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money of th* tax payers are coo-
i . lin special legislation. The Jour
nal of Commerce states that of the
of 1874 vhioh make a volume
of one thousand pages, nine-tenths
s under th£ead of special legisla
tor. A Amendment will
bo-voted <m neataaaonth for the purpose
nge}l suepiai legislation—ex
empt the chartering ■Of railways—to the
1 „ n j legislatures of 'eitiekand counties,
and the indication*: are that it will be
adopted by a large majority. There are
other States besides New York which
have much to* complain of in this re
spect. The laws of Georgia for^!B72
remainder to private legislation. The
laws of 1874 cover newly four hundred
and fifty pages, and with the exception
of one hundred and twelve pages the
volume is devoted to private acts. Acts
of incorporation and to allow peddling
without licenee form the bulk of these
private laws. A Constitutional Conven
tion can save a great deal of money to
the State annually if it does nothing
more than break up special legislation.
A CONFERENCE OF GOVERNORS.
Some tittle since the idea was broach
*ed of a conference of the Governors of
Southern Democratic States for the
purpose of counteracting the effect of
the Southern Republican Convention,
which .will meet in Chattanooga on the
• 13th instant. Governor Brown, of Ten
nessee, rras geherafly looked to as the
leader of the movement. After confer
ing with the-other Democratic Govern
ors •Governor B*own and Governor Leb-
Ltb, of jLeu4ucjfy held a meeting in
• jfashvilleVne lofhfer day, and decided
that the proposition was not desirable
or feasible, as the Governors of Virginia
and Texas declined taking part in the
movement. It was agreed, however, to
have a conference of Governors of all of
the Democratic States, North and
South, together with representative
Democratic citizens from States not
Democratic, or* “possibly of the Gov
ernors of all the States, irrespective of
party, with a view to a calm, earnest and
patriotic discussion of the broader
questions of the conflict between State
and Federal jurisdictions."
A SPECIMEN BLANDER.
The following appears in the last issue
nt tfr* Union, a Radical organ published
in Columbia, South Carolina:
One cat cue Consequences. — 'Th e Street
Railway in Augusta is not as prosperous
a* it dSßras. Oars are run only every
half hofir now, A few more lynehings,
a bushel of two of threats against stran
gers, who exercise the right to express
their opinion* in proper terms, MMn
or two of ttttilt into the Palmefrfb State,
and some more proclamaticpfs by the
Mayor te assure Northern hlfeinesH men
and travelers of peffect safoty, and there
will be no need to ruts street cars at all.
The Union kuows vesf well that there
is no city in the Sdutjr *more orderly or
law-abiding than 4*yista ; that but one
case of iyuoldog lfir occurred here sinoe
1861, and that one was for the punish
ment-’ of a very atroeichw and brutal
murder ; that the threats against Mr. E.
M, Bratton were made by a few young
mju who allowed their indignation to
get the better of their judgment;, and
that the “raids into rite Palmetto State’
have been made npon the invitation of
South Carolinians and for the purpose
of assisting the whites to put down
threatened insurrection. The Union
also knows very well that the failure of
the street cars to run except at intervals
of half an hoar has been occasioned not
by any decline in the prosperity of the
city bnt by the quarrels of the railway
companies and the Street Railway Com
pany. Both the Chronicle and Senti
nel and Constitutionalist stated very
plainly the reasons which the President
of the Stfeet Railway Company gave for
charging the schedule. Augusta Was
never in a more flourishing condition
than at present. She has increased
greatly in size, population and wealth
during the past fonr years, and to-day
displays more evidence of solid pros
perity than any city South of the Po
tomac. It is only the idiotic malignity
of the Columbia Union which caneouplo
the lyneliing affair of last July with
the change of schedule on the Augusta
and Summerville Railroad. The Union
need have no trouble ou our account.
There is no danger of Augusta losing her
Street Railway, or that the presout will
prove a permanent arrangement. If the
present owners should determine to
abandon tho enterprise there will • be
found others to take hold of it. *
The Port Royal Commercial appre
hends an invasion of South Carolina by
Georgians next month, for the purpose
of stulfing ballot boxes with fraudulent
votes or of overawing Chamberlain vo
ters. After speaking in this compli
mentary manner of the intentions of the
people of this State, the Commercial
goes on to say that shonfd the Georgians
come they will bo “welcomed with
bloody hands to hospitablo graves.”—
The South Carolina Radicals may con
tain their souls in patience
their heroics for a suitable occasion.
Georgians have no idea of interfering
with the political affairs of South Caro
lina, though tvs a matter of course their
warmest sympathies aro with the honest
people of that State in their efforts to
shake off tho rule of snch scamps as
Chamberlain and Company. They will
not go into Carolina unless they are sent
for; unless the whites ask them to assist
in protecting their homos and defending
the lives of women aud children; but
when they do come on such a mission
they will not bedeterred by vaporings
of “bloody hands” and “hospitable
graves.” They are some on the blood
harness themselves, and every wall
regulated Georgian has a private grave
yard of his own. -
Tire Macon Star intimates that time
will be a desperate fight over the pur
chase of the Macon aud Brunswick Rail
road at the sale of that property, which
Governor Smith lias ordered to be held I
on the first Tuesday in December. The j
Star intimates that the road has been a '
thorn in the • side of the much abused ■
Central, and seems to think that the lat
ter will be a bidder. It also suggests j
that the Macon and Augnsta Railroad
should become the purchaser, aud thus
secure an unbroken linejrom Savannah
to Atlanta via the Georgia Railroad. We
are afraid that the Macon and Augusta
is scarcely in a condition to • buy any
railroads just at present, however desira
ble such purchases may appear. New
lines and fierce competition have very
seriously affected the railway business of
the country, and even those companies
which are In s sound financial condition
find it difficult to earn anything above
expenses.
One of the principal reasons given by
the Radicals of Sooth Carolina for their
appeal to the Administration for assis
tance was the formation of Rifle Clubs
throughout the State by the white citi
zens. They pretended to discover all
manner of Ku-Klux Klans and White
Leagues in these organizations, and de
clared that the Republicans were not
safe as long as the existence of these
formidable bodies was permitted. Yet
in the face of these declarations we find
that on last Tuesday night when the vio
laace of the Nash and Minort factions
threatened riot and bloodshed in the
streets of Columbia—the capital of the
State—Governor Moses, instead of look
ing to his colored militia for the pre
servation of order and the protection of
life and property; appealed to one of
these dreaded Rifle Clubs for assistance.
The Club consented to obey his written
ciders, and it was doubtless a knowl
edge of this fact which prevented a col
lision between the rival factions.
TRS SOUTHERN QUESTION.
Th* New York limes has at lwt be
come satisfiedof.be worthiness of
reconstruction. When the goetrum was
first proposed by the Congressional
quacks—Drs. Srarusa, Sherman and
Shkllabargeb—it was everywhere hailed
by the Republicans as a panacea for all
the woes of the South. We were told
that it would answer much better than
a simple restoration of the Southern
States to the Union with all their rights
under the Constitution as it wrs; that
the Southern people must have anew
system of government given them by
their Northern conquerors better than
that under which they lived and flourish
ed, and better than any they could frame
for themselves. The method cf treat
ment adopted was faithfully adhered to
aud carried out to the letter. The re
cently liberated slaves were given the
ballot while a large per centage of the
whites was disfranchised, and the coun
try was flooded with carpeUbag emis
saries who controlled the npgroes to
their advantage, taught them to regard
their former masters with feelings of
hatred t nd‘ distrust and sowed the seeds
of a bitter hatred between the two
races. The Constitution stood in the
way of this heroic treatment, was
changed to suit the quacks, and
the* changes ratified by govern
ments which Stevens and Gherman
had previously established without
the slightest color of law or authority.
For nearly eight years the South has
been subject**! to this treatment, yet
the patient still obstinately languishes
and refuses ‘to recover, and the doctors
themselves are fain to admit the worth
lessness of their remedies and the in
curable nature of the disease. The New
York Times calls npon its party for
a change and declares that unless one is
made the most deplorable
will result from this continued’ mal-'
practice. The Times, in a noticeable
article on this subject, says;
Elections are turned into a burlesque.
We see a Moses in South Carolina ami
a Kellogg in Louisiana. From time to
time there is an “insurrection,” or
bloodshed under some other name; and
then the people of the whole county
realize how little progress they are
making in the work of “reconstruction.”
Ail this must come to an end, unless we
are destined to hand down to our chil
dren another “Southern question,”
acsrcely less formidable than that which
the framers of the Constitution left un
touched, and which was settled at last
by “blood and iron.” The sooner Con
gress addresses itself to the 3ubject in a
spirit of moderation and wisdom the
better, for the Presidential election of
1876 will turn upon it.
We say to tho limes that if it be sincere
in the expression of a desire to bring
about a better condition of affairs in
the South the remedy which it pro
poses is to the full as unwise and as
dangerous as that which the Republican
party has hitherto pursued. It is not
more Congressional action which we
peed, but less. Congressional action
has been the source of all onr woes. The
sooner Congress lets the South ajone the
sooner will affairs adjust themselves in
this section. Give to each State the same
right to administer its own local affairs
which is exercised by the States of the
North and West. Let eaah Southern
State exercise the right of local self-gov
ernment. Let there bo no Enforcement
or Civil Rights laws except such as may
receive the sanction of local legislatures.
Let tho Administration cease to bolster
up corruption and usurpation with its
influence and support. Let it cease to
fill all tho Federal offices South with ac
tive, bitter and unscrupulous partisans.
In a word, let Congress let ns alone and
there need be no. fears entertained of
further troubles, of “insurrections, ” of
“new rebellions,” or of “wars of races.”
“HONEST JOHN ” REBUFFED.
The President has given Senator Pat
terson. of South Carolina, better known
as “ Honest John,” what Mr. Billy
Birch worth! term a “back cap.” It is
known of all men that Patterson has
been one of the principal getters-up of
the Convention of Southern Republicans
which is to assomble in Chattanooga on
•the 13th instant. He has boasted often
and loudly of the part which he has taken
in tho good work, and of the things
which ho means to accomplish in the
J synagogue of scamps. He, of course,
1 is a third-termite, and he is to pnt for
ward*Grant as tho choice of the South
ern Republicans by means of the Chatta
nooga convocation. But the President
has discovered that he will lose a great
deal more than he would gain by such
an endorsement, and Honfst John has
been notified to desist. The language of
the notification is plain and emphatic,
and is as little to bo misunderstood as a
kicking down the stairs. The National
Republican, which is the Washington
organ of Geueral Grant, has published
an article on this subject for the espe
cial benefit of “Honest John.” It plain
ly tells him that the Chattanooga Con
vention must let the third term question
alone and confine its deliberations to
other topics. It intimates rather strong
ly that some of the leaders in the move
ment are not exactly the persons to give
an endorsement which would be worth
having, and that General Grant does
not wish any such championship of his
cause as that which has been offered.
Notwithstanding all this, we shall be
muoh mistaken in the man if “Honest
John” foregoes his original intention.
It is too good an opportunity to make
capital for himself to bo thrown away.
He wishes to appear to the negroes of
South Carolina as the friend and
trainer of the President, in order that
he may increase his.own importance and
prepare the way for a re-election to the
United States Senate. When the Con
vention meets ho will certainly be on
hand with his third term resolution, and
assisted by such coadjutors as Clatton
and Farrow, and Maynard, and Moses
aud Chamberlain, will “pat it through”
without mpeh trouble. We shall not be
surprised, however, if the North be
comes disgusted with such backing and
repudiates both Grant and “Honest
J ohn. ” .
The Radical organ irt Raleigh (N. C.),
the New Era, regales its readers with
such information as this:
It is estimated that in tho Democratic
State of Georgia alone one hundred ne
groes are killed daily —the. Civil Rights
bill, not yet a law, being the pretext for
these murders.
Even for campaign purposes we doubt
if snch a lie could be beaten. But we
don’t see why such slanders should be
saddled on Georgia, where they will do
no good. We have just elected an al
most unanimous Democratic Legisla
ture, and will elect nine Democratic
Congressmen next month. The result
in Alabama is a little doubtful; why does
not the New Era say that the Democrats
kill a negro these every two minutes ?
Two Judges, Lowell, of Boston, and
Blatchford, of New York, have render
ed decisions relative to discharges under
the amendatory bankrupt act. The
New York Judge decided that discharges
did not apply to cases in which adjudi
cations had been made prior to its pass
age. The Boston'Judge decided that
“the relaxed rule which permits the dis
charge of an involuntary bankrupt with
out the payment of any proportion
whatever of his debts, and in voluntary
cases to reduce the proportion to thirty
per cent., applies to all cases in which
discharge is applied for; that a change
in the bankrupt law is not retroactive;
that it is a mere modification of the
conditions on wjiieh a discharge is
granted, and that this does not disturb
vested ijjghts."
The independent candidates seem to
have had things pretty much their own
way in the recent contest and nearly all
of them have been elected. Most of them,
fortunately, are Democrats, though they
refused to submit to party government,
who will vote right in Hie General As
sembly. The chances are that in the
eleeti >n next January there will be inde
pendent tickets in the field in every
county. . * - **
THE REPUBLIC.
The present sensation in journalism is
the appearance of the new Administra
tion paper which has been started in
New York. For some time past the Re
publican party'has been without a paper
in the metropolis upon which it could
rely. The Tribune, which was never
very tractable, began to show signs of
insubordination in 1871, anfl in the fol
lowing year openly followed its great
editor into the camp of the indepen
dents. At present it is more Demo
jeratic than anything else, though pro
fessing allegiance to Liberal Republican
ism—the shadow king of American poli
tics. The Times is ostensibly and really
Republican. But the Times refuses to
be a machine. It has ideas of its own,
and announces them on some occasions
with startling boldness. It even takes
tße liberty of differing with recognized
Republican leaders on public questions
of importance, and sometimes berates
corrnption without confining its strict
ures to the ranks of the enemy.’ ! As one
can readily see, suchapaper lacks all the
essentials of an organ. Above all things
thtf Times is supposed to be unsound ol
the third term question, and as a matter
of course is not a favorite with the. A
dministration. Of the other two great
morning papers in New York, the World
is the leading journal of the Democracy
while the Herald is a free lance, a sort of
journalistic Dugald Dalgetty, whose
prowess is universally conceded, but in
whose fidelity no one is willing to trust.
Besides the Herald has made so much
money in mefeenary warfare that it can
not be tempted to enlis’ in any regular
.service. Though still fond of fighting,
it prefers to do battle on its own ac
count and to take a bend wherever it
feels inclined—sometimes turning its
sword against Republicans, some
times against Democrats, and occasion
ally against both. Under these circum
stances the Republicans found an organ
necessary, and after many threatenings
and warnings the Republic has made its
appearance. Some time since we pub
lished the names of the editors and
managers of the new paper. They are
all men of ability and experience in their
profession and have; won reputation as
journalists. The Republic is a hand
some eight-page p’aper, smaller than the
Times and larger than the World. The
typography, the paper and the press
work is unexceptionable, and the ar
rangement of the matter is good. Its
salutatory is brief, pointed and modest.
It will support die measures and admin
istration of the Republican party, and
give the latest financial, commercial, po-
litical and general news. Its first polit
ical editorials are confined to an endorse
ment of the Utica'platform and nominees,
and to an assault upon the tactics employ
ed by the Liberal Republicans. Its tele
graphic and news columns, however, fur
nish the best idea of the character of the
paper and the policy which it has deter
mined to pursue. They teem with ac
counts of Southern “outrages” aud “atro
cities”—murders of Republicans and in
timidation of the colored people. The
Chicago Inter-Ocean -does not surpass it
in the publication of these monstrous fic
tions. It proclaims war against the South
and the Southern white people—a war
which is to be conducted by slander and
misrepresentation. It is to fire the
Northern heart; to incite anew crusade
against the South for the purpose of
destroying the small remnant of liberty
which has survived constitutional
amendments, reconstruction laws and
six years of misgovernment; to endeavor
to so shape the issues that the battle of
1876 will be fought upon the old Ku-
Klux and raw-head aud bloodv-bones
ground of 1868. All the grist which
Southern slander mills can grind will be
thankfully received at the office of the
Republic. The most absurd yarns of
carpet-baggers and renegades fearful of
losing their hold upon office will find
conspicuous place in its columns. The
Republic promises to be an organ in
the full sense of the word, and will
doubtless earn all the pence flung to it
from Washington and tho New York
Custom House. '
The telegraph has brought very dis
agreeable tidings from Newton. It is
stated that the regular nominees of the
Democratic party have been defeated in
that county, and that a negro and an in
dependent are returned to the Legisla
ture by a considerable majority. This
is simply shameful. Two years ago,
when the Radical party was still a
formidable power in the State, the
Democracy carried the county by nearly
two hundred majority. Now, when
Georgia is almost unanimously Demo
cratic, Newton falls into the possession
of the enemy. There must have been
bad management or great indifference,
or perhaps both, to have brought about,
such a mortifying result.
One hardly knows how to admire
enough the firmness with which Judge
LocnRANE puts away the empty honors
of office. Tho night before the election
the Radicals of Atlanta nominated him
for the Legislature. He „ writes the
strongest of letters refusing to accept,
and closes by saying that “not to put
too fine a point upon- it, I’ll be d—d if
I will serve.” A beggar never declined
a counterfeit nickle with more of Roman
resolution than the Judge displayed in
rejecting this nomination.
Good for Greene. —For the first time
since the commencement of reconstruc
tion have the Democrats of Greene been
able to overcome the immense Radical
majority in that county. Their pluck and
perseverance have accomplished won
ders, and they are justly entitled to the
congratulationsof their brethren through
out the State. Ohl Greene will never
again be misrepresented in the Legisla
ture by Republicans.
It is to be hoped that the injuries
sustained by Hon. J. H. Hunter, of
Brooks, are not as dangerous as at first
reported. Mr. Hunter has been the
representative of Brooks in the General
Assembly for the past four years and
has made a faithful and efficient mem
ber. We trust that the blow of the
assassin will not prove fatal and that he
may be spared to render his State still
farther service.
The American papers have had a
good deal to say of the visit of the
“Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of
of Dublin” lo New York. Mayoress is
good. Governor Smith and the Govern
ess have left Atlanta. President Grant
and the Presfdentes3 have returned to
Washington. Mrs. General, Mrs. Judge,
Mrs. Colonel and Mrs. Constable !
LOCHRANE.
| A Characteristic Card in Which He
Rejects Radical Nominations.
Atlana, Ga., October 6, 1874.
; To the Editors of the Herald:
I Gents —When in the transactions of
life the question resolves itself into
| whether we should laugh or get mad I
I believe in giving the benefit of the doubt
I to the side of good humor—getting mad
costs emotions of pain,- while good hu
mor has no such regrets. These senti
ments are applicable to myself, in read
ing this morning the action of our col
ored constituents last night at the City
Hall in nominating me for the Legisla
ture. I admit, to a sensitive man, this is
a cause of offense, but to exhibit temper,
about it would only add to all its un
pleasantness. Therefore, in all good
humor, I decline the intended honor.
My ambition is not so inordinate as to
make me appear in the character of
their Representative and carry their
standard, and, not to pnt too fine a
point on it. I’ll be d—d if Ido it.
O. A. Ijochr&nk.
The Savannah News, of Wednesday,
says : “The steamer Rosa arrived from
Augusta on Monday with a cargo of 417
bales of cotton and merchandise. She
was unable to bring all the cotton offer
ed at the landings along the river, so
she immediately discharged her cargo
and •'Vent up the river as far as Pera
cfaucla, and returned yesterday with 110
bales of cotton, thus making an extra
trip and getting back in time to leave
Savannah at her regular hour. This
looks like business, indeed,
/ TO THE PUBLIC.
‘G shun, Lincoln County, Ga., (
October sth, 1874. )
To the Editors of the Chronicle and (
In your weekly issue of the 30th nit.
I see a communication addressed to the
Democracy of the county, over the
“sign manual” of three of her distin
guished citizens, setting forth declara
tions and assuming positions which the
facts in the premises do not warrant.
Upon this remarkable manifesto, by
your kind indulgence, I propose to make
a few comments. I am charged with
duplicity, disorganization aud renuncia
tion of Democratic principles ; suffer
ing my name to become the tool of a
disorganized and rebellions faction,
intent npon the subversion and destruc
tion of the Democratic party and its
time-honored principles. I deny the
charges. Now, what are the facts in the
case ? Asa citizen, I was in the pre
liminary meeting called for the purpose
of appointing delegates to the Congress
ional Convention held in Augusta. At
the same time and place an Executive
Committee was appointed to call a meet
ing of the citizens to nominate a county
Representative. My name was not be
fore the,public at that time by my con
sent; nor was it until one week before
the nomination came off did I yield to
frequent and urgent solicitations by nu
merous friends to suffer my name to be
used in connection with that position.
The impression is sought to be made
that I torced myself upon the public,
irrespective of the wishes of the people,
and that I stubbornly refused to yield,
aud am not and cannot be a representa
tive of the Democracy of Lincoln county
if elected—hereby becoming a unit
without an affinity unless I fused with
the Republican party. What arroganc j ?
What absurdity ? When I submitted
my name and fortunes into the
hands of the good citizens of Lincoln
county it was their province, not mine,
to yield or not to the clamor of the op
position. They further believe and ex
press the opinion that I cannot hope to
receive the suffrage of the intelligent
portion of the citizens of the county,
but that I rely upon and invoke the
powers that be for support. What pre
sumption- ! If the element hinted at
was not sought to be utilized by the op
position I should not deign to notice it.
But when on the day of the nomination
one of the opposition boasted that the
overwhelming majority of two hundred
votes would be cast against me at a
certain precinct, in which district there
are less than thirty white votes, it
would seem (to a man up a tree) that
they expected a little help from that
quarter themselves. It is claimed that
Mr. Crawford was unanimously nomi
nated; grant it. But the force of the
word unanimously can be seen and felt
better by comparing numbers. Then
how stands the case ? Less than one
fourth of the white voters of Lincoln
county participated in that nomination.
Now if majorities have weight and influ
ence, and are recognized as Democratic,
then I contend that I and those who
actel with me (in the absence of any
evidence to the contrary) have the in
dubitable right, by force of numbers, to
claim the honor of constituting the
Democratic party proper of Lincoln
county. I will state the case; N. A.
Crawford was unanimously nominated
by less than one-fourth of the white
votes of the county. M. Hawes’ posi
tion is sustained byth e factious majority
of three-fourths of the same. Having
been nurtured and reared under the
time-honored folds of the Democratic
Winner, I still'hold it aloft as a beacon
of light and rallying point never to be
lost sight*of.
There, whencethelightning that evokes
the thunder, that awakens the would be
triumvirate to issue their edicts and
fulminate their anathemas against the
good citizens of Lincoln county, who
knowing their rights dare maintain
them. The wonder is, there had not
been a collapse ere the concentrated wis
dom and intelligence of the county,
crowding their mental craniums, sur
charged with egotism, had time to escape
by the effusions of those modern Solo
mons. Personally, I accord to Mr.
Crawford all that his friends claim for
him. I submit the question to an un
biased public tribunal. M. Hawes.
Report of an Army Officer on the
Edgefield Troubles.—A dispatch dated
Washington, October 5, says:
A report received by Attorney-General
Williams, through the War Department,
from the army officer commanding in
the Edgefield District, South Carolina,
dated September 21, in regard to the
recent troubles on the Glover plantation
there, says:
When I reached the scene of trouble
bands of armed white and colored men
were assembling from every direction.
The former numbered at least 300. Of
the latter I saw only about 75 or 80, but
I am satisfied that a much larg;. Lum
ber were concealed in the woods, judg
ing from the bold front they presented.
I at once proceeded to find the leader
of the colored peopie, one Ned Tenant,
but was unable to see him that night. I
then proceeded to Mr. Gover’s house,
wbere a part of the white force were bi
vouaeed. In conjunction with some of
the best citizens of this party I talked
the matter over, and I am happy to say
that their wise counsels prevailed with
their men. This morning, about day
break, the white forces united, and the
subject was again talked over. I then
proposed to have one or two of the
whites accompany me, and have a talk
with the blacks, so as to prevent blood
shed and arrive at a proper understand
ing. This was accepted at once. Ac
companied by three of the whites I met
this man, Tenant, and after aprotracted
private interview, in which he stated his
version of the difficulty, it was finally
agreed to disband both parties, which 1
was done, but, I must say, reluctantly
on the part of the whites. Both parties
are well armed; in fact the whole coun
try is perfectly organized and ready to
take the field at any time. The.blacks
(militia) are armed by the State.
The officer, in conclusion, says:
After a careful investigation of the
difficulty, I am satisfied the facts are as
foliows : Ned Tenant, a captain of the
militia, and a delegate to the late Re
publican Convention at Columbia, S.
C., a very prominent negro and living
on the Glover plantation, had an attack
maeffe ou his cabin on Saturday night,
the 19th instant, by a party of five white
men, who discharged three pistol shots
into the door and then made off. He
suspected Glover and one Adams to have
been of the party, and at once beat his
drum as a signal for the negroes to as
semble at ltas place, this being the sig
nal previously agreed upon to meet
emergencies of this sort, or, as Tenant
states, to save his life. He assembled
his men and sent runners out threaten
ing vengeance against Glover and his
family. Glover was not slow to learn
the condition of affairs, and in turn sig
nalled his. people. In a few hours the
whole country was in the wildest state
of excitement. During all this time
nobody seemed to know the whereabouts
of the county sheriff. The general im
pression is that he has fled the country.
I will endeavor, as heretofore, to recon
cile the parties aud preserve the peace
to the best of my ability.
Tournament.— The tournament given
by the Edgefield Sabre Club at Sweet
water Church, Edgefield county, S. C.,
was largely attended. It was a very in
teresting affair.
The largest score, 46 points, was made
by Mr. Win. Roper, who won the first
prize, a handsome saddle and white
plume. The second prize, a gold harp,
was won by Lieut. J, A. Butler; the
third, an elegant bridle, by T. M. Glov
er; the fourth, a silver cup presented by
A. Prontant & Son, of Augusta, by Or
derly Sergeant Geo. Walker; and the
fifth, a pair of spurs presented by Mr.
Goodrich, of Auguste, by Lieut. H. W.
Shaw. There was also a hat presented
by Walker G. Matheny & Cos., of Augus
ta, for horsemanship, bnt the average
was so excellent that it was impossible
for the judges to make any decision in
the matter. It was then left to the Club,
who concluded to give it for exercise,
audit was accordingly awarded to Lieut.
Shaw. The last prize, a tin cup, for the
member making the smallest number of
points, was won by J. A. Crawford.
The Philadelphia Centennial.
Philadelphia, October 9. —At the
United States Centennial Rooms to-day
was received, the official announcement
of the acceptance by France of an invi
tation by the National Government to
participate in the Centennial. To-day
the finishing touches were given at the
Franklin Institute to the machinery pre
viously incomplete. To-morrow a wil
derness of wheels, belting, shafting, &c.,
will be in motion. A force of sailors
I from the receiving 6hip decorated the
interior of the building with flags from
the Navy Yard.
Bishop Gross. —The Catholic World
says : At vespers, on Sunday, Septem
ber 21, in the South Fifth Avenue Re
demptorist Church, Dr. Gross, Bishop of
Savannah, delivered an appeal for pecu
niary aid in one of the he has
undertaken for the spread of religion.
The Bishop stated that he has five hun
dred thousand colored people within his
diocese, to say nothing of the million
and a half of Americans, Irish and Ger
mans. The colored people he described
as good-natured, docile,-bnt very igno
rant, and he says they are ripe for con
version. The Benedietine Fathers, whom
he brought from England a few months
ago to labor among the colored people,
have baptized many ainlts already and
are preparing others.
OCR ATLANTA LETTER.
- 4 —-
A Walk O eriu Falton—-The Triumph
in Greene 'ihe Result ot Hard ,
Work—The Troubles ol Lochrane—
Something He Uapnot Shake—Mr.
Hilliard to Go Abroad.
ISpeeial Correspondence Chronicle and Sen!inti.]
Atlanta, ..October 8, 1874.
The Election in Fulton.
The Democratic candidates for the
Legislature encountered no opposition
in this county yesterday, and were con
sequently elected by less than a half
vote. The Radicals made several abor
tive efforts to organize an opposition.
On two successive occasions they nomi
nated candidates for the Legislature—
Senator and Representatives—but all
except two declined the nomination, and
these two received only four votes—one,
John L. Conley, receiving none at all.
The other one, Josiah Sherman, is a
Yankee recently moved into this section,
and is engaged in vegetable farming near
ihe city. He is, I believe, a friend and
neighbor of that great moral hero, Bishop
Haven, the miscegenation Methodist
(Northern) preacher. The polls were
opened in the city at an early hour, and
four or five hundred white people had
cast their votes before a negro made his
appearance. Towards noon a squad of ten
or twelve appeared in *ight, held aloof
for a time, discussing, as it seemed, the
political situation, and finally departed
one by one without casting a vote.
About noon two or three negroes came
to the polls and voted the regular Demo
cratic ticket. Among these Was Howard
Horton, a coal black negro who has
during the early part of the year de
livered several incendiary speeches on
the Civil Rights bill. What his motive
was in voting the Democratic ticket is
not understood, unless it was to obtain
favor with the white people who have
been incensed at .his conduct as a Civil
Rights agitaTor. The county polled a
very light vote, only about 1,400 votes
out of “ 6,000 being cast. Of these
only four or five were for Radicals,
the remainder being for the regular
Democratic nominees, E. P. Howell,
for the Senate, representing Fulton,
Clayton and Cobb counties, and E. F.
Hoge, W. Art Wilson and W. L. Calhoun
for the House of Representatives. -
The Election in Greene.
. Intelligence has reached the city that
Greene county has elected Democratic
Representatives by a majority of from
300 to 500. This is a subject of much
rejoicing, as this the first time Greene
has gone Democratic since the war.
The result ■is attributed to a piece
of good luck combined with a uni
versal determination on the part
of the white citizens of that
county to employ every honorable means
to secure the election of white men and
Democrats. A large number of negroes,
it is said, were persuaded to remain
home on election day by promises of
extra wages and on pretext of impor
tant work. It is further said that about
500 negroeslost an opportunity to vote
by their own short-sightedness and
recklessness. The polls, it is said, were
somewhat crowded at Greenesboro, and
a large number posted off to Union
Point, about seven miles distant; but
greatly to their consternation when they
arrived there they found that the polls
were not opened. It was then- too late
to return to Greenesboro and vote be
fore the hour for closing the polls, so
they had to subside. The white people
of that county have for some time been
apprehensive of a disturbance on the
part of the negroes. They have about
800 majority in Greene, and it is
said they had many weeks ago purchased
every pound of ammunition in the coun
ty. Apprehensive that these prepara
tions would culminate in a conflict on
election day, the white people had pre
pared themselves for the emergency,
but unless it has been provoked to-day
by the announcement of the result of
the electio*, fortunately no disturbance
has occurred, and old Greene is peace
fully redeemed !
• The Rosy Lochrane.
Judge O/A. Lochrane, the great lead
er of the cremation hosts of Georgia, is
at present passing through a fiery cruci
ble, and it-is hoped he will come out
purified and strengthed for the coming
contest for constitutional liberty and the
noble cause of cremation. Within the
last six or seven weeks he has been sub
jected to an array of seductive tempta
tions that none save the great crema
tionist could have resisted. Immediate-,
ly subsequent to the withdrawal of Free
man from the Congressional race in this
District every eye was turned to Loch
rane, with ail interrogating wink, as it
was thought to be the golden opportu
nity for the great man; but he heroically
rejected an opportunity of illustrating
his pet cremation art by “ cremating”
himself in a hopeless race, and subsided.
Last week fourteen able-bodied negroes
and three “ loil” . whites in “ sovereign
convention assembled” pr oceeded to
nouiinate'the Judge for the Legislature.
Grateful for the distinction and mark of
confidence from his former political par
tisans, he magnanimously declined to
rout the Democracy by entering the
field, and again subsided, /gain, on
Monday night sixteen “ truly loil”
negroes held a mass meeting .and
■a second time nominated the ver
satile Democrat, Republican and Cre
mationist. This persistent endeavor to
send a private citizen to the Legislature
in’violation of ~ his expressed wishes
somewhat exasperated the Judge, and
he expressed himself more emphatically
than piously. The truth of the matter
is the Judge is trying to “shake” the
Radical party, but it won’t shake “worth
a cent.” It clings to him with a
tenacity that is truly beautiful. He ad
ministers rebuffs and it applauds. He
smites'it on one elieek, and it, with ex
emplary Christian piety, turns the other,
' which he has the hardihood I<s smite
also. Radical politicians are very
scarce. The supply is not equal to the
demand and if the market continues in
this condition its negro customers will
quit trafficing in politics.
The Kimball House.
The impression seems to prevail that
ultimately tho $8.0,000 rportgage against
the Kimball House will have to be paid,
less the. usury, which amounts to about
$50,000. This mortgage is held by Jno.
H. Rice, formerly president of the
Georgia National Bank of this city, the
assets of which were some time ago
seized by the State. The rents derived
from.the house now amount, it is said,
to about $48,000 per annum, and it
is believed that the inconje from
this source alone will pay for the build
ing and discharge all claims against it
in five years. It seems to be generally
understood that Kimball wiy come here
in order to live upon the income from
his half interest. There is no conjec
ture made as to his future action in mat
ters of business, except that it is sup
posed he will endeavor soon to embark in
some wild enterprise, if ho can obtain
the means and encouragement.
Collector of Revenue.
The successor of Holtzelaw, the Col
lector of Internal Revenue at this’place,
who was dismissed for appointing in
competent officials, has not yet been
named. It is hoped that Dr. Samuel
H. Stout, of this city, may receive the
appQintment.' He is highly recom
mended by distinguished gentlemen
from Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky,
is a man of learning and unquestioned
integrity.
Minor Notes.
The canvass for Council members and
Mayor is waxing warm. The race is now
between Dr. N. L. Angier and Judge C.
C. Hammock, with an uncertain result.
The prospect is fair for a good Board of
Aldermen, with our ordinary Board of
Councilmen. The nomination occurs
on Saturday, 10th instant. * * It is
said that the friends of Hon. Henry W.
Hilliard are urging his claims for a
foreign mission of the United States
Government. * * . The public have
been repeatedly pained in the last few
months by tjie announcement of deaths
at houses'of ill fame, both violent and
natural.' A young student cf one of the
business universities here droned dead
the other night at a notorious house of
ill fame, and the next moment the intel
ligence was flashed along the wires to
his grief stricken and mortified parents,
who doubtless supposed that their boy,
though but of their sight and far away
in a distant city, was sleeping a virtuous
sleep. Halifax.
G. B. LAMAR'S WILL.
SIOO,OOO to Infirm Negroes.
Washington, October 9.—Gazzaway
B. Lamar, who died recently in New
York, bequeathed one hundred thousand
dollars for the erection at Savannah of
a home for aged and infirm negroes.
Political Rebellion.
Boston, October 9.—A disaffected
branch of the State Labor Reform party
met in convention to-day. Sixty-five
delegates were present. A State ticket
was nominated and a State Central Com
mittee appointed. The movement attracts
but slight attention.
Pilgrims to the Chattanooga Conven
tion.
Little Rock, October 9. —Senators
Clayton and Dorsey, J udge McClure anda
large number of other leading Republi
cans of the State, leave here to-morrow
to attend the Chattanooga Convention.
They will be joined by a delegation
from Texas. < *
A little boy about eight years Did,
named Jackson, while trying to jump on
a locomotive, in fehaad his fag.
was cut off by the wnljeis.
LETTER FROM WARREN.
[Sjpecial Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel ]
Wahrenton, October 8, 1874.
This has been a lively -week in War
renton. Monday morning the requisite
jurors appeared and were qualified with
that high-toned pnolic spirited citizen,
Dr. W. H. Pilcher, as foreman ‘of the
grand jury. When a spirited and able
charge was clelivered by his Honor
Judge Pottle, who presides over this
Conrt with great dignity, giving full
and entire satisfaction to both bar and
people. At about one o’clock Hancock’s
du>ky orator, W. H. Harrison, enthused
his deluded followers with his usual
war of words on the white race. What
a pitty this stirrer up of strife belonged
to the lamented Judge Thoma3, whose
influence with Judge Stephens saved
his neck from the halter in 1863 for in
cendiarism then. We hear here he is to
run for Congress against the great and
gifted Stephens. Let him run and can
vass the District too that this bad man
may be exposed in all his in
famy and made odious in defeat.
He is a, representative man of his .order
and needs taming. On Friday before,
the Reverend Mr. Boddie, the Senatorial
candidate, harrangued his race on the
same line. So you see if the colored
man and brother could have been array
ed against the white man by incendiary
speakers it would have been done. On
Tuesday Gen. Toombs addressed a
large audience in the Court as no other
man can. He has lost none of the fire
of his youth by gray hairs and to-day
his great intellect seems to be towering,
vigorous and growing.
On Tuesday the brass baud serenaded
many places and drew forth an eloquent
and able speech from Col. Mathews,
full of historical knowledge and practi
cal suggestions. It seemed to be a gala
night for the boys and citizens generally.
Early Wednesday morning the polls
were opened and black and white voters
pressed to the box, presided over by
Judge M. H. Williams, W. A. Ricket
son and W. G. Scruggs. It has never
been my lot to witness so orderly an
election, even in the good old days of
the Republic. Perfect fairness and en
tire freedom seemed to prevail. There
were no threats, no intimidation, not
even the usual pulling and convassing
or even persuading was used. Four
years ago the Democrats of the county
entirely abandoned all idea of force,
and under the leadership of two of the
most conservative men in the State
Barksdale and Qloud— went to work in
good earnest anfl conquered. Two years
ago, with Dußose and Pool on the
same line, they succeeded by over a hun
dred, and so complete was the victory
that but for a reverend emissary, who
came from vour Theological Seminary,
located on Telfair street, no opposition
would have been made in Warren to the
eminently conservative and able gentle
men then in the field and now elected
by five hundred majority—Hon. C. S.
Dußose and Dr. M. R. Hall. By the
way, has it ever occurred to you what
great politicians and intemeddlers in
politics a large portion of these clerical
gentry are, and that some very pious
and great professors of a Divine calling
seemingly are called by God to minister
in holy things and the devil to minister
in unholy things ? It is hard to serve
two masters, and I fear above all char
acters the brawling hypocrite. It would
be well for the reverend clergy who are
attempting to take charge of the colored
people to confine their labors to their
education and the salvation of their
souls.
On Wednesday night bonfires and
music, with speaking, evidenced the
great success of Conservatism in War
ren and the Nineteenth Senatorial Dis
trict. Carpet-baggers have played out
and the effort to align the colored man,
with his color, against the whites is also
played out in Georgia, for be it said to
the honor of the colored men hundreds
of them marched 6peuly and boldly to
the polls and with open tickets support
ed Dußose and Hall, notwitstanding
the appeals of your reverend emissary,
the appeals iu person of the I av. Mr.
Boddie and Hancock’s great incendiary.
Our interests are mutual; why should
wo not be at peace among ourselves? I
know of but one intelligent white man
in the county who favors this
strife, and 1 attribute it to his
surroundings and place of raising,
for he is truly an educated gentleman.
On this (Thursday) morning, after the
smoke and dust had cleared away the'
sun dawned brightly upon as quiet a
village as I ever saw, with nobody hurt
or any disturbed. This town has twelve
or fourteen fine brick stores and four or
five wooden ones. A business o£ many
hundred thousand dollars is done here,
and the merchants all seem to be thrif
ty, wide-awake business men. Judge
Pottle is enlarging his house to give,
his whole-souled, generous and hospit
able wife a chance. The hotel now in
the hands of the Cody boys is most ex
cellently kept. The plauters look cheer
ful, for they know their barns are full,
and both food for man and beast is plenti
ful. Cotton is short, but if they can
get a fair price all debts will be dis
charged and something laid up. All
have and are determined to plant full
grain crops and try to keep out of the;
hands of merciless usurers another year.-
Fearing I have worried you, I will close
with wishing you much prosperity, as
the sentiments of the Chronicle for a
quarter of a century or more have al
ways: been in accord with the masses
here. Warren,
RELIGIOUS.
New York Episcopal Convention.
New York, October 9.—The General
Convention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church continued its session this morn
ing. The religious services were cele
brated shortly after'lo o’clock, the Rev.
Horace Stringfellow, of Alabama; Rev.
J. H. H. Brown, of Albany; Rev. R. W.
Trimble, of Arkansas, and Right Rev.
Wm. Rollnison Wittiugham, Bishop of
Maryland, officiating.
Chicago, October 9. — The Iribune
states that a movement is on foot to pre
vent the confirmation by the Episcopal
Convention now in session in New York
of the recent election by this Diocese of
Dr. Geo, F. Seymour as Bishop of Illi
nois, on the ground that since his elec
tion it has been ascertained that the
charge made against him of his being an
extreme high churchman has some foun
dation, and that if the facts now known
had been understood by the Convention
at the time he could not have been
elected.
After recess guests from England and
Canada were ushered into the chapel
and took seats on the platform, the dele
gates rising on their entrance. They
were introduced separately by President
Craike and each delivered brief ad
dresses. The first person present
ed was the Bishop of Lichfield, who
read three addresses from Arch Deacon
ales of his diocese. The Bishop of
Montreal was next presented.
In the Episcopal Congress 41 dioceses
are represented. The business is still
preliminary. The division of New
Jersey into two dioces is proposed.
INDIAN WAR.
Kansas Reports Eleven More Victims
—Georgia Emigrants Killed and
Scalped.
Topeka, October 6.—A scouting party
from Fort Lewis, operatiugon the north
fork of Smoky Hill river, in Western
Kansas, discovered on Saturday last the
bodies of three men and a woman, mur
dered lK r the Indians. The parties kill
ed were from Blue Ridge, Georgia.—
They were emigrants seeking a location.
The woman’s skull was crushed, and
all the bodies more or less mutilated.—
Within the last two weeks eleven per
sons have been killed by Indians in
Western and Southwestern Kansas, and
several others are missing, supposed to
have met the same fate.
Advices to the 2fith ult. have been re
ceived here from Gen. Mills’ Indian ex
pedition. Heavy rains and a lack of
sufficient transportation are reported as
retarding operations. Trains are kept
constantly going to and from. Fort
Dodge, an advance of over 200 miles,
from whence all supplies have to be
furnished by wagon over rough and
difficult roads. No Indians had been
encountered since the attack of Calla
han’s - train. There are now three
columns within supporting distance of
each other, operating against the In
dians. They are commanded by Gen.
Mills, Gen. Davidson and Col. Price -
Nothing has been heard from McKenzie,
who is advancing from the south, nor
from Buell,, who is coming across from
New Mexico.
THE T1IIRT) TERM.
Grant's Objection to rts Discussion at
• Chattanooga.
Washington, October B. —The Na
lional Republican to-day follows up its
admonitions to the unlucky carpet-bag
gers, who have of late been endeavoring
to take the lead in the third term move
ment. It says the Chattanooga Con
vention is not called for the purpose of.
considering the next Presidency. Its
nearly two years in advance of the time
-when* it is* neither proper or expedient
for the party to even discuss it. Con
sidering that the third term policy has
been most elaborately discussed by the
National Republican itself, this hint to
the carpet-baggers to keep silent revives
the memory of the old proverb that
“while one man may steal a horse, an
other dare not look over the fence.”
One trouble in the way of the Chatta
nooga Convention declaring for Grant
is, that it would put a pressure on him
to say now whether he will or will not
be a candidate, which he does not want
to do just yet.
THE PALMETTO STATE.
CONSERVATIVE CONVENTION.
No Nominations MTfde -The Indepen
dent Republican Nominees To Be
Supported.
Columbia, S. G., October B. —The
Conservative State Convention met in
the State House this morning, every
county in the State except three being
represented. No speeches were made,
and the Convention adopted unanimous
ly the following preamble and resolu
tions:
Whereas, The Republican party being
in the majority in this State, is responsi
ble for its government, and the Conser
vative citizens of the State having de
clared that if the Republicans would
nominate for Governor and Lieuten
ant-Governor men of. their own
party of honesty and character,
intellect and confidence the Conserva
tives would refrain from opposition to
them; and whereas the regular uomi :
nating Convention of the Republican
party have nominated for Governor and
Lieutenant-Governor men whose antece
dents show them to be unworthy of con
fidence, and whose success will insure
the continuance of the corruption, dis
honesty and party tyranny which have
prostrated the State; and whereas the
independent wiug of tkft Republican
party has declared its intention to
reform the government of the State,
and in pursuance of this intention have
made nominations of men whose antece
dents t ntitle them to confidence in their
integrity and honesty, for which nomina
tions they have asked for the support of
the Conservative voters of tile State; and
whereas, we recognize that in the
present condition of the State the ne
cessity of checking corruption and pro
curing honest officials is paramount to
all questions, party politics or affilia
tions, and believing the opportunity af
forded us of securing such reform will
be in the success of the nominees of the
Independent Republican party;
Resolved, That it is the sense
of] this Convention, called to con
sider the necessity of making nomina
tions for State officers in the approach
ing election, that no nomination for
Governor or Lieutenant-Governor in the
approaching election be made by the
conservative citizens of the State.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this
Convention the conservative citizens
will best promote their interests and the
welfare of the State by giving their sup
port to the candidate for Governor and
Lieutenant-Governor nominated by the
Independent Republican party.
Resolved, That we adopt as the plat
form of the Conservative party of South
Carolina honesty and economy in the
administration of the State government.
Brief addresses were then made by
Gen. Kershaw, ex-Governor Manning
and others, supporting those views, and
declaring tlieit belief that an era of
good feeling and good government is
about to commence in South Carolina.
The delegates present assert that the
Independent Republicans are gaining
ground everywhere, and the general be
lief is that with the full and active co
operation of Conservatives they will
elect their candidates for Governor and
Lieutenant-Governor, and will elect
Gen. Kershaw to Congress.
LOUISIANA.
Four* Hundred White Leaguers in
Arms on the Teehe, Under General
Deßlanc—The Compromise Likely to
Fall Through—Secret Session of Dem
ocratic State Committee.
New Orleans, October s.—Congress
man Darrall arrived here to-night, and
informed your correspondent that four
hundred White Leaguers, with three
small artillery pieces, were..encamped at
Breauxliridge, on the Teche, in St. Mar
fin’s parish. The bridge is eighteen
miles from St. Martinsville, which is
nine miles from New tberia and sixty
miles by water from Brashear, that is
eighty miles by railroad from New Or
leans. The force is commanded by
General Deßlhnc, the same officer who
headed the resistance to Kellogg’s mili
tia last year. Darrall says the country
is quiet, save in the northern part of the
parish, and believes the only object is
to sustain the threat that if would re
quire a force of Federal troops in every
parish to maintain the Kelhigg officials
in power. The troops arrived at St.
Martinsville, as telegraphed you last
week; but the White Leaguers’ parish
officials evacuated the town, most of the
houses of which are draped in black.
The Nachitoches Vindicator, of the 26th
ult., received here to-night, declares,
editorially, that it will require 3,000
Federal troops to maintain the Kellogg
officials in power. Upon the ofher Land,
the Ouachita Telegraph, the leading
Conservative paper of North Louisiana,
accepts the situation and urges general
registration and participation iu the
election.
Opposition to the Compromise. 1
The city White League meets to-mor
row night to act on the compromise.
The'feeling in the city is bitterly against
compromise, especially among colored
Republicans, a majority of whom openly
denounce it. W. G. Brown, State
Superintendent of Education, is the
only colored State official favoring it.
The Supervisory Board had two ses
sions of five hours each, discussing the
time of commencing the revisiou of the
registration, but were unable to agree.
Since then Bonzano, who is the umpire,
has been announced too sick to act,
which places the Board at a dead lock.
The general impression is that the com
promise will fall through. Governor
Kellogg told your correspondent to
night that he didn’t know when he
could procure two vacancies in the re
turning board, and evinced disbelief
that the terms of thq compromise could
be executed by the Conservatives.
Democi’atic State Comniitl.ee.
The Democratic State Committee met
.to-night to take action on the com
promise, but would not disclose the
‘proceedings. Tii9 report telegraphed
you that the compromise was endorsed
by either the Committee of Seventy or
the Democratic State Committee was
erroneous, in that the former body never
acted at all on the matter. The latter
accepted‘the terms before the adoption
of the same, but have never since the
ratification.
O’Conor Answers Johnson.
New York, October B. —Chas. O’Conor,
in a letter to-day reviewing the argu
ment of Reverdy Johnson on Louisiana,
says: “The single point in issue between
Mr. Johnson and myself is whether *u
Executive error, such as he says the
President committed in stifling ths voice
of Louisiana, and placipg a usurper in
the chair of State, binds the President
himself and makes a sort of lisgeman,
so that willy nilly he must thenceforth
be ever ready to come at the call
of the usurper and with the whole
Executive power of the Union crush all
local opposition. The illegitimacy of
Kellogg's original claim is asserted by
Mr. Johnson with the concurrence of
nearly every intelligent and disinterest
ed person having any knowledge of the
subject. This should be kept in view
since much is always gained in discus
sion by confiding the issue to its own
precise limits. On* advantage h*r# is
that it will enable those learned jurits
who may think Kellogg was duly elected
to examine, and without the excitement
of passion or partiality to form an inde
pendent opinion concerning Johnson’s
dogma, that Executive resolutions in
such a case are immovable.” Mr. O’Con
or then proceeds to combat Mr. John
son's argument, and to show that the
President can and should reconsider his
decision.
RADICAL LIES.
The New York Tribune’s Corres
pondent Ascertains That Radical
Journals and Politicians Have
Grossly Slandered the People of
Alabama.
New Yoek, October B.—The Tribune
has sent a correspondent to Alabama to
investigate reports of outrages on Re
publicans in that State. His first letter,
dated Montgomery, October 3d, is pub
lished this morning and contains the
following: “I know nothing personally
of the condition of the disturbed coun
ties. I shall go to them in a day or two;
but as far as I have been able to investi
gate I have found that the Administra
tion journals and Administration politi
cians have grossly slandered the people
of this State. The party-press on both
sides is very bitter in political contro
versy, but the Republican papers are
just as denunciatory of their opponents
as those published in the interest of the
Democratic party, and it is not true
that the latter have advised, or do
now advise, their friends to resort to in
timidation or violence. The authors of
some of these slanders that are destroy
ing the credit of the State and driving
away immigrants live in this city and I
don’t wonder they are treated with con
tempt. They say they are ‘ostracised,’
bat they pass through the streets with
out molestation or insult, and I have
the word of high Republican officials
here that socially and in business rela
tions honorable men, no matter what
their politics, are treated alike, except
by a few worthless fellows whose society
no body desires.”
The negroes in Sandersville, during
the election Wednesday, used threats of
the most terrible nature to prevent any
of their number from voting the Demo
cratic ticket.
A shooting affray occurred in Macon
Wednesday night, between Mr. William
Clark, a baggage master, and a crowd of
negroes, resulting in the wounding of
three of the latter.
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THE ELECTION.
FULLER DETAILS OF WEDNES
DAY’S TRIUMPH.
The Old Eighth All Right—Greene
County Redeemed—Not a Radical
Vote in Wilkes—Burke Safe-Tho
Independent Candidates.
The telegraph and mnils bring us
fuller details of the great victory gained
by the Democracy last Wednesday.
[Specials to the Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Burke County.
Waynesboro, October 8.
ihe Democrats are victorious in this
•county. - Geo. R. Black, their candidate
for Senator, has 314 majority. Messrs.
Shewmake, Jones and Glisson, nominees
for the House, have 309 majority.
R. Steiner.
No Radical Votes in Wilkes.
Barnett, October 8.
The Democrats carry Wilkes county
by a majority of 1,044 votes. Not a
single Radical vote was cast iu the
county. M. P. Reese.
Hancock County.
Sparta, October 8.
The Democrats carry old Hancock by
a majority of 720. No disturbance oc
curred during the election.
W. H. Burnet.
Later. —Democratic majority, 723.
J T. J.
Greene County Redeemed.
Woodville, October 8.
The vote at this precinct was as fol
lows :
Senate—C. S. Dußose, D 139
M. Body, col., R 1
House—L. B. Willis, D 139
L. D. Carlton, D 139
Jack Heard, col., R 1
J. W. Sullivan, R 1
Woodville is within one of being all
right, Joe Davidson.
Geeenesboro, October 8.
Election for Representatives resulted
in the triumph of the entire Democratic
ticket by over 400 majority. No more
negro Representatives for Old Greene.
C. C. Norton.
Greenesbobo, October 8.
The election passed off quietly—no
disorder nor drunkenness. The Demo
cratic ticket was elected—majority at
the Court House, 242. J. W. G.
Morgan County Democratic—Wild Ex
citement—Bonfires, Speeches, &c.
Madison, October Bth, 1874.
The Democrats, by hard work" and
with the assistance of some “rousing
good colored workers,” who will always
be remembered by their white friends,
carried the county. Majority not defi
nitely known, as one of the county pre
cincts is not heard from, but it is esti
mated at from 150 to 175-. Many of the
blacks stood shoulder to shoulder with
the whites, fighting for what they now
believe to be their common interest.
Hereafter it is believed they will vote as
they please, and be free sure enough
instead of belonging to the Radical
party, and being intimidated by Radical
threats. The white men are determined
to stand by them squarely.
After the election a large bonfire was
kindled, and a large and excited proces
sion, accompanied by the brass band,
visited the houses of many prqmineut
citizens and called them out. Among
those who responded were Judge A.
Reese, Judge T. J. Bnrney, Colonels
McHenry Billups, S. Reese, T. H. Brob
ston,..J. McHenry, Jr., P. H. Burney,
Sergeant C. B. .Barrow and “Commo
dore” Dexter, of the Third Georgia
Regiment, Dr. Godfrey and Captain
W. Bearden. Austin Reid and Henry
jjordon, two of the colored men, were
also called out and made capital speech
es. The shouts of the crowd showed
that many good things were said and
appreciated. The procession, headed
by the band, kept up their march until
after midnight, when they quietly dis
persed. Not a single disturbance
marred this eventful day. Hurrah for
Morgan ! She is free ! Democrat.
Taliaferro County.
Cbawfordville, October 8.
• Raytown precinct has given a Demo
cratic majority of 122. Iu the county
Dußose’s majority will be about 250.
Alexander H. Stephens.
McDuffie County.
There were over 1,400 votes polled in
McDuffie county, and the contest was
very exciting. Both of the candidates—
Messrs. John Scott and A. H. Sturgis—
were Democrats. The latter carried
Thomson, Dearing and Republican pre
cincts; the former carried Wrightsboro
by a very large majority, afld' the coun
ty by about 250 votes.
Glascock County.
In Glascock there, was no Convention
held, and there were three candidates in
the field, all Democratic. W. J. Wil
cher was elected. The vote stood as
follows: W. J. Wilcher, 200; W. J. Usry,
175; W. Towner, 05.
Oglethorpe County.
The Democrats have carried this
county by between two and three hun
dred majority.
RETURNS BY MAIL.
Tho following counties have gone
Democratic by the following estimated
majorities: Chatham, 1,479; Spalding,
100; Troup, 1,500; Monroe, 700; Bald
win, 157; Muscogee, 1,165; Pike, 100;
Macon, 400; Clarke, 400; Thomas, 518;
(this county has heretofore been largely
Republican); Mitchell, 300; Wilkinson,
—; Houston, 164; Taylor, 300; Fulton,
1,500; Catoosa, 50; Washington, 500.
The following counties are reported car
ried by the Republicans: Dougherty,
Glynn, Liberty, Decatur, Newton. In
dependents are reported elected in
Rockdale, Clayton, Randolph, Bartow.
THE ELECTION IN BROOKS.
Captain James H. Hunter Murdered
by a Negro—The Fiend in Jail—’Re
sult of Wade and Whitley’s Teach
ings.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Quitman, October 7.—Much interest
has been manifested in the election on
both sides to-day. Up to this
6, p. m., about 1,025 votes have been
polled at this precinct. We are confi
dent of a Democratic majority iu the
county of from 300 to 400.
Captain J. H. Hunter, our tried and
true ex-Repressntative to the Legisla
ture, was seriously stabbed in the breast
by a negro to-day, and is now in a dying
condition. There is little or no hope Si
his recovery. We came very near hav
ing a riot; but’the negro who committed
the malicious and murderous deed is
now in jail, and every thing is quiet.
Quitman, October 7.—Capt. Hunter
was seriously stabbed to-day by a negro
named Nick Thomas, and also struck
with a stick a negro named Ben Jor
dan. They are both in jail. Strong
threats of a rescue were made, and there
was an attempt to take Nick from the
officers, but the officers were promptly
sustained by the citizens. The negroes
were muttering and threatening to fire
all the evening. A house filled with
fodder and corn, on the north side of
the town, was fired by some negro about
five o’clock. This was at once discover
ed to be a stratagem to draw the people
to the fire and then rescue the prisoners.
The rush was to the jail, and no effort
was made. The plan was a white rf an’s,
and not a negro's. The town is well
guarded, and all is quiet. There is
scarcely a hope for Captain Hunter’s re
covery.
Oaletborpe County.
Lexington Ga., October 8, 1874.
Editorfs Chronicle and Sentinel :
Below I give yon the vote of the elec
tion that took place in Oglethorpe coun
ty on yesterday. The Radical candidate,
Brown, told me this morning he would
certify that a fairer election could’nt
have taken place in Georgia than the
one here. Every Radical vote that was
cast in the county did it here, and that’s
why the fight was so closely contested
in town.
Honse—David W. Patman, D 1,032
Thos. D. Hutcheson, D 1,035
A. Li. Brown, col., R ‘414
J. S. Hurt, col., R 390
Treasurer —Paris Pace, D 933
Jona Sanders, D 509
I have never witnessed such a cool
determination on the part of any people
than was manifested by the Democracy
on yesterday. Many, very many
who have not voted since 1865 were
here. J. T. M. H;
Emanuel County.
Emanuel Go., October 9.
Kenady, the regular Democratic nomi
nee for the Legislature, beats Dawson,
the independent candidate, nearly 200
votes. There was no Republican can
didate in the field. The people had
nothing against Dawson except that he
was an independent. He is exceedingly
popular and has a fine war record. J.
So fai the only counties eported as
having been carried by the Radicals are
Newton, Glynn and Liberty. In Dough
erty there is a tie vote. The Radicals
have lost Greene, Thomas'and Decatur.
Taliaferro County.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens furnishes
ns with the full vote of Taliaferro coun
ty, as follows :
Senate—C. S. Dnßose, D. 491
Body, col. R....' 228
Dußose’s majority. 263
House—J. W. Asbury, D n482
Hqnry Turner, col. R 228
Asbnry’s majority. ~254.
THE ELECTION.
[Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Jasper County.
Monticello, October 8.
The election passed off quietly, with
the following result:
L. A. Lane, Democrat 753
J. W. Burney, Independent 447
Harry Baynes (colored), Radical 223
Acre, Radical fj
Laurens County.
Dublin, October 8.
The following is the result of the eleo
tion in Laurens:
Dr. J. T. Chappell, Democrat 596
J. B. Coursey, Independent 71
Geo. M. Rome (colored), Radical 271
County.
Senate—W. M. Reese, Democrat,... 852
House—N. A. Crawford, Democrat. .483
M. Hawes, lud. D 368
Crawford’s majority .115
Jefferson County.
R. P. Little, Democrat, ' 1,064
H. L. Battle, Democrat, 910
R. Stokes (colored), Radical 319
Alex. Stone (colored), Radical 81
J. W. Brinson (no candidate) 91
The Radical Convention nominated
only one candidate (Stokes) and endorsed
Col. Little.
OGLETHORPE.
MEETING IN THE COURT HOUSE.
Able Addresses—Resolutions Denounc
ing the Civil Rights Bill.
Lexington, Ga., Sept. 28, 1874.
Pursuant to call by the President, the
Democratic party of Oglethorpe county
assembled at the Court House, Hon. G.
F. Platt presiding. The President then
stated the object of the meeting to be
the more thorough organization of the
party, and to devise a plan of action to
be pursued in the election to be held on
the 7th of October next, and announced
the meeting ready for the transaction of
business. By order of the President,
the Secretary then rend the names of
the Executive Committee of the county •
at large and of the Executive Committee
of each militia district. ‘lt was then
moved and carried that a committee of
one from each militia district be ap
pointed by the President to retire and
prepare business for tho meeting. Pend
ing the appointment of the above com
mittee, Col. J. D. Mathews was called
for ami addressed the party in a feeling
and eloquent speech of about an hour’s
length upon the political situation.
At the conclusion of the above speech,
it was moved ano carried that the Ex
ecutive Committee of the county and of
each militia district compose the com
mittee and suggest business for the
meeting, and that they retire and be em
powered to invite any number of the
party to a participation in their pro
ceedings. The committee then invited
all members of the party to attend their
meeting, and retired to their rooms.
After an absence of some two or three
hours the committee returned, but from
prudential reasons made no formal re
port. It was then moved and unani
mously carried that we instruct our
Representatives in the next Legislature
to vote for a call of a Constitutional
Convention. In response to frequent
calls, Capt. Pope Barrow then addressed
the meeting in a forcible and stirring
appeal of about half an hour’s length,
upon the termination of which he offered
the following preamble and resolutions,
which were unanimously adopted :
Whereas, In our judgment, the Civil
Rights bill, now pending before Con
gress, if it should become a law and be
carried into effect, would destroy some
of the best institutions .of our State,
paralyze our industry, and blight our
growing prosperity, and would, in all
human probability, in the end, plunge
the South into the horrors of a war of
races, and being convinced that its en
forcement by arms would eventuate in
the hopeless degradation of the white
race, without any corresponding benefit
to auy other; therefore, be it
Resolved, That being firm believers
in the moral, intellectual and physical
superiority of the white race over all
others, we, as white men and fttemen,
will never yield our assent to the doc
trine which tends to the. degradation of
ourselves and onr children to the level
of an inferior race.
Resolved, 2d, That we appeal to the
white men of the North to put ftem
selves in our place, to pause and con
sider before they put upon us this atro
cious measure, the wretaked fate that
mnt certainly befall the weaker race in
our midst as well as the untold suffer
ings of the white men and white women
of the South.
Resolved, 3 d, That in our judgment
the Constitution and laws of the United
States, and of this State, as they now
stand, furnish equal protection to the
rights, of every description, of all the
citizens thereof, and acquiescing in the
present status, we willingly accord to
all, without regard to race or color, the
same impartial participation in the bene
fits flowing therefrom that we claim for
ourselves.
It was then moved and carried that
the proceedings of this meeting be pub
lished in the Oglethorpe Echo, the Au
gusta Chronicle and Sentinel and the
Augusta Constitutionalist. The meet
ing then adjourned, subject to the call
of the President.
G. F. Platt, President.
J. T. Olive, Secretary.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Oireot Cable.
London, October 10. —A circular has
been seDt to the shareholders of the Di
rect Cable Company informing them
that the management have decided to
abandon about 30 miles of a cable which
is uow lying on a rockly bottom, and ef
fect a splice at a more suitable point.
The circular says that in all about 1,100
miles of cable have been laid, and satis
factory tests are obtained daily by elec
tricians.
The miners of the West Riding of
Yorkshire having refused to consent to
a reduction of 50 per cent, in their wages
have been locked out to the number of
■6,009.
The Carlists.
Malrid, October 10.- The Republican
army, under Gen. Lazerna, has crossed
the Ebra and taken Lazitardia. The
•success has made an excellent impres
sion here. Carlos, with the bulk of his
followers, is at Larioja di Navarra.
A thousand marines will embark for
Cuba, November 19th.
The Carlists have shot nineteen natives
of Navarre who were serving in the in
surgent army for insubordination.
An explosion occurred ill a building at
Aspeitia used for the manufacture of •
cartridges for the. Carlists, causing the
instant death of eighteen persons.
The American Squadron.
Pibaues, October 10.—The American
Squadron li as arrived in this harbor.
ALABAMA NEWS.
All Quiet iu Sumter County—The
Crops.
Montgomery, Ala., October 10.—Con
gressman Hays and Abrams, the Pro
bate Judge of Sumter, who have been
absent at Washington for some time, are
now in the city. Reports from Snmter
are that all is quiet. Sheriff William
son and Coleman—the latter a negro—
who were arrested, charged with "the
murder of Ivey, have been released by
the United States Commissioner. Capt. •
Mills, of the United States troojw at"
Livingston, has n ceived orders to put
no more in jail, but to try persona ar
rested at once, as the howl about the ,
treatment of prisoners was getting tool
hot.
The drouth in this portion of the Ala
bama still continues. It has cut off the
cotton crop about one-third, and ruined
peas, sweet potatoes and turnip crops.
No good rains in nearly three months.
CAPITAL NOTES. S3
Washington, October 10.—The new
Secret Service Corps report several im
portant arrests of counterfeiters. The
United States Marshal of Texas reports
that he arrested and brought thither
thirteen citizens of Montague.
In a dispatch dated Dennison, Texas;
Postmaster-General Jewell telegraphs to
the original owners of an important
claim thus : “It is my desire that no.
agent shall stand between this Depart
ment and any party with whom it "has
business. * * * I cannot and' vjiU
not tolerate claim agents.”
A letter addressed to the President by
a prominent Conservitive politician in
Mississippi argues that the only true
way to restore peace and prosperity to
the South is for Congress to pass an act
to pay for quartermaster’s and commis
sary stores taken by the Union arjpy in
the South during the war, and to refund
the cotton tax. It has been referred to
the Attorney-General by the President.
New Orleans, October 10.— Registra
tion is progressing quietly. It will close
October 23d, as prescribed by law. E.
Howard McCaleb has succeeded E. A.
Burke on the Advisory Board. Colonel
Packard’s successor has not yet been
named.
Joe Ravages, a negro preacher, was
shot and killed near Franklin, Tenn.,
while attempting to enter the residence
of an old man named Shy with the in
tention of murdering him and wife and
burning the place. A negro detective
sent from Nashville to investigate a for
mer attempt to burn Shy’s house sus
pected Ravages and induced him to
enter into the above arrangement, and
then apprised Shy,