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Address WALSH At WRIGHT,
Chrono i,k A Skntinkt . Augusta. O
(Ctjromcle anb sntfmel.
WEDNESDAY ... AUGUSTS,IB74.
MINOR TOPICS.
There aro about 400 granges in Texas. In
Missouri every county hut two has joined the ,
organization.
“Hard Money, Free Trade, and Home Buie
takes wonderfully with tho peoplo as a politi
cal motto, Last and West.
The Loudon Saturday lie view Hays that Sum
ner’rt Civil Bights bill is “ probably tho ex
piring Hash of an obsolete philanthropy."
Bays the Troy Presa : “With liix as a candi
date the Radical party is as certain of defeat
in November as that the sun shall rise on elec
tion day. liix must he the candidate, and with
him the Radical party will go down to ruin."
A dissipated young spendthrift, when re
monstrated with by his wife, replied : “I am
like the | rodigal son, and shall repent by and
by." “Yes, ' said the better half, “and I am
like the prodigal son, too, for I will arise and
go to my father."
The Republican parly has been forced to ac
knowledge the dishonesty of almost every de
partment of the Government, and now the offi
cials of the Treasury Department, after a
searching investigation, have come to the con
clusion that ihe secret service corps is corrupt.
Concha recoived in the heat of tho battle a
wound in the face and ili mounted to have the
bleeding stopped, lie had put his hand on the
saddle and lifted Ins foot into tho stirrup to re
mount when he received his fatal wound, tho
hall piercing him through and through. He
spoke on'y onoe afterwards, saying, "Killed in
a guerrilla war.”
Preaching at Westminster Abbey, the lilshop
of Lincoln said he could conceive nothing more
barbarous or unnatural than to relight those
funeral tiro* that had been extinguished four
teen centuries ago by the silent influence of
Christianity. Cremation would, ho believed,
imperil the doctrine of the resurrection, and
so produce the most disastrous consequences.
Dr. Prut* and Dr. Sejip, who were sent out
by tho German Government several weeks ago,
to make excavations at lyre, have returned to
Germany, and report a complete succoss, They
found and partly uncovered an ancient cathe
dral, supposed to ho of tho times of the Cru
sades, and containing many interesting inscrip
tions which tho discoverers were aldo to deci
pher.
Tho R<_eeUer scandal may result in making
people hatter, after all. A paper printed in
tlm city of Tilton and Beecher says: “There
seems to ho no abatemontof the interest taken
in tho Rev. J. Miller Hagerman. Last evening
Apollo Hall was crowded to its utmost capacity,
and many were unable to obtain admittance.
Mr. Hagnrman's subject, was 'Duties of Wives
and Husbands.'"
The Richmond I Vh'uj iH doflniug is position
on tho subject of settlers. It says: “If they
omne to rear their children and bury their dead
here, then they become Virginians, and we
have a rigtit at all ti . cs to call upon thorn aH
such to guard what is loft to Virginia. Adopt
ed citizens like tlioso are as distinct from the
carpet bagger and m to political adventurer
as the nmshroon is unlike tho toadstool, or the
salt water terrapin differs from tho mill pond
‘ skill-pot.’ "
There recently died in Belgium a lady of for
tune, named Madame Monseur, who had a sin
gular mania for the hoarding of articles of
dress. After her death an examination of her
effects revealed an unusual H'.alo of things.
There were mountains of dress goods unout
and bearing tho tradesmen’s price labels, be
sides hundreds of bonnets, drosses ma le up,
cloaks, shawls and various specimens of the
modiste's art. It is believed that the sale of
this accumulation of goods will realize some
thing like $20,000,— fjoafon Post.
After studying this impor.ant question in
Germany, ox-Mayor Medill, of Chicago, writes
homo: “If beer is a 'poison,' as it is strenu
ously asserted to ho in America, on account of
tho four or tivo per cent, of alcohol it contains,
1 can only say, in reply thereto, that in Ger
many it is a very slow poison, for the whole
population have been consuming it in vast
quantities for more than 2,000 years ; and they
aro m‘,ill a hearty, healthy, robust looking peo
ple, as any one will testify who has ever
trailed through tho Teutonic portions of
Europe."
The arches of the great steel bridge across
the Mississippi at St. Louis are of iron. Tho
immense hollow blocks were cast in a Pitts
burg foundry. So nicely was the work done
that every Mock but the keystone tilled its
space perfectly. It was found that the key
stone, which weighs many tons, had expanded,
owing to tho heat, and was an inch too large
for tlio vacancy. Tho solidity of tho work was
such that no clipping or cutting would sur
mount tho difficulty. In this dilemma tho key
stone was wrapped in over thirty tons of ice,
where it remained twenty-four hours. When
uncovered it was found that tho cold had con
tracted the keystone to such a size that it I
dropped to its place in the magnificent arch I
exactly filling the space required.
A railroad conductor in Pennsylvania “re- j
ceived on board a fine looking specimen of an I
old country gentleman. When he passed j
through the oars the old gentleman handed up j
his ticket, wbic > v as duly punched and return- J
ed to him. After passing tho next call station, j
the conductor again called for the old gentle- \
mans ticket. He looked up in surprise, and !
infer i.ed the puncher of tickets that he had
thrown it out of the window. 'Whydid you do
that ?’ asked the conductor. The old man re
plied. Why. I thought if you didn't want it. 1
di u t.' The face of the old man was so honest,
and lus knowledge of railroad traveling evi
dentlv so limited, that the conductor accepted
his word and carried him to his destination."
A French chemist is nourishing the hope of
turning his laboratory into a diamond mine.
The chief material with which he works is
sugar. By exposing the perfectly burned arri
cle to a temperature of 1,800 deg. Fahr.. in a
closed vessel without access of air, he has al
ready obtained a carbon cylinder hard enough
to cut glass. By this measure of success he is
encouraged to continue his experiments, m
full faith that be will yet be able to transform
the products of the beet and cane into black
diamonds, if not colorless ones. The idea that
liquid gems course the veins of these saccha
rine vegetables is a marvelous one, and cer
tainly dazzling to these engaged m raising
sugar-yielding crops.
Idle eleventh annual convocation of the Free
Church of England was held in London. June
23 and 2t The opening addrees'of she Presi
dent was on saeredotalism. and was greatly ap
proved by the members, luion w ith the Re
formed Episcopal Church in America was
unanimously agreed to. It was proposed to
adopt a prayer book and hymnal for the com
mon use of both chnrthes. In this church
bishops and bresbyters are acknowledged to be
of the same order; a bishop of she whole body
is constituted by a simple election. The con
vooation was composed of forty presbyters and
one hundred laymen, who rank as deacons.
England and Wales are divided, for the pur
poses of the church, into fifty-two districts and
five dioceses.
In the city of Springfield. Mass,, a system
of inspecting milk has recently lieeu establish
ed. and a large proportion of the specimens
tested are adulterated. In ene sample the
milk was robbed of half its cream and diluted
by the addition of one-fourth its bulk of water;
and a similar fraud, in varying proportions,
had been committed in half a dozen other
cases. One milkman took one-third of the
cream and made a dilution of one-thini water.
Another dealer, more conscientious, stole ouly
one-fourth of the cream and added ouly a
small quantity of water. One dealer content
ed himself with the addition of water equal in
bulk to the milk, while be stole no cream. One
sample contained eight parts of water to twelve
of good milk. In one case water had been
added to the milk, and foreign substances in
troduced—but it is claimed that these adultera
tion* were ma le by malicious parties.
TIIK WEST AND TIIE SOUTH.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, which is
the Democratic organ of the West,
makes the following announcement :
“Th» West and South will take a hand
in the next Presidential canvass, and
their candidate will not be a specie re
sumptionist; but, on the contrary, will
favor the payment of the bonded debt
in greenbacks, and a considerable in
crease of the circulating medium. The
money power of New York has chosen
its last President and gained its last vic
tory.”
HON. L. N. TRAMMELL.
Referring to a statement in a letter of
our Atlanta correspondent in reference
to the Hon. L. N. Trammell and his
efforts to secure the nomination for Con
gress from the Seventh District, the
Dalton Enterprise says ;
If this be true, it is indeed strange to
ns, for although we have spoken several
times with him upon this subject, be
has always asserted, iu positive terms,
that he would not do himself, or did
he wish anything done by others, which
would prevent the unbiased action of a
convention; and further, lie has asserted
in positive terms that he was with the
Democratic party under all circum
stances, and always advised unity and
harmony of action in the ranks of the
Democracy. He has made no canvass,
nor will he make any for the nomination.
If nominated he would probably accept,
although ho is now, and has been for
years, suffering from a throat disease
which might forbid it.
THE UNDERWRITERS ON CHICAGO
Chicago has not been profitable for
the insurance companies during tho
last three years. That city has been as
inflammable as a tinder box. Owing to
the presence of a mass of wooden
houses and the inefficiency ot the Fire
Department, the companies have lost
millions upon millions of dollars. The
Fire Underwriters now threaten to with
draw from Chicago unless reforms are
introduced, the nature of which are
tints summarized; 1. The Fire Depart
ment must be completely reorganized
and stripped of political connections. 2.
Fire limits must be extended to include
the whole city, and no frame buildings
allowed to stand within them. 3. The
city must have a force of sappers and
miners. 4. Water supply must be at
once increased. 5. Mansard roofs, ex
cept when made fire-proof, must, be
prohibited, 6. Lumber yards must be
gradually removed to more remote lo
calities. 7. The city must put floating
engines on river and lake. Chicago will
have to comply witli these requirements,
or do without the benefits of insurance.
THE INDIANA DEMOCRACY.
Tho platform adopted by the Demo
crats of Indiana is commendable in its
demand for “a strict construction of
the Constitution of the United States
and its amendments, and an impartial
enforcement of the laws; a tariff for
revenue ; a condemnation of all official
gratuities iu the form of retroactive
salaries, State or National ; a condem
nation of tho attempt of tho last Con
gress to muzzle the Press ; securing to
every citizen of the country the equal
protection of the laws without violating
the principle of local self-government
or interfering with the social customs of
the people ; opposition to high fees and
salaries, either in the State of Indiana
or in the United States ; and the de
mand for a reduction of salaries, State
and National.” The financial planks in
the platform of the Indiana Democracy
are hard enough and brief enough.
There can bo no doubt, arising either
from ambiguity or circumlocution, as
to their meaning. We quote in full :
Resolved, First- —That we are in favor
of tho redemption of five-twenty bonds
in greenbacks, according to the law un
der which they were issued.
Second — We are in favor of the repeal
of the law of March, 1861), which as
sumed to construe the law so as to make
such bonds payable exclusively in gold.
Third —We are in favor of the repeal
of the National Banking law and the
substitution of greenbacks for the Na
tional Bank currency.
Fourth —We are in favor of a return
of specie payment as soon as the busi
ness interests of the country will permit.
Fisth —We are iu favor of such legis
lation from time to time as will adjust
the volume of the currency to the com
mercial and industrial wants of the coun
try.
This financial platform will meet with
opposition from the Eastern and Middle
States, but the Democrats of ti e West
and South will endorse it. Tho Indiana
Democracy stand square before the
country and their position is impreg
nable. Tho organs of the bondholders
and money rings of the North will raise
the cry of repudiation, but there is no
repudiation in tho financial principles
enunciated by the Indiana Democrats.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AD
DRESS.
If, as tho New York Tribune says,
Napoleon’s suggestion to his army that
“forty centuries regarded them from
the bights of the Pyramids,” was “a
mischievous legacy to literature,” how
much more mischievous, not only to
literature, but to the welfare of the
country, must be the statements and
suggestions contained in the address of
the Executive Committee of the Repub
publican Party. If it be “risky” and
“fraught with fearful possibilities in the
hydro and ly so-phobia line” to read the
able and timely address of Colouel
Thomas Hardeman, Jr., Chairman of
the Democratic Executive Committee of
Georgia, to the people of this State,
how much more “risky” and dangerous it
must be to read the wild platitudes, the
volcanic fulmiuations, the gross misstate
ments, the sudden jerking references to
the long buried past, with which this Re
publican address abounds. We shall not
inflict the task upon our readers. We shall
not ask them to do what we shrunk from
doingonrselves—read a document which
has failed to awaken the euthusiasm of
eveu one Republican journal, and which
only reveals to the eyes of the country
the utter weakness of the Republican
party and the impotency of its leaders
to lash it into renewed and re-invigor
ated existence.
This address is said to be the pro
duction of Senator Howe, and how such
a document could have been penned and
sent out to the world by a committee of
intelligent men, presided over by such a
brilliant intellect as that of Zack Chan
dler, is a problem which we cannot un
dertake to solve in this heated term.
Ignoring President Grant, the address
carries its readers back aimost to the
days when Napoleon metaphorically saw
the forty centuries looking down upon
his army, and resuscitates the dead is
sues of the past to frighten the people
with the ghosts of Democratic misrule
and Democratic governmental imbecili
ty. It indicates no policy for the pre
sent or the future, save on the civil
rights question, and appeals to the peo
ple to “ send Republicans, and not
Democrats, to the next Congress.” Upon
this point we must emphatically take
issue with the Executive Committee,
and urge the people to “ send Demo
crats, aud not Republicans,” if they
wish to save the country from the grasp
of dishonest rulers, corrupt politicians
and swindling officials. “ Send Demo
crats, and not Republicans,” if yon
want the glories of the past renewed ; if
you want the eloquence of intellect, of
honesty and of justice to resound in
your legislative halls at Washington
again; if you want prosperity establish
ed at home and your Government re
spected abroad; if you want those
Southern State governments, which are
now in the hands of carpet-baggers and
mongrel Legislatures restored to their
rightful heirs and owners, the honest
and intelligent citizens of these States.
Upon the currency question the ad
dress is non-committal; while consider
able attention is given to the subject of
“cheap transportation;” and it is finally
concluded that “if the National Govern
ment is to do anything whatever to
cheapen transportation only the Re
publican party can be relied onto doit.”
Here is a “tub to the whale”—a bait for
the Western Grangers to swallow; but
we apprehend that
“Old Zack, he is too old
To be a Granger bold,"
And the farmers of every section will
see that the problem is one which the
Republican party alone cannot solve.
It is one of those subjects which must
adjust itself outside of party politics,
and will adjust itself without the facti
tious aid of the so-called Republican
party.
The address concludes with another
grandiloquent appeal to the people to,
“send Republicans not Democrats to
Congress,” and all will go “merry as a
marriage bell.”
The signs, however, are not propi
tious for Mr. Chandler’s party. The
address of his committee has evidently
fallen still born upon the ears of the
people, and it now remains for the
Democracy of the country to remember
that it is not Napoleon’s forty centuries
looking down upon them from the Pyra
mids ; but the peoplo of the world, who
are sick of tyranny, the people of this
vast country, of every class and every
condition, who are looking to this great
party to rescue the Government from
the hands of tho corrupt and imbecile
party now in power ; to place its insti
tutions where they were before the reign
of usurpation and theft; and to set tho
xvlieels of peace and prosperity again in
motion. It is for the Democracy to re
member, 100, that they are to work for
the people of the future, the inheritors
of this Government and those institu
tions that may be handed down to that
posterity, “regenerated, redeemed and
disenthralled.” Remembering this, let
us work with an energy, with a will
and a determination to succeed that
must and will triumph.
A STRONG ARTICLE.
The articlo in this issue headed “Tho
Great Crop Prognosticator” will excite
very general interest among planters,
factors and cotton brokers in this sec
tion. “Cotton Broker’s” arraignment of
the speculations, facts and figures,of the
cotton editor of the Atlanta Constitution
and Augusta Constitutionalist is vigor
ous and pointed.
OUR NEXT CONGRESSMAN.
There will be a lively contest for the
Congressional nomination in this Dis
trict. The candidates so far announced
are Major Joseph B. Cummins, Col. J.
D. Mathews and Capt. Pope Barrow.
Notwithstanding the declination of Hon.
George F. Pierce, Jr., the following
appears editorially in the last number
of the Sparta Times and Planter :
Our District turns out about every
week anew candidate. We see Col.
Mathews, of Elbert, now lays claim to
the nomination, and Capt. Pope Barrow
would have it. Well, wo will see at the
nomination which has the strongest
claim. They are all good men, but we
must select the one that can boat the
race, claim or no claim, and we think j
the Hon. Geo. F. Pierce, Jr., is the
man to do it, and we hope the conven
tion will so see it and nominate him.
The Griffin Daily News contains the
following endorsement of Capt. Pope
Barrow :
A writer in the Augusta Constitution
alist suggests the name of Capt. Pope
Barrow as a candidate for Congress
from that district. We knew Pope Bar
row in the “halcyon days of the Repub
lic” when we were college boys at
Athens, and cheerfully bear witness to
those qualifications which he possesses
that stamp him as a gentleman having
every requisite of true manhood. If we
lived in his district we would poll ten
thousand votes for him were it in our
power.
LIVERPOOL TO SAVANNAH.
An advertisement by a Savannah firm
of the British steamer Arbitrator going
to leave Liverpool on the 15th of Sep
tember for Savannah direct, to bo fol
lowed by other steamers, looks more
like actually putting the direct trade
ball in motion, which has been agitated
so long by Savannah traders, than any
thing yet noted. If “ thqr way to re
sume” be “ to resume,” the way to have
direct ocean trade is to start the steam
ers. In view of the fact that the first
steamer that ever crossed the Atlantic
was the steamer “Savannah,’’from Savan
nah to Liverpool—by the way, a steamer
built in the city of New York—it is
rather late in the day for Georgia people
to be inaugurating a steamer line over a
route that one time was so early consid
ered the best on the ocean.— New York
Bulletin.
It is never too late to build up the
commercial interests of a great State.
The only way to do this is to keep peg
ging away until our experiments are
crowned with success. The direct trade
movement now on foot in the interest of
the planting community means business,
and we will have confidence in the suc
cess of the enterprise until it is aban
doned by its projectors and supporters.
WORDS OF COUNSEL.
Senator Wm. W. Eaton, of Connecti
cut, writing to a citizen of Texas, gives
good advice to the South, and draws a
hopeful picture of the near future of the
Democratic party :
Hartford, Conn., June 23, 1874.
Mr Dear Sir— Yon place me under
obligations for your kind note of the ]
31st of May. You may feel assured that!
I feel a deep interest in the welfare of
the abused people of your section of our i
common country, and no effort of mine 1
will be wanting to place you in the po
sition belonging to you ns a matter of !
constitutional right. Os all the thou
sand and one things which will meet
you in your coming canvass I of course
know nothing, and therefore could not
speak ; but generally I can say, what
would be only patent to every thinking,
reflecting man, that your duty would be
to harmonize all conflicting opinions,
presenting thus a firm, serried front to
the eommorn adversary. Place in nom
ination for your various offices, espe
cially national offices, only men of pru
dence and caution, at the same time
bold, firm and outspoken. Thef near
future—the coming four years—will
measurably determine the condition of
the South, and she should have in all
public positions, especially in Congress,
her best, her truest, boldest, and most
sagacious men. The State rights men of
the North see and feel profoundly
your true situation. I believe the Re
publicans of my section are becoming
alarmed at the rapid strides that centra
lization has made in the past ten years;
and hence the victory iu my own State,
Li be followed. I trust, in New York in
November. Should we sneceed in New
Y'ork in the Fall I shall regard the Presi
dential election of 1876 as half won to
our hands. lam not a sanguine man,
and am fully aware of the vast corrupt
ing power that is>rrayed against the
Democratic party, yet I do not permit
myself to fear the result. There are ten
Southern States which will be certain
for the Democratic candidate in 1876.
The Granger fend in the West must be
favorable to us, and the very large Wes
tern German vote, heretofore almost
solid Republican, will, I am qnite cer
tain, be in tbejfuture nearly solid with
us. Now, this is my opinion of the
outlook at the present moment. Texas
we regard of course as one of the certain
States. You will be soon the empire
State of the South; therefore see to it
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 1874.
that all your power is given to proper
men, who in the future will place the
destinies of your State with the State
rights men of the North, and all shall be
well; wejwill stand by you “shoulder to
shoulder,” and meet the foe manfully.
It will give me great pleasure to hear
from you at any time relating to your
political matters, as I shall take earnest
interest in all that relates to you in
Texas. I intend, if my life and health
are spared, to visit your State within
the coming two years. In great haste,
very sincerely, &c., Wm. W. Eaton.
Senator Eaton feels as kindly toward
the Southern people as any man in the
North. He is an unflinching and un
compromising Democrat and his words
of counsel should be taken to heart.
“THOSE CURRENCY BONDS.”
We copy from the Atlanta News the
report of the committee of the Legisla
ture appointed to investigate the claim
of Boorman Johnson & Cos. The News
says, editorially :
Nothing can be more conclusive than
the proof they adduce that these bonds
were hypothecated by Kimball for his
own personal use, before the yold quar
terly bonds were issued. We think that
this report settles the question of Kim
ball’s criminality touching these bonds.
That lie perpetrated a fraud upon the
State in failing to redeem them when
the gold quarterly bonds were paid to
him, every honest man will admit.
The State never obtained the money
advanced on these bonds. Whether
Kimball used the entire sum for his
own purposes, or divided with Bul
lock, is a question he alone can decide.
But the fact stands out plainly and in
couvertibly that he got the "money on
his personal account, and that after he
was paid the quarterly gold bouds
for the State Capitol he uegelected to
redeem the currency bonds. This neg
lect could not have been due to over
sight, because he repledged the cur
rency bonds to J. Boorman Johnson &
Cos., within two weeks after he liad
written Bullock that they had been re
deemed and turned over to Henry
Clews & Cos., for cancellation and re
turn to the State Treasury. Tho omis
sion to redeem them was an act of de
librate fraud. We care nothing about
what Mr. Kimball’s “ intentions” were
when he perpetrated the swindle. Hell
is said to be paved with good intentions,
and we have no doubt it can be proven
that the devil himself is a well meaning
person. All we know is that the fraud
was perpetrated, and that the State will
probably have to pay the money.
As Mr. Kimball asserts that he is in
nocent of ever having perpetrated a
fraud upon the State of Georgia he
ought to be able to establish his char
acter and prove his innoceuse. He will
never have a better opportunity.
The Atlan’a correspondent of the Sa
vannah News denies that Governor
Smith holds Mr. Kimball innocent.—
This denial, however, would be more
effective coming from the Governor in
an authoritative manner. Mr. Kimball
purported to quote tho substance of
Governor Smith’s remarks, which were
very strong in his favor, and, coming
from such a source, induced many peo
ple to believe iu his innocence. In view,
therefore, of the importance attached to
Governor Smith’s opinion and the in
fluence it exercises in this particular
case, it would be advisable to have an
authoritative expression of opinion from
him as to the impression he intended to
convey to Mr. Kimball. Here is what
the correspondent of the Savannah News
says:
His (Kimball’s) account of his inter
view last Winter with Governor Smith
is an exceedingly cool performance, as I
am assured by persons in a position to
he correctly informed. The Governor
of the State is bound to receive all per
sons who call upon him with courtesy,
whatever may be their charaeier; but
neither he nor Judge Stephens, it is
said, ever had any doubt iu regard to
Kimball’s conduct. Bullock and Blod
gett held official positions, and hence it
is easy to put one’s finger upon their
crimes. But Kimball held no office
under the State; he only acted as the
personal agent of the other members of
the triumvirate, and therefore Judge
Stephens was not able to And any charge
upon which the “ great developer”could
be brought to trial. This much the
Governor stated, but I am informed that
neither he nor Judge Stephens ever inti
mated to any one that they considered
Kimball innocent of wrong doing.
DO TIIE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA
FAVOR THE RE-ELECTION OF
PRESIDENT GRANT ?
A Mr. H. V. Redfield, correspon
dent of the Cincinnati Commercial, has
interviewed Hon. Ben Hill and Gov.
James M. Smith on President Grant
and his chances for a third term.
Mr. Hill is reported as not caring two
straws for the example of Washington
in declining to serve as President for
more than two terms. He says that if
Grant will help the South he will have
the support of the Southern people,
not only for three terms, but for
four. According to Mr. Hill, as repre
sented by this correspondent, all that is
required of Grant is to be “our Presi
dent as much as the President of the
North,” and our peqple will support him
regardless of all customs or future con
sequences. The correspondent repre
sents Mr. Hill as being very despond
ent about the effort to pass the Civil
Rights bill, and he makes Mr. Hill say
that the Southern people will take Presi
dent Grant for a third term, or any
number of terms, if he will only inter
pose iu their behalf and prevent this
abomination from going into effect.
This correspondent reports Governor
Smith as saying that the passage of this
Civil Rights bill will ruin the South. It
will close our schools, and intensify race
hatred a hundred fold. One of its im
mediate effects will be to break up the
public school system of Georgia. There
fore Governor Smith gives it as his
opinion, according to Mr. Redfield,
that the Southern people have no objec
tion to a third term, if Grant will do
the fair thing by the South ; “if he will
give us simple justice we are for him for
a third term, or for a fourth term.”
Governor Smith and Mr. Hill are
represented as holding similar views on
the nomination of President Grant for
a third term, and their idea seems to be
that there is no principle involved and
no departure from established usages in
electing him for a third or even a fourth
term. To carry the idea out still fur
ther, there is no objection to electing
President Grant for life if he will do
justice to the South. The Constitution
alist says :
That Mr. Hill correctly and forcibly
portrays the Southern "position and
speaks the sentiments of many Southern
people can not be denied.
We should be sorry to think this. To
say that there is any respectable por
tion of the white people of Georgia or
of the South who will support Presi
dent Gilant for a third term is not
strictly correct according to our infor
mation. We see no evidence of
this feeling in Georgia, and we do
not believe that it exists to any
extent among the people in any of the
Southern States. Here and there among
a few of the old leaders of the South there
may be a disposition to support Grant,
but the masses of the people are not for
him.
Should the Civil Rights bill pass, and
should President Grant veto it—as he is
expected to do—he will deserve credit
for doing his duty. Should the domi
nant party be so vindictive and devilish
as to impose this bill upon the
people of the country, President Grant
will be but wisely exercising a high pre
rogative in interposing his veto to pre
vent riot and perhaps bloodshed in cer
tain portions of the country. But his
opposition and defeat of the Civil Rights
bill will scarcely create a revolution in
public sentiment South. The few poli
ticians here and there in the South who
have declared for President Grant will
find out that the people will not support
him for a third term. The day has gone
by when the people can be lead by poli
ticians against their convictions.
The people of Louisiana, of Missis
sippi and of South Carolina have no
fondness for General Grant. He drove
the iron into the side of Louisiana and
he has made no effort to heal the wound
inflicted. The iron is still there corrod
ing and the cruel and cowardly wound is
still festering. What has President Grant
ever done for the people of prostrate
South Carolina ? He has given encourage
ment and support to the thieves in power
in the South. He placed them in power
in Lousiana and he has sustained them
in authority in South Carolina and in
all the States South. Until recently he
has shown no evidence of doing justice
to our people. He has been in perfect
accord with his party on all punitive
measures affecting our section. With
his prestige and his all powerful influ
ence with his party, ho could have af
forded to be just and even generous,
aye, magnanimous, in his treatment of
the people of the conquered South.
What lias his conduct been ? But we
do not wish to go over the legislation of
the past six years, which President Grant
could have mollified or prevented, had
he been so disposed. Our people are
too familiar with its character—its in
justice, rapacity and partisan hate are
too well remembered to need repetition.
The Southern people are quick to for
give, but slow to forget. They will be
thankful to President Grant for admin
istering the duties of his high trust as
President of the whole country, and for
dealing out even-handed justice to the
South. This policy toward the South
would render his administration more
popular. But we think our public
men undertake to say too much
for the honest masses of the South
when they say to roving correspondents
that our people do not care two straws
for the principle involved in making
Grant President for three or four terms
or for life. They care so much about it
that no amount of sugar-coating will
ever carry the people of Georgia for
Grant. When we were in what is
termed the “slough of despond” and
“the lowest depths of the gulf of
despair,” President Grant tried to keep
us there. But the people of Georgia
prized themselves out, and they mean
hereafter, Civil Rights or no Civil
Rights, to steer clear of the “slough of
despond” and the “gu'f of despair.”
We cannot say what revolution in
sentiment a year or so may bring forth,
but we aver with truth that there is no
feeling favorable to a third term for
President Grant among the people of
Georgia at this time.
THE FINANCIAL QUESTION.
Ex-Secretary McCulloch has been
interviewed on the financial question,
and expressed his belief that the new
financial bill would have very little ef
fect upon the business interests of the
country. He favors a speedy resump
tion of specie payment, and opposes any
further inflation of the currency. The
present tariff he regards as unjust and
oppressive in many respects, and favors
a strictly revenue tariff. He endorses
the financial views set forth in the Grant-
Jones memorandum, aud wishes the
Government had adopted them years
ago. He denounces the policy advo
cated in the platform of the recent In
diana Democratic Convention of paying
off the five-twenties in greenbacks as the
first step toward repudiation and nation
al dishonor. He thinks the war against
the present National Banking system
unwise and impolitic, and that the sys
tem should not be abandoned until a
better one is devised, and expresses a
preference for National Bank notes over
Treasury notes as a circulating medium,
inasmuch as the latter are always under
the control of the party in power, who
may inflate or contract at pleasure, thus
disarranging the business interests of
the country at will.
Professor Cameron, of the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons of Ireland, lately tes
tified before the select committee of the
British House of Commons on the liquor
adulteration question, stating that in a
long professional experience he had ex
amined large quantities of Irish and
Scotch whisky and found it pure,
“ though the popular idea was that it
contained blue-stone, oil of vitrol or
copperas.” Much of the whisky that
is sold, however, comes fresh from the
still, iu which condition it contains a
large proportion of fusel oil, the effects
of which when taken in the stomach are
“maddeniug.” He gave it as his de
liberate opinion that it was “new whisky,
and not adulterated whisky, that did
the harm,” and he thought it was de
sirable that the sale of the article under
a year from the time of its manufacture
should be prohibited by law.
The Boston Advertiser (Republican)
says that it would be folly to deny that
there is much dissatisfaction in Massa
chusetts with the existing National and
State Governments, and it gives two rea
sons. One is the continuance of the
prohibitory liquor system in the State,
and the other is “sympathy with the
people of some of the Southern States,
whose helplessness has been taken ad
vantage of to impose upon them in the
name of the Republican pariy a brutal
tyranny which is a disgrace to the coun
try.”
The government now existing in South
Carolina and some other Southern States
is an offense and a reproach to the whole
country. It ought to be changed and
improved as speedily as possible, and
we are glad to learn that the President
means to take the work of improving it
in hand, unless it is immediately accom
plished by the people of the State them
selves.— Providence Journal (Rep).
PALMETTO LEAVES.
Planters at Martin’s Depot are making
one hundred aud fifty bushels of corn to
the mule.
The work on the Chester and Lenoir
Narrow Gauge Railroad is being rapidly
pushed forward.
The Abbeville Menium says; Davis,
the illicit distiller who was recently
killed, buried three thousand dollars in
gold, and the secret of its place died
vith him.
The one hundred and fiftieth anni
versary of the occupation of the present
site of St. Philip’s (Episcopal) Church
Charleston, which is now rapidly ap
proaching, will be observed by a memo
rial service.
T. C. Braddy, of Marion, who was
sentenced for whipping unmercifully
with a wagon trace a colored man, and
who made him eat a quantity of raw po
tatoes, for stealing the same, has been
pardoned out of the county jail.
The Governor has pardoned Martha
Reed, of Clarendon county, convicted of
larceny ; also T. C. Braddy, sentenced
to the Marion county jail for four
months for assault and battery, and W.
Wright, of Williamsburg, sentenced to
the county jail for larceny.
W. F. Myers, auditor of Colleton
county, has been suspended for cause
and George Washington appointed in
his place, subject to the action of the
Senate. The Governor has appointed
Charles Griffin Trial Justice of Aiken;
James H. Carroll, Trial Justice of Col
leton; Win. Troy, Jr., Trial Justioe of
Abbeville,
THE GREAT CROP PROGNOSTI
CATOR.
To the Editors of the Chronicle and
Sentinel :
We have been favored by the man
agers of the Augusta Constitutionalist,
for the past six weeks, witli a weekly
article on the subject of cotton. Criti
cism on these articles has been invited
(in fact almost defied) by both the
writer of the articles and the editor of
that paper ,and the last two or three
articles have been placed in its editorial
columns. The writer of these articles is
the same man who has been giving vent
to his surplus gas on the same subject,
i. e., cotton, through the columns of the
Atlanta Constitution for nearly two
years past. He stated in his first article
in the Constitutionalist that his articles
would contain nothing but facts, and
would be written in the interest of the
cotton planter and the young cotton
operator. If any one will carefully read
and analyze any one of these articles
they will find that the man is an extre
mist of the most violent degree, and
that there is nothing of any value what
ever in his articles to any, one and a
great deal that has done aud is calcu
lated still to do a great deal of harm to
this section, and especially those for
whose benefit his articles pretend to be
written. He states that his cotton week
ends on Tuesday, and his figures are of
oourse made up to that day. The fact
is that the cotton week of the world
trading in cotton ends on Friday aud all
figures are made to Friday. These
figures are issued in the Commercial
and Financial Chronicle of each Fri
day, and are also sont out in the circu
lars of the New York Cotton Exchange
of the same day. It takes the mail until
Tuesday to reach this man in Atlanta,
when he gets these circulars takes his
figures from them, issues them to the
readers of the Constitutionalist here on
Thursday, two days after the entire
trade has them and imagines he is giving
them something of value. The next in his
articles gives the course of the New
York and Liverpool markets for the past
week. This the veriest tyro in the trade
knows from day to day, as it appears in
all the daily papers. He then gives you
selections of his own from the immense
correspondence that he claims to have
(generally one or two letters) with Mun
chausen accounts of the crop, and closes
with his wonderful gift of seeing into
the future and predicting just what the
market is going to do. He may ask
what harm his articles cau do? They can
create a false impression throughout the
cotton world as to the probabilities of a
supply from this country. The price of
the article is controlled by foreign coun
tries. This price is governed by supply
and the larger they believe the supply
will be the less they want to pay for it. A
short time ago, shipments new crop
from this country were worth Qd. in
Liverpool. They are now Bfd. —a decline
of 1} per cent, in gold, representing
twenty-two and a half millions of money,
gold, on a crop of 4,000,000 bales. This
decline has been caused by the sending
of just such false statements of the crop
as this man has written, published and
sent to all the leading cotton markets of
the world; for I charge him with having
sent these articles all over the cotton
world, and ask him to show what benefit
this course has been to the planter or
young operator. His opinions as to
what the crop will be are worthless, and
he has so proven it himself. A year ago
last March he sent an estimate to the
cotton pool here and wrote a letter to
tbe Secretary of the Exchange, telling
him what disposition to make of the
money. He was going to win it sure.
He came within about half million bales
of it. His opinions of the crop now
being marketed, expressed last Summer
in the Atlanta Constitution, were about
as far wrong. In fact, whenever he
happens to guess right on cotton, in any
particular, it is when he happens to fall
in the general grove of public opinion
and follow the crowd. In one of his
articles published in May, in the Atlanta
Constitution, when the cotton market
was at its highest point (August con
tracts being 19Jc. in New York), he said
that the market would advance over lc.
the next week. Instead of advancing, it
declined over lc., and has continued to
decline ever since. No doubt many
young operators, taking his opinion as
worth a great deal, held on to cotton
and contracts, and instead of getting
$4 50 per bale more profit, got from $lO
to sl3 50 per bale less, which was
brought about by the publication of
this man’s articles and others of the
same character as to the growing crop;
for I have seen a letter from a large
house in New York, to a party here,
stating that it is impossible for the
market to advance so long as your people
keep writing that the crop is the best
since the war. He has challenged critics
to show errors in his articles. In one of
his articles he said the stock in Liver
pool would soon be over 1,000,000 bales,
and at the same time said it had never
been 1,000,000 since the war. On June
27th, 1872, it was 1,011,001, and the
price was 11 5-l Gd. in Liverpool aud
26}c. in New York. In one of his arti
cles he said we would have a drought in
July. This was when he was a violent
“bull” and before his articles were writ
ten for the Constitutionalist, in another
we were to have plenty of rain in July
and drought in August. He must, of
necessity, be right in one of his predic
tions, as to July, as he has predicted
both ways; let us see if he does not yet
do the same for August. He stated in
one of his articles that the caterpil
lar appeared last year in May. I
have carefully examined the Commercial
and linancial Chronicle of New York,
whose sources of information are greater
than one hundred such men as the
writer of these articles put together, and
the first mention of caterpillar last year
was on July 19th, then reported as doing
no damage, and no damage reported
until 9th August, and the Commercial
and Financial Chronicle states the
damage as limited all last year, except
in one or two places, principally about
Selma, Montgomery and Columbus, Ga.
In his last article this man states that
the report of the Agricultural Bureau as
to the condition of the crop for July,
agrees with him. This is not true. In
his articles he has emphatically stated
the crop the best since the war. The
Agricultural Bureau report states it
this year at 8 per cent, below an aver
age; 1873 at 11 per cent, below; 1872, for
August at 2 percent, above; 1871, July,
11} percent, below, and 1870, July, at 1
percent, above. He has persistently pub
lished all the letters he could find ( out
of his immense correspondence'), and
they were only one or two, that sustain
ed him in his views, and the editor of
the Constitutionalist has clipped from
other papers everything he could find to
help him, and published it also. His
great Thomas county field, it seems,
had no existence, or was unknown to
any of the citizens of Thomasville, and
Mr. Fleming’s correspondent would have
been likely to have known it had such a
field been there. It must have been the
creation of his correspondent’s imagina
tion, or one of his own hallucinations.
The same is probably the case of his big
field north of Atlanta, if we can believe
the Hon. Wm. H. Styles, and the report
of one of our most reliable merchants,
who was in Rome about the time this
big Coosa river field was found, and
stated on his return that the crop was
on an average of from ten to twelve
inches high. There have been two or
three criticisms on this man’s articles
published ; he has pretended to reply to
these. His reply is an assertion in one
case that the writer held cotton, spots
or futures. Judging from the article
and the criticism, the critic would
have had a better right to charge
the Atlanta man with being in the
pay of the bears and spinners than
he had to charge him with holding
cotton. His reply to another was that
he had never been one hundred miles
from home; this may be true or not.
We do know the Atlanta man has been
one hundred miles from home. He
went to New York some two or three
years ago to better his own finances by
his ability to see into the future of cotton;
he didn’t tarry there long; probably his
success warrants him, in setting himself
up at so many dollars per week,
paid by the Atlanta Constitution and
Augusta Constitutionalist as the ad
viser of the planter and young cotton
operator. Maybe he will give us some
light on this subject, his length of stay,
one hundred miles from home, Ac. In
conclusion, Messrs. Editors, there is no
better evidence of the want of brains in
a man than his advising people either
to buy or sell cotton, especially dnring
the Summer mouths, when there is never
anv legitimate demand for cotton, for
our Southern exporters have all stopped
buying, and the price depends entirely
on the manipulations of cliques and
rings in New York, aud the party gen
erally wins who has the loDgest purse.
The bear party use everything they can
lay their hands on to put the price
down, chief among which is just such
articles as this Atlanta Solon writes, and
the bulls do all they can to put it up.
This Atlanta man, in his last article,
says no one believes the caterpillar will
do any harm this year. May we ask
where he got his information from? Who
told him so ? His side tries, I have no
doubt, to make themselves believe so, or
possibly he thinks that he is every one,
and the majority of the cotton thinkers
South no one. Cotton Broker.
THE GREAT SCANDAL.
TILTON’S CROSS-EXAMINATION.
lie Describes the Improper Caress.
New lork, July 26.—A full report of
Tilton’s cross-examination has been
given out. It makes ten columns in the
Tribune, to which the Associated Press
is indebted for advaflee sheets. In the
testimony the following questions and
answers occur:
Question—ls it your sentiment that
that is an offense for which one man can
apologize to another?
Answer—l know there is a code of
honor among gentlemen that a mau can
not condone such an offense, but I can
not see what offense a man cannot
forgive.
Question —Have you not frequently
asserted the purity of your wife ?
Answer—No! I have always had a
strong technical use of words ; I have
always used words that conveyed that
impression. I have taken pains to say
that she was a devoted Christian woman ;
that necessarily carried tho other, as lie.
thought; Ido not think it covered the
whole. I have said that Elizabeth was
a tender, delicate, kindly, Christian wo
man, which I think she is.
Question—Have you not stated that
she was as pure ns an angel ?
Answer—No; I have not sought to
give Elizabeth good character. I have al
ways wanted to do so. I think she de
serves a good character. I think sho is
better than most of us—better than I am.
1 do not believe in point of actual moral
goodness barring some drawbacks that
there is in this company so white a soul
as Elizabeth Tilton.
To the question as to liis wife’s devotion
and purity of life witness said she was
pure unless a technical meaning was ap
plied to the word purity. She sought
consolation of her pastor and he took
advantage of her orthodox views to
make them a net and mesh in which he
ensnared her, and for which witness held
some contempt which no other English
words could describe.
Question —You say for a year after
what you state as Mrs. Tilton’s confes
sion she insisted she had not violated
her marriage vows ?
Answer—Yes. Elizabeth was in a sort
of vaporous cloud she was between
light and dark. She could not see it
was wrong. She mentioned it to her
mother in my presence that she had not
done wrong. She cannot bear to do
wrong. A sense of having done wrong
is enough to crush her. She naturally
seeks for her own peace a conscientious
verdict. She never would have had
these relations if she had supposed at
the time they were wrong. Elizabeth
never does anything that at the time
3eems wrong. For such a large moral na
ture there is a lack of a certain balance
aud equipoise. She has not a will that
guides and restrains, but Elizabeth
never does at any time that which does
not have the stamp of her conscience at
the time upon it.
Question—Do you say that she did or
did not insist that she had never viola
ted her marriage vow ? Answer—She
always was saying that it never seemed
to her wrong, and, said “Theodore, I do
not see that I have now wronged you.”
Tilton described in detail the improper
caress which occurred in the parlor
while looking over engravings, saying
that Beecher touched, slyly, Mrs. Til
ton’s lower limbs. He said of the bed
room scene, that he went to the room
door; Elizabeth came out; I was sur
prised; the door was locked; she was
surprised at finding me; Beecher was
sitting in a red plush rocking chair,
with his vest unbuttoned; liis face
colored like a rose when I saw him.
Question —The explanation was satis
factory to you on that occasion ?
Answer—Entirely so. I should have
thought nothing of it had I not wonder
ed at the door being locked.
Question —What was the explanation
given which you found satisfactory ?
Answer—Annoyance. My wife said
ours and the neighbors children were
making a noise. She wanted to have a
quiet talk with Mr. Beecher aud so she
locked herself iu.
Question —That satisfied yon ?
Answer—Yes, it was entirely reason
able.
New Yokk, July 27. — Tilton pub
lishes a card, calling public attention to
the fact that the Plymouth Church Com
mittee, in its publication of the testi
mony, omits the most important fact,
viz: That the criminality which his
sworn statement charged upon Beecher
aud Mrs. Tilton was confessed to Tilton,
not only by his wife, but by Beecher;
futhermore, that it was confessed by her
and him to Mr. Moulton as the friend
and counsellor of both; and, still fur
ther, that Moulton’s mediation between
Beecher and Tilton was based on the
one sole fact of this pre-existing crimi
nality between Beecher and Mrs. Tilton.
What Eliaabetli Cady Stanton Knows.
Brooklyn, July 27.—The Argus lias
an account of an interview with Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who said that
“While Mrs. Bullard was still connected
with the Jlevolution Susan B. Anthony,
Mr. and Mrs. Tilton, Mrs. Bullard and
myself were in Brooklyn together—it
was in the afternoon—and after calling
at the office of the Jlevolution, Mr. Til
ton and myself accompanied Mrs. Bullard
to her residence and remained to dinner.
Through some misunderstanding, Miss
Anthony went with Mrs. Tilton and
dined with her instead of us. There
was some feeling on the part of Mrs.
Tilton in regard to this, although it was
quite unintentional on my part. Well, at
the table no one was present but
Mrs. Bullard, Mr, Tilton and myself.
Theodore told the whole story of his
wife’s faithlessness. As I before ob
served, he did not go into the details,
but the sum and substance of the whole
matter he related in the hearing of Mrs.
Bullard and myself. We were reform
ers. He gave us the story as a phase of
social life. The next evening, hearing
that Miss Anthony was a little piqued
at me for leaving her on the day before,
I returned to my home here in Tenafly.
To my surprise I found Susan waiting
my arrival. That evening, when we
were alone, I said to her: “Theodore re
lated a very strange story to Mrs. Bul
lard and me last evening.” Then I re
counted to her all that he had told us.
Miss Anthony listened attentively to the
end, then she said: “I have heard the
same story from Mrs. Tilton.” We
compared notes and found that by
both man and wife the same story had
indeed been told. When Mr. Tilton re
turned home that evening some angry
words, growing out of the separation in
the afternoon, passed between him and
his wife and both became intensely ex
cited. In the heat of the passion, aud
in the presence of Miss Anthony, each
confessed to the other of having broken
the marriage vow. In the midst of these
startling disclosures Miss Anthony with
drew to her room. Shortly after
she heard Mrs. Tilton come dash
ing up the stairs and Mr. Til
ton following close after. She
flung open her bed room door and
Elizabeth rushed in. The door was
then closed and bolted. Theodore
pounded on the outside and demanded
admittance, but Miss Anthony refused
to turn the key. So intense was his
passion at that moment that she feared
he might kill his wife if he gained ac
cess to the room. Several times he re
turned to the door and angrily demand
ed that it be opened. “No woman shall
stand between me and my wife,” he
said; but Susan, who is as courageous
as she is noble, answered him with the
words, “If you enter this room it will be
over my dead body,” and so the infuriated
man ceased his demands and withdrew
Mrs. Tilton remained with Susan
through the night. In the excitement of
the hour, amid sobs and tears,she told all
to Miss Anthony. The whole story of
her own faithlessness, of Mr. Beecher’s
course, of her deception and of her an
guish fell upon the ears of Susan B.
Anthony, and were spoken by the lips of
Mrs. Tilton. The next morning Mr.
Tilton told Susan never to enter his
house again. She told him she should
enter whenever she choosed, but I be
lieve she did not go there again.
Memphis, July 27. — Considerable ex
citement was created this afternoon by
the appearance of an extra purporting
to be the confession of Henry Ward
Beecher admitting his guilt of the
charges made by Tilton, and attempting
to defend his action from a biblical
stand-point. The -article was well
written, and thousands of extras were
sold before the deception was discover
ed. A number of newsboys were arrest
ed for selling them, and the police are
trying to find the author.
New York, July 28. — The Beecher In
vestigation Committee resumed its ses
sion last evening, as usual, with closed
doors. Beyond the fact that two or
three witnesses were examined, nothing
is known of the proceedings.
Beeclier Affable and Calm.
Mr. Shearman last evening said no
testimony of Tilton’s bearing on the al
leged confessions of Mr. Beecher to
him of adultery was ever elicited;iu the
reported cross-examination or omitted
iu the publication of it. Beecher’s
stenographer says no such testimony as
Tilton speaks of in liis card was regu
larly presented before the committee.
Beecher returned from Peekskill yester
day, and chatted pleasantly with some
of his church members on his door
steps in the evening. If Moulton does
not answer the call to testify which he
will receive to-day, Beecher’s testimony
will be taken without further delay.
New York, July 28. —The Sun says
the Beecher Committee decided last
evening to cull Moulton as the next wit
ness, asking him in their invitation to
produce all documents iu liis possession
that relate in any way to the case. Tilton
says that Moulton won’t testify before
the committee as now constituted. y
Mrs. Tilton Calm.
New York, July 28.—Tho Brooklyn
Union says : Not half of the evidence
has yet been received by the Beecher
Investigation Committee. Moulton will
be invited to testify before Beecher,
whose statement will be reserved till the
last moment. Mrs. Tilton will bo again
called, and possibly Tilton. Edward
OvingWin, at whose house Mrs. Tilton
is stopping, says she is perfectly calm
and serene. She read the interview
with Mrs. Stanton, and pronounced it
utterly false. She had been advised by
her friends not to make any written
denial of statements from such sources.
Mrs. Tilton’s children have gone to
Mount Clair, to her friends. The Brook
lyn Eagle says Dr. Storrs, who is now
enjoying vacation at Princeton, Mass.,
is to be summoned to testify as
to his interview with Tilton, when the
statement of the alleged offense of
Beecher was made. Beecher will not
appear before the committee to-night or
to-morrow night, as lie cannot testify
satisfactorily to himself or others until
lie has seen the alleged originals
of the letters written by him.
He has kept no copies of any let
ters lie has written. Mr. Sago said to
day that to the best of his recollection
nothing was omitted from Tilton’s testi
mony in the published statement, and
that ho (Sage) did not hear Tilton testi
fy to Beecher’s and Mrs. Tilton’s con
fession of criminality. He might have
said this in an informal chat with some
members of tho committee. Mr. Claf
liu savs he was not present when the
alleged omitted testimony was given,
but understood that the statements
were made in an informal conversation
on an afternoon when no testimony
was taken. Another member of the
committee says Tilton came one after
noon before them and said he was not
well enough to proceed with his testi
mony. A desultory conversation en
sued, in which ho made the statement
about the confessions of Beecher. No
notes were taken of this as the meeting
and conversation were informal.
The same committeeman said that
Beecher’s examination when made will
be most rigid, but whether it will be
written or oral lie could not say. Tho
Graphic has hail interviews with several
committeemen who say that Beecher has
no intention of resigning, and stories to
that effect aro mere gossip.
Tilton Arrested for Libel.
Mr. Tilton was visited this morning
by a number of the members of the
press, but his answer to all of them was,
“I have nothing further to say in regard
to the case, and I decline to be inter
viewed. ” The question was asked to
whether ho had any statement to make
over his own signature in refution of
statements published, and his reply was,
I have nothing to say. It is said that a
complaint for libel is to be made against
him in one of the Justice Courts,
and that he will then bring forward
witnesses whom the oommitee refuse
to call. This course, it is said, will be
the only way by which the matter can
be solved. The committee have con
cluded to close their labors in a short
time. Theodore Tilton was arrested on
a civil action for libel to-day at the suit
of one Gaynor, taken before Judge
Walsh and released on his own recog
nizance to appear to-morrow to answer.
Gaynor claims to bean interested party
and brought suit to compel the produc
tion of all facts. His action is regarded
as a movement to compel the bringing
of the case into Court.
New York, July 29.—Tilton’s pre
liminary hearing on the charge of libel
was postponed to Monday. The action
is brought by Mr. Gayner upon his own
responsibility ns a citizen, Tliton having
violated one of the laws of the State.
Loose statements by interviewed parties
continue to fill the columns of the
papers. The pros and cons are about
even.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Address of flic Radical Siato Execu
tive Committee.
To the Editors of the Chronicle and
Sentinel ;
In the address of the Radical State
Executive Committee to the sable and
motley faithful of the South Carolina
political herd, they say :
“That the pledges given'to the people
in our party platform of 1872 have not
been fully redeemed, and that, in many
instances, sound policy has been dis
carded aud reckless extravagance mani
fested, wo cannot deny. What causes
have led to our present condition may
not bo herein discussed. It is sufficient
that wo should all recognize the fact
that our government, needs reform
thorough reform and purification. The
attention of the country has been called
to South Carolina; the American people
demand that maladministration shall
cease and good government be at once
inaugurated; the National Republican
party admonishes us to at once retrace
our steps, and vindicate, by our action,
the integrity of Republicanism; while
the National Government insists tiiat
contrition for past errors cannot be con
sidered unless accompanied by the se.-
lection of public officers whose charac
ters will be a guaranty of elevated and
enlightened statesmanship in the future.
“The Executive Committee would make
no race distinctions; lmt it cannot
longer be denied, and it would be crimi
nal longer to withhold the facts that the
present condition of affairs in our State
is made chargeable to the colored race,
who represent not only the great bulk
of Republicans here, but who constitute
the majority of its citizens. The duty
aud responsibility of redeeming the
State from obloquy and disgrace, of re
storing the public confidence, of build
ing up her credit and of saving her from
utter and complete annihilation, rest
peculiarly upon the shoulders of that
race. This duty they cannot evade—
this responsibility they cannot escape.”
Verily, the Radical Ship of State is
in imminent peril of wreck, and were
there any genuinePalinurus at the helm,
I think he would decide that it would be
safer to abandon the old hulk and take
to the life-boats rather than attempt to
steer her through the troubled waters of
the coming campaign. Breakers beset
the political mariners on every side, aud
they look, with longing eyes, northward
and westward for favoring gales to bear
them to a haven of rest; but, alas, alas !
“ They find s music entered in a doleful song,
Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale
of wrong,
Like a tale of little meaning, though tlie words
are strong."
If the liadical wiseacres could only
determine upon some safe banner bearer
for Governor, the gloomy aspect of af
fairs would brighten up a little, “but
there’s the rub.” If Chamberlain were
put forward and fairly nominated, as
the Union-Herald would persuade them
to believe is a move in the right direc
tion, would “the winter of our discon
tent (be) made glorious summer by this
sun of York f” Possibly it might for
awhile, but how would it be when a few
copies of those letters, which rumor
says the gay and festive Lothario paid
$25,000 to recover, shall chance to be
published ? Think of it 1 Twenty-five
thousand dollars to be paid by a carpet
bagger for the, recovery of letters ad
dressed to one of the female persuasion !
“Picture it, think of it, dissolute man,"
Buck against Franklin S. then if you can.
For reasons previously named, it will
not answer any but a disastrous purpose
to nominate Hoge or Melton or Willard
or old Moses 1 The shirking of a battle
over the civil rights bill shows that the
National Republican party is not yet
ready to accept one of “ the wards of
the nation ” as itschoice—while to nomi
nate Tom Robertson, as many speak of
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doing, will be to put South Carolina in
the precise fix of Arkansas. Robertson
would bo available for just such a rolo
as that in which Baxter has but recently
figured iu Arkansas. “ Tis true; ’tis
pity ; and pity ’tis, ’tis true.” But if
the Radicals can stand it, we must try
to evince equal fortitude. Tom Robert
son will boa great gum over Frank
Moses in any Democratic view of the
case, for Tom has about all that ho
wants now, and not being a spendthrift
like Moses, he will possibly refrain from
any too burdensome spoiling of the tax
payers to supply himself with luxuries.
Tom has an eye for a fine horse too,
which is something in his favor, and
drives a pair of Jennings Clay’s iron
gray nags with considerable skill and
taste.
Wo continue to have raiu, and when
it is not raining it is cloudy. Why the
caterpillars do not make their appear
ance I cannot understand. If there has
been anything like as much rain and
cloudy weather in the vicinage of Au
gusta as we have had here, and still the
caterpillars remain perdu, then I think
your Frenchman with tho big field of
tall cotton will have to forego the idea
of gathering his top crop from tho backs
of seventeen aud a half hands quad
rupeds, and betake himself to the con
struction of medium sized balloons.
Bourbon.
LETTER FROM MIDDLE GEORGIA.
Acquittal of (lie Bulls -Trial of Abel
(’rime in Middle Georgia Hanging
Abolished- Crop Situatlon-Tho Snake
Crop.
Macon, July 28, 1871.
Acquittal of the Bulls.
As predicted in my Inst letter, George
M. Bull, who was then on trial for his
life for the murder of Wm. H. Mitchell,
was acquitted without much hesitation
by the jury. It seems from tho evidence
introduced that tho Bulls and Mitchell
had been looking for one another for
months, and that if they met in the open
road it would have no doubt been a
question of who was the best and quick
est shot. When George Bull killed
Mitchell but few men blamed him for it,
but only as to the manner in which it
was done—assassination. But I presume
that the jury accepted as a fact the tes
timony that Mitchell had often laid in
ambuscade for him and his father.
As the indictment against Dr. Bull was
as accessory before the fact, when tho
jury returned its verdict of not guilty
against. George, the State entered a nolle
prosequi in the easoof tho Doctor, when
both went free, warmly congratulated
by their friends. It luis been many years
since a murder has created as much in
terest in Twiggs county as has this one,
and the result again proves that no man
in this country can trifle with female
virtue without forfeiting his life.
The Trial of Abel.
Abel’s case is now being tried. It will
bo remembered t hat several months ago
a bloody and desperate fight occurred in
Vannueker’s bar-room, on Cotton ave
nue, between George F. Abel, John
Cherry and Dr. Crowell Johnson. They
were all drinking, and during the pro
gress of a game of cards Abel knocked
Cherry down, then drew his pistol and
shot Johnson, Cherry and himself. —
Cherry died.
His defense is that of insanity, and to
prove this a cloud of witnesses havo
been upon the stand, all of whom
seemed to either havo a conviction that
he was insane, or knew of some irra
tional act ho had committed within
a period of several months prior
to the killing. As this is the easi
est way in the world for a man to get
out of a murder, and as Abel has ample
proof to create a doubt in the minds of
liis jury as to his sanity, I presume his
neck is iu no danger whatever for the
killing of John Cherry.
It does seem impossible to convict a
man of murder in Macon. For the last
two or three years wo have lied murder
here, “ in every style and at all hours,”
served up to suit the taste of all, and
the accused have all got clear. Tliero
seems to lie no defect in tho law, for
that is plain enough; but the fault lios
in the manner in which it is executed. Tho
Judge charges the jury in the letter of tho
law, and the District Attorney appears
to do his duty. But somehow or other
juries have got into the habit of acquit
ting everybody without much reference
to the facts, the law or tho aggravation
of the crime committed. It is simply a
bad habit, and just so long as it is con
tinued so will murder go on.
In Minor Crimes.
Whilst, this is true in regard to mur
der, in minor crimes the laws are more
rigidly enforced than in any place I ever
saw. For instance in carrying concealed
weapons, the Judge of the Comity Court
ofteu fines the party doing so SIOO, and
never less than SSO. The chain gangs,
both in the city and out, are kept full
from this Court. Tho Mayor carries out
tho city ordinances most rigidly, tho
grand jury fulminates as loudly as any
where—still murder goes on, and mur
derers aro not punished as much ns tho
larceners.
Hanging lias indeed played out, and I
do not believe that the demon who
would kill a mother and six children at
the dead hour of midnight iu Macon,
and then set fire to their house and
bum tho bodies, and all this in a spirit
of revenge or for murder, and that all
the facts were sworn to by every mem
ber of tho church in town, ho would
even be sent to tho penitentiary for six
months. In other words, no crime could
possibly bo conceived o of sufficient
enormity to convince a Macon jury that
that the criminal deserved death.
Therefore, in view of the law having
failed to protect society in this respect,
I would advise every man to protect
himself. This can only be done by car
rying weapons, and I do not blame a
man for doing so where lawlessness iu
encouraged in the Court House.
The Crop (Situation.
The rains continue throughout all
Middle and Southwest Georgia. In
many places the farmers say that they
aro having too much rain, but when ask
ed to explain tho injury, they are not
very plain or logical. They are all
agreed that the excessive moisture will
surely produce caterpillars, boll worms
and the like. None of these have as yet
appeared that I now know of, or that any
one has actually seen with his own eyes.
Corn is made as far north as Griffin. A
better crop has not been seen in Middle
Georgia in thirty years. There is
enough to make meat to do the people,
provided they had tho liogs, but tho
trouble just hero is that tho stock is not
in the country and it will be one or two
years before it can bo secured. Tho
fecundity of swine is so great that a very
short time will bring back the old days
of plenty and to spare, and it is indeed
gratifying to know that (lie people have
determined to get back indeed and in
fact the old way of running farms.
Without wishing to enter tho lists of
bulls and bears who are now fiercely at
war in your columns, 1 must report,
as a fact, that never did a
crop look better and seldom so well as
it is doing now. Both on tho hills and
in the ravines it is vigorous and growing
finely, and in the majority of fields
which have fallen under my personal oh.
servation it is clear of geuss as a rule,
with caterpillars only existing in imagi
nation. As to future disasters, ns a
matter of course no man can now fore
tell, and it would be foolish to make any
predictions.
Plenty of Snakes.
Since the disappearance of liogs, tho
crop of snakes iu Southwestern Georgia
has four-fold doubled. As most people
are aware, the hog will kill a snake on
sight, and its flesh is proof against tho
poison of the reptile. In the hog the
snake has his greatest enemy, and it is
now almost at perfect liberty to increase
and multiply at will.
Jean Vat jean.
Unexplained Absence. —Tho Savan
nah Advertiser and Republican, of yes
terday, says : Wc learn that a leading
clerk in a prominent business house of
our city left Savannah on the Augusta
train last Saturdaynight,without any inti
mation of such a journey to his employ
ers or any of his friends, aud has since
not been heard of and given no explana
tion of his absence.
The books of the firm are being exam
ined, with a view to ascertaining if tho
accounts in his charge are correct, aud
we await developments, with tho hope
that nothing may bo found wrong.
Anniversary Exercises. —The ninth
annual celebration of tho DeKalb Coun
ty Sunday School Association will take
place at Decatur, Ga., on Wednesday,
August 19th, 1871. The exercises will
embrace singing, reading tho Scriptures,
prayers and reading of the reports. The
Association includes twenty-nine Sun
day schools.