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WEDNESDAY JULY 31.
THE riIAHOKH AGAINST GREK
LEY.
It is charged that Greeley has been a
life-long Abolitionist anil a secessionist,
riiis is what the Grant men say. It is
true lie was an uncompromising oji
jtonent of that servitmlo which was
calleil “Southern Slavery.” Tt also true
that lie was willing to let the “erring
sisters,” who preferred to secede rather
than nrrender Houtlicm Slavery, go in
ju.acr. Hut how about Grant ? Grant’s
bayonets abolished slavery, and Grant
him>< If led the hosts in war against the
South. Does any suppose that Grant
would have led an army to maintain the
rights of the South as guaranteed by the
Oonstitution, although he himself was
a professed Democrat? Where is Grant
now with his Kii-Klnx law and bayo
nets ?
111!. GREELEY THE CINCINNATI
I*LAT FORM.
We trust that our anti-Greeley friends
will rend carefully the article published
in another column from the pen of
John Forsyth, in the Mobile Rigishr.
Mr. Forsyth, like Mr. Thurman, Mr.
bayard, Mr. Stockton and other leading
Democrats, opposed the nomination of
Greeley, and lent their whole energies
to prevent it ; but now that the party
has acted, they have determined to
abide that action. Like Mr. Forsyth,
we do not accept the whole of the Cin
cinimfi platform, and more especially we
do not siihcribe to the declaration made
in the second resolution of that plat
form : yet wo shall, as the nominee of
the party, give Mr. Greeley our earnest
and cordial support.
HK N ATI >ll TIIIJIIMAN’M POSITION.
lie Will Support Greeley The Haiti
more Nomination the Work of the
People,
Ci.RVBr.ANi>, July 16.- -The Cluindr ni
ce, t o day, publishes a letter from the
lion. A. G. Thurman, ill which ho says
that, though he would prefer that the
Democrats had resolved on a straight
Democratic ticket, he will work earnest
ly for the election of Greeley aud lirown,
as it is the will of the party. Ho be
lieves that the welfare of the country re
quires the defeat of the present Admin
istration. The nomination of Greeley
ami Frown at Haiti more, lie says, was
the work of the people, politicians hav
ing nothing or little to do with it.. The
Democratic party dees not abandon its
principles, but, believing as it does that
i.lm course of the Radical leaders threat
ens to destroy all constitutional and
I) ratio ideas, it is bound by its
principles to seek to overthrow those
leaders, and if it cannot be done by the
mode it would prefer, it. is but. common
sense to take the next best mode.
When such ft Democrat as Judge
Thurman can sink his party prejudices
and feelings fertile good of the country,
wo ask why cannot our nnti-Grooley
friends in this State cease at least their
warfare against, him, if they cannot go
as far as Mr. Thurman, and come out
decidedly for him ? It seems to us that
Hindi a course requires no abandonment
of principle, and wo should bo rejoiced
to have their support in the present can
vass.
I.ET THE DEAD IIIIRY TIIE DEAD.
It is with profound regret that wo soo
seme of our esteemed contemporaries
with whom, side by side, we have battled
so long, raking up with bitterness of
soul the records of the dead past. Snell
an one is that able and patriotic journal,
the Ka van null News. Como, brother;
let the dead past sleep. It is not the
record a Haul, of Tarsus, that must
concern us ; but it is to a Paul, an apos
tle of the glad tidings of peace, that wo
must turn. Certainly there is much
more of promise for the future in Gree
ley's advocacy and pledges for peace aud
the restoration of civil rights than in
Grant’s Administration of Ku-Klux laws,
with bayonets and dungeons. Lot it
not be said that your past convictions
of principle have only been regenerated
to rivet, the oppressions that weigh upon
us like a mountain for time to come.
Even the New York World admits that
"on »ur point the great, point of all—
the record of Mr. Greeley is clear and
consistent -namely,the tint'/ of treating
the Southern people with generous mag
nanimity and affirms that “on this
cardinal point, the candidate himself is
a platform.” What, more could you ex
pect ? Is not the power and the respon
sibilities of the character of the Govern
ment in the hands of the people of the
North V
ANOTHER LETTER FROM TIIK
HON. .1. 15. (iIIINNKLL.
«j row t H of Hu* Liboral Cause En
couraging Prospects Everywhere.
Tli.' following letter from the Hon. J.
P,. Grinnell, of town, appoarsNn thepnb
lio press of that State:
I have just rotunie.l from the East,
an,l can assure you that our eauso is
ruining every .lay. The meeting at
Fifth Avenue* New York, was a great
triumph for us, yet .levise.l in the in
terest of tirant. We eomssle two States
South, with (iov. Wise of Virginia, who
Inner .lohn Brown, the martyr, Seimues
the pirate, Mosby the rai.ler, Stephens
ami Toombs, the tiro-eaters, ami sneh
for (.rant. The Liberals claim 124 votes
South, New Jersey, l*; Connecticut, 6;
New Hampshire, 5; California, 6; Ne
braska, ;5. ami Indiana, 15; which make
w ith New York :55 some eighteen votes
more than the one humlrod and eighty
four required to elect. We have left
l'ennsvlvania, Illinois, Minnesota, and
Wisconsin, with more than equal
chances in our favor. Ex-Gov. Blair,
the noble war Governor, and other able
adherents, place Michigan ou the doubt
ful list. Gen. Banks, the most popular
statesman ill the East, is regarded with
suspicion, us are many who will he
hoard from in ten days. My State let
ters are full of cheer. One says “seven
ty-five old Republicans in this rural
town for Greeley.” And then, “ a great
rising here; we want speakers; Germans
solid and strong here.”
It was telegraphed to President Grant:
“Grinnell, J. 8., stands alone in this
count v." Take notice that in this town
a few days, since in a company of seven
carpenters, Ml but one were for Greeley.
The entire residents of one of the Ivest
blocks iu town, which embraces two
merchants, are all anti-Grant We
have not yet boguu to act and bilk, but
know that in this town there will be a
gain of from 500 to I,ooo per cent, in op
position to Grant The same is true iu
other localities were the papers are very
weak, and hundreds are waiting for
Baltimore and discussion. Why don't
they ratify ? or why not invite discus
sion ? Oh ! how they fear coalition ! as
if the Republican party was not so
made. Wliat is there hnt honor in
fraternity, and burying the old issues
for an honest, competent, and noble
statesman. That is what will bo done
when the thinking masses conclude
that in peace the statomau's pen should
be mightier than the sword.
Yours, J. B. Grixsell.
Brick Pomerov says that now is the
time for “every "Democratic voter to sell
liis vote to the highest bidder, and take
the cash in hand.” Without question
ing the morality or smartness of this
proposition, because it is both moral and
smart, in a Poineroyniau sense, says the
St. Louis Times, we would suggest that
, if every Democratic voter was as little
worth Imying as he is, there would be
piighty few bidders and slow sales.
I THE N EW YORK TRIBUNE’S WARN
ING TO SOUTHERN PEOPLE.
If a negro laborer is discharged, some
one will be found to represent this as a
proscription for principle’s sake ; and
we do not donbt that before three
weeks arc over the Grant press will
teem .daily with reports of murderous
Ku-Klnx assassinations, and a desperate
attempt will lie made to alarm the North
ern voters by pictnres of disorder and
lawlessness in the South. The truth
in, a good, square, atrociinis piece of
lawlcatnrM and violence in the South
would junt now be a Godsend to the
Grant party. If they could prove*
within tho next two months, that half a
dozen negroes had been burned at the
stake in Alabama, and that a number of
white women and children bail attended
the incremation, and waved Confederate
Hags oyer the flames, Grant’s fuglemen
would at once “ Thank God and take
courage.” They are just now a little
blue and disheartened, and stand badly
in need of something of this kind ; for
they have no arguments to offer.
There is but one thing, as wo believe,
aud as many of tho Grant managers be
lieve, that can re-elect Grant, and that is
anew outbreak of violence in the South
ern States, or what would answer the
same purpose, such plausible falso re
ports of violence in the South as would
thoroughly alarm tho Northern mind.
The Grant leaders and managers are
everywhere talking about “the rebel
lion.” That is their principal stock in
trade. They appeal to the “Union sen
timent.” They curry favor with the
“Union soldiers” as though these had
not, seven years ago, become citizens;
they are doing their worst to preach up
anew crusade against the South. It be
longs to the Southern Democrats to de
feat this atrocious and unpatriotic plot,
and the way to ilo it is to maintain—as
they can—even better order in the South
than is observed in tho North. And for
the rest, when a lie is reported, lot it be
at once fully and authoritatively proved
to boa lie. That can and ought to be
done.
I’REHI DENTIAL CONTESTS.
A Review of Past Political Struggles.
Those who take uu interest in the
Presidential elections, from Washington
to Grant, will find a brief review of
them below. The purity of the ancient,
order of things with ns, and tho general
quiet in tlio early contests, except when
the election of Jefferson was thrown into
the House, and lturr made Vice-Presi
dent, tho now era of Monroe, all eon
trust, strangely with the turbulence which
from time to timo lias since prevailed:
Fivo periods in our political history
are thus summed rip:
1. The Washingtonian or Federal
period of twelve years, including the ad
ministration of Washington and John
Adams, ending in LstM).
2. The Jeffersoriinn or old Republican
period of twenty years, embracing Jef
ferson, Madison and first four years of
Monroe, ending in 1320.
3. Eight yours, from tho second elec
tion of Monroe t,o the first election of
Jackson, ending 1828.
4. The stormy Democratic period of
thirty-two years, Jackson to Lincoln,
ending iu 1800.
5. The period of tho Republican party
of twelve years, from Lincoln to the
present day.
WASHINGTON—EIGHT YEARS.
1790— The First Party Contest.
Tho total electoral vote cast was 138
Adams roceivod 71
Jefferson received 67
A narrow escapo for Adams, notwith
standing tho support he roceivod from
Washington’s Administration. Tlio re
sults worn tho election of Adams as
President and Jefferson as Vice-Prosi
dent.
1800 —Second Contest—Adams and Jbf-
EERMON.
Jefferson 73 Pinekuoy. 64 1
Burr 73 John Jay 1
Adams 06
There being a tie between Jefferson
and Burr, tho election was carried into
the House. Jefferson boeamo President
and Burr Vice-President.
1804— The Change in the Constitution.
In this contest the Republican candi
dates were Jefferson and George Clinton,
of New York. The Federalists nomi
nated Charles C. Pinckney, of South
Carolina, for President, and Rufus King,
of New York, for Vice-President. The
result was:
For the Republican ticket 102
For the Federal ticket 24
1898— First Election op Madison.
For Madison... .122 | For Pinckney. .47
George Clinton (113 votes) was, with
Madison, elected Vice-President. 1
I*l2— Madison’s Second Election.
President Republican Ticket, Mad
ison, 128. Vice-President—-Republican
Ticket, Gerry, 131. Federal Ticket—
President—DeWitt Clinton, HD. Vice-
President, lngersoll, 80.
1810 —Fikst Election of Monbob.
James Monroe, for President, and
Daniel D. Tompkins, of New York, for
Vice-President, were elected by 183 elec
toral votes, against 31 for Rufus King,
the Federal candidate for President,
these 34 votes being distributed among
several candidates.
1821 V—Monroe's Second Election.
Monroe was re-elected President by
every electoral vote save one, and Tomp
kins was re-elected Vice-President by
218 votes against 14.
1824.—The last Congressional Presi
dential Nominating Caucus was held
this year, and it was iu favor of Craw
ford, but it was a signal failure. The
Presidential candidates were Andrew
Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Win. 11.
Crawford and Henry Clay, and the votes
were thus divided :
For Jackson 99 I For Crawford..4l
For Adams 84 | For Clay 37
The election was thrown into the
House. On the first ballot Adams was
elected, having received the votes of 13
States, against Jackson 8, Crawford 4.
1828 —Jackson Against Adams.
Jackson, in this contest, was triumph
antly elected, his electoral vote being
178 to 83 for Adams.
1832—Jackson’s Second Election.
Andrew Jackson, Democrat 219
Henry Olay, National Republican. . 49
John Floyd (South Carolina vote). . 11
William Wirt, anti-Mason 1
1836 —Martin Van Bi-ken's Election.
Martin Van Bitren, Democrat 170
W. H. Harrison, Opposition 73
Hugh L. White, Opposition 26
1 Vaniel Webstor (Massachusetts’ vote) 14
W. P. Mangum (South Carolina vote) 11
Col. Richard M. Johnson, of Ken
tucky, with Van Bnren, was run for Vice
-I’resident as the regular Democratic
nominee. The election of Vice-Presi
dent wins carried to the Senate, where
Johnson was chosen-—Johnson 33 votes ;
Fnuieis Granger, of New Y'ork, 16.
1840 —the result of the electoral vote
was :
For Harrison 234
For Van Buren 60
1844— Defeat of Henry Clay.
For P< ilk and Dallas 170
For Clay and Freliughnysen 105
With the 36 electoral votes of New
York given to Clav (and the 15,000 abo
lition Whigs could have given him the
State by 10,000 majority), Clay would
have been President.
1848— The Election of General Tay
lor.
For Taylor and Filmore 163
For Cass and Butler, of Kentucky . . 127
Here, with the transfer of the 36 votes
of Now Y’ork from Taylor to Cass, the
result would have been 163 for Cass, and
127 for Taylor.
1852— The Election of Pierce.
1852 resulted in giving Pierce the elec
toral vote of all the States except Ver
mont and Massachusetts in the North,
and Kentucky and Tennessee in the
South.
1856— The Election of Buchanan.
Bucanan and Breckinridge, Dem.... 170
Fremont and Dayton, Rep 112
Fillmore and Donaldson 8
Fremont carried all the Northern
States except California, New Jersey,
Pensylvania, Indiana and Illinois ; Bn-
chanan all the Southern States except
Maryland, which was carried by Fill
more. It was Fillmore, however, as a
third candidate in tho North, who car
ried off the balance of power from
Fremont and elected Buchanan.
1860— The Election on Lincoln.
In this election all the Northern or
free States were carried by Lincoln ex
cept Now Jersey, which was carried by
a fusion. Os the Southern or slave
States, Douglas carried Missouri, and
Bell carried Kentucky, Tennessee and
Virginia. All the others were carried
by Breckinridge. Thus, by tho division
of the opposition elements, Lincoln was
triumphantly elected, while against the
combined opposition popular vote he
was in a minority of 947,000.
1804 —The Second Election of Lin
coln.
For McClellan—New Jersey, Dela
ware and Kentucky. For Lincoln—All
the rest. Lincoln’s majority on tho pop
ular vote was 411,(XX).
1808 —-Election of Grant.
For Grant and Colfax 213
For Seymour and Blair 80
The popular majority of Grant was
309,000, and ho carried twenty-six
States against eight for Seymour. Three
States—Texas, Mississippi and Virginia
—not being reconstructed, took no part
in the election.
FLOW OF SPECIE SOUTH.
Wo are credibly informed that fifty
thousand silver half dollars havo been
sent from Washington by tho Republican
Executive Committee, for use in North
Carolina. Tho wards of the nation are
greatly tickled l>y the jingle of silver,
and their eyes dwell upon “ rhino ” with
delight. It is pleasant, however, to note
the enterprise which promises to aid in'
strengthening tho people of the South
for a resumption of specie payments,
even though it comes from staunch sup
porters of the theory that greenback is
better than gold and silver currency. One
word of caution : Look out for bogus
coin, particularly if wrapped with paper
bearing Radical vignettes.
HOW THE RADICALS EXPECT TO
CARRY THE ELECTIONS.
A correspondent of tho World, writing
from Long Branch, exposes the plans of
the Administration in the conduct of the
present canvass, as follows :
Senator Morton during his sojourn
here this term lias deigned to pay one
or two visits to the hotels, accompanied
by Senator Wilson, on a tour of obser
vation. It was noticed that lio was very
sour and morose. There appeared to
be a load on bis mind. This was just
after the long consultation hold at
Grant’s cottage referred to in my dis
pateh of Saturday night, in which Mor
ton, Grant, Wilson, and Air. Childs par
ticipated. Tlio first question at this
consultation was as to North Carolina.
This being the first State to hold an
election, the Administration men are
exceedingly anxious to have it record a
verdict on their side. They boliovo
that that will materially help them in
the elections which are to bo hold
in September and October. At any
rato, Grant, Morton, and Wilson
came to tho conclusion that North Caro
lina must bo carried at all hazards and
at whatever expenso. There being mem
bers of Congress to bo’ elected in Au
gust tlio bayonet election law can bo ap
plied. Under it they can appoint all
tlio marshals they like, and pay them
in that way for their labors for Grant.
Under tlio cover of this law it is pro
posed to purchase the way through aud
manipulate tho ballot boxos to suit their
purposes. It was argued by the parti
sans in attendance upon the late Phila
delphia renomination Convention that
Congress should pass tho election law as
proposed by the Senate. “Give us that,”
they said, “and wo don’t care who tlio
votos aro for when tlioy go into tho
ballot box, for we will take good onro
that they oomo out as we want them. ”
Tho law was not framed in tho precise
form that they wished, but tho Grantites
fonglit desperately to get all tlio power
that was necessary to do just ns they
pleased under it. The discussion that
has taken place hero between Grant,
Morton, and Wilson, liow to carry out,
the present law so as to help thorn, has
revealed their groat disappointment over
tho failuro of the other provisions which
wore in tho original bill ; and, further
more, it has shown that had they secured,
that law it would havo been stretched to
tho extremo for tlioir partisan ends. Tlio
State authorities in North Carolina be
ing mostly in political sympathy with
Grant’s Administration, it is claimed
that they will wink at any stretching of
tlio present law and aid if necessary in
making it apply with all the force that
tho original law would. It is thus that
they expect to make this bayonet elec
tion law an engine-in that election, raiso
an enormous force of deputy marshals,
and call tlio aid of the military under
the plea that it is necessary to sustain
the marshals and protect them in their
duties on election day. This is the pro
gramme marked out in their desperation
and alarm about tlio result. It means
that the State is be carried by fair or
foul means, anil at any outlay of Govern
ment money, too.
Ougani/.ation of the First Gkeeley
Or.un in Georgia—Election of Offi
cers.— I The first Greeley and Brown
Club in Georgia was organized in Sa
vannah on Tuesday night last, and the
following officers elected :
President —Waring Russell.
Vice-Presidents —G. W. Stiles, T. R.
Mills, Jr., John Schwantz, John Bros
nun.
Secretary—M. T. Qninnn.
Assistant Secretary —S. E. Byck.
Treasurer —S. Elsiuger.
The Club now numbers about two
hundred members, and will ntouee enter
into active campaign service.
Another Greeley Club in Savan
nah. —The Savannah Advertiser says
that the Greeley Clubs are tlio order of
the day. The enthusiasm for the phi
losopher is rapidly taking possession of
the hearts of the people of Savannah.
Many of tlioso who wore despondent
some timo since are taking an interest
in the matter as tho campaign pro
gresses. The Advertiser has no prophe
sies to make, but states that tho sonti
inent in favor of tho great philosopher
is widening and taking in men whose
influence will be felt and acknowledged.
A second Greeley Club was organized
in that city, on Friday, with the follow
ing officers :
President—Henry Blnn.
Vice-Presidents—John H. Thomas, A.
Neely, T. R. Sheldon, Juo. Postell, C.
S. Hardee, Win. R. Symons, John Lord.
Corresponding Secretary—J. Lawton
Whatley.
Recording Secretary —John G. Rear
don.
Treasurer —A. McNulty.
Experimental Farm for the Georgia
State Agricultural College. —A bill,
introduced by Dr. Durham, Representa
tive from Clarke county, now pending
action of the Legislature, authorizing
the Governor to issue 7 per cent, bonds
with which to purchase an experiment
al farm for tho use of the State College
of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, is
accompanied by a written proposition
signed by the widow of the late ex-Gov
vemor Lnmpkin, offering her place for
the sum of $15,000, to be paid in 7 per
cent, bonds.
This place of Mrs. Lumpkin is al
most iu immediate conjunction with the
University campus, contains 163 acres,
and lies within the corporate limits of
Athens.
The owners of a steamboat are suing
the S. A N. R, R. for SIOO,OOO. Boat
struck the bridge pier and sunk. Case
was submitted to Montgomery jury on
Thursday.
Some of the best posted men think
that the loss resulting from the late
freshet throughout Alabama will ap
proximate $4,000,000.
The Alabama river was higher at Wa
tumpka on the 15th than it has been
since 1833,
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 31, 1572.
WHEELING INTO LINE.
We have already published the admi
rable letter of that pure man and staunch
Democrat whose labors in behalf of the
South has imperilled his eve-sight and
greatly damaged liis health—we had al
most said imperilled his life—Senator
Bayard, of Delaware. We havo now the
satisfaction of presenting another admi
rable letter from the gallant Stockton,
than whom the South has no friend moro
true in the halls of Congress—Senator
Stockton,of New Jersey. The following
is the text of Senator Stockton’s letter,
as it appears in tlieNowark (N. J.) Jour
nal :
Washington, July 10, 1872.
To the Editor of the Journal:
On my arrival this evening in Wash
ington I find your Journal of yesterday,
in which I am incorrectly represented as
Laving nrged the delegates from New
Jersey to vote for Horace Greeley. This
is an entire mistake. In common with
all other observers, it was plain to seo,
soon after fireoley’s nomination at Cin
cinnati, that ho would bo tlio Democratic
nominee. After tho action of the De
mocracy of Indiana tho result was cor
taiu. But having been elected to tlio
Senate of tho United States as a Demo
crat, and never having cast a vote for
any one but a Democrat, my convictions
woro clear from the first that it was my
duty io support a Democrat for tho nomi
nation. The Convention at Trenton
1 olocted dologatos without any expression
of opinion on tho subject. Under these
circumstances 1 continued to tho end as
! I began, urging the delegation to vote
according to their individual convictions
i of dnty. I voted always for a Democrat.
You will observe that the vote of New
Jersey was equally divided between Mr.
Bayard and Mr. Greeley, Which repre
sented very correctly the supposed views
of tho Convention which appointed tlio
delegates, and probably the views of the
Democracy of the State. Now, sir, since
the high court of the party has spoken,
there can bo no difference of opinion
among Democrats. Party usage, us well
ns the higher consideration of patriot
ism, will unite the Democrats of New
Jersey as one man on their nominee ;
and I donbt not that New Jersey will
cast her vote in tho electoral college
for Horace Greeley.
Until his nomination by the Conven
tion it was my plain duty to oppose him
and vote for a Democrat—now it is my
duty to the imperiled liberty of my
country; to tho Constitution which I
am bound to protect against its viola
tors ; to individual liberty, which lias
been destroyed by forced constructions
of the amendments to the Constitution;
to the groat fundamental doctrine of
local self-government, violated in all the
States; to tho freedom of elections; to
the supremacy of tho civil over the
niillitary power; to tho cause of reform
against tho universal corruption sur
rounding tho present Administration —
to uso all honorable moans in my power
to defeat tlio re-election of Gen. Grant,
by semiring the oloetion of • Horace
Greeley. I trust aud boliovo that tlioso
Democrats, like mysolf, who have
abstained from any movement outside
of the party organization will now
unite as one mail in this sacred duty,
and show that tlio old Democratic party
can still, as heretofore, make a sacrifice
of all prejudice and passion, and join
with all patriotic citizens in a deter
mined effort to preserve at least such
liborty as lias boon left to us by the
usurpations of the Republican Congress
caucus and the military power.
I am, very truly, yours,
J ohn P. Stockton.
Truo to his conviction of duty, the
gallant Stockton is now in North Caro
lina doing good service upon tho stump,
an open advocate of tho election of
Greeley and Brown. Again, Col. James
A. Dawson, tlio editor of the Ledger,
a “Bourbon” among Bourbons
“straight” among the straightest—like a
true Democrat, sacrificed no principle,
but defers to the expressed will of tlio
great majority of the Democratic parly,
advocates tlio eloction of Greeley and
Brown, and calls for a charge along tlio
whole lino, with locked shields and fixed
bayonots.
In a leading editorial in tho Ledger
an honest declaration of individual
opinion and preference is statod plainly
and emphatically ; but, bowing to tho
will of tho majority, an adhesion is
given without qualification, with firm
ness of purpose and integrity in inten
tion, and must carry with it “ Bour
bons ” and “ Bolters ” with united front
in tho coming campaign. Col. Dawson
says :
No man shall say that wo stood in tho
way of success. Wo cannot defend the
record of Mr. Greeley! That will hard
ly bo expected of us. Neither can wo
endorso the platform upon which lie
stands. Imitating the example of Mr.
Greeley in 1848, wo spit upon the plat
form. In spite of the record of the can
didate and the platform upon which ho
has boon placed, wo shall support the
ticket as tho best that can bo dono un
der tho circumstances. Having accept
ed the nomination, Mr. Greeley, though
hitherto not.a Democrat, has booome the
candidate of tho Democratic party, and,
if elected, cannot, without downright
treachery, fail to conform 1 his Adminis
tration to tho policy of those whoso can
didate lie cousents to become. For
Gratz Brown we have all the whilo had a
warm side. Wo can support him with
hearty good will because ho has given
substantial evidences of devotion to re
foiiu and to the principles of local self
government, by his bold, manly, just
course in Missouri. Besides, he is a na
tive born and bred Kentuckian, a scion
of the genuine old Virginia stock, which
is 11 consideration not without conse
quence. Then, to be brief, wo accept
tho inevitable, stand upon the Kentucky
platform, support Greeley as the nomi
nee of tho Democratic party, and Gratz
Brown bocauso of his effective labors in
behalf of constitutional freedom. To
tho many thousands of Democrats who
have stood with us in attempting to re
sist tho current, of events for the past
few months, we have to say that the full
measure of our duty has been mot. Let
us then defer our personal convictions
to the voice of the majority, so far at
any rate as to concentrate every effort to
insure a triumph. Never mind tho re
cords ; give 110 liood to platforms, but
bond every energy to bring tho masses
to tho polls. Lot tho canvass lie an ag
gressive ono. When Greeley's Jrooord is
hold up, point to the Democratic hook
iu his nose and charge upon the enemy.
Lot tho watchword lie, “ To the roscuo,”
and, with locked shields and bayonets
fixed, lot 11s charge along tho whole lino.
MR. TOOMBS’ FIRST SPEECH IN
ATLANTA.
The Now Albany (Indiana) Leelgcr,
some weeks ago, addressed a letter of
inquiry to General Toombs in relation
to tho speech made by that gentleman
iu Atlanta after tho conclusion of a
more elaborate address by Hon. Linton
Stephens, in opposition to the Cincin
nati ticket. The Ledger's introductory
remarks and General Toombs' answer to
his letter of inquiry are as follows :
Having, in common with a great num
ber of others, been astonished that Mr.
Toombs should have made the silly
speech copied into the papers through
out the country recently, we addressed
him a letter a few weeks ago asking
him to satisfy ns as to the correctness
of the report. Below we give his an
swer verbatim. It will be seen that lie
denies having spoken “as tho papers
report me,” and intimates, though he
docs not say it in so many words, that
he haa been very unjustly and incorrect
ly reported throughout. Being disposed
to do Mr. Toombs entire justice, we
copy his letter in full :
Washington, Ga, Jnly 6, 1872.
C. E. Mcrril, Esq., New Albany, Tnd. :
Dear Sib —Your letter of the 21st ult.
is received. I did not speak at the
time referred to “as the papers report
me,” nor as stated in the extract en
closed by von. lam rarely in the habit
of paving the least attention to reports
of mi speeches by my opponents. It
would be a labor compared to which
that of Sysiphns was pleasant exercise.
Your obedient servant,
R. Toombs.
Railroad President Declines a Re-
Election.—G. H. Hazlehurst, President
of the Macon Street Railroad Company,
at the annual meeting of the stockhold
ers last Saturday, declined a re-election.
Capt. B. F. Ross was elected to the po
sition.
[From the Mobile Register.]
PRESIDENTIAL.
The Democratic party in convention
assembled have nominated Greeley aud
Brown as their candidates for President
and Vice-President in opposition to
Grant and Wilson. They have also
adopted the exposition of principles
contained iu what is known as tho Cin
cinnati platform. The Register accepts
and will support the nomination, bo
cause it sees no other way in which
So ithern votes can be recorded against
the Radical Administration, aud because
as between Grant and almost any nomi
nee of the Democratic party, it cannot
hesitate to choose. In other words, no
administration of the Federal Govern
ment that is conceivable can bo more
dangerous than that of Gen. Grant.
Tlio Register does not accept tho en
dorsement of tho Cincinnati platform,
for tlio reason that while it is full of
sound political doctrines, all oj them
taken from tfie life-long and traditional
creed of the Democracy, there aro other
principles enunciated that wo cannot
conscientiously subscribe to, oven at the
bidding of a Democratic Convention.
On this subject our views wero stated in
a letter written from New York touch
ing tho results of the Fifth Avenue Con
feronoo, in which wo said ;
“On tho whole, I look upon the re
sults of this oonforouoo as establishing
tho point that tho Proasidoutial issue is
made up between Grant and Greeley,
provided Baltimore throws its weight
into the scale of the latter ; and
this proviso seems to bo assumed here.
In that case every voter lias to choose
between the* two.
“At all events, let us hope, if the
Democracy does surrender to Greeley
and Brown at Baltimore, that it will do
it upon terms distinctive of tho true
causes and features of tlio rnirroiidor—
that in the meanwhile the Democracy
will not accept with the candidates of
Cincinnati the platform of Cincinnati,
but. will make one of their own, out of
their timber, and publish to the world
that while they will join the Liberal Re
publicans to beat a common enemy,
they abate not one of their traditional
doctrines, and mean not one thought of
disbanding their forces or abandoning
their organization. The Alabama
Democracy, in refusing to ratify Cincin
nati in advance of Baltimore, and in
sending their delegates to the family
gathering at BaHimoro with their hands
untied, have declared iu favor of pre
serving tho integrity of tho party and
against rallying under any now banner.
For the. rest, tlio Register does not
change its position until tho Democratic
party speaks out by authority in
National Convention assembled.”
But still wo may support tho candi
dates and not approve the platform.
And now, having maintained to tlio
last what wo regarded ns the safest and
soundest course of principle and policy
for the benefit of. tho whole country, as
well as tlio Democracy, and having boon
overruled by the voice of our colleagues,
uttered in National Convention, and
having been thus reduced to a single
alternative choice as to tho best method
of opposing the Washington despotism,
wo propose to walk in tlio new path
upon which events inexorably direct our
footsteps, in the open, direct and uncom
promising manner that manliness com
mends in all political actions. For tho
future of this course we aro free from
responsibility; but we take our stand
by our Democratic brethren, anil it will
be from no lack of offort on our part if
that future does not prove rosoato in its ,
fruition of tho brightest hopes and ex
pectations of tho latest builders at Bal
timore.
And now a word to Mr. Greeley’s
oarliest and loudest friends in the South.
Having hailed this ticket with delight,
seo to it that you show a sober earnestness
in its election. You may gush no\y like
so many peronnial fountains, but we
warn you that there is work to be done, in
Alabama aud Mississippi atloast, to elect
it. It is now to bo proved whether the
Grooley move was a real outburst of the
people or of the politicians. Wliat we
know is, that thoro aro thousands of
Democrats who are to be reconciled and
conciliated to jibe support of Greeley as
against Grant. Tlio Register will do its
part—and the Register will have the
heaviest part to do, because it is in a
position to do it most effectually. What
wo demand is that when the serious work
begins, tlio “ gushers” . will not retire
and wait for the viotory aud tho division
of the spoils.
Meanwhile we go for Greeley and
Brown, becauso wo cannot afford in tho
slightest degree to be responsible for
the re-election of Grant and Wilson.
Lester District, Burke County.
Editors Chronicle <fe Sentinel:
Gentlemen —l regrettod vory much to
see in your issue of tho 19tli 4 tlie state
ment relative to Mr. Ross. Had the
writer known Mr. Ross bettor he would
have been more considerate in making
his charges. I have known Mr. Ross to
got up at midnight and go to seo about
men that ho had hoard were on tho road
drunk.
Mr. Ross’ statement in relation to the
man found on tho morning of the 17tli
is, that lie was lying on his back with
liis left arm over his face and when lie
tried to rouse him ho turned over on
his right side. He saw no bruises on
the man, nor could ho find any blood on
the track. Supposing tho man to be
drunk, and as 110 was lying under an
embankment out of danger of the cars,
lie loft him. On his return in the evening
he looked for the man but oonld not
find him—lie having moved into a
thicket noar by. I have talked with
all the mon composing Mr. Ross’ gang,
and their statements correspond with
liis, so does that of one who discovered
the man before Mr. Rosa arrived where
ho was. Respectfully yours,
8. Young.
Hon. Joint T. Hhowmalie.
Editors Chronicle &■ Senti.net:
Your esteemed correspondent, “Lo
raiue,” mentions the name of this gen
tleman in connection with tho vacancy
to occur from this District in tho Senate
of the Legislature. Now that liis polit
ical disabilities have been removed by
Congress, I see no reason why liis friends
should not claim his valuablo services for
our Stato. Every one knows tho gravo
and difficult business pending before the
Legislature, and appreciate tho neces
sity of selecting our ablest and boat men
as onr representatives. The public cry
is for ability and purity in office, and
Judge Shewmako combines these quali
ties in tho highest degree, with ail al
most unequaled conscientiousness.
Georgia has long felt the need of lior
sons who have been unjustly debarred
from her councils, and the many friends
of Judge S. will hail with the greatest
pleasure his return to tho public service.
Summerville.
To the Public.
Atlanta, Ga., July 29, 1872.
Editors of the Daily Sun :
I have read the card of CoL Nicholls,
published in your paper yesterday. Be
tween him and myself there seems to be
a conflict of memory, as to the verbiage
and purport of the interview. But Gen.
Toombs cannot shield his poltroonery in
that way, for he could not mistake the
language over my own signature, sent
him by express, and doubtless received
by him before he penned his last card,
published five days afterwards.
Col. Nicholls, in his card, referring to
my own of the previous day, says:
“Governor Brown states that he was ad
vised to see me, ‘and have me to agree
in writing what occurred.’ ” This state
ment nowhere appears in my published
card, but it does appear in a memoran
dum appended to my revision of the in
terview, which was sent to Gen. Toombs
by express. The proof is conclusive,
therefore, that my written statement was
received by Gen. Toombs.
The verbal report of a conversation
would never be the guide to a proud,
brave man, as to what his honor deman
ded, when he had in writing before him
the pledge that he would receive, if he
called for it, the satisfaction due a gentle
man. Joseph E. Brown.
San Francisco, Jnly 23. —A dispatch
from Victoria, Vancouver’s Island, says
that reports have reached that place to
the effect that the white settlers at the
forks of the Skeua river, in British Co
lumbia, have been all murdered by the
Indians.
[From tlio Wilmington Journal ]
i THE NORTH CAROLINA OUTLAWS.
j Full Particulars of tlie Killing of Tom
! Lowrey He Dies Hard—The Body
i Delivered to His Wife—The County
. Reward Paid, Ac., Ac.
IWe have received from various
sources the following additional par
ticulars of the killing of the outlaw,
Tom Lowrey, on Saturday last:
I On Thursday night last Mr. A. S.
| Wishart, brother of the late Col. F. M.
: Wishart, who was so fondly murdered
;by the outlaws three months ago,
| having called to liis assistance a few res
; olute and daring young men, set out
! for Scntffetown to look after the outlaws,
j and, if possible, to avenge the death of
j liis gallant and lamented brothor. Pro
ceeding to the neighborhood of the out
laws, the gallant little band secreted
themselves along the roads usually
| traveled by thorn in tlioir walks about
| the country, and waited patiently for an
I opportunity to put their design in execu
tion. Nothing was seen, however, of any
of tho gang, which now consists of three
members, Stephen and Tom Lowrey and
Andrew Strong, until Saturday morning
about 8 olcloek, when Tom Lowrey ap
peared iu sight on his way to Union
Chapel, where tho candidates were to
meet and address the people on that
day. Tom was armed with a rifle and
three repeaters, aud walked leisurely
along, unsuspecting of danger, until at a
point opposite where tho young men
wore concealed ho noticed the tracks
they had made in crossing the road. He
now seemed suddenly alarmed and com
- moncod cursing bitterly, when suddenly
tho little baud instantly discharged
tlioir pieces. Eaeli of tho four shots
took effect, and uttering a yell of terror
and pain, the outlaw plunged into tlio
swamp and ran about fifty yards, when
lie fell down dead. Seizing the body
they carried it upon their shoulders to
the public road, a distance of half a
mile, where they pressed a passing
wagon, and thus carried tho dead body
to Lumliorton, whore it was delivered to
the sheriff.
On Lowroy’s body was found the arms
alluded to above, and a gold watch, the
properly of Mr. John McNair. As the
young men approached him when ho fell
in the swamp, lie made an attempt to
draw liis pistol on them, but was too
weak. One hand was clenched firmly
about liis gun (a Spencer rifle), no much
so, that it was with difficulty that the
fingers could bo unclasped. At the time
tho young men fired on him, he was
walking leisurely along the road in com
pany with a white man by the name of
Provatt, who came very near being shot
as the young men fired on the outlaw.
Tlio body was fully identified ns that
of Tom Lowrey, and was delivered to
his wifo, on Sunday morning, by Sheriff
McMillan, who had sent for her to come
and got it. It was interred by liis friends
at two o’clook of tile same day, some
where in the classic precincts of Scuffle
town. The sumo day Sheriff McMillan
paid tho reward offered by tlio county,
SI,OOO, to tlio young men, and it is to be
hoped that the State will act as promptly
in paying Over tlio $5,009 offered last
Winter in the Governor’s proclamation.
The numos of the young men engaged
in this gallant allair are : A. S. Wishart,
Robert, E. Wishart, James McKay and
James Campbell. They havo certainly
rendered a great sorvico to the people of
Robeson county.
TllE ALABAMA FLOOD.
Loss, Fivo Million Dollars Terrible
Destruction of Crops and Other Prop
erty in Tuskaloosa aud Jefferson
Counties Sufferings of the People-
Incidents of the Deluge.
Montgomery telegrams report that tho
damage by the late flood will roach five
millions. The waters in Central Ala
bama were higher than ever known at
this season. Accessible houses along
the streams were swept away by scores.
Cotton and corn on highlands has been
badly damaged by the heavy rains. The
cotton crop of Alabama has been cut
short forty thousand bales. Tlio Mont
gomery Advertiser says :
There was no rain in Enfaula on the
16th, but that was tho first day in the
month of July of which tho same tiling
cduld bo truthfully said. Up to that
time tho rain had fallen during seven
teen successive days. Os course, both
corn and cotton suffered largely.
l*'rom a gentleman who was cut off
during a visit to Birmingham by tho
floods, and who was compelled to return
via Tuskaloosa, Greensboro, Marion and
Selma, we learn tho following particu
lars of the damage inflicted by the late
heavy rains and the ensuing freshets in
tho Warrior and Callaba rivers : Be
tween Birmingham and Tuskaloosa he
found the bridge across Big Sandy creek
washed away, and the Warrior river op
posite the mouth of tho creek more than
six miles wide. The latter stream had
then risen sixty-two feet at the city of
Tuskaloosa, and was overflowing all tho
farms along its banks and bottoms, car
rying disaster and suffering in its course.
At the crossing of the railroad bridge of
the South and North Road, 50 miles above
the city, it had risen to the unprecedent
ed height of eighty feet, sweeping away
tho iron bridgo as though it had been a
mere cobwob. Os tho seven bridges
across Cunningham’s oroek, in Jefferson
county, flvo had boon swept completely
away, inflicting such damage to tho road
us to delay its completion two months or
more. The iron bridge across the War
rior was to have been swung at seven
o’clock of the evening on which it was
destroyed. Tho bridge across Turkey
oroek withstood tho pressure notwith
standing the fact that a gin-houso lodged
against its timbers and was there torn to
pieces by tho waters. Every mill in Jef
ferson county, with tho solitary excep
tion of Boyle's mill, which was slightly
careened, was carried away. Houses of
all sorts and sizes along even the most
insignificant water courses were carried
away, and their debris was, on Tnosday
last, everywhere visible on the surface of
the Warrior and Caliaba rivers. Tho
Galmba, at tho crossing of the Kelnm.
and Meridian Road, was at one time more
than two miles wide. A number of
trestles on tho eastern side of that stream
were destroyed, and both ends of the
bridgo along with them. Everywhere
that the waters could roach the destruc
tion of property has been terrible. We
have hoard of no loss of _life however.
The suffering that will result from this
terrible calamity cannot fail to l>osevere.
It is estimated that in Tuskaloosa coun
ty alone it has cast not less than twenty
five hundred people on tho charity of j
tho public. Public meetings are being i
called to consider the best means of aid- j
ing tho sufferers, and the State will be j
asked to extend them assistance. A
numbor of families in Hale and Greene
have also been involved, and in Jeffer
son there is no estimating the damage
that has been done or the suffering en
tailed upon her citizens. Blount., Win- ]
ston and Walker have also been injured,
but to what extent we have not yet been !
advised.
On last Friday morning, says the Mo
bile Jit gUter, Admiral Semmes received
from his son, who is planting on the
Tombigbee, at Mclntosh’s Bluff, about
, sixty miles above Mobile, tlic following
' letter, descriptive of the destruction
which the flood is causing on that river.
It may be safely assumed that ever}'
planter on the Tombigbee and its tribu
taries, from the sources of those streams
i to the sea, will be utterly ruined for the
present year :
MclsTosn’s Bluff, July 18, 1872.
My Dear Father— l am drowned out!
ruined ! Already are the waters rushing
over the bulk of the plantation, and by
the time you receive this my entire fields
will be one seething, boiling flood, as
the river is rising at the rate of an inch
an hour. In two weeks more I would
have laid by as fine a crop as has been
made since the surrender. It was the
admiration of all who saw it—ninety
acres of corn in full roasting ear, and
I seventy acres of cotton, white with
blooms, and laden with half-grown bolls,
are now the prey of the angry torrent.
| What Boutwell Promised at Chab
! lottb, N. C.—ln his harangue at Char
i lotte, N. C.,on the 18th, it is stated that
Secretary Boutwell, in order to persuade
! voters not to repudiate the rotten and
oorrnpt Administration which he repre
sents, promised them that the United
States mint at that place shall hereafter
be provided with coin to purchase the
gold of the miners after it has been as
sayed. Hitherto they could only get
the gold assayed, and then it had to be
taken to Philadelphia to be turned into
coin.
RAILROAD FRAUD IN SOUTH
CAROLINA.
i The Greenville and Columbia Railroad
I —Petition to Place it in Bankruptcy
j —Damning Evidence of Fraud.
The carpet-bag adventurers who have
swarmed upon the South since the war
have developed a remarkable partiality
for railroad management, as a means of
advancing their fortunes through fraud
and robbery the most unblushing possi
ble of conception. The latest illustra
tion of one of their numerous villainous
schemes comes to light in the investiga
tion of the aflairs of the Greenville and
Columbia Railroad, in South Carolina.
We copy tho following from the Charles
ton Courier :
For the past two or tlireo days the
United States District Court, Hon. Geo.
S. Bryan, presiding, has been engaged
in hearing the case of r.r parte Dan’l E.
Seaunell, in re the Greenville and Co
lumbia Railroad. This is a petition to
place the Greenville and Columbia Rail
road into involuntary bankruptcy, aud
the case lias excited very general atten
tion by reason of the developments as to
the financial operations of the ring,
which, up to the present year, has con
trolled the road.
At the opentng of tlio Court Monday
morning Mr. W. J. Magrath, (’resident
of tlie Greenville Railroad, resumed the
stand, and was cross-examined by Mr.
Corbin. Ho testified that tlio bridge
across Broad river, alluded to in the
Superintendent's report, hud aot yet
liecn built, nor had any new engines
been purchased ; there had beep no
permanent repairs made to the road ;
Unit the permanent bonded debts of the
road had been paid this year. He had
purchased in March last about $13,000
worth of first mortgage bonds from Mr.
Joseph Crews ; they were past due
bonds. Thus about SIBO,OOO of these
bonds arc out at present. Ho paid about
95 or 90 cents for tho bonds purchased
from Crews.
Tho Air-Lino Railroad outs tlie Green
ville Road at Greenville only. The coun
sel then endeavored to show that the
distance frrim Greenville to New York,
by the proposed Air-Line Road, was
less than by the route via Charleston by
sea.
Mr. Magrnth testified that the distance
from Greenville to Charleston was 1270
miles, and from Charleston to Now York
by sea, 700 miles ; lint that this last dis
tance iu the tariff of freights, by contract
with the steamship companies, was only
reckoned as 200 miles. Tlio distance
from Greenville to New York, by the
through l’ortsmoutli, Virginia, Air-Lino
Road, was about 662 miles'. By this
computation, the distance between
Portsmouth and Now York was reckon
ed in the same manner as the distance
between Charleston and Now York was
reckoned—2oo miles*by freight tariffs—*•
so that there was really a difference in
favor of Charleston of 192 miles. Ho
was of tho opinion that the cotton of
tho Blue Ridge section would not bo
diverted to the Air-Line Road, although
thoro would bo competition.
So far as the South (Carolina Railroad
was concerned, ho thought that that
road would be worked at an expense of
less than 06 per cent, of tlio earnings.
This includes the outlay for iron. This
was a very fair average of the expenso of
all first-class roads in tlio country.
Ho thought that he could run the
South Carolina liailroad this year inside
of 02 per cent. The Greenville Road
could be run for less, because it did not
require such liberal expenditures;
Re-examined by Hon. A. G. Ma
grath—Tlio witness purchased the road
and paid portion of tlie purchase money.
Ho regarded that the purchase money J
was an indication of the valuo of the j
road oyer its liabilities. Ho would not
sell the road for the same money to-day.
Question by Mr. Bryan—Wliat is tho
stock of the stockholders outside of the
South Carolina Railroad worth ?
After argument tlm question was
withdrawn.
Examination resumed—ln the opinion
of the witness that line of railroad is an
essential link in the chain of roads that
conduco to the prosperity pf the lower
portion of the Btate. Should it pass
into the hands Os outsiders, it would
certainly work harm to Charleston. Out
of 88,000 bales of cotton that passed
over the road in ono year, 81,000 bales
came to Charleston. If the road was in
foreign hands none of this cotton would
come to this city.
Mr. C. H. Manson, the Assistant
Treasurer of the Greenville Road, was
next called. He testified that ho had
been instructed in April last to go to
New York to investigate the nature of
the claims made by the Commercial
Warehouse Company against the Green
ville Boad. He went there about the
first of April and saw the President and
two of the Vice-Presidents of the Ware
house Company. They said that a loan
of 3150,000 had been made with them
by Kimpton, the agent of the road, on
three notes executed by J. J. Patterson,
a Director of the road. He signed these
notes as Vice-President. The money
was paid to Kimpton. The terms of
the loan were, as the President of the
Warehouse Company said, at tho rate
of seveil per cent, interest, secured as
collaterals of 3000,000 second mortgage
bonds of the road, with a commission of
five-eights of a cent per month on tho
face of the collaterals. Tho commission
and interest amount to thirty-seve u
per cent, per annum. 'l'lipy were to
have two and a half per cent, additional
to tho collaterals in ease they had to
sell in order tomeet the loan. The loan
had been made during the Hummer of
1871. No report of this negotiation
was ever made by Mr. Kempton, al
though he accounted for it in his ac
count current. This account the wit
ness first saw in January, 1872. The
Board of Directors of the road, on
the 23d of May, 1872, passed a reso
lution requesting the President to take
steps to provent the payment of the
loan, as it was regarded as fraudulent.
Tie does not know of auy nation of the
Board authorizing Kimpton to make tho
loan. There was a resolution offered at
a meeting in May, 1871, by Joe Crews,
authorizing tho President of the road
to furnish notes of the company
to Kimpton, to an amount pot exceeding
dollars, for the amount due him,
and dollars of second mortgage
bonds be furnished him to dm used as
collaterals,
Kimpton’s transactions with the com
pany were numerous, hut there is no
trace of any correspondence to be
found among the papers of the road.
Tho witness read from the minutes of
the Board of Directors a resolution au
thorizing the purchase of tho charter of
the Continental Telegraph Company for
3387,500 second mortgage bonds of tho
road.
At a moeting in January, 1872, a reso
lution was passed authorizing the Presi
dent to make such changes in the re
ceipts and vouchers of the Telegraph
Company as would conform to die
amount of bonds actually paid out for
tho charter, viz.: $100,001),
At a meeting May i, 1872, Governor
On- offered a resolution repudiating and
rejecting tho transaction as fraudulent.
A discussion here arose as to the ad
missibility of the question propounded
to the witness, in which Mr, Corbin de
nied that he was counsel for any of the
persons wl*> held the bonds of the road
fraudulently. The suit that he brought
was for interest on bonds that had been
past due ten or fifteen years back.
Judge Magratli stated that while this
might be true, be still believed that the
petitioners in the present case wore
urged on by those parties who had been
carrying on a systematic robbery on the
road, ard if the Court would give him
time he would put a witness on the
stand to prove that no person had ever
received pay for the charter of the Con
tinental Telegraph Company. That it
was simply a sale from Directors to Di
rectors.
Cross-examined by Mr. Corbin.—
Kimpton was the Financial Agent of the
road; and had received over 8600,000
bonds of the road. Witness understood
that in 1870 a second mortgage debt of
81,500,000 was created by the Directors.
The Executive Committee of the
Board was, for 1870, President Bush,
Crews and Watermon; for 1871, Bush,
Crews and Patterson. Witness nover
saw any records of Ifie proceedings of
the Executive Committee. It appears
by the minutes of the Board that Kimp
ton’s accounts have been duly audited
and passed. He never saw any repudia
tion of Kimpton’s aot by the Board.
Witness never learned anything that
would impeach the conduct of the Com
mercial Warehouse Company in re
ference to the loan to Kimpton.
Cross-examined by Mr. Melton—
Kimpton’s account, amounting to
8180,000, was approved in January,
1872, by the Board of Directors three
days before the. advent of the present
NEW SERIES—VOL. XXV—NO. 31.
administration. The witness hud ex
amined Kimpton’s account, and did not
think it correct.
Mr. O. D. Melton was next examined
by Judge Magrath. He testified that he
was acting as attorney for the Green
ville and Columbia Railroad, and lmd
received instructions from the Green
ville and Columbia Railroad to institute
proceedings against the former direction
of tho road, With a view to recover all
bonds that have been embezzled from
the company. In the pursuit of this
litigation, two of the parties have al
ready surrendered their bonds, and ari
knowlejged that the whole arrangement
was simply n scheme to divide $300,000
of the company among the ring.
Objection was made to this testimony
by Messrs. Bryan & Corlrin, on the
ground that the bonds in question were
not included in the liabilities claimed by
tlio petitioners.
Mr. Magrath argued the admissibility
of tlio evidence, and the Court ruled
that the evidence was admissible so far
as it went to prove the amount of bonds
recovered.
The witness—T recovered from J. J.
Patterson $21,000 and from Dr. Neagle
$37,500, on second mortgage bonds of
tho road, which had boon received by
them as their share of the price of the
Continental Telegraph Company. There
are 50,000 shares, which were held in
unequal proportions. Both of these
parties told witness the whole scheme ;
there were $.300,000 divided out among
them ; Kimpton received his share.
The charter of the 1 Telegraph Company
was sold by Ivimptort, Neagle, Patter
son, and others, ntm among whom $300,-
000 in bonds of the Ixind were divided.
The charter of the Telegraph Company
was granted to Hall and Thurman, by
the Legislature.
Judge Magrath then submitted the
affidavit of B.' D. Haftell, of New'
York, proving the notice bf the Green
ville Road to the Warehouse Com
pany, receipting tlio sale of the bonds,
despite the protest of the toad, for 25(M
29 cents on the face value. The affida
vit also contained a copy of the notice
from the railroad t-rt the Warehouse
Company, denying the alleged indebted
ness, and denying the tight, of the
Warehouse Company to hold or sell
them, inasmuch nS they had been fraud
ulently obtained.
At this point the Court adjnnrneed
until half-past ten o’clock, Friday, When
the consideration of theeitsio Will bo re
sumed.
The on Friday last were
confined mostly to the testimony of ex
perts as to the value of the Greenville
Road. Messrs. W. A. Courtney and
Geo. A. Trenhohn testified on this point-.
Mr. Tronliqlm thought tlio road worth
at least $2,500,0tM). lie believed that
tlio road had been grossly mismanaged,
but should ho profitable. The News
says :
Colonel C. 11. Simonton was next
called as a witness for the defense, and
testified that he attended a meeting of
bondholders pi the Oreonvillo tun) Cp
luihbia, Railroad Company, nvliioh was
held at Columbia last month, and at
which Dr. J. L. Neagle offered to take
a lease of the road for ninety-nine years,
put it in thorough repair and guarantee
to pay the interest on the whole debt of
the road, disputed and undisputed.
This offer was guaranteed by Mr.
Branch, of Augusta, whom the witness
knew very well, whoso credit stood very
high,, and whose guarantee would be
taken for a very large amount of money.
Ha was of the firm of Branch, Sons &
Cos., a house which had very largo trans
actions iu Richmond, Petersburg and
Augusta. Another gentleman in Co
lumbia had told him that, the Wilming
ton, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
Company stood ready to cover that
offer at any moment.
Hokkilskk Railroad Aixuiiun't.—A ter
rible aeecident oeourred near Jackson
ville, Fla., on the Jacksonville, Mobile
and Pensacola Railroad, last Wednes
day night, in which a father aud liis lit
tle sou were so terribly mangled as to
bo almost beyond recognition.
It appears that JameS J. Johnson (tnil
his young sou, James Henry .Johnson,
left Jacksonville about dusk on the
evening mentioned for their home, aboitt
five miles distant from the city, oil the
railroad. The man had iu t his hand a
tin pail of whisky when he left town.
After proceeding about two miles and a
half, as stated, they halted, but for
what cause will never be known.
At nine o'clock, says tlio Jacksonville
Union, a party of colored persons pass
ed along the road, and noticing the
man and boy oil the track, warned them,
saying, “ You had better get off tho
track and go home, as the train will bo
along soon.” Tlio man replied that ho
would take earo of that. At this time
he was holding tho boy in his arms,
saying he was sick. The parties passed
on. What transpired during the long
hours from nine o’clock in the evening
to one o’clock in the morning, can only
bo surmised. It is thought, however,
that either under tho influence of
liquor, or being wearied by bin day’s
labor, the father fell asleep with his
sick child in his anils. The.night freight
train, which passes this point at or about,
one o'clock, passed over the sleeping
father and the sick child. In f,he morn
ing tho rising hub .looked down upon a
ghastly scene. Stretched upon the
traek, with hardly a whole bone in his
body, was the fating. Be complete was
this human wreck that, many portions of
tho body could not be found. The
head and shoulders were about fourfold
from tho body.
Ahttficial Limtis fok Disabled Sol-:
diem.— Both Messrs. Clark and Hnoad,
of Richmond county, introduced bills in
the House yesterday, with a view to
providing all maimed soldiers who de
sire them, artificial limbs at tlio expense
of the State.
These bills qonjoint]j require that the.
Ordinaries of counties prepare lists of
all disabled HotdfOiW who are wholly un
fit for labor in their county, and to for
ward the same to the < lontropoller-tem
end, who shall forthwith draw upon the
Treasury for SIOO, to lie used in procur
ing artificial limbs. Cue of the bills
provides that 81M annually lie giVeu td
all disabled soldiers who are wholly' Un
fit for labor.
The ether bjll suggests that aflvcrtMp
ments bepiiblisbr'd (<g Mdh for o.oii Lined,
i to furnish aVtiflMai limbs for all soldiers
who desire them, arid both, if We mistake
not, recommend that SIOO V, allowed
every disabled soldier who has already
incurred the expense of providing him
self with an artificial limb.
Both hills are eminently judicious
and well-timed, as well as funidmq a fid
patriotic; and we doubt not that the best
| features of each will be adopted by both
Houses of the Assembly. —Atlanta San,
2 m, ■
The Atlanta Medical College Col
lapsed.—The Atlanta correspondent of
the Savannah MVe.v writes of the sick
ness and final collapse of the Atlanta
I Medical College;
The Htuto appropriated somo years
ago 81u,000 to the Atlanta Medical Col
lege, The mismanagement of this in
stitution has been, for many years, the
source of great trouble among the medi
cal fraternity. It appears that one of
the distinguished attorneys of this city
was at one time employed by the trustees
to defend the interests of the College,
for which service he charged SIOO.
After waiting for some years to have his
fee paid him, he sued the Board and ob
tained a judgment. The college grounds
and building were levied upon and sold
by the sheriff for tlie merest trifle-* Use
professors or trustees, with the utmost
indifference, not making tho slighest
effort to save tlio Htftte the large stuu it
had douaW them. The loss to tine peo
ple bjy this negligence and mismanage
ment is between twenty and thirty thou
sand dollars- the city of Atlanta losing
five thousand dollars appropriated a few
years since. It is said the trustees re
lied upon the faculty to pay all demands
against the College, from the earnings of
tho institute. If it could not pay one
hundred dollars it is certainly a poor
affair. At any rate the College has.
passed into private hands and the peo
ple have sustained loss.
At a colored pie-nic near Savannah, on
Monday, two negroes were badly out
with a razor—-one of them supposed to •
be fatally wounded.
The State Road Lea si l .
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
The people in this part of the {Mate
are not satisfied with the present lease of
tho Western and Atlantic Railroad.—
They bulievd flirtt the property could W f
readily leased for $30,000 to $40,000 per
month. The tax payers here are not
willing to submit to unjust taxation that
tho purses of a few greedy speculators
may be filled at their expense. Tho
people — the. hone.tt mosses —witl demand
justice at the hands of those having
charge of the investigation of this leaso
matter. Cherokee.
Southern Cross Brotherhood.— This
is the name of anew Society, which has
been originated at Richmond, Vu., by
tho organization of “Lee Camp, No. 1.”
The Society is composed alone of those
who were Confederate soldiers, and who
maintained unblemished reputations
throughout. Its object is to perpetuate
the memory and heroism of those who
fell in battle, to aid the families of the
dead, nud “to try hi preserve tho itruth
and purity of lustory.”
This Society is now engaged in gather
ing the remains of Confederate kofdierS
from the battle-field of (^e,jjt?jsburg,arid.
fr(Jtn other battle-fields, whore fiiey are
being desecrated and scattered aboilt as
if .they were no more thin the bones of
dumb animals. The Society purposes to
collect those remains and decently inter 1
them in Hollywood Cemetery, .ndur
Richmond, whim their graves will ho
eared for and receive, each Spring, the
tribute of llowerS, which in the. emblem
of the oonsooration of man’s devotion to
those who died in battle.
There hvo, it is est imated, &i tout ono
thousand of these dead still rouuiiniug
upon the field of Gettysburg. Many of
tlujse are tho remains of
Means are needed to effect their removal,
and “Lee Camp, No. 1, Southern Cross
Brotherhood,” asks ah) of tho South
of Georgians—in, furtherance of the
patriotic purpose. Largo or small con
tributions will be gratefully received
and applied faithfully to tyfe purposes
mentioned. jiipon the
subject may bo addressed, ! W. 0. Car
rington, Richmond, Virginia.'
The Western Union Tri.morauh Com
pany.—Among the American louuh re
cently placed on tho London njoney mar
ket wo notice ono offered by the West
ern Union Telegraph Company of U|o,
United States. The loan is fir #1(500,000
in first mortgage bonds, bearing* interest '
at seven per cent., and the proceeds are
to bo applied to tho construction of a
large central building in New York for
the accommodation of tho increasing
business of the company. The pros- •
pectus states that the company has now ,
absorbed nearly all tljo telegraph
in the United States, and that its net
revenue last year was Ttio
loan is also secured by tho general lia-
bility of the company, whosfi bonded
debt, including tho present creation, is
limited to #(i,03*1,900. The bonds will
have thirty years to run, unless previous
ly paid off by a sinking fUtid nt ten per
cont. premium, and during the whole of
that time the holders are to havo the
option of converting them into slmnss-L
uu option which would become valuable
in case of the telegraph system-of the
country bfcing taken under tile control of
tho Government, , ~
The Asiatic? Onoijr.uA.-r- Anew tluMp y
has Iwon broached in regard to Akiatio
cholera, which is that it is not a disease
of tlio bowels, but of tliti nerves, though
the former are generally, but not, always
affected. Tho exhaustion or paralysis
of tho nerVe system constitutes cholera.
Tho first symptom is a shrinking o;
sehri veiling of the cuds of the linger a,
by the small arteries ceasing to supply
the usual quantity of blood to the sur
face, and blueness of tlie skin, caused
by tlio absence of peculiar shrinking afid
corrugation of the Hkin, debility and
coldness. This may occur without any
great disturbance of the general health,
for some time at kaHt. An old physician
says that a man may have tlio disease
for hours, and perhaps days, without
seriously disturbing liis health ; that is
it produces no serious effects until it ex
tends to the larger vessels, as jt begins
in the minute extremities of tho nerves.
OovtPLIMENT TO A. R, LAMAIt, Esq.—
At the Democratic meeting in Columbus,
on Thursday, General Henning rose and
offered tho following resolution, which
was received \rah clleerft and plaudits,
lie said it was needless to speak in his
homo of tho gentleman. He hail spoken
boldly when others hud coSvered. Ho
had led the press of Georgia to its pres
ent positityi. He hail contended for tho
right when bayonets were all around him.
The people know this:
Jicsolvtid, That Ibis meeting peHpect
fully present, the nuuifi, of imy fellow
citizen, A. R. Lamar, lfV<q., as a suitable
candidate for Cuugressimin at Large.
We think (lint Jiis past services in be
half of oiq-oppressed people, n,ud emi
nent qualification and jfttpess./or, the po
sition, hltuuld entitle him to the favor•
alilo oojijnderation of the Convention.
Adopted with universal applause and
cheers.
Df.sfhivft> Newspaper BtieeFsff.- The
Bt.' Loins UejtifJjliCa'n , once the. great
Whig paper of Missouri and tlu> extreme
West, long the leading Democratic
organ of that seetiifii, iitid now the
journal Which. may fairly tiloim, to have
initiated tfiq movement which hop
final!} brought the Democracy up to tlie
height of tliAOftlcinngti, platform, gives
cheering proofs of flip fygnal prosperity
it has attained. It is about moving into
it splendid printing office which it ImA
just built; furnished with three kinds of
preapes—Hljc’h, Bljllodk’sflufl the Waltfr
invention . qf ,she London, Timm- is
adopting tho quarto form, and is to he
as large ns tho New York TSamite.
Buell evidences of substantial thrift life
gratifying to the friends of tails ably (Con
ducted journal. h•’ it 1
Camp atom Railroad Fake.— -Tlie Cen
tral Railroad Company, ih order to
facilitate communication between tliQ
citizens of Georgia by public gatherings,
has conseiitod to sell tickets over tho
Central, Southwestern, and Macon and
Western Railroad, to go at one fare anil
retnrn free from any conveutiouor public
meeting in the State, ap to the 7th d*y
of November. Other roads non Id, ur»
doulit, profit by adopting tlio same
rates. q.
The Reason Why.—A Tennesseean
on the way, to Baltimore, who had been
a large slaveholder, was approached by
an iuiti-flreeley man, who remiAded him
of his previous wealth, and said,
“ Greeley did more than any other man to
freo your slaves,” when he replied,
“ Tluit is the very reason why I want
him to try his baud. at freeing the South
ern white men.” tit
Death of Hdtj. John J. Kelly.—
Hon. John J. Kelly, an old merchant pf
Savannah, andt Representative from
Chatham County in the prfesent legisla-
died in Savannah about twnfve
o’clock Monday night. He had baeu in
feeble health for several montlm- Ho
was an old merchant in Sav»nm i b> hav
ing formerly belonged to the firm whioh
is now styled ttr,ighuni,,Holsts Cos., but
when he was a member ,of, ih nas styled
Brigham, Kelly & Cos.