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WEDNESDAY .OCTOBER 9
Til K GI'IIKKN ATOBIAL KLEUTION.
This in the first contest in tho State of
Georgia since 1868 for Governor, when
tlio vote stood, uncounted, for Bullock, ;
Radical, 83,527 ; for Gordon, Democrat,
7«,:tr»7 —Bnllock’a declared majority, 7,-
171 wholo voto, 159,883. Walk
er 1 1 im cnnv.tsmil tiio State in behalf of
the party ho represents, ami every exer
tion, even to repudiating the illustrious
fugitive who led the Radicals in 1868,
by Radical candidates anil speakers, him
Ween made. Ah ft rule, we may antici
pate n lienvy vote, tho exceptions being
a number of counties which being ho
overwhelmingly Democratio that no op
position to the Democratic nominees for
the TjOf+inlatnre was offered, amt there
fore it i.H not probable that ft full vote
will be called out. We anticipate a vote |
largely increased over 1868, with which j
ennipiiriHoiis of majorities will be made
a the returns come in.
A I. X IIM OF Til K A D M I NIBTBATION.
A private letter from New York brings
iih the following news touching the
alarm of. the Administration: “ We have
little doubt now of Pennsylvania, none j
of Indiana, and have strong hopes of
Ohio, not withstanding the odds. 1 need
not point out tho influence which a
strong majority in your State (Georgia’s)
election will exert. A good large ma
jority in Georgia will exert great influ
ence in Pennsylvania, f need not tell
you that these State elections get and
react reciprocally with great power. If
wo carry Pennsylvania, of which T have i
..... I
no doubt, as every report, made delib
erately and after careful investigation j
and computation not mere guess work i
assures us that we will carry New York
by 100,000 majority. The Adniinistra- j
l ion is seriously alarmed. JJoutwell has
been abroad on an electioneering tour
for a month ur more, letting the Treasu
ry Department run itself. Robeson is
on the stump, letting the Navy make
headway as best it can. Delano is
stumping; Postmaster General Oress
well is slumping; Attorney General
Williams is on the stump ; and General
Cowan, Assistant Secretary of tho Inte
rior (Delano's Secretary), and General
Ten-ill, Tliweat, Assistant Postmaster
General, and others, nro away from
Washington on the same business. Tn
fact, every available man is on the
stump, and the Government machinery
is run by tho clerks, the wood passers
and coal In-avers. Even Grant himself
in looking after Pennsylvania.”
CAM I’A ION NOTKH.
The negro vote of Indiana, according
to the last enumeration, was a little
over twelve thousand. The Radicals
now claim twenty thousand colored
voters. Kentucky is supposed to have
furnished the difference.
The Chairman of tho Democratic
.State Committee of Wisconsin feels
-confident of carrying that State in No
vember by 6,000, and also of carrying
the State Legislature. It is also claimed
that a large majority of the Germans of
that State will vote for Greeley.
It. is learned from Indiana that Sena
tor Morton, in liis anxiety to carry In
diana, is swapping State candidates for
candidates for the Legislature, it lining
his hope to re-elect himself to the
Senate, ho having little or no hope of
electing the Grant candidate for Gov
ernor.
The clerks of tho Departments at
Washington are to be furnished with
free passes to go to Pennsylvania, In
diana, and Ohio to vote for the Grant
•candidates. Their salaries in the mean
time are to be continued. This is an
other illustration of President Grants
eivil service reform.
A special dispatch from Evansville,
Indiana, to the Louisville Courier-Jon r
niil says prominent Republicans give up
Indiana and Ohio. Henry Wilson ad
mits that they will lose Indiana, and
another Radical, an ex-Senntor, says
that the German vote in Ohio is gone,
and wonders why the Grant men there
• did not buy up Haiwaurok and stop it.
The depression of the Grant loaders
lias been very marked for days past,
and is only equalled by the exultant
• •ontideneo of the Liberals.
TROPIt’AL.
Mr. Frederick Ibissaurek, an influen
tial editor in the West, and still, we be
lieve, c.inuootcd with the leading organ
•of the Germans in Ohio —the ]'olks
has seen cause to repudiate Grant
and advocate Greeley and Brown, Peace
and Reconciliation. This rouses the
ire of Hie Grant organs, who charge
that lTassuurek’s advocacy of Grant
eoidd have been bought for SIO,OO0 —a
price which Mr. Boutwell thought ton
high, considering the stringency of the
money market. At a grand Liberal de
monstration and mass meeting in
t'ineinnati, Mr. llassaurek discussed Mr.
Pick Smith, S. S., editor of the Cincin
nati (lan tte, the Grant organ, before
discussing in German to his German
feUow-eitizeuH, lagging leave to say a
few words in hot English—hissing hot
English—as the German language was
unequal to the occasion:
I want to say, gentlemen, in reply to
tho slanderous attacks of that branded
liar, onward, anil slanderer, I)i«k Smith
elieers], that ho lias made a charge
i nust me which is false in every line, i
i'i ivory syllable, and in every letter.
Oheeraj. 'l have challenged tho vile
liar to prove the e!large, ami the aooun- I
drel has liogleeUsl or refused to do so. ]
l have branded him as a fellow without,
honor, iqto whose face any gentleman
may spit without his resenting it—
[cheers and laughter] —whose face has
|>oeu slapjied time and again, and the
coward dare not resent it. I appeal to
every oue who lias n-ml my speech if it
mi vs not calm ; if it was not arguiuenta
tivo ? There wits not a word of abuse
in it against anybody, neither against
(jell. (iraut or anybody else. I dis
cussed tho questions of this campaign
•is u matter of principle and deplored
tlie personal abuse which had been re
sorted to bv both Kith's. The return for
this was a most miserable slander, which
I repeat is a lie (cheers], and the coward
ly scoundrel l>iek Smith knows it in
his heart. [Cheers]. I want you to
understand that he cannot prove
it for this reason. He challenges me
to bring a libel suit against him. \t liy ?
Because well knows that such a
suit could not bo tried until a month
nfter tho election, while his libel and
idandcr is designed merely for the pur
pose of this election. [Cheers. 1 i call
him a liar and a slanderer, a disrepu
table and dishonorable slanderer, and I
am prepared to provo it, and he can
bring his suit against me if he chooses.
|Cheers.] You all know that 1 hate to
resort to such language, that it is not in
accordance with my nature, aid not in
my temper to use such language, hut 1
say when such charges are made, whim
your honor is assailed, whou such vile
calumnies are preferred against you,
you have no other remedy. You eauuot
handle such an adversary with kid gloves,
you must brand tho villainous liar as bo
deserves to 4o branded. [Cheers.] 1
regret that I am comi>olled to use such
language. I have uyt dgotf it for years.
1 Even during the worst excitements of
j the war I have not been attacked in such
i a villainous, such a cowardly manner as
I have by that Dick Smith, who has got
the mark of a liar and a scoundrel bran
dial in his face and in his very eyes,
with which ho dare not look into the
face of his fellow being. This is the
last time 1 shall take notice of his dis
reputable slanders. [Lend cheers.)
Verily Grant’s organs in the West
don’t go down well with Germans.
WHAT THE GRANT ORGANS HAY
OF GREELEY.
While Greeley is denounced at tho
Boutli as a Centralist, endorsing all of
Grant’s usurpations, tho Grant organs of
the North denounce him as a Secession
ist. Witness the following specimens.
Says the Cincinnati Ga&itUi :
Horace Greeley, if secession should
bo again attempted, says the policy he
would adopt would bn to put tho ques
tion to vote. That is the policy that
Jeff Davis and Alexander 11. Stephens
would urge.
Again :
Horace Greeley says that if to-day
secession was to be threatened, lie would
adopt the same course ho advocated in
1800 01 put the question to vote, and j
trust to the chances of an election, j
That was not the policy that Andrew I
Jack.jpn or Abraham Lincoln cliosg. . j
Anil again :
Words that Horace Grueley Has Not
Denied Uhi.nu. —And now, to-day, if the
nation was to be imperiled, and there
were just txvo modes of saving it, to trust
to the chances of a civil war or to the
chances of a free vote of the Southern
people, I would greatly prefer to take
the latter chance rather than the former.
Harare (lrt<lty, at /‘it/sburg, Sep
tember It).
Surely, if this testimony may bo relied
upon, and it comes from a leading or
gan of that party, with which either di
rectly or indirectly those who reject
Greeley must affiliate, Greeley is just
as much of a Secessionist and as little of j
a Centralist as Jefferson Davis or Alex- !
under H. Stephens, anil recognizes the j
principle that all t he just, powers of gov
ernment are derived from the consent of
the governed, and when that consent is
wanting or is withdrawn, tho [lowers do
not exist or cease.
But read again. We quote tho Clii
oago /‘ant :
After all there does not seem to be
much difference between the Confusion
and the Straight Domooratie cailidates
for the Presidency, in political princi
ple. Mr. Greeley, at Pittsburg, said he
would consent to disunion if the people
of tlio South, after an “ honest, unterri
tieil, unconstrained votp,” demanded it
—which is about as much, wo suppose,
as O’Oonor, or Calhoun himself, oenlil
have naked. It is true, Mr. Greeley has
since attempted to explain that ho used
the words to express what was his opin
ion in 1861, and he added an assertion
of his confident faith that tho idea of
secession was killed by the war—that no
attempt at a disruption of tho Union
will ever again be made. Ho wasted
some sonorous platitudos on this point;
but it is a noticeable fact that ho did not
permit himself to say ho would resort to
force for tho subjugation of now re
bellion, if the South should, after “an
untorrifted and unconstrained vote,”
again assort their right to dissolve tho
nation. In fact, lie hinted a belief that
tlio next revolutionary attempt will not
come from tho South—a hint that clear
ly enough convoys his opinion that such
an attempt will sometime bo made; but
ho omitted to say what ho woidil do with
it, if it should chance to como when it
wonlil bo his duty to deal with it, and
left it to be legitimately inferred that ho
would ilesiro then, as ho did desire
eleven years ago, to let tho wayward
sisters depart in peace. Throwing
aside tho slavery question, then, Mr.
Greeley stands fairly by what he
has said and omitted to sav, on the
platform of tho rebel Democracy. No
Republican, with a desire to main
tain his consistency ur solf-respeot,
can vote for Greeley, any more than he
could vote for O’Oonor. There is but
the question of personal preference bo
tween the men, and that the Democracy
will settle for tli#nsolvos. Tho one, ac
cording to the testimony of his friends
at Louisville, is as tomlor as a black
bottle, and the other, in tho judgment
of a shrewd observin', is “only a bit of
wet brown paper—not a man.” It would
seem to be most natural that thorough
bred Democrats should cherish a fellow
feeling for the black bottlo; but they pay
their money and take their choice. We
only protest that intelligent Republi
cans should not iloceivo themselves with
the absurd supposition that Greeley is
anything else than a Secession Democrat,
or represents anybody but Secession
Democrats. His Pittsburgh speech
ought, to [nit the point beyond cavil or
question.
Here again is tho protest of the lead
ing organ of the Grant Republicans in
the Northwest, protesting against Gree
ley’s being “anything than a Secession
Democrat, or representing any body lmt
Secession Democrats,” and that there is
no difference between tho Liberal
Democracy and the Straight, or as the
/‘ant is pleased to designate, “tho Con
tusion and tho Straight Democratio
candidates for the Presidency in politi
cal principle”—between Horace Greeley
and Charles O’Oonor, or even Calhoun
himself, were ho alive. Thus while Greo
ley is denounced as a Secessionist at
the North, hois condemned as Centralist,
at the South, but both the condemna
tion and the denunciation lead to tho
same result—the re-election of Grant, an
acknowledged Centralist—tho one direct
ly invoking the direct support of
Grant —the other indirectly by with
holding that support to Greeley, which
would bring about the defeat, of Grant,
a Centralist beyond a dispute.
Horace Greeley’s Sunlmry Speech.
Mr. Greeley made the following speech
at Svinbnry, Pa.:
FKT.T.ow-CrrtzKVS —You will not expect
me at this hour to say many words to
you; but I understood you would bo
glad to hear from me, and so I have
come across the river on purpose to say
those few words. First, I esteem it a
great privilege to bo able to stand hero
on the same platform with two of tho
eminent generals of the Union army in
our great struggle for peace and recon
ciliation with which wo are identified. I
ask you to witness that tho soldiers of
our great struggle are among the most
generous of enemies, and tho readiest to
give generous and magnanimous terms
to those they overcome. If tho matter
had been left to the soldiers of the two
armies to settle, I believe this country
would have been pacified and reunited
years ago. I say that those soldiers, the
men who fought each other in that great
struggle, learned, if they did not already
know it, to respect each other. I be
hove that the soldiers of the Union
army, when they had finished their war,
went home with no bitterness in their
heart* toward tho groat mass of those
who struggled against them, and with
respect for their gallantry, their soldier
ship and their comragn. I think that
was true of the great body of those men
who made up tho Union army. It was
rather tho oamp followers, commissaries
aud sutlers who were ready to sec how
much could bo made out of the body
aud bones of tho South after secession
had boon killed. Well, fellow-oitizens,
you testify with me that this great
movement must aud will go forward
(three oheers) —you agree with me that
if great peril should ever overtake our
country, and no nation knows how soou
or from what quarter peril may be en
countered, tli it we should be glad to
have on our side, sustaining our country
and onr dag, the men who fought against
us so desperately in that last struggle.
We should he ’glad to have them; we
should trust them, I venture to say, as
among the boat Union men, after their
s.vl experience—the meu who oonld not
be tempted again to desert the flag of
their country. They realize that it is
a different thing fighting under that flag
aud against it. 1 know there are thous
ands among them * ho, in the midst of
that great strngglo, wltau they came to
look up at the flag of the Union, felt
sml to think they were not lighting with
that flag over their heads rather than
flaunting angrily before them. They
were dragged iuto the thing, which I
alwav* thought was not sanctioned by
the deliberate judgement of the Bouth
eru people. It was a conspiracy of
fraud ami violence. If at any time tie
fore blood was shed they had had a fair
chance to vote for or against the Union,
j you would have hail a great majority of
j them in favor of the Union. But lam
I not hero to discuss issues. lam here to
Hnj some words with regard to the spirit
i of the people whom I have lately visited,
i I have been traveling over yonr State,
| Ohio, and Indiana, and I do testify that
! if any majority shall l>e got in either of
j these States against tho Liberal ticket
in tho election at hand, it will have to
ibe bought and very dearly paid for. I
know what is tho spirit of those people.
I liavo looked in their eyes. I have
seen so many thousands of them at
Pittsburg, coming there iu a rainy night
just after tho great Soldiers’ Conven
tion was hold against us. I was aston
ished to find 40,000 people in tho street
prepared to render me and my compan
| ions a most enthusiastic welcomo. At
I Cincinnati tho number turned out were
as great as that. I need not speak of
! Louisville, where it is all ou one side,
j lmt{at Indianapolis, tbo centre of Indi
ana, in my deliberate judgment, there
were 40,fMX) mou who worn participating
in our organization and our display
there, anil rejoicing in their confidence
that no possibility could defeat the
Liberal candidates in tho election at
hand. I don’t believe there ia money
enough in the Treasury or recently
taken out of tho Treasury to pay tho
State of Indiana. I don’t believe they
could colonize enough or repeat umnigh
4£Fp#«v«nt that Htttto fronY (fleeting Gov
ernor Ilonkricks. I was not disap
pointed in that, for I expected it; but
was disappointed in Ohio to find her
much stronger and more decided
tliim 1 hail believed her. f have seen
at least one hundred thousand of her
voters in my journey, and I tell you
their enthusiasm and unanimity are
such that £ believe they cannot be
beaten. If the election were had to
morrow I know how it would result.
They tell us wo may carry Indiana and
Pennsylvania, but cannot carry Ohio. I
tell you it is not so. Wo have a very
largo Liberal Republican vote there, be
sides the German vote, which is nearly
solid for ns, and of which there are;
many, many thousands, and at least
15,000 who have always voted tho Re
publican ticket are now among the most
entliusiastio supporters of tho Liberal
ticket. Os your own State I need not I
speak; you know what the heart of
Pennsylvania is. She has always de
sired to have honest, faithful, frugal,
trustworthy rulers, though she has not
always succeeded. She has meant to
have them, and I am confident she will
get them. So then, without taking up
more of your time, I simply como to give
you a cheering word. Let mo assure
yon that all things are right, and that
nothing lmt tho power of money can de
prive us of tho victory ou the Bth of Oc
tober. They must pay voters to got
them, and they don’t buy men who are
resolved not to ho bought. Now, I be
lieve, fellow-citizens, that there are no
10,000 men to sell their votes among the
000,000 voters that support the Liberal
ticket. If there are I entreat of them
to make them pay well. If you are mean
enough to sell yimrsol.os, have at least
pride to ask a decent price. [Laughter. \
They rely ou their money; they have no
other reliance,yiud you ean'ilefeat them
if you xvill. I believe when tho wires
flash into Noxv York on the Btli of Octo
ber tho result of your election you will
cast no cloud upon tho faco of tho Libe
rals of our great city, hilt that they shall
rejoice xvith you in their confident trust
that tho Bth of October has sottleil tho
tight on this election, and that Novem
ber will only re-echo and reverberate
your triumph. Friends, I will say no
more. [Cheers, which continued some
time.]
/editors Chronicle and Sentinel :
As to political affairs I shall have but
little to say. I consider that tho coun
try is imperilled from xvithin and with
out. May God deliver it. I belong to
no party. I don’t favor tho nomina
tion of a Straight-out candidate, I pre
fer Greeley to Grant, but for good rea
sons I shall voto for neither. Both I
consider to bo enemies to my country
and to my principles. Wiso men differ
with me. I shall say nothing to alter
their predetermination.
Bnt there are somo things to which I
would refer, and to which I would beg
attention. Take caro that the “Straights”
and "Greeleys” don’t split the ranks of
Democracy. If yon snffer a wedge to
bo driven between those parties a herd of
Bullockitcs xvill march through and
seize tho Government just as they did
in 1868. If yon should lose tho Fed
oral Government in tho bargain, wo
may call on tho rooks to fall upon and
hide us.
You have by this time, in county con
ventioiiH, chosen tho men whom you
prefer to govern. What advice have
you given your nominees? None. 1
pray that. “ Greeley” and “ Straight”
will bo left out of sight. I pray like
wise that the true interests of State will
be looked at.
There are men, my countrymen—
“blood suckers,” money sharks, who
howl about capital in sesaon and out—
men who will nover he sent there again
by tho people, who seek to rob and to
plunder. If you don’t arm yourselves
against these men, you had as well ex
pect to send gold through highway rob
bers, as representatives to the capital
who are not armed against that class.
•Tho last Legislature, despite opposi
tion, has repudiated certain bonds re
puted to bo the fraudulent issue of
Rufus Bullock. A ring will buy those
bonds and endeavor to induce the noxt
Legislature to have them unearthed and
tied about tho nocks of tax payers,
who will bo tho boasts of burden to carry
the plunder. Find out, fellow-oitizens,
who of your nominees, in tho light
of evidence drawn out before investigat
ing committees, can be induced to sup
port a proposition so full of insult and
injury to the whole State of Georgia.
In the next place, I call attention to a
matter of much greater moment. All
of onr wants ariso from poverty , both
State and Federal. Tho Government, is
poor—so are the people. Wo can t dodge
that lament able fact. Tho Northern
soldiery, as they tramped over onr soil,
not only burned and desolated, but car
ried away cattle, stock of all kinds, and
we were loft poor indeed —left tho coun
try desolate by lire.
It will require a strict pursuance of
the laws of political economy to restore
lost fortunes. I see no principles of
“wealth gaining” considered by onr rep
resentatives. Hence, I call your atten
tion to one point which, but for want of
time, I would treat at large.
You have most of your money buried
in railroads. You are getting not more
than 4 per cent, on tho money involved
—in tho State Road 4 per cent Ten per
cent, is a small return for money in this
State. lam certain that all the money
invested in railroad stock, from Erie to
the Givorgia, does’nt exceed 10 per cent.
The Georgia Railroad lias paid as high
as 8 per cent, by tho aid of doubtful if
not criminal economy.
Factories,on the other hand,have paid
as high as 30 per cent. Nor do I allude
specially to the Augusta Factory; others
about our State liavo paid as well. I
learn it from factory men themselves.
Why not sell tho State Road, and ap
propriate the money in buying factory
stock ? It should be done, not so much
to make 30 per cent, instead of 20, but
to encourage manufactures, which all
political economists contend arc indis
jHinsablo to the creation of wealth. A
country dwarfed in manufactures can
never prosper. Agriculture, commerce
aud manufactures must all receive a due
proportion of attention. If one of them
is left off, it is worse than a wagon with
three wheels. This is the opmion of
Olay, Webster, and of Lay, the political
economist. After much research, 1
can’t think it could l>o otherwise.
If we sell the State Road, it will con
tinue to run into the State. Wo won’t
lose the profits now derived through the
sale. I expect the lessees would give
§6,000,000 for it. That would build ten
or twelve first-class factories. Think of
it, gentlemen of Augusta ; you are dig
ging at great expense a canal 150 feet
wide on the hem of your city. It is
commendable industry. It shows wis
dom. But of what more use is water
flowing through tho canal than that of
tho Savannah, if it is not used to turn
the wheels of manufacture? None.
You work will be vain, your toil unre
quited, your spirit of industry <]rown
od iu the waters, if they don’t turn tho
wheels of manufacture.
L therefore, advocate that you instruct
your delegates (or else -withhold from
thorn your support) to vote for a with
drawal of all railroad appropriations of
every kind and investment iu factories.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, 187'2.
i But factories are local—affect localities
aud not tho public. Well, railways run
through towns—they build up those
towns. Every village from here to At
lanta touched by rail is benefitted.
How of those towns lying off its path ?
Does’nt rails affect localties, then ? Cer
tainly. If factories should help locali
ties, can’t tho same be said of rails?
But I hold that not location only but
tho wholo country is benefitted by sac
! turies. Thor manufacture cotton. Cot
i ton is our staple. If kept at home we
durive a profit from its manufacture. It
will encourage emigration, theoue thing
neeilfuL Railways can bring emi
grants here, but they furnish no em
ployment—unless they broil in tho cot
ton and ctuie fields lieside a race un
congenial aud between whom there can
be no natural affinity. Railways liavo
spread Radicalism at lightning's speed
through the land—factories have har
bored a loyal, 'laborious class. Rail
ways charge for carrying away our cot
ton. Factories pay you profit in the
manufacture of it at home. Railways
bring in much wo can’t pay for, carry
out what wo ought not to spare. Fac
' tones will induce people to live at
home—raise less cotton, and manufac
ture every pound of lint at homo. Rail
ways make from four to six per cent,
ou the capital invested ; factories from
twenty to thirty. Railways have re
ceived sufficient public encouragement
at the hands of Government. Factories
have received none. Then why keep
money wrapped in them, and run them
to death for four per cent. No sane
reason can be given for it.
Individual enterprise never has, never
can, unaided, build up factories. To
day Augusta ought to stand ahead of
Lowell as a manufacturing emporium.
Nature has given her all tho appliances.
Lot Government encourage us to de
velop them. Factor.
Forthcoming Fair at Union Point.
Greensboro, Ga., September 28.
Editors Chronicle ,fc Sentinel:
I xvrito, briefly, of the forthcoming
grand annual fair of tho (Ireeno County
Agricultural and Mechanical Association
to he hold at Union Point, on Monday,
October 0, proximo, to continue three
days. A visit to tho Fair Grounds will
convince the visitor that neither labor,
means nor energy liavo been spared to
prepare thorn for the reception of the
various articles, for stock, and all things
else that will lie offered for exhibition,
and for tho comfort of the vast assem
blage expected to bo present. Every
body at Union Point, in tho vicinity and
adjacent country, is preparing something
for exhibition.
Extra trains will bo run from various
points ou tho Georgia Railroad to con
voy visitors, and the hospitality of the
good citizens of Union Point and its
vicinity, I doubt not, xvill equal that of
any locality where fairs have been lipid.
The array of beauty of tho fair daugh
ters of (Jreono and adjacent counties, 1
imagine, xvill be superb. Everything
will tend to make the fair attractive; and
all, everybody, is invited to attend.
Visitor.
Np.xv Campaign Document —A Substi
tute for the Ku-Knux Order. — Wash
ington, September 26.—1 tis understood
that tho report alluded to in the follow
ing Washington special to tho Nexv York i
Cast is to bo used as a campaign docu
ment :
“ The officers xvlio xve.ro sent to the
Southern States by tho Department of
Justice to examine into tho condition of
affairs aud to detect any organized at
tempt to violate tho revenue laxvs and
Enforcement act, have submitted volu
minous reports to tho Attorney General.
From the.se it appears that tho Ku-Klux
order is giving away to a nexv organiza
tion, similar.to the former iu many re
spects, but having a different mode of
accomplishing tho same ends. This
new organization is spreading rapidly
through all the Southern States, and is
intended to bo nixilo very effectual for
Greeley during tho present campaign by
intimidating voters iu localities whore
the Republican element is not in the as
cendant. Tho order has established
lodges iu nearly every county in Missis
sippi, Alabama and Georgia, and is rap
idly extending itself to other States.
Several officers of tho Government suc
ceeded in getting initiated into the
order, and observed fully its workings.
They are, therefore, enabled to tako
steps to prevent its plans from being
successfully carried out.”
Prospects op tiie Coming Packing
Season. —So far as auditors’ returns for
tho several prominent liog-groxving
States of tho West liavo been obtained,
they reveal a largo increase iu the hog
crop of 1872 over tlio crop of 1871, and
and packers who liavo taken most pains
to bo informed feel sure that the crop of
hogs suitable for cutting tho coming
season will exceed by 25 or 30 per cent,
tho number found suitable last season.
[iSV. In mix Democrat, 2blh nil.
Somo of the leading packers are confi
dent that the coming Winter packing
season xvill bo an unusually active one,
and opinion were expressed that Chicago
will pack 1,500,000 hogs during tlio
months of November, December and
January, or an average of nearly 100,000
hogs per week. Ono firm alone calcu
lates to pack 350,000 hogs during tlio
season.
[ ('hiexigo lutes-Union, 25 th ult.
Anoirmanop Baylgy’h Installation. —
The administrator of the archdiocese of
Baltimore announces that Most Rev.
Archbishop Bayley’s installation and re
ception of the pallium will take place in
the cathedral in that city on Sunday,
October 13, Bishop Becker, lately re
turned from Rome, having brought with
him tho pallium for tho new Archbishop.
It is expected that a number of bishops
from different parts of tho country will
attend in Baltimore at tho time. Arch
bishop Bayley proposos to assume his
exalted position without, display or
marked demonstration, and, consequent
ly, it is not expected that tlioro will bo
any procession; but tho ceremony of in
stallation and tho reception of the pal
lium will bo carried out with nil the
usual ceremonies of the church.
Bishop Gibbons, it is understood, will
bo installed in tbo See of Richmond at
an early day after tho installation of
Archbishop Bayley.
A Ku-Kijux Pkisojter Wants to
Stump fob Grant.—lt has transpired
that Richard Shotwoll, one of tho lead
ers of the Ku-Klux Klan in North Car
olina, and now' confined in the Albany
penitentiary, proposed to a prominent
member of Congress that if the Presi
dent would pardon him, he would cheer
fully take tho stump and labor for the
success of the Republican candidates,
and denounce the Ivu-Klux organization.
Finding that lie was disposed to plead
for pardon, it was proposed to ask if he
would give evidence against tho princi
pal leaders, such as Ransom, Vance and
Morrimnn. This Shotwoll declined with
a defiant air, and said ho would die
rather than betray anybody. Applica
tion for tho pardon was therefore re
fused. When Gerritt Smith visited Shot
well two months ago, he said he found
him defiant and unwilling to accept a
pardon on any condition. —New York
Herald.
Thu Grain Crop of the Pacific
Slope is reported as being unprece
dented in the annals of that land of
plentiful harvests. The wheat crop of
Livermoro and San Joaquin Valleys,
California, is estimated at from twelve
to fifteen million bushels, which have \
all been gathered and baggod, and are
lying in heaps along the Central Pacific
Railroad awaiting transportation. One
field iu tho Livermore Valley covers
sixty-eight thousand acres, or over one
hundred and six square miles and has
-yielded forty bushels of first-class wheat
to the acre. Within seven days the
wheat yield of that largo farm was
standing stacked within sight of the
railwav, in the hempen sacks commonly
used for sending grain to market, and
the cost of tho sacks for that farm alone
was 330,000.
Thleo bathing tub Chixrsb Las-
I git age.—The problom of telegraphing iu
the Chinese language, to write which re
quires some fifty thousand different
characters, has been solved in this way :
A few thousands of tho characters most
used are cut upon wooden blocks. Upon
tho opposite side of each block is its
number. Duplicates of such numbered
blocks are at each telegraph station.
The China merchant selects the blocks
which express the thoughts to be trans
mitted. The operator telegraphs only
the numerals designating these blocks,
which enable tlie receiving operator to
select similar blocks at this oud of tho
line.
TRAGEDY IN VIRGINIA.
A Mother Charged M lth Poisoning
Txvo Daughters.
The lower part of Loudon county,
Va., was throxvn into a great state of ex
citement last Thursday xveek by the re
port that two Miss Catons, who resided
with their mother near the lino dividing
.Fairfax and Loudoun, had, after a short
and mysterious illness, suddenly died,
xvith marked symptous of having been
poisoned. Tho facts of tho cast), as pub
lished In the Leesburg Telegram of
Tuesday morning are as follows:
Mrs. Eliza Guton, a xvidow lady who
lives ou what is familiarly known to the
citizens of that section as the “old
road,” had two daughters whoso ages
were respectively twoufcy-ono and
eighteen years. Tho oldest of tlieso
two ladies was taken sick about two
. weeks ago, bnt was apparently improv
ing every day until Thursday, when slio
was taken more violently than ever.
In the meantime her younger sister
was taken very ill, aud labored under
vory much tho same symptoms that xvore
characteristic of her sister's illness. A
doctor was immediately dispatched
for hy one of Mrs. Ga ton's neighbors,
who happened to be present at tho time.
In due time Dr. I’ough, who was their
family physician, arrived*, entered the
younger Afiss Cat on’s room, and, after
examining her condition, pronounced
her illness to bn typhoid fever, and pre
scribed accordingly. Ho then started
for tho room of the elder Miss Oaten,
but on arriving at the door xvas posi
tively refused an admittance by tlio
mother, xvlio sUi.nl at tlio door anil stated
that there xvas nothing the matter with
tho oldest daughter, and that sho did
not desire him tosoolier. Whereupon the
Doctor departed for liomo. That same
night tho younger daughter xvas taken
much worse, and died before medical
assistance could bo procured. Tho next
morning the other daughter grew much
worse, swelling in tho region of tho ab
domen to an enormous size, anil suffer
ing tho most aeuto agony. Still no
physician xvas permitted to see her. In
this condition sho remained until about
midday, xvhon sho, too, expired in the
presence of no one but her mother, and
xvith no other living soul present to
whom she might make a death-bed state
ment.
Tho excitement consequent upon this
sudden, terrible, and unaccountable vis
itation of Providence, or more probably
of some fiendish spirit in human form,
spread liko wililfiro among tho neigh
bors, causing numerous whispered sus
picions and rumors to suggest them
selves, until having arrived at an irre
pressible pitch, the tcrriblo rumor of
death by poisoning burst upon tho minds
of tho excited populace, and more start
ling than all, that it was death at the
hands of a mother.
Why sho did it is noxv tho principal
topic of discussion. Various rumors
are afloat concerning the cause. Among
others, it is said that tho oldest daugh
ter xvas in a critical condition, and it is
thought that in order to conceal tho
sliamo and disgrace xvhich would neces
sarily fall upon tlio family, provided a
knowledge of this fact were brought to
light, sho resorted to this terrible and
heartless mode of preserving tho integ
rity and honor of her name. What her
motive could have been in poisoning; the
other daughter is left entirely in a
shroud of mystery.
The body of the oldest daughter xvas
exhumed last Tuesday, to be immediate
ly sent ou to some chemist for examina
tion. No pains are boing spared to fer
ret out tho crime from beginning to end.
TERRIFIC CONFLAGRATION.
Burning; of the Northern Ohio Insane
Asylum Tho Seamstress Roasted
Alive—Six Hundred Lunatics Loose.
Cleveland, Sept 25.—The Northern
Ohio Lunatic Asylum, situated at New
burg, Ohio, seven miles from this city,
caught fire at 1 o’clock to-day, caused
by sparks from a small furnace used by
the mon in tinning the roof near tho
dome of tlio building, and tho flames
spread so rapidly that the wholo struct
ure xvas on lire before the engines, xvhich
had been telegraphed for to this city,
could arrive aud stay tho progress of the
flames. By four o’clck the main or old
portion of tho building was completely
destroyed, nothing being left except
the xvalls, some of which have already
fallen. There xvore about six hundred
inmates in the building at the time of
the fire, all of whom are said to bo safe.
A number of tlieso have escaped and
are noxv at large. All those xvlio could
be secured were locked up in churches
and other places in Noxvbnrg, until
better accommodations could bo pro
vided, which iH nowbeingilono by placing
as many as possible in tlio House of
Correction, city prison, infirmary, and
jail of this city. Perhaps 400 will bo
furnished temporary quarters in this
way. Tlio casualties are confined to the
attaches of the asylum and citizens of
Nowburg. Afiss Walker, seamstress of
tho institution, was roasted alivo almost
within reach of friends, who could
render her no assistance on account
of heat and want of proper facilities.
Benj. Burgess, xvlio went in tho building
to bring out a relative, lias hot been
hoard of, but it is hoped that he is still
safe. A boy, name unknown, had a,
leg broken and xvas otherwise injured ;
iio xvill urobaldy die. Several others
xvore hailly burned. It is boliovod that
throe or four are lying in the debris,
xvliieli is fifteen feet deep, and xvill re
quire time to get tho bodies out, if any.
Tho extreme east aud west wings of tho .
asylum are not entirely destroyed, the
xvalls boing in good condition. They
can and will be speedily repaired. The
culinary department, laundry, dining
halls, engine room (mostly new), are not
damaged. Tho loss is not known, but
will approximate to three hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. There is said to
ho no insurance.
TIIE WORM THAT DIETII NOT.
A New Horror—A Ferocious Parasite
Taken from a Man’s Log.
[From tho Charleston Nows.]
A short time ago a sailor was sent to
tho City Hospital from tho British bark
Goorgiana, who was supposed to bo suf
fering from a soro leg. Tho man had
boon ailing for near tlireo mouths, but
none of his shipmates supposed that
there was anything serious tho matter
with him. Accordingly, when, a few
days before his removal to tho hospital,
ho declared himself unable to walk
about, tho eautoiu of tho ship supposed
that ho was endeavoring to make an ex
cuse for getting away from tho vessel,
that ho might bo loft in port, tlie ship be
ing prepared to sail in a few days. When
removed to tho hospital, tho mans right
leg was very much swollen, aud mani
fested all tho symptoms of erysipelas,
for which malady nis affection was at
first mistaken. At tho end of a few
days how’ever, an abscess formed upon
tho inner side of the ankle, from which,
after it had burst, protruded about
three inches of a white, membranous
looking substance, about an eighth of
an inch in diameter. This singular
manifestation induced a careful exami
nation of the leg, which developed the
fact that tho man was afflicted with tlie
dracunculus, or Guinea worm. This is a
horrible parasite, found only along the
shores of the Indian Ocean, Red Sea and
certain portions of the Mediterranean. It
infests damp and rnnddy soils and impure
water, and generally attacks the feet and
legs bnt sometimes other portions of
I the body. At the time that it forsakes
its native element for the more luxurious
habitation of flesh and blood,it is scarce
ly larger than a common floa ; but, hav
ing once buried itself beneath the skin,
it grows with alarming rapidity, and will
attain a sizo varying from six inches to six
feet in length, by one-twelfth to ono
eio-hth of an inch in diameter. It lies
dormant until it reaches the age of ma
turity, after which it oommenoea a series
of wanderings and meanderings about
the muscles and bones, which cause in
tense pain to the unsuspecting victim.
It alwavs travels downwards, and with
such rapidity that it will sometimes travel
the whole length of the human frame in
twenty-four hours. It will sometimes
come to the snrfaoc and lio under the
skin liko a long white ooiil, but should
the surgeon attempt t° extract it with
tho knife without first securing it with 8
nipper, it will elude his grasp and scam
per away with the agility of an eeL
If a portion of tho worm is removed,
tho remaining portion will not die,
but continues as gay and lively as
over. Tbo first symptoms of tbo
Guinea worm are a disagreeable itching
and irritation of tho infected parts.
After it begins to move about its paths
are followed by external absoesses, aud
when tho paths lie along the stomach,
internal abscosses also. It always ulti
mately endeavors to leax'e the system by
working its xvay through the skin, gen
erally near the ankle, but this is only
after it has left from ten to fifteen
young behind. The usual number of
worms that are found in ono person
varies from one to fifty. There is one
i case on record, however, of a man dying
1 from the effects of the Guinea worm,
whose body and skin were nothing but
a net-work of tlieso horrible creatures.
Death rarely results from tho ravages
of this worm, and when it does it is gen
erally the result of some disease pro
duced bv tlio inflammation aud other
effects of the worm’s wanderings. The
Guinea worm does not confine its
ravages to man, but will also attack
dogs and horses. Tho sailor in question
made a voyage to tho eastern coast of
Africa about six months ago, nml while
I tlioro received tho parasites into his sys-
I tom. Ono of those worms has already
boon extracted from his right leg, but
another lias miulo its appearance in tho
left. Ho is doing as well as can bo ex
pected under tho circumstances. This
is probably tho first case of tho kind
ever known in Charleston.
TIIE PENNSYLVANIA CANVASS.
Large Liberal Gains in Radical Coun
ties, anil Cameron Decidedly Du
bious.
A special dispatch from Washington
to tiie Louisville Courier-Journal, on
tlio 25th, says :
Reliable advices received to-day from
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, state that
there is not a doubt ill tlio minds of
'Domooratie leaders about tho result of
tho October election. Buekaloxv’s ma
jority, ontsido of Philadelphia, xvill lie
at least 23,000 ; anil thoro is no fear en
tertained of a Radical majority in
Philadelphia that can reduce this below
15,000. It is boliovod that tho arrange
ments mado by tho Liberals for detect
ing and preventing frauds will cut down
Hartranft’s majority in Philadelphia to
5,000. Senator Cameron admitted yes
terday, in conversation, that tho fight
xvas going to bo vory close, and that the
disaffection in their party xvas vory con
siderable. Ho did not count on a ma
jority for Hnrtranft iu Lanoastor eouu
ty, xvhioh is conceding a 3,000 greater
loss than the Liberals liavo counted on.
Tho Curtin letter is already exerting
a powerful influence. Rets are offered
by Democrats ou Buekaloxv’s elec
tion, and there nro no takers by the
ring mon. Tho Cameron mon are very
dospondont, and are astonished anil be
wildered at tlio offocts of Gov. Curtin’s
letter. In order to counteract its influ
ence, there is a plan for Gov. Geary to
pardon out Yorkes, now in tlio peniten
tiary, on condition that ho will exoner
ate Hnrtranft from complicity in the
frauds, aud swear that tho affidavit
latoly published is a forgery, and that
Hartranft’s letters to him are forgeries.
Yorkos is mado to believe that this is
his only hope of escape, and none but
Hartranft and tho ring partisans are
aliowwl access to him. Gov. Goary has
gone to Philadelphia, and if possible
tho bargain with Yorkes will bo mailo.
Among the estimated Liberal gains
for Buckalow over the Governor’s voto
of 1869 are 300 in Adams, 600 in Berks,
a largo gain in Center county (Govornor
Curtin’s home), 500 in Clarion, 300 in
Clearfield, 600 in Columbia, 300 in Fay
ette, 700 in Greene, 600 in Lehigh, 2,600
in Luzerne, 400 in Lycoming; 1,000 in
Alonroo, 1,000 iu Schuylkill, 600 in Wash
ington, 500 in Wayne, 560 in Westmore
land, 2,000 in Allegheny, 800 in Beaver,
1,400 in Bradford, 1,000 in Chestor, 1,-
350 in Crawford, 3,000 in Lancaster, 600
in Potter, 500 in Susquehanna and 1,500
in Tioga, with proportionate gains in
other counties. The fight between Mey
ers (Democrat) anil Oharpenning Cessna
is waxing xvarm, xvith chanoea strongly
in favor of Moyers. Tlio conferences
from the counties of Franklin anil Ad
ams refuse to agree to Cessna. He has
only tiie nomination of three of tho
smaller counties in tho district.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT 1 ,
A Train On the Wilmington and Wel
don ltoad Runs off the Track—A Ter
rible Smash-up, but no Loss of Life
—A List of the Wounded, «Stc., &c.
An accident of a rathor serious nature,
though not attended by any fatal re
sults to the lives of the numerous pas
sengers, occurred on the Wilmington
and Weldon Railroad on Thursday
night, between 11 and 12 o’clock, about
eight miles from Goldsboro, to the train
dno in Wilmington at 3 o’clock Friday
morning. From tho Wilmington Star
we got tho following particulars :
At the point indicated, the smoking
car ran off tho track. Tho accident
was immediately discovered by Gapt.
Everett, the conductor in ohargo, who
instantly pulled the bell to givo the
noeessary warning. At this timo the
first-class coach and tho sleeping car
wi\ro running smoothly on the track,
and ho ordered tho brukos on the smok
ing oar with tho hope that it would
break looso from tlio other cars ; but
just as ho had dono so ho beoame
aware of tho startling fact, which he
had not before suspected, that tlioy
woro on tho point of crossing a dangor
o.is trostlo, ono of tho highest on the
road. Ho had hardly realized tho
faot, ho standing on tho platform of tho
smoking oar at tho timo, before tho
first-class car and tlio sleeping car,
tearing looso from tho smoking
oar, had pluugod over tho sido of tho
trestle into the abyss bolow, both oars
turning completely over and going
down tho sido of tho embaukmont bot
tom-upwards. Immediate measures wore
taken to rescue tho passengers, among
whom wero several ladies. Tho top of
tlio cars, in going down tho embank
ment, had become so badly broken that
tho passongers could not stand upright,
and when an entrance was effected there
was discovered a hotorogonious mass of
mon and women, valises and carpot
saoks, baskets and boxes, aim «11 the
other nppurtonnnocs usually found in
such conveyances. The passengers woro
all relieved from tlioir uncomfortable
positions as soon as possible, and all
aro loud in tlioir praise of Gupta. Everett
and Southall, tho latter being in charge
of tho sleeping oar, ns well as Mr. 8011,
formerly connected with tho Southern
Express Company, for their untiring
energies in securing their safo transpor
tation from the wrecked cars to places of
security and comfort.
As soon as the last passenger had been
removed from tho wrecks, Gapt. Everett
dispatched tho ongino to Dudley’s to
meet the freight train which was duo at
that point, wfion tho coach which usual
ly accompanies it was secured and re
turned for passengers who wero taken to
Dudley's, where they awaited the train
which lefthoroat 10:40, p. m. Uponits ar
rival, one of the coacheswas appropriated
and the passengers wero brought on to
this city, arriving here at about 7 o’clock.
In the meantime, the train leaving here
at 10:40, p, m., awaited the arrival of the
5:30 train for this place, whon the
passengers wore to bo transferred.
That there were no lives lost by tho noci
dent was.underthe circumstances, almost
a miracle. The following is a partial list
of tho wounded: W. H. Chew, of Augusta,
Gft., ankle badly sprained and hip in
jured; Mrs. Chow, wife of the above,
received a severe contusion on tho fore
head ; two ladies accompanying Mr. and
Mrs. Chew received no injuries what
ever; Mr. Chambers, of New Orleans,
was severely injured about the face,
back and breast; Mrs. M. A. Waller, of
Montgomery, Ala., nieoe of Mr. Cham
bers, was seriously braised about the
body ; 8. 8. Solomons, Superintendent
of the Northeastern Railroad, 8. C..
was slightly bruised on the knee ; W. J.
Smith, Abbeville, 8. G., badly injured
about the head. There were several
others who received slight injuries. We
aro glad to that none of the
wounded are considered seriously hurt.
The accident, we are informed, was
caused by a misplaoed rail, which was
found after tho accident turned over on
one side, and loose, but with the spikes
driven firmly into the ties. Whether
the position of tho rail was the result of
accident or design is a matter for con
jecture, but it is supposed by some
that it was purposely misplaoed by some
one with the intention of thrtmng tho
train off the track.
Tho distance from the top of trestle
to the bed of the small stream down to
which the cars were prooipitated was
about twenty-five or thirty feet, and the
rear end of the sleeping car was driven
some distance under the water.
Tho two cars were badly smashed,
and the track considerable torn up in
tho vicinity of the trestle, whioh was
about tho extent of the damage to the
road.
Tho most of the passengers by the
ill-fated train left for their soveral dec
linations Friday bight.
SPIRITUALISTIC POW WOW OVER
A CORPSE.
A Noted Turfman iu the Cotlln—ls He
Dead or Alive?—Old Mr. Bennett's
Gliost on Hand.
[From the New York Sun, September 23.]
Air. Rowe, the late owner of tho once
celebrated trotter Ethan Allen, a gen
tleman xvell known to members of the
turf, died at his residence in Forty
third street, in this city, on Wednesday
last, after a short illness. Mr. Roxve
was tlio- friend and companion of tiie
lato Mr. Hiram Woodruff Mrs. Rowe
xvas a strong believer in spiritualism,
and is said to boa medium. A few
years ago sho made tho acquaintance
of Mrs. Kane, the widow of tho Arctic
explorer, who was ono of tho celebrated
Fox sistors. Since the death of Dr.
Kane Mrs. Kano has continued her busi
ness as a medium, and become known
as tho “Queen of Mediums.”
Prior to tho funeral of her husband,
Mrs. Rowe, anxious to know whether
his spirit had taken flight into tho spirit
land, sent out a number of invitations to
a circle of spiritualists to attend a
soauco in her house. Among them xvas
the celebrated Mrs. Kane. The corpse
was enclosed in a beautiful rosewood
casket, heavily ornamented with silver.
It lay iu ono of the parlors, whoso shut
ters xvore closely shut siiiT xvhich xvas
utterly dark. At tho head of tho coffin
xvas a wax candle, anil at tho foot stood
another. The room, therefore, was very
dimly lighted.
Mrs. Kane, who was chosen to preside,
seated herself at the head of the casket,
anil Mrs. Roxvo at tho foot. The two
candles were then extinguished and all
xvero enveloped in total darkness. Not
a sound xvas heard. Soon Mrs. Kane,
as tho presiding medium, arose and nil
dressing the spirit asked whether Air.
Rowe was in the spirit land. The party
waited, but there was no answer. The
question xi’as repeated xvith a like result.
The Queen of Mediums oxplaineil that
tho spirit sho was addressing xvas either
engaged or that tho spirit of Air. Roxve
had not taken its flight.
Silence reigned awhile, and suddenly
a low rumbling xvas heard, as of opening
lioavy doors, and then another voice
said, “Ho is not hero.”
At this the Queen of Alodiums ex
plained that tho spirit of Air. lloxve had
not yet quit his body. The caudles
xvore then relighted, anil all arose and
stood over the body, gently singing:
Woop n>t for tlioso who aro gono from thy
sight,
They aro not gono, they aro not gono ;
Bound thoe they hover on pinions of light,
They are not gono, they aro not gono.
Iloar tlio words of comfort tolling
That thoy'll watoh on every hand,
And I lovo, I lovo to hut to
Voices from tho spirit land.
After tlio singing all rosumoil their
seats aronnd tho casket, the lights xvore
extinguished, and Mrs. Kane addressed
the spirits again, summoning departed
spirits to attend her. Among thoso sho
asked forxvoro Prof. Morse, James Fisk,
Jr., Judge MeOunn, James. Gordon Ben
nett, and others. Tho only response xvas
from Air. Bennett.
Mrs. Kane asked whether ho hail re
pented, saying, “ Yon unbeliever of our
faith™you xvlio liavo ridiouiod ns in
yonr paper—-whftt have you to sav f"
Spirit-— 1 ' What is it you want ?”
A hymn was sung then. Tlio spirit
was again addressod by Mrs. Kane, and
soon a soft, clear voice ansxvercd :
“I am here ; what is it you wish to
know ?”
Medium (Mrs. Kano) —Wo, your nf
flioted brothers ami sisters of the spirit
land, aro anxious to know whether tlio
spirit of our brother here departed has
taken its flight into tho happy land.
Spirit (in the samo soft voice) —Wait
and I will see.
Aledium —Wo would command you to
mako our faith knoxvn to all the world,
as an atonement for your past xvrongs,
aud otherwise help us now that you aro
saved.
Spirit—Thy will is grantod. Fare
well ! Come and join ns in tho spirit
laud.
Hero tho circle broko up. On tho liil
of tho casket xvere slips of paper on
which tho Quoen of Mediums had writ
ten the answers of the spirits, but they
xvero unintelligible to tho unbeliever.
Mr. lloxve’s body was buried in Green
wood on Friday,
Death of Itov. Peter Cartwright.
Ono of the oldost and most widely
known Methodist preaohors in America
died on Wednesday, 25th, at his homo
near Pleasant Plums, Sangamon county,
Illinois. Peter Cartwright was eiglity-
Hoven years old. Ho was a nativo of
Amherst county, Va., and was born in
1785, two years after tho close of tho
Revolutionary War. Whilo he was still
a child his parents romovod with him to
Kentucky. His oarly years wero spoilt
in that wild frontier land, whore tho war
whoop of the savage often aroused his
fnthor and his neighbors to tbc dofouso
of tlioir livos and homes. Peter was
scarcely sixteen years old when ho was
converted by an itinerant preacher, and
became a member of tlio Methodist
Episoopal Church. Tho event deter
mined tho career of liis whole life. He
oonceivod tho idea that ho had boon
called to proaoli tho gospel in tho wilder
ness, and almost immediately ho on
torod upon that duty. In liis auto
biography, published about fifteen yoars
ago, ho related many interesting and
often amusing incidents of his early
labors in tho backwoods. Like many of
tho monos his time and seotion, ho had
an iron constitution and a strongly
marked individuality, and was a bold,
courageous and zealous worker. Ho
feared neither man nor tlio devil, and
for liis cause was roarly at any timo to
light both if they stood in his way. liis
speech was homoly, but it was oornest,
and wont straight to tho hearts of liis
rongli audiences. He was heard to say
a fowyears ago that ho had received into
tho church no fewer than 12,000 persons,
and that in his long career ho had
preached 15,000 sermons.
In the oarly pioneer days ho naturally
mot some hard characters, who, insti
gated by tho adversary, would endeavor
to bring disgraeo upon him. He tolls
in his autobiography that onoe a brutal
follow threatened to “whip" him. Peter
said, “ Well, sir, I never like to liio in
dread. If yon really intend to whip
mo, oome and do it now.” Tho man
continued to hlustor, whereupon tho
fighting prooohor, dismounting from his
horse, walked up to him and said,
“ Now, hR, you jiave to wlu mo, as you
threatened, or stop on raj m mo, or I
will put you in the river ami baptize
yoq in tho name of the devil, for surely
yon b.oloug to him.” This oowod the
bully. An anecdote is also rolatod
which illustrates liis singular boldness
and independence. lie was preaching
before the Nashville Conference, whon
tho time-sorving clergyman whoso pul
pit he oooupied, seeing General JTaekson
standing in the aisle, leaned over and
sfiid in a loud whisper, ''General Jack
son has oome in, General Jackson has
oarue in.” “Who is General Jackson?”
cried Cartwright in a voice of thunder,
“ if ho don’t get his soul converted God
will damn him as quiok aa he would a
Guinea negro,” This did not oonvert
Old Uiokory at tho time, but it com
manded bis respect for his monitor, and
he treated him with the greatest con
sideration ever afterwards.
Mr. Cartwright was first appointed a
presiding elder in 1812. Ho spent eight
years in tho Old Western Conference,
four years in the Kentucky
oight years in tho Tennessee Cunimeuce,
ana over forty-five years in the Hlinois
Conference. He held at different times
many of the most important offiooe in
the church, and was delegate to General
Conference thirteen times. In 16£3 aryl
1838, in the absence of the Rishop, lie
was President of the Conference. It is
recorded of him that in all the years of
his ministry he was never discontinued,
located, or superannuated, and was never
dismissed for a time for misdemeanors
of any kind. In 1850 he published the
story of his life in a volume entitled
“Autobiography of Peter Cartwright,
the Backwoods Preacher. v The book Lad
a wide circulation and made the old
man better known in the East, whore he
seldom had visrtod. Daring the last
few years the feebleness of advanced
years prostrated him, and it was only a
few months ago that his death was
prematurely announced,
Hon. Garrett Davis’ Successor.—
Goy. Leslie, of Kentucky, has appoint
ed Willis B. Machen, of Lyon county,
United States Senator, to snoooed Hon.
Garrett Davis, deoeased. Mr. Machen
has been prominently connected with
Kentucky politics for many yearn. Ho
was a member of the Confederate Con
gress from Kentucky, and has but re
cently had his disabilities removed. His
term of service expires March 4, next,
when ho is succeeded hy Hon. Thos. CL
MoCroory, elected to the Senate at tho
last session of tho Legislature.
NEW SERIES—VOL. XXV-NO. 41.
Dramatical and Musical Notes.
Liugard Comedy Troupo is playing in
New England.
Edwin Adams opened iu St. Louis on
the 30th for ono xveek.
Alaggio Mitchell is playing to good
houses in New Haven.
Martinotti-Ravel Troupe arc playing
in Middleton, New York.
Edwin Booth and combination arc
“doing” New England towns.
Mrs. F. S. Clianfrau is [flaying at
Grand Opera House, Baltimore.
Mrs. D. P. Bowers is playing “Sara
toga” to good business iu Chicago.
John E. Owens’ Combination open at
Erie, Nexv York, to-morrow night.
“Black Crook” Company exhibited
ankles at Louisville September 30tli.
Dr. Walden’s nexv “ War Clouds” to
tine, audiences at Holliday street, Balti
more.
Oliver Doml Bryan xvill commence an
engagement at tho St. Charles, Now Or
leans, October 7th.
Dominick Murray is running his “Es
caped from Sing Sing” at Griswold’s
Opora House, Troy.
Btrakosch Concert Troupo, with Ma
rio and Carlotta Patti, warbled for the
'Bostonians September 28th.
Miss Olive Logan xvill mako her liret
appearance this season October 18th,
at Stoinway llall, in a noxv lecture on.
“Successful People.”
Three hundred men aro at work on
Niblo’s Theatre. It xvill he finished hy
the Ist of November. Manager Ilarry
Palmer xvill return by October Ist.
Goo. W. Rea, an actor, and survivor
from the wreck of tho steamship Bien
ville, burned at sea, had a benefit testi
monial at tho Brooklyn Lyceum, on tho
12 th.
Tho Hail Franeiseu Court, in which
Matilda Heron has been suing for an in
come from the Byrne estate, under the
idea that she xvas the xvifo of Byrne, has
decided not to allow it.
Airs. James Oates’ Burlesque Troupe
Company, comprising John Howson,
W. 11. Crane, C. W. Drew, W. 11. Pratt,
Jr., W. Shannon, James 11. Jones, Ed
xvard Iloran, Kate Frazer, Alaggio Glen,
and Airs. Bouilinot, commencoil in Cin
cinnati September 80th, for two weeks.
Lawronoo P. Barrett and company
open in tragedy in Noxv Orleans next
xveek. Aliss Flora Manning, a stage
struck and Barrett-struck young lady of
Syracuse, is reported to have attompteil
■ recently following Barrett’s Company
from that place to Rochester in hoy’s
clothes, but xvas Unvaried and returned
to her parents.
Mrs. D. P. Powers, under joint mnu
ugoment of John T. Ford and Win.
Spalding, with John J. McCollum as
support, will travol for twolvu weeks and
then star alone with McCollum on her
own account. Tho company will other
xviso be George W. Middleton, in occa
sional leading parts; Harry Rich, loxv
comedian; 11. W. Aliteholl, juvenile; 11.
B. Norman, old man; C. T. Nichols,
heax'y; Samuel Parker, W. G. Shine ami
It. L. Frazer, utility; Mrs. Jenny Par
ker, leading lady; Lizzie Pounoyer, old
woman and heavies; Mary Davis, walk
ing lady. They xvill bo in Augusta on
the 23d of October.
Lydia Thompson and her blondes xvill
delight the Bostonians for threo weeks,
commencing September 30th. For some
weeks during tho engagement of this
troupo in Noxv York, Dan Alyron, a man
of 40, and an actor, chiefly in traveling
companies, has been laboring under tlio
insane belief that ho was engaged to be
married to tho fair Lydia. He had been
seen for days hovering around the hotel
at xvhioh she sojourns, and at the back
door of Wallack’s Theatre, trying to
waylay hor, and persisting in writing
her two or threo letters daily. Tho
proper representations xvero mado at
polioo headquarters, and tlio letters re
ceived wore handed to tho authorities.
Miss Thompson had no agency in the
matter. Sho did not oven know Alyron
by sight, never having met him before
ho persisted upon accompanying hor tlio
eveiling of his arrest. Ho xvas jugged
for annoying Miss Lydia, and told the
reporters a story regarding his having
met hor at tho house of Emma Howson,
which was untrue. Ho said that tho
ladiee all xvisliod to marry him. Dan,
sinco his separation from Lizzie Safford,
has been addicted to whisky, and has
lived with his brother in this city xvith
out acting. Mm. S. Lookyor, lately
agent for .Too Jefferson, will noxv aot a*
siieli for Alms Thompson until tho oon
va! osoiioe of tho former, whoso eyes xvill
compel him to remain for months unem
ployed.
Prayer Answered— A ATiuacle in
New York—Stolen Property Rp.oovp.r
ed. —There is a house on Fifteenth
stroot, Noxv York, iu xvhich a regular
prayer meeting has been held xvoekly
for over twenty years. Last xveek a
young lady boarding in tho house heard
somo one in her room at night. It proved
to boa burglar, who stripped' tho room
carrying off, among other things, a nexv
silk dress and a gold xvatch belonging
to tho young lady. Tho watch was
highly prized as belonging to hor father,
who some time ago xvas shot by a burg
lar. Saddened by tho loss, and not
knoxving anything else to do, tlio yonng
lady shut herself up in her room, and
began to pray for the recovery of her
goods, especially for her new silk dross
and watch. A day or two afterward, at
tho edge of tho evoning, a handle was
left at tho basement door; it oontaiuod
tho xvatch and tho now dress. A pioce
of brown paper, soiled, torn and jagged,
had on it some writing, evidently by
ono not aooustomeil to the fine arts.—
Tho note stated that tho writer had rob
bed the house, was immediately taken
sick, and could get no peaoo of body or
mind. He hud concluded, therefore, to
return thoso things, but tlio rest he had
parted with. If he lived, ho would earn
money enough to pay tho balance. The
young Indy has no ilouht that the goods
were returned in direct answer to hor
prayer. —Boston Journal.
Outrage on a Colored Greeley
Speaker. -"-Wo lcaru that on Monday
night last, Lewis Washington, of Wythe
county, a oolorod Groeloy speaker,
visited Marion for tho purpose of making
a speoeli. A considerable crowd assem
bled to hear him, and soon after ho com
menced his address, a crowd of about
fifty negroes gathered around tho stand
anil witli loud and bitter oaths ordered
him to desist. Not complying, tho in
furiated negroes ccgftmenced to throw
rocks at him, when a number of white
me* present rushed upon tho platform
to protect him. Tho mob oontnuued to
throw stones, when several of the whites
drew their pistola <*nd fired into tho
crowd, not, l,GWovm', wounding any one.
Tl\e pegto finding that Washington
would bo protected, dispersed, and tho
speaking proceeded without farther in
terruption. News.
Fiß«r Narrow Gauub Completed.—
Tippah county, Miss., has completed
the first narrow-gauge road in that
State, throe feet wide, through a fertile
oountry, abundantly supplied with tim
ber, and intersecting tho Memphis and
Charleston ltoad at Middleton, Tennes
see, twenty miles east of Grand Junc
tion and four miles north of the north
ern boundary of Mississippi. The dis
tance from Middleton, Tenn., to Ripley,
Miss,, is twenty-four and three-quarter
miles. '
Damages.— Mr. John P. Hughes, for
merly of Canton, Miss., obtained an
award of 817,500 damages, befpre Judge
Alderson, at Jackson, against the Now
Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern
Railroad, in an action for damages sus
tained in a run-off of a train whilo en
gineer ou that road in 1868.
First Frost.— Wo had » »hglit frost
on Thursday morning last, and tires
were quite comfortable, biuco then tlio
weather has moderated, and at this
writing it is quite warm again.—A atom
(N. < ) /Vess.
Cotton Status Faiu Association.—
Our Fair will open iu three weeks from
to-day. Let the citizens of Augusta,
female and male, young and old, con
tribute all in their power to its suc
cess, both by sending articles for ex
hibition and attending in person. Thero
is no more suro method of killing an
enterprise than indifference, particu
larly that indifference which may bo
classified under the head of “ damning
with faint praise.” The Fair Association
is on a firmer and surer basis than it
has boon since its organization, and it
is only nooossary for our citizens to
give it a vigorous moral support, and
to send articles for exhibition, to insure
its future.
If all parties interested in any species
of commercial industry would only take
the trouble to notice the amount of
business done during tho Fair week
they would soon bo able to docide for
themselves that tho Fair Association is
of great benefit to tho country at
large. Tho purpose of fairs in tho
olden time was for tho salo of goods.
T'lioy continued for weeks and some
times for months. Now, owing to tho
facilities for communication, they serve
tho same end in a different way instead
of markets, answering to the demands of
tho spirit of progress. They have be
come samplo rooms of every variety of
skill, and show tho advances mndo from
year to year in all branches of industry.
Wo learn that tho horsemen of our
city have become indifferent to tho suc
cess. of tho Association, because large'
premiums hnvo not boon offered for
racing. Augusta has been for years, is
now, and wo hope over will be, the best
horso market in Georgia or South Caro
lina, but horso-raoing is the property of
jockey clubs, not agricultural fairs. The'
Stato of New Jorsey is celebrated ull
over tho country for its cattle. In an
artielo in the agricultural department of
tho New York World, weekly edition, of
the 25th nit., under tho caption of “New
Jersey State Fair,” tho writer nays :
“ Those grounds are excellently adapt
ed to the usos of a fair, especially for
viewing that groat attraction of most
porsons now-a-days, tho liorso-trot."
* * * * * * “Thero aro plenty
of good cattle in New Jersoy, but
for somo reason tho farmers did not
choose to exhibit.” Putting these two
romarks togotlier, which aro not iu jux
taposition in tho article referred to, it
soems plain why tho farmers did not
care tooxhibit their cattle. Fino horses
attract moro attention than fino cows,
horso racing is fascinating, and fairs too
often saturnalias. Men and women,
boys and girls, visit them for relaxation,
enjoymont—for something to do. Not
a few with tho innate, if not exhibited,
fooling that it is a timo for abandon,
when nil can for tho nonce go unbridled.
Ask of any ono who knows anything of
the workings of committees, what chance
there would bo to got a committee to
gether to examine carefully, skilfully,
and advisedly, machinery, cattle, or
oven fino arts, with tho drum calling to
the starting post. Who could find a sec
retary or a superintendent of a depart
ment, with his stuff of judges, with tho
stirring cry ringing out on tho air for
tho “ridors to mount?” Per so, wo
love horso racing, humanely practiced.
Tho “Shepherd,” in tho "Nodes," says
tho fox on joys the chaso as well as tho
dogs. Whether ho is right or not, tho
horses certainly do.
It is a glorious sight to hoc a noble
horse proudly spurning tho ground, de
fying distnneo, rivalling tho bird in
speed. Buroly horso racing is fascinating,
but thero is an old Latin saw that tho
shoemakor should stick to his last. Wo
appreciate tho claims of all the horse
men of the community, both profes
sionals and laymen. They should, how
ovor, considor the fact that this is essen
tially an association for the promotion
of arts, mechanics and agriculture.
Tho professionals will l>o moro benofit
ted by tho numbers who come to tho
city, drawn boro by tho exhibition, than
by any number of races. It is no recom
mendation to tho agriculturist that a
liorsocan “make it inside of 20.” Horses
capable of great spood, eitlior running or
trotting, are not the kind of stock for tho
farm or tho family. Wo wish to soo a
good exhibit of horses at our Fair, atul
from information obtained can promise
to tho publio somo very fino specimens
of tho genus cques. Tho prosperity of
tho Fair Association will bo tho pros
perity of the city of Augusta. Hhotild it
moot with as high a degree of success as
it promises its grounds will become a
place of resort for our citizens. Augusta
will havo hor Park, with advantages of
climate and water and facilities of access
farsuporior to those of many cities which
are oclobratod for thoir plooos of publio
rosort. Why, then, should not all fool
that in giving thoir active aid to tho
Cotton States Fair Association they art'
aiding what must bo publicly beneficial
and reflectively thoir individual selves V
Should Be Bijt Right.— Most of our
State exchanges copied, somo two weeks
ago, a paragraph from the Chronicle &
Sentinel, stating that a warrant had
boon issued against Mr. William Vining,
charging him with being an accessory
boforo tho fact to tho murder of Police
man Callaghan. Last Thursday tho
prosecution withdrew tlio warrant against
Mr. Vining, there being no evidence to
sustain it, and alko the warrants against
Messrs. Bennett and Routledgo, charging
them with the sumo offonso. Wo hope
oar exchanges which published tho first
article will copy this paragraph, as an
act of justice to tho parties concerned.
LYNcn Law in Pennsylvania.— An
Easton (Pennsylvania) dispatch to tho
New York San says that indefinite ru
mors arc current there of tho murder of
three negroes by a gang of white la
borers recently, who sought to nvengo
tho alleged murder of ono of their num
ber by tho negroes. Tho negroes’
shanties arc said to havo boon all
burned.
The Danger of Giving Good Charac
ters to Bad Servants. —A recent decis
ion in England has held responsible for
losses, thefts and crimes, parties who
give bad servants a good character, and
who, upon tho strength of that charac
ter, are admitted into other houses,
where they perpetrate thefts, do damage
boeauso of intoxication, or commit other
crimes. The principle of this decision
is a very sound one.
Another prominent Pennsylvania Re
publican him “oome out from among
the foul party," and pronounced om
phatioally for Backalow and roform.
The Hon. Esaias Billingfelt, of Lancas
ter county, for six years State Senator
from that district, and ono of tlio most
notable men in his party, announced his
intention, on Monday night last, in the
prosenoe of thousands of Republicans,
to opposo Hartrauft and tho infamous
ring that forced his nomination upon
tlio party. m >
Horace Greeley to Visit Baltimore,
Horace Greeley having accepted tho
invitation of tho Agricultural Society of
Maryland to deliver tho annual address
at tho Fair to bo held at Baltimore, on
October Bth, both branches of tho Balti
more City Councils havo passed resolu
tion tendering tho freedom and hospi
talities of tho Monumental City to tho
distinguished orator.