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OLD MHIES-m. LIIIII. NSW SERIES—VOL. UIII. gfttonxtle and Smttwtl WjajNiiSPAI..NO¥aMBEBI7, 1875. way b*sn srgoed before tbe Supreme Court of the United State* at Washington. One elan grew oat. at tbe Granger lcgialfyiog of the rathe for UnnepertidWi MJdfcwW, to gratify a popular, demand for low Urea and freight*, on roads owned mainly by noo-remdents mid operated under •baiters which did not reeefr* th* f Bighi, of leetnotmg rates .by law. ‘ The oom paaies contend that this Ipgiatatioo is nntphaffttttionai, and as fee vs}** ,e| some of tbe re4way' seearitfM triH he serioasJy depressed if they are subject to snob regulations the decision of the questions at issne is awaited with much interest and may axstciee an unportent infinenoa utpcm internal Improvement* in all State* and Territories. Another class at cases recently argued refers t° the Pacific railroads. By a decision rendered by the Court of Claims last Spring the Qovernment cannot withhold rcaasin transporting mails. United States troops, army supplies, etc., as an offset to the large amount it has paid as interest on the bonds issued to aid the construction of these roads, and the Attorney-General has made a vigorous effort to have this decision overruled. If the Supreme Court adopts his view of the law a very considerable annnal saving of national expenditures will be effected. THE FEEJEK ISLANDS. The Hartford Time* is dilcuasing tbe extinction of uncivilized tribes by dis ease, and says that we read how barbar ous or half oivilized races have inevit ably faded out, and wholly vanished be fore the aggressive progress of “oivi lized” and iuvad’ng peoples. In a vagne way, perhaps, we haveoome to the con clusion that this is to be the ultimate fate of what is left of the American In dian race, and perhrps of the wretched tribos of barbarous Africa; but few of us, probably, have had any “realizing sense” of the fact that this process of extinction, in a manner far more direot and rapid than that by which we are ao customed to see the gradual diminution of the American ludian, is actually go ing on at the preseut time, and threaten ing the speedy extinction of a race num bering a third of a million. England’s acquisition of the tropical South Sea islands, known as the Feejee (or Fiji) Islands, has proved disastrous to the un fortunate natives. Within the past twelve months tbe British vessols which took possession of these pleasant islands also took thither what was to the Feefee aus anew diseaso, in the form of the measles. London papers now oonfess that the unchecked ravages of this dis ease in tbe island have already destroy ed one-half of the entire pepulation ! This is terrible destruction. It is the perishing of 160,000 people by disease in less than a single year I The Pall Hall Gazette thus speaks of this shock ing destruction of a people; “It is “scarcely creditable to us that suck a "number of helpless people should have “fallen victims to a plague introducod “by the carelessness of English officials, “.without any organized effort being “made on their behalf. If, as we fear, “famine follows pestilence, the Fee "jeeans will soon become extinct.” SOUTHEUN IRON INTERESTS. The St. Louis Republican thinks that if some statements on the subject of iron-making presented in a letter pub lished by Mr. Gso. T. Lewis, of Tenn essee, be correct, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee are destined to become, if not the fntnro centre of iron-making in the United States, the seat of large and important furnace interests at least. Mr. Lewis has been engaged in making iron in Tennessee for forty years, and has studied und experimented until he professes to know all about it. He states that pig-iron not only can be made, but bas been and is made in these three Southern States for less than sl6 a ton, a price far below the coat of wakiug it iu the iron districts of the North and East. The cost of produoing irou in Pennsylvania is put down at $29 60 a ton ; at Youngstown, Ohio, at S3O 50 a ton, and in Indiana at S2B 60 a ton, while in the South it ranges from sl4 43 a ton in Tennessee, to sl6 in Georgia and Alabama. The explanation of this greater cheapness is found in the abundance of charcoal and good stonecoal in these States,both to be had, with limestone, near the iron beds; tbe mildness of the climate which makes Winter expenditures nearly as light aa those of Summer, and the cheapmess of colored labor. The Alabama and Ten nessee ore is said to be of a superior quality, and a favorite in the market. When it is considered that the Pennsyl vania furnaces are now forced to send to Missouri and Lake Superior for ore to mix with the indifferent ores of that State, there would seem to be nothing needed but capital to transfer a large portion of the iron manufacture of Pennsylvania to these favored States of the South. MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTH CARO LINA. The splendid victory vrou by the Mississippi Democracy is held op as an example (or the imitation of the Conservative Democracy of South Carolina, who are told that, if they will, they likewise can rout the Radicals at the uext State election. We wish that we could think so: bat South Carolina is not in the desperate plight of Mississippi, and the negro majority ia far larger. There is not the motive here to make the sacrifices which were made in Mis sissippi. There money was poured ont like water, and the whitee were determined to car ry the e ection at any cost. Some planter* In Mississippi gate one half of the proceeds of their cotton crop to the election fund. There was no holding back. Can we expect such open-handed giving in South Carolina f Will the Carolinians undertake to carry the elections bv force, knowing beforehand that the whole election machinery will be in the hands of the Radicals, who hsve thirty thousand negro ma jority at their back ? It ia well that we look before we leap: that we reason together: that we bear in mind what baa aoteaUy been gain ed: that we oount the cost of defeat as well as the frnita of victory. We believe that the runuing of a Straight-oat Democratic ticket in South Carolina would eel the State back ten yoars, and we know that each a ticket, and each a fight, is jnet what the Radical thieves will egg us on to, if they can.—Charleston A'ltfl amt Courier. Oar Charleston contemporary has al ways despaired of the possibility of a Democratic triumph in South Carolina, We are not astonished that it gases in as toniahment upon the glorious victory in Mississippi, and doabta and fears for Carolina. *We are afraid that this spirit has had maeh to do with the po litical troubles which have overwhelmed that State. The Democrats have let "I dare not wait upon I would" year after year until now alone of all the Southern States South Carolina is still in the toils of Radicalism. We state these things not as a reproach, bat as anjillnstrxtion. We know Carolinians to be a noble and gallant people, who have neglected no opportunity to free their State from the disgrace of Republican rule and its at tendant infamies of miagoverament and corruption. But we believe experience has fully shown that their po. y has been unwise and aaimdal, und thl it is now time Jot them tp discard it aT gath er. We claim a right to speak, for the dußataoL* amd Bwmnn. is a outh Carolina aa wall aa • Georgia n<i,*pe per, and we believe that many C roli niana will endorse the correctness > ‘ onr views. The News and Courier says that * mth Carolina is not in tbe desperate pght of .Mississippi; and that there is av the native thereto make the sacrifices k ich made in Muspiltppi. •’ Wa <,!ww something of the condition of I‘rth States v aiid if there baa bean a time 1 nr mg'the past ten yean when South iih*was,not as bad off politically aa Ai&- rifeippi w* should like to be infonnet of tirodata. The debt of Sooth Oaro jna is treble that of Mississippi; taxatio;* it higher, and the profligacy and oom p -6m ,of iha State government hue been greater. But be the result o! tike com parison what it may there are few Caro linian* who will not reality admit that the “plight” of their State is desperate enough to warrant the strongest meas ures for its redemption. Two years ago Mississippi sent Lamar to the House of Representatives; what respectable citizen gross since 1861 ? If the South Caro linians have not a motive to make the “sacrifices” that- were made in Missis sippi they have fonlly slandered their rulers. All the State officers are Radicals —some of them negroes; a majority of members of the General Assembly are Radioals—many of them ignorant and corrupt negroes and carpet-baggers ; one of tbe United States Senators is a cor rupt and unprincipled carpet-bagger who does not represent Sonth Carolina aa much as he does Pennsylvania; every C mgressman is a Radioal—two of them negroes, and the only one elected by Conservative votes the misoegenating Mackey; the Judges, with two excep tions, are Radioal partisans; with the exception of the extreme npper portion of the State the connty governments are all administered by incompetent and dishonest negroes and carpet-baggers, who plunder the people at will. Have South Carolinians no motive for getting rid of such a condition of affairs ? To this question we think there can be but one reply. What “ sacrifices ” were made by the Democracy in Mississippi which any people wonld not be willing to make in an effort to secure free government and honest government? The News and Courier says that the people of Missis sippi spent “ money like water ” in or der to carry the election, and asks, “oan we expect snoh open-handed giving in South Carolina ?” If such a question be seriously asked we; answer at once that the people of South Carolina are just as patriotic as the people of Missis sippi, and are equally as capable of making great sacrifices. They will give and give freely of both time and money to rid their State of the monstrous sys tem of sooundrelism which has orushed and disgraced it for so many years. To ask suoh a question implies a doubt which no one who knows Carolina and Carolinians should ever entertain. The article from which we quote also inti mates that foree was employed in Mis sissippi by the Democrats to oarry the election. What evidence is there that any undue means were used to influence that contest ? So far as we have seen, absolutely none. It , is true that a ma jority of thirty thousand votes presents fearful odds to contend against, but the example of Mississippi showß that even a more formidable majority may be vanquished. Two years ago Alcobn was elected Governor by nearly forty thou sand votes, and yet this immense ma jority bas been overcome. There is hope for South Carolina, and with tbe Conservatives united next year upon a Conservative ticket they will assuredly sweep tbe State. HARD MONEY PURCHASES. The Cincinnati Enquirer has a right to feel sore over the defeat of Governor Ali.kn in Ohio, and to feel angry with the so-called Democrats in New York who aided so liberally in bringing about that disaster. But the Enquirer has grown rabid in its assaults upon every body and everything opposed to the in flation theories which Governor Allbn himself so reluctantly accepted. Its at tacks upon Southern newspapers which oppose any additional issue of paper money have been especially bitter and unjustifiable. The Riohmond Enquirer changed hands the other day and at the same time discarded its inflation views. The purchasers are gentlemen formerly oonnected with New York and Boston jonrnalism. The Cincinnati Enquirer at once asserted that the paper had been purchased with money furnished by Wall street, and was to be condncted in the interests of Wall street. It also charged that the Mobile Register, New Orleaus Jtulletin and other Southern anti-inflation jonrnals had been subsi dized by the “money power.” Such reckless denunciation defeats itself, and the Enquirer will only injure its cause by making oharges which cannot be sub stantiated. FOR OOVERNOR. “ Halifax," the Atlanta correspondent of the Augnsta Cbboniole and Senti nel, Bays: A drummer of oug of the business houses ia this city Just returned from several weeks' tour on the various railroads in the State says that, without exaggeration, he feels justified in saying that twenty-foar oat of every twenty five men he saw were for Smith for Governor. Wo don’t know how much this para graph is worth to Governor Smith. Our own opinion is that he would prefer to be United States Senator. Abo at this we may be mistaken. As to publio sen timent on the gubernatorial question, we are of the opinion that it is divided. There is a strong feeling among many in this section to plaoe in nomination a man who has not been so prominent, or rather so prominently spoken of for that position. Thousands of Cherokee Democrats are in favor of Hebschel V. Johnson, in our opinion, if we may jndge from the numerous expressions of preference in that direction. His name is not so mentioned, so far as we have heard, without being endorsed “ by all present." This sentiment seems to be the stronger for the reason that it is known that Mr. Johnson does not seek the offioe and is averse to re-entering poli tics. He will certainty not be an aspi rant ; bat if the people desire his nom ination, and snoh action should be deemed necessary or important for the nnity and harmony of the Democratic party, Mr. Johnson could not consist ently refuse to serve the people who have so often honored him, and who re- I spect and venerate him for his stern in tegrity, his lofty intellect and trans oendant abilities as a statesman. We shall support the nominee if he is fairly nominated; but we would be glad to see a statesman in the Executive chair whose national fame and distin guished statesmanship will give the : prestige to the State that has ever j marked Georgia as one of the best gov erned States is the Union except while under the Radical regime. — Rom* Cou rier. Oept. G. W. Bowen, of Borne, is going to lrve in Florida. ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES. The people of Baltimore have re cently been engaged in a “ great public work” which was given oat by contract, as most “ greet public works” usually are. But tha people at Baltimore have gotten off better with their “ great pub lic work” than have the people of other cities.- Baltimore needed a City Hail apd it was “ estimated"—tbe cost 'Of all greatrohblic works is estimated— that thtMbifyding would cost two mil lion six hundred thousand dollars Tjhe oity government appropriated that uadi money and appointed a commission ,to see that the contractors did not “ap propriate” Mjr more. The othto day the commissioners turned the keys at the boOding over to the city and ren dered an itemised hill Of the expendi tures. The entire cost was bat two million three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars—leaving an unexpend ed balance of a quarter of a million dollars saved from the appropriation. The history of this great public work has been so different from the history of other great public works that the build ere of the Baltimore Oily Hall have found themselves famous. It is gen do. In this ease they did splendidly, THE STRENGTH OF THE SOUTH. As our Northern Democratie friends are arranging the platform and appor tioning the offices for the next campaign without consulting or caring anything for the wishes of the South, perhaps they would do well to remember that planning is one thing and executing an other and very different thing.- The Northern Democrats may plan what they please, but unless their schemes prove acceptable to the South they can not execute anything. A little investi gation will afford abundant evidence of the correctness and justice of these re marks. The next Speaker of the House of Representatives must be elected by the votes of Southern Democrats. In that body there are one hundred and seventy-eight Democratic members, and eighty-eight of these come from the South and Missouri, which is practically a Southern State. In the next Presi dential campaign it will take one hun dred and eighty-four electoral votes to put a Democrat in the White House, and of these one hundred and twenty eight will be furnished by the Southern States and Missouri. We state these facts not because the South is disposed to dictate to or usurp control of the party, but to show our Northern friends that the South has a right to be heard in shaping the platform and nominating the candidates of 1876. The South has too much power to be ignored by the Northern Democracy. Her reasonable and jnst wishes must be regarded. RAILROADS SWINDLING THE IM MIGRANTS. Washington dispatches say that the Commissioner of the General Land Of ficer, in his forthcoming report, directs attention to the fact that some of the railroad companies in the far West have succeeded in selling, in the aggregate, many thousands of acres of worthlesss land to immigrants, by fraud. The sales were effected under the represen tation that the soil was very productive, when the companies knew that the land was unfit for farming purposes. By such false representations the hard earned money of the poor immigrants has been secured, and they are left with out any means of recovering it back. The Commissioner desires that the mat ter may have the attention of Congress, so that the praotice of imposing upon immigrants may bo broken up. The Hartford Tima* says this is all right and proper, and hopes the suggestion will be promptly aoted on. But does the Commissioner give the names of these swindling railroad companies ? It is not difficult to guess which com panies are meant; but in suoh a matter as this, when definite and specific alle gations are made, it is the duty of the Commisioner to point out the offenders by name. This swindling of the immi grants who eome to our shore is a little too bad, even for Castle Garden dead beats; in chartered corporations who have lobbied out of Congress immense tracts of land, and who are seeking to rule the public, it is doubly mean and shameful. SOUTH CAROLINA. ''Mississippi has risen in the strength “of despair and hurled from her throat “the obscene crew of ruffians and “thieves who for years had grown rich “and powerful on her misery. As in “Alabama, the negro vote has been de tached from the Republican party, or “divided, while the carpet-baggers have “been abandoned to their fate by the “President. This involves the redemp tion of Louisiana and insures the “whole vote of the South in 1876 for the “Democratic nominees, with the excep tion, probably, of South Carolina.” The above extract is taken from an editorial article in the New York World of a recent date, reviewing the results of the November elections. The North expects every Southern State to be in the hands of the Democracy next year with one exception—South Carolina. We believe that with the adoption of a proper policy Sonth Carolina will be redeemed from Radical rule in 1876 just as Georgia was redeemed in 1871, just as Alabama was redeemed in 1874, just as Mississippi was redeemed in 1875. South Carolina must rise “in the strength of her despair and hnrl from her throat the obsoene erew of ruffians and thieves who for years have grown rich and powerful on her misery.” The case of Mississippi is the case of South Carolina; the disease of one State is the disease of the other; the same remedy must be employed; and the same cure can be effected. South Carolina will never have a better opportunity to ob tain her freedom than will be presented in the next campaign. She most arise then or be forever fallen. Let no en tangling alliances be made with Radi cals or Radicalism. Let no disastrons compromises be made. Let the Conser vatives of the State make a square fight against corruption and corruptionists, and they will oonquer in Carolina jnst as their brethren have conquered in Mississippi There must be and there will be a solid Democratic South in 1876. Banning for office in Now York is an expen sive luxury to the candidate, bat gives an im petus to the circulation of the currency never theless that is relished by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. As an indication of the amount of money that is thus expended, the Herald, of Friday, says: “In the Fourth ! Senatorial District, where there are over 100 election district* to be furnished with money, Jobs Fox sent to each district SSO, in addition to vast earns of money that are —M to have been given to individual votere, making his expenses run to over $40,000. Mouussrr only sent S2S to each election district for expenses. Beside the pools.sold on the election amount ed te over $500,000, and of thi. sum, it is said, Joes Mommsen won in pools at least $200,000. A thing very lucky for him. Some candidates for Civil Justice have bad to spend as much ms $5,000, sad Senatorial candidates have had to expend in several instances aa high as SIO,OOO. Assemblymen, whose salary is but $1,500, have spent variously from SI,OOO to $1,500, and not a few who have made large outlays have been defeated. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 1875. GRANT AND CLEWS. 0 . A New York newspaper announces that the bankruptcy proceeding* In Lite case of Mr. Curak, so far an the wtoJma of B. B. a Ktmo, of Washington, is concerned, are to 1m droppedby mutual consent of both partial. This ie the suit brought by emmzmn, a professional Washington lobbyist, to obtain a share of thejprofits of Opjrws from his aa at- MetiMmafc ite fac tor the public to ÜBfyjterefmv am teettataajr was mafia with hint by Q|jnrs to psy ft oertaio portion of the, profits in return for xerthpf in aecnring Iha WWfytW ■ JU part of the profits wa* to go to Ctuunu, a pert to Judge DEM, since deceased, and a part to 'ah’ unknown third party celled Yah Btjnen. It has been broadly intimated that this un known party was either the President or “GkBKYBK may “drop” the suit so far as ho is concerned, but it will not be dropped by the public. The Courts may be closed, but there is another fornm in whioh this scandalous oase can be investigated. When Congress as sembles next month the House of Repre sentatives should appoint a committee to investigate the matter. The mem bers of this committee shomld be men who would not screen any one from ex posure, no matter how high his posi tion, MINOR TOPICS. It is not a matter of much moment, but it may interest someone to know that there is still another way of spelling the Bussian Min ister’s name. The Boston Qtthe prints it Shishk. A constant increase is notioeable of late in the exportation of American manufactures to England, and it looks favorably for a continua tion in this direction indefinitely. A Boston ootton manufacturer has just received an order from England for $150,000 worth of goods ; and the exports of dry goods from New York last week amounted to about SIOO,OOO iu value. The St. Louis Republican says: “When a a Fiji Islander marries, the first thing he does upon beginning to keep house is to eat his mother-in-law. But there are very few sons in-law in this oountry who love their mother-in law enough for that." But there are many sons-in-law in this country who live on their mothers-in-law, and that is all the Fiji canni bals do. A correspondent of the Columbia (S. C.) Register “supposes” that Grant will be nomi nated for a third term with Wade Hampton, Job Johnston, General Gordon, or L. Q. C. Lamar for Vice-President, and asks what the South should do in such an event. Why not ask what the South should do in case the Be publicans nominate Benjamin Butler and ex tresident Davis ? It will be jnst as easy to “suppose” one thing as the other and the an swer wonld be equally easy. This year has been fruitful of disastere at sea. A large proportion of those who have gone down to sea in ships has never returned. Notwithstanding the strides made by science, ocean travel seems as dangerous now as it was when steam waß in its infancy. When the facts are known concerning the two latest dis asters, it will probably be found that the loss of life is not as great as at first reported. In the meantime people will tempt the treacher ous waves as much as ever. Brigham Young's* health is a matter of anx iety in Utah, and the Baints are zealous in praying for his reoovery. He is kepj a close prisoner and sees no one but the officials and his keepers. Should Ann Eliza’s energetic ef forts to compel him to pay money result in be ing a principal cause of bis death, she would not be as wiße as the traditional serpent. It would be well for her to remember that if she presses matters too olosely she may ruin not only her own prospects, but the proapeots of those sixteen other wives who are now in such dire tribulation regarding his condition. A San Francisco Jndge decided, the other day, that the marriage of an uncle with his niece was perfectly legal, as the statutes of California were silent on the subject, and only interdicted the marriage of whites and blacks, and that of husbands and wives who bad been previously married without death or divoroe having severed the fie. The parties who ap peared before tbe Judge had been married twenty years, but as their plea for separation was consanguinity and no cause for divoroe was urged, the bond could not be untied until tbe Legislature passed a special act covering the case. From an interview published in the Atlanta Constitution we learn that 001. M. C. Fulton, of McDuffie county, is the “President of the International Senate of the Order of United Beformers.” The Order of United Beformers was established by forty-two persons, repre senting different sections of the oountry, in Toledo, Ohio, last April. It seems to be a species of co-operativo organization for the benefit of planters and laboring men and women generally. Gen. Gordon thinks that the Southern States should be represented at the Philadelphia Centennial. If the Sonth is to participate in the Centennial as the eqoal of the other States of the Union perhaps Gen. Gobdon is right.— But if she is to be admitted only as an inferior, if her commissioners are to be asked to take a humiliating and degrading oath of office, we sincerely hope that no Southern Slate will have anything to do with the exhibition. We pre sume that an effort will be made at the next session of the Legislature to get an appropria tion to pay the expenses of conducting the “Georgia Department.” A thorough under standing should be had before a cent is voted. The repudiation by Turkey of half of its debt has caused great excitement among English capitalists. It is said that Turkish.bonds have been regarded for a decade past as gambling stock, it being well known that the interest was paid from the proceeds of new loans. Turkey began borrowing immediately after the Cri mean war, and has gone on borrowing ever since, being tempted into needless debt and extravaganos by the roadineaa of capitalists to lend. These capitalists are now denouncing the Saltan and his Grand Vizier as scoundrels and bankrupts, and they express fears that if one-half the debt oan be paid by repudiation now, the quick-witted Orientals will not be slow to discover that the other half can be paid by repudiation next January. There seems to be general apprehension that the Khedive of Egypt will follow the example of his Suzerain. It is a well known fact that plants sleep, and may be disturbed artificially, just as a cock may be waked np to crow at untimely hours by the light of a lantern. A French chemist sub jected a sensitive plant to an exceedingly try ing course of discipline, by completely chang ing its hoars, exposing it to a bright light at night, so as to prevent sleep, and patting it in a dark room during the day. Hie plant ap peared to be much puzzled and disturbed at first. It opened and closed its leaves irregu larly, sometimes nodding in spite of the artifi cial sun that shed its beams at midnight, and sometimes waking up from the force of habit, to find the chamber dark in spite of the time of day. Buch are trammels of use. But, after an obvious straggle, the plant submitted to the change and turned day into night without any apparent ill effects. Unprejudiced epicures and perhaps plain people who complain of the dearness of butch er’s meat may be interested in learning that a cheap and plentiful delicacy is added to the pnbhe menu in the shape of rat’s flesh. A so ciety of bon-ctean* has been organized in Bel gium to feast st weekly banquets upon this luxury, and to promote similar economical en joyment throughout the community. A learn ed paper has been published commending this dainty diet, from the scientific, gastronomic rwt historical point of view, and relating how the classical ancients ate rats and mice and such mail deer, and how they seasoned them and how sundry modem peoples, unbiased by false civilization, find pleasure and profit in the same nutritious aliment*. Tenderer than horse, cheaper than eTen the sausage mate rials that caterwaul on back yard fences, the rat ia a luxury within the reach of every family that can afford a trap of the simplest construc tion. BATTLE. ECHOES. " THE PRESS ON TUESDAY'S ELEC- The Recent BatttofeWhat the Press Says— Public Opinion on the Result ■i I-"-Beat, West an® North— Reasons FWBMfcl 'Prefllembne Profuse-Pay Your Money—Take Yonr Choice. Three .Question* Settled. Rep ] •i The victory eettlesbhree grand ques £ on* finally: It assures the election of ftHtorilfiieaii President in 1876; it makes 4$ lt*a<&oafyßfejtoi n sectarianism, ft id it removed the name of repudiation e from the arcto of politics. The *iff baby la dead beyoitd all hope of re suscitation, and the pfcrty that slew it is •tl te party which has bat to nominate its eftndidftte for the Pfwidency to elect , ’■ [mT A Verdict Againpri Graotism. I ■ i4& The New York Republi cans to bear in rotod Bud* “in every one of those six 3t*tsi in. which they have now been sufiappMFfbcir State Con vention of this yeitr; fifiich pnt in nom nination their resptotive tickets, all passed resqlatiocwhiwror of adminis trative refCarMjßd a third term far elutions of Tracti great victories, were a verdict against Grantism. The elections Tues day, wherein the Republicans have achieved suoh extraordinary triumphs, are a most unmistakable judgment against any more of Grant himself.” Independents Did It. {IT. T. Tribune, Ind. ] The Republican party was beaten in 1874 by Grantism. The Democratic party has been beaten in 1875 by infla tion. The elections of the two years, taken together, prove the existence of an independent vote whioh has both the power and the intelligence to dictate tbe result in 1876, and to secure the triumph of sound principles. For either party, victory is possible only upon certain oonditions. The independent voter will watch the behavior of each with some satisfaction in the assurance thaj he has the power to give the victory to that party which most folly satisfies his wishes by fidelity to the public welfare. A Democratic Victory, iA'aw York World (Deni) j It is au unprecedented sneoess. No other political party in the United States ever before staked its own existence upon reforms within its own consti tuency. That has now twice been done by the Democracy of New York. First, in the fight to expel the Democratic members of the Tweed Ring from the Democratic party, which cost it the con trol of the State for a term. Second, in the fight to expel the Democratic members of the Canal Ring, which has been carried through triumphantly, saving every administrative and execu tive officer in the State and costing ns nothing but the loss of one branch of the State Legislature. It is thus a suc cess unprecented in the history of the Democratic party. What Shall the Democrats Do to be Saved. [SB. Louis Republican, Dem .] If the party’s merits afforded the true explanation of any of its suooesses, there was as much reason why it should carry Massachusetts and New York this Fall as last Fall. Nay, more ; for the ad ministration of Gaston and Tilden have been not only irreproachable, but ad mirable. Bat if tbe party has no posi tive merits that challenge the respect and affection of the Northern people, and if every Democratic triumph be tween the Presidential years is nothing more than the expression of a transient popular impatience with the vices and blunders of Republicanism, then it be comes a question what the Democracy shall do to gain a firm, substantial hold on this popular confidence that is olntched at one day to slip through their fingers the next. It is very certain that the party cannot mnoh longer survive these beatings and batterings. A Salutary Influence. [Neso York Herald, Ind ] The oertainty of a close contest will have a salutary influence on both par ties, for neither will think it safe to make bold experiments on public feeling when a few thousand votes in some of the doubtful ytates may turn the soale. The Republican party will not be so anxious for President Grant nor the Democratic party to make an inflation platform, nor will either party dare to present candidates whose character for integrity is not impregnable against all assaults. A near approach to equality in the strength of parties is about the best guarantee of good government we can have under institutions such as ours. Neither party can afford the risk of put ting forward bad candidates, and the temptations of office are more likely to be resisted when the incumbents are watched by an opposition powerful enough to cashier them for slight devia tions from rectitude. Tbe Choice With the Democrats [Hartford Timet, Don.] The eleotions last Tuesday, in ten or eleven States, were favorable to the Re publicans, as a general thing. It is an “off year,” the Congressmen and most of the Governors having been eleoted last Fall; and probably the total vote is not large. Had the Democrats of Ohio taken the right stand, all this wonld probably have been changed. They would have carried that State, and then they wonld have done much better in other States. But the demoralization caused by the action in Ohio had its effect upon Conservative voters, and the result this Fall is apparent. In the Pres idential election, we believe, all this will be remedied. Bnt the resnlt of that election will depend upon the men nom inrted and the wisdom of the policy pursued. The Democrats can win the Presidential election, or they can lose it, by their own action. The West and North Mast Harmonize, [. Louis Timet, Democrat.] There is no less hatred to Grantism and the sooundrelism .of his administra tion, nor will there be; there is simply less confidence in the ability of one man to regulate the Democratic party, to dictate its policy end prescribe its nom inees. New York will enter the next National Democratic Convention with a desire not so much .to rule,as to discover what must be done to conciliate all sec tions, accommodate all interests and make success sure. The West will meet her in the same spirit, and the result will be a ticket that will win on a platform that will be just to all Had we carried Ohio, impossible terms might have been demanded of the “hard money Demo crats ;” had Tilden carried New York by his old majority, his arrogance wonld have been insufferable. And then, too, from these temporary reverses Grant’s friends will derive fresh courage. Let us hope that he may be able to enforce a re-nomination and that last Tuesday's work will inspire him to do it. Something fob Oub School Boys.— The following singular mathematical fact will be of interest to the pupils of onr city schools : Any number of figures you wish to multiply by 6 will give the same result if divided by 2—a mnoh quicker opera tion; bnt yon most remember to annex a cipher to the answer whenever there is no remainder and when there is a re mainder, whatever it may be, annex a 5 to the answer. Multiply 464 by 5, and the answer will be 2,820; divide the same number by 2 and yon have 232, and, as there is no remainder, you add a cipher. Now take 357 and multiply by 5; there is 1,785. Divide the same num ber by 2, and you have 178 and a re mainder; yon therefore plaee a 5 at the ' end of the line, and the resnlt is again 1,785. Postal Mattebs.—-To paste, gum or attach anything on a postal card, or any thing printed or written, except the ad dress, upon the side of a portal card in tended for the address, renders it un mailable as a postal card, and cannot be forwarded unless prepaid at the letter rate, three cents. Bamples of third class matter may be marked in ink or pencil, with the letters or figures by which they may be distin guished in a descriptive letter mailed at letter rates of postage. Third class matter cannot be forward ed from the office to which originally addressed, unless again prepaid at regu lar rates, one cent per ounce. Percy W. Milbura, a graduate of the University law class of 7s, died in San Frsaooisoo, October 26th, of typhoid fever. ! THE MAN ON HORSEBACK. The Third Term—Grant's Chances— A Revolution Approaching The President’s Plans—A Military Man and a Military Party. [fit Louie Times.] Mr. Jefferson was onoe frank enongh to admit that no country onght to be as long as a century and a half withont a revolution. Perhaps he said too muoh, but then it must be steadily borne In mind that in less than one century there have been two revolutions. N& section of the Union will longer tolerate injury and affront than the Southern States did. The Sonth may not have been pa tient but it surely was long suffering. From 1835, the beginning of the slavery agitation, to 1860, was twenty-five years. From 1808—when the embargo interfer with New England commerce went into operation—to 1814, was bnt six years,and yet the war declared against Great Brit ain, because of the embargo policy, brought three of the New England States to preparations for immediate se cession. And while, as it has been claimed, disunion is the greatest misfor tune this country could undergo—for nationalities are the work of time, pa triotism, and the fashioning of a divine hand—disunion, after all, may not be its greatest danger. It is consolidation, an enemy full of cunning, tpid always ... ... ~ -•; Not quite a century old, the country is likely before the Centennial to see the attempted accomplishment of a third revolution. Grant’s renomination and re-eleotion would mean this. It is not neoessary that it should be a violent one—one that brongbt arms and ammu nition into the transaction—bnt a revo lntion at the polls none the less momen tous because of its perfeot peacefulness. We do not deny that he' is to-day the strongest man in his party, and perhaps the ablest. In many respects we think he is, bnt these faots do not alter, and oould not alter, the vital natnre of that ohange in our fundamental principle of government whioh a re-election of Grant would make indisputable. It is most generally the oase, however, that the people are never sufficiently alive to the inutility and mischief of concessions wrested from them beoanse of their su pineness or indifference. If they are withont fear themselves, they rarely learn until it is too late that over confi dence is just as bad as over cantion, and that either in the wrong plaoe is capable of producing for the future as it has done for the past, the great bulk of the most unnatural crimes of history. Gen. Grant is a military man par ex cellence, and the Radical party is a mili tary party. These two faots should never be disassociated in any fair analy sis that sought to solve the problem of the late elections aa affecting the third term and the political fortunes of those who are adhering to it. There has been a revolution in the land. Nothing that goes by the name of habit, oustom, or tradition will be of sufficient worth as a standard to try the merits or demerits of Grantism. It is a law unto itself, and a most inexorable law at that. This is not the oountry of the past. Time has baf fled or betrayed many of the forebodings and foroastings of the fathers. Hamilton was of the opinion that posterity wonld not be enough governed, and here we are debating on the threshold of a des potism that lives and thrives through excessive governing. Hamilton put his faith in government to work out the problem of liberty, jnst as Jefferson to tbe same end relied on simple establish ments, plain habits, the absence of luxu ry, and the contempt of money. However the end may be, those who imagine that the third term spirit is ex orcised never made a greater mistake.— Grant is the absolute master of his par ty. If he threatens it with abandonment in the event of a failure to re-nominate him, he oan bring it to its knees. All believe, probably, that they oan win by Grant’s help; none, and incur his enmi ty. Rather than risk a single throw, they may rally to him en masse and sincerely. ZACHARLAH. Don Platt Returns from Europe and Pays His Kespeets to tbe Warlike Michigander. [ Washington Capitol.] “God is good to the Irish,” telegraph ed Dion Boucicault, on learning that George Butler had swam ashore at Long Branch with Billy Florence between his teeth. How the goodness of Divine Providence was shown in that instance confounds the common understanding; but we felt like offering up cry of thankinluess when our excellent President, in illustration of his reform speech to the Army of the Cumberland, called our particular and especial friend Zachariah Chandler to tbe Department of the Interior. Virtuous characters are, to our shame be it spoken, rather dull, and the selec tion of such men as Jewell, Bristow and Pierrepont threatened us with that dreary sameness of proper conduct so fa tal to a cheerful state of existence. We were contemplating a valedictory. We thought to throw aside our facile pen and leave to deeper moralists the dry chronicles of correet deeds, when His Excellency recalled the mighty British lion tamer, Zachariah, from the shades of private life to which the stupid peo ple of Miohigan had so cruelly consigned him. Here, quoth we, is richness. The adipose is deep unto mellowness, and all Washington broke in broad grins at the memory of the bygone recalled the mighty Michigander. We remember how in the glorious past the larger half of Senatorial Michigan rolled along the avenue or roared in the Senate, to the great terror of peannt stands and the British lion. The venders of over ripe fruit upon the oorners hastily gathered in their stores, well knowing the calami ty of an unexpected lurch, while Eng land’s sick beast, looking through the eyes of Sir Edward Thornton, said, “Here’s hell.” Poor old British lion. What were its death struggles, through oenturies, with the Unicorn, possessed of but one horn, to the deadly peril of a fight with the larger half of Senatorial Michigan full of horns ? Back came the memory of the terror that fell upon Newspaper Row when this hefty statesman raided thereon, armed with the stink surmounted by a dreadful swivel, likewise two navy re volvers, likewise large bowie knives in leathern belt, and in a voice that roared like unto Bully Bottom, demanded the whereabouts of one “Dion Pot,” mean ing thereby tbe senior editor of tbe Capital, who forthwith went forth and took oat divers and sundry large insur ances on his precarious life, ana ordered from the War Department Nathan Thompson breech leading ordnance of ten tons, in the vain hope of outweigh ing the hefty statesman, with his com plicated revolving iron mongery and sharp ontlery and swiveled stick. And we remembered with smiles the cries of Newspaper Row denouncing the raid as an outrage; for this great Michigander, who gets his patriotism from a jug, might, in shooting promiscuously into Newspaper Row, hit an innocent man, thereby perpetrating some grim humor, innocence not being associated, in tbe popular mind, with that locality. Memory recalled so vividly the times the Senate received notice that the great Michigander was ready for business when he sat npon his hat and npset an inkstand—at whioh dreadful note of preparation the British lion fled igno miniously, twisting his maiestio tail as if he felt ridionlons. In all this there be grave lessons, which teach one never to despond: “ Beware of desperate steps the darkest day, Wait bnt, for Grant will soon have passed away.” The Interior is a delicious plaoe into which to tnrn the hefty statesman. The error committed by other Secretaries of this comprehensive department was in the attempt made to master the details. The depraved Delano complained of this on fishing for his certificate of character when taking his final departure. All his subordinates, feeling the injustice of the head official, who pocketed the lion’s share and yet persisted in an attempt to get a farther divide from their small perquisites, complained of this, and very jnstiy. This intermeddling threw the entire business into irritating confusion. “Damn him,” cried the subs., “why can’t he pocket his steal and let ns alone?” The hefty statesman, like all great men, will leave the detailed steals to his selected agents, and thus harmo nise the entire department. This is true greatness. Napoleon—we mean the real Napoleon—in a selection of the right men for agents, found time, while gov erning an empire and fighting the world, to write codes, read poetry and intrigue with |the beauties of his. court. Thus opr mighty statesman of the swivel headed cane will have ample space and soope for his peculiar practices of the social sort. The lofty halls and corri dors of the Interior will resound to the popping of corks and peale of jolly lftugbter, while land grabbers fight squatters, Indiana fight settlers, sham pensioners dance on imaginary wooden legs and the great army of treasury eaters war on the Government. Our immortal Zaok has no nonsense abont him. No use trying to bother him with civil service reform and its new fangled notion that a man shonld be qualified for the office he seeks. Go to 1 Would yon oreate an aristooraoy and exclnde from office a free-born citi zen because he oonld not read or write ? This may do for snch effete despotisms as England, where the mangy old lion roars, but under the broad-spread pin ions of our noble bird, stretohing its wings from the wild woods of Maine to the snowy summits of the Sierra Nevai das, where the coyote howls and the pick makes mnsie to the shovel, plung ing its beak in the eternal ice of the north pole, while its majestic tail fans into fury the burning waves of the tropi cal zone—under this colossal ornitho logical specimen we say, and he says— for we have given a specimen of Zaoa riah’s oratory—the corner grocery is born free and equal, as the palatial resi dence of the rich and well-born, where, lolling in pnrple and fine linen, they read agricultural reports and long for more. “No, sir; not muoh of civil, ser vice reform; humbug, sir, humbug,” quoth the great Chandler, with some .ptofaft.werds4howtt-*naa ammunition, whioh the parity of our columns will not permit ns to print. And Zachariah has an objective point. He was pnt in to farther onr excellent President’s nomination to the third term, and he put himself in to further his return to the Senate. To this end, as soon as he secured his commission he issued an order to have a descriptive list of the employees made out, and then left for Detroit to pay the taxes of Miohigan. So soon as he returns all the clerks appointed by Delano from Ohio— and they were about all and more than the department was entitled to, for the noble purpose of putting the depraved D. in the Senate—will be expelled and the department made an asylum for hungry Michiganders; and if at the same time it is not made an asylnm for inebriates we shall feel gratified. In the meantime His Serene Highness, our corn-fed Csasar, promulgates his great reform, which began with a declaration of war against the Pope and ends in the appointment of our Chandler to the Department of the Interior. Brother Newman will now lead in prayer. Let the choir sing. BO¥TH CAROLINA’S MONEY. Soloman’s Bank’s Losses to be Cover ed—Mackey, Bowen and Cunning ham —Snubbing the Aristocracy—■ Bowen’s Fees. Charleston, S. C., Ootober 29.—The assurance of some men is wonderful.— Gov. Chamberlain has been making a State and national reputation by fine speeches, like some polite Paul Clifford, who almost reoonoiles his viotim, by his flattery and superior mental vitality, to being robbed by suoh a flue gentleman. Among the various features whioh have made his popularity, none has been more potential than his promised veto of the tax bill passed at the last session for this year, and which is really less than any former tax appropriation. Instead of vetoing this tax bill, to aooord with the expectations of those ho has been flattering, he is about to ask the Legis lature of the State to add two mills to the levy, or to make arrangements for one mill more under this act, and one under the aot for next year, to cover the defioienoies oooasioned by the failure of Hardy Soloman’s Bank. That failure carried with it $207,000 of the State money. The two mill tax will realize $350,000. This is doing a neat thing nicely | His Exoellenoy makes a reputa tion for reform. He, by his vote as Governor on the State Financial Board, deposits this $207,000 over the State Treasurer’s protest on aooonnt of the in solvency of the bank, in a bank of whioh he was the solicitor, and whioh had ad vanced large same of electioneering money for. him in the lasts campaign.- The bank breaks, the assets are fonnd to be curiously manipulated by the re tirement of its stook, so that no re sponsible stockholders are apparent to the Court, and the Governor vetoes the old tax bill, whioh was yet unsigned, to add to the taxes, for the purpose of straightening up the situation. Hush Money. He does not ask for the $207,000 which went down with the bank, but he asks for $150,000 more. This, of course, is intended for nush money and for elec tioneering expenses iu the next cam paign. And yet many of our South Oarolinina Conservatives will oontinue to throw up their hats and swear “Chamberlain is a necessity.” The fact is, they think they have to pay to get out of this sorape of irresponsible black Radioal suffrage, and that he intends to adhere to some indescribable bargain— that somehow in the distant future he will turn the State over to them or their i heirs, to remain theirs forever. They certainly have bargained this time with out their host. Chamberlain will rnq the. next campaign as a regular Repub lican, with a full corps of regular Re publican candidates, who will in their future lease of power strive to perpet- power as much as he is doing now. One of the carious points in this programme is the future of Charleston. Here ar the two factions of the Repub lican party, Mackey and Bowen, who have divided the Republican and the Conservate vote. Bowen, is by long odds the strongest of the two men with the regular Republican voters in the oounty, outnumbering Maokey two or three to one, Tbe consequence ia that in the Stale Convention Bowen will be fonnd alongside of Chamberlain, and must be the representative of that candidate and the nominee for sheriff of Charleston, oounty. Asa strong man, who has the means under his oontrol to poll a large vote among the negroes; Cunningham, as an old Repnblioan, nominated by the Demooracy against Bowen, the Repub lican candidate for sheriff, wonld poll a larger vote than any other opponent. The Bowen vote, which he would get from the Conservatives in snoh a con test, wonld be very small if Maokey was thrown overboara by Cunningham, and this would enable Cunningham to oon trol its masses, which, with the purchas able negro vote, might eleot him. This is the ultima t/mle of the News and Courier party in Charleston connty to beat Bowen ; and all their energies and sacrifices will be bent in that direction. The Opposition to Bowen Is more of a social character than either moral or political, and it has attained a high degree. If Bowen was a oonvioted murderer, he could not have been so cruelly treated as he has been by the old-fashioned aristocratic community of of Charleston. His offense to them, however, is oraoial. An alleged biga mist, a known Radioal, a former gam bler, he baß married a woman who was once a belle, who would shine in the conrts of Europe, from the midst of the old set, the. daughter of their former peerless ohieftain, the Hon. James L. Petigrew. 8o they “out” her, and have gone for poor Bowen. His office onght to be worth from $25,000 to $30,000 a year—on a square account according to law as Sheriff. Before the war, when tbe negroes went to the workhouse and not to the jail, the old time Sheriffs made $20,000 ont of the white people only. Now Bowen has ten negroes as prisoners to one white man to deal with, and his bills are very little larger. Yet they are not paid by the Connty Com missioner Cnnninghan. For two years the connty has owed Bowen, and not a cent will Cunningham pay him. THE TONTINE PROPERTY. Editors Chronicle and Sentinel : I have been a close and oonstant read er of yonr valuable paper since my resi dence in Georgia, and but few things in it have escaped my notice. The extract from the New York Commercial Adver tiser, in the tri-weekly of the 4th inst., has revived in my memory all about the “tontine property ”iu New York. The extract only gives the names of foar sur vivors, which is not true, norail, for the name of the writer, who holds a share, is not mentioned. Will you be kind enough to pnblish this for the informa tion and benefit .of all, or the few con cerned, and oblige the maiden daughter of a printer and editor, whose age is eighty-two Summers. Charlotte Newton Bind. Sparta, Hancock co., Ga., November 8, 1875. Katie Putnam’s company was here last week, and a young Danbury clerk wiio get* tea dollars a week took hie girl every evening at seventy-five cents a seat, leaving him jnst one dollar of his week’s salary to meet current expen ses. And yet people talk ef tbe demine of chivalry.— Needs. THE STATE. TpE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS. The shook shook Elberton. The Brunswick Appeal is offered for sale. The Gainesville Eagle is fair to look npon. Covington has thirty-eight young widows. Mr. Lucius Lovelace, of West Point, is oritioally ill.. Dr. E. H. Bacon, of Albany, thinks of moving to Maoon. L. J. Blalock, of Americas, has been admitted to the bar. Mr. Janies S. Jones, of Griffin, is go ing to Macon to live. Walker, the missing Atlanta Justice, has not turned up yet. Mr. S. G. Dailey, of Rome, had his silver wedding the 6th. D. James Dillon, Esq., has moved from Brunswick to Atlanta. Mr. and Mrs. Looney will continue their sohool in Hartwell next year. The dwelling of Geo. H. Winston, near West Point, has been bnrned. Mr. David Lindsay has. taken charge . Hip Bgftftft. Rev. W. C. Wilkes has accepted the Presidency of the Gainesville College. Thos. B. Moss, of Lexington, has been appointed County Commissioner. The Oglethorpe Echo pronounoes Howes’ circus a humbug. “Keno’s, kor reck.” Ellaville has anew steam saw mill, with a connecting apparatus for ginning ootton. Bailiff King, of Harris county, had to kill a negro prisoner in self-defense the other day. Rev. T. E. Skinner, of Athens, has been called to the First Baptist Church of Maoon. The aoreage in oats iu Early oounty will be mnoh larger this Fall than any previous season. In Worth Superior Court Dr. Gale got a verdict for $2,000 damages from the B. & A. Railroad. Mr. J. W. Yarbrough suooeeds Mr. W. H. Jaok as proprietor of the Cave Spring Enterprise. Mr. L. Berry and Mrs. E. A. Rober son speak of leaving Jefferson oounty, with their families, next year. The dwelling, barn and ont-houses of Mrs. Swain, of Lumpkin oounty, were bnrned recently, with all their contents. Oolumbns is to.have a bagging factory —the bagging to be made of jute. It will be the only one south of Kentucky. The office of the Newnan Star has one of tho wonders of the age—a printer who won’t take a free ticket to the oirous. On the farm of D. B. Frederick, near Marshallville, a white man named Mor gan shot and killed a negro named Peter Belvin. Sidney Herbert has retired from the editorial chair of the Troy (Ala.) Mes senger. He is an accomplished and genial brother. The Mountain Signal says it was mis taken about the Hand Gold Mining Company having bought Capt. Crisson’s mining interests. Hon. E. M. Rucker is to lecture in Elberton the evening of the 10th before the Elbert County Young Men’s Chris tian Association. Mr. Thomas H. Willingham, of Al bany, has been elected President of the Planter's Bank in Maoon, vioe W. J. Lawton, resigned. The dwelling and out-houses belong ing to Joel McLendon, of Randolph oounty, with all their contents, were de stroyed by fire recently. Miss Mary Thomas, daughter of the late Judge Thomas, of Elbert oounty, died in the lnnatio asylum, Ootober 24th, of epileptic convulsions. J. R. Porbos, 'of Troup' county, was shot in Columbus, the 6th, by Douglass Cadman, a youth of 16. Forbes will probably die from his wound. A negro attempted to murder Mr. J. E. Robinson, near Norcross, the other day. Mr. R. was unhurt and the negro was arrested but made his escape. The water of the mineral spring re cently discovered in Washington has been analyzed and found to contain very valuable medicinal properties. The Savannah News notes the presence in Savannah of Mr. W. T. Davidson, of the Augusta Constitutionalist , and his admission to the U. S. Distriot Court. The Enterprise says Covington has only a few old maids left. We don’t know anything about that, but wo do know that Covington has about the queenliest young lady in the Southern land. Mr. J. M. Colman has resigned the position of Auditor in the Savannah Custom House, and is going to Wash ington Territory. Mr. H. 3. King, of Ohio, has been appointed his successor. Willingham hopes the “Centennial Religions Celebration,” to be held in Cincinnati, will improve the quality of Cincinnati whisky. He can’t go more tharf six drinks a day of the present ar tiole. They hang people just for fun over in filbert county. The last subject played with in that interesting way was one Washington Dnncan, who had liked to have died before he was out down. Nice way the Elbert boys have of making a little fun. While Wm. A. Hutchings, of Jones county, was eating sapper at a restau rant in Maoon Friday evening, some food lodged in bia windpipe, and before the neoessary instruments for relieving him could be procured, he was dead. His egony is said to have been terrible. | When the Lawrenoeville bloods want to have a little fun they load up with mooeasin whisky and proceed to pull down fences, carry off gates, move steps, ran wagons into gullies, tear up flower gardens and perform other suoh inter -1 eating and innocent feats. Gay boys in Lawrenoeville, Nests and Farmer (Louisville); It is rumored, with some degree of authority, that Dr. Irvine, of Augusta, will visit this plaoe sobn to deliver a sermon on temperance. The sermon at the Grand Lodge, at its meeting in Gainesville, was pronounced by those that heard it to have been a very grand and superior effort. Charley Smith, a boy about twelve years old, in Troop oounty, had his arm so badly mutilated as to render amputa tion necessary. He is the son of a widow lady, and when told that his arm wonld have to be taken off, the heroic Ijttle fellow replied : “Then I can’t earn a living for my mother.” After the ope ration he did very well. The following remark is from that earnest paper, the Washington Gazette: “The Ghboniole and Sentinel is going on, increasing its circulation, and im proving in appearance and in real merit despite the hard times. It is one of the best papers published, and those of our citizens who wish a good paper will find it in this old and reliable journal.” A Wilkes county girl gave a young man the money With which to buy a marriage license for them. It was the money she had saved for baying a Christmas dress to take her to the cir ous. The young man got the license with the money, bnt instead of having the name of the girl who gave him the money pnt in it, he had the name of another girl inserted and married her. This is a bad showing for the chivalry of old Wilkes. Deaths. In Maoon, Joseph P. Daly. In Columbns, infant of Mr. A. J. Young. In Gwinnett county, Mrs. Thomas Dillard. Near Albany, Jeremiah Walters; aged, 67. In Jefferson county, J. L. Roberts and James Daniels. In Montgomery, Ala., F. Landon, for merly of Colnmbns. In Trenton, La., Col. M. G. Stamper, formerly of Southwest Georgia. Married. In Bainbridge, W. Snddeth to Miss M. E. Donaldson. In Rome, OoL Daniel R. Mitchell to Mrs. Carolina A. Williamson. In White county, L. F. Finger, of Gainesville, to Mattie J. Qoillian. In Coweta oonnty, John J. Addey, of Meriwether, to Lavonia A. Brown. In Hall oonnty, John A. McDonald, of Gwinnett oounty, to Mattie L. Spencer. In Hama oonnty, Wm. Herndon, of Chattahoochee county, to Josephine L. Brock*. NUMBER 46 SOUTH CAROLINA HEWS. Diptheria iu Sumter. Barnwell Pair commences the 16th. Colonel H. D. Capers delivers the ad dress at the State Fair. Several marriages are on the tapis in and around Greenville. The South Carolina freight depot at Aiken has been burned. The Mayor of Columbia has reinstated Nixon as Chief of Police. Dr. T. R. Malone has been appointed a Notary Public for Oraugeburg. Captain Johnson, Deputy Collector for the First District, has resigned. Carolinians cluim that Charles Pinck ney wrote the Federal Constitution. The Greenville Baptist Church has received fifteen new members recently. Anderson has been enjoying enter tainments by its theatrical cpmpany, Mr. T. A. Garvin killed a large black bear near Parker's Ferry, on Edisto river. Mr, Rucker, of Georgia, addressed a Blue Ridge Railroad meeting at Wal balla. Mr. Grief Tate’s gin ljouae, with its contents ip Anderson county, has .been .burned. •*** Master Banister Allen, of Anderson', was severely injured by being thrown from a horse. Gov. Chamberlain was the guest of Judge Reed during his to the Au derson Fair. J. Newton Cox died in Greenville re cently from the effects of a wound re ceived in a difficulty. Gov. Chamberlain favors fencing the stook instead of the crops'. He also goes in for doep plowing. W, B. White, of Oconee county, has lost his barn, 200 bushels of wheat, two buggies and harness, by fire, Miss Mamie Partlftw, of Anderson, was awarded a cooking stove, as tho best cook, at the Anderson Fair. Sumter narrowly escaped a conflagra tion the other night, making about the fourth escape of the kind this year. Tho store of Messrs. Ritter & Rookor, of Aiken county, was burglarized and burned the 29th uli, by a party of ne groes. In Sumter county, Major W. F. De- Sohamps’ gin house was burglarized last week. A good deal of seed cotton was taken from it. Dr. Pitts’gin house, in Sumter county, with about ten bales of cotton and 500 bushels of cotton seed, was destroyed by fire recently. Mr. William Wright, of Anderson county, fractured his leg by a fall into a ditch in going from town to his father’s house the other night. The dwelling occupied by tho family of Allman.Danner,near Neyl'e’s X roads, Colleton oouuty, was burned recently. Mrs. D. was injured, probably fatally, and her two children perished in the flames. Sumter has been visited by a Bulgari an Priest of the Greek Church, from Turkey, and had a lecture from him. He has traveled over most of tho Unit ed States. Governor Chamberlain has appointed E. G. Bußose, Nero Pendergrass and Adam P. Butler Trial Justices of Claren don county, vice J. M. Johnson, W. P. McNight and R. M. Thompson, re moved. Col. N. H. Davis, of Greenville, has invented anew Btyle of buggy—one on two wheels. He has exhibited it on tho streets of Greenville, and it is pro nounced by tho News to be an original and valuable conception. It has a slight swinging forward and backward, and al ways preserves an exact level, no matter what obstructions the wheels encounter. Married. In Darlington, Elliott Brand to Olivia Best. Hi- Ptmre to Flora XI. Mitiholi, of Belton. M. M. Bramlette to Susie Walker, of Greenville. In Greenville, James M. Dickson to Nettie Armstrong. In Fairfield county, Thomas L. Ros r borough to Lou C. Cloud. In Columbia, H. C. Milligan, of Charleston, to Idalie C. Elsroad. In Anderson county, J. N. Dnncau to Martha A. Davis; also, J. H. Ellison to Mary Jane Lolis. Died. In 'Anderson, Charley Bewley. In Anderson county, Miss Martha Neal. Near Williamston, Rev. J. M. Ltm dress. In Anderson county, Mrs. Wm. McGukin. In Williamsburg, infant of Mr. James McCleary. In Greenville county, Capt. Thomas A. Peden, aged 70. In Darlington county, Mieajah Thomas, aged 85—a soldier of the wav of 1812. t THE LATEST SWINDLE. South Carolina Text Books—AJßeview of Rogue Hobertson—A Damaging Letter—The Whole Truth to Come. I Correspondence News anil Courier.] New Yoke, November 6.— Tho com munication of Mr. J. Douglas Robert son, published in your issue of tho 3d instant, defending himself against tho charges contained in my letter of 16th October, has created a good deal of amusement here, chiefly on account of its cool effrontery and its total lack of truthfulness. To begin with, he says he has known Mr. Henry Ivison for twenty years, and that, if Mr. Ivison had been here, the exposure of his nefa rious transactions wonhl never have been made; that he was friendly to Mr. Ivison, because of his being a Scotch man, and, for that reason, desired to “do him a friendly turn.” Now, I have taken the trouble to interview Mr. Ivison on the subject of his acquaintance with Robertßon, and I learn that Mr. Ivison remembers Robertson as a sort of divi nity student, several years ago, in New Jersey, and that his reoollection of him is, that he left New Jersey under rather disreputable circumstances, and that his impression of him at the time was that he was a man of very little princi ple or character. When Robertson cun* here in the Summer, on his expedition, Mr. Ivison was at his mer residence in Massachusetts, iffs attention was called to the matter by letter, and he at once replied: “Have nothing to do with that fellow Robert son.” The idea of Robertson not voting for Ivison’s works because they were inferior is preposterous. When he failed to bring this firm “to terms” he felt so chagrined and disappointed that he wrote a violently abusive letter to the firm about the manager of the introduc tory department ot the house, in which he said that his reason for opposing their books was because of his hatred of that gentleman—this hatred arising from the strenuous opposition that gen tlemen made to Robertson’s corrupt propositions. In that letter he thought it a mistake that a house like Ivison’s did not have a person at the head of so important a department who “under stood human nature and business." No, no, what Robertson was after was lucre and not merit to any great extent. His stronghold was shekels. ELECTRIC SPARKS. Returns from sixty counties in Mis souri gives 50,000 majority for the new Constitution. The Bra and the Watchman and Reflector, two leading Boston Baptist papers, have consolidated. The Prohibitory party met at Con cord, N. H.—fifty delegates present. A. 8. Kendall was nominated for Governor. The Kansas and Missouri bridge, which spans the Missouri at Leaven worth, has been placed in the hands of a receiver. The Missonri State Centennial Com mittee have resolved to erect a fine building in Fairmonnt Park, Philadel phia, in which to exhibit the products of Missouri. At Fort Scott, Kansas, W. J. Philpot, night operator, was found bound with telegraph wire, gagged, and the office robbed of $126. He confessed doing the binding and gagging himself and stealing the money, which was restored. Philpot is in jail. Mingee Roane, a very beautiful wo man, of Southern birth, aged 23, com mitted suicide at number one hundred and eighty, sth avenue, New York, where she had been living with a wealthyjyouug merchant named Thomas Whitmore. She shot herself through the heart.
