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OLD SERIES —VOL. XCI ■EW SERIES—KOL. U. TKBMB. THE DAILY CHRONICLE A SENTINEL, the oldest newepaper in the South, ie publiahed daily, except Monday. Term#: Per year, •10 ; eix months, $5; three months, $2 50. THB WEEKLY CHRONICLE A SENTINEL is publiahed every Wednesday. Terms: Ods year, #2; six months, sl. THE TBI-WEEKLY CHRONICLE A SENTI NEL is published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Terms: One year, t 5; six months, #2 50. SUBSCRIPTIONS in all cases in advance, and no paper continued after the expiration of the time paid for. BATES OP ADVERTISING IN DAILY.—AII transient ad vertieemente will be charged at the rate of ft per square each insertion for the first week. Advertisements m Tri-Week ly, tl per square; in Weekly, il per square. Marriage and Funeral Notices, tl each. Special Notices, tl per square. Special rates will be made for advertisements running for one month or longer. ALL COMMUNICATIONS announcing candi dates for office—from County Constable to members of Congress—will be charged at the • rate of twenty cents per line. All announce ments must be paid for in advance. 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. -—4 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,