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(Eflromc 10 anti Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY 3U LY 15, 1874.
H. I. KIMBALL.
Since the announcement of Mr. H. I.
Kimball's return to Atlanta the name of
the noted developer has been brought
prominently before the public. Had it
not been for the zeal with which his
cause has been championed by a portion
of the people of Atlanta and for the ef
fort made to hold him up to the world
as an injured innocent, his return would
perhaps have occasioned no other feel
ing than that of surprise at the shame
less impudence which brought him bacs
among the people whom he had duped
and fleeced. But as he returns with an
air of defiance, of bravado, which seems
to sav, “Here lam, now what have you
to say against me,” and as he is the re
cepieut of fetes and ovations from those
who profess to believe him entirely in
nocent of wrong doing to the State or
people, it behooves us to remember
what offenses are laid at his door and
by what testimony they are sustained.
In another column this morning we
publish a synopsis made by the Atlanta
yews, which wi:l aid in refreshing the
memory of our readers. We commend it
to their attention.
GENERAL GRANT AM) THE DE
JIOCKACV.
It is a little singular that some of the
persons and papers which were most
rabid against the Greeley movement
are now attempting to engineer a scheme
infinitely more mischievous in the in
terest of Gen. Grant. Some of those
who speak with abhorrence of Lamab
because ho has said that the South recog
nizes changes in the organic law of the
land which she fruitlessly attempted to
prevent, and which she is now powerless
to resist, view with complacency the
prospect of Gkant as a candidate for a
third term supported by Southern
votes. We fail to discover the logic or
the consistency of such a course. We
* fail to see wherein Grant, unrepentant
and having in view only the success of
his own selfish designs, is better than
was Greeley, converted into a friend
and standing upon a platform which af
firmed the sanctity of the right of local
self-government. We fail to see how
the man who advocated all of the ob
noxious amendments to the Constitu
tion and recommended the passage of
odious laws for their more rigid enforce
ment can be lauded and honored, while
ho who has been a true man all
his life is denounced and malign
ed for the acceptance of measures
which he is unable to reject. We fail
to discover the justice of the reasoning
which makes a Saint of Grant and a
Devil of Lamar. We do not see how
the South can be expected to follow the
banner and fight the battles of a man
who has been so long our enemy; who
has done so much to injure us ; who
has converted States into provinces,
bound them hand and foot and deliver
ed them up to be plundered by thieves,
nativo and alien; who has violated the
laws and the Constitution in his attempts
to fasten personal government upon the
country ; who has recommended and
urged the passage of a measure, the en
actment which would he productive
of endless trouble in the South ; merely
because, in a desire to perpetuate his
power and prolong his term of office, he
has made a few kind speeches and half
a dozen acceptable appointments. We
have been given no good reason for
singing hozannas to the President and
adopting him as our loader. What is it
that he has done or oven promised to do
which entitles him to our gratitude and
support? Those who sneer at Lamar
and pronounce Grant the coming man
have failed to enlighten us upon this
point.
[t will hardly be contended —even l>y
General—that the Southern people can
feel any sincere affection for the author
and enforcer of the Ku-Klux laws, for
the destroyer of Republican government
in Louisiana, and for the advocate of
Civil Rights. They cannot expect us to
support him for love. It is not to be a
matter of principle, but a question of
policy. We are to take him because he
offers us the only prospect of success.
We may notdefeat the enemy in a square
light, and upon well defined issues. We
must detach his general and hope to ef
fect by treachery that which we may not
accomplish by force. If this is the pro
gramme is it not in imminent danger of
defeat from the impolitic conduct of its
friends? Is it not the height of folly
for us to daily proolaim to the Republi
cans that Grant is a traitor to their or
ganization and yet hope to win by means
of tlu> division in their ranks which his
disaffection is expected to produce ? Are
not these shallow schemers, these bab
bling plotters, adoptingtho surest possi
ble means for the defeat of the very ob
ject which they wish to accomplish. If
the Democracy are not powerful enough
to triumph by their own strength, if
they enn only succeed by a coalition
with the Republicans whom Grant is to
lead out of his party, why should they
work so persistently to destroy his
power aud influence? Do they expect
that he will be beuetitted by the daily
plaudits of men and 'journals so ultra in
their Democracy that they are unwilling
to admit the validity of laws which for
Tears they have been forced to recog
nize? Such a course will not endear
him to any portion of his party or render
a coalition with him to be desired. The
surest way to kill Grant is to compli-'
went him. Democratic praise is as fatal j
to him as the poison of the Boroias.— j
If these third-termers must plot, in j
Heaven's name let them plot intelligent
ly. They must not tirst destroy, con- j
fessedly, their only hope of success and
then expect the whole Southern people
to participate in their more than mid
summer madness.
But as we fail to discover why the
South should accept the leadership of
General Grant upon principle, so,
equally, do we fail to see why they
should support him from policy.—
The tactics presented for our adop
tion are neither new nor untried.
They have been employed once before, i
They were employed, too, when the!
prospect for success was much better j
than at present. Yet they failed—failed |
miserably, completely, disastrously. We
were of those who endorsed what is
known as the Greeley movement. We
believed it to be the work of able and
patriotic men. We believed that it J
offered the best chance, perhaps the only j
hope of victory. But it is easy enough .
to recognize by the light of subsequent ■
events that it was a great blunder, a |
most unfortunate attempt to disinte- j
grate the ranks of the enemy. Instead '
of rupturing the Republicans, it divided
the Democracy. The number of Demo
crats who stayed away from the polls
was vastly larger than the number of
Republicans who cast their votes for j
Horace Gkeklet. With this lesson
before us why should we think of re- j
peating such a dangerous experiment ? j
Why should we wish to duplicate the !
disaster of 1572 and completely destroy
the party which was so severely shocked
by that blow ? Since that time the De
mocracy have more than recovered their
lost ground. They are stronger now
than they have been since 1800# The:
elections of the past twelve months have
gone without exception in their favor.
They have obtained the control of several j
States hitherto in the hands of the I
enemy, and increased their strength in j
the Senate. The indications seem good |
that the coming Fall elections will give ■
them a majority in the nest House of
Representatives. The country seems to
have at last discovered the corruption
and imbecility of the Republican party
aud to have grown weary of its sway.
It is no longer considered the sole de
fender of the Union. The North has
learned that the South is not ripe for
success of Democratic principles as the
triumph of treason and disunion. A
thousand things have conspired to
weaken the enemy and to strengthen
our cause. We can win the battle in
1876 tinder the lead of some such Demo
crat as Thurman, or Hendricks or Han
cock. Let ns stick to our colors and
have no alliance with Grant or any
other Republican. We can triumph
without their assistance, and even vic
tory under such a flag would give us but
a barren conquest.
A COLUMBUS EDITOR’S TROUBLES
A few years ago Mr. A. R. Calhoun, a
citizen of Pennsylvania, located in Co
lumbus, and purchased the Enquirer
from Messrs. Ragland fc Cos. Subse
quently he purchased the Sun and
1 ime* from Messrs. Thomas Gilbert 1 j
Cos., and consolidated the two papers in
the Enquirer. Mr. Calhoun was a sol
dier in the Union army and lost a limb
in the service. Though sincerely devo
ted to the cause for which he fought, he
had no bitterness in his heart for the
Southern people, and abhorred the
harsh measures imposed upon the South
by the so-called reconstruction meas
ures. *Vhile in Columbus on business,
he wrote a series of articles to a Repub
lican paper in Philadelphia, which at
tracted the attention and favor of the
people of Columbus on account of the
just, liberal and friendly spirit which
pervaded them. The result was a press
ing invitation from leading citizens of
Columbus to Mr. Calhoun to locate
there. He accepted the invitation, and
invested his money—about $25,000 up
to this time—in the newspaper business.
His views have given offense to a certain
class, and as a consequence he has faired
badly. Mr. Calhoun is impulsive, and
lacks policy. He is high spirited, sensi
tive and combative, and picks up trouble
when he should pass it by quickly
as he would au offensive sink. Know
ing his peculiarity, or weakness, he
is the recipient of anonymous letters,
sometimes filthy and scurrilous, but
always offensive, which anuoy him im
measurably, disturbing his peace of
mind and interfering with his family
and business relations. Instead of
throwing this kind of stuff into the
waste basket, Mr. Calhoun publishes it
in liis paper and denounces the author.
The number of the Enquirer to hand
contains one of these dirty anonymous
letters, with a column reply from Mr.
Calhoun, in which he speaks of leaving
the State and going back to Pennsylva
nia. This would be unworthy of a man
of so much pluck and talent as Mr. Cal
houn possesses. He has the confidence
of good men in Columbus. Ho should
care nothing for tho intolerance of con
temptible scribblers. Our advico to him
is to pay no attention to masked enemies.
When Northern men come here to cast
their lot with our people, they should
receive that attention and courtesy and
kind treatment which their conduct and
culture entitle them to. It is all non
sense to keep up feelings engendered by
the war; and we should be sorry to
know that there is any prejudice of this
kind against Mr. Colhoun, for ho is a
man of culture and talent, nnd an earn
est worker in the cause of Southern
progress. It would, however, be advisa
ble for Mr. Calhoun to draw it mild, or
rather ignoro entirely the discussion of
certain of our peculiarities. There is
no use in talking of chivalry
now. Tho most chivalrous are
those who work in the field aud the
workshop, and those who aid in the
building up the waste places and in re
storing our commercial and agricultural
prosperity. Asa co-worker in the cause
of tho material regeneration of the
South, we appreciate the services of
such men as Mr. Calhoun. lew men
that escape petty vexatious and hard
work in now fields, but tho fretting and
chafing will soon wear off', and give
place to contentment aud repose. Mi.
r.vHOTTv «hnnld stick to his business,
winch promises such good results, we
have great faith in the immediate future
of Columbus.
TIIE COTTON CHOP.
In tho C onstilutionaliSt, of yesterday
morning, there is what purports to be a
criticism of an editorial recently pub
lished in the Chronicle and Sentinel
in reference to the cotton acreage of
1871. Our object in that article '»»« to
combat the extravagant estimates of the
growing crop, which tend to depress the
market aud keep prices down, and to
show that the yield under the most
favorable circumstances could not be
much over three million bales.
Tho position we assumed may be
briefly stated: The planters at the com
mencement of the present season found
themselves without the ability to make
a large crop of cotton. Their means in
hand and their credit were limited, ren
deriugthe curtailingof thecotton acreage
an absolnto necessity. Tlie season was
generally unfavorable, and planting was
from two to three weeks late. The fall
ing off in the use of commercial fertili
zers is fully two-thirds as compared with
the quantity used last year. In addi
tion to these insuperable drawbacks to a
large cotton acreago in the Atlantic
States, thousands of square miles of the
best cotton lands of Mississippi, Lou
isiana and Arkansas were flooded by the
overflow of the Mississippi river and its
tributaries to such an extent as to render
the making of a crop an impossibility.
These are in brief the reasons which
govern us in asserting that four million
: bales is an extravagant estimate of the
| yield cf the growing crop.
Wo are further confirmed in onr opin-
I ion by the report of the Department of
i Agriculture for June’, which states that]
! the aggregate reduction is over ten per j
cent.; and this view is further strengthen-!
ed by the report just published of the j
New Orleans Cotton Exchange, which
shows a largo decrease in the cotton
acreage.
Now these are facts which the writer
in the Constitutionalist seems to think I
unworthy of his consideration. Having
made up his mind that the crop is to be
over four million bales, he is determined
to fight it out on that line if it takes all j
the Summer. Like the man who said
the horse was fourteen feet high, the
cotton prognosticator of our cotemporary
is determined to stick to his hobby, no
matter how improbable his views or how
much injury his extravagant estimates
may work to his own people. This writer
has undertaken a very difficult roll to
fulfill—advising people when to buy and
when to sell cotton. He is like the
clairvoyant or fortune teller, who tells
other peoples fortunes and how to make
money at SI ahead; but never makes
any himself except what he realizes out
of the simplicity of others. This presti
giator of the cotton market, who writes
his articles for a few dollars a week, is
like the amateur farmer, who can beat
the world in running a farm on paper,
but who lost all he had when he tried to
reduce his theory to practice. He can
tell other people how to make money by
operating in cotton, but he can't make a
dollar for himself except after figuring
it out on paper.
This writer assumes that the editorial
in the Chronicle must have been written
by a politician. In reply to this we have
! only to say that the editor of the Consti-
I tutionalist must be awareof the fact that
he is responsible for the assumptions,
whether true or false, of articles that
appear in his editorial columns. In this
respect he must have known that the
: assumption of his cotton contributor—
! that the author of the editorial in the
j Chronicle .and Sentinel must be a poli
i tieian—is untrue. Whether intended as
! a compliment, or to bring discredit upon
our views, we repudiate the gratuitous
assumption, as neither one of the editors
is a politician in the sense implied by the
Crmstitvtionalist.
Our paper has been consistent for
many years in advocating every move
ment and measure intended to benefit
the planting community. We have sense
enough to appreciate the great truth
that we can enjoy no substantial pros'
peiity until our agricultural interests
are established upon a solid foundation;
and whatever we write or publish in this
interest proceeds from an honest con
viction to benefit the people of onr Dis
trict and State.
SOUTH CAROLINA FINANCES.
•
The debt of South Carolina, as com
piled from the hooks of the State Treas
urer, amouifts to 825,770,611 44. Os
this 89,886,627 35' is classified as legal
bonded debt, $5,965,000 as illegal bon- j
ded debt, $2,-429,272 95 as legal floating !
.debt, and 5t,797,608 20 as contingent !
liabilities. The enormous load this
burden entails upon the tax payers will
be appreciated when it is stated that
the whole assessed valuation of the
State is only 8176,000,000, and that taxes
i are not usually realized on more than
$136,000,000 worth of property. From
July, 1868, until October, 1873, the \
amount drawn from the people and ex
pended amonnted to 89,640,946 63
nearly two millions of dollars per an
num. Notwithstanding this large an
nual expenditure, which has gone no
one knows where, the State is much
more deeply in debt than it was in July,
1868. The Charleston correspondent of
the New York Times says that since the
Republican party obtained control of
South Carolina the debt of the State,
legal and illegal, has been increased
nearly fifteen millions of dollars; and
this has been done in six years. In a
little over five years the receipts of the
State government, as given above, reach
ed nearly ten million dollars, so that
when the increase of the debt is added,
Republican rule in South Carolina for
six years has cost the people twenty-five
millions of dollars. At the rate at which
debt has been piled up under Republi
can rule it would not be many more
years before all the property of the
State, if up at auction, would not
bring enough to liquidate it.
NASHVILLE ALARMED.
The merchants of Nashville and the
people generally of that city are alarm
ed and indignant at the commencement
of a movement which they think at
tempts the ruin of their business in
terests. It is stated that the two rail
roads entering the city—tho Louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern, and the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
Railway—have combined to control the
whole cotton trade. Backed by several
Nashville capitalists, these companies
have determined to erect a mammoth
warehouse—covering two acres—for the
storage of cotton located on the line oi
the railways. An agreement has been
drawn up aud signed by the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
Company, according to the provisions of
which the company binds itself to re
ceive no cotton at points farther south
and destined for Nashville except with
the understanding that it is to be con
signed to the new warehouse. The same
agreement has been approved, by the
Louisville company. A compress will
be erected in tho warehouse and all
“ the facilities afforded for handling cot
ton without allowing it to enter the
city.” As may naturally be supposed,
the cotton men are very much excited
and enraged over this attempt to break
up their business. Obtaining no satis
faction from the Nashville agent of the
Louisville line, a meeting of the Cotton
Board was held and a committee ap
pointed to visit Louisville and remon
strate with the Superintendent of the
company.
THOMAS COUNTY COTTON.
In a “cotton article” published in the
Constitutionalist, on the jid or 3d of July,
the following statement appeared ;
In Baker county, is a field of 150
acres, that is three feet high, and lias
been covered with blooms for a week.
In Thomas county, is a field of 100
acres, that will average four feet high,
and has been blooming for a month. In
of blooms.
Allowing for the time consumed in the
transmission of letters through the mails,
this Thomas comity patch must have
been in existence on the 25th of June.
Yesterday we were handed the following
letter, with a request for its publication
in connection with the statement of the
“cotton article" above given. It is from
one of the most prominent citizens of
Thomas county :
T.homasvillp., Ga., July 8, 1874.
W. It. Fleming, Esq., Augusta, Ga :
Dear Sir— Yours of the 2d instant at
hand, with enclosure .of cotton article.
We are not knowing of any field, 100
acres in this county four feet high, that
has been blooming for one month, but
there are many small patches of cotton
on rich land that might possibly be of
the size, and have h«4 some blooms for
a month. Our crop is fully two weeks
later than last year—stands defective.
But just now the plant is looking
promising, and we may expect, with
good seasons, the same yield as of last
year—acreago 10 per cent. less. Our
best informed planters do not anticipate
any extensive ravage of caterpillars.
A few caterpillars have been found in
Florida, about twenty miles south of this
place. Will be pleased from time to
time to exchange views with you in re
gard to the crop.
Yours respectfully,
C. W. Bteoall.
F. S.—This review is made up in
presence of a half dozen of onr best
planters, who approve the same.
C. W. S.
PRESIDENT MACMAHON’S MESS*
AGE.
The message of President MacMahon
to the Assembly is temperate but firm,
declaring positively that he will main-
tain the powers conferred ou him as
Executive of tbs Republic for seven
j years from last November. He calls
j upon the Assembly to perform its duty
j and perfect the organization necessary
I to enable him to administer the Gov
] eminent in such a manner as to con
duce most to the best interests of j
Frauce. His refusal to accept theresig- j
nation of the Ministry shows his de- !
termination to maintain and enforce the j
authority and power conferred on him.
Unlike M. Thiers, he will not be ready j
to surrender at the pleasure of a mer- j
curia! and tumultuous Assembly, crazed i
with excitement, frenzied with passion
and incapable of legislating for the in
terests aud welfare of a great nation.
The man who had the nerve to crush
j Communism and rescue Paris from
| the grasp of a malignant and
] powerful party that defied and
j laughed to scorn the puny Repub
; lie, effete Legitimists and demoral
; ized Imperalists, has the ability to save
i France—peaceably if he can, but forei
j bly if he must. The power voluntarily
conferred by the Assembly, and assumed
with the consent of nearly forty millions
i of Frenchmen, will be exercised and
enforced by the President of the Ee
j public. He interprets the purpose of
j the Septenate to be to. give France se
| enrity and peace, and to create a strong,
j stable and respected power. His mess
age or manifesto says plainly to the I
] members of the Assembly you must do j
j yonr duty, I will do mine. It means i
, that President Mac Mahon will use all the j
j power of the Government to suppress
| opposition to the exercise of his anthor
j ity. He will not permit the Republicans
! to dissolve the Goverment, but they mav
i dissolve the Assembly and go to their
' homes, and this would be a benefit to
the country. He will suppress with all
] the power of the Government aDy and
I every movement looking toward Legit
j irnistn or Imperialism. All who wish
well to France will rejoice that Marshal
MacMahon has determined to rule with
] a strong hand. He will certainly disap
point those who expect him “to leave the
Elysee with his sword as calmly as M.
Thiers walked out with his umbrella.”
Judge James B. Neal, Chairman of
the Democratic Executive Committee of
McDuffie county, has issued a eall for a
county convention to meet on the 18th
instant. The object of the meeting is
not the nomination of candidates but the
formation of anew Executive Commit
tee and the re-organization of the party
in McDuffie.
KIM BALL’S INNOCENCE.
A Review of the Legislative Commit
tee’s F.eport—How He Got BondsEn
doisea Without Number—How He
Hypothecated the State’s Bonds—
How He Left a Mortgage on the
Capitol.
[From the Atlanta News.]
In our yesterdays’ issue, in an article
with the above caption, we charged that
Mr. H. I. Kimball was a party with Bul
lock, in a deliberate fraud upon the
people of Georgia. We know that the
article has been objectionable to some.
Yet are not the whole people, not only
of Atlanta, but of Georgia, interested in
this matter? Very much has been said
as to how much Mr. Kimball has done
for our city. Is it untrue to say that he
has been well paid for all that he has
done, and at whose expense ? The Kim
ball House may be a great advertise
ment for us. Yet, what has it cost, amd
how much ? Are Georgia bonds very
saleable outside of the State; has our
credit suffered, aud why? Perhaps Mr.
Kimball’s c onnection with Bullock’s
fraud upon our State has somewhat to
do with the solution of the answers.
But we charged that Mr. Kimball was
a party to deliberate fraud: First, in ob
taining the endorsement of the State to
railroad bonds, when the provision of
the law authorizing such endorsement
was not complied with. On the Bruns
wick and Albany Railroad, the whole
distance from Brunswick to Eufaula is
243 miles. The road is only finished to
Albany, 171 miles. Bonds were to be
endorsed at §15,000 per mile, when sec
tions of 20 miles should be completed;
but the fact is, they were endorsed for
the whole length, and in the various
sections, before they were completed.
Our proof can be found on page 170, in
the published report of the Bond Com
mittee, passed December 9, 1871, over
the Executive veto.
That Mr. Kimball was the contractor
and recipient of the bonds, we refer to
the testimony of Col. Schlatter, as pub
lished in the report of the committee
appointed to investigate the official con
duct of Rufus B. Bullock, to be seen on
pages 104-5. There is additional proof
in the testimony of W. W. Taylor, as
published in the same report, pages
109-11.
We charged that Mr. Kimball obtained
a double endorsement of tlie Carters
ville and Van Wert Railroad bonds, by
changing the name of tho road. In the
report of the committee appointed to
protect the people of the State of Geor
gia against the illegal aud fraudulent
issue of bonds, etc., the committee, on
page 156, say of tho Cartersville and Van
Wert Railroad, aud Cherokee Railroad,
“Bonds endorsed under act of March 12,
1869, to the amount of §275,000. Bonds
endorsed under act of March 12, 1869,
and resolutions approved October 5,
1870, of the Cherokee Railroad Com
pany, to the amount of §300,000.” Both
these issues of endorsed bonds are upon
the same line of road, the name of the
Cartersville and Van Wert Railroad
Company having been changed to that
of the Cherokee Railroad Company, by
act approved October 25, 1870.
The act of March, 1869, required, in
addition to the constitutional require
ment, that five miles of the road should
be completed and put in good running
order before the bonds of the company
should be endorsed. Under this act, in
April, 1870, when only one and one-lialf
miles of iron had been laid in au im
perfect and incomplete condition, Gov.
Bullock placed the endorsement of the
State upon one hundred of the compa
ny’s bonds. On the 10th of August,
when the Governor had then placed the
State’s endorsement upon the bonds of
the company to the amount of §275,000,
only about three miles of ties and iron
were laid in an imperfect and incomplete
manner.
When the name of the road was
changed, the President, 11. I. Kimball,
alleged that it became important to
have new bonds issued and endorsed,
bearing the name of the “Cherokee Rail
road Company,” instead of that of the
“Cartersville. and Van Wert Railroad
Company,” which bonds were to be put
in tl;e place of the Cartersville and Van
Wert Railroad bonds, and the Carters
ville and Van Wert bonds returned to
the Treasurer and cancelled (see letter
of H. I. Kimball to Governor Bullock,
on page 94 printed testimony). Bullock
immediately, without waitiug for the
return and cancellation of the Carters
ville and Van Wert Railroad bonds, en
dorsed the bonds of the Cherokee Rail
road Company to the amount of §300,-
000.
The testimony shows that n. I. Kim
ball negotiated the Cherokee bonds in
New York, and failed to take up and re
turn as cancelled the bonds of the Car
tersville aud Van Wert Railroad Com
pany. The two hundred and seventy
five bonds of the Cartersville and Van
“ UUUO IAWJX J w- -, ~ -il.,
who had full knowledge of the illegal
endorsement of the bonds of both the
companies, and who knew that the
Cherokee bonds were issued and en
dorsed to take up the Cartersville and
Van Wert Railroad Company bonds, as
will be seen by reference to his sworn
statement.
Five. We charged that Mr. Kimball
took the bonds of the State and pawned
the same, without a shadow of authority.
In the report of the committee re
ferred to above, and on page 160, we
find tfie following : “Mr. Kimball re
ceived of the Fourth National Bank the
currency bonds held by that house, and
instead of returning them to the State
as cancelled, hypothecated with)]. Boor
man, Johnston & Cos. and with A. G.
Johns, and received on both hypotheca
tions money on l*is private account. We
have made every exertion to ascertain if
the State had rficeiypd any of the money,
but find no such evidence, and we arc
forced to the conclusion that the nioney
yas raised for the private account of
M*. Kimball.”
Aiid lastly, yp charged that Mr. Kim
ball took the of the city of At
lanta and made away with thorn, leaving
the city to pay a mortgage on th<e Capi
tol building, which lie ought to have
j paid.
Here ye refer to the deed of Mr. Kim
ball made to ffie State, 1871, in which
lie says: “I covenanted with the State
of Georgia that I am lawfully seized of
said property, have a good right t.q con
j vey it, and that it is unincumbered, and.
I I warrant the title to said property unto
the State of Georgia against the lawful
claims of ail persons,''
But this was not all. The committee
of the Legislature was aware of the ex
istence of the mortgage, and for the pur
pose of giving the thing a good feature,
Kimball agreed to deposit §IOO,OOO of
the city bonds as security for its pay
ment. A.S the bonds were not engraved
at the time, he got a certificate from the
city, which he deposited with. Bullock.
Some time after this certificate was with
drawn, the bonds were obtained, and Kim
ball found it inconvenient to deposit them
again. There was something mysterious
in this transaction.
At one time Mr. H. I. Kimball stated
that his brother E. N. did wrong with
the bonds, thus imputing theft to him.
At another time, he admitted that he
had sold the bonds and used the money,
expecting to be able to replace tiiem at l
any time. Hoyever the bonds were
spirited away, it is certain that nothing
more was seen of them, until they turn
ed up in the hands of private pur
chasers. Only one fact remained, audit
is now felt by the tax payer* .of Atlanta,
in having to pay the mortgage.
■—
Henry Grinnell.
Henry Grinnell, whose death took
place at his residence in this city yester
i day, at the age of seventy-five years,
' was a brother of Moses H. Grinnell, and
j a veteran New York merchant, for many
! years at the head of the house of Grinnell,
Mintum & Cos. He was well known to
most of onr citizens, but besides his
i private usefulness as one of the best of
: our merchants of the old class, he will
be chiefly remembered for the munificence
! he exhibited in the search for the lost'
! Sir John Fr mklin. The sensation
: created by that event, promotes! as it
was by the stern determination of Lady
I Franklin to believe in the safety of hear j
i husband, was something more intense
I than we can now adequately conceive, j
1 Both in England and in thiscountry there j
I was the greatest excitement. The feeling '
was intensified here by Mr. 'Grinnell’s |
I offer to fit ont two vessels at his own
expense and commit them to the charge
j of an officer of the United States Navy,
to participate in the search for the lost;
explorer. Congress accepted Mr. Grin- j
neli’s plans, and Lieutenant E. J. De ;
Haven was detailed to command the ex- j
pedition. The late Dr. E. K. Kane ac- !
companied the expedition as surgeon. :
The vessels were named the Advance j
and the Rescue, being hermaphrodite J
brigs of 144 and 91 tons respectively,
and they were especially fitted out in all j
respects for service in the Arctic regions. '
Besides the officers, of whom there were
four on each vessel, the Advance carried |
thirteen men and the Rescue twelve. .
The expedition sailed from this city on
the 22d of May, ISSO. Mr. Grinnell and
his sons accompanied the little fleet far
out to sea, and he only parted company
with the heroic party he had sent on a
dangerous mission on the 25th, returning
in the pilot boat Washington. - The rest
of the expedition is history until its re
turn, when Henry Grinnell was first on
the pier to welcome the returning officers
and men. One of the resets oi the ex
pedition was the discovery of Grmaoii
Land in latitude 75 deg. 24 min. 21 sec.
north. This event took place September
20, 1850. Dr. Kane w-s the historian of
this expedition. It must be re nembered
to Mr. Grinnell's credit that he hot only j
bore the entire expense of the voyage of ;
these vessels, Congress doing nothing l
except to allow officers of the navy to
undertake the expedition, but that he
also contributed largely to the second
Grinnell expedition in 1853, which re
sulted in the discovery of the open Polar
Sea. The late George Peabody also con
tributed to this expedition, which was
under tin; command of Dr. Kane. i The
narrative of this expedition was also
written by Dr. Kane, and his great fame
was the result of his own exertions and
Mr. Grinnell’s generosity. For some
years Mr. Grinnell lived in retirement,
and the news of his death will be a sad
surprise to his many friends at home and
abroad, for a broad'and wise charity like
his makes friends besides those who are
able to take the generous giver by the
hand. —New York Herald.
[for the chronicle and sentinel.]
HENRY WARD BEECHER AND THE
REMOTE CAUSE OF HIS FALL.
The greater portion of the religious
world look upon a “minister’ as a little
better than any other sincerely pious
person. That he is called of God to
preach, in a way no other man is called,
that he is a medium through which the
Holy Spirit makes new aud special mani
festations. He prays to receive “mouth
and wisdom,” and too many believe his
prayers are answered. He is conver
ted, consecrated, with some sanctified,
with others ordained by imposition of
hands, and in the line of apostolic suc
cession. He is every thing in the eyes
■of some, but what he really is—a poor,
weak erring man.
It is a common and a heinous sin of
idolatry, that “our minister’ is more
worshiped than our Father which is in
Heaven. The deacon, the class leader,
the faithful Sunday School and Bible
class leader, better people often, are
overlooked, their example unobserved
and precepts unheeded, in the fever and
rage, running after “our preacher,” “he
is so good,” “so amiable,” “so devoted,”
“so eloquent,” and oh, alas, sometimes,
he is “so handsome.” Poor fellow, lie
is in a bad way. He is feted, flattered,
and salaried by willing hands and weak
heads. He receives sofas, ottomans,
writing chairs, gowns, slippers and per
fumery. His sermons, too, often less
laboriously prepared than a freshman’s
speech, produces great exhaustion in
the delivery, he is an object of intense
solicitude for the next three hours after,
and tea, wine and cordials are plied by
fair and tender hands to restore the ex
hausted sufferer, or ward off a seventh
day headache. Poor Paul, he discoursed
a whole night once, and if half as much
exhausted, wo venture to affirm, he was
not half as much petted as “our minis
ter.” Paul had headaches and back
aches from the pelting of stones, and
stripes of whips—which did not receive
one-half the commisseration that "“our
dear pastor” receives after an hour’s dis
course.
This wide-spread man worship is
sapping the foundations of the church
militant, tixingsores and canker spots in
the very vitals of society, and giving the
scoffer aud the infidel not true but
gladly accepted reasons for the faith
that is in them. We like ministers, we
love some, we love them for their tal
ents, probity, usefulness and piety, and
we love many laymen for all or some of
the same reasons. One fills his position
no better than the other. They are
both called of God in tho same way to
do all they can for the spread of the
Gospel. If one suits a layman’s posi
tion and the other has gifts natural, or.
acquired by study to make him efficient
in the pulpit, lie deserves no more of my
love than the equally devoted layman.
There are too many people who are sen
sible about all things else except religion.
It requires study and practice with
lawyers and doctors to fill their require
ments when wanted, but a very little
true Biblical learning will < utfit their
preacher to stand on Zion’s Wall.-
Grown lip sensible people are yearly
taught the way “to life eternal” by
preachers whom they would not suffer to
teach their children at school. They
themselves know so little of what the
Gospel i«, or what true preaching is,
that they do not stimulate their pastor
to study “the living word,” and preach
as they ought. They receive in place of
Bible' teaching, firstly, secondly and
thirdly of beautiful disquisitions on
morals, politics and a little religion
thrown in between the rhetoric and the
gesture, very thin diet for hungry starv
ing souls, but a most ‘'beautiful ser
mon,” which amuses the men, enrap
tures the women and inflates the vanity
of the preacher. This kind of clerical
humanity may keep for a season, but
not for i}’ life-time; spoil it must, and fall
it will, sooner or later, whether the
world heirs the crash or not. Honor
ministers just as we should all other
good men, but hold them to tho same
rigid propriety we would all others.—
F,ii- in..V oiilv men at last.
Allendale, S. C.
PH ATT Y HARRIS.
He Proposes to Vindicate His Charac
ter by a Libel Suit.
[Atlanta Herald.]
Yesterday at about 12 o’clock, that
witching hour when the sun stands in
periholian and all nature swells, Mr. A.
L. Harris (whom .the wicked call “Phat
ty”) drove to our office door, and, with
some pomp of manner, handed us a let
ter. Adjuring us to reply through the
post office, he passed on. Thus ran the
document:
Editors Herald— You published in
your paper this morning a letter for the
correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle
and Sentinel, aud say, “we do so at the
request of the author.” I noiv ask that
you give me the name of the author. I
desire it for the purpose of obtaining
legal redress. A. L. Harris.
A representative of the 1 herald was at
once sent to Mr. Harris with orders:
First, to say to him to apply to the
Chronicle for the author’s name, as he
was a regular attache of its staff, and
that we must decline giving it. Second,
tq pump Mr. Harris as to his intentions.
Mr. H., upon being asked as to his suit,
exhibited some naughty passion, and
after the manner of one who blow's off
steam, he replied: “I am going to sue
him for damages to the extent of the
law'. I know his name, but I shall wait
until I get it officially, and then pro
ceed at ou,ce. If I were a young and
unmarried man, i should not hesitate a
moment to settle his case in a quicker
and to me a more satisfactory way. But
as the case stands at present I think
best to proye a libel and sue for dam
ages, I have a dead case against him.”
“Yon Mi ink you can convict him then ?”
“Os coarse I do. Havn’tf been tried
for tlie very charges fie trumps «p, and
acquitted by the jury in five minutes
after they retired ? Wasn’t I under
bond foi* thesevery things for two years,
and 4idn’t I cleat my skirts of them in
the Court—the only proper place in
which they should he brought against
me ? J have, sir, and Jie knows it. And
now do you think I am going to sit
quietly down and allow an anonymous
penny-a-liner to fling them afresh in my
face, and not resent it ? Do you think
I am a natural born fool?”
Ngt chring to guess at the last con
undrum yc retired from his presence
conquered by the exigency. The cor
respondent allqded to is u. young man
of this city, who has ‘ beefi cqpimcted
with the press for many years, and if a
sharp and fluent writer. He seems to
have no uneasiness about the matter,
and 3ly. Harris on the other hand is
] very ranch in earnest, and will prosecute
bitterly. It is said by some that he has
] a good case, and will likely get a ver
] diet. He certainly thiuks so. He is
] sueing, as we understand it, not for toe .
; damages he may get, but to vindicate ]
j his character. Having been fairly ac-;
j quitted after a lengthy prosecution in
the Courts, he is dotermnmd to resent
; all aspersions upon his reputation, j
Ex-Gov. H. V. Joan son.— ln com-.
| pliacce with an invitation extended by '
! our board of Teaeherp, Gov. H. A .
Johnson visited onr city last week for
j the purpose of delivering an addres to
i the pupils and public, at oui school ex
amination which came off on the 2d
(Jd of the month. Gov. Johnson arrived ‘
! on Thursdav afternoon, and became the i
guest'of our friend Hon. C. R. Pringle.
; On Friday morning he delivered a most
i excellent address, after which he rested
i until the afternoon. He spent the latter
part of the afternoon and evening with
Col. and Mrs. Wylly, taking tea with
them at the Sandersville Hotel. He left
here for home on Saturday morning.
Truly our State h°l4 B 110 more gifted
man than this pure and a;se statesman.
He has never been called to a position
which he has not adorned, and he is uow
in the prime of a ripened manhood.
SandermiUe Herald.
Do Yor Hear That ?—A New Orleans
paper tells of a printer who, when his
feiiow-workme \ went out to drink beer,
pnt in the bank the exact amount he ■
would have spent if he had go e with
them to drink. He did this for five
' years. He then looked at his bank ac
count, and found that he had laid np
' 8536 66. In five years he h%i not lost a
j day because of sickness. Three out of
five of his fellow-workmen had, in the]
j meantime, become drunkards. The wa
! ter drinker then bought ont the printing i
, office, and in twenty years from the time ■
j he began to put bv his money he had
, laid steJu Jfeood many thousand of dol
; lars. The story teaches a lesson which
; every little boy should learn by heart. J
Why are clergymen like railway por
tors ? Because they do a good deal of j
coupling.
THE COMET.
[Rochester Union ami Adverti.- or, Ju!v 3.J
Prof. Swift was interviewed by our re
porter last evening, and mtloh valuable
information was obtained from him—a
peep of the comet obtained through his
fine telescope; also of Jupiter and his
moons, with other heavenly wonders.
Prof. Swift has for the past fifteen years
been engaged in searching for comets,
and discovered this one before its dis
covery in Europe had been announced
in this country by Coggia. He laughs at
the sensational articles that have been
published in the New York and other
papers over the signatures of well
known astronomers. The observations
last evening showed that the tail had in
creased in length from the previous
evening some three or four degrees, and
that it was a tenth brighter. It is ap
proaching us direct, at the rate of 1,800
miles a minute, or 1,290,000 miles every
day, and to reach the earth’s orbit it
has yet to travel 20,000,000 miles. That
it will extend that distance during its
visibility, Professor Swift does not be
lieve. If it does the eometie matter is
so rare that the earth and all that is
therein will be insensible to it. And
another contingency—that the earth
may not bo at the right point in its
orbit to become immersed. ' But the
way that tail increases in length is some
thing fearful to contemplate—soo,ooo
miles per day—and the wonder will be
nearest the sun on the 10th of this
mouth. The disc of the comet is more
planetary than stellar; and has a nu
cleus which is very bright; and from the
fact that its orbit is parabolic, it is
visiting us for the first and last time.
Professor Swift is of the opinion that
the tail is splitting—that the prospects
are that it will have more than one tail
to its kite. Last evening there could be
observed on the right of the comet, near
est the sun, a bunchy nebulous mass,,
which is the “rooting” of anew tail un
doubtedly. The tail is wide in propor
tion to its length, but the ratio of width
to length is now rapidly changing. The
perihelion distance of the comet is about
63,000,000 miles, or a little within the
orbit of Venus. Should the tail increase
in width, of which there is no danger,
and not be curved too much, then we
might get a little whisk of it—but only
astronomers would know it. Business
would go along as usual, and a possible
electrical display might be noticed. But,
as before remarked, the substance of
the tail is too thin to hurt, anybody, and
then the tail is hollow. It is similar to
attaching a length of stove pipe to a fan
sized pumpkin—illuminating both. The
pumpkin might hurt the moon or the
earth by striking it, but the stove pipe
would not kill a tier, and be itself
smashed in the bargain. So thin is the
tail that, looking through Professor
Swift’s telescope, a fine one by the way,
last evening, the stars could be seen.
But this comet is a very important and
large one, and in the next two weeks
more will be discovered in regard to the
physical nature of comets than has been
learned in 4,000 years before. The spec
troscope will be brought into service
from every observatory in this country
and Europe.
On the 10th of July it will reach the
nearest approach to the sun at a distance
of 03,000,000 miles. Longitude of peri
helion, 272; of node, about 120 degrees;
inclination of orbit to the earth’s orbit,
some 08 degrees. 'lhe apparent motion
is so slow that only' a small portion of its
visible orbit has been seeu. Professor
Tyndall’s predictions that some time
during its journey w r e shall be “en
wrapped in the hazy glories fcf its tail,”
will not be verified. The separation of
material particles from the head forms
th*e tail, and in this the heat of the sun
doubtless has some influence.
A CURIOUS PLEASURE EXCUR
SION.
[We have received the following ad
vertisement, hut, inasmuch as it con
cerns a matter of deep and general in
terest, we feel fully justified in inserting
it in our reading columns. We are con
fident that our conduct in this regard
needs only explanation, not apology.—
Ed. N. Y. Herald. ]
Advertisement.
This is to inf or pi the public that in
connection with Mr. Baruurn I have
leased the comet for a term of years;
and I desire also to solicit the public
patronage in favor of a beneficial enter
prise we have in view. Wo propose to
lit up comforcable, and even luxurious,
acc mmodations in the comet for as
many persons as will honor us with their
patronage, and make an extended excur
sion among the heavenly bodies. We
shall prepare 1,000,00!) state rooms in
the tail of the comet (with hot and cold
water, looking glass, parachute, umbrel
la, &c., in each); and shall construct
mare if we meet with a sufficiently gen
erous encouragement. Wo shall have
bowling alleys and’ manyspii'CloiiS riftsfi
tres and free libraries; and on the main
deck we propose to have a driving park,
with upwards of 10,000 miles of roadway
in it. We shall publish daily newspa
pers also.
The comet will leave New York at ten,
p. m., on the2oth inst., and therefore it
will be desirable that the passengers he
on board by eight at the latest, to avoid
confusion in getting under way. It is
not known whether passports will be
necessary or not, but it is deemed best
that passengers provide them, and so
guard against all contingencies. No
dogs will bo allowed on board. This
rule has been made in reference to the
existing state of feeling regarding these
animals and will be strictly adhered to.
The safety of the passengers will in all
ways be jealously looked to. A sub
stantial iron railing will be put all
around the comet, and no one will be
allowed to go the edge and look over un
less accompanied by either my partner
or myself. The postal service "will be of
the complotest character. Os course
the telegraph, and the telegraph only,
employed, consequently friends
occupying state rooms, 20,000,000 and
even 30,000,000 miles apart, will be able
to send a message and receive a reply in
side of eleven days. Night messages
will be half rate. The whole of this
vast postal system will be under the per
sonal superintendence of Mr. Hale, of
Maine. Meals served at all hours.
Meals served iu state rooms charged ex
tra.
Hostility is not apprehended from any
great planet, but we have thought it best
to err on the safe side, and therefore
have provided a proper number of mor
tars, siege guns and boarding pikes.
History shows that small, isolated com-
mnnitfes, such as the people of remote
islands,* are prone to be hostile to stran
gers, and so the same may be the case
with the inhabitants of stars of the tenth
or twentieth magnitude. We shall in
no ease wantonly offend the people of
any star, but shall treat all alike with
urbanity and kindness, never conducting
onrselvfcs toward an asteroid after a fash
ion which we could not venture to assume
toward Jupiter or Saturn. I repeat that
we shall not wantonly offeud any star;
but at the same time we shall promptly
resent any injury that may be done us,
j or any insolence ottered us, by parties or
! goyernments residing in apy star in the
' firmament. Although averse to the
! shedding of blood, we shall still hold
i this course rigidly and fearlessly, not
only toward single stars, but toward con
| stellations. We shall hope to leave a
i good impression of America behind us in
! every nqfion we visit, f«om Venus to
Uranus. And a£. all events, if we cannot
inspire lovp, we shall, at least, compel
respect for our country wherever we go.
We shall take with us, free of charge, a
great force of missionaries, and shed the
true light upon all the celestial orbs
which, physically aglow, are yet morally
-in darkness. Sunday schools will be es- :
tabliaheit wherever practicable. Com
pulsory education wiilAso be introduced. '
The comet will visit Mars first and
then proceed to Mercury, Jupiter, Venus
and Saturn. Parties connected with the
governinent of the District of Columbia
and with the former city government of
New York, who may desire to inspect
the rings, will be allowed time and
every facility. Every star of prominent
magnitude will be visited, and time al
lowed for excursions to points of interest
inland. The dog star lias been stricken
from the programme. Much time will
be spent in the Great Bear, and, indeed,
in every constellation of importance.
So, also, with the Sun and Moon and j
the Milky Wav, otherwise' the Gulf,
Stream of’ the >kies. Clothing suitable
for wear in the sun should be provided.
Gnr prOfi ramaie has been so arranged
that we shaii tahlom go more than 100,-
000,000 of miles ai a time without stop
ping at some star. This will necessarily
| make the stoppages frequent and pre
serve the interest of the tourist. Bag
gage checked through to any point on
■ the route. Parties desiring to make
j only a part of the proposed tour, and
thus save expense, may stop over at any
star they choose and. wait /or the return i
voyage. j
After visiting all the most celebrated (
stain* and constellations in our system j
and personally inspecting the remotest j
sparks that seven the most powerful j
telescopes can now detect in the nrtaa- j
ment, we shall proceed with good heart j
upon a stupendous voyage of discovery
among the eouutless whirling worlds l
that make turmoil in the mighty wastes I
of space that stretch their solemn soli- j
tudes, their unimaginable vastness bij- j
lions upon billions of miles away beyond ]
; the farthest verge of telescopic vision, j
1 till bv comparison the little sparkling
vault” we used to gaze at on earth shall j
seem like a remembered phosphorescent j
flash of spangles which some tropical :
vovager’s prow stirred into life for a
•smgle instant, and .which ten thousand j
miles of phosphorescent seas and tedi- j
ous lapse of time had since diminished i
to an incident utterly trivial in his re
collection. Children occupying seats at
the first table will be charged full fare.
First class fare from Earth to Uranus,
including visits to the Sun and Moon
and all principal planets on the route,
will be charged atHhe low rate of §2 for
every 50,000,000 miles of actual travel.
A great reduction will be made where
parties wish to make the round trip.—
This comet is new and in thorough
repair and is now on her first voyage.—
She is confessedly the fastest on the
line. She makes 20,000,000 miles a day,
with her present facilities; but, with a
picked American crew and good weath
er, we are confident we can get 40,000,-
000 out of her. Still we shall never push
her to a dangerous speed, and we shall
rigidly prohibit racing with other com
ets. Passengers desiring to diverge at
any point or return will be transferred
toother comets. We make close con
nections at all principal points with all
reliable lines. Safety can be depended
upon. It is not to be denied that the
heavens are infested with old ramshackle
comets that have not been inspected or
overhauled in 10,000 years, and which
ought long ago to have been destroyed
or turned into hail barges, but with
these we have no connection whatever.
Steerage passengers not allowed abaft
the main hatch.
Complimentary round trip tickets
have been tendered to General Butler,
Mr. Shepherd, Mr. Richardson and
other eminent gentlemen, whose public
services have entitled them to the rest
and relaxation of a voyage of this kind.
Parties desiring to make the round trip
will have extra accommodation. The
entire voyage will be completed, and
the passengers landed in New York
again on the 14th of December, 1991.
This is, at least, forty years quicker
than any other comet can do it in.—
Nearly all the back pay members con
template making the round trip with us
in case their constituents will allow them
a holiday. Every harmless amusement
will be allowed on hoard, hut no pools
permitted on the run of the comet—no
gambling of any kind. All fixed stars
will be respected by us, but such stars
as seem to need fixing we shall fix. If
it makes trouble we shall be sorry, but
firm.
Mr. Coggia having leased his comet
to us, she will no longer ho called by his
name, but by my partner’s. N. B.—-Pas
sengers by paying double fare will be en
titled to a share in all the new stars,
suns, -moons, comets, meteors, and
magazines of thunder and lightning we
shall discover. Patent medicine peo
ple will take notice that we carry bulle
tin boards and a paint brush along for
use in the constellations, and are open
to terms. Crpmatiouists are reminded
that we are going straight to—some
hot places—and are open to terms. To
other parties our enterprise is a pleasure
excursion, hut individually we mean
business. We shall fiy oiir comet for all
it is worth. For further particulars or
for freight or passage, apply on board,
or to my partner, but uot to me, since I
do not take charge of the comet until
she is under weigh. It is necessary, at
a time like, this, that my mind should
not be burdened with small business de
tails. Mark Twain.
OUR HARWELL LETTER.
Barnwell Court—The Pardoned Crime
nals -A “Considerat'on”—The Negro
Learning Wisdom—An Anecdote of
the Reform Canvass.
[special coekespondexoe chronicle and
SENTINEL.]
Barnwell, S. G., Jutv 8, 1874.
Judge Maher opened an extra term of
Court yesterday at Barnwell, but up to
this time no case of general consequence
has transpired. I learned to-day from
one of the counsel in the case of Robin
son, the recent recipient of a modern
Mosaic dispensation for crimes proved
upon him at May term, that the prosecu
tion had concluded to compromise fur a
consideration, believing that this course
will be to the interest of Corcoran, while
in no wise prejudicial to morality—as
we have it here—or in derogation of
South Carolina justice, under the new
regime.
Many of my neighbors who were jubi
lant over the sentence’ to ponitentiarial
repose of onr County Commissioners wear
disappointed looks and dolefully la
ment because of their liberation. Es
pecially are they grieved when they
see or hear of Caesar and Godfrey—
. Arcades fambo. Rut a littlo reflection
should convince one that it is no square
game to immure the small fry iu prison,
while Moses, Chamberlain, Hoge and
other magnates of kleptomanial pro
clivities remain at large. Iu fact, I
think it actually injurious to the cause,
for seeing the immunity from punish
ment enjoyed by the leaders, every small
thief will make the most strenuous ef
forts to attain the foul empyrean, where
the _ priviledged robbers repose upon
mutabile (supply the substantive) ! and
will learn in time—if punished for his
modest peculations—that if he would
escape .Scoff-free and like a Governor,
he must needs steal like a Governor and
have enough to live in luxury, and at
the same time be able to throw a “sop
to Cerberus.” Sambo has learnod a
number of nntics from his carpet-bag
ger prototype, and, in time, with per
severance and determination—he will ac
quire this also.
In my Inst I narrated an incident of
the last political fiasco over here; which
account the hero of the story pro
nounces a verification of the aphorism,
“Truth is stranger than fiction,” for
that no draught on my imagination
could have heightened the harmonious
lout ensemble of that picture, and that
by circumscribing myself to the severe
facts of the case truth is both vindicated
and triumphant! Nothing stimulates
to generous exertion like praise. It
shall he exemplified here, for I will go
still further back into political reminis
cences, and tell of how an liouest fif
teenth amendment scorned to lower
himself in the scale of humanity. This
is a scene of election day in Barnwell;
time, 1870—enter Guou Patterson (a
mulatto), cap in hand:
Guon—“Mass Robert, please write
me a ticket. ”
Mass 11.—“Hm-e are some already
printed, Guou, with the names of tho
Democratic candidates on one and the
Republican ou the other; take your
choice !”
Guon—“No, sir! it aint agreeable to
my principles to swallow either one of
them tickets whole. I want my ticket
wrote by itself.”
R.—“ Well, here goes; who shall I
write first ?”
Guon—“Put your uame first, and
Mass Johnny’s next.”
R-—“ Well, I suppose you will now
have me to write Carpenter and Butler
for Governor and Lieutenant Gov
ernor ?”
Guon—“No, sir;don’t put Carpenter’s
name on my ticket. I’ll vote for no d—d
carpet-bagger ! You can put Gen. But
ler’s name, he’s a gentleman.”
R-—“Very good, I have only three
names on your ticket; who next ?”
Guon—“That’s all. I votes for none
of the balance.”
R.—“ Hadn’t you better vote for
Scott ?”
Guon—“Scott! No, sir ; I votes for
no man who is in favor of putting a nig
ger on equality with me /” Exeunt
omnia. So far as I am informed Guon
has steadfastly adhered to his princi
ples, and remains an out and out Demo
crat, with no taint of Conservatism—so
called—to stain his honest record. From
last accounts from Columbia “our na
tive young scrub” still holds the posi
tion of first favorite in the gubernato
rial “event,’’ notwithstanding he is
handicapped with the Union-Herald'xiu
fiuenco for Chamberlain. Bourbon.
FROM NEW YORK.
Secret Service Investigation.
i New Yobk, July 10.— Solicitor Wil
i son continued liis investigation of the
j correspondence and records of the
United States Secret Service Division in
' this city yesterday. As before, the mat
; ter was conducted privately. Mr. Wil
j son finds it necessary to go to Boston
to-day to pursue his investigation on an
important point in that city. Ho will
retnrn again on Sunday and probably
reach the end of his labors here by the
middle of next week.
Il&ddy Cain Indicted for Libel,
New York, July 10.—Chas. W. Buttz,
Solicitor of the First Judicial Circuit
of South Carolina, has a letter in the
Timex showing that Congressman Cain
has been indicted for libel for state- I
ments in his letter recently published j
about Buttz.
T'ljp Bloody Shirt.
It has been conclusively ascertained
that the bloody shirt at the Nathan man
sion was that taken off Mr. Nathan after
; he was found murdered.
I
A Case of Asiatic Cholera.
Mrs. Mary Ann Hannon, aged 63, died
i to-day from genuine Asiatic cholera, at
j her residence in Brooklyn. She was at- j
; tacked by the disease on Wednesday
night.
Hydrophobia.
William McGinnis, aged 7, died at
Bellevue Hospital to-day of hydropho
bia. He was bitten some weeks ago.
The Nathan Murder.
Harmon Nathan to-day identified the
the bloody shirt as that worn by his
fatter. This shirt was wrapped tip and
thro vn under the safe. It now appears
that it was found in the house six weeks
ago by one of the workmen, who threw
it into the stables where it was again
found Tuesday last. The polioe have
given np all idea of this being a clue to
the murder.
BLOODY WORK IK COLUMBIA.
FOUR COLORED MEN KILLED AT
HURT’S MILL.
The Cause of the Trouble -Turbulence
and Threatened Insurrection—Arm
ing of Colored Men—Threats of Mur
der-Conservative Conduct of the
People—Arrest of the Ring-Leaders
—They Resist, Attempt to Escape,
and are Killed.
Iu the Chronicle and Sentinel, pf
Thursday morning, appeurod the follow
ing local article:
Columbia County.
“Reports come to us from Columbia
county that an insurreotiou of the col
ored people is apprehended in one sec
tion of tho county. These reports are
of the vaguest character, and seem to
rest upon.the most shadowy foundation.
Undoubtedly, however, some apprehen
sion exists among the whites, and we
hear of preparations being made for
trouble should it come. It the negroes
should contemplate such a thing they
would be very foolish to attempt it un
less they are ambitious of extermina
tion.”
These reports had come to us in such
a way that we hoped, as we believed,
that they had been grossly exaggerated,
and that the trouble would disappear
without bloodshed or violence. These
hopes, wo regret to write, have not been
realized. Tho turbulence of a few had
colored men has resulted in their death,
and apprehensions are entertained that
the end is' uot yet.
The Commeneement of the Trouble
Dates some time back. The negroes of
district number three in Columbia coun
ty, distant about twenty or twenty-two
miles from Augusta, began a month or
more ago to act iu such a manner as to
cause serious alarm upon the part of the
whites. They purchased anus, organiz
ed a company and commenced to drill.
The citizens of the district did uot ob
ject to the formation of this company,
nor had they any right to object, if it
had appeared that it was gotten up as
all the other military companies in the
State have been—for the puropose of
amusement. But it soon became
evident that this organization was really
a declaration of war, and was to he so
considered. Violent and repeated
threats were constantly made against
tho whites in language whose import
could not he misconstrued. About two
weeks ago Thomas Boyd, a colored man,
who had joined the company and drilled
with it regularly, resigned his member
ship. He then took occasion to inform
his employer, privately, that he had
joined the company for the purpose of
amusement, but he had soon discovered
that the object of the organization was
something widely different. Ho said
that they were preparing for
Wav Willi the Whites,
And as he did not sympathize with their
feelings, lie had left them. The ring
leaders of the movemont were four col
ored men— Sake Doggett, Delaney Dog
gett (brothers), Fountain Doggett (their
father), and a man {named Ted. Tho
four lived together, and pretended to
cultivate a small farm—though their
principal object was the sowing of dis
cord between the races. Fountain Dog-
gett repeatedly stated that tho negroes
were now in a position to defend them
selves, and if they needed assistance
that it had been promised by the militia
of Edgefield county, South Carolina,
who were only separated from them by
the Savannah river. They pretended to
be afraid of Mr. Robert Lainkin, be
cause several years ago that gentleman
had had trouble with some of them. In
order to give them no excuse for a
further persistence in their seditious
conduct, the citizens requested Mi L.
to go away for a while, which request
he cheerfully and immediately complied
with—going, we believe, to Macon. But
this concession seemed to have no effect,
except to make tho negroes worse and
more insubordinate. A few days ago,
while Mr. Minor Luke was at work in
his field, unarmed, Delaney Doggett
approached, apparently for the express
purpose of
Provoking a Collisou.
Ho accosted Mr. Luke in the most
violent and profane language. He de
clared that his people were armed now
and that they intended to have revenge.
He said tho Ku-Klux had killed tho ne
groes in 1870, and that they wero going
to have blood for blood. Threats were
made against Mi - . Luke’s life and the
lives of several gentlemen residing in tho
neighborhood. A meeting of the com
pany had been called for yesterday and
it was feared that on that day they
might attempt to execute their threat;
ened vengeance. The whites had, there
fore, determined to meet them on that
occasion, to remonstrate with them and
attempt to bring them to reason. But
ou Thursday two citizens, alarmed by
tho threats which had been made against
tlie four colored men above mentioned.
Friday morning, between daylight and
eight o’clock, these warrants wereexecu
ted by Deputy Sheriff Peter Wright and
a small posse of men. The negroes
were arrested and officers and prisoners
started for Appling Court House. When
they reached Major
Moody Burt’s Mill
One of tho prisoners—Delaney Doggett
—refused to go any farther, lie stopped
short in the road and declared that lie
would not obey any G—d d—d white
man—he was as good as they wero and
he would be d—-d if they should carry
him to jail. The Deputy Sheriff order
ed him to come on and upon his again
refusing, the officer apprehending resis
tance fired upon him with his shot gun
and killed him. At the same time the
three other prisoners escaped hud were
shot and killed while running. A few
hours afterwards the coroner arrived
and an inquest was being held at the time
onr informant left the county to bring
the news to this city. The above are
the particulars of this unfortunate affair
as given us. On Tuesday we shall try
and give further details’if they can be
obtained.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Editors Chronicle and. Sentinel: m
Yesterday (Friday) tho Deputy .Sheriff
of Columbia having warrants in his pos
session charging Fountain Doggett, Du
lane Doggett, Sake Doggett and Eliott
Doggett with riotous conduct, summoned
a posse and proceeded to arrest the par
ties, As the Sheriff add posse were ap
proaching the house of the negroes above
named the negroes ran for the house,
but the Sheriff and posse being on horse
back, beat them, and succeeded in ar
resting them. Found in the house
many guns well loaded with buckshot.
After arresting the parties the Deputy
Sheriff started to the nearest Justice
(Thomas Novell). Some of the prison
ers were tied. They complained the rope
was too tight. The Sheriff untied them.
They commenced whispering to each
other. Pretty sopn, in a dense thicket,
the leader of the gang said he be
if white men should arrest him. At this*
they all broke to run. The Sheriff' and
posse fired with double barrel shot guns
and killed every one of them. Justice
Novell, Acting Coroner, summoned u
jury and held an inquest over the bodies.
The jury returned a verdict of justifiable
homicide in discharge of duty. The
following gentlemen composed tho Coro
ner’s jury: A. J. Avary, foreman; Wm.
McDaniel, A. D. Chamberlain, J. N.
Heggie, P. Morris, Charles Morris and
J. L. lteid.
THE INDIAN WAR.
The Red Skins Mean Business.
Omaha, July 9.—Generals Sheridan
and Ord returned from the West this
afternoon. Telegraphic advices from
Fort Laramie state that the reports re
ceived from the Spotted Tail agency
say that seventy-five lodges of the Ogui
-I.alias,.alias, under Black Twin, are moving
towards that place, and that the Unea
ps'pus and Minneeogories are moving
across the Yellowstone river. The Ar
rapaboco and Cheyennes are camped in
the head waters of Big Horn river, near j
Big Horn mountains.
Washington, July 9.—The following j
oflioial dispatch' was received here to
day :
Lone Tree, Nebraska, July 9, 1874.
In consequence of the many depreda
tions by Sioux in the Wind River Valley
on the white settlers and the Shoshone
Indians, one of the latest being the
murder ai)d horrible mutilation of two
white women, pr. Jain, agent for the
I Shoshores, made the request that the
| Sionx should be punished, if possible.
Ou the morning of the 2d of July, while
Gen. Ord and myself were at Camp
Brown, an opportunity presented itself,
and Capt. Torry, of the 18th Infantry,
commanding Camp Brown, was directed
to send Capt. Bates and Lieut. Robin
son, with company B, 2d Cavalry, ac
companied by twenty Indian scouts,
under the command of Lieut. Young,
| of the 4th Infantry, and about 150 Shos
hones, under their chief, to uttack a
camp of the Sioux lately established on
the north side of the Owl Mountain
range, where the Wind river breaks
through, distant about 90 miles from
Camp Brown. The attack was made at
3, a. m., Friday, July 3d, the result
being 50 Sioux killed and wounded and
over 100 horses captured, Onr loss was
two men killed and Lieutenant Young
and three men wounded—Lieutenant
Young dangerously. Captain Torry
telegraphs that the result was not as
satisfactory as desired on account of the
bad behavior of the Shoshones. Capt.
Torry went ontyni the sth with ambu
lances and additional men to meet Capt.
Bates. P- H- Sheridan,
Lieutenant General,
FOREIGN NEWS.
French Affairs.*
London, July 9. —The Times' Paris
correspondent telegraphs that MaeMahon
in liis forthcoming rnossago will proba
bly state that he would not accept the
resignations of his Ministers because
they defended his powers and ho wished
to save the country from anew minis
terial crisis. He will request the Assem
bly to hasten actiou on financial meas
ures and then adjourn for some months
and on reassembling proceed to definite
ly organize his powers.
Paris, July 9, noon.—Tho Republi
can journals of this morning consider
tiiat yesterday’s proceedings of tho As
sembly demonstrate tho powerlessness
of that body, and declare that dissolu
tion is the only remedy for the unsettled
political situation. It is probable that
several motions for the dissolution of
the A semldy will bo introduced at to
day’s sitting.
MacMahon’s Message.
Versailles, July 9.—lu the Assembly
to-day the message of President Mae-
Mahon, of which notice was given yes
terday, was presented and read by Gen.
de Cissey, Minister of War, ns follows :
“When von, by tho law of November
20th last, delivered the executive power
into my hands for seven years you in
tended to afford to the public interests
that security which precarious institu
tions are powerless to give. That vote
conferred upon me great duties, for tho
fulfillment of which I am accountable to
France, and from which I can in no
case lie permitted to withdraw. It
also conferred rights which I shall
never exercise, except for the good
of the country. Your confidence ren
dered my powers irrevocable for a
fixed term, in,forestalling votes on tho
constitutional hills. In according them
you yourselves enchained your sover
eignty. I shall employ the means with
which I am armed by the laws to defend
my power. This course, I am con
vinced, is in accordance with the ex
pectations of the Assembly, which,
when it placed mo at the head of
the Government, intended to create a
strong, stable and respected power.
But the law of November 20tli must ho
completed. The Assembly cannot medi
tate tearing up its engagements. Let it
permit mo to pressingly remind it of tho
claims for tho fulfillment of that engage
ment. ’Tho country demands an organi
zation of tho public powers, nud tho
questions which were reserved must ho
settled. Further delays will depress
trade and hamper tho prosperity of tho
country. I hope tho Assembly will
not fail to patriotically fulfill its
obligations. I adjure it, in tho
name of the highest interests of tho
country,to deliberate without delay upon
the questions which must no longer re
main iu suspense. The Assembly and
the Government are jointly responsible.
I am desirous of accomplishing all my
duties and my most imperative duty.”
Conclusion of MaoMalinu’s Message.
Paris, July 9.—The conclusion of
President MacMahon’s message is as
follows : “All my duties, and* my most
imperative duty, is to insure to tho
country defined institutions, security
nud calm. I have instructed the Minis
ter to inf irm tho Constitutional Com
mitteo concerning the points upon
which I believe it essential to insist.”
The Political Hit nation iu France.
London, July 10.—A Paris dispatch
to tho Times says : Duval’s demand for
urgency on his motion for a dissolution
of the Assembly, after voting upon
hills named, received 180 votes. It
seems certain that if Percerre’s bills bo
rejected, which is probable, the Centres
will submit either a fresh proposal for
a dissolution or for a protracted pio
rognation, but most probably the form
er, which will then obtain a largo ma
jority.
Paris, July 10.—The Republican pa
pers conclude from Marshal MaeMahon’s
message to tho Assembly yesterday that
he recognizes the Republic.
Carlist Barbarities.
Madrid, July 10.—Tho Carlist Gene
ral Dorrogaray has issued a manifesto
addressed to tho civilized nations, in
which lie calumniates the Republicans
and admits and justifies tho shooting of
fifteen of them.
Latest from Paris.
Paris, July 10.—In tlio Assembly this
evening, Bertould, Moderate Republican,
asked leave to submit tho following
question to General Cissey, Vice-Presi
dent of the Council : Whether it is
claimed for the President of the Repub
lic that ho denies tho right of the Assem
bly to determine whether the law of tho
20th November, 1873, is irrevocable or
not, and also if it is denied that tho
President is responsible to tho Assem
bly? On motion of General Cissey,
debate on this interpolation was post
poned until constitutional bills come up
for ,1 IcpnoHOn
London, July 10.—A special dispatch
from Paris to the Pall Mall Gazette
says that M. Forcible Laroquette, the
Duke do Padoue and General Fleury
have been summoned to appear before
the Court at tho same time with M.
Rahter, for connection with tho Bona
parte movement,
It is stated in a dispatch to the same
paper that France proposes to submit to
the Brussels Congress serious charges
against tho Government for nets com
mitted by the army which lately invaded
France and that Germany contemplates
presenting counter charges.
Important Sitting of the Committee of
Thirty—Views of the Government.
Paris, July 11.—The Committee of
Thirty on Constitutional Bills held an
important silting to-day. M. Foiirtier,
Minister of the Interior, appeared and
presented the views of tho Government.
He said tho Government would accept a
hill drawn up bya committee which pro
vides for the continuance of the title of
President of the Republic ; for the crea
tion of a Second Chamber, and for tho
organization of Personal Septenate, to
terminate with tho expiration of Muc-
Mahon’s seven years’ term, or sooner iu
case of his resignation or death ; hut it
was desirable that oertaiu provisions*
which required immediate action should
ho embodied in a separate measure for
speedier passage by the Assembly, and
Minister Fourtier specified them us fol
lows : Ist, Deputies should he elected
for separate arrondissements instead of
departments, for it was necessary to keep
iu mind tho possibility of the dissolu
tion of tho Assembly. 2d, In tho crea
tion of a Second Chamber the Govern
ment especially wished that the President
should ho empowered to nominate a
considerable proportion of its members.
3d, The Government insists that power
he given to tho President to dissolve tho
Lower Chamber, hut as tho manner of
the appointment of the members of tho
Upper House is not decided upon, it
cannot say whether the power should bo
exercised with or without the co-opera
tion of the latter. M. Fourtier, in con
clusion, remarked that the Government
was not desirous of interfering with tho
duly of the Assembly in framing a con
stitution, but merely pointed out what
it considered essential points. A full
expression would be given to its opinions
in debate, when the subject came before
the Assembly. Legitimists arc irritated
by the President’s message, and have
resolved to oppose Personal Septcnatu.
Carlist Barbarity.
Madrid, July 11.—The Carlists shot
the correspondent of the New Free
J'rrxx , of Vienna, on the 30th of June,
in spite of the reprieve sent by Don
Carlos.
FROM RICHMOND.
The Custis Estate-Decision in Favor
of den. Lee.
Richmond, July 10—The Dixpatch
says: The United .States Court for this
District has decided tho action of eject
ment in favor of G. W. C. Lee, the de
visee of the lute G. W. l’urke Custis.
The estate is a mill property on the
Four Mile Run in Virginia, and is u part
of tho Custis estate which was sold dur
ing the war by tho United States for
taxes. It would seem that this decision
may effect the Government title to tho
entire Arlington property, as the title to
the two estates is practically tho same.
Norfolk anil Portsmouth Cotton Ex
change.
Norfolk, July 11- -Representatives
from nearly all of tho cotton dealing
firms of Norfolk and Portsmouth met
last evening at the counting rooms of
Baker, Neal & Shephard, and completed
permanent organization, to be known ns
the Norfolk and Portsmouth Cotton Ex
change. The by-laws and rules of the
Augusta Exchange were adopted with
some slight modification. Tho follow*
i ing officers we-e o’eeted to serve for tho
’< coming year: President, W. W. Guuth
i mey; Vice-President, Maj. W. J. Baker;
Treasurer, Kader Biggs; Directors, W.
D. Reynolds, J. B. Ricks, John Jurnes,
C. W. Grandy, Geo. W, Arp.
Arrested for Violating the Postal Laws.
Hahresbubo, July 11.—Yesterday
United .dates Detectivo Anthony Com
stock arrested a man named Henry Clay
Metzger alias Mrs. H. Metzger, M. D.,
alias J. E. Lewis, at Hanover, Pa.,
for sending obscene books and circulars
through tho mails. On the way to this
city Metzger attempted to bribe tho
offici rto allow him to escapo. Tho
prisoner was committed by United States
Commissioner McCarrell and removed
to Philadelphia to-day.
Death of Gov. Caldwell.
Raleigh, N. C., July 11.—Gov. Cald
well died at Hillsboro this evening, of
cholera morbus,