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WEDNESDAY JULYJ3, 1874.
EIGHTH DISTRICT CONGRESSION
AL CONVENTION.
The State Executive Committee of the
Democratic Party of Georgia recommend
that the Congressional Nominating Con
vention for the Eighth District be held
in the city of Augusta, on the first
Wednesday (the second) of September.
BONAPARTIBTB AND OMENS.
It is a great mistake to suppose that
there are no longer any Bonapartists in
in France—that the disaster of Sedan
has entirely alienated the people from
the family of the late Emperor. It is
true that in the National Assembly the
strength of this faction is so small that
they are unable to hold the balance of
power between the closely balanced par
ties of the Itight and Left—even when
all minor shades of difference disappear,
and there remains nothing save Mon
archists and Republicans. But it must
be remembered that at the time when the
Assembly was chosen the Bo nap artist
dynasty was directly responsible for all
the shame and disaster which had been
heaped upon France—was so odious to ;
the majority of the people that its ad
herents did not dare to make a fight in
behalf of the exiled family. But since '
that time many changes have taken
place. The Emperor is dead, anjl his
errors and sins lie buried with his bones
in the tomb at Chiselliurst. There are
now left the Empress, ever popular with
the people, and a young Prince, in no
way responsible for the calamities of the
Franco-Prussiau war. The Republic i
has been tried for several years—has
grown weaker day by day, until now it
seems ready to fall beneath its own
weight. The Bonapartists no longer
hide themselves; they no longer
feel obliged to suppress their sen
timents. On the contrary, they labor
actively and untiringly ; they avow
their affection for the exiles boldly and
freely; they place candidates in nomina
tion; they appeal to the people; they
demand a plebiseitum; they show their
confidence in universal suffrage; they
are not afraid to submit their claims to
the arbitrament of the ballot box. Af
fairs have reached that point where the
Assembly dreads an appeal to the peo
ple, fearful lest the Bonapartists should
carry the day. But the adherents of
Napoleon IV. do not trust to pamphlets
and plotting alone; they have also re
source to omens. They are making all sorts
of combinations with letters and figures,
which invariably foreshadow the restora
tion of the exiled family. Here is one of
them: “ His Highness the Prince Impe
rial,” says the Paris Figaro, “was born
in 1850; these figures added together make
20. He attained his majority in 1874;
and these figures added together also
make 20. It is, then, when ho is twenty
years old that his fate is decided—that
is to say in 1870. The sum of 1870—1
plus 8 plus 7 plus 6 equals 22. Twenty
two ! The exact duration (from 1848 to
1870) of tiie reign of his father !” All of
which, of course, goes to prove that in
1870 the Prince Imperial will make an
attempt upon the crown of France, which
the stars have destined to prove success
ful !
18 IT A FOREIGN MISSION HE’S
AFT*.It *
The Atlanta Herald contains a letter
from Judge Loohbane, in which he
states that he is not a candidate for Con
gress. He would claim no man’s vote
on the ground of nationality, and would
prefer defeat upon such terms. Ho de
precates citizens of foreign birth band
ing under Irish or German banners with
Irish or German leaders. As American
citizens, they liavo no right to parade
their nationalities at tho ballot box. In
this opinion Judge Loohrane is emi
nently correct. His excuse for giving it
arose from an editorial in the Herald,
wherein it was seated that he claimed
the Irish vote in case of his “standing”
for Congress as an Independent.
The Jmlgo explains his political status.
He is neither a Democrat nor a Republi
can. He Ims cut aloof from all old party
ties, for lie says: “To-day no man stands
where he did when tho wave of war sub
sided.” Ho thinks the negro has
equal rights before the law and
condemns the agitation of civil rights
as pernicious. He is careless of party,
but he has the most unbounded confi
dence in and respect for the wisdom and
statesmanship of President Grant, whom
he “blarnies” to the rail's with soft saw
der. The Jmlgo is a Grant man in
politics because the President holds and
dispenses all the power and patronage
of the Government. A first class foreign
mis ion is both honorable and lucrative,
and Judge Loohrane might be induced
to accept one. Although a Fenian in
Irish politics he is oousin-Gerinan to
my Lord tho Duke of Eldon, whose
maternal progenitor descended in a
direct line from the family of Coburg,
which makes him a bhjod relative of
Her Majesty Queen Victoria, who is
connected with neatly all tho royalty of
Europe.
In this connection the post of Ameri
can Minister at the Court of St. James
would be acceptable to the ex-Chief Jus
tice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
He has all the qualifications necessary
for this mission. There are few men in
the United States who are more tho
roughly conversant with the intrigues of
diplomacy than Judge O. A. Loch
rank. He was born a diplomat.
He is certainly a remarkable man.—
There is no position in which you can
place him where he would not he at
homo, or where his versatility of talent
would fail to add to his reputation ns a
man of genius. We cannot support the
Judge on an Independent or Grant
platform for Congress : but if the Presi
dent sends him to London or Paris,
Berlin or St. Petersburg we shall be
glad of it.
THE COTTON ACREAGE THIS
YEAR.
There seems to be a systematic effort
at home and abroad to magnify the cot
ton acreage of the present y« ar, as well
as to represent the growing plant in the
most, vigorous and promising condition.
The article from the Financial Chroni
clc, which we publish elsewhere, is on
this line. There are various reasons
why this paper should assume this posi
tion ; but we fail to see either the wis
dom or policy of Southern papers mag
nifying the prospects of the growing
crop. It is a notorious fact that our
planters commenced this present season
under the most inauspicious and dis
advantageous circumstances. The last
crop left them without money and the
financial crisis broke down their credit.
There is not a man in the State of Geor
gia who has any acquaintance with bu
siness that does not know that
the advances and supplies of this
vear will not average above 3f>
per cent, of those of last year. This
redaction was an absolute commercial
necessity. However desirous factors
and merchants might be to make ad
vances (.and we know of none who did
not wish to curtail thfiir risks) they were
not able to do so, because their commer
cial capital would not warrant the out
lay, and the banks could not or would
not discount paper, for the reason per
haps that they had as much of last year’s
as they wished to carry. This money
stringency was not confined to Georgia
alone, but it extended all over the South.
I n point of fact, Georgia is, of all the
cotto.’' producing States, perhaps the
best off and politically. \\ ith
no money <[om the last cro P and tbe
credit system diminished more than
one-half,' how is « possible for the
planters of the South toiAske as much
cotton this year as last? l i ° wever de
sirous to increase or even reta-L? l!je
acreage of the last crop, it. does Do.
seem possible for the planters to do so j
under the adverse circumstances which
confronted and surrounded them. Ne- I
cessity as well as choice compelled i
a reduction in the acreage. The people
seeing and feeling the ruinous policy of
planting all cotton, determined to make
bread for themselves and supplies for
home purposes. So far as we have been
able to learn, the prospect for an abund
ant corn crop is good, and the yield of
wheat and other cereals excellent; thus
establishing the fact that our planters
have devoted at least a part of their cot
ton land to other and better purposes.
Apart from these arguments in favor of
a diminished cotton yield, there are
others that are worthy of consideration.
The season was late, and the weather
generally unfavorable up to the middle
of June. This was the case in all the
Atlantic States. In large portions of the
best cotton lands in Tennessee, Missis
sippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and* Texas
the floods have rendered the making
of a crop impossible. W itli this in
formation before the country we
; cannot see how it is possible for
| any one conversant with the actual
i condition of affairs to believe that the
South will fonr millions of bales
this year. It does our people a great
injury pecuniarily to have this idea con
tinually thrust in the faces of spinners
and speculators. We believe in telling
the truth as to the actual condition of
the growing crop, but we fail to sec the
sense of parading our “magnificent crop
expectations” on paper. We look for a
short crop, and those who expect a large
one will be disappointed, the opinion
of the Financial Chronicle to the con
trary notwithstanding. Southern papers
who aid in propagating the large crop
theory have the consolation of knowing
that they are doing all they can to enable
speculators to take advantage of the ne
cessities of the already impoverished
planters who have only a few bales of
cotton left—the proceeds of which must
tide them over until the growing crop is
marketed. That large crop theory is
now depressing the market and keepiug
prices down.
C A I. U M N Y A S A P O L I T ICAL
WEAPON.
The worst feature of American politics
is the slander heaped upon a candidate
for office while a campaign is in pro
gress. His past life may have been en
tirely blameless and his character free
from even the shadow of reproach, yet
so soon as he seeks a nomination from
his party, or efection from the people, a
dozen disreputable falsehoods are put in
circulation by his enemies and competi
tors. “Bo thou chaste as ice and
pure as snow thou shalt not escape
calumny.” The case of General" A.
E. Burnside affords the most recent
instance of this policy of slander. As
soon as it became evident that he was
the strongest man in tho race for the
Rhode Island Heuatorship the attempt
was made to destroy him by calumny.
Years ago he had been the President of
a Western Railway. He had managed
its affairs for a time, and then left it
without a suspicion being uttered that
there had been anything wrong or dis
honorable in his conduct. But when he
received forty-three votes for Senator liis
enemies discovered that he had been
charged with organizing a sort of Credit
Mobilier, while connected with the rail
way, for the purpose of robbing the
company. Such a charge could
only be met by a denial which should
have been effectual in the absence
of any proof of guilt; but with
tho American disposition to believe ill
of one’s neighbor, General Burnside
was injured to such an extent that his
election was defeated. Fortunately for
him, however, tho strength of his oppo
nents could not bo concentrated upon
any one man, and the contest was uot
closed but postponed. Before it com
mences again ho will be able to show
tho maliciousness of the accusation. We
are very much mistaken in the fertility
of American genius if his opponents do
uot circulate something about him
equally as bad when he shakes the dirt
of this story from his garments. A man
with a more sensitive cuticle than tho hide
of a rhinosceros should never venture
into tho cess-pool of American politics.
A BAD BOY.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Herald
informs us that there is a bad boy in
Athens, a pupil of Mr. Hunter’s school,
who amuses himself by hoaxing the
daily papers of the State. He recently
sent to the Herald a detailed and cir
cumstantial account of the killing of a
man named Smith by a man named
Jackson, in Winterville. The murder
was committed in church and was at
tended with circumstances of unusual
brutality. It afterwards appeared that
the whole thing was a hoax and was in
dignantly denied by the Wintervillians.
If he had been content with playiug
jokes upon the Atlanta Herald wo should
have had no serious objection to the
hoaxing operations of this precocious
young man. But he didn’t. Ho even
ventured to impose upon the Chronicle
and Sentinel with his yarns. Here is
the Herald's account of his “ sells
The readers of the Herald will doubt
less remember a horid account of the
killing of a man named smith by a man
named Jackson, at church at Wiuter
villo. They will also remember the de
nial of a Winterville man, made the day
after, reciting that neither Jackson or
Smith lived there; that there had been
no church there on that day; that there
had not been a drunken man in town,
etc. There was very much curiosity
felt as to who could have invented such
a fabrication, and with what intent. The
mystery is at last explained. In Mr.
Hunter's school, at this point, are a
number of boys, among whom the sharp
est and shrewdest is Master Henry
Flisch, the son of our worthy confec
tioner. This boy, instead of applying
himself to the cake and candy schedule,
that lias enriched his father, lias it
seems a craving for intellectual matters;
with a soul above doughnuts and pastry,
he grasps at higher and more unsub
| stantial honors. He has taken to put
| ting the beer on newspapers, by send
ing them hoaxes concocted at liis school
desk, and posted at recess. The pa
pers that lie favors with bis mythical
murders, and his imaginary catastro
phes. are scattered all over the Union.
Imagine this diabolical boy, sitting
down and writiug us of this terrible
Smith-Jackson murder, and locating it
at Winterville, a place that just happen
ed to pop into his head. And then the
sagacious and business like way in
which he wound it up saying, “crops
are fine, I do not remember to have seen
better in ten vears experience.”
The Chronicle and Sentinel has had
a taste of this hoaxing. It published
ou Saturday, that a Rev. A. M. Wil
liams. living eight miles north of Athens,
had been bitten by a rattlesnake, and
expired in great agony, and closing up
with the saving clause on the crops.—
There is no such man as Rev. A. M.
Williams: no snake ever "bit him; and
he didn't expire in great agony—it is all
a joke. These youug fellows make their
own envelopes, and use Confederate
paper so as to avoid detection, lhey
manufacture hoaxs there by the dozen a
, day, and scatter them far and wide. So
clever a man is Mr. Flisch, and so
smart a boy is Henry, that one cannot
get mad about it, and must perforce
swallow the joke with a grin. We would
advise Mr. Flisch, however, to bind Ins
vouug Cbattebton down to the bake
business, and work off his ugly humors
with a course of goober pea candy.
It will be seen from the above that the
confiding disposition of the Chronicle
and Sentinel has been taken advantage
i of in the most shameful as well as
shameless manner. The ingenious youug
man, too, touched ns upon a tender
point. He knew our weak side and
availed himself of that knowledge
to overwhelm us with mortification
and ignominy. The bait which tempt
. tH I the Herald would not have been
touched by the Chronicle.
j even murders in churches, with all their
accompaniments of cruelty aud brutali
ty, have no charms for us. Wo should
have looked upon the most graphic re
i port of an assassination with suspicion;
| should have hesitated, perhaps investi-
I gated, before publication. But he sent
us, instead, a snake story. Snakes are our
weakness. We frankly admit it. If the
feeling is wrong we are sorry for it; but
we can’t help it any more than a bird can
} l( .'o singing or a snow flake can help
filling For years we have made the
snake department of the Chronicle one
of its most attract!lf features - Poring
that time we have published a series of
the most brilliant and ihiilling stories
concerning these amiable reptiles.—
When we say snakes, of coarse we
mean rattlesnakes. We stoop to no
lower game. A letter informing us that
a prominent gentleman had been bitten
by a rattlesnake, and had died in great
agony, caught us right away. And then
.who could have resisted that “saving
clause” about the crops ? We fhrow.our
selves upon the mercy of an indulgent
public.
THE DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL EX
ECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
We publish elsewhere this morning
the proceedings of the meeting of the
Democratic Central Executive Coijamit
tee, held in Atlanta last Wednesday.—
The address to the people of Georgia is
brief, but to the point. We heartily en
dorse the views which it expresses and
the advice which it gives. We are glad
that the committee has suggested the
time for holding nominating conventions
in those districts which have no Execu
tive Committee. For the Eighth Dis
trict the first Wednesday in September
is recommended. This is the day sug
gested by the Warrenton Clipper. An
gnsta will be the place of meeting. We
suppose that this action will be perfectly
satisfactory to the people of every coun
ty in the district, and that the conven
tion question may be considered settled.
It is time now that the work of org miza
tion in the different counties in the dis
trict was commenced.
THE RIGHTS OP CANDIDATES.
Among the resolutions adopted by the
Democratic State Committee at its meet
ing last Wednesday was one offered by
lion. Augustus Reese, of Morgan, sug
gesting that:
The personal attendance by aspirants
for Congress upon primaries and county
meetings, for the purpose of controlling
their action, and upon Congressional
District meetings, for the purpose of
electioneering for the nomination, is dis
respectful to the delegates and unbe
coming the dignity cf the office sought.
It was eminently proper that such a
resolution should have emanated from a
man of such acknowledged integrity and
purity of character as Judge Reese. It
may be said of him, what cannot be
said of every man, that he practices wliat
he preaches. During the course of a
long and illustrious life, during a career
adorned by many valuable public ser
vices, it has never been charged against
him that he did a single improper act,
or one inconsistent with the highest and
nicest sense of honor. We believe that
in offering this resolution Judge Reese
was actuated by a desire to purify as far
as possible the politics of Georgia, and
to eliminate from the coming contest
theunseemly scrambling which promises
to become an element of the campaign.
But we do not believe that lie is entirely
right. We do not think that anything
can be accomplished by assailing one
practice which seems to be almost as
old as the country itself, and which is
the necessary accompaniment of a Re
publican form of government. In its
days of infancy and of weakness a Re
public calls upon its best men for their
services and these, neither seeking nor
declining the responsibilities of posi
tion, willingly devote their lives to the
State. But a change rapidly ensues
when the government grows strong, the
country populous and wealthy. Office
no longer seeks the man; but the man
tho office. The votes of the people
award station and preferment and the
suffrages of electors are courted by all the
arts known to the orator sfnd the states
man. Office and honors no longer seek
Cincinnatus at the plow. A train of
clients must be maintained and the
populace harangued from Capitoline
Hill. A man of worth and ability, sin
cerely desirous of serving the State—
than which there can be no higher nor
more honorable ambition—cannot wait
for the people to seek him out and tender
him the position which he wishes to oc
cupy. He must work in order to suc
ceed. This sounds like a humiliating
avowal, but, humiliating or not, it is the
truth. The principle lias been recog
nized and acted upon for many years
past. The aspirant for Legislative,
Gubernatorial, Congressional or Senato
rial honors must go before his constitu
ents, if not-for the purpose of “con
trolling their action,” at least to create
a sentiment favorable to his success.
Every one remembers the heated contest
in Illinois, before the war, between
Douglas and Lincoln, when they were
opposing candidates for the United
States Senate. They stumped every
.county iu the State, uot because the
elec 1 ion was to be by the people,
but in order to sectlre the return of a
Legislature a majority of whose mem
bers would be favorable to their candi
dacy. In the last Senatorial election
which occurred in Georgia every aspi
rant repaired to the capital, addressed
the Legislature and remained in the city
until the contest was decided. Certain
ly there can be nothing wrong in a prac
tice which has received the sanction of
so many virtuous and distinguished men.
We do not .believe in attempts to pack
conventions or to secure nominations by
the employment of unfair or dishonora
ble means ; but we see nothing wrong
or improper in a man seeking the suf
frages of his constituents before a nomi
nation any more than wo believe it
wrong for him to ask their votes iu the
Legislature or upon the hustings after
nominations have been made.
Like Judge Reese, we abhor anything
like lobbying with nominating conven
tions and primary meetings, but we can
not go so far as to condemu the can
vassing of a county, district or State
before a nomination. To a certain ex
tent the people have a right to know the
position and opinion of the men who
seek their suffrages for a nomination as
well as from those who come before
them for an election.
The Superior Conrt'of Cincinnati lias
made a decision of interest to retiring
partners. Henry Speer, of Henry
SrEER .t Cos., withdrew from the firm,
and duly advertised the fact in two city
papers, besides sending eircubfrs to all
who had previous dealings with the
firm. E. D. and James H. Speer con
tinued the use of the firm name, and
Bishop & Cos., not having seen the no
tice of Henry Spier’s withdrawal, sold
them goods on the strength of his
credit. They failed, and the Court held
that as Henry Speer had “voluntarily
and actively caused and assented to the
use of his name as a partner,” and no
tice of his withdrawal had not been
brought home to Bishop & Cos., he was
bound for the debt.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts
has defeated the attempt of the women
to serve upon the school board of edu
cation. The women have already ap
pealed to the Legislature* where they
will probably be more successful. It is
a little singular that Boston, which has
been so progressive upon every other
issue, should have given the cold shoul
der to the women in this matter. In
England women have served upon school
boards for several years past.
A gentleman in Rome announces
himself as a candidate for the Legisla
ture, but does not say a word about
j submitting to the action of a nomina
j ting convention. In the meantime a
meeting has been called for the purpose
of reorganizing the party inFloyd coun
tv and the Democracy there seem de
termined to make short work of the in
dependents. The same policy should
i be pursued elsewhere.
Gov. Allen, of Ohio, threw up his hat
when he read the President’s memoran
; dnm. —Boston Post.
It made Butler and Logan sick to
their stomachs, but what they “threw”
up is not recorded. — Albany Argus.
Beecher savs that dishonest office
holders are pretty fair representatives
of the constituents they represent, and
that whole communities are responsible
for the criminals they produce.
LETTER FRONI ATLANTA.
Harrington Convicted —A History of
the Crime -Black-Mailing in Little
Chicago-Struck by Lightning—Col- j
lege Unification—Miuor Mention.
[special correspondence chronicle
and sentinel.]
Atlanta, July, 1, 1874.
A Gambler Convicted of Robbery!
Some time ago your readers were
furnished with an account of the
Spencer-Harrington case, in which Spen
cer, a stock drover from South Carolina,
accused Dr. C. C. Harrington and other
accomplices of robbing him of §I,BOO.
Yesterday the case against Dr. Har
rington, who is said to be a dealer of
“ faro,” came up for trial in the Su
perior Court. Spencer testified that one
day, the day before Penn Bedell was
killed, he, while a guest at the Air
Line House, in this city, was approached
by a gentleman who represented himself
as a stock drover, and speaking fami- 1
liarly and freely with regard to his |
private affairs, soon iu a degree won his ;
confidence. Spencer had upon his per
son about §I,BO0 —the result of the
sale of his stock and all the money
he had in the world—and he expressed a
desire to exchange it for bills of a large
denomination. Harrington—who was
the disguised stock drover—readily
agreed to conduct him to a bank (this
all occurred at night) where he could ob
tain the desired exchange. Spencer con
sented, and allowed himself to be led to
the faro room occupied by Penn Be
dell. Arriving there he proceeded to
count his money, placing the bills on the
table behind which Harrington was set
ting. As soon as the entire amount had
been counted, Harrington, by a dextrous
manoeuvre of the hand, pushed it all into
a drawer in the table, which he locked
instantly. Spencer expressed his inten
tion to have him arrested for robbery,
at which utterance he was threatened
with violence. Spencer left, however,
and reported on the streets that he had
been decoyed to a gambling room and
robbed of his money. His story did uot
excite much sympathy for the reason
that every one supposed that as lie
had lost his money in a gambling
room, he had lost it in gambling.
The case, however, has turned out
difierently. Upon Spencer’s testimony
iu the Court yesterday, Harrington was
convicted of robbery, and this morning
sentenced by Judge Hopkins to im
prisonment in the penitentiary for ten
years. Harrington has the appearance
of a quiet, inoffensive and even well
bred gentleman. He dresses with taste; is
polite and sociable,and has an open frank
face. He, it is said, is from Virginia,
having for a time lived in Norfolk, buthas
resided in Atlanta for a year or two.
The case will probably be carried to the
Supreme Court. This is the first in
stance in v/hicli a “first class so-called
respectable gambler” has been convicted
of a criminal offense, I believe, in a
great while.
The Champion Black-Mailer of Geor
gia.,
Some time ago I gave your readers a
meagre account of the alleged disgrace
ful conduct of a certain judicial officer
iu this city, who earned his livelihood
by a systematic course of black-mailing.
Reference was had in that account to
Bailiff ,T. F. Porter, of the 1230th Mi
litia District of the city. He was con
victed of two charges against him, and
in one instance fined §OOO and in another
§IOO. He was unable to pay either, and
was committed to jail. He finally suc
ceeded in giving bond, through Mr.
Tbos. Kile, coroner, and a negro man
named Courtney Beall, who has consid
erable property, and was once more re
leased. Yesterday the grand jury found
a true bill against him for black-mailing.
Discovering,that a young merchant of this
city was living in adultery,he went to him,
it is said, and agreed to drop the prose
cution upon the payment of a certain
sum of money—a proposition that was
agreed to. The facts were presented to
the grand jury, which forthwith found a
true bill against Porter for black-mail
ing. Porter was immediately arrested,
but soon after escaped from the officer.
On the pretext of seeing his wife and
children in private for the last time, he
went into his wife’s private room, and
escaped from the back door, and be has
not been seen since. The grand jury
found two or three more bills against
him yesterday, and it is said that a jury l
could employ itself for many weeki
in' succession in investigating charges
against this champion black-mailer, as
he is termed.
Killed by Lightning.
A violent thunder storm prevailed in
this vicinity yesterday afternoon. Two
gentlemen, Mr. Rolater and his sou,
living seven or eight miles above here,
took refuge from the storm under a tree,
and while standing waiting for the
storm to abate, were struck by light
ning. At a late hour last night they
were both unconscious, and not expect
ed to live.
Unification of Colleges.
Gov. Smith has appointed on the com
mittee to perfect a plan for uniting and
consolidating the colleges of the S'ate
into one leading central University,Rev.
J. O. A. Clark, ex,-Gov. J. E. Brown,
Gen. John B. Gordon, Hon. B. H. llill
and Dr. David Wills, the last recently
President of Oglethorpe (Presbyterian)
University, in this city. All these gentle
men are of distinguished ability, and, it
is believed, warm advocates of the policy
of unification; yet there are grave appre
hensions that the scheme for the estab
lishment of a splendid aud powerful
educational institution will fail; and if it
fail, the shame and responsibility of the
future will rest upon the too zealous and
partisan friends of the several denomina
tional colleges in the State. It is be
lieved that the great majority of
the thinking men of the State heartily
approve this patriotic plan for establish
ing an educational institution that will
place Georgia in the very front rank
with Virginia, Massachusetts and Michi
gan in the liberal patronage of her edu
cational institutions. Yet it is feared
that there are high and influential dig
nitaries in the various denominational
colleges who think the design will re
tard the progress of their own religious
sect, and who will, forgetting the good
of the people at large and the glory of
the State, work for the success of their
pet institutions, to the detriment of our
great name for enterprise, learning and
intelligence. Every interest should yield
to that of the State University, whose
catalogue of distinguished alumni would
make it the rallying point for the learn
ed and the learners throughout the West
aud Southwest, were it so liberally en
dowed as to make tuition free and its
curriculum more comprehensive.
Facts in Brief.
The approximate estimate for county
expenses for the coming year is §47,000.
* * At a meeting of the stockholders
of the Atlanta Daily Neivs, Mr. Philip
Dodd, a wealthy grocery merchant of
this city, was elected President of the
Board of Directors. The News says
now that it will be born next Sunday.
* * Hon. A. H. Stephens has been in
vited to deliver an address before the
Greenesboro High School. * * Gen.
W. S. Walker, of Confederate military
renown, announces himself as candidate
for Tax Collector of Fulton county. He
was defeated for the same office two
! years ago by Captain Samuel P*. Hovle,
I the present incumbent. * * District
| polities have somewhat subsided, while
! county politics wax warm. Halifax.
j SPECIE PAYMENTS POSTPONED.
[From the Brooklyn Argus.]
| The Argus has had but one theory in
j regard to the financial legislation of this
| Congress from the first. The time had
i come when a somewhat serious discus
| siou of the question of specie payment
! could be had. Two sets of financiering
i lobbyists were sent to Washington one
I to agitate contraction and control tne
; good uatured President, who, in advance,
\ said “he might change liis mind; and
the other to control the Congress and
I slip through expansion measures. The
diplomatic field was W ashington, the
objective point Wall street, and the
stakes were hundreds of millions of dol-
So far, the game of eel-skinners has
worked beyond their fondest expecta
tions. Everything final was left until
the last days of the session. A few
! weeks ago the President was induced to
sign a ridiculous memorandum to Sena
tor Jones, of a gold producing State,
| which declared for contraction and
: which called for §300,000,00) of new
gold within two years. The effect was
what might have been anticipated. Se
j clarities tumbled as if there was no value
i to them, and the trade of the country
was prostrated. Singularly, just before
the close of the session the two largest
Western States held their party conven
tions, dared to nullify their own Presi
dent’s declarations, and declared for im*
i equivocal expansion. If aa 7 one . be
lieves this was done without a previous
understanding, they are more verdant
I than the average American politician
and financier. Immediately after these
: conventions have spoken a conference
I committee of the two Houses of Con
! gress come together and agree to vir
tually expand the currency a large but
j indefinite amount. The legal . te ° d " s
: are fixed at $382,000, OW. This is an ex
! pansion of $26,0u0,000. Senator Mor-
I ton said: ,
The effect of abolishing the reserves
would be to set free over 5>30,000,000,
which, at certain seasons of the year—
; to move crops, etc.—would be a great
i relief. The law now requires this
! money to be locked np in the vaults of
| banks, and to setjit free would, a be prac
! tical measure of relief, to some extent
i Other Senators place the sum much
higher. But, accepting this minimum
amount, these two sums make an expan
sion of §56,u00,000, or twenty-six per
cent, of the legal currency of the coun
try.
And this is President Grant’s contrac
tion “and return to specie payments
during his administration.”
Comment is nnnessary. Volumes
could be written. Wall street is making
the record. What money has recently
been lost by certain men will be made by
others. And thus are the interests of
this great country the shuttlecock of a
few political thimble-riggers. The
country could not now, after the fearful
havoc of last Fall, stand contraction;
but any further expansion is simply
stimulating with ether. We think with
Senator Sherman, that specie payments
have been postponed—slightly.
HORRIBLE MURDER.
Murder of J. D. Creswell, of Bartow
County—Full Particulars.
[From the Home Courier.]
John Drayton Creswell, who owned
and lived on the Widow Sproull place,
in Bartow county, was murdered at 84
o’clock last Saturday night, in his front
yard, by a Swede named Conrad. The
following are the particulars as we get
them from a reliable source:
This man Conrad had lived on the
place one or two years while it was car
ried on by Mr. Sheats, and now lives
near by. Some time this last Spring
Mr. Creswell employed him to clean out
or repair lijs well, under a contract to
do the work for five dollars—one-half
cash and balance in the Fall, or after
the work had been tested. Soon after
the work was done Mr. C. paid him the
two dollars and a half, as agreed.
Last Saturday night, at about eight
o’clock, Conrad" came to Mr. Creswell’s
house and demanded the balance of the
j pay for work on the well, either in cash
or wheat. Mr. Creswell told him it was
not due till Fall and he would not pay
| it till due. Conrad used abusive and
i insulting language, and Mr. Creswell -
ordered him out of the house. He weut
rather reluctantly, and Mr. C. followed
j him to the front yard gate. Wliat words
j passed between the parties at the gate
! is not known.
About half-past eight a negro living
| in the yard by the name of Sheriff heard
Mr. Creswell call twice for help. He
| hastened to him and thinks he was
| dead when he got there. He called an
other negro named Anderson and got a
light as soon as he could and when the
light came he was certainly dead.
The appearances were that Mr. Cres
well started to return to the house from
the gate, and was knocked down with a
heavy rock, being hit on the back part
of his head, and then stabbed to the
heart with a knife.
He was carried into the house and
laid on a sofa, and Col. Henry Styles —
the nearest neighbor—was immediately
sent for. When Col. Styles arrived he
found Mr. Creswell’s life! ss body lying
on the sofa and his wife—having fainted
—lying insensible on the floor. •
Conrad made his escape and had not
been arrested up to last accounts.
Mr. Creswell was about 35 years of
| age, formerly of Edgefield District, S.
i 0., and was a man of great energy and
J enterprise, and bad many friends iu this
I section. Some years ago he married
! Miss Fannie Pearson, a most estimable
j lady of this city. The bereaved family
; and friends have the deepest sympathy
! of this entire community.
Note. — Mr. J. D. Creswell lived iu
Augusta some years since, and was a
partner in the firm of Walker & Creswell,
; who were engaged in the wood business.
THE SLAYER OF CRESSWELL
CAUGHT.
A Carrier Boy of the Rome Commer
cial Nabs Him.
[From the Home Commercial.]
After the killing of J. D. Cresswell,
on last Saturday night, the Swede, Con
rad, who did the killing made his way
towards Rome. Iu Hillsboro, early
Sunday morning, he met George Hol
der, one of the carrier boys of the Com
mercial, and inquired the way to the
Texas Valiev Road. Ho was a stranger
to the boy, but was shown the way. He
expressed a desire to go up on the
mountain to see a relative. The carrier
'thought nothing of the matter, but
when late in the day a report of the
murder reached Rome and a description
of the man, the lad at once reported the
circumstances of the meeting in the
morning. Other parties also reported
having semi a strange mac going in the
direction of the mountain. As early as
possible Deputy Sheriff Jenkins and Mr.
E. Z. Taylor started in pursuit of Con
rad. He has a brother-in-law living
on Mr. Sheats’ place, about twelve
miles from Koine, ar.d where it
was correctly supposed lie had
gono. Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Tay
lor came up with the fugitive yester
day morning about ten o’clock. He of
fered no resistance—said he would have
surrendered himself voluntarily, but
feared that he would be killed. He con
fesses to the killing of Mr. Cresswell—
says he did not hit him but did stab
him and leave the knife in his body. His
own account of the killing corresponds,
in the main, with that contained in our
article of yesterd.iy—he, as is to be ex
pected, claiming extenuating circum
stances. Conrad wn~ lodged in Floyd
| county jail, fro n whence he will be
{ taken, we suppose, to Bartow county for
trial.
A Contrary Statement.'
WHAT THE PRISONER SAYS ABOUT IT.
[Telegram to the Herald.]
Cartersville, July 1,1874.
j Conrad W. Staffin, tho murderer of
| Cresswell, was brought to this place
i this morning and will have a prelimiria
| ry trial to-morrow morning. Your state
ment of the beating of Cresswell with a
club was erroneous. Cresswell was kill
: ed by one stab in t]ie breast. The mur
derer was caught in Texas vaAley, Floyd
| county, yesterday morning. J. W.
BLOOD HOUSES IN NEW YOBK.
The Nathan Mansion Still Unoccupied
—The Cunuiiighffm House—The Ro
gers House The Grand Central
; Hotel.
Four years ago occurred the Nathan
murder in the family residence, in Twen
ty-third street, and the special horror of
that crime has so involved the very
stones of the structure within which it
happened that there has been in all this
time no purchaser or lessee found of
sufficiently callous sensibilities to buy,
lease or occupy it, aud it is consequently
at present in process of demolition. —
This is a peculiar event in the annals of
metropolitan crime, for there are many
dwellings in this city with a similar his
tory which have, nevertheless, been oc
cupied ever since the commission of the
acts which have made them temporarily
notorious.
There is, for instance, the Cunning
ham residence, in Bond street, the
scene of the sanguinary Burdell murder,
whose secret has been equally well kept
| with that of Benjamin Nathan. There
| is the Bogers house, in Twelfth street,
j another illustration of the truth of the
| proverb that “murder will not out.”—
i There is the Grand Central Hotel, whose
fatal staircase is daily trodden by liun
| dreds of footsteps as though it had
1 never been the scene of the murder of
James Fisk, Jr. These buildings have
somehow outlived the terrible shadow
1 of crime which once hung over them;
and life, with all its earnest interests,
proceeds as tranquilly therein as though
no “skeleton in the closet” had for once
i made itself visible in their chambers
and stalked publicly into the noon-day
view of the world. But with Nathan
mansioft it has been widely different.—
There, as in the “Moated Grange,”
.All dav within the dreamy house
The doors upon their hinges creak'd :
Hie bine flv sung in the pane : the mouse
Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek and.
j And so, although w&do not, as they
did iu ancient times, ilrew the very site
of the structure with salt after its demo
lition, still it would seem that the sen
timent of abhorrence which has clung
to the Nathan mansion would not be
satisfied by a less sacrifice than the de
struction of’the gloomy and sadly mem
; orable place.— New York Commercial
Advertiser.
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
Dr. Bonzano has been appointed Super
intendent of the Mint at New Orleans.
The bill to make an appropriation to
pav the mail contractors South for ser
vice performed prior to the 31st of May,
1861, failed to become a law, but will
come up again at the next session.
Atlanta organize i a Cotton Exchange
yesterdav. \Y. M. Mitchell was elected
President aud J. B. Wight, Secretary.
The Governor of Porto Rico has con
ceded the use of the Government land
lines for telegraphing weather reports
from St. Thomas, Barbadoes and Guada
loupe to Jamaica, thence to Washington
for the signal service.
Mavor Havemeyer, of New York, has
reappointed Police Commissioners Char
lick and Gardiner, who had been con
victed of malfeasance.
During a quarrel last night George
Stone, of New York, once a wealthy
builder, beat his wife fatally with a soda
' bottle.
A final and very severe test of the big
brjdge yesterday at St. Louis was satis-
I factory.
Wheit.—Near Centerville, S. C., a
gentleman had four acres in wheat; the
| yield from the patch was 160 bushels.
I The land waStoanured with cotton seed.
THE DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE.
A Good Full Meeting and Harmonious
Action—No Convention lmportant
Action.
[Atlanta Herald.]
Atlanta Ga., July 1, 1874.
Executive Committee met at 10 o’clock,
Colonel Hardeman in the Chair, and the
following gentlemen were found to be
present: Messrs. Augustus Reese, Hon.
James M. Hunter, Hon. H. Fielder,
Col. Mark Blandford, Hon. L. N. Tram
mell, Colonel J. L Harris, Hon. J. C.
Nichols, Hon. J. H. Christy, Hon. T.
G. Lawson, Colonel I. W. Avery, and
Col. J. S. Boynton. The Chair stated
that the principal object of the call of
the meeting was to prevent nominations
before the aijournmeut of Congress.
The Chair announced the appointment
of Hon. Martin J. Crawford to till the
vacancy in the Columbus District. He
read a letter from Colonel Crawford,
stating that he was unable to attend,
and appointing Col. Blandford to act for
him. There being no objection he took
his seat. It was stated by the Chair
that in several of the Congressional Dis
tricts there was no Executive Commit
tee, and suggested that some action
should be takeu. Col. Blandford moved
the call of a State Convention. The
motion was discussed in a conversational
manner, and finally decided in the nega
tive. Colonel Trammell moved that the
Chairman be instructed to issue an ad
dress, embodying the views of the com
mittee. The Chairman stated that he
had prepared a brief statement of the
political situation, which he read.
Col. Reese moved that the statement
be adopted as the action of the commit
tee. Unanimously carried.
To the Democratic Paaty of Georgia :
You are soon to engage in another
election for the control of your State.—
Your recent victories should not, make
you over confident of success. The op
position are thoroughly organized for
the conflict. Are your forces ready for
the field ? Is there union and harmony
in your ranks ? Union is success, di
vision is defeat. Select good men, able
men to lead you, and give them a
united, cordial, hearty support. Be not
divided by local issues; beware of jeal
ousies arising from “claims overlooked,”
“stocked conventions,” and personal
prejudices. These are weapons furnish
ed by a skillful enemy to break your
ranks and defeat your cause. Look
with distrust upon “People’s Tickets,”
“Citizens’ Candidates,” when brought
forward in opposition to your regular
nominees. They are snbterf lges gener
ally of disappointed aspirants, who are
used by the opposition to defeat your
organization. We enu not afford to
destroy or weaken the Democratic party.
It has rescued the State from Radical
misrule; it has broken the alliance that
existed between power and crime; it has
checked the system of public p under
which was driving our people to bank
ruptcy and ruin; it has restored the con
trol of the government to the virtue and
intelligence of the State; it has given
Georgia a position in the Union beyond
that of her unfortunate sisters of the
South. Will you, relying upon your
majority, grow listless and unconcerned?
Remember bleeding South Carolina.
Will you split into petty jealousies and
endanger your success ? Think of down
trodden Louisiana. Will yon, by a
thirst for position and place, distract
and divide your forces ? Look at plun
dered Florida, and determine that in
this contest patriotism shall guide your
actions and your hopes. Your defeat is
Radical rule, and Radical rule is op
pression, civil rights bills, social degra
dation, plunder and bankruptcy. Your
success gives assurance of constitutional
government, enforcement of law and
maintenance of right. The cause is
worthy of your efforts; its success should
be the day star of your ambition. In
dividual responsibility is essential to a
favorable termination of the struggle.
Let the campaign be quick, sharp, de
cisive. Look well to your nominating
conventions. See to it that none but
men of integrity are offered to the peo
ple for their support—men who will
spurn the rings that would raid upon
your treasury—men who will look only
to the interest and honor of the State;
and with such men to bear your stand
ards you will command a victory. In
the Federal elections there is great need
of action. Indifference before gave
Georgia men in Congress who would
have inflicted upon the white people of
the State injuries and insults too revolt
ing to contemplate. Justice to your
selves, justice to your children, justice
to peace and good order, justice to hu
manity, justice to an ignorant race they
would ruin under the guise of friend
ship—all, require of you action, decisive
effort, unceasing labor, to brand these
men with the seal of condemnation and
remove them from a position they have
degraded and disgraced. Men of Geor
gia, the issue is with you; it is big with
consequence. Do your duty, and all
will be well with you and your nobie old
State. Respectfully submitted,
Trios. Hardeman, Jr.,
Chairman Dem. Executive Committee.
Introduced by Col. Fielder :
Resolved, That the Democratic party
of ibis State be earnestly requested to
organize thoroughly in every county, so
as to secure perfect harmony and united
action, and the earnest co-operation of
every voter in the party. That we urge
upon every voter of the party to see to
it that he bo legally qualified to vote,
and upon the managers of elections to
see to it that the law of the State pro
hibiting illegal voting is rigidly enforced.
Introduced by Col. Avery and amen
ded as follows :
Resolved, That the Democratic party
in the Congressional Districts that have
no District Executive Committee be
recommended to hold Congressional
conventions where the last Congressional
Convention convened, and tnat said
Conventions be held in the 4th, on the
second Wednesday in September; in the
sth, on Wednesday the 19th of August;
in the Ist, on the first Wednesday in
September, and in the Bth, if there be
no acting committee, that the conven
tion be held on the first Wednesday in
September. Carried.
Introduced by 001. Reese :
Resolved, We suggest that the per
sonal attendance by aspirants for Con
! gress upon primaries and county meet
ings, for the purpose of controlling their
action, and upon Congressional District
meetings, for the purpose of electioneer
ing for the nomination, is disrespectful
to the delegates and unbecoming the
dignity of the office sought. Carried.
Col. Jones resigned as committeeman
on account of inability to attend.
Committee adjourned.
Thomas Hardeman, Jr.,
I. W. Averk, Chairman.
Secretary.
THE COTTON ACREAGE IN 1874.
The Present Prospect of tlie Crop.
The New York Financial Chronicle,
of the 27tli, has a lengthy editorial on
the cotton acreage of 1874, in which are
embodied detailed reports from the sev
eral States. The returns show the ap
pearance of the plant and the extent of
the planting on or about the 20th June,
with some iigures as to the extent of the
| failure in the crop of last year. Com
menting on this, the editor says:
These figures show a decrease from
| last year in this year’s planting of 768,-
J 092 acres, or about 8 per cent. With
this acreage determined, a comparison
with previous years becomes of interest,
■ and for this purpose we present the fol
lowing statement showing the total acres
t each previous June sinee we began the
record, the yield per acre, &c.:
COMPARATIVE ACREAGE AND PROPCCT.
Acres Crop, Pou’ds Bdles Net w’t
planted. pounds per in the per
Reasons. net. acre. crop. hale
j IH6O-70 7,933/ 00 1,382,900,000 174 3,154,946 437
! 1870-71 .8,885,090 1,915.00 ,000 216 4,353,318 440
i 1871-72 7,811,0'10 1,309,000/ 00 168 2,914.351 440
1872-73 8,807,000 1,7.0,000,000 190 3,930,508 440
1873 74 , .9,8,2,000 1,820,000,000 180 4,100,000 444
Average. 8,653,000 1,031,000,000 188 3,702,424 440
From the above our readers will see
that if the season is very unfavorable,
like that of 1871-72, so that the yield is
only 168 pounds per acre, the total crop
this vear would be fnet weight 444
pounds) about 3,400,000 bales; or if it
equal the unusually good season of 1870-
71, the yield would reach 4,400,000 bales;
; or again, if the weather and surround
ings are similar to last year, the yield
would then be 3,780,000 bales; or if
! similar to the previous (1872-73) year
: (195 pounds to the acre), it would be
i about 4,000,000 bales.
S'concl The fact which is thus
brought out by this last table as to the
present crop being a short one, is con
firmed by the information given in the
details with regard to each State. In
sending out our inquiries, we particu
i larly sought to determine the extent of
this deficiency, so as to measure the
possibilities of this year's yield with the
present acreage. For instance, if upon
8 per cent, larger planting in 1873, 4,-
100,000 bales were raised, and that was j
20 per cent, short of a full crop, we can, j
as the Fall advances and we fenow what
the weather has been, easily reach a
conclusion as to what we may antici
pate this season. Under the circum
stances, therefore, it would be mislead
ing or meaningless to say simply that
i the acreage this year is 8 per cent, less
than in 1873; hence, the need for this
' additional information. By the process
we have adopted, our conclusion is—and
we do not see how any one can avoid
: reaching the same conclusion, if they j
will make the same investigation—that
I on last year’s acreage, had we a full
j crop, we should have obtained about
I five million bales of ootton, if so much
could have been gathered. Os course
acreage figures of the kind published
cau be but approximation; nothing but
an actual census can give us accuracy on
this point. And yet it will be seen that
if the yield last year had been equal to
the'good year of 1870-71 (216 pounds
per acre), the result would be just about
five million bales, showing a close agree
ment between our acreage figures and
the result obtained by another process
of special reports from each State.
Third —With regard to the present
condition of the plant, our reports are
very full and satisfactory. Os course
great discouragement was felt in the
early Spring, and even after the wet
weather has passed, the floods had sub
sided. and the seed was mostly in, the
drouth presented an unfavorable feature.
But with the rains which began the last
of May, and have continued since, fre
quent in most sections and yet not exces
sive, the progress has been very rapid.
On the first of June the fields were clear
of weeds, several of our reports stating
that for many years they have not been
so much so, and the plant was healthy
and strong, but undersized ; plants dug
up at that time showed a good root, ex
tending deep into the ground. Hence
the late growing weather has put the
crop in the best possible condition, ex
cept in this one particular of backward
ness. It started, as we have seen, from
three to four weeks late ; but corres
pondents state that on the Ist to the loth
of July, if the present progress con
tinues, the plant will everywhere have
made good that loss.
CONNUBIAL.
Some Pertinent Thoughts on the Mat
rimonial State —That Absorbing
Question — I To Wed Or Not lo Wed? —
Celibacy and Matrimony.
As the world well knows, blit as the
world may not take ‘lie trouble to dwell
upon very often in a meditative way,
there be weddings and weddings. The
common excuse of the young man of the
period, when asked why he does not
marry, and why he prefers to live a
bachelor and questionable morality life,
is that he cannot afford to take a wife,
thereby suggesting, that matrimony is
one of the expensive luxuries of this life,
and, therefore, one to be avoided if
possible. ; In the abstract, matrimony is
what the heart of humanity yearns for,
or at least an association of the sexes
which shall approximate the legalized
condition, even if it. does not carry the
responsibility or the expense. It is here
that much of the false morality of the
day takes its rise, and much of the pre
judice against following out the divine
command to unite has its origin. There
is a tendency on the part of young men
to remain in bachelorhood until, at
least, they can offer some aspiring and
mercenary young lady, together with
their heart, a handsome fortune, or, at
least, the foundation for one. Those
who do not inherit, and who are con
sequently obliged to labor for this
starter, find it an easy matter to drift
into the easy fashion which so largely
prevails and which has come to us from
across the water, of living ail ostensi
ble married life, privately, with some
woman whose character would not ad
mit her into any society but that of the
lowest. It is a matter of convenience,
merely, but, constantly followed, inures
the young man’s heart, until at last he
care's but little whether his union to any
respectable lady is ever solemnized,
knowing very well that with a little cau
tion he can enjoy the society of the
latter and use her as a pretty parlor
plaything, while he lives his life of un
hallowed and illegitimate love with the
professional womau. The result of this
is that marriages are not as numerous in
what may be termed the loading' circles
as among the plain and fustian-clad
laborers who live liveli of honest pover
ty, marry young, rear children and can
not afford to be anything else than peo
ply of sturdy morality because, for one
reason, they cannot afford to be any
thing else. The young people of metro
politan cities, like Chicago, who have
been out somewhat in society, don’t
care to be married unless they can ap
proach, to a degree, the elegance of sur
roundings attending the nuptials of par
ties in affluent circumstances, and the
attempt to imitate such in point of
wealth or the social station not only
acts with telling effect upon them in a
manner which,they keenly feel, but is
also liable to stamp them as pretentious
shoddyites. It would bo much better
did the several classes of this world’s
society feel content to live' upon their
individual plane and act according to
their station and their means.
It is a pleasing conceit of many of the
old heads of to-day that married life of
the present has few of the characteris
tics of the unions of their time. Fathers
who, in the years agone, with an honest
dollar in their pocket and a few acres of
stony land, took to their hearts some
rustic country lass with a handsome
dowry of one cow and a wealth of home
spun frocks and woolen stockings, won
der why it is that nowadays, as their ma
turing sons and daughters begin to cast
about for life partners, they find the
matter based almost entirely upon finan
cial considerations. The old man’s sou
looks for an alliance with a plethoric
purse, willing to accept some young girl
into the bargain for convenience, while
the old man’s daughter is wooed by some
other ambitious rogue with false repre
sentations as to wealth and a keen eye
upon her prospective dueats. Suspicion
begts suspicion ; falsity caters to falsity;
misrepresentation fattens upon misrep
resentation ; dishonesty breeds dishon
esty. Pretentious poverty courts worthy
opulence ; wealth is often deceived by
glittering sham. Alliances of this char
acter are crying evils of the day, and are
responsible for much that tends to throw
an odium upon society and make hu
manity doubt whether there is auy gen
uine constancy or affection among those
who number themselves with the leading
classes. There is too great a desire on
the part of young married people for
display, too great a longing after condi
tions which they cannot always supply.
Failure in this, allied to cold-blooded
martial relations, tends to destroy the
happiness that should result from a sin
cerity of unison. This is the prevailing
sentiment and frequent result, no mat
ter whether it is the rule or not. For
the honor of mankind, the lookers-on
upon the social drama are in duty bound
to believe the instances that are almost
daily cited are the noteworthy excep
tions.
There are weddings, and weddings—
the dinner of herbs and contentment
therewith and the stalled ox with bit
terness and strife. Unions with small
means and genuine affection outlive
these which bring only unrealized
wealth and jealous bickerings. Better
the happiness and plain, homely life of
the former generation than the deceits
and misrepresentations of many who
make up the present circle of society.
Want of means, joined with suspicious
distrust of the sex, a general desire to
assume a degree of style which cannot
be reached, keep many of the young
men of the day from entering the matri
monial state. It is just as well, per
haps, that such should remain single,
for the result of such unions is, as
above stated, one of questionable bene
fit to either party.
Young men and young women will be
happier when they corno to the sensible
conclusion that wealth and position are
not the only goal to reach through the
avenue of matrimony. They will pass
pleasanter lives and know more of the
felicity of sexual relations when they
strip themselves of the garb of deceit
and practice that which is honest and
sincere. There will then be fewer of the
single brotherhood who spend their sub
stance upon women of questionable re
pute simply because they have not the
means to support a fashionable wife,
and more sensible women with the single j
aim of economical unions to deserving
men. Could the greed for display be ;
eradicated from the heart, there* might l
be a more eminent degree of merito- j
rious alliances, which would reflect the
utmost credit upon the social world and !
reflect greatly upon individual worth. —
Chicago Times.
POLITICAL.
The Wisconsin Republicans.
Desmoines, July 2. —The Republican |
State Convention resolutions favor the j
submission to the people of an amend
ment to the Constitution extending suf
frage to women. They affirm that Con- |
gress has the power to regulate com- !
merce between the States, whether by
rail or by water, and under that right
should legislate against extortions and j
discriminations ; and under that right -
should provide for the improvement of j
our great national water ways. They
approve the new currency bill.
A Disastrious Fire.
Providence, R. L, July 2.—-The So
cial Mills of Woonsacket, running fifty
thousand spindles and one thousand
looms on cotton goods, were entirely des
troyed by fire this afternoon. The fire
caught at three o’clock from the friction
of the main belt, about the middle of
the structure, which was six hundred
feet long and built of stone and brick.
The flames spread rapidly but the em
ployes, seven hundred in number proba
bly, all escaped safely. .The loss will
probably range from seven hundred
thousand to eight hundred thousand
dollars. Insurance, #630,f)00.
The Comet.— We are informed by a
gentleman who has taken the trouble to
look carefully through the almanacs of
this year, that none of them foretell the
coming of the comet which stands be
tween the Ursur Major and the North
Star, a little lower down toward the
horizon, and is visible from 8 to J
o’clock, p. m.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Impressions of South «'arolina—What
a Georgian Thinks of the Palmetto
State.
[special correspondence chronicle and
. SENTINEL. ]
Macon, July 2, 1874.
A week just spent in the unhappy
State of South Carolina revealed a
state of affairs there not only a disgrace
to the American name, but an insult to
civilization. I had supposed and eveu
hoped that the charges now ringing
everywhere in the press of the United
States, of wholesale robberies, of uni
versal petty and grand larcenies com
mitted by State officials from Governor
down to the lowest office holder, were
greatly exaggerated if not in many in
stances wholly untrue. But instead of
finding it so, I found that the real
truth had only partially been told.
A Grand Army of Rogues.
In interviews with several Radical
leaders they openly acknowledge to me
that the career of their party from the
time it seized the government in IHOB to
the present day had been one of crime
—one of shame ! Rank and file was
one putrid mass of corruption—it was
no more nor less than a Grand Army of
Rogues—the only difference from the
brigand being that the majority of their
thefts were in the name of the law. But
whether by act of the Legislature, by
decree of Court, by order of the Gover
nor, still every dollar collected by taxa
tion was either appropriated by’ office
holders or leaders or members of the
party under the head of salaries for ser
vices, or openly stolen without any ex
cuse whatever. Vice and avarice every
where stalked abroad at noonday, “judg
ment has lied to brutish beasts, and men
have lost their reason.” Unhappy
South Carolina ! One of the original
thirteen colonies, but the other
day one of the proudest States in the
Union of States, with the blood of the
Huguenots of France and the Cavaliers
of England predominating in the veins
of your children, I found you to-day
bound hand and foot to a race but one
remove from barbarians, officered atnl
controlled by a band of white men in
great part to whom the name of villain
would be a misnomer.
The Measure of Success.
Tlie greater and (he grander the
scoundrel is in South Cartlina the more
intensely the negro loves him—the more
enthusiastically does lie receive support
for offices which in all civilized lands are
studiously entrusted to men distinguish
ed for honor. So low are they steeped
in vice that it would be as useless to
preach morality to a mule as they. They
will support no man for office unless he
is more or less distinguished for crime.
The result is, that every public office,
from one end of the State to the other,
is filled by men who ought to be in the
penitentiary, or who should long since
have ended their lives on the gallows !
These are, lam aware, broad assertions,
grave charges. But no intelligent,
honorable American citizen can spend
six days in that State, mingling freely
as I did with men of all parties, with
out coming to the same conclusions —
conclusions based upon notorious facts.
The Social Relations of the Old Caro
linian anil His Slave.
One of the most startling facts, in
view of the above situation of the affairs
of the government of the State, is that
the old Carolinian is living as a rule in
peace and harmony with his former
slave. The negro will trust, him with
his money, go to him for advice in all
trades and transactions, go to him for
assistance in trouble and sickness, and
in everything savo politics has a thou
sand times more confidence in him
than in a Radical, white or black, carpet
bagger or scalawag. But when it comes
to voting he will cast his suffrage for the
most notorious malefactor, or a stranger
he has not known for a day, in prefer
ence to a native white man whom he has
known all his life and whose character
is without ono single blemish. There
as here they enter upon contracts with
avidity to work on tho plantations, in
the factories, in the houses and gardens,
reposing the utmost confidence in the
owner: If they have any money to
deposit they will hand it to their old
master, without requiring a receipt;
they will allow him to keep tho books or
accounts between them without a doubt of
his honesty, and tako his word for every
thing. In all these matters they will
not trust a member of their party, as a
general rule, in any respect whatever.
Why is it then they will not trust him
in the affairs of government ? This is
easily explained.
The Loyal Leagug.
This political, Radical organization
extends from the centre to the eircu in
ference of South Carolina, rami lies in its
every nook and corner, is most thor
oughly organized and energetically of
ficered by native and foreign men. By
its machinery a pressure is brought to
bear upon the colored man which ho
cannot resist. Its chief instruments are
lies and bravado. The negro is a most
credulous creature. Ho will believe any
thing. He is told on-e\ery hand by the
orators of his party that tho white
race designs to put him back into
shivery, and that if he votes the Demo
cratic ticket that will be tho, speedy and
certain result. His fears are worked
upon by the members of this secret
organization, the Jhoyal League, who
tell him plainly that if he votes
other than the Republican ticket he will
surely be visited wit"nothing less than
death ! It is intimated to him that
death may overtake him at any time, or
at any moment, that it may come viliilo
planting in the fields, walking through
the woods, or sleeping in his bed. Thus
terrorised over, those of them, and I
think there are not many, who would
otherwise vote for a revolution in the
affairs of their land dare not do so.
Another source of terror to them is tho
South* Carolina Militia. It is composed
of twenty thousand negroes, armed with
Winchester Rifles. There are one or
more companies in every county in the
State, who just prior to any election are
frequently paraded under arms with car
tridge boxes full of ammunition. And
still another source of terrorism, not
only to the negro but to the white people
as well, is the constant presence of a
portion of the United States army at the
central positions of the State. Black
and white leaders both assure the igno
rant colored man that the meaning of all
this military array is to force him to vote
the Radical ticket—that if these are not
enough, Gen. Grant will send an army to
their support equal to that of Gen.
Sherman’s, in 1865, which marched
through the State.
The Amount of Stealings.
It is next to impossible to more than
approximate the amount of money stolen
by the Radical party in South Carolina
from 1868 to 1874. The public debt has
been increased all of 810,000,000. In
the six years they have collected 819,000-
000 and upwards for taxes. All this has
gone to support the Governor, the
Judges, the Legislature and petty State
officers. The only honest debt paid
was 8900,000 interest on the public
funded debt, which accrued from
1868 to 1871. From this 819,000,000,
therefore, this item should be deducted.
Before the war the cost of running the
State government was 8400,000 per an
num, or in six years 82,400,000. There
fore deduct fjiis 83,300,000 from the
819,000,000 and you have in round num
bers 816,700,000 which the Radical par
ty lias stolen from fclie tax payers of
South Carolina in the last six years.
No, that ain’t right. In addition to this
they have stolen 'the assets of the State
I Bank, amounting to nearly one million,
j 8400,000 from the Columbia and Green
ville Railroad, on their account, and
! nearly 82,000,000 on account of the Blue
| Ridge Railroad. This should be added
j to tlie amount and the great gross ag
; gregute of the robbery foots up 822,-
600,000. As the majority of your read
ers live in close proximity to the State
and are familiar with most of the details, j
a repetition of them here would be su- j
perfluous.
The Condition of the People.
I found the tax payers, the real owners
of the laud and houses, in a condition
of despair. They arc utterly powerless
to throw off the weight which is crush
ing them to death. The elections are
nothing but mockeries. A white man
may receive ten thousand majority and
the managers who are without exception
Radicals, will return the majority for the
Radical at four or five thousand. Tiie
Legislature, the Governor, yea, even the
Congress of the United States, will re
ceive the return without questiqu. Gov.
Moses and Secretary Cardozo com
plained to me that the old aristocracy
of the State stood aloof from poli
ties and would have nothing to do with
the affairs of the State. This was not
true, as ample means of finding
out, and suppose it was. What waH the
use of casting a ballot where their man
agers had instructions from them
stuff the boxes to any extent necessary”
to carry the election ? It was participa
ting in a gambling game where they
were certain tq lose no matter how they
bet. The whole truth is the Republican
party of South Carolina is one of de
pravity. Honor is foreign to it. To it j
virtue and honesty is a crime—success
ful roguery the highest attribute to
which human nature can attain.
Where Relief Must Como From.
The battle for the liberation of South
Carolina must be fought outside of the
State. All its pure men are bound hand
and foot and utterly unable to help
themselves. They may speak and
may vote and it will amount to
nothing. All parties, black and
white, rest under the conviction that
President Grant and the Congress of the
United States fully endorse all the acts
of ex-Gov. Scott and acting Gov. Moses
and their several Legislatures. They
believe that Grant would not hesitate to
order the co-operation of the army and
navy in th'fe event of any resistance to
their wholesale plundering. They be
lieve that Grant and Congress are sus
tained by the people of the North be
cause of traditional hatred of South
Carolina. Once disabnse their besot
ted minds of these impressions and
they would quickly relax their hold upon
tho throat of the Stnto. We can only do
this by revolutionizing Congress first
and the President next. No relief will”
ever come short, of that. It is utter
ly preposterous to suppose that tho
people of the United States will
much longer tolerate such a scandal
ous state of affairs as exist there now.
It is the real wish of the masses to expel
the white people from the soil. Tlieir
leaders knowing full well that this cannot
be accomplished by force of arms, for in
that event the whole Union would inter
fere, are now practicing a surer method
of reaching that end by making taxation
so enormous that residence will bo in
tolerable. They are radically and open
ly opposed to the introduction of any
more white blood. On the other hand,
they wiuft to rid themselves of what they
already have.
Relapsing Into Barbarism.
This is the worst feature of tho whole
situation. Instead of the black popula
j tion advancing in education and civiliza
tion, it, is on the descending scale, more
particularly on the islands off the coast,
whore no white people now live. Take
away the influence of the white people—
and it is rapidly disappearing—remove it
from the State, and not twenty years
will elapse before South Carolina will bo
in as barbarous a conditionas Ashnntee.
Without outside pressure and inter
ference it will rapidly come to this.
Gov. Moses said to me that he had in
augurated measures of reform, which ho
hoped would repress much of the in
iquity complained of ! Deluded man !
Yon have sown the wind and will reap
the whirlwind. It is now utterly beyond
your control—as much so as tho blazing
city one applies the match to. Ami
among the number who will bo
buried under the ruins is yourself, un
less tho Democratic party of [lie United
States chooses to save you and your
native State. Having an abiding faith
in human nature, though staggered by
! the foul blotch upon civilization now
exhibited in South Carolina, I believe
that her appeal to the people of tho
whole country will not be in vain.
Jean Valjean.
POLITICAL MORSELS.
[From tho Detroit Free Press.|
The Cincinnati Rnquirer says: “Here
wo are all going to tho dogs politically
in Ohio.” People generally coueedo
that the Rnquirer wing of politics is go
ing to the dogs.
The most startling of recent rumors is
one that Cameron and Forney, who have
been for a long time the bitterest of
foes, have become reconciled and are go
ing to pull together in political matters
hereafter. The moving cause is said to
be Forney’s desire for a sent in tho
Senate ami Cameron’s willingness to
assist 1 lira, if ho will help secure the
nomination of Blaine to tho Presidency.
The New York Herald wants to know
.why it did’nt occur to somebody to re
niark that while Williams failed to get
his landaulet, Richardson got a hand
some turnout.
The Cincinnati Rnquirer intimates
that Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, hasone
ardent supporter of hisclaims to succeed
himself in the United States Senate. The
name of this supporter is Hamlin.
Carpenter, Conkliug, Chandler et al.,
ought to settle in Florida. There are no
daily papers there.
It is thought Justico Campbell, of
Michigan, may give a decision against
Zaoli. Chandler’s re-election to tho
United States Senate.— Poston Rost.
If Dix ought to bo re-elected Govern
or beenuse he never drank any whisky,
wasn’t there some mistake made in re
electing Grant to tho Presidency ?—Jio
ehester Union.
Tho.New York Herald says: An ex
change mixes Senator Carpenter up with
the scandal about Joseph and Potiphar’s
wife. What had Carpenter to do with
it? Is he a friend of Joseph ortho
lady ?
Col. 11. S. McComb, whose suit
against the Credit Mobilier led to the
exposure of that disgraceful.concern,
has been elected President of Delaware
College.
The Brooklyn Argus consoles Burn
side for his anticipated defeat by re
calling the fact that tho General is "used
to it.
The question ns to whether the city
of Sau Francisco ought to furnish its
salaried officers with horses and car
riages with which to ride around and at
tend to business and for pleasure, lias
been settled in the negative, after an
elaborate consideration of tho matter.
Tho Administration party in Wiscon
sin is suffering from a bad nightmare.
Tho nightmare is Senator Carpenter,
As they struggle under the oppressive
agony they turn over the points of his
career—opposition to civil service re
form ; opposition to the repeal of the
franking privilege; defense of a rail
road before ono of the departments,
which a law of Congress forbade ; de
fense of Senator Caldwell ; defenso of
the back-pay grab; defense of Credit
Mobilier ; vote for inflation ; opposi
tion to civil rights; Long Branch.— N.
Y. Tribune. ,
While Carpenter and Conkling were
venting their spleen against tho press
by the amendment of the judiciary act
in the Senate, Butler was signalizing
his possession of moft than “ forty
jackass power" by attempting to sub
jugate the press with the same weapon
in the House. There are three gentle
men who imagine that they can suppress
hornets by sitting down on them.—
Buffalo Courier.
A Model Love Letter.— A gentle
man of this city kindly furnishes us
with the following original love letter,
written by a colored gentleman of Madi
son to a dusky Venus of whoso charms
he had become enamored. It is hardly
necessary to state that this letter did the
business, and that “Miss Pluuchio” is
now “Mrs. Cook:”*
Madison, Oeoroia.
Dear Miss Planchif.— I’vo been
very sick, but am on the meiul now,
smiling to what I has bin. Miss
Planchie! lam well and doing well at
dis present time, and hopes to find you
well. My last letter I sont you. You
was very sick. I hopes to find you well
dis evening and doing’well. I lmd a good
deal to splain to you to-night, but being
as Sunday’s so close by I believe I’ll
splain Sunday. I am thinking though
at dis time Hint if I was setting close by
I could tell you something to revive my
feelings, but I’m thiuking that as Sun
day’s so cloße by I’ll wait till Sunday. I
have taken it ori myself to wudo through
the woods on the sako of varmints—on
the sake of you—that I !ms taken it on
myself to wade through the dark woods
on the sake of you, that you may know
that I specks you very much, also steams
you very highly. I has bin all through
Sandtown, and lias not saw the ludytliat
suits my fancy as well as you. I has so
much to splain to you at dis timo
that I don’t think I can splain at dis
time, but will at the best convenient
I kin. I consider you to be liken
to a double folded letter what
come from a fur country sealed with a
sealing wafer. Which there’s flowers of
all sorts, tliere’s some which you has
fancied more than others. I would
rather choose the evening flower, for
“the morning flowers would fade away
as the sun.” Also if you regard me you
will not suffer me to pine away an "the
green pine on the lone sake of me.
Thinking that I has put myself to the
I onplus so much as to caine the distance
i I lias from my residence to your happy
station, an<J I wish to knew if you do
have any speck for me in a few days.
You are a flower in the garding a blos
som to take the yard, and I wish to
knew how long I is to endure dis pain
of love in preference to all others. I
wisli to knew why you would sav them
gentlemen are so seutin and agonized to
your good looks which are enough “To
melt the heart of a green grown pine
which makes all sweet men kind.” That
Mr. Cook have feared dis evening to
spread his love—the reason why lie
wished to spread liis lovo is, kase his
love is pure and serious. You may
knew my love is pure and serious by my
splain my love at dis present time.
Your loving Mu. Cook.
Father Hamilton.— lt is not goner
ally known in onr city that Father Caf
ferty, tlie young and able Catholic priest
recently in charge of the church of St.
Philip and St. James, has been sent to
Savannah. Father Cafforty had many
I warm friends, though his retiring dis
| position and gentle manners prevented
his being so well known outside his own
congregation as he deserved. In his
place comes Father Hamilton, late pas
tor of St. Patrick’s chapel, Augusta.—
Father Hamilton is in the prime of life
and a man of distinguished presence!
Friends write us from Augusta in tlio
highest terms of this clergyman. Dis
tinguished for his ability and culture in
the church, he is beloved by all for his
noble heart and his geueroua sympathy
with the suffering and afflicted. We
welcome him to Columbus, and trust he
will find as warm friends here as those
lie left behind, and that his field of use
fulness may he as wide and his success
as great. —Qolwtntmt Sunday Enquirer ,