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WEDNESDIY. .SEPTEMBER 2. 1874.
MOB LAW.
We find in the Macon Star a timely,
temperate and forcible article condem
natory of mob law, which we publish
■with our approval:
“ Where there are an impartial judi
ciary, honest juries, and an Executive
who has the will and power to carry
out the decrees of the Courts, there is
no possible justification for mob law.
Every criminal whose guilt is certainly
punished, the majesty of the law is up
held, and the safety of society is se
cured. Where, as in South Carolina,
the Courts are corrupt, juries ignorant
and dishonest, and the Executive the
instigator, accomplice and protector of
evil doers of every class, from the assas
sion to the common thief, lynch law
may be justified as the exercise of the
instinctive right of self-preservation, the
only means whereby the lives and prop
perty of the white people of that unfor
tunate State can be saved from destruc
tion.
“In Georgia no such state of things
exists, and consequently, when a mob,
however justly incensed, however
grievously provoked, usurp the func
tions of legally constituted authorities
and wreaks its vengeance ou a criminal,
those who constitute it are guilty of a
crime of which no plausible excuse can
be offered. If it be once conceded that
the passion of a few is above the law of
all, and that cases rnay arise when the
blind dictates of passion may usurp the
authority which belongs to the calm
mandates of the law, then security of
life, person and property, the object
of all government, is forever gone;
the law, no longer fixed, changes with
the alternation# of human desires, and
anarchy in its worst and most revolt
ing form subverts society and enlight
ed government, until the iron hand of
despotism interferes to quell the riot of
human depravity. In the present social
condition of t e Southern States, the
only salvation for the white race is to
vindicate their superior intelligence,
superior knowledge, and superior virtue
by the most rigid obedience to the letter
and spirit of the laws. In our dealings
with the ignorant and inferior race,
which a corrupt and malevolent political
majority have endowed with the privi
leges of citizenship and legal equality,
let justice, moderation and patience
govern our conduct. Let us eudeav'/r
to induce the negroes to respect and
obey the law, by respecting and obeying
it ourselves, and if, which God in His
mercy forbid, the threatened war of
races shall come, and the law be power
less to protect our rights, we shall have
the consolation to know that we have
done everything iu our power to avert
the conflict.
“But it is especially our duty at this
time to he calm and forbearing.—
Our political enemies at the North repre
sent us still rebellious against the Gov
ernment, as unwilling to recognize the
newly acquired rights of the negroes,
and as animated constantly by a dis
position to oppress and maltreat them.
When we resort to mob law to punish
negro crime, wo give color to these
misrepresentations and prolong the
Radical tenure of power in the Govern
ment.
“Religiously, morally, socially and
politically, mob law is a crime which
the intelligent, sober, peace-loving mas
ses of the people should reprobate and
punish in the severest and most condign
manner.”
TIIK HISNATOU PliOM THE NINE
TEENTH.
Hon. Charles S. Dußose, of Warren
county, who has been honored with the
nomination for Henator in the Nineteenth
Senatorial District, composed of the
counties of Greene, Taliaferro and War
ren, was one of the youngest members
of the House in tho last Legislature. A
young gentleman of decided talents, he
won for himself a prominent position
among the leading members of the
House. He is a lawyer by profession,
and a hard student. He has been sig
nally honored by the people of his I)is
triet, and wo feel satisfied from what
we know of him that lie will do his whole
duty with credit to himself and honor to
the constituency that has reposed so
much confidence in him. Mr. Dußose
will be perhaps the youngest member of
the next Senate, but he will prove him
self worthy of a seat among the grave
and reverend Senators. Political pre
ferment is too often withheld fr m young
men on account of a senseless prejudice.
Where there is real ability, the posses
sor of it. should reap the reward of mer
it, though his locks be not silvered with
grey hairs, Mr. Dußose has been fortu
nate in overcoming this prejudice, and
we tender him our congratulations upon
his nomination.
THE NINTH CONtiHESSIONAL
DISTRICT.
Hon. Garnett McMillan, the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in the
Ninth District, is a son of Hon. Robert
McMillan, for many years a leading
lawyer of the Western Circuit. He
proved himself a brave soldier, having
served gallantly throughout the stru -
gle. During the Radical regime, he
was a member of the House from Hab
ersham and took a prominent position
against Radicalism. He fought the
bond fraud and was instrumental with
others in wiping out the unjust and
illegal debt imposed upon the people of
Georgia. Hon. B. 11. Hill was his
competitor for the Congressional nomi
nation in the Ninth District. While
his warmest friends can not compare
him in point of intellect with Mr. Hu l
they feel satisfied that Capt. McMillan
will make a useful and faithful
member of Congress. ne is a
lawyer by profession and a gen
tleman of integrity and culture.—
Intellectually, Mr. Hill has few equals
n this State or out of it; but he has
beeu unfortunate since the war iu his
political aspirations. We believe that
he would serve his constituents faithful
ly in Congress and reflect honor ou
the Sate. But he must take a back seat
until his people call him to the front to
serve them in Congress. In his race
for the nomination in the Ninth, it was
urged against him that he was not a
citizen of the District, having moved
from Athens to Atlanta several years
ago. This objection was used against
Mr. Hill with effect, and had much to
do with his defeat. Had he continued
to reside at Athens we believe that Mr.
Hill would have secured the nomina
tion. Capt, McMillan was nominated
on the forty-seventh ballot, His elec
tion is certain beyond a doubt. Though
not the equal of Mr. Hill in point of
ability, Capt. McMillan will make a
record in Congress that Georgians will
not be ashamed of. Heretofore he has
beeu tried and, so far as we are aware,
never found wanting.
TUB SHREWD NEW ENGLANDERS.
The St. Paul Press having recently
declared that “ Massachusetts sells us
her manufactures in exchange lor our
•wheat, our people paying freight both
ways,” the Boston Journal takes up
the cudgel, defending Massachusetts
lustily, and undertakes to show that the
statement is incorrect. Whereupon the
Missouri litpubHcan comes to the res
cue of the St. Paul Press, and while
admitting that the question is au intri
cate cue, yet claims that the allegation
is true. Its argument is as follows :
Massachusetts manufactures are not
sent to Minnesota to be sold; they are
bought in Massachusetts, and after be
ing bought are taken to Minnesota; of
course, the freight charges are added to
their cost and are paid by the Minnesota
consuAer. Minnesota wheat, on the
contrary, is sent to Boston to be sold,
and when sold the freight charges come
out of the proceeds of the saie—the Min
nesota man thus paying the charges on
his wheat to Boston, and also the charges
on the manufactures from Boston. The
Massachusetts manufacturers fix the
priceof their fabrics, and the Minnesota
man can get them only at these puces——
since the protective tariff cuts him off
from the right of buying foreign fabrics.
Put the Minnesota wheat raisers do not
and cannot fix the price of their wheat.
They must sell it for what they can get,
whether it be one dollar a bushel or only
fifty cents. The price of Minnesota
wheat is regulated by wbat the surplus
•>f it will bring in by
w hat it will bring in Boston, on its way
to Liverpool.
GUSTAVE ADOLPH COTTON.
We have received another letter, mak
ing four so far, enquiring about the new
kind of cotton described by “Gustave
Adolph” as growing on the plantation
of “Mr. H. Bkllyminger at Soap Float
ing Springs in Florida.” The last is
from Albany, Ga. The writer encloses a
stamp and requests us to give the
address of our correspondent as he
desires to procure some of the
seed of this wonderful prolific va
ried}'. We have already stated that
the* article of “Gustave Adolph” was
written in a vein of extravagant
humor and that the cotton he described
had no existence. The whole thing was
a lingo hoax and so patent a sell that we
wonder how any careful reader could
be mislead by the extravagant descrip
tion of our facetious correspondent,
whose only purpose was to ridicule the
wild and extravagant e-timates of the
yield of the growing crop. The thou
sand acre field with cotton so high that
the negroes would have to ride on horse
back to pick it was so clearly a joke that
we thought every man who knows any
thing at all about cotton planting would
see it in that light. There is no “Orien
tal or Asiatic Orange Cotton” in Geor
gia or Florida. We hope this explana
tion will lie snffieent to show the point
of the joke in the communication of
our correspondent. The statements of
“Gustave” were too extravagantly ab
surd to mislead any one, but as some of
our friends have been taken in we shall
endeavor to lie more particular here
after and omit the publication of all
“hoaxes” about “Asiatic Orange Cot
ton.” We have risen to explain and we
hope that we have done so in such a
manner as to relieve us from further
enquiries about “Gustave Adolph’s”
new cotton.
NO CHANCE FOB A CHOICE.
Under the above caption the New
York World says : “The South Carolina
tax payers have expressed their willing
ness to support a Republican for Gover
nor in the approaching election provid
ed that, lie be an honest man. But it is
evident the opportunity is not likely to
present itself. The Republican candi
dates will be either Moses, the individual
who at this time defiles the seat of Rut
ledge and Hayne, or ex-Attornev-Gen
eral Chamberlain, a carpet-bagger. It
was supposed that nothing could be
worse than a continuance of the Moses
regime ; that the election of any other
thief in the State would be a turn
for the better. But, if we may believe
the evidence set forth by the Charles
ton News and Courier, the carpet-bag
ger Chamberlain is tho more dangerous
man of the two. He has been concerned
in nearly all the outrageous schemes by
which the people have been plundered,
and has probably profited more largely
by the thieving than any of his fellow
conspirators. He is understood to have
the support of tho Long Branch Admin
istration, which is alarmed by the bad
odor arising from the Republican muck
heap at Columbia. But Moses is the fa
vorite of the blacks, and that gives him
a fair chance against the Grant candi
date. It is clear that the South Carolina
tax payers cannot countenance tho elec
tion of either of these persons. Moses,
of course, is out of tho question. Cham
berlain has the manners of a gentle
man, and relieves liis victims with the
grace of n Claude Duval, but that ren
ders him more perilous to the State than
the brutal brigand who is now iu pos
session at Columbia. The one seizes the
property-owner by the throat and chokes
him till he empties his pockets. The
other is a genius, and is capable of con
cocting vast schemes of plunder,
beside which the operations of Moses
would be contemptible. The white peo
ple of South Carolina must not do
themselves tho injustice to support
Chamberlain. Iu the absence of a com
paratively decent Republican candidate
in opposition to Moses, they cannot do
better than nominate and support one of
their own prominent men. They have
abundant gubernatorial timber. Gen.
Kershaw would make a Governor worthy
of the older.and better days of the com
monwealth. Colonel Richard Lathers,
ex-Governor Poryer, Mr. F. W. Daw
son, the editor of the News and Courier;
ox- Senator Campbell, Judge Bryan,
Mr. George W. Williams, the leading
merchant of Charleston, are all capable
and available men. If Moses, as the
negro and scalawag candidate, and
Chamberlain, as the Grant and carpet
nag candidate, enter the lists, a genuine
Conservative candidate, as the represen
tative of ‘all the decency’ iu the State,
would have an excellent prospect of suc
cess.”
RUIN OR PROSPERITY.
A distinguished Republican, of Ala
bama, Judge Haralson, undoubtedly
the ablest man of the Republican party
iu North Alabama, has written a letter
far publication, of which the following
is an extract :
The Civil Rights bill is a leading
measure of the Republican party—the
party is pledged for its success—
its party leaders support it with
but few exceptions. All of the Re
publican members in Congress from
Alabama, headed by Spencer in the
Senate, supported it. It is urged by
resolutions, in primary political meet
ings all over the South. There are in
dividual exceptions, I concede, but they
are powerless against the overwhelming
current-which is pressing it on. It was
passed in the Senate by a party vote,
after due deliberation in a party caucus,
aud was, therefore, giveu to the coun
try, as a strict party measure.
I therefore conclude that the Repub
lican party, as a party, supports this
bill, and by its support expects its
final success—will put it upon the sta
tutes of the country, if it can enforce its
execution. I cannot snpport this meas
ure in any political organization, or lend
myself to its support in any sense of the
irord. This is the issue. In it is involv
ed the rniu or prosperity of both races
in the South. If the bill is finally pass
ed, it will require a standing army to
enforce it. Who does not desire to
avoid such a calamity? What sane man
will willingly vote for this policy, know
ing its consequences?
This bill gives to the Federal Courts
exclusive jurisdiction over any and all
violations of its provisions, thereby cen
tralizing the powers of the General Gov
ernment. Breaking down the jurisdic
tion of the State Courts—putting every
man in the South in the hands of the
Federal Judiciary, and giving to the
Judiciary power to enforce heavy tines
and imprisonment.
The Democratic and Conservative
party, in Alabama, is opposed to this
bill in all of its features, and so am I.
Its ticket is a good one, headed by Gen.
Houston, the embodiment of conserva
tism. He is honest aud capable. The
platform is sound, announces correct
principles, such as commend themselves
to conservative meu everywhere. I will
certainly support them.
Respectfully,
W. J. Haralsos.
The New York Times says: “We do
not believe General Grant is intriguing
for a third term, although we have been
assured that many of his friends are,
and that au ‘organ’ is shortly to be set
up for the purpose of advocating his re
election in 1876. No doubt there are
many friends of the President who de
sire to see him elected again, but we
doubt whether one newspaper, or a
thousand, will be able to bring about
that result.”
A juvenile temperance lodge has bee*
organized in Columbus.
The base ball mania has broken out
with great violence in Savannah.
A fire occurred in Macon Wednesday
morning, destroying four houses.
Hon. Jno. H. Scott has been nomina
ted for the Legislature from McDuffie
county.
TW KNTY SEVENTH SENATORIAL
DISTRICT.
Nomination of Hon 11. D. McDaniel.
Social Circle, Ga., Aug. 22d, 187-4.
Hon. H. D. McDaniel :
Dear Sir—We take great pleasure in
communicating to you the action of the
Senatorial Convention of the Twenty
seventh District, held at this place to
day.
It certainly was the most harmonious
meeting tha't it was ever the privilege,
as well as the honor, of any one of the
delegate* present to witness.
Asa committee appointed to inform
you of the nomination, permit us to say
that you were the only candidate before
the Convention, as you were the only
choice of the Democratic party, and on
motion you were nominated by acclama
tion. .
Hoping that the action of tins Con
vention will be endorsed at the polls,
and pledging the entire vote of the De
mocracy of this District, we remain,
Very respectfully,
O. T. Rogers,
J. E. McOonell,
A. S. Florcnce,
Committee.
Monroe, Ga., August 22, 1874.
Messrs. O. T. Royers, J. E. McConell
and A. &. Florence :
Gentlemen —Your note of the 20th
instant, informing me of my unanimous
nomination as Democratic candidate for
Senatorin the Twenty-seventh District,by
the Convention which met that day at
Social Circle,has been received. In accept
iug the nomination I need ouly say that
if elected I will serve the people of the
district with whatever diligence, zeal
and ability I may possess—keeping ever
in view the fact that the office is be
stowed, not for my personal benefit, but
for the public welfare.
Grateful for this expression of the
confidence of the people, and for the
flattering manner in which you have
communicated it, I am,
Very respectfully,
Henry D. McDaniel.
THE WAR OF RACES.
[From the Bowtou Post.]
The disturbances which in certain lo
calities were the accompaniment of the
elections in North Carolina and Tennes
see seem to have been suddenly trans
ferred to Arkansas, where a pitched bat
tle against the blacks and whites has
been progressing, without any cause for
which a sufficient explanation lias been
reported. This fire, slumbering now
but malignantly fanned by the influences
which radiate from Washington, unless
it is smothered where it is,threatens the
peace and future prosperity of that en
tire section. There cannot be a dispas
sionate person in the country who does
not profoundly deplore a state of affairs
against which common prudence raised
its warning from the beginning. The
readjustment of the relations between
the races was not a matter to he med
dled with by politicians and parties,
but within the largest limits con
sistent with the common safety
was to be left to the mutual interests
and necessities and the practical sense
of both the parties to so difficult a ques
tion. But the politicians eagerly rushed
iu wherever they believed they saw. an j
advantage, and made haste to precipi
tate a war between the races as in their
judgment the surest way to secure a
solid negro vote and prevent for all time
the recovery of political power to the
white population. As things were pro
ceeding there was no need of raising such
a dangerous issue as that of race; but
desperate partisans, inflamed with the
hist of plunder by means of power,
cared little for any consequences to the
civilization of the South, indifferent to
every purpose hut the single one of in
creasing their own wealth and import
ance. The result could not well threaten
to be other than fatal. What the coun
try witnesses in South Carolina, called
by pre-eminence the prostrate State, aud
what it sees also in unhappy Louisiana,
is but the initial part of the melancholy
spectacle which the whole South is yet
to present unless the present iniquitous
regime of hardened politicians is speedi
ly brought to the end of its term by the
peremptory command of the people.
These troubles notoriously begin with
the stimulating influence of the carpet
bag interlopers, who in turn draw their
courage and inspiration from the Fed
eral administration. In Louisiana, the
dismal scenes just recorded in the Re
publican Convention would not have had
an existence if the outrageous imposi
tions of Federal power, which was so
roundly rebuked by a Republican com
mittee of the Senate, Senator Carpenter
being a leading member, had been for
bidden by a positive command of Con
gress, Neither would it have entered
into the heads of the blacks of Alabama
and Tennessee to issue social and per
sonal proclamations, which the reflect
ing mind will confess to he dan
gerous from any class in any community,
unless Congress had played with the
Civil Rights bill in the reckless manner
it did, holding out wild notions to the
Southern blacks on the one hand and
feeding the prejudices and revengeful
feelings of a certain class of whites in
the North on the other. The Civil Rights
bill is only a party trick —harmless in
one section, but worse than a firebrand
in the other. Nothing was designed by
it but to win the negro vote, although at
the cost of Southern civilization, aud to
dare the Republican party of the North
ern States to refuse to accept it in politi
cal warfare. The negroes have been
made to believe, by cunning and despe
rate leaders, that tflev could act already
as if the bill were a law, and that ac
counts for the movement which has
shown itself in Alabama aud elsewhere.
The blacks of the South demand more
all the time of the Republican party, and
the Civil Rights bill seemed to give it to
them; but, ou the other hand, a large
conservative element of the party of the
North disclaims all sympathy with this
measure, and what it is expected to gain
in one section may boas certainly lost
iu the other. The Civil Rights measure
suggests the Prohibitory law in Massa
chusetts; if there is much to be gained
on one side by advocating it as a Repub
lican measure, there is morn to be lost
by doing so on the opposite one. But
the party has come to the place where it
l is obliged to make a choice, having rid
den two horses as long as it could be
done with apparent security.
The action of Gov. Ames, of Mis
sissippi, sufficiently sets forth the
spirit that is ready to risk the safety of
an entire population in the hopes of
| gaining a momentary personal and
party advantage. He reported “a
serious and alarming state of affairs ’ at
Vicksburg on the very day before elec
tion, and called on the President for
troops to Help him carry it as he wished.
No notion, however, was taken of the re
quest, and Vicksburg passed through
the most peaceful election it had ever
known, with no one’s right to exercise
the elective franchise interfered with.
The “serious and alarming state of af
fairs” was wholly in the imagination, or 1
intent, of the ’Governor. It ouly re- j
mains for the Southern whites to be
patient to the end’, confident iu the right
and everywhere laboring for those
tilings which make for peace. The first
thing to do is to get rid of the carpet
baggers. They may not leave, it is
true, until, like’ the locusts and grass
hoppers, they have consumed the sub
stance of the land, but should they wait
until then the condition of every
State could be no more lamentable
than if it had been desolated by
a tierce war of races. Besides, in
the interim, mutual interests must
make their authority more aud more
manifest, and the people of the North
will realize to the fullest extent the
cruel injustice and the indescribable
danger of suffering such a condition of
things to continue. The cost may be
heavy in either case, but the South will
have’ retained its productive resources
and vastly enhanced its moral power by
waiting with what patience it may for
the effectual and not distant interference
of the moral sense of the nation on its
behalf. Whatever the crime alleged
against it, it can have committed none
that entitle a horde of plunderers to
desolate it aud incite intestine war as
their right to inflict the penalty. With
courage and steadiness the power that
now lays its heavy hand on the South
will grow weak aud disappear; but the
South itself will remain an important
section of the common Union, its in
dustries enlarged and diversified, its
wealth returned, and peace and pros
perity resuming the sway which Con
gress aud the Administration are directly
responsible for adjourning without re
gard to the peril which their action in
volves.
Anew Social Club has been organized
in Atlanta.
Only one negro remains in Spalding
county jail.
A “ Workingmen's party has been
organized in Macon.
The Atlanta _Y< u'S says: Upon inter
viewing Mr. DeGive, he informs ns that
he is iu reception of letters from Harry
Watkins, who informs him that there is
more tirst-class talent making engage
ments to visit the South this season
than has been the case for years.—
Among ’the engagements made we find,
for October—George Hooper, the Irish
comedian; November— Lingard, Magil
ton’s Company, Zoe, or Mrs. Yates,
Schumann’s Pantomine and Novelty
Company; December—Mrs. Lander,
Fox. Helen D’Este; January—Mrs.
Bowers. Barrett, Jananscheck, Fifth
Avenue Combination; February—Little
Nell, Ben Deßar, Adams, Tony Denier,
Gray; March—Frank Mayo,
LETTER FROM TALLULAH FALLS-
t
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE CHRONICLE AND
SENTINEL.]
Tallulah Falls, Ga., Aug. 23, 1874.
The party with whom I am traveling
in this up country left Toccoa city last
Thursday morning, and after a half day's
travel reached these Falls, all tired,
worn out and fearfully oppressed with
heat. It was the last of those three
hot, hotter, hottest days, which ran the
merenry up into the higher figures of j
the thermometer and made us feel as :
though onr very blood was boiling. It j
is to be hoped we’ll find no hotter tern- j
perature than that of those three days i
before we reach the general conflagra- i
tion, and then let us pray that we may j
be delivered from those consuming!
flames and transferred to a temperate j
zone where the climate shall be ever j
cool, refreshing and delicious ! One of J
our party having been taken quite sick j
on our arrival here, and still re naining j
sick, we have stayed beyond the j
time we had prescribed, and while this ;
sad event has excluded from our nma- j
ber in their daily round of “ sight-see
ing,” one of its choicest and most ap
preciative spirits, yet it has afforded to
the rest a more extended opportunity
for fuller and more satisfactory obser
vation.
Before noticing what we have seen let
us first say something of those we were
so fortunate as to meet here from Au
gusta. And first, of course, I mention
the ladies—Mrs. F. M. Stovall and her
sister, Miss Anna Craig, Miss Fannie
and Miss Leila Jackson, daughter of that
staunch, thorough, energetic, go-ahead
man, Major George T. Jackson, so val
uable to the enterprise of our beautiful
and now rapidly growing city; and Miss
Kitty Rowland, sister of Charles A.
Rowland, Esq., a man known and es
teemed in both social and business cir
cles for his amiability, integrity aud
business dispatch. The gentlemen were
Mr. F. M. Stovall, a very prince of agen
tleman; Mr. J. J. Hickok, a whole souled,
vivacious, good looking bachelor who
has no objection, if the indications
do not deceive me, to becom
ing a Benedict ; and Mr. Herbert
Jackson, brother of the Misses Jackson,
who, judging from his modest demeanor,
good sense and handsome person, will
be allowed to become a Benedict when
lie desires to be one! It has seldom
fallen to my lot to meet so genial, so
pleasant and so entertaining a party as j
that these five attractive and fascinating
ladies and three agreeable gentlemen con
stituted. It was our regret that we reached
here but a day before that fixed for their
departure. In pointing out to us the
beauties of this place, the devious paths
by which the several points of observa
tion were to be reached, by sprightly
conversation and sweet singing (I have
never heard a group of sweeter singers),
they contributed much to our enjoy
ment and we desire here at this time,
and in this way, to say so. While the
ladies are the sweetest singers, and it
was to them I specially had reference
when I mentioned the sweet singing,
justice requires that I give Mr. Stovall
aud Mr. Hickok their just meed of
praise. The former is a fine singer,
with considerable volume and richness
of voice, and the most melodious whist
ler I ever heard. I never knew before
that whistling could be made interesting.
Mr. Hickok has a fine voice for any
part and can come as near carrying all
parts at once as any living man. He
sings the gravest as well as the gayest
music and does all well; but his forte is
comic songs and negro melodies. The
truth is lie’s a whole minstrel troupe
except the “ bones.” I had learned
that Mr. H. was an enterprising young
merchant in your city, iu business with
Messrs Dozier <fc Walton, but I never
knew before that he had so many accom
plishments.
To say that I experienced a senso of
disappointment ou reaching the hotel at
the base of Tallulah Mountain is to say
no more than what I suppose every new
comer has felt before. We naturally ex
pect when we get in two or three hun
dred yards of the Falls, which we do in
winding round the foot of the moun
tain, to get to the. hotel, to see the tum
ble of the flashing waters over some lofty
precipice. But not so. We are shut in
in by the deep foliage of oak,
chestnut and spruce pine, on
towering cliff rises before the
eye, and we know that we are
at Tallulah Falls, only because the
hack driver says so, and we hear the
roar of the tumbling waters, sounding,
as we pass along, like way off thunder. —
You feel that you are doomed to disap
pointment, and that what the hackman
tells you some of the old women in this
neighborhood say of travelers to Tallu
lah is most likely true, to-wit: that
“Them down country folks must lie
mighty fools to spend their money com
ing way here to see them shoals.”
This feeling lingers with and op
presses you until you get to “The
Devil's Pulpit,” usually the point' to
which visitors are conveyed to take their
first view of the Falls and their sur
rounding scenery, and then a sudden re
vulsion comes as you behold for yourself
all the wild magnificence of the scene.
It seems, as you gaze upon it, as if God
had rent asunder a vast mountain of
rock aud made, deep down in the
chasm, a flinty bed of wild beauty
for this river of sparkling waters to dis
port itself in, and that, as if to
heighten the splendor of the scene, now
and then iu this deep gorge, lie sud
denly and abruptly lowered this bed, at
short intervals, carving deeper down
into the mountain for that purpose, so
that the shining stream might leap over
the granite crests into the basins below,
clothed in jts silvery spray, and go
skipping joyously onward to its ocean
home. By stepping out upon the ad
vance rock of the “Devil’s Pulpit,”
where, according to a superstition of the
Indians who formerly roamed in these
forest wilds and mountain fastnesses,
his Satanic Majesty was wont to preach
to his imps to keep them sound in tlieir
infernal faith, you command a view of the
first great chasm, after the river enters the
immense cleft through Rock Mountain.
This chasm is fenced in on either side of
the stream by almost perpendicular
granite walls, several hundred feet high
and at the commencement pi it, taking
the stream as your guide you see the
first Fall, which bears the name of Lo
dore.
Jhave never seen a more beautiful gush
and fall of silvery waters than goes over
the rocks at this point, nor have I ever
beheld such snow white foam as that
that collects in the large basin below. It
is very beautiful, but not so grandly
beautiful as the next two Falls just below
it, because not so steep nor perpendicu
lar, nor baying such a wide dash of
rushing waters. The basin, or pool,
just below Lodore, is quite (jeep, ranging
from eight to twenty feet, apd hag a pow
erful under-current that sweeps every
thing before it. This is known as ‘•Haw
thorne’s Pool”—so named from the cir
cumstance of a Presbyterian minister of
that UQ'ilo being drowned iu it many
years ago. ft js a favorite resort for
bathers, and those who understand it
are perfectly safe. But Hawthorne
dived too deep, was caught by the cur
rent and dashed against the upright wall
which makes up from the pool on the
northern or Rock Mountain side of the
stream ( the sfgeam at this point runs be
tween Tallulah ami flock Mountains) and
wedged in between some rocks so fast
that he could not be dislodged until
long iron grappling hooks were obtained
from Clarksville for the purpose, and
even their, such was the force of the
water, his body wa* torn from the grap
pling hooks and hurried pyer tlie next
Fall and thrown out on ike side
of the basin below, whence it was
taken up aifd carried to Clarksville and
there interred, sh e heights of the
several falls (these are four in number)
were, with the exception of rate, taken
to-dav. “ Lodore” measured over the ,
rocks' 100 feet, the perpendicular height j
of the actual fall 65 feet. The next Fall
is called “ Tempestia” and (considering
the volume of water, for the river is not
more than forty or fifty feet wide low
water mark, and the height of the fall) is
the most grand and enchantingly beauti
ful water display mv eyes have ever be
held. This Fall,measuringovejthe rocks,
is 145 feet. The actual perpendicular
fall is 100 feet. It tumbles down
into a basin below, whose romantic
appearance is .greatly enhanced
by the wild growth of cedars,
spruce pine and other mountain foliage
on the one side, while on the other and
extending into the basin midway, shoots
up a heavy column of mountain wall o±
sombre granite, which, viewed from the
side of the basm below, makes the head
grow dizzy with the giddy height. At
the base of this the water of Tempestia
ceaselessly falls and encircles it with a
white fringe of mist-like spray of indes
cribable magnificence, which, when the
sun is shining upon it, is suddenly con
verted into a rainbow, whose tints sur- ,
pass if possible those of that
••Triumphal arch that fiH'st the sky
When storms prepare to part."
The sublimest view of this Fall is had
as von reach the spring on the difficult
descent to Hurricane Falls just behvw,
especially if you make your descent m
the morning when the sunlight clothes
Tempestia 'in her gorgeous drapery of
white illusion and rainbow tints.
Hurricane Fall is beautiful as viewed
from the Devil’s Pulpit, but fully to
appreciate the bold rush down the
rocky precipice of its maddened
but * shining waters yon must stand, i
where the writer has stood just
where the water first breaks over
the rocky ledge before taking its leap
onward, and see it as it rushes over aud
down the deep declivity, and your first
impulse is to exclaim, “ Why this is
more beautiful than Tempestia ! But
when you recall the perpendicular lme >
of the water as it tumbles over the rocks,
and its silvery spray and encircling rain
bow, you give the palm to -Tempeslia,
while you still gaze in wonder and ad
miration upon the scene beneath,
around and above you. There are five
feet more of fall at Hurricane than at
Tempestia, both in the measurement
over the rocks and in the perpendicular
height. The difference in favor of Tem
pestia is to be found in the particular
shape and su> roundings of the basin
into which it falls, and which I have
vainly endeavored to describe and the
greater perpendicularity of the fall. A
hundred or two yards below this is the
fall called “ Oceana,” which is best seen
from Lover’s Leap, a wild and dizzy
height overlooking the chasm, some
hundred and fifty yards below
the Devil’s Pulpit, with a projecting
rock of smooth surface that makes most
every one who desires to look over into
the chasm from this point think it best
to get down and crawl to the edge and
lie down while looking over. “Oceana”
will not compare with the other Falls—
indeed, it can scarce be called a fall,
but rather a rapid tumble of white
crested waves quickly pursuing each
other down a deep declivity of shelving
rocks and ending in a wide basin of
comparatively quiet and silvery waters.
It is, however, beautiful! Indeed, every
thing is grand and beautiful that you
see here. From “Lover’s Leap” you see
the “Student’s Rostrum,” 410 feet above
the level of the water. ‘LEoltis’
Throne,” 412 leet high and “Vulcan’s
Forge,” 340 feet. If I had time I could
give you some pretty legends that are
afloat about these several points, in
cluding “Lover’s Leap.” But I must
hurry to a conclusion, as this letter
is already too long. This chasm extends
down and affords the bed of Tallulah river
for a space of three miles and presents
at every step scenery wild and beautiful
beyond discript ion. At the end of this
chasm Tallulah aud Chattooga rivers
form Tugalo river aud this latter, with
Seneca, form our own noble Savannah
which flows so smoothly and quietly by
our lovely city of cooling fountains and
grateful shades as to make us forget
that it comes to us from among the
towering rocks and mountain wilds.—
That you may form au idea of the dis
tance across this chasm, I mention the
fact, that “Vulcan’s Forge” viewed
from “Lover’s Leap” almost exactly op
posite, appears to have au entrance
about a foot and half wide and two feet
and a half high, when in fact it is seven
or eight feet wide and fourteen feet
high. One other point of interest., and
I have done with my attempt to give
you some faiut idea of Tallulah Falls
aud its scenery. Some three hundred
yards below Lover’s Leap our winding
path brings ns to what is called “The
Grand Chasm.” And here, while
we have no falling waters with their
ceaseless roar and wild splash, we see the
beautiful river, winding its way at the
bottom of this immense ravine—now
rushing against boulder stones, now amid
the pleasing foliage of white and spruce
pines, cedars, &e., which spring up from
the crevices in the rock (in some of which
trees grow to great height, yet in the
deep distance below look like dwarfed
shrubbery), and anon gracefully mean
dering around the foot of a beautiful
mountain slope that makes down from
the granite wall that frowns above,
and shoots out near midway into the
chasm. This northern wall, which is
the one opposite where you stand, and
from which this slope makes down into
the basin of the deep chasm is variously
estimated to be from live hundred to a
thousand feet high. From the foot of
this slope the chasm sweeps to the south
some three hundred yards or more, and
is here fenced in by an immense rock
wall, not so high as the opposite wall,
but of dizzy height as you look down
it from an overhanging small pine that
you place your arm around while you
gaze down into the wild, precipi
tous depths. These walls on both sides
the stream are in some places perfectly
perpendicular, and bare of all shrub
bery or vegetable growth whatever, dis
playing the different strata of rock, and
with a front or face so smooth and ex
act as to resemble the best specimen
walls of the most artistic masonry.
Other portions of them are tastefully
draped with a delicate foliage of sparse
shrubbery and wild vines that, together
with the sparkling cascades that leap
down the craggy heights, lend enchant
ment to the scene, and you can but
wonder and adore as you gaze upon
these towering, massive heights that
have stood as gloomy sentinels in these
mountain wilds “through the countless
congregations of the ages.” And now
if you will but cast your eye down the
stream and see it winding forth as it
dips in romantic beauty among the ver
dure clad mountains that lift their sun
lit [peaks to Heaven, and listen to the
deep murmur of the onward river coming
np from the depths below, whichjsounds
iike a sweet chant of te Deumlaudamus,
you can but be inspired with feelings of
reverent awe, and your soul filled with a
sense of grandeur and of God. Talk of
the" Palisades of the Hudson ! They pale
before these wild granite walls that lift
themselves in solemn splendor to the
skies. Talk of Niagara—her grand
waterfall is all that nature has done for
her. Art has attempted to supply her
want of accompanying scenery. While
here the waterfalls, in themselves beau
tiful, are but a pleasing incident in the
grandest panorama of Nature’s own wild
scenery that tho eye of man has ever be
held,
As long as this letter is, I must not
close without a kind word about Mr.
and Mrs. Young, the ever attentive host
and hostess of the Tallulah Hotel. The
hotel is a spacious wooden structure
with two piazzas running all around it,
one up and the other down stairs. It
will be quite comfortable when plaster
ed or ceiled and otherwise finished.
Water is brought from half way up Tal
lulah Mountain by means of pipes laid
under ground, aud is very cool and re
freshing. A beautiful fount stands in
front of the hotel, and shoots up its sil
ver spray in the sunlight, while the
fish sport in the moss-dad basin of pear
ly water beneath. Mrs. Young when she
has alittlemore experience willmakeone
of the most successful and accomplished
of landladies, as she is now one of the
kindest and best of her sex. Her un
varying attention and anxious solicitude
for the comfort of those so unfortunate
as to be sick, won the hearts of all who
witnessed her conduct in such cases,
and the writer, grateful for her kindness
to one of his family seriously ill under
her roof, wishes she may be ever as hap
py and prosperous as her heart is noble
and tender. X. O. Y.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Letter From a Republican.
South Carolina, August 26, 1874.
7o the Editors of the Chronicle and Sen
tinel :
Reform is always the cry of the Re
publican party a few weeks before the
election. Therefore, we will discharge
this promise (which is a standing one)
with contempt. Has tlie party in power
since reconstruction, in one single in
stance, done anything towards reform ?
By revieving their past record, a neces
sary question arises. How much will
the cry of reform, made by the whole
party press and by men at every cross
road amount to ? How far they are iu
earnest, may be judged by the men
who are the loudest for reform. First
and foremost stand the two prominent
candidates for Governor—Moses and
Chamberlain, Any person who reads
the speech of the first one, and the let
ter addressed to the public by the last
named, and not knowing tiie individuals
by their past records, ought to come to
the conclusion that either of them is
most htted pud worthy to till the chair
as tlie Chief Magistrate of South Caro
lina. But the people, regardless of
party, know them well, and are tired of
fieing duped any longer by such men
Moses'speech aud Chamberlains’* lex ter
to the contrary notwithstanding. The
record of Moses has been fully placed
before the public here and everywhere
in the United States, and therefore noth
ing need be added to make him con
temptible in ’the eyes of every honest
man, be he a Democrat or a Republican.
Let us review in brief the official re
cord of Chamberlain : Where was he,
as the Attorney General, when all the
infamous schemes passed the General
Assembly, of which body he was ftit
legal adviser? What part did he take
in the impeachment defeat of Governor
Scott and Treasurer Parker ? Did the
mismanagement of the assets of the
Bank of the State in the hands of a re
ceiver not concern him at all as the At
torney General ? and which was public
talk inside and outside of the General
Assembly ? When the Land Commission
swindle was a public notoriety, and the
Sinking Fund Commission a fraud, dare
Chamberlain say that he, as the At
torney General on one side and a mem
ber of each board on the other side, did
not know anything of its corrupt action?
How did he act in the sale of the Co
lumbia and Greenville Railroad stock
belonging to the State, and in all the
other roads in which the State was in
terested ? Dare he say that the finances
of the State under the fatal mismanage
ment of the agent were conducted ably :
and honestly ? His excuses made in
his letter are well enough technically,
but will not stand practically. There
fore he is responsible. But the people
have a right to expect that if he should
be elected Governor he would use his
influence to make his clients, Morton,
Bliss A Cos., or H. H. Kingston A Cos.,
all right; to make the Blue Ridge scrip
all right, and many other wrongs all
right.
Therefore it is folly for the Republ>
can party to talk of reform with Moses,
or even Chamberlain as a candidate for
Governor, endorsed by John J. Patter
son, who at a meeting in Beaufort, said
(hat the true name of Democrats in this
man and child was a Ku-Klux, and t,liut
State was Ku-Klux, that the Kitie Clubs
were Ku-Klux; that every man, wo
even churches were implicated in it.
The endorsers of Chamberlain are A. S.
Wallace, the father of all the Ku-Kiux
ing dene in this State, Cain, Hurley,
Nasch, Mclntire. Minort, B. F. Whitte
rnore, McDevitt, llivers, S. J. Lee,
Sparnick, of ex-Confederate fame,
Preacher and Trial Justice Robertson,
Beaufort, and C. P, Lessley, of Barnwell
New York, etc., etc. The people of
South Carolina, regardless of party,
will come to the final decision that all
the palaver about reform is false. They
will rise iu their indignation to hurl
lying reformers from power and put
men iu office who desire and meau re
form. Reform the people will and shall
have at all hazards, let the consequence
be what they may. Republican.
Death of Uncle John Harper.
[From the Frankfort (Ky.) Y'eoman, Ang. 22.]
John Harper, Sr., familiarly' known as
“Uncle John Harper,” the well known
throughbrcd-stock raiser and distin
guished turfman, died at his residence
in Woodford county last Wednesday
morning, at Id o’clock, and was buried
on Thursday afternoon in the burial
ground on the farm where he resided.
In accordance with his request, made
known during his illness, which was
protracted, he was buried without reli
gious ceremony or other formality.—
There were, however, present at his in
terment forty or fifty of his neighbors,
who assembled to pay respect to the
memory of their old friend. The de
ceased was in his 77th or 78ih year, and
had for the last two years been quite
feeble in health, though he did not re
linquish his attendance on the turf, or
his attention to Ill's race horses, until
compelled to take his bed in his last ill
ness.
He was of a plain frugal family of
Pennsylvania Dutch origin, though long
settled in Kentucky in the locality in
which he died, near Spviug Station, in
Woodford county, twelve miles east
from this city. He was one of five chil
dren, only one of whom, a brother, ever
married. Another brother, Adam, was
killed iu 1864, by a band of guerrillas,
who visited his house for plunder. His
brother Jacob and sister Elizabeth were,
on the 11th of September, 1871, mur
dered in their beds by parties still un
known. The unmarried brothers and
maiden sisters had amassed a large
property by frugality in farming and
rearing race horses. This they held iu
common, and all of it became the prop
erty of John Harper, as the survivor.
We learn that he leaves, by will, the
homestead, including six hundred acres
of the tinest blue grass land iu Ken
tucky, together with all his race horses
(iucl tiding Longfellow), to his nephew,
‘known as “Little Frank Harper.”
The deceased has for more than thirty
years been identified with the turf of
Kentucky, being remarkable for liis
good judgment, as well as his skill in
the collection and training of races.—
Though familiar to Kentucky turfmen
for so many years, it was not. until he
took Longfellow to the East in 1871 that
he achieved a national reputation as a
turfman. Since the retirement of Long
fellow he has remained at home, prose
cuting his business, and was rarely seen
away from home, except when attending
the races at Lexington.
Masculine and Feminine.
A proof of how much more appear
ances weigh in this foolish world than
facts, may be found in the relative tra
dition estimate of the owl andtliegoose.
The former bird, merely from looking
grave and solemn, aud keeping himself
a little retired from public view, has
been credited with unlimited sagacity,
and made the chosen companion of the
very goddess of wisdom. As no min
istry, fifty years ago, would have dared
to give a bishopric to Sydney Smith,
simply because he was too witty, so no
old Athenian imagined that Pallas would
have preferred iu her temple the society
of a lively and satirical bird like the
goose to the dull and gloomy minded owl.
But the goose is really a clever creature,
and proves it in a hundred ways, while
the owl, like Lord Burleigh, merely nods
his head in solemn sort, and is accepted
as wise on his own showing. The great
difference between masculine and femi
nine folly has been said to he that a
stupid man generally retains enough
sense to conceal his stupidity under the
cloak of silence, while a stupid woman
chatters the more the more ignorant
she may be, and so betrays her de
ficiencies to all the world. The man
sometimes inspires his neighbor (and
always liis wife) with the conviction that
there is matchless wisdom hidden be
hind his reserve, which he buttons close
round him as the shabby-genteel do a
great coat to hide the absence of a
shirt. The woman invariably reveals
her folly to everybody, aud he gets no
credit for the under current of practical
sense which sometimes runs beneath.
The owl is in this respect decidedly of
the masculine order of mind, while the
goose goes about cackling and screech
ing with her neck outstretched, so that
she looks supremely •rcdiculous and
idiotic, w'liile all the time she is not only
sensible enough, but has the rare merit
of a strong dash of humor in her com
position. Since she saved the Roman
capital she has been known to display
all the domestic virtues and as rnaay
public ones as she has been permitted
to exercise. But no! Experience avails
nothing against prejudice. She has con
trived to get herself classed among the
“shrieking sisterhood,” and her claims
are thrust aside with derision. —New
Quarterly Magazine.
LATIN PHRASES IN COMMON USE.
Ah initio, from the beginning.
Ah ovo, from the origin.
Ad infinitum, to an unlimited ex
tent.
Ad libitum, at pleasure.
Ad valorem, according to value.
A fortiori, with strong reason.
A priori, beforehand.
A posteriori, afterwards.
Dona fide, in good faith.
Compos mentis, of sound mind.
Cut bona ? for what good ?
De facto, in fact.
Dejure, by right.
De novo, anew.
Deo votente, God willing.
Dramatis per some, characters repre
sented in a play.
Ex cathedra, from the chair of au
thority.
Exhent omnes, they all go out.
Ex officio, by virtue of the office. *
Ex parte, on one side.
Ex post facto (bad Latin), after the
deed.
Eac simile, an exact copy.
Id ornne genus, all of that sort.
In statu quo, in the state in which it
was.
Intoto, entirely.
In transitu, on the way. •
Ipse dixit, mere assertion.
Ipso facto, by the fact itself.
Jus gentium, the laws of nations.
Lapsus linguae, a slip of the tongue.
Locum tenons, substitute.
Lex talionis, law of retaliation.
Bridging the Niagara Kiver. —Sur-
veys are quietly proceeding on Grand
Island, says the Lockport Journal of
the Bth instant, for another international
railroad bridge. The company was
chartered last Spring both in the Do
minion Parliament and the American
Congress, and already capitalists have
been induced to co-operate and en
gineers set to work. The bridge is be
ing built in the interest of the Canada
Southern, whose managers complain
that not only is the international bridge
unavailable on i account of its single
track, but that the, city of Buffalo,
through, which trains can only be run
at the rate of six miles an hour, is a
serious obstacle in the way of railroad
traffic. Hence they feel themselves
compelled to “go round” Buffalo. The
Grand Island bridge will have a double
track ; also a double carriage way. It,
will cross the western international
branch of the Niagara river just below
Blac i creek, to which a short line will
be built from Steveusville ; then run
along Grand Island a distance of about
seven miles, and cross the eastern
American branch to the main land near
Tonawanda, there connecting with the
Erie and Central. The situation, the
Journal adds, is an exceedingly favor
able one, the water being only twenty
feet deep and the current one and one
half miles an hour, as against a current
of from eight to twelve miles at Buffalo.
The bridge will be finished in August,
1875, and an important saving in time
will, it is confidently anticipated, ensue i
from its construction.
The Administration Becoming Tired
of Its Pets.
Washington, August 28.—The Attor
ney General has no doubts that if dis
turbances, of which he has many re
ports continue, the President will inter
fere South. It is suggested that he
needs all his soldiers to fight the In
dians and the whites must of necessity
fight tli ir own battles against the tur
bulent negroes. General Emory, com
manding the Louisiana Department, has
no confidence in his new regiment in a
contest between the whites and blacks.
His soldiers will certainly affiliate with
the whites if detached in squads through
out the State. The negro’s only safety
if he becomes aggressive, is in the tardy
law administered by United States
Judges and they following the lead of
their Chief Judge Williams, seem to be
becoming impatient of the assumptions
of the colored people,
FOX AND GEESE !
A KU-KLUX SCAItK—HOW ‘THE
WICKED FLEE WHEN NO MAN
PUBSUETU."
What Came of an Innocent Fox Chase
—“The Horn of the Hunter is Heard
on the Hills,” and Moses, Patterson
aud Neattle Incontinently Runaway
and Hide Themselves—Craving the
Protection of the Boys in Blue—A
Stony-hearted Commandant—Honest
John and Holy Frank as Trembling
Bed-fellows—The Pennsylvania Ga
tin' Appeals by Telegraph to Wash
ington-Nice Specimens of White
American Statesmen.
[special dispatch to the news and couriek.]
Columbia, Thursday, August 27.— One
of the grandest and healthiest scares
ever heard of in these parts took place
last night, under the full blaze of a
beautiful moon, which smiled serenely
on the troubled scene. Mr. Long, one
of our livery stable keepers, went out
with a half dozen friends across the
river to engage iu the manly sport of a
fox chase. They soon got Rey
nard up, aud the tramp of horses,
the cry of hounds, the blare of horns,
and the shouts of happy hunters, made
pretty music on the midnight air. De
lightful as it was to the lovers of the
sport, it came laden with horrorupon the
excited senses of our men of moral ideas.
Soon a report spread that five hundred
Ku-Klux, from Augusta, Ga., were at
the bridge, riding with might and main
for Columbia, full tilt after Moses, Pat
terson, and the Ring generally. The
news took effect first upon ex-Comptrol
ler-General Neagle. lie sent his car
riage post-haste for Capt. Ogden, United
States Army, of whom he asked a guard.
He complied so far as to send an orderly
who sat mounted all night before Nea
gle’s gate. Next the scare reached Gov.
Moses and Senator Patterson, who,
strange to say, were sleeping together at
Moses’ house. They scampered up iu a
hurry, and made a bee-line for the quar
ters of the military. Patterson was, of
course, as he advised the Beaufort negroes
to be, “ready.” Leaving Collector Wor
thington in charge of the baggage and wo
men, and, accompanied by Moses, he
rushed in hot haste to the garrison, where
they found Capt. Ogden, who is acting as
commandant of the post iu the absence
of Col. Black. They breathlessly asked
to be protected against the bloody Geor
gians, who, they were told, were coming
with blackened and masked faces to
lynch them to death. They besought
liim to order out the regiment for
their protection. The polito and
smiling Ogden told them that lie
had no authority to do so. He could
only furnish men for such duty on or
ders from his superior officers or from
the President. Patterson instantly sent
off dispatches to the President at Wash
ington and at Long Branch. While
awaiting an answer ho desired to know
whether the commandant would coolly
look on aud see the men killed in this
fashion and not try to save their lives.
He offered guarantees. The command
ant shrugged his shoulders witli the re
mark, “ Gentlemen, you must, get out of
this scrape yourselves ; it is none of my
business and none of my funeral.”
Time wore on, and, the terrible Ku-Klux
not arriving, but still expected, Patter
son and Moses, as a special favor,
craved permission to pass the night at
Capt. Loyd’s house, next door to the
lodgings of the commandant. They
slept together there in one bed.—
Whether they slept soundly or tossed in
fear as they heard the rustling of the
leaves and sough of the pines may be
left to conjecture. The scare was quite
extensive and healthy in Radical circles.
A gentleman returning from an enter
tainment at midnight mot a courier on
horseback tearing from the Preston
Mansion in the direction of the garri
son, and, half an hour later, the Gov
ernor’s carriage called for his Private
Secretary. Gardner, the Treasurer of
Sumter county,and his wife,left the Gov
ernor’s at one o’clock, and took refuge iu
a hotel. The penitentiary guards were
called up and placed on duty. L. Cass
Carpenter packed his trunks and left for
Washington. The colored people took
it rather more easily. Billy, the body
servant of Dr. Taylor, asked a gentle
men if “Dem Georgians were agwiue to
lick out de niggers ?” He was overjoyed
when the gentleman told him, “Oh, no;
they are only after the carpet-baggers
and scalawags.” Ho yelled out in great
glee, “Jes ! .what Itolo ’em—yah !” Pat
terson left the garrison this morning
just after daylight. Moses slept later.
Patterson has made no report of any
answer of the President to his claim for
protection against a fox chase. The
hunters ran Reynard down and came
home ntterlv unconscious of the terrible
fright they had caused the State Gov
ernment and the Pattersonian Blue
Ridge scripholders. All is now quiet
along the Congaree.
THE BEECHER AFFAIR AGAIN.
Moulton Has Another Statement.
New York, August 28.- Mr. Moulton
declares that he will soon publish his
supplemental statement impelled by im
putations on his honor. He says he
yesterday offered to go before the
Beecher Committee but received no
reply; on the contrary he had been
given to understand that his testimony
would not be received, but bis forthcom
ing statement would, lie believed, clear
awaj' every doubt and vindicate hishonor.
He wanted it distinctly understood that
he was ready to meet the committee
to-day if they wished to hear him.
New York, August 28. —The Beecher
investigating committee have submitted
their report. They conclude : Ist. That
Beecher did not commit adultery with
Mrs. Tilton at any time or place what
ever. 2d. That Beecher has never com
mitted any unchaste orimproper act with
Mrs. Tilton, nor made any unchaste or im
proper remark, proffer or solicitation to
her of any kind or description whatever.
3d. If this were a question of errors of
judgment on the part of Mr. Beecher it
would be easy to criticise, especially in
the light of recent events. In such
criticism, even to the' extent of regrets
and censure, we are sure no man would
join more sincerely than Mr. Beecher
himself. 4t,h. We find nothing whatever in
the evidence that should impair the per
fect confidence of the Plymouth Church or
the world in the Christian character and
integrity of Henry Ward Beecher, and
now let the peace of God that passeth
all understanding, rest and abide with
Plymouth Church and her beloved and
eminent pastor so much and so long af
flicted.
2'[Signed] Henry W. Sage,
Augustus Storks,
Henry M. Cleveland,
Horace B. Claflin,
John Winslow,
S. V. White.
THE ENDLESS SCANDAL.
The Sun’s Interview With Moulton.
New York, August 29.— The Sun cap
tions an interview with Moulton after
last night’s Plymouth Church scenes,
“ Is Moulton Crazy ?"—wherein Beecher
comes to the mutual friend for assist
ance in a matter of rape, which Beecher
confessed having committed. Moulton
will hold the documents in this case for
Court.
The Report of the Plymouth Church
i Committee Great Confusion—The
| Report Unanimously Adopted,
j The report of the Investigating Com
| mittee was read by Prof. Raymond,
i During the reading of the report fre
' quent interruptions were caused by ap
j plause, which followed certain passages
| sustaining Beecher, and outbursts of
' laughter were drawn out by any allu
j sious to Moulton and his participation
|in the matter. The concluding portion
of the report and the summing up of the
I committee were received with waving of
j handkerchiefs, hats, &c., and the ap
plause which greeted its ending was al
| most deafpniug. During the church
meeting after the report had been read,
i Raymond said: “In all that vast evi
! and nee taken before the committee, he
| claimed that there was not a single
| line which disproved Henry Ward Beech
! er’s story.” The speaker manipulated
j some portions of the evidence taken be
fore the commission, and in referring to
Mr. Moulton’s part in the affair he said
Mr. Francis D. Moulton has tried to
poison the minds of men against Mr.
Beecher. This seemed to raise Moulton,
and, standing up erect, he glared at the
speaker and exclaimed twice, in tones
which echoed through the building,
“ You are a liar, sir.” Instantly all was
confusion; men and women rose to their
feet, the latter mounting on seats and
joining in the cry with a hearty good
will of “put him out !” “shame, sir!”
&c., mingled with loud and prolonged
hissing, in the midst of which Mr. Hol
liday came forward and, making himself
heard above the din, partially restored
order and said, “ Gentlemen, let him sit
still and hear the truth.” But Moulton
still remained on his feet, glaring around
like a wild beast at bay, and saying, “ I
dare you to put me out. ” Two police
officers appeared behind Mr. Moulton
and he resumed his seat. The report was
adopted unanimously. The police pro
tected Moulton while leaving the build- j
ing. They hurried him down the alley way
to where a carriage was waiting in whicli
he was pushed, ratter than helped, and
with a police office* standing on each
step of the vehicle, was driven rapidly
away. The audience then quietly dis
persed.
Moulton’s Design.
New York, August 29.— Monlton
threatens the public with a card. He
delays it in order to secure sac simile
copies of letters. The details promised
are intensely odious.
At St. John’s, N. 8., frost is killing
vegetables and buckwheat.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA, *
[special correspondence chronicle and
SENTINEL. 1
Atlanta, August 28, 1874.
Another Candidate for Governor.
It has recently transpired that the
friends of General Lucius J. Gnrtrell, of
this city, purpose at the proper time to
put that distinguished lawyer aud sol
dier in nomination for Governor. Gene
ral Gartrell is considered one of the
ablest and most successful criminal law
yers of the State. He was a member of
the Confederate Congress and also of
the United States Congress before the
war. Since the late unpleasantness he
has devoted himself almost exclusively
to the practice of his profession, which,
it is said, is very remunerative. He has
altogether eschewed politics since the
war; but has signified his intention to
re-enter the exciting arena at an early
day. He has expressed his purpose to
canvass this Congressional District in
Dehalf of Hon. Milton A. Candler, the
Demqcratic nominee, and will commence
the canvass by speaking at the Fulton
county ratification meeting to-morrow
evening.
Atlantians Aspiring,
The candidacy of General Gartrell
suggests a circumstance of interest which
has not yet been noticed, and that is the
large number of candidates for high po
litical distinction furnished by Atlanta.
This city will furnish three active, ear
nest candidates for Governor in case
General Gartrell consents to the use of
his name for that high office. These are
General A. 11. Colquitt, Hon. John H.
James and General Lucius J. Gartrell.
For Congressional honors Atlanta fur
nished candidates for three Congression
al Districts, viz: The Fifth, the Seventh
aud the Ninth. These are Hon. Ben 11.
Hill for the Ninth; Colonel James D.
Waddell and Colonel W. H. Dabney for
the Seventh, and Hon. Milton A. Can
dler, Colonel R. A. Alston and Colo
nel T. C. Howard. True, all these
candidates reside in their Congressional
Districts which they aspire to represent
in Congress; but it is a singular fact
that they all have their places of busi
ness in Atlanta, where they remain most
of their time. Had Mr. Hill been nomi
nated in the Ninth, and should either Col.
Waddell or Col. Dabney be nominated
in the Seventh, with General Gordon in
the Senate, Atlanta would haxo had
four representatives in Congress.—
Though we claim quite a monopoly of
candidates, wc are not so arrogant as to
lay claims to a monopoly of the talent
of the State.
Independent Candidate in tUeSeventli.
Dr. W. H. Felton has forestalled the
action of the Congressional Nominating
Convention of the Seventh District,
which assembles next Tuesday, by an
nouncing his purpose to become a can
didate regardless of the action of the
Democratic Convention. Dr. Felton is
a Methodist preachol' of considerable
ability and quite a successful farmer,
and, withal, a man of a good deal of in
fluence in his section. It is believed,
however, that the District is so over
whelmingly Democratic that we can
spare a thousand votes, and then elect
the nominee of the Democratic party.
Fulton County Candidates.
This is the age of office-seeking, and
Fulton county furnishes her proportion
of patriots. For the Legislature wc
haveten candidates—eight for the House
and two for the Senate; for Sheriff, four
candidates; for Clerk of the Superior
Court, five candidates; for Tax Collector,
five candidates, and for Tax Receiver,
eight candidates—all on the Democratic
side, and, what is most gratifying, they
are all subject to the Democratic nomi
nations, thereby souring the harmony
and unity of the party and the almost
certain election of the Democratic can-;
didates. I think in the multiplicity a. and
confusion of candidates it would be well
to revive the old Roman custom of des
ignating candidates by their uniform. I
remember my old Latin teacher used to
tell me that the English word candidate
was derived from the Latin word Candi
das, signifying white., because it was the
custom of candidates m Romo to dress
exclusively iu white.
McDaniel and Dußose.
Every one here who knows Hon. H.
D. McDaniel and Hon. Clias. S. Dußose
are gratified at their nomination for the
State Senate, knowing that in them they
have uncompromising enemies of the
bond ring. Mr. McDaniel is a gentle
man every inch of him, and a man of
extraordinary ability, a true patriot,
candid, bold and unflinching in the dis
charge of his duty. By many he was
considered the peer of any man in the
Georgia Legislature. lie wielded a
magic influence in the House, and it is
believed ho will lose none of his power
in the Senate. Mr. Dußose, it seems,
was only a year or two ago a college boy
at Athens, where he was greatly admired
both for his talents and liis social quali
ties, and has suddenly developed into a
public man, rapidly winning wealth and
fume. Truly that portion of Georgia is
acquitting herself admirably.
Minor Topics.
It is said that the Kimball House will
change proprietors on September Ist,
Mr. Nicholls retiring to give place to
Mr. Wheeler, a hotel man of Nashville.
It is stated that tlicro were three bid
ders for the building, a geutlenffin from
South Georgia bidding SIB,OOO, Mr.
Nicholls $16,000, aud Mr. Wheeler $20,-
000 per annum.
Hon. Garnett McMillan, Democratic
nominee for Congress from the Ninth
District, has, 1 learn, recently expressed
his purpose to use all liis influence to
defeat the mischievous designs of the
bogus bond holders. Every day de
velops a now and powerful champion of
our rights against the bond ring.
It is stated that Mr. Candler, Demo
cratic nominee for Congress from this
District, made a speech a day or two
since at Fayetteville; and after he had
finished Mr. Dave Johnson, the indepen
dent white man’s candid ito, arose and
expressed himself satisfied. He be
lieved Mr. Candler was an uncompro
mising friend of the white man, and he
would do all in bis power to elect him.
If this bo true, Mr. Candler’s prospects
are brightening.
I learn that Mr. Ben Hill was greatly
disappointed at the result of the nomina
tion for Congress in the Ninth District.
He confidently expected to he nomina
ted on the first ballot. Halifax.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Deplorable Condition of Affairs.
Along the Port Royal Railroad, \
August 26th, 1874. j
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
Occasionally wo feel it our duty to
keep the good and law-abiding people
of the Union posted as to how matters
and things generally are conducted in
' this, the worst governed State by odds
in America. Then don’t become alarmed,
fellow-citizens, when we toll you, in
plain and unnjistakable language, that
devilish and incendiary speeches are
being delivered almost daily to arouse
and fire the blacks into deadly conflict
with the whites. Don’t allow yourselves
to become unnerved and grow pale when
we tell you that it is softly whispered
that the inevitable “ball” is to be put in
motion, when and where to stop God
only knows. “Gabe,” the countersign
of one of the belligerent factions in the
vicinity of Georgetown, is to he changed
to “the match and torch” along the Port
Royal Railroad, some of the incarnate
and fiendish devils having been heard to
say that no white man should vote at
were, too poor to own matches, they were |
glad to inform them that they had enough i
to burn up h—ll. We entertained no fears j
of a conflict as long as they were in- 1
dined to stick to “ Gabe” as tlieir:
watchword, since it brings to memory)
one of Georgia’s fairest and liveliest
daughters, but the “ match and torch” \
are things we must confess our utter dis- j
gust and abhorrence for, and more es- :
pecially if they are to be applied with- |
out respect to person or property. We |
have much better colored people than j
one would suppose, provided they didn’t i
have such men as Leslie <te Cos. to push i
and shove them into all sorts of devil- J
ishness. Then may I not ask, yea, beg i
them, to be cautious and particular how
they threaten white men in the exercise j
of their right at the ballot box this Fall ? !
Majel not tell you colored folks that the j
qualified white voters will vote this '
Fall, your, threats to prevent them to j
the contrary notwithstanding. Bring
on your “war of races” if nothing else ;
will do vou; put the ball in motion if it
must be started, and my word for it {
some of you will be made to take up an 1
abode with “his sulphuric majesty.”
Lots of you will be made to go to “that)
bourne whence no traveler returns.” A j
war of races means a war of extermina- )
tion, and, therefore, should the conflict j
begin, one side or the other must go to j ]
the wall, and we are candid enough to tell i
you in plain Englishihat otir side has no j 1
fears of touching it until the last mother’s : ;
son of vou shall have been driven through •
it. Then why not be cautious and mind I
how you threaten the minority ? Why I
not allow us to exercise the right cf 1
franchise and save your blood and '
hides? We don’t wish war. We have '
had enongh of it, and hope for the sake
of the good and law-abiding black
people as well as whites that your party
will cease to threaten the minority
forthwith. A word to the wise should \
be sufficient. So much for the bellige- <
rent darkey. Now for Leslie & Cos. ]
We must disclaim all intention of aid
ing or abetting strife and discord, and
with due defference and respect to the t
will of the people of both Barnwell and i
Blackville, must oonfess that Leslie k <.
Cos. will make a good run if they can im
press the people of their intention to
have a Court House somewhere along
the Port Royal Railroad, or at least
your correspondent would hold it to be
his sacred duty to advocate the electron
of Master Charlie & Cos. could ho be
persuaded of their honett. intention to put
the Court House at Allendale or somo
other point on the Port Royal Railroad.
Then let us have your views, Mr. Char
lie. Tell us whether you are here in the
interest of the spurious bondholders, or
whether you have really got Court House
on tho brain ? With the nbovo interroga
tories we must close to write again, per
haps, “Some of These Days.”
JAMES C. FREEMAN !
lie Withdraws From tho Canvass.
[From tho Atlanta Herald ]
To the Voters of the Fifth Congres
sional District:
Gentlemen— Being absent in attend
ance upon niv public duties in Washing
ton, and returning only a day or two be
fore the Congressional nomination at
Griffin, I was not aware of the publio
sentiment and aspirations of others for
the office, or 1 certainly should not have
consented to become a candidate, My
previous race was not induced by any
personal ambition. I desired simply,
by the advocacy of conservative opin
ions, to quiet the troubles of tho coun
try, and contribute something towards
restoring the public peace and general
prosperity. I was prepared at any mo
ment to retire from public life when 1
found myself unable to promote ef
ficiently those objects, and there has
been no part of my whole life so pain
ful as that which has been marked by
difference of opinion and judgment on
public questions between myself and
my friends; and no mortal man can
doubt my fidelity to what 1 conceive to
be the best interest of my people. The
present canvass iu this District, it is
evident to all, will bo marked by angry
and vituperative controversy, for which
lam neither prepared by taste, feeling
or profession; and, while 1 feel grateful
to my party feieuds for their unswering
support, I cannot, consistently with my
personal relations, friendly associates
and private interests, continue in what
seems to be a strife of epithets and
abuse—in which I would bo obliged to
sacrifice too much for the accomplish
ment of so little good —and have, there
fore, upon due reflection, determined to
decline a re-election.
I am, respectfully,
J. G. Freeman.
IMMIGRATION.
Tho Formation of Societies.
Lute Northern accounts convey tho
information that a large number of im
migrants arc returning to the old coun
try. The Southern States are anx
ious to have immigrants come and
help not only to cultivate the soil, but
aid the laboring element of the South.
All those immigrants returning to the
mother country could have been held
here if an Immigration Society was iu
existence by which they could have been
advised as to employment, lands, etc.,
etc., as the case may have required.
The formation of Immigrant Societies
is now a necessity in the Southern States,
and should he favored by (lie land
owner for the two-fold purpose, not only
on the score of political necessity, but
also to enhance tho value of property,
The American who lives almost from in
fancy in the political arena does not re
quire an elaborate argument on that
question; every one comprehends it.—
But in regard to enhancing the value
of tho property there is a lack
of comprehension, for unless ho
sees an immediate return of interest
from any venture he undertakes, the spec
ulation is not inviting, and is, therefore
neglected. Look at tho enterprising
men of the North. They offer all in
ducements to get settlers who livo
among them as honored friends and
benefactors, and in due time the re
maining lands which they hold becomes
so valuable that a small portion is worth
more than tho whole thousand of acres
which they originally bought, and thus
they sccuro a large profit aside from
having drmetheir duty to the State and the
community to which they live. Immigra
tion societies without aid from tho land
owners and planters can do but very
little at best. The farmer being the
corner stone in the social organization
of a State, it is this class that must
first be supplied with help or must bo
increased in number so that the other
branches have the “staple.” These
being supplied manufactures aud
arts will also require (heir quota
of help. In this way all are in
terested in immigrants, and to obtain
them all should unite iu organizing and
maintaining a society for that purpose
which would supply the immigrant with
help and information to settle him, and
at tho same time make his wants
known to the planter, landlord or mer
chant.
It is true that there are obstacles of
no small magnitude in the way; yet by a
concerted action the different elements
could be harmonized, and such a society
formed, and if the tenets of tho “Gran
ges” (as the now organization of far
mers and planters are called) arc such ns
they are generally understood, they
could give a loading hand and make the
society a full success. There are men
enough to be found who would success
fully work it out.
T 1 ie Legislature of our State lias
shown every willingness to promote tho
welfare of the State in this particular,
and would, no doubt, if societies of this
sort existed, jn which faith could bo
placed, render proper aid so that they
could lie made of great benefit to nil
concerned.
ALABAMA MUDDLES,
Trial of Bray-Congressman Rapier's
Letter lie Signs An Argeeineut lo
Vote in Congress Against the Im
peachment of ISiisleed Busted off
lor New York lie Declines to Take
Part in the Pending Canvass for
Reasons Stated Below.
Montgomery, August 29.—The trial
of Wells J. Bray, Mayor of Enfaula, and
six other gentlemen, charged with the
violation of the enforcement act, is pro
gressing before United States Commis
sioner Dresser. The charge was pre
ferred by Elias M. Kiels, Judge of the
City Court of Eufaula, and relates the
j wounding of a negro at the city election
last February. An idiot’s vote was
j challenged, and this negro sprang for
! ward and struck down the challenger. A
fight ensued, when the negro wus
I wounded.
In a lettor published to-day J. T. Ka
! pier, the representative Congressman
and nominee for re-election, says that in
; exchange for the nomination by the Cou
( volition, which he says wus taken pos
session of by roughs, who demanded
that much ns the price of their support,
he signed a written agreement to vole in
Congress against the impeachment of
Judge Busteed. Had ho not signed ho
thinks there would have been not and
bloodshed. Ho explains in his letter
that he was opposed Bnsteed’s im-
I peachinent before signing. Judge Bus
teed will leave for New York in a few
days, by the advice of Jiis physician. In
a letter, to bo published to-morrow, ho
declines to take part in the pending
I canvass, on the, ground that tire Repub
| lican Convention was a packed affair,
a machine run in the interests of men
seeking continuance in office and com
posed of tyros in political life, paupers
in intellect and men rich ill profligacy.
! The Negroes Attack (he Whites in
Alabama and are Repulsed They
Burn Two Churches and Leave.
Washngton, August 29.—The follow
ing does not reach us through the regu
lar channel.
CoLUMJiT's, Ga , August 28.—The ne
groes at Wooeochee Valley, Albania,
have been holding secret meetings for
several nights of late, preparing to at
tack the whites. Their plan was reveal
ed Thursday by nil old negro in time for
the whites to prepare. When the ne
groes made tlifir attack they were
driven back with a loss of four men
killed. They then set lire to two churches
and left. Wooeochee Valley is sixteen
miles west of this city, near Opelika.
Death from a Wound Received in a
Duel.
New York, August 29.—A Spanish
firm lias a dispatch that De Conta, editor
of a Spanish paper here, is dead from a
wound received in a duel with a Cuban
General.
Later. —Another cable dispatch re
ports DeConta, editor of the La Cron
ivta, recovering.
Railroad Casualties.
Chattanooga, August 29.—An em
ployee of the Alabama and Chattanooga
Railroad made an attack this morning
on Win. R. Carlisle, Treasurer, who
shot and killed him in self-defense.
J. C. Smith has been disci)ared.
Smith lias been very abusive for some
time and threatened to take Carlisle’s
life on sight. His ill feeling waR caused
by being unable to get money due him
by the Railroad Company.
Yellow Fever at Key West.
Washington, August 29.—The Treas
ury Department lias advices of four
cases of yellow fever from Ticoudoroga,
placed in the Mavino Hospital of Key
West, by force. The Secretary of the
Treasury has instructed the Collector of
the Port to use whatever force may bo
necessary to remove the yellow fever
cases from the hospital.