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WEDNESDAY... OCTOBER 6, 1875.
“SCANDALOUS JOURNALISM."
We received a few days since a letter
from an occasional Washington corres
pondent of the Chronicle and Sentinel
in which an unjust and ungenerous at
tack was made upon the wife of the
President. Of course we did what any
respectable journalist ought to and
punged the entire paragraph from the
letter. It is scarcely necessary to say
to the readers of the Chronicle and
Sentinel that we are no admirer of the
politics and the civil record of the sol
dier-President. We have not hesitated
to condemn his Administration because
we believed that it waß dangerous to the
liberties of the people and because we
knew that its policy had been to crush
thn Southern States and to bring them
under the domination of ignorance and
corruption. But we have no war to
wage with women. They are above the
strife and clamor of politics end no man
should desire to drag them from their
high position. Mrs. Grant is in no way
responsible for the political sins of her
husband. From all accounts she is a
gentle, estimable and lovable woman,
who has won the deserved respect and
confidence of every one with whom she
has been brought in contact. We are
sorry that there is even one man who
desires to say aught against so good a
woman. We are very confident that
the people of the South regard with in
dignation such ungenerous attacks.
AN INSURANCE BOMBSHELL.
A convention of Insurance Commis
sioners and Superintendentsjwaa held in
New York last week. Weleam from the
New York papers that the harmony of
the body was unpleasantly disturbed by
Commissioner John A. Finch, of In
diana, who quietly dropped the biggest
kind of a bombshell plump into the
midst of the body. The order of the
day was the delivery of addresses.
When Mr. Finch’s turn came he
made a compact, logical argument, in
tended to show his colleagnes the erroi s
under which tho whole system of
Life Insurance has been laboring for
many years past. He contended that
the contract for life insurance is the
most one-sided known in business; that
it binds the policy holder as with a
chain of rivetted steel, and the company
as with a rope of sand; that the compa
nies have every advantage of the policy
holder in regard to payments of divi
dends, the satisfaction of claims, the
election of agents and solicitors; that
the rosposibility for contracts is shifted
from solicitor to general agents, from
general agents to the companies, and
from the companies back again; that the
companies "sit in a shadow of mystery
and speak in technical phrases,” and
that when a policy is forfeited or lapses
from any cause, “the holder receives
what the company graciously will give.”
This, remarks the Brooklyn Argun, is
a stern indiotment, striking at the root
of the present system of conducting the
life insurance business. By way of
remedy, Mr. Finch proposes the pass
age of anew general law, which shall
make all life polioies non-forfeitable af
ter the first payment, compel the com
panies to be responsible for tho acts of
accredited agents and solicitors; permit
no defense at law for fraud in applica
tions after the lapse of five years, and
make a contract between company and
holder as binding as any other contract.
This proposition is sufficiently sweep
ing to stir tho whole life insurance in
terest to its foundations. It will please
the great mass of people who are policy
holders —and it will displease a good
many of the companies who have figured
conspicuously in the law Courts in con
tests over claims. But, considering the
fact that there are in the State of New
York alone morejthan 800,000 holders of
life policies in tU> different jAdJt, and
the additional fact that this vast army
of the prudent are insured to the amount
of $2,000,000,000, the new departure
suggested by the Indiana Commissioner
becomes at once a subject of popular in
terest. The bold defense of the policy
holders will naturally make Mr. Finch
the leader in anew agitation. The
companies will bo heard from in due
time.
THE FALL TRADE.
The New York Herald publishes a
cheerful article on the prospects of the
Fall trade, which may make our readers
feel better after perusing :
The Fall dry goods trade has fairly
opened. Western and Southern mer
chants are making their purchases, and
elsewhere will be found a detailed ac
count of the condition and prospeots of
this important branch of trade, compiled
from the statements of leading business
houses to reporters of the Herald.
The inquiries thus made within a few (
days show an extremely satisfactory
condition of trade. The Fall business
doing by the wholesale dry goods mer
chants is unexpectedly large. Several
of the leading houses express their sur
prise at its extent, and say that trade
has not been so good for five years past.
But it is not only that there is a livelier
demand and that buyers are more nu
merous. The most gratifying feature of
this revival of business is that, accord
ing to the general testimony, the mer
chants from the interior who have come
here to lay in their stocks are very care
ful and prudent purchasers. They have
made their payments for Spring pur
chases with unusual promptness. The
losses by bad debts are trilling and
much less than for equal periods during
some years past. There is evidence that
stocks of goods in the country are low,
and buyers are taking advantage of low
prioes to lay in new supplies. The busi
ness appears in all its features to be in a
healthy condition, and the more prudent
and conservative houses begin to be
lieve that there is a real and active re
vival of trade, which means, of course,
a desire in the people to buy, united
with an ability to pay for goods.
Lower prices have no doubt their
share in this revival of trade, but it
seems to be a special feature of the
Fall business that the country mer
chants are selecting their stock with
unusual care. The desire for economy
evidently continues in the country, and
Instead of buying wildly, as in some
years, and taking the risk of being able
to sell and to make their settlements at
the proper time, they now buy
cautiously, expect to pay promptly and
ask for but moderate credits. All this
is very satisfactory. It argues precisely
such a return toward prosperity as will
put us on a sound basis.
We are evidently past the period of
inflated prices, the country has settled
down to a lower range; products and
incomes have begun to square with each
other; and it is a curious sign of the
course of our business and production
under lower prices that our export of
cotton manufactures to China has con
siderably more than doubled during the
past year. It amounted in 1574 to
$218,986, and for the present year to
$552,444, according to an official report
which we priut elsewhere. Of course
even the larger sum is but a trifle, for
China imports yearly not ices than forty
five million dollars' worth pf cotton
goods, almost entirely from Great
Britain. But it is satisfactory to see
even a slight evidence that some of our
products are once more finding markets
abroad in increasing quantities. The
retail dry goods trade seems also to be
uncommonly active just now, and it has
the same characteristic featnres of the
wholesale trade—caution in buyers:
ah payments; careful selection by
purchasers.
Miss Louisa Alcott, it issa>d, has
made $60,000 from her books. The first
contribution to the press for which she
received money was a story contributed
to the Boston* Saturday Eveniihy Ga
zette, some twenty years ago, when she
was quite a young lady.
THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF
tiSORGTA.
We publish in another column of the
Chronicle and Sestinel this morning
an exceedingly able letter from Hon.
John W. Wofford, of Cartersville, in
reply to Mr. Charles Nordhoff, con
cerning the financial and commercial
condition of Georgia. Mr. Nordhoff
having compared Georgia with Missis
sippi, very much to the disadvantage
of Georgia, Mr. Wofford presents
an array of facts and figures
which shows how little the "Commis
sioner” knew of what he was writing.
This article was shown to Mr. Nord
hoff, and in the last issue of the Her
ald he essays a reply not only to Mt.
Wofford, but to the criticisms upon his
letter which appeared in the Chronicle
and Sentinel and other Georgia journ
als. Mr. Nordhoff complains
I was greatly puzzled to accountfor such mis
representation of my report to you on Georgia,
until I noticed that several Georgia joaruals
discuss, not my letters as they appeared in the
Ueralii,, but the comments upon them made
in gome Northern journals; and I am taken to
task for these comments. We are, here in the
North, just now in the middle of an election
excitement, and I prefer to be judged by my
own words, and not by partisan versions of
my report.
If Mr. Nordhoff had read his own
letter carefully, perhaps he would not
have been so “greatly puzzled to ac
count” for the comments of Northern or
Southern journals. In his letter he
said :
“In fact, Georgia’s liabilities are double
those of almost any other Southern State, and
more than ten times those of Arkansas. The
liabilities of Georgia amount to nearly one
third of the liabilities of the twelve States.
The liabilities of Georgia and South Carolina
together amount to nearly half the entire
South.”
He says that this sentence alluded not
to the financial condition of the State,
bnt to the estimated commercial liabili
ties of its people. Even then there is
no more truth in his report than
thero is in the statement that two mil
lion nine hundred thousand dollars (the
estimated commercial liabilities of
Georgia) are “ten times” greater than
five hundred and twenty-three thousand
dollars (the estimated commercial lia
bilities of Arkansas).
Mr. Nordhoff seems to think that it
has been papers antagonistic to the
South which have misconstrued his let
ters. In this he is mistaken. The Phil
adelphia Times, ostensibly an independ
ent bnt really a Democratic paper and
one which has made it a point to deal
fairly and truthfully with Southern
affairs, pat the following interpretation
upon his exceedingly loose statements:
By an unhappy law, framed for slave holding
times, the incentive to great exertion had been
taken away from her land owners, in the
means which it afforded them of borrowing
money on their unplanted crops, and instead
of steadily regaining their former prosperity
they found it easier to lfve in a state of con
tinuous semi-bankruptcy. It has happened,
through such causes as these, that the condi
tion of Georgia is the worst financially of all
the Southern States, with the single exception
of South Carolina. Her liabilities are, in fact,
equal to those of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Louisiana, North Carolina and Tenuessoe
taken collectively, and more than ten times
those of Arkansa.
Any one reading this paragraph would
at once conclude that the debt of Geor
gia was larger than the collective debt
of Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Flori
da, North Carolina and Tennessee, and
ten times larger than the debt of Ar
kansas; when the truth is the State of
Georgia owes less than any State on the
list with the single exception of Florida.
Georgia owes less than half a3 much
(according to population), as any oth
er Southern State, and of the truth
of this statement Mr. Nordhoff conld
very easily have assured himself.
In giving the commercial liabilities
(according to Dunn’s Register) of Geor
gia as compared with those of other
Southern States Mr. Nordhoff was
guilty of the grossest injustice in not
giving the readjrs the Herald sodU
idea ot the in wealth, popula
tion and trade between Georgia and
other States. It is as untruthful and un
just to assert that Georgia is less pros
perous than Arkansas because tho fail
ures in Arkansas for six months amount
ed to half a million while in Georgia
they were nearly three millions as it is
to say that New York is less prosperous
than Georgia because the failures in
New York amounted to nearly sixty mil
lions while in this State they were only
three millions. Mr. Nordhoff might
also remember that the financial liabili
ties of a people are not what they fail for
but what they owe. The next time the
Herald “Commissioner” comes South it
is to be hoped that he will be more care
ful in his investigations and more exact
in his statements.
A correspondent writing of a re
cently published pamphlet—“ The Bour
bon Conspiracy”—of which he sup
poses Capt. J. E. Bryant to be the
author, thinks that the people of Savan
nah should not “allow Capt. Bryant to
live in their city.” We dissent from
any such opinion, as we are very certain
will the people of Savannah. In the
first place there is no positive proof
that Capt. Bryant is the author of the
pamphlet which has so greatly aroused
the indignation of our correspondent.
In the second place, admitting that our
correspondent’s conjectnre is correct the
people of Savannah have neither the
desire nor the right to say that Capt.
Bryant shall “not be allowed to live in
their city.” So long as Capt. Bryant
or any other citizen does nothing and
writes nothing which violates the law of
the land, he has a perfect right to do
what he pleases and to reside where he
pleases, and the Democratic citizens of
Georgia will see that he is protected in
this right. “The Bourbon Conspiracy”
is a very foolish pamphlet written by a
“Georgia Republican” to show that
Toombs and Davis and Hill and
Stephens and the Southern Historical
Society are plotting to overthrow the
Government. Of course no sensible
man North or South—Democrat or
Republican—believes such stuff. It
will not do ns any harm nor our enemies
any good. Bnt if Capt. Bryant chooses
to compose or the Republican Com
mittee to print snch fictions, in
Heaven’s name let them write and pub
lish away.
We appreciate so highly tbe kind
words of a valued subscriber in Screven
county that we cannot refrain from pub
lishing his letter :
Hal.yondalr, Oa., September 29, 1575.
Endowed please find 42 for your weekly.
The drouth has been fearful in this section
and all crops are short. Do press upon the
people the importance of sowing a heavy grain
crop. I have been planting sixty years and
have known few years since ISIS which have
presented gloomier prospects than the
present. Send me last issue of the Chkoxiclr
and Sentinel. It is. beyond doubt, the most
reliable and carefully edited weekly in the
South, and for the energy and sustained abili
ty with which it has been conducted since the
war the Southern people and particularly the
people of Georgia should be proud and grate
ful. For myself. I would rather forego my
pipe and “peach and honey” than give up my
old familiar friend, the Chronicle and Senti
nel.
The Richmond Whig and some few
other Southern papers strongly favor
the election of Hon. Samuel J. Ran
dall as Speaker of the new House of
Representatives. Mr. Randall is a
veteran member, an able parliamentary
tactician, the stannch friend of the
South and was the chosen leader of the
Democrats in the last Congress. It is
probable, however, that the Speaker
ship will be yielded to the West, and in
that event we hope to see the election
of Hon. M. C. Ki of Indiana. If the
East is to have the prize we have no
doubt that Mr. Randall would be en
i tirely acceptable to the South, if he will
agree not to manipulate the committees
in the interest of Protection and against
Free Trade.
' Salvini made $25,000 in gold during
the last London season, from April Ist
to July 15th. His fortune to-dav is set
down at $150,000, made principally in
playing Othello.
COLUMBIA COUNTY.
Editorial Correspondence Chronicle
and Sentinel.
Appling, Columbia County, (
September 30,1875. j
Superior Court.
The Fall term of the Superior Court
of Columbia county, which commenced
Monday, was concluded to-day. Judge
Gibson in his charge to the grand jury,
of which Mr. Wx. B. Lahkin was fore
man, called special attention to an act
passed by the Legislature providing for
a full and just return of taxable proper
ty. This is an important act. The tax
able property in the State was returned
last year at something over $270,000,000,
the State tax on which for the present
year was placed at one-half of one per
cent. This certainly is not onerous on
the people of Georgia. The object of the
law passed by the present Legislature is
to compel property owners to return their
property at its market value. If this
could be done in every county in the
State, the tax rate for goverment pur
poses could be reduced by the Legisla
ture to three-tenths of one per cent.
There were no cases of special inter
est on the common law docket and but
two on the equity docket, which were
continued. One of these was the case
of Jackson Maddox vs. Geo. A. Hill—
a bill in equity for an account and set
tlement and sale of land. Chas. H.
Shockley, Esq., General Toombs and
Messrs. W. M. A M. P. Reese repre
sented the plaintiff and Thos. H. Gib
son, Esq., the defendant. The other
was the case of Tudor Bros. vs. John
H. James, Administrator, which involves
the validity of the will of Thos. Tudor,
under the act of 1818, in regard to the
emancipation of certain slaves. H. W.
Hilliard and W. D. Tutt, Esqs., for
plaintiffs, and C. H. Shockley, Esq.,
and W. M. & M. P. Reese, for defend
ant. This canse has been on the docket
for several years and is likely to become
as famous in this section of Georgia as
Dickens’ celebrated chancery cause of
Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
The criminal docket embraced two
cases of murder and an array of lesser
offenses. Hal Garbat was sent to the
penitentiary for life for the murder of
his wife. Garrat is a mulatto, ap
parently not more than twenty years
old. He was married about three
weeks when the crime was committed.
The deed was done in the afternoon about
three o’clock. There was no one who
witnessed the shooting. Garbat’s
father and mother lived on the same
premises, and heard the report of the
pistol. When Garbat’s mother heard
the shot, she went to her son’s house
and found him with his dying wife in
his arms. Garrat asserted his inno
cence, and stated that his wife either
shot herself intentionally or accidentally.
While the evidence was entirely circum
stantial, it was so conclusive as to the
guilt of the prisoner as to leave no
doubt on the minds of the jurors who,
after an absence of five minutes, re
turned a verdiot of guilty with a recom
mendation to mercy. The defendant
was ably represented by Messrs. Tutt
and Shockley, and the State by Daven
port Jackson, Esq., who is an efficient
and faithful officer.
The case of the State against Noah
Kent for the murder of Michael Calla
han was continued by defendants’ coun
sel, L. D. Duval, Esq., until the next
term of the Court, on account of the
absence of a material witness. Michael
Callahan was found dead in the woods,
beaten to death with a wagou standard.
He was a weakly old man traveling
through Columbia on his way to Lin
coln. He had with him a few dollars
and some little articles in a satchel or
carpet-sack, which he was selling as he
went along. His age and his poverty
ought to have protected him from cu
pidity and malice, but his little worldly
possessions excited the avarice of some
fiend in human shape, who beat him to
death that he might possesp himself of
them. Kent was arrested on suspicion
and a true bill found against him. The
evidence is entirely circumstantial, but
the feeling against him'in the county is
very strong. It is stated that Kent was
seen in company with the deceased,
whom he was guiding through the coun
try, and that after the killing the mur
dered man’s carpot-sack was found in
his possession.
Too young white men—W. J. Ashley
and John Lewis— were found guilty of
shooting at another not in their own de
fense. A negro was arrested for stealing
a gun and while under arrest attempted
to and did escape. The grand jury
found a true bill and the jury returned
a verdict of guilty with a recommenda
tion to mercy. The defendants coun
sel, Messrs. Tutt and Shocklet, moved
for anew trial on the ground that the
grand jury which found the bill was com
posed of only seventeen members. The
motion will be heard at the March
term. In the meantime the parties
give bail—one for SSOO and the other
for $250. Tho Court held in this case
that shooting at parties who attempt to
escape while under arrest for minor of
fenses was in violation of the law and
that when life was taken the perpetra
tors were guilty of murder. The cus
tom of shooting at prisoners under ar
rest for alleged offenses was becoming
too common and must be put down by
the strong arm of the law. When a
prisoner who has committed a crime
attempts to escape, the officers of the
law must first exhaust every effort
to secure his apprehension before shoot
ing him down. To kill a man arrested
for and charged with some petty of
fense, who attempts to escape, before
he is found guilty, is murder. We do
not know that we have stated Judge
Gibson’s position exactly, bnt we do be
lieve that the views expressed are hu
mane and proper.
Allen Paschal, colored, plead guilty
to stealing a mule and was sent to the
penitentiary for ten years. Henry
Ay ary and Jacob Williams, both col
ored, plead guilty to hog stealing, and
received three years in the penitentiary.
There was one case of sheep stealing, for
which the offender is to work on the
chain chang for twelve months.
His Honor Judge Gibson was facetious
in sentencing the sheep stealer. The
people had enough to do to keep dogs
from killing their sheep without men
turning in to help them to act the dog.
Four white boys were sentenced to
the chain gang for six months for steal
ing watermelons. There are thousands
of good men who have stolen melons
wheu they were boys, and the reflection
that comes with the maturity of years
has not caused them any pang of con
science for i this indiscretion of their
youthful days. The boys in question
took the melons from the patch to eat
and not to sell; bnt it is alleged that in
the act they behaved maliciously in
destroying the vines, and hence they are
sent to the chain gang. Their punish
ment is out of all proportion to the
offense committed.
In the case of the State against C. M.
Lritnbk, charged with the murder of a
man named Beall, at Berzelia, the
grand jury returned no bill.
The bar was represented by Messrs,
D. C. Moore, C. H. Shockley and T. J.
Smith, of Appling; Judge Reese, Glen.
Dußose and M. P. Rkrsr, Esq., of
Washington; Messrs. W. D. Tutt, P. C.
Hudson and H. C. Roney, of Thomson;
Hon. Henry W. Hilliard, of Atlanta;
Col. J. E. Stbmthkr, of Lincoln; Judge
McLaws, General Oakmax, S. F. Webb,
T. H. Gibson, F. T. Lockhart, L. D.
Duval, Davenport Jackson, Esqs.,
and Major Geo. T. Barnes, of Augusta.
The officials of the county I found to
be oourteous and efficient in the dis
charge of their duty. D. C. Moore,
Ordinary; Geo. W. Gray, Clerk of Court
and County Treasurer; J. P. Ballard,
Deputy Clerk; James M. Tankersly,
Sheriff; Jambs Kelley, Deputy Sheriff;
Oliver Hardy, Tax Collector.
The Court House and jail are in good
order, the former being one of the most
commodious and best appointed in the
interior of Georgia, and the latter one
of the most substantial. In the Court
House, immediately over the Judge’s
seat, there is a memorial tribute to tbe
dead of Columbia county, who gave np
their precious lives in the late war for
Southern independence. This is a marble
tablet containing the names of the dead
of the county. The idea of this ap
propriate and lAting tribute originated,
we understand, with Dr. H. R. Casey,
one of Columbia’s intelligent and pub
lic-spirited citizens. If adopted in every
county in the State the names of Geor
gia’s dead would be preserved in an en
during form.
Direct Trade.
Dr. Wobrall’s speech at Thomson
on Monday on the subject of direct
trade was the cause of a meeting at the
Court House Wednesday. Josiah Sto
vall, Esq., was called ttf the Chair, and
J. A. Walton, Esq., appointed Secre
tary. Dr. Casey addressed the plant
ers, and urged the importance of sub
scribing to stock in the Mississippi
Valley Direct Trade Company which, in
connection with an English company
having already a capital of $25,000,000,
would secure direct trade to the South.
The English company will subscribe
two dollars for every one subscribed in
the South. The shares have been placed
at five dollars each, and every subscri
ber has thirteen months in which to pay
for his stock by installments. The idea
is to hold onr own money here, and man
age it ourselves. When the stock is all
subscribed and paid in a large warehouse
would be built in Savannah, where the cot
ton and other goods would be stored. This
would be under the control of managers
elected by the stockholders in this
State. Ships would come into Savan
nah, every week, direct from Liverpool,
laden with English goods, imported
especially for onr people. Those vessels
would carry onr cotton to England. The
English Company wonld bind them
selves to purchase all the cotton pro
duced in Georgia for ten years or longer,
and agree to pay from fifteen to twenty
cents per pound for it. The goods im
ported for our consumption will be sold
by the English Company at 25 per cent,
below present prices. There was no
danger in subscribing to the stock of
this company, as the money would be
placed in bank in Augusta subject to
the control of a board selected for that
purpose.
Hon. Henry W. Hilliard was called
on by Dr. Casey to address the meeting.
Mr. Hilliard was favorably impressed
with the plan submitted by Dr. Wor
rall. He considered the movement a
great practical step in favor of the
rights of the South, which raises all the
cotton, rice, sugar and tobacco of the
country. The great canse of the pecu
niary embarrassments of the Southern
people is that wo lay out too ranch
money in getting our products to mar
ket and then get too little for them. In
stead of sending our products to North
ern ports we should send them to our
own, and thus save much money by the
aid of this direct trade movement when
once fully inaugurated. He considered
Dr. Wobball’s plan practical. The
people of England have found eoonomv
in co-operation, and the planters of the
South cannot fail to profit by it. Direct
trade will be a great benefit to our peo
ple. While in Congress Mr. Hilliard
differed with his party on a vital ques
tion. He favored a revenue for the
legitimate expenses of government, but
strenuously opposed a protective tariff
as detrimental,to the best interests of
the South. He believed in the doctrine
of free trade, and was opposed to pro
tection for Eastern monopolies. Direct
trade to the Southern Iports from Nor
folk to Galveston would be a great
blessing to the South, and co-operation
on the part of our people will secure it.
Colonel M. C. Fulton was next intro
duced. He felt great interest in the
movement, and was always willing to
put his hand to the ball and move it on.
The idea of direct trade is not new. We
have talked of it for fifty yeayj in . con--
ventions and out of conventions, and yet
it is not secured to the South, but the
present movement is bound to succeed
if the people will come up and sup
port it. Dr. Worrall’s plan is the
right one. In less than a month
Dr. Wobball could have a ship at
Savannah direct from Liverpool. The
English Company were ready to place
ships on the line whenever the stock
was subscribed. Direct trade and co
operation among the agricultural com
munity are all that are required to make
us independent. Our co-operative
warehouse in Augusta sells one-fiftli of
the cotton sent to that market and this
is a great saving to the producer. We
have been paying tribute to the middle
men too long. By co-operation the
people can save the forty or fifty mil
lions paid in the way of tribute to the
merchants of New York. Co-operation
on the part of the Grangers will in
crease the price of cotton and reduce
the price of the goods and wares we
need for consumption. When the stock
is all taken and the amount paid in, the
English Company will agree to buy all
our cotton at fifteen cents a pound for
ten or fifteen years, and to bring us
goods from England and sell them from
twenty-five to thirty-three per cent, less
than present prices. We can buy
everything that we need cheaper. In
response to Dr. Worrall’s speech at
Thomson, nearly every man present sub
scribed. There could be no possible
risk and every planter in Columbia
county should subscribe liberally. The
co-operation plan has worked well in
England and it would work well for the
Grangers. After the speaking the lists
were opened for subscription and about
forty of those present subscribed. Dr.
Casey and Col. Fulton have abundant
faith in the success of this movement.
Condition of the People.
The people of Columbia have been
unfortunate this year. Their labors
have not been blessed with an abundant
yield. Their cotton and corn crops are
short, the former nearly one-half
and latter fully one-quarter. There
are not many planters in the county
that have made enough corn to last
them through the year. When a pound
of cotton will not bny a pound of
bacon the pecuniary condition of the
farmer cannot be otherwise than poor.
And yet this is the unfortunate condi- 1
tion of cotton planters in Georgia to
day. It is to be hoped that the sad
lesson taught by this year’s experience
will bear good fruit. In a few years the
planting community can become inde
pendent. When onr people raise their
own wheat and corn and meat they will
cease to pay tribute. There is not a
farmer in Columbia county that cannot
raise his own supplies for household
and plantation purposes. This can be
done. While at the residence of Hon.
S. C. Lahkin, who is a substantial
planter, we had this fact fully demon
strated. When the farmers of Georgia
make the provision crop the first con
sideration and the cotton crop the
second they will be on the road to pros
perity. Bj strict economy the planters
of Columbia will be able to get along
for another year, bnt they will have no
money to spare.
This county presents advantages to
industrious immigrants willing to work
for a living. Good land can be pur
chased at from five to ten dollars an
acre. Strangers would receive a cordial
welcome. The people are peaceful
and law abiding, and there is not now
a county in the State where there are
fewer infractions of the peace than in
Columbia. During four days at the
county site there was not a single case
of drunkenness.
The Cyclone.
While on the way to Waverley Hall, in
company with Dr. Casey and Gen. Du
Bose, I witnessed some of the terrible
effects of the cyclone. Tbe residence of
Dr. B. B. Bailey, a short distance north
of Appling was razed to the ground and
nothing bat the debris remain where
it stood. There are other wrecks in the
vicinity of Appling. The old brick
academy is in ruins. Everything in the
I track of the storm was swept away like
chaff before the irind. In this connec
tion a singular incident is related: When
the residence of George W. Gray, Esq.f
Clerk of the Superior, was swept away,
he lost everything. His books and
papers wese seized and carried away by
the storm cloud. Some time after, a
copy of a writ was sent him from South
Carolina. It was found in Lexington,
S. C., and had traveled nearly sixty
miles in an air line. The writ is now in
the possession of Mr. Gray, and the
statement here made is vouched for by
him.
Tbe Dead of Columbia.
In my letter I referred to
the marble tablet in the Court House,
containing the names of the dead of
Columbia county in the late war. The
following is the list, preceded by the
simple bnt touching words :
OUR DEAD.
THOMSON GUARDS.
Cipt. W. G. Green, R. A. L. Hatrick.
John Q. Adams, N. S. Hubbard,
A. Armstrong, R. T. Johnson,
Wilson Baker, J. R. Langford,
Wm. Blanchard, E. T. Langford,
J. T. Blackston, Samnel Lokey,
J. W. Blackston, M. Megahee,
J. T. Binion, J. Megahee,
j.W. Bonner, R. L. Megahee,
Wm. Bonner, A. D. Megahee,
James Boyd, J. M. Miles,
J. Y. Carroll, • C. O. Morriss,
Isaac Cliett, S. H. Morriss,
J. 8. Caldwell, F. P. Moore,
B. Fitzgerald, John Pond,
Wm. B. Garrett. ' J. J. Beese,
Thomas Gay, A. J. Beese,
Henry Gay, i W. M. Sills,
B. F. Gay, f A. C. Sims,
J. Green, ‘ B. F. Smith,
W. A. Stanford, J. A. Wall,
J. H. Sturgis, ; W. Ward.
J. M. Sutherland G. W. Wilson,
J. Shaw, i T. A. Wynn,
J. U. Underwood W. M. Watson.
RAMSEY VOLUNTEERS.
Capt. Robert Bcjyd, F. Morriss,
Lieut N. E. Bemon, C. Palmer,
Lient. G. R. Slagnulor.B. F. Prather,
J. F. Adams, , A. C. Prather,
R. Adams, J. W. Porter.
G. AhdersoffLif, J. M. Reynolds,
G. W. Afrtugtqi, H. Rooks,
N. C. Benton, J A. L. Simms,
J. M Benson, L. T Stanton,
T. B. Bock, • J. Whitten,
G. Cobb, jl O. C. Welch,
F. M. Dorsey, | J. W. Wheeler,
T. T. Hobbs, j R. B. Wheeler,
J. W. Jones, j O. Walker,
S. E. Jones, I J. D. Walker,
H. M. Johnson, A. Welch,
W. B. Langstoa, D. Yarborough,
E. C. Magrudeq G. L. Yonng,
O. Magruder, ; H. Moose.
J OOLETHORPES.
C. Baylis, John Gay,
J. Henry CasevJ S. Guy,
Carroll, A C. Knox,
H. E. Flanigan,! O. Rooks,
J. Garret, j J. Welch.
HAMILTON RANGERS.
Lieut. J. D. Yojmg, L. B. Morrisß,
Lieut. D. Burnside, John Morriss,
Lieut. D. T. WJson, A. W. Parham,
G. W. Barber, i- J. W. Shields,
T. C. Bennett, J. Smith,
J. P. Burnside, S. Standford,
R. Knox, A. S, Wilkerson,
John G. Luka William Wheeler.
H. C. Massingale.
JENNINOS’ RANGERS.
S. Holiman, I Wm. Scott,
A. Johnston, { John Scott,
T. C. Lamkini G. Smith.
OSAWFORD RANGERS.
A. J. Bugg, , Wade Newman,
John Bm. myj Elisha Newman,
B. BUtchingitqK Thomas Newman,
Blitchra®i, Thomas Perrin,
Amos Corlej V Henry Ward,
Richard Cliit, . j Jesse Ward,
Hilman Cliat,/* Day Winson.
HBfennis Inglett.
1 MCDUFFIE RIFLES •
James Joneil .
HBMup artillery.
J. J. Bond.
walkLiPlight infantry.
W. J. Chamberlain.
* Morgan's command.
B. O. Hatcher, 1 W. H. PulUn.
7 STATE troops.
J. Eubanks, f* W. B. Shockley,
P. Sutherland Wm. Tillery.
8. Tillery, Jh Tyler Whitefield,
pV. G. Weathers.
OF COMPANIES UNKNOWN.
Wm. Blanchard, B. Blackstone,
A. Blackstoi e, Leo Blackstone,
O. H. Johnion, J. Tully,
R. B. Tankepsly, Tankersly,
George Whitefield.
Religious.
. I have been informed that there has
been a revival going on at Appling and
that many persons have professed re
ligion. MnLf. T. Lockhart held a
prayer mee&g while here and organ
ized a Your* Men.’s Christian Associa
tion with of seventeen.
Mr. J. Pi-MfcLTAMS was elected Presi
dent, MrJ®tRY Smith, Vice-President,
ab|LßMMNMtalfi&? s > Secretary and
Treasurer. V
Kelley’s Hotel.
Next to*tfie Court House, Mr. James
Kelley’s Hotel is the most important
building at Appling. It is not as im
posing as some hotels in the big cities,
bnt the bill of fare will compare favor
ably with that of any hotel in Augusta.
Since the cyclone Mr. Kelley has joined
the reform movement and is now pointed
to with pride as a pattern for the young
men of the county. W.
The Philadelphia Times says the en
gineer follows the soldier in Asia, and
both carry out portions of the plans of
the Czar. The one conquers, the other
attaches the land appropriated to the
grand empire by works of a trade and
commercial character. At the present
time several improvements of important
bearing have either been commenced or
are under contemplation. Khiva is to
be easy reach of the
Caspian canal, and a railroad
is to be made across the desert which
separates the sea of Aral from that of
the Caspian. The Oxus and Jaxartes
rivers are also to be rendered navigable
by vessels to the furthermost possible
points, and thus Russia will be able to
transport troops from the shores of the
Caspian sea to the heart of Central Asia
in a short time. These movements, of
an expensive and permanent character,
are the best proofs that can be offered
of the earnestness of the efforts now
making by Russia to annex the whole of
Central Asia to that already vast empire.
The New York Herald says official
tables show that we have to-day in cir
culation, in round numbers, $769,000,-
000 of paper money, while we had in
1873 but $740,000,000, in 1872 only
$731,000,000, in 1871 but $711,000,000,
in 1870 only $683,000,000, and so on. In
1868, the year before General Grant’s
accession, the currency Amounted to
$678,000,000. Since that time, instead
of being contracted, as the Democrats
pretend, it has been steadily expanded
to its present volume of $769,000,000,
with but two years in which there has
been a trivial contraction —in 1869 of
$2,000,000, and in 1874 of $8,000,000.
We have received the first number of
the Athens Daily Georgian, anew
daily started in Athens by Dr. H. H.
Carlton, proprietor of the weekly
Georgian. The paper is very hand
somely gotten up, contains the Asso
ciated Press dispatches, and in all its
departments, editorial, local, news, tele
graphic and commercial, gives evidence
of brains and careful management. We
predict, as we certainly hope, for the
Georgian a success commensurate with
its merits.
“Why is it that Col. Herbert Fielder
hasn’t been nominated for Governor
yet ? We haven’t received a printed
letter on that subject for twelvemonths.
There is an omission some where.”
Thus the Rome Courier. We will
merely venture to remind our Rome
brother that a playful paragraph of a
similar nature to the above got a Georgia
editor iata business not many months
ago. The trained journalist will do well
to drop the subject.
The “Habitual Criminal Act was
passed by the Legislature of New York
in 1873, by which persons, after their
second conviction, were placed on a
suspected list, to be kept constantly
under the eyes and control of the police.
In this way it was supposed crime would
be lessened and life and property made
more secure. A similar act had worked
well in England, but iu New York it is a
failure. The police do not enforce its
clauses, and thieves and desperadoes of
all kinds, who have been convicted four
and five times, walk the streets with no
more supervision from the police than
honest men. The police know these
men and they know the police, and that
is all of it, so far as the law is concern
ed. ____
There is a very general impression
that Democratic stock in Ohio has gone
up steadily since the Maine election.
—[iVeto York Tribune.
GEORGIA AND MIBBIBBIPPI.
A Reply to Mr. Charles Nordhoff.
Cartersville, Ga., Sept. 13, 1875.
lo the Editor of the Herald :
Your correspondent, Mr. Nordhoff, in
a late letter upon affairs in Georgia, in
stituted a comparison between Georgia
and Mississippi, by which he demon
strates to his own satisfaction that Mis
sissippi, notwithstanding negro rule, is
in a more prosperous condition than
Georgia, the latter being controlled by
tlie white Democrats since 1870. While
I intend to show by the facts that Mr.
Nordhoff is in error, it will be useful to
keep in mind that it has been five years
only that the people of Georgia who are
interested in the welfare of the Com
monwealth have had the reins oi govern
ment.
Mississippi is a younger State than
Georgia, and its soil is naturally richer.
The Mississippi bottoms are not sur
passed for fertility by the lands of any
State in the TJnion. It takes more labor
and higher culture to produce as good
results from Georgia soil as Mississippi
soil produces. About one-fourth of the
entire area of Georgia is made useless
for agricultural purposes by mountains
and hills in the northeastern part of the
State, and by swamps in the southern
part. There is a considerable portion
of Mississippi too low for cultivation,
but there is no part of it too high.—
About the same number of acres in each
State is used for the growth of grain
crops, while there is more land given to
cotton in Georgia than in Mississippi.—
And it may be useful here to state that
the total area of Georgia is 57,000
square miles and that of Mississippi 47,-
000 square miles. The population of
Georgia is 1,184,109; that of Mississippi
827,922.
The grain and hay crop of Georgia for
1869 brought over $32,000,000 and that
of Mississippi $28,300,000. The value
of all property in Georgia in 1866 was
$222,000,000, which by the returns of
1874 is shown to have increased to $273,-
000,000. This makes an increase in six
years in Georgia values of $51,000,000.
The returns show that Mississippi for
the same period has not increased in the
value of her property $20,000,000.
Mississippi, which has honestly earned
the cognomen of the “Cow State,” in
1860 slaughtered and sold for slaughter
animals of the value of a little over
$7,000,000, while Georgia for the same
purpose produced $11,000,000 worth. In
1870 Mississippi slaughtered only $4,-
000,000 worth, while Georgia had $7,-
000,000 worth to use iu that way. In
this matter Georgia has sustained her
superiority in a very striking manner.
The annual products of Georgia is $lO, -
000,000 worth more than that of Missis
sippi. Georgia every year pays more
than $20,000,000 for help, while Missis
sippi gets on with the payment of $lO,-
000,000. There aretmly three States in
the Union which pay more in this way
than Georgia—to wit: New York, Penn
sylvania and Illinois—while there are
nine which pay more than Mississippi.
Georgia, on $273,000,000 of property,
pays, in State, county, city and town
tax, $2,600,000, being about one per
cent. Mississippi, on $177,000,000 of
property, pays $3,700,000 of taxtoState,
county, city and town. And while it is
true that the people of Mississippi pay
three times as much tax as the people of
Georgia, the public debt of the latter
State is considerably larger than that of
the former. The average value per acre
of all the land in Mississippi is only
$2 51, and that of Georgia $3 33. The
depreciation of the value of land in Mis
sissippi from 1860 to 1870 was $39,000,-
000, while the depreciation in Georgia
for the same time was $35,000,000 only.
This takes no account of the apprecia
tion of Georgia property, which has
been going on for the last half dozen
years. In 1860 Mississippi produced
1,202,507 bales of cotton, and Georgia
the same year 701,840. In 1870 Missis
sippi produced 564,938 bales, and
Georgia 474,934. In those ten years
Mississippi fell off in the prod action of
cotton 637,569 bales, while Georgia,
deprived of the blessing of a negro
government, kept within 227,806 bales
of the old crop. There are o ver 4,000
manufacturing establishments in Geor
gia, against 1,700 in other State.
There are in Georgia water wheels and
steam engines propelling machinery re
quiring 40,000 horse-power, while all the
power now needed in Mississippi, both
water and steam, is 12,000 horse-power.
Georgia produces annually $35,000,000
worth of manufactured goods, and Mis
sissippi $8,000,000. Georgia has $15,-
000,000 invested in manufacturing and
Mississippi $4,000,000. In 1860 Geor
gia produced about $16,000,000 worth of
manufactured goods and Mississippi
$6,000,000. In the last ten years Mis
sissippi has increased her production of
manufactured goods $2,000,00Q only,
while Georgia has added $20,000,000 to
hers.
I doubt if any part of any State was as
much devasted during the civil war as
that part of Georgia between Atlanta
and the Tennessee line; but the people
are gradually improving their condi
tion, and will, ere long, be prosperous.
That is the best part of the best cotton
State. And while Ido not say the fore
going is a good showing for Georgia, I
do say it proves that a State, ridden
and robbed by negroes and scalwags, is
not more prosperous than a State con
trolled by white Democrats. For the
truth of history exacts the statement
that wo have had a few journeymen
thieves intoeorgia who would not feel
oomplimented to have it said that South
Carolina or Mississippi could produce
their superiors. They have left their
foot prints upon the old red sand stone
of Georgia, and there it will stay, and
when our prosperity or the want of it is
talked of this should be remembered.
The day will come when Georgia, in
place of employing 20,000 hands, as she
now does, will give work to 100,000; in
place of turning out $35,000,000 worth
of manufactured goods she will put on
the maSrket annually $150,000,000 worth.
If wise*statesmanship, coupled with in
dustry and frugality by her people, pre
vail,in twenty-five years Georgia will be
without a rival for the leadership of her
Southern sisters; in fifty years she will
rank with the first States of the Union.
God grant all the apeople of all the
States the observance of Georgia’s mot
to, “Wisdom, justice and moderation.”
Respectfully, John W. Wofford.
THE WAR IN TURKEY.
Desultory Fighting—The Course Ser
via and Montenegro are Expected
to Take—“ The Spirit of the Ori
ental Question.”
London, October 2.—The Dally News
correspondent says : Three battalions
of Turks have been defeated; sixty be
headed. Servia has summoned all her
subjects abroad to return within three
weeks and join the Landwehrs.
The Times' special telegram from
Ragusa contains the following details :
The insurgents attacked Klek, but were
taken between two bodies of troops.
Their amunition failing, they were
obliged to retreat. They left three dead,
but brought off their wounded, number
ing seventeen.
The Standard's special telegram from
Vienna says : The leaders of the insur
rection are convinced that Servia and
Montenegro will join in the war against
Turkey by Spring.
Burdin, October|2. The Belgrade
Istolc (newspaper), which is supposed to
be a semi-official organ, advises the in
surgents that if the Consuls insist upon
farther interviews to receive them in
camp and give them" twenty-five lashes
each. They will then be able to enter
into the Jspirit of the Oriental question.
While writhing under the lash they will
experience the sensation of the Christian
rayah under the Turkish yoke.
DEATH OF AMERICAN GIRL.
The Famous Trotter Dies Suddenly
on the Race Track—A Funeral Dirge
Played Over Her-A SI,OOO Monu
ment Proposed.
Elmira, N. Y., October 2.—The fa
mous trotting mare, American Girl, fell
dead this p. m. in the first heat in the
free for all race on the Elmira driving
park. She appeared at the start to be in
the very best condition. The horses
were scored a nnmber of times before
they got the word. American Girl at the
first tnrn was nicely ahead. At this point
her driver noticed that she seemed to be
giving out and let her loose. She kept
staggering for an eighth of a mile and
at the quarter pole fell dead instantly
without a struggle. She fell very easily,
with her shoulder against the fence.
The incident excited a great deal of sym
pathy, as the mare was a great favorite
here and had been the chief attraction
for the races to-day. The band played
a funeral dirge as soon as her death was
made known. She was owned by Wm.
Lovell, of New York, and valued at
$25,000, which sum had been offered for
her last week. She was 13 years old.
The Elmira Driving Park Association
propose, should her body be left here,
to erect a thousand dollar monument to
her memory. There .was no insurance
on her. Ben Mace offered $20,000 for
her this morning.
THE CENTENNIAL.
Buildings to be Erected,
Philadelphia, October 2. —The State
of Ohio has commenced the erection of
its building in the Centennial grounds.
Similar buildings will be put up by Mas
sachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Illinois,
Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas
and Missouri. The English Commis
sion has applied for an extension of 1
apace in the Park for the erection of a )
third building. J
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Radical Demoralization—The District
Ring—Grant Disaffected —The Kill
ing of Crews—An Assault on Cham
berlain—The Backbone of Booth—
A Miscegenating Congressman—A
Kinsman Out of Office—J. E. Bryant.
{Special Correspondence of the Chronicle and
SentinelA
Washington, September 29, 1875.
The demoral'Zition incident to Demo
cratic . accesses in various portions of
the country is plainly apparent here. It
is no unusual thihg to meet with em
ployees of the Government who glibly
prophecy the downfall of Grantism next
year. The head of one of the depart
ments assured me yesterday that he ex
pected to vote the Democratic ticket
next year, feeling assured that Radical
ism had fulfilled its mission, which was
the abolition of slavery. Poor dupe, he
thus hopes to be retained when the host
of hirelings are commanded to “depart
hence.” Boss Sheppard, it is said,
trembles for his safety. Another inves
tigation will certainly be had this Win
ter upon the affairs of the District, and
if the Boss does not finally wind up in
the penitentiary, I am mistaken muchly.
His wooden pavements are literally a
stench in the nostrils of the Washing
ton tax payers and are fast being remov
ed and concrete being placed in their
stead. The high and low, rioh and poor,
alike denounce Grant and Sheppard for
the shameful manner in which they plun
dered them to eurich the ring. $30,000,-
000 of the people’s money have thus
been squandered and all there is to show
for it are rotten pavements, dangerous
to ride over, and Sheppard’s fine houses
and the President’s fast horses.
Grant’s Game.
Grant himself, report says, is fast be
coming disaffected toward the Republi
-1 can party. Should Washburne receive
1 the nomination for the Presidency, he
; will in all probability support him, for
Washburne made Grant all he is. The
nomination of any other man means the
opposition of Grant, as he would rather
see a Democrat succeed him than not,
for he will then exclaim: “I told you
1 so. I might easily have been elected,
but you were too cowardly to nominate
me.” Frederick Grant and Senator
Sherman’s son have formed a copartner
ship. Their shingle reads thus: “Sher-
Grant, Bankers.” Their office is
within a stone’s throw of the Treasury.
What an insult to the American people.
Office holders vie with each other in
making deposits in their bank, and at
present all goes as merrily as marriage
bells.
The Killing of Joe Crews
Has created much comment here in offi
, cial circles. I heard a leading Demo
. cratic statesman say yesteiday that he
was in possession of indubitable evi
dence to show that South Carolina Radi
cals were at the head of the job, gotten
up to rid themselves of Crews, whom
, they could not control, and to create
strife between the races, the food
upon which “ Radicalism ” feeds and
flourishes. It is well known that both
. the Governoj and Cardozo were bitter
■ personal enemies of Crews, and it will
ere long leak out that his murderers
were negroes, and not whites, who were
prompted to perform the hellish deed
■ by those whose positions should rather
, have made them preservers of the Un
■ fortunate man. A certain letter address
ed to a well known Washington politi
cian by Governor Chamberlain, of the
date of July Bth, ultimo, will fur
nish entertaining reading. Such con
duct on the part of the Republicans
goes to show the rottenness and corrup
tion prevailing iu the Radical party.
Butdliamberlain’s antics as a reformer
have never misled any intelligent per
son here. It is well known that he was
especia'ly deputed by the Washington
ring to so reform the then existing abuses
in South Carolina as to effectually divert
the national eye from that State, and
thus pave the way to a third term. The
original corruptionist of the State, the
man who first bribed the negro legisla
tors with brass watches, the author of
the Blue Ridge swindle, the land com
mission fraud, the agricultural land
scrip bill—in faot all the measures which
made Scott’s administration a failure—
was a pretty specimen to put forward as
a “reformer.” He is now playing the
virtuous role, but should he be re-elect
ed he will bring forward schemes of
plunder now held in abeyance, and your
, poor people be victimized as never be
fore. A visit to Ford’s old theatre, now
the “National Medical Museum,” was of
some interest to me. Amongst other
sights I viewed
The Backbone of J. Wilkes Booth,
Preserved in alcohol. My guide took
; me to the glass case containing the relic
and remarked with great pride : “ This,
sir, is the proof that we killed Booth,
for hero is his spine, without which he
could not have survived.” How revolt
ing it is to feel that we live under a Gov
ernment which thus triumphs in “sav
age glee” over its enemies. It is greatly
1 to be regretted that Lincoln met with
so untimely an end, as none but he so
thoroughly understood how to control
the Radical host, and had he lived the
national issues would long since have
been settled upon a firm and endura
ble basis. The status of
A Certain South Carolina Member
! To Congress is creating much comment
■ here amongst Democrats. While there
is, and will be, no aversion shown to
seating a Radical Congressman who
presents the necessary credentials, yet
i the idea of seating a miscegenationist is
1 too much for decoiit men to stomach.
! The story runs thus : The Congressman
in question became enamored of an oc
* toroon girl a few years ago, and sent her
to this city, where she was partially
educated. Upon her return to South
Carolina they were married. She will
in all probability accompany .her hus
band here this Winter. The woman in
question was a slave and belonged to
the descendants of General Sumter, of
revolutionary fame. Any citizen of the
High Hills of Santee, S. C., can corobo
rate this statement, as it is literally
true. Should any one gainsay this I
will furnish the name of the Congress
man in my next. If a persistent effort
be made this man will certainly be de
nied a seat in the next Congress, as
there were irregularities in his election.
I trust that your South Carolina neigh
bors are more prosperous than when I
last heard from them, and that they
have been ridden of such nuisances as
Cain, McDevett and other Radical mon
sters.
A Kinsman Out of Office.
The resignation of Delano, the Chief
of the Interior Department, is now the
absorbing topic of conversation here.
His successor will likely be Dennison.
The President and his entire Cabinet
are away, indeed not one of them has
been here for weeks save Fish. Just
how the Government is being run it is
difficult to tell. One of the President’s
family has at length been found who is
out of office. His name is Shelton
Dent, a resident of tho eastern shore of
Maryland. He served the lost cause
faithfully, and has persistently declined
to serve under Grant in any capacity.
He is third cousin to Mrs. Grant. He
comes to Washington occasionally, qpd
though often invited, has never yet
put his foot into the White House.
J, E. Bryant,
The notorious and not unknown to the
good people of your city, has covered
himself with infamy by the publication
in this city—designed for circnlation in
the North—of a slanderous pamphlet
upon the designs of that beneficient and
laudable enterprise, “the Southern
Historical Society.” His attack upon
General McLaws, in the pamphlet which
I have sent you, has greatly displeased
the President, who thinks well of the
General. If your people will interest
themselves by sending the President a
petition to that effect, they can have
Bryant kicked out of the Custom House
in Savannah. I know he is the author
of the pamphlet in question, because a
leading Radical official informed me so
this morning. Sheppard’s friends are
pressing his claims for Delano’s place,
but, as I hope, with little chance of suc
cess. The weather here is charming.
Congressmen are coming in very slowly.
Bull Ron.
IN MEMORY OF GEORGE W. MIT
CHELL.
“Friend after friend departs
Who has not lost a friend ?
There is no union here of hearts
But here must have an end.”
The above named gentleman died at
his residence in Crawfordviile on the
29th ultimo in the 56th year of his age.
He was the friend and associate of the
author of this tribute from boyhood and
therefore he can speak advisedly of his
virtues. He was emphatically the soul
of honor, steadfast friend, affectionate
father and the faithful husband. In all
the relations of life he discharged well
its dnties a3 a citizen, and in dying left
many of the assurances of the quiet and
unobtrusive Christian. From boyhood
he had been an exemplary member of
the Baptist Church at, Bethesda and
Bethe l and we trust his spirit has fonnd
now the church celestial.
But a few months his lovely and ac
complished wife preceded him to the
to nb, and we sincely hope they are en
joying a happy reunion in Heaven.
“Stars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore 1
And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown
They shine forevermore.”
D. A. N.
Union Point, October 1, 1875.
The chairman of the Ohio Democratic 1
Committee wants the Pennsylvania I
inflation Democrats to believe that Al- i
len will be elected by 50,000 majority. 11
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Great Britain—Lord Napier—Election
to Parliament—Complaining Sub
jects.
Bombay, October 2.—lt js said that
Lord Napier has resigned his position
as Commander of the Indian forces.
London, October 2.—? T. Thornhill,
Jr., Conservative, is elected member of
Parliament from West Suffolk, to fill a
vacancy. The Globe says British sub
jects of Guatemala will bring under the
notice of the foreign office the maltreat
ment they have suffered from Guatemala
officials.
A Court Martial in the Vanguard Case.
The Army and Savy Gazette say a the
Court of Admiralty has ordered a court
martial to try the captain of Her Majes
ty’s steamship Iron Dnke, on account
of the collision with the Vanguard. It
says it is further rumored that the Ad
miralty Court has decided not to court
martial Admiral Tarleton, notwithstand
ing the opinion of the recent court mar
tial that, the primary cause of the Van
guard disaster was the high rate of
speed maintained by the vessels of the
squadron by order of Admiral Tarleton.
The Gazette says this is an extraordi
nary decision.
Canada—The Catholic Processions—
Arranging for Guibord’s Funeral.
Toronto, October 2.— The public
meeting last night iu regard to the reli
gious processions Sunday was very
largely attended. A number of promi
nent Orangemen present delivered con
ciliatory speeches. Mayor Medoalf, in
the Chair, said it was his duty to see
the law carried out against friends and
foes without distinction. If Roman
Catholic processious were distasteful to
he Protestants of Toronto, they should
seek an alteration of the law. At pres
ent he assured them the Catholics had
a perfect right to walk in procession.
Montreal, Ootober 2.—The members
of L’lnstitute Canadian held a meeting
and decided to hold Guibord’s funeral
Friday or Saturday of next week. Pre
liminary arrangements were made to
day and all the details will be fully car
ried out. Requisition is to be made on
the military for assistance. A secret
preparation will bd deposited in the
grave and render it dangerous for med
dlers to disturb tho body. The Super
intendent of the Institute yesterday
visited the Protestant Cemetery Vault,
and, opening Guibord’s coffin, found the
outline of the body still distinctly trace
able. This is the first time the coffin
has been opened since being closed.
Spain—Alfonso Makes a Little Speech.
Madrid, Oootber 2. — Alfonso, at the
opening of the Madrid University, said:
“I recognize the faot that the circum
stances are difficult. Education and
enlightenment cau alone regenerate
Spain and restore peace. It is painful
to me to see civil war still continue, not
withstanding my efforts.”
Court Martialed and Shot.
Havana, October 2. — Tho Spaniards
have court martialed and shot Manuel
De Zayas and Caledonia A. Costa at
Puerto Principe.
Barcelona, October 2.— Seven col
umns of Alfonsist troops are pursuing
the Carlists under Sabells and Gamurdi,
in the province of Girona.
The Emperor’s Visit.
Berlin, October 2. —The North Ger
man Gazette says the Emperor of Ger
many, on his approaching visit to Italy,
is not to go to Rome. He will meet
Victor Emanuel in upper Italy.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
California Affairs.
San Francisco, October 2. The
creditors of Chas. Clayton & Cos. accept
fifty cents on the dollar. The Stock
Board opens Tuesday. The Farmers’
and Merchants’ Bank of Los Anglos
opened yesterday. It is said that the
defalcation in the navy pay department
is over a million.
Opening of the Bank of California—
Refpicing of the People—Waving of
Flags, Firing of Guns, Showering
Gold—Deposits Ahead of Payments.
An immense crowd has gathered at the
bank. Every preparation has been
made. The President said the bank is
prepared to pay all claims not other
wise provided for. Ten o’clock.—The
streets and sidewalks are jammed. The
doors were opened amid the cheers of
the crowd. Flags are at mastheads in
the strand. A salute is firing at the
wharf. Half-past ten—Gold is flowing
both ways. It is believed that deposits
will equal, if not exceed, payments.
Treasury Report:
Washington, September 2. — During
the week ending to-day, the Treasurer
of the United States has received
$749,000 in fractional currencjc. from the
printing division. The amount shipped
during the same period was $3,021,-
142 45. The amount of securities held
by the Treasurer in Trust for National
banks is $371,489,262 to secure circula
tion, and $18,782,200 to secure deposits
of public moneys. The amount of Na
tional Bank currency outstanding to
day is $346,994,193, of which $2,639,500
is in gold bank notes. The receipts
from internal revenue to-day were $347,-
477,180; for the fiscal year to date, $29,-
289,087,80. From Customs to-day they
were $38,267,071; and for the fiscal year
to date, $44,625,714 35.
AUGUSTA JOCKEY CLUB.
Pursuant to call a meeting of the Au
gusta Jockey Club was held at the Au
gusta Club rooms yesterday, at twelve
o’clock.
Ou motion, the reading of the minut s
was dispensed with.
Captain Lewis Jones, Secretary of the
Club, said that the last race meeting of
the Club took place at a bad time- -in
February—when the weather was in
clement. He had come to the conclu
sion that the Fall was far the best season
to have the regular annual meeting and
suggested the last week in November
as the proper time. He had mapped out
a programme lor the meeting and read
it, as follows :
Augusta Jockey Club Races—Fall
Meeting, November 24th, 25th, 16th
and 27th, 1875,
First day, Wednesday, November 24th
—First race, colt stake for two year
olds, one mile, $25. Entrance P. P.
To name and close on the Ist of Novem
ber, 1875. If two or more starts the
Club to add S2OO. Second horse to re
ceive SSO from stakes.
Second race, mile heats, for all ages.
Purse, S2O0 —$150 to first and SSO to sec
ond horse.
Second day, November 25th—H|irst
race, stake for three year olds, mile
heats, $25. Entrance P. P. To name
and close Ist November, 1875. If two
or more start the Club to add s2so—
horse to receive SSO from stakes.
Second Race—Dash of two miles, for
all ages. Purse, S2O0 —$150 to first and
SSO to second horse.
Third day, November 26th—First
race, dash of one and a half miles, for
all ages. Purse, slso—sloo to first and
SSO to second horse.
Second Race—Mile heats, best three
in five, for all ages. Purse, $250 —$200
to first and SSO to second horse.
Fourth day, November 27th—First
race, hurdle race, wetter weights, dash
of two miles over eight hurdles, 3J feet
high. Purse, $250 —$200 to first and
SSO to second ho-se.
Second Race —Consolation race for
horses that have not won money daring
the meeting, mile heats. Purse, $l5O
SIOO to first and SSO to secord horse.
Horses beaten once allowed 7 !bs.
weignt; twice, 10 tbs.; three times,
12 lbs.
In all purse races 5 per cent, entrance
will bo required. Entries to be made
with the Secretary at 5 o’clock, p. m.,
on day before the race.
Captain Jones said that in view of the
stringency of the times he had made the
purses as light as he consistently could.
The whole amonnt was only sixteen hun
dred dollars. Last year the purses were
over two thousand dollars. It was for
the Club to say how much it could raise.
He was willing to contribute the whole
of the gate money towards the purses
rather than have the races fall through.
If the Club could raise one thousand
dol’ars that with the gate money would
be erongh.
It was moved that the dates mention
ed in the programme be fixed upon as
the time for the next annual race meet
ing, and that the programme itself be
adopted.
It was moved as an amendment that
two raees, one three-quarter mile dash
and the other a half mile dash, be ad
ded to the programme. The amendment
was put and carried, aud the programme
thus amended was then adopted.
In reply to a question, Captain Jones
stated that he had been assured there
wonld be a number of celebrated horses
here to participate in the races.
On motion, it 'Was resolved to have
the annual meetings of the Olub on the
last Wednesday in November in each
and every year.
On motion, the Club adjourned.
It is positively known that several of
the most noted turfmen, with their sta
bles, will be in Augusta at the date of
the contemplated race meeting and re
main here during the Winter. It is ru
mored that Goldsmith Maid will inter
in Augusta, but this is not a certainty.
Mr. L. W. Volk, of Chicago, sculptor,
has anew statue of Stephen A. Douglas
nearly finished, which is said to be dif
ferent from those previously executed
by him, all of the copies of which, with
a single exception, were destroyed by
fire.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Columbia is crying aloud for light.
Mr. T. L. Calhoun has left Abbeville.
The Abbeville Rifles will purchase 50
Springfield Rifles.
Judge A. J. Shaw will move from
Marion to Sumter.
The Lexington Dispatoh is now a
healthy five-year-old.
Capt. Wm. Choice has become assist
ant editor of the Spartanburg Herald.
The Abbeville Press and Banner is
making a fierce war on well pumps and
guano.
Died, in Lexington county, Septem
ber 12, Adam Amick, and John Adam
Sheoly.
Died, in Marion, recently, Mrs. Kata
Smith; also a little son of Stephen
Wright.
Greenwood has twelve childless mar
ried couples, fifteen widows and five
widowers.
Mr. Jacob Geiger, perhaps the oldest
citizen of Columbia, died there the 26tli
of September.
Mr. R. Knox Clark, a planter of
Marion county, has sold out and speaks
of going to Virginia.
Thieves recently stole the trunk and
wearing apparel of Mr. Reamer, tele
graph operator at Marion.
The Abbeville Press and Banner re
monstrates against a growing tendenoy
of the press towards Brownlowism, ■
The Governor has pardoned Pinkney
Morris, alias Pinkney Phillips, couvicted
of grand larceny in Newberry. ;The par
don was very numerously and strongly
recommended.
“ Our people will find the Augusta
Chronicle and Sentinel a first class
paper.” Sueh wise sayings ns that but
confirm our previously-formed opinions
concerning the good taste and judgment
of the Abbeville Press and Banner.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The annual salary of Abdul Asiz, Sul
tan of Turkey, is" $10,000,000 in gold.
Grand Vizier Mahmoud is content with
$150,000 gold. '
The Cincinnati Gazette reports that
leading New York Democrats intimate
their willingness to subscribe money for
the Republican campaign expenses in
Ohio.
Stanley, the African explorer and cor
respondent, after a long and mysterious
absence, has been beard from in a cou
ple of letters from him just received in
London.
It is stated at Washington that August
Belmont and other New York Democrats
are responsible for sending ex-Senator
Schurz to campaign against tho Demo
crats in Ohio.
Rev. De Witt Talmage says he knew
a man named Platt who was afflicted
with lameness, and was cured by Dr.
Cullis, of Boston, by prayer and the
imposition of hands.
Kossuth is living in comfort at Barra
conne, a village between Turin and
Rivoli, absorbed in the cultivation of
fruit, flowers and vegetables, and keep
ing an eye on his collection of insects
and minerals.
Ex-Congressman Wilson, of lowa, told
the editor of the Philadelphia Press on
Saturday that he was confident the Re
publicans would carry lowa by 30,000
majority at the coming election. He
has just passed through Ohio, and is
perfectly confident of tho election of
Gen. Hayes.
The Chicago Times explains Mr. Jno.
Hay’s leaving the New York Tribune. It
says: His departure is said to be the re
sult of several Little Breeches in the
good feeling existing between him and
the management, which raised his Blud
soe that he decided to go.
The approaching marriage of Rt. Rev.
Bishop Hare, of Niobrara, and Miss
Kitty Wolfe, is announced. The bride
elect is credited with being the richest
woman in America, her annual income
being estimated at over $1,000,000. The
lady is the grand daughter of the cele
brated Peter Lorillard.
The Minnesota Democrats claim to
have a hard money platform, but their
candidate for Governor says the attempt
to bring about specie resumption at
present “would be disastrous to the
business of the country, and bankrupt
very many of the most enterprising and
active business men in it. ”
The Constitutional Convention of
North Carolina proposes by amendment
that no member of the Legislature shall
receive over four dollars a day, and as if
to show the sincerity of its economy,
votes itself a per diem of only three dol
lars. Tha,t shows how consistency, by
taking a little pains, can be made to
consist.
Abo Milwaukee Sentinel says that tho
action of thri State Prohibition Conven
tion has met with no encouragement,
and that the leading temperance men
earnestly deprecate it, preferring that
the friends of temperance should choose,
like other citizens, between the two par
ties, one or the other of which is sure to
carry the estate.
Old .Tubal Early is a first rate judge
of human nature, if we may judge from
the following from the Petersburg In
dex and Appeal: “General Early used
to say to us young fellows, after the
North Carloina election of August, 1872,
that he could tell where Carl Schurz
had spoken during the campaign by the
decreased Democratic vote.”
Simon Cameron’s son Don is in Pitts
burg. His mission is to black-mail the
national banks one-half of one per cent,
on their capital. All the banks in the
State are being levied on. One-half is to
go to Ohio to beat Bill Allen, and the
other half is to be used against Persh
ing. Cameron expects to raise at least
$25,000 in Pittsburg. Some of the banks
refuse to pay, while others are respond
ing.
The Texas Constitutional Convention
proposes two amendments to the United
States Constitution—one forbidding Con
gress to pass any bill, except appropria
tion bills, embracing more than one gen
eral subject matter, to bo expressed in
its title; and the other permitting the
President to approve rfome items of an
appropriation bill and veto others if it
seem best to him.
Gen. W. F. Bartlett, President of the
Western Iron Works of Richmond, Va.,
who is a citizen of Massachusetts, and
who has recently been nominated by the
Democrats of that State for Lieutenant-
Governor, will neither accept nor de
cline the honor for the present. Ha
asked that his name should not be pnt
upon the ticket; that was his earnest
and sincere wish. But in a certain not
remote contingency he may feel it hia
duty to serve his party.
Charles Dickens is dead, but the Ger
man prisoner, Charles Longheimer,
whom he saw in the Eastern Penitentia
ry at Philadelphia, thirty years ago, ard
over whose punishment by solitary con
finement he lamented—describing him
in “American Notes” as “a picture of
forlorn affliction and distress of mind”—
still lives at the age of seventy-five, and
has jnst been sent back to his old quar
ters for the sixth time for his chronic
offense of petty theft, which has kept
him in jail full half of his long life.
The time is ripe for a reorganization
of political parties if there are men bold
enough to attempt and sagacious enough
to accomplish it. Both of onr existing
parties have outlived the issues on
which they were founded. Both are
full of internal dissensions* The Re
publican party is in as great danger of
being cleft asunder by the third term
question as the Democratic party is by
the inflation issue. It is high time for
a reorganization which will enable citi
zens who think alike to act together.
It will be fortunate for the country if
the old carcasses can be buried, and
new parties formed on living issues.—
Ncv> York Herald.
Can this be true ? The Albany (N.
Y.) Evening Journal says : “There are
indications that Governor Tilden wonld
not be greatly displeased should Bill
Allen be defeated in Ohio. Buch a re
sult would remove him from the Presi
dential field, and to that extent reduce
the number of Mr. Tilden’s competitors
for the nomination.” Further the Ro
chester Democrat says: “Bill Allen
must die. Tho Graphic claims to be
the great organ of Gov. Tilden, and it
sends out orders to that effect.” “Billal
lenism,” says the Graphic, “must be
smitten down in the person of its one
conspicuous representative, and Allen is
the man.” Would Tilden walk into the
White House over tho dead body of Al
len ? We trust not.
The fight between ex-Governor Ste
venson and Leslie, of Kentucky, for an
election to the seat in the United States
Senate, now occupied by the former, is
being waged very bitterly. Governor
Leslie, in his retiring address, among
other points made the following: “If
the exercise of the pardoning power has
been less frequent than usual during my
administration, it is attributable to tho
fact that certain fixed maxims of duty
often compelled me to say no. ” This
put Governor Stevenson’s friends to
work to see how the pardoning power
had been exercised in the past, and they
assert the remissions and respites during
Governor Leslie’s term numbered 738,
while those during the term of Governor
Stevenson amonnted to but 439.”
The Fall River parties arrested upon
a charge of engaging in a riot a few
days since, had a hearing and were
bound over in the sum of SSOO to appear
before the next term of the Superior
Court, Ht New Bedford. The manufac
turers have now a plenty of help at their
disposal.