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OLD SERIES —VOL. LXXXII NEW SERIES—SOL. XXXIX. TERMS, * IK DAILY CHEOSICLK & SENTINEL, the oldest in toe Booth, is published daily, ex cept Monday. Term*: Per year, $10; alx months, $5; three month*. $2 SO. THE TRI-WEEKLY CHBO*ICLE A BENTTNEL te nohUahed every Tuesday, Thursday and Batur day. Term*: One year, sr>; six month*, $2 80. THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE A SENTINEL hi pub lished every Wednesday. Term*: One year, $2 nix month*, sl. BATES OF ADVERTISING IN DAILY.—AIt tran sient advertisement* win lie charged at the rate ~{ $1 per square for each insertion for the first week. Advertisements in the Tri-Weekly, two thirdw of the rste* in the Daily: and in the Weekly, one-half the Daily **ea. Marriage and- Faueral Notices, fl each. Special Notices, $3 per square for the first publication. Special rate* will be made for advertisements running for a month or longer. SUBSCRIPTIONS in all case* In advance, and no j (•a|er continued after the expiration of the time paid for. REMITTANCES should be made by Post Office Money Orders or Express. If this cannot be done, protection against louses by mail may be secured by forwarding a draft payable to the Proprietors of the CmtoHiCLK A Hkntikel, or by sending the money in a registered letter. ALL COMMUNICATIONS announcing candidates for efitae—from County Constable to Member of Congress—will be charged for at the rate of twenty dhit* per line. All announcement* must be paid for in advance. Addresa WALSH A WRIGHT, Chbosiclk A Scttiwkl, Augusta. On. Chronicle an& .Sentinel. WEDNESDAY.. BEPT’BER 1, 1875. MINOR TOPICS. The International Telegraph Conference, which was in sPHsion at Bt. Petersburg for seven weeks ending Jniy 19, agreed upon a tariff by which, auioug other changes, a dis patch from any part of Europe can be trans mitted to America, after January Ist, at the filed rate of twelve shillings for five words, and to India for five shillings a word, the words being limited to ten letters in messages beyond Europe and fifteen letters in Europe. The sick man of the East is every day be coming sicker. Herzegovina couldn't stand the taxation any longer, and unlike jKtor, long suffering Louisiana, broke out into revolt. No one can tell how great a matter a little lire kindletb. The traditional European balance is again endangered by this new rebellion, and if the sick man don’t die this time his posses sions will at least bo divided. The intolerant Moslem will be taught at last a few of the Christian graces, with domestic grievances ad libitum thrown in. A circular having been sent to Gen. Fitz Lee, of Virginia, soliciting his endorsement of a movement in favor of Hon. N. P. Banks, of Massachusetts, for President, and Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi, for Vice-President, in the next coming Presidential campaign, the Oeneral has written a reply in which he says : “I feel it my dnty to say, that should those gentlemen he the nominees of the National Democratic Convention for tho high offices you desire them to fill, it will give me pleasure to vote for them, and to aid in an humble way to secure their election.” The llliuoig man who threw decaying chick ens in front of his neighbor's premises, and was subsequently and very properly killed for his meanness, was undoubtedly a former resi dent of some city where there were vacant lots, and the old habit of pitching his carrion where it could bo smelt was too strong for him. It is very rare that justice so soon overtakes such a man, but the old girl lias boon playing blindman's buff a good while now, and this may be the beginning of a greater and moro experienced activity. The thrifty New Englander has weaknesses, despite years of oloso-cutting laws, and even in Boston there is occasionally offered evidenco that the old Adam is something difficult to oradicato in the most respectable quarters.— Tho police of Boston lately made a sudden de scent upon lottery agencies and tho result was greater than anybody imagined would be tho case. Even the newspapers wore astonished at the extent of tho dovelopmonts. There wore lottery agencies everywhere, and they were well patronized by tho Bostonians. The de scendants of the Puritans are like other men, still desperately fond of trring their luck. A Chicago dispatch says the Communists of that city are making activo preparations for a somewhat warlike campaign. The fact has been developed that they have purchased a largo number of breechloading muskets, with considorablo ammunition, and aro drilling regularly under the command of an experienc ed officer. Several hundred men are already enrolled, and pio-nics aro frequently held to raise funds to defray expenses. Tho leaders aro tile same discontented spirits who have frequently figured in communistio mobs, and they seem determined to redress the imaginary wrongs under which they aro laboring. The Washington Pepuhliean is remarkable forconrtoous conduct and polite language. Speaking of ex-Senator Doolittlo. who is to be the orator at the Winnebago fair, instead of Jeff Davis, that high-toned advocato of Grant and pensioner upon tho Government says : "It is probable, however, that what Doolittle knows about fanning will not prove to bo vory instructive, because, if reports aro tmo, his knowledge in that regard is limited to observa tion in stealing cotton from the Government. Nevertheless, as a cotton thief and |K>litical renegade ami deserter, he will prove to boa woitliy substitute for Jeff Davis.” There is a little girl living at North Beverly. Maes., whoso brief life of three years has been an eveutful one. She was bom on board ship in the Paealio ocean. Before she was three days old her mother died. Before she was seven days old the ship was wrocked and sauk. Tho liabe w* wrapped in a blanket and kept warm, and the sailors paid every attention to her, and kept her alive with biscuit soaked in water, and wore hardly less attentive to the little one’s wants than her father. Ten days after the wreck they were pieked up by an English vessel and taken to Liverpool. Thence they came to this oountry, and the little one has been brought op at the house of her grand parents. The Paris Figaro has introduced an innova tion; the first column on tho first page is a daily memento of the chief sights and events of t he city, that hardly over find their way into any journal, either by advertisement or special paragraph. Tims, a restaurant has a special plate (duffi) to-dav; such a shop a famous pic ture; the central markets display such luxuries; if a spectacle be on the tapis, you are inform ed Ute best moment to attend to observe the fashionable crowd and the proper time to re tire; what meetings are to be held; what mar riages are to V>e celebrated; what sumptuous funerals to come off. It is a kind of note book compiled by "men about town who have Argus eyes and admission everywhere. The | cost o! preparing that column of really valua ble mems is said to be equal to the fourth of the cxpem.M> of tho writing for the entire journal. Tiio mistakes made by foreign journalists, the English and French especially, when at- j tempting to discuss American affairs, are j familiar toall from frequent repetition. Thus, ; daring the late civil war, an intelligent French j journal, referring to the death of the Coufed- j crate General. Earl Van Dorn, in 1862, inform- j od its readers that “M. le General Marquis j Van Dorn” had been killed, accepting the given name. Earl, as a title of nobility; and lately an equally intelligent Paris journal produced the following paragraph, innocent enough bat for the strange blunder t.f placing a knight or a Baronet in the Gubernatorial chair of Kansas: -It is not alone in Algeria that the grasshop pers are devouring the crops. The Governor of Kansas. Sir Osborne, estimates at more than fifteen thousand tho number of inhab itants reduced to poverty by the ravages of the locusts." It is a matter of dispute as to which is he most complete work of nature, in its way—the American fool or the English fool but the En glishman seen* to be a little ahead for the present. It isn't so much romance and Indian stones with him. It is "quality.” The fol lowing story of a far-seeing, bnt poverty stricken English lord has just come out: "It is his custom to take a house, have it furnished elegantly by a confiding tradesman, and then after occupying it for a short time, dispose of th.i lease to some wealthy plebian who is will ing to pay handsomely for living in a house which has been occupied, and as handsomely for using the furniture which has been need by a lord. His lordship is compelled to do a good deal iff moving under this arrangement, but it euablvie him to live geenteelly. and suits all the parties." Extraordinary christening there was lately at the new settlement of Garrett (.Ind.) Station ! on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. , Two j children, the first born of that place, were ‘ made little Christians after a very elaborate ! fashion. Two thousand people attended. j There was a torchlight procession, silver cups 1 were presented to the happy mothers, silver spoons were presented to the babies. There was a speech by Mr. James Cowan, of Chi cago, and there was a dance by everybody, ex cept the babies. One of them was named Indiana Garrett Quigley; the other Qnincy Garrett Bainhold. Conductors, firemen, brakemen and other railway fanetioniries at tended in great numbers: and, in conclusion, they offered a reward of 460 to the first lady married in Garrett Station—so naturally fond .of ties are railway men. THE SOUTHERN METHODISTS. The Nashville Christian Advocate, of j last Saturday, consolidates the Coaler- i ence returns of the Methodist Church South for 1874. The following are the aggregates : Traveling preachers 3,224 I Superanuated preachers 261 ; Local preachers 5,356 ; White members. ..696,764 Colored members 2,663 Indian members 4,497 Total preachers and membership,7l2,76s Increase over 1873 37,375 Infants baptized. 24,909 Adnlts baptized 49,358 Sunday Schools 7,204 Sunday School teachers 48,325 Sunday School scholars 323,634 Collections for Conference claimants $ 64,294 20 Collections for missions.... 101,953 46 The number of Conferences is thirty seven, of which North Georgia is the largest—having a membership of 51,683. North Carolina is next, with a member ship of 50,426. South Georgia has a membership of ouly 27,847, but. she manifested comparative liberality- hav ing contributed *12,238 33, while North bership, contributed *13,535 46. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. The Nashville Union and American says now that the thing has flashed in the pan, our readers may enjoy the flaming rhetoric in which Mr. H. P. Kimball, Secretary of the Winneba goaus, advertised his fair and its at tractions. Wo subjoin an extract from the circular that has been scattered over the land. The poet laureate referred to is understood to hail from Chicago : The Hon. Jefferson Davis will attend onr exposition in September, and deliver the an nual address. He comes to see the rapid transformations, whereby a desolate prairie country, tenanted by bands of wandering sav ages and herds of bnffalo, has been made as fair and fruitful as a garden of the Lord. He comes to behold thfi assembled products of onr industries and the creations of art, which em bellish and make beautiful our homes. His visit is no political errand ; ho comes relying on our honor, reuuiting his aspirations with ours to make this great liepublic again the grandest commonwealth of the globe, and to pay a handsome tribute to the progress and thrift of our agriculture. We have confidence in the chivalry and Christian sentiment of onr people; we do not believe in that patriotism that displays itself in fostering a grudge. We believe that all classes will accord Mr. Davis a cordial reception, and in doing so reflect credit upon onr city and community, and illus trate the spirit or the Divine Master, who cared more for one estray than ninety-nine re maining in the fold. The poem to be delivered by Bknj. F. Tay lor will have the ring of an Iliad in it. It will bo flashed across tho continent, and composi tors all over the broad land will vie together to have it in print first. It will be read in every hamlet and printed in every city. It is pre pared for onr patrons, and the special occasion of our fair. Preparations on a stupendous scale are in operation for the grandest ex hibition ever hold in our country. We abomi uato croakers ; let us have sympathy and co operation. A judge' needing investiga tion. They have a Judge in North Georgia who sadly needs looking after by the Legislature. He is the Judge who pre sided over the last session of the Su perior Court held in Bartow county. The grand jurors saw fit to investigate, as they have a perfect right to do in every county of the State, the workings aud expenses of the Superior Courts “With the most profound consideration aud respect,” the jurors begged leave to call the attention of the presiding Judge to the facts which they found to exist and to request him to so alter and amend the rules and practice of his Court as to facilitate the dispatoh of business by not allowing attornies to consume so much time in wrangling over business and in useless and irrela vant discussions and digressions. They found that while the entire State tax collected from the county amounted to only thirty thousand dollars, the county tax is as much more, and that one half of the whole county tax was used in paying the expenses of two sessions of the Superior Court. And they begged with “all due respect to the honorable” Court, Bar and officers of Court that their recommendations be complied with. So far from doing this tho Judge actually refused to allow these statements and recommendations to remain in the presentments, and or dered them to be stricken out before being placed upon the minutes or pub lished in the county paper. In our opinion this action of the Judge was a palpable violation of the privileges of a grand jury and a gross ontrage npon the rights of the citizens of Bartow county. His conduct should be called to the attention of the Legislature at its session next January, and that body should give it a tbbrough investigation. Grand juries have rights which even a Judge of the Superior Court cannot in terfere with or deny their exercise. The statement of the Bartow jury shows a most deplorable state of affairs existing iu that county. When citizens find that one-half of the entire county tax is con sumed iu paying the expenses of the Superior Court it is time that they complain, and it is time that the citizens of the county were protected. We do not believe that such a propor tion obtains in any other county of the State. In a large and litigious county like ! Richmond only five per cent, of thecoun ! ty tax is required for the maintenance of I the Superior Court against the fifty per cent, levied in Bartow. We are glad to see that the suppressed presentments have been published, notwithstanding the i Judge's order to the contrary, and we j hope that the people of that county will not cease the agitation of the matter ' until their grievances shall be redressed jby the Legislature. We think that it would do good for the General Assem bly to pass au act requiring the different ! Ordinaries and County Judges of the State to make au annual report to the Comptroller-General, showing the amount of county tax levied, the per centage upon the State tax, and the per centage and amount required for the support of each department of the ooun ■ ty government, and requiring the Comp troller-General to publish a digest of j these returns in his report. In this way the mismanagement and extravagance j practised in many of the counties could be discovered and rectified. Some leg islation of this character must be enact i ed for the protection of the tax payers. We publish elsewhere in the Chroni cle and Sentinel this morning an ar ticle taken from the Macon Telegraph and Messenger, which recalls the seem ingly forgotten fact that there were other soldiers at Gettysburg besides; Pickett’s Virginians. The writer shows ' that on the first day’s fight Wright’s j brigade of Georgians charged the heights of Gettysburg, and carried the j first line of entrenehr 'ids, capturing a , number of cannon aud literally bayo- j netting the enemy at their guns. Had | the Georgians been properly supported : the Federal army would have been i pierced and routed, and the birth of a ! new nation been assured on the spot where a death blow to the Confederacy was struck. The statements made by j the writer are fully confirmed by the of ; ficial report of General Lee, first pub ■ listed in 1871. Vet most people have 1 given all the glory of the battle to the ; fine and futile charge of the Virginians lon the second day of the contest, when the enemy was so strongly entrenched that a successful attack was an impos -1 sibility. ; THE ATTEMPTED INSURRECTION. Now that all the excitement occasion-. ed by the reports of contemplated in surrections by the negroes in the coun ties of Burke, Washington, Jefferson and Johnson has almost entirely sub sided, the reader can judge for himself whether the apprehensions of the white citizens of the counties were well grounded, and whether there was really any necessity for the preparations made to resist the expected attack. We think that no man who examines closely into the matter, and has read such evidence as the newspapers have been able to publish, will resist the conclusion that mischief was meant by those who acted as leaders among the negroes. The or ders and letters which were found npon their persons when they were arrested, the confessions of those whom they had taken into their confidence show very conclusively that violence and murder were designed by such men as Rivers, Morris and Harris, and that a few of their followers knew and approved their plans. There is strong evidence of a scheme, wild’ant} undigested it is true, and certain to end in the destruction of its originators, bat still undoubtedly a scheme of plunder and of massacre.— What they expected to accomplish no man can tell, but experience furnishes many instances of the planning and per petration of just as silly crimes. There had been no cause for insurrection given, there was no coherence in the con spiracy, no method in the madness of the conspirators, but that there were both conspirators and a conspiracy we do not think can be doubted. We do not believe, however, that the colored people generally knew anything of the murderous plans or sympathized with the cruel feeling of their leaders, and we greatly doubt whether they could final ly have been driven into open insurrec tion. They were neither prepared for, nor had they any interest in precipitat ing a conflict. The idea of Rivers, Morris k Cos. was evidently to get the negroes to assemble, for some pnrpose not actually unlawful, simultaneously in the four counties above mentioned, and then to ondeavor by false statements of risings elsewhere to induce the men at each meeting to take up arms. We do not believe they would have succeeded in persuading them into such a step, but they might have done so and we cannot doubt the danger which would have attended their success. Iu view of these facts we hope that the ringleaders —those who knew and approved these cruel schemes—will be brought to justice and, if convicted, punished to the full extent of the law. Some of our State exchanges seem to think that there is some doubt of the sufficiency of the law—that the statute was made to suit the condition of slavery, and that it may not apply to the changed condition of affairs consequent upon emancipation. This is simply and purely stuff, as the most superficial examination will abund antly prove. The law is plain—the reme dy is complete. Section 4315 of the Revised Code of Georgia says : “Insurrection shall eon “sist in any combined resistance to the “lawful authority of the State, with “intent to the denial thereof, when tho “same is manifested or attempted to be ..“manifested by acts of violence,” Section 4316 says : “Any attempt, by “persuasion or otherwise, to induce “others to join in any combined resist ance to the lawful authority of the “State, shall constitute au attempt to “incite insurrection. Section 4317 makes the punishment of insurrection and of attempt at insurrec tion death, unless the jury recommend to mercy, when the punishment shall be confinement in the penitentiary for not less than five nor more than twenty years. These statutes were not framed to meet exigencies which might arise out of the system of slavery, but were passed by the Legislature in 1866 and confirmed and approved by the Republican Con stitutional Convention of 1868. The law is perfectly plaih and, as J udge Johnson has wisely ordered a special term of the Superior Court for the trial of parties who have been arrested, it can be speedily applied. We hope, how ever, that with the trial of the ring leader the prosecutions will cease. Their punishment will be amply sufficient for the vindication of violated law and for the prevention of similar attempts in the future. Let mercy be shown the rank and file, who have erred more from ignorance than from design, and who were made the tools of smarter and more unscrupulous scoundrels. The comments of the leading papers of the North upon the attempted rising in the counties of Burke, Jefferson, Johnsou and Washington will be found interesting reading. Up to the time these extracts were made the Radical and Independent papers were the only ones which had spoken, the Democratic journals apparently prefering to keep mum until the reception of later advices. The Radical and Independent sheets all pretend to pooh-pooh the whole affair and think the conspiracy is modelled after Titus Oates’ plot in order to give the blood-thirsty Democrats an oppor tunity to massacre the colored Republi cans. They decline to accept any evi dence to the contrary, and the strongest and most convicing testimony will avail nothing with journalists who refuse to hear or to believe the truth. Iu one thing, however, we are very confident that they are doomed to disappoint ment. Their expectations of violence and lynch murder by the whites will not be realized. Not a drop of blood has been shed and the whites are quietly waiting for the law to take its course with the ringleaders of the movement. From a recent publication made by the American Silk Association, it is shown that up to the 30th of June, 1875, the importations of raw silk exhibit a gain of about 325,000 pounds in excess of the previous year, the total consump tion being equal to 1,100,000, or an amount approaching to within 30,000 pounds of the most noted of other years. The heaviest silk firm in the United States does an annual bnsiness of *900,000 per year, while several others range from *600,000 to SBOO,OOO per annum, and the demands upon the mills aie steadily on the increase. More than *8,000,000 worth of raw silk is con sumed during the year in various ways. It is claimed that the manufacturers have attained complete success in fixing in a substantial manner dyes, either of i subdued or brilliant hues, and that for novelty, chasteness of design and deli cacy of shade, the American product successfully rivals good of the same ; character from Europe. ! The special correspondence of the Chronicle and Sentinel gives an ac i count of the organization of the first : Pomona Grange of the Patrons of Hus ; ban dry which has been organized in 1 Georgia. The Grange was organized in Thomson, last week, with Mr. J. P. Wm : LIAMS, of Columbia county, as Master. , It is named the “Glenn Mary Pomona i Grange,” in honor of the former home of Mrs. T. J. Smith, wife of Mr. T. J. j Smith, Master of the State Grange, and heraelf the Ceres of the State Grange. Croaky croquet players abound in the West since the recent heavy rains. AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY" MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1875. THE CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL OP 1814. The Aiken Courier-Journal has re cently obtained some interesting relics of the past in the shape of five ancient newspapers. One of these is a copy of “The Augusta Chronicle” issned Octo ber 14, 1814. The paper was founded in 1785, and was then in its twenty-ninth volume. We qnote from our Aiken con temporary as follows: The second relic in point of age and interest is the “ACOCSTA CHRONICLE,” Yol. XXIX, No. 1363. This paper is a four col umn folio, and was edited and published by jF.orhe Adams, and printed on Friday, October 14, 1811. It contains a full account of the bat tle of Lake Champlain, with copies of the dis patches and letters of Commodore MacdoN oroH, to the Secretary of the Navy, dated U. 8. Ship Saratoga, at anchor off Plattsburg, Sept. 13. 1814. Also the official dispatches of Gen. Alexander Macomb, to the Secretary of War, with a full and graphic account of the defeat of the British and Indians in their at tack on Fort Bowyer, at Mobile Point, by order of Major-General Jackson. A. P. Hayne, In spector-General and Acting'Adjntant-General, 7th Military Dopsrtafent. From the long double column list of letters remaining in the post office—notwithstanding it was the goosequill age Mid paper mills were not as plenty ae now—we are led to the conclu sion that the Augustans of 60 years ago were a letter writing people. Among the names in tho list, of which, probably, very few are now left alive to answer to the names, are some well known and others not known at all. Figuring in the category of the unknown are those of Samuel Kark and Ann Bender, Mary and Peter T. Bugg, Josiah Brickhouse and Thomas Broad well, Dr, Bunch, Bichard Busch, John B. Damm, Zach Sinkfield, Robert Swiuey, Henry Zinn, John Ducks, James Fears, Lucy Bacon, John Sparks, Ann Kugle, Ac., not forgetting the omnipresent, irrespressible Pat Murphy, without which no list of letters ever could bo complete. The following item iu the advertising column indicates that there were no Augusta, Langley or Graniteville Cotton Factories iu operation in those days: WANTED IMMEDIATELY, 1,000 yds. Wbite Homespun, 1,600 ditto Striped ditto, 1,000 ditto Mixed ditto. The editor of the Chronicle does not appear to have cultivated the muses or taxed his in dustry to gather news or write editorials. The space usually devoted to that branch of litera ture is entirely taken up with a long laudatory dissertation upon Dr. ltobertsop’s Celebrated Stomach Elixir of Health, which we are in formed had just been received from Edin burg, and offered for sale by Thomas I. Wray, at the moderate sum of one dollar aud fifty cents per bottle. America did not boast her Dr. Brandetli nor had Augusta received the lustre of a Tutt. It is with difficulty that one can imagine or conceive this obscure little bantling, whose only editorial is a quack medicine puff, to be the scion from whence sprung the present witty and ably conducted Chronicle and Sentinel, over whoso editorial columua the eye delights to wander, and take iu the varied store of news, brought daily from the uttermost parts of the’ earth. Yet such we be lieve is the fact, aud there is no demerit in it. Palmam qui meruit feral. A friend of General L. J. Gartrell rushes into print to defend him against the charges made by a correspondent whose letter appeared in the Chronicle and Sentinel a few days ago. Our cor respondent said that General Gar trell “yearned for the Governorship, wanted it bad and wanted it all over.” The General’s friend maintains that he has shown since the war great indiffer ence to tho honors and emoluments of office and that lie does not deserve the statements made concerning his candi dacy. He also thinks that General Gar trell is one of the strongest men in the field and that he will undoubtedly be the next Governor of Georgia. Maybe so, but our own humble opinion is/ to use the expression of the Western farmer concerning mules, that there is a “d—d deal of uncertainty” about this same Governor’s election which is so rapidly approaching in Georgia. There are so many candidates representing so many interests and so many sections that it would require a political Elijah to foresee the result of the contest. As matters now stand it is almost an even chance that an independent candidate will win the stakes. The different gentlemen at present in the field would not like to yield to any one of their number and an old-fashioned scrub race may be the result. Several days ago the Chronicle and Sentinel expressed the hope that Prince Rivers would be brought to Georgia for trial for participating in an attempt to excite insurrection. Gov. Smith has since announced that he will make a requisition upon the anthorities of South Carolina for this turbulent and bad-hearted man. We trust that the Governor will not forget his promise. Sufficient evidence has already been ad duced to warrant such a proceeding and we do not think that Gov. Chamberlain will throw any obstacle in the way of bringing him to justice. All the letters which have been captured and all the confessions which have been made by the prisoners in Burke, Jefferson, John son and Washington show that Rivers was deeply implicated in the affair—that he and Morris and Harris were the originators and leaders of the whole movement. It is true that he took good care not to expose himself to the danger to which he sent his dupes, but this cir cumstance rather aggravates than lessens his guilt. He must be brought to trial; if innocent lip will be discharged, if guilty he must be punished. We have secured the hands which threatened, we must have the brain which armed and .directed the hands. Every Radical paper of the North and West charges that the reports of the re cent attempted rising in Middle Geor ga were put in circulation by the whites for “political effect.” We never for an instant thought that they would give credence to any statement which did not pnt the whites in the wrong. They care nothing for the testimony, and will take good care not to publish the confessions made by many of the prisoners who have been captured. But we think our Radical friends would have done their imagination more credit had they con structed a more artistic falsehood. It would puzzle them very considerably to explain why the Democrats of Georgia are interested in circulating stories for “political effect.” No elections will oc cur in the State this year—none will take place for eighteen months. The Democracy can carry the State by sev enty thousand majority any day they like. There is virtually no Republican party in Georgia. Why, then, shonld we take so much trouble for “political effect”—something that we do not at all stand in need of ? “Expound, masters, expound.” The New York Herald has something to say on the subject of Mr. Stephens’ prospective candidacy for the Governor ship. The Herald says; It is reported that Alexander H. Stephens thinks seriously of running &a independent candidate for the Governorship of Georgia this Fall ? If he does it is pretty certain that he will carry the State. The Democrats have at least a half a dozen candidates, most of them eminent men in the State, and each with a strong backing. The State is so strongly Democratic that unless some tits Mr Stephens or Governor Brown runs cm mi In dependent ticket the Democratic nominee is sore of an election. Leading Democrats are, it is said, trying to persuade Mr. Stephens off tbs track; bnt he has a mind of his own. and will, probably, do as he likes. He would cer tainly poll a large part of the colored vote in the State, and would be elected by a great ma jority, and be would make an excellent Gov ernor, THE GRANGERS. The Meeting at Thonteon—Masters, Past Masters and Delegates A Pomona Grange Organized—The Of ficers —The Name —Other Grange Matters. [Special Correspondence Chro&de and Sentinel.] Thomson, AngtjKt 21st, 1875. The Masters, Past Masters and dele gates from the several Dranges of the counties of Columbia, Lincoln, Wilkes and McDuffie, held a meeting in Thom son, McDuffie county, on the 17th inst., for the purpose of organizing a Pomona Grange for the several counties named. Gen. Evans, of Harmony Grange, was called to the Chair, andJT, A. Hamilton, Thomson Grange, requested to act. as temporary Secretary. Dr. H. R. Casev explained the object of the meeting and spoke in an earnest and-eloquent man ner of the advantiges andHruportance of the Pomona Grange. 3). J. Smith, Master of Georgia Statist Grange, was present for the purpose of giving official sanction—and by his readi ness and sagacity gave, in valua ble aid to the members in the organization of the first bOmona Grange of the State. On registering members it was found tbM grange of the four represented. In election of officers the following were declared as duly elected to serve till January next: Master: J. P, Williams, Columbia Grange; Overseoy; J. S. Wing .field, Washington Grange; Lecturer; H. R. Casey, “H. R. Casey” Grange; Chap lain: G. W. Evans, Harmony Grange; Stewart: B. T. Reese, Coobham Grange; Assistant Stewart: Ike V. Ballard, Co lumbia Grange; Secretary: T. A. Hamil ton, Thomson Grange; Treasurer: Homer Sturgis, Thomson Grange; Gate Keeper; Joseph Morris, Forrest Grange; Pomona: Mrs. Wm. A. Martin, Cobbham Grange; ■Ceres: Mrs. E. M. Fuller, Clayhill Grange; Flora: Miss C. J. Reese, Cobb ham Grange; Lady Assistant Stewart: Mrs. G. W. Evans, Harmony Grange. The day was mostly occupied complet ing organizations, with some other Grange matters. The charter for this (Pomona) Grange was applied for under the name of the Glen Mary Pomona Grange, in honor of Mrs. T. J. Smith, Ceres of Georgia State Grange, this be ing the name of her former hospitable home. The Grange adjourned to meet in Thomson, McDuffie county, on second Tuesday in November. By motion, Dt. Worril, of England, was requested to make his contemplated address on “Di rect Trade” in Thomson instead of in Augusta, Ga. H. GETTYSBURG. Wright’s Brigade at Gettysburg. Editors Telegraph and Messenger : The mention of a name often brings to mind incidents in one’s life and ca reer, which otherwise might slumber forever in oblivion. Thus Waterloo might soon be forgotten did we fail to member the part taken by the Old Guard; or Thermopylae, but for the de votion of the Three Hundred; and Ba laklava would sink into a skirmish but for the charge of the Light Brigade. Thus Ney, Leonidas, Raglan, are names coupled with incidents which carry you to actions rash, heroic, or of devotion, in which their names are prominent. The recent death of the brave Virginian, General George A. Pickett, recalls to mind a few unwritten events in the bat tle of Gettysburg which have never been made public as prominent in that bloody drama. Before the maimed heroes, who are rapidly passing away, are called forever into the Camp of the Great Chief, I propose to place upon the page of truth an incident in that series of dramas which, even at this late date, recalls a shudder to the few survi vors. The general outline of the Gettysburg expedition have been written by both sides, and is familiar enough to tlje general reader, abd'even if it We’re not, it is not my purpose to remark upon it further than that events proved it a huge mistake. On July 2d, 1863, the in fantry and artillery being all up, with the exception of Pickett’s division - -left at Cliambersburg twenty miles away— the Confederate army was placed in position for battle. At 3 o’clock, p.m., the alignment was complete: Long street, right; A. P. Hill, centre, and Ewell, left. Tbegeneral direction of the line was north and south, and occupying with the infantry the woods and fences which skirted the fields—across which <was posted the enemy—and along this front was posted, at irregular intervals, the artillery of the different corps. De spite the open front and natural advan tages possessed by the Federals in their position it was determined to assault it. At about 3J o’clook the skirmish line of Anderson’s division was reinforced by the Second Georgia battalion. During the forenoon heavy skirmishing and can nonading had been kept up between the opposing lines. The Federal position was well chosen— on the right and left the mountain spurs Sugarloaf and Roundtop, with their well-nigh inaccessible sides, while be tween a plateau covering the interval, was surther strengthened by continuous stone walls. Equidistant between the hostile lines ran the Emmetsburg pike, along which a double line of Federal sharpshooters were in position. The assault was begun by the advance of Hood and MoLaws upon the Federal left. Once, twice, thrice they rushed against the enemy, each time to be re pulsed, with terrible slaughter. Re tiring repulsed, but not subdued, the survivors smiled grimly as they remem bered this as the only “Yankee line they could not move.” With the repulse of Longstreet, another column, consisting of the brigades of Wilcox, Perry and Wright, with Posey and Mahone in re serve, was formed. Moving at the quick directly to the front, torn in front and flank by the con centrated fire of infantry and artillery, they advanced as if on parade. Arriving at the Emmettsburg pike, the brigades of Wilcox and Perry swung round at right angles terribly battered—the lat ter reduced to three hundred men—and practically defeating the object of the charge. Wright, disdaining retreat in the face of an enemy he had never met but to vanquish, continued straight to the front, captured the skirmish line, thirty to forty pieces of artillery, as saulted and broke the first line and shook the second. Here, had his efforts been supported as they shonld, the tragic events of the following day would never have been. Too weak to advance, too stnbborn to retreat, the unequal con test was continued. With ranks tom by the shell intended for the enemy, sub jected to a close fire from every point of the compass, night and Federal stupidi ty allowed the survivors to retire. Of eighteen hundred who the hour before marched seemingly to victory, fourteen hundred were left dead, wound ed or prisoners upon the field. In this assault was verified the assertion of Lannes at Marengo, where, he said, be could hear the bones crack like hail against the window panes. The attack upon nearly the same ground the follow ing day was futile. The Old Guard of the army had tried and been annihilated, and it was useless to have sacrificed more. This is one of the incidents in that series of bloody tragedies enacted around which has received but a passing notice in the chronicles of those transactions. But when the histo rian shall arise whose search for troth will carry him to the details ef the mili tary operations of the Confederate army in Pennsylvania, his pen will not rest upon a more interesting theme than the useless sacrifice and unsupported efforts of this brave handful! of devoted Georgians. Putt,. Josh Billings remarks: “The only way to get thro this world and escape censure and abnse is to take sum back road. Yon kant travel the main turn pike and do it.” And, being half-way consistent, Josh travels the unbeaten paths of orthography in a winding, cir cumlocutory coarse to the point of a joke. If Josh had ever been to school, however, he’d find his spelling tracks more beaten than he thinks they are. “The almighty problem is to make a living without working,” as the man said whetf he shouldered a stereopticou and started for the rural districts. In addi tion to his moral show and lecture, be circulated “crooked” five cent pieces. The Government feeds him now at the cost of his freedom. . “Why should Washington’s birthday be celebrated any more than mine ?” asked a bachelor schoolmaster of one of his class. A pause of several seconds’ duration succeeded the question. When it was again asked, a bright little fellow held np his hand and said : “I know; because you have no children, and he is the father of his country.” JUDGE E. H. poma. Illegal Voting—A"card in Explanation e oc a.m>, Crawfobdvillk, August 23, 1875. Editors Chronicle and Sentinel : • I have just seen in your Sunday paper an article from your Glascock corres pondent, in which, among other things, be alludes to the trial of Isaac Nunn, colored, for illegal voting, and says that several lawyers disagreed with me in my charge. If this writer had given my charge fairly and truly this note would not have been written. If the article was written by a lawyer, the omissions would be inexcusable; if written by a lawyer engaged in the case his letter is surprising. The proof was that he was about twenty years of age when he voted. His mother swore that she told him that he was of age. Mr. Nunn swere that he had owned him and had a record of his age; the boy had never left him. His mother swore that she knew that Nunn had a record of his age. It was in proof that all lived in the same neighborhood, and that defendant voted at a precinct near Mr. Nunn’s. - Counsel for the defendant, Messrs. Carswell and Whitehead, who I assigned to defend him, took the ground that, as he was honestly mistaken a'bout Ms age, he onght not to be convicted. I charged the jury “that when a voter offers his ballot he must know that he is a legal voter. If the defendant had exhausted all the means in his power to enable him to know his age, and then voted under an honest mistake, he onght not to be convicted. But if he had means at his command to enable him to know his age and did not resort to them, nor exhaust the means of information, and voted under twenty-one years, that he ought to be found guilty, even if his mother did inform him that he was of age.” Any other rules would open a wide door for frauds on the ballot. All of these people who are minors could vote—it being difficult to tell their age from appearance—when the mother should inform them that they were old enough to vote. While I am free to accord them the fullest right to the bal lot, and so told the jury, whether the suffrage law is wrong or right, yet it is the duty of a Judge to enforce the law against all unlawful voting, and to see that it is only a lawful ballot which the laws of the United States put in their hands. It seems to me now that the rule which I laid down was eminently fair for the defendant, and am pro foundly grieved that ‘ ‘ several lawyers” should not be able to agree with me. I must bear that with as much composure as I can. I am, yours truly, E. H. Pottle, THE COMING CANVASS. Yearnings for the Governorship—ln Defense of Gen. Gartrell—His Modes ty and His Strength—A Slap at Col quitt, Hardeman and James—Geor gia’s Next Governor. Editors Chronicle and Sentinel : I admire the lively audacity of your correspondent, “ Devil’s Hoof.” He evidently has a future before him crowd ed with infernal possibilities. I have read the letters of Geo. Alfred Town send, “Mac,” Don Piatt, and other jour nalistic lights, but they are the merest milksops by the side of Mr. “Devil’s Hoof.” D. H. (I don’t mean dead-head) carries a bigger “tote” than any quill driver of my acquaintance. Of course I am well aware that guess work is the main thing in journalistic correspond ence. Any man can jot down facts, but it takes your brilliant, exceptional, phenomenal writer to make those happy go-lucky, jumpety-jnmpety statements which carry instant conviction, and ut-, terly shame the tardy processes of in duction and deduction. I admit all this, and yield to Mr. “Devil’s Hoof” the humble meed of my bedazzled ad miration, but I must beg leave to make cent letter in?the nel. “There is no man that yearns more to be Governor than General Gartrell. He wants it, and wants it all over.” That’s what D. H. says, and I bow to the great discoverer. But let us inves tigate a little. During the last twelve months good citizens and good papers in various sections of the State have voluntarily suggested Gen. Gartrell as the proper man for our next Governor. These are significant straws, but they do not appear to have had any effect upon Gen. Gartrell. If he yearned to be Governor, he kept it to himself. If he “wanted it, and wanted it all over,” he certainly had a queer way of mani festing it. According to' all accounts and my own observation, the General remained at home working for the in terests of his clients, just as he has done ever since the war. He didn’t run about over the State making speeches. He didn’t attend every Sunday School cele bration in his vicinity. He didn’t pay a $1 apiece for 75 ceut dinners, a la James. He made no Commencement addresses. He wrote no letters to the papers. And he has never trotted about among the farm ers as a self-constituted Inspector and Adviser-General. Gen. Gartrell has done none of these things, but some time ago he wrote a letter to that sterling patriot, ex-Gov. Jenkins, tendering him his oor dial support if he should consent to be come a candidate for the Governorship. That was a strange thing for a man to do who yearned to be Governor and wanted it all over. I have talked with a good many peo ple in- my travels, and they all agree that Gen. Gartrell would make a first class Executive. And a majority of the Democratic voters of Northern and Mid dle Georgia, unless I am very much de ceived, have already made up their minds to support this able and distin guished statesman at the polls. To be brief, Gen. Gartrell has done everything since the war that has been commended in other Southern patriots, and he has not done one thing that an enemy could carp at as savoring of the demagogue and the office-hunter. Add this to his previous record and what mpre could be wanted ? I speak as one of the people, and I can consistently say that I want to see Gartrell our next Governor becanse he is emphatically a people’s man. He is in the hands of no clique. He belongs to no ring. There isjno codfish aristoctracy about him, and no man is freer from all snspicion of the usual corrupt practices of professional politicians. Morally, intellectually and politically he is the peer of any man in Georgia, and I am willing to venture the prediction that the people will elect him Governor by a rousing vote in 1876. Mr. “Devil’s Hoof” will, I trust, for give me for running counter to his views, and as he is evidently a “mvriad-mind ed” individual, I entertain the hope that we will soon be fighting under the same banner, fighting demagogues and gubernatorial yearners, wheresover they may be found. One of the People. SEEKING HOMES IN THE NEW WORLD. The Tide of Emigration During the Fiscal Year. Washington, August 20.—Monthly re port No. 12, of the Bureau of Statistics, now in press, contains the statistics of immigration into the United States dur ing the twelve months ended June 30, 1875. The following table shows the total number arrived in the fiscal year 1875, as compared with 1874: 1875, males, 139,880; females, 87,497; total 227,377; 1874, males, 189,225; females! 124,114; total, 313,339; decrease in 1875, males, 49,345; females, 36,617; total, 85,962. The countries or islands of last permanent residence or citizenship of the immigrants arrived in 1875 were as follows : From England, 40,098; from Ireland, 37,955; from Scotland, 7,309; from Wales, 449; from Isle of Man, 6; from Guernsey, 1; from Channel Islands, 8; from Germany, 47,760; from Austria, 6,882; from Hungary, 776; from Sweden, 5,573; from Norway, 6,093; from Den mark, 2,656; from Belgium, 608; from Switzerland, 1,894; from France, 8 315- from Italy, 3,570; Sicily, 61; Malta, 6; Greece, 25; Spain, 570; Portugal,’ 763; Gibraltar, 3; Heligoland, 1: Russia, 7,982; Poland, 984; Turkey, 27; Syria, 1; Armenia, 1; Persia, 3; India. 19; Ceylon, 1; Conchin, China, 1; Siberia, 2; China, 16,433; Asia, not specified, 26; Egypt, 8; Liberia, 17; Africa, 10; Quebec and On tario, 18,654; Finland, 15; Nova Scotia, 2,874; New Brunswick, 1,505; Prince Ed ward’s Island, 390; Newfoundland, 102; Vancouver’s Island, 524; Mexico, 610; Guatemala, 2; British Honduras, 4; Cen tral America, 9; United States of Colom bia, 30; Guiana, 19; Uruguay, 1- Chili, 10; Peru, 10; Venezula, 22; Brazil, 21; Argentine Republic, 7; Bolivia, 3; Ecua dor, 1; Japan, 3; South America not specified, 18; Cuba, 1,154; Hayti, 4; Bahamas, 450; other West India Isles, 14; St. Thomas, 2; Danish, West In dies, 1; Martinqne, 3; Nevis, 3; Trini dad, 4; West Indies not specified, 2; the ninini e u... v llf fc KillivAfjS Hlrri. „ __ - . ciety, Rockford, Illinois -• Dear Sib- I yesterday sent to you a telegram an nouncing my revocation of my condi tional acceptance of the invitation to (address your Association at their annu al meeting in September next. The long period which has elapsed since the receipt of your first letter, and the con siderate courtesy which has marked your correspondence make it my duty to the Board and to myself that a suffi cient explanaticn should be given of this change of purpose. Three objects partisan factious and nurtured by indi vidual and seotiohal hate. Anxious as in former years to promote the interests of our great valley Of the Mississippi, and believing that with mutual confidence and 00-intelligence much could be done for their advancement, I only delayed my acceptance of your invitation until it became reasonably probable that it could be met. The productive capacity of the Northwest needs for its develop ment cheaper and safer transportation to the markets of the Southwest, and also to those of foreign countries. In England, especially, earnest attention has been directed for several years past to a more direct and economical trade with the Mississippi Valley. In this connection there was a desire to confer with the Patrons of Husbandry in your rich and prosperous section, to discuss with them the questions involved in se curing better means of transporting your farm produce to the most favorable markets, and providing agencies which should insure larger returns to the farmer, and by such a conference to learn the views of one member of the family of the Mississippi Valley—a family the chief interest of all members of which is agriculture, but cultivators of such various crops as to make trade among themselves extensive and luoratjve, while it stamps upon each and all the same interests and the same policy as to their foreign trade. To render such conference effectual there must needs be a disposition to attend to the subject under consideration—surely not a pur pose to smother it by the interposition of matters having no just relation to it. Second, an effort was made to recognize the courtesy of your Board, and 1 was enoou raged to believe that your recep tion of me would be beneficial rather than injurious to your Association. This was the more supposable because several other Agricultural Societies of Illinois had in like man ner invited me to address their annual meetings. Yesterday I received printed paper entering a protest of a number of your fellow-countrymen against the action of your Board in their invitation to me to make the annual ad dress at the county meeting. There upon I sent you a telegram withdrawing my acceptance of 'the invitation under the conviction that it would not be use ful or agreeable for me to participate in the meeting, and I hope that neither your Association nor the Directors will suffer harm by the delay in procuring an ora tor or by the correspondence which has caused it. Third, the object was to gratify a wish long entertained, to see in its .cultivated dress the country known to me as a trackless wilderness, but that being merely a personal gratification it may be indulged at my convenience or postponed •InaeinTtely. I can well believe that the course which has changed my purpose was as unfore seen by you as by me, and you may be assured that I feel no dissatisfaction to wards the Directors or yourself, and have suffered no personal embarrass ment from the event. As the invitation was unexpected and only acceptable as an expression of general good will, so my only regret is the loss of an oppor tunity to promote the public interest with which the welfare of your commu nity is identified. Again expressing the hope that neither the Directors nor yourself may suffer injury or annoyance and thankiDg you for the kindness and consideration you have manifested, I am respectfully yours, Jefferson Davis. KU-KLUX IN ILLINOIS. Anarchy In Franklin and Wilson Counties—Bloody Work by a Sheriff Seven Shrouded Sharpshooters Shot. Chicago, 111., August 21, 1875. The deadly, far reaching vendetta in the South is not worse than that in Wil liamson county, in the southern part of this State; and when it is supplemented by the Ku-Klux outrages in Franklin and adjoining counties it may well bo asked if Illinois is indeed, as she claims, the fourth State of. the Union in ma terial and Christian civilization. In less than two years in Williamson county six people have been killed, four have been seriously injured, and three have been shot at without being hit. About twenty persons, among the num ber a newspaper editor, a State’s At torney and several prominent business men, have been compelled to flee for their lives out of the county, either owing to actual attacks or letters of warning received by them. Some of the victims have been shot because they were supposed to know too much, and others because they commented upon the outrages. All assassinations were conducted in a most cowardly manner, some of the victims having been shot from ambuscades along public reads and through windows ; others, having suddenly been called from their beds in darkness, were shot before they could defend themselves. The officers of the law are so afraid of the assassins that they dare not execute the laws or even call for assistance, and the people of two counties, Williamson and Jack son, are so intimidated that they dare not even denounce murderons outrages or form themselves into vigilance com mittees to suppress them. Fending the existence of this reign of terror, none of the villains have been hanged, impri soned or punished in any manner. For two years this infamy has been allowed to disgrace the * State withont protest, except from the newspaper press, and without any steps having been taken by the county or State authorities to stop it. The prominent families engaged jn this game of death are the Bulliners and Hendersons, and mixed with them through relationship and other causes are various other large families, notably •Cairns, Bussells and Sissons. The Bnlliners and Hendersons were both loyal refugees from Tennessee and were well to do. It would require pages of the Herald to narrate the bickerings, law suits, seductions and brawlß which have led to the present terrible condi tion of things in Jackson and William son counties. The Governor Inactive. Governor Beveridge is aa supine as was James Buchanan. He would not call out the militia, because the Courts were in operation. He would not do anything lest he might violate the Con stitution. The reign of terror in Wil liamson seemed to paralyze him, and he has done substantially nothing, thongh the troubles in Franklin county arc cause of fresh alarm. These new out rages are of the Ku-Klnx order. Mon day night last a bloody fight occurred in the vicinity of Benton, Franklin county, between the sheriff with a posse of abont twenty men and a band of Ku- Klnx, who for some time past have been committing their outrages on peaceable citizens of the counties of Franklin, Williamson and Jackson. Assistance of the sheriff was called for on Sunday by J. B. Maddox, one of the Commission ers of Franklin county, who had receiv ed notice from the Kn- Klux band that he had not performed certain orders that they had given him, and for this offense they would call and whip him. Bloody Work by the Sheriff, Maddox immediately made the threat known to the sheriff, who jMlected a posse, all well armed, and tlHmpamed Maddox to his house. The sheriff and Ms men secreted themselves and await ed the appearance of the marauders. Abont two o’clock at night fourteen of the Ku-Klnx, disguised in long white robes, wMte bats and wearing masks, appeared,armed with shot guns and pis tols. When they had come near the house the sheriff stepped out and com manded them to halt, the answer to the j command was a pistol shot by the leader of the band, which took uo effect. The sheriff then cried “halt,” whereupon the band fired a volley, wheeled their horses and attempted to make their escape. The sheritmnd his posse returned the fire, with good results. Several men were wounded and one mortally, but all ihg death; and revealed the names of or forty more of his compa, the quantity of bloody near the fight, it is supposed have been badly wounded. SpPtizens of Benton called a meeting, Mssed some strong and de termined •'olntious, and also sent a prominent Wtizen to place the matter be fore the GiS.-rnor of the State and ear nestly entiftt protection. The name of the man m Xtally wounded is given as Jacob Dißworth. The sheriff con tinued hiMpursnit, aud picked up another oIMCe wounded, who proved to be Green Cantrell, who, during the war, was War of the 110th Illinois, and respeotab >nneoted. The latest news is to the SBk that two men have been found shot in the fight; one had died been buried; others were woods, Badly wbund ed. In addition, John Moore, Mel ford Breley and a man unknown have been arrested. All of them were severe -57 wounded. Cantrell and Duckworth re still living, so that altogether Seven of the fourteen Ku-Klnx who were red npon by the sheriff and his posse have been found wounded or dead. How many more will turn up in a like condition is not known. This Ku- Klnx band was organized about two years ago, for the purpose of avenging what they considered public wrongs.— One of the first acts of tho band was the murder of Isaac Vancil, a respected farmer, who lived in Franklin county.— It may have been, as reported, that the old man Vancil intended to disinherit some of his relations, and it would be Veil to put him out of the way before he 4ould make a will. At any rate, one night, about two years ago, he was to find a baud of horsemen dbout his house. The horsemen wore white masks, streaked with red about the eyes and mouth, long white hats Coming to a point and had their horses covered with white oloths, with red and black tassels. • The old man Vancil came to the door, when he was seized aud carried off. Next morning his dead body was found over the border in Wil liamson county suspended to a tree by a sope. The Law to be Enforced. i No conviction has ever been obtained, filthough six men were arrested and tried. The whole country is now thoroughly aroused, militia companies are forming, the Governor supplying arms and ammunition. The United States laws against Ku-Klux will be in voked to convict parties arrested. From beginning to end these outrages aro a terrible stain upon the State. VRESS COMMENTS UPON THE ATTEMPTED RISING. “ For Political Effect.” [New York Herald, Ind.] The negro scare iu Georgia appears to have been gotten up for political effect. So far no conclusive proof of an inten tion to massacre has been found, and in all probability no such thing ever ex isted. Even the most ignorant of the blacks must feel that to bring on a war of races would be to insure their own destruction. If a few of the scoundrelly white men of both political factions who are engaged in fanning ill will between the races were hanged to the trees and left as a warning to their fellows it would be a great advantage to the South and to the nation. Let the law inquire into the facts of the reported conspiracy to massacre, and if any be found guilty let them be punished severely, -speci ally the .fellows At Jhe bottom.of the. trouble; but let us have no panic and no outcry for vengeance based on an imagi nary wrong. “An Electioneering Dodge.” [Philadelphia North American, Mad.] The Georgia negro scare is about the most ridiculous attempt at an election eering dodge we have seen for a long time. Instead of Washington and Jef ferson counties being near the South Carolina border, as the dispatches led the reader to infer, they are situated in the eastern middle of the State, iu the cotton region, in the latitude of MacoD, the whites numbering 11,787 in 1870 aud the blacks 16,255, so that as the blacks Were totally unarmed and the whites all armed and in possession of the State and local governments, the idea of an insurrection is a mere trick. Georgia has a very large majority of whites, and has lost her colored population of late years through an exodus caused by the reactionary despotism. The present ar rests are very likely to give anew impe tus to the exodus. “ A Causeless Outbreak.” i A'. Y. JoumaZ of Commerce, Pad.] The negro insurrection in Georgia re minds us of the old “Dead Rabbit” riot in New York. It represents no grievance and no pretended “principle” whatever. The negroes engaged in the rising are not striking a blow for Civil Rights or freedom from taxes. The Civil Rights Jaw has occasioned few difficulties in Georgia, and those the Courts have set tled in favor of* the negro. The Savan nah News, of the 17th instant, reports the latest decision in this line of cases, that of the United States Commissioner holding the Assistant Superintendent of the Savannah, Skidaway and Seaboard Railroad in bail of SI,OOO to answer the charge of refusing to allow a colored man who had bought a first-class ticket to ride in a first-class car. There is no State in the South where the freedmen have less reason to complain of unfair or illiberal treatment by the whites than in Georgia. The planters in the dis tricts now threatened with skulking bands of negroes have taken every care to keep on the best terms with the black race, paying for their labor with good wages, or sharing crgps with them. The outburst in Georgia is as causeless as it was unexpected. It is the off spring of credulity in the colored mass es, and of the love of bloodshed and ra pine among their idle and dissolute leaders. The carpet-bag politician does not appear in the melee— though that is no proof that he has nothing to do with it —as his instincts al ways lead him to avoid personal peril while he eggs on his dupes. The present year is not a good one for carpet-baggers in Georgia, and if they have not left the State, they are too prudent to make much noise there. This difficulty is probably of negro origin exclusively. The country will be relieved to know that it does not arise from deep-seated aversion between the races, and above all, that finds no ex cuse in alleged injustice or neglect on the part of the whites. If the contrary were the fact, we should begin to in quire whether the same causes which led to the disturbances in Middle Geor gia would not also precipitate conflicts in the other Southern States. The civil and military authorities seem to have acted with great promptitude and discretion, and have bagged the ring leaders without firing a shot. There is some danger that the excited whites may threaten lynch law against the men who have paused all this alarm. If so, we hope they will be arrested for dis turbing the peace and punished by the same Court that serves out justice to the ringleaders of the negro riot. Of the saving of Miss Lovejoy from a watery grave, the Indianapolis Herald says: “It was no feat at all—for Fish back. Miss Lovejoy was bathing and was taken in by the undertow, so that her upper toe pointed toward the zenith while her head was under the briny wave, taking in salt water at the rate of a gallon a minute. A boy went to the rescue, and Miss Lovejoy embraced the boy so fervently that both had a sure thing on going straightway to the locker of Mr. David Jones. ‘Look at the duff headed lubber !’ said Mr. Fishback, who happened to be driving by with a tan dem team of hippopotami. ‘Shiver my tarry toplights if he don’t drown the gal!’ Throwing the reins to an African, the gallant tar plunged into the roaring surf, and with a few powerful strokes swam out to the drowning couple, took the girl under one arm and the boy under the other, and swam ashore again. ‘O my preserver 1’ said the grateful young lady, as soon as she came around again. ‘Come, now, belay that!’ said the gruff old salt. ‘I did nothing more than my duty.’ But, to call that a feat! Mr. Fishback, sailor and whaler as be is, could as easily have swam ashore with an elephant. He has been known to tow an eighty barrel whale eight or ten miles in a chop sea, after his boat had been ‘stove.’ ” The only men who don’t get out of patients in warm weather—the doctors. NUMBER 35 THE STATE. THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS. Columbus wants a rifle team. Sturgeons abound in Columbus. Americns expects a big Fall trade. Seven deaths in Macon last week. Cotton oaterpillars near Columbus. Bill Arp plugged a flarkey, who had stolen his mule, full of shot a few days ago. Rome is boasting abont a tell stalk of sugar cane. That place is just too sweet to hve. Winn was the winner of the Savannah swimming match. Of oourse he was bound to win. Forsyth was the first plaoe in the State to propose a spelling bee and the last to have it. The recent rains have raised the Oos tananla river ten feet, and the Coosawat* tee fifteen, above low water. The Atlanta Herald has returned to the eight page arrangement. It is un dqubtedly a “stunning” paper. Savannah list pro tecting his daughter from a colored ruffian. The Howard Factory, in Columbus, was sold in 1852, by the Sheriff, to Mr. Jno. Banks for S3. The buyer assumed the liabilities, $40,000. Senator Howell says San Francisco is a bad place for lawyers. There were seventeen courts in session while he was there on a visit, and 226 notions were begun in five of them last month. Mrs. White, mother-in-law of Dr. R. C. Black, while riding in company with Mrs. L. Kimbrough near Lumpkin, was thrown from the buggy and so badly hurt that she died in a short time. A cutting scrape occurred at Ridge Valley last Saturday, Cato Foster cut ting Jim Fields in the left side and penetrating the lung; also in the right side of the head, fracturing the skull. Both are negroes. Under the head of “Engagements,” the Washington Daily Critic prints the following announcement: Ettinger Hibsh.— Miss Becky Et tinger, of New York (now residing with Mr. B. Solomon, hatter, Soventh street), and Mr. Solomon Hirsh, of Macon, Ga. No cards. A colored troop cut his wife’s throat at a church in Monroe county. Before absquatulating he said to the preacher, “Good bye, brother MeCauly, I am go ing off and may never meet you again on earth, but will join you in heaven. ” Evidently to him killing a wife is a small matter. About five hundred barrels of dried fruit have been shipped from Forsyth to the Northern markets during the pres ent season, putting about SIO,OOO into the pockets of the sellers. If the oloudy days will give way to the sunshine, as much more will be dried and sold, thus putting the large sum of $20,000 into circulation. A negro was killed near Kingston on Saturday night near Mr. Roper’s place. The negro and a son of Mr. Roper were walking along the road when a man on horseback rode up between the two and shot the negro. The man then took the white boy up behind him and carried him home. It is not known who the white man was. The Dawson Journal says: Raiu falls more or less daily. Tho cry now is, “Hold, enough!’ ’ Cotton has put on a new growth, and in some fields seems to be doing well, but generally the report is not favorable. Black and red rust has entirely ruined some crops, while others are throwing off the fruit as fast as it is put on. We are not in clined to report more than half a orop. The Rome Cominercial says : On last the colored folks’ church, in this city, in behalf of the insurrectionists in Wash ington and Jefferson counties. The prayer was to the effect that great sufler ing might not be visited upon them for the error of their ways. Mercy is a grand and beautiful attribute of Provi dence, but there are times, “oneofwliom this is which,” when mercy should give way to the stern demands of unwaver ing justice. The question of “Fence or No Fence” is likely to be agitated again in Newton county at no distant day. Some of the citizens are now very strongly in favor of having another election on the knotty question. So says the Covington En terprise. The same question will be an important one iu Early county before many years. A majority of the farmers in the county are now making crops un der the same thing as no fence, and when the time comes when tho whole county must be fenced anew, a no fence law will become more popular than now. In one of the eastern counties of the State is a neigborhood in which is a number of large plantations, and on those plantations is a large number of negroes, who haveformed themselves into a club, with an appropriate name. The membership consists of all over a cer tain age, male and female, and a colored person who refuses to join that club is not allowed to live in that neighbor hood. They have a number of by-laws, but the principal law is against stealing, and if one of their members is charged or accused of roguery, a meeting is called and a trial had. If the accused is found to be guilty, a committee of three is appointed to punish him or her, and the mode of punishment is to strip to the bare back and lay on thirty-five lashes with a cow-hide for a small theft, and more in proportion to the crime. The Griffin News and Messenger says: Almost every county in the State has trotted out a candidate for Governor, and now old Henry, the banner county of the State, walks to the front and an nounces the name of Col. Wm. June field, who is ninety and a half years old, and has been a fanner all his life and has never failed to buy all his corn and meat every year. His tobacco, whisky and clothing have all been bought with the proceeds of his blackberry crop. He has twenty-six children, two hun dred and sixty grandchildren, none of whom ever raised a bushel of com or wheat since the revolutionary war, but have been principally engaged in the gooseberry business; but they all agree if the old man is elected to give up their occupation and accept the appointment of judges and solicitors, or any other office the old man may see proper to give them. MINING ITEMS. Southern States Coal, Iron and Land Company Captal £IOO,OOO With Powers Secured to Increase to £500,- 000, if Necessary. [From the Mining Journal .J This company is formed to purchase aud develope certain large properties in Tennessee, U. 8. A. Several mineral properties in the States have been ex amined by the agents of the promoters, and the present site has been fixed upon as offering advantages not to be equaled. The estate is divided into three parts, viz : The “Battle Creek” or Furnace site; the “Cumberland Moun£ tain” or coal property and the “French Broad” or iron ore land. The first named is 520 acres in extent, and is situated on the lands of the Tennessee, close to where a bed of mountain lime stone, 200 feet thick, has been proved. The Cumberland property is 52,000 acres in extent. In this the coal would be mined entirely by drift ways, and thus no shafts would be required. The lowest seam of coal is 700 feet above the bottom of tire valley, and under it lies a a four-foot bed of fine clay. The iron ore lands comprise nearly 114,000 acres, containing deposits of brown hematite and specular iron ores, yielding from 42 to 60 per cent, of metalic iron. They are free from sulphur, low in phos phorous, and are sufficiently pure for the manufacture of steel. Manganese and bed ores are found on the estate and all the land is heavily timbered. Mr. Thomas Whitwell, of the firm of W. Whitwell & Cos., Thornoby Iron Works, Stockton, has personally examined the whole property, and speaks favorably of it. The entire is purchase money £51,- 000, ($250,000). Among the directors are Mr. William Barrett (of the Norton Iron Company); Mr. W. H. Hewlett, (of the Wigan Coal and Iron Company); and Mr. J. S. Byers, (Director of the Stock ton Iron Furnace Company). Calimet and Hecla Coffer Mines.— The annual meeting of this company was held yesterday and the following Board of Directors elected, 61,929 shares being represented: Alex: Agassiz, H. H. Humelwell, George Higginson, Henry 8. Russell, of Boston, and Jas. N. Wright, of Michigan. The company shows a nett surplus after paying their August dividend of $1,822,117 13. The stock is active at $156.
