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Eptontile ana grotinri.
WEDNESDAY,.. .OCTOBER 21, 187*.
THE ELECTIONS.
The returns of Tuesday’s elections are
▼ety gratifying to the Democracy of the
country. The gains in Ohio and In*
diana exceed the most sanguine expecta
tions. A year ago Ohio gave the Demo
crats a majority of less than a thousand,
and it was feared our success was an ac
cident which would not occur again.
Now the majority reaches ten thourand
and the State is safe for many years to
come. Instead of electing seven Con
gressmen out of twenty, as in 1872, the
Democrats elect at least twelve, perhaps
fourteen. If the latter figures prove
correct the Democrats will gain and the
Bepnblicans lose seven members in the
next House of Representatives. Indiana
greatly increases her Democratic ma
jority and gives one, certainly, and per
haps three additional Congressmen. The
Democrats have swept Arkansas and
added another to the list of Southern
States redeemed from Republican op
pression and misrule. West Vir
ginia remains true to the faith
and will elect a Democratic Senator in
place of Borehan, Republican, when the
Legislature assembles. The gain*
in Arkansas, North Carolina, Ohio
and Indiana will make a very great
ohange in the complexion of the next
Congress, and with proportionate gains
in the other States next month instead of
constituting one-third the Democrats
will have a majority in the Lower House.
The most gratifying feature of the tri
ump in the West is found in the fact that
it was achieved in spite of the outrage
platform upon which the Radicals placed
their candidates. Indiana and Ohio!
were stumped by Senator Morton, one
of the ablest, as he of the bitter
est and most unscrupulous leaders of
his party. On every stump the burden
of bis cry was “outrages in the South
—“massacres of men for opinion’s sake”
“intimidation of colored voters.” Hi
preached war and anew crusade against
the South. He declared that all other
issues sank into insignificance beside
the one found in the condition of this
section, and that the mission of his
party would not end until the
lives and liberties of the black
men were fully protected. The answer
to these attempts to “ fire the Northerr
heart ” is found in the election returns.
The people of Ohio and Indiana have
not accepted the new gospel of hate
preached by Senator Morton and his
associates. They have refused to be
lieve his fabulous statements. 'They
have declined to be frightened by his
exhibition of raw heads and bloody
bones. They have grown sick of the
wrong doing and corruption of the domi
nant party and, undeceived by the some
what stale trick of outrages, they have
expressed their desire for a change in
the administration of National affairs.
If the Democrats labor all over the
oountry next November as they did in a
few States in October, there is a chance
of tho party controlling one branch of
the next Congress, in spite of the shame
ful tactics which have been employed
by their enemies in the campaign.
THE POLICY OP THE ADMINIS
TRATION.
General Grant has made no cabinet
appointment since his elevation to the
Presidency except where the appointee
was a warm personal friend. This has
been one of the many peculiar features
of his administration, Other Presidents
of the United States siuco the days of
Washington have bestowed tho high
offices of the cabinet upon the most dis
tinguished men of tho party which
placed them in power. In many in
stances positions in tho cabinet were
made stepping stones to the Presidency.
Jefferson, Adams, Van Bttren, Buch
anan, Polk, were all members of the
administration. The great party leaders,
such as Cray, Calhoun, Webster,
Crawford and Seward, wore in the
cabinet. Grant departed from this
custom. Prominent Republicans were
given everything else but portfolios.
He did not grudge them foreign mis
sions but he was unwilling to make them
members of his government unless they
were personal friends as well as party
leaders. Asa consequence, with the
single exception of the Secretary of
State, who had a doubtful notoriety
based more upon tho fact that ho once
sat in the United States Senate than
upon anything he ever said or did or
wrote, his appointees wore obscure men,
with whom he was on terms of intimacy.
For this reason his administration has
been more harmonious than that of any
other President, and there has been no
such divisions and quarrels as those
which rent tho cabinets of Jackson,
Van Buren, Tylek and Johnson, ilie
best and kindest feelings have always ex
isted between Grant and Delano, Robe
son, Fish, Belknap and Williams.
They have been personal friends instead
of rival politicians. For this reason al
so his cabinet officers faithfully reflect
the views and opinions of the head of
the Government. They never differ on
questions of policy, and an enunciation
by one of them of the wishes or inten
tions of the President may always be
taken as authoritative. One of the most
trusted members of his administration
is Columbus Delano, Secretary of the
Interior. He has been often and round
ly denounced for corrupt practices by
Republicans as well as Democrats, and
strong efforts have been made to procure
his removal. But General Grant has
persistently refused to dismiss him, and
lias clung to him through good and evil
report. When, therefore, Mr. Delano
proclaims the policy of the Administra
tion lie speaks by authority, and we
must accept what he says as the views of
General Grant. On the eve of the Ohio
election the Secretary of tiie Interior ad
dressed a large meeting of Republicans.
From the report of this speech we make
the following extracts :
He dealt severely with the Ku-Klnx,
White Leaguers, aud other things of the
sort, whom he denounced in the bit
terest terms. He recounted the iujuries
now being inflicted upon the negroes in
the late rebel States, and clearly fore
shadowed the course which the Admin
istration would adopt toward those peo
ple. The Secretary argued that the
emancipated blacks wee, in a measure,
the nation’s wards, and, until persecu
tion, rapine and murder on account of j
race, color or previous condition should j
cease, the duties devolved upon the Re- :
publican party by the Almighty would !
not be fulfilled. He stated that the obli
gations of the Republican party were to
elevate and improve this class of people
and protect them in their rights before
the law; and if the great party of ideas
should desert its principles upon any
oollateral issues, and neglect to perform
its obligations toward those whom it had
lately invested with citizenship and the
elective franchise, it deserved to be
beaten, and most assuredly would be
punished. Referring to the troubles in
the South, the Secretary remarked that
the people in tho South, especially in
the disaffected portions, had recently
written and spoken much regarding the
President, probably hoping by flattery
and fawning to cover up their real pur
poses of rapine, murder and anarchy,
and that while professing great loyalty
to the Government and the utmost soli
citude concerning the President, the
.rascals had been shipping and distribut
ing anus among their oath bound assas
sins to bring about the very revolution
which was so recently inaugurated in
Louisiana. Bat the President under
stood them; and when a parley was
sought or explanations were attempted,
the President required first of all that
the insurrection be put down, and in
stantly the rebels surrendered. The
Secretary argued that the President was
true to the great principles of the Re
publican party, and that he would use
all the force at his command when
legally required to execute the laws and
enforce order and good government. He
said, in conclusion, that the mission of
the Republican party wonld not be en
ded until the civil rights of the emanci
pated race were folly secured, and law
and order placed on a solid foundation
in Hie entire South, nor until the sacred
obligations of duty in regard to the
public debt were everywhere acknowl
edged; and, therefore, Republicans
should stand by their colors and not be
■aisled nor deceived by collateral issues,
cunningly devised to divide and defeat
the great party which saved the Union.
Southern readers may judge for them
selves of the kindness of the President’s
feelings for the South when they notice
the policy which he has adopted. Gen
eral Grant can be counted on as the
friend of anew reconstruction, of en
forcement acts, oorrupt usurpations and
civil rights. Yet we are asked to be
lieve that this man is the frieDd of our
people and that he is only enforcing bad
laws for the purpose of making them
odious!
CIVIL RIGHTS.
There have been many explanations
given of the meaning of civil rights, and
of what kind of civil rights the colored
Republicans wish. Hon. Madison Da-
Vis, colored, of Athens, Georgia, ex
plains what he wishes from Congress.
The following is a verbatim copy of the
resolution introduced by him in the out
rage convention the other day :
Therefore be it resolved, That we, the
Colored Citizens of the reconstructed
States in convention assembled do en
dorse the Civil Rights bill believing that
it will give protection to onr wives and
dangbter? on the public carriers from
insult by smooking with “Tobacco and
other indecent treatments, we implore
Congress of the United States to pass
the Civil Rights bill.”
The secret is out now. “ Tobacco
smoking and other indecent treatment
on the common carriers” are tho griev
ances which must be redressed. Well,
moking i3 a vile habit, besides being
very expensive, but it wonld hardly be
right to term it indecent—even when
done on common carriers. The Athens
statesman probably forgets that the
railroads in Georgia are perfectly willing
to give the colored people just the same
accommodations as they do the whites,
when they pay as much money for them
as the latter. The white woman who
bays a second class ticket mast take her
chances also in a second class car, and
submit to the indecent tobacco smoking
>f which Mr. Madison Davis complains.
JAMES’ PLATFOKM.
The election for Governor is only two
years off, but there is already a suffi
cient number of candidates in the field
to make an exceedingly lively contest.
Qne of them, not having the fear of
Judged Underwood’s candidate before
his eyes, has commenced to stump the
State. Ho far his flights have been short
and he has confined his campaign to the
upper portion of tho State, but we sup
pose he will grow bolder by degrees and
that after awhile he may give his fellow
citizens in Southern and Eastern Geor
gia an opportunity to hear his opin
ions on the .great questions of the
lay. His name is James. He re
cently made a speech in Rockdale
county in whicli he announced bis plat
form. He will only consent to run as
the nominee of a Democratic Conven
tion. Though not anxious for the posi
tion of Governor ho will consent to run
at the request of tho business men and
farmers. He will have nothing to do
with “rascalities and rings,” will favor
an economical administration of the
government and will advocate a reduc
tion of the present rate of taxation, which
he thinks one-fourth higher than is ne
cessary. He wishes the homestead re
duced to two or three hundred dollars,
and tho liens abolished, in order that the
owner of land may be able to borrow
money upon his property and get money
at a lower rate of interest than he is now
paying. He is opposed to the present
system of convict farming, and thinks it
would be better to employ the criminals
in qnarrying granite at Stone Mountain.
He favors immigration, and believes
that it would prove beneficial to levy a
tax for the payment of the immigrant’s
passage money to Georgia. He made
the following candid statement concern
ing his war record:
In reference to the stories about his
war record, he would state that he had
only been married a short time when
the war broke out. It was too much to
expect of a man to require him to leave
a young wife and go into the war [laugh
ter and applause]. After a while he
sent a substitute. But in 1863 matters
were tighter than ever. He wanted to
take a sick brother-in-law out of a hos
pital and nurse him at home. • This re
quest was refused, and after studying
about the serious nature of war in gen
ral, he came to the conclusion that as
big a fool as people thought James was
he was not fool enough to go to war
when he could help it. He procured the
proper documents from Richmond and
ran the blockade. Ho did not sneak off,
but went out of the country honorably.
He believed he did right and wished
many other men had done the same.
We must not forget to add that Mr.
James revives the Cock Robin killing
business by claiming that to him is due
the flight of Bullock and Kimball
from Georgia. He warned the financiers
of this country and Europe that the
bonds with which theso two worthies
were flooding the market were worthless
anil would not be recognized by the
people, thus breaking down their credit
and driving them abroad.
The saddening intelligence reached
this city by telegraph last night that the
Outrage Convention was busted, and that
only free passes on the railways stood
between the talented members and the
chain gang. “Poker Jack” did it all.
The deplorable result is due to the per
fidious arts of the Arkansas jurist. He
tackled the delegations seriatim, com
mencing with Texas and ending with
Georgia. Ho won everything—stamps,
carpet-bags and such superfluous cloth
iug as coats, socks and hats. He rifled
the colored brethren as well as tho
whites. Everything was fish which came
to his net. He followed tho teachings
of the fifteenth amendment and made no
distinction on account of race, color or
previous condition of servitude. He
played everything known to the science
and skill of Arkansas—top-stocks, bot
tom-stocks, cold decks and what not; he
had cards in his hat, his sleeves and his
breeches legs. When he finished with
the carpet-baggers and turned upon the
colored brothers the slaughter was
simply fearful. Fort Pillow was a
moonlight pic-nie—meet me in the
lane love—compared to it. The last
victim was Hon. Jefferson Long, of
Georgia. Jeff has played himself, and
thought he knew as much about poker
as any white man in the country.—
Deluded wretch ! When he stole two
aces and made four on the last hand he
thought it was a shame to keep a man of
his intellect out of the United States
Senate. When Judge McClure saw the
manoeuvre he smole a sardonic smile and
simply reached for the knave of diamonds
which completed a straight flush. After
Jeff had planted his wallet, his clothing
and uis brass breastpin on the result
and discovered that he was beaten his
lower jaw dropped a foot, almost pro
ducing dislocation. When he recovered
the colored statesman remarked, with
the emphasis of a man who is satisfied
that he ka3 made an important dis
coverv: “Dam ef dem kind o hands
don’t hurt colored people wnsser’n de
Ku-Klux." Poker Jack expresses two
bushels of nickles to Little Rock this
morning and fifty bags of clothing to
the paper mill.
A Dr. Botts, of Melville, Tennessee,
and a prominent Republican, has mys
teriously disappeared. It is supposed
that he has been kidnapped or killed by
his brother Radicals because he was
supporting a Democrat for Congress.
Such a theory rather stretches the cre
dulity of the average man, bat it will do
to pnt against some of the outrages al
leged to have been committed in the
South by Democrats.
It was a fine point which the Out
r&gers made on Atlanta when Judge
McClure, of Arkansas (“Poker Jack”)
said that the member of the Convention
were afraid to meet in that city. If
“Poker Jack” had said he was afraid to
go there he wonld have been nearer
right. Atlanta is about the only city in
the oountry where the Arkansas jurist
would find himself over-matched in a
social game of draw.
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING-.
Under this head, the Louisville (Ky)
Courier-Journal asks why anybody ad
vertises in newspapers, and gives the
following sound and simple answer as to
•why business people advertise, and the
principle of advertising: “Obviously
this, that the advertiser wants his
1 wants ’ known ; that he 1 wants to
sell his goods ; that he ‘ wants’ to hire
a * help that he wants either assistance
or custom, which, in his own private
walk in life, he cannot readily come up
with. Why, then, does he advertise?
Because he cannot come up with his
want.’ Very well; where should he
advertise iu order to give himself the
best show? Certainly in that advertising
sheet which is read by the greatest num
ber of people.”
SHERMAN.
General Sherman has been pretty
rongbly handled for removing the head
quarters of the Army from Washington
City to St. Louis. Of course the North
is angered because an important depart
ment of the National Government has
been transferred to the West, while the
West is tronbled that St. Louis shonld
have borne away the prize. The idea is
advanced that the removal has establish
ed a precedent which may be fraught
with great danger to the country. It is
argued that if the General of the Army
may secede from the capital why should
not the other chiefs of departments do
the same thing? If General Sherman
can remove his headquarters to St.
Louis why may not Mr. Belknap trans
fer the War Department to San Fran
cisco, or Mr. Fish move the Department
of State to New York, or Mr. Bristow
carry the Treasury to Hogansville, and
thus entirely break up tbo Administra
tion ? It is claimed that these gentle-
men have the same right of secession
which General Shermin has exercised—
that what is lawful for one is likewise
lawful for the others. The Cincinnati
Gazette wishes to know whether Sher
man intends to exercise the absolute con
trol over military affairs in his military
capital which the law did not give him
in Washington ? “ Will he gather up
the scattered soldiers from the Western
plains and the Southwest, cross the Mis
sissippi Rubicon, like Caesar, and march
on Washington to take by force the ab
solute control which the law does not
now give him ?” There! While we
have been fighting C-esarism in the
White House and at Washington it has
made its appearance in the headquarters
of the Army and at St. Louis. Instead
of finding Caesar in Grant, it is Sher
man who is to overturn the Government
and found the Empire. The Herald
has had all its labor in vain. While it
has been trying to unmask a dictator in
Washington the Gazette reveals one in
the West who is preparing to march his
legions against the capital. Grant or
Sherman, which shall it be ? The man
of St. Louis or the man of Washington?
Pay your money and tuke your choice.
A correspondent of the Edgefield Ad
vertiser publishes for the first time the
following lines written by the Earl of
Derby in the fly leaf of a translation of
Homer, which the Earl sent to General
Lee :
“Tho grand old Bard who never dies —
Receive him in our English tongue —
I send ihee, but with weeping eyes,
The story that he sung.
Thy Troy is fallen—thy dear land
Is marred beneath the spoiler's heel,
I cannot trust my trembling hand
To write the things I feel.
Oh! Realm of tears—hut let her bear
This blazon to the end of time :
‘No nation rose so white and fair,
None fell so pure of crime.'
The widow’s moan, the orphan’s wail
Are round thee, but iu truth bo strong,
Eternal right, though all things fail,
Can never he made wrong!”
And the Earl adds :
An angel’s mouth—an angel’s tongue,
Not Homer’s, could alone for mo
Hymn forth the great Confederate South,
Virginia first—then Lee!
And the Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury is likewise a defaulter. Mr.
Frederick A. Sawyer, carpet-bag
statesman from South Carolina, owes to
the Government the sum of $40,000,
which he collected and failed to turn
over. The money was taken prior to
Sawyer’s election to the Senate, when
he was an Internal Revenue Collector.—
He says he is able to account for the
balance against him; but he fails to do
it, although ho has had about six years
in which to establish his honesty.
The Outrage Convention has decided
to appoint a permanent committee which
shall be stationed in Washington this
Winter for the purpose of ftirnishing
Congress with outrages enough to justi
fy additional reconstruction. Jeff
Long wished to plant himself on the
mountains of Tennessee until all the
outrages were reported, but someone
suggested that the Administration had
made no appropriation for the payment of
expenses, and the planting process was
abandoned to the great detriment of the
Chattanooga chain-gang.
The Congressional Convention of the
Seventh District will meet to-day in
Rome. Gen. Young seems to be the
strongest candidate in the field, and the
indications are that he will receive the
nomination. The opinion, however,
seems to prevail that Felton will de
feat any man who may be pitted against
him.
We publish in another column this
morning a synopsis of proposed legisla
tion on the cotton tax so wrongfully
taken from the South, which will be of
interest to our friends in the country.
A correspondent in Lincoln writes
that there was a white frost injthat coun
ty on the 14th instant, which did some
damage to vegetables.
Weddings. —As the semi-annual bridal
season is at hand, it is the time to plead
for a reform in weddings. Every year
this sacredest of all occasions is turned
more and more into an opportunity for
display, and for replying to some fancied
social obligation. Instead of the time
when a few of the closest friends gather
to witness the.solemnest compact human
beings can frame, it is chosen as the
moment for bringing together the larger
part of a family’s social circle, to show
the bride in*her bridal garments; to
prove how many flowers and refresh
ments the family can afford; and with
shame be it said, to exhibit to criticism
and light comment the precious tokens
that should have come with tender re
gard to the maid on the eve of her new
life.
A wedding must not be nncheerful;
but it must certainly be solemn to all
who realize what it is. On the one side
it is renouncing old ties, promising to
begin with faith, and hope, and love, a
new and wholly nntried existence. On
the other, it is the acceptance of a sa
cred trust, the covenant to order life
anew in such ways as shall make the
happiness of two instead of one. Can
such an occasion be fitting for revelry ?
Is it not wiser, more delicate, to bid on
ly the nearest friends to a marriage cere
mony, and leave the feasting and frolic
for a subsequent time ? We are sure
there are few girls who, if they reflect
on the seriousness of the step they are
abont to take, will not choose to make
their vow merely within the loving limits
of their home circle. All onr best in
stincts point to the absolute simplicity
and privacy of wedding services ; only *a
perversion of delicacy conld contemplate
the asking of crowds of half-sympathetic
or wholly carious people to attend the
fulfillment of the most solemn of con
tracts. Let there be much party making,
rejoicing and pleasure taking afterwards
as heart desires; but let the solemn vows
be made in the presence only of those
nearest and dearest. — Scribner's for Oc-
tober.
Rev. W. A. Parks was elected Grand
Primate of the United Friends of Tem
perance at the meeting of the Grand
Council at Griffin.
According to the city census last year,
the population of Columbus was—
whites, 4,590; colored, 4,058 ; total, 8,-
648. White children between the ages
of six and eighteen years numbered
1,277; colored, I,l7B—total, 2,455. On
the public schools of Columbus, 605
white and 487 colored children attended;
total, 1,092. On private schools 399
white and 400 colored attended ; total,
799. Total number at school in Colum
bus, 1,891. This leaves 564, between
six and eighteen years of age, who do
□ot attend school!,
CJBSARISH.
What Georgia Congressmen Say on
the Third Term.
The New York Herald publishes the
result of interviews with every member
of Con gress on the subject of a third
term. The following are the utterances
of the Georgia delegation :
Norw<)od, Senator, Georgia, Demo
crat. A third term is so contrary to the
spirit of onr Government that he does
not believe the Radical Republicans
wonld seriously urge Grant for a third
term. He is opposed to it, and has no
idea the nominee of the Democratic par
ty will have to rnn against Grant in the
next campaign.
Gordon, Senator, Georgia, Democrat,
considers it wise to limit the Presiden
tial term to six years. He can be put
down as against Grant if he is renomi
nated.
Freeman, James C., Georgia, Repnb
can, is in favor of a third term for Grant.
Harris, Henry R., Georgia, Democrat.
It wonld not be consistent for a Demo
crat to advocate a third term.
Bell, Hiram P., Georgia, Democrat, is
opposed to a third term, and hopes a
good Western Democrat will be the next
President.
Young, P. M. 8., Georgia, Democrat.
Might know on sight that he was an
anti-third term man, though some of the
Sonthern Democrats are not.
Blonnt, Jamos H., Georgia, Democrat.
There is not a probability of Grant
being renominated. Grant is liked for
his good qualities, but is not popular
politically in the South, and would have
feeble support in Georgia,
Whiteley, Richard H., Georgia, Re
publican. There might arise a contin
gency when it would be right to re-elect
Grant, and if such an event should guide
the party to again put him in nomina
tion he would support him without any
reservation on his part.
Sloan, Andrew, Georgia, Republican.
The Republicans of Georgia are too
grateful to Grant for what he has done
for the South not to desire his re-elec
tion for a third term, and if Southern
sentiment among Republicans will bring
it about he will be renominated without
doubt, and he will support him.
Cook, Philip, Georgia, Democrat.—
The only third term Grant can possibly
have is to be the nominee of the Demo
cratic party next time. His thirst for
office is so great he will undoubtedly be
our candidate, and if we can beat a Re
publican partisan with Grant 1 am in
favor of his having a third term, and
will support him—you bet.
Stephens, Alexander H., Georgia,
Democrat, does not think that the Re
publican party wonld ever renominate
Grant for a third term, and he does not
recognize any emergency likely to ne
cessitate the same. Nor does he think
there is any great argument against it in
the plea of rotation in office, which lie
regarded with some degree of contempt.
So far as his support of Grant is con
cerned, he maintains as the guiding in
fluence of his action the platform, not
the man. Give him a good platform,
such as the country needs, and he will
vote for it, he does not care who is
nominated; his doctrine was, “Princi
pia sed non homini.”
The Herald's recapitulation shows in
the Senate 24 in favor of a third term,
29 against and 21 “trimmers.” In the
House 78 in favor, 117 against and 105
“trimmers.”
WHEN THE WHITE LEAGUE WILL
DISAPPEAR.
[New Orleans Tccayune, 11th inst.]
The White League originated in a
conviction that the colored people had
banded together in a race organization
to control the government of the State,
and had associated with a small and the
worst class of the white people to op
press the great body of the honest, in
telligent and virtuous of the white in
habitants of this State.
It is useless now to discuss the facts
and evidence which produced this con
viction. A great deal may be said on
both sides of the question whether the
whites or the blacks were responsible
for this state of facts and belief. It suf
fices to say that the organizers of the
White League were honest in their be
lief, and that their association was one
for self-defense. This at least was the
leading idea of the movement of the
great majority of those who were en
gaged in it.
Doubtless there were in this, as iu all
political organizations, excitable per
sons, who were disposed to employ the
power of the league for illegitimate pur
poses, for intimidation and menace. But
not by them should the order be j udged.
Originating in the hopelessness engen
dered by the innumerable failures to
effect any co-operation between the col
ored people and the respectable and
honest white citizens, and to break up
the close union of the colored people
with the cormorant and rapacious class
of white adventurers and jobbers who
had fastened themselves upon the State,
the White League has always been ready
to dissolve and disappear from the po
litical arena when the causes and the
facts which brought it into life and ac
tivity shall disappear. It is vain to ex
pect to extinguish and prevent such an
organization as long as these causes ex
ist. Remove them; let the colored peo
ple initiate themselves or meet half way
the proffers of the whites for a co-opera
tion on the basis of mutual guarantees
of the reasonable demands of each, and
the White League will vanish as quickly
as it came into such vigorous existence.
That this is practicable under the direc
tion of citizens who are not demagogues,
small politicians and office seekers, has
never been doubted.
It is a remarkable vindication of the
White League that since its organiza
tion such co-operation has been effected
in certain localities in parishes and Sen
atorial Districts, where colored Radicals
have divided the candidatures for the
offices between the two races on the
most satisfactory basis. Let the same
arrangement be made general through
out the State, and the plan will com
mand universal approval among all good
people, and its effects in harmonizing
politically, as they are already har
monized socially and industrially, the
two races, will be qnickly experienced
in the restoration of peace, order and
good government in the State. We be
lieve that this plan opens the only path
to safety and tho rescue of our State
from the terrible evils which at present
obstruct its progress and spread so dark
a cloud over its future.
Let the wisdom aud energies of all
good citizens be applied to the enforce
ment and consummation of this object,
and the spirits and hopes of our people
will be animated with new life and vigor,
and New Orleans and Louisiana will re
sume their once prosperous and happy
careers.
The idea of connecting France with
Great Britain by means of a railroad
line carried through a tunnel under the
sea, which has long been a favorite one
with engineers, seems to be approaching
a practical realizalion. The French en
gineers have satisfied themselves that
the scheme is quite practicable, and
have made an estimate of the cost of the
proposed tunnel, which they think can
be completed by the expenditure of four
million pounds. The lowest depth
of the Channel has been ascertained to
be about one hundred and forty feet,
while the width of the sea intervening
between Great Britain and France is
twenty miles. It is said that the railroad
companies most interested in the project
have resolved to begin the tunnel on
each side of the Channel, and to per
forate it to the extent of one kilometre
something less than a mile—from each
shore, believing that when the feasibility
of boring for that distance is proved by
experiment, the public will be satisfied
that the entire work can be successfully
accomplished, and that there will be no
difficulty in raising the capital which
will be required to carry out the design.
Supposing the work completed, and the
average Briton supplied with facilities
for reaching France in an hour, and at
a trifling expense, it is evident that the
rush of English people to France, and
of Frenchmen to England, wonld be
immense. It is probable that the impetus
to familiar intercourse between the two
nations which wonld follow the establish
ment of sueh a railway line would have
important social and political effects.
When the best possible school system
and curriculum of studies has been de
vised, and after it has worked perfectly
to the satisfaction of every one for fifty
vears, something like the suggestion of
Charles S. Bryant, in the Minnesota
Teacher, may be worth considering.
He there “proposes an" American sys
tem of schools, and suggests that a call
be issued for a convention of State and
city superintendents, presidents of State
universities, and elected delegates of
boards of education from all parts of the
country, to meet at St. Louis or Cincin
nati, on July 4, 1873, to agree upon the
details of a system for universal adop
tion. The different grand divisions of
the educational system might be named
primary, intermediate, bigh school and
university. Each of these grand de
partments would be divided iato classes
A. B, C, and D, the studies for each
class in the system to be the same in all
parts of the country.” Mr. Bryant sug
gests that if the seven great cities of the
country would agree upon a uniform
system, the smaller cities would soon
follow.
Wild turkeys sell for $2 50 each in Sa
vannah.
A fire occurred in Stoddard’s Range,
Savannah, last Wednesday. Damage,
about ssoo—insured.
HON. 1. H. STEPHENS.
HIS SPEECH LAST EVENING.
An Immense Audience at the Opera
Honse —Two Honrs and Thirty Min
utes Under the Spell of the Great
Commoner.
By a quarter-past seven o’clock last
evening Girardey’s Opera House was
crammed with people anxious to hear
Mr. Stephens’ speech. Parqnette, dress
circle and gallery were all packed.
Among the vast audience were many
ladies. At half-past seven Mr. Stephens
was escorted to the stage by a number
of gentlemen, who then took seats
which had been previously placed /or
them.
After a few moments Jndge H. D. D.
Twiggs, Chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Eighth Congressional
District, advanced to the front of the
stage and said Mr. Stephens needed no
introduction. The bare mention of his
name was sufficient to thrill the bosom
of every lover of constitutional liberty.
Mr. Stephens then came forward amid
great applause. We present a brief out
line of his speech. A stenographic re
port of it was made by S. F. Webb,
Esq., of the firm of Hook & Webb, and
will be published in the future.
Mr. Stephens said that all he could
say for the compliment paid him was
that he had all his life devoted himself
to the cause of constitutional liberty, and
shonld do so as long as life lasted, and
God willing die in its defense. He hoped
the reporters would publish no report of
his speech until it was first submitted to
him. He wanted his words to go out as
he meant the e, and not in the light
others chose to put them. Words were
much. What he said he meant.
Would that he had time to-night to go
into the history of the constitutional
liberties of these United States. We
were prone to forget the sources of our
prosperity and our happiness in this
life. Even with our Carolina and Lou
isiana as they are, what is it that makes
the United States the most inviting place
on earth? It is constitutional liberty,
tbe liberty of onr forefathers. It is that
the people of the country govern it. We
have no monarch, no oligarchy. We are
governed by the Democracy. The gov
ernment of the United States is a De
mocracy. A government by which the
law, when properly made, shall be main
tained in its majesty. The government of
the United S'ates is a government pecu
liar iu itself. Nothing like it ever existed
before. As framed by our fathers the
Government of the United States meant
home rule. Each State and each society
to govern itself. The legislative, judi
cial and legislative branches of govern
ment formed the trinity of man’s power.
Each exercised sovereign power in its
separate departnWnt. Each was a check
upon the other. The State is formed
by what is known as the social compact;
the Federal Government is formed by
an association of States. There is a
wonderful difference between our con
federation and others. In all others
when the general assembly met they re
solved upon money for the general de
fense, and that had to go back to the
several States to vote upon their several
quota. In the United States this was
fixed before hand. Another idea was
the making of treaties for foreign com
merce. Ours is a Government, as
made byour fathers, for limited powers.
These things lose nothing by being im
pressed upon our people. There was
nothing like the conception of Mr. Jef
ferson, except it was the vision of Eze
kiel. This Government, as conceived,
was the vision of Ezekiel. There were
first thirteen States, all alike and equal,
moving in concord, a refuge for all men
seeking liberty. So it went on for sixty
years. But there were those who want
ed a central government, an empire—
for there was no difference between cen
tralism and imperialism. The central
ists were hurled from power by the
voice of the people in the days of Jeffer
son, and notwithstanding they labored
for a half a century, they could not rise.
Finally they stole the name of Republi
canism, finding that they could not ac
complish tlieir ends openly. In 1860,
when he told the people they might ex
pect a war in six months, they thought
he was crazy, aud some went to him
after his speech, and told him they
thought his mind was giving way with
the body. This country was now iu
more danger than it had been since
1860. They all knew that he was op
posed to the Southern States withdraw
ing from the Union. But he yielded as
he should always do to the sovereign
will of his State. But they never with
drew from the principles of constitu
tional liberty. No more patriotic peo
ple ever existed than those of the
South. Who dared called them traitors?
The colored race never occupied the
position of slaves as held under the laws
of nations. They had the same right of
trial uuder the laws as white men. He
expected that he had saved the lives of
more colored men than any man in the
State of Georgia. He was sorry that all
the colored men in Georgia were not
then within the sound of his voice. In
1864 he had saved the lives of thirty-five
colored men in Sparta, when they were
threatened by an excited crowd. One
of those very men was tile Wm. Henrj
Harrison who was now announced as his
opponent for Congress. If any of the
colored race believed that Wm. Henry
Harrison could do more for their inter
ests in the National Council than he
could, so let them cast their votes.
He would never court a vote from
mortal man by pandering to prejudice or
ignorance. He had told them long be
fore the warthat he believed the colored
race should be educated. He did not
believe with some that the colored race
were not of the human tamily. Of all
who so believed he could only say “God
forgive them.” But men were created
different. Why God so created them he
did not know. One star differed from
another star in Heaven. Ail men were
equal in the right to have justice done,
not equal in size or color, or any such
absurd idea. American Democracy was
as broad as the Universe and as wide as
Christianity. The Radicals pretended
to be in favor of free government. What
did they mean by free government when
they came down South and throttled
ten States ? It meant “You may be free
provided you govern yourselves just as
we please, and you shan’t say a word.”
That was not his idea of free govern
ment.
The colored race was brought here
and put under pupilage. At that time
they were fit for nothing but that state
of pupilage. He had no doubt but that
if we had been let alone in due course
of time the colored people would, in
God’s providence, have been admitted
into the participation of government.
All freedom on this continent comes
from Jeffersonian Democracy. It is wide
enough to include all classes and all
colors, if they are fit for its enjoyment.
The colored people were not indebted
to the Radicals of the North for their
freedom. It was the result of the war
under the providence of God. If the
Southern States had not themselves
voted for emancipation it would never
have been passed, for ten States consti
tuted more than one-fourth of the
United States. Whether freedom proved
a boon or a curse rested with the col
ored people themselves. The Legisla
ture of Georgia gave them every civil
right that he had. What were these
rights? To go before the Courts, to
sue and be sued, to plead and be im
pleaded, to contract and be contracted,
to be protected in their rights of life
and liberty.
The colored man in his little cottage,
with his family, was entitled to the same
protection as any governor. No man on
earth had any natural right to hurt an
other. There was nothing in the Civil
Rights bill that added to the civil rights
the colored people already had. The
colored people had a right to a just par
ticipation in the school fund. They
never got that until a Democratic Legis
lature came in power. But they did not
want their children to go to the same
schools with the whites. Let no one
even teach discord between the races in
this country. The thorn of slavery is
now out, and all the States are now
alike from Maine to California. All we
had to do now was to have a grand rally,
turn out the money changers and purify
the temple. We wonld then become
grander than ever. This idea of cen
tralism was the first great blunder the
Radicals had made since they came into
power. They seemed to have exhausted
their ammunition. The Civil Rights bill
was just as unpopular at the North as at
the South. The elections were all going
against the Radicals when this unfor
tunate Louisiana difficulty came. In the
critical moment the Radicals called out
to Warmoth, their great Southern apos
tle “Help ns Cassius or we sink.” War
moth had been dismissed from the
United States service for stealing. Bul
lock was a saint compared to Warmoth.
Warmoth it was who originated _ the
Metropolitan police. Well the Radicals
were in trouble and they called on War
moth to get np some sort of a little re
bellion at the South. They wanted some
pabnlam to work on. Bat for that
Louisiana affair he believed there
would * have been a Democratic ma
jority in the next Congress. He al
most despaired of it now. He had nc
idea that the Supreme Court of the
United States wonld decide in favor of
the Civil Rights bill if passed. It was
too preposterous to suppose that that
Court wonld decide that the Federal
Government had the right to establish
mixed schools in the States.
He never despaired of this Govern
ment under the providence of God. He
thought the press made a great mistake
in opposing the Centennial. He was
not in favor of the Southern people
holding aloof from it.
He was afraid the South was going to
keep away from the Centennial.
It was said that he was a defender of
Grant; that he was arranging for a third
term for Grant. He was not pntting
forward any man for President. He al
lowed no man to make issnes for him.
He always said what he thought was
true. He wouldn’t withhold the ex
pression of what he thought was the
truth for anything or any manj. He w<\s
no defender of General Grant. He was
a defender of the truth. Constitutional
liberty depends upon the truth. Truth
crushed to the earth will rise again. He
stood by the truth, he didn’t care who it
helped or who it hurt. When his Demo
cratic friends charged upon Gen • Grant the
troubles in Louisiana, he thought it due
to truth to tell them it was a mistake.
The New York Tribune said Grant should
be impeached. What had Grant done ?
He would like to see the editor of that
paper. He assured them that if he had
done anything to deserve impeachment
he wonld be the first to make a move in
that direction. Grant had never done
anything but execute the laws as
passed by the legislative department
and expounded by the Courts. All the
evils of the South sprang from the hell
ish reconstruction measures which he
knew Grant was opposed td. Nothing
could bring about another nomination
of Grant so much as unjust denunciation.
If at the end of four years j a man has
governed well, re-elect him.! If at the
end of eight years he has governed well
there is no reason why he shjould not be
re-elected. Don’t let “third term” bi
the only objection against h;m.
Mr. Stephens spoke for tw|o hours and
a half. His voice was loud and clear,
and penetrated to every part of the
Opera House.
THE BOND QUESTION.
What a World Correspondent Says
Of It.
Augusta, September 29.-j-The “bond
question,” which I warned you in my
last would permeate all your Georgia
news for some time, has broken out in a
fresh place. The question itself is this:
When Bullock fled the State he left a
bonded indebtedness behind him of
some 816,000,000. Of this 83,000.000
was cancelled with the consent of all
concerned; some $5,000,000 was ac
knowledged by the Democratic Legisla
ture to be binding ; and the residue of
88,000,000 was disowned! as “null and
void, and not binding upcjn the State.”
To clench this disclaimer an amendment
to the constitution forbidding any future
Legislature to pay or recognize as legal
these disowned securities was called for
by public opinion, and kt the last ses
sion (January, 1874,) such an amend
ment, as was supposed,; was brought
forward, adopted by the Legislature,
and put in train of final ratification,
that is, adoption by the next succeed
ing Legislature and subsequent ac
ceptance by the people. It now ap
pears that this amendment is as full of
flaws as an old cheese of maggots, and,
not to mention other defects, only pro
vides against payment of; the disowned
railroad endorsed bonds ($4,475,000) and
fails entirely to cover tike case of the
disowned State bonds ($3,482,000). The
discovery of this fact has created a pro
digious stir throughout the State. The
first impulse was to have; an extra ses
sion of the Legislature herewith in or
der that anew amendment inhibiting
payment and recognition of the entire
$8,000,000 might be put upon its first
legislative passage, and then be referred
to the new Legislature (to be elected on
the 7th of next month), which assembles
in January next, and thein by that body
be put before the people at an early day.
In this way it was argued that an
amendment sufficiently comprehensive
might be made a part of the constitution
by February or March next. In the way
of this programme anew lion starts up
in the path, or, rather, two of them:
First, a mysterious indisposition in in
fluential quarters to have an extra ses
sion called; and, second, some grave
legal doubts whether, if an extra session
were called, an amendment rushed
through at railroad speed would be valid
according to the spirit, even if in con
formity to the letter of the constitution.
In the nine other reconstructed consti
tutions adopted at the same time and
under the same auspices as the present
constitution of Georgia, there are pro
visions, more or less stringent, that no
amendment shall be adopted except by
an adoption first by one Legislature,
then a publication thereof for a suffi
cient length of time before the election
of the next succeeding Legislature, and
then a readoption by that Legisla
ture, followed in some cases by a final
ratifying popular vote. The object
of all this is to pravent haste'
and secure due consideration, and the
interference is that in the tenth consti
tution of the batch the 1 same object was
aimed at by a requirement of like for
malities, though that purpose is not ex
pressed in so many words. It adds to
this view that from 1798 to 1861, it was
the inflexible constitutional rule in
Georgia that the Constitution could only
be amended after a publication of six'
months between the first passage by the
Legislature proposing the amendment
and the election of the next succeeding
Legislature. Altogether, then, it will
be seen that the “Bnllock bond ques
tion” in Georgia, like the Schlesweig-
Holstein question which once perturbed
Europe, has a fine faculty of intermina
ble complication. Otherwise than in
this financial muddle there is little po
litical or other news in Georgia, though
the stirring up by Radical incendiaries
of bad blood between the races is brew
ing trouble.
A ROMANTIC WEDDING.
The Sequel to the Recent Tragedy—
Senator Perry’s Marriage to Miss
Harrison—A Touching Ceremony—
The Devotion of Woman.
[Macon Telegraph and Messenger.]
It was the writer’s privilege yesterday,
at 4), p. m., to witness the union of two
loving and devoted hearts, under circum
stances of the most trying and distress
ing character. The dramatis personte
on this unique and interesting occasion
were Senator T. J. Ferry, of Arlington,
Georgia, and Miss Anna A., the daugh
ter of General George P. Harrison, of
Chatham county. The former, it will
be remembered, only three days since
had his leg terribly brushed by a loco
motive in the car shed, rendering ampu
tation necessary. The intelligence was
telegraphed to his affianced in Savan
nah, and, like a true woman and blessed
angel of mercy, accompanied by her
father, she hastened to his side. In her
case there was no revulsion of feeling—
no seeking to recall the plighted troth—
no hesitancy in casting in her lot with a
maimed and bleeding lover forever,
come weal, come woe, in sunshine and
in shade. On the contrary, he became
the more endeared to her, and she re
garded him
“Even as a broken mirror, which the glass
In every fragment multiplies, and makes
A thousand images of one that was,
The same, and still the more, the more it
breaks."
Anxious to minister to the comfort of
the being who Heaven had set apart for
her companion through life, to his en
treaty feebly uttered on a couch of lan
guishing, she at once responded with
noble candor, and consented to assume
the duties of the wife immediately. The
nuptials were accordingly solemnized,
as stated, at Brown’s Hotel, yesterday
afternoon, in the presence of the father
of the bride, a brother of the wounded
husband, and about a dozen other ladies
and gentlemen. Rev. George N. Mc-
Donnell, of this city, officiated, the
bride dressed in black, and sitting by
the bedside of her afflicted lover.
Never was a wedding ceremony more
impressively rendered, or the responsi
bilities of the marital relations made to
appear in stronger colors. The responses
of both the principals were distinctly
audible, a soft light streaming from the
eyes of the gentle bride as she devoted
herself to the care and happiness of the
feeble sufferer to whom her fate was now
indissolubly linked. And if ever mortal
looked serenely content and happy, al
beit his sad condition, it was the young
Senator who so recently had exchanged
the triumphs of the hustings for the
long confinement of a sick chamber.
The concluding prayer of the minister
was replete with pathos and fervor, and
his earnest appeals in behelf of the mar
ried pair found an echo in every bosom.
The ceremony over, each guest after a
word of greeting quickly retired. "Who
can doubt that angels’ wings hovered
around that sublime and almost weird
scene ? The love of woman is indeed
beautiful and fathomless. May long
years of blissful peace reward the fideli
ty and constancy of these hearts now by
the alchemy of Onpid transformed into
one.
In many of the less fashionable
Northern mountain resorts this Summer
the waiters were the daughters of neigh
boring farmers. Actuated by no false
shame, they are said to have done their
work so well that many of the more
kindly of the guests parted from them
with every mark of genuine attachment.
These girls thus gain sufficient for their
Winter schooling, or that of their bro
thers and sisters, or money for some ex
tra finery, or perhaps for their marriage
portion. They, moreover, see semething
of life, and as they are often keen, sen
sible and teachable, they learn better
manners and less rusticity and more
refinement. _
The Army in Tennessee.
Dteb, Tenn., October 16.—Five com
panies of the Thirteenth Infantry, from
the District of the Platte, are detained
here by the smashing of five cars and
the killing of two soldiers. General
Emory’s forces are well distributed. All
Darts of the State quiet.
OCR ATLANTA LETTER.
The Seventh District—History of an
Independent—Felton’s Strength—His
Probable Opponents—Atlanta Mis
cellanies.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Atlanta, October 14, 1874.
The Situation in the Beventh.
The Congressional canvass in the Sev
enth District is without a parallel in the
annals qf Georgia’s political history.
An independent candidate has never
before been the occasion of so much
confusion. Dr. W. H. Felton, the in
dependent Democratic candidate, to be
candid, has spread consternation among
the supporters of the Democratic nomi
nee. This man Feltou, they say, is no
ordinary man. Both enemies and friends
admit his ability, while his friends and
supporters are enthusiastic in his praise.
His father was a man of wealth, and
gave him every educational advantage.
After graduating at the State University
he was ordained a minister of the
Methodist Church, located in Bartow
county, and commenced farming. His
plantation is about four miles from Car
tersville, and is said to be one of tbe
most desirable in that county. Dr.
Felton has been a life-time student, and
by virtue of his national ability and ac
quirements is considered one of the
finest scholars in the State. Asa pul
pit orator he is said to be without a
peer in North Georgia, and his stump
orations are said to be almost equal
to those of Bob Toombs in his prime.
I have it from the highest authority
that Dr. Felton is a man of char
acter. principle, learning and un
swerving integrity.’ An ex-United
States Senator from Georgia says that
in case of Dr. Felton’s election to Con
gress he would stand abreast of Ste
phens, Gordon and Vorliees. His De
mocracy, they say, is unquestioned. I
saw a gentleman from the Seventh Dis
trict to-day who has known Dr. Felton
all his life. ’ He says that D . Felton is
a life-time Democrat; that his father
was a Democrat before him when a
Democrat was a rare individual, and
that it used to be a saying that “old
Felton could smell a Democrat a hun
dred yards.” So there seems to be no
discount on the Democracy of this for
midable antagonist of the organized
Democrats of the Seventh District. A
gentleman from Dade county, the ex
treme Northwest county of the State, in
formed me to-day that it was pretty cur
rently believed that the upper counties,
Dade especially, would give Tram
mell overwhelming majorities, but
he had every reason to believe
that Dade county would give
Felton a tremendous majority, in case
he remained or should be reinstated in
the race. The prevailing impression is
that Felton will be elected whatever be
the action of the Convention to meet on
the nineteenth. A gentleman from near
Ringgold told me a day or t„’o since that
Felton’s election was a foregone con
clusion, and a gentleman of this city who
has been spending a day or two at Car
tersvilie says the people there never
question the result, nearly all agreeing
that Felton will be elected. Oil the
other hand it is said that either Col.
Dabney or Col. Lester would, even at
this late day, prove a most formidable
opponent of Felton. Trammell himself,
I understand, says that Dabney can beat 1
Felton three thousand votes. The
name of General Young is prominent
ly mentioned. He is considered by
the enemies of Felton a most
available man, because he alone
could overcome Felton’s majority in
Bartow. His strength outside his own
county, however, is, they say, insuffi
cient to secure his election. A number
of persons believe that Col. Trammell
will himself enter the Convention for a
renomination. A warm personal friend
of his in this city, however, told me to
day that Colonel T. would do no such
thing; that he bad irrevocably retired
from the race. The foregoing are the
views as expressed in conversation by
the fiiends and enemies of both Tram
mell and Felton. Your readers are at
liberty to draw their own conclusions if
they can extract them from so hetero
genous a collection of crude premises.
To assist them, I might say that the im
pression prevails here that Felton will
be elected whatever may be the action
of the Rome Convention, and should
this be the case the only feature of the
result to be deplored is that Dr. Felton
is an independent. His Democracy, his
integrity, aDd his extraordinary ability
are universally acknowledged.
The Municipal Election
On Saturday last was one of the most
orderly on record, but was participated
in by probably a greater number of per
sons than ever on a previous occasion.
Judge C. C. Hammock was nominated
over Dr. N. L. Angier by a majority of
nearly three hundred votes. Dr. Angier
received a most complimentary vote and
one well deserved. The fact that he is a
very new convert to Democratic prin
ciples probably defeated him. The fact,
I believe, that he had been a life time
Republican was the only objection urged
against him. Judge Hammock was
Mayor in 1873, and gave very general
satisfaction. The three Aldermen,
Messrs. A. J. West, R. F. Maddox
and A. Haas, elected under the provis
ions of the new city charter, and
who have a general supervision of the
action of the ten Councilmen, are all
first class merchants in this city. Mr.
Haas is an Israelite, is a member of the
present Council, and is an intelligent
representative of his nationality, which
constitutes a considerable portion of our
community.
The Fair
Commences on Monday next. The indi
cations are that it will be a great suc
cess, notwithstanding the scarcity of
money. Articles for exhibition are
pouring in, and the Fair authorities are
busy clay and night. The programme
has been so arranged as to have racing
at the grounds every day, in order to
make it the more attractive to the gene
ral visitor. Visitors are coming from
far and near. It will be the rallying
time and place of military companies,
old and new, fire companies, and office
seekers throughout the State. The can
didates for legislative offices will be on
hand to press their claims; so the newly
elected members may prepare for the
siege.
Dots.
It has not rained in Atlanta in two
months. * * Over a half million dol
lars have been paid out for cotton in
this city since September Ist. * * The
Capitol is being repaired throughout for
the greater comfort of the approaching
Legislature. Halifax.
Another Bohemian Girl.
The watering season at Newport closes
with a sensation, which may serve as
the basis of such another opera as “The
Bohemian Girl.” A strolling band of
Indians were encamped upon the beach,
having in their company a little white
girl name Charlotte Wyeth. Suddenly
the girl disappeared and all the cottages
who had become interested in her were
surprised. The disappearance was ex
plained the other day when an officer on
board a Sound steamer bound to Provi
dence recognized the waif in charge of
a lady who stated she was taking her, at
the request of Mr. Edward Walsh, of
Newport, to a lady in Providence, who
had promised to take care of her. The
child was detained, and Mr. Walsh was
taken into custody. He explained that
in visiting the beach he had become in
terested in the child; that he found her
babca-ously treated by the Indians; and
learning that she had been stolen by
them and was willing and anxious to ac
cept of his protection he had deteamined
to adopt and provide for her until he
should find her natural guardians. The
disinterested and honorable motives of
Walsh were so apparent that he was dis
charged, but the bumptious city mar
shal, thinking doubtless that some re
ward would be offered for the child, has
refused to allow her to remain in Walsh’s
custody. The young man is thoroughly
interested in the waif, and is enthusias
tically engaged in the endeavor to learn
something of her parents.
The Fall River disaster shows once
again the horror of sudden panic. All
the girls in the Granite Mill might have
been saved. The way of escape was
easy. They were even seized and thrust
into it. One brave man labored, reasoned
and scolded, but in vain. Instead of
using the ladders the frightened girls
and little children threw themselves
from balconies fifty feet high, or sank
down nerveless and perished in the
flames. It was a sad and awful calamity.
It is a gratification to know that no
human agency could have averted it. It
is easy for us to reason about the panic
and disorder and loss of reason which
befell there poor girls, but if we were
placed in the same situation there is no
telling how we ourselves would behave.
There are few that have nerve enough to
withstand the sudden shock of near and
terrible danger. The midnight ship
wreck, the theatre, when iu a moment
the comedy upon the stage has been
succeeded by the awful tragedy before
the curtain; the churches wherein
worshipers have been crushed and
mangled in the wild press for exit—show
that wherever a crowd is gathered, no
matter of what character, there the
peril lurks.
Half Fake. —The Georgia Railroad
will bring stockholders of the Co-opera
tive Warehouse and Depot (Grangers) to
the meeting to be held in this city, on
the 27th, for one fare. Stockholders
will receive return tickets from the agent
at the nearest depot, upon presentation
of their certificates.
DIRECT TRADE.
THE AUGUSTA CUSTOM HOUSE.
A Committee Calls on Hon. A. H. Ste
phens—He Declares Himself in Favor
ot the Project.
The committee appointed by the Au
gusta Exchange to confer with the Hon.
A. H. Stephens, our Representative to
Congress, in relation to securing an ap
propriation from Congress for the erec
tion of a Custom House in Augusta and
for the improvement of the Savannah
river, called ou Mr. Stephens yesterday
morning at ten o’clock. They were cor
dially received and were assured by Mr.
Stephens that he fully appreciated the
importance of the end in view, and
would do all in his power to secure the
accomplishment of their desires. He
stated that while he was in Congress
just before the war he succeeded in hav
ing Augusta made a port of entry. Mr.
Thos. W. Fleming was appointed Col
lector of Customs, and the office was
working well, when the war came on
and put a stop to it. Iu his judgment,
the first thing to be done was to get the
machinery working once more, and when
it was seen that it was a paying business
it would be an easier matter to get an
appropriation for a building. He knew
that it would be a great convenience to
the merchants, and that it would pay
the Government handsomely.
The committee were well pleased with
the interview, and with Mr. Stephens’
active co-operation hope to secure the
necessary appropriation.
As it. is, with no Custom House, and
with all the difficulties in the way, Au
gusta pays fully one hundred thousand
dollars a year, in gold, in customs du
ties. One house alone, Warren, Wallace
& Cos., have already paid this year the
large sum of thirty-three thousand dol
lars in gold, customs duties on iron ties
brought from Europe. If there was a
Custom House here, where goods could
be bonded, they say they would largely
increase their importation of ties and
make Augusta a general distributing
point. In that event their customs dn
ties would amount to fully one hundred
thousand dollars. Another house, Bones,
Brown & Co.,paid about twenty-five thou
sand dollars last year, in duties. They
sell each year over two hundred thous
and dollars worth of imported goods, a
large portion of which, however, they
obtain in New York on account of the
inconveniences attendant to direct im
portation, owing to the waut of a
Custom House here. If a Custom House
had been in operation in Augusta and
all of the goods imported directly, this
one house would have paid about seventy
five thousand dollars iu gold as customs
duties. The total amount of imported
goods sold in this city is very large,
and the customs paid at this point, in
case of the establishment of a custom
house, would be at least three hundred
thousand dollars per aunum. This is
an important item, and will fully justify
Congress iu granting an appropriation.
The building could be used both as a
custom house and post office and also
for the sessions of the United States
Court if anew district be created in this
section of the State.
In the interview with the committee
Mr. Stephens was very decided in his
opinions in favor of direct trade with
Europe on the part of the South. He
believed in organization for this pur
pose, and believed that if the South
would adopt this plan she would become
the grandest and most prosperous
country the sun ever shone on. Two
thirds of the exports of the United
States, he said, are Southern products.
THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL COTTON
TAX.
$65,000,000 For Southern Planters.
Thorough co-operation in tbe effort to
secure the refunding of the cotton tax
levied in the Southern States will be ir
resistible. Every grange, agricultural
society, club, board of trade, chamber
of commerce, and trades union in the
South and West should co-operate with
the citizens of Marshall county, Mis
sissippi, who have adopted the follow
ing proceedings, which they earnestly
recommend to the people of the South
for their consideration and adoption :
From the best information we have
been able to obtain, we learn that all ef
forts heretofore made have resulted iu a
failure, for the following reasons and
causes : Ist. From the want of union
and concerted action on the part of the
people of the Southern States, who are
most deeply concerned. 2dly. From the
failure to prepare and submit to the
people for their consideration and adop
tion, a bill which will fairly and justly
deal with all interests and mete out jus
tice to all. \3dly. From the want of ade
quate means to defray the very heavy
expenses which must necessarily be in
curred to insure success to so large an
undertaking. 4thly. From the failure
to appoint for each of the cotton States
at least one representative, who is well
and wiJely known as possessing the con
fidence of the people, charged with the
duty of presenting and urging this ques
tion upon the consideration of the Con
gress of the United States, in such man
ner and form as they might deem best.
sthly. From the indifference, if not to
say repugnance, manifested by many
of the representatives of the Northern
and Western States to our appeals for
relief for the great wrongs and injuries
inflicted upon the people of the South
ern States in open violation and disre
gard of the Constitution.
Asa remedy for all this the Mississip
pi Association recommends : Ist. That
an appeal be made to all interested in
getting Congress to refund the tax col
lected on cotton, amounting to $65,000,-
000, and that each pledge himself to
pay his pro rata of the expenses of get
ting a bill through Congress to that end.
2d. That as the people directly inter
ested are scattered over a vast area of
territory, it is recommended that the
following gentlemen be chosen to take
charge of the whole matter and present
it to Congress : Col. Robertson Topp,
of Tennessee ; Hon. A. H. Garland, Col.
J. T. Trezevant, of Arkansas; Hon. J.
Madison Wells, S. A. Nelson, Esq., of
Louisiana ; Hon. B. M. Apperson, Col.
John D. Elliott, of Texas ; Hon. J. R.
Chnlmers, Col. R. O. Reynolds, of Mis
sissippi ; Hon. John T. Morgan, Hon.
Calvin Goodloe, of Alabama ; Hon. B.
H. Hill, Hon. Herschel V. Johnson, of
Georgia; Hon. Jesse J. Finley, of Flori
da ; Hon. Zebulon B. Vance, of North
Carolina; Gen. M. C. Butler, Winborn
Lawton, Esq., of South Carolina. 3d.
It is recommended that, as a great deal
of the time of these gentlemen must
necessarily be taken up in properly at
tending to this vast matter, they be paid
a sufficient compensation to engage all
their time and talents for the successful
prosecution of the vast claim involved.
Then follows the draft of a bill which
it is proposed to submit to Co* press
and urge its passage, which provides:
That a restitution shall be made of
the money thus collected; that a Com
mission be appointed by the President
of three persons to make a proper distri
bution of it; the Commission to sit in
Washington for three years after the pas
sage of this act; that in all cases tax
moneys shall be refunded to the parties
who actually sustained the burden of the
tax, or to their heirs; that after the
elapse of the three years, should any
money which has been thus collected
remain in the United States Treasury, it
shall be paid to the States pro rata/and
it is directed that the States shall give
the whole of it to agricultural education.
We will add: That it is worse than
useless for the cotton planters to ever
expect Congress to refund the money
most wrongfully extorted from them
just after the war unless they in some
way or other bring a powerful pressure
to bear upon it. Congress now passes
nothing unless so urged, especially any
bill benefiting the Southern people. If
this money is ever refunded it will be
brought about by some such method as
is suggested by the Mississippi meeting.
Education in Egypt.— Education in
Egypt is, according to Consul Stanley's
commercial report on Alexandria for the
past year, stiil backward and limited.
The number of those attending primary
schools is 90,000, which in a population
of 5,250,000 represents a proportion of
17 per 1,000, a proportion smaller than
in any European country except Russia.
It must be remembered, however, that
prejudices difficult to overcome exist
among the Mahometans as to the educa
tion of females. In giving, therefore, a
proportional estimate of the number
educated it is fair only to reckon the
male population. This would give a
population of at least 34 per 1,000 who
attend school; and though the educa
tion given may not be of a high class,
nor the previous training and qualifica
tions of the teachers up to the European
standard, yet the fact that of the whole
number only 3,000 are educated at the
sole cost of government; the cost of the
others being wholly borne by the pa
rents, without the inducement of food
or clothing, shows that there is no un
willingness to benefit by such education
as is within their reach. The Khedive
is attempting to combat the prejudice
regarding female education, and has es
tablished a large girls’ school at Cairo,
where, besides an elementary education,
sewing, washing and dress-making are
taught. —Pall Mall Gazette.
An excursion party from Washington,
Wilkes county, will visit Augusta to-day.
Anew company called the Jeff Davis
Guards has been organized in Elberton.
The following is the result of one
day’s cotton picking in McDuffie county:
A. E. Perry, 354 lbs.; L. J. Perry, 437
lbs.; B. B. Perry, 444 lbs. ; F. W. Cole,
352 lbs.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Canadian Knight Templars.
Ottawa, October 16. —Albert Pike at
tends Priory Knight Templars in session
here, A communication was read from
the Knights of >ew Orleans. Cana
dian Knights are invited to attend the
grand Grand Priory at New Orleans in
September next. A letter from the
Prince of Wales was read, and from the
Duke of Leinster, Grand Prior of Ire
land.
English Affairs.
London, October 16.—A special says
reliable information respecting the com
pensation paid England by the Madrid
Government, shows it amounts in total
to $75,000. Of this $40,000 wa3 paid as
satisfaction for British sufferers in the 1
Virginius butchery. The remaining
835,000 went to cover other outstanding
claims against Spain. The present Gov
ernment of Spain was not recognized,by
Euglund until the right of all claims Had
been admitted.
London, October 16. —Captain Sy
monds, wife and daughter were drowned
by a collision of the American ship
Kingsbridge in the English channel.
The annexation of the Fejee Islands
to the British Empire is formally an
nounced.
Frenoh News.
Pakis, October 16.—The report that
Thiers was captured by Italian brigands
is discredited.
Later The brigands did not get
Thiers. -
Spanish News.
Madrid, October 16. —Don Oarlos, at
Tolozo, reports defeats of Carlist bands,
and offers to surrender.
New York, October 16.—A Madrid
letter saysDockeray lauded at Santander
nearly naked and without resources.
Minister Gushing directed the Consul at-
Santander to furnish him all necessaries.
Cushing also telegraphed to Washington
for instructions, but no reply had been
received, though ten days had elapsed.
Puffed Out.
Montreal, October 16.—H. Emanuel
& Cos., the largest importers of cigars in
the Dominion, have suspended. Their
liabilities are $400,000.
Franco and Spain.
Paris, October 17.—The Duke De-
Cases, Minister of Foreign has
communicated documents to the Span
ish Ambassador which clearly exoner
ates France from the accusations made
in the note recently sent to the French
Government by Spain," and shows that
the note should be addressed to the other
powers. The Spauisli Ambassador says
the Opinion Nationalc has expressed
its satisfaction at the explanation.
Berlin, October 17.—The Emperor
visits Victor Emanuel next year.
Jamaica, October 17.—A meeting of
Cuban patriots was dispersed by order
of the Governor-General.
MORE BAYONET LAW.
Arbitrary Arrests in Alabama.
Montgomery, October. 17.—C01. Thos.
B. Wetmore, Chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Democratic and Con
servative party of Sumter county, and a
distinguished lawyer and prominent
citizen of Alabama, was arrested at
Livingston to-day on the charge of con
spiracy to injure Detective Hester. A
Democratic meeting has been advertised
and as it was about to assemble this ar
rest was made. This was the first Demo
cratic meeting that the citizens of Sum
ter county had attempted to hold sinco
Detective Hester took control of the
county, about three weeks ago. There
are two United Sta es Commissioners,'
both Republicans, in Livingston, h.ut
Wetmore is to be carried one hundred
and fifty miles to Mobile to be tried be
fore Commissioner Gillette. Detective
Hester has had the sheriff's posse of
about fifty men arrested for quelling a
negro riot in Sumter, and arrests are
still being made.
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
Gaant will remain at Chicago until
the 20th.
The Episcopal Convention was in
secret session last evening.
At Jerome Park, yesterday, Shylock
won the one and five-eights mile race in
2:67.
Some preliminary, but test votes, up
on Bishop Seymour’s confirmation yes
terday morning, stood 40 for and 10
against.
The Independent Temperance Com
mittee of New York has issued a cir
cular urging temperance voters to sup
port the Independent ticket.
The United States Supreme C our fc
will advance upon the docket cases re
garding the right of States to regulate
railroad fares and expel lewd women.
At Jerome Park Kadie won the mile
and an eighth race in two and three
quarter minutes. Acrobat won the two
and a half mile race in 4:33}. Lime
stone won the one and three-quarter
mile race. No time taken.
THE ELECTIONS.
Better News Every Time.
Indtanapolis, October 17. The
Democratic majority will reach 18,000.
The Senate will stand : Democrats, 23 ;
Republicans, 24 ; Independents, 3.
House—Democrats, 52 ; Republicans,
37 ; Independents, 11.
Little Rock, October 17.—The Con
stitution and Democratic State ticket
were carried by 7-'’,ooo majority.
Washington, October 17.—West Vir
ginia sends a clean Democratic delega
tion to Congress.
The Gallahue Patents.
Boston, October 17.—At a meeting
of shoe and leather dealers here this
morning to combat the Gallahue paten
tees, resolutions were adopted declar
ing the demands of the Gallahue paten
tees exorbitant, and expressing a deter
mination to strenuously resist them;
also, asking the co-operation of the
merchants, and urging Congress to op
pose any further extension of the pat
ents. Telegrams of sympathy from the
trade in Cincinnati and Baltimore were
received with cheers. A committee of
ten was appointed to carry out the reso
lutions.
Preachers' Association.
Baltimore, October 17.—The annual
Convention of the National Local Preach
ers’ Association of the Methodist Episco
pal Church assembled this morning at
Eutaw Street M. E. Church. About one
hundred and thirty delegates are pres
ent and others are expected to arrive to
night and to-morrow. New York, Penn
sylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey,
Kentucky, Illinois, lowa, District Co
lumbia, Virginia, Delaware, and a num
ber of other States are represented. The
body remains in session four days.
New York Items.
New York, October 17.—1n Brooklyn
to-day Justice Pratt rendered a decision
on motion to hear W. F. G. Shanks,
city editor of the Iribune, adjudged in
contempt of Court for refusing to reveal
the name of the writer of the article
entitled, “Brooklyn Ring Methods,”
for which Judge McCue sued the Tri
bune for libel and caused Whitelaw
Reid to be indicted. Justice Pratt de
cides that Shanks must be adjudged
guilty of contempt, but with leave to
purge himself by fully answering. *
Agricultural Report.
Washington, October 15.—The Octo
ber returns of the Department of Agri
culture indicate an average condition of
the corn crop of 86 per cent, against 83
per cent, in September. All the New
England States show an improved con
dition except Maine and Connecticut.
In the Middle States a decline during
the month. In the South Atlantic coast
States and the Gulf States, as a whole,
about hold their own, except Louisiana,
where the average sinks from 76 to 69.
More Troops for Louisiana.
Omaha, October 17.—Two more com
panies of the Thirteenth Infantry ar
rived here to-day, en route for New Or
leans. They will leave here to-morrow.
TOPICS OP THE STATE.
Weddings are becoming popular in
Madison.
Newnan is receiving a large quantity
of cotton.
Conyers wants to be incorporated as a
city and have a Mayor and Council.
Rumors of a fight in Lincoln county,
between whites and blacks, proved to
be incorrect.
An eight year old boy in Washington
county picked 118 pounds of cotton in
eight hours.
The taxable property in Newton is
given in at two millions six hundred
thousand dollars.
There is an unmailable letter in the
Savannah post office addressed to Henry
Powell, Augusta, Ga.
Wimberly offers to bet that he will
carry the Republican vote of Burke,
Emanuel, Bullock, Sriven, Mclntosh,
Liberty, Glynn, Appling and Tatnall.
The gin house of Mr. B- G. Tomlin,
near Butler, Taylor county, was burned
about four o’clock Thursday afternoon,
together with twelve bales of cotton.
The gin house was locked and no one
had been known to be about it during
the day, consequently it is strongly sus
pected that the fire was the work of an
incendiary. It is about the season for
that kind of business to sommenee.