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WEDNESDAY.. ..OCTOBER 28, 1874.
MINOR TOPICS.
Hie German Govenmiena has paid £1.880,-
000 as compensation for injuries sustained
during the war by inhabitants of Lower Al
sace, besides £270.000 for provisions, horses
and other requisitions. In Upper Alsace the
compensation awarded amounted to £92,000
and £87,000. The Government have also con
tributed about £12,000 for the relief of per
eons who were indirectly reduced to indigence
by the war.
Judge Doolittle, of Wisconsin, in an address
to the law students at Madison, said that he
who in the name of the profession would stir
up strife, encourage litigation for any purpose,
and especially to put money in his pocket, is
unworthy of it. In the Judge’s opinion but
one name describes such a man and such a
character, and, though newly coined from the
mifit of slang, it is too intense in meaning not
to be need. It is “shyster.”
In Oermany all the telegraphs are owned by
the government and ran at the following
charges: Message of ten words within the
“first zone" of 150 miles distance, 5 groscheus,
or 13 cents; within the “second zone” of 300
miles, 10 grochens, or 26) cents; within the
“third zone,” from one end #f Germany to the
other, over 300 and under 900 milos. 15 gros
chens, or 40 cents; additional words in propor
tion, and preferental messages sent in advance
of turn, one and a half to twice the foregoing
rates.
An enthusiastic American relic-hunter was
arrested the other day for trying to hammer a
fragment ofT of the bronzs bas-reliefs of the
Vendome Column. He had climbed up inside
the net-work of scaffolding which surrounds
the outside, but was captured by tho police be
fore he could accomplish his purpose. On
being taken to the station house he gave the
name of Nathaniel Pope, and declared that he
was moved to bis act of vandalism solely by
admiration of tho French people, and of the
Vendome Column in particular.
When Gen. Sheridan was in Washington at
tending the Sherman wedding, he, in an
interview with Attornoy-General Williams, told
that officer that to withdraw any of the force
now under his command would tend to cripple
him in his aggressive movements against the
Indians. It was then tacitly agreed that he
should not be called upon for any of the mili
tary of his department. As already announced,
however, tho agreement has been broken by
Williams, the desperato fortunes of the carpet
bag regime in Alabama requiring, in his opin
ion, more attention than the scalpe of white
men on tho frontiers.
Official returns to the Bureau of Statistics
show that during tho three mouths ended Sep
tember 30, 1874, thero arrived at the port of
New York 47,054 immigrants, and 12,798 pas
sengers not immigrants. Of tho total number
or immigrants 2(5,164 were males and 21,400
females. Under fifteen years of age, 11,993 ;
over fifteen and under forty, 28,831 ; forty and
over, 6,830. From England, 12,153 ; Ireland,
9,073 ; Germany, 11.859 ; ltussia, 4,044 ; born
at Hea, 16 ; died on tho voyage, 26, of whom
23 wore under forty years of age. These im
migrants represented ovor 340 different occu
pations.
In his will the late Baron Rothschild ex
horted all his beloved children to live in har
mony, novor to loosen family bonds, to avoid
all differences, dissensions and litigations, to
use forbearanco toward each other, and not to
allow temper to got tho better of them, and to
be friendly in their disposition. “Friendli
ness,” he continues, “was always the sure con
dition to the happiness and success of tho
Rothschild family. May my children now and
never lose sight of this family tradition, and
may they follow the exhortation of my late
father, always to remain truo and faithful to
the paternal faith of Israel.”
It is reported that tho tomb of Leonardo da
Vinci, who died in tho neighborhood of Am
boise (Indre-ot-Loire), lias just been discover
ed. Some workmen, a few days back, in ex
ecuting repairs at the chateau of that name,
brought to light, under a thick layor of earth
and plaster, tumular stone, on which is in
scribed the name “Leonardo da Vinci." A
telegram was immediately sent to tho Count
de Paris, at Eu, and his royal highness imme
diately transmitted his instructions. A stone
ooffin below was openod in presence of a group
of savans, and the mortal remains of the groat
paiuter wero faund in a perfoct Btate of pres
ervation. These precious remaius are to he
placed iu,a coffin of wood, lined with load, and
will ho buried in the chapel of tho chateau.
The Rev. Robert Collvor, the celebrated
preacher of Chicago, has received a call from
the Church of the Messiah, of New York. Mr.
Collyer in his reply did not state positively
whether he would accept or nt, but intimated
that he desired to know what the persons who
contributed to rebuild his church in Chicago,
which was destroyed by tho great fire there,
thought of the chaugo. With the lottor he
Bent a list of names of gontlomon whose opinion
on the subject he wished for. The salary
offered Mr. Collyer by the Church of the Mes
siah is #IO,OOO per annum. Mr. Collyer says
positively that if the change is mado and he
accepts the call, ho will not receive a larger
salary than that which his Chicago society
pays him at present, which is #5,000 per year.
A case is on trial at Brooklyn, New York,
under the civil damages act, that will excite
much interest as to the result. The law of
1873 providos that damages may be recovered
from a ruru seller by civil suit, in case a plain
tiff can establish proof of injury in person or
property, in consequence of liquor being sold
to a relative. In the Brooklyn case a young
man of eighteen years drank to excess at a
liqnor shop, became dead drunk, was taken to
a police station, and there died. The father
brings suit for $15,000. his wiluesses being the
young lads who accompanied his son to the
drinking place where he was supplied with
liquor by the defendants to this suit. Tho facts,
as related, seem particularly distressing, and
the decision in tho suit is expected with groat
anxiety by a largo circle of people in Brooklyn.
After the delegates to the Chattanooga
Convention had entertained themselves for
two days with stories of tho risks they were
running in being Republicans, the outrages to
which they wero exposed, the liability to bo
shot down by White Leaguers, and drawn and
quartered by Ku-Klnx. the' Chairman. Gov.
I'arsons. of Alabama, dismissed them with the
comforting assuranco that “the fear of the
Lord is tho beginning of wisdom." Possib’y
the Governor has the same understanding
of the “fear of the Lord" as tho aged back
woodsman who was reproved by the clergyman
for allowing his sous to go hunting on the
Sabbath. “You ought to bring up your chil
dren in the fear of the Lord,” said the min
ister. “Fear of th* Lord ?" said the old man.
>* ’S jiss what I've done. Don't one o' them
boys dare g'wout doors Sunday ’thout a double
barrel gun.”
General Boynton has a long letter in tho
Cincinnati Oaaeite giving the history of tho
fonndation of vho Secret Service. It ar.>se
under Mr. Chase, when Congress mado an ap
propriation to enable the Treasury Department
to detect and punish counterfeiting. Mr. Chase
entrusted the matter to Solicitor Jonrdan, who
managed the business at first 'With the aid of
one clerk and two or three detectives. I\m P.
Wood made his appearance with a lot of old
platee and a tremendous story about counter
feiting. and in a short time he found himself
Chief of the Bureau, with an immense working
force and an annual expenditure of some
$125,000. In a few years Whitley succeeded
Wood, and the history of the operations of the
office since that time ia pretty familiar to our
readers. There can be no doubt that it has
been a pretty soft thing for those interested in
its management.
The Duke of Edinburgh may not have been
as imperfect in private life as gossip often as
serted, but, whatever may be the truth as to
Lia past conduct, he will now be compelled to
walk circumspectly. His mother-in-law will
arrive in London next Friday, with a view of
.ajiatL.g at an interesting event about to take
place in his family. That excellent lady may
be a Russian Empress, but she is none the less
the mother of the Duke of Edinburgh's wife.
As such she will unquestionably enforce her
views of duty upon her son-in-law. He will
smoke no more cigars in the Ducal Palace, and
will no longer be able to linger at hypothetical
•labs and come home late at night, with a
tendency to wind up his watch with a latch
key. For the sext six weeks the imperial
mother-in-law's umbrella will stand in the
Duke of Edinburgh’s hall, and that determined
woman, with her pockets swelling with bottles
•f Mrs. Winslow's soothing syrup, and trusts
setting forth the evils of tobacco and spirits,
will pervade the palace until the miserable
Duke feels how insignificant even a ducal hus
band becomes when additions to his family are
superintended by his wife’s mother.
A CONVENTION.
We find the following in the present
' ments of the grand jnry of Warren coun
ty, as published in the last issue of the
Georgia Clipper:
We hope that our Representatives in
the next Legislature will use every effort
to secure the passage of an act calling a
Constitutional Convention of the sover
eign people of the State to frame a Con
stitution, as the present one was mainly
the work of usurpers and negroes, and is
in no sense the work of the citizens of
Georgia.
The citizens of Warren, in their re
quest for a Convention, give voice to
the wishes of the people of Georgia. A
Convention is desired, a Convention is
needed, and a Convention will be .held.
There will be no more deception prac
ticed by cries of expediency, expense,
and legislative amendment. The peo
ple know in what true economy con
sists, and they desire to make the or
ganic law by which they must be gov
erned for themselves.
•THE NEXT CONGRESS.
A Washington special to the Courier-
Journal states that in view of the elec
tions already and the political drift mani
fested in Ohio and other States, the po
liticians are begining to prophesy an
anti-administration majority in the next
House of Representatives. The body is
composed of 292 members. The Demo
crats have now about 90 members, and
have to gain 57 in order to secure a ma
jority. They have gained already: 2 in
North Carolina; 7 in Ohio; 1 in West
Virginia; and 3 if not 4 in Indiana; to
tal, 13. Gains are claimed as follows:
Alabama, 4; Arkansas, 4; California, 2;
ConnecticDt, 2; Delaware, 1; Florida, 1;
Georgia, 2; Illinois, 4; Maryland, 2;
Massachusetts, 1; Minnesota, 1; Mis
souri, 1; New Hampshire, 1; New Jer
sey, 2; New York, 8; Pennsylvania, 5;
South Carolina, 1 ; Tennessee, 5 ;
Virginia, 3; Wisconsin, 3—making in all
53 members. This would give an oppo
sition majority of about 20 votes. We
think Georgia can do more than is pro
phesied. If we are not greatly mistaken
she will send an unbroken Democratic
delegation to Congress, and one more
may be taken from the Radicals and ad
ded to the opposition majority. We are
not so sanguine, however, of gains in
New York and Pennsylvania.
MU. STEPHENS’ SPEECH.
We publish in full this morning, to
the exclusion of a great deal of other
matter, the speech delivered by Hon.
Alexander H. Stephens in this city last
Thursday evening. As the speech is
similar in character to the one made in
Greenesboro some weeks since and pub
lished in the Chronicle and Sentinel,
we should not deem it necessary to add
anything to what wo have already said
concerning the opinions expressed by
Mr. Stephens were it not for the posi
tion which the speaker occupies. Mr.
Stephens is the Democratic nominee for
Congress from this District, and the im
pression may bo created abroad that all
of his views are sanctioned and endorsed
by tho people of tho District and of the
State. This is not the case. The peo
ple respect Mr. Stephens. They give
him credit for sincerity and honesty of
purpose. They admire his great intel
lect, and they have a grateful remem
brance of past services. But when he
defends the course of the Administration
in Louisiana, and represents General
Grant as a faithful official, who de
serves credit for tho manner in which he
has administered the affairs of the Gov
ernment, Mr. Stephens speaks not for
his constituents, but simply and solely
for himself. Tho people of the Eighth
District and of tho State of Georgia
regard General Grant if not the author
as the supporter of naked usurpation in
the State of Louisiana; they believe
that the infamous Enforcement act, un
der the provisions of which whole
States are tyrannized over by Radical
partisans in the guise of Federal offi
cials, and the monstrosity known as the
Civil Rights bill, are in a great measure
due to his recommendations, and they
hold him responsible for all the trouble
which has come upon the South since
his administration commenced. When
Mr. Stephens defends Grant he speaks
for himself; not for his constituents.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
According to the statement of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, the result
of the elections in Ohio and Indiana
produced tho greatest consternation in
Administration circles. The Adminis
tration confidently expected to carry
both States, and in Ohio it expected a
majority of twenty or thirty thousand,
and fifteen of the twenty Congressmen.
Instead of this it has found an over
whelming hostile majority arrayed
against it in both States and a change
of twenty-three votes made in the next
Congress. The great expectations of the
Administration, based upon the mon
strous falsehoods which it had disse
minated throughout the country for the
express purpose of influencing the elec
tion, have been disappointed, and Gen.
Grant fears that the power of himself
and of that bad party whose willing in
strument he has been is rapidly coming
to an end. Tho trump card of the Ad
ministration in this campaign —the
same one which was played with such
disastrous effect in 1868 and 1872,
Southern outrages—has failed to win in
Ohio and Indiana, and may reasonably be
expected to fail in Illinois and Pennsyl
vania. The Northern people have learned
a great deal during the past two years—
and among other things they have
learned not to believe the monstrous
tales concerning the lawlessness and
cruelties of the Southern whites which
are put forth just before an election
and which are not heard of afterwards.
They have also learned that the Radical
party is impotent for good, that it is
honeycombed with corruption, and that
in its overthrow lies the only chance of
preserving republican institutions. Out
rages will win no longer; tho Adminis
tration must play something else. „
YON ARNIM.
The Chronicle and Sentinel doesn’t
wish to say anything which will add to
the vigor of Von Aknim’s imprisonment
or to the severity of his punishment.
We know how great an influence Ameri
can newspapers exert upon the affairs of
Europe, especially upon the politics of
Germany, and we are reluctant to use
the mighty power of the press. Bis
marck is a careful observer of our Euro
pean articles (which he reads himself in
the original upon the arrival of every
steamer) and we have been careful to
print nothing which would injure the
imprisoned diplomatist. But as all the
other journals are having something
to say concerning the recent arrest, we
have concluded to take a shy at it also.
We think that a good deal of sympathy
has been wasted upon Von Arnxm and
that Prince Bismarck has been very un
justly censured for the course which he
lias seen proper to pursue. If the ac
counts wbieh we have seen be oorrect
Von Arnim fully deserves arrest and
severe punishment. He was the
ambassador of the German Govern
ment to France; he was in the confidence
of Bismarck, the head of that Govern
ment He was entrusted with the wishes
and plans of his Government and in
structed to further them. Instead of
doing this he secretly opposed them and
intrigued against the German Adminis
tration. In the struggle between Mac-
Mahon and Thiers, between the Mon
archists and Republicans, for the su
premacy Von Arnim was instructed to
aid the latter; instead of doing so he
worked secretly and vigorously in the
interests of the former. Not content with
opposing his Government in French he
also attempted to thwart its policy in
Spanish affairs. While'Germany was
bent upon the establishment of a Re
public its minister was lending all his
influence to the support of Don Carlos
and the ultramontanists. When his
treachery was at last discovered and the I
mask had been thrown, or rather torn
off, Von Arnim placed himself at the
head of the reactionary party in Ger
many and openly resisted where be had
before secretly opposed. It was discov
ered that in order to injure the party
whose agent he had been and whose
confidence he had possessed, he had
purloined a number of important papers
sent him in his official capacity, and
which in no sense of the word could be
considered his pioperty. It was also re
ported that he intended patting them in
a book which he was about to publish.
Under the circumstances %hat was Bis
marck to do ? Valuable property had
been stolen of which it was important
that the Government should have pos
session. Perhaps in the United States
the remedy employed would have been
different, but Germany is not America—
the laws and customs of the two coun
tries are widely different, and the case
should not be considered from this
stand-point. If Von Arnim is a martyr
he makes himself one. If he objects to
imprisonment let him give up the fruits
of his treachery and regain his liberty.
This is all he is asked to do.
CALIFORNIA STEW.
California is in a stew because it has
been discovered that Chinamen may be
come naturalized citizens and voters. —
The old law of 1802 declared that “any
alien being a free white person,” may be
admitted to become a citizen, etc. In
1870 the provision was extended to cover
“aliebs of African nativity and persons
of African descent.” The revision uses
the words of the law of 1802, omitting
“being a free white person,” and inserts
the law of 1870 about Africans. The
law therefore, as now standing, breaks
down all barriers of race or descent
which California has hitherto success
fully opposed. The people of California
should not become excited over so
small a matter. The Congressmen from
that State in 1867 thought it would be
monstrous injustice to keep the ballot
out of the hands of the Southern blacks
and they assisted in the passage of all
the reconstruction acts and constitu
tional amendments. Now, when the
poisoned chalice is put to their lips, the
Californians wish to rebel. It is useless
for them to resist. They mnst take the
medicine which they prescribed for
others. If the black man can vote why
not the “heathen Chinee !” Let there
be no distinction on account of race or
color.
A REMARKABLE DEFENSE.
Under this capt’on the New York
Times alludes to the defense made by
the publishers of the New York Nation
to a libel suit, brought against them by
one Cyrus Williams. It appears that
the Nation, in an article ou the Emma
Mining swindle, stated that the plaintiff
had been guilty of preparing, plaster
ing and grafting silver ore on the lime
stone of the Emma Silver Mine; that
previous to such act the majority of
the -workmen had been discharged, and
those who remained were employed in
guarding the entrance to the mine while
Professor Silliman was engaged in ma
king his examination; that by reason of
such grafting, &c., on the walls of the
mine, Professor Silliman was deceived,
and made a report in accordance with
what he found, whereby English stock
holders were swindled out of $500,000,
and that he (Williams) got SIOO,OOO for
Iris services in the matter. Defendant’s
counsel moved to dismiss the complaint
on the ground that the statements com
plained of were not of a libelous charac
ter, in that they did not charge the
plaintiff with any offense; his act, as
charged by them, being merely done
under the direction of others, he having
no interest in the mine or in the stock.
If this plea should be sustained it will
be gratifying to Mr. Williams to
know that he has not been injured, be
cause tho offending newspaper did not
allege that he had originated a swindle,
but had merely assisted in perpetrating
one planned by others. Highly consol
ing to the plaintiff, no doubt.
THE SOUTH.
A writer in Fraser's Magazine on the
resources and capabilities of the South
ern States of this Republic does not hesi
tate to express the opinion that the
Northern journals are accustomed from
habit to portray the condition of the
South in more sombre colors than the
actual truth warrants, and this, he
thinks, is the reason why European emi
gration and capital seek tho Northern
instead of the Southern States. Perhaps
this case might be put in a different way.
At the Nortli the press assumes vast pro
portions and is prolific in its reports,
descriptions and euloginms of the re
sources of all parts of the North and
West. At the South the press is very
limited in extent and poorly supported.
It is chiefly partisan, red hot with sec
tional bitterness, and devotes little or no
attention to agriculture, mining, finance,
railroads, banking, insurance, commerce,
navigation, and the internal resources
and advantages of the South. When
Northern emigrants go South to settle
they are termed carpet-baggers. Being
accustomed to an advanced civilization
at the North, tho correspondents who
are sent South seldom are favorably im
pressed with what they see there, and
are especially incensed at the persecu
tion of Northern men—the travelers for
the New York Iribune being a rare ex
ception.
The above is taken from the editorial
columns of the Philadelphia North
American. It would be difficult to cram
more falsehoods in a smaller compass.
The Southern press has labored zeal
ously and unceasingly since the war to
build up the South aDd to repair the
ravages of Northern armies. The South
ern newspapers have never failed to lend
a helping hand to any enterprise which
promised directly or indirectly to benefit
their section. They have never inquired
or cared whether the men who had them
in baud were Northerners or Southern
ers—Democrats or Republicans. They
have in good faith invited capital and
immigration, and the bona fide settler
has always been received kindly and hos
pitably. The Southern press has been
partisan and bitter to this extent: it has
refused to accept or sustain the in
famous governments which a political
party North put over them for
the purposes of plunder and op
pression. It has denounced vil
liany and fraud, and arrayed public
sentiment against their authors. It has
repelled such slanders as those manu
factured by the Philadelphia North
American and other Radical papers.
This is the partisanship of which South
ern journals have been guilty. It is
not true that “Northern emigrants who
go South to settle” are termed carpet
baggers. And the first persons to deny
such a statement are the Northern set
tlers themselves. We call those persons
carpet-baggers who come here from the
North, not to make a living by honest
industry, not to aid in building up and
improving the country, but who come
to make a business of politics, who at
tempt to array the races against each
other, who strive only to obtain pos
sion of government in order that they
may grow rich by theft. These are the
carpet-baggers. We do not say that all
of them are dishonest; that there are
not exceptions to the general rule; but
we are speaking now of a class, not of
individuals: of the class to which be
long such men as Scott, Neagle, Ktmp
ton, Patterson, Hurley, Littlefield,
Chamberlain, Bullock, Pketttman,
Kellogg and Clayton. The laboring
men from the North, the me
canic, the farmer, the merchant,
the lawyer, the doctor, who come
among us to make a reputable
livelihood are made welcome, and have
no complaints to make of their neigh
bor. The capitalist who comes to de
velop onr resources is jnst as cordially
received. If the North American dis
believes this statement let it appeal to
the Northern men who are engaged in
mining operations in Northern Georgia,
to the Northern men who are enlarging
the Augusta Canal, to the Northern men
who built the Augusta Street Railway,
and to the Northern man who has given
his name and his. money to the Langley
Manufacturing Company. These are all
competent witnesses, and Georgia is
willing to be judged by their testimony.
The North American speaks of the un
favorable impression which the South
ern people make upon all tho Northern
newspaper correspondents, except those
employed by the Tribune. Our Phila
delphia cotemporary probably meant to
include only the attaches of Republican
newspapers. The Tribune is too honest
and independent to print slanders know
ingly, and strives to present the true
condition of the country. The corres
pondents of Radical papers usually re
ceive instrn£jons similar to those given
by the Chmigo Inter-Ocean to its re
porter. He was instructed to write up
the South so as to make a case for the
Republican party. That was his mis
sion ; he was to influence public senti
ment against the Democrats in the
North by writing falsehoods concerning
the white people of the South. The ex
planation of the correspondents’ stories
is very simple. Their spectacles are
colored before they leave home. It is
true that the South is unable to offer the
same inducements to Northern and Eu
ropean immigration as the West. There
are no public lands in the South to give
to settlers; no great trnnk railways
built by means of Government grants,
which keep agents in Europe for the
purpose of turning immigration over their
lines. But we offer to every honest
laboring man, no matter what his na
tionality or his political opinions, a de
lightful climate, fertile soil, cheap land,
varied productions, unexcelled water
power, great mineral resources and a
cordial welcome. This is all we can do;
and when Northern papers cease to slan
der and misrepresent us immigrants will
come to the South as they are now
going to the West.
SHERMAN.
Gen. Sherman is not-so popular at the
North now as he was a few years ago.—
His difficulty with the War Department
and the removal of army headquarters
beyond the Mississippi have caused him
to receive som*e very sharp raps from
Northern journals. The Washington
Republican —the kitchen organ of the
Administration—has gone so far as to de
mand the resignation of the Commanding
General. Is this the treatment which
the soldier who “broke the back bone of
the rebellion” and “taught the South
what war meant” is to receive ? Sher
man, however, is not the man to be
moved by this kind of talk and he will
not resign until he becomes too old to
exercise the duties of his office or until
the advent of the Empire—which the
political prophets say is so rapidly ap
proaching—makes all things even.
THE NEXT HOUSE.
The recent great and unexpected vic
tories of the Democrats in Ohio and In
diana have brought our Republican
friends at the North to their arithmetic.
Though they have a working majority
of two-thirds in the present House they
are fearful of finding themselves in a
minority when the Forty-fourth Con
gress assembles, and are estimating
what their losses in the remaining States
must be next November in order to
bring about such a melancholy result.
When the canvass opened it required
the defeat of fifty-two or three Republi
cans to make a Democratic majority in
the House of Representatives. Up to
the present time the elections in North
Carolina, West Virginia, lowa, Ohio
and Indiana have given a gain of six
teen. Thirty-six additional members
are necessary, of which the Southern
States are expected to furnish fifteen or
twenty. Virginia may be counted on
for two, South Carolina one, Georgia
three, Alabama two, Louisiana one,
Arkansas four, and Tennessee five. The
rest must come from the Nortli and
West. Eight districts in Pennsylvania
and five in Illinois, now Republican, are
very close, and the New York Times
concedes them to the Democracy. New
York is expected to give three or
four, Maryland one, Delaware one,
California one, Kansas, Wisconsin
and Michigan one each, and New
Jersey is counted on for one, per
haps two. If these expectations are not
disappointed there will be a gain of at
least forty votes, which will give the
Democrats a majority in the Forty
fourth Cougress, with a few votes to
spare. These kind of calculations causes
the Washington correspondent of the
Times to assert that “there is no at
tempt by Republicans to disguise the
fact that there is not a little danger of
the Democrats securing the control of
the next House of Representatives,”
and induces the editor of that paper to
call upon the Republicans of New York
to arouse from a lethargy which threat
ens them with the loss of that great
State. Verily the skies are brightening
and the chances seem good for the elec
tion two years lienee of a Democratic
President on a Democratic platform.
MR. STEPHENS’ AUGUSTA SPEECH.
[From the Savannah News.]
The Augusta papers come to us with a
full report of Hon. A. H. Stephens’
speech, delivered in that city on Thurs
day last, of which a brief telegraphic
synopsis has already been given to the
readers of the News. While we entirely
accord with Mr. Stephens in his views
of the principles upon which our Fede
rative system of State government was
founded, and should be maintained, the
exposition of which occupies the greater
portion of his elaborate argument, we
must confess that, with all our predilec
tions of appreciation of his transcendent
ability and long cherished feelings of
personal esteem, we read that portion of
his speech in which he makes what
seems to us a specious and technical de
fense of General Grant’s share in the
Louisiana usurpation, and expresses his
acquiescence in the proposed third term
innovation, with painful regret. It is
impossible to read this portion of the
speech, in which Grant’s conduct in the
Louisiana infamy is vindicated, without
a word of censure for any of his numer
ous acts of oppression and outrage, and
not be impressed with the conviction
that Mr. Stephens is ready to accept
Grant for a third term or any number
of terms.
Our contemporary of the Chronicle,
in introducing the speech to his readers,
has performed a duty which it owed no
less to itself as an organ of Democratic
opinion than to the Democracy of the
whole country by entering its protest
against these views of Mr. Stephens be
ing received as the sentiment of his con
stituents of the Eighth Congressional
District or of the Jeffersonian Democracy
of Georgia.
The outrageous Convention adopted a
resolution offered by H. M. Tubner, of
Georgia, denouncing the “misrepre
sentations and mendacity of most of
the Agents of the Associated Press in
the South” who have used their posi
tion to “ disseminate broadcast over the
land malicious and lying slanders upon
Republicans and the Republican party.
The animus of the mover of this resolu
tion is easily understood when it is re
membered that the Agents of the Asso
ciated Press “ disseminated broadcast ”
intelligence of the Rev. Turner’s opera
tions in counterfeit currency and free
love about three years ago. That’sjwhats
the matter.
A New York Court has decided that a
railway company is not responsible for
the lives of its employees on the princi
ple that men who work in powder mills
mnst expect to be blown up. A suit
was brought against a Brooklyn Com
pany to recover for the life of an em
ployee lost through the negligence of
the employer. The counsel for the de
fendant contended that even if the alle
gation as to negligence were true the
company was not responsible, because
the deceased had taken the situation
with all its attendant risks and dangers.
The Court sustained this view of the
case and ordered a non-suit entered.
A Mb. Steakns has found something
for onr idle Government to do. He has
discovered that the colored people of
the South have’nt sufficient occupation
for their leisure hours, and he wishes to
provide them with pleasant labor at the
expense of the Government. He asks :
“But what better measure could Con
gress adopt than to loan to a well-or
ganized company of responsible citizens
a sam of money to be used for this pur
pose ? The deeds of the land could be
made to the Government, so that there
would be no risk on its part, and a mod
erate rate of interest could be charged,
out of which could be paid the expense
of purchasing and collecting the install
ments. ” If we are not greatly mistaken
Mr. Stearns is the party of that name
who attempted to revolutionize the
farming business in Columbia county a
few years ago. His magnificent success
there eminently qualifies him to take
charge of the new scheme which he pro
poses. The question seems to be, how
ever, who will loan to tho Government
the money which Stearns wishes the
Government to loan to the colored
people ?
For some time past an agent of the
European holders of Southern bonds
has been traveling in the South for the
purpose of making some arrangement
to secure the payment of the principal
and interest of their debts. He has al
ready effected settlements with the Gov
ernors of Virginia, North and South
Caroliua, Alabama and Arkansas, which
only need ratification by the Legisla
tures of the respective States to go into
effect. These settlements involve over
eighty millions of dollars. Louisiana
has no legal government with which to
treat and Georgia owes very little abroad
—and that little she is abundantly able
to pay. The basis of tho arrangement
is an agreement on the part of the
foreign holders to fund the debt of the
several States principal and interest and
extend tho time of payment twenty
years at four or five jjer cent, interest
per annum.
Mr. Wm. Pitt Kellogg— whom Gen.
Grant has twice made Governor of
Louisiana—is as slippery a carpet-bag
ger as ever “developed” a State Treas
ury. It has been repeatedly charged as
quite susceptible of proof that in the
election of 1872 he was defeated by a
very large majority. The hue and cry
has been so strong against him that the
other day he agreed to submit his case
to the decision of the returns and the
judgment of arbitrators; if the returns
showed that he was not Governor of the
State he would resign. This seemed
fair enough, but a little investigation
showed that the only effect of his resig
nation would be to make Antoine, Lieu
tenant-Governor, the Executive of the
State. The Conservatives propose that
Kellogg, if the decision goes against
him, shall agree to turn over the State
government to its legal officers, but this
proposition the wily carpet-bagger de
clines.
The blackest eye which the Civil
Rights bill has received has been given
by Mr. Wm. M. Evarts, one of the
staunchest Republicans in the State of
New York, and one of the trustees of
the Peabody educational fund. He was
chairman of a special committee ap
pointed to report on the proposed legis
lation of Congress with regard to mixed
schools. A synopsis of his report was
furnished by telegraph a few days ago.
The mail brings the document in full.
It is a most masterly paper and its argu
ments are as unanswerable as its con
clusions are indisputable. He closes
with the statement that compulsory
legislation by Congress in favor of mixed
schools as the system of public educa
tion will be most pernicious to the in
terests of education in the communities
to be affected by it, and that the colored
population will suffer the greatest share
of this disastrous influence.
It is a fine point which General Ker
shaw makes against cartridge-box Wal
lace, his opponent for Congress in the
Greenville District of South Carolina.
He shows that when Wallace was a
member of the Legislature ' before the
war lie introduced and advocated a bill
providing that all free colored people in
South Caroliua should select masters or
leave the State, and if they failed to do
one or the other, be sold into slavery.
Wallace is now tiie statesman who
urges the blacks to make war upon the
whites.
Hon. Lewis E. Parsons, who presided
over the Outrageous Convention, is the
same man who in 1868 opposed tho re
construction acts and negro suffrage so
bitterly. He took the ground in the
Presidential campaign of that year that
the Southern whites should arm and
drive the negroes from the polls and se
cure a majority for the Democratic can
didates. One renegado has always
proven worse than ten Turks.
Every friend of true love through
out the State will be glad to learn
that Senator Perry, whose sad acci
dent and romantic wedding have
been duly published, is recovering and
that his life is no longer thought to be
in danger. Every one will wish him
and the noble woman who has become
his bride a long life of prosperity and
happiness.
It is to be hoped that the Democrats
of the Seventh District will give a cor
dial and united support to Col. Dabney,
the nominee of the party. They should
determine to elect their candidate at all
hazards, and to show that the Democra
cy of the Seventh District is still strong
enough to maintain its organization.
INDIANA.
The Results of the Great Victory.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle awl Sentinel.]
Greenbury, Ind., October 19, 1874.
The elections in Ohio and Indiana re
sulted in an unexpected Democratic
triumph. It was generally believed that
both States would be carried by the
Democracy, but no one anticipated such
a glorious victory. Every county, every
township and every voting precinct
shows large and satisfactory gains. This
State had been outrageously gerryman
dered for both Legislative and Con
gressional purposes, making it impossi
ble, the Radicals thought, for the Demo
crats ever to get a majority of the mem
bers of Congress or a majority in the
Legislature. But we have eight out of
the thirteen Congressmen and a majority
in the lower branch of the Legislature
and twenty-three Democrats to twenty
four Republicans in the Senate, besides
there are three or four independents who
will more likely vote with the Democrats
than with the Republicans. At all events
we will elect a Democratic United states
Senator in place of Daniel D. Pratt, one
of the champions of the Civil Rights
bill. In this county, which has always
been Republican, the Democrats re
ceived a majority of 157 for their State
ticket, a gain of 319 over the vote of two
years ago. This election does not leave
more than half a dozen counties giving
Republican majorities in the south
ern half of the State. Among
the Congressmen elect we will
mention Judge Jeptha D. New, from
this District, who, we believe, was a
classmate of Elder J. S. Lamar, of your
city, at Bethany College. Hon. W. S.
Holman has also been returned. _ The
last Legislature had fixed up a District
especially fo him. They made it as
strongly Radical as possible, giving him
a majority of 1,412 to overcome. This
he did, and besides received a majority
of about 2,300. He is a man of the peo
ple, and one who cannot well be spared
from the halls of Congress. Another
District, fixed np to return a Republi
can Congressman, was the Tenth Dis
trict. The Republican majority in this
District in the last election was 1,496.
The Democrats placed in nomination
Dr. W. S. Haymond, well known to your
citizens as the President of the Chicago
and South Atlantic Railroad. He over
came all this opposition, and I think it
bat prognosticates the success he will
finally meet with in building that great
route from the lakes to the sea; that
he will be a useful member I have no
doubt, and that he will redouble his
energies to accomplish the great work
he has undertaken is equally certain.
Wm. O. Foley.
Mr. Amos Whitehead,of Burke county,
was killed in Florida last week by being
Annff.il in Ihft freftrinff and cogs of a mill.
classmate of Elder J. S. Lamar, of your
city, at Bethany College. Hon. W. S.
Holman has also been returned.. The
last Legislature had fixed up a District
especially for him. They made it as
strongly Radical as possible, giving him
a majority of 1,412 to overcome. This
he did, and besides received a majority
of about 2,300. He is a man of the peo
ple, and one who cannot well be spared
from the halls of Congress. Another
District, fixed np to return a Republi
can Congressman, was the Tenth Dis
trict. The Republican majority in this
District in the last election was 1,496.
The Democrats placed in nomination
Dr. W. S. Haymond, well known to your
citizens as the President of the Chicago
and South Atlantic Railroad. He over
came all this opposition, and I think it
bat prognosticates the success he will
finally meet with in building that great
route from the lakes to the sea; that
he will be a useful member I have no
doubt, and that he will redouble his
energies to accomplish the great work
he has undertaken is equally certain.
Wm. O. Foley.
Mr. Amos Whitehead,of Burke county,
was killed in Florida last week by being
caugut in the gearing and cogs of a mill.
The President and Louisiana.
A letter from Hon. James B. Beck to
tlie Frankfort Yeoman says: In response
to jour request that I will give the facts
in regard to the recognition of the Kel
logg government, I beg to say that I do
not desire to discuss the late troubles in
Louisiana, but I do object to the apolo
getic tone of a portion of the Democratic
press and of some of our leading states
men in regard to the President’s action
in December, 1872, subverting the State
government of Louisiana by placing
Kellogg, Pinchback & Cos. over that
prostrate Commonwealth, against the
known wish of the people, by the army
and navy of the United States. They
speak of his condnct as a “mistake,” an
“error of judgment,” an “unintentional
wrong,” which they regret, but do not
blame him for it, when, in fact, they
know, if they know what they are talking
about, that Kellogg’s usurpation and
Durell’s decision was not only fostered
and encouraged by the President and
his Attorney-General, who is simply his
man “Friday,” the convenient tool of
his master, but was arranged and dic
tated by the President, who is and
ought to be held responsible before the
American people for all the evils which
have followed. I could prove these as
sertions to be true beyond all peradven
ture by % plain recital of facts and dates,
and I hope to do so on the floor of Con
gress this Winter. Now, I prefer to 1
furnish an abstract of the proof from a
speech made by Mr. Lamar, of Missis
sippi, in the House of Representatives
on the 14th day of June last, which,
though listened to by all the Republican
leaders, was neither answered nor con
tradicted, and could not be, because the
facts were indisputable.
Ho then quotes from Lamar’s speech,
in which it is shown that the Federal
Government, after recognizing the
Warmoth government as legal, by its
own hand destroyed that government,
and set up another in its stead, and that
the whole plan to set up and maintain
the Kellogg government was precon
certed, and the Federal authorities at
Washington duly notified thereof, and
that the plan met their approval, and it
was the work of breaking up the legiti
mate government for the purpose solely
of forwarding the interests of the Repub
lican party.
Durell was to decide the Kellogg re
turning board legal, and to issue an in
junction against the Warmoth govern
ment, restraining them from meeting,
and the injunction was to bo backed up
and enforced by United States troops
under the direction of Gen. Ornery.
The programme was carried cut to the
very letter. Durell made his decision,
and it was enforced by United States
troops.{Afterwards, when Gov. McEnery
and a hundred citizens started to Wash
ington to protest against this outrageous
usurpation, and to beg of the President
at least a fair hearing of their cause, a
dispatch from the imperial Attorney-
General Williams was sent to them, in
forming them that the President had
made up his mind, and that it would be
unavailing. They went, however, and
were about to effect a compromise, when
a dispatch was sent by Marshal Packard
to Kellogg, telling him to abandon all
thought of compromise,thattlie McEnery
government must be broken up as soon
as Congress adjourned, which command
was obeyed, and as spon as Congress
adjourned the McEnery government was
broken up and dispersed by a body of
police, backed by the United States
troops, since which time the State has
been under the heel of; the Kellogg usur
pation.
The dates above given show that Con
gress was in session when all these events
transpired. It met Monday, December
2, 1872, and it is a well known fact that
Durell’s decision, on which so much
stress was afterward laid, was not only
dictated at Washington, but never would
have been rendered but for the assurance
given before its rendition by the Attor
ney-General that it would be sustained
and enforced. With such a record as
that undisputable, 1 repeat, it is folly,
and worse than folly, for Democratic
speakers or writers to call the Presi
dent’s action either “mis
taken,” or “excusable.” It was plain,
palpable usurpation of power and shame
less violation of duty, for which he and
his advisers, aiders and abettors should
be held accountable by the American
people. One of the very worst signs of
the times is the disposition to pander to
power, and thus embolden those in au
thority to disregard constitutional re
straint. Every Democrat should, when
truth demands it, proclaim and expose
the infraction of right, and the conse
quences of the wrong, and demand the
removal from place and power of the
wrong doers. Popular liberty cannot
otherwise be preserved, nor free institu
tions perpetuated. That is all I desire to
say at present, and I would not have said
what I have but for the apologetic tones
of several very able articles by leading
Democrats, which, in my judgment,
gave the people a false idea of the con
duct of the President and his advisers
relative to Louisiana. They are re
sponsible for all that has followed or
may follow. Kellogg and Pinchback
were their tools. The plunder of Louis
ina and the desperation of the people
are the legitimate consequences of their
acts. The consequences of theso acts
were obvious. The man who, in reck
less disregard of social duty, throws
from the roof of abuse a log of wood
into a crowded street and kills a human
being is as much a murderer as the
midnight assassin, and it is no excuse if
his own wife, child, or best friend hap
pens to be the victim. The President
and his Attorney-General (whose known
malice to all Southern men makes him a
desirable instrument in the President’s
hands) and their partisans are equally
responsible for the consequences of
their flagrant usurpation. They knew
then as well as now that Durell and his
Court had no jurisdiction; that the Kel
logg-Pinchback returns were “conceived
of sin and brought forth in iniquity;”
that they were prostituting the army
and navy of the United States to the
basest of purposes when they caused its
military power to plant the heels of
these usurpers on the necks of the peo
ple of Louisiana. Thus believing, I en
ter my feeble protest against all Demo
cratic apologies for their conduct, no
matter how distinguished [the source
from whence they come.
Respectfully, J. B. Beck.
THE PEABODY FUND.
Report of Dr. Sears on Georgia and
South Carolina.
South Carolina. —Except in the city
of Charleston scarcely any schools in the
State are kept throughout the year.
They are, moreover, so poorly supported
and badly managed that no aid we can
give will make them attractive to intelli-
gent families. According to the report
of the State Superintendent, made No
vember 1, 1873, the State appropriation
for schools is $300,000, besides the poll
tax and district taxes, amounting to
$149,968. Of this appropriation $29,714
remain unpaid. Of the appropriation
for the year 1872 no less than $209,185
remain unpaid ; and of that for 1871,
$75,000, making the whole deficiency
$313,899. Upon “ the unsatisfactory
condition of the school finances, and
upon the ignorance, incompetence, and
inexcusable neglect of duty on the part
of many of the school officers,” the Su
perintendent remarks.: “If the future
management of our State school appro
priations is to be no improvement on
that of the past it would be wise to aban
don the plan altogether, and impose
upon the people of each county or school
district the duty of providing the means
for the maintenance of the public
schools.” Under these circumstances
nothing has been done for South Caro
lina, except to contribute S2OO for a
school in Spartanburg.
Georgia. —While the cities cf this
State show much public spirit in organ
izing and maintaining free schools, the
State itself is somewhat feeble and fal
tering in its action. Whether it dis
trusts the principle incorporated in its
laws, of educating the people at the
public expense, or is indifferent to the
intellectual condition of the lower
classes, the effect is the same—a deplo
rable state of popular ignorance. The
number of children between the ages of
six and eighteen years is, according to
the last report of the School Commis
sioner, 349,164 (now ascertained to be
402,500). The number attending the
public schools three months in the year
is 76,157, including 17,658 colored pu
pils; the number attending private
schools, 23,597, of whom 1,234 are col
ored, making the whole attendance in
both classes of schools 99,754, and leav
ing 249,410 who attend no school. The
public money distributed last year was
$250,000 (for this year it will be $265,-
000), about seventy cents to each child.
Thirty-five per cent, of the population
over ten years c>f age are unable to read.
The aid given to the schools of Georgia
was $10,350.
Sam Gove, who cultivates strawberries
regularly and runs upon the Radical
ticket occasionally in Twiggs county,
and who is now a candidate for Con
gress, has crawled in a hole and pulled
the hole in after him. He has not
been seen in a month, and says he is
afraid to canvass his District. As to
what he is afraid of particularly is not
so clear.
Atlanta is now blessed with everything
except “the removal of the capital from
Washington.” She has a State Fair
with from seven to one hundred thou
sand people in attendance, locomotive
engineers, brigade reunions, sixteen
page newspapers and all the country
editors in the State. In the capital re
moval business, even she is not alto
gether bankrupt, for that is a standing
advertisement.
THE BOYLSTON BANK ROBBERY.
Curious Story of a Burglar’s Life—The
Career of Charles Bullard.
[New York Herald.]
The approaching trial at Boston of
Charles Bullard alias “Piano Charlie,”
one of the most celebrated robbers of
this country, for participation in the
burglary of the Boylston Bank five years
ago, promises to elucidate some very
curious facts. When arrested in this
city a few weeks ago he was almost with
out money, and the majority of his old
friends had turned their backs upon
him. Below will be found a sketch of his
connection with the Boston Bmk rob
bery above alluded to, and also of his al
leged participation in the robbery of the
car of the Merchants’ Union Express
Company, on the 30th of April, 1868,
from which upward of $350,000 were ab
stracted. For this latter offense he and
Isaac Marsh were brought from Canada
to White Plains jail, from which place
they made their escape.
THE MERCHANTS’ UNION EXPRESS ROBBERY.
On the Ist of May, 1868, upon the
arrival of the half-past six a. m. Hndsou
River Railroad train in this city, it was
discovered that a robbery had taken
place in the car of the Merchants’ Union
Express (now amalgamated with the
American Merchants’ Union Express),
and that the company’s messenger, Put
nam Brown, had been gagged and
bound, in which position he was. found,
the robbers having abstracted upwards
of §350,000. The messenger, Brown,
being arrested, confessed that the rob
bery had been executed by himself,
Charles Bullard, alias Charlie Thomp
son, alias “Piano Cherlie;” “Den”
Thompson, an actor, and “Ike” Marsh.
Shortly after this the detectives obtain
ed information that Bullard and Marsh
had taken refuge in Canada. They were
brought back and lodged in White
Plains jail, in Westchester county. A
letter to Bullard from a New York police
official was found while he was impris
oned in Canada, torn in fragments, but
was put together and read by the de
tective who had him in charge. Bullard
and Marsh were brought from Canada
at the same time as the celebrated
Frank Reno and Charles Anderson, who
had robbed the Adams Express Com
pany at Sevmour, Indiana, on the 19th
of May, 1868.
The capture of Bullard, Marsh and
Putnam Brown led to tho recovery of
upward of SIOO,OOO of the money, &c.,
stolen from the Merchants’ Uniou Ex
press. Bullard and Marsh were kept in
White Plains jail for about three months,
when they escaped and sailed for Eu
rope with well filled wallets.
THE BOYLSTON BANK BOBBEBY.
When the doors of the Boylston Bank,
corner of Boylston and Washington
streets, Boston, were opened on the
morning of the 22d of November, 1869,
it was discovered that the vault had been
broken into by burglars, and that up
ward of $400,000 worth of property, con
sisting of bank bills, bonds, &c., had
been stolen. From that day to this
1 rdly any of the property has been re
covered. The Boston police have been
unable to obtain a clew as to who were
the perpetrators of the daring robbery.
It appears that on tlie22dday of October,
exactly a month previous to the discove
ry of the robbery, a man giving the
name of W. A. Judson bought a barber
shop in the building adjacent to the bank.
He appeared quiet and respectable
and no suspicion was entertained as to
his real character. Judson furnished
his new room very handsomely, and
carried on the sale of California wine
bitters. The walls of the room were
wainscotted up to the ceiling. The
robbers cut off a corner of the room by
placing a partition and making what ap
peared to visitors an inner or private
room. The wainscott or wooden sheat
ing in the private office was then
cut so as to form a door, behind which
was the partition wall. This being ac
complished, the gang commenced cut
ting away the wall, brick by brick,
which were removed with the broken
mortar in boxes labelled “medicine.”
Working stealthily at night, week after
week, the robbers cut their way through
two walls, twenty inches in thickness,
and having accomplished this the back
of the lofty iron safe was exposed. They
then, by means of a drill, cut a hole
•eighteen inches square into the back of
the safe.
A CAPTURE OE $400,000.
Through this hole they took out all
the private boxes on the shelves, and
bursting them open helped themselves
to what they wanted, and having taken
their choice scattered mortgages, &c.,
over the floor of the safe. A large por
tion of the booty consisted of green
backs. The burglary took place be
tween the closing of the bank on Satur
day evening and its opening on Monday
morning. When the police commenced
their investigations all they succeeded
in obtaining were sundry bottles and
burglars’ tools. Detectives worked for
a long time without gaining any clew to
the robbers, until they finally received
information that tho burglars were
Charles Bullard, Isaac Marsh, Adam
Worth and Bob Cochran, alias “Big
Congo.” It was also stated that the two
principal men in the robbery came to
New York by railroad, where they were
met by two officers. They went to
Philadelphia, where, it is alleged, a
prominent police official kept them con
cealed for some time.
BILLY GLOVEB’S ARREST.
After tho affair had somewhat passed
out of recollection “Billy Glover,” a
regular receiver of stolen bonds, who
worked in conjunction with a man call
ed “Broker Dick,” was found to have
passed some of the stolen bonds to a
New York banking house. Detective
Sergeant, of Boston, was dispatched to
this city, and through the assistance of
Kitty Underhill, the paramour of Broker
Dick, Glover was arrested and taken to
Boston, where, after two trials, he was
sentenced to twelve years imprisonment
for being accessory to the robbery.
Some of the stolen Boylston bonds
were sold to Jay Cooke & Cos. through
Bullard, and a detective was ordered to
arrest him, but reported that he had es
caped through the back entrance of the
house where he lived. The money
stolen by Bullard from the Boylston
Bank was squandered with a prodigal
hand, and after an attack of delirium
tremens he entered an inebriate asylum,
where he remained some months, and
for years past lie has been hiding from
the police, till he was recently captured
at his residence in Thirteenth street, in
this city, and taken to Boston to answer
the Boylston Bank robbery. Upon his
arrival at Boston he stated that Glover,
whose trial is alluded to above, was in
nocent, and that he was unjustly im
prisoned.
OUK BONDS POURING BACK ON
US PROM EUROI’Ji.
Have We the Capital to Float Them ?
New York, October 20.—The Post
says the Rothschild-Seligmau syndicates
have made their settlements with the
Treasury for November and December,
which means that they have sent into
the Treasury the 5-20 bonds which have
been called, and on which interest ceases
November 1 and December 1, so that the
calculations that the Treasury will have
to pay out any considerable amount of
gold for those bonds will be at fault.—
The amount of called bonds, maturing
November 1, is $25,000,000 and on De
cember 1, $55,000,000. One of the chief
reasons for the rise in exchange is that
securities are coming here from Europe
in considerable amounts. It is under
stood that a large amount of Erie stores
are on the way from London as well as
United States bonds from the German
markets, the latter having been ordered
here because this has been a higher
market.
Private advices from Germany say
there is considerable uneasiness because
of recent declarations of two States iu
favor of redeeming United States bonds
in greenbacks instead of coin. It was
reported on the street this morning that
Erie has closed a loan for $300,000 in
the London market, to be low
as tbe previous negotiations.
GRANT-HONORE.
Lieut. Freddy Captures an Heiress.
Chicago, October 20.—At 3 o’clock
this afternoon, Lieut. Fred Grant and
Ida Mary Honore were joined in matri
mony at the residence of the bride’s
father, H. H. Honore, on Vincennes
avenue. Among the guests present were
Mr. and Mrs. Grant, Gen. and Mrs.
Sherman, ex-Secretary Borie and wife,
Gen. Babcock, Secretary Belknap and
wife, Gen. Sheridan, Gov. Beveridge
and wife, Senator Logan, Vice-Presi
dent Wilson, Gen. Ord and Gen. Custar
and wife. The bridal party started at
9 o’clock this evening for St. Louis.
President Grant and party will leave the
city to-morrow morning, via Cleveland
and Pittsburg, for Washington. Among
the bridesmaids was Miss Houston, of
Louisville, daughter of Russell Hous
ton, and among the groomsmen Ulysses
S. Grant, Jr. The bride wore a white
satin dress, cut eu traine. The bridal
veil, which reached to the floor, was of
white satin tulle, and the dress, which
was of exceedingly rich material, was
rather plainly made. Her hair was
dressed in a single coife and hung in
braids behind. The groom was dressed
in the full uniform of a colonel in the
United States army. .
Seven or eight hundred bales of cotton
were shipped from Conyers daring the
past week,
GRANT’S TACTICS.
How the Administration Electioneers.
Another Reign of Terror Inaugurated.
New York, October 21.— A Tribune
special, from New Orleans, savs the fol
lowing is a partial list of the citizens ar
rested in Coushatta parish : Major Ste
phenson, Captain Abvey, J. M. McLe
more, Hugh Jones, Walter Clark, Bret
Lee, Geo. Cowboru, Dr. Brown, Pine
Pigarns, Pink Lebright, Samuel Lessee,
and others whose names are not reported.
It is very difficult to obtain trustworthy
information of the cause or manner of
the arrests. The white people through
out the Red river parishes are much
alarmed, as it is given out that warrants
have been issued for the arrest of three
hundred persons. Many have fled,
dreading incarceration in New Orleans
while awaiting trial. There is great ex
citement in the surrounding parishes, as
warrants seem to be made out indis
criminately. No arrest here, but mo
mentarily expected. The people here
take a desponding view of the situation,
and the action of those who declared
their intention to retain In their employ
ment no men who vote with Radicals
was a desperate resort, caused by the
firm belief that it is the settled policy of
the Administration to Africanize the
State, and by sharp brutal means force
the whites to abandon their cause in the
approaching election.
The Shreveport Circular.
New Orleans, October 21.—The card
of the merchants of Shreveport, in which
they pledge themselves not to employ
or furnish supplies to colored men who
vote the Republican ticket, excites much
comment here. Their course is disap
proved by many Conservatives, but it is
conceded that North Louisiana is beyond
The control of political friends here.
The breaking up of the compromise was
made a theme for an editoral in the
Evening Picayune, in which that paper
expresses surprise that it continued so
long. The plan of adjustment was evi
dently repugnant to both parties. It is
currently reported and believed here
that the White League leaders in the
insurrection will shortly be arrested un
der the Enforcement act and held for
trial. The people seem undetermined
whether to resist their arrest or not.
Tho Case of Whitemore.
Mobile, October 21.—Thomas Bcdger
Whitemore, recently arrested by Detec
tive Hester in Snni-er county, is a
nephew of the late Judge Bedger, of
North Carolina, formerly United States
Senator. Mr. Whitemore is one of the
most accomplished lawyers in the State
of Alabama, and a man of high charac
ter. He is about 52 years old, and is in
delicate health. He was Chairman of
tho Democratic Executive Committee of
Sumter county, and was about to intro
duce the speakers at a Democratic meet
ing when he was arrested. The day be
fore the arrest he had been defending
Mr. Cobb, who was on trial before tho
United States Commissioner for acting
as one of the sheriff’s posse in quelling
a negro riot at Belmont. Tho prosecu
tor broke down, when Hester asked a
continuance of the case until he could
summon witnesses. The case being con
tinued next day, during the night Hes
ter made affidavit that Whitemore, S.
Smith and John Little, a negro, had
conspired together to intimidate him
(Hester) in discharge of his duties as
United States Marshal, and to kill him.
The warrant was issued by Commission
er Wayne, of Livingston, and made re
turnable before Commissioner Gillette
in Mobile. Cobb was discharged by the
CoroDer, but had to employ other
counsel to conduct his defense.—
Whitemore desired to be carried before
one of the Commissioners in Sumter
county to wait examination, offering
bond in any amount. They admitted
that the offense was bailable, but insist
ed on sending him to Mobile under ar
rest. John Little is a Democratic ne
gro, who owns and plants his own land.
The negro Democrats in Sumter are
greatly terrified, believing that the Gov
ernment had ordered this arrest because
he is a Democrat. The prisoners will
arrive in Mobile to-night.
AN HONEST CONFESSION.
What the New York Times Corres
pondent Says.
New York, October 24.—A letter
from a correspondent of the Times in
Alabama, who is vouched for by that
paper as a strong Republican, says he
has ridden for many miles along unfre
quented roads and been in all the large
cities and not only failed to discover
any trace of a reign of terror, but found
the negroes quietly at work. The Times,
alluding editorially to the letter, says :
“ He finds no reign of terror, no war of
races and no pretense that the recent
crimes in that State have been instiga
ted by political motives. He found the
alleged murderers of Mr. Billings to be
men unlike the bloodthirsty ruffians
they had been painted, and he appears
to think the so-called evidence against
them is ridiculously inadequate.”
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Governor Moses Does the Fair Thing
in Appointing Election Commission
ers.
Charleston, October 23.—Governor
Moses has issued a proclamation that
the boards of county commissioners of
elections shall consist‘of one regular Re
publican, one Independent Republican,
and one Conservative. The News and
Courier applauds Gov. Moses for re
moving the deep seated distrust and dis
content with the new commissioners
named in the proclamation. A fair elec
tion is now certain, and the people will
submit to the verdict of the majority of
votes.
Raphael Semines Makes a Discovery.
Mobile, October 23.—During the trial
of Col. Whitemore, one of the Sumter
county imsoners, before the United
States Commissioner Gillette, the
States’ detective, chief prosecutor
and witness for the Government was
instantly recognized by Admiral
Raphael Semmes, who was present
at tho trial, as one of his crew of
the Confederate steamer Sum
ter. Hester came forward and at once
confirmed the Admiral’s recognition by
offering his hand. Hester was appoint
ed master’s mate by the Admiral, and at
Gibraltar, while a midshipman was tem
porarily in charge of the steamer,
this man Hester committed what the
Admiral characterizes as a most foul and
brutal murder. He shot and killed a
mess mate, who lay in his bunk, it is
supposed asleep. Hester escaped. In
the trial to-day it was developed that
subpaeneas for witnesses were issued by
Commissioner Gillette, of Mobile, Sep
tember 30, more than two weeks before
the alleged offense was committed.
A Romance of Two Continents.—
Fifty years ago a young English officer
named Hendricks was traveling with his
sister in Italj, where he met, wooed,
won and ran off with the charming
daughter of a rich and proud nobleman.
Even as the father of Desdemona dis
owned her, so the Italian Count swore
never again to acknowledge his recreant
daughter. Nothing disturbed thereat,
she accompanied her husband to the
British dominions in North America,
thence to New York, where, after giving
birth to a daughter, she died. Hen
dricks, having thus lost his wife, gave
himself up to dissipation, but was so
far mindful of his motherless infant as
to marry a German woman who had
taken a fancy to the child. The girl
grew to maidenhood, receiving little
education, for the family was poor, and
when still youug was married at Vin
cennes, Indiana, to an Ohio river mate
named Hiram Titus. They lived happi
ly enough until Titus died, when she
removed to Louisvilje, where she led if
not a desolate still not a virtuous life.
Now the Count, her grandfather, has
yielded to Heaven his vital trust, and as
sole lineal heir she has gone to Italy to
claim his title and his wealth. . The for
tune which thus falls to her is variously
estimated from $200,000 to SBOO,OOO.
A Growing Family. —The cable an
nounces the birth of another grandchild
for Queen Victoria, a boy, the first baby
of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh,
who were married at St. Petersburg on
the 23d of January last. This new scion
of royalty increases the number of Queen
Victoria’s grandchildren to twenty-six,
and of this large family twenty-three are
still living. The Queen’s oldest child,
the Princess Royal Victoria, wife of the
Crown Prince of Germany, has had four
sons and four daughters, of which num
ber one son has died. The Queen’s
second child, the Prince of Wales, mar
ried to the Princess Alexandra of Den
mark, has had three sons and three
daughters, one son being dead. The
Queen’s third child, the Princess Alice,
wife of Prince Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt,
has had two sons and five daughters,
one son being dead. Next comes the
Queen’s fourth child, the Duke of Edin
burgh, married to the Grand Duchess
Maria of Russia, with one son. Final
ly, the Queen’s fifth child, the Princess
Helena, wife of Prince Christian, of
Schleswig-Holstein, has had two sons
and two daughters, all of whom are liv
ing. The Princess Louise, the Queen’s
sixth child, wife of the Marquis of Lome,
is not yet the head of a family. The
other three children of the Queen, the
Duke of Connaught, Prince Leopold,
and the Princess Beatrice, are unmar
ried. Altogether, Queen Victoria has
thirty-two children and grandchildren
living, which constitutes a very respecta
ble sized family, even for a Queen,
WISBINGTON NEWS*
Washington, October 24.—An infor
mal meeting of the Onbinet was held be
tween II and 12 o’clock to-day. All the
members wero present excepting Belk
nap and Delano. Secretary Bristow and
Postmaster-General Jewell had a consul
tation with the President concerning
Federal officers in Texas, and read to
him the reports, which are considered
confidential, in relation to themmade by
special agents. The only postmasters
to be changed are those at Galveston
and Houston. The President has al
ready, through the Postmaster-General,
requested them to resign, but they have
as yet made no response. The Postmas
ter-General can see no good reason for
making other post office changes in
Texas, though politicians there are urg
ing removals that the vacancies may be
supplied by persons whose chief recom
mendation is their greater activity in
politics. The Postmaster-General de-.
sires to retain those postmasters against
whom no charges can be sustained of
moral and business unfitness. Secretary
Bristow is convinced tha) changes ought
to be made among certain Treasury offi
cers in Texas, and this will be done at
an early day, but with circumspection.
Business in some cases has been loosely
transacted to the loss of the customs and
internal revenue, and hence the neces
sity for prompt action. Attorney-Gen
eral Williams also presented matters
concerning affairs in the South, and
other members of the Cabinet laid be
fore the President subjects requiring his
consideration.
App<untmeuts Ex-Governor T ease,
Collector of Customs; Mr. Sabins, post
master, at Galveston. The Departments
will make changes in Texas from lists
furnished by special agents. No appli
cations will be considered. Bristow and
Douglass consult Monday upon revenue
changes.
NEW YORK NEWS.
New York, October 24.—1n the Epis
copal Convention the report against the
change in reference to the Court of Ap
peals was adopted. The committee re
ported that a change in the prayer book
involved a change in the canons, and
that it was inexpedient to make any
change in the order of deacons. The
other proceedings were preliminary.
New York, October 23.—There was
considerable excitement at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel last night, caused by a
political quarrel, and rumors were flying
around of a personal encounter between
John Morrissey, pugilist and Demo
cratic politician, and Thomas J. Cream
er, aur'adlierent of the defunct Young
Democracy. Creamer was anxious to
make a bet that James Hay and one of
Morrissey’s candidates in the coming
election would be defeated, and while
proclaiming his desire Morrissey enter
ed the dialogue. Words followed com
plimentary to neither, and to avoid a
personal encounter and its probable re
sults Creamer retracted.
There was a long argument to-day be
fore Judge Neilson, in the City Court,
upon motion of counsel for Beecher to
compel Tilton to furnish them a bill of
particulars in the suit against Beecher.
Counsel read an affidavit from Beecher
setting forth that the plaintiff specifies
but one date on which any act of im
proper conduct on his part is alleged to
have occurred. Tilton avers that Mrs.
Tilton and Beecher confessed their guilt
at different times. This Beecher posi
tively denies, and characterizes it as ut
terly false, and fears that Tilton con
templates using manufactured evidence
at the coming trial. The Court took the
papers.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cresgin was fined a
SI,OOO for cruel treatment of a child ob
tained from a charitable institution.
Within a day or two suits have been
brought against the smaller shoe manu
facturers in Cachtuate and vicinity for
alleged violation of the Gallaliue patent,
and the establishments closed, throwing
the workmen out of employment and de
laying filling Orders. As fast as the
manufacturers obtain bail they resume
business.
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
At Chicago the Synod, without pro
nouncing a definite sentence, disposes
of the Swing case by requiring the
Presbytery of Chicago to erase his name
from the roll of .ministers. This ends
the Swing matter for the present at
least.
Registration in New Orleans—2B,ooo
white, 17,000 black. Thirty-three par
ishes give 28,000 white, 42,000 black.
Twenty-four parishes unheard from.
Present returns give the blacks 2,000
majority.
Among the resolutions of the Balti
more Irish Catholic Benevolent Union
are these: “That it is not advisable to
eucourage Irish immigration to this
country; that as the Irish Catholic Be
nevolent Union has been placed under
the patronage of the Blessed "Virgin
Mary under the title of Immaculate
Conception, the eighth day of December
be and is hereby recognized as the na
tional holiday of the Union.” Adjourned
to meet in Rochester.
Warrants for the arrest of parties in
Shreveport signing the labor pledge has
not yet been served.
The Magic, from Dundee for Ragoon,
was wrecked in the Hebrydes on the
24th and lost.
The Boston agents of the Unity Mu
tual Life Insurance Company refuse to
reply to the commissioners, claiming
that the company is not a legal society
within the meaning of the statutes.
The Legitimists urge Count de Cham
bord to return to France.
The Henry Clews injunction before
the Court in New York, reported yester
day, was continued.
The Captain-General of Cuba has de
cided to enforce the decrees establishing
a contribution of five per cent, on capi
tal.
Jacmel advices say the coffee crop is
immense, and producers refuse to sell at
present prices. The adjacent islands
are quiet.
Boston failures—J. H. Lord, tea and
coffee; C. S. Barbour, trunks; S. B.
Earse, ,Tr., hats and caps; C. C. McEle
vy, furniture; J. C. Belcher, boots and
shoes.
Company G, 18th Infantry, goes to
Greenville, Ala., and Company G, 2d
Infantry, to Mobile.
The Reign of Terror in Louisiana.
New Orleans, October 24.—1 tis
stated Cosgrove, editor of the Natchi
otches Vindicator, is under Federal aus
pices. A hundred others are threaten
ed. The parties generally have gener
ous premonition of the warrants, and
take to the woods. Squads of Federal
cavalry are operating in several parishes
lead by Federal Marshals, but those
against whom they have warrants have
premonition, and generally take to the
bush
Shreveport, October 24.—The fol
lowing gentlemen were arrested this
morning by the United States Marshal,
on the charge of violating the Enforce
ment act: Geo. A. Pike, banker; E. Ja
cobs, of E. & B. Jacobs, the wealthiest
firm in the ciiy; John J. Horan, of Ho
ran & Looney; W. P. Ford, of Boisseau
& Ford; R. H. Lindsay, of Steers &
Lindsay, and J. G. McWilliams. The
warrants were served by O’Neal, Radical
candidate for sheriff in Bassiere parish,
and were based upon affidavits of Gen.
L. Merrill; U. S. A., commanding divis
ion. No resistance was offered and no
one attempted to escape. The examina
tion is set down for Monday. Ninety
warrants have been prepared at the in
stance of Gen. Merrill, and it is said
will be served next Monday.
The women of Hillsdale, Michigan,
sent up a Macedonian cry for suffrage,
but when it was proposed to send unto
them Susan, of Rochester, and they
were instructed to provide a temple and
advertise a discourse by the distinguish
ed apostle, “the committee, after con
sulting with a number of citizens friend
ly to the cause, wisely decided to reject
her services.” They did not want Michi
gan made the stamping-ground of “all
the Betsy Anns and Susan Janos of the
East, representing all the objectionable
isms of the times.” Here is ingratitude
sharper than a serpent’s tooth-pick. If,
upon learning it, the mighty Anthony
had sat down upon the nearest panta
loon and wept, who could blame her ?
Why, it was equivalent to the inexcus
able profane declaration, Susan B — !
Chicago Times.
Some days ago the Chicago Tribune
published a letter from its Indianapolis
correspondent to the effect that Senator
Morton was opposed to the Administra
tion, and had thought of “pitching in
to” it in his first speech. Two or three
days afterward this statement was de
nied by a correspondent who signed
himself “One Who Knows.” Yester
day’s Tribune says that the story was
nevertheless true, and that Senator
Morton, who is now in California, is, it
is thought, consulting with Senator
Newton Booth with regard to the future.
Possibly Senator Morton will think this
story sufficiently explicit to warrant him
in coming to the front with a definite
statement of his purposes.
A negro man, one day last week, en
tered the house of a widow (white), in
Greene county, and seating himself be
fore the fire, proceeded to inform her that
he had come to “take her daughter to a
colored party ; that the civil rights bill
had passed, the colored man had the
same rights as the white man, and if the
white ladies did not chose to go with
them they could be made to go I” The
impudent brute was finally ousted by a
younger brother.
