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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1874)
Qnjrontcie ani> . .NOVEMBER 4,1874. r THE CAROLINA CANVASS. South Carolina will make a strong ef fort next Tuesday to break the power of the corrupt Bing which has plundered tire State since the birth of reconstruc tion. The friends of honest government are hard at work, and their chances of sucoesa seem good, though they are combatting an unscrupulous and power ful enemy. The oandidacy of Gbeene has drawn the best class of the colored men from the support of Chamberlain, and enough recruits have been re ■ceived to secure his election, provided he be solidly sustained by the Conser vatives. If the white men will all go to the polls Tuesday they may put an end to the robberies and oppressions under which they have groaned for so many years. If they stay at home their chains will be fastened so firmly that they may find it impossible to break them in the future. The best men of the State—such men as Butler, Keb bhaw, McGowan, Hampton and Aldrich urge them to vote for the Independent Bepublican candidate, and they should be governed by their counsels. All of these distinguished leaders have been heard from during the canvass with the exception of General Hampton. Here is a letter from him: Columbia, October 22. To the Editor of the News and < ourier: Your paper has been an earnest and fearless [advocate for reform in the State, and I sincerely trust that the policy it has indicated, and which was adopted so unanimously,by the Conser vative Convention, may redeem our un happy State. I look upon it now as the imperative duty of every good citi zen, whatever may have been bis own previous predilections, to sustain heart ily the action of that Convention, for our only hope is in unity. The dele gates to that Convention set a noble ex ample of patriotism when they sacrificed all political aspirations, all personal con siderations, and all former prejudices, for the single purpose and in the sole hope of redeeming the State, and all who are actuated by the same high mo tives should sustain earnestly the policy recommended by these gentlemen. Union among ourselves may achieve much of good, while divided counsels and action can only result in bringing on us additional wrongs and,sufferings. I am, respectfully yours, Wade Hampton. Where these men lead no Carolinian need hesitate to follow. They would never recommend anything which would bring dishonor upon Carolina or Caro linians. We hope to see the Conserva tives work next Tuesday as they have never worked before. We hope to see them rise as one man in the cause of re form and honest government. There should be no apathy, no indifference, no dissatisfaction. Every thing like per sonal feeling should be put aside. The issues of the contest are too important to risk defeat by divisions. A solid front should be presented to the enemy. Every Conservative should cast his vote for Gbeene and Delaney. They should do in South Carolina as the Democrats did in Georgia when they were strug gling to get rid of Bullock and his crew of plunderers. They must work as only men work who desire the protection of their lives and property; who wish to free their State from a rule which is as corrupt as it is oppressive; who wish to free themselves from a bondage which is withont a p trallel in the history of civilization or barbarism. They are fighting for all that makes life endur able. Let every man shut up liis store or his office and go to the polls. Let him see that his neighbors go. Let them watch their enemies closely and un ceasingly, and see that they are not robbed of their victory by fraud or intimidation. Let them show to the colored men that they too have a vital interest in the con flict, and that the cause of tne two races is the same. If the Conservatives work vigorously and unitedly, we have no doubt of a reform victory in South Carolina on the third of November. THE RAILROAD WAR. The railroad companies are in luck just now. Nearly every town and city is complaining of discriminations made against thorn in the rates of freight, and the indications are that a strong effort will be made at the next session of the Legislature to regulate freight tariffs by law, as has been done in Illinois, Wis consin and some other Western States. Macon and Atlanta are waging war with the Central because they think that cor poration is managed in the interest of Savannah. The Georgia Railroad seems peculiarly uufortuuate. It can please neither its termini nor intermediate points. The merchants of Augusta de clare that the company discriminates against this city in order to benefit At lanta. The merchants of Atlanta swear that they are injured in order to build up Augusta, or as the indignant editor of the Newt puts it, “that Augusta may flourish and somebody’s corner lots in crease in value.” Washington declares that trade is prostrated and her citizens injured by the discriminations made against that town. There is a sharp fire all along the lice and the railways will Boon be put upon the defensive. There is little doubt that these discriminations do work harm to the places affected, but we have i.o idea that the railroads have any animosity against them. Their only object is to benefit the stockholders. In a late report to his stockholders the President of the Georgia Railroad dis cussed this question of discrimination. Judge Kino declared that it would be impossible for any railroad in Georgia to pay expenses if it were required to make no difference in the charges for the transportation of through and local freight. Auy road that should attempt to make through freights as high as local would lose all through business; auy road that should make local rates as low as through would inevitably go into bankruptcy. The problem seems a difficult one to solve and is worthy the study of those who are interested in its solution. The feeling of the people against the continuance of the present system is very strong and the indica tions are that there will be some legisla tion against it, though,the character of the proposed law can not be foreseen. These troubles commenced in the West years ago and they will soon be ex perienced all over the South. NORTHERN WITNESSES. Several days since in noticing the stories published by Northern Republican jour nals concerning the ostracism of North ern white men and the cruel treatment of colored people in Georgia, we stated that these slanders could be easily re futed by the Northern men who have invested their capital in the State. We called upon such journals as the Phila delphia North American to ask for the statements of the Northern men who are engaged in developing the mineral re sources of Upper Georgia ami the manu facturing industries of Augusta and vi cinity, and affirmed that the people of the State would willingly abide by their testi mony. Of course our “outrage” con temporaries will do no such thing, as thev do not wish to be convinced of the falsity of their assertions, but they get a voluntary witness from Rome. A dispatch from Washington to the New Tork Tribune reads as follows: A letter from Rome, G&., was received here to-day from one of the largest manufacturers in the State, and a gen tleman, who, during the war, was one t>t the most intimate of Mr. Lincoln’s fn'ends. He is one of the most honor able and straightforward business men in tine South, and one whose word has never .been doubted. He speaks with surprise at the stories of outrages in Georgia which reach him from the North, and refers in terms of praise to the peaceable character of the citizens of Georgia of both colors. He says the cottoncrop will be short owing to the dry weather, but the quality will be very good. He says, referring to the report ed troubles: “I have 300 whites and blacks employed, and I have not had any race or political difficulties among them for the past two years, nor have I heard of any outrages in this State, ex cept What I have read in papers received from New York, with the single excep tion of the shooting of the route ifgent on the Alabama and Chattanooga Rail road.” _____________ HON. ALEX. H. STKPHENB* Mr. Stephens Urns written a reply to one of the Richmond Resolutions and to the comments of the Chboniclb nnd Sentinel npcn the action of the meeting held last Tuesday. It is published in another portion of onr paper this morn ing, and will be read with the attention which the views of its distinguished au thor have always commanded. PENN. Lieutenant-Governor Penn, of Louis iana, seems to have been as good a sol dier during the war as the South had in her ranks. On this point we have the testimony of Gen. Jubal A. Early, cer tainly a good witness. ,!TAt arecent meet ing of the, Southern Historical Seeiety in Richmond Hon. B. M. T. Hunter de livered an eloquent Address, in which he made allusion to the hard fought field of Gettysburg. At its conclusion General Early sai 1 he thought it might be ap propriate fori him to give a little inci dent connected with that battle. There was in his division a Louisiana brigade which, after serving in Jackson’s glo rious Valley campaign, swooped down with him on McClellan, went with him to Pope’s rear, and served in all the suc ceeding brilliant exploits until they went to Gettysburg. On that bloody field, accompanied by a brigade of brave North Carolinians, they [charged over the most difficult part of the position, entered the Federal works, bayoneted the gunners, andj brought off over 100 prisoners—being'[only prevented from holding the ground they thns,won by the failnre of their support to come np. •‘The man,” said General Eably, “who commanded that brave regiment was Davidson Bradford Penn, ; who recent ly, as Lieutenant-Governor of Louisiana, endeavored to assert the rights of the people of his State.” [Applause.] “ MR. STEPHENS AND HIS CON STITUENTS.” Under this caption we; publish', else where this morning a communication which we commend to the careful con sideration of our readers in Richmond county and the Eighth District. The views of the writer are, in our opinion, correct, and we hope that his advice will bo followed. Mr. Stephens is en titled to the full Democratic vote of the District, and it should be cast for him next Tuesday. Without doubting his sincerity or honesty of purpose, his constituents have differed with him, respectfully, but distinctly and emphati cally, upon two important questions. But for this reason it must not be thought that we are opposed to him, or are un willing to give him a cordial support. Mr. Stephens is himself too honest and independent to condemn the honesty and independence of his constituents; and we, upon our side, should say to him by our ballots “that though we may dis agree with you upon two important questions we are not afraid to mist to yonr keeping the honor and the interests of Georgia and her people.” We have placed ourselves right upon the record and now we should not allow the unjust nnd ungenerous assaults of some of Mr. Stephens’ over zealous friends to pre vent us from doing that which it is but right we should do. Mr. Stephens is the fairly and regularly nominated can didate of the party; he is a man whose whole life lias been spent in the cause of his people; of whose great abilities and splendid services his countrymen are justly proud. Let us show him that he . still has our confidence by giving him a cordial and united support. BITTERS. The New York World makes some curious revelations concerning the bitters which are sold and drunk only as medi cinal. Thirty-five of the principal brand\ (all of which have more or less sale in the South) have been subjected to chemical analysis by Mr. Henry Vaughan, the State Assayer of Rhode Island. His re port shows a percentage of alcohol in each ranging from forty-three per cent, (about the strength of brandy) in the first to six and a half per cent, in the last. The average is about thirty per cent. It is a little singular, too, that the brand which shows the largest per centage of alcohol is the one which has the largest sale of the list. Most of these bitters are sold under the state ment that they do not contain liquor, and they are drunk by all classes of popula tion and at all hours of the day. As the World justly remarks the gentleman or lady who sees harm in a glass of claret or other light wine at dinner does not object to an unlimited coarse of bitters as strong as whisky, commencing before breakfast and ending at bed time. The fact of the business is that men and women are prone to a good deal of hum bug and hipocrisy in the matter of liquor driukiug. The bitters men are usually good judges of human nature aud take advantage of the infirmities of their customers. They compound a purely vegetable tonic, warranted to cure the most obstinate oases of gout, gravel, consumption, erysipelas, jaundice and auy other ill which flesh is heir to, wnicli is really a fair article of alcohol with enough vegetable taste thrown in to ease the scruples of tender conscien ces. And those who find harm in look ing upon the wiue when it is red once or twice a day discover no sin in unlimited libations of stomach bitters and system iuvigorators. THE THIRD TERM ISSUE IN NEW YORK. The failure of the Republican Con vention of the State of New York to take position npon the third term ques tion, the equivocal utterances of some of the leading men of the party, and the bold stand made by the Democracy against such a dangerous violation of the spirit of the Constitution, have all combined to make this issues prominent feature of the pending canvass. The proposition to make General Grant President for a third time has been so vigorously assailed by the Democratic press and speakers, and the dangerous consequences of such an innovation upon the custom established by Wash ington and Jefferson so forcibly de- monstrated that it became evident to the Republicans they were being greatly in jured by the mistaken policy which pre vailed at Utica. They could not by their silence eliminate from the cam paign an issue which had already been made, and which was prominently be fore the people. They discovered that it was dangerous to ignore so vital a question, and that the attempts of Conk lino A Company to keep the way clear for Grant in 1876 might render the elec tion of any Republican candidate im possible . Hence it is th at Governor Dix, in order to prevent the defeat of the State ticket, has found it neces sary to speak. In his speech at the Cooper Institute last Monday night he declared himself opposed to a third term. What effect this change of front will have upon the contest in New York remains to be discovered.— There seems to be reason for believing, however, that this declaration of their candidate will benefit the Republican party in that State to some extent. The reply of the Democrats, obviously, will be that upon the third term question Gov. Dix speaks only for himself; that he has only given his individual opinion and has not expressed the sentiments of the Republican party. The party is bound by the action of the State Con vention at Utica until that action is reversed by similar authority. The Republican Conventions of Ohio and In diana maintained the reticence of New York, bnt their leaders were not allowed to absolve the party by their individual declarations, as they found out when the votes were counted. We hope that Gfiv. Djx will meet with no better success. Bleakley is exhibiting his automatic landscape in Atlanta. MERRILL THE MARAUDER. One may obtain some idea of the kind feeling entertained by the President to wards the people of the Sonth by his appointment of Major Merrill to the oommandofthe troops whicharenow har rying the defenseless people of the State ofLonisana. When this appointment was made General Grant was no strang er to the character of the appointee. After Congress, in accordance with the recommendation of the President, had passed the infamous law known as the Ku-Klux act, and it was determined to make an'example of the people!of one Southern State in order to strike terror into the hearts of the rest, and to pre vent any .successful'opposition to the candidates of the Administration party, Sonth Carolina was chosen as the victim, Major Merrill as the executioner. The army officers, [as a rule, were brave and gallant gentlemen, and while compelled to carry out the orders given by their superiors, however nnpalatable they might be, they did their duty in a way least calculated to prove offensive. They were courteous, considerate and mag i uanimons, and were never guilty of un necessary harshness, or of taking the initiative in this war against the people. Merrill had no such scruples, was ac tuated by no such feelings, and a better man for the work coaid not have been chosen. He was energetic, unscrupulous, bad hearted, malignant and covetous; a rnan withont honor, pity or remorse. Animated by the hope of a pecuniary re ward from the cowardly ' robbers who controlled the government of South Carolina; by the hope of preferment from the Administration whose politi cal schemes he was aiding; and by-a fierce and bitter hatred of the Southern people; he did his work well. The State was delivered into his hands to do with as he willed, unchecked by the orders of any superior officer. In time of peace he waged war against a conquered and defenseless people—a war brutal, fero cious and pitiless; a war which regarded neither age nor sex; war against the white hairs of the sire, against delicate women and innocent youth. At the head of his moss-troopers he harried the State. Under the cover of night they infested the roads and by-ways, carrying terror to every home. Houses were visited without a pretext, doors broken open without warrant of law and men dragged from their beds and taken to prison by the hundreds. Thousands were driven from the State and com pelled to seek safety in exile, and people beheld with amazement acts committed during a period of profound peace which would liavejdisgraced the most savage troops of the most barbarous power in time of open war. Even the Republican press of the North protested, in the name of outraged humanity, against such inhuman, such atrocious conduct.— When the bloody assizes came on at Co lumbia with the American Jeffries pre_ siding Merrill the marauder, became Merrill the informer and the brutal trooper descended from the saddle into the witness box to testify against his victims. He had his reward in the smiles of the Administration and in the money of the tax payers. The Radical Legis lature of South Carolina voted a large sum of money to the capturers, and of this Major Merrill received an amount estimated at from ten to fifty thousand dollars. This fact was ascertained and made public. It was stated by Mr. Bay ard from his place in the United States Senate and an investigation demanded. But Merrill was shielded from all in quiry, and when an opportunity offered was made General- by brevet.— When the war against Louisiana was determined upon Grant knew his man, and Merrill was ordered to the scene of action. General Emory was not apt enough; he was considered too “luke-warm.” How Merrill is doing his work in that hapless State the tele graph has told. His first act on taking command at Shreveport was to make affidavit himself for the arrest of a large number of citizens charged with an offense which had been committed two weeks before his arrival in the State. He has been rendered independent of his superior officer in New Orleans* General Emory, and reports only to the War Department. His cavalry is dis persed throughout the State. They arrest every citizen prominent in opposi tion to the Kellogg usurpation. The only warrant they show is their revol vers. Over a hundred men have been dragged from their homes in one parish; hundreds of others have fled from their homes and taken refuge in the woods and swamps. Tender and delicately nurtured women are left unprotected and exposed to the insults of brutal soldiery. A reign of terror has been inaugurated for the purpose of per petuating the power-of a corrupt usur pation. And the telegraph tells us that the “course of Major Merrill is warm ly approved in Administration circles, and even applauded.” This is Grant's kindness to the South. His peaco offering is Merrill the marauder ! The prospect of a Democratic ma jority in the next House has neces sitated a change of tactics on the part'of the Northern Republicans. The outrage business is kept up in the South and Grant orders his moss-troopers to harry Alabama and Louisiana in order to intimidate the white people and pre vent them from voting; but in the No rth “Southern Outrages” are no longer us ed for political effect. The new dodge is the “timidity of capital.” If the Demo crats get control of Congress the coun try will certainly go to the dogs—say these gentlemen. A hostile majority in the House would refuse to make appro priations for carrying on the Govern ment, or for paying! the interest on the public debt. So timid are the men with money that “it is anticipated that the election of a Democratic House would put a stop to the funding of the public debt.” This kind of argument is easily made, but doesn’t amount to much. The same reason would apply at every election and prevent any change from ever being made in the Govern ment. The Republicans might just ns well be given a grant of power irf per petuity. If the capitalists could stand a change of parties in New York, Ohio and Indiana they can stand a Democratic majority in the House without fear of a panic. Our Atlanta correspondent seems to feel sanguine that the independent can didate for Congress in the Seventh Dis trict will receive a heavy vote. We hope that his predictions may not be fulfilled, and that the Seventh will give an over whelming majority against disorganizes and bolters next Tuesday. It would be a shame to elect Dr. Felton, notwith standing the soundness of his Democra cy, or to give him a heavy vote. Every Democrat in the District is bound iD honor to support Col. Dabney, the nomi nee of the Rome Convention. There seems to be nothing against him; he is represented as a man of fine ability, and one capable of doing the South much good in Congress; he is the chosen standard-bearer of his party. Dr. Fel ton should not look to the Democrats for support; he has no claim upon the suffrages of that party. Reports from the New England manu facturing districts show a very general curtailment of operations there, in ac cordance with the resolution of the man ufacturers at their late Boston meeting. In some cases several important mills have ceased running altogether. The effect of this diminished production on the market of cotton and woolen goods will probably soon be visible for the better. The iron manufacturers of Penn sylvania and Ohio are talking less de spondingly. Taking their own state ments just as found, they certainly have not very great reason for croaking. The Athens Watchman says that large numbers of colored people are prepar ing to go West this Fall, and that the white people are not at all opposed to their going. The difference in the condition of! the colored people under Democratic j and under Radical rule is best shown by the tax returns. The population of Georgia and Alabama is nearly the same. The former is controlled by Democrats, the latter by Republicans. In Georgia the colored people own property to the amount of six millions one hundred thousand dollars. In Alabama the col ored people own only one million dol lars worth of property. The reason for this difference is obvious. When the whites prosper so do the blacks. The interests of the two races are identical. Georgia has a wise and economical State government. Taxes are low, manufac tures have grown, property has in creased in value, and the State generally is in a flourishing condition. Alabama is controlled by adventurers and plun derers ; taxes are high and trade de pressed. The white people suffer and the black with them. Grant's organ in New York—the Re public —is young in years, but old in iniquity. It publishes a telegraphic ac count of Hon. B. H. Hill’s recent speech in Augusta headed “red hot re bellion” and states that it was an angry and bitter address on the political issues of the day. Of eourse every one who heard Mr. Hill is aware that his speech instead of being angry and bitter was as temperate and dispassionate as it was logical and convincing. But this is not the point. With the exception of the “angry and bitter” part of it, the dis patch was the same with the one sent to other papers, and the interpolation of the words we have quoted, was evidently made in the office of the Administration organ. Oh ! fie ! If Northern newspapers are to be be lieved the friendship which has so long existed between Grant and Sherman has been broken, and the allies have be come enemies. It is said that Sherman’s friends are taking the necessary steps for bringing him out as a candidate for the Presidency on an independent schedule at the proper time. This is Sherman’s game. Grant’s scheme is to secure legislation during the next session of Congress, whicli will make Sherman come back to Washington to be snubbed or else resign his commission as General of the Army. We have received a communication alluding in rather harsh terms to Mr. C. H. Prince, the Augusta Postmaster. We do not publish it, for the reason that so far as we can judge Mr. Prince discharges the duties of his office iu an efficient and courteous manner. The people of Au gusta would certainly have preferred the appointment of a Democrat to this posi tion for political reasons, but as General Grant selected one of his own party Mr. Prince is as good a man as he could have chosen. MR. STEPHENS AMD HIS CONSTIT UENTS. Editors. Chronicle and Sentinel : Mr. Stephens’ relations to the Demo cratic party of the District are peculiar. He is the free choice of the party for Representative, and yet he differs with the great body of it on the most urgent question now in the politics of the country. The Democratic party North and South, and intelligent Republicans generally, regard ; ho action of the President in relation to Louisiana as unlawful, violent, unjust, cruel; his motives for such action as unworthy the Chief Magistrate and as those of a political partisan; and his course in that behalf such as only an unscrupulous man and a blunderer in the art of governing could pursue. Mr. Stephens, on the other hand, sees in the conduct of the President only the per formance of an official duty, and on all public occasions defends what the great body of his constituents regards as an unwarranted, violent and dangerous as sault upon the rights of States and the liberty of individuals. This wide difference on a vital ques tion has led to some unusual occurrences. Mr. Stephens has spoken, and the party press, sustaining him in the main, has protested in this particular. Mr. Ste phens lias argued his Louisiana propo sitions, and a large body of his support ers has adopted resolutions embodying exactly opposite views. There is noth ing in all this to condemn. The fact of a difference of opinion is not to be charged as an offense to either side; in the man ner of expressing it there has been nothing disrespectful to either party. Mr. Stephens arrogates to himself no peculiar infallibility, although some in discreet friends do him the wrong of claiming this unattainable attribute for him. It was but right, and like the man, that Mr. Stephens should proclaim fearlessly his honest convictions on one of the stirring questions of the hour. It was but natural that constituents, disagreeing with him diametrically, should desire to remove the impression, which else had became fixed in all corners of this broad land where his ut terances were sure to penetrate —among friends, trembling for the fate of consti tutional government, among enemies anxiously seeking in onr deeds and ut terances justification for their own crimes against liberty—that in this mat ter Mr. Stephens speaks for his con stituents. Nothing has been done, which can justly give offense to the most sensitive representative; and all has been done necessary to guard the rights of the most jealous constituency. Only one thing more remains now to be done —to vote for Mr. Stephens. Not merely to elect him—one ballot could effect that —but to compliment, to cheer. Such treatment should be accorded to his great abilities, his pure character. Such tribute is due to the greatness aud good ness of the man. Such acknowledgement should be made of the past services aud present efforts of the sincere patriot. Let us not be content with barely send ing him up. But let us cheer him with a full vote. Let him hear behind him the swelling voices of the thousands, and feel that thousands of hearts go with him. And the God of the nations also be with him, as aro our hearts, sus taining the feeble frame, yet again in spiring the clear head,[still attaining|the suvery voice. And come to him also in the future, as in the past, the triumphs, won by greatness and goodness in a holy cause. J- B- 0. It is said that the London Times, which has been considered a slow paper as compared with some of its contempo raries, has lately alarmed the whole Lon don press by some unexpected and start ling indications of activity and enter prise. It has, at considerable cost, ob tained the use of a special wire from Paris, and has made arrangements for securing telegraphic news of a special and important character from all the capitals of Europe. Its Paris office is the centre to which all the news is sent. There it is digested and telegraphed to London. Each day the Times has special dispatches from Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Geneva, Pesth, St. Petersburg, Constantinople and other important points. Thus at one bound it has out stripped all its rivals. Its great wealth enables it to incur the expense of these arrangements withoutany inconvenience. The other papers will have to make similar arrangements, which many can not well afford, or they will be left far behind in the race. When Mr. Mantilini, having been ar rested for debt, was writhing in agony on the carpet, he was told that the amount due was so many pounds, so many shillings, and “six pence. **Thc six pence be dem’d 1” said Mr. Mantilini, and, no doubt, he experienced great re lief from the improper observation. We are reminded of this by reading one of Kellogg’s Louisiana tax notices, sent to a firm in New Orleans. It was a sum mons to pay State tax, $168; special par ish tax, $468 50; parish tax, $232; school tax $29; Kearney tax, $23 —“This No tice 25 cents !” Perhaps the parties were readv to pay State, special, parish, school tax, and Kearney tax with philo sophical firmness; but when they came to that “25 cents,” was it the strew which snapp’d the camel s spine ? Or did they go off in a grand guffaw and say, “The 25 cents be dem’d. ” Love laughs at lexicographers as well as at locksmiths, and an epistle utterly wanting in orthography may yet be full of the tenderest significance. Tliere is a dear voung creature in Leavenworth. She mav not be beautiful; she may not be accomplished; she may not be a form of life and light; which seen becomes a part of sight; bnt she knows the essen tials which go to the making of a first class love letter, as well as the next wo man, and perhaps better. For could the next woman, however full of the thrills and throes and the other thingamies of passion, beat this short, sweet letter of the Leavenworth lady: “Dere Jon— cometafpastate.” For the honor of man nood we trust that “Jon,” at Bh. 30m., p. m. or a. m., was promptly there. The woods in various parts of Indiana and Illinois are burning. The French Legitimist Deputy, L* Temple, has joined Don Carlos, THE RICHMOND RESOLUTIONS. Editor of the Constitutionalist : Sir —At a Democratic meeting of the citizens of Richmond county, held on Monday night last, at Girardey’s Opera House, the following resolutions were adopted : jße.o/red,That while remitting the final adjudication of aillegal questions arising out of the Louisiana embroglio to file Supreme Court of the United States, and willing, as law-abiding citizens, to respect, conform to and obey such adju dication, we desire as respects the po litical aspects of the question to express our regret that the President of the United States has seen fit, without war rant of law, and in violation of every principle of constitutional liberty, to overthrow tlie lawfully elected State government of Louisiana, and erect in the stead thereof a government of his own. Resolved, That in so arbitrary and lawless a procedure we recognize a course of action unfit for any free government, and calculated only for the meridian of a despotic power. Resolved, That, pretermitting all past differences, and speaking only as Ameri can citizens, we appeal to all classes of our countrymeD, North and South—Re publican or Democrat —to unite in set ting the seal of their disapprobation on so flagrant an attempt to erect a one-man despotism in this Republic. Resolved , That in 1874 we reaffirm the declaration of the people of New York, as made in Convention upon the 26th day of July, in the year 1788, when ratifying the Constitution of the United States, that the intent and spirit of that instrument require “ that no person shall be eligible to the office of President of the United States a third time.” You object to the policy of these reso lutions, and as a citizen of Richmond county who voted for their adoption, I ask the privilege of sayiug a word in their behalf. At the last Session of the General Assembly of Georgia the follow ing resolutions were adopted by the Leg islature and approved by the Governor, to-wit : “Resolved , That the State of Georgia sends greeting to the State of Texas aud the thousands of her people who have emigrated to and found homes in, the hitter State, and their descendants, as well as the friends of liberty every where, on the occasion of the victory gained by State rights and local self-government over fraud and carpet-bag misrule, iu the successful installation of the officers chosen by the people in the recent elec tion in said State of Texas; and that the State of Georgia has deep sympathy with Louisiana & the suppression of local self-government within her bor ders, by interference of the Federal Ad ministration, and express the hope that the President and Congress of the United States will no longer give en dorsement and sanction to wrong and fraud, but will speedily'recognize .the right of the government as chosen and returned by the people, before the said returns were manipulated and pervert ed under misapplied Federal authority. Resolved, That the thanks of the Gen eral Assembly of Georgia are hereby tendered President Grant for his pa triotic course in the recent elections of Texas by non-interference with the sov ereign will of the people. Be it further resolved, That the thanks of the General Assembly of Geor gia are hereby tendered his Excellency, James M. Smith, for his manly protest against military interference with the affairs of the people of Georgia, as shown in his correspondence with Col. Swain, of the United States Army, sta tioned in the city of Atlanta. Approved January 23, 1874.” You will find these resolutions on page 425 of Georgia Laws, 1874, and by reference to the journals of the General Assembly, it appears that they were adopted by a unanimous vote of both Houses. Georgia, therefore, has spoken through her constituted authorities, de claring, with one voice, that local self government has been suppressed in Louisiana by Federal force, usurpation and fraud. To so much of the first resolution as I have put iu italics I in vite your careful attention, and would ask wherein it differs in substance from the Richmond resolution “that the President of the United States has seen fit, without warrant of law, and iu viola tion of every principle of constitutional liberty, to overthrow the lawfully elect ed State government of Louisiana, and erect in the stead thereof a government of his own ?” If the people of Rich mond county are wrong in their resolu tions they are wrong iu good company, for the State of Geprgia has set upon her statute book the same declaration ! One word more. Grant says in his message of February 25, 1873, that un der the decisions of the United States Circuit Court and the District and Su preme Courts of the State, “a full set of State officers has been installed and a Legislative Assembly organized” in Louisiana, and in supporting this gov ernment and suppressing the opposing, or McEuery government, it is claimed that the President has done but his duty under the law. The Richmond resolu tions deny this. They charge that he has acted in the premises “without war rant of law and in violation of every principle of constitutional liberty;” and a few facts will prove the charge. The Enforcement act confers no authority whatever upon the Circuit Courts of the United States to deride as to who has or has not been elected a member of a State Legislature. Section 23 of the Act of May 31, 1870 (U. S. Status, at Large 1869-70, page 146), expressly excepts from the operation of the act “elector of President or Vice-President, representa tive or delegaie in Congress, or member of a btate Legislature .” In utter de fiance of thisjexception the Circuit Court assumes jurisdiction and Grant sustains with the Federal army and navy the Legislature assembled under its decree ! But, says Grant, “this decision has been repeatedly affirmed by the District and Supreme Courts of the State.” Tht Constitution of Louisiana is notice to the world that the Courts of that State have no authority whatever to say who is or who is not Governor or member of the Legislature in Louisiana. It says, title IV, Art. 82, “No duties or func tions shall ever be attached by law to the Supreme or District Courts, or the several Judges thereof, but such as are judicial.” The Supreme Court of the United States has repeatedly laid it down as law that a question as to what is the duly constituted government of a State is a political and not a judicial question, and belongs to the political and not to the judicial power. This law was well known to President Grant, having been reaffirmed and reasserted in a case where he was a party, the case, to-wit: of the State of Georgia v. Stan ton and Grant, 6 Wall, 50. In the very teeth of the Supreme Court of the Uni ted States aud the Constitution of Loui siana, the President enforces decrees of the State Courts forbidden by both. If this be not acting “without warrant of law,” what is ? The Richmond resolutions also charge that the President has acted in this mat ter “in violation of every principle of constitutional liberty.” Would Wash ington, would Madison, would Jefferson —these fathers of the Republic—have acted toward Louisiana as Grant has done ? One word more. It has been claimed that Grant does not approve the En forcement acts, but enforces them from a sense of duty as being the law. There are three of these acts—one of May 31, 1870, one of February 28, 1871, and one of April 20, 1871—and Grant has ap proved all three. Not only this, but when the zeal of Congress flagged the President stimulated it into renewed ac tivity. The Forty-first Congress came to an end and the Forty-second Con gress succeeded it March 4, 1871. The new Con Kress proceeded to organize, and the House having perfected its or ganization adopted a resolution to ad journ upon the Bth, by a vote of 147 to 23, and transmitted the same to the Sen ate for concurrence. The usual joint committee to wait upon the President and ascertain if he had any communica tion to make was then appointed, and upon the 7th this committee re ported as follows : “ The President said he had no communication to make at present to Congress, but that he may have some communication to make in the course of a week, and he expressed a desire that during this week no day should be fixed for the adjournment of the two Houses” (Congressional Globe, Part Ist, First Session 42d Congress, page 12). In compliance with this re quest the House and Senate remained in session up to March 23, when the promised executive communication came. It was the famous Ku-Klux message of March 23, 1871, stating that “A condi tion of affairs now exists in some States of the Union rendering life and property insecure and the carrying of the mails and the collection of the revenue dan gerous” and asking Congress for new repressive legislation. (Globe, as above, page 244). In accordance with this re commendation “An act to enforce the Provisions of the Fourteenth Amend ment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes” was passed. This statute is better known as the Ku-Klux act and is the one under which Southern citizens are being ar rested and handcuffed, in Alabama and Louisiana to-day. It will readily be seen that it is President Grant’s own particular statute, so to he hav ing held Congress in session from day to day in order to pass the bill when otherwise that body would have ad journed without entering upon any such legislation. Tyrone. Clark, the Savannah post office boss, is assessing all the postmasters in his department for election purposes. OUR ATLANTA LETTER. The Simmes Case-VYhat It Costs to Help a Friend—The Seventh District t-A Close Race Predicted—The Fair —Gate City Gossip. [Special Correspondence of the Chronicle and Sentinel.] Atlanta, October 28, 1874. The Simmes Default Case. Daring the administration,of Presi dent Andrew Johnson, Mr. Thomas G. Simmes, of this city, was appointed post master of Atlanta, giving a bond of 820,000, with Mr. W. B. Lowe, a wealthy youDg clothing merchant of this city, as feondsman. in the coarse of time it ap- peared that Mr. Simmes was a delinquent if not a defaulter, a deficit—as present ed by the Government —of about SII,OOO appearing against him. Mr. Simmes made a counter-showing, in which he presented the Government with a bill of expenses, &c., approximating the amount of the deficit. The showing, however, was not satisfactory to the Government, which arranged the pre liminaries for a criminal prosecution against him as a defaulter, the penalty for which is imprisonment in the peni tentiary. In the meantime, however. Judge Lochrane, Mr. Simmes’ counsel, with an ingenuity and astuteness for which he is justly celebrated, applied to the Postmaster-General and offered to settle. This offer was refused. This in genius artifice, it is said, saved Mr. Simmes from a severe punishment. Tes timony to the effect that he had offered to settle and had been refused would, upon trial, be sufficient cause to dismiss the criminal prosecution, and for this reason, if I mistake not, the prosecution was abandoned by the Government; but it immediately instituted suit against the securities of Mr. Simmes, to recover the amount of the deficit. The case was tried some time ago in the United States Court, and resulted favorably to the securities. The Government was not satisfied with the verdict and by some process obtained anew trial, which took place last] week. On Mon day morning the jury returned a verdict of $12,000 against Mr. Lowe, who though a gentleman of wealth, is not at all anxious to reimburse the “greatest gov ernment the world ever saw” out of his private purse. Mr. Lowe lias many sympathizing friends in this misfortune. He became security for an Atlanta post master when it was next to impossible to obtain security for any man whom the Government was willing to appoint, and in this way conferred a favor upon the city and community. There are pros pects that the case may be compromised advantageously to Mr. Lowe. The Great “ Dabney Walk-Over.” It is amusing to a disinterested party to witness the brilliant exploits of the “ high-pressure” papers in their endeav or to rally the Democrats of the Seventh Congressional District to the.support of Mr. Dabney, the last nominee of the Democracy. They ;ipredict that Col. Dabney will defeat Dr. Felton three or four thousand votes. They claim that he has inspired an enthusiasm compared to which that of jjNapoleon’s soldiers, dis played in crossing the Alps, is but a faint echo. Dabney has within ten days become a hero more renowned than Achilles or Spartacus, who have been becoming more famous for nearly two thousand years. They say he has a regular, easy]walk-over,” and will be triumphantly elected by an overwhelm ing majority. Why these obedient pa pers should deal in such fulsome lauda tion and extravagant speculations is not perfectly understood by your corres- pondent. It seems that [deference] to Mr. Dabney’s feelings ought to induce these zealous friends to deport, them selves with dignity. The truth of the matter is, that tire race will be very close. Col. Dabney is a 'gentleman of ability and character and will make a strong race, considering the length of time he has been in the field. Dr. Fel ton has, however, pretty thoroughly canvassed the District, has a strong hold on the people, and if he don’t be elected, lie will obtain a very large vote. The announcement that Mr. Hill, Gen. Gartrell and Dr. Miller would canvass the District for Dabney, it seems, was unauthorized. Neither Gen. Gartrell nor Mr. Hill has been in the District, and Dr. Miller, I under stand, says his sympathies are still with Dr. Felton. The prevailing impression is that Cobb, Bartow and Cherokee counties will give Dr. Felton heavy ma jorities, and these being, with the ex ception of Flo.yd, the most populous counties in the District, they will fur nish an aggregate majority which it will be difficult for Col. Dabney to overcome. Mr. Dabney’s friends are pretty confi pent that he will be elected, but I do not find any of tliem who think, like the papers, that he will get eight millions majority, or that he will have a simple walk-over. They think he will have to run pretty fast. The Advantage Conferred toy a Fair. The recent State Fair has done a great deal to revive business in Atlanta. Mer chants were a lilile despondent at the prospect before the Fair. They had not even remotely realized their expectations of an unprecedented prosperous Fall trade. Much complaint was made of the scarcity of money, but the trade during the Fair 1 has given a sharp impe tus to business. The amount of money expended in the city is variously esti mated at from SIOO,OOO to $300,000. It is quite reasonable to suppose that during the week there were all together 25,000 strangers or visitors in the city, and it is not an exaggeration to say that each one spent on an average $10 — some spending only four or five while others spent several hundred. A mer chant can well appreciate the effect of $300,000 being placed suddenly in circu lation in a commercial community during a One retail dry goods es tablishment, I understand, sold for cash on Wednesday of Fair week, $6,000 worth of goods at retail, and their re ceipts for the remaining days of the week were correspondingly large. The daily receipts of the two principal hotels were from $1,500 to $2,000 per day, which must have produced a handsome profit. The wholesale houses also, it is said, were busy night and day filling the orders of country merchants, who made it con venient to visit the Fair and replenish their stock of merchandise at the same time. It is not probable that the city, that is, as a corporate body, made much profit by the Fair, but even if it paid ex penses, the result was highly conducive to the prosperity of the city. Fairs may, as at present conducted, tend but mea gerly to develop the science of agricul ture, but they are very profitable to the city or locality where they are held. Minor Topics. I understand that both Major Bacon and Colonel Hardeman, of Macon, will persist in running fbr Speaker of the House. * * * Commissioner Janes has appointed Mr. ft. G. Loughbridge, recently of the University of Mississip pi, as Geologist of the State Agricultural Department. Both he and Mr. Patrick Mell are at present in Bartow county, and will “work up” that county forth with, it being the first they have com menced on systematically. **■* The many filends of Dr." Willis F. and Mrs. Maria Jonrdan Westmoreland, the Georgia authoress, will be gratified to learn that they<£have been reconciled aud are again living together. They are seen frequently riding together on the streets. Mrs. Westmoreland has never been North since 6he delivered her lectures in Augusta, Atlanta and Sa vannah during the Summer. Halifax. The Philadelphia Press speaks of Judge Ballard as “one Ballard, a Fede ral Judge in Kentucky,” and goes on abusing him as “an offshoot of the old Bourbon, Democratic stock left stand ing in a wasted field.” Alas, for fame. Judge Ballard is a Republican of Re publicans. He was appointed by Mr. Lincoln. He is yet on the sunny side of the life-line. No man has beep more unyielding in his convictions—no man more cordially abused by the Democrats. But he expresses an independent opin ion, like Judge Bradley, and that is enough to discredit him with such pa pers as the Philadelphia Press. Had such papers not better read a little law before they set themselves up to decide upon the merits of jurists like Bradley and Ballard ? The increase in the rates of steerage passage to Europe by the Lnglish trans- Atlantic steamship companies, which has been expected for some time, took place last Monday. No agreement was made among the companies, but almost with one accord they increased their rates from fifteen dollars to twenty dol lars. Among the companies taking part in thi3 change were the White Star, the Inman, the Anchor, the Williams & Guion, the State, and probably the Na tional lines. The cause of the increase was said to be the increase in the amount of freight to be transported, especially cotton. It pays so much better to carry cotton than to carry passengers that the latter are disregarded in order to ac commodate freight. Great preparations are making for the February races in Savannah, Anew lodge of colored Good Tem plars has been organized in Atlanta. Matt O'Brien sang “The Faded Flow er” at the engineer’s banquet in Atlanta. There were twenty-three deaths in •Savannah during the week ending Oc tober 26sh. Tunis G. Campbell pays taxes on only SIOO. Aaron A. Bradley pays only for a “poll.” Jack Heard pays on the small sum of S4OO, COTTON STEALING. [From the Now York Bulletin.] From inquiries made among the large receivers of cotton in this city, it was ascertained that a bale of cotton is very frequently the victim of rapacity from the time it leaves the locality where it is grown until it reaches its destination. Those who handle the bale during its transportation claim a share of its contents, but the opportunity for securing this share is, to a certain extent, limited until it reaches the city and put upon the dock, or stored in the ordinary warehouses set apart for that purpose. Here, it is said, the thieves go deliberately to work to take a small quantity of cotton from each bale, and if there should be several thousand bales in transitu or on storage, it will be readily seep that the weight of several bales'might be appropriated, and detection would be an impossibility until the cotton came to be reweighed for delivery. The theft alone would only then be discovered; for by that time the perpetrators of the outrage will have seeured their booty and de parted. It is not alone the warehouse theif, however, by whom the cotton suf- fers, but, on the contrary, it is made to pay tribute to all who come near it. It wiil of course be understood that there are honorable exceptions to all rules, but in very many cases it may be taken for granted that parties interested in the handling, sampling or storing of cotton seek to secure for themselves an in creased remuneration by making forced requisitions upon the cotton bales in their keeping. The samplers’ and weighers’ men are all said to be impli cated in the nefarious transaction; but so expert have the parties become that detection is at the best very difficult.— Every opportunity is seized upon to lessen the weight of the bale, and it is said that at times as much as three per cent, of an invoice will be missing. The loss involved is of course great, but every effort made as yet to put an end to the traffic has been without avail, and now most of the receivers look forward to the advent of new warehouses as the best means of saving their property from the depredations of irresponsible parties. To ascertain the magnitude the evil has reached, a reporter called upon a number of prominent cotton merchants, and learned from most of them that the cotton thieves had caused great losses to every one, aud that the most practical way of stopping the practice was to es tablish official warehouses under the di rect control of the trade. This evil reached its greatest extent when cotton sold at so high a price as to render the temptation to steal it too strong to be resisted; but of late years the evil has decreased owing to the fact that it has been found almost impossible to identi fy cotton abstracted aud convict the thief. Many plans have been tried to put au end to those practices, but so far without avail, To show exactly how the cotton is stolen it will be necessary to follow the bale from the time it leaves the district where it is grown until it enters into consumption. In the days of sailing vessels the stealing began during the transportation of the cotton from the Southern ports, but now, on board the steamers, more care is taken of it, and thefts are of rare occurrence. Upon ar riving here the cotton is put upon the dock or on the street to be weighed and sampled, and it is during these opera tions that the greatest loss is sustained. The sampler cuts the bagging and re moves the surface cotton, which may be somewhat soiled, and consequently not a perfect sample. He will then dig in to the hole he has made and probably take out a few pounds. From this he selects what he wants for samples, and throws the rest upon the ground. Un der the plea that Che bale is not packed properly, or that it contained different kinds of cotton, the sampler will fre quently open it in another place, and go through the same operation, which, in a majority of instances, is unnecessary. The cotton which has been thrown up on the ground is then picked up by the “helper,” who removes it to a place of safe-keeping down a cellar way or in a paper, and when a sufficient quantity is obtained it is sold to the junk shops for the account of whom it may concern. The cotton is next loaded upon trucks and taken to warehouse, and as the rents from whence the samples have been taken are never properly mended, the truck men, loaders and handlers help themselves. Next the cotton is stored in the warehouse, and every time it changes hands anew set of samples are drawn, and consequently the same sys tem of petty theft is ropeated. Even while in the warehouse the bales lose their weight, for in some instances the warehousemen do not exercise sufficient care. Tlie samplers are allowed more freedom than is absolutely necessary, and in return they will have a large quantity of loose cotton remaining upon the floor, which, npon their departure, is collected and disposed of. This steal ing, though small in each particular in stance, amounts, in the aggregate, to a severe tax upon the trade, as can be readily understood when it is related that the loss on a shipment of 1,200 bales, recently, in this city, amounted to nearly five entire bales. It will be seen that the matter is of serious import, and that some means of protection better than those afforded by the present or ganization of the trade should be had. Ah effort was made to pnt an end to the traffic by a bill which it was endeavored to have passed by the Legislature.— This bill provided that any person found stealing cotton should be arrested, and that conviction should follow with out the necessity of the owner of the cotton identifying it. Under the pres ent laws, all stolen property must be identified by the owner, and hence the present trouble. The law, it was thought, would prove efficacious, but for some reasons it was not passed. When this bill failed the Cotton Ex change took up the matter and endeav ored to put an end to the depredations by appointing a committeee to look after the matter. The committee has so far worked entirely in secret, but it is known that they have in their employ a number of officers who wait about the dock and warehouses to detect the thieves. So far few arrests have been made, but the knowledge that they are watched has made the thieves more cir cumspect, and in consequence much less cotton has been stolen. It is now accepted that the only legitimate means of putting an end to this system is the placing of all cotton in central ware houses, where it can be handled under responsible control and supervision. TOPICS ABOUT THE STATE. The Grand Lodge of Masons of Geor gia is in session in Macon. A large excursion party will leave Houston, Texas, for Atlanta, November 18th. An Atlanta mulatto girl, sixteen years old, has been arrested on the charge of poisoning her infant. Dr. W. P. Harrison delivered an ad dress in Atlanta, Tuesday night, before the locomotive engineers. According to the official returns re ceived at Atlanta, the next Georgia Leg islature will stand: In the Senate, one Radical, two Independent Democrats and 41 Straight Democrats. House: Four Radicals, 12 Independent Democrats and 159 Straight Democrats. There will be three negroes in the House and none in the Senate. The fine span of sorrel horses—Thun der and Lightning—have been sold to Mr. Oliver Jones, of Atlanta, for SI,OOO. At the fair in Atlanta last week they took off a SIOO premium for the best pair of horses exhibited, one of them took the SSO prize for the best saddle horse, and the two took the SSO prize for the best combination horses. The Athens Watchman seconds the motion of the Constitutionalist to hold the next State Fair at Augusta. Macon and Atlanta will vigorously oppose the move no doubt, for the same reason a man once gave his friend: “I will take it as a great favor if you will sub for me to-day ?” “It would be a greater favor for me not to, for if I did you’d loose your situation.” The Macon Telegraph says Augus ta “is welcome to the next Fair so far as Macon i concerned, provided Macon has to run it.”— That paper also has this: “And if there is a set of men sicker—or who ought to be sicker—of their bargain than those gentlemen who insisted upon forcing Mr. Stephens upon the party, we are very sorry for them.” Last Spring an Athenian gave a dollar for a rare exotic which he nursed with the greatest care only to see it “pan out” a cuckle-bnrr. This is nothing to laugh at, for a cuckle-burr is just about as valuable as a bushel of those “rare ex otics” we have seen. This burr is a great lever in the moral vineyard, for when this writer was a boy his daddy used to make him comb them ont of the old horse’s tail on Sunday, when he greatly preferred being in swimming at the mill pond. On last Saturday, about ten o’clock a. m., tire gin house of Mr. W. C. Rid dle, of Washington county, took fire while the gin was running, and the re sult was his gin house and steam saw mill were both burned down, with the additional loss of about 13 bales of cot ton. The gin was run by -steam power, from the mill. The fire caught first in the lint room, and it is supposed that it caught from a match, or perhaps from friction of some of the machinery. The mill was a valuable piece of property, and it is a great loss which Mr. Riddle has to bear. The gin house was anew one, built this Fall. The machinery was all badly injured or destroyed. GRANT’S PEACE. THE WOES OF PROSTRATE LOUI SIANA. The Courts Insulted—Bayonets Against The Bench—'Two Honored Warrants for one Parish—Cutting the Wires. Orel* 200 Warrants Out in a Single Parish. Homeb, La., October 27.—Several bodies of troops are in various parts of this parish. H. H. Maxey, a Republican, says that warrants are out for over 200 citizens. Not a single threatened in dividual has left or will leave. There is , a difference of opinion among the Re publicans here as to the effects of the arrests Saturday, some of them repudiat ing the whole affair and trying to shift the responsibility. Rumors of arrests are frequent from other parishes. Refusing to Accept Bonds. New Ibebiaha, October 27.—The pris oners tried here yesterday are still in custody, all offers to sign bonds being refused. Gen. DeClouet, one of the wealthiest planters of St. Martin’s par ish, came here to-day to sign a bond and was refused. Arrested for Helping to Keep the Peace. Monboe, La., October 27.—The inves tigation before Commissioner Jewett, of the case of Judge Scott, Recorder Ram sey and Major Richardson, of Homer, Claiborne parish, who were brought here yesterday, closed to-day; decision to-morrow. The testimony of Scott Rains, colored, the principal witness for the prosecution was that the Republican meeting broke up because of a pistol fired in the street about a street off. No one disturbed or threatened the meet ing, but he (B ains) was subsequently personally abused by the white men, but did not leave town till sunset. Young Maxey, .the other Government witness, testified favorably to the ac cused. Sheriff Aycock, summoned by the defense, testified that the whole dis turbance arose from a negro mob at tempting to capture a white mam whom he had arrested. A Republican Judge Gets Indignant. Homeb, La., October 27.—Judge Trimball has information, that when Sheriff Aycock reached Vienna, he and his deputy were treated in the most con temptuous manner, the writ of habeas corpus disregarded, and that shameful and abusive ls.uguuge was used by Lieutenant Hodgson in command. The prisoners, Scott, Richardson and Ram sey, were surrounded by soldiers. Guns were cocked aud presented at the law officers, and the writs defied .by the military officer. Judge Trimball is in dignant that the civil authority was dis regarded, aud will take steps to punish the offender. Trimball is a Republican and supporter of the Kellogg adminis tration. Tire Cutting of the Telegraph Wires. Monboe, October 27.—The telegraph company is taking testimony relative to the cutting of the wires by Lieutenant Hodgson and Marshal Selye, West .of Vienna. Both wires were cut in six dif ferent places, and forty or fifty feet taken out of each wire, tire ends wrap ped aronnd trees and insulators re moved. The repairers were several hours in repairing the damages. Affida vits will show that the cutting was done by the soldiers under orders from Lieu tenant Hodgson and Marshal Selye. Merrill’s Military Despotism Disheart ening the Whites. New Orleans, October 27.—The peo ple are becoming disheartened by Mer rill’s military despotism, and softie are in favor of letting the election go by de fanlt and trusting to Congress for re lief. The leaders of the whites, how ever, will strain all their resources for a fair election, and send as many Demo crats to Congress as possible. Kellogg claims 21,000 black majority in the reg istration in twenty-three parishes .Leal and from. The Radicals are so desperate that the Metropolitan police were yesterday de tailed as canvassers from house to house, but they' struck against it, and to-day the employees of the Marshal’s office in the Custom House are doing it. One of them tells me he has not unearthed a fraudulent Democratic registry in his district. The Democratic Committee in eight or nine wards already canvassed claim to have detected 4,173 Radical frauds, and have sent them before the Grand Jury. There are eight more wards to canvass that will probably ex pose 4,000 additional frauds they think. The following dispatches have been received here: Homeb, La., October 27, 1874. —No additional arrests have been reported in this parish since Saturday, There are several bodies of troops in various parts of the parish. H. H. Maxey, a Repub lican, says that warrants are out for over two hundred citizens. Not a single threatened individual has left or will leave. There is a difference of opinion among the Republicans here as to the effect of the arrests of Saturday, some of them repudiating the whole affair and endeavoring to shift the responsibility. Rumors of arrests are frequent from the neighboring parishes. New Ibebia, La., October 27.—1 tis reported that Zach Fournet and Benja-. min Bertrand were arrested at St. Mar tin’s to-day by the United States Deputy Marshal. The prisoners tried here yes terday are still in custody, all offers to sign bonds being refused. General De- Clouet, one of the wealthiest planters in St. Martin’s parish, came here to-day to sign bonds, but was refused permission. Franklin, La., October 27.—A de tachment of United States infantry, in command of Capt. Page, arrived here to-night. Their arrival caused much surprise among all classes of citizens, as the parish of St. Mary’s was never more quiet than at present, and a better and more friendly feeling exists among the two races now than ever before. Offering Bond—More Arrests. New Iberia October 30. —Five hun dred real estate owners of the parish of St. Martins have just arrived to offer themselves as bondsmen for seven St. Martinsville prisoners. Messrs. Dour court, Dugas and F. Garobinie, of that parish, were arrested yesterday. Governor Kellogg Shoots at Major Burke and Is Shot at Pour Times. New Orleans, October 30. —1n a col lision between Major E. Burke and Governor Kellogg, Burke drew a whip when Kellogg drew a pistol and fired, grazing Burke. Burke then drew a re volver and fired three or four ineffectual shots. Major Burke and Governor Kel logg are congratulated by their friends upon the laughably harmless termina tion of the affair. A Report Contradicted. New Orleans, October 29.—There is no truth in the report that Democratic leaders are about to commence criminal proceedings for the square fight of No vember 14th. Kellogg’s Collision—Details of the Fracas. New Orleans, October 29. —About half pa9t three this afternoon a collision occurred between Gov. Kellogg and Maj. E. A. Burke, near the corner of Rampart and Canal streets. Gov Kel logg, accompanied by Judge Atocha, was going home in a cab, which was stopped az above and conversation en sued. Burke put his hand in his breast and drew a whip, with which he tried to strike Kellogg, wheD the Governor pulled o*t his pistol aud fired, the shot barely grazing! Burke, who then drew his revolver and fired three or four shots without effect, the cab in whioh were seated Gov. Kellogg and Judge Atocha being driven off. The Governor states, when Bnrke approached the cab he ex tended his hand, which Burke took, and at the same moment seized him by the wrist with the other hand and attempted to pull the Governor ont, but the Gov ernor being the stronger of the two, quickly released himself from Burke’s grasp, and at once drew his pistol and fired. The Governor and Major Burke, in conversation with the Associated Press agent after the shooting, did not differ materially in their version of the affair. Burke was arrested and taken to the Central Police Station, but released by Judge Atocha, who went to the sta tion for that purpose by request of Gov. Kellogg. The difficulty arose from the correspondence in the papers relative to naturalized citizens. Both the Governor and Burke were congratulated by their friends on the harmless termination of the affair. GEORGIA DARKIES. How Mach Property They Own. The city editor of the Atlanta Herald has been searching the tax books in the Comptroller’s office, and gives sofiae very interesting facts therefrom in regard to colored tax payers in Georgia. The total amount returned by this class in the State is $6,157,798. The richest negro in the State is Courtney W. Beall, of Athens, who pays taxes on $10,805 worth of property. Richmond county darkies return $217,350; Augusta $161,000. Fulton county colored people return the largest amount, $281,685. The county in which the smallest amount of negro property is owned is Union coun ty, there being only $5lO worth. In Colquit there is $516 worth. The following are the colored people in Augusta who make returns of over $5,000 worth of property : Nora Butter field, $6,500 ; Daniel Gardner, $8,300 ; Jacob McKinley, $6,200. Jesse Adams, of Fulton county, is the smallest tax payer in the State. He pays taxes on only $5 worth of property. The negroes added forty per cent, to the value of their property in the last year. JACOB DUNDERHED ON THE GRANT-LOUIBIANA QUESTION. Meesteb Editor— Off you Mease, yon vonld booblish dot leedle gorresbon dences vot vas mid die notes. It vill oxblain itselfs all about it, und mebbe seddle dot leedle Louisiana peesnes. It vas dose: [Dose vas der Gopy.] Augusta, Ga., October 20th, 1874. Jacob Dunderhed, Esq.: The undersigned, your fellow-citizens, representing all shades of Democracy in Richmond county from the “Pure B<jur bon” and “unadulterated Pikes Magno lia,” to the cheapest “Pine Top” and “Rifle Brand,” having listened to the views of some of the other distinguished men of the State respectfully request you to deliver a public address on the political questions of the day—particu larly that having reference to the Lou isiana business—at such time and plaoe as may suit your convenience. • ' Very truly yours Ac., R. Dnzenberry, Jno. Smitt, Peter Brown and a heap more like dot. [Dose Yos Der Rebly:] To Mr. Dnzenberry and a heap of oders von, Augusta, Oa. : Shentlemess —You vas done meiself a great guandidy of honors bei asking me to make somespeechifigatiou to “der shades of der Demogracy of Reechmond gouuty,” mit all kinds of brands, about der sidnations of der dimes. Now, shendlemens, I vonld like to do dot, but mei modesties vas sooch a greutdeal dot I vas got some hesidations about shtebd iug miueself oop before der booblics at Girardey’s Ooproar Haus, to oxblain mit dem all vot I don’t vas know mineself' noding at all about. I vonld, howefer, off you vish, say a few verds recht here about dot quvestions of der day, vich I dinks meinself vould be soofishunt for der oggasion. You vas, no doubt, obsairfed dot Ste phens vas got a kind of oop -Hill bees ness in drying to be a Demograt, und soosdain Mr. Grent in dot Louisiana beesuess bei der same dime out. Now dot don’t vould do at all. It don’t vas make euny deeferences out vat Bresident Greut shall do, it vas Grent, und dot vas soofishnt for me. It was bound to be ali der dime wrong. He don’t could do ennydings goot bolitically, off he vonld dry himself out all der dimes about it. No medder how goot it vas, it vas not goot because Greut did it! Dot vas my bend. Dot vas my drump. Dot vas m’y obinions. I don’t dink dot I vould be a goot vituess for Grent, off he bed a drial. I vould be ept to bring him out guilty afi der dimes. Dots so, I tole you, shentlemens. Veil, den, Ben. Hill, he vas like “Ste phens, so decefen nobody vont belief him,” dot it vas mit great cliffigoolties, Jot I vas listen to dot shentlemans. 'l* don’t vas able to forgot dot he vas a kind bf a Rebooblicans von leedle vhile ago, und dot lie vas a Grent man bei der sooper vat he vas eat Gofernor Vance midiu Atlanta last Abril. Yes, I vas afraid mebbe Ben vas a leedle fishy. Aber all vot ho says vas drue enough ; but vhere did he got it? It vas all Jacob Dunderhead’s tunder dot he shtole, ned von he finds himself out dot der Beebles vas all mit Jacob’s obinions, und vas gone dot vays himselfs, den Ben he gooms out mit a speecliifioations und gels himself all der gredit of dot obinions. Aber dot makes no differences out at all. I would say to der. Beebles: 1. Shtend bei der dri*e Brincibles all der dime, mithout enny regards to men, und be virchuous und you vill got your self some hebbiness. 2. Don’t got some Reforms moofments und ludebendent Repooblican Dricks in Sout Garolina oder ennyoder vheres. Dot vas all a lmniboogs, but shtend squvare bei der Brincibles of Gonsti dooshul Liberty, und don’t eat doo much ven you vas got a goot ebbetite. 3. Shtend bei der ole Demogradio Dogtrines, und don’t valk barefooted on der gold vloor bei der night dimes. 4. Shtend all der dimes bei der old Gousdidooshn vat it vas,. und always keep yourself pooty sober.- * ■ Shtend bei all dot vas good, und drue, und butiful in brincible, und- don’t schwear oogly euss vords all der dimes out. It vas a dem bed hebbit I tole you. Don’t lief enns dree dimes Bresi dent. Dwo derms vas enough of enny mens, or vimmens eider. Shtick bei der olt lendmarks und keep yourself so gool vat you cannot help. Don’t got oxcited about ennydings. Yes, in a vord or dwo, sthend bei der brincibles of your four fotirfaders, yes, of your eighdeen hunderd und sefenty fourfaders, und keep your eyes vide oben tight all der dimes bei elbgshion day dimes. Mit nil put honest mens in der offeeses, und dry und be a leedle honest yourself off you can’t help it. Now in gonglusionf mein frents, off you vill all unite togedjler mid dot flat form, you vill bound* to liev soocces in bolitics. I vill not boot yon to der droobles of looking at Meester Boofeo dorf, oder Meester. Vaddel, oder Meestfer Shoostis Shtory, oder Charles O’Conor, oder Referdy Johnson, oder Stephens, oder Hill, or enny udder mens, vot vas shinin’ lights bei der law peesness. But shoost look bei old Jacob Dunderhed, und belief vat he tole you, and in some leetle vhiles bime by you vill see dot der shtarsbei der “olt flag,” vat you call it, vill grow so bright again, und der stripes got more retriesses. mit it als it vas behind der var, und eb berydings “go so merry like der mer ridge bells,” as der boet says. Yes, shen tlemens, “ Vat vas it gonedidudes der Sh.date ? Vat vas it makes a nations groat ? Vas it battlements und gostle vail ? O, nein. it’s no sooch dings at ali. , Den, vat vas it makes dor SUtate mein ftend? Vat vas it gonsdidute it den ? I’ll tole you : ‘ Brincibles, not meal' ” Yours, truly, Jacob Dundee ned. Type in a Newspaper. —The Pough keepsie Eagle, ilk au article on “How Mistakes Happen in" Newspapers,” fig ures up the number of types used in a newspaper the size of the Eagle at 600,- 000, the actual number of bits of metal arranged and rearranged every day in preparing a newspaper the size of the Eagle for the press. We suppose few people think of the printing trade as the most exact and particular business, but. it is. In making type, variations that might be allowed in the machinery of the finest watch would render the type useless. It is very rarely that type furnished by two foundries can be used together without a good deal of trouble, though they try to make it af ter the same standard. We read once in a while of a wonderful piece of cabi net work -or mosaic work, containing ten, twenty or fifty, thousand pieces, the maker of which has spent months or even years of labour in producing it, and people go to see it as a great curiosity, but the most elabor ate and carefully fitted piece of work of this kind ever made does not compare with that which the printer does eveiy day. The man who does the first is looked upon as an artist—a marvel of skill, and if a hundred of his pieces are put in wrong side up, or turned the wrong way, it is not observed in the gen eneral effect; but if the printer, in fitting ten times as many pieces together in the same day, puts one where another should be, or turns one the wrong way, everybody sees it, and is amazed at “the stupid carelessness of those stupid printers.” The Episcopalians. New York, October 31. —1n the Epis copal Convention, the Committee of Conference on the amended Canon of the Ritual made a report which amended the original Canon reported by the com mittee, by striking out in the specifica tions the clauses relating to the use of incense, and retaining the crucifix in any part of the place of public worship, with a few other unimportant changes. Rev. Dr. Dekovin, of ‘Wisconsin, spoke briefly on this report, and said he should oppose it on account of its unconstitu tionality. He was of the opinion that none of these ceremonies could be sup pressed by Canon, but only by the rubrics iu the prayer book. Further discussion was cut short by the order of the day being called for. The Committee* of Conference on Church Music appointed on behalf of the House of Deputies consists of Rev. Drs. Burns and Andrews. The Commit tee on Amendments to the Constitution reported a resolution amending article 27 of the conference by adding to the end of it the following: Provided that the general constitution may by canon arrange and set forth a shortened form of morning aud evening prayer to be compiled wholly from the book of com mon prayer or may authorize it to be done by any Diocese for its own use.” A vote was taken on this by dioceses and orders, and it was adoDted with the following result : Clerical vote —ayes, 37; noes, 41. Lay vote—ayes, 24; noes, 3. The Committee on Amend ments to the Constitutions also reported that it would he inexpedient to appoint any commission to revise the constitu tion, or to devise a provincial system for the church. This report led the dele gates into a lengthy discussion, and, on motion, the whole matter was finally laid on the table. Adjourned. Immense Meeting at Enfaula. Eotaula, Alabama, October 31. The largest and most enthusiastic political meeting ever held in southeast Alabama is going on here to-night. A procession! with torchlights and transparences, a' mile long, headed by a full baud, para ded the principal streets. Speeches are being made by United States Senator Norwood, Governor Smith, and Judge Vason, of Georgia, and other prominent Democrats.
