spirit of that higher
word, so long forgotten and now about
to be restored, let us hope, on that day
which is tho anniversary of American
independence, the name of ‘Americans.’’
Yet on returning from as well as en
tering this maivelous empire, so rich
iu all the gifts of a bounteous and boun
tiful Providence, there was one painful
thought, that the queen city, the em
press city of tlm South, was literally
shut out from this great natural cornu
copia; that New Orleans was unap
proachable save from a tempestuous aud
uncertain gulf, or along the tortuous
wavs of a river, which, however conve
nient, we shall remember as a most dila
] tory means; an.l therefore, when Col.
j Scott comes to you to present to you a
j practical remedy by which you may
reach these treasures, not only for your
selves, but that they may returned to
you in a generous reciprocity, may Ibo
permitted to say you ought to accept his
proposition aud follow his counsels.
May I be permitted furthermore to add, j
that hail such au empire, had such a j
storehouse of jewels laid so nearja great I
Northern city, they would not have
waited so long—nay, not half, not quar
ter so long as you have waited to pene-
trate and possess these incalculable
riches. [Cheers.] I believe I have said
my say, except to tell yon not only how
deeply we have been impressed by the
experience through which we have*pass
ed, but how glad we shall be to return
to our homes aud say how, here in this
great eitv, seen almost for the first time,
we have* received an honest, old fash
ioned Southern welcome. [Cheers.] And
that, however divided among yourselves,
however separated in these days of mazy
politics, when partisans are seeking for
candidates, each man constituting him
self a sort of Christopher Columbus, and
doubtful whether the candidate he in
tended to vote for is the right man;
torn as yqu are by local dissensions, dis
puting as you are among yourselves,
there is one common platform upon
which we can meet, and that is, the rev
elation of our resources, the utilization
of our wealth, aud the restoratioh of
peace between two sections lately di
vided. [Cheers. ]
Gen. Gyrus Bussey, in response to a
call for a representative of the Railroad I
Committee of te New Orleans Chamber
of Commerce, ddressed the meeting in
a stirring speed, practical and forcible,
urging the contraction of the two lines
of road indicted by CoL Scott, At his
instance a emmittee of fifty was ap
pointed to orsnize a permanent railroad
association, s that the city of New Or
leans should >ork in co-operation with
the manage! of the Southern Pacific
Railroad.
Col. Scott (plained that it was not
expected to rise ten millions of dollars
in New Orlons, to build 'the road to
Shreveport, ’he entire road ought to
be built for tc millions of dollars ; and
he believed ifNew Orleans would take
hold of the cterprise, and raise not ex
ceeding two millions of dollars, the
work wonlil >o constructed. This an
nouncement ns received with cheers.
According •> a statement of Gen. Bus
sey, this amunt is less than two per
cent, of the taablo property of the city,
and the projet seems to enlist tlio hearty
co-operation ( the solid business men
of New Orlear.
Alessrs. Boliger and Pegram have
concluded a cotract with Col. Scott to
receive and tmsport all iron and other
material for te Southern Pacific Rail
road, from A-w Orleans, Cairo, St.
Louis, New Alany and Louisville. This
is another eidence that Col. Scott
means businei, and that the Southern
Pacific Railroa will be pushed forward
as rapidly as pssiblo.
CAMIAIGN NOTES.
Gen. James Shields, formerly United
States Senatorfrom Illinois, now of Alis
souri, is of option that tho latter State
is safe for Greiey by 50,000 majority.
A gcntlemai of Grafton, California,
says : “AVo wil carry California by from
10,000 to 20,majority. The German
element here i.< in our favor, as well as
the Irish. The ticket grows in strength
everywhere. ”
Senator West of Louisiana, lias stated
that lie believe* the State of Louisiana
will go against Grant by twenty thou
sand majority, and at least twenty-five
per cent, of tho colored vote will be cast
against him.
Hie Davoiport (Iowa) Democrat says
the German vote there will be a unit
agxinst corruption and centralization,
anl questions if a hundred votes will be
polled by tho Teutonic element in all
leva for the gift-taker.
A correspondent of tho Chicago Tri
tune, writing from Marysville, Cal.,
lays: “From a fair knowledge of the
State, lean safely say that Greeley and
brown will carry it by at least 15,000
majority.”
AL'. Sumner, it is said, has written
several letters to prominent colored men,
tolling' them there can be no progress
for them while there is none for the
whiten, and warning them that the elec
tion of Grant will be a common calamity.
Colonel Hendrick B. Wriglit, Demo
cratic candidate for Congress at Large
from Pennsylvania, expresses tlio opin
ion that in the great coal mining county
of Luzerne, where ho resides, onc-tltird
of tho Republicans arc for Greeley.
The Liberal Republicans of Maine arc
preparing to hold a convention, and the
probability is that they will adopt as
tlieir candidate for Governor Air. Kim
ball, the Democratic nominee. The Ad
ministration party is alarmed at the coa
lition.
Among the latest defections from, tho
Grant party we noto the name of Col.
John L. Rice, of Springfield, member of
the Alassachusotts Grant Republican
State Committee. Air. Rice has with
drawn from that organization, and will
support Greeley.
Judge Alemman, Conservative candi
date for Governor of North Carolina,
announces that 110 intends to institute
suit against Senator Pool, of that Stato,
who permits a scandalous libel upon him
and other Conservative leaders to bo
circulated through the Stato under liis
Senatorial frank.
The Galveston News presumes that
tl,r. nf r 0.,v.,,. will one*
almost solid against Air. Greeley, for no
other reason than that the race has been
and still is under the domination of the
very worst elements of the white race.
The black man opposes Air. Greeley for
the same reason that he shouted for him
two years ago, because he was told to
do so.
At Greensboro, N. C., on the 4th,
three colored men wore attacked by a
mob of about one hundred infuriated
negroes, in the public street, for express
ing their political sentiments as opposed
to the Radicals, and being in favor of
the Conservative Democratic party.—
They were attacked with clubs and stones,
and were dangerously beaten before the
police could quiet the demons.
Tlio Chicago Times favors the endorse
ment of General Farnsworth as an inde
pendent candidate for the Fourth Dis
trict of Illinois. The Grant corruption
ists defeated General Farnsworth for
renomination because he would not sup
port all thoir thieving schemes, and hon
est men in liis district are going to re
turn him as a rebuke totheGrant “ring”
at Washington and in Illinois. The
fight will be a lively ono»
The Rev r . J. Sella Martin, of New Or
eans, a colored delegate to tlio Phila
delphia Convention, bolts tho Grant
ticket and goes for Greeley. From
cumulative testimony which is being
daily received, there can be no longer
any doubt that the colored vote of tho
South will be divided, and that Greeley
will receive a considerable portion of it.
In South Carolina, Louisiana, Virginia,
and Mississippi there are influences at
work among tlie colored people which
assuie this result.
Sajs thoNasliville I’,anner : “A grand
jury in Hampstead county, Arkansas,
eight if whom were negroes, recently
indicted several of the Clayton office
holders of that county and Grant men,
for official frauds of the most extensive
character Clayton is the Arkansas
member cf the Grant National Commit
tee, and l.as been permitted to retain
liis seat in the United States Senate,
which lie acquired through fraud, injthe
expectation that lie would be able to
carry that State for Grant, this Fall. It
is certain that ii he hud been a Demo
crat., with his piescnt record, he would
not have been it'nnitied to occupy liis
seat a day lonrer than the necessary
form df expelling him could have been
gone through.”
“As one leading Republican after an
other,” says the (jhicago Tribune, “joins
tl.e Liberal larks, the party of preju
dice, and plunler, and hate, devotes
itself to provinr that this particular
man has been everything that was bad.
Trumbull, Falrter, Koemer, Sumner,
Bird, Greeley, [Tipton, Julian, Clay,
Schnrz, and mazy others, have all lioeu
bitterly denouiped. It is’ painful to
think of, whatj a consummate set of
soonndrels hard hitherto led the Re
publican party.; That organization is
to be congratulated on having freed
itself from such men, and'having come
under the leadership of sneh pure patri
ots as Cameron, and Butler, and Grant,
and Clayton, anil Casey, and Loot, and
Pomeroy, and the long line of kindred
souls.”
The Debt of Louisiana. —. The Lou
isiana papers are debating the question
of the solvency of their State under the
burden of the lienvy taxation a Radical
Government has imposed upon its peo
ple. The State debt is said to be sixty
millions of dollars, as far as can be as
certained. The general conclusion is
that the State can and must stand the
amount of indebtedness at present ac
cumulated, but that if the same condi
tion of affairs continues in the future,
the same wasteful extravagance, the
same unscrupulous robbery, and the
same unvarying, unbroken rascality, the
end cannot be other than repudiation.
There seems to us, as far as can be
judged from present appearances, but
little prospect of a change. Warmouth
and Pinchback, Packard and brother-in
law Casey, still snap and quarrel oyer
the spoils, and the State is rapidly speed
ing, with all brakes up, into the gulf of
bankruptcy.
State Road Lease.
Atlanta, July 9, 1872.
Editors Chronicle it Sentinel :
You ask, wliat about the recent devel
opments concerning the State Road
lease ? There is a good deal of gossip
afloat in regard to the Brown lease of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad. This
sort of gossip, like all other sort, is
proverbially unreliable. It mixes up a
little truth with a great deal of false
hood—a grain of wheat in a bushel of
chaff.
A few days ago, when the Reese Com
mittee were in session here, rumor as
serts that Captain White had furnished
the committee with some additional evi
dence—that is to say, something addi
tional to his evidence before the same
committee in January last, which has
been published, and that his evidence is
somewhat contradictory. As Captain
W. ’s evidence, taken a sow days since,
lias not been published, the intelligent
public must understand the unreliable
nature of these rumors.
It is a fact, however, that Capt. White
owned a half share in the Brown lease in
January last, and that a few weeks ngo
he sold his half share to Mr. Walters, of
Baltimore, for §15,000. But that Capt.
White, merely on account of his changod
relations to the road and its lessees,
should vary or contradict his former
statements, would boa very uncharitable
inference. He is reported to have stated,
and probably did state, in his latest evi
dence before the committee, that Mr. H.
I. Kimball had told him something or
other about §IBO,OOO having been talked
about in connection with the lease; but
Mr. Kimball’s unsupported assertions on
this subject will hardly bo regarded by
the tax payers of Georgia as legally or
morally of much consequence.
What most directly concerns the peo
ple of Georgia, and especially the tax
payers of the State, in this connection,
is the money question—n question of
§300,000 per annum in or out of their
pockets. When proof of fraud or cor
ruption in the procurement of the lease
shall have beeu established, then and
not till then, will it be necessary to con
sider the two questions together. Cer
tainly the printod evidence taken last
January furnishes no fact to sustain the
charge of fraud or collusion.
It probably will be frankly admitted,
by at least nine-tenths of the people, that
the State Road is ably, properly and ju
diciously managed ; that it never was as
well conducted during any time before ;
that, found by the lessees in a dilapida
ted condition, it has been placed in good
order ; that great expense has been nec
essarily incurred in putting it in order ;
and that now, under this management,
the people are reaping an income of
$300,000 per annum.
There is some clamor among some of
the lawyers and a few others in favor of
vitiating the leaso anyhow. But it seems
to me that such a purpose, under any
circumstances, should bo held secondary
to the general public {interest. The in
terests of the State should be held para
mount always* and under all circum
stances.
Tho annual report of the lessoos,
through their President and Superin
tendent, shows an expenditure of $1,678,-
705 11 —earnings, $1,397,742 00—leav
ing a debt on the lessees of $281,022 51.
It is, therefore, palpable that this in
debtedness must be extinguished by tho
earnings of tho load before any divi
dends can accrue. Indeed, it may be as
sumed as a doubtful question—consider
ing the great competition now existing,
and that of the South and North Road
in process of completion—whether the
lessees will be ultimately able to pay the
rental of $300,000, and make anything
over for the stockholders. I know one
of the wisest and most experienced rail
roaders in the State who does not regard
tho stock as a desirable pecuniary in
vestment.
At any rate, .these are important con
siderations, and the people should look
to their interests. Q.
A Voice for J. H. James.
• Augusta, Ga., July 10th, 1872.
Editors Chronicle <fc Sentinel:
In the editorial, commenting on the
candidacy of Mr. John 11, James, in
your issue of tho 6th inst., you do Mr.
James injustice in several of the state
ments therein made.
You create tho impression that tho
residence and premises sold by Mr.
James to the State really cost him $20,-
000 only, or that its market valuo would
not bo more than that amount. Tho
lot alone, bare of any buildings what
ever, would bring that sum if sold at
punlic outcry, xne cost, oi me magnin
cont mansion now occupied by tho Gov
ernor was over forty thousand dol
lars. The .outhouses, the substantial
stone and iron fences, enclosing the
premises, the water works, and the
elegant furnishing of tho Governor’s
mansion, cost several thousand more. I
am informed by reliable authority that
tho total cost of the property was $73,000.
The bonds Mr. James received from the
State he sold at 85 cents, the highest
price they would command at that time.
So that we find Mr. James’ profit on the
sale of this property to bo about $12,000,
instead of SBO,OOO.
Again, you intimate that Mr. James
made much of what he has during the
war. The truth is, Mr. James had,
at the close of tho war, less than
$20,000, in cash and property, with
which to resume business. It is true
that he lias made rnonoy since that
timo by buying up tho paper of banks
that had suspended or failed by the
war. But have you ever known him to
press the collection of claims of this
kind by law ? He has invariably await
ed the due division of tho proceeds of
the assets of such banks. He has in
this subjected himself more justly to
censure than a lawyer—Gov. Smith, for
example, who accepts tho agency to
press tho collections against such banks.
Have you ever heard Mr. James
charged with dishonesty or dishonorable
dealing in any of his extensive transac
tions ? Have you ever known or hoard
of him oppressing the widow or orphan?
I do know of many acts of benevolence
at his hands, that show him to be the
friend of tho poor and distressed. He
gives away thousands every year to ob
jects of charity. It has been but a little
while since he subscribed SI,OOO to the
establishment of a Baptist Orphans’
Home in this State. Since the war ho
lias expended $15,000 in aid of churches;
lias built two handsome churches for
poor communities on the suburbs of
Atlanta, paying every dollar himself.
So much for his “hunting down” tho
widow and orphan.
As regards Mr. James’ support, I beg
to say you will find that in announcing
his candidacy he had not “ reckoned
without his host.” An Ohskrvkk.
Public Meeting in Burke.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel ■'
At ft large and enthusiastic meeting of
the citizens of Burke county, held at
Waynesboro, Ga., July 9, 1872, to .tako
into consideration the cutting off a por
tion of Burke county and adding the
same to Jefferson county:
Tho meeting being called to order,
on motion of E. F. Lawson, Esq., Col.
J. A. Hosier was callod to the Chair,
and' T. B. Felder wsr requested to act
as Secretary.
Col. Hosier, iu a few well-timed and
pointed remarks, explained tho object of
the meeting.
On motion of the Hon. J. J. Jones,
the Chair appointed a committee of
twelve to draft suitable resolutions for j
tho occasion. The committee, after re- j
tiring to their room, returned, and, :
through their Chairman, J. J. Jones, re- |
ported the following resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted : j
Whekefobe, \Ve have all learned i
witli regret that certain persons are j
Reeking to transfer a portion of the ter
ritory of the county of Burke to the ]
county of Jefferson ; therefore, be if
Resolved, Ist, That wo, the citizens of :
Burke assembled, do hereby earnestly
protest against, and object to, the dis
memberment of the coqnty of Bnfke or j
the cutting off any portion its territory j
to add to any other county. We regard
all such movements as not only unwise,
unjust and impolitic, but altogether
unnecessary and not demanded by the
public good.
Resolved, ‘ld, That, in our judgment,
a large majority of the citizens living in
the territory sought to be cut off, as
well as all the citizens in the remaining
portion of the county, are utterly op
posed to such a movement.
Resolved, 3d, That our Represents-1
tives in the Legislature * are hereby
instructed to oppose any movement
looking to such an object, and that the
Secretary of this meeting do furnish our
Representatives with a copy of these
resolutions.
On motion, the proceedings of the
meeting were ordered to be published in
the Augusta papers and the Waynesboro
Expositor.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
John A. Bospm, Chairman.
Thos. B. Felder, Secretary.
Cotton is reported as looking better in
Meriwether county than ever before at
this season. Corn not so good. Plenty
of rain,
[COMMUNICATED. ]
Why the People Are for Governor
Smith.
Ist. Governor James M. Smith is from
tho people—la one of them ; was a la
borious blacksmith ; a hard worker ; a
most untiring student. Many of his
early lessons in literature were learned —
like most of the Georgia boys—by a
pine-knot light.
2d. Governor Smith is now a lawyer
and statesman, second to no man in the
State of his age.
3d. Gov. Smith is honest —sternly,
inflexibly honest; cannot be bought;
will protect the rights and treasury of
the people at any cost.
4th. Governor Smith is poor ; he never
belonged to rich rings, who fatten at the
expense of the working people.
sth. Gov. Smith has been tried in the
fire, and yet tho smell of corruption is
not to be found on his garments. If
gold were his god, it would be laid l at
liis feet if he would betray the honest,
hard-working tax payers of Georgia.
6th. Tho people honor Gov. Smith for
the noble virtues of his head and heart;
for his unsullied record in the dark and
trying days of war, and his no less glo
rious record as the Executive of our
grand old Commonwealth, when corrup
tion and fraud had well nigh blasted and
blighted her wealth anil her credit.
Every honest man thanks hist God for
such a Governor at such an hour of im
minent peril to all the interests of the
people. Let the fugitive Bullock and
his co-laborers in plunder howl, but of
one thing bo assured—the people will
not now, in the matter of Governor, try
any experiment.
Democratic Meeting In Seri veil.
Syl Vania, Ga., July 8, 1872.
Editors Chronicle it - Sentinel:
In pursuance to a call previously
made, a meeting of tho Democratic party
of Seriven county was held at Sylvania,
on the 6tli of July, 1872.
The meeting was organized by Col.
J. Lawton Singleton, Chairman of the;
Democratic Executive Committee of the
county, who stated' the object of the
meeting to be tho selection of dele
gates to the State Democratic Conven
tion, to bo hold in Atlanta, on the 24th
inst.
Upon motion of Judge E. B. Gross,
tho meetiug proceeded to elect three dele
gates to east tho vote of the county in
the Atlanta Convention. The following
delegates were elected, vis;; John C.
Dell, Virgil H. Burns, and J. Lawton
Singleton.
Captain John H. Hull offered a reso
lution which, having calmed some dis
cussion, was amended and adopted, as
follows:
Whereas, Tho capital of tho State of
Georgia was removed from Milledgevillo
to Atlanta, contrary, us we believe, to
tho will of a majority of the people ;
and whereas, in our judgment, the in
terest of the State at large would be
best promoted by establishing the seat
of government again at Milledgevillo ;
and whereas, the question of removal is
properly the subject of legislative
action;
Jlcsolvcd, That we request the Repre
sentative from this county, and the
Senator from our district, to support
such amendment to tho Constitution as
will secure this end.
Upon motion *>f Mr. A. J. Lawton,
the Secretary was requested to forward
tho proceedings of this meeting to the
Savannah and Augusta papers for publi
cation. The Convention then adjourned.
J. L. Singleton, Chairman.
John W. Boston, Secretary.
Charges Against Governor Smith.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
Please allow space in your valuable
paper to repeat some of the charges
brought against our most excellent Gov
ernor, James M. Smith.
Some good clever Democrats charge
that they gave Gov. Smith their most
cordial support, and aided in securing
his election as the Chief Executive of
our great old State, ami that the Gov
ernor lias not shown proper appreciation
of thoir services,—has not given them
office.
Again, it in charged that the Governor
is behind the spirit of the age—does not
move in such magnifieoneo as becomes
his high ollico, as the Executive of the
Empire State of tho South--that ho is
poor and seems to keep every one poor
armiml him. These things are grievous
to sonic people, but not so with the
great body of tax payers.
Cherokee Georgia.
WimT judge ,tetie S. lir,A!!ir Thinks of
Greeley.— Touching the effect the elec
tion of Horace Greeley will have in sup
pressing the evils of Grant's corrupt
Administration, Judge Black is reported
as having recently declared:
There can bo no doubt but that it will
effect a groat deal. I know nothing of
Greeley personally, but I must, admit
that tho opinion I have formed of luh
character from other sources is most fa
vorable. But one thing all admit—ho is
an honest man. No person, I believe,
has ever charged him with corruption.
Then, again, the fact that he will be ele
vated to power by a coalition of the good
men of all parties would alone be suffi
cient guarantee of the purity and
straightforwardness of his administra
tion. A party composed of such ele
ments has but little cohesive power, and
the administration which depends upon
it for support must tread cautiously in a
very' narrow path. I would have very
little fears of Greeley or any other sen
sible man going very far astray on any
question under such circumstances.
Andy Johnson on the Woodcliopper of
Ohappaqua.
* * The Cincinnati movement had a
most creditable and patriotic inception ;
but the result has not been such as I
myself would have desired. Certainly J
did not foresee it when I gave the move
ment all the encouragement I could con
sistently yield. I am positive in the
opinion that, tho nomination of some
other man than Greeley would have col
lected tho Democrats around the plat
form which was there adopted with such
a rush of overwhelming enthusiasm that,
with disaffected Republicans, we would
have carried the election beyond the
possibility of a doubt. Mr. Greeley lias
much latent strength, which lies in the
fact that his reputation for honesty of
purpose has novel- been impeached. lie
must now be careful to restrain his
friends or his organs, if he lias anything
of the latter kind, from too enthusiastic
adulation of his new adherents. We
have men in the Democracy who have
great intluonee over the masses, and
who still remember and repeat to the
public the numerous vigorous assaults
of Mr. Greeley on the principles as well
as the personnel of that party. Now if
Mr. Greeley or his friends change to the
right about, and are equally vigorous in
support of his old opponents, people
will make comparisons which aro
damaging to his reputation for
consistent honesty. Remember that
he supported bayonet legislation for the
South against me ; but the Tribune op
poses it no w against the majority of Con
gross. The tide of Radicalism in this
country is on the ebb. It has reached
its utmost height, and the revulsion lias
come. I see this fact in the failure to
complete the Radical intention regard
ing tho Ku-Klux and Amendatory En
forcement bills in the House. The eur
i rent setting in the other wav is very fee
ble just now, and yet sufficiently strong
to bo perceptible. It is carrying with
it many Northern Republican politicians
who have wit enough to see the change
in public sentiment, or who have com
| menced to think for themselves instead
jof blindly following tho dictates of a
i Congressional committee. It lias been
I impossible, up to this time since the
i war, for the Democrats to succeed, but
Ia golden opportunity is now before them.
I They must act with united decision,
j however, or they will fail again. Mr.
Greeley will doubtless he endorsed at
I the Baltimore Convention. This may
i bo ft bitter pill for some of us to swal
low ; but We must not show our grim
aces to tho public. I intend to take the
stump myself, in my own State, and
perhaps others, against General Grant.
I shall oppose him on grounds of public
policy, no matter who may receive the
benefit of that opposition. It may be
Mr. Greeley ; it will certainly he for the
benefit of tho nominee at Baltimore.—
Nashville Republican Runner.
A Saintly Group.— Within six weeks
past the following aged Christians have
passed from the toils and sorrows of
earth to the rest and joys of the people of
God: Mrs. Hinton Crawford, 75 ; Mrs.
Sarah Creddille, 94; Mrs. Hina Cred
dille, 79 ; Mrs. Harriet Poullain, 79 ;
Mrs. F. A. Kimbrough, Cl; Mrs. Pope
Robertson, 70 ; Mrs. Julia E. Grimes,
81; Judge' Matthew Winfield, 77.
“These all died in tho faith,” and now
form an illustrious group in the home of
tho good and faithful.— Greensboro
Herald.
The rats are leaving the sinking ship.
The Jackson (Miss.) Clarion learns on
good authority that Mr. J. L. Morphia,
at present a Republican Representative
in Congress from the Second District of
Mississippi, has declared in fax or of
Horace Greeley for the Presidency.
[From the Cincinnati Gazette, Bth.
SAD AND SHOCKING TRAGEDY.
The Rev. Samuel Browne Shoots a
Boy Dealt.
A most shocking affair occurred about
3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, on the
premises of General Samuel J. Browne,
on Brown street, a short distance beyond
the Mohawk bridge, iu this city. Mr.
Browne is eighty-four years of age, and
has resided here for many years —all the
present century—being one of our ear
liest pioneers. His .place on Browne
street (the street is named after hiinVJs
an elegant, homestead, surrounded by a
perfect beauty of a garden. Upon this
property the urchins of the neighbor
hood have trespassed to a sufficient, ex
tent, it is alleged by bis friends, to have
exhausted any man’s patience. They
have been warned often of the wrong
they were committing, and yesterday,
according to the statements of Air.
Browne’s family, were warned away from
the grounds once more. Between two
and three o’clock in tho afternoon a
very large crowd of boys entered Mr.
Browne’s garden and endeavored to se
cure some of his fruit. While they were
thus engaged, it is alleged, a shot was
fired from the house. Tho effect of this
shot was tho killing of a boy of about
twelve years of age, named Frank
Schick, who was a member of the party.
The fatal missile of destruction entered
his right breast ; lie reeled away a step
or two, sank to the ground and expired
without a groan. In about fifteen min
utes afterward, some men, who were
summoned to the spot by the frightened
companions of the dead boy, endeavored
to remove the body, and, as one of them,
named Mike Woerner, approached the
house for the purpose (as he alleged)
of ascertaining who fired the shot that
killed the boy, another shot is said to
liaVe been fired from the house at him,
but it fortunately missed him.
Shortly afterward Officers Baker, Buck
maun, Hcrader and Hammersmith ar
rested Air. Browne at. his house. A
crowd of one or two thousand people
had gathered about tho premises by this
time,and the officers fearing ti> bring him
out uiioii Browne street to the station,
brought him out of the rear of the house,
through his garden, and over tho canal
below the Brighton House, thence to
Oliver Street Station House, where he
was locked up for a timo, but finally re
leased on $50,000 bail—Messrs. Goo.
K letter and J. C. Baiun going his securi
ty. At the station but little informa
tion was derived from him, as ho is very
deaf, and a conversation is carried on
with him with difficulty. 11c denied
firing the shot to the officers in charge
of the station.
On the inquest the important witness
was Edward A. Jennison, grandson of
tho Rev. Mr. Browne, nearly sixteen
years old, who stood by the old man
when he fired the fatal shot. According
to directions given him ho told his
grandfather when tho trespassing boys
entered tho orchard. About 11 o’clock
in tho forenoon ho notifiiod the old man
of tho presence of intruders, and lie
fired a shot at them from the hack part
of the third story of his house.
In about half an hour after some boys
came in, and he saw the old man fire at
them a second time. In about three
quarters of an hour, he judged, after
tlie last visit, qther hoys entered the
premises. He informed his grandfather
of the circumstance, who said he
would fix them that. time. Ho got up
from tho lounge, went down stairs, got
a rifle, and, taking it. up to the buck
porch, took aim and fired. The witness
judged there were about fifteen boys in
the orchard at the time, and they were
about twenty-five steps distant, from his
grandfather. When tho shot was fired
the boys went slowly away without any
noise. Ho thought his grandfather was
in auger when lie fired that shot. Ho
also snapped a musket at some men com
ing down the hill, after lie had fired the
fatal shot. They hallooed at him to stop.
After the old man had heard that the
boy was killed, he told him (the witness)
his grandmother, and his aunt, Lotta
Scott,, to keep quiet and say nothing
about the matter.
The old man was paler than usual, and
scorned frightened. Witness was not
aware that anybody had told tho boys to
go away on that day, but knew they had
been so ordered at other times. The
fence was down, and tho boys had no
difficulty in entering the grounds.
The ago of Mr. Browne is variously
stated from eighty-four to ninety-two.
Jn the city the wildest rumors pre
vailed, some of them representing the
old man as lying ambushed, and shoot
ing at the boy; others that the boy was
in an apple tree, shaking off fruit, when
shot, and another was that the boy,
Schick, ran into tho orchard to get a ball
that had hounded in there, and was shot,.
The official testimony above is most,
reliable.
DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME
COURT OP GEORGIA.
Delivered in Atlanta, Tuesday, July !),
1872.
| Reported Expressly for tue Oonmti
tion, iiy Henry Jackson, Supreme
Court Reporter. ]
J. C. and Susan ,T. Clarke vs. J. M.
Thurmond. Equity, from Lumpkin.
Warner, 0. J.
This was a bill filed by tho com
plainant against the defendants to set
aside an award. Tho defendants de
murred to the bill, which the Court
overruled, and the defendants exeepted.
The award of the ahitrators was made
the judgment of tho Superior Court, and
according to tho repeated rulings of this
Court, the allegations in the complain
ant’s bill are not sufficient to authorize a
Court of Equity to interfere and set
aside the judgment.
Let the judgment of tho Court below
be reversed.
It. A. Quillhm, for plaintiffs in error.
Wier Boyd, for defendant.
J. W. Burnsides vs. Bird Terry, el. at.
Ejectment, New Trial, from Hall.
Warner, C. J.
This was an action of ejectment
brought by the plaintiff against tho de
fendants to recover the possession of
lot of land number forty, in the 10th
district of Hall county. On the trial of
tho case tho jury found a verdict for the
plaintiff. A motion was made for a nmv
trial on the several grounds specified in
the record. The Court granted the now
trial, whereupon tho plaiutiff excepted.
The plaintiff claimed a title to the land
under a deed made by the defendants
on the 30th day of April, 1869, to him.as
set forth in the record, and one of the
questions made on the motion for anew
trial was whether this deed, according to
its legal effect,, was a conditional deoil
conveying a title to tho land, or a mort-
gage. A mortgage in this State is only
a security fora debt and passes on title.
No particular form is necessary to con
stitute a mortgage, but it must clearly
indicate the creation of a lien, specify
tho debt, to secure which it is given,
and tho property upon which it is to
take effect. Code 1944, 1945. A con
tract may be absolute or conditional.
Tho classification of any contract must
depend upon a rational interpretation of
the intention of the parties. Code 2079.
Tt is recited in tlio deed that Burnsides,
the plaintiff, held in his own just right
judgment against Field, one of the de
fendants, amounting to the sum of three
thousand dollars, and that Field had ob
tained the benefit of the homestead law
upon his real property, to which Burn
sides filed no objections, upon the fol
lowing agreement: that if Field did not
pay the money due on the judgments on
or before tho Ist day of January, 1871,
then the lot of land number forty,in tho
loth district, valued at one thousand
dollars, is to bo the right and property
of said Burnsides, his heirs and assigns
forever in fee simple, and the said judg
ments to be considered paid off and sat
isfied. In consideration of this agree
ment, Field and his wife Levada con
veyed the lot of land to Burnside in fee
simple, and declared that it was a con
ditional deed and not a mortgage, and
becomes absolute upon the non-payment
of the sum of money due on siyd judg
ments at the timo specified, and that
Burnsides has tfio right to enter and
take possession of said lot iff land at the
expiration of the timo. Tho agreement
between the parties was, that the judg
ments held by Burnsides, amounting to
three thousand dollars, should be paid
off and discharged by conveying the lot
of land worth one thousand dollars, and
if the three thousand dollars was not
paid by the Ist January, 1871, the land I
belonged to Burnsides, and the debt of j
three thousand dollars was paid off and j
extinguished. Such was the contract and i
intention of the parties as manifested by
the deed and the recitals therein. The $3,- ,
000 was not paid by Fields at tho timo
stipulated, amUthe result was, by the
terms of thewileed, that (fio land
liecamo the property of Eurnaidos, and
Fields’ debt due to Burnsides of $.'1,000
was paid off hihl extinguished by tho
conveyance of tho lot of land, worth
SI,OOO. In onr judgment, this was a
deed conveying the land ups* a condi
tion subsequent, and net » mortgage,
according to the declared intention of
tho parties (Code 2208-2273). Whether
this agreement between Fields and
Burnsides operated as a fraud upon the
other creditors of Fields wo express no
opinion, as they, nor the character of
their claims, are not now betoie us.
Another ground of error assigned is that
tho debt of Fields and his wife to Burn
sides for the lot of land in controversy
was approved by W. A. Burnsides, the
Ordinary, who was the brother of James
W. Burnsides, the grauteo iu tho deed,
that he was incompetent to do so on ac
count of his relationship to one of tho
parties, and that Mrs. Fields was uot
present at the time of such approval by
the Ordinary. The 193d section of the
Code declares that “No Judge or Jus
tice of any Court, no Oixjinary, Justice
of the Peace nor presiding" officer of
any inferior, judicature, or commis
sion, can sit in any cause or proceed
ing in which he is pecuniarily inter
ested, or related to either party within
the fourth degree of consanguinity or
affinity.” The property set, apart under
the homestead act is declared to lx* for
the use of the wife or widow, and chil
dren, during her life or widowhood, and
at her death or marriage to be equally
divided between the children of her
former marriage, then living. (See sec
tion 12th, act, 1468. ) Tho wife and chil
dren are the principal beneficiaries un
der the homestead act. The homestead
property set apart as such cannot be
alienated by the husband, but may be
sold by him and his wife jointly, with
the approval of the Ordinary. The ap
proval of the Ordinary is required for
the protection of the wife and children;
and this is not only a proceeding before
the Ordinary, but is an important func
tion which lie is requested to perform
in the exercise of his judgment as a
judicial officer, and hcongbt to be clearly
satisfied in all eases that the wife’s con
sent is freely and voluntarily given, and
that the sale will be for tho benefit of the
wife and children. Under tho provis
ions of our Code, the wife cannot bind
her separate estate by a contract to pay
her husband’s debts, nor by a sale of her
separate estate to a creditor of her hus
band in extinguishment of his debts.
(Code 1773). The same reasons would
seem to be applicable to tho sale of tho
homestead iu extinguishment of the hus
band’s debts. In this ease the wife
joined with her husband in selling a part
of the homestead in extinguishment of
the judgment debts of her husband, and
if the homestead is to he held good as
against the pre-existing debts of the hus
band, the Ordinary should not have ap
proved the sale of the land for that pur
pose. The Ordinary who approved tho
sale was the brother of the party to
whom the sale was made, ns appears
from the evidence in tlie record, the
wife not being present at the time of the
approval and consenting thereto. In
our judgment, the deed was invalid, be
cause it was approved by the Ordinary
who was related to the parties to it,
within the degree of consanguinity pro
hibited by the Code; and that the new
trial should have been granted on that
ground.
Let the judgment of the Court below
granting anew trial be affirmed.
Wier Boyd, R. A. Qtiilliftn, for plain
tiff in error.
George D. Rice, J. N. Horsey, for de
fendants.
Nancy Grover el at. vs. James King.
Equity, from Burke.
Warner, O. J.
This was a bill filed by the complain
ants against the defendant., to set aside
ft sale of certain described lands pur
chased by tho defendant at an adminis
trator’s saloon the 3d day Hccemlier,
1861, On the trial of the case, the jury
found a verdict for tho defendant. A
motion was made for anew trial on the
several grounds specified in (he record.
The Court overruled tho motion, and the
complainants excepted. Whether the
letters of administration of Kemp offered
in evidence, which were issued to him by
tho Ordinary upon the resignation of
Rushing, could be collate rally attacked
upon the ground set forth in the 4th as
signment of error, this Court is not pro
pared to deliver unanimous judgment,
and we, t.hreforo, express no opinion iu
relation to that question. In our judg
ment the Court, erred in admitting in
evidence tho paper signed by tho Ordi
nary, purporting to grant leave to sell
file land, brought into Court by ihe do
fondant,, which lmd never been recorded,
or (ait,erred on the minutes of the Court,,
and without evidence that such an
order for tho sale of the land had beeu
granted by the Court of Ordinary
at tho regular term of the Court.
This administrator’s sale, as well
as other proceedings in relation
thereto, took place prior to the
adoption of the Code, and must be con
trolled by the then existing law. The
7th section of tho act of 1852 declares
that no order for the sale of real estate
shall bo granted except at a regular term
of the Court of Ordinary. Tho action
and proceedings of a Court of Record
must he shown by ils records; that is
the highest, and best evidence of its ac
tion in relation to tho subject matter
confided to its jurisdiction. It, is not
pretended that the records of the Court
of Ordinary of Brooks county have boon
lost or destroyed, and there is nothing
upon the records of that, Court, which
shows that an order for the sale of the
land in controversy was ever granted by
that Court, which was an iiKlisjv'U'uddo
prerequisite to divest, the heirs of thoir
title to the land, and vest, the same in
the defendant as the purchaser thereof
at the administrator’s sale. The act, of
1852 also declares that forty days’ public
notice of tho sale of tho ' land should
have been given by the Court of Ordi
nary to sell it. The protended order for
the sale of the land offered in evi
dence in this ease is dated the fourth
of November, 1861, end the sale took
place on the first Tuesday in Ueeom
her, 1861—twenty-nine days only after
the protended order of" the Court
bears date. Tho deed made by the ad
ministrator to the defendant recites that,
leave to sell the land was granted in
November last, past before the making
and delivery of tho deed to him on the
3d day of December, 1861, so that tho
defendant had notice on tho face of his
' deed that the requirement of the law, in
t hat particular, at least,, had not, been
complied with so as to make it a legal
and valid sale. Although the minor
j heirs of the intestate may have had a
; guardian, and that guardian may have
receipted to the administrator for their
proceeds of the sale of the land with
out any knowledge of the illegality
of the sule, as the evidence in the
record shows, they were not estopped
from asserting thoir claim to the land
when they obtained a knowledge of
such illegal sale, and it, was error in the
Court t,<> charge tho jury that they wore
estopped. Estoppels are not generally
favored by the Courts, and it would ho
a very harsh rule to establish that the
minor heirs in this case were estopped,
when their guardian had no knowledge
of the illegality of the sale of the land.
But in electing to Het aside tho sale,
they must account, for wluit, they receiv
eil from tho sale of tho land; they can
not have the land and retain tho pro
ceeds thereof.
* Lot the judgment of the Court below
be reversed and new trial ordered.
A. T. Mclntyre, Muni,or & McCall,
Jas. L. Seward, for plaintiffs in error.
Ifansoll i V llanseli, H. O. Turner, S.
8. Kingsbury, for defendant.
Toombs to Resent Brown’s Card.—
Tlio Atlanta correspondent of the Savan
nah News says :
I understand that a dispatch was re
ceived from General Toombs yesterday,
announcing that ho was just recovering
from an attack of illness, and that lie
would ho in Atlanta in a few days to set
tle accounts with Joe Brown. Mean
time Joe is saiil to have his “ haek up”
in terrible earnest. An acquaintance of
his told mo this evening that Joe means
fight, and that if Bob wants a “scrim
mage” he will be promptly accommo
dated, In a duel Jno would have deci
ded advantages. Ho is us slender as a
beau stalk, while Toombs is inclined to
the proportions of Falstali', though un
like Falntalf, there is plenty of fight in
him. Considering the disparity in si':,p
between the two, 1 would suggest that
the proposition once made by a h'jnmr
ous duelist be adopted i Let t'oe size
of Joe be ebalknd oil Toombs, unci agree
that all the bullets which strike outside
the mark shall count for nothing. Seri
ously, however, there doe# appear to bo
something on tho tapis in this matter.
Great Mobtauty rv New York and
Philadelphia. —The deaths in New York
for the week ending lust Saturday roll
ed up to tho extraordinary number of
1,509 —this Vicing the largest number of
fatal eases ever known in one week in
that city, and nearly three limes tho
average number of the preceding weeks.
For tho week previous 708 fatal eases*
were reported. Comparing tin's with
previous years it will be seen that tho
only times tho deaths ev»r reached over
1,000 was in tho years 1808 and 1870.
I For the week ending July 23, 1870, there.
; were 1,048 reported, and during tho
week ending July 18, 1808,1,142. Ibi
j ring the week ending July 0, 1872, there
| were 3G9 births, and 100 marriages,
j Tho deaths Philadelphia for tho
I week ending yesterday wore 704, an in
crease over last week of 350, and over
tho satuo week last year of 393. Ono-
Ualf of tho deaths were children under
one year of ago. The small-pox deaths
for tho week were sixteen—a decreases
from last week of nine.
Cure for Cancer. —A gentleman of
Eufaula, who had a large sized cancer
on his face, having beard of tho follow
ing remedy, is reported to have used it
with perfect, success : A yolk of an egg,
mixed with fine salt, until it is made a
thick paste, applied throe times a day-
After a few days all the cancerous flesh
had been eaten out, leaving a consider
able hole in his. faco. Tho application
of a little ssafve it up and he is
flow well.