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OLO SERIES-VOL LIXII NEW SERIES VOL. XXXVIII TERMS. TOr. DAILY CHRONICLE k SENTINEL, the oldest newspaper In trie H -nth, is published tally, ex cept Monday. Term-: Per year, $10; six months, $5; three month*. $2 50. THE TUI-WEEKLY CHRONICLE k SENTINEL is publi*h*-<! tv-ry Tuesday, Thursday and Satur day. Tt*rm«: Oae J<* r , $5 ; six month*, $2 50. THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE k SENTINEL i« pub li*h*d f*very Wednesday. Term* : Oae year, $2 nix mon<h*, sl. fcUBS"KIPTIONH in all cuec in advance, and no paper continued after tue expiration of the time paid for. BATES OF ADVERTISING IN DAILY.—AII tran sient adver hsemer t* will be charged at the rate of $1 p’-r * |oar*- for each insertion for the first week. Advertisement* in the Tri-Weekly, two third* of the rate* in the Daily; and in the Weekly, one-half the Daily ate*. Marriage and Funeral Notice*, $1 each. Special Notices, $1 p*r square for the find publication. Special rste» a ili be male for advertisements running for a month or longer. REMITTANCES should be male by Poet Office Money Order* or Express. If thi* cannot be done, j,r tection against losses by mail may be secured by forwarding a dr ft payab'e to the Proprietor* of the C*iao»icMC At Sentinel, or by sen ling the money in a registered letter. ALL COMMUNICATION H announcing candidates for office—from County Constable to Member of Congress -will be charged fur at the rate of twenty cent* per line. All announcements must be paid for in advance. 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 NUMBER 31 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.