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£t}vomcic anti Sentinel WEDS ESDAY.SEPTEMBER 30, 1874. TIIK RIGHT KIND OP TALK. The McDuffie Journal says of the Snu Jay night murders in Columbia conn tv : “We most emphatically condemn this violent and disgraceful proceeding, and trust that no effort will be spared to ferret out the perpetrators of this dark and bloody crime. The good citizens of Columbia county (than whom there are none better in the State) owe it to them selves and the community at large to vindicate their characters as law-abiding people by inflicting the severest punish ment of' the law where it has been so wantonly violated.” THE TROUBLES IN SOUTH CARO LINA. The people of Edgefield county need no assurance of the sympathy which their Georgia neighbors feel for them in their present troubles with turbulent negroes acting at the instigation of bad white nn n. If they are driven to resis tance and need help they well know that Georgia will promptly respond. We sincerely trust, however, that a resort to arms may not prove necessary and we have such confidence in the coolness and courage of General M. C. Butleb that we think, as we most certainly hope, that the shedding of blood will be avoid ed. On their side the colored men should listen to reason and not precipi tate a conflict as to the result of which when one.; it shall be inaugurated there can be no doubt. When they arm for the purpose of provoking a collision with the whites they simply court de struction. They will do well to reflect « little upon the consequences before they decide to act. THE KELLOGG GOVERNMENT. Though General Grant lias a second time installed Kellogg at, the point of the bayonet, and recognized him as the Governor of Louisiana, it is by no means certain flint u settlement of the vexed question has been reached. The independ ent press of the Nor. 1 ’ 1 —indeed, many, even, of the Radical papers - insist that Kellogg shall not be allowed to remain in power, but that anew election be ordered. Os course they do not regard as worthy of that name the contest which is to come off under the State law (so-called) in November. It is very well known that the law has been framed with the express purpose of defeating the will of the people and of preventing a fair expression of their wishes; that Kellogg At Company may declare whom they pl< aa< elected, and by such majori ty as they may think proper to give, witli none to say them nay. The elec tion that they mean is one to l>e held under authority of Congress and under a law which will insnre fair inter pretation of the voice of the ballot.— Even General Butler, though hitter in his denunciation of the White Leaguers, seems to question the athority of the military to set up a government for the state. In reply to a question whether the United States Courts could not set tle the matter, Butler replied: “1 don’t seo how the action of the Federal Courts can affect these men. Whatever the actual rights of Kellogg may bo, or whatever the rights of MoEnekv may be, they have no rights whatever by law, for we have no evidence that there has even been an actual election according to the pro visions of the Constitution. This talk about the United States Senate settling the matter of the election is absurd. That body has no more right to decide upon an election in Louisiana than it has in Massachusetts.” He is in favor of a now election as the only way out of the trouble. “Last December I made a speech in favor of anew election in Louisiana, thinking that it was wise then to take positive measures and thus avert the possibility of such events as have since happened", but I was overruled at that time, and you see what the consequences have been". The Federal Courts can’t do anything, and all they have been able i,, a..'.- . - . Y'igoing in r and keep tho otliei ifino out,. They don't seem to put an end to trouble or settle the matter as to who is or who is not Governor. There is goingto be a great deal of difficulty in bringing mat ters to an end. President Grant has sent troops down there to enforce his orders. These troops, however, can’t have anything to say ns to whether Kel logg or M.En fry shall assume to be Governor. What has the United States to say about the matter if I choose to sit here in my office and write and issue proclamations as Governor of Massa chusetts ? If I should undertake to en force such proclamations, then there might be reasonable ground for inter ference, and not until then.” Ho declares that tho government of Louisian should have been declared va cant on account of tho failure of the people to hold an election in accordance with the Constitution, and that tho State should have been reconstructed again. Butler says that practically there is no government in Louisiana, “The judi ciary exists, but there is no Executive to enforce its decrees, and it is therefore powerless.” However unpalatable a second or third reconstruction might prove, tho people of Louisiana would infinitely prefer military government to the misgovernment of Kellogg, because they well know that the rule of the soldier, though sometimes harsh, is always honest, and that reconstruction is certain to end in an election which will give them a fair opportunity of choosing their own government. The Tribune reminds us that seventeen Sena tors of the Republican ['arty voted in favor of declaring tlie pretended Kel logg government null and void, and that Gen. Grant himself admitted, in a special message to Congress, that so many frauds and forgeries had been disooveied that he was not sure of Kellogg’s title. A Congres sional Committee, appointed by the last Congress to investigate the affairs of Louisiana, went even further than this, and in their report declared: “Consid ering all the facts established before i your committee, there seems no escape ; from the alternative that the McEnery 1 government must be recognized by Con- ; gress, or Congress must provide for a re-election.” All these things have been remembered and repeated since the com- menccnt of the recent troubles in Louis ians, and it is safe to say that a large ■ majority of the people North and West are bitterly opposed to Kellogg's re tention of power unless they see after a fair election that he and his erew are the choice of the people. The prompt sub mission of McEm'.ky and Penn to the authority of the National Government has disarmed the first fierce wrath of the Union-shriekers, and they now ad mit that Louisiana has sufferer! wrong enough to justify anything and every thing except revolution. It is highly probable that Kellogg will not be allow ed to perpetuate his power by means of the bogus election which he has ordered for next November. It is highly prob able that the people will at least be given half justice. Though their legally elected government lias not been per mitted to take possession of the State, the pressure upon Congress will be so great that anew election under a fair law will be ordered. This much the rising has accomplished, if nothing more. Samvel J. Tii.df.n, the Democratic nominee for Governor of New York State, was born in Columbia county, X. Y., in 11*14, and is therefore just sixty years of age. After an incomplete course of study at Yale College, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in that city, where he steadily advanced in reputa tion and influence. He entered early in to politics, and since 18411 has beou Chairman of the Democratic State Com mittee. He has been a member of two Constitutional Conventions, first in 184(5 and afterward in 18(57. He has served two terms in the Assembly, entering first in 184(5aud returning in 1872, after the overthrow of Tammany, by an over whelming majority, called out doubtless by his persistent and successful efforts in relieving the city from the curse of the Twiip regime. THE BOGUS BONDS. We publish this morning a letter from Judge Wm. M. Reese on the subject of the bogus bonds and the Hillyek araeudment. Judge Reese takes the ground that the status of these fraudu lent bond3 can only be definitely settled by the instrumentality of a Constitu tional Convention, and he gives the pub lic some insight into the dangerous schemes of the Ring. Judge Reese is right. A Convention of the people is the only remedy. If it is held the tax pay ers will be rid forever of many millions of spurious obligations. Unless it is held the payment of these bonds is in evitable. It is just as well that the question should be presented squarely and that the people should understand it. It will not do to trust to legislative amendments. The stakes are too high to take any chances of a foul deal. Let the people have an opportunity to decide for themselves whether or not they wish a Convention. A CONVENTION. It is now too late to have an extra ses sion of the Georgia Legislature for the purpose of passing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the payment of the bogus Bullock bonds. Goveror Smith declined to call it when there was time for the session to be held, and some other plan must ho adopted for ridding the State of this mass of fraud ulent indebtedness. The election for members of the General Assembly will take place next Thursday and the indi cations are that the Democrats will carry the State by a larger majority than they did in 1872. We hope that one of the first acts of the session will be the passage of a bill submitting to the people the question whether or not they will have a Constitutional Conven tion. In many counties of the State meetings have been held and resolutions passed instructing the candidates for the Legislature to oppose with all their ability any recognition or payment of these spurious obligations. It is evident now that the only way in which this question can be effectually settled or this disturbing element removed from State politics forever is through the instru mentality of a Convention. If we trust to tho Legislature it will, take nearly three years before a proper amendment can be framed and adopted and there is too much at stake to risk so long a delay. Last Winter, when the calling of a Convention was agitated and urged, the opponents of the measure, display ing their usual tender solicitude for the treasury, declared that there was no necessity for incurring such an expense because the Legislature could adopt a constitutional amendment which would answer every purpose. One of the prominent opposers of a Convention did introduce an amendment which it was said would settle tho bond question, and the Legislature consequently re fused to allow the people to decide for themselves whether or not they wished a change in the organic law. Well, the General Assembly adopted the proposed amendment with great unanimity, the Governor sanctioned it with his signature, and the people imagined that when the Legislature assem bled in January the amendment would again receive the required two-thirds vote, would be submitted to them for approval, aud there would bo no farther trouble. But a month be fore the election they discover that worse than nothing has been done; that through the negligence of the Senator who introduced the bill, of the Judiciary Committees which examined it, of the General Assembly which passed and the Governor who signed it, the amendment which was to protect them really opens the door for the payment of nearly if not quite two-thirds of the whole fraudu lent debt. An extra session of the Leg islature might have been held, but was not, and now we are told that it will take two and a half or three years to ac complish that which a Convention of the people could have done in ten days. We are very much mistaken in the temper of the people It thc-y cui.~a t. r c— trifling with so serious a matter. Eight or teu millions of money is rather too large a sum for them to appreciate such practical jokes as that played by tho Legislature iu tho passage of Mr. Hillyek’s amendment. Those who op posed a Convention last Winter did not como out squarely against the move ment, but thought it too soon to take sncli a step. Another year lias passed; do they think that we are any nearer the time when it will be safe to let the people frame the organic law under which they must live? Or are wo still to bo put off witli stale subterfuges concerning time and expediency, or with empty promises of amendments by tho Legislature? The people will be deceived no longer by such shallow de vices. They intend to take the settle ment of the bond matter into their own hands, and we do not believe that a second Legislature will refuse to give them that privilege. We are glad to see that the press of the State is beginning to agitate this important question, aud we hope that when the next General As sembly convenes its members will be ready to give a speedy decision upon it. Tue good General Grant, who is so friendly to the Southern people that he has them murdered aud imprisoned in order to disgust the country with bad laws, must be getting bilious. He de clared, in a recent conversation with Senator Spencer, that he would have vetoed the Civil Rights bill had it been passed at the last session of Congress, but should it go through at the next he cannot say what he will do; “ it may be come my duty to sign it.” In other words, if tlie Radicals maintain or in crease their strength in the coming elec tions, he is a Civil Itighter; if the Demo crats make any gains ho is not a Civil Righter, The President coquets like a Long Branch belle. Another one of the saints is under going persecution in Georgia. This time the martyr is Rev. Wesley Pkettymax, Radical Postmaster at Marietta. He has done uothiug to warrart arrest, except forge money orders and steal from the Government. The Rev. Weslit was at one time Chaplain of the Bullock Legis lature aud used to make political prayers for the “party” and against the Rebels. A pretty man he must be not to know that it is safer to abuse the South than to rob the mails. Ax intelligent statistician connected with a Georgia paper publishes a table of the white and colored population of the South, which gives the whites of South Carolina a trifling majority of one hundred and twenty-five thousand. Tne Conservatives of that State will pay the aforesaid statistician—who by the way is not the cotton man of the Constitution— twenty-five thousand dollars to prove that lie is not the most magnificent ro mancer in the universe. The cotton prophet of the Atlanta Constitution still insists that the last re port of the Agricultural Bureau is a fraud and that the crop, is turning out much better than was expected. He still swears t 04,100,000 bales, unless, in deed, that estimate prove rather too small. Why not make it 5,000,000, oh Prophet, at onee.’and have done with the matter? Such a calculation would be just as easy and equally as correct. Reports are already rife of four can didates for Speaker of the next House of Representatives, and of three for President of the Sentate. Messrs. Thomas Hardeman and A. O. Bacon, of Bibb; E. F. Hoge, of Fulton; and W. D. Anderson, of Cobb, are said to be candidates for the first position; and Messrs. T. J. Simmons, of Bibb; Wm. M. Reese, of Wilkes; and R. E. Lester, of Chatham, for the latter. The Bryantites took possession of a Wimberly meeting in Savannah last Monday. THE TEST. At a mass meeting of the Democracy of Bibb county, held in Macon last Wed nesday, State Senator Simmons intro duced the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted : Resolved, by the Democratic party of Bibb county in Convention assembled, That we are opposed to the recognition of, or pavment by the State, of any of the fraudulent and illegal bonds of the State, issued by Bullock, or the recog nition of, by the State, of the illegal and fraudulent "endorsement on any of the railroad bonds condemned by the report of the Bond Commitee and declared il legal and not binding upon the State by the Legislature of 1872. The Bibb delegation has also declared itself uncompromisingly opposed to the payment of these bonds. Well, the only way to prevent their recognition is by allowing the people to hold a Conven tion. If Senator Simmons and Messrs. Bacon, Hardeman and Craig are op posed to the Riug we hope they will cast their votes in favor of a Convention. This is the test. The Democracy of Chatham are bit terly opposed to the recognition of the fraudulent bonds issued by Bullock and negotiated by Kimball. Let their Senator and Representatives vote for a Convention. This is the test. A GOOD SIGN. One of the most cheering indications of the fact that the West is beginning to j understand the condition of affairs in j the South, and to call for a change iu the policy of the Government towards this section, is found in the resolution passed by the Liberal Republican and Democratic Convention of Minnesota. It is the first plank in the platform, was adopted unanimously, and has a pleas ant sound to Southern ears. Here it is: “ 1. Believing the present disastrous “ condition of the Southern States to “ be largely due to the corrupt rule of ‘• carpet-bag politicians, who have plun “ dered and impoverished the people, “ intensified the prejudices of race and “ driven these communities to the verge “ of civil war ; knowing that this state “ of affairs has been developed during “ the administration of President Grant, “ aud been fostered by the course of the “ Republican party, and despairing of “ relief, except through a radical change “ of policy, we demand the maintenance “ of a just and impartial policy towards “ the people of the South, whereby both “ races will be protected in all their “ rights ; the expulsion of the thieves, “ and perfect equality before the law for “ all persons, without regard to race, “ color or political opinions.” This is all the South wishes. Let her get rid of the thieves, who are bleeeding her to death ; let the Administration al low the people of the South to control their own domestic affairs and to exer cise the right of local self-government, and there will be no more trouble. BUTLER AND THE FINANCES. According to the reports of the North ern papers, a cruel joke was played upon General Butler during his recent speech to his constituents at Essex. A portion of this speech, that portion which treat ed of the outrages at the South and the necessity for his return to Congress in order that he might make laws which would keep the rebels down, was duly telegraphed, but the wires failed to catch the joke. After harping for some time on rebel Ku-Klux and murdered loyalists, he passed on to a considera tion of tho financial question. In the course of his remarks he announced liis belief in the doctrine, not altogether uew in morals and business ethics, that all men should pay their honest debts. As he uttered this astonishing declara tion a silver spoon attached to a string descended slowly from the roof of the building until it hung just in front, but out of reach of the rostrum. The audi ence saw tho joke at once, aud roars of laughter greeted the spectre of New Or leans rule. For once Butler was at a loss for a word : “ Finally he shook his handkerchief and straightened liirn o«lf end r«iuukr.a • - w~*», * -> 11 think that is about as good an argument as I can be opposed to.’ The spoon wiggled in the air and tho General con tinued : ‘ There must be some opposi tion in this town.’ A couple of very bold remarks. As long as he lives But ler will never get over those New Or leans spoons.” COLORADO KU-KLUX. It is a little singular that while our Radical friends North and West are howling over Ku-Klux outrages in the South, they don’t have something to say of things transpiring a little nearer home. Lynch law is resorted to in Pennsylvania and Indiana, and even negroes are its vietims. Jails are bro ken open and the inmates shot or hung, according to the fancy of the execution ers for lead or the halter. But iu those favored climes itis a mere “local disturb ance,” to which is attached no political significance. Iu the Sojjtli, on the con trary, an isolated instance of mob law is the* beginning of another rebellion, which calls for the intervention of the army and navy of the United States and the defeat at the polls of every Demo cratic candidate for office. Recently a war has broken out in Colorado, the con duct of which is accompanied with acts of the most savage cruelty. The cattle raisers and tho sheep farmers are at feud and are the parties to the conflict. They make raids upon each other’s plantations and plunder and destroy like Sheridan’s cavalry or Sherman’s 5 bummers. In a recent raid made upon the sheep folds by the cattle owners, the latter went naked and iu force, and, with axes in their bands, for two hours slaughtered the harmless animals. The sheep owners are only too quick to re taliate in kind for such aggressions, and so the war is waged, the monotony of j cattle killing being occasionally varied with a little man slaying. Yet, wc don’t hear a word of Presidential proclama- j tions concerning Colorado, nor do the I Radical papers have auvthing to say of the duty of Congress to interfere with j the domestic affairs of that State and I afford protection to life and property. j Some men are hard to please. Most of them grow angry if they fail to get office. Here is one who is mad because he has been nominated. Mr. G. H. Brown, of Emanuel, was recently nomi nated for Coroner. This is the way in which he addressed the Convention which nominated him: Gentlemen —I have received notice of my nomination by you to the very hon orable and distinguished position of Coroner for this, my native county, and it is due my self-respect at least to say to you that the would be honor is de clined. I have never sought or desired such nomination, and some of you, I am sure, know that I not only would not accept it, bat look upon it as an unau thorized attempt to ridieule me before the people of this county, and you are therefore entitled to, and are hereby tendered my supreme contempt for your uncalled for proceeding. We protest against this fling at the of fice of Coroner. We are afraid that such articles will prevent any one in Richmond from running for the posi tion. The news from Louisiana looks alarm ing. New Orleans is apparently on the eve of another outbreak, and if it does come it will be more violent and bloody than the one of a week ago. The town is now heavily garrisoned with United States soldiers, and there are several ships of war in the river. A rising now would be sheer madness, and we sincere ly hope that it will not be attempted. It can do no good, for Grant has shown that he is determined to sustain the Kel logg usurpation to the bitter end, and it will do much harm. As it is, the peo ple of the North have discovered the monstrosity of the Kellogg usurpation, and they seem determined that it shall not stand. When Congress assem bles some action will be taken towards giving the people of that State a fair election. THE BOGUS BONDS. A Letter from Senator Reese. To the Editors of the Chronicle and Sentinel : Allow me as one of the members of the present Legislature to explain my views and action at the late session of the General Assembly relative to the proposed constitutional amendment. — Being openly and squarely for a Con vention of the people, I opposed all legislative amendments to the Constitu tion, except the one now under discus sion in the newspapers of the State. This I voted for simply to avoid mis representation. Occuping my position, I felt no sort of obligation to perfect a measure which was and is one of the principal reasons for calling a Conven- j tion. I believed then as I believe now * that a Convention could do this great work better and quicker and more cer tainly than through the Legislature, followed by a vote of the people on their action. In my judgment this measure above all others stands many chances of defeat through the delay and uncer tainty of legislative action aud of a vote upon it by the people. Besides this, I believed then as I now believe, even if this defective amendment was extended so as to embrace all the bonds of the Albany and Brunswick Railroad, of the Cartersville and Van Wert Rail road, of the Cherokee Railroad, of the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad, of the Cuthbert and Bainbridge Railroad, of the supplementary bonds of the Macon aud Brunswick Railroad Compa ny, endorsed by any of the officials of the State, all the bonds of the State swapped to the Albany and Brunswick Railroad Company, and all the bonds held by Clews and others, called curren cy bonds, declared null and void by the General Assembly, it would not end the controversy about the bonds. I knew from many sources, perfectly leliable, that an amendment to end the bond con troversy effectually and perpetually re lieve us must go much further. I mean to say that an amendment of this sort must not only declare all these endorse ments void, and all these bonds void, but must further declare that uoue of these bonds shall ever be re-endorsed on any terms; that no new bonds issued hereafter by any of the above named companies shall ever on any terms be endorsed by the State; that the State shall, in no shape or form, ever lend its credit or money to these companies, or ever buy their railroad; that the State shall never open its Courts to be sued on any of these endorsements or bonds; that they shall Dever be paid by the State, directly or indirectly ; that no mo ney advanced on these bonds shall ever be" paid or assumed or secured directly or indirectly by the States. I believe that no such constitutional amendment could have passed at the late session, and therefore cared nothing for the proposed amendment. The bondholders care nothing for it, not even if it declared void all the endorsements above recited and all the bonds above recited. Their plan of operation embraced a wider and more dangerous field. It will require a Convention of the people to end the bond controversy, and the sooner the honest people of the State make up their minds to this conclusion and act upon it the better for them. September 22, 1874. Wm. M. Reese. ADDRESS Os tlie Executive Committee of lie Democratic Farty of Lincoln County. To the Democracy : Fellow Citizens —Your committee are impressed as to their duty of appealing to you to stand firm in your support of the Democratic nominee, Nathan A. Crawford, for Representative to the Georgia Legislature, as against Moseley Hawes, the candidate in opposition. Mr. Crawford was the unanimous choice of the Democracy in its nominating con vention, called by your committee. The opposition faction allege nothing, and can maintain nothing, against the fair ness of his nomination. It is said by some of Mr. Hawes’ friends “ that they could not attend the meeting, and that Mr. Hawes would have been beaten in the nomination on that account, and that they placed him in the field in advance of your nomination to make his candi dacy sure.” What justification can there be for such a factious and disorganizing course ? The argument assumes that it is vastly more important that Mr. Hawes should be a candidate, at any aud every hazard, than that your party should be preserved in its integrity. But we main tain all this to be nothing but the ab surd claims and actions of a factious, disorganizing squad, who wilfully re fused to go into your meeting, to defeat the will of your large nominating con vention, by means of doubtful credit. We hold that no man has the right to be a candidate of any party indepen dently of the wishes of that party ex pressed in its accustomed forms. It is at war -with all party organization, and __a .Infimmrv in its effects. And, therefore, Mr. Hawes is not, in fact cannot be, any part of a Democratic candidate (if ho claims to be any), and if elected cannot represent the Democracy of Lincoln county. In fact, Mr. Hawes is running against the Democratic party. His professions of Democracy amount absolutely to nothing in this contest. His influence, fortunes and actions now are all on the side of the enemies of Democracy, and some of them have been your long and bitter political enemies. If lie succeeds the Democracy is defeated, and the said enemy triumphs iu his election; he will not be held in the House of Representa tives as a Democrat, and will be without a party, unless he goes to the Republi cans. Mr. Hawes has described, with out apparent cause, a most astonishing political summersault, and now refuses to recede from his position ; he was (as an avowed Democrat') in one of your primary meetings that appointed your Executive Committee, aud aided in this appointment, and in about one week’s time (before the committee could call a mass meeting of the Democracy to nomi nate a Representative) he was announced, by an anonymous notice, to be a candi date for the House of Representatives, without further nomination. w« believe he does not hope, and can not hope (a) he elected by the intelli gence of your county, but presumes to invoke, as we suppose, rite aid of the powers that be, and bring into phf-y ele ments that we had fondly hoped would be allowed to rest undisturbed; if so, on bi. 9 shoulders will rest this mighty charge, u filing that is the political and social damnation of pur beloved country-. To do Mr. Hawes no jnjuyfiee, we should say lie has been without reproach and a good Democrat up to this canvass, and we now in sorrow regret his position in these extraordinary times. In the lan guage of the Wilkes County Executive Committee's address, we too say, “Our old enemy of the fliplical party is not idle but is watching and waiting f° r an opportunity to present itself, that if may once more get into power and wrenen our fair State from the hands of her own j true and noble sons. This party is not only watching and waiting, but is striv ing secretly to stjr up and foment dis sensions within the Dejamcrgtic party.” The lowering clouds darken the wh le of our political horizon, we can hear the distant thunder and see the lurid light ning. Xh ere fore, in the language of General Washington, we exhort you to see to it that during this coming stormy night, no one (but * true Ameri can) but a good Deraocuf goes on guard. We, therefore, present to yottf suffrage Nathan A. Crawford, the Democratic nominee; he is reliable, he is competent, lie it, capable, and the name in Georgia is a synonym of honor 1 and integrity, and in his veinn flows ■ some of the blood of Georgia’s proudest and ablest statesmen. _ _ i And, in teu elusion, we ask you, indi- j vidually and cnUectively, to do all iu your power to secure his election. And j the victorv will be easy if all lead their | Hid. " C.'R. Strother, Chairman. John Sims, J. E. Strother, Executive Committee in Lincoluton, Ga., September 19, 1874. A RADICAL RALLY IN CHARLES TON. Chamberlain and Elliott Hooted Down- Charleston, September 25.—A mass meeting of colored Republicans was called for last evening to ratify the nomi nation of Chamberlain for Governor. Congressman Elliott, Chamberlain and others were announced to speak, but when the meeting assembled it became apparent that its sentiments was strongly against Chamberlain. Congressman Ransier, of the Independent Republican leaders, was elected Chairman over the nominee of the regulars, and Elliott, Chamberlain aud other speakers tried vainly to be heard, their voice* being drowned, amid loud and continuous cheering for Judge Green, the independ ent Republican candidate for Governor. The meeting adjourned about midnight. The expected resolutions ratifying the nomination of Chamberlain were not offered. The boys of the Catholic congregation in Atlanta have formed an Emmet Literary Society, An old colored woman coaxed the shoes off' tiie feet of a cushite damsel in Savannah last Monday. There were 29 deaths in Savannah daring the week ending September 21st —white, 10; colored, 19. Tunis G. Campbell, the Mclntosh county colored politician, calls Col. Jas. Atkins a falsifier. Where are the troops ? [From tne New York Herald 1 THE FALL RIVER HORROR. A Full Account of tlie Fatal Calamity. Fall River, Mass., Sept. 19, 1874. Mills Nos. 1 aud 2, of the Granite Works, had been running about twenty minutes when the operatives in No. 1, which is the old mill, were startled with a cry of fire and the escape of smoke from the fourth story. In this, next to the upper floor, which was the mule warp spinning department, there were nearly one hundred girls at work under a male overseer. On the upper floor, the fifth, about thirty girls were em ployed spooling and warpiDg cotton. These were the youngest of the opera tives. With the alarm the flames seemed to leap up to this attic, coming from the windows below, and, to the terror of all, up t e great tower in the centre of the building in which were all the stairs communicating with each story. The fire caught, as stated, in the mule spin ning room, in the northwest end of the mill, aud, it is stated, from friction in a mule head, at once igniting the oil waste about it aud spreading by means of oil on the floor and about each piece of ma chinery, directly and with great quick ness, toward the centre tower, the only source of escape for those in the fourth and fifth stories, besides the four fire escapes, two on the sides of each gable end. As it rushed over the flooring it instantly found sustenance in the wood work, and once getting into the tower, ran up to aud through the single en trance to the fifth story, then springing to tho roof timbers and filling the two great rooms (450x90 feet) with dense black smoke aud flame. While the flames were making such terrible head way, the operatives became fairly wild. SAVING THE GIRLS. The overseers at a glance saw there was no way possible to check the fire, and gave their sole attention to those they had at work. They called to them to save themselves and pointed out ways of escape. These were principally fire ladders, for the timid creatures dared not run the fire gauntlet of the tower. The overseer of the spooling room, who himself remained until he was nearly suffocated iu the smoke, states that the scene in his room, and it must have been worse in that next below stairs, cannot be depicted. Children ran about with out any knowledge of what they were do ing, crying aud begging piteously to be saved, yet wrenching themselves away when taken forcibly and carried to the tower, while yet there was some chance, or to the iron ladders to the two scuttle windows of the south end, which open ed upon the roof balcony at the head of the Twelfth street fire ladders It was impossible to get a great majority to take even this method in order to save their lives. Some wanted clothing and some this or that thing, they knew not what. As the fire frightened them away from their deliberation at the foot of the roof ladders, they rushed to the win dows at the south gable end, but they were nearly sixty feet from the ground and dared not jump down. Cotton ropes were put out for them to slid, down by and some took this means, but in the effort several met with death or injury, for no sooner would a rope be lowered before there was a rush for it from the story below. Too many would take hold of the rope, which would part, and all clinging to it would come down iu a bunch. While such scenes were being enacted here similar ones were going on in THE MULE SPINNING BOOM. The flames had ascended with the quickness of thought to the entrance of the tower on the fourth floor, thereby cutting off this means of escape; but the operatives had the fire ladders of the south gable directly before them, and were urged by the overseers and citizens below to take them. Some did, but others, as if they were mad, rushed up on the balcony and dropped or threw themselves from the guards, hardly looking at the iron ladders. There was ample time for every one to have been saved had the right course been pur sued, and it was not for want of direc tion that the girls lost their lives. The superintendent, as soon as the alarm was given, rushed to the upper story, and, with the overseers, did all that was possible to save life, and when the means provided for escape in the con struction of tho mill were rendered una vailable by the heat, flames and smoke, the people on the ground procured beds and mattresses for the poor unfortunates to jump upon, and many did throw themselves from the windows, in almost every case to receive fatal or terrible in juries, for the distance was nearly fifty feet. The greatest consternation was felt by the people on the streets, who had assembled in immense numbers, and their cries and acts did not help greatly to compose the mill hands, but the disciplined firemen and policemen, as soon as they arrived in sufficient num bers, worked with a will and to advan tage. The firemen in every way worked gprPful rtf orul pecially tolieep it out of the south eud, whether the operatives had fled. Lad ders as long as they had at command were used in this and in the efforts to rescue the gials. Some very brave acts were performed, and it is said that several firemen—the number is given as four—gave their lives in this humane endeavor. A BRAVE ACT Was that of the superintendent and other officers of tlie corporation, who went to the upper stories and by word and example told the people how to save themselves, but a braver one is related of a fireman, who was lowered from the roof by brother firemen into the build ing, and remained so long trying to drive the last ones forth that lie had to be let go by tnose who had hold of liis rope. They had held his line as long as they could stay, aud, nearly suffocated, were driven down. His only way to escape was by a window at tlie gable end, but lie doubtless had worked so long in tlie thick smoke for others he could not aid himself. Morgues and hospitals were speedily improvised; the Mission chapel near by was taken for one of the latter, and as fast as one could be picked from under the windows of the mill, stretchers were ready to carry her to either the cliapel or the Central sta tion. At this latter place TWENTY-FIVE BODIES Were cold in death, and other unfor- had been taken to other stations or to thejr fipjnes. In a number of in stauces the bodie3 WCFP not recognized, partly from the fict that they were so disfigured, begrimed and dirt covered, and especially from the fact that their friends or relatives were looking else wlipre. In the Mission chapel were those wfiosp sufferings were intense. The injuries were yarjous, but of course largely to the limbs of the individuals. Every doctor in the city was summoned at the earliest moment, and all exhibit ed at the greatest solicitude for tlie sufferers. Some remained at the church, accompanied the ambulances to this or that place, while others worked without cessation the chapel. So much of suffering has not previously been known in these parts, and every one is moved to do all that lies iu his nower. CAII BURNED. A Clerk Perishes in the Flames. Washington, September 24.—A tele gram was received at the Post Office Department to-day stating that the mail on the train bound West was burn ed between Grafton and Cincinnati last night and S. W. Bradford, the head postal railway clerk, with it. Bradford had been in the service for several years and was regarded as an efficient officer. The mails destroyed comprised the dis patch from New York Tuesday, 9, p. m.; Philadelphia Tuesday midnight, Balti more early morning dispatch and Wash ington yesterday morning, 8, a. m. Baltimore, September 24. —The of ficers of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road Company, in this city, give the following particulars of the accident oc curing on the Parkersburg branch of their road last night: The West bound pas senger train, leaving Baltimore at 6:30, a. m., and the East bound passenger train, leaving Parkersburg at 6, p. m., collided at femithton, the regularly ap pointed meeting place, fifty-eight miles east of Parkersburg. Both engines wrecked and the postal car at lacked to ft# West bound train burned, the fire being eornmumcated from a lamp to the mail matte*, .he flames made such rapid progress that oaf of the postal clerks, named Bradford, was burned to death before he could be ex tricated. The bulk of the mail matter was destroved. The baggage ear of the same train was also burned, with tne greater portion of its contents. The platforms of a number of the passenger cars were also demolished by the force of the collision but none of the pas sengers were injured. One of the tram hands received a slight flesh wound. The West bound tram had arrived at Smithton and was preparing to go on the side track when the East bound train, which was behind time, suddenly came up and the collision took place. The ehiekeu cholera has been playing the mischief in Washington county. Judge Wood, United Spates Judge for the Fifth Judicial District, will not be in Atlanta until the 19th of October. Over two thousand negroes and one “white man” atte ided the colored Bap tist Association at Covington last Sun day. Covington has another independent candidate for the Legislature. This tine it is jiajor L. B. Anderson, post master. THE (OiTOX tROP. Hovr It Looks From a NorlhiTii Stand point—The Price Too Low—A Few Facts aud Figures for the Bears— What the English Are Doing. [New York World.] There is now no longer any doubt that, notwithstanding a prolific yield of wheat, the money that the entire crop of 1874 will fetch will be far less than the amount realized from hist year’s crop. In 1870 we produced 287,745,626 bushels of wheat. This year we may safely es timate the crop at 350,000,000 bushels. At the lowest estimate the difference be tween the price this year and the price last year is about an average of 25 cents per bushel, which will apparently reduce the farmers’ receipts from wheat alone 887,500,000. This is certainly a great deficiency, but it is entirely owing to bountiful harvests, not only on the Con tinent of Europe, but also in England, which is the only customer for American wheat. We are apparently threatened with another and greater deficiency in the amount of money to be realized from our cotton crops. There seem to be sev eral conflicting influences operating on the price of cotton. While private ad vices generally and the official reports of the Bureau of Agriculture point to a re duced crop of 3,500,000 bales, the most stubborn and enthusiastic belief of a determined bear clique in a crop of 4,333,000 bales seems to be fully en dorsed by the low price for cotton now prevailing. The cotton crop vitally dif fers from our wheat crop iu this respect, that whereas of the 350,000,000 bushels wheat we produce, we only export some 80,000,000 bushels, or about 23 per cent., we exported during the cotton year just ended 2,840,981 bales out of a crop of 4,100,000 bales, or nearly 70 per cent, of the whole production. The difference then lies iu this fact, viz : That if a pro lific crop of wheat on the Continent and in England reduces t'le price of our sur plus wheat, aud consequently of our home consumed wheat, 20 per cent., the foreign consumer ge*s the advantage of only 23 per cent, of the whole reduction in the price of the crop, while our home consumers enjoy the advantage of 7/ per cent. But if our great staple, cot ton, is reduced in price 20 per cent., Europe gains to the extent of 70 per cent, of the total reduction resulting from the depressed price, and our home consumers only gain 30 per cent. Hence the importance of a fair or depressed price in cotton is of immensely greater importance to the country at large than the fluctuations in the price of grain. Cotton is now lower than it has been at this season for three years past, by from 4to 5 cents a pound. The follow ing were the prices of middling cotton at the beginning of September for the past three years : September, 1871 20; cents September, 1872 .21; cents September, 1873 20; cents The price at the beginning of Septem ber, 1874, and at this moment, is about 16 to 16; cents a pound for middling cotton. Assuming, for argument’s sake, that our crop prospects promise more than 4,000,000 bales of cotton, it may be said that there was hardly any doubt in September, 1873, that the crop would be over 4,000,000 bales, and therefore, if the prospects are equally good now, why is there this discrepancy ? To be sure there is the law of supply and demand, which might give the desired explana tion. But it is a significant fact that there are daily sales of 15,000 to 20,000 bales of cotton iu Liverpool, half of which is generally American cotton, and most of it for future delivery. That is to say, Liverpool is securing some 50,- 000 bales of cotton a week of our crop, that is now in process of picking, at the moderate price of say 8 to 8j peace for middling, to be delivered to her during the Winter months; and while she is securing our crop at a price which would be justified, at the lowest calculation, only by a crop of 4,333,000 bales, we are, as no one will deny, in great doubt whether the crop will yield 3,500,000 or 4,000,000 bales. A loss of 4 cents a ponnd on cotton is, on a short crop of 3,000,000 bales, a loss of $63,000,000, and a loss of 3 cents a pound is a loss on the crop of $42,000,- 000. It must be evident that if we make a ci'op of 4,100,000 bales we have to ship 2,800,000 to Europe, and keep some 1,300,000 bales for home consumption. But if we only make a crop of 3,500,000 bales and ship 2,800,000 to Europe we should run short some 600,000 bales for home consumption, or, vice versa, we would ship less and retain more for consumption. But in either case the price must make up for the shortness of the supply. The most prudent thing at present would be not recklessly to press sales while the crop is still so doubtfully estimated. The large receipts of the new crop for September and October are by no means a criterion of the crop, for it is obvious that one might fill a bottle as fast from a one-gallon keg as from a five-gallon keg. The important nnestion is, How mnw fifties will each keg fill ? The first picking oi tne cot ton fields will yield nearly equally large receipts in September and October if the crop is 4, 500,000 or only 3,500,000 bales. The question is, How long will the large receipts last? It is the second and third pickings that fill up the defi ciences and make up a large crop. And, if any reliance is to be placed on the re ports of the Bureau of Agriculture, we fear that after the first picking season the cotton yield will be meagre. GOOD MANAGEMENT. The Directors of the Nashville, Chat tanooga and St. i.ouis Railway De clare a Handsome Dividend. [From the Nashville Banner.] In the midst of the general depression and the almost universal complaint of “hard times,” it is gratifying to chroni cle any evidence of prosperity among us. Yesterday the Board of Directors of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway declared a dividend of 1} per cent, upon its increased capital stock of that company (being equal to 4 per cent, upon the old stock), payable on and after the first, day of October next. The business of the road for the past year was very light, and the gross earnings, as compared with those of the previous year, show a decrease of about $400,000, but by the most rigid and systematic economy, and largo reduc tions in every department, a great financial crisis was safely passed, every obligation met at maturity, and at the close of the year the net earnings, as compared with those of the previous year, show a decrease of only about $20,000. Out of these net earnings the dividend just declared will be paid, and not upon borrowed capital. The money is on hand and ready for disbursement at the proper time. The policy of the company, as emphatically declared by its managers, is to pay no dividend ex cept out of net eaminys actually in the treasury. So unmistakable an evidence of the skillful management, the sound pros perity and firm financial status of a road, which, from the day of its com pletion, has been so closely identified with the interests of the city, will be hailed with hearty satisfaction by all, and more especially by those who are the fortunate holders of its stock. The dividend just declared is smaller than the one of April last, and this will doubtless generally be the case. The reason is obvious. The six months of the year closing with April first are those in width the business of the road is heaviest and its earnings greatest, while the six months closing with Octo ber are those in which *he business of the road is lightest and its earnings least. The company having demonstrated its ability, with largely decreased gross earnings, to pay such dividends as it has this year done, it may b.e safely as sumed that, with the revival of business and a return to the gross earnings of previous years, these dividends will not only be regularly continued, but proba bly increased. DEATH ON THE RAIL. Fatal Accident on the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad. Selma, Ala., hepternbej: 24.—The south bound train, with six cars, on the .Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad went through the bridge at Waxaliatcbie Creek, sixty feet high, at daylight this morning. The train is a total wreck. The engineer aim fireman and several passengers were killed ami nearly every one wounded many dangerously.— Am.ong the killed are .Judge W. M. Bvrd, eA- jufig o of the State Supreme Court, a prominent a..fi much beloved citizen of Selma. The yet hard to get. Bbrxjkwatpe, Mass., September 25. A telegram from the scene of the rail road disaster in Alabama brings intelli gence of the instant death of Rev. N. E. Willis, who, with his wife and only son, wer o on their way to Marion, Alabama, where lie lias been located as agent of the American Missk'Pary Association for the past year. FROM VFASHINGTON. Arrest of Tennesseans—Cabinet Meet ing—A Mormon and a Negro. Washington", September 25.—A Fede ral Lieutenant reports to the War De partment that he has assisted the United States Marshal in arresting 39 Tennes seans. In the Cabinet routine Robeson, Fish and Bristow were absent. A son of Brigam Young, of Utah, and a negro from Mississippi have been ad mitted to the National Navai Academy at Annapolis. THE EDGEFIELD TROUBLES. Edgefield, S. C., September 22, 1874. To the Editors of the Chronicle and Sentinel: Our town has been in a title cl considerable excitement since Sunday morning last, owing to the anticipated conflict between the whites and blacks at Michael O. Glover’s. A goodly num ber of whites aud blacks left here Sun day evening, and several companies rendezvoused near this place Sunday night, and encamped until yesterday evening to hear front Glover’s, wlieu all returned to their homes. Many rumors were set afloat by evil designing persons to produce a conflict between the races. Several persons who were inflamed with liquor were anxious to commence a con flict to settle a private grudge they had between some of their neighbors, but the good citizens very promptly inter fered and stopped these brave men, and the municipal authorities were very ac tive iu stepping forward, when one of these braggadocio’s would commence a war of words, and make him dry up. It is well known by experienced soldiers that brave men in battle were never known to be braggarts, &c., at home. The civil authorities with the assistance of the good citizens and the assistance of the garrison at this place will, I believe, be amply sufficient to quell any distur bance that will occur. The roads lead ing into town have been picketed during the last two nights, and I am informed that the municipal authorities intend to keep a strict watch over these disturbers of the peace, aud they will be severely dealt with if they still persist in getting up a disturbance between the two races. The commanding officer in charge of the United States troops at this place has, at the request of the civil authorities, furnished a detail of men to assist in preserving the peace, aud we hope there will be no further trouble. Moses placing arms iu the hands of ignorant negroes and the incendiary speeches by the Radical leaders have been the cause of all the trouble, and these men will sooner or later reap their reward. “Homer.” THE EDGEFIELD TROUBLES. All Quiet—Moses Proclamates. Quiet reigned in the vicinity of Reese’s store yesterday. Gen. M. O. Butler yielded to the wishes of a com mittee of citizens from that place aud agreed to wait a day or two before taking action in regard to the arms held by the negroes. The Tax Union Club will meet ut Holder’s shop, near Reese’s store, to-morrow morning, at 9 o'clock, when it is understood measures will be adopted requiring Tenant, the negro malcontent, to leave the county or take the consequences of a refusal. A number of exciting rumors in re gard to the troubles were in circulation iu the city yesterday, but they all proved to have no foundation. A gen tleman who returned from Edgefield Court House last night reports all quiet, with no apprehension of any more trouble. The people are not in want of outside assistance; if such be comes necessary they will make it known through the proper channels. The cir culation of rumors can accomplish no good but may do much harm. Proclamation. Gov. Moses has issued the following State of South Carolina, ( Executive Department, j Whereas, Information has reached me that the public peace of the county of Edgefield is broken by the presence, in various sections thereof, of large bodies of armed men, who have assembled without warrant of law, aud are engaged iu many illegal acts and demonstrations, which tend to endanger the lives and to interrupt the ordinary pursuits of the citizens of said county; and whereas, it is the duty of the Executive to protect the peace by the enforcement of the or dinary processes of the law, and not to permit the use of the military forces of the State, except under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief; Therefore, to the end that the law may be respected and enforced, and that the public peace may be preserved, I do hereby command ard enjoin all persons now assi mbled iu arms in the said coun ty of Edgefield forthwith to disband and peaceably to retire to their homes, and lienee forth not to assemble in arms, ex cept under the orders of the Governor as Commander-in-Chief. All persons are hereby warned that on failure to comply with the terms of this proclamation within three days from the date of pub lication hereof such steps will be taken as may be necessary to restore and pre serve the public peace and to protect the rights of all citizens. In testimony whereof I have set my . —■ hand and caused the Great Seal ■! l. s.of the State to he affixed, at Co s —, — > lumbia, this 22d day of Septem ber, A. D. 1874, and in the ninety-ninth year of American independence. By the Governor. Fiwvr.nr.u, J. Morojo, Ju. H. E. Haynk, Secretary of State. The following was published in the Edgefield Advertiser, of Wednesday: In view of the recent disturbances in Edgefield, a Committee of Conference, from both the white and colored people, was held at Edgefield C. H., on Wednes day morning, the 23d inst. J. L. Addi son, Esq , Intendant of the town, pre sided, and Mr. W. D. Ramey, Clerk of the Court, acted as Secretary. Lawrence Cain, Colonel of the 9tli Regiment of Militia, was among the committee of the colored people, as also Paris Simkius, Augustus Harris and others. Gen. Dunovant, Oapt. Geo. B. Lake, J. C. Sheppard, A. ,J. Norris and others, were present of the whites. It was agreed by the Conference, and assented to by Cain, that he should im mediately promulgate an order for the militia companies of his regiment to have their company drills on the third Saturday in each month, and at no other time, and that the captains require their meu to keep their arms at home, and use them for no other purposes, except for the company drills herein provided for, unless by future order of the colonel commanding. It was also agreed by the Conference that we earnestly recommend to the people of the county, both the white and the colored, to refrain from all acts of violence and lawlessness; and that the good citizens of the county use their best endeavors to settle their difficul ties by the processes of the Courts. J. L. Addison, Intendant of the town of Edgfield, and Chairman. W. D. Ramey, Secretary. CARL SCIIURZ, His Views Upon the Political Situation. Washington, September 25, —Regard- ing mixed schools Carl Schurz, in his Missouri speech, says: “Interruption of the public school system, advantages of which they now extensively enjoy in separate establishments, would deprive the children of the poor of a thing which is as necessary to them as their daily bread. But still in other respects the enactment of such a law would not be beneficial to the colored man. It would be a dangerous venture to the colored people if their social position was made the objective point of anew strife under circumstances so unfavor able. Now that they have political rights of citizenship it is much easier and safer for them to trust to means they already have to make themselves respected, and to leave all else to gradual progress of public opinion, which has already outgrown many a prejudice that a few years ago was still deemed invincible.” He then said that the way to solve the most difficult prob lem of protection to colored people is in their own hands instead of exercising over another a system of terrorism. In order tq enforce party discipline they should encourage among themselves in dividual independence. Not in unions is their safety, but in division. Soon as every one of them casts his vote on this side or the other, as his opinions or in clinations may dictate, each party will make their protection a social object in order to attract a majority of their votes, and when these votes shall have become so numerous that colored voters become an important element in both parties, the fullest measure of protection will be afforded them. That will do more to stop bloody excesses in the South than any military interference, ! and more to establish just and beneficial j relations between the two races than any Congressional legislation. Reduction of Production of Cotton Goods. Providence, September 25. —The Manufacturers’ Committee had a full meeting to-day, and uuaniniqnsly agreed j to a reduction of one-third in the pro dugtjon of cotton fabrics for the next three months. A strong delegation was present from Fall River, and adopted the views of] the Providence committee. Facts were submitted showing that the prices of most cotton fabrics are below the actual cost of production. 1 Boston, September 25. —An adjourn ed meeting o t terests w.s held in Boston to-u»y t »vi which two million spindles were repre sented. It was agreed to reduce the production of cotton mills one-third for three months, from October Ist. A meeting of cotton manufacturers of New England will beheld at Boston, October 28th, to take further action. Tunis G. Campbell has called upon the Savanuah police to protect him and his followers from the Bryautites when he shall hold forth, about three weeks hence. [New York Journal of Commerce.] A SOUTHERN CON VENTION. The South is debtor to the Republi can Congressional Committee for a val uable hint We say hint; for though the committee’s proposition is perfectly explicit, it is not valuable in the shape which they have giveu it, but only sug gests another which would be so. ' They have called a Convention of Southern Republicans to advise the nation of the real condition of the Southern States, aud to inform Congress what legislation is needed to complete the work of re construction. But the nation has come to have such nu opinion of Southern Re publicans that it will be likely to receive their adveies with a good deal of skepti cism, certainly if those advices are full of Ku-Klux and White Leagues aud ex termination of the negroes and their friends. If, on the other hand, by a miracle, the Southern Republicans should come out with a frank confession of the abuses that have characterized the State governments in which they have had control, people will bo apt to regard the confession as but a slight in stallation of the truth. Doubtless such it will be, if there be auy confession at all ; for a Convention whose members hold their seats by virtue of their being Republicans, aud—worst of all—are ap pointed by tlie Republican State com mittees, begins its work under a neces sarily implied pledge to speak no word except such as the party prompter or its own view of party interest may dictate. The recommendations of such a Conven tion can serve no purpose except to furnish an excuse for whatever measures, whether of further oppression or of amelioration, Congress, on its own judg ment and for its own ends, may see tit to enact. A convention of Southern Democrats and Conservatives might he called as an antidote to the Republican dose; but though that would be better perhaps than leaving the Republican manifesto altogether unanswered, it would be liable to some of the same objections as its counterpart. To be sure, it would have an advantage over a Republican Convention iu not being almost entirely cut off from connection with the re spectable white population in several of the States; but it would be, like that, a party assemblage with a party creed and a party history which it would not be ut liberty to deny, and exposed to the in credulity of party opponents. But we should bo glad if the people of the Southern States were to read in the call of the Republican committee a sum mons to them to assemble a body of dele gates representative of the thrift, intel ligence and public spirit of their several communities, aud chosen on account of the confidence which their personal character commands, in entire disregard of party alliances and in entire freedom from party restraints. The Cotton Ex changes, Boards of Trade, aud other as sociations of business men in the South ern cities, and the agricultural societies and planters’ clubs in the country, would bo tit constituencies to elect such a convention, to which the bar associa tions and medical societies might also contribute a useful element. A body not unwieldy in numbers, and as com pletely representative of the substantial elements of society as is consistent with early elections, would, we believe, do excellent service in enlightening the country at, largo and in averting from the South that oppressive Federal legis lation which is the product of passion and misapprehension. We belive that such a convention would, even more than a similar body of Northern men, be able to cast aside party obligations and pre judices, and look with singleness of vision to the peace and prosperity of the South, which is pre-eminently now the interest of the whole country. Its de bates and its resolutions would frankly set before us the evils from which the South is suffering, just as good men there see them and deplore them iu fa miliar talk with each other, and would point out to us what remedies or what wholesome neglect the situation, in the view of the best judges on tlio spot, seems to call for. It Would also, we doubt not, give to the country an assur ance which the country longs for and would gladly confide in, that good citi zens at the South are firmly resolved not merely to have no complicity in acts of cruelty and outrage—that is a matter of course—but to put a stop to such acts, as they cau and ought to do. Such a frank exposition of the best mind of the South by its best men might perhaps come short of the full influence which, with a little more time for reflection and organization, it would exert on the sub sequent elections for Congress; but it could not fail to produce upon the pub lic opinion of the Northern States an impression in which both tlie present and the succeeding Congress would share, and which, whether sharing in it or not, neither would venture to disre gard. TIIE FREEDMAN’S BANK. AHlioug!) the threo Commissioners appointed to examine into the affairs of the Freedman’s Bauk have been for three months past seeking to bring or der out of chaos, they do not appear to have made much progress beyond the statement of liabilities and assets com plied from the books of its former offi cers and published on July 1, which on ly revealed the rottenness of that insti tution and the roguery of thoso who iftd managed it. The idea was first held out on the strength of this exhibit, that the poor creditors would be paid dollar for dollar, and even recently the victims have been duped by those who know better, with the expectation that eighty-five, ninety, and even ninety-six per cent, might be realized. All these calculations rest upon the basis of a false valuation of the assets, and are therefore worthless except as a means of deception. At last the Commissioners have been forced to announce that “how ever much it may be regretted, it is nevertheless true that this company is insolvent and unable to pay its deposi tors and other creditors.” Ouly three days before that publica tion one of these very Commissioners who signed this announcement, Robert Purvis, a colored man, stated at a meet ing of the Philadelphia creditors that “the bank had not failed in the general acceptation of the team. Its funds were only locked up so that they could not be obtained immediately.” At that time he could hardly have been ignorant of the real situation, or of the fact which is now confessed, that the worst is not known, for his name attests that “they (the Commissioners) are not without fear that upon settlement of the pass books of depositors a greater sum will appear to be due them.” That the charter was flagrantly vio lated, all protection for depositors disre garded, and the money of the poor col ored people stolen by the Washington Ring and their confederates, is no long er doubtful. General Howard, A1 ord, and other philanthropists were trustees and officers while this robbery was going on with their privity and participation. Henry D. Cook, his cashier Huntington, and Clephane, the contractor, all mem bers of the Ring, composed a majority of the Finance Committee chosen by Howard and his friends, who loaned out the savings of these poor people to themselves and others upon Senaca Sandstone scrip and stocks of fictitious companies even to this day unorganized. Purvis told the swindled Philadelphia people that the whole fault lay in “a vile ring,” but he did not tell them who composed that ring, or that he and his fellow-Commissioners intended to prose cute them for fraud. So far from mani festing any desire to bring these robbers to justice, the effort is to screen them and the scoundrels who used this bank for their own enrichment. While pro fessing peculiar zeal for the black man, praying loudly in the Young Men’s Christian Association, and preaching equality of the races, they were picking the pockets of their victims and stealing the hard savings of women and children recently rescued from slavery. The thieves are flourishing at Wash ington in palatial mansions, driving showy equipages, and living in luxury upon this money, without an attempt being made to fence restitution or to ex pose the knavish hypocrites who collud ed with them in the spoliation, and without whose complicity it could not have succeeded. The trustees and offi cers who perverted the charter, who cor ruptly broke down all its safeguards, and who. connived at this bankruptcy, could easily be made to answer, both criminally and civilly, if there was any disposition to pursue them.— New York Sun. MOSEH AFRAID. A Requisition fop Troops. ! Washington, September 26.—Gov ! ernor Moses, of South Carolina, has ! made a requisition for troops. Details j inaccessible now. Postmaster Jewell has no information of interruption of mails in the South. Governor Moses, in his constitutional appeal for aid in Edgefield county, S. C., says: "I am powerless to enforce my orders.” The President replies that he expects and believes the company of - ■ -e Qg troops now in Edgefield is Umteq f>v»w sufficient < The Odd Fellows- Atlanta, Ga., September 26.— I The Grand Lodge adjourned after a week’s festivity and important business. The delegates express the highest prais ■ of Southern hospitality, which it is cer tainly hoped they will echo at home. The proceedings were interesting, but 100 bulky for the telegraph. The Grand Jaodge meets next year iu Indianapolis LOUISIANA. Threatened Renewal of the War. New Orleans, September 22. -Tlie excitement in the city continues intense, and, like that before the fight, is omi nous, because suppressed. General Bahly, acting chief of the Metropolitan police, this morning informed General Pennypacker, commanding the regular troops in New Orleans, that he had posi tive information of tlie intention of t hose connected with the recent t roubles to make another difficulty in the city within three days. A prominent Fede ral civil officer was this morning inform ed by a bank President in the city that the hitter had been told of such an in tention by those who again proposed repeating it. The proposition was op posed by the bank President, but the reply was made to him that the people did not propose submitting to the de gradation of being ruled by Kellogg, One of the Democratic City Commis sioners this evening assured your cor respondent that a resistance would sure ly bo made. Meeting of the White Leagues. New Orleans, September 22. 11, p. m. —The meeting of the different White Leagues in the city was very largely at tended to-night. It was decided that the members should hold themselves in readiness to act at all times. The feel ing among them is more hitter than pre vious to the fight, aud they argue that the only method whereby Kellogg eau be deposed is to have another fight, not because they particularly Bate the Fede ral troops, but to so increase the dis turbed condition of affairs as to necessi tate martial law. An Outbreak Imminent. The general opinion to-night is that an outbreak will occur at any moment in the outskirts of the city. Seven com panies of the Twenty-second Infantry are ordered into camp to-morrow at Greenville, a northern suburb of the city. 'There is a general feeling of un easiness as to the continuance of tran quility iu the State; and public senti ment prefers martial law to the existing system. A Radical Report. New York, September23.—The Times' correspondent telegraphed the following from New Orleans, dated Tuesday : To day public feeling has changed very de cidedly, and it is now considered not improbable that even a more serious conflict than that of last week may shortly occur: This morning when it became generally known that the com mittee had been broken up and no re sult arrived at, young and hot-beaded men of the League took no pains to con ceal their feelings. Kellogg and United States Marshal Packard are again de nounced openly as Thieves amt Liars, Arid Assistant Secretary of the Interior Coweti, who is charged with having been instrumental in breaking up of the con ference, is also abused in unmeasured terms. During the afternoon, the White League were constantly in session, and it is known many advised a continuation of hostility. If they were to go on, they believe that a military government will at once be established in the State. It is known that business men and capi talists of the city who make no secret of having supported the movement, are opposed to further fighting, aud will make no additional donations to the League. There is no evidence that the Southern element wishes to molest pri vate citizens, and on all sides it is ad mitted personal property iras never more secure. Governor Kellogg professes to believe that a war of extermination is to be commenced against the negroes, but Penn asserts positively that such an idea Iniff never been entertained by even the most passionate of the White League. [N. 0. Bulletin, 21st.] Negroes on the War Path. On Saturday evening last, at Honey Island, the white men of the town were engaged iu drilling, having heard that the negroes, iu a large body, intended coming to the town for the purpose of killing Captain Poitevent, who was on his way homo from New Orleans. The negroes advanced from the swamps and woods from all directions and surround ed the town, when they fired upon the whites, killing Mr. Orackerts and son. The white men being then aroused, at tacked them and drove them precipi tately into the swamp, hut not until 25 of the negroes lay lifeless upon the field of action, The origin of the uprising of these ignorant creatures is stated as fol lows : A few days previous to the fight several negroes entered the house of Mr. Pointevcut aud made an attempt to assassinate that gentleman, whereupon Mr. P., in defense of his life, lulled two of the would-be murderers. The action of the negroes Las caused great excite ment throughout that section of coun try, and the whites aro determined to maintain their rights against the lawless attacks of these ignorant and savage wretches. Nisw Orlens, September 25. Tlio meeting of tlie Louisiana Conference Committee was informal. The Mo- Euery party have notified the Kellogg people to give written notice when they desire to reopen negotiations. llow Judge McClure Earned tlioßobri quut of “Poker Jack.” [llot Springs (Ark.) Correspondence of the St. Louis Democrat.] In conversation with an Arkansinn about men and things, I asked how it happened that the presiding Justice of the Supreme Court (McClure) obtained the sobriquet of “Poker Jaek.” Ho said the name was given to the Judge by the Little Rock Gazette on account of an incident that occurred iu that city a year or two ago. “What was the incident?” I asked, “I will not vouch for the truth of it, but will tell it as I heard it. Guo day— it was before Clayton and Baxter fell out—Judge McClure, Clayton, Baxter and Dorsey were playing a game of draw, and they kept it up all night. They had drank ten bottles of champagne apiece, and, as daylight appeared, the betting ran pretty high, tip to that time the chips was pretty evenly divid ed, and uotiody was out mure than fifty dollars. McClure and Baxter looked horns on a deal made by Clayton, and it is said by some people that the troubles that have since occurred in tho State originated in the cards they played that night. Baxter drew to two pair and filled. The Judge held three tens and drew a fourth. They bucked at each other until they had planked about SIO,OOO between them, and, of oourse, McClure raked the pile. Baxter ac cused Clayton of exposing • card to McClure, and some words passed, and there has been a coolness between them ever since. But there was another incident that may have been the occasion of christen ing Poker Jack. He fell in among a set of professionals once on a steamboat, and they tried to swindle him out of several thousand. The Judge was drink ing pretty freely, and hud lost shout $3,000 before ho discovered that he was a victim of sharpers. He kept perfectly cool, however, and waited for his oppor tunity. When ho became satisfied that one of his opponents held an inviuciblo hand he made a large bet; the gambler, of course, went a pile better; the Judge also advanced the stakes, and finally “called” the gambler when tho pot footed up about $5,000. “What liavo you got?” asked Mc- Clure. “A king full on aces,” replied tho blackleg, reaching out his hand to grasp the stamps. , “What sort of a fellow are you,” said the Judge, “to bet on such a hand? I can beat it to death.” “I’d like to know what you can beat it with ?” “A jack full on sixes !” responded Mc- Clure, drawing a brßce of six shooters from his belt and planting his elbows on the stack of greenbacks. The gamblers arose in confnsion, and two of them attempted to draw weapons, but the Judge split the ear of one with a slug, and knocked the watch out of tho pocket of another with a second* slug, and the remaining two begged for mercy. The Judge counted out his SB,- ()(XJ and gave the balance to the gam blers, and has never played poker with, a professional since. Tlie Oars. Riverside, via Bt. Johns, N. fl-> Sep tember 26.—Morris started with forty strokes to the minute, Brown with thirty-six. At the half mile post Morris lead about half a length. They turned the stake boat at the same moment in 18 minutes 10 seconds. Brown won the race by nearly a length. Time, unoffi cial, 36 minutes 50 seconds. The International Rowing Match was won by Brown by two lengths. The distance was five miles, and the official time thirty-seven minutes. A Vindication. London, September ‘J6.— Col. Sloffel has published a pamphlet ♦indicating himself in connection with the famous surmrossed dispatch from Bazaino to MacMahon. chiargres that Mao- Mahon’s march to Bodau was caused by an Orleauist intrigue. A Dawson citizen requests that if any person desires to kill his dog he would be glad if they Would take lum to the city limits or in the streets, ••’id not again endang r the lives of uxs family by trying to shoot him in the house, as was tho case on Saturday night last.