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Address WALSH A WRIGHT,
Chbovict.x A Hxirrnnti.. Augusta. Ga.
Ctjromcle anb £mtmel.
wTon E.SL>AY~~TTTPLYI9rrB76 •
Governor Hayes is a very modest
man. He declines a second term before
he has obtained the first.
The Sunday Telegram, of Atlanta,
has suspended "tor a number of reasons,
the pnnoipal one being that there are
no fnnds convenient to bring it oat
with”—to ase the phraseology of the
announcement. The Telegram was a
brilliant paper and we wish Mr. Gbasy
better lack next time.
Gen, Grant's ungracious refusal to
visit Cincinnati on the Fourth is un
favorably commented on by Republi
can journals. Perhaps Grant remem
bered that the orator of the occasion—
We. M. Evabts— was the attorney of
Andrew Johnson in a trial which proved
that the now President had told a
deliberate falsehood.
The Mobile Register notices that
some of the enterprising business men
of that city are making an effort to es
tablish a cotton factory on the premium
bond plan. It seems, says tbe Register,
hardly a matter of doubt that the es
tablishment and judioions management
of suoh an enterprise is what Mobile
has long needed. In other words, it is
an attempt to bring the mill to the cot
ton, which has resulted most success
fully in other sections of the South, and
we trust that a full examination of the
plan will prove its feasibility.
Hon. Harp Suite, of Lowndes coun
ty told us, two weeks ago, that the peo
ple of his county “ were not for Col
quitt, Hardeman or Jamrs.” His
judgment was good in proportion as
two is to three. They were only in
favor of Colquitt. —Atlanta Common
wealth.
We are informed that Hon. W.
Ham? Smith repeatedly asserted that
the people of his county were disgusted
with the electioneering efforts of
all tbe above named candidates, and
that Lowndes would in all probability
go for Gov. Johnson, as in his case
alone the office was seeking the man.
A correspondent of the Charleston
Journal of Com i.erce having written a
letter to that paper suggesting General
M. O. Butler, of Edgefield, as a suit
able candidate for Governor, General
Butler replies that he cannot “under
any circumstances become a candidate
or acoept a nomination for any office in
the gift of the people.” He thinks Gen.
Wade Hampton is the man who should
be nominated. General Butler wou and
have made a splendid candidate, and we
regret that he has seen proper to pub
lish such n positive declination. But
his suggestion is a good one, and we be
lieve will oommend itself to the Demo
cracy of the State. With such a nomi
nee, and with tbe spirit which now
animates the people, victory in South
Carolina is assured.
Thr war feeling has extended to At
lanta. They are very angry in that pa
triotic town about the defeat of Qen.
Custer. The Cleburne Rifles—a mili
tary organization of that oity—tele
graphed the Seoretary of War a tender
of their aervioes “to avenge the death
of Oustrb.” The Secretary thanked
them, but stated he had no authority to
acoept the aervioes of volunteers. Are
not our Atlanta friends a little too hasty?
We regret the massacre of the brave
Custer and his companions, but we re
collect that he died while fighting in an
unjust quarrel. The Administration vi
olated its plighted faith with the In
dians and has been the aggressor in the
quarrel throughout.
Thr Hartford limes calls attention to
the fact that the Senate cau make ap
propriations for its own contingent ex
penses without the action pi the House.
It has just passed a resolution appro
priating $20,000 te Pinohback, who ask
ed for a seat in the Senate. He was
never eleoted, and his credentials did
not come from the legal authorities. A
Radioal caucus, outside of the State
House, some of the members never
having been chosen representatives,
voted that Pinohb ack should be Senator.
But the Senate could not possibly accept
this. Pinchback swore and threatened,
and then the Seuate gave him $20,000
for services as a “contestant.” It was
robbery merely ; a specimen of "reform
within the party. ” Pinch back supports
Hates now.
An Ohio Court has recently decided
that oontr&ets made by directors of a
company with themselves are fraudu
lent. The case at issue was between the
Atlantic and Great Western Railroad
Company and the United States Rolling
Stock Company, the latter company be
ing composed entirely of directors of
the former, and both companies having
the same President, Secretary and Trea
surer. A contrast was made by the rail
road company with the other company,
by which the latter was to furnish roll
ing stock, and receive an exorbitant ren
tal therefor. Sait was brought by the
roiling stock company for the balance
of rentals, the claim amounting to $2,-
000,000. The case was tried before a
struck jury, which brought in a verdict
for $117,748, in accordance with the in
structions of the judge to disregard the
contract and fix the rentals at what the
nse of the stock was actually worth.
The tax assessment roll of New York
city has been made oat for 1876. The
net increase in valuation of reel estate in
the city is about $8,700,000, and the ap
parent net increase in valuation of per
sonal property is about $1,300,000,
making a net increase altogether of
about $10,000,000. The greatest shrink
age is in personal property. The gain
there appears as $1,300,000, but to make
it, bank stocks have been raised $12,000,-
000 under the new interpretation of the
law, so that the actual shrinkage amounts
to about $10,000,000, and virtually
indicates that there has been no real in
crease whatever in wealth in the city
that the assessors have discovered. In
taxing bank surpluses they seem to have
adopted a middle course. Instead of
adding $31,088,500, the united surplus,
March 10th, 1876, they make the addi
tion $12,000,000, and the list pass
that way. This is more Mae putting in
the stocks at their market value, which
is just what the commissioners said they
Wouldn’t do.
THE INDIAN WAR.
The ignorance and bad faith which
have characterized the Administration’s
Indian policy have brought upon tbe
country a war which will probably cost
thousands of lives and millions of
treasure before it is ended. The Indians
have an nndonbted right to the pos
session of the Black Hills country, and
the Administration recognized this
right by attempting to purchase the
territory. The owners thought the
price offered inadequate and declined to
cede their property. Whereupon, the
Government, instead of protecting them,
as it should, in honor and justice, have
done tamed loose upon them a hungry
horde of gold-seekers who went with the
rifle in one hand and the pick-axe in
the other, bent upon murder and ra
pine. The Indians resisted and the
Government instead of stopping and
punishing the invasion, sought, and
sometimes made, pretexts for assisting
the invaders. It is small wonder, then,
that a large and ferocious tribe like the
Sioux should have determined to re
sist to the death. Upon the pretense
that the Sionx bad left their reservation
war was declared and the troops
marched against them. The campaign
seems to have been a blander from the
beginning, and the first frnits are the
repulse of Crook and the annihilation
of Custer. The Government now finds
itself in a position from which it can
not in honor or good policy retreat. It
is forced to go on and spend freely of
blood and treasure in pursuing an un
just quarrel with a foe who is ac
tive, brave, and vigilant; who is fighting
for existence; who is here to-day, to
morrow a hundred miles away and the
next day picking off heavy cavalry from
convenient ambuscade.
JOHNSON IN 1863.
Looking back to the days “that tried
men’s souls,” as it were, ta the dark
days of the Confederacy, when, to be
faithful to the Government was to be
faithfnl to the great cause which enlisted
every Sonthern heart, we find these
glowing words of truth then, words
of truth now ; words which did honor
to the heart that conceived them and the
hand that penned them, as they do but
simple justice to the great statesman of
whom they were written. They are from
a correspondent of the Constitutionalist
in 1863. Writing of Governor Johnson’s
election to the Confederate Senate, he
says;
“The great object was to secure not
only excellent ability in the Senate, but
harmony in the counsels. This has
been done in the re-election of Senator
Johnson. The peer of any man in the
Confederacy in intellect, he is in happy
accord with the President and Cabinet
and in the leading measures of the ad
ministration. His whole energies are
enlisted in the proseoution of the war.
Unmoved alike by passion, prejudice,
or by popular influence, he will move
manfully forward in the discharge of
the perplexing duties before him—his
great mind fully awakened to the
magnitude of the occasion and his
great heart true to the polar star of in
dependence.”
True to the South in the days of her
prosperity—as he was true to her in the
days of her adversity—he is still true
to her and to his State in the better po
litical days which seem to be dawning
for ns ; and if called again, as we trust
he will be, to p.eside over the destinies
of this grand old Commonwealth, he
will still “ unmoved alike by passion,
prejudice, or popular influence, move
manfully forward to the discharge of
the duties before him.” Trusted and
tried and never found wanting, he is the
man for the times—the man for the
place—tho man to guide the course of
the State to bright and better days.
THE TROUBLES IN lU.IIBCRC.
When we wrote the article on the
troubles in Hamburg which appeared in
the O (BONiCLE and Sentinei, Sunday
morning, we had not heard of the fate
of the prisoners, or we should have con
demned in fitting phrase their cruel and
unnecessary murder. There is some
excuse to be nlade for those who, in hot
blood and in the midst of battle, shot
down the meu who had killed their com
rade. But that comrade’s death had
been amply and bloodily avenged. There
is no extenuation of the butchery of un
armed and helpless captives. In real
war suoh a deed would receive the exe
cration of all civilized nations. How
much more should if be reprobated when
no state of war exists ; when a fight be
tween two races Las been precipitated ;
and when the victors have gained all for
which they fought. The nature of deeds
changes with the circumstanoes which
inspire them, and that which is justifi
able in one instance is wholly unjustifi
able in another. There was nothing to
warrant the killing of the four prisoners.
General Butler, who had been recog
nized as the commander of the whites,
had not ordered or authorized the
killing. On the contrary, he had,
we are informed, given instructions
that they should be taken to
Aikeu and placed in jail. If his orders
bad been obeyed the community would
have been spared this shameful tragedy
and the slayers have been saved
the commission of a terrible crime.
It may be said that this militia com
pany in Hamburg imperiled the peace
of the county, that its existence was
fraught with danger to the lives and
property of the whites, and that it was
j absolutely necessary it should be dis
armed and disbanded. Admitting the
full force of this reasoning, the killing
is not defensible. The company- bad
been attacked, demoralized and dis
persed. Many of the guns had been
* captured and many of its members
I made prisoners. Two of them had
been killed and one of the Lieutenants
mortally wounded. Was not this
enough ? What more was to be ac
complished by killing frightened and
defenseless captives. The knowledge
that some of those killed were not even
members of the company deepens
the darkness of the pictnre.
THE PROFITS OF THE CENTENNIAL.
The Philadelphia ledger has reckon
ed np the number of visitors to the Cen
tennial grounds thns far during the Ex
hibition, and finds the grand total to be
905,142 persons up to Friday last.—
Three or four additional days will have
registered the first million of paying
visitors. The aggregates and daily
averages from week to week tell the
story of the fast and far spreading in
fiuence of the Exhibition. Omitting the
opening day, the daily average of visit
ors in the first week was 12,210; the
daily average of the second week was
12,569; the third week, 17,863; of the
fourth week, 22,916; of the fifth week,
28,809; of the sixth week, 26,526, and
four days of last week, 30,524. If the
half-price days and Sundays are omitted
from the Vienna averages oar average
figures thus far nearly three-fold those
at the Vienna Exposition. And still the
tide of visitors is increasing at the Cen
tennial. When the gates were closed on
Friday and the returns from the regis
ters were taken the aggregate showed
89,390 visitors for the one day. This is
the largest return yet, except upon open
ing day. To understand the reason for
the admission daily of 8,000 or 10,000
persons on free tickets it should first be
remembered that the International City
covers 460 acres of ground, the fence
surrounding it being more than three
miles long, and the buildings them
selves, of which there are about 200,
covering over fifty acres. To keep snch
an extent of territory in perfect order,
to prevent persons from scaling the
fences, to take care of the buildings, to
protect exhibits and to give information
to visitors necessitates the employment
of qnite an army of attendants. The at
tendance of representatives of the
American and foreign press averages
about 200 admission daily.
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A STUPENDOUS UNDERTAKING.
An exchange says there is a project on
foot to construct a grand maritime canal
through France. What a stupendous
undertaking this would be can be judged
from tbe following figures; At the very
lowest estimate, it will be necessary to
excavate 9,955,869,737 cubic English
yards of earthwork, and this at the very
low price of two English shillings per
yard for excavation will cost something
exceeding £955,586,973 sterling. Allow
ing one-third of the cost of earthwork
for cost of masonry—which is clearly
within bounds—the amount required for
that purpose will be £331,852,324. The
catting of the canal itself will occnpy
40,000 acres, and the total amount of
land required for the canal cannot be
less than 80,000 acres. This at £IOO per
acre would amount to £8,000,000. Al
lowing ten per cent, for contingencies, a
total is -reached of £1,468,993,228, a
minimum preliminary estimate for land,
earthworks and masonry. If these fig
ures do not show the impracticability of
the scheme—which has been broached
in all seriousness—not much doubt will
be entertained upon the point when it
is said that, from the best possible data,
it is estimated that it would take an
army of 200,000 workmen a little over
ninety-one years to execute the work re
quired, while in that time the simple
interest on the capital needed to prose
cute the work would amount to £3,-
341,961,850.
THE HAMBURG TROUBLES.
“ We will publish to-morrow a full
“ and truthful account of the massacre
“at Hamburg. The details printed to
“ day are, of course, colored to suit
“ the tastes of the murderers of unro
“ sisting prisoners.”
The above is from Chamberlain’s
organ—the Columbia Union-Herald.
The Union-Herald copied its account of
the Hamburg troubles—“massacre" it is
pleased to term it—from the Chronicle
and Sentinel. The accounts that have
appeared in this paper have not been
“ colored to suit the tastes” of any per
son or class. They have been a plain
and truthful narrative of a very unfor
tunate occurrence, and onr reporter’s
information was derived either from
what he saw himself or from the state
ments made to him by eye-witnesses.
One mistake was made in the account
which appeared Sunday. At three
o’clock in the morningpersons just from
the scene reported that seven prisoners
had been killed in the field and road.
This was incorrect—four were killed and
two were wounded as thev ran off.
While we have nothing but words of
condemnation for the murder of the
prisoners, we are not disposed to cen
sure too rashly the determination of
the white people of Edgefield county to
disarm the colored militia companies.
have nothing to say against colored
military companies per se. For in
stance, there is one in Augusta that has
never given any person just cause of of
fense. It is a peace ible, orderly and law
abiding organization, confining itself
strictly to the object for which it was
formed. But a widely different condi
tion of affairs prevails in South
Carolina and especially in Edge
field and Aiken counties. There
the colored militia companies are
simply political machines, used to
overawe the whites and carry elections.
Mere tools, for the most part, in the hands
of unscrupulous men, they have been
made to do almost irreparable mischief.
They have burned houses, murdered men
and insulted women. Armed with the
most approved style of fire arms, and
with breasts full of animosity to the
white, race they have constituted a for
midable power for evil. It is sm j ll
wonder that the white people have de
termined to live no longer in such a
state of insecurity; small wonder that
they have made up their minds that
their wives and their children—their
lives and their property—shall no longer
remain at the mercy of a mob, armed
with Winchester rifles and led by mur
derers and iucendaries. The colored
militia may as well accept the situation,
and return their guns and ammunition
to the State. We say this in all kind
ness and with a sincere desire to avert
bloodshed. It may be said that the
militia have been organized and armed
according to law. Granted. But there
is a higher law than that—the Law of
Self-Persevation. This is the law which
demands they shall disarm and disband.
THE COMING CAMPAIGN.
The mass meeting yesterday took the
necessary steps towards inaugurating
the campaign in this county. A resolu
tion was unanimously passed requesting
the Executive Committee to call a Coun
ty Convention for the purpose of nomi
nating candidates for the Legislature
and selecting delegates to the Congress
ional and Senatorial Conventions. As
it has been the enstorn to have delegates
to State Conventions selected by mass
meetings, so it has been the custom
to select delegates to County Conven
tions through ward and district meetings,
and this system has been recommended
to the Committee. The Convention is
to be held not later than the 20th of
August, and we hope that the Commit
tee will assemble at the earliest possible
day in order to take action in the mat
ter. As there is no proper machinery
for calling a Senatorial Convention the
counties of Jefferson and Glascock are
requested to select delegates to meet
delegates from Richmond in the town of
Louisville on the 3d of August. This
is a late date, and will leave less than
six weeks for the canvass, bat we sup
pose there will be time enough. We sail
the attention of our sister counties to
this action, with the hope that they will
agree to the suggestion and select dele
gates to the Convention.
We iearn from the Atlanta Times
that Mrs. Mart B. Dodoe, an
accomplished literary lady of New
York, proposes shortly to make
a tour through some of the South
ern States, and to use her cultivated pen
while here in writing strictly of South
ern scenes and Southern life. A friend
informs ns that Mrs. Dodoe, after visit
ing “Liberty Hall,” and Paul Hatnk,
Esq., will come to Augusta, of which
oity she has heard glowing accounts from
Southern tourists. We cau assure this
gifted lady that no where in the South
will she find a more delightfnl and attrac
tive city than oar own. Backed'by the
kindly commendation of such well
know and gifted Southern poets as the
late John R. Thompson, Mrs. Margrrt
J. Preston and Paul Hatne, Mrs.
Dodob, herself a poetess of rare culture,
will meet a cordial welcome from oar
people,
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1576.
CHEERING STATISTICS.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says the re
port of the Chief of the United States
Burean of Statistics, just out for the first
quarter of the present year, contains
some instructive figures. These show a
continuance of decline in the value of
imports, which were $126,925,561 for the
three months ending March 31, 1876,
against $146,998,661 for the correspond
ing period of last year, showing a de
crease of $20,073,100, or abont 13.6 per
cent. At such rate of decline the total
for the fiscal year j ust closed must be
considerably less than five hundred mil
lions of dollars, the aggregate for the
first nine months having been only
3365,844,400, as compared with $413,-
808,164 during the same term of fiscal
year 1875. Perhaps the most notewor
thy and significant falling off is in the
case of steel railroad bars. For the first
nine mouths of fiscal year 1875 the im
ports of such rails amounted to $2,320,-
085, but for the six months of fiscal year
1876 the value dropped to $314,282,
when the import ceased, not a dollar’s
worth having come into the country
since the Ist of January. Our own
mills are now making all the rails we
use, at prices lower than ever before
touched in this country, and mnst con
tinue to supply the whole of the home
demand, unless a reduction of the tariff
should invite the aggression of foreign
combinations. All the indications are
that, not only as regards steel rails,- but
as regards cutlery, files, tools and saws
and miscellaneous manufacture of iron
and steel, we are gradually becoming in
dependent of foreign sources. Of these
four classes of articles we imported, for
the quarter ending March 21, 1876, to
the value of $1,121,103, as against
$1,440,699 for the like quarter of 1875,
showing a decline of some 22 per cent.
On turning to the export tables we
discover evidences equally cheering.
Although imports decline, exports ad
vance. For the first three monts of the
calendar year 1876 we exported to the
value of $182,070,873, or $10,55U,503
more than for the corresponding quarter
of 1875. The total for the fiscal year
just closed, reckoned on the basis of
the reports for nine months, promises
to be a creditable sum larger than the
total for the previous fiscal year. Con
sidering that the depression of business
is all but universal, extending, as it
does, to nearly every commercial coun
try, this showing is a remarkably good
one. With all our industrial embarrass
ment, the balance of trade is largely in
our favor, and we must, during the past
twelve months, have liquidated much
over a hundred million of our foreign
indebtedness.
The figures which represent the ex
port values of certain manufactures are
full of significance. This is especially
true with reference to leather and to
cotton goods. Of the latter, for the
past quarter reported, the amount was
$1,959,022, as compared with $1,075,018
for the same period of last year, or
82 1 6 per cent, more, with a constantly
augmenting volume of export. The ex
hibit regarding leather is also very
striking, We exported of this com
modity, during the fiscal year 1870, to
the value of only $111,077, but for the
three months ending last March to
the large amount of $2,701,188, or nearly
twenty-five times as much in value in
ono-fourth of the time. The export is,
moreover, growing very rapidly. Dur
ing the first three months of calendar
year 1875 the amount was $1,908,521,
the present gain over which is some 42
per cent. As may be seen, the dark
clouds have a silver lining, after all.
COTTON CULTURE IN INDIA.
At the regular half-yearly meeting of
the stockholders of the Great India
Peninsula Railroad held in London
three weeks since, one fact of much in
terest to Americans was made promi
nent. The chief part of this line ex
tends south from Bombay through one
of the largest cotton growing districts
of British India. The chairman stated
that the cotton crop in all parts of In
dia connected with their road had been
poor ; but, even supposing the crop had
been an average or a good one, the com
pany would not have had a great deal to
carry, on account of prices being so low
at Liverpool, “It was hardly worth,
while,” he said, “ to export cotton at
the present prices.” Daring the past
half year the road had carried but 25,-
000 tons of cotton, against 55,000 tons
in the corresponding half year of 1875.
The decrease of 30,000 tons is equal to
nearly 300,000 of the small Indian bales.
The attention of the ryots, now that cot
ton has become an unprofitable crop ap
pears to be directed, to a larger extent
than ever before, to the cultivation of
oils, seeds, grain, ground nuts, hides
and horns—articles in which the de
cline in price has in no case been so
marked as in cotton. The increased
production of these articles more
than compensated the company for
the falling off in cotton. Of
linseed the road transported only
900 tons in 1872 ; in 1873, 4,800 tons ;
in 1874, 10,000 tons; and in 1875, 25,000
tons. Of teel seed, which is largely
used for cattle feeding and other pur
poses, they carried 5,000 tons in 1872;
in 1873, 9,000; 1874, 11,000; and 1875,
14,000. The increase in wheat was also
remarkable, the amounts being—in
1872, 47,000 tons; 1573, 51,000; 1874,97,-
000; and 1875. 110,000. Should a regu
lar and steady export trade to Great
Britain be opened up, it is probable that
the cultivation of this article would be
greatly stimulated, thus hastening the
abandonment of cotton cnltnre. Ground
nuts had become an important article of
export to England, and the traffic in
hides and horns also showed a large ad
vance. Inasmuch as cotton is a very
uncertain source of revenue, the Chair
man thought it was extremely satisfac
tory to find that they were keeping np
profits from other sources.
The Boston Bulletin says the import
ance of the above facts will be readily
appreciated by our cotton growers, deal
ers and manufactures, as well as the
general public. Every decrease in the
cotton prodnetion of India calls for a
corresponding increase in that of the
United States ; and, should present ten
dencies continue in force, we shill soon
witness the gratifying spectacle of a
yearly augmentation of onr cotton ex
ports unaccompanied by a fall in the
market prioe.
The Boston Herald, independent,
says: “The Cincinnati Convention was
composed of about 300 Blaine men, 125
Bristow men, and 325 delegates divided
between Morton, Cosklino, Hates and
Hartbanft;” that Bristow was defeated,
and that the Conkling, Morton and
Habtbanfi men concentrated upon
Hates and nominated him. Hence he
cannot be considered as the representa
tive of reform.” The Herald says: “It
was evident that the machine politicians,
who were present in fall force, compos
ing at least three-fourths of the Conven
tion, were determined not to nominate
Qristow if they could help it. They
did not want any such man for Presi
dent. They knew very well that he
woold not serve their purpose.” "But
Hates was by far the easiest man to com
bine upon. He had made no enemies,
either by corruptdoing9 or ttye exposure
of corruption.”
AFTER THE BATTLE.
THE KIITLED AND WOUNDED.
All Quiet to Hamburg—lnquest Over the
Bodies of He Dead Negroes—All Day Spent
In Taking Ividence—The Investigation Not
Concluded.
Sunday morning last there was an ea
ger demand for the Chronicle and Sen
tinel containing the full details of the
battle between whites and negroes in
Hamburg Saturday night. Hundreds of
people from Augusta visited the town
during Sunday. The negroes, men and
women, were veiy quiet and had bnt
little to say. Several women whose
relatives had ben killed were wailing
loudly, bnt except this no voices broke
the stillness of the Sabbath.
The Kilied and Wounded.
One waite nun, Mr. T. Mackey Merri
wether, and si negroes, A. T. Attaway
(County Conmissioner and Second
Lieutenant ofthe militia company), Da
vid Phillips, James Cook (Town Mar
shal), Albert Miniart, Moses Parks and
Hamptoq Sevens, were killed daring
and one white, young
Robert Morgan, of Edgefield county,
who was accidentally shot in the calf of
the leg b yt one of his comrades, and
four negrod, Pompey Curry, shot iu the
head, Wilis Davis, shot in the arm,
and John Thomas, shot in the back,
were wounded. None of the latter are
seriously injured except Thomas, and
he was reported to be doing well, yes
terday. Hp is at his brother’s house on
Lincoln street, in this city. The pistol
from which came the ball that wounded
him, was placed so close to his back
that his slqn yas burned. Young Mor
gan, who b at the City Hospital, was
free from : fever, yesterday. The ball
passed entirely through the fleshy part
of his right leg, near the knee, inflidting
a very pailful wound. Curry, Edwards
and Davis fere walking about Hamburg,
yesterday. They state that they were
all shot alter they were taken prison
ers.
Young Merriwether was standing
near the lart abutment of the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad bridge,
when ho >vas shot. Two guns in the
building where the colored militia were
located, were fired almost simultaneous
ly. One oi the balls struck Merriwether
in the baci of the head, directly over
the occepit. The unfortunate young
man staggered a few paces, felt blindly
along the (tone and fell. Sunday, the
mark of a bloody hand where it slipped
on the abutment, could be plainly sieen.
He evidently put his head instinctively
to his head when he was struck, and
then grasped at the wall for support. A
pool of blooi marked the spot where he
fell. He was picked up by his com
rades and carried to the large tree on
the ri-erbauk, a short distance below
the spot where he was shot. He died in
about five minutes, and the body was
then placed on a litter and brought to
Augusta, followed by the stricken fa
ther.
Cook, the arst negro killed, met : his
death about ten o’clock. He got through
the fence in rear of the Sibley building
and had just stepped into the street
when a volley was fired upon him from
a squad of men stationed under the
trestle of the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad. He was instantly
killed, five or six balls having penetrated
his head and body.
As far as we have been able to learn
the five other negroes were killed after
they were captured. Gen. Butler, w e
understand, gave peremptory orders that
the prisoners, twenty-seven in number,
should be carried to Aiken and lodged
in jail at that place. These instructions,
however, were not carried out. About
two o’clock, the negroes, who were in
charge of a guard and were seated on
the ground, were ordered to
Answer ta their Names
As they were called. According to the
evidence given at the inquest yesterdav,
Attaway was the first on the roll. He
was taken a short distance off, by a
squad of men, and shot. Phillips, Min
iar, Parks an<i Stoven° were successive
ly treated in the same way, as were also
Pompey Curry, Butler Edwards and
Willis Davis who escaped with slight
wounds. The others were then permit
ted to go free. Three of the prisoners,
previous to this, were given up t > two
gentlemen from Augusta, at the earnest
solicitation of the latter, who knew
them. These three were brought across
the bridge by the gentlemen and turned
loose.
Of the six negroes killed, four—A. T.
Attaway, David Phillips, Albert Mini
art and itfoses Parks—belonged to
the militia company. The other two—
James Cook and Hampton Stevens—did
not. All of the wounded were members
—John Thomas is first lieutenant. Cook
was Marshal of tbe town, and lived in a
house adjoining the armory, where the
company was stationed in the first part
of the fight. One of the witnesses at
the inquest yesterday stated that Cook
was at no time with the oompany and
was not engaged in the battle.
The Artillery.
The artillery used during the seige
was the iron centennial six pounder be
longing to the Washington Artillery.
Capt. Pritchard, commanding that
corps, knew nothing about the matter.
He had previously stated to several
gentlemen that if a request was made to
him for the cannon he would not grant
it. The gate of the yard on Washing
ton street, where the cannpn house is
situated, was forced open and the piece
out. A complaint was lodged at
police headquarters Sunday, by an of
ficer of the Artillery, that the cannon
house had been broken into Saturday
night • and the private property of
the company carried off. The
piece does not belong to the State of
Georgia, having been purchased by the
company from private parties when the
corps was first organized. After the
cannon was carried across the river, it
was turned directly opposite the Sibley
bnilding loaded with powder and canis
ter, and fired at the second story.
Several of the balls penetrated the
doors and windows, but the larger
proportion rattled harmlessly on the
brick face of the bnilding. The piece
was fired four times, when the ammuni
tion gave out. An effort was made to
procure solid shot but without success.
While the cannon practically didbnt little
damage, it had the effect of completely
silencing the negroes. One of the
witnesses yesterday testified that as
soon as the militia heard it announced
by the white men on the river bank,
that the eannon had been sent for, they
nsed every means to evacuate the build
ing. Some escaped by ladders at the back,
and others, pulling up a trap door,
went down into the cellar. Some took their
guns with them and others did not.
When the first discharge from the ar
tillery took place, there was nobody in
the armory.
The Militia.
The militia oomjJany had on its roll
about eighty men. Of these, according
to the statements of several of its mem
bers, between forty and fifty were in the
armory when the fighting commenced.
Tney were armed with the regulation
Springfield breeoh-loading rifle. The
armory occupies about one-half of the
second floor of the Sibley bnilding, the
sonthern side of which looks directly on
the Savannah river. This sonthern side
now bears many marks of the siege. A
large doable door near the western cor
ner is full of holos made by the balls
from the cannon. The windows are
broken in every direction by minnie
balls and buck shot, while the bricks
along the whole face of the wall are torn
and broken. Inside the armory the evi
dences of the fight are no less numer
ous. All around the walls bear the marks
of the ballets. The larger proportion
of the missiles passed too high to dam
age the occupants, but several entered
the northern wall as low down, almost,
as the base board. Around the room
are the gnn racks, and over each is the
name of a member of the company, de
signating where his gnn was to be placed.
One of these names was completely torn
away by a ball.
All aronnd the square where the Sib
ley building is located are, or were, tan
gible evidences of the struggle.—
Nearly etery door wsa broken opea
in the seareh after the negroes, and
entire floors, in several instances, were
ripped up. four or five of the negroes
captqred were found finder floors. At
taway was cgnght under some steps.
Bnt few gnns were found. Vfc under
stood yesterday jhqt parties in Augusta
had seyeral in their RQsscsaion, but were
Willing to pye'fhemUß to the proper
authorities.
During Saturday night there were
about
Twe Hundred Armed Men
From South Carolina in Hamburg, and
perhaps fifty from Augusta. Two or
three hundred people from this side of
the riyer probably visited the town be
tween eight and twelve o’clock, but these
were not armed, and took no part in the
affair, aoting simply as spectators.
A vigorous search was made for Lonis
Schiller, a white man, who. it was said,
had furnished ammunition to the mili
tia, but he could not be found. It was
afterwards ascertained that he had de
camped early ip the afternoon and gone
to Aiken. A rumor was current yester
day that he was arrested near Aiken by
a squad of men who started for Ham
burg with him, and that nothing had
been heard of him since, but this proved
to be inoorrect. We learned yesterday
afternoon, from an anthentic source,
that he was still in Aiken. A deep feel
ing of indignation against him was visi
ble Saturday night, and he would doubt
less have met with bnt short shrift had
he fallen into tbe hands of the beseigers.
The Origin ofthe Trouble.
As stated in the Chronicle and
Sentinel Sunday, the difficulty com
menced on the Fourth, when the militia
company was parading on the streets of
Hamburg. Mr. Thos. Butler Jand
Henry Gettson, who were passing aloDg
the street at the time, were stopped by
the Captain, Doc a dams, but were
finally allowed to proceed. Mr. Robt.
Butler, father of Thomas Butler, report
ed the matter to Trial Justice Rivers
who ordered Adams to appear before
him Friday afternoon. When Adams
put in an appearance he was so insolent
that the Trial Justice had him arrested
for contempt of Court and adjourned
the case until 4 o’clock Saturday. When
that time arrived, Adams was not
present. Gen. Butler who was acting as
counsel for Mr. Robt. Bntler, the prose
cutor, finding that Adams did not in
tend to stand a trial, but had
taken up a position at the armory
with his oompany and deolared
that he would not be arrested, informed
Rivers that the arms must be given up.
He would give the bond of twenty of the
best citizens of Edgefield county that
the guns would be turned over to Gov.
Chamberlain. He would allow the ne
groes a half hour to comply with the de
mand, and if they did not yield then he
would adopt measures to make them do
so. • Rivers then held an interview with
Adams, at the armory, and endeavored
to persaade him to give up the arms,but
they refused to do so. In a conversa
tion with Trial Justice Rivers, colored,
Sunday afternoon, he said :
“I was not in command, and did not
call upon the white citizens to aid me in
disarming the negro company. I tried
to avoid a diffiouty and prevent blood
shed. I advised the officers of the oom
pany to surrender their arms, but they
were afraid and refused. They thought
they could take care of themselves.”
Upon the failure of all efforts to in
duce the company to give up their arms,
fire was opened upon the armory, by the
whites, stationed on the river bank.
Inquest.
The bodies of the dead were laid oat
in different places in Hamburg, Sunday
morning. They were placed in the
Council Chamber. Attaway was carried
to his own house. Miniart, who was
found lying mortally wounded, in the
road, was placed on a mattress, in the
street, where he died about nine o’clock.
Trial Justice Rivers impanneled a
jury Sunday morning and after
viewing the bodies, adjourned over until
yesterday morning. The inquest was
resumed at ten o’clock yesterday and
continued during the day. Up to a late
hour only seven witnesses had been ex
amined. The evidence points mainly to
the faoc that the deceased, with the ex
ception of Cook, were shot after they
were captured. The investigation will
probably be concluded this morning.
There was very little excitement among
the colored citizens of Hamburg yester
day, and everything was almost as quiet
as if nothing had occurred.
Many of the colored women living in
the town went over to Augusta Sunday
and yesterday with their worldly posses
sions, and declare that hereafter they
would remain on this side.
It was rnmored on the streets of Au
gusta yesterday that a oompany of Fed
eral troops bad reaohed Hamburg, but
inquiry dereluped the fact that there
was no foundation for tbe report.
Trial Justice Rivers stated to a re
porter of the Chronicle and Sentinel
that after the failure of his negotiations
between the two parties he left the town,
as be did not consider it to be altogether
healthy for him to remain.
Do*. Adams.
Doc. Adams, the captain of the mili
tia company, once lived in Richmond
conntv and was a candidate for the Leg
islature. He was not in Hamburg Sun
day or yesterday.
Trouble in Bpppb Island.
It was rumored yesterday afternoon
that trouble was impending between the
whites and negroes in Beech Island.
THE HAMBURG TROUBLE.
The Inquest Still Pending—State OfAcia|s in
the Town.
The inquest over the six negroes who
were killed last Saturday night was con
tinued in Hamburg before Trial Justice
Rivers yestcday, A number of wit
nesses were examined. Some of the
witnesses gave the names of several par
ties from Augusta who, according to
their testimony, were actively engaged
in the affair. On the other hand, they
testified that many of the prisoners
owed their lives to the persistent efforts
of citizens of Augusta, who were de
termined to save them. Up to a late
hour a large mass of testimony, cover
ing many pages of legal cap paper, had
been taken down. One of the witnesses,
who was shot in the head, testified that
before he was shot he was made to swear
that he would never again use arms
against the whites nor testify against
them in Courts of justice. The greater
portion of the testimony is totally ir
relevant. None of the evidence has
fixed the onus of the killing upon any
particular parties.
W. H. Purvis, Adjutant-General,
and Major Stone, Attorney-General
of the State of Sonth Carolina, were in
Hamburg yesterday, having been sent
thither by Governor Chamberlain to ob
tain all the information possible in re
gard to the difficulty. They questioned
a number of the citizens of the town
and made a copy of the testimony ad
duced np to noon yesterday. They re
turned to Columbia at 4 o’clock. They
had very little to say in regard to the
matter. Sheriff Jordan, of Aiken coun
ty, and Sheriff Riohardson, of Edge
field oounty, were in the city yesterday.
We did not learn what the object of
their visit was, but it was understood
that it had reference to the Hambarg
troubles.
We learned yesterday that Attaway,
Miniart, Phillips, and Stevens were kill
ed near the ticket office of the Sonth
Carolina Railroad, or about fifty yards
from the bridge, Two were shot down
in the road and two in the field close at
hand. Miniart was seen lying in the
road, about 5 o’clock Sunday rooming,
by several citizens of Augusta. Re was
still alive and asked feebly for some wa
ter, which was immediately given him.
One of the gentlemen then sent for a
mattress and had the wounded man
placed on it. Attaway’s wife came np
about this time and seeing her husband
lying dead in the field, commenced weep
ing and wailing. Hundreds of negroes
had already gathered and were gaging
in silence noon the bodies qf the slain.
The inquest will probably be conclud
ed to-day and a verdict rendered.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Oar Walh.lla Correspondence.
[From an Occasional Correspondent.]
WAT.HAt.TiA, S. C., July B.—l would
suggest that you bring to the notice of
the Port Royal Railroad Company and
the City of Angusta the importance of
getting a controlling interest in the
Blue Ridge Railroad by purchasing a
majority of the bonds, which can be
done at a very low rate. There are thirty
four miles of first-class road in running
order, together with the right of Way
(with the grading partly done t<j the
North Carohue line) to the Tennessee
lfne. The bbnds of ! the road will ap
proximate $425,000, which I am of
opinion can bought for $0 cents.
The Sonth Carolina Road making
strong efforts to pqrqh&se a controlling
interest. *6 offering $5 cents,
ff yon would induce the President of
the Port Royal Road or the Mayor of
Angnsta to insert a notice in your paper
asking parties holding bonds to
mnnicate with them, Ilmqi the opinion
von wouW from them at onoe.
4 glad to see the next convntion
Will meet in yonr city. I don’t own any
of the bonds bat there are a few in this
county, ft would not be an extensive
job to complete the line from Anderson
to Angusta, as it is only about sixty-five
miles. We are very much damaged in the
oquntry by the late Reqhet. W- f- N.
THE HAMBURG. TRAGEDY.
GEN. BUTLER'S CONNECTION
WITH THE AFFAIR.
How the Trouble Originated—The Justice’s
Court—Conferences in Hamburg— Gen.
Bntler Denies Being the Leader of the
Whites—The Collision Spontaneous Com
bustion—The Negroes Fired First.
[Special to the Journal of Commerce.]
Columbia, July y..—Certain newspa
per editors and reporters have done me
so much injustice by false reports in
reference to the recent disturbance in
Hamburg, that it is due to myself to
make to the public a statement of my
connection with it. On Friday evening,
July 7th, Col. Charles Shaw with his
brother, the Rev. Wm. Shaw, was at
Edgefield Court House to see Mr. H.
W. Addison and Mr. A. J. Norris and
myself, on business. After transacting
it, Colonel Shaw said to me that Mr.
Robert J. Butler, who lives near Ham
burg, in Aiken county, desired me to be
at Hamburg on the following evening
(Saturday), at 4 o’clock, to represent
professionally his son, Thomas Butler,
and son-in-law, Henry Gelspn, in a trial
to be held before Trial Justice Prince
Rivers. Mr. Butler haß been a lucrative
client of mine for many years. I in
quired of Col. Shaw if he knew the na
ture of the case to be tried, and he said
he knew nothing exoept what he had
heard, that these two young men had
had an altercation with a company of
negro militia in the streets of Hamburg,
on the Fourth of July, and that Mr.
Hobert Butler had complained to
Rivers, the Major-General of Militia
and Trial J uslice, and that he supposed
the trial referred to that matter. I accord
ingly left Edgefield at nine o’clock
the next morning in a buggy. When I
had gone about seven miles on the old
stage road, I met Dr. Geo. Wise,. who
inquired if I had heard the news from
Hamburg? I replied that I had heard
nothing special, but was on my way to
Hamburg to attend a trial before
Rivers. He said the information had
reached his neighborhood that the
negro militia had threatened to lynoh
Thomas Butler and Henry Gelson if
they were not convicted, and that
several young men had gone in that
direction. When nearing the town, I
sent word to Mr. Robert Butler to meet
me in Hamburg, and give me the faots
of the case in which he wanted me to
appear. Mr. Butler did meet me ip a
short time, and I there, for the first
time, ascertained the oharaoter of the
trouble. I had nothing whatever to do
with the matter up to that time. Knew
nothing but what I have stated. My
business there was simply professional.
I had nothing abont me bnt one law
book, and bad no more idea of there
being a collision than an utter stranger,
I learned after reaching Hamburg that
Mr. Henry Sparnick, of Aiken, was in
town, as the attorney of the colored
militia, and sent for him with a view of
arranging for the trial, or effecting some
arrangement-between the parties. Mr.
Sparnick met me, and I think will do
me the justioe to say that my earnest ef
fort was to prevent any further trouble,
if possible, and he appeared equally
anxious.
Mr. Robert Butler then interposed
and said to Mr. Sparniek that if these
men would make acknowledgments for
their abuse and maltreatment of his son
and son-in-law he would be satisfied. I
said nothing about any apology myself.
It was then proposed that we hold a con
ference with the officers of the militia
company and Prince Rivers, and see if
we could not adjust matters; I made
this proposition to Mr. Sparniek, and
he assented, saying he had influence
with the negroes, and he thought we
could arrange it. He went off, as I sup
posed, to bring his clients; but did not
return. Sam Spencer, a negro wan,
came to Mr. Damm’s store, where I was
with Mr. Robert Butler, his son and
son-in-law, and said that he desired to
see me privately. lat once went into
Mr. Damm’s back room. He said he
was sorry to see bo much excitement,
and I expressed regrets at it. When he
said that he thought, inasmuob as Trial
Justice Rivers was to hear the oase, he
would prefer not to be in the conference,
I agreed with the propriety of that po
sition, and be then said that the offioers
of Doo Adams’ militia company would
meet me, but did not like to come to me
at Damm’s store, as there were armed
men there, but would meet me at his
(Spencer’s) office if agreeable tq m®- I
said certainly; I would them at his
office, and aIQPP, if they preferred. He
then went off, and did not return. The
time appointed for the trial having ar
rived, I proceeded with my clients to the
Trial Justice’s office. Rivers was not in,
and after a -time his clerk went for him,
and he opened his Court. I inquired, as a
preliminary questiqq, whether he was
sitting as a oßti or a military officer. He
replied that that depended upon the
facts as they would he developed; that
he was acting as a peace officer. I re
marked that I was indifferent as to the
character of the Court, as I only desir
ed to arrive at the facts, and inquired if
the accused parties would be present.
He said that he did not know, but
would have them called, which his con
stable proceeded to do from the door.
About this time Sam Spencer came in,
and said tq me that he thought if the
trial could be suspended the matter
could be settled. I replied that he must
see the Trial Justice, and if he w iuld
suspend, I had no objestion; whereupon
Rivers announced the case suspended
for ten minutes, and I was invited by
the Intendent of the town, a negro, man
named Gardner, tq the OounciT Cham
ber, for |he purpose of meeting the
mihtia offioers of Adams' company. I
repaired at once to that place, and
remained there about a quarter of an
hour, nobody appearing but Gardner,
with whom I had some talk as to the ne
cessity of something being speedily
done, and that I thought the best solu
tion of the matter was that these people
should deliver np their arms as a means
of settling the present difficulty, and a
fqarantee against a future recurrence.
[e said he knew nothing about it, and
waiting, as I thought, long enough, I
got in my buggy and went over tq Au
gusta on business, having qo relation to
the Hamburg nj^te l ! and while there
was questioned hy a number of people
as tq the status of affairs in Rambqrg,
to whom I replied that I thought a col
lision between the whites and blacks
imminent and likely to take place. After
dispatching my business, I was return
ing through Hamburg on my way to
spend the night at Mr. Robert Butler’s,
two miles in the country, and leave fo jc
home early the npxt morning, When
about half way across. (bo bridge I met
a delegation rf four negroes, Pix
ley, sdwards, Spencer and Sims, who
stopped me and said that if I would go
to Spencer’s office, the officers of the
militia would meet m e and endeavor to
stop the trouble. I agreed, went direct
ly to the appointed place and waited
there seme twenty or thirty minntea, but
one qf the officers, Qartledgc, appearing.
Re said he would do all in his power to
induce the militia io disband and give
np their guns, and I believe be did.—
Whilst I was in Augusta a body of men
rode into the town of Hamburg q;qnnt
ed. I went arounand the
for Butler and had Uqtbeeo gone long
before I received a message Rom Prince
Siyejs asking me to meet him. I de
ined to do so, saying that we had made
about foqr appointments which ware ob
served hy myself only, and that he must
come to me. I, however, did go to meet
him, and he asked me if the men would
give np their arms wonld I guarantee
the safety of the town. I said I had no
thing whatever to do with the fawn, and
should give no guarantee of any sort, as
I had no oommand or authority; but
would say as a citizen, that, in my judg
ment, if they wonld do that, there wonld
not be the slightest trouble; and he said
that he thought that right, and wonld
go and advise them to that ’ ~
In abont ten minutes the report - aR
circulated tbrt fhi r* aised ' to
P Y A W.W? ind intended to
a ,ew Minutes thereafter
didensne. The negroes were
t? tfaeir dtill room in brick
building known Sihtey’w corner, and
they raised a and ffred from the
Wffinb was responded to by
the whites, and a general firing took
place. Nof a very great while after the
firing began Mr. Merriwether, a
most estimable voong mam waa shot
through the bead and killed. Not a
negro bad been toaohed, and Mem-
Wefh,er% death naturally infuriated the
already excited crowd, and they were
oader the leadership of no one* During
the bring some parties, unknown la me,
brought over a pieoe of artillery and
fired four or five times at the building
end returned. The firing of the negroes
Rom their position then ceased. I left
the. crowd wresting the negroes. How
many were kilied f do not know.
This collision was the culmination of
the system of insulting and outraging of
$2 A TEAR—POSTAGE PAID.
white people, whioh the negroes had
adopted there fer several years, ijany
things were done on this terrible night
whioh of oourse cannot be justified, but
the negroes sowed the wind and reaped
the whirlwind. I did not attempt to ac
complish by force what I ooul i not' ac
complish by peaceful means. I was nor the
leader of this body of infuriated met. I
was there in the line of my profe-Sipn.
The collision was a sort of spontaneous
combustion. I thought I saw it ap
proaching, and did all that any hutnan
being oou dto prevent it. I have no ob
jection to beiDg saddled with whatever
responsibility fairly attaches to my con
duct, but I have no idea of permitting
newspaper reporters, for the sake of a
sensation or any other purpose, pre
senting me as the leader of a mob, when
I was no more the leader and no more
responsible than any other person who
might have been there in the line of his
duty. M. C. Butler.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
The Abbeville Democrats held a rous
ing meeting op Saturday.
Newberry has sent a ’76 six pence to
the Centennial Exhibition.
Labor Reform Associations are being
organized in Abbeville county.
A large Tilden and Hendricks flag has
been swung across Main street at Ches
ter.
Chester celebrated the Fourth with a
torchlight procession, speeches and two
fights.
Wednesday, June 28tb, was dulv cele
brated at Chester by the Rifle Club and
the Sabre Club.
Mrs. Joseph Little, wife of Captain
John L. Little, of Golcmbia, died in
that city on Tuesday.
A fruit, floral and vegetable fair is to
be held on the fair grounds at Palmetto,
on Tuesday, August I.
Some patriotic Republican voter stole
a United States flag, which was displayed
at Columbia on the Fourth. *
There was a heavy washing rain in the
Bold Branch country last Sunday, which
did considerable damage to crops.
Anew mail route was opened on Wed
nesday, between Calhoun’s Mills and
Dorn’s Mines, in Abbeville county.
The corn orop’in Greenville, was not
injured by the floods, so much as was
apprehended; the yield will be fully two
thirds.
The Fourth of July passed off quietly
at Newberry. There was some little
jollifloation and speaking on the Repub
lican side.
The people of Greenwood are alive to
the necessity of the Democratic! Clubs,
and are working hard for tbe success of
the party.
Greenville is ods hundred vears old.
In 1776 Mr. Riohard Paris, the first set
tler, looated there and gave his name to
Paris mountain.
The Columbia Union-herald, has (he
representation of a piebald pirate and a
galvanized idiot with $ paper collar,
which is entitled “our candidates.”
The young men of Abbeville organ
ized a Democratic Club in the Court
House on Monday evening, the 3d ult,
with fifty-five members upon the roll.
An enterprising Abbeville eolleotor
seized the horse of a mail rider in that
county for debt, and made the United
States mail travel the rest of the way on
foot.
There are one hundred and forty un
satisfied tax executions against default
ers in Calhoun’s Mills township, Abbe
ville county, and only five o't which are
against white parsons.
Tilden and Hendricks; millions for
good government; death to the rule of
thieves. This is the banner displayed
by the Democrats of Hodges aver their
headquarters at that place.
In some sections of Chester county
there has heen no rain sinoe the 17th of
June. Thia together with the intense
heat of the last ten days, has already
done injury to the growing crop of up
lanp corn.
There is now more suffering here for
the want of something to eat than was
ever known in Abbeville county. This
is true not only ip the vioinity of the
village but (dacha various portions of
the county Prei,s.
The Abbeville county Radicals are
bringing considerable pressure ti bear
upou the Clerk and County Treasurer* to
force them to discharge their clerks, the
Messrs. J. Y. and A. W. Jones. Thia
looks like carrying matter* with a high
hand.
Qn Friday night the two Democratic
Clubs of Newberry, propose to’have a
meeting of the citizens to ratify the St.
Louis nomination. All the prominent
speakers in the county are invited by the
Executive Committees of the different
clubs, and a large attendance is antici
pated.
Much complaint in made about back
ward crops year in Anderson county.
The cotton crop has been much later
than usual, and is a full week later iu
blooming than it was last year. We are
glad to learn, however, that it has been
improving very rapidly within the last
two weeks, and many of our farmers arc
beginning to be hopeful of a good yield
this Fall.
Four prisoners confined in Barnwell
jail escapied therefrom on Wednesday
evening la ß *, about dusk; the brute who
was lodged there a few days ago, on the
charge of rape, and the two murderers,
who were to be hanged on Friday next.
There is not the least doubt but that
they were turned loose, aa not oae of
the looks (and there were f®r, on the
rooms in which they were oonfined),
broken. So the grand trapeze perform
ance wiiA not eome off on Friday, as pre
viously announced, and those who come
to see “the show” will be disappointed.
The negroes who were to have been
hanged were kept in irons, but it is
thought their wives, who were permitted
to visit them, furnished files, and by
their use they elected an escape.
Barnwell Sentinel : A big greasy
back negro made an attempt to
rape two respeetable ladies living
in Baldoek township .last week, a
Mra. Woodward and a Mrs. Wayland,
and strange to say, the husband of one
of them to whom the incarnate devil
had been tamed over, preferred that the
law in each a cases should take its
course, and brought the brute here and
had him lodged in jail. Even the color
ed people were so much incensed at the
ontrage, that the would have made shorty
work of him, but for the interference of
the whites. Do the intelligent citizens
of Baldoch pot know that justice has
ooqed out, and that but little is dealt
out now; and why sead thia wretch here?
We are afraid Raldook ownship is a
“mills and water concern.”
The Charleston News and Courier, of
yesterday, says: The news of the massa
cre of Gen. Cnstar and his command by
the Indians, created much excitement in
the city yesterday afternoon, and if tue
Government should for'volunteers,
Charleston furnish at least 1,900
trained veterans to go to the plains with
in a fortnight. It was rumored that the
sth Artillery, stationed at the Oitadel,
had been ordered to be ready for the
march, hut np to a late hour laat night
no orde a of the kind had been issue!,
although the troopa, both officers and
men, were anxious to take their depar
ture for the Weak The general opinion
seema |o he that the Government mast
now take active measures to exterminate
the redskins, and the opinion is freely
expressed that the first step in this di
rection mast be the abolition of the, In
dian Bureau.
the iiEORGiA campaign.
f Special to the Constitution ]
Madison, July 10, 1876.—Dr. J. E.
Godfrey was nominated on the Bth in a
priminary election for Senator from the
28th distriot. and J. S, Beid for the
House, ",
Colquitt Carries Heard.
LaGranoe, July Id —Heard county
sends J. B. Beall and J. T. Peddy as
delegates to the Gubernatorial Conven
tion. They ate instructed to vote for
Colquitt. Tboup.
j In Ghaiham connty a resolution to
[instruct for Colquitt was voted down
and the following nninstrncted delegates
were appointed :
Delegates-J. R. Sanssy,G. P. Ham
son, A. B- Smith, W. 8. W.
Russell, Sr., M. H. Meyer.
Alternates —O. H. Olmstead, R. Falli
gant, 0. O. Hardwick, A. P. Adams,
Q. 0. Freeman, J. L. Warren.
WukliaM far Colquitt.
[Special, Wegram to the Chronicle and Bsntmel \
TsknuiU, July 11.—The Democrats
of Washington oounty met in conven
tion to-day at Sandersville and elected a
fall Colquitt delegation. J. H. M.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS
Plenty of corn to sell in the upper
dis ricts of Gwinnett at eighty cents for
cash.
W. P. Herring made 1,113* bushels
of wheat on ninety acres of land in New
ton county.
Up to this time bat one man in Grif
fin has taken a decided stand for Havler
and Wheeze.
Savannah has ratified the nomina
lions. Old Chatham proposes to roll up
a big vote for Tilden and Hendrioks.
A colored man has been committed to
jail in Franklin oount.y charged with an
attempt to outrage a respectable white
girl.
The citizens of that lovely and pro
gressive town, Lithonia, are erecting a
handsome building for a Female Hiah
School.
A Griffin lawyer walked to Baraesville
to attend to a oase, thereby sayiDg sixty
five cents. Col. Wadley hasn’t spoken
to him since.
Marriages in Geergia: On the 2d inst,.
by W. H. Deaton, Esq , Mr. Walker
Chandler to Miss Elixa A. Reed—all of
Had county.
On the 4th inst., at the bride’s resi
dence in Newton, by Rev. H. Quigg,
Hon. A. L. Davidson, of Conyers, to
Mrs. Rosa Broadnax.
Anderson, of the Covington Star has
discovered that the days are growing
shorter. That is no reason that his looal
oolumns should do likewise.
Hon. L. F. L'vingstoa has resigned
the chairmanship of the i xecutive Com
mittee of Newton, Hou. W. F. Davis
was chosen as temporary chairman. ’
President Kellogg, of College Temple,
Newtou, Ga., calls eaoh of his graduates
daughter, and those who are fortunate
enough to marry them, his sons-inlaw.
Mr, Enoch Bell, of Elbert county,
while shoeing his horse in front of his
shop was struok and killed by lightning.
His horse was also killed on Ist day of
July.
Rev, B. T. Thomas has been appoint
®“ b y Bisl ? 0 P Pierce to supply the
Gillsville circuit, filling the vacancy
caused by the death of Rev. J. H. Mash
burn.
We learn that on Tuesday last Mr.
John Batts had a fine mare killed by
lightning in Blairsville, She was hitoh
ed to a tree that was struck and was
instantly killed.
We are authorized to state that Frank
L. Haraldson, of White county, declines
accepting the call of his friends to be
oome a candidate for Senator of the 22d
Senatorial District.
The wheat and oat crop in Rockdale,
generally speaking, was a failure. Cot
ton is a little backward but doing finely;
and corn, so our farmers say, was never
better. The season so far have been ex
cellent.
Col. Womeck, one of Cov
ington’s most prominent lawyers, deliv
ered an address before the Palmyra In
stitute at Newborn on Thursday, 29th
ult. The address is highly spoken of
by all who heard it.
A match game of base ball was play
ed at Oak Hill on last Tuesday, between
the Stonewalls of Henry county, and the
Sooners of Rockdale county, whioh re
sulted in a defeat of the latter. Score:
Stonewalls, 23; Sooners, 16.
Rev. Dr. L. Pierce is now in his nine
ty-second year, and preached in Sparta
last Sunday with power and effect. It
is recorded of him that in fifty-two years
he has missed only one commencement
exercise at Wesleyan Female College in
Macon.
Columbus Enquirer: If we connt the
1,596 bales, reported purchased in the
last two months for Augusta Factories,
will make the total takings from this
market by home mills 11,630 against 8,-
950 last year, showing an increase of 2,-
680.
Miss Rallie Rivers, of Midway, died
on Friday morning last, after a severe
illness of abont two weeks, of typhoid
fever. She was 14 years of age, and un
usually intelligent for one of her age.
She was buried in Oxford, on Saturday
afternoon.
Mrs. J. F. Hart, Miss Emma Hart,
Miss Emma WoodiDg and Miss Mattie
Pierce, together with several gentlemen,
compose the choir for the Union Con
gregation at Union Point . Mrs. Hart is
organist and music directress. It bids
fair to be a success.
A little sou of Dr. L. H. Peacock, who
lives in Attapulgus in Decatur county,
accidentally met his death in that village
last Saturday. He had been hunting
and was carelessly handling his gun
when it fired, the contents penetrating a
vital part. He lived but two hoars and
a ball after the accident.
More than a thousand people assem
bled near Lovejoy’s Station, on the 4th
instant, t > have a general jubilee. A mil
itary company from Atlanta and odo
from Jonesboro were present, and two
bands of mnsio, one from Atlanta and
one from Griffin. The occasion seems to
have been void of political significance,
and was simply a merry making.
A negro boy twelve years old was
drowned in White Oak last Saturday
evening. He had accompanied a party
of gentlemen to the oreek, and while
they were sitting on the opposite side o f
the creek the boy by accident fell in the
stream and drowned before assistance
could be given. The body was recover
ed abont an hour after life was extint.
One night last week Dr. Butts, of
Ceoatur county, gave a person in his
corn field a plenteous dose of duck shot.
The fellow ran off, but left copious
signs of blood in the field. He will
probably not steal any more corn out of
that patch. Monday night Capt. John
T. Wimberly fired at a thief in his farm,
who was stealing corn. He thinks be
struok him. Bird shot used.
A Newton county man left his wife,
took all of his healthy children with him,
leaving a deformed child for his sickly
wife to care for. His wife, unable to
make a living by work, applied to the
Ordinary for assistance—in other words
asked that she and her child be put on
the pauper list. He unworthy husband
remains in Newton county. The ground
of the separation was because his poor
wife begged that he discontinue his
course and lead a better life.
On last Thursday night Conyers had a
rousing Tilden and Hendricks ratifica
tion meeting. Fire-works were bnrnt,
and the scene was lit up with bon flires,
&0., &e. Mr. W. P. Reed was called to the
Chair and A. C. McCalln requested to
aot as Secretary. Speeches were made
by Messrs. Reed, Helms, Hud
son, Maddox, Spoei and others, endors
ing the nominees and the platform. The
meeting bvoke up with cheers for Tilden
and Rendrieks, and a promise to swell
the victory in November next.
On Satnrday afternoon Mr. Jesse Wal
ters shot Mr. Odom at Albany. There
had been some family grudge standing
between the parties for some time, which
culminated in this difficulty. After some
words Odom struck Walters, who after
wards met him, armed with a pistol,
with which he shot a hole through
Odom’s body. Dr. Alfriend extracted
the ball, and hopes the wound will nob
be fatal. This is an affair much to be
regretted, as both these young men were
much respected in the community.
[For the Chronicle and Sentinel. ]
TO THE SERVIANS..
I. B. HOUSTON.
Again to the ba tle. Servians,
Oar hearts bid the tyrants defiance ;
For the cross ot our faith in replanted,
The pale dying orescent is daunted
For we’ve sworn*by our country’s assaulters,
That living, we will be victorious
And the sword shall to glory restore us,
Or that dying, oar deatns shall be glorious;
The battle is not to the strong,
Nor the race to the swift.
A breath of submission we breath not ,-
The sword that we've drawn wo will sheath not;
Its scabbard is left wh re our martyrs are laid,
Andf the vengeance of ages has whetted its
blade.
Earth may hide—waves engniph—fire consume
ns,
But they shall not to slavery doom us;
If they rale, it shall be o’er our ashes and
graves;
Bat we’ve smots them already with fire on the
waves,
And new triumphs on land are before ns,
To the charge!—Heaven's banner is o’er us.
This day shall ye blush tor its story ?
Or brighten your lives with its glory
Till we’ve trampled tbs turban and shown our
selves worth
Being sprang from, and named for, the god
like of earth.
Strike home I—and the world shall revere os,
As heroe - descended from heroes
Onr hearths rhail be kindled in gladness,
That were cold and extinguished in sadness;
When the blood of yon Mussulman cravens
Shall have cr. matured the beaks of onr ravens,