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soironitU ant) Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY JULY 12, 1876.
Webster county has proclaimed for
Johnson.
Sumter county sends Johnson dele
gates to the State Convention.
Johnson county has eleced Johnson
delegates to the State Convention.
Appling county has sent two sets of
delgates to the Convention—one set for
Hardeman, the other for Coiajoitt.
Bad.
McDuffie, Polk, Webster, Palding,
Johnson, Sumter and Jefferson coun
ties have declared for Johnson for Gov
ernor.
The Democrats of Taliaferro count;
met in Crawfordville yesterday and se
lected Johnson delegates to the State
Convention.
Thebe is a rumor vague, far and dim,
that several counties have sent Colquitt
delegates to the State Convention. We
call upon the Nine great Gods to witness
that we have always said General Col
quitt is a powerful clever man.
The Macon Telegraph says the editors
of the Chronicle and Sentinel are
“able and acid.” This is attacking and
assassinating with apt alliteration’s artful
aid. Why not have called us “tart and
talented” at once and prepared for the
grave. . ,
Oub friends need not be afraid to send
us election returns because they are fa
vorable to General Colquitt, Colonel
Habdeman, Mr. James or Judge Beese.
Oar preference is Governor Johnson,
but that makes no difference. We print
a newspaper and we wish to give the
news no matter who it hurts or favors. /
The massacre of Ccsteb's command
recalls the defeat of Bbaddock’s army a
century and a quarter ago. Only there
was no Washington with his little
hatchet to aid the American cavalryman.
A Crow scout who rented a hole in a
ravine till the fight was over alone man
aged to keep his hair in position.
Grant and Belknap are avenged.
General Cusieb was the man who told
such naughty stories to the Congression
al Committee about the post trading
system. He has since been in disgrace
with the Administration, and now the
annoying witness has been effectually
disposed of.
According to a late English Parlia
mentary return, there were on the Ist
of January, 1875, ip the several union
workhouses in England and Wales,
64,088 men, 67,370 women, and 44,634
children. The Pall Mall Gazette sug
gests that it wonld be interesting, if it
wore possible, to have a return of the
number of relations owned by this
■army of paupers, with a correct account
of their incomes.
Thebe is a paper published at Chase
City, Va., which advocates suffrage for
men’ of 18 years of age instead of 21.
Its name is Young America's Advocate,
and its motto, “Give the Young Man a
Chanoel” Well, why not? The “old
man” has had his way a great while,
and there isn’t much to brag of. Then,
by all means, give the young man a
chance—particularly as he wants to vote
for Tilden and Hendricks.
General Colquit's friends claim
that the returns .received give him
115 votes; Mr. Hardeman, 22; Gov.
Johnson, 18 ; Judge Reese, 2 ; Mr.
Mclntyre, 2; and Mr. James, 6. It is
very evident >hat so far General Col
quitt’s vote is much larger than that of
any other candidate, but we have no
idea that it reaches the above figures.
He probably has 75 certain votes. Gov.
Johnson has at least 24 and Mr. Harde
man must have over 30.
The population of Germany on the Ist
of December last, as shown by the re
turns of the census then taken, was 42,-
.oi.-mi, au increase since the ist oi va
eember, 1871, of 1,670,020. The popu
lation of Prussia has risen from 24,641,-
539 to 25,733,754; that of Bavaria from
4,863,450 to 5,024,832; that of Saxony
from 2,556,244 to 2,760,416; of that Wur
temberg from 1,818,539 to 1,881,505;
that of Baden from 1,461,562 to 1,506,-
531, and that of Hesse-Darmstadt from
852,894 to 832,349. There haa been a
slight decrease in the population of the
Principality of Waldeck, in the Duohy
of Lauenburg, in Meeklenburg-Strelitz,
in Alsace-Lorraine, and in Mecklenburg-
Schwerin. The greatest increase is in
the large towns.
Some items of interest in connection
with the recent trip of the theatrical
manager, Jarkett, and his compauy
across the continent have not been gen
erally noticed. Some of the runs be
tween stations, by the railroad train,
were remarkable. The ninety milea be
tween New York and Philadelphia were
made in ninety-nine minutes. From
New York to Chicago, 913 miles, the
time was twenty hours and fifty-seven
minutes, the rate of speed varying from
sixty-two miles per hour to twenty-five
miles. From Chicago to Omaha, 492
miles, the run was made in eleven horns.
and one minute, runs being made of
seventy-five miles in eighty minutes,
forty five miles in forty-four minutes,
and of two and a half miles in two min
utes. On the long run between Omaha
and Ogden 1,032 miles—the fastest
time was ten miles in nine minutes, the
traiu arriving in San Franoisco from
New York in twenty-six minutes less
than eighty-four hours of actual time.
The following students from Georgia
received certificates and diplomas at the
University of Virginia for the session of
1875-0, which closed on the 29th of
Jane : John D. Colley, Washington,
Ga., proficient in Political Economy and i
in Constitutional and International Law ;
graduate in Moral Philosophy. James
S. Glaze, Washington, Ga., proficient
in International and Constitutional Law.
John S. Schley, Savannah, Ga., profi
cient in International and Constitutional
Law. Charles A. Davis, Jr., Greenes
boru, Ga., graduate iu the German Lan
guage and Literature, and in Industrial
Chemistry. EudsNES. Bartlett, Mon
ticello, Ga., graduate iu Law with the
degree of B. L. The University of Vir
ginia still maintains its very high repu
tation. Notwithstanding the stringency
of the times, there were (333) three huh
dsd and thirty-three students in atten
dance daring the past session. The
standard lor graduation in any of the
schools is said to be as high as that of
any University in America. There is no
curriculum, but the elective system is
pursued.
A jaaVENSE of Chinese immigration to
the United States is put forth by Dr.
Townsend, of the Boston University.
•On one point he is right undoubtedly,
that the influx has been an advantage to
California in redneing the extravagant
cost of labor and of servants’ wages and
in enabling that State to acqnire a per
manent basis of manufacturing industry.
This persecuted race was obliged to ac
cept lower wages than others in order to
get employment, uid however much the
white operatives may Renounce this as
an evil, it reitfoed the infla
tion of prices aad values au4 stages in
California, caused by the abundat.*o of
the precious metals, ad no other ih- ;
flueuce could have dose, bhould the
influx continue it must have the effect
to give a great impetus to iuduatiial
enterprise iu that Bfcxte, such as could ;
not possibly happen with white labor at
the prices that would be demanded
there without the Chinese. San Fran
cisco is thus becoming qaite an impor-,
taut manufacturing city. They are also;
the railroad builders of the Pacific coast,
an d fill all the demands for common
labor in digging canals, ditches, flumes,
cellars, etc. . j
the poor farmer.
According to the showing of our Col
quitt friends, the farmers of Richmond
are afflicted with a physical degeneracy,
confined strictly to the territorial limits
of the county. While the farmers of
much larger counties, Burke for in
stance, and Hancock, at the same sea
son of the year and in the same latitude,
can come from the uttermost bounds of
their counties to attend a mass meeting,
our poor, feeble farmers can not think
of it.
Worse than that, they are, also, ac
cording to the outgivings of their city
dry nurses, smitten with mental imbe
cility. Even if they were physically
able to get to the mass meeting, snoli is
the weakness of their intellects, as
viewed by their self-constituted guardi
ans, that they could not take care of
themselves after they got there, hot
would inevitably be outwitted and im
posed upon. The tenderness of some of
our city politicians towards these new
found weaklings is truly touching, and
their grief at the prospect of not being
able to nurse their weak and afflicted
country friends through a series of dis
trict meetings is heart-rending. Let
us find some consolation in the belief
that onr country friends are not as bad
off as their nurses represent them, and
are yet able, as they have been in all
the past, to take care of themselves.
DEMOCRATIC USAGE.
It has been stated so often in the
columns of onr esteemed contempora
ry, the Constitutionalist, that the action
of the Democratic Executive Committee
of Richmond county, in calling a mass
meeting to select delegates to the
Gubernatorial Convention is a depart
ure from Democratic usage, that it will
be well to give the facts for thp informa
tion of its readers once for all.
If the whole State be considered then
the fact is, that, with the Exception of
Fulton county, no other system than
that of selecting delegates by a mass
meeting has been thought of. If Rich
mond county should alone be consid
ered, the fact is that never in a sin
gle instance have delegates to a
State Convention been selected in
any other way than by a mass m et
ing. Let any man show the contrary if
he can. The trouble with those who are
so loud in their complaints is—not
that the Committee has departed from
established usage, but that it will not
adopt a new plan to please them. It is
indeed true that candidates for the Leg
islature aud for county offices have,
ever since 1868, been chosen by a
Convention of delegates from the
district and ward meetings. The
Executive Committee has not interfered
at all with this system. We presume it
will not. On the contrary, the same
conservative spirit which led it to ad
here to the unbroken line of precedents
in reference to the Gubernatorial Con
vention will doubtless prompt the Com
mittee to adhere to the established
usage in reference to the candidates for
the Legislature, county offices and Con
gress. ___
republicans pledged against
TIIKIH OV-N CANDIDATES.
At a meeting of the leading Republi
cans of Now York, held at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel previous to the Cincinnati
Convention, an address was adopted,
from which the following extract is ta
ken:
We shall support no candidate who. however
favorably j ndgod by his nearest friends, is not
publicly known to possess those qualities of
mind and character which the stem task of
genuine reform requires... .This is no time for
so-called availability springing from distinction
gained on the fields of action foreign to the
duties of Government; nor for that far more
dangerous sort of availability which cons sts
in this, that the candidate be neither so bad as
to repel good oitizens, nor so good as to dis
courage bad ones. Pa-Bive virtue In the
highest places haß too often been known to
permit the growth of aotive vies below. A
man to be entrusted with the Presidency this
year piusl have deserved not only the confidence
of houosi men, but also the fear and hatred of
thieves.
Brave words, handsomely expressed;
words that found no response at Cincin
nati Kilt -war* Mho-1 honk with thrill.
ing force and earnest endorsement from
St. Louis. Cincinnati’s nominees pos
sess perhaps that * ‘passive virtue" which,
in the highest place, too often indeed
“permit the active growth of j vice be
low;” but they have not that positive
virtue, that confidencoof honest men,
that fear aud Jiatred of the thieves and
corrupt official* wbipfc are characteristic
of the candidates of St, Louie,
Most truly says the Springfield (Maes,)
Republican of the former :
Messrs. Hayes and Wheeler are indebted
for their good Lsrtnne —if it is good fortune—
to two things : PorsoMJly all that is upright
and amiable,' they have not themselves
offensive to the honest men of tbs
and they have done nothing to earn the ill tsiti
and dread of the thieves.
Tilden and Hendricks, Democracy
and Reform, are, then, the watchwords
which should arouse every honest pa
triot to untiring zeal and energy, in la
boring through the present canvass to
elect the nominees of the National Dem
ocratic party. This should be a labor
of love, in which not only the leading
Reputriieaas who made the above quoted
pledge, bat every honest and earnest
reformer of that party, every honest and
earnest patriot of any party, o? gf no
party, should give Ids most cordial and
undivided support.
That pledge should find au endorser
in c-very honest voter—and be redeem
ed by every patriotic citizen. It has
found its echo at St. Louis. Let it
find its redemption in the triumphant
election of Tilden and Hendricks in
November next.
THE STATE OF OHIO.
In 1866 the Republicans carried Ohio
by a majority of 42,696 for their candi
date for Secretary of State. The suc
ceeding year Rutherford B. Hayes was
elected Governor over Allen G. Thur
man by the scant majority of 2,983, in
the largest vote that had been east in
the State up to that time. Judge
Thurman’s vote showed an increase of
27,000 over the Democratic vote of the
preceding year, while Ifr. Hayes re
ceived nearly 13,000 less votes than the
regular Repnblican vote in 1866. In
October. 1868, the Republicans carried
Ohio by 17,383 majority, and in Novem
ber of the same year by a majority of
41,428. In ueither election did it have
the inspiration of Hayes as a candidate.
It did have the benefit of Hayes in
1869, however, and the Republican ma
jority fell to 7,518 at the Gubernatorial
election iu that year, when he was aoan
didate. Iu 1870, when Hayes was not a
candidate, the Republican majority
sprang up to 13,831 over Democratic and
Temperance candidates combined.—
Hayes carried Ohio last year, it is true,
after it had gono Democratic the pre
ceding year ; but his plurality over Gov.
Allen was only 5,544, although the
latter was heavily handicapped in the
contest, and although thousands were
turned from his support by the adroit
manipulation on the Repnblican side of
the currency and school questions. The
claim for Hayes of “unbounded popu
larity” in Ohio is certainly not borne
out by the election returns.
Tb fact is noteworthy that the num
ber of passengers arriving this year
from Europe is less than was anticipat
ed. Instead of the Centennial's drawing
people here, the effect of tbia or aome
other canse, is to draw people the other.
way. The total immigration last year,
for the five months ending with May,
w 54,931. This year the total immi
gration 40,143. But it should be not
ed that, last year, the cabin
passengers for months number
ed U),455, this year their riamber is 11,-
364. ■ffhis increase is entirely ifcade np
of aliens. £ast year, for the
months, they 2,065; this
year. 3,385. It . £ fair supposition
-that this excess is due Jhe Centen
nial. Cabin passengers are Abe ones
who would pfttujsJly be attracted by the
Ceateuc&L
tbR Indian War.
The Government has gotten tfafi coun
try into a Modoc war on a largo scale. A
bloody battle has been fought on Little
Horn river and our troops were com
pletely defeated. General Cuhtab, one
of the bravest and best officers in the ser
vice, was killed while leading a charge and
nearly three hundred of his men shared
the fate of their commander. There is
no reason to doubt the truth of this in
telligence. We may as well prepare for
a long and bloody war. The Sioux na
tion is the largest and most powerful of
the Western tribes and their warriors
fight with a ferocity that makes them a
dangerous enemy. The disaster at Rig
Horn forces upon the Government the
necessity of taking prompt and decisive
steps to put an end to the conflict. A
heavy force must be employed and some
officer of skill and approved courage
most be placed ia command. The igno
rance and dishonesty of General Grant’s
administration has brought a costly and
bloody war upon the country. The In
dians have been grossly cheated and
plundered and seem determined to sub
mit no longer.
THE STATE CONVENTION.
We again call the attention of the
State Executive Committee of the
Democratic party to the necessity of
providing a suitable hall for the session
of the Gubernatorial Convention. The
hall of the House of Representatives
will not answer. It is too small. It
will seat about two hundred persons.
Under the call of the Committee the
Convention will consist of three hun
dred and fifty men. Bat the call is
not receiving a strict construction. —
Neatly every county has selected
doable the number of delegates to
which it is entitled. Many oounties
have selected three and four times the
Dnmber. It is safe to assume that the
Convention will consist of at least five
hundred delegates, and suitable accom
modations must be prepared for them.
It is important that sufficient space be
reserved for each county, in order that
delegates from one locality may sit and
consult together. A great many ques
tions will have to be determined by a
call of the counties, and great eonfiv
sion will inevitably result unless dele
gations are seated in such a way that
the views of members can be readily as
certained. We know the Committee will
attend to this matter as soon as their
attention is directed to the sub j cot.
MORTALITY IN OCCUPATIONS.
In the last annual report of the British
Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and
Marriages, a chapter is devoted to the
comparative duration of the life of per
sons engaged in various occupations.
From this it appears that the average
mortality of butchers and fishmongers
is very high; that publicans suffer more
from fatal disease than the members of
almost any other known class. Clergy
men and barristers, from twenty-five to
forty-five, experience low rates of mor
tality. Solicitors experience the full
average mortality after the age of thir
ty-five. Physicians and surgeons, from
youth up to the age of forty-five, expe
rience a mortality much above the
average; after that they differ little from
the average. The mortality of chemists
and druggists is high: commercial clerks
exceptionally high; railway servants,
high; veterinary surgeons and farriers,
very high; carpenters and workers in
wood generally, low at all ages; drapers-,
above the average, owing to the in-door
work; barbers, high; shoemakers a rate
below the average, except from twenty
to twenty-five, and at advanced ages;
tailors, much above the average; bakers,
a little above the average; grocers, a low
rate; tobacconists suffer very much at
all the younger ages, indicating that the
use of tobacco is prejudicial to young
men. One of the most gratifying ex
hibits is that made in respect to factory
hands, and the report says that the
wool, silk and cotton manufacturing
population no longer experience an ex
ceptionally high mortality.
—i
DOWN WITH RET AH' PRICES.
While rents have gone down and gene
ral values of all kinds have shrunk, a
certain class of well-to-do tradesmen,
principally those who furnish the
wealthy and middle classes, stoutly re
sist the fall in prices. This is more
especially noticeable among fashionable
tailors, hatters, shoemakers, dressma
kers, and the like. They have no longer
the excase of high rents and rapacious
landlords. The landlord interest has
perfojrgp made great sacrifices and ex
perienced Ue#?y losses. When 43,000,-
000 of people abandon habits of extrava
gance and enter upon a course of rigid
economy, it is time tq let prices go
.down, realize, and start fresh again.
The soospp everything finds its level the
sooner will the tide, which has so long
been receding, return to it? highest
flow, lifting in its upward course all
those interests which for two years have
been’so prostrated. The retail dealers
of whom we apeak complain of dull
times. No wonder. Their customers
have in many oases been absolutely driv
en away by prices forty to fifty per cent,
higher than are charged in other estab
lishments where business is conducted on
the new basis of values. These estab
lishments have put their prices down,
and are for (tfre roost part doing a brisk
business, which is daily increasing at
the expense of the fashionable artists
who sit in their shops waiting for pus
tomers who will come “never again
more.” —New York Sun.
THE “ ENQUIRER” FOR TILDEN.
It was generally feared that if Mr.
Tilden was nominated ,ti) e Western
Democrats would refuse to supper,t him.
It was known that the feeling against
him in Ohio was especially bitter, and
that State was given up in advance. Bnt
we have been agreeably dis’appojnted.
Ohio will support the nominee. The
Cincinnati Enquirer, the leading Dem
ocratic paper of Ohio and the West, the
unflinching friend of Governor Allen,
and the ardent advocate of soft money,
says of the nomination :
As for ourselves, we believe ti-S.t we can say
that Tilden was not our choice. The psrty
to whtoh we belong, and to which we have
always givaa our allegiance, has mad him
the standard-bearer- Opr battle for currency
reform, we are pleased t jknpw, made some
impression upon the St. Louis Convention.
Things might have been worse. We ppefer
Tildes to HjlYrs, and shall advise the Demo
cratic organization to stand by the nominees.
Our fiiends in the St. Louis Convention who
voted to the number of 219 for the minority
report of the Platform Committee kept faith
with the Convention and endorsed its action by
participating throughout. As we represent
that element of the Convention, we feel it enr
dnty to acquiesce. The people in Congress- 1
ional Districts throughout Ohio and Indiana
have a way open to themselves, and can
reach one of the vital issues which the
Convention, in studying nothing bnt suc
cess, saw fit to ignore, Jbe election of
Tilden would signalise the triumph of certain
Democratic principles. The election of Hayes
would signalize the success of principles, prac
tices and theories which we have made it our
life business to oppose. We hare many senti
ments in common with Telden-. We have none
in common with Hayes. What we have said in
opposition to Hr. Tilden—our arguments to
ppofe his unfitness for the leadership in this
great straggle—m°et stand. The party, in its
wisdom, has OTerioofced these potent reasons,
and if they now serve the eatery we can’t help
it. The Democrats of Ohioieel resentful to
ward Hr. Tilden and the element of the party
whieh he represents. Tney feel that they have
canse to .diaiike him, and it will be a difficult
matter to bring the strength of the organiza
tion to Ins support. We shall feel it our duty
to counsel harmony, for the •rgsaizsti&n of
the Democratic party most be preserved. It is
the only organization through which certain'
great principles will he established and certain
great reforms brought shout, Jt has disap
pointed ns in some particulars, hat W dp not
feel called upon to enoourmge the enemies at \
the party, who have oounted largely upon di
vision. We can extend no comfort to such.
The tiM oogmons elements of the Republican
party have ppted upon Hayes, suppressing
their digerenpee. o£ subjecting all questions
to the one paramonAt ' jnepuoc. Thera is
nothing for the Democratic party to do nut
does the ranks and move forward to the'moah)'
prepared at St. Louis yesterday.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Democratic Executive Committee** Call.
The Democratic Executive Committee
of the County of Lincoln and State of
Georgia, hereby give notice to the De
mocracy ef said county, that they have
called a Convention of the Democracy
of the county, at Lincolnton, in said
ooanty, on Thursday, the 20th day of
July, 1876, for the purpose of selecting
delegates to the Nominating Conven
tion for a Governor, and for a Con
gressman of our Congressional District,
and for selecting a member to serve on
the Democratic Executive Committee of
our Congressional district, and for se
lecting a County Executive Democratic
Committee.
Done at Lincolnton, Ga., July, 1876.
By order of the Democratic Executive
Committee.
C. R. Strother, Chairman.
J. E. Strother, Secretary.
THE PROFITS OF SILVER MINING.
The Detroit Free Press says it has
been repeatedly asserted that the gold
and silver mining business was a very
hazardous one for those engaged in it.
Iu some instances the assertion is borne
out by the facts; but the two “bonanza”
representatives which Nevada has in the
United States Senate present in their
own persons the proof that, so far as
they were concerned, there was “mil
lions in it.” Aad carefully prepared
statistics of mining in California show
that on the whole in that State gold and
silver mining has been very profitable.
Daring the past twenty-five years the
actual capital invested in mining and
miniDg companies has been $360,000,-
000; the estimated value of surface im
provements has been $200,000,000, and
the labor of 10,000 men at $4 per day
for twenty-five years has been $300,000,-
000, making a total on the expense ac
count of $860,000,000. To offset this,
there has been a production of $1,688,-
000,000 in bnllion, while the intrinsic
value of mineral lands working np to
1875 only is estimated at $750,000,000,
making a total of $2,438,000,000, and
showing a profitduring twenty-five years
of $1,578,000,000, or a little more than
$60,000,000 per year, which, upon an in
vestment of $360,000,000, represents a
profit of about sixteen percent, per an
num from the date of discovery of gold
in 1849 till 1875.
TnE MASS MEETING.
The Democratic Executive Committee
of the county, selected in 1874, were
elected to hold until their successors
should be selected by a mass meeting
called for that purpose. That Commit
tee, considering that the approaching
campaign should be conducted by a
new Committee, to be chosen this year,
by a large maiority called a mass meet
ing to select their successors. The
present Committee was thus chosen, and
is composed of gentlemen whose fidelity
to the party and the general good no
one will dare impeach. As the legally
constituted organ of the party, after a
thorough discussion, by an overwhelm
ing majority the Committee decided to
call a mass meeting to elect delegates to
the approaching Gubernatorial Conven
tion. Waiving the fact that this action
is in accordance with the usage of the
party throughout the State, and notably
so in this county, is it not the dnty of
all good Democrats to acquiesce ?
To insure party sueoess and thereby
the triumph of those principles, upon
the maintainance of which our govern
ment depends, there must be consti
tuted authorities to settle all questions
of difference arising in the party and to
these decisions all must yield, if our
organization is to be preserved. There
is a difference among us as to the next
Governor of the State. But are there
differences to lead to a disruption, that
will surrender to the Republican party
the control of our affairs? Are the
friends of every c mdidate to put their
preference above the common good.
It is to be regretted that there
should be a disposition to “bolt,”
thereby destroying our party organiza
tion and endangering our success. The
effort, so studiously made, to carry the
county against the city, is uuwise and
dangerous. The people of the country
are our people, with our interest, and
the idea of dividing the country
into petty sections and selecting
men as delegates or officers from
this or that militia district, or this or
that neighborhood, ought to be repu
diated. Let not the people of this
county be bound by such narrow dis
sensions. Let us not thus foolishly
throw away the political power we now
hold, but with higher and broader views
let us yield to the action of those who
have regularly and fairly been chosen
by us as the arbiters of all disputed
questions, and thus maintain the pres
tige of the past and the good govern
ment we now enjoy.
THE STATE CAMPAIGN.
Reports of County
Stewart—Appling.
Lumpkin, via Columbus, July 5.
Stewart county elects Hardeman dele
gates: C. 0. Humber, M. A. Willford,
C. J. Tucker and L. B. Morton. The
Convention also endorsed Cook lor Con
gress and elected a Cook delegation to
the Congressional Convention to be
called.
Baxley, Appling Cos., Ga., July 3.-
Hardeman delegates were elected here
to-day. Colquitt’s friends claim their
election unfair and say they will send
delegates for Colquitt, too. I trust not,
howeyer. Gpeat confusion and intense
Xoiteet prgyailed during the entire
day.
Forsyth, July s. —The following Col
quitt delegates were elected yesterday,
July 4th, to the Convention next month:
B. H. Zeliner, J. H. Turner, Jr., G. W,
Adams, J. T. Crowder.
Valdosta, July 4. —The largest mass
meeting ever held in Lowndes county
convened here to-day.
yK'pws-
Mr. B. J?. Jones and Ur. A. Jj. Smith
were appointed as delegates to the Gu
bernatorial Convention, and w,ere unin
strncted. If there is a chance for his
nomination, they yill vote for Hon. A.
T. Mclntyre, of Tbosaae, .Colquitt will
be their next choice.
The Rotation System.
A resolution condemning further ad
herence to the rotation system hereto
fore practiced in the Sixth Senatorial
District was passed.
pistrfet Convention.
A Convention for the purpose of nom
inating a candidate for Senator was
called to convene in Valdosta on the 12th
of Angnst, with the understanding that
the map was to be chosen irrespective of
conqfy lines.
RepreoEnWiyy ■
The county will nominate s candidate
for Representative on the 26th of Au
gust by a primary election.
Rather Early. —There is a young la
dy in this city who has the misfortune
to talk in hap sleep, and it is said she
will answer the questions
which are secrets in her waking hours.
She is waited upon by a timid young
man who has never been able to screw
his courage np to the “sticking place,”
and ask her to jnarry him. He went np
one night last week, pnd, entering the
front door, as was his habit, without
ringing the bell, he saw his dnicinea
asleep oe the parlor sofa. He hesitated
a moment oj6r the propriety of advanc
ing without apnoatafng himself, when
he heard his own name softly expressed
from between those coral lips, immedi
ately the pent-np burden of his heart
broke ont in words:
“Dearest, do you love me ?”
“Yes,” was the soft response of the
sleeper.
“Will yo£ marry me?”
“XeSw”
“Shall it be in a year fV
“Any time,”
“Let it be in six months?”
There was a moment’s silence and sus
pense when the lips again moved, and
the young mag heard distinctly the lit
tle word “August.-''
He steppeqcantiously i>aaK, glid
ed qnietl? from the Jhouse. Rd has been j
up every night since, but has not refer
red to %© t cqny,ersatibn with ,the sleeper.
August is a very pjcjgant gionth, bnt
the time is rather fog &9<ih fpy the Vpung
man.
Irascible Gent (to waiter)— “They sav
there’s nothing like leather, don’t they !”
“Yes, sir,” “Then it’s a lie, for this
steak isf” (W pitta evaporates.)
GEORGIA GLIMPSES:
Elbert Caaatx Letter.
[From an Occasional Correspondent.]
Old Petersburg, Elbert County,
Ga., June 30.—Knowing that you would
like to hear from this part of the State
after the late freshet, I will say that it
began to rain on the 11th instant and
continued to rain until the 17th. On
Sunday, the 18th, the Savannah river
had risen thirty-four feet above common
water mark, lacking eight feet of being
up to the high water mark of 1852. The
crops on the bottom lands of the Savan
nah, from the head of the long shoals
up as far as I have heard from, have
been completely destroyed. The cotton
was all killed that the water stood on
over thirty-six hours, also the corn. The
farmers are all busy planting corn. It
is very hard on all the river farmers, as
the most of them were short of corn to
feed on, and losing the most of their
oats, it will be equal to making two
crops, as nearly all were ready to lay by
their corn. I think the receipts by the
river this Fall on cotton will be fully
one-half less than last Fall, owing to the
loss by the river and a falling off in
acreage in the uplands. D. B.
Oglethorpe Count]' Letter.
[From an Occasional Correspondent.]
Oglethorpe Cos., July J 5. — The fourth
passed off as quietly as if it had been
no more than any other day in the
calendar. There was no demonstration,
no firing of gnns, no spread eagle
speeches, no suspension of business, and
no old time country barbacue. Many
an ante-bellum fourth of July was cele
brated with far greater eclat than was
the Centennial anniversary of the na
tion’s natal day. In my humble opinion
a great deal of pointless satire has been
bestowed on those old-time fourth of
July celebrations. Much has been said
about the noisy patriotism exhibited on
those occasions. Doubtless there was a
deal of senseless bombast iu the a T erage
fourth of July oration, and perhaps
there was much powder wasted that
might have been devoted to killing game
and blowing wells, and no doubt the
Temperance cause suffered seriously in
consequence of the generous potations
of enthusiastic celebrants of the nation’s
birth day. But have matters grown bet
ter since we have ceased to indulge in
fourth of July demonstrations? Grandi
loquent speeches are still made when
our young orators get an opportunity to
display their eloquence; powder is wast
ed on far less nobler objects thin firing
fourth of July cannon; and as for the
temperance question any well informed
lecturer on total abstinanve will testify
that there is still more than a sufficiency
of intoxicating liquors consumed by our
people, despite the fact that Fourth of
July celebrations have came to be al
most a thing of the past. There was
much that was really goo 4 in these cele
brations. They tended to keep fresh in
the mind and" hearts of the people the
valor and patriotism of the fathers, and
the young were inspired with that love
of freedem which is the only safeguard
of our American institutions. We can
not afford tu forget the memories nor
the princples of ’76. Thßre was moral
sublimity in that famoui scene, enact
ed by the representatives of the thirteen
revolted Colonies assembled in Philadel
phia on the 4th of July, 1776. There
was true moral grandeur in every act of
the great drama of the American revolu
tion. Three millions of people scattered
over a vast extent of country, bound to
gether only by the love of a common
cause, and a common country, without
an army and without a treasury, such
people rising up and shaking off the
yoke of, perhaps, the most powerful
nation on the globe—there is not a
parallel to it in profane history.
The hand of God was in the struggle.
The patriotism of the colorists, the valor
of Washington, the statesmanship of
the Continental Congress, the diplomacy
of Franklin, the assistance of France—
these alone did not secire American
freedom. They were oily the means
used by the God of the nations in the
accomplishment of His glvrious designs.
Political Mattel’s.
To a man of quiet tastes and habits
like your correspondent, the future is a
little disheartening. The political ex
citement so rife in other sections of the
State has spread into our county. With
the Presidential campaign, the Gover
nor’s election, tte choice of representa
tives in the next Legislature, the heated
term, and hard times, there is certainly
little hope of quietude for the next few
months to come. The public meeting
for the election of delegates to the nom
inating convention wts held in Lexing
ton yesterday. The meeting was unusu
ally large and quite harmonious. More
than three hundred rotes were polled,
Gen. Colquitt receiving a large majori
ty. It seems that the “Gentleman of
Oglethorpe,” who asserted so positively
that the county would go for Johnson
was a little inaccurate in his reading of
the political “signs of the times.”
Doubtless he was a little biased in his
opinions by his own partiality for Mr.
Johnson. General Colquitt’s popularity
among the Grangers and the members
of his old command contributes much,
no doubt, towards for him the
preference of our people. The General
has some bitter opponents in the coun
ty. The recent disgraceful primary
election in Atlanta has created a strong
prejudice against him in the minds of
some of onr best citizens. Qeneral Col
quitt denies all connection with the
sbamefnl scenes accompanying the At
lanta election, and J am disposed to give
him credit for truthfulness. Aside from
other reasons, it Beems unreasonable to
suppose that any political aspirant who
knows the people of Georgia as well as
General Colquitt does should be guilty
of the folly of couutenanong or encour
aging such gross outrages against po
litical and Christian propriety.
The Weather and Crops.
July is the critical month in this sec
tion. With abundant rajas in July a
good corn crop is well mghassured. We
enter upon the month with goqd pros
pect. The rajns of a few weeks past,
which have been frequent and abundant,
have been generally very favorable on
upland crops. Rottoip Jands have not
done so well. Corn is luxiripnt, while
cotton is small and backvard. The
small grain crop, oats in particular,
turns out moderately well. Mr. James
M. Smith, who Jives in the northern part
of the county, and who is one of the
largest farmers in Northern Georgia,
made seven hundred and twenty-three
bushels of oa son tea acres. The same
gentleman harvested about a thousand
bushels of wheat, gathering eighty
bushels from two acres.
Philip Farmerson.
AN EGYPTIAN “EXHIBIT.”
What f! Qarjns (JlrJ Bought at the Centen
nial-
[Philadelphia Correspondence of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle .]
Egypt furnishes an illustration of her
own sombre architecture. There are
many plasters cast of Egyptian sculp
ture, queer brass ornaments, old armor,
and unfamiliar Eastern products. The
sentimental effect was marred, however,
by the cards of price affixed to many ar
ticles. A sfilf greater’departure of my
mind from retrospective thought was
oaused by what I saw in ope of'the glass
oases, fha article to which I allude is
labelled, “Night Shirt—gripe Sold
to Miss Ordway.” The privilege of sell
ing any article on exhibition is accorded
by the managers, the only restriction be
ing that a delivery to the purchaser can
not be made before the close of the show
and that* regular dnty must be paid.
Miss Oraway’s night shirt is beautiful,
peculiar and open to objection for use
in this changeable climate. The texture
is like a web, so’ slight that it will inter
pose no barrier to sight or cold. Mos
quitoes will reach between the threads
and bite Miss Ordway if they are not too
polite. Every breeze will blow upon her
body unchecked. Hand-worked upon
the gosamer fabric are fanciful figures
in gold thread, and the foundation be
ing so slight, they look at a little dis
tance as though entirely unsupported.
Miss Ordway, when arrayed in this
night shirt, will depend largely upon
herself for the beauty of the effect. The
cloth will not cover her more thickly
than a veil, and the embroidery will
seem to rest upon her flesh. She will
have gold leaves and vines on her back,
a cluster on each shoulder, another on
her breast, and vines will trail down her
arms. The effect will be at least unique.
In the subdued light of her sleeping
room—clad only, to all the intents and
pnrposes of appearance, in a few gold
leaves and vines-—she will depend for
beauty, as I Remarked before, entirely
upon herself. Coming d. ow U to a prac
tical consideration, I wish to pay
prediction that she will eaten cold. The
garment is unsnited to any bnt Cleo
patra’s scorching clime. It will cost,
with the dnty, about SIOO, and is short
for the price. It mnst hang in the case
until October, to be admired by thou
sands of women. Miss Lilins Ordway,
f learn by inquiry, is a beautiful and ec
centric girl of Beading, Penn., who has
been here sines the opening of the exhi
bition. She is described to ms as tall,
dark, about 20 years old, and the pos
sessor of a fine figure. Her father is a
dry goods merchant, ChalHs K. Ordway,
and ate is engaged to be married about
next holi<ia/-ri&“'. 4? slie lonn ß
through - the main building, she sav the
Egyptian night Bhirt, expressed her aid
fpiratidn and bought it.
J.' *.
A man being aas be lay sunning
himself on the grass, whit was tW
height of his ambition, replied, “To
marry a rich widow with a bad cough.”
THE WAR jn the west,
A BBPORT OP THE BATTLE OP
Bitt HORN.
CoUr>a Defeat—How it Oeearred—Cnstar
ud his Relatives Fall in the Foro-front of
the Fight—Mehta and Days or Battle—A
Day and a Half Without Water—The
Rescue.
Washington, July 7.—There is as yet
no official report of the battle. Gen.
Terry gives detailed accounts of the
events before the fight and operations
after the 28th of June have been mainly
confined to bringing off the wounded.
Bismarck, July 7. -—General Custar
left Rosebank on the 22d with twfelve
companies of the Seventh Cavalry. On
the 24th, a fresh trail was started. On
the morning of the 25th an Indian vill
age, three miles long and a half mile
wide was reported to be fifteen miles off.
General Custar pushed for it. They hud
made 78 miles iu the twenty-four hours
preceding the battle. When near the
village the Indians appeared moving in
hot haste as if retreating. Gen. Reno
with seven companies was ordered to at
tack the right. General Custar with
five companies vigorously attacked the
left of the camp. Gen. Reno, felt them
with three companies and was immedia
tely surround and after an hour’s fighting
losing Lieutenants Hodgson and Mcln
tosh, and twelve men and several In
dians killed and many wounded, he out
his way out and gained a bluff three
hundred feet high, where heentrenched,
and where he was soon joined by Col.
Benton with four companies. Here the
Indians made repeated assaults, but
were repulsed with great slaughter.
The Indians finally gained higher
ground than Reno, and, with longer
range gnns than the cavalry bad, kept
up a galling fire till night. Tha Indians
renewed the attack at daylight. Reno
had lost forty odd killed before reaching
the bluff, many in hand to hand con
flicts, the Indians outnumbering them
ten to one. The men were without water
for thirty-six hours. They determined
to reach water at all hazards, and Col.
Benton made a sortie, routed the main
body guarding the approach, and the
water was gained with a loss of one
killed and seven wounded. The fight
ing ceased for the night, during which
Reno proposed to resist further attacks.
They had now been forty-eight hours
fighting with no word from Custar.
Twenty-four hours more of suspense
and fighting ended, when the Indians
abandoned their village in great
haste. General Terry, with General
Gibbon commanding his own infan
try had arrived, and as the com
rades met men wept on each other’s
necks. Inquiries were then made for
Custar but none could tell where he
was. Soon an officer came riding into
camp and related that he had found
Custar dead, stopped naked but not
mutilated, and near him his two broth
ers, Col. Tom and Boston Custar, his
brother-in-law, Col. Calhoun, and his
nephew, Col. Yates, Col. Keogh, Cap
tain Smith, Lieutenant Portor, Lieuten
ant CrittendeD, Lieutenant Sturgis, Col.
Cooke, Lieutenant Harrington, Dr.
Lord Mac Kellogg, the Bismark Tribune
correspondent and one hundred and
ninety men and scouts. Gen. Custar
vi-ot into the battlo with Companies C,
L, I, F, and E, of the Seventh Cavalry
and the staff and non-commissioned of
fic rs of his regiment and a number of
scouts, and only one Crow scout remain
ed to tell the tale. All are dead.
Salt Lake, July 7. —Several parties
have made an offer to the Secretary of
War to raise a regiment of volunteers in
ten day for the Indian war.
Details of the Fight—Custar’* Courage—
Sherman on the Situation—He Favors Ex
termination—Sheridan Grumbles.
Bismarck, July 7.—Custar was sur
rounded on every side by the Indians
and the horses fell as if they fought on
a skirmish line or in lino of battle. Cus
tar was among the last who fell, but
when his cheering voice was no longer
heard the Indians made easy work of
the remainder. The bodies of all, save
the newspaper correspondents, were
stripped, and most of them were horri
bly mutilated. Custar was shot through
the body and through the head. The
troops cared for the wounded and buried
the dead and returned to their base for
supplies and instructions from the Gene
ral of the Army. Colonel Smith arrived
at Bismarck last night with thirty-five of
the wounded. The Indians lost heavily
in the battle. The Crow scout survived
by hiding in a ravine. He believes tbe
Indians lost more than the whites. The
villag* numbered 1,800 lodges, and it. is
thought there were 4,000 warriors.—
General Custar was directed by General
Terry to find and feel of the Indians,
but not to fight unless Terry arrived
with the infantry and with Gibbqn’s
column. The Herald’s correspondent,
Kellogg, was killed.
Philadelphia, July 7.—General Sher
man, in an interview yesterday, in an
swer to a question by a reporter as to
the reason of the Indian campaign, said:
“We are doing this at the special request
of the Indian Department. It does not
originate with the War Department at
all. You will see on my map where the
Indian reservation is. Our purpose is
to drive these Indians, who are of the
very wildest and most savage sort, down on
the reservation. Montana is the most
promising of our Territories. It is set
tled by an intelligent people, among
whom are many old soldiers, and it is
the richest and most promising of our
settlements. These Indians have been
annoying the settlers and we are to
drive them down on the reservation.
You can say that wo will dq it now or
exterminate them. 1 ’
Gen Sheridan said to the same re
porter: “I have sent every man I could
spare into that region, even taking
troops from Laramie and Salt Lake.
The Government in its wisdom directs
the doing of certain things in these re
gions. It directs an expedition like this
of Terry, an expedition necessary for
the development of that country. We
do the best we can with our material,
but we are in no condition to do the
work required of us.”
Washington, July fi. —Sherman tele
graphs to Secretary Cameron that 261
soldiers haye been buried ou the
field and fifty-one wounded brought to
the steamboat.
Bismarck, July 7.—General Gibbon’s
cavalry followed the Indians for about
ten miles and ascertained that they had
moved to the South and West by several
trails. A good 4 e S.l of property had
been thrown away to lighten lheir march
and was found scattered for many'miles
over the prairie. Many of their dead
were also discovered secreted in ravines
a long distance from the battle field.—
Among them were Araphahoes and
Cheyennes as well as Sioux. A party
was sent on Custar’s trail to look for
traces of his command. They found
awaiting |them a sight fit to appal the
stoutest heart. A point about? three
miles down the right ban£ of ths stream
Custar had evidently attempted to ford
and attack the villages from the ford.
The trail was found to lead back up to
the bluffs and to the northward as if the
troops had been repulsed and compelled
to retreat, and at the same time had
been cnt off from regaining the forces
under Reno. The Bluffs along the
right bank come sharply down
to the water and are interspers
ed by numerous ravines, all along
the steeps and ridges and in the
ravines, lying as they bad fought, line
behind' line, showing where defensive
positions had been successively taken
up and held till none were left to fight.
There, huddled in a narrow compass,
horses and men were piled promiscuous
ly. At the highest point of the ridge
lay Custar, surrounded by a chosen
band. Here were his two brothers and
his nephew, Mr. Keed, Cols. Yates and
Cooke and Captain Smith-all lying
in a circle of a few yards, their
horses lying beside them. Here
behind Yates’ company the last stand
had been made, and here one after an
other of these last survivors of Custar’s
five companies had met their death.
The companies had successively thrown
themselves across the path of the ad
vancing enemy and had been annihi
lated. Not a man has escaped to tell
the tale, but it was inscribed on the
surface of the barren hills in language
more eloquent than words.
How to Play Whist. —There are a few
maxims for whist playing which I com
mend to those who are fond of the game.
The moment you receive your cards de
clare they are abominably bad; thus, if
you will, you ean claim credit for your
play, no matter what your opponents
say. Hold your cards that they may not
be seen by your adversary, and take
every opportunity of looking over the
hands of your enemies. Never lead
from y'ur strongest suit—it only weak
ens your hand. First play out the
miserable little card?, which are simply
eyesores tp you, and tfiep, if you happen
to have any court cards or trumps your
adversaries will be completely puzzled
to know what has become of them.
Always keey your aces and kings and
good trumps till the end, and when yonr
partner, as astonished as yonr adversa
ries at seeing them all come out with a
rash, says, “What on earth could have
indneed yon not to play those cards
before?” give him a Lord Burleigh nod,
and sav. “Allow me to play my own
game? fknow what J’m about.” That
will probably irritate him, upoh which
you should remark, blandly, that you
never lose yonr tempor at whist. Always
claim honors—the other side may forget
—and pocket any stray cash lying on
the table. With that, these hints most
end for the present- ’
The young men "of 'Herndon sire in the
habit of cirtyffig .a bttJp besf and fnpjtl
when they go to see the girls.
tdlit'MfilA tjft&flff MfeMtoitL
Editors Ch otiiele and Sentinel i
As it seems to be the desire of some
of your correspondents to missta e facts
in regard to our late meeting, I respect
fully ask a place in your oolumns for a
copy of the letter I have written to the
Chairman of the Democratic Committee
of Columbia county, in order to show
the “trne inwardness of that meeting.”
[copy.]
Eubanks, P. O , Jane 30,1876.
Hon. R. S. Neal, Chairman of the Demo
cratic Committee of Columbia Coun
ty :
Sib —ln justification of Major George
A. Hill and myself I demand that you
pnblish through the columns of the
Chronicle and Sentinel newspaper of
Augusta, the fact that you in propria
personae presided at the Columbia
county mass meeting, held on the 6th
of June. And that you appointed,
through no solicitation of mine, the
committee who selected Messrs. George
A. Hill, J. P. Williams, R. S. Neal and
myself as delegates and alternates to at
tend the Gubernatorial Convention to
be held in Atlauta for the purpose of
representing this county at that Conven
tion, and that that selection was unani
mously approved by the meeting. I
have the honor to subscribe myself most
respectfully, F. Edgeworth Eve.
Mr. Neal, I have no doubt, will soon
answer this, which will put a quietus to
the various charges made against all
attending the late “illegal” Convention.
.SOUTH CAROLINA.
A 1 idler from Aiken.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.}
Aiken, S. C., July 3.—Your Aiken
correspondent has beeu so busy with
the affairs of the farm that it has beeu a
physical impossibility for him to write
you sooner. The harvest of wheat in
this vicinity has been admirable, con
sidering our latitude. Although an un
certain crop, owing to our climate, I re
gard it as good farming for every man
to make enough for home consumption,
which can be readily done by a little
good management. The oat crop has
been immense, as compared with any
thing ever done in the past, and I sin
cerely hope that our farmers will give it
more attention in the future. With
anything like a good clay * subsoil from
thirty to a hundred bushels per acre
may be made with good preparation and
judicious managing; and where is there
a better feed for stock ? The corn crop
is pretty well laid by and is one of the
finest I ever saw in any portion of this
State. Cotton is in a splendid condi
tion as far as work is concerned, but is
doing little or nothing in growth, owing
to the heavy rain and wind storms which
we have had. Asa friend of mine would
say, it has got to “do its do” from this
time out, anfl that very rapidly, or we
will have a short crop as well as low
prices. Those couuties of this State
which will persist in planting au excess
of cotton will fiud next year a more diffi
cult one to arrange for than anything
they have had to do in the present year.
With cotton down to ante-bellum prices
the man who don’t make his own pro
visions had better give up farming and
go at some other business, for it is im
possible for him to make a living, unless
he will renounce his allegiance to king
cotton and consent to raise the comforts
and luxuries of life around him, which
can be done at small cost and great per
sonal satisfaction, and if he is in debt
he will find that his factor will respect
him and indulge him all the more for
his prudence and good management.
Aiken county, I am happy to say, buys
very little corn, and I am in hopes that
in a short time my brother farmers will
realize the necessity and profit of mak
ing not only an abundance for farm use,
i but enough to supply the demand of
Aiken and Graniteville.
Asa native Charlestonian I am re
joiced to learn that the Georgia boys en
• joyed themselves keenly while in
Charleston. Their presence there in
such large numbers was a splendid exhi
s bition of patriotism in behalf of our
glorious and entire country aud of
generous kindness and tender love
for Georgia’s oppressed and humili
. ated twin sister South Carolina.—
• Nothing less could be expected f>om the
grand old State of Georgia, the Empire
State of the South. More she could not
: have done. The presence of her noble
and enthusiastic sous iu Charleston and
the practical lessous of decency aud
. civility which they administered to the
i minions of Radicalism while there will
cause the people of that oppressed city
to look more hopefully on the future,
and to rely more on individual effort
and-manly bearing than upon shuffling
aud humiliating alliances with ignorance
i and corruption.
The Chronicle and Sentinel has a
fast hold on the affections of the people
of this section, and the remark is often
made would to God it was published in
South Carolina under the same able
editorial management and the same
stern and unflinching adherence to a
high-toned sense of honor. -
The signs are very favorable, in fact,
I may say almost certain, as to our car
rying Aiken county Democratic in the
next election. We have bad it all our
own way, which is the way of decenoy
aud economy iq regard to the school
meetings for the levying of the extra
tax. In many cases large numbers of
colored people have joined the whites,
who turned out in good force in voting
no extra tax at all. They feel the hard
times as muoh or more than the whites
in consequence of tho general outting
down of wages, and a few of them -
those who have something at stake
which has been acquired honestly—are
ready to join us iu reform measures if
they are secure of protection. That
they shall have; as hundreds of brave
men are ready to guarantee them with
their lives in their hands against the
unscrupulous manipulations and in
timidations of such malignant Radical
adventurers and agitators as Doctors
Rockwell anfl Palmer. The former a
violent fanatic and terrific office seeker,
both in church and State, an unworthy
scion of the old Democratic State of
Connecticut, where probably he could
not be elected constable even in the
face of no opposition. Yet this man
with small education and very ordi-
nary ability, but with an immense
amount of ounnjug and chioanery seeks
to grasp at everything that bears the
name of office. In fact he is just such
a man ns is calculated to engender
animosity and contention in this
glorious Centennial year of brotherly
love and good feeling. When the
rebel and Yankee are each vieing with
the other as to who shall be the most
brotherly, the most hospitable, the
most kind, God save oqr glorious Re
public from the citizenship of many
such men. Ihe latter is a doctor of
some sort also, who gave notice when
he first came here tnat he had come
to establish a npw industry, viz < the
hatching of eggs by maohiuery or
electricity. Beyond the batching of a
few sickly chickens, which died in a
most inglorious manner, his hatching
has been confined to matters of deviltry
connected with the negro men.
I am credibly informed (by a Baptist
minister who was present), that this Dr.
Palmer went to the Windsor township
meeting and stated that if the extra tax
was not passed, that what wo had heard
of the torc : h ip the past would be noth
ing to wfiat it would be in the future.
He was accompanied by his wife, who
took notes of the proceedings of the
meeting. The ante-tax advocates car
ried the day by a tremendous majority,
and it was as much as the older heads
present could do to keep the crowd from
tearing him to pieces. He esoaped with
out bodily barm, but it is my humble
opinion that a man who utters such hor
rible sentiments onght to be arraigned
without judge or jury, and punished on
the spot by his outraged fel ow-citizens.
Such a man ought to be nar
rowly watched by his fellow-citizens.
Dr. P.G. Rockwell, who is the Radical
orator for the fyh of July, is the man
who was appointed by the immaculate
Chamberlain, who, I understand, he
claims as a dear friend, County Auditor,
and who in conjunction with others fixed
the jury for Sparnick. If it had not
been for Chatfield, the white people
would probably have had no representa
tion on the jury at that Court at aIL He
is a disappointed office seeker of a most
malignant and dangerons type. But
the doctor had better beware this time
or he may go a little too far for once.
The times are pregnant with healthy
signs, and he had better observe and
profit by them. C. E. R. D.
GEORGIA BOYS IN BOSTON.
The Centennial Lesion En Route to Boston.
New Yoek, July 6. —The Boston
Tigers, the Washington Ifight Infantry,
of Charleston, S. C., the Clinch Rifles,
of Augusta, Ga., arrived here this noon
from Philadelphia under the escort of
the Old Guard, of this city. The latter
are entertaining their guests at Irving
Hall with a dinner and will march down
Broadway to the Fall river boat between
4 and 5 o’clock this afternoon. All the
above organizations embark at 5 o’clock,
on the steamer Bristol, this evening for
Boston. ‘
' Boston, July 7.—Arrangements for
the reception and entertainment of the
Washington Light Infantry, ol South
Carolina, Clinch Rifles, of Georgia,
Light Artillery, of Norfolk, Va., and
members and officers of the Light In
fantry, of Fayetteville, N. 0., and the
Old Gaard, of New York, all of whom
reach here to-morow, are now complete.
This large body of visitors will be en
tertained entirely by Mr. Wm. E. Baker
and"’ the programme embraoes six "days
of excursions and festivities. >
ftta jaifONAL aoK,
July 4, 1876. ,
BAYARD TAYLOR.
1-1.
Sun of the Stately Day,
Let Asia into the ehadow drift,
Let Europe bask in thy ripened ray,
And over the severing ocean lift
A brow of broader splendor!
Give light to the eager eyes
Of the Land that waits to behold thee rise:
The gladness of morning lend her,
With the triumph of noon attend her,
And the peace of the vesper skies !
For, lo! she cometh now
With hope on the bp and pride on the brow,
Stronger, and dearer, and fairer.
To smile on the lovb we bear her, —
To live, as we dreamed her and sought her,
Liberty’s latest daughter!
In the clifts of the rocks, in the secret places,
We found her traces ;
On the hills, in the crash of woods that fall,
We heard her call;
When the lines of battle broke,
Wo saw her face in the fiery smoke ;
Through toil, and anguish, and desolation,
We followed, and found her
With tho grace of a virgin Nation
Asa sacred zone around her!
Who shall rejoice
With a righteous voice,
Far-heard through the ages, if not she ?
For the menace is dumb that defied her,
The doubt is dead that denied her.
And she Btands acknowledged, and strong aud
free!
1-2.
On the shores of a Continent cast,
She won the inviolate soil
By loss of heirdom of all the Past.
And faith in the royal right of Toil!
She planted homes on the savage sod:
Into the wilderness lono
She walked with fearless feet,
In her baud the divining-rod,
Till tho veins of the mountains beat
With fire of metal and force of stone!
She set the speed of the river head
To turn the mills of her bread ;
She drove her ploughshare deep
Through the prairie's thousaud-ceuturied sleep;
To the South, and West, and North,
She called Pathfinder forth,
Her faithful and sole companion,
Where the flushed Sierra, snowy-starred,
Her way to the suneet barred.
And tbe nameless river in thunder aud foam
Channelled the terrible Canyon!
Nor paused till her uttermost home
Was built, in the (-mile of a softer sky.
Aud the glory of beauty still to be,
Where tho haunted waves of Asia die
On the strand of the world-wide sea!
Foreseen in the visions of ages,
Foretold when martyrs bled ;
She was born of the longing of ages,
By the truth of the noble dead.
And the faith of tho living fed !
No blood in her lightest veins
Frets at rememberod chains,
No shame of bondage has bowed her head.
Iu her form and features still
The unblenching Puritan will,
Cavalier honor, Huguenot grace,
The Quaker truth and sweetness.
And the strength of the danger-girdled race
Of Holland, blend In a proud completeness.
From the homes of all, where her being began,
She took what bhe gave to man ;
Ju-tice, tha: knew no Btation,
Belief, as soul deoreed,
Free air for aspiration,
Free force for independent deed !
She takes, but to give again,
As tho sea returns the rivers in rain ;
Aud gathers the cboßen of her seed
From the hunted of every crown and creed.
Her Germany dwells by a gentler lihiue ;
Her Ireland sees the old Sunburst shine ; .
Her Frauco pursue some dream divine ;
Her Norway keeps his mountain piue ;
Her Italy waits by the Western brine ;
Any, broad-based under all,
Is planted England’s oaken-hearted mood,
As rich iu fortit de
As o’er went worldward from the island wall!
Fused in her candid light,
To one strong race all races here unite :
Tongues melt in hers, hereditary foemen
Forget their sword and slogau, kith aud clau.
’Twas glory, once, to be a ltoman ;
She makes it glory, now, to be a man !
I—4.
Behold ! she bendeth now,
Humbling the chaplet of her hundred years :
There is a solemn sweetness on her brow,
And in her eyes are sacred tears.
Can she forget,
In present joy the burden of her debt,
When for a captive race,
She grandly staked aud won
The total promise of her power began,
And bared her bosom’s grace
To the sharp wound that onl, tortures yet ?
Can she forget
The million graves her young devotion set,
The hands that clasp above
From either side, in sad returning love ?
Can sho forget,
Pere. where the ruler of to-day.
The citizens of to-morrow,
And equal thousands to rejoice and pray
Beside these holy wallß are met,
Her birth-cry, mixed of keenest blisß and sor
row ?
Where, on July’s immortal morn
Hold forth, the people saw her head,
Aud shouted to the World: "The King is dead,
But lo ! the heir is bora t”
When fire of youth, and sober trust of age,
In Farmer, soldier Priest aud Sage,
Arose and cast upon her
Baptismal garment,—never robes so fair
Clad Prince in old-world air,—
Their lives, their fortunes, and their sasred
honor!
ll—l
Ah, hark! tho solemn undertone
On every wind of human story blown,
A large, Divinely-moulded Fate
Questions the right and purpose of a State,
And in its plan subiime
Our eras are the dust of Time,
The far-off Yesterday of power
Creeps back with stealthy feet,
Invades the lordship of the hour,
And at our banquet takes the unbidden seat.
From all unchronicled and silent ages
Before the Future first begot the Past,
Till History dared, at last,
To write eternal words on granite pages,
From Egypt’s tawny drift and Assur’s mound,
And where, uplifted white aud far,
Earth highest yearns to meat a star,
And man liis manhood by the Ganges found—
Imperial heads of old millennial sway.
And still by some pale slendor crowned,
Chill as a eorpse-Ii .-lit iu our full-orbed day,
In ghostly grandeur rise
And say, through stony lips and vacant eyes :
“Thou that assertest freedom, power and
fame,
Declare to ub thy claim !”
ll—2.
The race, in conquering.
Some fierce Titanic joy of conquest knows ;
Whether in veins of serf or king,
Our ancient blood beats restless in repose.
Challenge of nature unsubdued
Awaits not Man’s defiant answer long;
For hardship, even s wrong.
Provokes the level-eyed, heroic mood,
This for herself she did; but that which lies,
As over earth the skies,
Blending all forms in one benignant glow,
Crowned Conscience, tender care,
Justice, that answers every bondman’s prayer,
Freedom where Faith may lead or Thought
may dare,
The power of minds that know,
Passion of hearts that feel,
Purchased by blood aud woe,
Guarded by lire and steel—
Hath ahe seoured ? What brazon on her
shield,
In the clear Century’s light
Shines to the world revealed,
Deolaring nobler triumph, born of Bight ?
ll—3. ,
Bow down !
Doff thine -iEonian crown!
One hour forget
The glory, and recall the debt:
Make expiation,
Of humbler mood,
For the pride of thine exaltation
O’er peril conquered, and strife subdued 1
But halt the right js wrested
When Victory yields her prizo,
And half the marrow tested
When old Endurance dies.
In the - ight of them that love thee,
Bow to the Greater above thee!
He faileth not lo smite
The idle ownership of Bight,
Nor spares to sinews fresh from trial,
And virtue schooled in long denial,
The tests that wait for thee
In larger perils of prosperity.
Here, at the Century’s awful shrine,
Bow to thy fathers’ God, and thine!
H-4.
Arise! Becrown thy head,
ftadiant with blessing of the Dead!
Bear from this hallowed place
The prayer that puxifies thy lips,
The light of courage that defies eclipse,
The rose of Man’s new morning on thy face!
Let no iconoclast
Invade thy rising Pantheon of the Past,
To make a blank where Adams stood,
To. touch the Father’s sheathed and sacred
’ blade,
Spoil crowns on Jefferson and Franklin laid,
Or wash from Freedom’s feet the stain of Lin
coln’s blood!
Hearken, as from that haunted hall
• Their voices call:
We lived and died for thee;
We greatly dared that thou mighi’st be ;
So from thy children still
We claim denials which at last fulfill,
And freedom yielded to preservo thee free!
Beside clear hearted Bight
That smiles atiPower’s uplifted rod.
Plant Duties that requite,
And Order that sustains, upon thy sod,
And stand in stainless might
Above all self, and only less than God!”
III—I.
Here may thy solemn challenge end,
All proving Past, and each discordance die
Of doub.fol augury,
Or in one choral with the Present blend,
And that half-heard, sweet harmony
Of something nobler that oar sons may see!
Though poignant memories burn
Of days that were, and may again return,
When thy fleet foot, O Huntress of the Woods,
The slippery brinks of danger knew,
And dim the eyesight grew
That was so sure in thine old solitudes— ’
Yet stays some richer sense
Won from the mixture of thine elements,
To guide the vagrant scheme,
And winnow truth from each conflicting dream !
Yet in thy bloo t shall live
Some force unspent, tome essence primitive,
To seize the highest use of things;
For Fate, to mould thee to her plan,
Denied thee food of kings,
Withheld the odder and the orchard fruits.
Fed thee with savage roots,
And forced thy harsher milk from barren
breasts of man!
ra-2.
O sacred Woman-Form,
Of the first People’s need and passion
wrought—
No thin, pale ghost of thought,
But fair as "morning and as heart’s blood
warm—
Wearing thy priestly tiar on Judah’s hills;
Clear eyed beneath Athene’s helm of gold;
Or from Home's central seat
Hearing the pulses of the Continents beat
In thunder where her legions rofiefl.’;
Compact of high heroic hearts and wills,
Whose being circles all
The selfless aims of men, and all fulfils;
Thyself not free, so long as one is thrall;
Ooddess, that as a Nation lives,
And as a Nation dies.
That for her children as a man denes,
And to her'children as a mother gives—
Take our fresh fealty now ;
No more a Chieftainess, with wampim zone
And feather-Siuctured brow—
No more anew Britannia, grown
To spread an equal banner to the breeze, 1
Aiid lift tkj tfideht o’ef the dotiUe
But with unborrowed crest,
Ir. thine own native beauty dressed—
The front of pure command, the unflinching
thine own 1
III—3
Look up. look forth, and on !
There’s light iu the dawniug sky;
The clouds are parting, tbe night is gone;
Prepare for the work of the day !
Fallow thy pastures lie
j And far thy shepherds stray, •
And the fields of thy vast domain
Are waiting for purer seed
Of knowledge, desire and deed.
For keener sunshine aud mfellower rain !
But keep thy garments pure;
Pluck them back, with the old disdain,
From touch of the hands that stain !
So shall thy strength endure.
Transmute into good the gold of Gain,
Compel to beauty thy ruder powers,
Till the bounty of coming hours
Shall plant, ou thy fieldß apart,
With the oak of Toil, tho rose of Art !
Be watchful, and keep ns so;
He strong, and fear no foe;
Be just, and the world shall know !
With the same love love us, as we give;
And the day shall never come,
That finds us weak or dumb ,
To join and smite and cry
In the great task, for thee to die,
And the greater task, for thee to live !
SUMTER COUNTY FOR JOHNSON.
[FYom An Occasional Correspondent.]
Americos, July s.—Yes f erd ay,, accord
ing to previous notice, a very large num
ber of the Democrats of the county as
sembled to select delegates to the Gu
bernatorial Oouvention. After organi
zation a resolution was adopted, requir
ing delegates to be elected by ballot nnd
that they be sent nninstructed. A reg
ular set of Colquitt and Johnson dele
gates were then put iu nomination, and
balloting began. James and Hardeman
were not known in the meeting. Nearly
three hundred votes were polled, and
when the meeting adjourned for dinner,
the counting aud voting were going on.
When the count was concluded, six (it
having been deoided to send eight dele
gates), of the eight Johnson delegates
were fouud to be elected by from thirty
to fifty majority. After muoli confusion
it was decided to proceed to ballot for
the other two. One Johnson and one
Colquitt delegate wore elected, but the
election of the Colquitt delegate (Capt,
Jno. A. Cobb), was attributable to per
sonal popularity and tho absence of
many Johnsciu men from the country who
bad gone home. The county is over
whelmingly for Johnson, the statements
of the Snmter Republican , to the con
trary, notwithstanding. Mr. Hancock,the
editor, has been making a terri
ble noise, and confidently claim
ed the county as being nine-tenths
in favor of Colquitt, but when the wool
hat country boys marched in it was
shown that Sumter was siding with the
old Roman, Johnson—the man who has
been weighed in the balance aud fouud
not wanting—the man who has not
failed at every business enterprise he
has undertaken. The people are tired
of experimenting—they want a man who
has succeeded in life and not always
failed. I have just heard from Web
ster county. The delegates are instruct
ed to vote for Johnson. Hurrah for
Johnson ! Thero is a ground swell in
this section taking place, and wherever
fair play is allowed the people go for
the man who is too proud, too good, too
honest, too true to electioneer aud drum
for the nomination. Swell the tide and
let the chorus he shouted, Johnson for
ever ! COTTONFIELD.
LINCOLN COUNTY LETTER.
[From an Occasional Correspondent.]
Lincoln County, July 4. —Being at
leisure for the present I have been
speoulatiDg wherewith to contribute
most to my minds and have con
cluded that a short letter to you will
suffice. lam not, and never was mueh
of a hand to dabble iu politics, because
they are a very dangerous species of
“ties,” a great deal more than another
kind we are so well acquainted with.—
However, this is a Republican form of
government (so culled) and I hope I will
not be censured if I give my views on
the Gubernatorial question, as they will
not benefit, aud I hope will not injure
any one. Who shall be our next Gov
ernor ? Echo answers Herschel V. John
son, if it is generally understood he
will accept the nomination, and I think
it i l . We have no war to make on
Messrs. Colquitt, Hardeman aud James,
as they are all hice, clever gentlemen.
But the kind a man we need for Gover
nor is one that is not so extremely anx
ious for the office. One who will nob
stamp the State for a nomination weeks
and months before band. Mr. Johnson
belongs to the old patera of politicians
who stand off and wait until their ser
vices are sought. And that is one of the
secrets of his popularity with the peo
ple. Because he did not introduce him
self long ago in a letter as long as the
moral law, and Hay he was ready, will
ing, waiting and gaiserabley anxious to
serve the people, there is au ignoramus
set of clap-traps who have been sling
ing their slime about to the effect that
he would not accept a nomination, that
he is too old, &c. We have always
thought he would accept a nomination
if tendered to him by the people. And
so far as his being too old for Governor
is concerned we have only to say he is
just old enough to have more good sound
sense and judgment, more firmness,
more and better qualifications for Gov
ernor than all the people in Georgia
combined who put this forth as an ob
jection. If the people of Georgia want
either General Colquitt, Col. Hardeman
or Mr. James for chief magistrate they
should have them by all meaus. But if
they want Governor Johnson (and most
assuredly they do) for heavens sake
don’t run in some other man by politi
cal wire working and convention trick
ery. That oircular that has troubled
the Colquitt organs to such an alarming
extent for some time past has been
brought to light, and they oan now con
sole themselves with the knowledge that
it was not such a wonderful movement
after all on the part of Mr. Johnson’s
friends to hand over the State to him. I
will close by saying you may put Lin
coln down for Johnson. Lincoln.
THE CLINCH RIFLES IN BOSTON-
The Programme For Their Entertainment.
Referring to the Norfolk Light Ar
tillery, the Washington Light Infantry
and the Old Guards, the New York
Herald says: On Sunday these com
panies, with the Clinch Rifles of Geor
gia, were in this ity on their way to the
Grand Centennial celebration at Phila
delphia, where they make a portion of
the legion representative of the original
thirteen States of the Union. After per
forming that duty these companies will
visit Boston, where they are to pass a
week as the recipients of Yankee hospi
tality.
At Boston they are to be entertained
as follows: A committee, consisting of
Captain W. B. Sears and Benjamin Kim
ball, will meet the guests in New York
and accompany them to Boston, and, en
route, will arrange for exchange of lug
gage cheeks for Ridge Hili Farms (Well
esley) checks. First Day (Saturday,
July B).—A special committee, consist
ing of Messrs. Edward Wyman, Joseph
Burnett, George E. Towne, Jerome
Jones and S. S. Blanchard, will meet
the guests en route from Fall River.
The Executive Committee will mag
them at the railroad upon arrival ra
Boston. Guests will bo eseorted past
the State Hons© aDd City Hall, where
marching salutes will be paid to the
Governor and Mayor; thence to Faueuil
, Hall for breakfast, where the Governor
and city officials, and General Commit
tee, will meet them. After breakfast
the lady guests will be escorted to
the eastern balcony of the old State
House to witness the march up State
street. At a qu.irter-past two, p, m., the
guests will take the train for Wellesley,
at the Boston and Albany Railroad sta
tion. Second Day (Sunday)—Chapel
and vesper services. Third Day (Mon
day;.—Excursion to the city, visiting
the State House, Public Library, Insti
tute of Technology, Art Museum, So
ciety of Natural History, Massachusetts
Historical Society Room3, Massachu
setts Horticultural Rooms, and other
objects of interest. Lunch at No. IS
West street, from twelve to two o’clock,
and return to Ridge Hill Farms|at half
past five, p. m. pinner at half-past six,
p. m. General amusements of the place,
and informal, vocal and instrumental
music in the evening. Fourth Day,
(Tuesday)-Excursion down the harbor to
Fort Warren, Nahant, Downer’s Land
ing or Minot’s Ledge, fishing, Ac. Fifth
Day (Wednesday).— Excursion in and
about Wellesley and to Wellesley Col
lege and Old town Folks. After lunch at
the farms, target praotiee by visiting
military, and down to Forest Hills,
Cemetery or elsewhere. CtYbeert and
tableaux in the evening. Sixth Day
(Thursday).—Excursion in the vicinity
of Boston, viz;—Brookline, Belmont,
Mount Auburn, Harvard College, Bnn
kerlHill, Navy Yard, Ac. Seventh Day
(Friday, the 14th). —The fete day of
Ridge Hill farm (the private estate of
Mr. Wm. Emmerson Baker), launch of
steamboat “Lady of the Lake.” allot
ment of grounds for special public chari
ties, social frolic, &0., Ac., with illumi
nation in the evening of the Smugglers*
Cave, the Stataelilite Grotto, and 200
acres of grounds.
An Essex farmer is obliged to chalk
his nose every time he takes a walk
round the farm, to, save himself from an
old ball whioh has a strong antipathy to
red.
A daughter q| a wealthy Watertown
farmer has distinguished herself by rais
ing eight little pigs on a bottle. Suck
cess to her liter-ary efforts.
