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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;
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„ __ - .
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.
