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TOrfotttle ana gentind.
WEDNESDAY . NOVEMBER 25,1874
AN EXTRA SESSION OF CON
GRESS.
We rregret to see that some of the
Demooratic journals are clamoring for
either an extra session of Congress or
else for a repeal of the law which pre
vents Congress from assembling on the
fourth of March, 1875. We hope that
there will be neither one thing nor the
other. A session in March could do no
good; it might, probably, do a great
deal of harm. It might lead to discus
sions and divisions which would lose us
the victory two years hence now so con
fidently expected. The Radicals will
doubtless gladly comply with such a re
quest if made, but we trust to hear of
no such foolish application. We must
do nothing hastily. We must be more
guarded and careful than ever before or
we may lose the fruits of the recent
hard fought battle. A Democratic
House cannot pass a single act except
with the concurrence of a Republi
can Senate and the sanction of
a Republican President. A wise meas
ure would be killed instanter, while
any ill-timed or unfortunate legislation
which might be proposed would be used
against the party in the next campaign.
Wrangles upon the tariff and upon wide
ly differing financial schemes without
the power to carry the views of eitlur
party into effect will do ns no good.
When the Democratic House shall as
semble in regular session next December
a year we hope that it will confine itself
as closely as possible to the necessary
business of the session ; to reducing as
much as possible the expenses of the
Government, to lowering the rate of
taxation, to investigating the abuses and
corruption which have flourished under
Republican rule and to killing infamies
which may be concocted by a Republican
Senate. When we obtain possession of
the Government it will be time enough
to propose important measures and to
essay needed reforms.
THIRD PARTY TALK.
The Boston Globe is agitating the
formation of anew party. The gentle
men in Massachusetts who propose or
ganizing tho movement declare that the
mission of the Republicans is ended,
and that it is useless to try and resur
rect the Democratic party. It is appa
rent to them that the contests in tho fu
ture cannot be fought on the old basis,
and that the recent election has demon
strated that the time has come for anew
party to rise up, and attract, by its
honesty of purpose and sincere desire to
promote the highest welfare of the na
tion, the best men who have hitherto
acted with the Republican and Demo
cratic parties. These men claim that
the two great parties of the past and
present have fought all the fights they
can, and that'success for one or the
other in the future will be a matter of
luck, depending largely on which is af
flicted with the more internal dissen
sions, and which makes tho fewer mis
takes. They think that the men who
went into tho Liberal Republican move
ment will readily join tho new party.
They have hopes of securing tho best
elements of the Democratic and Repub
lican parties, and particnlarlj young
men, who, as they assume the duties of
citizenship, can now see no particular
reason for joining either organization.
They have not fully considered the
question of a platform, but believe in
(1) hard money and an early resumption
of specie payments; (2) a civil service
reform which shall in the fullest sense
be an application of the ordinary rules
of business to all the offices of the Gov
ernment; (3) an economical administra
tion of nnhlio affairs which will keep
the rates of taxation to tne lowest pome;
(4) short legislative sessions and the
abolition of special legislation, except
in extreme cases. In view of the result
of the recent elections one cannot re
frain from admiring the cool effrontery
which classes with the dead a party
which has just returned a large majority
of the next House of Representatives
and carried the principal States of the
Union. The remarks concerning the
two existing parties will apply with
equal force to any other parties
which may bo organized If the
faction iu power makes no mis
takes, if its administration of the
Government is wise, just and economi
cal, manifestly it cannot and ought not
to be driven from power. It has at
tained the ideal of good government and
would have a hold upon the affections of
tho peoplo which could not be loosened
or disturbed. That the Republicans
have no such party is very evident. That
they have made serious mistakes is very
apparent. That their rule has been
harsh, oppressive, unjust and corrupt,
there can be no doubt. That they have
shamefully prostituted the power with
which they were entrusted to their own
personal and party aggrandizement can
not be denied. The people have just
pronounced agaiust them a verdict of
guilty. The people have called upon
them to surrender tho authority which
they have so long abused. Tho people
have pronounced in favor of a change
of rulers and have put the Democratic
party upon trial. It is certainly the
height of folly to suppose that the
Democracy will disband just as they have
gained a battle and surrender the fruits
of a victory which they have struggled
so long to achieve. The party and its
leaders are not mad enough to play such
tricks as these. On tho other hand, if
the Republicans have auy chance of
success in the next elections, which we
greatly doubt, it lies in the maintenance
of their organization. Neither in war
nor in politics was an enemy ever de
feated by disbandment. The young
men who are “assuming the duties of
citizenship” very quickly ally them
selves with one or the other of the two
great political parties and have no idea
of wandering off in search of the altars
of strange gods. While it is very de
sirable that the country should unite
upon a financial policy snch a consum
mation is scarcely among the probabili
ties. Neither the Republican nor the
Demooratic party can agree upon a par
ticular course because the Northern
and Eastern Democrats and Re
publicans are in favor of hard
money, while the Republicans and
Democrats of the South and West
are generally in favor of inflation. There
is a serious sectional as well as party
division on this subject. It is true that
the country desires reform in the civil
service and a more economical adminis
tration of the affairs of the Government;
but it does not look to anew party for
these blessings. It has asked them in
vain of the Republicans, and now it in
tends seeking them at the hands of the
Democracy. That party stands pledged
to the correction of existing abuses, to
economy and reform. Until it shows
some disposition to violate its pledges
the people will not withdraw from it the
support which they have just tendered.
We feel confident that no man of promi
nence, no politician of influence or abil
ity, will lend his name to any new party
movement—no matter which side he
may at present espouse. The fight of
1876 is to be a pitched battle between the
Republicans and the Democracy, and
when that great contest shall be decided
it will be time enough to talk of new par
ties and new departures.
The oeiy Democratic loss so far re
ported cornea from a quarter where it
was least expected. The first dispatches
stated that Kentucky had returned an
unbroken Democratic delegation to Con
gress, end as the State had been doing
that sort of thing for some time past the
intelligence was not at all surprising. It
now tarns out, however, that in the
Ninth District, White, Republican, has
been elected over Cockebill, the Demo
cratic candidate, by at least nine hun
dred majority. Over confidence, we sus
pect, did the work.
A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
We are glad to see that the newspa
pers of the State are beginning to dis
cuss the Convention questiou in such a
way as to show the interest which is
taken in this important matter. We
publish elsewhere noticeable articles on it
from two leading journals—the News of
Savannah and the News of Atlanta, one
published in the Northern, the other
in the Southern portion of the State, j
The Savannah News believes that the j
status of the fraudulent bonds can only
be satisfactorily and effectually settled
through the instrumentality of a Con
stitutional Convention; that the people
can not afford to risk further delay and
the uncertainties of legislative amend
ment. The Atlanta News, while unwill
ing to believe that a Legislature will
ever recognize these spurious obliga
tions or consent to any compromise with
their holders, thinks that it would be
bast to hold a Convention and let
the people of the State decide whether
or not they wish any change made ia the
organic law. Heretofore the press of
Atlanta have been among the bitterest
opponents of the movement—apparently
fearing that if the representatives of the
people were allowed to assemble they
would remove the capital from its pres
ent location. That a journal of that city
favors the holding of a Convention is
certainly a happy augury. For ourselves
we do cot believe that Atlanta has much
to fear from a Convention, and we hope
to see all the newspapers of that city
unite to further the success of the move
ment. In this connection we wish to
state fgain, as wo have stated before,
that the members of the Legislature are
not asked to call a Convention, or to
give expression by their votes to their
individual opinion of the wisdom and
propriety of such a step. They are
simply requested to allow their con
stituents a vote on the question. If
the people do not wish a Convention
they will say so at the polls. If they
do wish one it should be held regardless
of the views of members of the Legis
lature. They have no right to stand be
tween their constituents and the ballot
box. They have no right to gag the
people; to say to them “you shall not
be heard.” We repeat this in order that
no false issue may be presented, that
the matter may be placed upon a proper
footing. We feel very confident that if
the General Assembly should be called
upon to express its views upon the sub
ject that its voice would be for a Con
vention. We believe that a majority of
the members favor the assembling of
such a body. At the same time we think
that it would be the wiser policy to
simply order a reference of the question
to the people. Such a proposition
would be adopted without opposition
and would prevent any dissensions or
divisions in tho Legislature. The friends
of the measure are perfectly willing to
leave the matter to the people, and its
opponents cannot refuse to abide the
decision of the highest tribunal known
to the country.
THE ELECTIONS AND THE FI
NANCES.
Before the elections the Republican
papers wore outspoken in their predic
tions of financial ruin in the event that
the Democrats should be successful.
Foreign capitalists would scent repudia
tion in the breeze, and would hasten to
unload themselves at any sacrifice of
American promises to pay. United States
securities would become a drug in the
market, and American credit would be
utterly prostrated. Indeed, good Deacon
Smith, of the Cincinnati Gazette, went
so far as to evolve from his inner con
sciousness a German who commenced
selling out Government bonds just as
soon as the news came of the Democrat
ic victories in Ohio and Indiana. Well,
the elections are over. The Democrats
have an o- • <-•
next House, they have carried a large
majority of the States, and there are al
most certain indications of the election
of a Democratic President in 1876. Have
the funds sunk ? Has the anticipated
crash taken place ? On the contrary, the
Democratic triumph, which was to have
wrought certain and speedy financial
ruin, has really strengthened the credit
of the country. The Wall Street Re
view says:
The legislative reaction which has
just transpired here found a parallel in
England at the last election, by the
overthrow of the Gladstone party. On
receipt of the success of the Democrats
in London an improved tone in our Gov
ernment bonds took place, which is an
indication that the public credit has not
been injured, but rather suggests the
probability that it has been benefitted
by the change. Iu the same manner we
may interpret the upward movement in
stocks. Many dealers who have been
withholding orders until the election
was over, are now found busily engaged
in their brokers’ offices, which, by their
example, has imparted a tone of confi
dence to others, aud given a strong im
petus to stock speculation, resulting in
a general advance of the whole list of
from 1 to 2 per cent, up to Saturday.
The effect upon Southern credit seems
to have been equally marked and equal
ly beneficial. Since the 3d of Novem
ber Virginia State bonds have advanced
4 per cent., and Tennessee and North
Carolina bonds have advanced 6 and 7
per cent, in value. These figures do
uot seem to indicate much alarm on the
part of capitalists. The moneyed men
seem to think a goverment administered
honestly and economically is more apt
to meet its obligations promptly than
one which is wasteful and corrupt.
The unexpected defeat of the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in the
Ninth District of Kentucky is offset by
the equally unexpected election of the
Democratic caudidate iu the Second
District of Virginia. It was at first re
ported that the carpet-bagger Pl att had
been returned by a majority of nearly
three hundred votes. The official can
vass of the returns, however, shows a
small majority for Col. John Goode.
The defeat of Platt is as gratifying as
it was unlooked for. Platt seemed to
have eutire control of the Government
patronage in his District, and had been
allowed to colonize the navy yard at
Portsmouth with voters to an almost un
limited extent. All things considered,
we should be perfectly willing to give
the Republicans one Congressman from
Kentucky in order to get rid of this
pestiferous carpet-bagger from Virginia.
Congressman Ananias Hats lias gone
into the outrage business himself. For
some time past he has been declaring
that the Alabama Rebels allowed no
man to differ with them, and that they
murdered and maltreated their political
opponents whenever opportunity offer
ed. But when the correspondent of the
New York Tribune exposed his slanders,
Ananias waylaid him at a railroad de
pot, attacked him without warning, and
beat him while encumbered with bag
gage. Will the President call ont the
troops and suppress the murdering Ana
nias?
The Charleston News and Courier
comes out strongly against a third term.
It declares that there was a time when
the white people of South Carolina might
have been allied to Grant’s standard; but
that day has gone by. His sympathy
with the worst element of the Republi
can party in that State has shown him
to be the enemy of the Conservatives and
their hope now lies in a change of the
National Administration.
Atlanta is earning, on a small scale,
the unenviable reputation which Phila
delphia has so long enjoyed. In a
recent primary election held for the
purpose of nominating candidates for
county officers four thousand votes were
polled of which it is said one thousand
were illegal. We doubt if Philadelphia
ever had more than twenty-five per cent of
her votes proclaimed fraudulent If this
be a specimen of the fairness of nomina
tions by primary elections we think that
a return to the delegate system would
prove beneficial.
“ THE CHRONICLE AND SENTI
NEL.”
The Chronicle and Sentinel is, we
hope, not much given to blowing its
own trumpet, and in consideration of
this fact our readers must pardon the
manifestation of a little vanity this
morning. A few days since we received
the following note from Dr. William S.
Jones, for twenty-five or thirty years
the proprietor of the Chboniclh and
Sentinel, and under whose manage
ment it became the leading Whig paper
of the South:
Messrs. Walsh <£ Wright:
Gentlemen —I offer for your accept
ance a chair which was an habitue of
the Chbonicle and Sentinel office long
before yonr time. It was presented by
a club of gentlemen to my brother (the
late James W. Jones) after the great
Whig victory iu 1840.
The recent triumph of our party and
the able manner in which the Chronicle
and Sentinel conducted the campaign,
render it a fitting occasion to return the
chair to the editorial sanctum.
Very truly, yours,
Wm. S. Jones.
Augusta, Ga., November, 1874.
Augusta, Ga., November 18,1874.
Dr. Wm. S. Jones:
Dear Sir —Please accept onr thanks
for the very handsome chair which you
have sent us, and for the kind words
which accompanied the gift. We shall
prize it for the sake of the donor, who
has been so long our friend, and for the
associations with which it is connected.
However unworthy we may be to occupy
the chair once graced by James W.
Jones, it is pleasant for us to know that
the brother of that great Souvhern jour
nalist appreciates our efforts to keep the
Chronicle and Sentinel up to its former
high standard. Our highest ambition is
to make the paper what it was when
Wm. S. Jones was its proprietor and
James W. Jones its editor.
Trusting that the recent success
achieved by the Democracy is but the
precursor of a more brilliant victory
and a more complete triumph for the
cause of constitutional liberty, wo re
maiu.
Faithfully and truly yours,
Walsh & Wright.
The chair which accompanied the note
is of mahogany, of handsome design,
large and comfortable—almost too com
fortable for an. editorial sanctum —and
is a desk, seat and lounge combined. It
was fashioned before the days of shoddy,
and the work is solid, durable and sub
stantial.
We would be different from most men
if we did not feel gratified at hearing
that our management of the Chronicle
and Sentinel had given satisfaction,
but our gratification is greatly enhanced
when the words of approval come from
one who was for so many years the pro
prietor of this journal, and whose care
ful management did so much towards
making it what it was—a power iu the
land. Associated with Dr. Jones, and
holding the position of editor, was
James W. Jones, one of the most bril
liant and accomplished journalists of
the South, at a time when the South
was prolific in great journalists. The
files of the Chronicle and Sentinel
from the time he assumed control of its
editorial columns, in 1835 or ’36, attest
the ability, the intrepidity and the
skillfulness with which he discharg
ed the duties of Ms important
and responsible position. In the cele
brated campaign of 1840 he labored
zealously in the cause of the Whigs,
and in the South at least the Chronicle
and Sentinel contributed more than
any other influence to the election of
General Harrison. It was for his ser
vices at this critical period that the Whigs
of Augusta presented him with the beau
tiful chair which Dr. Jones has restored
to the editorial sanctum. Since tho
present proprietors have had control of
the Chronicle and Sentinel they have
endeavored—it is for the public to say
with what success—to keep the paper
up to its former high standard, and
their aim and object has been to attain
for it the same power and influence
which it possessed when the prop
erty of J. vr. , -*v. S. Jones.
DURELL AND STEPHENS.
The Mobile Register wishes to know
how Hon. Alexander H. Stephens will
vote on the question of Durell’s im
peachment, which will come up at the
next session of Congress. The Register
says that Mr. Stephens has taken the
position that Judge Durell did have
jurisdiction of the Louisiana case, and
that if he follows up this declaration by
shielding him with his vote from im
peachment he should be repudiated by
tho Southern people, and. requested by
his constituents to resign. Wo do not
think that Mr. Stephens will cast such
a vote or that he will deserve such cen
sure as the Register anticipates. So
far as wo know, Mr. Stephens does not
defend Durell, but, on the contrary,
declares his midnight decree “infa
mous.” We have no doubt that when
the case comes up Mr. Stephens will
join with tho patriotic men of both po
litical parties in censuring the unjust
Judge. If any Judge ever deserved im
peachment Durell does, and we hope
that Congress will award him the pun
ishment he so richly merits.
The Democratic mathematicians have
gone wild since the elections. The
latest exhibition of figures gone mad is
afforded by the lightning calculator of
the New York World. That gentleman
has twisted the Democratic majorities
in every conceivable manner and made
the votes polled by that party prove
every conceivable thing, almost to the
immediate exclusion of General Grant
from and the immediate installation of
Mr. Tilden in the Executive Mausion.
His latest feat is at the expense of the
Republican majority in the United States
Senate. He has compiled aud publish
ed au elaborate seven-column table of
figures to show that if each State had as
many Senators in proportion to popula
tion as Rhode Island the Senate would
consist of 349 members, 290 of whom
would be Democrats and 59 Republi
cans. Couldn’t the lightning calculator
inform us now how the House would
stand if each Democratic District was
entitled to twenty and each Republican
district to three and one-third members ?
The attempt is being made in New
York to make the Sabbath a holiday, as
it is made one in Louisiana and in the
countries of Southern Europe. The
German Theatre gives Sunday evening
performances, and the Opera House is
opened on Sunday night. Asa matter
of course feeling runs high on the sub
ject. The preachers have vigorously as
sailed this innovation upon established
usage, and the managers of the offend
ing places of amusement have been in
dicted for a violation of the laws agaiust
Sabbath-breaking. But the other side
has friends who return the attacks of the
pulpit, and who are determined to test
the matter in the Courts, claiming that
they have violated no law. We think
that the advocates of Sunday as a holi
day will find themselves mistaken in the
temper and feelings of the country. The
people are not prepared to give up the
Christian observance of the Sabbath and
to make that day one of merry-making
and amusement
The iconoclasts are at work again.
This time it is Christopher Columbus
who is knocked from Ms niche. Pro
fessor Goobrich has written a life of
the Genoese navigator, in wMeh his
claims to the discovery of the American
continent are denied, and the personal
character of the subject of the sketch
bitterly assailed. Columbus is described
as a man unprincipled and depraved, and
is proclaimed a pirate. So we go. A
Massachusetts poet has made Judas
Iscariot a high-toned honorable gentle
man, wholly innocent of the charges
which the Apostles preferred against
him, and a New England historian has
discovered that Christopher Columbus
was a humbug and a buccaneer. Won’t
somebody ventilate G. W. a little now ?
Such a proceeding is in order.
Col. Clisby, the agricultural editor of
the Macon Telegraph, thinks the recent
elections left the Radical party like a
squash bit by a maul.
OCR ATLANTA LETTER.
The County Contest—'Wholesale Re
peat ing—Fon • Tho naa nd Votes Polled
-Twenty-five Thousand Dollars
Spent—Georgia Tsuds-The Air line
Squabble—Minor Matters.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle ami Sentinel .]
Atlanta, November 18, 1874.
The “Primary” tor County Officers.
The contest for local offices in Fulton
county is probably without a parallel in
Georgia. There are only about 3,000
white voters in the county, yet in a
nomination for county officers,where the
entire county is interested it is no un
usual occurrence to poll thirty-five to
thirty-eight hundred voters. If on any
occasion the candidates—or some of
them—should exhaust the voters, or
even those who were willing to vote for
them, rather than have it said that only
three thousand votes were polled, tliey
would make their supporters vote twice
to make it lively and’ interesting. This
may be rather naughty, but then
it’s nice, and no person is sent
to the penitentiary for it. For the
seven county offices there were
about thirty candidates, who rallied to
their support in the primary election
yesterday every white voter in the coun
ty aud more too, and a more exciting
contest has never been known in this
county. Electioneering has been ac
tively progressing for six months, eveiy
day waxing warmer, until yesterday it
reached a climax. Probably seventy
five carriages, phaetons and vehicles oi
every description were dashing through
the streets from daylight until dark,
bearing flaming placards with the names
of the candidates inscribed thereon.
Every vehicle had its attendant or drum
mer, whose duty it was to drum up voters.
Every store, every shop, every office,
every manufactory, every nook and
corner were visited scores of times in
quest of voters. The polls was sur
rounded by a vast multitude of candi
dates and voters, who kept up a noise
and confusion that eelpsed the uproar at
a bush arber stump speaking. All day
long, without ceasing, the contest raged
furiously. Money was scattered like
chaff before the wind and “spirits” flow
ed from a thousand kegs to slake the
thirst of the weary patriots who were
rallying to the support of their country—
and their friends ! It is estimated that
not less than twenty-five thousand dol
lars changed hands yesterday through
the instrumentality of the Democratic
nomination for county officers! aud
probably as much as ten thousand dol
lars came out of the pockets of the can
didates themselves. In the nomination
there was a great contest between the
present officials or the “ins” and the
new candidates or “outs.” The result
is not yet known, though it is generally
conceded that all the old candidates -are
renominated without the single excep
tion,perhaps,of one. The County Execu
tive Committee has been engaged all
day in counting out the votes, but will
probably not conclude the count before
a late hour to-night. Twenty-five thous
and votes to record is no picayune task.
Indeed this mode of nomination—by
ballot—is becoming rather unpopular
among thinking men. It is too cum
bersome, too expensive and presents too
many opportunities for fraud. It is
probable that after this nomination
there will be in this city and county a
reaction in favor of the delegate system,
which, if it ever be adopted again, will
in turn become tho sport of the public
prejudice, and in turn be again dis
carded. Such is life.
The Distinguished Texaus.
For several days past Atlanta lias
been entertaining a delegation of dis
tinguished Texans, all native Georgians,
who removed to the State of their adop
tion many years ago. The most con
spicuous among them is Lieutenant-
Governor Hubbard, who many years ago
left Greene county, Ga., and located in
Texas. There are several more among
the party who have been exalted to
high political position in tho Lone Star
State, among whom are Gen. Robertson
and Col. Richardson, the latter one of
the editors of the Galveston News. The
object of their visit, it is understood,is to
encourage immigration to Texas, and it
is feared that their glowing stories of
wealth and honors 'will captivate many
Georgians and decoy them from their
homes. The visitors have disbanded,
and are now visiting friends in probably
twenty-five counties in all sections of the
■State; and it is not at all improbable
that each one will create anew interest
for and invest with anew charm the
golden Texas prairies.
The Air Line Railroad
Remains statu quo. Efforts have been
Siade to effect a compromise between
ie stockholders and bondholders, but
all Without avail, auu no amdui
will be taken until after the 20th inst.,
on which day the injunction against Mr.
T. L. Gurner, who seized this end of the
road, will be heard before Judge Hop
kins. It is charged that certain parties
seek to obtain control of the road, with
a view to conducting it so as to depre
ciate the stock, purchase the same at a
trifling outlay, and then commence run
ning the road for profit, thus securing a
property valued at eight or ten millions
for a fourth of that sum, and have fn the
end one of tho best paying roads in the
country. The road does already as much
business as its rolling stock will afford,
is increasing business daily, and were it
not for the ruinous encumbrances would
soon become one of the most profitable
roads in the Southern States.
Minor Topics.
Though I corrected in a former letter
the impression that Col. Thus. Harde
man, of Bibb, would not be a candidate
for Speaker of the next House of Repre
sentatives, I will again refer to it in
order that the impression may be re
moved. I learn upon the best authority
that Col. Hardeman will be a candidate
and that he will in no wise enter into a
compromise that will involve his with
drawal. Col. Hardeman is well qualified
for the position of Speaker. A man of
quick perception, ot fluent speech,
ready, pleasing and commanding ad
dress, aud withal an experienced parlia
mentarian, he is well qualified for the
responsible duties of Speaker. * * *
Real estate here, since the recent elec
tions, has revived. Real estate men say
that it has enhanced in value also. The
first cash auction sale for several months
was made to-day, with lively bidding.
* * * It is believed that Atlanta will
not offer at the next Legislature such
strong resistance to a constitutional con
vention as she has heretofore. * * *
Mr. Ed. Lee, of this city, who killed a
Mr. Miner, of Lee county, some days
since, is universally esteemed here as a
gentleman of good qualities. He was
always quiet and inoffensive in his man
ners. Halifax.
ALABAMA RECONSTRUCTED.
Democratic Legislature Organized-
Grand Demonstration—“ The Old
Flag” Again Unfurled—Economy and
Retrenchment and Equal Rights to
All Classes—A Cheertul Present and
a Hopeful Future.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle ami Sentinel]
Jackson House, {
Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 16, 1874. j
This is a proud day lor good old Ala
bama, oppressed and robbed as she has
been during the past few years by Radi
cal officials, for it has witnessed the in
auguration of a Democratic Legisla
ture, preparatory to the installation of
Democrats into nearly every office in the
State. The Radicals have elected two
Chancellors and three Circuit Judges,
but the Supreme Court and the balance
of the State officials are mem
bers of the White Man’s party, aud
are pledged to promote the interests and
defend the principles of constitutional
liberty. Even the white Radicals in the
House, during the organization to-day,
manifested a very patriotic and conser
vative spirit, and we apprehend that
they will hereafter, with but few excep
tions, act in harmony with the Demo
cratic majority on all important ques
tions. They can lose nothing by snch a
course, but may gain something in the
way of a return to the confidence of the
people of the State. During the latter
part of last week the capital city in
dulged in a grand illumination, and
from what we can see of the remains of
the demonstration, as well as from re
ports of its brilliancy, it was the most
general and magnificent affair ever wit
nessed by the people of this section.
From top to bottom and from one end
to the other stores, public build
ings and private houses were lighted
up with candles and illuminated
with elegant and costly transparencies
and Chinese lanterns, while the streets
were thronged with processions bearing
torches and transparencies and filling
the air with hearty and prolonged
cheers. But the most significant dis
play of the occasion, viewed in regard to
good results, was the abundant display
of National flags. It is on this account
that we—editors can’t drop the “word”
iu cases like this—now address yon.
Some weeks ago yon published a manly,
dignified and patriotic editorial on
“The Old Flag,”
Full of good sense and practical sugges
tions. Asa Northern man and ex-
Federal soldier, heartily in sympathy
with the South in her present condition,
we were proud to see those sentiments
put into print, and felt sure that
in due time they would bear good fruit.
Our hopes have been fully realized, for
here in tMs city to-day, in the midst of
a grand Democratic triumph, “the old
flag” floats proudly in the breeze, and
the people now hail it as the
“flag of the free.” It was not
the flag they hated before the grand
victories in favor of constitutional lib
erty from Massachusetts to California,
but the partg which that flag seemed to
protect and keep iu power to oppress,
rob and insult the Southern people.
They hated the flag as a symbol of Radi
cal corruption and fraud, and not as the
grand old flag of our fathers, in which,
thank God, there is and ever will re
main au equal partnership between the
North and the South in “The Old Flag”
that so long floated as the emblem of
constitutional liberty and a free govern
ment. Everywhere in this city, by the
most ardent Democrats, the Stars and
Stripes were unfurled on the night of
the grand demonstration, and in the
clear light of this beautiful Monday
morning, floating on a gentle breeze,
that old-time flag waves aloft from
stores and private buildings, thus pro
claiming in a sileut but potent lan
guage that liberty has shaken off its
chains and is again asserting its power
in the land, and that oppression and
corruption and sectionalism no longer
find their abode and protection beneath
what was, and, thank God, is again,
“Our Country’s Flag.” As such, un
stained and beautiful, may it ever con
tinue to wave
“O’er the land of tho free and the home of the
brave.”
It is a happy omen, and one hailed
with great rejoicing, that the triumphant
Democracy of this redeemed State have
nailed to their mast head a banner on
which is inscribed in bold characters,
that the poorest and most ignorant
negro can understand them, “economy
and retrenchment in public affairs, anil
equal rights to all meu before the law.”
Upon this platform they have to-day
organized their Legislature, aud upon
the same platform will next week in
augurate, with impressive ceremonies,
the newly elected State officers. The
night of Radicalism has been dark in
deed, but the morning of Democratic
success has dawned, O how brightly and
how hopefully. A more cheerful present
we never saw, and the future,impenetrable
as it is, still allures us all hopefully into
its arms, because we know that nothing
beyond can equal or compare with that
through which we have already passed.
All kinds of property is enhanced in
value, every kind of business is spring
ing into new life, and all the Southern
men and women have put their hands to
the plow with a determination not to
look back, to mourn over the losses or
mistakes of the past, but to keep their
eyes steadily fixed upon the grand des
tiny that must surely await this sunny
land under the new reign of constitu
tional liberty and prudent and economi
cal legislation. Sidney Herbert.
THE GREENE COUNTY FAIRS.
Union Point, Greene Cos., Ga., \
November 18, 1874.)
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel :
I have just read an article in your
issue of this day, signed “Fishing
Creek,” from near Penfield, in this
county. I think the writer does great
injustice to the citizens of Greene coun
ty, both as aa agricultural and Christian
people. I attended the Fair one day at
Greenesboro. I found that Floral Hall
was well filled with samples of field
crops aud a most elegant and large dis
play of articles in the household and
fancy departments, and the Hall was
well filled by ladies aud gentlemen, ex
amining and admiring the fine potatoes,
corn, wheat, peas, beans and many
other field crops, all seeming proud of
the fine products of their county. Many
a good farmer did I hear say “I wish I
had brought up some of my big potatoes
or fine corn, or some other article to
show.” He too was proud of his
success, and felt :Sr an interest in
the Fair, inasmuch as it is by
these annual Fall exhibitions the
good farmers show that they have
planted in season, and have cultivated
well their crops and are proud of their
occupation. Many of the successful
winners of premiums for farm crops
were farmers’ sons, who are following
the occupation of their fathers. So
much for the Greenesboro Fair. I also
attended the Fair of the Greene County
Agricultural and Mechanical Society, at
Union Point. I saw their Floral Hall
crowded with samples of fine wheat,
fine corn, fine oats, peas, beans, rice,
potatoes, pumpkins, and every cereal
and vegetable that is grown, in greater
abundancetlianlever saw at any county
Fair, and the exhibition of native hay
was very large and fine and some yields
reported were extraordinary. The la
dies’ department was full of articles of
their own manufacture of household
articles for use and comfort, and the
quantities of jellies, preserves, canned
fruits, sweetmeats of all kinds and wines
of many kinds. The ornamental and fancy
department of the Hall was filled, and du
ring the third day of the Fair the Hall was
so crowded with ladies and gentlemen
vticles. and feeling so
proud of the display that the commit,*™,,
could scarcely examine the articles to
make the awards. I have been a little
careful to enumerate what I saw at these
two fairs held that “Fishing Creek” re
fers to. I will now state what I did not
see. I never saw a farmer or one of
his sons at one of these wheels of for
tune. I did not see a member of any
church at one of them, nor do I think
that any members of churches bet or
risked their money upon such games at
either of the late fairs. It is true
there was some of these games on the
ground at both fairs, but I know that
the two wheels that were at Union Point
did not receive enough money to pay
their ground rent. In conclusion, I dif
fer with “Fishing Creek” when he says
we are retrogading in farming and tak
ing increasing interest in gambling, and
think when he attempts to reflect upon
the farmers, church members and mana
gers of fairs in Greene county it would
be well for him to make comments upon
what he saw and can assert as facts
rather than rely upon what lie is told.
I have felt it my duty to reply thus to
“Fishing Creek,” for fear someone
might conclude in the absence of a re
ply that Old Greene was not all right
and advancing agriculturally and mor
ally. Visi.
Massachusetts Republicans on a
Strike.
Boston, November 10.—Prominent
Republicans of this State have organized
a Commonwealth Club. The preamble
to the constitution recites that the mem
bers are dissatisfied with the corruption
which now prevails in politics, and are
convinced that this dissatisfaction is not
confined to any political party or section
of society, but is shared by all honest
men alike. They agree to form an as
sociation in the hope that thereby a
better understanding will be promoted
amongst men who hold these opinions,
and that an interest in all public meas
ures will be excited among those who
now stand aloof through apathy and
disgust. In so doing we give no pledge
nor do we abandon organizations to
which we now belong. The officers of
the Club are Hon. E. R. Hoar, Presi
dent; Henry L. Pierce, 1 Richard Olney,
John Q. Adams and W. E. Perkins,
Vice-Presidents.
Mrs. Lincoln-Hanging of a Negro
Chattanooga, November 20.—Among
the guests at the Read House to-day
was Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, en route
to Florida, where she will spend the
Winter.
Shade Westmoreland was hanged here
to-day for the murder of Wm. Ember
ling, near this city, in April, 1872. The
prisoner made a long and rambling
speech on the gallows, claiming he did
the killing in self-defense, but the evi
dence showed it to be most brutal and
unprovoked, and probably urged on by
Emberling’s wife, with whom Westmore
land was criminally intimate. She was
arrested and tried as an accomplice, but
acquitted.
A stabbing affray and two or three
run aways, in one of which Col. Hill, of
Atlanta, was badly hurt about the head,
complete the day’s record.
North Carolina Legislature.
Raleigh, November 20.--A number of
bills were introduced in the House of
Representatives yesterday, the most im
portant of which was a bill to provide
for the compromise and settlement of
the State debt, iutroduced by Colonel
S. M. C. D’Fate, of Burke, the Chairman
of the Finance Committee. The bill is
supplemental to a preamble, in which is
recited the reasons for not paying all
the debt, the destruction of the property
upon which the bonds were based, and
the reckless legislation and management
of the finances at a time when the tax
payers had no control in public affairs.
The Boston Marine Voters.
Boston, November 20.—The Labor
Council Committee on the Navy Yard
has reported that it has proof that 750
men were hired during the two weeks
preceding the election, most of whom
were discharged after the election; that
recommendations for Mring these men
were signed by Congressional candidate
Gooche, and that the additional force
had little if anything to do during their
term of service. The council recom
mended that their statement be sub
mitted through Representatives in Con
gress of the State of Massachusettes to
the Senate and House of Representa
tives, praying those august bodies to ap
point a special committee to inquire in
to these alleged corrupt and disgraceful
practices.
During an altercation between a Sa
vannah lumber inspector, named Perry,
and a Bulloch county man, in Bryan
county, on Tuesday last, the former was
cut in the thigh. Another blow aimed
at Mm succeeded in penetrating his
clothing and grazing the flesh in his left
side. The Bulloch county man left sud
denly for home after the occurrence.
THE BOGUS BONDS AND A CON
VENTION.
[Atlanta New*.]
The elections being over, our cotem
poraries are returning to the subject of
the fraudulent bonds, and the Augusta
Chronicle and Sentinel leads off in a
long and able article against the bonds
and in favor of the calling of a Consti
tutional Convention, to finally settle the
question concerning them. We agree
with our cotemporary when he says that
“it would be better to negotiate a com
promise at once” with the holders of the
fraudulent bonds, “ than to have such a
sword suspended above the heads of the
people.”
There does not, however, exist any ne
cessity for having this sword over us;
neither ought we to tolerate for an in
stant the idea of compromise with
Henry Clews and his crowd. The bonds
are fraudulent, hence they must not be
paid. Compromise is a confession of a
possible legal and moral right in the
bondholders, and the moment we con
fess that, our honor demands the pay
ment of the bonds to the last dollar.
Compromise is consequently out of the
question. The bonds are a plain, un
mistakaable swindle upon the people,
and our sole duty is to devise some
means whereby they can be declared
fraudulent and void by the Constitution
of Georgia in the shortest possible space
of time, and thus removo them forever
lrom our political issues and from be
coming a dangerous source of legisla
tive corruption.
The Chronicle and Sentinel believes
that the most speedy means of accom
plishing this desirable end is to call a
Constitutional Convention. We are by
no means certain that the pending
amendment to the Constitution cannot
be altered by the next Legislature so as
to include ail the bonds. There are pre
cedents for this which will hold good in
the present case. However, we have no
objection to the people voting, whether
or not they desire a Convention called.
It may, indeed, be the best to put the
question to them and so fir as the News
is concerned, we shall not oppose their
voting in the affirmative.
Unquestionably a Convention will set
tle the question most speedily, and it
would also mate some other necessary
amendments to the Constitution. But,
whatever is to be done, let it be done
quickly. No doubt exists concerning the
sentiments of the people on these bonds,
and there is not the remotest possibility
that public opinion will ever be favor
able to their payment. To get them
out of our way, so that they may not be
a disturbing element in our midst, is an
immediate duty; and if this cannot be
done except by a Convention, then,
speaking for Atlanta, we say let one be
called as soon as the Legislature meets.
[From the Savannah News.l
THE BOGUS BONDS.
When it was discovered that the pro
posed amendment to the Constitution,
declaring null and void the fraudulent
securities issued by Bullock, was fatally
defective, a majority of our State ex
changes at once joined in calling upon
the Governor to convene the Legislature
in extra session in order that the defect
might be remedied. We have no doubt
—indeed, since the election for legisla
tors a few weeks ago, it is absolutely
certain—that these journals fairly rep
resented public opinion in the matter.
The movement was opposed, however,
by the Atlanta Constitution —just as it
had opposed the act of the previous
Legislature declaring these same bonds
invalid—and for some reason or other,
which lias never been very clearly un
derstood by the people, the Governor
took no action in the matter, so that
now the only feasible remedy, as it
seems to us, is to call a Convention of
the people. We say the only feasible
remedy, because if a Convention is not
called and it is left to the newly elected
General Assembly to frame a suitable
amendment, two or more years must
elapse before it can be submitted to the
succeeding Legislature and the people
for ratification. Such delay is not to be
thought of for a moment. Eight mil
lions of dollars of the people’s money
are involved, and it must be evident
no stone will be left unturned by the
holders of the bogus bonds to extort this
money from the State. Even in the last
election for members of the General As
sembly the influence of these bond
holders was painfully apparent in the
unusual number of independent candi
dates in the field, and there is no pre
dicting to what an extent this demorali
zation will be carried two years hence.
In short, the people of Georgia cannot
afford to depend upon the uncertain
contingencies of the future. The calling
of a Constiturional Convention strips
all doubt from the ouestioD. and such a
convention we must have. In this con
nection we desire to call the attention of
our readers to the thoughtful article on
this subject from the Augusta Chroni
cle, which will be found upon our first
page this morning.
Girls, Don’t Be in a Hurry to Marry.
This is the advice we would give girls
generally. One of the prevailing opin
ions of the day is, that it is a very diffi
cult thing for women to marry to ad
vantage. Young men are told they can
marry just as well as they wish and they
are heard at times to boast that they
will marry rich or not at all. That
women are placed at rather a disadvant
age in the match making business, we
are frank to admit, but it is principally
due to the fact that they are not suffi
ciently independent, and are too
“anxious.”
The advice we would give young ladies
is, to be in no hurry to marry. Better
never marry than to be ill-treated. We
have seen old maids whose enjoyment of
life, and whose usefulness to society, far
exceeded many married women’s. In
deed we have great respect’ for one of
those free, open, energetic old maids—
from choice. The capacity of a woman
to take care of herself is too much un
derrated. Has not the reader of this
article seen women who supported their
husbands and families ? Seen them buy
clothes for the children, feed the chil
dren, and even build houses for them to
live in, all with their own money? In
deed we know of instances where women
of talent and energy have married men
of dissolute and lazy habits, and have
led miserably poor lives, when if they
had been left to themselves they would,
by their talents and energy, have made
a comfortable living and a competency
besides. Who ever knew a woman who
worked six days in a week but what she
saved money in the. end ? How many
married women there are who work
hard and are always poor, when if they
had remained single and depended on
their own exertions, and had no men to
support, their circumstances would have
been better ! Many and many a good
woman’s happiness, health and prosperi
ty is destroyed by marrying.
Now, we do not advise women not to
marry when they can marry well, but we
do think they ought to be very guarded,
very choice in the selection of a compan
ion for life. If they would all act on
this principle there would be more hap
piness in the world, and their chances
would be better. Those “lords of crea
tion” who now boast of their power to
marry whom they please, would soon
change their tune.
It would be a blessing to many poor
women if the matrimonial knot could be
loosed. Women lose more by marrying,
in many instances, than they gain. It
is true there is some novelty about the
business which they will want to test,
but it is a very serious matter, and
they should be exceedingly particular,
lest they pay dearly—nay, bitterly—for
the experiment. —Griffin News.
A curious supersition prevails on the
Isle of Man.- It is to the effect that chil
dren may be preserved from whooping
cough by being placed in the hopper of
a mill. “Whooping-cough,” says the
Manx limes, “is at the present time ex
ceedingly prevalent in the south of the
island, and on Sunday a large number
of the children were taken to the Grena
by Mill, in the Parish of Malew, three
miles from Castletown, in order to be
subjected to the ‘charm.’ Twohoppers of
the mill were crammed full of children,
and as soon as they were comfortably
and safely settled, the miller caused the
wheel to revolve three times, the parents
of the children being present / at the
time. In order to be efficacious, the
ceremony must be gone through at a
time when the ministers of the district
are engaged in preaching in their pul
pits. For this reason, about noon on
Sundays is generally the time chosen
for the performace of this curious rite.”
The problem of using steam as a mo
tive power on the canals seems to be
reaching the point of satisfactary solu
tion. Several boats propelled by steam
are now in use on the Eria canal, and
on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal the
experiments made have also been suc
cessful. The Cumberland News notices
the trial trip of anew boat on plans
patented by Mr. James T. Hill, of that
city. The engine is an oscillating one,
setting well back in the boat, and driv
ing by two shafts a pair of twin propel
lers, which, by Mr. Hill’s invention, are
driven one right and one left, both in
wardly, with one cylinder and no gear
ing. The boat made a mile in fourteen
minutes, without making more than the
ordinary swell or wash of a canal boat.
The opinion is being strengthened
every day that the man who first made a
shirt to button behind did more for the
world than one who ha3 discovered five
comets.
FROM WASHINGTON.
How the West and South is Taxed on
Whisky and Tobacco—A Very Neat
Campaign Document.
Washington, November 19.—The re
port of the Commissioner of Internal
“Revenue shows that the total production
of manufactured tobacco during the last
fiscal year was 118,548,618 pounds. The
collection of the tax on tobacco was
833,242,875; total quantity manufactured
during the year 10,837,827 pounds. The
actual production of manufactured to
bacco exceeded that of the previous
year by over 2,000,000 pounds, and
foreign exportations exceeded that of
the previous year by near 750,000
pounds. The Commissioner urges the
continuation of the leat tobacco clause
in the act of June Gth, 1872, without
amendment or alteration. The results
of this great trade, so far as its relations
to the Government are concerned, have
been exceedingly satisfactory.
During the last fiscal year 2,880 fruit
distilleries were registered and 2,841
operated. Seven hundred and nine dis
tilleries other than fruit distilleries
registered and 965 operated, and there
has been an increased activity in all
operations relating to bonded distilled
spirits. Tlie quantity produced during
the year 1874, as compared with that
produced during the year 1873, is re-'
latively greater than the quantity with
drawn for all purposes during 1874, as
compared with the quantity withdrawn
for all purposes during 1873, leaving a
balance of 15,817.709 gallons in ware
house at that time, being 12,917,462
gallons during the first quarter of the
present year. The demand for distilled
spirits has been active, and the quantity
withdrawn from warehouse upon the
payment of the tax has exceeded the
quantity deposited, so that the balance
remaining in warehouse September 30th,
1874, has been reduced to 12,577,096
gallons, or a decrease of 3,240,613 gal
lons as compared with the quantity re
maining in warehouse June 30tli, 1874.
The whole number of cases compro
mised during the past fiscal year was
381, and the total amount received by
compromises was 862,679. During the
year, 5,610 suits have been commenced,
2,228 have been settled in favor of the
United States Government,' and 527
against, and 1,653 suits were settled or
dismissed, and there were pending on
the Ist of July, 1874, 7,246. The largest
amount collected in any one quarter
from tobacco was collected during the
first quarter of the current fiscal year,
which reaches the sum of $10,162,954.
Should corresponding relaiive collec
tions continue to be made for the re
maining three quarters, the receipts for
the current fiscal year will aggregate
$36,000,000.
Washington, November 20. The
House Appropriations Committee com
pleted their naval appropriation bill yes
terday. The estimates presented by the
Secretary were for nineteen millions of
dollars. The appropriation as agreed
upon by the committee is a little over
seventeen millions of dollars. This is
only for the navy establishment proper,
and does' not include appropriations for
the construction of ships or the continu
ance of work on the League Island navy
yard, or the proposed purchase of the
Steveus battery. These and similar ap
propriations asked for by tlie Navy De
partment will be included in the mis
cellaneous bill. Concerning the marine
corps, it was held that the duties now
performed by it, especially at stations
where they are used as guards and for
police duty, could as well be performed
by details from the army; while on ship
board the work of the marine corps
could be performed as well by ordinary
seamen. No decisive action was taken
by the committee, but it is generally un
derstood that should an amendment be
offered in the House to the naval appro
priation bill, either providing for the
total abolition of the marine corps or its
incorporation into the army, no opposi
tion will be made to it by the members
of the committee.
Judge Poland, Chairman of the Con
gressional Committee to investigate Ar
kansas troubles, arrived here this morn
ing, and had a conference with Attorney-
General Williams prior to the meeting
of the Cabinet. He will have an inter
view with the President to-morrow, and
leave for his home in Vermont to-mor
row evening.
Judge Poland states that the report of
the committee will not be prepared till
after the meeting of Congress, as all the
testimony taken at different times by
various members of the committee has
not yet been examined by a full commit
tee, and the ■whole testimony must be
carefully looked into before the report
can be prepared.
The Cabinet and Arkansas—The An
nual Message,
Washington, November 20.— The Cab
inet session to-day continued nearly
three hours. All the members, except
ing ' Postmaster-General Jewell, were
present. The Arkansas matters were
the subject of comment. Attorney-Gen
eral Williams submitted telegrams from
Senator Clayton and several State offi
cers in Arkansas, urging recognition of
the Smith party by the Federal Govern
ment, but the general opinion of the
Cabinet was that since their last meet
ing nothing had occurred to alter the
decision made at that meeting, namely,
that the Government had not in its pos
session such information as would jus
tify any interference with the contro
versies in that State.
The President and Cabinet had an ex
tended conversation on the subjects to
be presented for the consideration of
Congress in his annual message. Facts
to aid in the preparation of that paper
were furnished to him by several of the
members who have completed their re
ports, and additional data will soon be
given by the other members respecting
their several departments.
Mr. Allen, Minister to this country
from the Sandwich Island, who has been
on a visit to his former home for several
months past, has returned here, and
this morning called upon the President
to pay his respects. He was ac
companied b'y Mr. Carter, who
has been commissioned by the
Government of| the Hawaiian Islands to
negotiate a commercial treaty with the
United States. Secretary Fish was also
present during the interview. Allen
tendered to the President the friendly
considerations of his Majesty the King,
and stated he was to leave Honolulu on
the 18th of November for this country.
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
Tho New Orleans, Mobile and Texas
Railroad sections west of the Mississippi
river were sold Thursday by the United
States Marshal for $350,000, to Frank M.
Ames, son of the late Oakes Ames. A
new company will probably be organized
to complete the road to its Texas ter
minus.
Advices from Nicaragua are to till
effect that trouble was imminent, grow
ing out of the bitterness that has at
tended the Presidential election. The
Government had interfered greatly in
the election, and a revolution was feared.
The hardest fought political, contest
known in Chattanooga for years came off
Thursday at the municipal election.
James, Republican, was elected Mayor
by 277 majority, a gain of 75 over May
nard’s majority in the State election.
The Board of Health of Charleston
has decided to discontinue their weekly
meetings as unnecessary, and passed a
resolution declaring it perfectly safe for
strangers to visit the city.
Five inches of snow at Portland,
Maine.
Negotiations are pending for a union
of the Pacific Mail and Panama Railroad.
An explosion in Warren Yale coal
mine, Yorkshire, England, killed 24 per
sons.
Ten bodies have been received from
the wreck of the Empire at New Or
leans.
Col. L. P. Grant accepts the Receiver
ship of the Atlanta and Richmond Air
Line Road.
The Pennsylvania striking weavers
proposed to submit to half the reduc
tion demanded and the owners made no
response. The weavers adjourned to
Tuesday.
The editors of La Preasa, La Bon
derd and El Espanol, Spanish newspa
pers, have been arrested and sent to
prison for violating the press laws es
tablished under a state of siege.
In New Orleans a German named
Spitzfahm and three children were
thrown into the Carolton Canal. A
horse ran against a bridge. Two chil
dren were saved. Spitzfafcm and a
grandchild were drowned.
The Spanish Republicans are massing
in Navarre for the relief of Pampaluna.
The Carlists are concentrating around
Estella under command of Mendire.
The Basque battalions, under command
of Don Carlos and Gen. Elio, are on the
point of leaving Yera for Puenk La
Reyna.
The New Orleans Price Current says
most of the mess pork received at this
season is from five to ten pounds below
the Louisville Convention standard of
I 190 pounds. Two hundred barrels of
I the brand of Armor & Cos., Chicago,
i average only 183 pounds, and was there
fore declared not regular.
A New Railroad.
Boston, November 21.—The project
of anew and direct railroad from Boston
to the West is receiving the general at
tention of the business men here. The
route proposed is via Willimantic, Hart
ford, Poughkeepsie and crossing the
Hudson river, where bnt a distance of
eighteen miles from the river connections
can be made with the Pennsylvania and
Erie roads to the West and a line to
Washington and the South,
LOUISIANA.
THE RETURNING BOARD AND THE
ELECTION.
That Louisiana Election Question.
New York, November 19.—A Herald
New Orleans special says the KetnrniDg
Board became alarmed on Tuesday
night, and had the police force at the
State House increased to twenty-five
men, and several cases of Winchester
rifles were taken in under cover of the
darkness. Kellogg disavows all knowl
edge of these preparations, for he says
he can get Federal troops to his aid in
twenty minutes. Kellogg expresses a
desire for Congressional investigation
into the election of 1872, and admits that
the best way is for Congress is to pass
a resolution ordering the President to
recognize his or McEnery’s government.
He declares he will be satisfied, even
though his opponent should be recog
nized.
The Returning Board found tho St.
James parish returns correct until
reaching roll seven, which showed one
hundred more votes for Bovee, Inde
pendent Republican, for Senate, and
others, than was accorded them by the
tally lists in the hands of the Conserva
tive Committee. The latter protested
against the count being received on the
grounds of fraudulency. A member of
the committee presented a statement,
showing he could prove the returns
from St. James had been taken out of
the hand of the Secretary of State after
their original delivery. He disclaimed
any intention of charging the Secretary
of State with knowingly committing any
wrong, but he could ptove the returns
had been so removed. Considerable
excitement ensued, when a second re
turn from the same roll was discovered
agreeing with the statement kept by the
Conservatives, thus proving that the re
turns liad been tampered with. The
latter returns were counted by the Board
and the protest was withdrawn.
Marshal Seelye Arrested for Stealing.
New Orleans, Nevember 20. A
special dispatch from Mouroe states
that upon the release by Judge Trimble,
of Marshal Seelye at Vienna, he was re
arrested immediately by the United
States Marshal, charged with embezzle
ment, and sent to New Orlerns. Seelye
is now in this city. He was, until re
cently, a special agent of the Post Office
Department.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Prance.
Paris, November 19.—There was an
alarming explosion in a chemical factory
in St. Denis to-day. A building was
destroyed, and a railway station near
was badly damaged. Three personswere
killed and fifteen badly injured. Half
the windows in town were broken.
Roller has gone to Ohiselhurst to at
tend a council of Imperialists, sum
moned in view of the approaching ses
sion of the Assembly.
Spain.
London, November 19.—The News’
correspondent at Hendage reports that
the storm has abated, and that the Re
publican troops are again in motion.
The Carlists yesterday captured two
newspaper correspondents and took
them to Andoin, where General Eager
immediately ordered them released.
San Sebastian, November 19.—Sev
eral steamships, with Republican troops
on board, which sailed from here for
Santander, put back to-day in conse
quence of heavy weather at sea. The
supply of provisions in the city is short
even for the usual inhabitants, and the
unexpected return of these soldiers, who
must be fed, causes much distress.
Cuba.
Havana, November 20.—Tho Spanish
mail steamer Sale de Cuba arrived here
to-day after having disembarked a force
of 1,000 marines at Santiago de Cuba.
Germany.
Berlin, November 19. —Prince Gorts
chakoff, the Russian Foreign Minister,
who has been sojourning here for sev
eral days, had a long and final interview
with Prince Bismarck to-day, after which
he took his departure for St. Petersburg.
During Prince Gortschakofl’s stay here,
in private conversation he expressed his
confidence in the maintenance of the
peace of Europe for many years.
Berlin, November 20.—Bismarck has
assured the Turkish Minister that the
conclusion of direct treaties of commerce
with Bomania will in no wise prejudice
the political sovereignty of Turkey in
that principality. Negotiations are now
in progress between the Governments of
Germany and Mexico for the conclusion
of a treaty of commerce.
The permission accorded to Von
Arnim to take exercise for the recupera
tion of his health is limited to walks
only. He is positively forbidden to
ride.
England.
London, November 20. —A boat be
longing to H. M. S. Aurora was run
down in the Clyde yesterday and seven
teen men were drowned.
The infant son of the Duke of Eden
burgh will be baptized at Buckingham
Palace Monday next. The Queen Em
press of Russia, Prince aud Princess of
Wales, and the Czarowich and Grand
Duke Alexis will be present.
London, November 20.—A special to
the Pall Mall Gazette, from Berlin, says
it is stated there that the British Gov
ernment declines to comply with the
proposal of Russia for the adoption of
anjinternational code on the basis of ne
gotiations of the Brussels conference.
London, November 20.—Tom Hood,
editor of Fun, died to-day.
A terrible explosion occurred in a col
liery at Warren Vale, near Rawmarsh,
West Riding of Yorkshire, to-day.
Fourteen miners killed.
Jamaica.
Kingston, Jamaica, November 20.
A number of additional marine disasters
by the storm of the first instant are re
ported. Dispatches from various sec
tions continue to report great destruc
tion of property and crops. In some dis
tricts desolation reigns.
ARKANSAS AFFAIRS.
The Government Will Not Interfere.
Washington, November 21.—Repre
sentative Wiltshire, of Arkansas, had an
interview to-day with Attorney-General
Williams with reference to affairs in
that State, and says it was of a satisfac
tory character. Wiltshire is satisfied
that if any action at all be taken in the
matter it will be by Congress, and not
by the Executive Department. The At
torney-General informed him that in his
dispatch to Judge Poland, at Little
Rock, he did not suggest or indicate
that Representative Ward, of the House
Special Committee, remain there, but
merely requested Poland to come to
Washington on his way home, as he,
the Attorney-General, desired informa
tion relative to Arkansas affairs. Judge
Poland, among other things, said to
him there was no disturbance or excite
ment whatever in Arkansas, and that the
State was unusually quiet. It is the
purpose of Representative Wiltshire and
Governor Low to prepare this week and
file with the Attorney-General a state
ment refuting the charges and allega
tions of Smith and those who represent
his interests. The general feeling in
Washington is opposed to Federal inter
ference.
NEW YORK NEWS.
New York, November 21. —The Han
nah L. Bethel, from Virginia, is ashore,
full of water.
Edward Ridney, a cotton broker of
New Orleans, arrested on the charge of
defrauding Mrs. Van Osten, of New Or
leans, of $55,000, was turned over to
that lady yesterday on a requisition from
the Governor of Louisiana, aud departed
with her, there apparently being no need
of officers to help to retain him.
A verdict was given for tho Govern
ment yesterday in the United States
District Court for $50,000, in a suit
against the bondsmen of Caleb Lyon,
formerly Governor of Idaho and Super
intendent of Indian Affairs for that Ter
ritory. There was a balance against
Lyon when he was removed from office
by President Johnson of $46,000, and he
explained as a reason for its non-pay
ment that he was robbed while en route
from Idaho to Washington. The suit
was to recover the amount of his bond,
$50,000. The verdict was given in ac
cordance with the ruling of Judge
Blatchford, that, under an unrepealed
law of 1779, no proof of loss can be ad
mitted as defense to an action instituted
by the Government unless accompanied
by other proof; that the claim for an
allowance for the loss has been pre
sented and passed upon by the proper
accounting officers of the Govern mnnt.
A newly organized party is about to
start hence to continue the work of ex
ploration in Palestine, commenced some
years ago.
Deaths the past week, 521.
Word comes from Chicago of a grain
corner there, the price of corn having
already gone up greatly.
At a meeting of agents of European
ship lines to-day, the price of steerage
passage was raised to $23 and $25, ac
cording to the speed of the vessel.
The funeral of Jos. Steward, the Well
known banker, took place to-day.
The proposed reciprocity treaty with
Canada appears to be as unpopular in
England as in the United States. The
Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce has
adopted a memorial to the Government
opposing it and deprecating the imposi
tion of lower duties in Canada than in
England,
OUR BARNWELL LETTER.
An Account of the Pair and Tourna
ment.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Barnwell, S. C., November 19, 1874.
T<>-day concludes the Sixth Annual
Fair of tlie Barnwell Agricultural and
Mechanical Society, and in the utter
despite of lowering clouds and sultry
air, a most gratifying success has re
warded the efforts of the officers who
represented the Association. Their mot
to is “there’s life in the old land yet,”
and viglit worthily have they exemplified
it. The exhibition of horse flesh was
superior to that of the State Fair held
last week in Columbia, and the same may
be claimed for the cattle department.
There were some Ayrshire ana Brahmin
cows that were not to be surpassed this
side of Kentucky.
The second day of the Fair, being the
one having in its programme the tour
nament, attracted a large and charming
attendance of the fair sex, who paid the
tribute of approving smiles to tlio gal
lant Knights that were assembled to
contend for the honor of their approba
tion. As the array of contestants pass
ed in front of the grand stand previous
to entering the lists in the full glare of
beauty’s radiant gaze, all of your corre
spondent’s sympathies went out towards
them as lie reflected that the difficulties
in each Knights’ way of winning the
right to crown the Queen of Love and
Beauty,great as they appeared at a glance,
were trivial alongside of the trial which
would beset the victor when he came to
select from so many altogether lovely and
beautiful faces the bright particular one
which would most adorn tho wreath of
roses- beauty’s most appropriate crown.
Then was realized for the first time the
subtle meaning iu the poet’s lines—
‘At tho door of life, by the pates of breath.
There are worse tilings waiting for men than
death.”
But soon “the shattering trumpet
shrilleth high” and the first Knight runs
his course. He is the Knight of In
difference. and in quick succession he is
followed by Castlemaiue, Cedar Springs,
Turkoman, Bamberg, Modern Times,
Base Ball, Edisto, Bonnie Blue, Barn
well, Steel Creek and Sweetwater, when
the Herald proclaimed the first run com
pleted.
Five minutes breathing spell, filled up
with the witching strains of “Listen to
the Mocking Bird” by the line brass
band in attendance, and the second
course was- quickly endod. Another
brief interval and the third and final
course decided that with the Kniglit of
Castlemaine rested the honor of choos
ing and crowning tho Queen of Beauty.
With the same discerning eye and con
summate judgment that characterized
his knightly bearing and performance,
he made his election while advancing to
•the‘ piazza of the grand stand, and
crowned Miss Katie R., of’ Barnwell.
Miss J., of Bamberg, and Miss H., also
of Bamberg, were chosen, with good
taste and propriety, Maids of Honor by
the Turkish Knight and the Knights of,
Edisto and Indifference. The clouds at
this juncture threatening to diJfeolve,
the Knights made their obeisance to the
Court of Honor and were dismissed.
Everything ended auspiciously, and the
visitors all went homo well satisfied
with their attendance at the Sixth An
nual Fair of the Barnwell Agricultural
and Mechanical Society and with bright
anticipations for the seventh.
Bachelor.
Case Settled.
Montreal, November 21. — The cele
brated Guibord case has been finally set
tled. Ecclesiastical burial in the con
secrated part of the Catholic Cemetery
had been refused to the body of Gui
bord, a Montreal printer, because he
had died a member of the Canadian In
stitute, a society which had in its libra
ry works condemned by the clergy, and
which society had been excomunicated
therefor. The case went through the
Canadian Courts, and the position of the
clergy having, been sustained was ap
peateil to the privy council. Burial in
the consecrated grounds was demanded
as a civil and not as a religious right, as
there remained no alternative but to
put the body in the place reserved for
suicides and other unconfessed male
factors. Tho following has been re
ceived from London by cable: To-day
in the Guibord carse the nppeal is allow
ed and burial is ordered in the Holy
Grounds, with all costs except of recusa
tion of the Judge. Guibord is entitled
to ecclesiastical rights.
Indicted.
New Orleans, November 21.—The
grand jury of Plaquemiue parish have
indicted the following persons: Henry
Mahony, colored, an ex-member of the
House of Representatives, for embez
zling $3,300 as Treasurer of the Board
of Education; Edward Butler, colored,
ex-State Senator, for receiving a bribe
of $1,500; Win. A. Prescott, Parish
Judge since 1808, for bribery and cor
ruption in office and subornation of per
jury; Nicholas Bivan, colored, for shoot
ing with intent to kill, blackmailing and
obtaining money under false pretenees
by intimidation and threats; Frank
White, colored, jailer and deputy sheriff,
for conniving at the escape of prisoners,
including the defaulting State Tax Col
lector. Tho grand jury consisted of
four white and twelve colored men.
Is It Another Mistake ?
Quebec, November 21.—The reported
discovery of Charles Ross was caused
by the extraordinary conduct of a woman
who arrived here in August last from
tho States with a little boy who, she
said, had been found in the streets, but
when or where she refused to tell. Her
story was altogether unsatisfactory, and
coming to the knowledge of the police,
elicited inquiry, which, coming to the
woman’s ears, caused her to decamp,
leaving the child behind. A photograph
of the chill was dispatched last night
to Allen Pinkerton. The photograph
and description of tlie child tally in
many respects with those furnished by
the Philadelphia police authorities.
The Democracy of Tennessee.
Nashville, November 19.—The Demo
cratic party of Tennessee celebrated the
recent political victories this afternoon
and evening. The city is full of people
from this and surrounding States. Tho
assemblage was addressed at the Exposi
tion building this afternoon by Hon.
James B. Beck, of Kentucky, and Hon.
M. C. Kerr, of Indiana, and to-night by
Gov. McEnery, of Louisiana, Hon. J.
Proctor Knott, of Kentucky, Gen. Gor
don, of Georgia, and Gen. Morgan, of
Alabama. The city was illuminated. A
salute of 100 guns was fired from Capi
tol Hill.
The Turf.
San Francisco, November 21. The
trot for a purse of $6,000, mile heats,
best 3 in 5, to wagon, postponed from
November 7th, took place to-day at
Golden Gate Driving Park, tho contest
ants being Occident, Judge Fullerton
and Sam Purdy. Occident had the call
in the betting until this morning, when
Fullerton became the favorite at slight
odds/ Sam Purdy last choice. The
weather was fair and attendance im
mense.
Fullerton won the first heat in 2:22j,
also the second in 2:22J. Fullertonjwon
the third heat and the race in 2:21f.
A Lesson in Grammar.
Washington, November 21.—Harring
ton was allowed to speak two hours in
his own behalf. During the first part
he spoke of Harrington in tho third per
son, but finally shed tears in the first
person, saying, “So help me, God,”
&c. He acknowledged conspiracy against
Columbus Delano and denounced the
Department of Justice and also the
secret service as controlled by Whitely,
He averred, so help him God, neither
he nor Williams had a share in the con
spiracy.
TOPICS ABOUT THE STATE.
Burglars are on the rampage at West
Point.
Immense flocks of blackbirds near
LaGrange.
The Columbus Enquirer issues an ex
cellent Sunday paper.
A negro charged with rape has escaped
from West Point jail.
Twenty-five true bills have been re
turned by the grand jury of Meriwether
county.
John B. Weems, Judge of the Bibb
County Court, was stricken with paraly
sis on Friday.
The British shipping in the port of
Savannah observed Thanksgiving day
by hoisting their flags.
In Macon when a man has neither
money or a draw poker education he is
classified as a dead beat.
The Atlanta Herald declares that the
Freedman’s Savings Bank was the great
est swindle of sacred or profane history.
Atlanta boasts of having received
30,000 bales of cotton this year. The
Herald figures that town out as a better
market for cotton than New York. Wo
will ship our crop there next year.
An additional reason why the capital
should be removed from Atlanta is when
you ask a man there to take a drink he
replies, “No, thank you, but I’ll just
take a quarter’s worth of candy home to
the children.”
The Gainsvilie Eagle says: “The test
of man’s love for his wife is wholly in the
quantity of good, dry wood he keeps
cut to the right length and handy to the
fire place during cold weather.” That
depends upon the supply of bonnets and
“things” in the house,
