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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1872)
OLD BERTES—YOL. LXXIX. (£i)romcle anti srn<mrl. Terms of Subscription. daily. One month * J ®! Threw months 2 50 Ono year »" 00 TKI-WKEKLY. , . _ ' j'oo Hi* montliH * M WEEKLY. Hiv month* 1 (m WEDNESDAY . .SEPTEMBERIB. ANOTIIKK HOLT. Tho Senatorial Convention for tho counties of Meriwether, Coweta, Dong lass and Campbell was rather a stormy assemblage. The doctrine of rotation Was fully (liseiiHiysl, ami the Convention first voted for the system, but imme diately afterwards reconsidered its action and voted it down. The majority rule was also adopted, and this caused tho delegates from Mcriwethor to bolt. The Convention finally adjourned without making a nomination, and another one will !s> held on Friday. WHAT IT COHTH TO CANE AN KDITOIt. Parties who feel disposed to hold editors of newspapers “personally re sponsible” for articles published in their columns, will find .the decision of Judge Mills, of the Washington Police Court, of interest. In tho ease of “Judge” Lewis Dent, tho Presidents brother-in law, who attacked and beat in a very cowardly manner one of the editors of the Washington Capital, afew days ago,. Judge Mills assessed the damages at one hundred dollars. Belligerent parties seeking satisfaction from newspaper editors now know exactly what this luxury will cost them and can govern tllflTlHolVoß HOC O rdingly. <»EN. YOUNG A< JA IN SUCCESSFUL. The OartersvilloConvention mot again on Fri day, and after balloting all day, and a portion of the night, selected a candidate to represent the Seventh Dis trict in Congress. On the forty-first ballot the names of Waddell, Johnson and Scott were withdrawn, and Colonel (leorge N. Lester placed in nomination. On the forty-third ballot (Jen. P. M. J’. Young received the requisite two-thirds vote, and was declared the nominee of the Convention. This is the third time that (Jen. Young has received tit# nomi nation, and he is as popular as ever in hia District. In both the former contests lie was elected, and will represent the Seventh in the next Congress. THE CAM PA ION IN GEORGIA. The Democrats of Ellinghain county, on the f»th, selected, by ballot, O. F. Foy as a candidate for the Legislature. Col. J. 11. Snead, Into editor of the Savannah Hipublican, is spoken of as a candidate for Congress in tho First Dis triot. The County Democratic Convention of Gwinnett county, on the ltd, recom mended Hon. W. E. Simmons for Con gress in tho Ninth District. At a Convention of tho Democratic party of Wilkinson county, on the sth, Wyriott C. Adams was nominated as a candidate for the Legislature. Col. E. M. Butts was on Thursday nominated as the Democratic candidate for tho Legislature in Marion county. Ho was Colonel of the Second Georgia Begiment. The Democrats of Fayette county had a nomination by ballot on Tuesday last, which resulted in nominating It. T. Dor* eey for Representative, and a failure to nominate a candidate for Senator. At a public mooting in Walton county on the B<l, Messrs. Henry D. McDaniel, Charles L. Bowie and Eli A. Smith wore chosen delegates to attend tho Conven tion to be held in Milledgeville, on the 19th instant, for the purpose of nomi nating a Congressman for tho Sixth Dis trict. A resolution was adopted iu- Htrueting the delegation to support lion. D. 11. Walker for the position to the ex tent, prudence may dictate. A FEW PLAIN FACTS. Thorn in to our mind a manifest lethargy and lack of interest on the part of the white people of Richmond county in our local politics, which, if persisted in much longer, cannot result in less than partial defeat at the ballot box in the approaching elections. Cognizant of this indifference and lack of energy on the part of the Democratic party, the Radicals are actively pressing their cause, in seeking out and making available for their support evory colored voter in the county. It is an unfortu nate and may be a fatal mistake with our Democratic associates who Hit down quietly with folded hands and imagine that the prestige .of previous victories will guarantee triumph for us in the ap proaching contest. \Ve have the very best authority for saying that the Radical leaders in the county, mindful of the value of early and continued labor to ascertain and organize a voting strength, are now actively employed in finding out and re lieving the disabilities of every default ing colored tax payer, whose failure to pay the poll tax of last year deprives them of a vote. The colored delin quents are rapidly reporting to the Tax Collector and settling the arrearages against them on the digest. From data in our possession, we discover that the total number of de faulter on the tnA digest for last year is , 1 :!(X)—of which 500 arc colored and 800 white. There are, in addition, default ers not ou the digest, to the number of ■2,055. The Radicals arc, in addition to re moving the disabilities of these colored defaulters on the digest, extending their efforts to relieving a large num ber of negro voters who have failed to make a return. To counteract this, it is absolutely necessary that the defaulting whites should at once set about relieving tlicm se ves <>f the disabilities inqxtaed upon them by failure to pay the required poll tax. Neglect in this matter may work a deal of harm in the approaching election. Failure to pay the poll tax of last year entails double tax,, amounting to $2 per poll. The Collector has decided not to insist upon the §1 foe to which lie is entitled under the Code. TIIE WEST VIRGINIA ELECTION. The Clarksbnrg Sun, in referring to the result of the late election in West Virginia, says : Enough is known to congratulate the Democracy on its success. Tli« Consti tution is carried by at least 3,500 major ity. This is a triumph worthy the stern efforts of the Democracy of West Vir ginia. Every shaft of tho enemy was aimed at its defeat; every device that ingenuity could devise. Men lent their personal popularity to the opposition : but all failed. Th< (\mstitution itecur ing popular rightr. i and guaranteeing pe rgonal liberty is adoptcel —is now the fundamental law of the land. In tho ratification of the Constitution the Dem ocratic party have in one particular as pect achieved an important triumph. Wc have secured an able and incorrup tible Court of Appeals. This Court has been tho strong fortress, the entrenched position of the 'Radical party of this State from its organization to the pres ent time. A correspondent of the Cincinnati En t/uirrr says that Mr. Jacob, who has just been re-elected Governor of West Virginia, “is an earnest supporter of (tree ley and Brown, and also that Radi calism in this State has sneh a slender foot-hold that its friends rofnscd to nom inate a State ticket, notwithstanding the Democracy were divided Between Jacob and Camden.” STATUTORY CHANGES. Acta Passe it by the Last Legislature. Several very important changes were made in the statutes by acts of the last Legislature, which we herewith publish as matters not only of interest to the members of the legal fraternity, but to our citizens at largo. The first important change that we notice is in the law of garnishment. This is act No. 12 of the pamphlet published by authority, containing the public laws passed by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia at its last session in July and August, 1872. The act reads : An Act to Amend the Garnishment Laws of this State. Section 1 . The General Assembly of lhe State of Georgia do enact, That, forever and after the passage of this act, the wages of no person in tho employ ment of another shall lio exempt from tho process of garnishment when the consideration of the debt is provisions for the uso of tho employee or his family, or when the consideration of said debt « for board of himself or family. Section 2 repeals conflicting laws. The next important change that we notice is that relating to “ gaming of any sort in any retail liquor liouso, or shop, or rooms connocted thoreunto.” , act no. 51. Section 1. lie it enacted by the Gen eral Assembly, That from and after tho passage of this act, if any retail liquor dealer or clerk in tho employ of such retail liquor dealer shall knowingly per mit or allow any jierson or persons to play at any game of cards or any garno whatsoever in tho playing of which cards or dice are used, in the house in which such retail dealer carries on his busi ness of retailing spirituous liquors, or in any room connected therewith and under tho control of such retail liquor dealer, such retail liquor dealer or his clerk so offonding shall, on conviction, lie punished as provided in section 4255 of Irwin’s Revised Code. (Fine or im prisonment, or both.) Section 2. That if any person shall, for amusement or otherwise, play at any game of cards, or any garno whatsoever in the playing of which cards or dice are used, in any retail liquor shop or house, or any room connected there with, and under the control of any re tail liquor dealer doing business in such house or shop, such person so offend ing shall, on conviction, be punished as provided in section 1255 of Irwin’s Re vised Code. The last change in the law that wo shall mention in this connection is tho amendment of section 4300 of the Code. Act No. 37 is, “ An act to amend soction 4300 of tin' Revised Code of Georgia,” and reads : Section 1. lie it enacted by the Gen eral Assembly, That the 4300th section of tho Code of Georgia lie amended by adding the following proviso at tho closo of said section : Provided that no Court in this State shall have jurisdiction to inquire into tho offenses above set forth, except the Superior Court, upon pre sentment made or indictment found by tho Grand Jury of the county in which tho offense has been committed. We would state that soction 4306 of Irwin’s Code, tho one that is amended by the foregoing recent onaotment, is that section which says: “ Any person who shall) without provocation, uso to or of another, and in his presence, opprobi ons words or abusive language tending to cause a breach of tho peace, or who shall, in like manner, uso obscene and vulgar language in tho proscnco of a fenudo, shall he guilty of a misdemeanor, and, ou conviction, shall he punished as provided in section 4245.” By which it will ho seen that jurisdic tion to examine into such eases no longer rests in the Magistrate, hut is limitod to the Superior Court. COTTON CROP OP 1871-’72. Tho New York Financial Chronicle publishes the following statement of the cotton crop of tho United States, for tho commercial yoar ending August 31,1872: crop of 1871-’72. BALES. Total receipts at tho shipping ports 2,732,286 Shipments overland direct to manufacturers 122,065 Manufactured iu tho South.... 120,000 Grand total of tho crop 2,974,351 Os the above aggregate, 16,8-15 hales were sea island cotton. Tho total consumption by tho mills North was 977,510 hales, and that by tlio mills South 120,000 halos, making a to tal American consumption of 1,097,540 halos. Tho total exports for tho year are 1,957,314 hales, and tho aggregate of stocks on hand September 1, 1872, is 54,521 halos. Tho annual statement of tho Charles- 1 ton Courier sums up tho growth of tho crop during tho period embraced bo tween September 1, 1871, aud August 31, 1872, 3,013,213 hales, showing a de crease as compared with tho crop of the preceding year of 1,285,868 hales, and a decrease of 190,615 halos, as compared with the crop of 1870. courier's statement. Bales. Receipts at ports 2,7(59,233 Overland receipts 121,646 Southern consumption, includ ing Virginia 120,000 Stock at interior towns, not in cluded in receipts 2,334 8,013,213 The Courie'r oliums as evidonce of the correctness of its statement the dose proiimity of tho decrease in the crop of this year as compared with that of last year (1,285,868 bales), as shown by its figures, and tho decrease in the receipts this year as compared with last year, as shown in the J-'innncial Chronicle; of tho 30th August (1,285,313 bales), a differ ence of only 555 bales. There has boon a corresponding de crease in the number of bales taken for foreign consumption, as will be soon by the annexed table showing tho exports the post two years: 1872. 1871. Exports to Great Briti&n. .1,465,664 2,872.778 Fa ports to Franco 184,067 138,705 Exiwrts to North of Euro|>e. Spain, etc 305,510 C 53.581 Total 1,955.231 3,165,064 3,166,064 Poore oho. JS72 1,209,833 bains. The number of bales taken for con smnptiou, North and South, tho past year is put down at 1,109,071 bales; Northern consumption, 978,071; South ern consumption, 131,00(1; showing an increase of 52,111 bales in the Northern, account and an increase of 9,000 bales in the Southern account over last year. Upon this latter point tho Court ( t savs : From the information before us, received from some of tho largest South ern factories, we are warranted in in creasing our Southern consumption ac count to tho extent which we have.— From all the statements published from time to time during the past four or five nionths, in reference to" the workings ami requirements of tho Northern facto ries, w’o likewise believe our increase in that account is fully justified. Our statement also shows a decrease in the sea island crop of the past year of 5,440 bags, os compared with the pre ceding year, and a decrease of 11,110 bags, as compared with the crop of 1870. There lias also been a decrease of 11,- 024 tierces in tho rice crop tlm past year, as compared with tho preceding year. THE RESULT IN MAINE. It can only ho set down as an enthusi astic disregard of the plainest facts, to have anticipated a Democratic and Lib eral victory in Maine, one of the recog nized strongholds of Radicalism. Tlio best which could have been achieved, under the most favorable circumstances, was a reduction of the lteavy Radical majorities steadily maintained for tho past six years to the extent of such per oentage as would have served to strength en tho exertions of tho Democratic and Liberal forces in more favorable fields. The following statement of tho votes east at the several elections during the last six years shows the comparative strength of parties there : Dem. Hfp. Maj. 1866.. .41,939 69,026 27,687 18(77.... 46,035 57,619 11,614 1868.. . . 55,431 75,834 20,403 1809. .39,85-1 56,321 16,467 1870.. 44,534 54,040 9,506 1871.. ..48,120 58,757 10,631 Tho average majority has been 16,000. Tho truest teat of strength was in 1868, when the total vote reached 131,265, more than 24,0ft0 in excess of tho number cast at any olection sinoe. The vote of last year is no criterion by which to judge of the strength of parties. Tho Radical majority wis considerably less than tho average majorities, and but* ahont half what it was in 1868, yet tho Democratic voto was more than 7,000 less. Compar ing tho olection of last year with 1868, it appears that tlio Radicals had nearly 10,000 more reserved votes than tho Democrats. In summing up tho roverse experienced by the Democratic and Liberal allianco, it is propor to tako noto of tho superior advantages possessed by their opponents, to tho end that wo may understand that defeat on this field does not necessarily presage disaster in aggregating the gene ral result of tho Presidential campaign. Tho Radicals were not only safoly en trenched behind 20,000 majority on a test voto, with an average majority of 16,000, hut could muster a trained and disciplined army of oflico holders, strong ly garrisoning every town and school district throughout tlio State, and libe rally supplied with tlio means necessary to prosecute the most earnest and vigor ous warfare which hucli appliances could easily keep up. Tho Speaker of the National House of Representatives, wily and unscrupulous in tho dispensa tion <if the large means and comprehen sive patronage at liis disposal, stood at the head of the Radical army in this State, with all the resources of the Fede ral Administration at his command, whether in mon or money. Oily-tongued Cabinet officers and hordes of office holders swarmed to tho Grant standard from all quarters of .tlio Union, har anguing the pooplo at every cross-road or school district, while the largo cor ruption fund at tho sorvico of Blaiuo en abled the Grant managors to pay the tiverago price of .810(1 for each purchas able voto. In the prosecution of tho campaign, with almost unlimited resources at their command, tho Administration has been enabled to guard overy point against ap prehensible weakness. An instance, of this strength and its power was felt in tho First District, whore not less than 2,500 navy yard workmen, with no le gitimate employment for them, were stored away in tho navy yard as a ro sorvo fund for Burleigh, tho Grant Con gressional candidate. Tho Greeley forces, on tho other hand, without proper organization, and with out money, only to tho limitod oxtont supplied from private .sourcos, could aohiovo hut littlo in influencing tlio largo floating vote congregated around tho towns and cities, which seems to have boon almost entirely controlled by the Administration corruption fund so lib erally dispensed by Speakor Blaine, when wo obsorve tlio largely increased Radical gains claimed in such of tho towns and cities as far as hoard from. Under all tho disadvantages and insur mountable obstacles environing them,tho Democratic and Liberal allies of Maine have made a gallant struggle, which, al though not perhaps as successful as antici pated, instead of exorcising a discourag ing influonco in other fields whore tlioono my is yet to ho met, should servo to stimulate tlio Democratic and Liberal forces to still greater preparation for tho contest. ELECTIONS TO RE CARRIED BY MONEY. Tho New York Spirit of the Times declares that tho “plan for insuring Grant’s ro-cloction is the wholesale pur chase of certificates of returns in Phila delphia and Now York,” and continues “ tho Administration party believes that ton millions of dollars sagaciously ex pended in tho oitios of Philadelphia and Now York, in sums ranging from $5,000 to $50,000, will secure tho two States, and thus doeido tho country. This money is not to bo expended in buying votes, but in buying tho men who oonnt tho votes and sign the certificates. This is the grand stylo of cheating, which has al ready been practiced ou a similar scalo in tlio local oloctions of tkeso cities, * * * To make this plan work, the whole United States Treasury will be emptied for Grant if uecossary. The game his party is playing is for empire, and the expectation is that whatever is taken can bo restored or indefinitely con cealed in the oventof success. Wo wariW the State aud National Committees that this*method of expending money will be energetically tested, and they must not only look to the canvass, but tho count; not alone to the people, but the officers who are the depositories of the people’s will. We have no fear that the people will not vote for Grooloy, tho danger is that the vote will be dishon estly transferred to Grant,’ There is enough in this bold, timely warning from the Spirit- of the Times to put tho people on their guard in relation to the use of money by the Grant re nomiuationists in thus present canvass. Especially is this tho case, when it is known that Government funds has been used for such a purpose. Money was sent from Washington to Oregon to car ry tho election in that State, and a Government official superintended it 9 distribution. This fact is . well known. Marshal Carrow, of North Carolina, was given over $200,000, ostensibly to pay Court expenses in that State, but really for electioneering expenses, all of which was disbursed to procuro a proper return of Mr. Caldwell as Gov ernor. In this case, the money was ex pended is “ buying tho men who count tho votes and sign the certificates,” and also in paying tho expenses of bring ing negroes from Washington and other places. Pecuniary aid was also sent from the National Capital to Vermont, and hundreds of men are operating in Maine, who are directly under tho pay of the Federal Government. Peepers Greeley to Grant. —The LaGrango liepetrter, which has been hesitating for a long time, at length candidly admits that there is a difference between Greeley and Grant, in the fol lowing paragraph: We prefer Mr. Greeley’s success to that of Grant’s upon the score alone that the former is the representative of a bet ter political element than the latter. Mr. Greeley represents the forces that are more friendly to tho South, while Grant is the representative of the forces of bitterness and strife. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18, IS7'2. si’EErn op noN. b. gratz BROWN. Reconciliation of the Races at the South. At an immense mass meeting of Demo crats and Liberals at Springfield, Hli nois, on the 4th, Hon. B. Gratz Brown delivered an elaborate and impressive speech, in which, after reviewing tho reckless sacrifice, by Grant’s adminis tration, of somo of the gravest interests of the nation, through partisan legisla tion of Congress, oppressing the South and subverting Constitutional Govern ment for personal rule, ho says : The second great problem about which the people of the United States have been most concerned, because wisely foreseeing that its achievement was tho sole guarantee of any abiding peace hereafter, lias been tho reconciliation of the races at the South and tho establish ment of such civil order there as would insure that result. Again, and in this respect has tho Administration proved a success? The nine Southern States whose re construction, as it is called, lias been undertaken by tlio Administration, con tain, according to tlio census of 1870, a population thus enumerated: Whites. Colored. Alabama 521,384 475,510 Arkansas 362,114 122,169 Florida 97,057 91,699 Georgia 638,926 545,142 Louisiana 362,065 364,201 Mississippi 382,896 144,201 North Corolina. . . 678,470 391,650 South Carolina... 289,657 415,814 Texas 564,700 2511,475 Total 3,877,280 3,103,860 It will tiins bo scon that there is hero domiciled in a contiguous territory a population consistingof 3,877,280 whites and 3,100,860 colored persons. The two races are animated by feelings easily excited into hostility, and have memories of pride and servitude that slumber uneasily in their minds. If once iu llamod into animosity it may, for these reasons, ho many years before liatred can he obliterated. Without doubt tho most terrible and enduring of all tho contests tlio world has known have been those generated by the rivalry of dis tinct races involved in a war for mastery, and bequeathing the resentments of one age to rekindle tho struggle in another. Desolated empires, destroyed civiliza tions, re-established slaveries have chronicled tho result of such strifo in Eastern lauds, whilst many of tlio fairest provinces of Europe have been kept in a stato of chronic internal hostility by the same eauso. Moor and Spaniard in their deadly fond reddened tho waters of Granada from the sea to the Guadal quivir. Hungary was torn by conflict of Magyar and Sclavonic populations, hypeasaut wars and fomented jealousies, until it lapsed hopelessly under Austrian dominion. Poland owes half its mis eries and all its subjugation to a fateful rivalry of races. It fact, only the sever est forms of despotic authority have been able to maintain tho semblance of order wherever such animosity lias onoo been fully antagonized. That feature, however, which if more sharply defined than all else in tho deal ing of tho President and his party with the colored race at tho South, is the rigid . isolation they have been induced to maintain. To that end overy legal and ■ political applianco has been directed. To that end special laws have hoen in voked from a partisan Congress, such as that of July ID, 1867, and March 11, 1868. Tho hitter was supplemented by the Ku-Klux act of April 20, 1871, anil still further enactment in tho same behalf was demanded at the session of 1872. To that end tho operation of tho Froodmen’s Bureau was prostituted, the military in tervention chiefly directed, tho officers of tho army converted into political agents, aud tho sorvico made a stepping stone to the gubernatorial chair or tho United States Senate. T<) that end, evon crime wont unpunished ; the peni tentiaries were transformed into partisan schools, and in ono instanco 205 convicts pardoned on tho ovo of election—l9o wore negroes. To that end the control of tho Southern Statos was organized upon an almost exclusive colored voto, and has been hold fixedly by the same tenure ovor since. Tho doctriuo incul cated there has over hoen, as it still is, an imagined necessity, to combine as a race and seize on all power for protect ing liberties which they are taught to bolievo threatened. In tho States them selves, when ascondency had been thus ac-hiovod, tho local legislation was promptly engineered in the samo clian nol. Tlio election laws, the registration laws, tho militia laws, tho tax laws are all illustrations of the same point. The banding together of the colored popula tion in secret loyal leagues formed tho ground-workjfor ii system of intimidation and cajolery which brought tho whole of it into subjection to ono sinister in fluence. It was a direct uppeal for caste rule. With an unchecked control in all those States, with every possibility for securing support from tho entire com munity, it is an indefensible as it is sig nificant that the Administration effort should have been only in the direction where ignorance so much prevailed, and where had passions were so easily ex- cited. This alone would convict it of a design to rely upon an easy wrought alienation, rather than any moral force. It was tho hazardous inc.ontivo to a war of races, for tho sake of political gain. To band them solidly in the struggle for control was to ignoro tho wholo goniurf of Republican government, 'and invito a collision sure to develop into violence. This, of course, involved the arming of tho race, as well as its consolidation into a political unit, and the facts followed swiftly upon tho inference. The garri soning by. such armed partisans of the States of Arkansas and Louisiana, the declaration aud enforcement of martial law by Governor Holden, of North Carolina, through a colored soldiery ; tho clandestine enlistment of fourteen negro regiments and illegal purchase of arms for them by Governor Boott, of South Carolina, pending his ro-oloctiou, the repeated rejection of white enroll ments when voluntarily tendered, and in one instance tho disarming of white cadets to turn thoir guns over to a com pany of blacks, aro conclusive evidences not only of tho purpose had in viow, but equally so of the shape such antagonism must necessarily ossuipe at last. On this point tho Congressional report says: “ To-day in South Garolina, Texas and Arkansas (and in 1868 it was so in Ten nessee ana elsewhere), the emancipated slave regiments parade in State uni forms, armed oap-a-pio with the most approved weapons, paid for by taxation, while tho white men aro denied tho right to bear arms or to organize even as militia for the protection of their homes, thoir property or tho persons of their wives gnd children.” When held responsible for having condncted the colored race at the South to tho edge of such emergency os now confronts it, tho response xonehsafed by the Administration is that in all it has done it bns but refiootod the will of the North. If this lie true, and whether true or false, does it not impose a double duty on Northern men, to correct snoh allministration and dismiss from power a party which has so imperiled the situa tion. U knowing he> if tig rant hip» Ijpen tho overture to the bad passions of a race not inured to self-control, they may doubt itfi power to extricate itself from the toils thrown around ft, 'does not hu manity demand that they should toko lii Laud tfreipselyos the rescue ? If by silence or apathy they have spemod to yield acquiescence to those courses,, is there not greater reason now for sound ing an alarm that shall awaken the whole country ? If by permitting a great political organization to be diverted to such base nses, they have really endan gered what that was designed to save, does not true courage cull for a sever ance? A distinguished colored orator has passionately exclaimed that for his race the Republican party was the dock —all el»e the sea. But when the ship is headed, upon the breakers and tho life boat puts off, woukl any but a madman refuse its safety ? Liberalism is that life.boat. It has cut adrift from tho des perate venture on which Republicanism has been driven, and offers certain means of resene. Behold the deliveranoe it has already effected, and trust con fidingly to its further promise. Con sider likewise its noble platform, and yon will there detect nothing that does not bfoathe a true spirit of reconcilia tion, nothing that does not carefully guard tho settlements of the past, noth ing that does not give assurance of a pure government, exercising its func tions striotly within the limits of the Constitution. And if, after careful scrutiny, you shall deem it well to com mit the' Chief Magistracy of this nation to that honest, patriotic . statesman pre sented for your suffrage by tho Liberal and Democratic parties, I feel every confidcneo that at tlio dose of his Ad ministration you will find no lingering animosity of race or section to mar the harmony of a restored Union. Letter from Greene. Greenesboro, Sept. 9, 1872. Editors Chronicle <fr Sen!in#; The beginning of Fall is the beginning of that activity and intwcommumea tion and interchange wliidfr makes'com merce. The farmer’s labors rs the year are .developing into results, and, as garnered; pass into tho hands of the merchant, quickening into life and ac tivity overy avenue of trade. As you have had as fair an ostimafe as your cor respondent could make of the agricul tural prospects of the river couuties on tho north of Augusta, Iproposo now, hav ing recently traversed the area, to give your readers a summary of the observa tions wlqch your correspondent has made during Vi recent trip in cdunties lying west and tributary to the Georgia Rail road—say Warren, Hancook, Putnam, Greene, and portions of Morgan and Oglethorpe—as to tho CROP PROSPECTS OF THIS AREA. Tlio corn crop, safe boyond peradven ture, is wonderfully save a little very late corn, and a very small area in Green# and Morgan, which suffered early in the season from drouth. The area plauted is greater than last year, oxcept in Hancock amlFutnam, in which counties, so far as 1 have been able to discover, the proportion of two-thirds cotton, ono-tliird oorn sooms to obtain as a fixed rule ; but, taking the wholo area, tlie corn crop is the finest seen in many years, and although not equally distributed, I feol safe in saying the Westorn com crib will not be called upon to furnish heavy supplies for the coming yoar. The pea crop is abundant boyond ability to harvest; and hay, daily growing in importance, is being saved to an extent which outstrips any former year. Summing up—an avorago of my observations.—l find tho area iu cotton to he about twonty per cent, in crease over last yoar. Tho weed, almost without exception, is all that could bo desired, but tho promise of yield is by no means iu proportion to tlio promiso which the luxuriance of tho weed gives. Such farmors as were so fortunate as to ho able to plant early have magnificent crops, hut the proportion of thorn is small—l should say, lfot’covoriug more than oue-eighth of the wholo area iu cotton. The hulk of the growing crop, say tliree-fourtlis, is about twenty-one days later than usual, and has suf fered soveroly by tho rapid alterna tioriß_ of excessively hot suns and copious rains, which linvo caused it to drop forms and blooms so that tho bolls remaining are altogether dispro portionate to the promiso of tho mag nifienco of tho plant. Tho very late cotton is perfectly magnificont, but wlmt its value may he doponds almost wholly upon tlio time at which Jack Frost may put in liis appearance. Sagacious farmors aro beginning to question whether their advance in tho culture has progressed any farther than a more perfect development of tho plant stalk—not increasing proportionately tho yield. Upon an average, your corres pondent can not find among the farmers thomsolvos any estimato of a orop ex ceeding that of last year. Tlio intorost in FAIRS AND ASSOCIATIONS Therefore, does not abate, hut seems to have received anew impulso, probably stimulated by the exertions of tlio State Agricultural Socioty, through tho worthy Secretary, tlio Hon. Samuel Barnott, of Wilkes. At least, such is your corres pondent's conclusion, especially re-in forced by tlio spirited exertions in “old Greene, which lmvo called into oxis tonco two very creditable rival associa tions. Reaching hero to-day ov«r land —not over rail—your correspondent found this ancient village of revolutionary renown all aetivo. At early dawn the roads were alive with vehicles of all sorts and sizes and descriptions. The inevitable buggy, which eitlior by taste or through eoonomy seems to have be come tlio most popular in tho wholo catalogue of inventions for rural inter communication, predominated largely, and in equal favor, both with plain and colored. In fact, a Concord or O. Spring,' resting npon patent axles, seems essential to agriculture and is just the thing for courting, and our plain fellow citizens endorse the innovation. A planter in an adjoining county, whose crop prospects are brilliant and crop shares consequently at a premium, tells me that ho lias purchased twenty-one buggies in Augusa this Fall to supply tho wants of his colored plantation tenants. It was with profound regret that your correspondent remarked the absence from the road of those splendid saddle horses and fine riders for which this part of Middlo Georgia was once so famous ; and I saw ljut one equestrienne, and sho a Northern emigre. Everywhere Yan koo buggies, with groat ugly Union um brellas, filled tli* roadway. It was my good fortune, for a part of tho way, to accompany a fine old Georgia gentle men, who had numbered eighty Sum mers—halo, hearty and vigorous, of tho olden time and of the olden kind—whom neither modern taste nor modern econo my, which ever it may he, could seduce or force to an exchange of the bridle-rein for the ribbons,but booted aud spurred, and mounted on a spirited animal,which seemed to share tho spirit of tho vulnera ble rider, and whenever impertinent rat tling wheels would attempt to throw rod dirt in his eyes or . upon his venerablo looks, would respond instantly and sym pathetically to a gentle pressure upon the flank anil tako the road in a hard gallop. But pardon this digression. llevenons a monton. Tlie occasion of all this stir and bustlo was a publio gathering to inaugurate tlio new Fair Grounds, at Greenesboro, and to select candidates for tho Legislature, after a discussion of our “political situ ation” and a free barbocuo. It seems that tjtero tqrp, as before sta ted, two agricultural associations m this county, aud that they aro rivals. The Connty Association, whereof Dr. T. P. James is President, recently docidod to romove from the oonuty seat to Union Point and tliero establish Fair Grounds. This was pronounced rank treason and excited indignant and ouergetic action, and is supposed to foreshadow an at tempt to remove the timo-honorod court house, or a curtailment of the venera ble proportions of old Groeno in tho erection of a now county—Restored Union oonnty, with Union Point for its capital. l)f oourso, |:o no such saoriloge could tliero he submission, Ui Union Point had projected a Fair Ground and incorporated it with a froe barbecue, Greonesboro was not to bo sliovod aside as effete in modem pro gress ; and straight way three thousand dollars was subscribe*! and ai) mo,nota tion fawned, plftofng # its head Gap,t. J. R. Saunders, an energetic and excel lent citizen, who won worthily, on many a hard fought battlo field, the modest military title which attaches to his name l as a Confederate soldier. This rivalry in agriculture gavo increment to the excitement, and brought together a larger country gathering than your cor respondent has noticed sinoo the war. The ceremonfes of the day were enliven edjthrougliout by stirring airs from Mor gan’s Greenosboro Brass Band -Hett, of your city, meestro —some of which, I need not say which, evoked a sympa thetic response from the audience ; but I cannot help noticing tut an incident that through out “Dixie” an ebony damsel, standing in the circumference of a group, in a subdued, modest manner, but all unconscious of observation, marked each measure, first, upon the heeltap then npon the toe, with fresh enjoyment. The. opening address on the part of tlio Fair Association was made by Dr. Harris, which gracefully and cordially extended welcome to the oitizens of the county, and the invited guests to this reunion ; subsequently in froducing General Wright, of ‘ the Chronicle and Sentinel, and Colonel Mathews, of Oglethorpe, oompetitors for the honor of the Democratic nomi nation from the Eighth District of Geor gia—General Dußose, a third candidate, detained by sioknoss, and General Gor don, called unexpectedly from the State, having been invited and expected, ■writing letters of apology. The efforts of both of these able and' distinguished gentlemen were admirably both in tone and matter, happily, and I am assured successfully, directed to healing a dis- sension in tho Democratic ranks in this county, which promised to make it an easy prey to Radical combinations. THE POLITICAL SITUATION Os this county has hitherto been “a muddle.” There were Radicals, and ‘ ‘Straight-Outs” and Liberals and ‘ ‘Stay- AwaySj” and “ Straight-out Greeley Democrats,” and “Grant men.” I .heard of hut" two “uncompromising Grant mon ” in the oonuty, and of ahont fifty “Independents.” Major McWhor ter, late Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives in the Stato Legislature, has boldly avowed his adhesion to Greo ley and Brown, and tho Radicals and “ uncompromising Grant men” are with out s head to organize their efforts. Again, tho colored oitizens aro seriously divided upon local questions—upon the “dog law," tho “fence law,” and the “road law.” Taxing coon dogs, and building high fences, and working the public roads, seriously divide and dis sever their party affiliations, according to tlio importance of the question in different localities. I hear of nine dif ferent colored candidates for the Heat made vacant by tho emigration of tho late “Hon.” Abe Oolby to the Gate City. To compose the differences among the Democrats is therefore of the highest importance. This oonld only bo effected by compromise. It is now agreed that there shall be equal representation in county matters and in all elections, save tho Presidential, in which neither party is bound—hut left free to cast their ballots according to oonviotion of duty or policy. In accordance with this compromise, Ook Lewis Willis and Judge W. W. Moore have hoen nominated as candi dates for tho Legislature, and A. S. Jernigan, O. P. Daniel, V. D. Gresham and Jas. S. Davison, seleoted as dele gates to the Congressional Convention. I cannot close without a well deserved tribute to tho capital Brass Band which Greenesboro boasts. Recently I have had tho pleasure of enjoying somo ex cellent musio from similar bands at Warrcnton and Eatonton, whoso repu tations are well established. But I must ho candid enough to say that Morgan’s Brass Band of Greenesboro is not far behind, if at all inferior, to those excel lent companies. The Superior Court opens this mpru ing, and I may give you anotlior letter before leaving this point. Ramblbu. Democratic Mooting in Jefferson. In pursuanoo of a oall of tho Executive Committoo of the Democratic party of Jefferson county, a Convention, com posed of delogatos from the respective districts, assembled at tho Court House in Louisvillo, on Saturday, tho 7th day of September, for the purposo of select ing delegates to tlio Congressional and Senatorial Conventions, to assemhlo in Augusta, ou tlio 12th inst., aud for other purposes. Tho Convention proceeded by ballot to soloot two candidates to represent the oounty in tho next Logiflature, which resulted in tho nomination of Mr. Mar cus A. Evans and Col. James Stapleton. The following delogatos wore thou se lected: To tho Congressional Conven tion—W. J. Arrington, L. D. Matthews, W. A. Cunningham and J. 11. Wilkins. To tho Senatorial Convention: W. F. Donny, J. H. Polhill, W. A. Stokos and M. A. Evans, delegates to choose their own alternates. Dr. H. L. Battlo thon introduced the following resolutions, wliioli wore road and adopted: Whereas, Sinoe tho organization of the present Senatorial District system, Richmond county has enjoyed tho con tinuous representation of tho 18th Senatorial Distriot in tho Senate of Georgia; and, whereas, in tho othor Senatorial Districts tho counties com posing tho. rospoctivo districts, in a commendable spirit of fairnoss and jus tice, have shared this honor equally with oaoh othor ; therefore, j ßesolved, That the county of Jeffer son is justly entitled to the representa tion of tho 18th Senatorial District for the noxt term in the Stato Senate ; and wo, tho pooplo of Jefferson, in Oounty Convention assembled, respoctfnlly pre sold to tlio Senatorial Oovnontion, to assemhlo at Augusta, on the 12th inst., tho namo of Col. James G. Cain as our candidate for. State Senator—a gon tleman of high character, sterling in tegrity and fine attainments. Wo know that should he ho nominated and elect ed to that position, tho interest of our entire district will be zealously guarded and ably represented. llcsoivcd, That it is with much satis faction that we have heard that the name of Gen. A. R. Wright, of Rich mond county, will be presented to the Augusta Congressional Convention as a candidate for nomination to represoirt the Bth Distriot in the next Congress. His fine talents arid distinguished pub lio services eminently entitle him to tho position at tho hands of tho people of the district, and wo hereby earnestly recommend our delegates to support his nomination in the Convention, and, if nominated, we pledge ourselves to con tribute all in our power to his election. Ordered that tho proceedings of the meeting bo published in the News and Farmer and the Augusta papers. M. A. Evans, Chairman. D. J. Alexander, Secretary. The Burke Democracy.—A mooting of tlio Bnrko Democracy was hold in Waynesboro, on Saturday, for the pur pose of sending delegates to the First District- Congressional Convention. Judge Joseph B. Jones being call to the Chair, and Dr. Lewis H. Ford chosen as Secretary, the meeting proceeded to business, A motion of Hon, Jqhn J. Janos, to aoloot delegates by ballot, was unani mously oarried, with the following re sult : Hon. J. J. Jones, 113; Major W. D. Ashton, 104 ; Captain James Barrett, 10(3 I Judgo W. J. Wimberly, 107 ; Col. M. P. Green, 108; Captain H, Ivey Heath, 111. Colonel B. M. Blocker thon offorod the following resolution, which was unanimously oarried: Resolved, That tlio present Executive Committee of the Detqqoratia party, as organized, bo reappointed, and that they oxercisQ their functions ac cording tq the usages of the party dur ing tlio prosout campaign, and until the exigencies of a future campaign require the appointment of another. Tho Buffalo Advertiser has sorgo time ly remarks upon the necessity, daily be- Qonvtng more manifest, of protecting the rapidly disappearing timber of tho Mid dle States. All over tho country our extensive forests pro being recklessly out dowp. At present, the wood lands of the wl\o,le country comprise about one hurntrcil ami fifty-eight million throe hundred and ton thousand aeros. Tho Southern States aro remarkably well woodod, tho twelve States from Mary land to Tennessee averaging 52 per cpqt. The New England States have 38 per «»nt. of their farm areas in forests, tho Middlo States 28 per cent., and the Cen tral States, from Wost Virginia to Ne braska, averaging 32per cent., Wost Vir ginia lias 51 per cent., Kentucky 48, Ohio 31, Indiana 39, Illinois 19, lowa 16, Kansas 11, Nebraska 10, California 4. The Territories are not rich in forests, exoept Washington, which has 44 per cent, of its farm area in wood land. John Van Buren’s Coop Impudence.— A writer in the Galaxy says that at a fashionable party in Albany, the late John Van Boren ooally out one of the most elegant, aristocratic, and accom plished ladies present. She directly took him to task. “John Van Buren, your arrogance and insolence are intol erable. I will not submit to it. .Where you got vour manners I cannot conceive. Your father is a perfect gentleman—al ways polite and attentive to ladies. Our families have always been iatimate, as you know; and the way you treat me is rude and insulting. How can you expect to attach the popularity and distinction of your father, if you persist in this boorish demeanor?” “Madam,” said John, with the gravity of a Turk, “the highest honor that Martin Van Buren is ever to enjoy will be to have been the father of your obedient servant, John Van Buren.” Origin of “ Doa Days.”— How many persons during tho roecut hot weather have nsed the phrase “The dog star rages,” and how few know why they used it, and how Birins came to ho asso ciated with our midsummer, and to ro ceivo its canine appellation. A writer iu Cassell’s Magazine gives the expla nation. To discover tho historical dawn of tho dog days, we must go hack somo three thousand yoars. At that time the rise of the Nile was a puzzle to the peo ple of Egypt. At length, a few days be fore the river began to increase, a bright star was * observed to rise above the horizon, just in advance of tho sun. It soon came to be anxiously looked for as a sign of coming peril to the people in tho lowlands, who, on its appearance, nt onoe forsook their habitations and mi grated to higher ground to escape the rapid rise of the river. And because the star, like a faithful tvatoh-dog, warned of tho approach of an enemy, they gave it tho name of Haaut or Taynut, which in their language sig nified dog. As moreover there was a manifestly apparent relation between tho morning star and swelling river, the former received a socond title, to-wit : Bibor, which we know from Joshua and Jeremiah was ono of tho several names of tho Nile, and from this word our name for tlio star Sirius has boon ob tained. From tho breaking out of the fovOrs at this time, a baneful influence was ascribed to this star, and sacrifices —peculiar from the faot that tho victim was required to boa red-lieadod person —wore offered to it. Greooo took up the suporstitution, aud thon Romo, and the lattor was accustomed to offer up a brown dog, yearly, upon the altar to Sirius. Honco, tho dies oanicularcs of classic times and ouf dog days. Carbolic Acid for Scarlet Fever and Small Pox. —ln a recent number of the .Lancet, Dr. Alexander Watson rooordod several oases of small pox and scarlet fever in which the external application of carbolio aoid mot with marked suocoss. In tho caso of ono patient with small pox, whom ho saw at tho period when paupuhe appeared, ho ordered an enema, and then had the patient—a girl of olovon yoars—spongod all over with carbolio aoid soap-suds. On tlio next day a sovore attack of con fluent small pox was threatened, hut tho child was sponged as sho had pre viously been, and thon her whole body was painted with tho carbolio acid glyoorino of tho British Pharmacopieia. Fivo grains of Dover’s powdor were then given to allay irritability, and tho littlo girl slept quietly for sovoral hours, when sho was sponged again. No vesicles formed, and tho patient was oonvalesoont in a few days. Carbolio acid was, iu tho meantime, plentifully used about tho room. Alleokd Exhaustion of Peruvian Guano. —Asa considerable quantity of this fertilizer is handled bore during tho season, wo publish tho following, wliioli was translated for the New York Daily Bulletin from tho Hamburg Hor st, nit alio : Hamburg, August 14, 1872. The Guano Supply. —There has boon such a virulent dispute between, the Lon don loading linanoial papers and tho Peruvian proBS, that a recapitulation of Mr. T. F. W. Hohageq’s report, engineer and member of tho Peruvian Commis sion of Coast Survoys, may not bo out of plaeo hero, and liis figures have not, ns yot, been disproved from any quar ter: STOCK OF GUANO END OF 1872. 1. At the Ckinohas 1,000,00(1 2. ISolwoou Guanapo and Oliinolia.' . 1,600,000 !). lkith (iuanapeu 7,000,000 1. Maeabi 7,500,000 5. Lolioh 14,000,000 G. Small inlands South of (Jliiiiolias. 4,000,1)07 Total 34,960,897 Lees 25 por cent, loos in loading... ... 8,740,000 20 220 208 Commmption ond of 18G8 to July, ’72. 2,000,000 Prottont remaining Hupply 24,220,208 Lunatic Asylum in Distress.— Tho Lnnatic Asylum of South Carolina hav ing failed to receive a singlo dollar of tho appropriation for its support, has for some months boon kept going through the personal oxortions of Dr. Elisor, tho Superintendent, and tho assistance ren dered him by private individuals. As appears from a oouplo of letters written on tho 4th and sth by tho Superintend ent, tho inmates of tho institution were in danger of suffering, for something to eat, having but one day’s supplies. In this extremity, Mr. E. Hope, a merchant of Columbia, in response to tho appoal of tho Superintendent, consented to supply tho Asylum with pepcaauTy pro visions for one mqnth, J)r. Eusor fur ther prepoaos to visit Charleston and make an appeal to tho hanks of that oity to furnish him with sufficient fuuds to keep tho poor inmates of the Asylum from starvation until the Fall oome in, and the Legislature makes anotlior apprupriatipn, Found WhatHhe Was Not Expecting. —lt is by no means an unusual task which approliensivo young ladies impose upon tbemsolvos, prior to seeking “tired nature’s swoot restorer,” to hiok for “the man under tho hod "—not that they have any particular jdoq, however, that tho object of their soarch will bo disoovorod. A young lady in Atlanta, howovor, found wliat sbo least oxpoctod' Sho had un dressed herself, preparatory to going to bed, but,sat. ami commenced road iug. HUo felt an uudoflnablo terror, as if someone was in tho room. Hhu looked all around tho room, but could discovor nothing. Bho resumod roading, but tho feeling took strongor bold of her, and sbo summoned oourago to look under tlm bod, when, lo and behold 1 there lay a big, black buck negro. Hko gave the alarm, but tlio rasoal escaped. Where N hvbr Known Before. —Cater pillars havo mado tlwjir appoaranoo in Northern Georgia and Alabama at planes where they woro never known Ixiforo. The bottom lands, which suffered so much last year from excessive rain, will not, it is thought, yield moro this year than tlioy did then ; while the uplands, which did comparatively well last year, have been greatly injured this by lust. Tim North Caroms* Heiumng Fish eries.—Tho fishing season has com menced in earnest at Beaufort (N. G.) harbor. On Saturday, 31st ult., the first full run of mullots occurred, and about 500 barrels were hauled in at the various fisheries. At tho Pnrkin’s Is land fishery over two hundred barrels were captured by tho soinemon. Escaped Convicts—One Shot Dead. —At an early hour Saturday morning two colored oonviots, Jackson Brooks and. William Smalls, piokod the look of their coll in the South Carolina Peniten tiary and attempted to escape. They were fired upon by tho guard, Smalls being shot through tho body, and died •immediately. Brooks succeeded in es caping. How. to Cuban Brack Dresses.— Ladies who are renovating tho black dresses of last season, whether of silk, cashmere, or alpaca, are advised that they can clean them beautifully with borax and tepid water. The proportions are a teaspoonful of borax to a quart of water. Apply with a black woollen rag or a nail-brush, NEW SERIES —VOL. XXV—NO. 38. Proobss and Business of the Port KoVal Railroad. —From the Beaufort Republican, of the sth, we learn that the ohstaolMto a satisfactory tiiuc-tablo on the Pcrcltoyal Railroad aro fast falling away before the persistent courage aud effort of tho Superintendent. The road has now, wo arc happy to atari', received tlireo new locomotives, making six in all, which tho Superinten dent hopt's will ho able to do the local business until the first of October, when he will have another supply of new 1 locomotives and when ho hopes to have the traek nearly, if not quite, to tlio Savannah river. The bridge is expected to ho completed by October 15th, and will he, if unforeseen accidents, such as freshets, do not prevent. Tlio delays on tho road have not occurred because there was not a disposition to please, but becauso the lumber and local busi ness had increased so fust that tho mo tive power then on the road could not move it all as fast as was desired. The now ongiuos will relieve tho Superinten dent by. enabling him to meet tlie grow ing wants of tho people. It. must ho gratifying to those who lire furnishing tho funds to build the road that tho receipts from local busi ness on the road are twenty-five per oent. in excess of the expenses, not count ing tho expense of transporting from 250 to 400 tons of construction freight daily. Daily sorvico was extended 18 miles further up tho country to Allon dalo last Monday week, making the total distance now opened to travel and trade sixty miles. Tho whole of this part of tho road lias been ballasted and put in first-class Order, and the heavy 56 pound fish plate iron used makes it ono of tho best in this part of tho oountry. Tho now haggago and mail cars and passenger coach which arrived last week speak of the accom modation which tho company propose to give tho pnlilio. Tho cars now used for first-olass cars, mid which are bet tor and finer i most first-class cars in tlie South, will ho usod as socond olass ears in October, when tho now and elegant first-class coaches now be ing built by Jackson Sharp & Cos., of Wilmington, aro to ho ready. It is evident that tho Port Royal Railroad is to ho made a first-class road. And if tho local business increases iq tho future as it has for tho distance now built, tho Superintendent says it will alone pay tlio interest on all of the bonded debt. There are fivo depots going up, which will ho finished about September 10th, at Allondalo, Oampbolton and Viu'ns villo. The Cigar Makers’ Convention.— Eight years ago a few journeymen cigar makers in Baltimore, Maryland, handed together for mutual protection, 00-ojiora tion of interests, and onli an cement of tho emoluments of tho avocation. • Sinco then, by constant arid steady growth, there are now ono hundred and twenty loonl unions, numbering in the aggregate thirty thousand members in tho United States and Canada. Those unions have constituted them selves into an International Union, oaoli sooioty having ono or more representa tives, according to their membership, in the conventions of the union. On Wednesday last tho eighth con vention of the International Union as sembled at St. Louis; University of Georgia.—Tho next sossion of tho University of Georgia, embracing the Academic, Stato College, and Law Departments, will bogin on Monday, the 16th September. Each student should report, if possi ble, on the first day of tho session. * Tho examination for admission iu tho State College of Agriculture and Me chanic Arts will occur early in tho ses sion. - Board, in oaoh of the College Dormi tories—tho student furnishing liis own room—will bo sl2 50 por month ; pay able throe months in advanoe. Protection for Beer Purchasers. -Tt has transpired that tlio Government lias instituted an inquiry upon a report that curiously constructed boor casks oohtain ed more fluid than they gauged. Gov ernment detectives report that the reverse is generally practiced, and that while tlio Government receives oxcossivo tax tho purchaser is swindled by false measures. The result of tlio regula- under this order from tlio Treas ury, will ho that beer and ale \vill bo measured, anil the Government sod con sumer will ho equally protected. A Mother Kidnaih Her Child.—A Now York dispatch of Saturday statos that it is now ascertained that the parties who carried off tho child of General Viclle, from the shores of Lake Maliopac, were agents of Mrs. Viclle, mother o,f the child, who returned from Europe for that purpose. Mrs. Violle acoompaniod tlie kidnapping party to the residence of Goneral Viello, and sc ouring her child, refused to give it up oxcept with lior life. Sl\o and her daughter loft for Euriqxe on Saturday.* dComR-Alonoh.’'-—ln some of tho WostOVh cities tho police aro providing themselves with littlo stool chains,, about a foot long, provided with a bar at each end, which are known as “ como alongs,” awf a** to be used in place of handcuffs. The chain can be slipped ovor a man’s wrists, With burs caught up, and a twist made in loss time tfian tlm handcuffs can bo pulled out. Huoh a thing as pulling the band out is an impossibility. lUh.road Bum Vetoed. —Gov. Bmith has vetoed the bill passed by tlm Gene ral Assembly granting a charter to tlio Griffin, Flat Uhoats and Columbus Bail road Company, on tlm ground that the olailHC gives tlio corporation tho same rights and privileges as the Central Bail road Company. The Governor argues that this confers upon them banking powor, a right that was not intended should be given them. Wo learn that lately John Henry Touh>, of Rook Ilill, in York county, commenced an action against Maj. Lewis Merrill, commandant of tho United States forces at Yorkville, laying liis damages at $5,000, for false imprison ment. Toole is tho colored barber at Rook Hill, and, as ho ollegos, was oap tnrod lost Fall by a party of Morrill’s dragoons, and by that officor held in tho jail for forty-two days, ho being ontiroly innooont of any infraction of tlie law. Tlio suit is brought by 8. P. Hamilton, Esq., as tho attorney for the plaintiff. It is intended that tho suit shall be pressed with all possible vigor, anil to test tho question whetlior an innocent man may be incarcerated and havo no redress from the law. The wse not im possibly may find its way to the Supremo Court of the United States.— Chester (A. O.) Reporter. Tho Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company during the past month, in tho nerson of its President, made a negotia tion in Europe of £500,000 i* thirty year six per cent, mortgage bonds at eighty-eight cents m gold, which will net the company hero about ninety-six currency, after deducting commission and all other expenses. Bonds of this company bearing seven per cent, inter est were negotiated rn London abont one year ago, which are now selling upon the London Exchange above par. Few railroad companies in the West havo succeeded in making a better credit for their securities in tlic money marked of Eufopo or this country than has been done for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company by its present man agement,—Courier-Journal. Distressing Accident in Savannah. —Tho Savannah Mirror, of Tuesday, says: “Mr. Higiry Moore, a young man, and a tinner by trade, in company with other workmen in tho employ of Mr. Oormack Hopkins, was engaged in tin ning the roof of a now two-story brick building on the corner of South Broad and Jefferson streets, tho property of Mr. Jacob Quint. About a quarter past twelve o’clock a slight shower of rain fell, and Mr. Moore and the other work men prepared to descend to tfur'inner part of. the building to seek shelter. Ouo of the men had reached the ground safelyj when Mr. Moore started to de scend, but his foot slippiiyjjio was pre cipitated headlong to thepavement be low, breaking his nock and bruising his limbs badly by the fall. Before he could bo picked up by his fellow-work men and friends he was a corpse. His body was then placed in a wagon and conveyed to tho residence of Mr. A. 11. Sadler, where his. sorrowing wife and many friends wero surprised at the sud den aiul unexpected death of him who who but a few hours previous had left them in perfect health.” The Wine Crop of France.—The quantity of wine produced in France this season will bo less than usual, but tho quality will be exceptionally good. Tho long dry season has been favorable to tho ripening of the grape. The vines havo suffered, however, in somo places from tho extreme cold of last winter. The thermometer descended in many of the provinces below zero. Tho de struction was great in the Bordelais, in tho Departments of Euro ot Loire and in Dordogne. In. the Departments of Gard aud Vaucluso, of llorault and Var, a now insect, tho phylloxera vastatrix, has appeared among the vines, and in the Departments of Ard, Arigo and Hauto-Garonno inundations have de stroyed many of tho most promising vinoyards. In some of tlieso depart ments tlio amount of wine produced will •bo diminished from tlieso causes ; but, in goueral, tl\o wine harvest will be a fair one, say two-thirds of the usual gathering. As tho quality of tho wino made this year promised to be better than for many yoarß previous, the prices which will be realized in France for the present vintage will probably be high. New Revenue Him um at tons. —A f ter the 30th of September Collectors of In ternal Revenue will Iwi held responsible for the collection of penalties, and Su pervisors will bo instructed to frequent ly examine tho lists, with tho view of enforcing tlio collection. Tho practice has boon for Collectors to uso their dis cretion ; but they are informed that in all instances tho duty is obligatory and must be rigidly enforced. The First Comptroller has decided that powers of attorney and other evi dences of authority to collect interest, or to enclose drafts or checks executed on and after tho Ist of October, need not bo stamped. Gaugers are to be instructed to brand beer kegs with the denomination of the stamp required in place of their capaci ty. The Internal Rovonuoßureau holds that for all practical purposes a keg colf taining less than tho protended capacity must bo stampod tho same as if it was a full packuge. Explosive Cioars.— Tho Fall Mall Gazette says that explosive cigars are getting dangerously ooiqmoit iii Paris. Not only are tlioso cigars capable of severely wounding those who smoko thorn, but they often lead to incon venient and doplorablo results. Not long ago a gentleman happening to have •some in his pocket, and believing them to bo ordinary cigars* offered one to his uncle, whoso property ho expected to inherit, and who wore a set of artificial teeth. His horror may bo imagined when ho saw what appearod to be tho entire jaw of his respected relative briskly expelled from his month, and fasten on to tho foatures of a high official personage, who was heard to shriek out indignantly, “Monsiotir, you have bitten mo.” Another Shooting Affray ,n Ciiar r.KßToN. —Iu addition to the killing of Perrin by Woolf, another shooting af fair occurred iu Charleston, on Monday night, at a private residence, where a raffle was being lipid. A young man, named Lomuol (or “ Baby”) Cox, under tho influence of liquor, stepped into tlio piazza of tlio liouso about 11 o’clock, when ho was ordered off by some of tho party present. Ho refused to take liis leave, when a young man, named Na poleon Goste, commonly called “ Nap py” Caste, pulled his pistol and fired, tho Will wounding Cox in tlio arm, hut not seriously, as ho was able to walk around on Tuesday. Duer Between Women.— ln the City of Moxico, recently, two women, in love with a sergeant in tho nrlny, and who woro jealous of each other, fought a duel. One was armed with an ordinary daggor, and tlio other with a dagger made from a horn. Tlio duel was fought according to the rules of tlio code, with other women as seconds. Tho woman with tho bono dagger killed her an tagonist. Tho mnrdorcss and tho sec - onds woro arrested. Gin House and Cotton Burned.—At Gadsdon, on tho Bouth Carolina Rail road, last Saturday morning, the gin bouso of Mr, Daniel R. Howell, together with twelve or fifteen bales of cotton, woro burned. Ten bales belonged to Mr. llowoll, and sovcral bales to other parties. Tho fire was caused by friction from tho gin. S WERT’STAKES COTTON IN NEW YORK.— The sweepstakes halo of cotton raised by W. R. McHliaw, of Mississippi, which drow tho prizo of #I,OOO at tho Bt. Louis Fair, was received by a cotton firm at Now York on Wednesday last, and sold at 46 oents per pound. Tho proceeds will bo devoted to tlie Orphan Society of Kansas City. Ratrroad Bonds Attached. One hundred and ninety thousand dollars worth of tho first mortgage bonds of the Georgia North and South ltaiiroad Company, of which W. A. MoDwugal is President, have boon attached in tlio Hupromo Court of New York, at the suit of A. C. Hohaefor, for non-fulfillment of contract. Cotton Prospect on the South Caro rina Sea Islands. —Tho Beaufort Republican, of the sth, says: The prospect of a largo cotton crop is encouraging our merchants. There will bo at least one-tliird more cotton this season than last on tho islands. Tho worm lias done very littlo damage so far and no one anticipates any tiling serious. Tlio price of tho seed cotton opens at 7 (<fy 9 cents. About twenty-five thousand pounds of seed cotton camo in this weok. Bank Suspension.— Tlio People's Bank of Naslivillo suspended on Wednesday morning. Its liabilities aro reported at #900,000. Assets, nearly all ultimately available, amount' to #lll,OOO. Tlio bank lias been placed in tho hands of G. I’. Thurston, as trustee. Rairiioad Meeting.—A mooting will bo held at Dorn’s Minos, on l'riday, tho 20th inst., in behalf of tho Greenwood and Augusta Railroad. Tho meeting will bo addressed by distinguished ora tors.
