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t p | VV | 010 SERIES -VOL. LXXXI NEW SERIES VOL XXXVIII TKKMS. lIIK DAILY CHUOXICLK k SFVTINKr , the old»*t «*r in !’*.«? 8 -nth, 1* p»i:» i-'.cd daily, *x r-j.t M nd*j. Term : Per y<ar,sU>; mix mouths, $5; three month*, $2 50. THE TKI-WEKKLY CHKOVICLE & SENTINEL is p ibli-h -i ev rv Tu ** day, Thursday and Satur day. Term-: One y a ;s x months, s'2 50. THE WKKKI/Y CHRONICLE Ai SENTINEL is pub lish and **v«ry Wednesday. Terms : Ooe year, |2 six month#, sl. BEES TKIPTIONH in all cases In advance, and no paj»,*r " .tmtied after the expiration of the time paid for. BATES OF ADVERTISING IN DAILY.— AH tran sient advertiaetne.its will be charged at the rate of 11 per h piare to • ach insertion for the first week. Advertisements in the Tri-YVeekJy, two- j thirds of tier rate.*, in the Daily; and in the Weekly, one.half trie Daily ates. Marriage ar and j Fun era. Not; • |1 i ach. Sje-cia .Vti< «, H j p r s-pure for the fird put lication. Special ' rat** will be made for advertisements running { for a month or longer. REMITTANCES should I* male )j Pont Office Money Orders or Express. If this cannot be done, pr teetion against low*#* by mail nay be . %*■> ureri by forwarding a draft payable to the j Proprietors of the Chronicle k Sentinel, or by j sending the money in a registered letter. ALL COMM C NIC ATION'-t announcing candidates ! for office —from County Const »ble to Member of ; Cosn —will lx* charged for at the rate of 1 twenty cents per line. All announcements must ; be paid for in advance. Address WALSII k WRIGHT, CunQMCf.K k Skntinki . Augnsta. Ga. | (Chronicle and jsrn(mfl. WEDNESDAY.SEPTEMBER 23, 1871. j ULNOIi TOPICS. Tho London Munirnl Worbl calls Bubinsten’s j dance music the •* most elephantine, rhino- ! ceroman. hippopotamunian, mammothian, | krakonian ever heard.” Laron Kothclulde writes to the papere that | ho takes no notice of letters from peofdo who j threaten to kill him if lie doetm’t givo them money. His mind is occupied with plans to iucreane hie fortune, and on cheap practical projectm f>r rebuilding Jerusalem. r Jhe New York Time* remark* that the clo yation of women is a very excellent aspiration, but let the work begin where it is most needed the great body of hard working women who ! are barely able to obtain ttUstonance from the : means that arc within their reach. Char es Perkin*, on trial in Laris for obtain- ; ing money on false pretenses, lias” be on ad! judged guilty, sentenced to one year’s im- j prisonment an Ia line of 100 francs, ami or- i dered to refund ail moneys fraudulently ob- j taiued. ilis wife, who is a niece of ex-Qaeen ; Isabella, was acquitted. A Jiretou named l.tienno Vallon has just been condemned at Uennes to forty years’ bard labor for beating bis wife ho bard a* to occa sion her death. ll*- was in the habit of inflict ing corporeal punishment on his wife with a walking-stick, and contended, in defending himself, that ho did not overstep a natural right. A woman who, the other day. attempted to oominit suicide bv jumping from a bridge into the Regent's canal. London, was rescued by a dog. A genii*man who was on the bank at tlio : time had a large retriever with him, and scut the dog into the water. The animal swam to the woman, and seizing hold of her, dragged her safely to the bank. In 1870 mosquitoes made their appearance in England, imported, as it is alleged there, from the United States, ami they have now so much increased as to have become a general nuisance. A correspondent of the Timex says that they can be kept away at night by placing a few pieces of Ihe •* pale green-leaved pyre thrum" about the room. The Massachusetts Democratic State Conven tion met at Worcester and was largely attend ©d. Leveret t Halt oust all was alioson Presi dent. and delivered a brief address. After or ganization and preliminary proceedings, the Convention nominated Win. Gaston, of Boston, for Governor, and Wm. H. Smith, of Spring- Held. for Lieutenant-Governor The Ist of November has been fixed on as the data for running the first train through tho lloosao tunnel. Steel rails ate to bo laid through the tunnel instead of iron ones. It is possible tho regular running of trains through the tunnel may be delayed until tho Ist of De cember in consequence of several bridges not. yet being completed. Malo protector (leaning over the banisters’ with a lamp in his hand) —“ If there are any persons down there who wish to rob tho house, they will find all tho silverware ami valuables in the dining room closet ; tho key is under tho clock on tho mantel. Please shut tho door when you go out.” Malo protector re tires and locks himself in his bod room, with tho calm sense of having done liis duty. That we are still somewhat backward in our attempts to imitate tho methods of Chinese oulturo in our seats of learning may be inferred from au anecdote lately received from an emi nent philologist. Shortly before leaving tho Celestial empire ho canto across an old nativo gentleman of the mature ago of 1015, who was Just about to go in for his last examination.— When will our university authorities succeed in attaining a perfection of the examination statute which oan l?o compared with this ? Bishop Lee said in a recent address that of the 104 t'piscopal Bishops consecrated since the Revolutionary war. 53 have pansod away, 85 having died since tho consecration of Bishop Whitehouse in November, 1851, and four hav ing died within tho last 12 months. The list of Bishops is made in the order of their consecra tion. so 11iat the survivors are rapidly pushed toward the head of the list. Beginning at the foot of the list at lus own concecration in Octo ber. 1854. Bishop Lee Haul he had been crowd ed upward by the death of so many of his peers, and by tho succession of others, that not more than ten Bishops were now his seni ors in office while about 40 were his juniors. A correspondent in tho Chicago Tima, writ ing from Milwaukee on the position of tho wheat market, says: “The boars have had things very nearly their own way tlio past week, and have disposed of at least live mil lion bushels of wheat, to be delivered l>y Sep tember 30. One old bear and his co-operative cubs are understood to have sold short not less than three million bushels. They are confi dent of a complete victory. It is even asserted that Mr. Young has pledged himself to force wheat down to 70 cents a bushel before he lifts a paw from the struggling hulls. Yet tho least attempt made to cover, so far, has resulted in a slight advance, and they may find it difficult to carry out their programme of breaking the Milwaukee market.” The Herall says : ‘ Tale? are sometimes told in which the hero dies from an excess of joy. but it has rarely occurred that an instance has happened such as that just recorded from Oossonay. near Berne, wherein a man hung himself from being overwhelmed with good luck. Tho man who is the subject of the story, by immense efforts, in which he was seconded by Ins wife, who was even more avaricious than himself, succeeded in amassing a considerable sum of money. Not long ago he was inform- and that a legacy of 25,000 francs had been left him. This piece of fortune gave him the mortal blow; a profound melancholy seized him. and th fear of death from hunger haunted him day and night. To avoid this fearful prospect ho stealthily left lus house one of these latter nights, went into tlio neigh boring forest, and hung himself to a pine branch. Deleft 100,000 francs of his fortune." One of Beu*tor Carpenter’* plans for eon thi«ting his "viujicating" campaign in Wis consin ha* met an early death. He proposed to have the present Congressional delegation from the State returned unbroken, for the pur- ! pose of showing that the party was satisfied with the record of it* Representatives. If they were all returned, it would be a good reason | why Senator Carpenter should go back also, lint, alas ! for the succeass of the plan, at one of the very first Congressional Conventions, XI r Carpenter was given to understand that; he wa* not the Republican party of Wisconsin, j In the lid District Mr. Hazelton. the present incumbent, was defeated, and Mr. L. 11. t as well. a man not noted for a fondness for Mr. j Carpenter was nominated in h.« place. A* the affair 100 k place unpleasantly near Mr. Car peuter's home, it* significance is more note worthy. In hi* remarkable work, .Ifind <;>ui Body, Dr. Maudaley gives many curious instances of hereditary mani» exhibiting itself in various ways, but we de not remember such a case of hereditary mania for suicide as that lately mentioned by the l'aris iftvftemenf. A few weeks ago some boatmen on ihe Seine dis covered in the water the body of a man, whose jH>cket« were full of pebbles, and who appeared to have been in the water several day*. He proved to be a M. Jules Delmas. who was re garded as very happy in Ins domestic and other relations. A few evenings before, he and his wife had gone out shopping on the Boulevard Batignoller. and were on their way home when, as though struck bv a sudden thought. Delmas said : "Oh, look here, I have somewhere to go, and it’s a long way, so there is no good in your coming with me ; you can gj home and left her. It grew late, still he did not return, and she became extremely anxious. The following morning a note arrived ftom him. She seized it and read: "Forgive me, my poor Margaret. I am gouig to cause you one more vexation, but at all event* tt will be the last. Igo to re join my lather and mother." The father was killed by mowing himself from an omnibus ; the rnotl by throwing herself from a window; the sutei suffocated herself. TIIK AMENDM KNT TO THE STATE CONSTITUTION. Our Atlanta correspondent calls at tention to an error which has crept into the printed amendment to the State Constitution forever prohibiting the payment of the fraudulent bonds. If the amendment as drawn up, and passed by both Houses, meets the case, and a comparison of the original with the printed copy should establish the fact that there has been a deviation from the original, it will in no way invalidate the proposed amendment. The Consti tution prescribes the way in which it is to be amended. An amendment has to be passed by the votes of two-thirds of the members of two successive Legislatures, and afterwards has to be submitted to and ratified by the people before it becomes a law. If, therefore, the original bill amending the Constitution be properly drawn up and correctly transcribed on the journals of the House and Senate, the mere fact of an error having occurred iu the printed copy, whether by mistake or design, does not in our opinion vitiate the bill and render tho introduction of a new one necessary. If, however, the bill is defective in itself and fails in the object sought to be accomplished—to wit: to prevent for all time to come the recognition of the fraudulent bonds— then another bill will have to be intro duccd-—this time so plain that all men who read can understand. THE COTTON CROP. The New York World, of Friday, con tains some three columns of matter de voted to the views of prominent cotton men in that city as to the prospect and probable yield of the growing crop. Messrs. T. T. Bbyck, E. J. Donnell and others engaged in the cotton business in New York contend that the crop will be over 4,000,000 bales, while Messrs. Richardson and May, Southerners so journing in New York, maintain that the crop will not exceed 3,500,000 bales. It is proper to remark here that tho views expressed were prior to the report of the Department of Agriculture, which was not published until Saturday morning. We find in that paper the following edi torial article on the cotton crop, which confirms the views set forth iu our paper of Sunday, that the yield cannot exceed 3,500,000 under tho most favorablo cir cumstances: Now, as far as facts are attainable, we find that up to September, 1874, the total receipts at the ports were 3,787,- 627 bales, and to this amount must bo added the cotton that came overland to New York and the Southern consump tion of cotton. These two items cannot be had for some days yet, but on the Ist of September, 1873, they were as follows : Bales. Cotton, per overland 141,500 Ootton consumed in the South. .137,662 Total 279,162 Now, if tho same amount of cotton is allowed this year for these two items, tho total crop lip to the Ist of Septem ber, 1874, would be : Hales. Receipts at tho ports 3,787,627 Cotton, per overland 141,500 Cotton consumed iu the South. 137,662 Total crop 4,066,789 Which is actually some 83,000 bales less than the World’s Fall trade report took as a basis on which to estimate the new crop. Thus, then, the basis of 4,150,000 bales is indeed in favor of a new crop, and as a compromise 4,100,- 000 bales is admitted by the most promi nent cotton dealers to be the true figure for the old crop. This fact being settled, tho next ques tion is, Was there or was there not 10 per cent, less acreage put in cotton in 1874 than in 1873 ? The Bureau of Agri culture is responsible for the statement that the cotton acreage is this year 10 per cent, less than ic was last year, and even Mr. Bryce admits that the acreage is “considerably reduced.” But the official reduction makes it between 10 and 11 per cent. Our Fall trade report took 10 percent, as the reduction. These two important facts being satisfactorily established, a calculation can be made. Last year, as is admitted by Mr. Bryce, fertilizers were in extensive use. But there was a drawback in the shape of ravages by worms which could have affected but a portion of the growing cotton; for when a crop is seriously ravaged, with the worm plague as with the locust plague, pretty much all of it is destroyed. But even conceding that the admitted drouth this year may bo taken as an off set to the partial ravages of worms du ring last year, and, further, even accept ing the undoubtedly poor crop of the uplands as an offset to the providential overflow of the bottom lands this year (and perhaps someone may tell us the comparative acreage of the uplands and the bottom lands) —admitting all this, the yield per acre will hardly be more than it was last year. And if the yield per acre is the same this year as last year, the 8,000,000 acres of cotton land j planted this year cannot possibly yield as much as 8,800,000 acres planted last year. This is about the acreage planted during the two seasons respectively. Therefore, if 10 per cent, is deducted from the 4,100,000 bales produced in 1873-74 there remains 3,690,000, and as our Fall trade report estimated the crop, under the most auspicious prospect, at throe and a half millions, it seems im-I possible that our estimate could have ! been materially wrong. It must, fur- [ thermore, he remembered that the ex- j tout of damage done by drouth cannot j be realized until later in the season, nor | is the significant allusion to the disturb- ! auee of labor made by the Southern j merchants and planters entirely to be j overlooked. All these circumstances, I not evety taking into account the proba bility or an early frost, may, in a great measure, cloud the glowing prospects of! those who estimate the new crop so j high. It is at once a remarkable fact! and an evidence of the intricacy of all j calculations not based ou statistical facts and figures, that while the faction of cotton dealers who estimate a very large crop give as one ground of their faith a heavy yield of early cotton, the opposite faction maintaiu that if there is one sure sign of a great destruction by drouth it is heavy early receipts, in asmuch as the hot weather prematurely forces open the boll that is ripe and destroys the tender bolls that depend on the sap of the plant for nourishment. Now, who is right ? If the new crop is really to be over 4,000,000 bales, the present Liverpool price of 7fd. for mid dling is quite low enough. If, on the other baud, the crop should be, as sta tistics indicate it will be, but 3,500,000 bales, we are in a fair way of giving England an early bonus of some $50,- 000,000 to secure our cotton crop. There is no longer a reasonable doubt as to the crop being a short one, and as soon as the fact becomes recognized in this country and Europe the price of our great staple must appreciate. The New York Ei\ ning Pont, an authority on cot ton. puts tlie question : “ Has American cotton any rival ?" It goes on to recog nize the importance of cotton as the chief article of export from the United States, and the fact that the (trice which it commands is a matter cf commanding moment, not only to the actual produ ' cers themselves, but to every man, woman and child in the country, whether I living in Maine, Texas or elsewhere. In these facts reasons are found for the Fust's comments on the methods of • transacting business in the New York Cotton Exchange, which methods were considered “ injurious to the country at large and particularly to the persons di rectly engaged in the production of cot i ton." As American cotton is now two and three-quarters pence per pound drearer than the best cotton raised in India ; a difference in price for which there seems to be no reason except the superior and —so far as India cotton is concerned— unrivalled quality of the American pro duct, it is urged that American cotton growers need not fear any extended rivalry so far as India is concerned. Egypt aQ d Brazil are the only countries which produce cotton equal in quality to ours, and they do not produce enough to seriously affect the normal value of the staple. The conclusion is, that American cotton has no rival, and that the price at present is abnormally low, it having risen only fourteen per cent, since 1869, when most of the world’s cotton supply was produced by slave labor, while the price of most other articles of trade has advanced from twenty-five to thirty per centum. SOUTHERN REPUBLICAN CONVEN TION. The proposed Southern Republican Convention, called to meet in Atlanta on the 12th of October, but since changed to meet at Chattanooga on the Ist of October, is a snare. We hazard the prediction that its main purpose is to manufacture thunder out of alleged Southern outrages for the coming elec tions, a? well as to fire the Northern heart in Congress in order to secure a prolongation of the power of the Re publican party. It is given out with a great show and parade of magnanimity that this Convention is to be composed of leading Republicans iu the South who are not office holders, and that its main object will be to bring peace and order to our unfortunate sister States. But the New York Tribune takes a dif ferent and wo believe a proper view of the movement: It has been agreed, it seems, between Senator Chandler and certain eminent and orthodox statesmen whose names are withheld from au anxious world, that a convention of Republicans of the Southern States shall meet in Atlanta on the 12tlx of October, to set forth to the nation the true needs of the South, and explain what has yet to be done to that unhappy region before it is fully reconstructed. A convention called un der such distinguished auspices would be almost certain in any event to em brace only the elect, but to make assur ance doubly sure it is arranged that, “ owing to the short notice,” the dele gates shall all be appointed by the State Executive Committees. This will ob viate the danger of any unpleasantness resulting from the admission of disa greeable persons not in sympathy with the Republican policy in the Southern States, and insure unanimous assent to whatever measures may be proposed by tlio leading spirits of the convention. A Congress of representatives of the Southern people could not fail to utter some unwelcome truths, and even a strictly Republican assemblage, consti tuted in the usual fashion, might show a critical and complaining disposition greatly to be deprecated on such an oc casion as this. Upon the whole it is no more than prudent to have the delegates appointed by the State Committees. It ought not to be difficult to select a few score of eminent Southern Repub licans who will fairly represent the men “inside politics,” in whose interest they are to be assembled. South Carolina of c.ourso will send honest John Patter son, formerly of Pennsylvania,.who can tell the people of tho Union how the South has been affronted with carpet baggers, buying seats in the Senate from her dusky legislators. The Hon. Franklin J. Moses can explain the pro cesses of vulgar peculation, and ex-Sen ator Sawyer and ex-Congressmau Bowen can testify as to tho practice of shipping field hands from Sea Islands to vote in the city of Charleston. Alabama will have an accomplished spokesman in the person of the Hon. George E. Spencer, formerly of lowa, who knows more per haps than any other statesman in Ala bama about those demoralizing bargains with the President which have made Southern politics so un speakably corrupt. From Arkansas might come the Hon. Powell Clayton, formerly of New York, and what he can not tell about fraud is not worth know ing. Texas might add to the list of delegates already appointed tho name of Senator Flanagan, who is one of the best living authorities on the defects of the Southern education system, and she lias also a fine assortment of pictures que politicians like the ex-postmaster of Galveston, who would ornament any select circle happy enough to secure their company. Louisiana breeds Re publican statesmen as lier bayous breed alligators. Kellogg, Pinchback, Casey, Packard, Durell, Warmoth, Herwig what stories they could tell if the Con vention would only resolve itself into an experience meeting 1 What schemes of rascality they could describe, what prodigies of registration, what miracles of counting, what astounding operations of the Courts, what novel political uses for revenue cutters, what ingenious de vices for fleecing commerce, squeezing tax payers, and emptying the treasury into the pockets of the faithful ! All the ills that have cursed the South since reconstruction, all the dangers that threaten her future, might be illustrated iu such a Convention as this. The assemblage would also be a spec tacle full of suggestion for the North. There at once glance we should see every variety of political parasite that feeds upon the prostrate States, every species of rogue, vagabond and insolent pretender that has made Republican government at the South a reproach to all the civilized world. With such a gathering before us we should not have to search far for the causes of the pres ent distress, nor should we be puzzled to suggest a remedy. To take all these men, and a few more like them, by the collar, and lead tliem out, would sug gest itself to all of us as the one great “reform necessary to secure the perfect reconstruction of the South.” There seems to be but one opinion as to the object of the meeting of the Southern Radicals iu Convention, and that is to manufacture a strong outrage report for the purpose of inflaming pub lic opinion at tho North against the South. The Baltimore Gazette saps : Senator Chandler proposes that the public shall get a just opinion of the situation of the South through a Con vention composed of delegates named by the Chairmen of the Republican Ex ecutive Committees in the several South ern States. This suggestion has more of cool, calculating impudence than novelty. It is not the first time that the South has suffered from just such mis representations as these partisans will send forth over their signatures. Al ready, it is said, an address has been prepared for them to adopt, asking the President to send troops to the South to suppress free elections, and giving such false accounts of the recent outrages as were made use of in the past to fire the Northern heart. No intelligent man ought to permit himself to be deceived bv such misstatements at this day. The Richmond 1 Vhig characterizes I the movement as an “Outrage Couven- j lion.” It says : What a scheme that is for calling a Convention of Southern Republicans to consider and report upon the condition of the South ! Everybody knows before hand what will be said and done by a Convention of carpet-baggers, adven turers, and negroes. Os course they will go to Atlanta, or wherever they are to meet, with their carpet-bags full of affidavits and their months full of rumors about outrages. Men who can not be trusted with ten dollars of public money, and who, where they are known, would not be believed on oath, will be the men whose testimony against the Southern people is to go abroad as the truth, and to be accepted as the proper basis of actiou against the Southern States! Notwitlistandingour knowledge of the corruption of Northern politics, and the depravity of Radical managers; notwith standing our knowledge of the readiness of the Northern masses to believe al most anything against the Southern peo ple, we are not prepared to believe that the honest portion of the Northern peo ple will be willing to accept the testi mony of a Convention of carpet-baggers and adventurers who have become in famous throughout the whole country. An outrage convention, gotten up bv Clayton, oi Arkansas, cannot, we* be lieve.be palmed off upon the country by Mokton and his set. It is an imposture so gross that a fool even will see through it. Jesse Wimberly makes a bid for the negro vote by announcing himself unequivocally in favor of the Civil Rights bill. A yonth killed thirteen rattlesnakes in one day, in Madison county, recently. It wasn’t a good day for rattlesnakes i either. AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1874. JUDGE A. M. SPEER. We are gratified to know that the Democracy of Spaulding county have nominated Judge A. M. Speer for the Legislature. There is no danger of the State when such men as Judge Speer are willing to serve the people in the Legislature. Distinguished for his purity of character uo less than for his pre-eminent ability, the example set by the people of Spaulding in calling upon such a man as Judge Speer to serve them should be followed by 'the people of other counties. The wisest and best men should be called upon to serve the State iu these perilous times. THE REVOLUTION IN LOUISIANA. Since the surrender at Appomatox there has been no event in our history of such importance as the recent coup d’etat iu Louisiana. In a single day the uprising of a people united by out rage and oppression has hurled from power a usurpation foisted upon them by tyranny, and erected iu its stead the government of their choice. The victo ry seems to be as complete as the out break was unexpected. The revolution sprang into life full growu, like Minerva from the brow of Joye, and the first blow was also its last. ’ The Kellogg government crumbled like saml before the sea, and to-day the State of Louisi ana is in tlio peaceful and undisturb ed possession of her people. The usur pation erected by the soldiers of Gener al Grant has toppled to the' dust, and we do not believe that it can ever be pinned together again, even by bayo nets. We do not see how the action of the people of Louisiana can be censured by any right thinking man North or South. We do not believe that the Kellogg government had any right to their alle giance, or had any claims to obedience or support which they were bound to acknowledge or respect. It was not their government. Its creatures were not their rulers. Ou the contrary, in a legal and fairly conducted election that government was defeated and repudiated by au overwhelming majority in nearly every parish in the State. It was not a government created by Congress and placed in authority by the Legislative power of the natiou. Congress had nothing to do with its creation, and has never formally recognized or admitted its legality. Ou the contrary, so far as Congress has spoken iu the malter, its voice lias been adverse to the pretensions of the infamy. It has been branded a usurpation and a fraud by the people of every section. It de rived domiuion neither from the con sent nor acquiescence of the governed nor from the power of the Congress of the United States. It was pnrely and simply the creature of the Executive branch of our Government—the creature of the Federal administration—the crea ture of General Grant. It was set up by soldiers and sustained by bayonets until it was thought strong enough to stand without extraneous support.— When the bayonets were withdrawn it tumbled, and there are few who wish it resurrected from the dust into which it has fallen. The question now arises how shall, or rather how will the Administration act iu the premises ? It is true that General Grant sympathizes with the Kellogg conspirators—all of whom are his person al and political friends, one of whom is his near kinsman. It is also irue that he lias issued a proclamation pronouncing the supporters of the McEnery govern ment turbulent and seditious persons and commanding their dispersal within five days under penalty of an attack from the army of the United States. But events have happened since the issuance of that proclamation which will render its enforcement a very grave and difficult undertaking—one which wo think even General Grant will hesitate to commence. We have little doubt that it was published under the belief or upon the assumption that the troubles in Louisiana were mere local disorders —riots—confined to the city of New Orleans, and which could be easily sup pressed. Subsequent events have shown how fallacious is this theory. The out break is not a riot, it is revolution. It has Mot been tlie work of a few men nor has it been restricted to any particular locali ty. It is a movement of the whole people of a whole State to break the flimsy fetters of fraud and usurpation. The people have taken their property, the State.— After waiting patiently during two years in the hope that tlie Government would give them redress they have at last righted their wrongs. They have in stalled their legally elected government. They have control of the finances, of the police, of the public property and they stand ready to defend themselves. When the five days shall have expired Gen. Grant will find himself confronted not by a band of rioters, but by tlie majesty of State government. He cannot treat a people as a seditious mob to be dis persed by a file of soldiers and a Gat ling gun. The McEnery government is in power. It presents its claims for recognition and these claims will have to be passed upon by some competent tribunal. We cannot believe Gen. Grant will attempt to settle this question by violence and bloodshed. Such a state of affairs requires different treatment from that which lie has foreshadowed in his proclamation. We do not believe that he can crush this government with the rude hand of power. Os course Louisiana is not strong enough to make war upon the United States, nor has she any desire to provoke a contest. But the people of the United States will not sympathize with such a war nor will they permit their Government to engage in such a couflic*. We must have some other and more peaceful solutiou of this ' important question than that afforded i by war and coerciou. It is, after all, questionable whether the decrease in the value of Southern lauded property has been greater than in real estate in New York. At the present time lands and houses in that city are almost unsaleable, and it is probably not too much to say that im proved real estate is now worth twenty five per cent, less than it was on Sep tember 1, 1873, and unimproved lots from 33* to 40 per eent. less. Mr. R. L. Mott, of Columbus, has announced himself as an independent candidate for Congress in the Fourth District. Mr. Mon, in his card, takes great pains to tell what his politics were before the war ; but he says nothing of what they hav.- been since. We hope, as we believe, that he will be able to of fer but little serious opposition to the Democratic nominee. The Democrats of Baldwin county have nominated CoL William McKin ley for the Legislature. A better selec tion could not have been made. Col. McKinley is a gentleman of command ing ability, a fine lawyer and a sterling Democrat. With such men to control her councils Georgia has nothing to fear for the future. Dyeing the past.ten days, a large num ber of mills and manufactories, not only throughout New England but in the Middle, Western and Southwestern States, have resumed operations after various periods of suspension since the panic of 73. OGLETHORPE COUNTY. Meeting of the Democratic Party. Lexington, G a., October 8, 1874. Jo the Editors of the Chronicle <fc Sen tinel : The Democratic party of Oglethorpe county assembled at the Court House and was called to order by Hon. G. F. Platt, President, J. T. Olive acting as Secre tary. The President, in a few remarks, then stated the object of the meeting to be the adoption of a suitable time and mode of nominating candidates for county offi cers, to be elected in January next. It was then resolved* and unanimously carried that the members of the party of each militia district hold a pritnary elec tion, under the supervision of the Ex ecutive Committee of each district, for the nomination of all candidates of the party, and that the result of the elections be forwarded as soon as possible to the Executive Committee of the county, at this place, and that the returns of the elections from all the districts be by them consolidated, and that tlie person having tlie largest number of votes for any office be by them declared the nomi nee, and that this be the mode of nomi nation by the party until otherwise or dered. It was then made tlie duty of the Ex ecutive Committee of tlie county to ap point the day upon wliwh the primary elections for county offidtrs at the ap p’-onching election shall be held. The Executive Committee then ap pointed the third Friday in November next, and the first Tuesday in December to consolidate the vote of the county. The Convention to nominate candi dates for the Legislature tliou reported, through Captain Pope Barrow, the unanimous nomination of Dr. T. D. Hutchinson and Rev. D. W. Patman, and also the minutes of their meeting, which report was received and adopted with great enthusiasm, especially the resolutions regarding the fraudulent bonds. The minutes of the Convention sub mitted to the meeting were as follows: Lexington, Ga., August 8, 1874. Convention assembled for the purpose of nominating candidates for the Legis lature. James Young elected Chairman, and Messrs. John F. Smith and \V. C. Burchmore as Secretaries.. The following delegates were present : Bowling Green—A. J. Watson, C. W. Callaway, Juo. F. Smith. Beaverdam—J. T. Thomas, E. B. Carter, T. H. Dozier. Pleasant Hill—J. M. Smith, J. W. Collier, J. M. Chandler. Lexington—H. Kinnebrew, A. Little, J. S. Baugliu. Wolfskin—Pope Barrow, J. M. Harris, E. G. Johnson. Woodstock—C. 0. Oliver, P. Dalton, C. T. Boggs. Falling Creek- James Young, B. P. Taylor, W. C. Burchmore. Glade—A. Witcher, T. R. Tiller, J. A. Broach. Simpson—M. L. Rains, B. B. Waller, W. B. P. Hayuie. Bairdstown—P. M. Stevens, Joe Arm strong, J. Kinnebrew. Goose Pond—T. G. Jennings, A. G. Power, N. M. Mattox. Grove Creek—J. J. Green, H. W. Johnson, E. A. Stevens. The “ two-thirds rule” and the par liamentary rules of the State Legisla ture were adopted by the Convention ■for the transaction of business. Oapt. Pope Barrow then offered the following resolutions relative to the fraudulent and repudiated bonds of the State, which were adopted : Whereas, Certain bonds, purporting to be bonds of the State of Georgia, were issued by Bullock during his con tinnence in office in violation of law, and the last Legislature passed an amendment to the Constitution forever prohibiting the payment of the same, they, after careful investigation having been proved to be fraudulent and void and not binding upou the State of Geor gia, therefore be it Resolved, That we request the repre sentatives to be chosen from this coun ty to cast their votes and use tlieir in fluence iu favor of the amendment now pending which denies the validity and prohibits tlie payment of these bonds. Capt. Smith then moved a united support of the party in favor of the nominees of this Convention and a dis continuance of all independent candi dates, which motion was adopted. The names of Dr. T. D. Hutchinson and Obediah Stevens were then put in nomination by J. J. Greene; W. M. Willingham nominated by T. H. Do zier; J. J. Daniel nominated by C. T. Boggs; D. W. Patman and Dr. Hutchin son nominated by Capt. P. Barrow; J. W. Martin nominated by A. Witcher; A. J. Watson nominated by G. W. Galla way. The Convention then proceeded to ballot for candidates, with varying re sults, until the sixth ballot, when Dr. T. D. Hutchinson was declared nominated, he having received twenty-four votes. His nomination was then made unani mous. Then proceeded with the voting until the fifteenth ballot, when Rev. D. W. Patman received twenty-four votes and was declared nominated. Tlie nomi nation was then made unanimous. A committee, consisting of Capt. Pope Barrow, T. H. Dozier, C. T. Boggs, J. M. Smith and A. Witcher, was then ap pointed by the Chair to wait upon and notify the candidates of their nomina tion and request their acceptance of the same. The nominees were then presented to the Convention by Capt. J. M. Smith, and each in a few appropriate remarks accepted the nomination. The Convention then requested that the proceedings of this meeting be pub lished in the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel and the. Oglethorpe Echo, and adjourned sine die. James Young, President, J. F. Smith, { „ , . W. C. Burchmore, j Secretaries. The following resolution was then of fered and unanimously adopted : dissolved, That it is the sense of the Democratic party of this county that the policy of our State in granting State aid to railroad companies is injurious in practice and wrong in principle, and that we therefore request our Repre sentatives iu tlie next Legislature to discountenance it and vote against any measure looking to the granting of such aid to any railroad company. The meeting then requested that these proceedings be published in tlie Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel and the Ogle thorpe Echo. The meeting then adjourned, subject to the call of the President. Geo. F. Platt, President. J. T. Olive, Secretary. DON. ALEX. H. STEPHENS, An Affecting Incident. 7b the Editors of the Chronicle and Sen tinel : After the adjournment of County Line Grange on yesterday, a political meet ing, composed of some fifty gentlemen, was held, when one of the speakers, in urging the voters to select the purest and best men to represent us in the next Legislature, took occasion to advert to the beautiful example set the country by that pure patriot and “child of genius,” Alexander H. Stephens, in not thrusting himself upon the people, but who was sought and urged by the p o ple of the Eighth Congressional District to represent them in the next Congress, whereupon a citizen arose and said : “Fellow-citizens, I am a firm believer in prayer, especially when offered in be half of a scourged people, and when intended for the good of men. I believe God will hear and answersuch petitions; and I believe it the duty of every Chris tian and believing heart in the land that we should earnestly invoke the Lord of Hosts to spare the life, and, if it be His will, to prolong the days of our beloved fellow-citizen, Alexander H. Stephens.” A loud amen went up from that little gathering, and I trust that the sugges tion of ray neighbor and friend, Deacon Henry White, will meet with a warm re sponse in every Christian breast in this broad land. I have not the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with Mr. Stephens, but his record is so bright and his character so pure that I have learned to love him next only to my idolized brother Vir ginian, the great and good Lee. S. Wyatt. Allington, Burke county. Burke county has an abnormal curio sity in the shape of a.hog, with face, nose and mouth very much like a negro, and which makes a gutteral noise simi lar to the jabber of an African. A company is working a rich gold mine in Hall* county. The Radicals of Meriwether county have nominated two negroes for the Legislature. SOUTH LAROLLYA POLITIC S. CHAMBERLAIN NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR. An Independent Republican Conven tion to be Held to Make Other Nomi nations. Columbia, S. C., September 13.—The Republican Convention nominated D. H. Chamberlain for Governor, R. h! Gleaves, present incumbent, for Lieu tenant Governor, and R. B. Elliott for Chairman of the Executive Committee. An independent Bepublican Convention will be called, as many delegates are dissatisfied, and other nominations will be made. The Republican Nominating Conven tion adopted the following platform to day : First, It reaffirms adhesion to the principles of the National Republican Convention at Philadelphia, 1872, as embodying the true ideas of American progress; and second, maintains the au thority of the General Government to interfere for the preservation of do mestic tranquility in the several States, and acknowledges witli gratitude the in terposition in this State. Third, Dep recates lawlessness in any form ; con demns turbulent agitations in any place; deplores violence, intimidation or ob struction of personal or political rights by any party; demands an universal re spect and conservation of the elective franchise iu the hands of tlie weakest, and declares it shall hold all men ene mies to equality of rights who inter fere with or deny free and lawful exercise of their use to auy citizen of whatever party or creed. Fourth, Pledges to continue scrupulously to enact and enforce the financial re forms promised two years ago and in a large measure fulfilled, iu proof of which they point to the following laws, viz : A law to levy a specific tax, a law to reduce the volume of the public debt, a law to regulate the number of attaches, a law to regulate the public printing, a law to regulate disbursement of public funds and a law to regulate assessments. Fifth, Pledges itself to reduce the public expenses within the public revenue and to secure the enact ment of a law requiring officers who disburse moneys to give to the public monthly statements of all receipts and expenditures derivable from a moderate assessment and tax rate. Sixth, Earnest ly entreats Congress to pass the Civil Rights bill, which is absolutely essen tial to enforce the constitutional guar anty of equal rights for all American citizens. Seventh, Pledges itself to main tain the settlement of the public debts as made last Winter, and reject all claims a aiust which there is suspicion. Eighth, Holds that all franchises granted by the State should be subservient to the public good, that charges for travel and freight should be equitable and uniform aud no unjust discriminations be made between through and local travel and freights. Ninth, Advocates a modifi cation of the present system of taxation, as will prove of the largest advantage to agricultural interests; will lend its earn est endeavors to the enactmeut of such laws and to encourage such means as will most speedily develop the resources and build up the manufacturing aud in dustrial prosperity of South Carolina and tho construction of such now rail roads as will give the largest and cheap est facilities to all citizens. Tenth, Pledges protection in the truest sense to the property of the State, and such wise, just aud humane laws as will perfect tlie education and elevation of the laboring classes. Eleventh, That with full faith in the justice of these principles, acknoweldging errors iu the past, but feeling confident of its ability and determination to correct them, they appeal to all true Republicans to unite in bearing the candidate to vic tory, and pledges to carry out in the practical administration of the govern ment every principle inscribed upon the standard in the interest of tlie whole people of the State. The Convention adjourped this p. m. after six days’ ses sion. A resolution endorsing Grant for a third term was unanimously adopted. Saturday evening, after a speech by Mackey, Swails, of Williamsburg, moved to close the debate and proceed to bal lot. This was accomplished with much difficulty, and tlie result was announced as follows :" Chamberlain 72 Greene 40 Wiunsmitli 10 Whole number of votes cast 122 The delegations from Aiken, Barn well, _ Chester, Chesterfield, Colleton, Fairfield, Lancaster, Laurens, Lexing ton, Newberry, Oconee, Orangeburg, Pickens,Union, Williamsburg and York, voted solidly for Chamberlaim. The delegation from Charleston, Kershaw, Spartanburg, with the exception of Ed ward Petty, of the first named delega tion, voted for Winnsmith, but before the announcement of tlie vote, changed their votes to Greene. The Sumter dele gation, including Gov. Moses, voted solidly for Greene. Gov. Moses re ceived one vote, cast by J. H. Mc- Devitt, a white man from Edgefield, who, however, subsequently changed his vote to Chamberlain. When the vote was announced there was a wild yell of victory from the Chamberlain clique, and the rank and file shouted with glee at the prospect of the promised prices of tlieir votes, and were only restrained from joining in a general shakedown by the gavel of the Chairman, who announced that nomina tions would now be received for the office of Lieutenant-Governor. R. IT. Gleaves and Martin R. Delany, both colored, were nominated, and the balloting proceeded without excitement. One hundred aud eight votes were cast, of which Gleaves received niuety-seven and Delany eleven, and the first named was accordingly declared the nominee of the party. During the call of the roll Mr. TANARUS, C. Dunn, of Horry, upou his name being call and, stated that as he did not intend to support the nomination of Mr. Chamberlain,ho could not in honor take any further part in the proceedings, and would, therefore, decline to vote. Mr. Dunn is a Northern man and a Republi can, and was elected to the State Senate by the Conservatives from Horry county in 1870. Democratic Meeting in Jefferson County. Four delegates from each district in the county met at the Court House in Louisville, and the Convention was or ganized by calling W. 8. Alexander, Esq., to the Chair. After adopting the two-thirds rule the balloting com menced, when, upon the seventeenth ballot, R. T. Little and Dr. H. L. Battle were chosen as candidates to represent Jefferson county in the Legislature. The following resolutions, offered by Dr. H. L. Battle, were adopted : Whereas, It is generally understood that there is to be a tremendous monied effort made, during the next Legislature, to defeat the passage of the resolutions of the last General Assembly, amenda tory of the Constitution, forbidding the payment of bonds already declared ille gal; therefore, Resolved, That the Democracy of Jef ferson county will support no man for the Legislature who does not fairly and squarely pledge himself to vote for the amendment to the Constitution, and use his best endeavors to prevent, for all time to come, the payment of the bogus Bullock bonds. Resolved, That the Democratic party of Jefferson county hail with more than ordinary pleasure and satisfaction the nomination of Hon. Alex. H. Stephens as our candidate for Congress from the Eighth Congressional District, and we pledge to him the hearty support of the Democratic partv of this county. * E. J. P. Xo Five Bale Crops. —The Madison Home Journal says : “By permission, we make the following extract from a letter from T. J. Smith, Esq., Master State Grange, to Col. D. S. Johnston, relative to the premium crops in Wash ington county. The letter was written August 2Gtb, the day before the rains, inviting Col. Johnston to the Agricultu ral Festival in Saundersville, on the 3d of September : “Our crop of cotton is severely damaged; our prize crops cut off one half. Warthen’s crop had a wind storm on it, followed by heat and dry, and says he caunot make more than a bale and a half. My friend Yicker’s crop is greatly damaged; says he may make two and a half bales. Several other crops all cut off. Xo five bale crops this year, It is claimed over seventy bushels of corn are made on uplands "er acre.” Lotta commences an engagement at the Walnut, Philadelphia, on the 14th, for four weeks. COTTON. THE PRESENT CROP PROSPECTS. The Yield Cut Ofl - to a Large Extent by the Drouth. The recent report of the Agricultural Bureau, at Washington, while received with some degree of scepticism in New York, :s known by planters and mer chants in the cotton producing region to be in the main correct. The long drouth damaged the crop to such au extent that it virtually ended it. Very nearly all has been made for the season, and ex cept in a few localities the plant will produce no more. This is not a mere surmise, but gathered from reliable data from all quarters, A reporter of the Chronicle and Sen tinel interviewed a number of geutle ment, among them several of our most prominent cotton factors, on the subject yesterday afternoon. The first party spoken to in regard to the matter was a well known planter who has plantations on the river and among the highlands of the county. He stated that he had just returned from his river place and had passed through several large planta tions. The cotton fields oil all these were perfectly black. The stalks had finished bearing and it was evident that a late or early frost could not affect them one way or the other. The crop, said he, Is Made, And it will show a large falling off from that of last year. The same rule will apply equally as well to the upland plantations. The drouth has settled the crop question for this year. she reporter next conversed with one of the members of a well known cotton firm. This gentleman was about of the same opinion as the planter referred to above. The crop would be much shorter than was anticipated a month ago. Ho thought, however, that some persons made the falling off too great. He had seen a letter from Texas, which stated that the yield would be from Tliree-Fourths to a Half Less than the planters in that State ex pected a few weeks ago. He had no idea that the prospect was as bad as that. His estimate was that the falling off would be from fifteen to twenty per cent. He placed the crop at about 3,750,000 bales. It would not, he thought, be more than that, though it might be less. Another prominent cotton factor, who receives a large number of bales each year from Georgia and South Carolina, was equally convinced that the high estimates of a few weeks since would nave to be abandoned. Ho had seen quite a number of fields of cotton lately and in the majority of them the weed had stopped bearing. A few fields were still doing something, and with a late Fall might yield more cotton. His opinion, however, was that the crop was about made. The New York men were estimating the crop entirely too high, hence the keeping down of prices. He thought their estimates were fully a hall' million bales too high. Reporter : What do you estimate the crop at ? Merchant : Not more than three mil lions and three-quarters. Possibly it will not be over three millions and a hall’ bales. New Orleans will receive three hundred thousand bales less than she did last year and Memphis one hun dred and fifty thousand less. This makes four hundred and fifty thousand. Mobile will receive fifty thousand more than last year. Some weeks since she expected to get at least one hundred and fifty thousand more. Deducting the fifty thousand from the four hun dred and fifty thousand, leaves four hundred thousand bales less for those three cities, together, than last year. The crop of Georgia and South Caro lina will be at least one hundred thou sand bales less than last year. Adding this to the total given before, makes A Half Million Bales less than the crop of last year. Ibis would give us between three mil lion six hundred thousand and three million seven hundred thousand bales as the total crop of American cotton for the present year. This, I think, is about the highest estimate that can now be made. Reporter: Do you think there will be an advance in prices? Merchant: Ok, yes. Prices will cer tainly advance, in my opinion, at an early date. He then showed the reporter a letter from a prominent cotton factor of Mo bile, stating that that port would get an increase this season out of the river bot toms, where the crop last year was a to tal failure. He estimated the receipts this year at three hundred and fifty thousand bales, fifty thousand bales more than last year. The merchant said this estimate was a hundred thousand bales less than the same gentleman expected a short time ago. Reporter: Has any other cause in ad dition to the drouth operated against the crop? Merchant: Yes. The rust and a Sort ot Wight Have damaged it considerably in some localities. Auother of the largest cotton buyers in the city said he had written to parties iu England some time since that the crop would not be anything like as large as they expected. They would not believe him, however, and said his reports were sensational. The crop was a late one, in the first instance, and the drouth had cut it off to a great extent. It would not be, at the highest calculation, more than three and three-quarter millions bales. Some parties in Liverpool and New York bad placed it as high as four and a quarter million bales. It was needless to say that such a yield was out of the question. A cotton factor of large experience be lieved that if it was not for the dullness of trade and the fact that it was so diffi cult to sell mauufacturei's’ goods, cotton would be fully eighteen cents per pound in Augusta at the present time. New York still professed to believe that the crop would be a very large one, but that the report of the Agricultural Bureau had been felt in Liverpool was evident in the sudden advance of a farthing per pound in the price of cotton, and the taking of over six thousand bales that day by speculators. He had written to parties in New York that the report of the Agricultural Bureau in reference to new crop was perfectly correct with re gard to the section tributary to Augusta and letters from other parts of the State showed that it applied equally as well in those sections. The crop would not cer tainly he more than three millions, seven hundred and fifty thousand bales. Brices are bound to advance. We ascertained during our walk in the cotton quarter that but little new cotton is now coming into the city, but it is ex pected that the receipts will be very large in a short time. •‘The World's” Estimate Correct. To the Editor of the World : Sib —Referring to your article of the 7th inst., I beg to say that your figures in regard to the cotton crop are confirm ed not only by the reports of the South ern Exchanges for August, but by the private correspondence of the receivers of cotton in this market who have taken pains to ascertain the present condition of the cotton crop—and I give it to you as my candid opinion that this crop cannot possibly be as much as 3,500,000, and I am certain that I have taken as much pains and spent as much money as any merchant in the trade to obtain ac curate aud reliable information regard ing the condition and probable out-turn of the crop. J. J. Pierce. New York, September 9. Skeleton Leaves.— Leaves to be skel etonized should be gathered only iu dry weather, and should also be perfectly matured, July and August being the best months to gather them. Among choicest varieties are vine, poplar, beech and ivy leaves. Dissolve four ounces of washing soda in one ounce of boiling water; add two ounces of quick lime, and boil fifteen minutes; allow this to cool; then pour off the clear liquor into a clean saucepan, and when at the boil ing point place the leaves carefully and boil one hour; boiling water should be added occasionally to supply that lost by evaporation. If after boiling one hour the cellular tissues does not rub off' between the thumb and finger, boil them till it will, always placing the leaves in cold water to separate the fleshy matter from the skeleton. Bleach the skeletons by putting them into a solution of one quart of water, one large tablespoonful of chloride of lime and a few drops of vinegar; let them remain in twenty min utes and then remove, and dry between sheets of white blotting paper beneath a gentle pressure, LOUISIANA REDEEMED!! THE PEOPLE IN FULL POSSESSION OF THE GOVERNMENT. Peace and Good Order Prevail—Large Meeting in St. Louis Endorses tlie Action of the People Dispatches from Governor Penn and Kellogg Cabinet Meeting This Afternoon. What Grant Says About the Revolu tion. Washington, September 15. Tlio President this afternoon, iu conversa tion with the agent of the American Press Association, expressed great sur prise that tlie people of New Orleans aud of the State of Lottsiana should have allowed themselves to be so influ enced by their political leaders as to commit acts of violence against the con stituted authorities of the State, which led to bloodshed and called for the in terference of the Federal power. He stated that great consideration had been shown to these people, on account of which their action was, therefore, sur prising. He said he had issued two orders—one to Gen. McDowell, com manding the division of the South, and one to Gen. Emory, commanding the de partment of the Gulf—instructing them to take such measures ns in tlieir judg ment necessary to preserve life and property, and to restore peace and quiet ness to the city of New Orleans aud tlio State at large, and lie felt confident that tlie steps would result in a restoration of harmony. He hoped his proclama tion would have tlio desired effect aud that the Federal troops would not bo re quired to act. The President spoke in the highest terms of tho people of Louisiana, and in tlie same terms, incidentally, of the whole South, and expressed deep regret that any circumstances should arise re quiring the interference of tlio Federal power in any section of tlie country, but as Chief Magistrate of the whole coun try, charged with the execution of the laws which were enacted in the interest of peace and unity between every sec tion of the country, his duty was' plain and lie would not shrink from its per formance. 1 Penn and Kellogg on the Situation. A dispatch from D. B. Penn, to the Herald, says : “The North can form no idea of the robbery and spoliation to which we have been subjected. My movement was necessitated by the atti tude ot the people. They demanded it. I am now in full possession of the gov ernment of the State. “The colored people are satisfied and contented. A strong brigade of colored troops, fully organized and armed and in the service of the usurpation, refused to fire a shot iu its defense. The most perfect peace and good order prevail. We are thoroughly loyal to the Federal Government and iu the operations of the past two days there have been no excesses or violations of law. This government is the only one now in ex istence iu Louisiana.” Kellogg, iu a dispatch, says : “Amid all the troubles which have beset the State I have reduced the State and parish taxation each fully one-third, and meas ures have been passed providing for the reduction of the State debt aud the con stitutional limitation of debts, both on the State and city ; also an amendment limiting taxation. “TheMbnoxious features of tlie election aud registration laws used by the ftision ists in tiie last election Lave been repeal ed, and in the appointment of officers of registration I have voluntarily tendered to the opposition a representation which they entirely denied to the Republican party at the last election. “Those and other measures have de prived the opponents of the Republican party of any just cause of complaint against the State government. They have by a long prepared plan violently overthrown the government even be fore the election to prevent the election being had, and prevent the evidence that they had not a ma jority before upon the shallow pretexts of violence, and by incendiary state ments and appeals they have got togeth er their clans, which they have organized in secret and drilled iu their club rooms and in the city. They have taken pos session of public offices by violence and bloodshed. Personally I have no desire to discharge the very onerous and vexatious duties of Governor, but I feel it a duty I owe to the State and to the party to hold on until relieved by competent authority.” From Shreveport. Shreveport, La., September 16. —The rightful officers elected in 1872 have been peaceably installed in all the par ishes so far as heard from iu North Lou isiana. There has not been, nor will there be, a single drop of blood shed. The movement has been conducted by the leading property holders, business and conservative men in this and ad joining parishes. The dispatch con cludes : But the Kellogg infamy is dead beyond resurrection troops or no troops. Signed, W. B. Eagan, J. 0. Moncure and A. H. Leonard, committee. Sympathy from Bt. Louis. S-r. Louis, September 15.—There was a mass meeting held to-night to sympathise with the people of Louisiana in their efforts to rid themselves of op pression. It was largely attended. Gen. William Shields presided, and a large number of preminent citizens, of both political parties,wore elected Vice-Presi deuts and Secretaries. Continued Quiet. New Orleans, September 16, evening. —The city continues quiet. The police duty through the city last night was performed by volunteers. This morning there is a very general resumption of business. There are no gatherings of people or evidences of excitement in any quarter. Result of the Cabinet Mooting. Washington, September 16. — The re sult of the Cabinet meeting this after noon was an agreement that the follow ing dispatch should be sent immediately by the Adjutant-General of the Army to General Emory, commanding tliu Fede ral forces in Louisiana: Wais Department, \ Washington, D. C., Sept. 16, 1874. ( Under no circumstances recognize the insurgent government of Louisiana. Within five days from the date of the proclamation to the insurgents such action will be taken as the emergency may require. By order of the President. (Signed) E. D. Townsend, Ad j utaut-General. McEnery Officers Installed. Delhi, La., September 16. — A mass meeting of citizens of Richland parish was held at Reayvilleyesterday evening, and there was great rejoicing at the news from New Orleans. G. M. N. Brumley, Governor McEnery's appoin tee to the office of tax collector, was in stalled into office by the citizens, who gave three cheers to the outgoing Kel logg appointee, Mr. Jones, for the cour teous manner in which lie surrendered the office, which was followed by loud aud enthusiastic cheers for the now col lector and redeemed Louisiana. All the officers of the parish now are .McEn ery men. A largo number of colored men attended the gathering and partici pated in the rejoicing. There was can non firing at Delhi last evening, and general rejoicing all over the parish, among all classes of citizens. Franklin parish will install her Mc- Encry officers to-day. Grant Angry. Washington, September 16.—The Louisiana revolution has staggered the Administration. They will do nothing within five days. There can be no doubt that their present intentions is to re store Kellogg. It is said that Grant is very angry. The tone of the Northern papers is perplexing, many of the most ultra Republitan papers arguing that Louisiana has exercised the divine and conceded#right of revolution. During the five days it is both hoped and feared that the white people of Louisiana will not dull device by coldness or delay. Terry or Sheridan. It is in consideration whether Louisi ana shall be added to Gen. Sheridan’s department or whether Gen. Terry shall be sent to New Orleans. Gen. Terry ranks Gen. Emory. What Williams Says. Washington, September 16.—Attor ney-General Williams to-night, in a lengthy interview with a representative of the New York Associated Press, said: “The so-called Kellogg government lias been established aud in full operatiou for about two years. It lias been re peatedly declared by all the Courts of Louisiana to bo the only legal government of the State. It lias been repeatedly recognized by the President and impliedly by Con gress. The President, in a special mess age, called the attention of Congress to the subject aud stated that if they took NUMBER 39 no action lie should feel bound to regard the Kellogg organization as the lawful government of the State. Congress de clined to legislate about the matter. The question is not now whether Kellogg or McEnery ought to bo Governor or whether or not there were frauds nr irregularities about the election, but the question is whether a State government that has been fully organized for nearly two years, a nil recognized as such by all the Depart ments of the Government, State and Na tional, can bo properly overthrown by the armed populace of a city iu which the seat of government is' located by means of violence and bloodshed. Ad mitting all the wrongs charged upon the Kellogg government, can those proceed ings bo permitted to stand ns a prece dent? Arc the governments of the States of this Union to be determined by pronunciamentos and violent and bloody outbreaks, as they are in Mexico and South America ? 1 do not see how this caso differs in principle from the Arkansas case. Brooks claimed that ho received a majority of the votes at the election, and I have always believed that ho did. Baxter, however, was the duly installed Governor of the State of Arkansas. Brooks, relying upon the claim that he was elected, displaced Baxter by a map d'etat, but the Presi dent refused to recognize his right to hold the office obtained in that way. That was a decision against the Republicans and in favor of the Democrats.—- Following this precedent, I do not seo how the President can recognize Penn. To do so would be to hold that a politi cal party defeated or claiming to bo de feated by fraud at an election for State officers might, if the opportunity offer ed, take possession of the State govern ment, aud so substitute violence and anarchy lor law aud order. I believe it is the duty of the General Government to put down this lawlessness, whether committed by Republicans or Dem ocrats. The President lias not been governed by party considerations in these matters and has oftener de cided for the Dt mocrats than the lie publicans in respect to Southern diffi culties. Whatever may be said of men ami things in Louisiana, the proceedings of the President in respect to that State have been from the beginning iu strict conformity to law. llis course, iu my opinion, will not now be changed.— There is -not a sensible man in the United States who does not know that the seizure of the State government of Louisiana by Penn and his adherents is in utter violation and disregard of all law. Can any reasonable man expect the President to become a party to such a transaction ? With respect to the election, it, is impossible to deter mine who was chosen. The returns have never been cunvassod and they were made up in perjury, forgery aud fraud. I have never believed that, the McEnery ticket was elected. It. is ab surd to suppose that when Virginia and North Carolina and nearly all the South ern States, including those that are generally Democratic, went for the Grant, ticket, that, Louisiana, the strong est Republican State in the South, went for the Greeley ticket, as is protended, especially when the candi date for Governor on that ticket was an unreconstructed rebel Colonel. But it is too late now to go back to t hat, question. The issue now is between law and order on the one hand and violence and disor der on the other, and upon that issno the position of the President, is not a doubtful one. New Orleans, September 16.- The following document, signed by the Presi dents of the Chamber of Commerce, Clearing House, Cotton Exchange and Merchants’ Exchange, was telegraphed to President Grant to-day: “tVc the undersigned beg leave to inform your Excellency that this city is perfectly quiet, ami free from all disturbing ele ments, and business bits been resumed as usual, no further trouble being anti cipated.” Custom House, New Orleans, Sep tember 16.—1 have been asked to sign tlic above statement. That, the city is quiet is true and business is proceeding as usual. Property aud persons are safe from insults or injuries, except from some rowdy or drunken man. (Signed) James F. Casey. The Executive Committee of the Mer chants’ Exchange to-day telegraphed to the Board of Trade of Chicago, and the Merchants Exchanges of St. Louis and Cincinnati, as follows: “The now gov ernment is composed of the legitimate and duly elected State officers, and is in full and peaceable possession. It, means peace, law, .order and honest govern ment. All is quiet, business entirely resumed, perfect o dor maintained, and the public confidence restored.” Smith, Gordon aud Colquitt. [Atlanta Herald.] Governor Smith, wlrilo taking that morning promenade that invigorates and strengthens his official body, was stopped by a crowd on Bed wine & Fox’s corner, and asked to give his views on tho situa tion : “Well,” says lie quietly, “I think tho citizens will tie blotted out. It is im possible for them to oppose by arms tho United States Government. Such a thing is simple suicide, and they will find it so. I trust it is not as bad ns we fear, and that tho movement is not so desperate and ho wide-spread as is re ported.” “Will you allow our Georgia troops to go there if the White League was to issue an address asking for help ?” asked Mr. B. H. Hill, Jr. “Not as organiza tions, ol'course. I could not do so if I wanted to, and I would not if 1 could. I am inclined to think that I will need every soldier that 1 have under my com mand to keep Georgia under control. I very much fear that bad men and incau tious editors will get up trouble in our own State during the present campaign. I shall esteem myself fortunate if I can protect my own State during the crisis. I sympathise with Louisiana, of course, as much as lam able. As Governor of Georgia, my first duty is to her.” “You cannot prevent volunteers from going to Louisiana, though,” suggested Alder man Young, who had already announced himself ready to go “on the first call.” “Oh, of course not,” replied the Gov ernor, “and I should not try to. If any of the boys wanted to take their gnus and go hunting, “why,” and here the Governor smiled, “I, of course, could not say anything to prevent.” “How many do you think would go from Georgia to Louisiana as volunteers in case an appeal was made from New Orleans for help,” asked a Herald re porter. “I think probly fifty or one hundred from the whole State,” replied the Governor. “Fifty,” responded Capt. Newman hotly, “I can raise a company of two hundred to leave here to night. Tliere’d be nearer five thous and from the State.” “All, well,” says tho Governor, “when I said ‘fifty’ I meant to say tliat very few would go— not more than a hundred or so—very few men over twenty-five years of age would go. Tho men who stood four years of fighting in the last war ain’t anxious to try it again—not soon. Ex-Mayor Hammock—“l wits fool enough to try it once. I reckon I would again.” Gov. Smith—“l think the only tiling we can do is to keep cool, and keep down dis turbances. 'I ho only result of all this strife will bo to give the Radicals anew lease of power. It is very unfortunate, I think, that there should bo rash and inconsiderate people to advise or en courage any resistance to what it is simply impossible for us to resist with any chance of success.” And the Gover nor walked off leisurely, with Judge Collier. Gens. Gordon and Colquitt. We found those honorable Georgians closely engaged on Insurance and Direct Trade business. They both replied to tho reporter’s questions with such promptness and such harmony of senti ment that we append what is the opin ion of both. Tiny regarded the Louis iana trouble as a premature and dan gerous outbreak; but just such au out break as oppression will always meet some time or other, when it persistently grinds and degrades any people, no matter how patent they may lie. Tho uprising is pardonable, and we sympa thize with the brave spirit that prompt ed it. But we fear it is premature,with out plan or substance, and we Georgians should not commit ourselves to any vio lence or rashness in regard to it. if the movement in New Orleans succeeds it must succeed by some strategy and not by open fight. Hence wo cannot help them. Wo believe it is part of the Rad ical programme to force just such out breaks as this and theu make capital off of them. Captain A. C. Thompson and Judge W. J. Colquitt were nominated for the Legislature, last Friday, by the Jackson Democracy. ThesamedayG.lt. Duke, late representative, and Captain J. M. Potts declared themselves independent candidates.