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WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 18,1874.
MOUTH CAROLINA.
As the returns of the election in South
Caroline come in Chamberlain's ma
jority grows larger. It now reaches
nearly fourteen thousand as against
more than fifty thousand for Grant two
years ago. The Senate stands as fol
lows :
Republicans "
Democrats and Independents 11
Republican majority 11
The House stands as follows :
Republicans 70
Democrats and Independents 43
Republican majority 27
These figures give the Republicans a
majority on joint ballot of 38. There
are still two counties to hear from—one
of which will certainlj return Demo
cratic representatives. In the present
Legislature the Republicans have a ma
jority of 17 in the Senate, 78 in the
House and 95 on joint ballot. Though,
still in a minority the Democrats and
Independents are strong enough to pre
vent much mischievous legislation.
KELLOGG
A week ago the New Orleans Bulletin
published a statement that Kellogg
had been taken ill very suddenly and
was supposed to be dying. The symp
toms were “terrible burning pains in
the bowels, sunken eyes, and features
pinched and wan.” The reporter of the
Bulletin, who visited the bed room of
the sick man, declared there was no
hope of a recovery. But as a week has
elapsed since this publication was made
it is reasonable to suppose that the
journalistic doctor was mistaken, and
that Kellogg is getting well. He sent
a dispatch to Attorney-General Wil
liams upon the result of the election in
Louisiana in language more emphatic
than dying men usually employ. The
dispatch ran : “Hell’s to play in New
Orleans to-night. They are firing can
non. We are gone up. Walsh, of the
Sixth, is elected.” A man who can write
such an energetic message as that is
scarcely in arliculo mortis. The usur
per seems to lead a charmed life. Two
hostile pistols have been fired at him
without effect, and inflamation of the
bowels does not hurt him a bit.
WESTERN IMMIGRANTS.
'Pie following paragraph appears in a
recent issue of the St. Louis Republi
can:
Movers.— Yesterday morning seven
wagons filled with movers from Clay
county, Missouri, passed through Belle
ville en route for the State of Georgia,
where they contemplate settling.
This paragraph should be read by
those who are so anxious to desert Geor
gia for the fertile lands and white labor
of the West. These will find that the
West is a paradise only to those who
don’t live there. There is plenty of
good land in Georgia, prices are reason
able and the labor system is good
enough to make famous crops of sugar,
of rice and of cotton. We are glad to
see that the advantages of our soil and
climate are attracting immigrants from
beyond the Mississippi, and we cordially
welcome them to Georgia. We need all
who will come. Wo can give them good
government, low taxes, fertile lands and
a healthy climate. Georgia has room
for a million new settlers and the honest
and industrous immigrant cannot fail of
success.
OPPOSED TO MODERATION.
The country is informed that Hon. B.
Gratz Brown, of Missouri, is opposed
to moderation. At a recent jubilation
in St. Louis over the election he is
quoted as follows:
Now, fellow-citizens, the time has
come for a change. I propose that you
begin a change right yonder. Don’t you
see that Times building, one-half white
and the other black. Let us have it
painted all white and go ahead with the
whole thing. Let us have it all white
and all right, and all straight, without
any further trouble. [Applause.] Some
of my friends say, “Oh, you have got a
magnificent triumph; now you must turn
and be dreadfully moderate.” Other
friendssay, “Oh, you have got a splendid
victory ; now you must turn in and be
moderate.” My friends, I have no such
advice to offer you. [A voice, “Good.”]
I say go on right square forward with
the same energy, the same principles,
that carried yon up to this hour, and by
the help of God you will carry this still
higher. [Applause.] lam not a coun
sellor of moderation. I never knew a
victory gained by moderation yet. [A
voice, “good.”l I say stand up tojyour
principles. Go forward as you nave
during the last year, and you will have
the Union at your beck and call. [Ap
plause.]
From the above it will be seen that
the political doctors differ. Without
knowing exactly what Governor Brown
is driving at, or what kind of modera
tion he opposes, we of the South will
follow the advice cf Gordon . His doc
trine is sound enough and his counsels
are eminently wise and judicious.
THE REVIVAL OF TRADE.
Some days since we published an able
letter from W. F. Herring, Esq., on the
trade outlook. In this communication
Mr. Herring took the position that the
production of large grain crops all over
the world this year would result in a re
vival of trade and an advance in the
price of cotton. Mr. Herring’s position
has since been sustained, and the cor
rectness of a portion, at least, of his
theory been demonstrated, by the Prime
Minister of England. For some time
past trade has languished in Great
Britain, and this stagnation, especially
in manufacturing, has re-acted with
most damaging effect upon the United
States. At the Lord Mayor’s banquet
in London last Monday Mr. Disraeli
was among the speakers, responding to
the usual toast to Her Majesty’s Min
isters. He said : “As far as the present
was concerned, the country had seldom
been more prosperous. He had good
authority for stating that there teas a
considerable revival of trade , and great j
promise of an increase of commercial \
transactions." Coming from such a
source, and uttered upon such an occa
sion these words carry with them great
weight and are entitled to full credence.
Mr. Disraeli would not venture to make
publicly such a statement unless fully
satisfied of its entire correctness and of
the impossibility of successful refuta
tion. Besides, we have received am
ple testimony from extraneous sources
of the truthfulness of the Premier’s
remarks. When it is recollected that
the mills of Great Britain consume
twice as much American cotton as do the
manufactories of the United States, the
significance of this statement is easily
appreciated. A revival of trade in Eng
land is obliged to benefit trade in this
country, aud an active business abroad
and at home will necessarily increase
the priee of cotton. Last year there was
an advance in cotton, from the seventh
to the twenty-eighth of November, from
ISi cents to 16} eants. Let us hope
that the some month of the present year
will exhibit equally as marked an ad
vance in the priee of our great meple.
Let ns hope that the experience of years
will not be disproves, and that still an
other evidence of the trsth of the axiom
“‘cheap brt&d makes dear cottony 1 ’ .will
be afforded. Jhe life of the Booth is
her cotton crop. Every man is bene
fitted when the crop brlnj ß a good price.
Every man is injured when *.he farmers
lose money.
The impression has been created by a
paragraph in a recent letter from our
Atlanta correspondent that Hon. Thom
as Hardeman, of Bibb, would not be a
•candidate for Speaker of the House of
Representatives. This is a mistake.
CoL Habobmax is a candidate and will
remain one an til the votes are counted.
’ Whenever yon meet a man who is
fond of argument, you will meet one
profonndly ignorant of the operations of
the human heart.
LIGHT AT LAST.
The Third Term business is settled at
last. Of course an Atlanta man does it.
He signs himself “ Ex-Rebel” and he
writes for the Atlanta Constitution.
General Grant is a pure patriot, a good
Democrat, and will run again for the
Presidency in 1876 aa the candidate of
the Republican party. These statements
are a little confnsing and conflicting,
bat doubtless “Ex-Rebel” understands
what he means, and no one else has a
right to complain. “ Ex-Rebel” is on
intimate terms with the President and
knows whereof he speaks. He called on
General Grant in 1872 and the General
told him, “with his own month,”—
which of coarse clinches the matter
that be did not desire a second nomina
tion, but he was renominated by accla
mation and forced to accept, and “ Ex-
Rebel” now predicts “ that the Ameri
“ can people, who love the Union, will
“ cause him again to accept the labori
“ ous duties of the Presidential office,
“ as a means of elevating the banner of ,
“ the Union still higher in the van of j
“ nations, and to establish, for all time j
“ to come, the imperishable principles of
“ universal liberty.” “Ex-Rebel” is
also confident that “whilst President
(i has no ambition whatever for a
“ third term, patriotic, Union loving,
“ thinking people devoqtly desire his
“re-election to the Presidency. The
“public feeling, in this direction, is as
"profound as it is silent and unostenta- j
“tions. The old Andrew Jackson j
“Union Democrats, as well as thousands !
“upon thousands of old Union Whigs, j
“from Maine to the gold capped hills of
“California, are in perfect accord and j
“sympathy with a third term for Presi- |
“dent Grant, as the surest and best j
“means for preserving and increasing
“the common prosperity of the country
“and its people, regardless of color,
“sect, or previous condition. The state
“ments that the recent elections will
“shelve President Grant for all time to
“come are simply erroneous, and aa
"foolish and unstatesmanlike as was the
“idea that Greeley and Brown could
“defeat the Union Republican party in
“1872.” “Ex-Rebel” takes a novel view of
the recent elections and thinks it ab
surd to suppose that a party is defeated
merely because a majority of the votes
cast are against it. Hear him : “The
“recent ‘Bull Run’ is, in my opinion, a
“rich blessing in disguise to the great
“Union party, of which President Grant
“is the acknowledged leader, and I now
“advise the people, through you, that it
“will be taken advantage of, and 1876
“will witness the purified Republican
“party coming forth to victory, as bright
“as the sun, as fair as the moon, and
“as terrible as an army with ban
“ners. But you will point me to Lousi
“ana and say : ‘This cannot be’—in re
“turn I point you to Texas and Arkansas,
“and assure you that it will be.” Here is
richness for you! Who would have
thought of this before ? and yet it all
seems simple enough now. We have no
idea what the President is going to do
about it; but we know what we should
do were we in President Grant’s posi
tion. We should write a short note to
“Ex-Rebel” saying in substance : My
dear “Ex-Rebel,” you write splendidly ;
you gush charmingly. You have tried
to do me a good turn, and I am not un
grateful. If any moderately salaried
position will suit you draw on me at
sight. Of course General Grant will
do this; and if he did his offer would un
doubtedly be rejected. But we insist
upon it that this would be the correct
thing. A man who is capable of throw
ing such a flood of light on so many
dark places should have his services
suitably acknowledged.
AN APT QUOTATION.
In his speech delivered in Savannah,
Senator Norwood applied a quotation
from Shakspeare to the Chattanooga
Convention, which is decidedly the best
description of that motley gathering
that has yet appeared in print:
If I be not ashamed of my soldiers
lam a soused gurnet. I have misused
the press damnably; I press me none
but good householders, yeomen’s sons;
inquire me out contracted bachelors,
such as had been asked twioe on the
bans; such a commodity of warm slaves,
as had as lief hear the devil as a drum;
such as fear the report of a caliver worse
than a struck fowl or a hurt wild duck.
I pressed me none but such toasts and
butter, with hearts in their bellies no
bigger than a pin’s head, they have
bought out their services, and now my
whole charge consists of ancients, cor
porals, lieutenants, gentlemen of com
panies, slaves as ragged as Laza
rus, in the painted cloth where
the glutton’s dogs licked his sores;
and such as indeed were never soldiers,
but discarded unjust serving men and
revolted tapsters, the cankers of a calm
world and a long peace; ten times more
dishonorable ragged than an old faced
ancient; and such have I to fill up the
rooms of them that have bought out their
services, that you would think I had a hun
dred and fifty tattered prodigals lately
come from swine-keeping, from eating
draff and husks, A mad fellow met me
on the way, and told me I had unloaded
all the gibbets and pressed the dead
bodies. No eye hath seen such scare
crows. I’ll not march through Chatta
nooga with them, that’s flat. Nay, and
the villains march wide between the
legs, as if they had gyves on; for, in
deed, I had the most of them out of
prison. There’s but a shirt and a half
in all my company, and the half shirt is
two napkins tacked together and thrown
over the shoulder like a herald's ooat,
without sleeves, and the shirt, to say
the truth, was stolen; but that’s all one;
they’ll find linen enough on every
hedge.”
The average Northern and Western
journalist knows as much about the
politics of the South as he does of the in
ternal affairs of Russia iu Asia. The New
York Herald stated the day after the
election that the only contest in Georgia
was in the Eighth District, when the
fact is that Mr. Stephens was elected
without opposition. The Nashville
Union and American has just discover
ed that ex-Governor Brown ran for Con
gress in the Seventh District and was
defeated, when the fact is that Governor
Brown does not live in the District and
is entirely too smart either to run for
Congress or to be defeated. Joe isn’t
that kind of a hair pin.
They manage these things better in
Greenville, South Carolina. The News
chronicles the drumming out of town of
a young man who had been found guilty
of drunkenness and disorderly conduct
and sentenced to be imprisoned a cer
tain time, and then drummed out of the
corporate limits. This mode of punish
ment is as novel as it is effective. If it
does not reform the criminal it at least
rids the community of his presence and j
example. It might be tried with bene
ficial resnlts in other towns than Green
ville. But then if drunkenness is to be
so severely punished, who would ’scape
drumming?
It has been the custom of the War
Department to loan to responsible par
ties a battery for the purpose of firing
salutes, which are not always of a politi
cal character. But when the leading
Democrats of Washington asked the
loan of ordnance with whioh to cele
brate “the occurrences of Tuesday"
they were informed anew rule had been
adopted, and that no more guns would
be loaned. At this reply the Democrats
j gu:;v wroth and sent to Baltimore for a
battery, yhich they intend to fire suffi
' ciently near *uc White House to let
Cxjsab know that he fc?s not control
all .the mjipnon in. the oountry. the
Democt&f sppvt the Administration te
furnish &e firgd over its own
grave ?
A Torxe man named Game, residing
i* Griffin, had his death hastened, if
not caused by the whistling of the loco
motives whies: ran by his home. So
states the Griffin iffiws. If the noise
made by the running q i engines is suffi
cient ia kill people there .are a good
many ekkeos of Augusta and Atlanta
who have practiced a deception upon
the undertakers for a number of years.
y.‘ -
A little girl, seven years old, was fa-:
tally burned in Savannah last Monday I
night while lighting a .lamp.
THE LOUISIANA CONTROVERSY.
{Baltimore Gazette.]
The Hon. Reverdy Johnson has writ
ten another letter to the New York
Herald on the subject of President
Grant’s action in Louisiana. Although
admitting .that the President acted
wrongfully in the first instance, Mr.
Johnson still contends that it was the
duty of the President to maintain and
perpetuate that wrong, even to the re
placing Kellogg in the seat he had usur
ped when a mere whiff of musketry
caused him to vacate his position and
take refuge in the Custom House. We
need scarcely say that Mr. Johnson is
the only jnrist of eminence who has
undertaken to maintain this opinion.
Charles O’Conor, Judge Black, George
Ticknor Curtis, Judge John A. Camp
bell, all these great lawyers have re
viewed the action of the President, and
all have come to the conclusion thrt he
has the authority, and that it was his
bounden duty to correct the error into
which he was led, and the evils that
grew ont of it, as soon as an opportunity
was offered him to retrace his steps.
The last letter of Mr. Johnson, of which
we give only the closing paragraphs, is
a very able one; bnt we doubt whether
it will be held to controvert the position
taken by his distinguished legal op
ponents.
The real point in controversy seems to
us to be, whether the taint of illegality
that runs through all the processes by
which McEnery was thrust aside and the
recognition of Kellogg brought about,
could be cured by the fact of that recog
nition ? That the President was wrong
in acting upon the illegal decree of a
drunken Judge is admitted on all sides.
But the history of the Kellogg usurpa
tion dates back beyond that—the decree
of Durell being only an incident, though
an important one, in the conspiracy. We
say “conspiracy” advisedly. The oust
ing of McEnery and the installation of
Kellogg were the result of a preconcert
ed plan. The inspiration to carry it out
came from Washington. The election
was over. There was peace throughout
the State. The President had not been
called upon to protect the State from
domestic violence, for there was no vio
lence to suppress. Yet, in the midst of
the calm, and as a prelude to what was
to follow, Attorney-General Williams
sent a dispatch from Washington to
Packard, the United States Marshal, in
strncting him to enforce any decree that
Judge Dwell should issue, and call
upon the military commander of the de
partment for assistance. This order, we
repeat, was sent to Packard in advance of
Dwell’s decree, and when no one in New
Orleans, outside the circle of conspirators,
had any idea that such a decree wa3 con
templated. The entire city aud State
being tree from excitement, there was no
cause for such a decree. It was issued
at midnight, and forthwith United
States soldiers, artillery and infantry,
acting under the orders of Marshal Pack
ard, seized the State House. No appli
cation had been made to the President
for troops, either by the State Legisla
ture or the Governor. They were used
by his authority, in violation of the Con
stitution of the United States, and as he
must have known that they were so
used, it cannot be claimed that he was
not a party to the conspiracy, or that he
acted ignorantly in recognizing Kellogg
on the strength of the illegal decree is
sued by Durell. The instructions given
to Packard to call for troops antedated
that decree, and foreshadowed that gross
outrage as the next step in the proceed
ing of the joint conspirators at Wash
ington and New Orleans. Having thus
cleared the way for the usurpation of
Kellogg, in opposition to the will of a
large majority of the voters of the State,
and by the use of means that we are
sure Mr. Johnson would be the last to
defend, we cannot conceive lioiv it is
possible to justify the President when
he took advantage of his own great
wrong, and reinstated a government of
his own creation after it had fallen pros
trate before an outraged people.
A BRIGADE OF BRIGADIERS.
[Now York Tribune.]
When the late A. Ward, whose milita
ry services never received even the poor
reward of a single Presidential term,
suggested a reorganization of the army
by which it should be composed entirely
of Brigadier-Generals, he simply fore
shadowed an experiment which it has
been the privilege of President Grant to
put in practice at the expense of the
Republican party; just as when the first
of these humorists expressed his willing
ness to sacrifice his brother-in-law on
the altar of his country, he proposed a
ceremony which has since been perform
ed in more than one Custom House and
Government office. President Grant,
by heedless blundering and willful ob
stinacy, has dwindled his army sadly,
and when the roll was called on Tuesday,
there was hardly enough of it left to
make a respectable retreat. Not only
his personal record and the tendencies
of his administration, but the men who
composed his liveried faction and mis
represented at Washington the people of
their several States, have been repudiated
at the polls. They are generals without
troops, leaders without following, repre
sentatives without constituency. Of the
seven six were chosen from States upon
which members of President Grunt’s
Cabinet the Administration has relied
for support, only one, Secretary Bris
tow, being selected from a State which
has been Democratic for a generation.
To-day five of these party chiefs find
themselves in the predicament of men
who are without honor in their own
country, disowned by the people they
claimed to represent, and rebuked by a
voice that must ring in the dullest ears.
Mr. Fish’s State gave almost as heavy a
majority against Grant and all his
works as two years ago it gave for him
under the seductive influence of money
and patronage. That ancient and genial
mariner, Secretary Robeson, whose tim
bers must have been terribly shivered
by the tidal wave, sees his State swept
out of his grasp by a majority nearly
double what the most sanguine Demo
crats dared to hope for at the time of
their Convention, and his visions of a
peaceful mooring in tho Senate rudely
blown away. Columbus Delano, who
of all the Cabinet officers seems nearest
the Presidential heart, finds his State
completely overturned and himself over
turned with it. The Postmaster-Gen
eral was without a Republican majority
behind him when he received liis port
folio, and there is now a still smaller
prospect of his obtaining one. Attor
ney-General Williams, who owes his po
sition more to the personal preference
of the President than to any merit or
representative character of his own, has
been for years without a State at his
back, and was taken into the Cabinet
because he had nowhere else to go. Of
this array of brigadeless brigadiers,
Secretary "Belknap alone comes from an
Administration State, and he is in no
sense its exponent, his military cousin
ship being the sole cause of his political
advancement. This is a sorry crowd of
political cripples to form the van of a
great party.
The carnage on all sides is terrific. In
the Senate every member of the Presi
dent’s faithful staff has had his party
legs shot from under him. Mr. Roscoe
Conkling, whose burning eloquence, it
was thought, would suffice to send a
prairie flame from Westchester to St.
Lawrence, finds the wind blowing the
wrong way and the fire sweeping not
only his State but his District, even his
townsman, Ellis H. Roberts, going
down with all the rest of the Senator’s
candidates; while the reputed “dead
and buried” Fenton carried his District
for a Liberal Republican. Carpenter,
provided with a fresh “charakther” by
the President in plaee of the one he
“lost on a steamboat,” and “vindicated”
by the Senate, was long ago repudiated
by the decent sentiment of his State and
party. Whether this sentiment will
control the Legislature remains to be
seen ; but there is great reason to be
lieve that Wisconsin will no longer be
disgraced in the Senate by a man who
is as worthless as he is brilliant. This
deserved rebuke will be shared by his
colleague, Senator Howe, who has
shown himself much more partisan and
no less better. Morton, Conkling’s rival
in ministering to the slightest caprice of
a military Executive, gets a defeat at
home for his pains, a reverse from which
no anti-Grant protestations of his organ
could save him. Logan, blatant Grant
ite and Inflationist, receives the repri
mand which all Grantites and Inflation
ists deserve. And the chief of the rot
ten borough Senators, too, may now see
clearly the date of their last appearance
on the National stage. Spencer, bar
room politician; Clayton, border ruffian;
and Dorsey, partner of Clayton, are
weighed and found wanting. Of the
more respectable attaches of the White
House—those who have observed loy
ally the ordinances of the Administra
tion, bnt have kept their linen clean—
the tale is almost as bloody. Sherman,
of Ohio, Frelinghuysen, of" New Jersey,
Oglesby, of Illinois, and Boutwell and
; Yvachburn, of Massachusetts—all these
! may not fcp killed, but they must be
j classed among tus> l*r-dly wounded.
It was well, on the Whuie, that the full
extant oi fba Involution did not she* it
self in tue*lighi P f Wednesday I*morning. 1 *morning.
To know that the RujJ Priest of Grant
ism, Benjamiu F. Matim, yas beaten
absolutely ont of existence, was enough
to give every patriot a real appetite tor
his thanksgiving dinner; but to learn,
as we have since learned, that Pennsyl
vania has refused to register the decrees
of Simon Cameron, and that Michigan
has come ao achieving her salvation
that the re-election qf itanbariah Chan
dler may fairly be classed .aayeiy doubt
ful, is almost too good news Tfco .digest
all at once. Cameron, whose gray hai*s
have brought him jwjther repentance
nor honor, has debauched the politics of
his State until their corruption and
venality have made her n tiding and a
by-word to the English speaking world.
He will not now require th% Legislature
to send his son Don Ckmeron to the
Senate as his colleague,' Chandler,
whose reeling figure has straddled the
State of Michigan for nearly a genera
tion, would be at least, it is hoped, by
one supreme effort dislodged. His dis
missal from the Senate of the United
States would clear the air of no small
proportion of demagogism, partisan
malice, nnblnshing effrontery, and of
fensive morals. Whether these men
will ever again buy or force favors from
Legislatures no one can say; but the
seal of the popular condemnation has
been set upon them once and for all.—
They may not be mined, but they are
sternly rebuked. Added to this achieve
ment, the defeat of Bntler, the Presi
dent’s proprietor, rounds out the full
glory of this one day’s work. It is a
complete popular triumph.
These are the leaders, now repudiated,
who with Grant at their head stole the
insignia of the Republican party and
paraded in the clothes of Lincoln, Chase,
Seward, Snmner and Greeley. They
wore the uniforms and carried the colors
and played the music of Republicanism,
but it was nothing bnt Grantism after
all. And now, as the chill November
breeze plays through their shattered
ranks aud the bloody shirt, their only
pennant, waves mournfully on high,
they see about them plenty of leaders
ready to lead, but a whole people which
refuses to be led. Grantism, which
counterfeited Republicanism, could not
forever escape detection. The hands
were the hands of Esau, but the voice
was the voice of Jacob.
THE CITY BY THE SEA.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Charleston, November 10.
The Election.
Without a doubt, the election of the
3d instant was the quietest ever held in
Charleston. Not a single incident hap
pened during the day to disturb the
peace of the city. As stated in my last
letter, that the strongholds of the Cham
berlain ring had been captured in
Charleston county, my predictions have
been substantiated. The Conservatives
and Republicans in this county did truly
clasp hands over the bloody chasm and
voted down the corrupt ring ticket.
Some of the Democrats, burning with
indignation, refused to vote on the
ground that they could not conscienci
ously give countenance to men who had
been connected with the Radical party.
The question, however, with many, was:
by what means can we better our condi
tion ? It was answered: select the best
meu from both tickets and vote for
them. On the Radical county ticket
there was not' a man with sufficient
strength to carry a dozen Conservative
votes, and consequently the straight In
dependent Republican ticket was elect
ed. Although this cannot be consider
ed a Democratic victory, yet it certainly
is the first great step towards the refor
mation of the unfortunate State,
for just as soon as the colored
people find themselves benefitted by
an honest administration of affairs
they will enter into alliance with the
whites and then may the peregrinating
carpet-bagger breath a long, lingering
and last farewell to Carolina. Already
their dejected countenances express
their defeat. Like fishes out of water,
they gather around the Court House and
City Hall, and if there is a consolation
left it is to upbraid the honest colored
people for “having sold themselves and
their families to the Democrats.” This,
however, has but little effect, since the
honest colored people were among the
first to start the Independent movement.
Trumped in Charleston, the carpet-bag
gerjgentry, like turkey-buzzards around
a market place, will probably flock to
Columbia and see what pickings are
left. As the chances are that even their
dernier resort will prove a failure, their
next step will be to leave the State, ex
claiming : “Too proud to beg, too lazy
to woik and uo chance to steal, South
Carolina faretheewell;” to which all
honest people will say— “ Amen.”
As to Chamberlain individually, he is
a man who might grace a better cause.
Being young in years, and of superior
intelligence he now occupies a position
which, if he so desires, will enable him
to immortalize his name. As Governor
of South Carolina in her prostrate con
dition he can raise her, if not to her
former glory, at least to a degree of
prosperity and peace which will shower
around him the blessings of a grateful
people. On the pages of history his
deeds will be recorded, and the best
philosophy will be to grant him the
charity of silence until he has acted.
Moses is again in the bulrushes, and
it is feared that he will not meet with a
daughter of Pharaoh and her maidens
to take him out. He has been defeated
on both tickets, has lost caste with the
Radicals, will never be trusted by the
Conservatives, and if Buttz does not
succeed in gettiug him in the peniten
tiary it will not be owing to the want of
perseverance. Bowen was not in the
city during the election; whether he
feared violence or thought that it was
more profitable to rally the “ possum
hunters ” on the islands, is best known
to himself. The great majority of the
negroes in the city have proven by the
result of tho election that they really
meant reform, and it was astonishing to
see the interest which they displayed in
the cause. During the hours that the
polls were opened they worked like bea
vers, many of them voting open tickets.
Notwithstanding the yellow fever bug
bear, the city is remarkably healthy.
Virginius.
A CONVENTION OF CONFEDERATE
SOLDIERS.
Called to Organize an Association to
be Known as the Survivors’ Associa
tion of Confederate Soldiers of the
State of Georgia.
The undersigned, soldiers of the late
army of the Confederate States, assured
ip their minds that much of the evil
consequent upon our late unhappy war
has arisen from a demoralization of the
public sentiment by the intrigues of un
scrupulous politicians, and desirous
again to infuse into the public mind and
heart such a spirit as will enable the pos
terity of those who secured American
independence and constitutional govern
ment in the revolution of 1776 to pre
serve the same from the spoliation of
mere partisan jobbers in politics.
Anxious also to organize an association
of the soldiers who survived the revolu
tion of 1860, for social and benevolent
purposes, respectfully ask that each com
pany of the different regiments and bat
talions, of all arms, who served in the
Confederate army from Georgia, send
two accredited delegates to a convention,
to meet in Atlanta, on Wednesday, the
20th of January, for the purpose of or
ganizing an association to be known as
the “ Survivors’ Association of Confede
rate Soldiers of the State of Georgia.”
Signed :
P. M. B. Young, H. D. Capers, Chas.
W. Field, Edward L. Thomas, W. L.
Goldsmith, B. W. Frobel, W. S. Walk
er, Clement A. Evans, Henry Jackson,
George T. Anderson, R. F. Maddox,
John B. Gordon, Wm. T. Magill, James
M. Smith, Wm. T.Wofford, R.A. Alston,
A. C. Garlington, A. H. Rogers, L. J.
Gartrell, R. J. Henderson, Kerr Boyce,
J. P. Simons, John Milledge, J. M. Pace,
Henry Myers, I. W. Avery, W. A. Hemp
hill, J. H. Irwin, Samuel H. Crump,
John T. Henderson, T. N. Hooper, C.
A. Withers, L. L. McClersky, E. Y.
Clarke, E. A. Atkinson, J. S. Blain, H.
L. Benning, James Hunter, A. St. Clair
Abrams, W. B. Jones, R. S. McFarlin,
T. L. Irwin, R. G. Hitt, J. H. Dent, T.
H. Baker, T. D. Mathis, T. H. Lowe, G.
M. Hanvey, and over two thousand
others, whose names are not printed
hereto, for want of space in the paper.
It is earnestly requested that this call be
republished in the daily and weekly
papers of the State. Arrangements are
being perfected with the different rail
road companies to secure half fare for
delegates, who will return home free of
charge. It is further requested that
delegates forward their names to the
Mayor of Atlanta, that arrangements
may be made for their entertainment.
A Romance in Real Life. —A few
days ago a young man, about twenty
years of age, arrived in this city from
England, and commenced to look for
work at his trade. After several days
fruitless search he entered a large fac
tory on Lombard street, and inquired
for work of the superintendent. The
latter questioned him, asking his name
and where he was from, and other par
ticulars about his family. He told the
superintendent that his mother resided
in England and had reared him, his
father having quarreled with her when
he was an infant and had abandoned
them, and it was supposed that he had
come to America but no tidings had
been received from him. When the
young man had concluded, the superin
tendent, who, for many years, has been
employed by the firm with whom he is
at present engaged, said to the astonish
ed youth, “I am your father. They
discussed family matters at length, and
the ftther keiTP? from his son that his
mo J*er had evr to mourn their
fortunate difference and
determined to proceed 3t craoe *0
rope aoi
snpqred employment for ms BOib & ..
obtaisiag the necessary
senee from his employers, he sailed last
week for England, b ™f
back with him on his return tne wue
from whom he had been so long sepa
rated.— Baltimore Gazette,
OCR ATLANTA LETTER.
Belle Boyd—TtitlinWates tlie Press—
And Gera Into me Wmpl House—
Her Lecture—The Air Line Railway
—ln the Hands of a Receiver—The
Three Factions—The State Road
Suits—A Verdict for the State—Gate
City Gossip.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Atlanta, November 11, 1874.
Belle Boyd.
Atlanta TSusmiewhat puzzled at pre
sent by the pretensions or claims of a
female lady who represents herself as
being the original Belle Boyd, of Con
federate spy notoriety. The female
lady, alias Belle Boyd, made her ap
pearance in this city unheralded several
days ago, and the first intimation the
public had of her presence was through
a few “dodgers,” announcing that the
famous Belle Boyd, the celebrated Con
federate spy, would lecture at Concordia
Hall on Saturday night. When Satur
day night came a small number of per
sons proceeded to Concordia Hall to
hear the distinguished lecturess, sol
dieress and patriotess. but from some
misunderstanding Miss Belle Boyd fail
ed to appear. It was subsequently an
nounced that she would lecture on Mon
day night. In the meantime Mr. St.
Clair-Abrams, of the News, who seems
to have frequently encountered Belle
Boyd in the army, announced in his pa
per editorially that Belle Boyd had died
several years ago in a California lunatic
asylum, and pronounced the female
lady here an imposter, whereupon this
female imposter so-called expressed her
intention to cowhide Mr. Abrams. Ac
cording to promise, she marched up to
the Neu's office Monday afternoon and
asked to see Mr. Abrams privately. Mr.
Abrams happened to be near at hand,
appeared and asked what was wanted.
She thereupon demanded that he re
tract all he had said in the News in re
gard to her. Mr. Abrams promptly re
fused, whereupon she drew forth two
pistols, evidently with the intention of
shooting, when Mr. Abrams seized her
arms, and, with the assistance of officers,
disarmed her and thwarted her murder
ous design. She was immediately ar
rested and imprisoned in the station
house, where numerous citizens who
had formerly known Belle Boyd visited
her for the purpose of identifying her if
possible. Very few, if any, were posi
tive that she was the original Belle
Boyd, while a large number readily
agreed that she was uot. Siie lectured
last night to a crowd of about seventy
five people, or rather delivered a ram
bling, desultory denunciation of her
enemies in general and Mr. Abrams in
particular. Daring the delivery of her
lecture she displayed from her belt a
pistol which she threatened to use onee
or twice to quiet some boisterous indi
viduals. She engaged in a conversation
with numbers of her audience from time
to time, made no allusion to the Con
federate spy, it is said, skipped from
one subject to another, and, in fine, de
livered a poor lecture. The audience,
or a large portion of it, arose to leave
before she ~ concluded, whereupon she
bowed herself good night. The pre
vailing impression seems to be that she
is not the “original Belle Boyd.”
The Air-Line Railroad.
The Atlanta aud Richmond Air-Line
Railroad, which is doing a tremendous
traffic, has for a long time been in a pre
carious condition financially, aud devel
opments are just beginning to manifest
themselves. A day or two ago Mr. T.
S. Garner, of this city, resigned his po
sition as supervisor, was appointed
receiver of a certain portion of about 20
miles at this end, immediately took
possession of that part, and is no.v run
ning it in the interest of the stockhold
ers, whom he represents, viz : Judge S.
B. Hoyt, Cashier Georgia Railroad at
this place; W. A. Russell, of Savannah ;
B. Y. Sage, Superintendent of the Road,
and Thos. Alexander, of the firm of
Grant, Alexander & Cos., formerly a large
contractor on the road. Garner took
possession of this portion of the road by
virtue of a sheriff’s sale on a claim of
only SI,OOO. There are three parties
fighting for possession of the road, one
representing the bondholders, another
the stockholders, and still another who
it is understood are neither stockholders
nor bondholders. They are all in the
Courts, and nothing can be definitely
ascertained until action is taken by that
tribunal. In the meantime, the em
ployees of the road are in a dilemma.
They are anxious to retain their situa
tions, but are afraid to favor one party
or another, less it will prejudice the win
ning party against them. The State is
in no wise involved in this'questinn. It
did at first endorse the bonds of the
road, but these bonds were all surren
dered, the company expressing its in
tention to do without them. Atlanta
owns $300,000 of tire stock, which doubt
less is lost.
Another State Road Suit.
One of the last of the suits against
the old Stat 9 Road delinquents, de
faulters or what not, was tried yester
day in Fulton Superior Court. It was
the case of J. M. & J. C. Alexander,
hardware merchants of this city, who
were charged with receiving money
from the State for which they did not
furnish value received. It is only a
civil suit—and laid claims at about
$20,000. The jury returned a verdict
for SII,OOO this morning. The defend
ants will probably appeal.
• Minor Topics.
Mr. Ben H. Hill, Jr., was married
yesterday in Murray county to Miss
Mary Carter, daughter of Col. Sam Car
ter, one of the wealthiest planters of
Georgia. Miss Carter was unusually
beloved for many charming qualities.
Mr. Hill, who is a son of Hon. B. H.
Hill, has many friends in the city. The
bridal party left in a special palace car
for a tour North. * * * Mr. John
H. Seals issued yesterday the first num
ber of his literary weekly, the “ Sunny
South,” and many persons pronounce it
the rival of the best literary weeklies in
the country iu execution, talent and
general merit. * * * It is the pur
gose of Dr. Felton’s friends to invite
im to deliver an address in this city
soon, in order to give the eloquent doc
tor an opportunity of explaining his po
sition and his political faith, and also to
allow our citizens to listen to the man
who has electrified Northwest Georgia
by his oratory. Gen. Gordon and Col.
Trammell say he is one of the ablest
speakers in Georgia. * * * The
Lingards are playing here to crowded
houses. Halifax.
The Happiest Vocation. —The prac
tice of educating boys for the “profes
sions,” which are already over-supplied,
or for mercantile, in which statistics
show the proportion of failures to be
ninety-five per cent, of the number en
gaged in commerce, is fearfully on the
increase in this country. Americans
seem to grow every year more and more
weary of manual labor. To exist by
their wits rather than live by their mus
cles is the ambition of our young men.
The mechanical trades are passing into
the control of foreigners, and the own
ership of the finestfarms is passing from
the thriftless Americans to the frugal
Germans. A short time ago two gentle
men were conversing upon this subject,
when one asked the other what profes
sion his son ought to enter. “If your
son is talented and well-informed, and is
industrious and has good liabtts,” ad
vised his friend, “select a good trade for
him and put him straightway to work ;
but if, on the contrary, he is lazy and
disposed to trifle, like most boys nowa
days, make him a doctor, lawyer or
politician.”
We do not hesitate to say that of two
boys equally endowed by nature and for
tune, beginning life together, the one
choosing a useful trade and the other
being “licensed to practice” law or
medicine, the former will achieve more
honorable success, will be healthier aud
happier and make more money, and in
the end enjoy a higher standing in so
ciety than his misguided playmate.
A*lawyer’s office, a counting room, a
drug Store, or a grocery, is about the
last place a young man should be sent.
Put your son to work on a farm or at a
trade, and let him become a man who
can rejoice iu a healthful life and the
consciousness of being useful.
The Spaniards have a proverb which
runs somewhat in this way: Who profits
by his own experience is wise; who
profits by the experience of others is
fortunate; but who profits neither by his
own experience nor that of others is a fool.
Young men who have been reared on a
farm should remain in the country, put
ting behind them the delusive tempta
tions of professions and clerkships.
The happiest vocation in life is that of
the farmer. This is no idle assertion.
It is the deliberate declaration of some
of the best and wisest men. George
Washington, in a letter to Alexander
Spotswood, written] in 1788, said: “The
life of a husbandman of all others is the
most delightful. It is honorable, it is
amusing, aud, with judicious manage
ment, it is profitable.'’
The late Hon. Sam Galloway, of Co
lumbus, Ohio, was a remarkably homely
man. On one occasion, while stopping
with a personal and political friend in
Chilicothe, the six or seven year old
daughter of his host, who had been in
tently studying Galloway’s face, said,
loud enough to be heard all over the
table Rv’' ■* ,
“Ma didn’t that illus mama love
children mighty well !-’ *
.“Wbv so, my dear V ’ a&jieq “? r
mother"
“Oh, just ’cause she raised him f”
Breaeh of good manners—For ruin to
gtare you in the face.
UNION POINT.
The Recent Riot— I Trials Progressing—
The Probable Result—A Minister
Wounded.
Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Union Point, Ga., Nov. 11, 1874.
Our village and vicinity are again
quiet, I believe, and we call in our
pickets to-night and retire to our slum
bers. The trials before Judge Robinson,
of the County Court, are progressing to
day. Numbers that were carried up to
prison have been discharged. Some
four or five of the principal leaders will
probably be found guilty of riot on
Saturday night, and perhaps Mont
gomery Shepherd’s offense may be
higher, as may be, also, that of one
Charles Williams, who, it seems, was
the man that snapped the pistol and was
otherwise very demonstrative on that
occasion. The trial has so far been con
ducted fairly and the negroes have been
represented by able counsel. All the
trials will likely be closed to-morrow.
We regret that no developments have
been so far made that will bring to light
the parties who shot at Mr. Reynolds, or
fired Mr. Carlton’s grainery, on Sunday
night, nor has any evidence been drawn
out, so far, tlif.t is sufficient to connect
any. white parties with the riotous as
semblage.
Our Presiding Elder and neighbor,
he Rev. T. E. Pierce, accidentally shot
himself through the ankle this morning
in Greenesboro. He had gone up there,
in company with some others from this
place, to be present at the trial of these
cases. Some person had handed him a
revolver to carry for him in his buggy,
and when he got out of the buggy he
took hold of the pistol to take it out.
Catching it by the scabbard, the pistol
slipped out, and falling upon the ground
fired, the ball entering near the ankle
joint on the inside, passed around, and
lodged just under the skin on the out
side of his leg. It was cut out by Dr.
Harris and his wound dressed. He
came down home on the 11 o’clock train.
His wound will likely be a very painful
one, but we understand he is resting
easy to-night. J. B. H.
THE SHAH’S DIAMONDS.
The Friend of India, in an article
which professes to be a summary of
what the authors of recent books on
Persia have written about the royal
treasure-house, says:
The Shah’s strong box consists of a
small room, 20 feet by 14 feet, reached
by a steep stair and entered through a
very small door. Here, spread upon
carpets, lie jewels valued at seven mil
lions sterling. Chief among the lot is
the Kaianian crown, shaped like aflower
pot, and topped by an uncut ruby as
large as a hen’s egg, and supposed to
have come from Siam. Near the crown
are two lambskin caps, adorned with
splendid aigertees of diamonds, and be
fore them lie trays of pearl, ruby and
emerald necklaces, and hundreds of
rings. Mr. Eastwick, who examined
the whole, states that in addition to
these there are gauntlets and belts
covered with pearls and diamonds, and
conspicuous among them the Kaianian
belt, about a foot deep, weighing per
haps eighteen pounds, and one complete
mass of pearls, diamonds, emeralds and
rubies. One or two scabbards of swords
are said to be worth a quarter of a mil
lion each. There is also the finest tur
quoise in the world, three or four inches
long and without a flaw; and “I remark
ed a smaller one of unique beauty, three
eighths of an inch broad; the color was
lovely, and almost as refreshing to the
eyes as Persian poets pretend. There
are also many sapphires as big as marbles,
and rubies and pearls the size of nuts;
and I am certain that I counted nearly a
hundred emeralds from half an inch
square to one and three-quarters
inches long and an inch broad.
In the sword scabbard, which is
covered with diamonds, there is not,
perhaps, a single stone smaller than the
nail of a man’s little finger.” Lastly,
there is an emerald as big as a walnut,
covered with the names of kings who
have possessed it.
The ancient Persians prized the em
erald above all gems, and particlarly
those from Egypt. Their goblets, de
corated with these stones, were copied
by the Romans ! The Shah also pos
sesses a pearl worth £60,000. But the
most attractive of the Persian stones is
the turquoise, which is inlaid by the
native lapidaries with designs and in
scriptions with great effect and expert
ness. The best come from Nishapoor,
in Khorassan, whose mines ornamented
the gold armour of the Presians, so
much admired by the Greeks. Chardin
records that in the Treasury at Ispahan
he saw “in each chamber the stones in
the rough piled high on the floor like
heaps of grain, filling innumerable
leather bags.” As with the King of
Burmah and his rubies the turquoises of
Persia are always first inspected by the
Shah. They are divided into two classes,
according to the position in which they
are found.
The first, called sengui, or stony, are
encrusted in the matrix and have to be
removed by means of a hammer; the
second are taken from the alluvial de
posits, and, though larger, are of less
value than the former, which are of a
deep blue color. Although the Lord of
Lords contented himself with taking the
least valuable gems of his incomparable
collection on his recent tour in the West,
he carried no fewer than 200 talismans,
which, while -they may be poor in ap
pearance, possess limitless value in the
eyes of Persians. Among others there
was a fine pointed star, supposed to have
been worn by Roostan, and believed to
have the power of making conspirators
at once confess their crimes. Around
his neck the Shah wore a cube of amber,
reported to have fallen from Heaven in
the time of Mahomet and to confer on
its owners invulnerability. Most pre
cious of all, however, and in Nusseerood
deen’s case the most useless, was a little
casket of gold studded with emeralds,
and said to have the remarkable prop
erty of rendering the royal wearer in
visible so long as he remains celibate.
ABOVE THE CLOUDS.
From Account ot an Ascension with
Prof. Donaldson, in the Baltimore
American.
Now came the most stirring incident
of onrt.ip. From the height of four
thousand feet we steadily ascended, the
country dwarfing into a panorama of
boys below us. I had the aneroid ba
rometer in my hand, and so marked our
progress upward. At six thousand six
hundred feet our breaths became visi
ble, just as they would on a frosty morn
ing. We already began to feel cold in
the body, but the rays of the sun beat
iu upon us witli a fierce intensity. The
index of the barometer steadily crept
around the dial, marking off the thou
sands until it leached the fourteenth,
then flying back again and starting from
zero, from whence it progressed once
more around the dial, until it halted on
the verge of the two thousandth, telling
us that we were only about a hundred
feet less than sixteen thousand feet
above the earth.
At this height the world was an ob
scurity to us, a vapory haze shut it out
from our view, and we could detect
nothing of it but the silvery lines that
marked the great bays and rivers. From
a contemplation of the indistinct scene
I revert to my own feelings. The air
■was very cold, and the sun was very
warm. The thermometer stood at 82
degrees, the sun was intensely hot, as its
rays fell upon us, but for all that we
might as well have been in an Arctic
region. This is one of the most curious
phenomena of life above the clouds. The
rarefaction of the air hardly accounts
for the chilling cold which penetrates
you through and through, while the
thermometer and the heat of the solar
rays are indicating a high Summer tem
perature. At a height of fifteen thou
sand feet I was shivering, while my head
seemed to be burning up, and all the
blood in my body rushed toward it. I
felt a very slight difficulty in breathing,
but my ears were stopped up, and I
could hardly hear what Mr. Fox was
saying to me when he was standing by
my side.
We did not remain long at this tre
mendous elevation. We slipped down
through the atmosphere to 'between
eleven and twelve thousand feet above
the earth, and it was there we had our
grandest view. We had within our
range of vision, at the same moment,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Harri -
bnrg, the Chesapeake and Delaware
bays, and all their upper tributaries,
and also Annapolis and the most of the
smaller towns were included within this j
extended vision. But the grandest fea- j
ture of all was when gazing eastwardly j
we very plainly perceived the Atlantic !
Oeean. There was no mistake about it; J
the mist had lifted a little, and we could ;
plainly see where the waters of the Dela
ware bay mingled with those of the At
lantic.
The view at this time was above the
possibilities of language to picture.—
The peninsular of land between the
Chesapeake and Delaware bays was but
a thread of dark green upon the land
scape; the Susquehanna river was hard
ly perceptible, except for the dark line
which we knew to be the great bridge
across it; the country below was but a
checker-board of indistinct green and j
white squares; Baltimore and Philadel- i
phia were only masses of shade upon the
map; but the great ocean was a reality,
and to a view of it we constantly turned
our eyes, with a feeling that here was
soinhihicg everlasting and enduring.
The panorama ' same within our
scope of vision was probably; not iesa
than two hundred square miles, bat
from oar height of sixteen thousand
feet it seemed to be dwarfed to a space
you might cover with your handker
chief. It seemed to us as if we were
looking through the wrong end of a field
glass.
When at this height of sixteen thou
sand feet, or over three miles above the
earth. Professor Donaldson told us that
the balloon had obtained its equilibrium;
that it was poised on an exaot balance,
and that as soon as the gas commenced
to condense, even in the slightest de
gree, we would descend rapidly. And
it was precisely in this fashion that we
did go down.
TOPICS ABOUT THE STATE.
Atlanta wants a hospital.
Hon. Jas. S. Blouut received 682 ma
jority in Baldwin county.
The Constitution is still running on
the gift distribution plan.
The Atlanta Herald is crying out
against cruelty to animals.
Fourteen seamen, deserters, were ar
rested in Savannah Wednesday. ,
The Young Men’s Library Association
of Atlanta has 8500 to loan out.
Bret Harte lectured in Milledgeville
on Thursday night of last week.
The ward clubs in Macon are organiz
ing for the municipal campaign.
A little pistol practice on the streets
of Athens the other day. Nobody hurt.
Katie Putnam will perform in Colum
bus on the 28th, 29th, and 30th of De
cember.
The way the Nashville Union and
American fixes it is, “The Hon. Julian
Partridge.”
A Columbus man, who died recently,
reported verv poor, is said to have left
his heirs $20,000.
Mr. Benj. H. Hill, Jr., of Atlanta,
was married last Tuesday to Miss Car
ter, of Murray county.
The Mayor of Savannah has appoint
ed next Thursday, the 19th, a day of
Thanksgiving and prayer.
Mr. Willis Pittman, of Gainesville,
while out hunting one day last week,
was accidentally shot in the hand.
The Rome Commercial thinks it due
to the Democratic party that Col. Dab
ney should contest Felton’s election.
It is said that as soon as Mr. Felton
receives his certificate of election he will
be invited to Atlanta to make a speech.
Bucksnorter Mills says he intends to
ooutest Candler’s election. Take onr
advice, Mills, and don’t do any such
thing.
Bishop Stevens, of Pennsylvania, will
visit Atlanta next Saturday, to be pres
ent at the consecration of the new Bishop
Elliott.
Highway robbers are near Athens. A
farmer from Forsyth county was robbed
of three hundred dollars on the public
highway in mid-day.
The Rev. Dr. Irvine, of Augusta,
preached an eloquent sermon to a large
congregation,in the Presbyterian Church,
in Milledgeville, on Monday night.
Miss Mary T. Wayne, youngest daugh
ter of Gen. Heiry C. Wayne, was mar
ried in Savannah Tuesday to Lieutenant
Robert H. Patterson, of the United
States Army.
A banana plant grown in the garden
of Charlss Green, Esq., in Savannah,
had taken from it a well filled bunch of
the fruit, which it is said will compare
in size and flavor with any brought from
the West India Islands.
A widow in Baldwin county has made
enough cotton, the present year, to pay
all of her deceased husband’s debts, and
her own expenses, and still has a surplus
of one hundred and twenty-five dollars
and six bales of cotton.
A peculiar madness is raging among
the canines near Rome. It bogins with
a kind of distemper, the dog becomes
timid and seems frightened, and then
wanders off, biting at trees, bushes, and
everything that comes in its way. ,
Several Radical negroes, thoroughly
imbued with the teachings of Seeley and
Bryant, made an assault upon a few
Democratic colored supporters in Yama
craw on Sunday afternoon. The ne
groes who were assaulted retaliated and
succeeded in thoroughly “scooping”
and putting to flight the Bryantites.
Last Tuesday, at Rome, Mi-. Asa R.
Smith, cast his sixtieth annual ballot, and
Mr. Lewis B. Floyd his seventieth, both
for the Democratic nominee. Mr. Floyd
is ninety-one years of age. His mother,
who lived to be more than a hundred
years old, was a noble matron of the
first revolutionary war.
The wife of a Savannah shoemaker
has fallen heir to a fortune of $40,000.
Her name is Pardue. Her father, John
Fagin, died in Buenos Ayres, and be
fore his death appointed Hon. A. H.
Stephens executor of his will. Mr. Ste
phens writes that he is ready to pay
over the first installment of $5,000.
W. A. Huff has been renominated for
Mayor of Macon by a regular Demo
cratic primary election, beating his op
ponent, Capt. T. G. Holt, 510 votes.—
The people of Macon deserve to be com
pimented for this; for he had pre-emi
nent capacity for filling the office. He
is by long odds the best Mayor the town
ever had, and perhaps the best in the
State. But beseems to be more honor
ed abroad than at home.
The Americus Republican says: On
the plantation of Capt. Wm. A. Wilson,
in' this county, lives a highly respectable
old colored woman named Liddy Wim
bush. In former and better days she
belonged to the family of our re-elected
Congressman, General Phil Cook.—
The night previous to election day
the old lady came to Caiit. Wilson for
the loan of a two horse wagon and team.
She said she had not been to town in a
long time—had not expected ever to get
there again; but she had know’d “Mass’
Philip” was running for Congress and she
wanted to go up and electioneer for him;
she had spanked him many a time when
ho was a baby and she loved him yet;
she proposed to let only those who
would vote for “Mass’ Philip” ride in
the wagon. Of course Capt. Wil
son loaned her the Wagon and team, and
sure enough the old lady brought a
wagon jammed and crowded, and
voted every one of them for the
representative of Southern chivalry.—
The hearty meeting between the Gen
eral and the old lady was an enjoyable
scene, as was to be expected. She was
well rewarded for her faithful affection
and good service to the General.
A Terrible Tragedy. —The Sanders
ville Herald says : On Monday night
last, about nine o’clock, while Mr. Will
C. Moreau was sitting in the midst of
his family reading, someone fired
through the window from the piazza,
the shot taking effect back of and a
little above the left ear, killing him in
stantly. So deadly was the shot that the
poor man died without a groan, not
even falling from his chair, but remained
seated a& he was until removed by
friends next morning. The family saw
no one, but upon going to a negro cabin
for assistance found Bichard Eaiken, a
negro with whom Mr. M. had not been
on good terms, concealed under a bed.
An inquest was held next day and the
following verdict rendered : “We find
that the deceased came to his death from
a gun shot wound, fired by Seaborn
Fullwood, instigated by Richard Eai
ken.” What the circumstances are that
pointed out Fullwood as the assassin we
do not know. Both negroes are in jail.
How to Put Children to Bed.— Not
with reproof for any of that day’s sins
of omission or commission. Take any
time but bed-time for that. If yon ever
heard a little creature sighing or sob
bing in its sleep, you could never do
this. Seal their closing eyelids with a
kiss and a blessiDg. The time will come
when, all too soon, they will lay their
heads upon their pillows lacking both.
Let them, then, at least, have sweet
memory of a happy childhood, of which
no future sorrow or trouble can rob
them. Give them their rosy youth. Nor
need this involve wild license. The
judicious parent will not mistake my
meaning. If you have ever met the
man or the woman whose eye3 have
suddenly filled when a little child has
crept trustingly to its mother’s breast, you
have seen one in whose childhood’s
home “dignity” and “severity” stood
where love and pity should have been.
Too much indulgence has ruined thou
sands of children ; too much love, not
one.— Fanny Fern.
Corn Acclimated in England.—
About a hundred years ago Indian corn
was introduced into England with the
expectation that it would furnish the
necessary quantity of bread about which
the fast increasing population were get
ting nervous. That country must then
have been experiencing a cycle of hot
Summers, for the com ripened all right
for three years in succession. In the
fourth year it was largely planted, but
failed to mature. The attempt to grow
corn was then abandoned, it being clear
that the Summer heat was not great
enough, while the liability to June
frosts, similar to those of this year, was
alone enough to make the attempt hope
less. The English papers now state that
Wm. Cobbett, son of the famous Liberal
agitator, has successfully acclimated
corn at Hounslow, near London, where
he has three acres growing which have
withstood the severe frosts of last June,
and are very promising. If our English
cousins have already got a frost proof
com it will be as valuable to us as to
them.
Mr. Chamberlains majority is esti
mated at 10,000, although the official
count may change these fignres. Gen.
gepsbSH Was defeated by 2,004 votes —
he having received 14,430, while Mr,
Wallace received 16,443.
FOREIGN NEWS,
The Virginins Indemnity.
Washington, November 13.—Diplo
matic circles have information that Spain
has paid England her indemnity for the
Virginius outrage. It is is now hoped
that the Administration will push the
American claim.
Defeat of the* Carlists.
London, November 13. —The Carlist
retreat from Irun ended with a stam
pede. One hundred burning houses
marked the path of the Republicans as
they pursued.
Hendaoe, November 13. Don Al
phonzo issued an address to his troops
before quitting Spain. He says his
temporary retirement is solely caused
by the royal order depriving him of his
command in Catalonia. He awaits the
time when his services will again be use
ful to the cause. Don Carlos opposes
his withdrawal.
Hendaoe, November 13,—The Span
ish Republican troops are actively pur
suing the retreating Carlists. As the
Government troops advance they burn
the houses of Carlist sympathizers.
Three hundred have already been de
stroyed.
Bayonne, November 13.—The Carlists
have concentrated in the province of
Navarre, between the towns of Vera and
Lesaca. The Republican troops are
marching upon them.
England.
London, November 13.—1 tis reported
that Baron Cleasby has ordered Gover
nor Millbank to prison to produce Ar
thur Orton, so that he may testify in
the libel case of Dr. Kenealy and Mrs.
Punderich.
Von Arnim.
Beblin, November 13.—Count Von
Arnim has been again incarcerated.
London, November 13.—There is a
report here that the documents demand
ed by the German Government of Count
Von Arnim were sent from this country
to Berlin on Wednesday last, and that
the Count has them and will deliver
them to Emperor William.
Berlin, November 13.—Count Von
Arnim is confined in his own house
and not in a cell at the police station, as
was reported last night. The Police
Commissioner and several constables
appeared at the Count’s house yester
day with a warrant for his arrest and
conveyance to prison. His physicians
were immediately summoned and they
certified that the state of the Count’s
health was such that his removal would
be attended with most serious conse
quence. He was, therefore, permitted
to remain at home.
Run Into.
Hamburg, November 13.—The steam
ship Lessing, of the Eagle line, was run
into last night by the steamship Bahia,
while lying at anchor, and had some of
her forward plates damaged. She will
be repaired within a fortnight. The
Lessing’s passengers will leave on Tues
day next, on the steamship Klopstock.
The Carlists.
London, November 14.—A special to
the News, dated Hendage, Friday even
ing, says : General Lazruer and Loma,
with the main body of their troops,
marched to San Sebastia, after leaving
reinforcements in Irun and fortifying
San Marcial. The Carlists are reappear
ing in small numbers. .The Daily News'
correspondent reports that so great was
the discontent in the Republican army
that the victory before Irun was render
ed almost abortive by the withdrawal of
large numbers of troops before their
commanders were able to follow it up
with a heavier blow at the insurgents.
New York, November 14. —The Her
ald's special from Hendage, 13th, says
a heavy snow has covered the mountains
around Irun. The Republicans have
driven the inhabitants from their homes,
which were then burned. The surround
ing country is covered with homeless
women and children, exposed to the in
clemency of the weather. Gen. Loma
holds the triangle formed by Irun, Her
nani and San Sebastian. He made a
very energetic fight on the way to Tolo
sa and may turn Estella. The Carlists
are not discouraged. They hold Ar
doian, a good defensive position aud
mean to fight again.
Hendage, November 14. General
Lazarnia, Mariones aud Portilla seri
ously threaten Estella. During the re
vreat of the Carlists from Irun fifty or
sixty men of the Biscay battalion were
frozen to death in the snow.
An Arclibiihop Fined.
London, November 14.—The Prus
sian Court of Ratibar recently fined the
Archbishop of Olm utz, Austria, for ille
gally appointing priests in the Prussian
part of his diocese. The Austrian Gov
ernment refused to surrender the Arch
bishop on demand of the Prussian au
thorities for his extradition. The Court
has accordingly issued a warrant against
him, and confiscated all his- revenues
and estates in Prussia.
Von Arniia.
The shock caused by the second ar
rest has seriously affected the health of
Count Von Arnim, who is confined t
his bed. A formal complaint has been
lodged by Government law officers
against the Count.
Berlin, November 14.—The second
arrest of Count Von Arnim has caused
a painful impression in this city. The
moderate newspapers insist upon an ex
planation by the Government.
The Kreug Zeitung says that Count
Von Arnim, after his release on bail
from imprisonment, found several of the
missing 'documents, which were only
mislaid. He delivered them to his
counsel, Dr. Munkel, with instructions to
remit themimmediately to themuniciprl
Court of Berlin, which the latter d’d.
The possibility of Dr. Munkel having
acquainted himself of the contents of
those documents appears to have been
the reason for rearrest of the Count.
Dr. Munkel was examined to-day, but
refused to make any statement on the
ground that his position as counsel was
privileged.
LOUISIANA.
Canvassing tlie Election Returns.
New Orleans, November 13. —The
presence of three representatives of the
Democratic State Committee, at the ses
sions of the Returning Board, has bee*
accorded.
A reunion of the White League organi
zation adopted resolutions looking to
the protection of colored people who
voted the Conservative ticket.
The Returning Board, which met to
day, received the Conservative commit
tee of three, and authorized a like com
mittee of Republicans to be present.
The Conservatives gave notice of a de
sire to file a protest asjainst the board
canvassing returnson the grounds: first,
that the law creating the board was un
constitutional ; second, that the law
gives them judicial power which they
could not possess, and thirdly, admit
ting it to be constitutional, its personnel
was not according to the spirit or letter
of the law.
Governor Wells replied that the ques
tion of the constitutionality of a law
was a thing for the Courts to decide,
but he believed the board was properly
and legally organized. The Conserva
tives were allowed until to-morrow
morning to file their protests.
General Anderson made some remarks
relative to his desire to have a fair
count, and of his willingness to resign
if called upon. He was followed by
Governor Wells and Mr. Cassanove.
Gov. Wells said they must have a legal
count,-but ns some doubts were expressed
regarding the integrity of the board, ho
would be glad to surrender his place to
a more acceptable party. Members of
the board favored the taking up of the
city returns first, iu order that the offi
cers elect might take their places at the
proper time. Tho Conservatives then
showed a resolution passed by the city
officers elect, wherein they’ pledged
themselves not to enter on tho duties
of their offices till all returns of the
State were canvassed. Awaiting the
readiness of the Conservatives’ commit
tee, the board adjourned until to-mor
row.
A Wreck and an Inundation.
Havana, November 13.—A coasting
schooner arrived hero yesterday with
some cotton from the wreck of the
French bark Ville de Bordeaux, which
went ashore on Colorado reef while on
her way from New Orleans to Havre. A
most disastrous inundation has occurred
at the village of Mayan, which was
overflooded for forty hours. Nearly all
houses within its limits were destroyed,
entailing much suffering and destitu
tion. No particulars of casualties have
been received up to date.
A Heroic Woman.
Salisbury, N. C., November 13.—Two
negroes entered the house of an old
man residing near here, for the purpose
of robbing him, and upon his refusal to
give up his money, fired upon him with
out fatal effect. The wife of the old
man, aged about 50, then attacked one
of the negroes with a spade, giving him
a fatal blow upon the head.
ELECTRIC SPARKB.
No compromise has been arrived at
between the New York longshoremen
and steamboat companies, and the for
mer are expected to strike Monday.
The Chicago extension of the Balti
more and Ouio Railroad having been
completed regular trains between Chi
cago and Baltimore will commence run
ning Monday, November 16.
Over three feet of snow at Ontario.
NARINE DISASTER.
COLLISION IN CHESAPEAKE BAY.
Steamer Snnk—No Lives Lost.
Baltimore, November 14.—The fol
lowing statement is furnished the Asso
ciated Press in regard to the collision
between the steamers Falcon and Lou
isiana in Chesapeake Bay last, night, by
Captain Mayo, of the Louisiana :
I left Norfolk about 7:30, last night,
touched at Old Point Comfort, took in
passengers and proceeded up the Bay.
It was a beautiful starlight night, with a
strong breeze from northward. I re
tired at 11, p. m. Everything was quint
until 1:25, a. .n. At this hour I was
awakened by hearing my whistle blown
once. I immediately arose and ran into
the pilot house and instantly heard a
steamer blow two whistles close aboard.
Looked out the port window of the
pilot house and saw all the lights of a
steamer steering sqnarely for us. I gave
order “hard aport,” and was told by the
whistleman it was already hard aport.
Then in hopes of steering her stern off
I gave orders “hard astarboard,” but in
five seconds before this order conld be
executed we were struck amidship, the
colliding steamer going into our port
paddle-box and smashing a large hole in
the port side, from which the Louisiana
filled up rapidly.
The donkey engines were put to work
at their full eapaciiy, but made no eff ct
upon the leak. I endeavored to work
the main engine, but found it had been
so jammed that it was impossible to get
it past the centre. We were thus ren
dered helpless. I called the crew to
quarters, cleared away the boats, and
began lowering them to take oft’ the pas
sengers. At this time the Louisiana
bad between six and seven feet water in
the hold. I hailed the collidingsteamer,
which proved to be the Falcon,
and requested her to remain by ns. The
Falcon immediately came alongside and
all the passengers and baggage was
transferred to that steamer. A hawser
was then passed to the Felcon so that
she might tow us to shoal water. I went
down to examine the leak again and
found the water gaining rapidly, with
eight to nine feet in the hold, and con
cluded that we could not be towed more
than half a mile before sinking. I en
deavored then to save as much as
possible of the furniture of the main
saloon, which we did by working all
hands. Shortly afterwards the hawser
parted and the Lovisiana went down, by
the head, in forty-two feet of water. At
the time of the collision the Louisiana
was steaming at the rate of fourteen
miles per hour and the Falcon nine to
ten. As stated in the previous dispatch,
all the pussengers, mail and express mat
ter and baggage were saved. Among
the passengers were three ladies, Com
modore Patterson, Commodore Cros
by, Captain .T. B. Creighton, Capt.
William G. Temple, Captaiu H. 0.
Blake, Capt. A. N. Johnson, Lieutenant
W. H. Emory, of the United States
Navy, and Captain MacTiltou, of the
United States Marine Corps, officers of
Ihe court martial t.t Norfolk inquiring
into the grounding of the steamer
Brooklyn. All the passengers of the
Louisiana, including the ladies, con
ducted themselves with the greatest
coolness and self-poshession.
The Louisiana was a favorite steamer
of the Bay line, 1,300 tons capacity, and
valued at $150,000. No insurance. Her
cargo, which was lost, consisted of two
hundred bales of cotton, a large quan
tity of tobacco, thirty tons of pig iron
anil other freight. The Falcon, with
the passengers of the Louisiana, return
ed to Baltimore, arriving shortly after
two o’clock. No statement of the colli
sion has been furnished the Associated
Press by any officer of the Falcon. The
passengers on the Louisiana corrobo
rates the statement of Captain Mayo.
CAPITAL NOTES.
Washington, November 14. —High au
thority denies that the President in the
Cabinet insisted upon a peremtory de
mand for the Virginius outrage indem
nity from Spain.
Mr. Leipold, one of the Commission -
ers of the Freedman’s Bank, has pre
pared, in anticipation of being called
upon by Congress so to do, a report set
ting forth the actual condition of the
financial affairs of that institution. It
may have been an oversight on the part
of Congress, but the law now is that
those in charge of the bank are not re
quired to make a report to any one.
Anticipating such a call, however, the
report has been made, and covers up
wards of fifteen hundred pages of manu
script, showing the available assets on
hand aud the liabilities of the bank,
classifying its assets as good, bad, and
absolutely worthless. It is the inten
tion to print this report after the session,
of Congress 'in pamphlet form, for the
examination of those interested. From
the report ir, appears that the bank is in
worse condition than has been antici
pated. Up to date the total amount of
assets collected and in hand is but $70,-
000, which is scarcely three per cent, of
the liabilities.
Miss Neilson has concluded a bril
liantly successful week at Savill’s Na
tional Theatre.
NEW YORK ITEMS.
New York, November 14.—At a meet
ing of the Cheap Transportation Com
mittee to-day the report of the com
mittee was received in reference to the
late railroad pool, condemning watering
stock. After discussion and many
speeches in favor of a double track
freight line to the West, resolutions
were passed approving the action
of the railroads refusing to enter
into combination with other trunk
lines and roads, refusing to water
stock, and who operate them with some
regard to the public interest. A resolu
tion was also passed condemning capital
izing surplus earnings. The speakers
were in favor of a double track freight
line.
To-day seven hundred forged bonds of
the city of Pittsburg were discovered
here. It is reported that there are $20,-
000 of these bonds afloat.
The deaths the past week were 543.
More Trouble for Arkansas.
• New York, November 14.—A Little
Rock dispatch says Lieut. Gov. Smith
has returned from the East. Gov. Bax
ter having vacated the Gubernatorial
Chair, Smith claims it. Smith concludes
his proclamation : “ Now, therefore, I,
V. V. Smith, Lieutenant Governorof the
State of Arkansas, Elisha Baxter, recog
nized Governor of said State, having
abdicated and abandoned said office, do
hereby and by these presents make ap
plication to the President of the United
States, &c.” The appeal is signed V.
V. Smith, Governor of Arkansas.
Washington, November 14.—-There
will be no action in Arkansas affairs un
til Gov. Garland has been heard from.
All the ousted officials—ousted, they
claim, by a revolutionary Constitution —
join Lieut. Gov. Smith, who claims the
succession to Baxter, and join him in his
application for a Federal force to place
him in position. Lieut. Gov. Smith,
should Garland be ousted by Federal
diction, may appoint nearly all the State
officers. ___
The Perils of a Critic.
Rochester, N. Y., November 14.
Late last night Mrs. Harry Raynor,,,
second lady in the Opera House Com
pany, accompanied by her son, entered
the Democrat and Chronicle editorial
room and waited for the coming of the
dramatic critic, Mr. Adams. When ho
came she asked if he wrote the criticism
of her acting as Elizabeth, to the effect
that “ her queenly carriage was far
from perfect, and her intonation and ex
pression very poor.” He said he wrote
the article, when she drew a small riding
whip and struck at him. The first blow
glanced from his arm,’ and then Mr.
Adams seized the whip, and, taking it
from her, ordered her and her son out
of the office. The latter threatened to
use a knife, but he was walked out by
the shoulder, and the mother and son
disappeared together.
Embarrassed.
Boston, November 14. —The firm of
Kelham, Loud & Cos., ship brokers, has
been somewhat embarrassed of late on
account of a general depression of
freights and shipping. They own wholly
or iu part from twenty to thirty three
masted schooners, besides a large num
ber of square rigged vessels. The as
sets of the firm are estimated by them
selves at $650,000, and their liabilities
at $400,000. They have informally asked
an extension of eighteen months and
*wo years, which it is understood their
creditors are disposed to extend them.
Alabama News.
Montgomery, November 14.—Renfo
and Bullock, the Sumter county prison
ers now in jail in by decision
of Commissioner Gillett, on the charge
of violation of the Enforcement act,
were admitted to bail to-day on a joint
bond of $12,000 by United States Cir
cuit Judge Woods.
The Legislature meets Monday. The
members are already coming in. The
contest apprehended by the Radical can
didates is dissipated. They acknowledge
their defeat and submit.
A woman in New London, Conn., saw
her husband carrying a lady’s satchel
and she tore tli6 lady’s dress off her be
fore discovering that it was her mother,
who had dropped down on the evening
train to surprise her. Every husband
in the land who is out evenings should
read this little item to his wife and hold
up the dangers of her becoming suspi
cious without the best of cause.