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Newspaper Page TextEtjronicl* an& — _ 4fe - WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 13, 1875. THE TWO-THIRDS RULE. The Macon Telegraph thinks that the majority rule should govern the next State Convention in making a nomination for Governor. Without going into any discussion of the comparative merits of the two-thirds and majority rule in party conventions, we have only to say that we think the two-thirds rule will be insisted upon in the gubernatorial convention, and that if the majority rule is adopted there will be a dissolution of the conven tion. In our opinion it will be a dif ficult matter to keep two Democratic candidates out of the field in any event. There certainly will be more than one if a majority candidate is made the stand ard bearer. The indications are good for one of the liveliest fights in Georgia next year that has been witnessed since 1868. | SHOOTING AT PRISONERS. A few days since the Chronicle and Sentinel published an account of the trial in Columbia county of two parties who had shot at a person under arrest for a misdemeanor, and of the ruling of Judge Gibsok. The Baltimore Ameri % can comments as follows upon the case : A Georgia Jndge instructed a jury a few days since to the effect that an officer who shoot* a man whom he is trying to arrest for a petty of fence is guilty of murder. The facts of the case in point were as follows : A colored man had been arrested for stealing a gun. While m the cns tody of two men who were acting a* constables, the prisoner seized a favorable op portunity and ran away. The men fired after him. but he continued his flight, and for the time being made his escape. This shooting at a prisoner who was offering no violence was held to be an assault with intent to kill, and under the instructions given by the Court, the deputy constables were convicted. It is about time that some Baltimore Judge would make a similar exposition of the law for the benefit of some of our police officers. THE TROUBLES IN MISSISSIPPI The recent troubles at Friar’s Point, Mississippi, do not seem to have pro ceeded from mere political causes, but appear to have originated entirely in race antagonisms. The blacks had been induced by an incendiary sheriff of their own color, named Brown, to believe that the white people intended to kill them in order to carry the election. Having imbued them with this idea he succeeded in organizing them for an at tack upon the whites. The whites or ganized for their own protection, and from all accounts received have ected entirely upon the defensive. Brown, of course, denies all participation in the affair, but he should be allowed to con vince a jury of his innocence. The ab sence of anything like politics in the af fair is shown by the fact that Senator Alcorn's daughter was one of the white women who fled from Friar’s Point, and that Senator Alcorn was one of the commanders of the white forces. THE TRADE OF GREAT BRITAIN. The annual customs report of Great Britain shows some interesting changes in the tastes and habits of the people. In corroboration of the reports of previ ous years the last one goes to proye con clusively a steady decline of coffee drink ing in that country. The use of tea and tobacco is increasing and these are in use more among the agricultural than the manufacturing classes. Spirits were also used to a greater extent than in 1873, but the ratio of increase was less than of the increased consumption of tea. The trade of Great Britain for the year 1874, as has been frequently al luded to, showed a marked falling off from that of the year before. In imports the decline was about $6,000,000, in ex ports about $75,000,000. The British commissioners attribute the decline to a poor harvest and in tho same report say that in that year the agricultural peoplo of the country improved their condition while the trading and manu facturing classes lost somewhat. This conclusion is reached to explain the sin gular fact that in a year of declining wages the increase of consumption of nocessary articles was in a groater ratio than the increase of population, thus in dicating [that somebody has been pros pering more than in the year preceding. ATTEMPTED VILLAINY IN OHIO. It is stated that advices received at Columbus leave it no longer a matter of doubt that a large amount of money, es timated at half a million dollars, has been raised in Washington, New York, Boston nnd Philadelphia for tho pur poses of colonizing the waste places in Ohio with Radical voters. They will be distributed among the larger cities and towns and unless vigilance is exeroised may succeed in overslaughing the honest expression of the people, by the same infamous means that time and again, in the several cities from which these importations are expected, have made the very name of a free popular election, a by-word and a sham. As to the real extent of the danger, thus threatened, it cannot of course be esti mated with auy degree of accuracy, but such is the past reoord of the Republi can party leaders and the desperate straits to which they are now reduced, that they are quite as likely to inaugurate a svstem of ballot box stuffing and re peating in Ohio as they have ever been disposed to practice the same abomin able frauds in localities better adapted to their success. The Democrats of Ohio, if properly organized and awake to the new peril, with which they are threatened by the money interest, abundant in resources and unscrupulous as to the agencies it employs, will see to it that honest voters are not cheated of their ballots by any such villainy. WHAT SHALL BR DONE WITH CON VICTS ? Next to the question of whet shell be done with the negro ? is the one eboTe. which e writer in the lest Oreenesboro’ Herald, we ero gled to see, d.eeueses. For many veers e resi dent of MilledgevUle. we know something of the workings of the peniten*ery system, es peoielly under the administration of Craw ford. with Col. A. W. Rkddiso. es chief keep er. For severel veers it wes no tax to the State, but self-eusteining. The convicts were employed et verions trades, well fed end clothed, end regularly supplied with religious services, either by the regular cheplam or the local clergy. Qov. C. often visited the peni tentiary end gave special orders in regard to the treetmeut of convicts We recollect that to one of the ministers who preached coutrove r siel sermons occasionally. (Mr. B.) the Governor said he wanted the convicts to hear the pure Gospel, not controversy. Under the supervision of Col. Bbddko the penitentiary was really a reformatory institution. With the vast increase of crumuala brought about by the late war, it is difficult to tell what should be done with them, bat most certainly the present system of punishment is a dis graoe to our civilisation, if we are rightly in formed. With no religious appliance* or re formatory influences brought to bear upon them, they are doubtless likely to become huge schools of wickedness and from whose discipline criminals will be rendered desperate in vice, and come forth confirmed villains to perpetrate fresh crimes upon the community. We hope this important question will have the immediate attention of the press and pulpit, nd the humane and Christian consideration of the Governor and Legislature.— Gretaetboro' Home Jtaraal. We publish the above for the purpose of giving it cordial endorsement. It is high time that a change was made in the present svstem of managing criminal. We are opposed to the State chain-gang as a demoralizing, brutalizing and wholly inefficient agency for the punish ment and suppression of crime. We believe it would be best for the State to return to the old penitentiary system, and we hope that the Legislature will take some action in the matter at its next meeting. | The Boston Journal reports that Mr. Henrv H. Faxon, of Quincy, and Mr. Henry D. Cushing, of Boston, who have furnished the most of the funds for the temperance people in years past, are de cidedly opposed to the Prohibitionists nominating a candidate for Governor in Massachusetts this year. i woman suffrage. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States has recently delivered an elaborate opinion, unanim ously confirmed by his associates, on the question whether the right of suf frage can be .withheld from women since the adoption of the fourteenth amend ment to the Federal Constitution, which declares that “all persons born or na turalized in the United States and sub ject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citi zens of the United States, and of the State in which they reside.” The ground i* that women are persons and citizens, but that the right to vote does not necessarily flow from citizen ship, nor from action of the Federal Government, and that it is conferred by constitutional enactments or laws of the various States. The fourteenth amend ment does not, in the opinion of the Court, affect the status of women as voters one way or the other. The fact is referred to that no State ever has given to women a right to participate in all its elections except New Jersey, which withdrew the privilege as early as 1807; and it is considered that States are no more bound to open the ballot box to the gentler sex now than in for mer times, while the withdrawal refer ed to seems to prove that States man legally take away as well as withhold the right of battling for favorite candi dates at the polls. A considerable por tion of the opinion is devoted to a defi nition of the term citizen and a descrip tion of the privileges and immunities of citizenship. The Court holds that whoever was “one of the people of either of these States wheu the Consti tution of the United States was adopted became ipso facto a citizen,” and it says that at common law “it was never doubted that all children bom in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves upon their birth citizens also,” The only classes resid ing in tho cohntry who are not citizens are either unnaturalized persons of foreign birth or the descendants of per sons of whom it can properly be said that they did not form part of the peo ple who combined to form the Constitu tion of the United States. Citizenship is defined as a birthright, carrying with it tho claim to protection, whether at home or abroad, the right to sue or be sued in the Courts, the right to enjoy in auy State all the privileges its own citi zens enjoy, and the right to partake of the benefits of the homestead act, but not the right of suffrage, except so far as it is derived from the action of the re spective States in which citizens reside. Tub candidate for Inspector of State Prisons on the Republican ticket in New York is a Northern Methodist minister, the Rev. B. I. Ives. Some months ago he addressed a meeting of ministers in Boston, and here is what the sanctimo nious scoundrel said : He denounced tho Southern people as “ mis erable whelps," against whom “nothing but strychnine and the dannon ought to be used.’ He then told with gusto —this Christian minis ter !—how Sheridan had once said that “if he owned hell and Texas, he would lease out Tex as and live in the other place," and this choice specimen of the "Methodist Church, North, tickled with the idea, said “ he rather agreed with him.” Ho, also, in beautiful obedience to the gracious injunction, “ and this command I give unto you, that yon love one another,” he declared “the greatest rascals in the South are in tho Methodist Church, Bouth,” adding, with an audacious outburst of irreverence, that approached the very verge of blasphemy, “he believed that the more he hated the rebels of the South the more he loved God, The South had , not beeh plundered and persecuted enough for Aim.” He wanted its spirit crushed out by another war. * * * “He longed,” he said, “ for the appearance of some colored man able to become a leader among his people, wielding the sword and the torch /” There are saiil to be ten thousand Southern men (voters) in New York and Brooklyn. We hope they will remem ber these utterances of Ives, and see to it that nothing keeps one of them from going to the polls and voting against the villaiu. It is a little difficult to ascertain by reading the Ohio newspapers which party is ahead in that State. The Radi cal papers declare that Hayes is good for thirty thousand majority. The Democratic journals swear that Allen will certainly carry the State by fifty thousand majority. Tho Radical tele grams assert that Allen and Cary are exciting no enthusiasm whatever, while Hayes and Mobton have everywhere spoken to immense audiences. Demo cratic dispatches affirm that the towns will scarcely hold the people who flook to hear Allen, while Hayes can hardly drum up a crowd. Tho Gazette saysthat Woodford is crucifying Ewing. Tho Enquirer says that Ewing is not leaving a “greasespot” of Woodford. Mrs. Easy's remark about poetry might be applied to politics : “ All men are liars, and especially politicians.” Gov. Tilden recognizes the gravest necessity of the time when ho demands, in behalf of the people, a redaction of the tax burdens which now press upon them with a weight almost beyond en durance. In his recent speech at the Utica Fair, the Governor described the nature and extent of these burdens iu a very striking way. In ten years the taxes of the country have amounted to the enormous sum of $7,000,000,000, or $700,000,000 a year on an average for ten vears. We are in the habit of re garding the national debt as a thing of great magnitude, and so it is; and yet it is “but the amouut of three years’ taxa tion.” The stocks and bonds of all the railroads ever built in this country are nominally “something near $4,000,000,- 000’’—little more than half of ten years’ taxation. The cotton and all other orops, and the products of all the mines in a year, are of a value equal to “ten months of one year’s taxes.” There will boa four-handed fight in Massachusetts this Fall. The Proliibi tiouists, despite the cajoleries of Re publican journals, have determined to make their annual fight. They have pronounced very pointedly and very em phatically against the Republican nomi nees and pnt a ticket of their own in the field. The Labor Reformers have also determined to run a candidate and have selected Wexdkll Phillips for their leader. Red-inonthed Radicals will say that both of these nominations will help Gaston, because none of the laborers and all of the drinkers are in the Demo cratic party. The telegraphic reports of the success of the Cuxsinoham-Mackkt combina tion in the Charleston election Wednes dav are more than confirmed by the figures given in yesterday’s News and Courier. In a poll of 10,236 votes Cux jfixoHAM received 6,217 and Wagkxer 1,010 —making CnonxGHAJt’s majority 2J98. The Independents carried every ward in the city—electing all their can didates for Aldermen and Sohool Com missioners. This is the list, as the Alleghany Matl finite it traveling through the press, and republishes. The Mail, it should be recollected, is a recognized organ of the Republican party : Office. Men. Cause of Retirement. Sec'yof Natv A. E. 80ne... Inoompeteoey. Secy of Treas..W. Richardson. Corruption. P. m. Gen J. A. J- Creswell-Corruptien. At’y General....A. T. Akermau Ineompetency, At'v General ...G. H. WUUams- Ineompetency, and Corruption. Sev jtat'r Columbus Delano. Corruption. Wk publish elsewhere in the Chboxi ol* and Sentinel this morning the de cision of the United States Supreme Court upon what is sometimes known as the Civil Rights tew of 1866. The ob ject of that tew was to impair the eth ciency and destroy the power of the State Courts by permitting the transfer of causes, on the flimsiest pretexts, to Federal tribunals. After a lapse of nine vears a case has finally been made be fore the Supreme Court and the law de clared unconstitutional. THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL. An Important Decision by the United States Supreme Court. Washington, October s.—ln the Su preme Court to-day Mr. Justice Strong read an interesting opinion on the con struction of the Civil Rights bill. It seems that John Blyen ind Geo. Ken nard had been convicted in the Circuit Court-for the District of Ixenluckv for the murder of Lucy Armstrong, colored. They had previously been held to an swer in the State Courts, bat the Circuit Court claimed jurisdiction of the case, because, by the laws of Kentucky-, the two persons who saw the murder com mitted, as well as the victim, on account of their race and color, were demea the right to testify in the State Courts. The clause of the Civil Rights act on which this claim was based gives the Circuit Court jurisdiction of causes “affecting persons who are denied or cannot en force in the Courts or judicial tribunals of the State or locality where they may be any of the rights secured to them by the first section of the act.” A verdict of guitty having been rendered in the Circuit Court, a motion was made in ar rest of judgment, on the ground that “the facts stated in the indictment did not constitute a public offense withiD the jurisdiction of the Court.” This motion was overruled and an appeal was taken. Mr. Justice Strong said: We are brought to the question wheth er a criminal prosecution for n public offense is a cause affecting, withm the meaning of the act of Congress, persons who may be called to testify therein. Obviously, the only parties to such a cause are’ the Government and the per sons indicted. They alone can be reach ed by any judgment that may be pro nounced,’ No judgment can either en large or diminish the personal, relative or property rights of any others than those who are parties. It is trne there are some cases which affect the rights of property of persons who are not parties to the record. Such cases, however, are all of a civil nature, and none of them even touch rights of person. Bat an in dictment prosecutnd by the Govarnmenf against an alleged criminal is a cause in which none but the parties can have any ooncern, accept what is common to all the members of the community. Those who may possibly be witnesses, either for the prosecution or for the defense, are no more affected by it than is every other person, for any one may be called as a witness. It will not be thought that Congress intended to give to the District and Circuit Courts juris diction over all causes both civil and criminal. They have expressly confined it to causes affecting certain persons. And yet, if all those who may bo called as witnesses in a case, and who may be alleged to be important witnesses, were intended to be described in that class of persons affected by it, and if the ju risdiction of the Federal Courts can be invoked by the assertion that there are persons who may be witnesses, but who, because of their race or color, are in competent to testity in the Courts of the State, there is no cause, either civil or criminal, of which those Courts may not at the option of either party take juris diction. The statute of Keutucky prohibits the testimony of colored persons either for or against a white person in any civil or criminal cause to which he may be a party. If, there fore, they are persons affected by the cause, whenever they might be wit nesses were they competent to testify, it follows that in any suit between white citizens, jurisdiction might be taken by the Federal Courts whenever it was al leged that a citizen of the African race was or might be an important witness. And snch an allegation might always be made. So in all criminal prosecutions against white persons a similar allega tion would call into existence the like j.irisdiction. We cannot think that such was the purpose of Congress in the statuto of April 9, 1866. It would seem rather to have been to afford protec tion to persons of the colored race by giving to the Federal Courts jurisdic tion of cases, the decision of which might injuriously affect them either in their personal, relative, or property rights, whenever they are denied in State Courts any of the rights mentioned and assured to them by the first section of the act. * * In view of these con siderations we are of opinion that the case now before us is not within the provisions of the act of April 9, 1866, and that the Circuit Court had not juris diction of the crime of murder commit ted in the District of Kentucky, merely because two persons who witnessed the murder were citizens of the African race, and for that reason incompetent by the law of Kentucky to testify in the Courts of that State; they are not per sons affected by the cause. The judg ment of the Circuit Court is reversed. The Chief Justice was not present at the argument, and he has taken no part in the decision. THE COURSE OF COTTON. Weekly Review of the New York Mar ket. [From the New York Bulletin .] Our report must necessarily prove al most a counterpart of last week, the general condition of affairs remaining advantageous to buyers, with business, as a rule, rather slow and uncertain. Some little interest was occaiionally de veloped on the speculative division of the market through local influences and manipulations, but the handling of ac tual eottou was conducted with much apparent caution, and any disposition whatever to realize has necessitated a reduction on cost. The stock here ran up full at the close of the month, and has since continued on the increase, none being required for speculative pur poses, and a great many holders have been offering freely, both on pier and to arrive, which* in connection with the absence of anything stimulating from abroad and the continued free arrivals at the ports, have had a decided weak ening influence. In short, on the plea of “too much cotton,” the majority of the trade remain quite “bearish,” and the market naturally shapes itself ac cordingly. There is, however, now and then to be discovered a slight tendency toward the other side of the question, which has acted as a partially neutraliz ing influence. Operators think, or ar gue, that the shrinkage has already been all that is warranted, even admitting the most favorable crop accounts, and that, although no positive reaction may oc cur, movements based on a farther de cline are precarious. The general de mand for consumption, too, it is claim ed, either directly or indirectly, will offer a gradually increasing outlet, as the domestic mills are now apparently through their troubles and running again, and exporters, while moving with great caution and seeming indifference, have shown undoubted evidences of being more deeply interest ed in a quiet way. Still, the specula tive interest on both sides of the ques tion is smaller than last year, and as yet without perfected organization, with neither the "bulls” or the “bears” pos sessing sufficient nerve for any deter mined raid. The sales of “spots” dur ing the week have shown a somewhat larger proportion credited to the foreign outlet than for some time past, in part on Liverpool account, and partly on Continental orders. There has also been secured by shippers a number of parcels on short notices which altogether promise the export of quite a fair amount. Very close figuring, however, took place on all purchases, and many of the leading exporters have remained quiet, alleging that their private ad vices were quite discouraging. On bony; acocunt the movement was slow, resumption of work at Fall River not increasing the call as yet, and the few spinners who did appear merely hand ling small, irregular parcels to satisfy immediate wants. Supplies, in the meantime, have increased materially, and under free offerings the cost has given wayji&lo, the fine grades showing the most decided decline. Not much old cotton is now left, and none to have any positive influence. For future delivery values have aver aged lower, but there was no heavy breaks, and in several cases a reactionary and temporarily strong feeling was shown. September, as foreshadowed at the date of onr last, went out like a lamb, without the faintest indication of a corner and fully Jc. off the ruling fig ures at the close of last week, and the tarn from that month into the present one was the weakest portion of the period { now under review. The decline, how ever, gave quite a neat little profit to many operators on small margins, and they came forward to cover, and this, with the efforts of those in receipt of considerable cotton on contract, was in strumental in infnsiug a somewhat bet ter tone. This was especially notice ableon October, which underwent strong manipulations, and the later months fluctuated largely in sympathy. Most of the movements have directly or in ' directly covered old engagements, and 1 we do not think that much of new inter- 1 eet on either side of the question has ; been created during the past week. The ; atmosphere of the Exchange still seems 1 impregnated with a decided “bearish tone even at the reduced cost already | reached, but occasionally can be heard | arguments on the other side of the j question, sp noted above. Advices of rains have been receiyed fr° m some sec tions, but onr operators do not pojjstrue anything in an unfavorable light as yet, and the general feeling on crop pros pects is toward fall figures, A Richmond man will exhibit at the Centennial the whole process of manu facturing tobaceo, from the leaf to the ptag. LATEST FROM MISSISSIPPI. Present Status of Affairs— Statement from Alcorn. Memphis, October B—The8 —The latest from, Friar's Point says Chalmers was driving Pease’s forces from Jonestown and had them nearly surrounded. He has de termined so capture Pease. This will end the disturbance. Sheriff Brown is still at Helena. He denies having in cited the ijot and has telegraphed Ames he would quiet the disturbance. Sena tor Alcorn telegraphed Attorney-Gen eral Pierrepont the following : “Having read several dis patohes touch ing therfeoent race troubles at Friar’s Point I beg. to assure yon there need be no alarm for the peace of this county. Several hundred armed negroes, who had been incited by an ill tempered chief, marched on our town and were rapidly repulsed by whites under, the lead of the most prudent citi zens, who have been following the armed bands of negroes and dispersing them with as little violence as possible and nrgiDg them to go home. The mob has been dispersed and I think will remain quiet. There is no question of polictics in this excitement. The whites are to a man for defense. Those of the negroes who have been misled are fast being reconciled. A community of planters may be relied on for kind treatment of the laborers. The whites have made no j demonstration of hostility to the negroes of this county but are anxious to culti vate the most friendly relations. My name has been most ridiculously assert ed in the matter. I trust you will not give credence to the share given me in this affair by telegrams. Respectfully, [Signed] J. L. Alcorn, United States Senator. Memphis, October 8. The Friar s Point war is considered at an end. A Ledger Helena special says Sheriff Brown is still there, and says he will not return to Friar’s Point; that the negroes there threaten to kill him if he dees. Many negroes from Coahoma county are in Helena. Chalmers is endeavoring to surround Pease and capturo him if pos sible. How the Trouble Originated. To arrive at a propor understanding of the situation, it is necessary to ex plain that the blacks outnumber the whites, in voting force, in the proportion of three or five to one. Recently, how ever, schisms have prevailed among the blacks, and at the approaching election, which takes place the second Monday in November, the present officials fear they are destined to be ousted. S veral weeks ago there was trouble about reg istration at a precinct back on Hopson’s bayou, 30 miles to the east of Friar’s Point, which was fully related at the time. The disturbance was quelled with out serious results, except to excite the people of the surrounding region. A couple of hundred people went to the scene of the difficulty, but upon arrival found everything quiet. The row was all about a couple of fellows who lived beyond the border of the county apply ing to register, so as to vote illegally at the ensuing election. This seems to have unsettled the public mind, so that uneasiness has prevailed and kept peo ple on the alert ever since. The sheriff of Coahoma county is a yellow man named John Brown, a native of Ken tucky, born free and educated at Ober liu, Ohio, but living in Coahoma for several years past. Six or eight weeks ago ho caused a former school-mate —a bad natured black man named Smith— to emigrate from Ohio to Friar’s Point. He had Smith nominated on his ticket for Chancery and Circuit Clerk, and the entire ticket was composed of dar kies of the most ultra type, only a single white man, a son of Senator Alcorn, be ing on for the position of County Treas urer. This ticket Sheriff John Brown worked for with such vigor that, three weeks ago, he caused to be purchased iu the city several bags of buckshot, pow dow and other ammunition to be used in an emergency—which means riot. He also announced to the people that his friend Smith had to be elected at all hazards, and he would sacrifice his of fice rather than fail to secure this result. When remonstrated and pleaded with in the interest of peace and urged to ship the powder and lead away, he emphati cally declined. This caused serious thoughts to pervade the minds of white people, nearly all of whom went quietly to work to arm and prepare tor the worst, should it come to that. The frequent visits to the house of Brown of Wm. Pease, the black Briga dier-General of Militia for the District, formerly the slave of James A. Pease, and supposed to be an emissary from Ames, failed to serve as a panacea for the uneasy condition of the public mind. A ticket in opposition to the other one headed by Brown had been prepared, composed of half whites and half color ed men. A large proportion of Conserva tive colored people supported this ticket in the interest of tax payers, having be oome convirced that white men ought to have a voice in the management of the county government. This ticket is exceedingly popular among the Liberal Republicans and Democrats of all col ors. Recently Brown, thinking he saw the day of reckoning near, and that his defeat at the polls would be almost cer tain, has by incendiary talk endeavored to precipitate a conflict, believing ho would thereby turn the tide and result in his favor. This is the whole trouble in a nutshell. Last Saturday evening a Conservative meeting, attended by 200 persons, was held at the Point, and a speech was made by Senator James L. Alcorn, during which he publicly charg ed Brown with using the funds of the county for private purposes. Sheriff Brown, a pretended conservator of the peace, took a revolver from under his coat and sat with it laid across his lap during the discussion, at the same time making a public denial of the charge, which, however, those who claim to know, assert can be easily substantiated. A personal difference has existed for some time past between Sheriff John Brown and Gen. Alcorn, partly caused, it is said, by Brown having carried the county against Alcorn in the Guberna torial contest two years ago. At the meeting held last Saturday, Gen. Al corn’s remarks in allusion to Brown were deemed intemperate by many of the former’s friends. Brown had pre viously spread ugly stories about the Senator, and for several days past both Alcorn and Brown have given vent to very severe remarks concerning each other. A meeting of the Conservative party was announced to be held last Monday, when several speakers were expected from this city. The latter did noj ap pear, and those who participated were from the immediate vicinity. A meet ing in the interest of Sheriff John Brown was also announced, at which a com plete ticket in the interest of his party was to be nominated. Brown was first elected two years ago and gave a good bond, a well-known Memphis merchant being among his securities. No row was precipitated at the meeting referred to, but the feelings engendered doubt less cnlminated in the alarming situa tion anrounced in the telegram above. The steamer Phil Allen carried several hundred colored men from this city Monday night, nearly all destined to Friar’s Point, ostensibly to gather cot ton. Their mission was believed by many to be peaceable, but many also inferred otherwise. Senator James L. Alcorn, in the event of a collision, will be an earnest support ter of peace and order on the side of the whites, and against Sheriff Brown, who, he is thoroughly convinced, is a very bad man. A large number of the best colored citizens of the vicinity are also decidedly against Brown in the issue. Should bloodshed follow, it is more than probable that this Brown party will get much the worst of it. In real combat a dozen determined white men are equal to more than five times that number of blacks. The latter behave in war like untrained beasts from the wildest jun gles, and are seldom otherwise than a disorderly, unmanageable mob. The voting strength of Coahoma county is between 2,600 and 3,000, of which the white element does not poll 500. The latter are much scattered, the larger number living down near Jonesboro, 25 miles from Friar’s Point. A majority of the industrious and peaceably inclined colored people deprecate the threatened disturbances, and will use every influ ence to prevent a collision. Many have expressed themselves emphatically against violence of any kind. Memphis, October 9.—A1l quiet at Friar’s Point. A difficulty at Charles ton, Tallahatchie county, originated be tween Sheriff Alcorn and a negro named Blackwell. Blackwell, while abusing Alcorn and other Republican leaders, was arrested bv Deputy Sheriff Hall. Blackwell then shot Geo. Hall, white. Blackwell was pursued by the sheriff and others to the back room of a groce ry, where he was shot fifteen or twenty times and mortally wonnded. All Re publicans. FROM CINCINNATI. Cixcurs ati, October 9.—The Cincin nati delegates to the National Board of Trade, in their report to the Chamber of Commerce, recommend the Chamber to use whatever influence it might have with members of Congress to the end that the General Government may pur chase existing lines and manage the whole telegraph business of the country. A resolution was offered in opposition to this, declaring that the Chamber does not commit itself in favor of the project of the National Postal Telegraph This question, vhich has been the subject of many discussions in the Chamber, came up for final disposition to-day, and a resolution against committing the Cham ber in favor of the postal telegraph was carried by a considerable majority; IN MEMORIAM. When the virtuous and the good, the gallant and the brave pass away, it is due aJjke-to the living and the dead that their names and acts should be properly chronicled find fondly cherished in me mory. CSipt. Frederick Alfred Beazley, of this place, a worthy son of a worthy sire, a culfivated gentleman, a gallant soldier as well as au upright, honest man, departed this life (while on a visit) at the resilience of Mr. James C. King in the conntv of Oglethorpe, Ga., on the night of the 6th of August, 1875, aged not quite forty-one years. He was born iu Spottsylvania county, Virginia, on the 31st August, 1834. His father, Charles Beazley, moved to Taliaferro countv, Georgia, before the subject of this ifceteh had reached his majority. .He was first at Mercer University, where he graduated with distinction in 1858. He applied himself immediately to the study of law, and was admitted to the bar the same year. When the war broke out, in 1861, he was an early volunteer in the Southern cause. Before’any company was organized in Taliaferro, he joined the “Baldwin Blues” and went immediately with tho Fourth Georgia Regiment for the de fense of the “Old Dominion,” his na tive State. While near Portsmouth, in the Fall of 1861, lie had an attack of typhoid fever, which left him on the verge of the grave. So hopeless was his recovejHt that he was discharged from the selfice. But no sooner had he sufficiently rallied than, by his own accord, he* raised a volunteer cav alry company, with which, at its head as Captain, he returned to Virginia in 1862. In this position he served until the end of the war, performing many daring exploits which won the admira tion of his men as well as the commen dation of his superior officers. No braver man; nor any one more unselfish than Captain Beazley ever lived. Like most of his comrades in arms, shattered in fortune by the war, with the gloomy prospects of a young man’s making any thing at the bar in the new order of things, he sought a livelihood for a time in teaching, which his education fitted him well for; but disease in a broken constitution asserted its su premacy, ard this noble minded mail fell in the of life. He was an ex empJary*fs®lsiof .the Baptist Church for the IXfct Twenty years. His death saddened many a heart, for no one knew him who did not love him. S. Crawfordville, October 7, 1875. “ANYTHING FOR WORK.” Ben. Butler on the Horrors of White Slavery. New York, Octobers.—Eugene Beebe, Esq., Secretary of the United States Le gal Tender Club, has received the fol lowing letter from Hon. Benjamin F. Butler: “Boston, October 3. — Eugene Beebe, Esq., Secretary United States Legal Tender Club: Dear Sir —l have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of yours of the 28th, telling me what must be the case—that real property iu the city of New York was passing into the hands of the mortgagees, and leaving a deficit even then. This is a result of the endeavor to contract the values of every kind of property except invested debt, through legislation voted for in Congress by more than sixty Bank Di rectors, voting in their own interest, un der a ruling of parliamentary law made by another Bank Director. It is impos sible that the people of this country will permit this state of business ruin long to continue. “I read in the Associated Press dis patches yesterday the saddest sentence that has ever come to my eye. Speak ing of the Fall River troubles, a manu facturer said : ‘The courage is all taken out of the operatives. They will sub mit to anything for work.’ You have been writing me, and I have been re plying, upon the subject of the reduc tion of values of property by the sys tem of contraction; but what shall we say of the reduction of men into slaves by this system of contraction? Men, full white, and twenty-one, crushed down in spirit until ‘they will submit to anything,’simply ‘to get work !”—an opportunity to earn their bread by the sweat of their face—not a right to par take of the blessing of God to His creatures on earth—to submit to any thing for the privileges only to enjoy the primeval curse ? How long, oh, Lord, how long shall such things be ? The end, sooner or later, must surely come jin this—that working men and women will be obliged to call for their wages invested in savings banks, and that amount is greater than the capital of the National Banks, although it en joys none of the fifteen per cent, divi dends of the latter institutions; and when that call comes the money lender at usury must stand from under, and may find himself as much broken in spirit as the workingman is now, and ‘ready to subfitit to anything for work.’ “Yours truly, Benj. F. Butler.” A SINGULAR REVELATION. A Possible Clew to a Batch of Unre vealert Murders and Forgeries. The recent arrest and lodgment in Ludlow stree jail, New York, of a young Italian engraver named Tollomeo de Chievetta, has brought to the surface a story which, if true, furnishes the secret of some of the moat dangerous counter feiting ever done in this country, and the probable “clew to the murderer of Tor rino, the Italian barber, a year ago. Chievetta’s story as told first to.a fellow prisoner, and afterwards to a newspaper man, is, in brief, that he learned engrav ing in Constantinople, where the most skillful engraving in the world is done. From there he went to Naples, where he was hired by an Italian, a naturalized citizen of the United States, to engrave what ho was told were “American bill heads,” but which he now knows were railroad bonds and United States notes. He got such good pay for this work that he resolved to emigrate to America, and was given a letter of introduction to Signor Pologniac, a barber under the Pacific Hotel, with whom he was invi ted to at once make his home. Polog niac introduced him to Torrino and Pakulski, two other Italian barbers, and the three soon set him to work engraving plates for United'States bonds, currency, etc., all alone by himself in a house down in Jersey. But Pologniac’s wife, who had taken a fancy to the young en graver, one day explained to him what it was iie was engraving, and warned him of the consequences. He immediately declined to go on with the work, anil Pologniac then gave him to the police on the charge of alienating his wife. The young engraver was, a few days since, acquitted of the charge and released. Torrino is the man so mysteriously murdered in Brooklyn a year ago, and whose murderer has never been discov ered np to the present hour. The de tectives arrested a man named Caro manti ; but as there was no evidence to convict him, he was discharged. It was well known that Torrino was engaged in passing counterfeit bonds and currency, and that the “queer” he operated in was perfect in execution and finish, The most accomplislie experts have hiherto failed to discover where and by whom these extraordinary forgeries were executed. A'suggestive sequel to this revelation was the arrest, last week, of the second barber Pakulski, by a de tective, to whom, while drank, he had remarked: “In that satchel there is $4360 worth of United States revenue stamps, which I will sell you for forty cents on the dollar, and I can get thous ands of dollars worth more.” He, too, has been released, and with Pologniac and Chievetta, is still at large; but there are facts enough thus brought out, it would seem, to set the detectives at least to thinking. HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. Wife and Mother-in-Law Murdered— Suicide of the Husband and Mur derer. Carlixville, 111., Octobers. —A most inhuman and bloody tragedy occurred in this city this morning, in which two murders and a suicide were the result. The details are sickening and horrible. Charles Brink, a young man twenty-one years old, some time Sgo married Miss Ella Hall, a daughter of O. W. Hall, a respectable citizen of this place. He has been living with her np to Sunday morning, when he left the house in rrther a dissatisfied mood, intimating that he would probably not return very soon. But, sad to say, he changed his tactics. Having prepared himself with a Smith t Wesson revolver of five chambers, and fortifying himself with a drink of whisky, he returned to the honse at abont 9 o’clock this morning, where the revolting tragedy was enacted. Finding his wife sick in bed, he began to exeentte his wicked design. She es caped from the house and fled to a neighbor’s for protection, he following with determined fury. Here he encoun tered his mother-in-law, whom he cruelly dispatched by a shot in the lung. _ Still pursuing his wife into the very thresh old of the neighbor’s house, he drove a ballet with deadly aim through her head. Then, to complete his bloody work and to save the sheriff an unpleas ant duty, he blew ont his own brains. Julia Murray is a tall, raw-boned la dy from Ireland, who takes a drop of gin in her “tay,” and she swears like bine murder. She is now in Cincinnati sning H. F. Johnson for divorce, and a Catholio priest named Drissoll for slo,oos. mcduffie county. [Special Correspondence of the Chronicle and Sentinel. Thomson, Ga. , October 6, 1875. It is doubtiess a.pleasure for you to receive newsy letters from the different sections in which your valuable paper circnlatas, and you no doubt feel com pelled many times, through courtesy, to insert contributions that have not even the merit of “gossip,” lest yon wound the feelings of some ambitions correspondent. This letter you will find to be entirely of a selfish nature,and knowing you aro in sympathy with the struggling people *of McDuffie is the only reason your columns are so fre quently burdened with their appeals. Then, sirs, yourselves and readers will please bear with me while I relate my story. I begin by stating that Wonders Have Been Accomplished By our people since the war, and the in significant station of Thomson has, within the last ten years, merged from an almost unknown village to a town of considerable importance, with her chnrches and schools in flourishing con dition—her municipal government tho roughly organized—a live, go-ahead set of merchants—and last, but not least, one of the best fire companies and the best brass band in the State. The pro gress made thus far is entirely due to the energy of our home people, who were left penniles-. at the close of the “unpleasantness” in 1865, and did this same people possess the means the hum of industry would reverberate far and near, and hundreds would flock to our midst and ask to join in thq chorus. But we havn’t got the means, and must ask help to develop the Ore at Bonanza Only awaiting fortune’s touch to raise our section higher in the scale of pros perity, and prove a blessing to the pos sessor of the developing power. First, then, I assert that A Warehouse In Thomson for the storage and sale of cotton, under the control of those able to make “the usual advances” to farm ers, would be equally as profitable as any single warehouse in Augusta. (Our Ordinary would see that the scales were properly balanced, but if the parties building desired a low place, where they might get the full benefit of the night dews, they could find it.) Wo now re ceive nine thousand bales of cotton, and it is the opinion of good business men that a warehouse properly conducted at this place could store from four to six thousand bales in a season. Secondly, there is not such an opening in Middle or Eastern Georgia for a Fine Hotel. As Thomson presents. No complaint can be urged against the fare offered on our public tables, but “more room” is what we want, and a handsome profit on the investment is in store for any one who will supply this deficiency. Thirdly, we have beautiful sites for the erection of business houses, aud any capitalist who will come here aud erect one or more substantial brick stores, with offices over head, will prove a pub lic benefactor. Again, it is not gener ally known that there is in McDuffie county a fine Mineral Spring, The water of which being strongly im pregnated with iron, sulphur and mag nesia, would, if brought into use, prove a blessing to hundreds of suffering hu mariity. This water has been analyzed by one of the best chemists in the State, and pronounced to possess qualities as valuable as the most noted springs of North Georgia. This property will prove a bonanza to any one who will improve it. Lastly, I come with our old story, unimpregnated with a Ringle new idea, to-wit: The Picayune Train. Our people would rejoice to have it run here. Many of the citizens of Augusta are as anxious as we ars. We would not desire to ignore tho mature judg ment of the worthy officials, of the Georgia Railroad. Our people have the utmost confidence in their ability, and in our eagerness for the extension of the Picayune schedule to this point we de sire it distinctly understood we would have the officers conclude that it would be a profitable investment to the stock holders. As the Board of Directors have a meeting next week would it not be an opportune time for an expression of opinion on their part in reference to this matter ? Or is there any one of them who feels sufficient interest in the matter to bring it before Judge King and Mr. Johnson ? Tho people of this section are perfectly willing to abide their judgment, but they do most re spectfully desire an expression of opin ion from these worthy officials. If their judgment i9 adverse to that of the peo ple of this section, not a murmur will escapo their lips. Progress. A ROYAL VOYAGE. Our readers are aware that the Serapis has been fitted up as a pleasure yacht to convey the Prince of Wales to India. The London News, of the 20th, de cribes the fitting up of the Royal cabin, from which we may learn what comforts are considered necessary for a protrac ted sea voyage of an English Prince: “ On ascending the grand staircase we find ourselves in the Royal saloon. Here, perhaps, the visitor will experience some little disappointment. There is no glit ter or gorgeousness. Indeed, we ques tion whether the geueral appearance is not too sombre. The whole of the up holstery and the principal part of the furniture were selected by his Royal Highness himself, and he was consulted on every point. The apartments are very spacious, and have been so arrang ed that they can easily be divided by means of silk curtains. The whole of the grand saloon has been devoted to the use of his Royal Highness. The cabins hitherto existing have been re moved, and the space has been used for the erection of sleeping cabin, dressing rooms and bath rooms, which his Royal Highness will use, those on one side during the outward and those on the other during the homeward voyage. The whole of the Royal furniture is in un polished English oak; the coverings of the chairs, sofas and lounges, the tops of the tables, in fact, everything requiring to be covered, are in a dull brown morocco leather. The stern lounges are framed, like the rest, in English oak, and are covered with leather; but the frames have been high ly polished. The principal dining table will accommodate sixty guests, and will be in the form of a horse shoe, the bow being fixed close to the bulkhead of the saloon. This table, however, will not always be used, and it is so constructed that it can easily be removed to make way for a smaller one of an oval shape, which will accommodate twenty-four guests. There are unpolished oak dumb waiters and dinner wagons, oak side flaps or carving tables, card tables, one of Messrs. Jackson* Graham’s recently invented and comfortable reclining chairs, and a host of other articles in oak which it would be difficult to enumerate. The whole of the carpeting throughout the royal apartment is one pattern, and is in general keeping with the furniture. It is one of the best Brussels, and the pattern is Persian in character. The ta ble covers are of Indian patterns. We may add that the arms of his Royal Highness appear upon nearly every arti cle, even the brown morocco overlaps of the stationery cases for the writing ta bles and the many colored leather foot stools being stamped in gold with them. The general decorations of the saloon are exceedingly chaste, and reflect the greatest credit upon all concerned in their execution. The principal color is white, relieved by a very pale blue, with which the columns and cor-‘ niees are painted. The latter are sur mounted at intervals of about four feet with miniatures of the crest of the In- j dian troqp ships, namely, a golden sun, bearing a garter containing the words, ‘Heaven’s light our guide,’ within which is a star worked in silver. Gold has been freely, but not extravagantly, used in ‘picking out’ (to use a technical term) the various points usually gilded in yacht decorations. Thef sides are also relieved by eight pier glasses, framed in unpolished oak, a thick rope of gold encircling the whole. The Prince’s retiring apartments are fitted out with every regard to com fort. He will sleep on a magnificent brass bedstead, which will be fixed to two upright standards, so as to give it a cradle movement; but what the effect will be in the case of the ship pitching, or lurching, or making any save a roll ing motion, we are unable to say. The furniture iu the sleeping apartments is also of oak, with brown morocco cover ings, the cabinets being particularly worthy of mention, on account of the excellence of the carving. The writing tables are particularly handsome, the brown leather tops being richly edged with a broad band of gold worked into a design, combining the rose, shamrock and thistle, while the Prince of Wales’ feathers occupy each corner. The whole of the windows of the State apartments are furnished with patent self-acting spring blinds of sage green silk, the rollers being hidden by sage green va lances of silken fringe. .Interspersed here ahd there with white silk tassels. Each window will also be supplied with lace curtains of magnificent pattern.” Apotuec abies. —The following gentle men of this city have been recently li censed as apothecaries by the Board of Physicians of Georgia: J. W. Pankniu, G. B. Green, Thos, W Reaney, Flemming, L. A. Gar dell. OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. [Special Correspondence of the Chronicle and Sentinel ] Washington, D. C., October 6,1875. Washington now presents a quiet ap pearance, almost a death-like stillness, the usual state which always precedes a storm. All the members of the Cabinet, save the “Bobtail Clam Yankee,” as Boss Sheppard calls Jewell, are away from the capital, luxuriating upon their ill-gotten gains. The President is at Salt Lake City, at this writing, where the telegraph informs us he interviewed his brother Brigham. The sale of Grant’s so-called blooded stock on his Missouri farm was a sad failure. A friend in forms me that tho horses were the poor est of the kind, and were well sold at the prices received. The fact is that all of the animals of any value were shipped to this city, and only lame and diseased quadrupeds were thrown upon the market, with a view of reminding the public that Moss Grant owns a farm in Missouri. Sheppard, the Washing ton ring contractor, is on pins. The Harrington Safe Burglary Affair is now before the District Grand Jury, which will unquestionably result in finding true bills against tae “Boss” and his allies. The disposition of Henry Wells, the new District Attorney who succeeded the infamous Fisher, and Attorney-General Pierrepout, is to allow the safe burglary matter to pass un noticed or to enter a nolle prosequi in the case, but Marshall Jewell will cause the Cabinet to jusist upon a search ing investigation into the matter, know ing that his enemy, Sheppard, will be the greatest sufferer thereby. Sheppard dashes along over his wooden pavements at breakneck speed, receiving the impre cations of the property holders whom he has despoiled. Even the negroes damn him. Verily, “the yay of tire trans gressor is hard.” Frederick Douglass,. The warlike negro, is bitterly denounced by Conservative citizens throughout the North for his recent incendiary utter ances regarding tho status of the blacks in the South. He has but few followers out of South Carolina, and in this city he could uot marshal a corporal’s guard of his own ooLor. He holds the position of receiver of the defunct freedmen’s bank, aud draws therefrom a salary of $5,000 per annum. A like amount is also paid to two other negroes, making in r.ll $15,000, which would do infiuitely more good if divided out among the too confiding depositors in the rotten concern. When will the negro learn that his true friends are only to be found in the South, amongst his former owners ? The Unfortunate Condition Of the citizens of Columbia, S. C., is attracting much attention among the property holders of Washington. Taxed to the verge of outright robbery, the home of the Prestons and Hamptons presents a heartrending sight. The Mayor of the city, a corrupt man, is said to be sick, and one of his alder men is domineering over the pov erty stricken town at a furious rate. Mr. Monteith, a lawyer of standing, is arrested by him without provocation, and deprived of his liberty for hours. Citizens known to have a little money are arraigned on the most frivolns pre texts, and the aldermanic mandate goes forth, S2O fine, or 10 days in jail. And all this transpires directly under the eye of “reformer” Chamberlain. Alas for ill starred South Carolina, the den of carpet-baggers and negro thieves. Was ever tyrany more galling tolerated? But let the noble Carolinians ••Await the coming of a brighter day. And break tho chain the moment that they may.” Even with the profligacy of Moses, Columbia was never subjected to the outrages which she now suffers from under Chamberlain. (Treat Consternation Has been created amongst the ring con tractors in the Interior Department caused by the retirement of Delano. No more cheating the poor Indian out of his legitimate supplies of bull beef and hard tack, at least for the present. Dozens of clerks, and even those who did the dirty work, have been admonish ed that soon they must “step down and out.” Landanlot Williams is a crest fallen individual, aud is daily to be seen walking on Pennsylvania avenue. No more does he ride at the expense of the Republic. Sawyer, Poole, and dozens of other decayed politicians, who board at cheap restaurants, are daily to be seen in front of Willard’s Hotel and the Elbett House picking their teeth, to convey the impression that they rest their bones in these prin cely halls. It reminds one forcibly of the Street Arabs in New York who hover over cellar grates, and inhale the odor of juicy beefsteaks. Bunn Run: FALL FASHIONS. Feminine Fancy Felicitously Favored At the Full exhibition of Paris costumes cloaks, millinery, etc., in New York last week, the suit and cloak department proyed the great center of attraction. Among the costumes which by virtue of unusual richness and novelty specially asserted themselves was one composed of Bilbao, or blueish gray silk and cash mere antique. This last mentioned material is of silk and worsted, the ground part being of cashmere, over which are thrown figures in silk. This in the souris (mouso color) formed the overdress, which was iu two pieces, the overskirt and a cuirass basque trimmed with milliners, folds (small) of the silk and fringe, showing the two colors ; the coat sleeves were of the silk, a piece of which was also let into the back in fine p’aitings that at the bottom of the waist escaped from their fastenings to open in to a sort of fan over the basque. The silk underskirt was finished around the bottom with a wide flounce of the same, set on in box plaits ; over this fell the overskirt, long, and runniug straight round to meet its square end, at the top, under the basque, below which they parted and exposed loops and ends made of the two materials. Another attractive dress was made of plain and figured silk of a dark brown hue, a shade known as the solitaire. The plain silk in this costume formed the sleeves and the underskirt. This last was devoid of all trimming in front, but, from the side widths back, was covered with narrow ruffles of the same, gathered on so as to overlap each other. The overdress was fashioned into a pe culiar sort of polonaise, simulating in its skirt in front the straight overskirt ; this was brought back over the side breadths to leave an open space at the back, where was massed loop# and bows of the plain silk. The waist of the polo naise fitted the figure in front, and re sembled an ordinory basque in the back.. The whole was ornamented with crimp and moss fringe and passamenterie me dallions. A rich wine colored silk dress made with a basque long in front and sloping short at the back, and its under skirt trimmed with a flounce, headed with a pouf and finished with an edge of nar row and fine knife pleating, above which came a bias band of velvet of the same color as the silk. The overskirt to this costume was quite new in design, being pointed before and behind and trimmed with two broad bias bands of velvet set on pointed; this skirt fastened up iu the front, the silk knife pleating about the edge forming a kind of cascade trimming. In addition to the reception and street costumes were several even ing dresses, all of which were either dec orated with rich lace and flowers, or witb lace and ribbons. The cloaks showed the late modes in the fashion able cloth and colors. In the trimmings for these garments are mostly used the Soutache braids, improved gimps brough out in designs of leaves and vines, and clusters of fine Milan balls; with the crimped and Marabout fringe for cloths and blue fox fur, feather trimmings and lace for the silk and velvets. The long circular carriage cloaks, with their fur linings, have not develpped any new styles. Long, half-fitting silk sacques, fur-lined, are introduced for the prom enade. Seal skin sacques, in the finest grades, are a little higher in price than last year, and are made to fit more olose ly the figure. Muffs keep about the santtf size. In the milinery department novelties in shape as well as material and trim mings were of frequent occurrence, and throughout the entire stock was no ticeable the differences made by the sev eral leading Paris bouses in their mod els, which while possessing the leading requirements, showed deviations in mi nor points that served to mark them as coming from this or that establishment. Particularly was this the case with Mme Virot’s hats, which were in most instan ces larger than the others, and showed a wider brim, neither straight or aolled back, but carelessly caught np on one side and drooping on the other. These are designed to be worn full over the forehead, and will doubtless prove be coming to ladies young enough to bear them. One of these shapes, in unbleach ed white color, was a castor felt, with a furry surface similar to that seen in gentlemen’s hats of the same material. Trimmed with velvet of a warm cream tint and two demi-plumes matching the hat in color this specimen from Madame Virot’s attracted much attention. The castor hats introduce a decided novelty for ladies, and will in all proba bility, having been adopted by the lead ing Paris milliners soon rank among the favorite styles. Felt hats finished in the usual manner are also improved, with the under Bides of the brims castor, or with a castor brims and smooth crowi.s. Others again are entirely of felt, with borders of feather trimming about the brims, sometimes running outside, some times inside, and occasionally both. One of the new styles of hats introduced was seen in very wide gros-grain ribbon of soft and fine texture which passed around the crown to fall in streamers of extreme length at the back, three yards being the amount required for each hat. Others appropriated the soft-twilled India ribbons, while others again were decorated with two ribbons of the same width, but different in color, one serv ing as a lining to the other aud giving a very pretty effect in tho loops and ends. Basket-woven braids two inches wide, showing little checks in colors, and all of silk, entered into the decoration of a number of their hats. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Williamston continues to improve. Camp meetings and camp meetings. Died, in Darlington, 25, Mrs Hannah L. Hart. J. C. Keys is the Town Weigher of Anderson. The children in Newberry are dying with diptheria. There have been slight frosts in the Yorkville section. Pickens county has 2,360 voters in a population of 11,807. Mr. E. S. Hale, of Ninety-six, is criti cally ill from an abscess. Mrs. Robert Stewart, of Newberry, will move to Greenville. Died, near Glymphville, recently, Captain Ephraim Suiter. The Greenville Republican was bought out by the Net An. Died, suddeuly, 3d iust., Win. Wat son, Esq., of Ridge Spring. Sumter’s narrow gauge wooden street railway is rapidly progressing. Married, September 22d, Adam Clark to Janie Jones, all of Greenville. Died, in Edgefield county, Sept. 28th, the widow of the late James Armstrong. R. H. Clarkson lias been elected Principal of the Newberry Male Acade my. Eugene B. Gary, of Abbeville, has been admitted to the bar iu Laurens oounty. \ The residence of Senator Patterson,in Columbin, lias been sold to the County Treasurer. Married, in Newberry, September 28th, George Cromer, of Abbeville, to Mattie Rhodes. Married, September 30th, in Anderson county, Calvin N. Kay, of Texas, to N. Eugenia Drake. The new post office at Camden has been completed. It has look boxes, with metal doors. The Governor has pardoned James Walker, convicted of manslaughter in Anderson county. Rev. Wm. W. Mood, of Anderson, has recovered from his recent dangerous and protracted illness. Married, the 7th, Dr. J. George Wan namaker, of Orangeburg, to Carrie E. Connor, of Charleston. Married, at Cokesbury, September 29th, James F. J. Caldwell, of Newber ry, to Rebecca C. Connor. Mr. Enoch Benson, of Pickens, had to have his right arm amputated because of laceration in a cotton gin. Died, in Newberry, 3d, youngest child of W. T. Wright, and recently, the last of Mr. Drayton Chandler’s children. A little daughter of Major W. F. De- Schamps, of Sumter, was badly hurt re cently, by the falling of a grape vine arbor on her. Judge Bacon, attorney for tho Jen nings Family Association, has returned to Columbia from England, where he has bee to look after his clients’ inter est in tho Jennings’ estate. Tho farmers in the neighborhood of Montioello, Fairfield county, are report ed in better condition, so far as provis ions aro concerned, than at any other time since the war. Mr. J. K. Davis has raised 500 bushels more corn than he needs. In the Jackson’s Creek neighborhood one hand on Capt. S. B. Clowney’s plantation gathered 40,000 pounds of hay from an eight acre mea dow. Good for old Fairfield ! THE MURDERED SCHOOL CURL IN NEW HAMPSHIKE. Discovery of Josie Langmuid's Head Seventy-Five Rods From the Body— Arrest of the Possible Murderer— The Circumstances of the Search for the Missing One. Concord, N. H., Octobers.—The ter rible outrage at Pembroke, reported late last evening, has aroused intense excite ment all over the State, and hundreds are thronging the trains iu their eager cariosity to visit the scene. The discov eries of to-day have been few. Miss Josie Langmaid, 18 years of age, daugh ter of James F. Langmaid, who resided a mile and a half from the Pembroke Academy, left home for the academy at 8 o’clock yesterday morning. The road is a lonely one, and in the distance of a mile and a half there are but six houses. Josie was seen to pass the house of Mr. Amos Hoytt, a fourth of a mile from her home, but after that she was not seen alive, nor did she reach the academy. She was not missed until evening, for her younger brother supposed that she had remained at home. Her father at once aroused the neighbor, and a sys tematic search was begun on both sides of the road. Shortly after 8 o’clock, Mr. Copp, one of the party, came upon her headless body in a dense undergrowth of birch, about eight rods from the road, and a mile from home. Tho father was the third or fourth man to see it, and, as his eyes fell upon the sickening eight, he exclaimed, “Oh, my God !” and threw himself beside the bloody corpse, alter nately kneeling beside and embracing it. The ground and loaves for quite a space were completely saturated with blood, as was the butt of the tree. The cloth ing of tho girl was torn into shreds. Three bones of the right hand were broken, as if the hand had been struck when vainly attempting to ward off a blow. The head was cut off cleanly, as if out by a large sharp knife. The spi nal column was severed between the first and second vertebra*. It was the unanimous opinion of tho physicians that decapitation was performed, or be gun, before the girl was dead, because of the profuse evidence of her having bled freely. The body was otherwise brutally mutilated. Two rings, one of plain gold and one of rubber, and a gold enameled breast pin and ear rings, were not to be found on tire body. The body was taken home by the neigh bors, and placed in tho same position as when found, the light leg doubled un der the left, the right arm laid across the breast, the left one under the body. At dawn search was begun by a large party for the missing head, books, and water-proof cloak. About eight o’clock Horace Ayer found the head, partly roll ed up in the water-proof, about 75 rods northwest of where the body was found, in the same piece of woods. It was par tially uncovered, resting on the water proof, which was carefully thrown over it, but not quite concealing it. There was a wound on each side, several inches long, and a cut on the top; on the right cheek there was a well-defined imprint of a boot heel of medium size. There was also a cut on her cheek, just in front of the left ear, that was probably made by some sharp instrument. A few minuteß later the books were found, and near by a heavy oak stick, considerably stained with blood. At about 10 o’clock Deputy Sheriff Hildreth took one William Drew, of Pembroke, into custody on suspicion. Drew is a young man 22 years of age, ot dissolute habits, and lives about half a mile back of the woods where the murder was committed. He is married to a woman equally dissolute. It was thought advisable to lock him up, though there is no direct proof pointing to him as the assassin. Officer Hildreth was obliged to draw his pistol on the crowd when he locked Drew up at Bun cook. The coroner’s inquest was begun and adjourned to Thursday. NEW YORK NEWS. New Yobk, October 7. —The German .Savings Bank Company, of Fourth avenue and Fourth street, is enforcing the sixty days rule. Orders of arrest were granted on Wednesday last against Wm. Butler Duncan, Wm. Watts Sherman and Francis H. Crain, of the late banking firm of Duncan, Sherman & Cos., on complaint of W. A. and Chas. G. Raebling, who charge the firm with fraud in having sold them a bill of exchange on London six days before the suspension and when, as alleged, they knew it would be dishonored. The orders of arrest were executed on Thurs day and each of the defendants gave bail in the sum of $5,000. Another suit has been instituted against Tweed in the name of the people to recover nearly a million dollars. | The order of arrest was served yesterday, re turnable October 31st. Bail. $1,000,000, Ex-Senator Fenton has written a let ter, saying that he feels it his duty to support, in the present canvass, the Re publican candidates. Mayor Wickham has requested the resignation of Police Commissioners Matsell, Smith, Yoorhees and Dis becker. Charges of malfeasance were brought against them. A large five story brick building, used for manufacturing purposes and occupied by the families employed, was burned at Wilmansbtirg. Loss, $50,000. A kindred persons ousted. WASHINGTON NEWS. Heturns of National Banks. Washington, October 6. —The Comp troller of the Currency has called upon the National Banks for a report exhibit-, ing their condition at the close of busi ness on Friday, the first of October, 1875. The Comptroller, iu September last, issued circulars requesting returns from nil the National Banks of the amount of State taxes paid by them du ring the years 1874 and 1875. These re turns are not yet complete for any State, and such banks as have uot responded are urgently requested to do so. A compilation has, however, been made from such returns as have been re ceived from the Stato of Ohio, which comprises three-fourths of the banks of the State, from which it appears that tiio ratio of State taxation upon capital in the city of Cincinnati is 252 per cent., and in Cleveland 219, and from all the banks of the State, including those cities, 232. The amount of United States taxes for the same period was 162, making a total of State and nation al taxes of 394 pe: cent. It is estimated that the total average of taxation of the National Banks of Ohio is about four per cent. Similar returns were made by the banks of Ohio in 1867 and 1869. The rate of State taxation in 1867 was 232 per cent., Federal taxation 229, in all 461. In 1862 the rate of State taxa tion was 250, and tho United States tax ation 287, in all 537 per cent. For that year a liceuse and an income tax were included in the United States taxation for 1868 and 1869, which was subse quently repealed. The Secretary of the Interior. Nothing definite is yet known iu re gard to who the new Secretary of the Interior will be, but to-day report had it that Coleman having declined the ap pointment, and the Republicans of Pennsylvania being unable to select a satisfactory man, General B. R. Cowen, Acting Secretary, would be appointed. General Cowen himself is unaware of any such determination on the part of the President, and does not credit the story. If it be true that a blank com mission lias been forwarded to the President, he will uot get it until he ar rives iu Denver to-day. After the com mission is signed the fact may bo sent East by Telegraph. The limit of Gen eral Cowen’s term of service as Acting Secretary expires on Sunday, aud should no appointment then be made tho Presi dent will probably make an ad interim appointment. Allen and Hayes, A number of officials, clerks and em ployees of the Government, who stood upon the rolls as appointed from Ohio, and most of them actually residents of that State, some time since made up a pool amounting to several thousand dol lars, and entrusted it to one of the shrewdest of their number to take it to Ohio and double it by bets ou the com ing election, and at the same time strengthen the cause by an exhibition of confidence iu their candidate, Governor Hayes. This gentleman went to Ohio, and after a careful survey of the ground and conference with the best informed men of his party, he has written to tho club that he deems it unsafe to take any bets ou less than thirty thousand for Allen. He asked further instructions. After consultation among the several as sociates, it was to-day agreed to direct the individual to return the money for distribution to the subscribers. News From Government Headquar ters. Washington, October B. —Tho Treas ury Department is officially advised that parties in Cochrano’s distillery, one of the largest in Chicago, were caught in the act of withdrawing spirits unlawful ly from the cistern room. Postmaster- General Jewell has returned. Action has been brought against G. W. Bnlloch on a sixteen thousand dollar irregularity in his accounts as chief disbursing offi cer of tho Freedmen’s Bureau. By a provision of the treaty of Berne, packages for transmission through the mails between the countries embraced in that treaty are limited, for written mat ter, to eight ounces, and to two pounds and three ounces for printed matter and articles of merchandise. This fact does not seem to bo generally known in this country, the impression prevailing that tho United States limit of four pounds is allowed. Packages weighing over two pounds and three ounces are daily arriving at the New York office, directed to European countries, but they can go no further aud are sent to the Dead Letter Office in Washington, to meet the fate of dead matter. Fifty-three packages were sent to the Dead Letter Office to-day by Postmaster James from New York, only two of which the place of mailing was known. One of these was from Galves ton, Texas; the other from Richmond, Va., and the package was directed to Judah P. Benjamin. Statement of a Mississippi Delegation as to Affairs in that State. Ex-Senator Pease, Geo. Wells, U. S. District Attorney, and Hon., Geo. E. Harris, Attorney-General of Mississippi, held a lengthy mterview with Attorney- General Pierrepont to-day. These gen tlemen presented a clear and compre hensive statement of tho causes which have led to the unfortunate state of affairs in Mississippi, its present actual condition, and other views as to the proper remedy for existing evils. They represented that much of the prevailing disorder arises from tho inevitable de moralization attending all groft civil revolutions, especially such an upheaval of the social and political institutions of the South ns characterizes the late revolution. That the immediate causes which have led to the recent out breaks between tho whites and ne groes are attributable to llio extreme partisan measures inaugurated by the Democratic party, but especially to the utter want of statesmanship, the weak and corrupt administration of the State government for the past two years under Governor Ames, who, they represent, has prostituted his office for the promo tion of his personal interests, as evinced in numerous instances which they de- * tected, such as controlling and attempt ing to control the co-ordinate branches of the government in his own interest. Instead of conciliating the passions and prejudices of the people and encourag ing every indication of returning friend ship, ho lias pursued a policy which has resulted in a violent antagonism between the races. Now that the issue is made, he appeals to the Federal Government in his extremity for aid to sustain his waning political fortunes. He has made such an indefensible record that no honest Republican will undertake to sustain him before tiie people. They say that the Democratic party are pur suing a course of intimidation and vio lence in many localities which is with out excuse, justification or palliation, but that a large majority of the white people deprecate disorder aud violence and are ready to assist the. proper au thorities in maintaining public tran quility. They heartily endorsed the ac tion of the_ President and tho Attorney- General in relation to Federal interven tion. They represent that the attempt at this time, on tho eve of an e'ection, to organize a State militia will be con strued as a partizan measure, and there fore extremely hazardous, and liable to result in a bloody revolution. That under the circumstances, the militia cannot be organized or used to meet the ends con templated—the laws of the State. That Congress having failed at its last ses sion to provide suitable protection, leg islation looking to the enforcement of the Constitutional amendments, the late insurrectionary States must adopt a “ polity ” which will meet the exigen cies; that tho Republican party should adopt a conciliatory policy which will commend itself to the intelligence and wealth of the State. The Attorney- General seemed to evince much interest in the views presented by these gentle men and assured them of his cordial sympathy and support. He urged them to remain and he would accompany them t© see the President on his return. SPORTING NEWS. Jebome Pakk, October B.—First race, 1 i mile dash, Pieolo winner, Josie B. second, B. F. Carver third—time, 2:4sjf'. Second race, 2t miles, Aaron Penning ton winner, Willie Burk second. Shy lock was beaten off—time, 4:151. Third race, mile heats, Phadomonthus won— time, 1:48, 4:Bi. Fourth race, five fur longs, two year olds, Virginias winner, Cyril second, Mollie Carew third—time, 1:00 j. Nashville, October 8. —First race for two year olds, won by Gardners Ch. F. Time, 1:46, Plenty second, Clemmie G. third. Second race, mile heats, won by Weatherly, Fairplay second—time, 1:45*, 40), 47*. Third race, for beaten three year olds, dash three-quarter mile, won by Sallie Gardner, Sue Wynn second, Vindicator third —time, 1:16). Mr. Mincke, one of the two lawyers at St. Louis who recently fought a blood less duel, writes a ferocious card to the Republican, in which he denies that he had a pair of slippers in his dauntless breast to protect him from bullets, and adds: “On the occasion of the duel be tween me and Grismore I bared my bo som and received his fire without flinch ing, as any man would do who is as brave as the point of a sword. Gris more, on the contrary,, thought himself dead, and had to be straightened out by copious draughts of crooked whisky.” - The Hon. Alexander H. Stephens is announced as a lecturer in one of the lycenm courses in Chicago, for which he will receive SI,OOO,