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Address WALSH A WRIGHT,
Ctjromcle aitii
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 2, 1876.
A company has been organized in St.
Louis to build anew hotel that will cost
$2,000,000, contain 2,000 rooms and ac
commodate 3,500 guests.
We conld have borne up under the
lots of Sitting Bull, bat, alas ! Crazy
Home has also gone to the happy hunt
ing grounds. “Insatiate archer, would
not one suffice.”
It is estimated that at least 2,000
persons have died from sunstroke
throughout the country during the
present heated term. The death rates
have everywhere increased to a fearful
degree.
The statement is made that Lieuten
ants Hodgson and Mclntosh, killed in
the Custeb fight with the Indians, were
both young and promising Georgians,
recent graduates of West Point, and
still beardless boys.
The Democracy of fedgefield county,
Sooth Carolina, have followed the lead
of Newberry, and pronounced in favor
of a straight-out ticket. There will be
neither possum policy nor defeat in
Sonth Carolina this year. There will be
a Bquare fight and a splendid victory.
The organs now propose to make Gen.
Gabtbbll the other elector from the
State at large beoause he was a good
boy and “came down.” What are they
goiDg to do about James and Under
wood and Warner and Mclntyre in the
event that they should be good boys
also and “come down.”
Facts are stubborn things. When
Samuel J. Tildkn was inaugurated Gov
ernor of the State of New York the canal
ring was a power in the State. It has
been shattered to atoms by bis sturdy
and well directed blows. When he was
inaugurated the State taxation was $15,-
000,000 per annum ; it is now but SB,-
000,000.
“Mb. Thomas Wbntworth Hiooin
bon,” who says betook part in the re
cent Fifth Avenue Conference, writes to
the Times that Prince Rivers was Color
Sergeant of his regiment during the
war, and is a man of “uncommon men
tal and physioal power, and a natural
leader of his people.” Can Prince
Rivers say e? mnoh for Thomas Went
worth Hiooinson ?
August Belmont recently declared
that “no more clean-handed, upright
and sagacious counsellor has belonged
to the New York bar in bis (Belmont’s)
time than Samuel J. Tilden ; that he ia
one of the few statesmen capable of ful
filling the pledges made in the masterly
Democratic platform ; and that while his
(Brlmont'b) choice was Bayard, he
heartily concurs in the choice of his
The Gainesville Eagle , alluding to the
withdrawal of Colonel Hardeman from
the Gubernatorial oanvass, says one of
the results will be “to complicate the
election of United States Senator by the
next Legislature.” Does this mean that
Colonel Hardeman retired from the Gu
bernatorial oonteat in order to enter the
race for United States Senator? If it
does, how will the Colonel’s candidacy
complicate matters ? Read us this
riddle. -
According to a Washington telegram
to the New York Herald, a newspaper
reporter’s mistake, or the ecoentrioity
of electrioity has made Congressman
Maokky, of Charleston, tell the truth
for ouce in his life. Mr. Maokby is
made to say the region around Ham
burg is very dangerous and that a white
mau’s life is hardly safe there. A white
man’s life is hardly safe and that is just
the reason why the whites wish the in
cendiary militia-men disarmed.
Thb constitutionality of polygamy ia
about to be settled forever by a test
ease of considerable importance which
is soon to come before the Snpreme
Court of the United States. George
Reynolds, of Salt Lake City, was con
victed iu the District Court of the crime
of having a plurality of wives, and sen
tenced to a fine and imprisonment. The
oase was then reviewed by the Supreme
Court of Utah, which confirmed the
seutenoe, whereupon an appeal was ta
ken to the Supreme Court of the United
States.
There has been a little talk about
nominating Mr. Carl Schurz as the Re
publican candidate for Congress in the
First Distriot of Missouri. Thereupon,
the St. Loais Globe-Democrat, the lead
ing Republican paper of the State, ex
claims that Mr. Schukz “must do pen
ance for recent short-comiugs before he
can hope to be honored again with a
position of trust in the Republican
party.” The New York Sun thinks this
is “encouraging to Gov. Fenton, John
Cochrane, and other Liberals who are
supporting Hayes,”
The present House of Representatives
will have it to say, to its lasting credit,
that when the appropriation bills are all
passed they will show a reduction of up
wards of 833,009,000 from the appro
priations made by the last Republican
Congress, and of more than $60,000,000
from the estimates 1 1 the departments
for the year ending June 30, 1877. The
redaction was effected by hard, honest
work, and a determination to lop off ex
cresences and to extirpate abases. Had
it not been for the Republican majority
in the Senate sixty millions per annum
would have been saved to the tax payers
of the nation.
Upon rare occasions some wealthy man
makes a sensible devise of money for
charitable purposes. Such a devise is
that of the late Augustus Hembnway,
of Boston, who left SIO,OOO to be dis
tributed “as much as possible among
those most worthy, avoiding all snch as
make two paupers where there was bat
one before, and those with any appear
ance of sham—where the managers de
rive pecuniary profit from the manage
ment—my wish being to aid the worthy
poor, and to assist those who are willing
themselves, when able, and to smooth
the last hoars of the dying poor."
During the past six months there have
been 113 failures in Georgia, with lia
bUities amounting to $2,747,591.
evidently a mistake.
The correspondent of the News and
Courier, whose account of the meeting
in Edgefield is published elsewhere in
the Chronicle and Sentinel this morn
ing, says that Generals Butler and
Gaby made speeches “severely denuncia
tory of the News and Courier and the
Chronicle and Sbnninel.” Until we
receive more anthoritative information on
the subject we shall take the liberty of
doubting the correctness of the state
ment made by the correspondent of the
News and Courier, and of believing that
he was mistaken as to the language used
by Generals Butler and Gabt. In the
first place Generals Butler and Gaby
would have communicated directly with
the Chbosiclb and Sentinel if there had
been anything to complain of in its re
port of or its comments upon the Ham
burg affair. General Butler was in the
city a few days ago and had a conversation
with a reporter of the Chronicle and
Sentinel In this conversation there were
no “denunciations” of this paper. In the
second place we do not believe that
Generals Butler and Gaby were “se
verely denunciatory” of the Chronicle
and Sentinel for the very good and suf
ficient reason that it has done nothing
which deserves denunciation. So far as
the Hamburg troubles are concerned we
published a full account of them, based
upon information given our reporter
and what he saw himself. This it was
our duty as journalists to do. If any
mistakes were made in the first publica
tions they were subsequently corrected
by our reporter, and by the letters of
General Butler. We do not attempt to
suppress facts, for that would not hare
been politic or, what is of vastly more
inportance to us, right. We knew very;
well what accounts would be written by
Radical partisans and we knew equally
as well how the sileuce of the Southern
press would be misconstrued. We censur
ed in severest terms the killing of the pris
oners and for that censure we have no
apology to make. We repeat it now.
It was a deed of wanton cruelty aud we
have the satisfaction of knowing that
ninety-nine hundredths of the people of
Georgia and South Carolina agree wi h
as in this opinion. We have never fail
ed to condemn such acts before and we
shall certainly not hesitate to do so now.
THE AUGUSTA AND HARTWELL RAIL.
ROAD.
We have expended years of valuable time
and vast sums of money to reach Charleston,
and what has it amonnted to ? Just nothing.
What is the use, therefore, of continuing to
agitate a dead enterprise ? Surely we have
learned enough by this time to act more wisely
in the future. Charleston may intend at some
future day to do e imething, but that day is too
far distant to be relied upon. At present she
has no aid to bestow npon the enterprise, and
apparently dues not want to be annoyed wilh
the matter. So he it. Ae the writer told
her citizens in the late Convention, we
can get along without her aid. We have a
better, cheaper and shorter outlet to the sea,
with enthusiastio asauran -es of hearty co-op
eration. Augusta, one of the most beautiful
of all our Southern cities, has come squarely
to the front, as we felt assured she would, and
promises to do her whole duty in the premises.
More than one hundred of her leading mer
chants and business men have already signed
a request for the next Convention to be held
there, and a o rdial welcome is extended to
the delegation. This is the way to do business.
On this side of tho mountain everything is
moving ahead just right. A corps of engineers
are at work surveying a route from Maryville
to the Little Tennessee river, some eighteen
m : les. The iron has been purchased to lay the
track.
The above is from the Knoxville Age
of a recent date. We are glad to see
the prospects for the completion of this
important line brightening. Augusta
and Knoxville and the whole country
between these terminal points are deeply
interested in the success of the enter
prise. We believe they are now ready
to give it assistance that will ensure its
success. We have not the slightest
doubt of either the ability or the in
clination of the Georgians to build the
line to the mountains, provided our
Tennesse friends will meet us at Rabun
Gap. The Angnsta and Hartwell Road
has a charter which contains a reason
able grant of State aid—fifteen thousand
dollars per mile—and this with the sub
scriptions which should be easily ob
tained ia the oity of Augusta and in the
different counties through which the
line passes will suffice for its construc
tion. On the other end operations seem
to be actively progressing and the Ten
nesseeans are evidently in earnest. We
hope great good will result from the
convention which is to meet here this
year.
AN ANTI-COTTON LAW.'
Dr. H. D. Tobbit, of Burke county,
Georgia, has constructed and forwarded
to the New York Sun an “anti-cotton
law,” which he desires to have enacted,
and whioh he considers to be the only
salvation for the South. Dr. Torbit’s
law provides that every Southern planter
shall be taxed twenty dollars for each
acre of cotton he may plant over five
aores. Its object is to prevent the plant
ers from raising so much cotton, and to
oompel them to raise corn, wheat, oats,
and sugar, whioh they now draw from
other regions. He holds that this law
would make the planters prosperous
and contented, and give them plenty of
money. He argues that the downfall
and bankruptcy of the once prosperous
South his been brought about by cot
ton, which costs the planters more than
it gives them, considering their outlay
for the mules and implements, the corn,
fodder and provisions which they are
compelled to purchase. He desires that
bis law should be made an Issue in all
elections, and that every candidate
should be required to pledge himself to
its support.
The Sun very properly says : “ A
great deal has beeu said in pist years
about the subject which Dr. Torbit
wishes the Sun to take up, and the
planters have often been urged to raise
the cereals, provisions, and other sup
plies needed for local consumption. But
we cannot advocate the passage of any
such law as that which Dr. Torbit has
drawn up for restraining the production
of cotton. It is not the business of
Congress, or of any State Legislatnre, to
undertake the regulation of matters of
the kind. Congress has no more power
to encourage the raising of corn in Geor
gia than of tobacco in Wisconsin ; and it
has no more right to limit the culture of
: cotton in the South than it has to limit
the building of cotton factories in Mas
sachusetts. The Southern planters, as
well as the Northern farmers, mast
themselves study and regulate their own
interests respecting the crops that are
grown on their soiL”
The United States Supreme Court has
just decided in reference to the liability
of a State officer for obeying Confede
rate authority daring the war, that it
was not a Federal question, aad the
case was dismissed. The defendant had
lost money belonging to the State of
Tennessee, and the Court held that a
trustee cannot be held responsible to
his cestui que trust for the loss of a
trust fund, if the loss has not been oc
casioned by his own laches or bad faith,
and that the delivery of the trnst fond
in this case by the defendant into the
hands of the Confederate authority
nnder an order which he dared not dis
obey excused him from liability to the
plaintiff.
MORTON AND THE HAMBURG DIFFI
CULTY.
Senator Morton, it is said, will call
for a committee to investigate the re
oeDt riot at Hamburg, in South Caro
lina. There is, says the Courier Jour
nal, quite as much reason to send a
Congressional committee to Newark, N.
J., to investigate the slaughter of seven
white men daring a desperate riot which
occurred there the other day. That
bloody tragedy Morton ignores. It
occurred in a Northern State, where he
claims that “law and order” always ex
ist. In his zeal for the protection of
“human rights” Morion should
his attention to the alarm which exists
ia lowa, where tramps roaming about
the country in bands one thousand
strong, boarding railroad trains, bully
ing the farmers through the country,
and stealing whatever they can lay their
hands on. These are desperate men
who would not hesitate to commit mur
der if it was necessary to obtain plun
der. lowa, however, is a “sound Re
publican State,” the home of the patriot
Belknap, and Morton closes his eyes to
“outrages” there committed, as he did
to ruffianism in Indiana when he was
Governor of that State.
GETTING DOWN TO HARD PAN.*
It is interesting to read from any quarter
that retrenchment hat at last reached the
household service. A New York paper states
that woman cooks are now willing to take sls
who formerly got S2O a month, and that cham
bermaids have lowered their ideas from sl2 to
$lO. Perhaps even the rest of the statement,
that some families who formerly employed
only one servant now do their own work, may
have some comfort in it. It will probably be
some tune before ill-health results to the fam
ily from over-work in such case or super
ciliousness to the discharged servant. If
these leveling times put the relations between
each parties on a sounder basis than has pre
vailed in this country of late years, that will be
one more of the good turns these times are
said to be doing the country. Neither will the
transfer of private coachmen and footmen to
horse-cars aud restaurants, said to be common
now, ruin the country .—Philadelphia Times.
The reduction in prices that is men
tioned at the North also obtains to some
extent in the Sonth. That is to say,
in the prices of some things there has been
a reduction approximating ante bellum
figures, while in other there has been
no sensible depreciation of prices. One
of the cruellest phases of the present
condition of business is that while the
wages of mechanics and salaried em
ployees of every description have been
greatly reduced the cost of living in
some important particulars has not been
diminished in proportion to this reduc
tion. Wages, and in this word is in
cluded salaries, have been reduced in
the South from twenty to thirty, and
even forty per cent—so that the em
ployee who once received eighteen dol
lars q?er week is now getting twelve dol
lars and sixty cents or, perhaps, only
eleven dollars. If the decline in values
had been uniform this redaction would
have been apparent rather than real and
no one would suffer by that which af
fected all alike. If the purchasing
power of eleven dollars is equivalent to
the purchasing power of eighteen, it
evidently makes no difference to the em
ployee whether he receives the
one sum or the other. But, un
fortunately, such is not the
case. In some articles there
has been a decline proportionate, to
some extent, to the fall in the price of
labor. House rent is cheaper now than
it has been in some time, though the
f.til has been greater in the rent of large
houses than in that of small houses usu
ally occupied by men of moderate means.
A six or eight room house in an eligible
portion of the oity does not pay its own
er, at present rates, more than five or
six per cent. The staple articles of
dry goods are also as cheap or cheap
er now than they were in 1860. Men’s
clothing has also been cheapened to
some extent. But here the shrinkage
ceases. Servants’ wages are as high
now, as a general rule, as they have ever
been. The cost of food is about the
same as it was five years ago. Nearly
everything that comes upon the table is
purchased at inflation prices. Butchers’
meat, fuel, vegetables, poultry, butter,
and most of the ordinary grocery sup
plies are still high, and these things
constitute the principal expenses of liv
ing. The man who has been cut down
from eighteen to twelve dollars per week
finds his weekly bill for supplies but
little smaller than it was before the
panio—unless, indeed, necessity has
made him reduce the quantity pur
chased. Until this state of affairs is
remedied, until the fall in values be
comes uniform and bears upon every
thing with eqnal pressure, the poor man
must continue to suffer.
THE BAYONET IN THE SOUTH.
The proofs multiply, says the New
York Sun, that the Republican man
agers will try to carry four or five
Southern States this Fall with the
bayonet. The States to which we more
particularly refer are Mississippi, Louis
iana, Arkansas and Alabama. They
may also find it neoessary to use the
same means to avert defeat in Florida,
and even in South Carolina, in both
of which the party is weakened by bit
ter feuds.
Ten days ago Gen. Auger issued an
order at New Orleans creating the Mili
tary District of Baton Rouge, to be
composed of six counties or parishes of
Louisiana and five counties of Mississip
pi. Troops were assigned to the new
district, and Col. Brooke placed iu
command. The soldiers are posted at
strategic points and the commanders
are required to report to Col. Brooke
without delay, “giving him such in
formation concerning their command as
may be useful to him.” Col. Brooke,
by a special order, is authorized to
move his troops to any part of his dis
trict whenever he shall think it best,
and to preserve peace and order “by
the use of every means within his con
trol.”
Nothing whatever has occurred to call
for a speoial military raid against the
eleven oounties in question. It may be
regarded, therefore, as the initial step
in a line of ooercive policy whioh,accord
ing to well founded reports, is to be
carried out this Summer and Fall
in the half dozen States we have men
tioned.
Mississippi will receive the particular
attention of the military satraps. Sena
tor Morton takes a peculiar interest in
that State; and as he has been the star
| diest champion of Grant’s Southern
measures, he mu3t have all the
! troops that may be necessary to
i hold the whites of Mississippi
|in awe while the carpet-baggers
j stuff the ballot-boxes with votes
to suit themselves. The Vicksburg Her
| aid tells us that in pursuance of this
policy, besides the troops in the Baton
Rouge district, there are soldiers at Fort
Gibson and at Vioksburg, and that the
commander at the latter post thinks he
shall soon call for more. The Herald
says that the negroes of that section are
told by the military commanders and
the carpet-baggers that it is Gen.
Grant’s order for them to vote for
Hayes and Wheeler, and that they will
be put back into slavery if they do not
obey.
Louisiana will be looked after with
special solicitude. We learned several
weeks ago from a trustworthy source
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1876.
that Gen. Sheridan had agreed to go
into the Gulf States and take command
once more, and give the people a touch
of his previous tactics. The uprising of
Sitting Bull may perhaps delay his de
parture. But as Sheridan’s chief weap
on iu putting down the savage seems to
be the telegraph, he might possibly
strike him from Vicksburg and New Or
leans as effectively as from Philadelphia
or Chicago. It would be an interesting
sight to see Sheridan by and by leave
the extermination of the Indians of the
Northwest to inferior officers and troops,
while he, with the flower of the army,
was engaged in putting down the white
“banditti” of the Sonthwest, because
they would not keep qniet when Casey,
Packard, hpesckr and the rest were car
rying the elections by fraud, forgery
and perjury.
Unless deterred by exposure and in
dignant protests, we may soon see the
supporters of Hayes dotting the Gulf
Stat-s all over with military districts,
modelled upon the pattern of the one
just established at Baton Rouge.
NOT TRUE.
We find the following paragraph in
the Colnmbia Union-Herald Cham
berlain’s personal organ :
“Several Georgia Democratic papers
“threaten to bolt if Colquitt is nomi
“nated. There is certain to be an inde
pendent candidate this Fall in Geor
“gia, and he is almost as certain of be
“ing elected.”
This is not a correct statement. There
are not “several Georgia Democratic pa
pers” that have “threatened to bolt if
Colquitt is nominated.” There is not
a single Democratic paper in Georgia
that has threatened to bolt if Colquitt
is nominated. All assertions and insin
uations to the contrary lack the essential
element of truth. If General Colquitt
is nominated he will be cordially and ef
ficiently supported by the friends of
Hkrsohel V. Johnson and by the
friends of the other gentlemen whose
names have been mentioned in connec
tion with the office of Governor of Geor
gia. We shall treat all independents as
Radicals, except where flagrant unfair
ness is nsed to obtain a nomination, and
the State will give the Democratic can
didate a hundred thousand majority
next October.
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
The Boston Globe says the official sta
tistics of the foreign commeroe of the
United States for the fiscal year just
closed are not yet completed, but the
returns of the exports for the four lead
ing ports give an idea of the volume of
the export foreign trade during that
period. The total for 1876 is $367,142,-
279, against $347,316,933 in 1875, and
$393,136,776 in 1874. An analysis of the
figures for these years shows, among
other interesting features, that the sec
ondary ports of Boston, Philadelphia
and Baltimore have increased their
business at the expense of New York,
which in 1874 was credited with an ex
port trade of $304,189,133, against $258,-
997,931 in 1876. The excess of exports
over imports during the fiscal year was
$76,000,000. In the previous year the
imports of merchandise exceeded the ex
ports by over $19,000,000, thus showing
a “balance of trade,” whatever that may
mean, against us.* Our exports of specie
and bullion in 1876 exceeded the imports
by $53,000,000, which, added to the ex
oass of merchandise exports, makes the
surplus or exports, goods aud speoie
combined, $127,000,000. Notwithstand
ing this large “balance of trade” in our
favor, generally business has been no
better than during those periods when
the “balance” has been largely against
us ; that is to say, the encouragement of
native industry, by excluding the pro
ducts of fereign industry, wherever these
come into competition with commodities
which native industry can produce, has
not made the country any richer, nor
made prices any lower. In fact, “bal
ance” in our favor does not appear to
have made any perceptible difference in
our national or material prosperity.
GEN. BUTLER.
In the recent debate in the House of
Representatives on the Hamburg affair,
Mr. S alls, of South Carolina, is re
ported to have used these words : “Gen.
“Butler might have been in the days
“he (Mr. Jones of Kentucky) knew him
“everything he has stated in regaid to
“him, but I can tell him that since Gen.
“Bcjtler left him he has either got in
“to bad company, or has been badly ad
“vised, for there has not been a row or
“a riot in South Carolina, since recan
“struotion, in Edgefield, that Gen. But
“ler has not led; he has been the lead-
“er of every riot or outrage perpetrated
“npon the good people of that State.”
Gen. Butler is amply able to defend
himself against the falsehoods of the
Radical party and the attacks of iis in
dividual members; but we deem it only
an act of justice to say that the writer
of this was present at a riot in the town
of Aiken, S. C., in 1868, caused by a
brutal attack made by Radical negroes
upon a colored Democrat, who had that
day made a speech for Seymour and
Blair. There was a large gathering of
Democrats in the town, and th 9 ex-,
citement was intense against those
who had committed the outrage. Sev
eral pistol shots were fired, and
it was only due to the coolness and wise
counsels of General Butler and Gen
eral Wade Hampton that blood was not
shed. These gentlemen urged and beg
ged the white men to avoid excitement,
and to bear the insults of a drunken ne
gro who was standing near them using
most opprobrious and violent language.
One of General Bltler’s soldiers—one
who had served with him in the army—
was so inflamed with anger that he could
scarcely keep his hands off the negro—
but to General Butler’s earnest appeal
he answered. “Well, General, for your
sake I’ll bear it—but its d—d hard to
stand.” “I know it is,” said General
B , “but think of the dreadful conse
quences of a riot and try and bear it.”
He and General Hampton promised to
use their efforts to find out the perpe
trators of the outrage and bring them
to justice. And thus one riot, which for
a while threatened to be a serious and
bloody one, was stopped by the man
now publicly charged with leading all of
them. General Butler may have been the
means of preventing other riots but we
mention this one, because it came under
onr own observation, and because it
proves “Mr. Smalls” statement to be
false. For if General Butler did not
lead one riot, he certainly did not lead
all.
The United. States Senate passed a
bill on Saturday appropriating SIOO,-
000 for the completion of the Washing
ton monument at the National Capital,
provided the entire control of the work
and all the rights of the society which
has nnsucoessfally endeavored to com
plete it are transferred to the Govern
ment. It is understood that this ap
propriation will form only a small pro
portion, probably less than one-third, of
the entire sum required to complete the
monument. Strong objections to the
design of that structure were made, and
it was even said that its foundation was
insecure—but the objections were over
ruled, and the Senate, at least, ia fully
determined in these Centennial times to
honor the immortal Washington,
GUASSHOPPERS IN GEORGIA.
Damage to the Cotton Crop,
The following letter was received by a
gentleman in this city yesterday from a
planter of Newton county;
Covington, Ga., July 24 —I send you
a bnndle of cotton stalks that have been
stripped by the grasshoppers on my
farm. It is the most thorough and com
plete destruction of the plant that I
have ever seen. They commenced only
last night or yesterday, and have de
stroyed, in all, abont an acre. I have
tried burning and drowning, there being
in a ditch of water three or four feet deep
which was dammed. We drove hun
dreds of thousands into if, but the at
tempt to drown them was a failnre, as
they navigate with an awkward degree
of success which is exasperating. Fail
ing iu this, I had spread some straw
about ten feet wide and one htndred
yards long; as many as conld be driven
on this were burned, having set fire to
the straw in several places at the same
moment. Many thousand were killed in
this manner, yet so great was the num
ber that those burned would not aver
age one in a hundred ot those in the
field. I then put all hands at work to
drive them out of the fielf into the
woods. We succeeded better in this,
but may find them back in the field to
morrow. It is anew elemeit, and one
which I regard as serious. The fact that
these grasshoppers are of the most vora
cious and destructive kind; that they
have eaten corn and are eating cotton,
and that they are in many localities, goes
to show that they are a dangerous ene
my to the crop. They may totally de
stroy it. I have a lot of thegrasshoppers
strung and will send them to yon in tbe
morning. They have enormous months,
most of them red heads aid are very
damaging; the excrement tiey drop is
very great considering ther size and
the short time they remain on the cot
ton plant. *
The stalks are now on e:hibition at
the Augusta Exchange. Tfoy are en
tirely denuded of leaves, bar: and even
the ends of branches.
THE GRASSHOPPER?.
Report of tbe First Appearance otbe Plague.
[Butts County Argus.]
Mr. Alfred McWatkins roorts the
appearance of a deluge of grsshoppers
in one ot his large wheat stufole, fields.
The field contains abont thirtyfive acres,
and within the past week i has been
almost stripped of the customry fereen
vegetation. On Sunday the ineots were
nearly full grown, and he was watching
their operations with seriou interest.
So far as grass and briar ltves were
concerned the field had been ompletely
denuded, and the army was gathering
at the north fence line, as if ireparing
for another raid.
[Griffin News.]
From all parts of the surounding
county we hear complaints o. the ap
pearance of the hoppers, Syriads of
them are even now at work on he farms
of R. P. Johnson and othei in the
northern suburbs of the city, gorging
themselves on the products ofa year's
industry. Mr. Johnson report them in
his clover, on his stubble Jnds and
elsewhere, of all ages and s;es, from
the patriarch hopper to the yoth on his
first legs. Mr. Barham, of Hery coun
ty, was in to see us yesterday and in
formed us that the grasshopers were
eating up the corn in his viciity. He
reports the pets of a green dor and
smaller than the ordinary hoper. He
saw a field near his farm, behupng to a
neighbor, in which everv Ude was
stripped from the corn.
[Huntsville (Ala ) Democrat
Mr. Daniel A. Mosely, who/sides at
Hazlegreen in this county, bid us last
week that millions ot had
appeared, first in his liarwsted wheal
field, and they hopped tieno} fc o his
cotton and corn adjoining and igd de
voured the leaves of on* aud bltj es 0 f
the other, to the amourt of an a ro or
two of each, when hs began w r on
them with fire and faggot, fie qded
by four hands, with bushes h fie*'*!
■’rove them as easily as ‘irl/ysout of
the cotton and #**>- the /heit stuo
ole, rney settled o straw pre
viously scattered near the firnrvw, and
the straw was theu set on :re, and Mr.
Mosely said he reckoned ie consumed
two or three barrels ol t/em. We un
derstand the grasshoppeis have pade
inroads in other parts olthis county.
One of the Messrs. Lank told u? last
year that the grasshopprs appeared
first in his clover field, am he tuned in
his hogs, and the grasshppers would
nestle at night under th clove?, aud
were devoured greedily b the hogs.
Mr. Albert Johnson, of Cojert, informs
the editor of the North Alabamian
that lime plentifully sprikledon the
stalks of the first couple ofrowsof corn
will prevent the grasshopprs fiom en
tering the field and dam'gig tbe rest.
[Griffin Press and Cult'ator \
The news comes to us dilv oncern
ing the grasshoppers, and he fuestioc
ot how to retard their progr.ss las caus
ed many farmers either to omeor write
to us to find out a remdy. In the
Northwest, where the grasaopfers first
made their appearance, tfey were the
sam9 as are appearing in nr State to
day. The first year they dd aut little
or no damage to the crops,bulthe sec
ond year they came a tbrnand fold
greater in numbers, and ahmd;ed times
larger. The effect of theii devastating
reign was not felt until the seejnd year,
which found the people ptrfetly igno
rant how to get rid of (Jem and not
until they had nearly destroyd every
vestige of herbage could the inabitants
devise a remedy to destroy thin. We
should now be benefited by tfeir expe
rience; hence we give it, Staw wns
procured, and scattered in acrescent
form about three or four yads wide,
and thirty or forty yards log. This
was done on the side of the fid where
the wind would assist in drring the
grasshoppers. When this was lone the
straw was set on fire, while hads were
employed to keep up the firewith the
straw held in reserve, while otfcrs went
through the field with bushes ad drove
the grasshoppers into the fire. The seo
ond year after this remedy wa applied
the grasshoppers ceased to xist. If
our people do not go to wor and de
stroy the seed of these pests, ext year
they will come so numerouly that
bleeding Kansas will oompare a us as a
a decent second rate hotel to ur being
a charitable poor house. Whia we be
lieve but little damage can btdone by
them in their inoipiency, still we know
that if their seed is not destDyed, star
vation will surely come uponli* another
year, and he who does not Jo his duty
to keep down such great destroyers,
commits an omissive offeise that is
criminal—that will be severiy punished
by the natural laws.
THE STANDARD-BEARERStF REFORM.
A Glorious Ratification Meetinc in New York
—The Speakers and the Speeaea—The .Sen
timents of the South.
New YotK, July 26. —Agreat Tam
many Hall Democratic ratifiation meet
ing was held last night. There were
three stands outside of tbr hall. Mr.
Chas. A. Dana, editor of tb Sun, pre
sided inside the hall and mide a vigor
ous speech. Besolntions wre adopted
pledging the nnited strengh and snp
port of their Democratic felDw-oitizens
to Tilden and Hendricks, aid express
ing sympathy with the men if all ranks,
and especially mechanics ant laborers,
who feel so mnch the evil ffect of the
Republican maladministratnn. Hon.
John Hancock, of Texas, sail that the
great demonstration refntec the asser
tion that the New York Demerats were
divided. He spoke of tie disgrace
brought on the conntry by tb Republi
can party, and said, thougl they did
their duty during the war, the Demo
crats who were also true to the Union
had now to rescue the conn tit from Re
publican corruption. He lenounced
military rale in the Sonth anl declared
that Southern men are loyal p the fl ig.
Governor Walker, of Virginia said the
great demonstration will vitalize the
Democratic faith throughout our com
mon country. The South yould give
ten out of eleyen electoral yqtes for
Tilden and Hendricks. M o *- Charles
E. Hooker, of Mississippi, in ex-Con
federate, said if the men who crossed
swords during the war could control the
Government we world have had ten
years of prosperity in tfie South. Hon.
Mr. Tarbox, of Massachusetts, contrast
ed Tilden and Mayes, and as a Union
man declared bis belief ip tee loyalty of
the South. The lost speaker was Hon.
Mr. Franklin, of Missouri, an ex-Con
federate, who said the bad
come back to the Union and meant to
The rains continue, and the prospect
for a large corn crop on uplands were
never more promising.
THE RUIN OF OUR NAVY.
ONE REBULT OF THE WICKED
RULE OF SECOR ROBESON.
Two Hundred Millions Expended, But Not
a First-class Vessel, Nor One Powerful
Rifled Gun—Contracts iu Violation ot Law.
W ashington, Jaly 23 —Whatever else
may be said of the forthcoming report
of the House Committee on Naval
Affairs, it shows unmistakably that the
freak of President Grant in appointing
an obsenre New Jersey lawyer as {secre
tary of the Navy, at the solicitation of
some of his personal friends in Phila
delphia, has cost the country millions
and millions of dollars, and has resulted
in the ruin of our navy. The re ort
will deal with other matters; but this
featuie of the subject is one that will
impress every one who has the honor of
the country at heart.
The report will review a great many
of the principal abuses that have grown
up in the administration of naval affairs
under Secor Robeson, but at present I
will only direct attention to the con
clusions that the committee have ar
rived at in regard to the points already
mentioned. They will say :
The first inquiry in regular order pre
sented to your committee was as to the
past as well as to the present condition
of the United States Navy. There has
been expended on the navy, from the
time of its organization np to the close
of the fiscal year endiDg June 30, 1875
as appears from the reports of the Sec
the Treasury, the vast snm of
$939,779,925 67; more than one third of
which has been expended between the
year 1864 and the present time. By way
of making a comparison, which will be
easily understood by the Honse and tbe
country, your committee call attention
to the fact that the expenditure for the
navy for the fourteen years commencing
at the close of the fiscal year 1847, anc
extending to the close of the fiscal year
1861, as shown by the table below, was
$159,456,839 18; while the expenditure
for the seven years extending from the
close of the fiscal year ending Juue 30,
1868, to the close of the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1875, was (as appears from
a statement prepared in the office of the
Secretary of the Treasury, and submit
ted herewith by this committee) the
sum of $160,037,481 49. Here is the
statement, by years, for the period from
1847 to 1861:
Expenditures for the Navy.
1848 $ 9,408,476 02 1855...$ 13,327 09511
1 848 9,786.705 92 1856.... 14 074 834 64
1850 7,904.724 66 1857... lfollflMU
1 851 8,880,681 38 1858 14,053,264 64
48 52 8,918 842 10 1859 14.69J.927 90
1853 11,067,789 53 1860.... 11,514,649 83
1 884 10,790,096 32 1861.... 12*887)156 62
•
Total $159,456,839 18
From these statements it appears that
the expenditures for seven years under
this Administration have been, in money
aotually paid out, in excess of the ex
penditures for fourteen years imme
diately preceding the oivil war. But
before the conclusion of this report it
will be made apparent that in order to
get at the actual cost of the navy during
this period of seven year*, a consider
able addition must be made to the sum
above set forth. It is appropriate in
considering the present condition of the
navy to take into account the expendi
tures upon it since the eloße of the war;
and to show these, your oommittee sub
mit the following table, compiled from
the reports of the Secretary-of. the Treas
ury down to the close of the fisoal year
endiDg June 30, 1875, aggregating $381,-
130,905 35: * ’
Expenditures for the Navy.
1865 $122,617 434 07 1871...$ 19,431.927 21
1866.. 32,285,662 00 1872... 21,249 89 99
1867.. 31,034.011 04 1872... 23.526.256 79
1868.. 25.775,502 72 1874... 80,932.587 42
1869.. . 20.000.767 97 1875.. 21,497.626 27
1870.. .. 21,780,229 87 -
Total $881,130,905 35
Now, whether we look at the sum
which has been expended since the close
of the war, or at the amount expended
under, the present Administration, as
has been already remarked, other sums
are to be added in order to ascertain the
"resent actual conditionjof the navy, to
year em fiawtl
numbers, say $20,000,000 But even this
does not show the true amoupt of ex
penditures made by this administration
of the Navy Department, beoause the
large sums ot money that have been ob
tained s' oe the advent of the present
Secretary from the novel business of ex
change and barter introduced by him, it
is believed for the first time in the ad
ministration of public affairs, are not in
cluded. Your committee are somewhat
at a loss in estimating the amount real
ized in this business. The original cost
of ihe articles disposed of by the Secre
tary of the Navy or his subordinates
would amount to several millions of dol
lars, while the amounts apparently real
ized for these articles are comparatively
small. Taking the su®s shown to have
been expended from July, 1868, to July,
1875, aggregating §100,037,481 49, and
adding §20,000.000 expended fop the fis
cal year ending June 30, 1876, and add
ing also the loss on material improperly
exchanged or bartered away, $20,000,-
000 (assumed), we have the sum of
$200,000,000 expended by this Adminis
tration for and on account of the navy.
Dissecting these expenditures, we find
that for construction and repair, steam
engineering, and ordnance, about $50,-
000,000 have been actually expend
ed, and that these branches of the ser
vice are liable to be charged with the
greater part of the sums realised in the
exchange and barter business. Taking
from other heads of expenditures what
is properly chargeable to the construc
tion of ships of war in all their parts,
your committee do not think they are
far wrong when they estimate the sum
properly chargeable to expenditures of
this kind at $60,000,000; and in the pro
gress of this report they will endeavor
to make it plear to the IJouse that if this
large amount of money had been proper
ly expended it would have given the
country a very efficient navy. In this
connection, it is to be remarked that
while it is shown by the evidence of the
heads of bureaus, of paymasters, and of
contractors, that only one or two bu
reaus had, on the 30th of June,lß76, any
unexpended balances, several of them,
to-wit, the Bureau of Construction and
Repair, the Bureau of Steam Engineer
ing, and the Bureau of Provisions and
Clothing, were largely in debt, haying
exceeded the appropriations made by
Congress and contracted liabilities, in
utter disregard and violation of law.
The other bureaus, with the exception
of the Bureau of Yards and Dooks, have
contracted but small indebtedness.
From the best information which
your committee have been able
to obtain, they are satisfied th t
the present liabilities of the
Navy Department in excess of appro
priations are between two and a half and
three millions of dollars, while the con
tingent liabilities of the department
upon contracts entered into and not yet
completed amount, in our opinion, to
about two and a half millions more.
This judgment is based upon exhibits of
the condition of the department made
by its own officers, and upon the fact
that in almost every instance where
your oommittee have asked a contractor
whether the department was indebted to
him or not, the answer has heen in the
affirmative. Bills approved, amounting
to over $700,000, lie in the office of the
Paymaster at New York unpaid, and
similar bills, amounting to over $75,000,
lie in the office of the Paymaster at Phil
adelphia. We have the testimony of
various contractors, proving that for
months their bills have not been met,
and in one notable instance—that of Mr.
William Mathews, of New York—a
claim of over $12,000 for interest on un
paid bills is presented and filed in the
Bureau of Provisions and Clothing;
while in another instance it is manifest
from the testimony of Seyfert, McManus
& Cos., of Philadelphia, that they have
been anxious to prooure “old iron” from
the department in payment of their bills
Judging from this state ef facts, your
committee must believe that whenever
the true condition of the Navy Depart
ment is ascertained its liabilities will be
found to be between seven and tflfl mil
lion dollars, Resulting f;o® the disre
gard of late, f 1 not crimi
nal, administration of its affairs.
We come now to look at the condition
of the navy in its material. The follow
ing is an extract from tfie report of the
Secretary of the Navy;
“ft is gratifying to be able to report
that the navy is now in a stronger and
more efficient condition than it has ever
been at any time, at least since the com
mencement of your administration. It
is not very strong in tfie number nor in
the classes of its ships; but what there
are of them are in as good condition as
practicable to keep such materials of
war under the various and trying condi
tions to which they are, in the nature of
their service, constantly exposed. 4 far
larger portion than usnal of our wooden
•hips are ready for service; our irpu-clad
fleet is efficient; our store houses are
fairly stocked with ordnance, equip
ments, and supplies, and we have on
hand a fair supply of the best material
for tbe building and re: air of ships.
The service has been placed iu this state
of efficiency, compared with what exist
ed a few years ago, by utilizing, except
iu the case of the eight sloops built un
der special appropriations, what could
be spared from the current appropria
tions, and from the appropriations made
duriug the Cuban emergency, and ap
plying these means practically and
steadily toward putting what was worth
saving of the navy, as it existed, in as
permanent good condition as the state
of the ships and the at command
permitted. The wisdom of this policy
is, I think, illustrated by the strength
of our position to-day.”
This statement of the Secretary is at
tempted to be sustained by the sworn
testimony of the head of the Bureau of
Construction and Repair, Mr. Isaiah
Hansoom, and other bureau officers; but
when we remember that it is Mr. Han
soom’s own work that is called in ques
tion, and hence the deep interest he
must feel in any judgment that may be
passed upon it, and when it is shown by
the recorded evidence in this investiga
tion that he is not altogether a reliable
witness, and further, when your com
mittee have contrary information (whioh
is herewith presented) from the active
head of the navy, Admiral Porter, who,
in his facts and opinions, is sustained
by almost the entire body of his fellow
officers in tbe navy, they may and do
deny the acouracy of the rose colored
statement made by the Secretary; and,
as showing the true and actual condition
of our navy at the present time, your
committee beg to call the attention of
the House to the sworn statement of
that gallant and efficient officer. Says
Admiral Porter, in his testimony before
this committee on the 29th, of Mav
1876 (Miscellaneous, p. 416): y ’
“The amount calculated for these
gradual additions tojthe navy may ap
pear large in the aggregate, but it is iu
fact small when compared with the ap
propriations estimated for from 1866 to
1876 ($251,799,000), which, after deduct
ing pay of officers and men and expen
ses of tho Marine Corps, amount, for
navy yards, repairs, equipment, and
building a few small vessels, to an aver
age of $18,200,000 annually. This, too
after an expenditure of $280,000,000
during the war, which ought to have left
us a powerful navy. With all this ex
penditure, we aro not at present pro
vided with a single first-class vessel,
either for defense or for fast steaming,
nor have we one powerful rifle-gun in
the navy.”
Again, on page 412, he says :
''® ur navy, taken as a whole, is worth
nothing, and the sooner the country
understands the faot the better. It
would require a great stretoh of cred
ulity to make one believe that the navy
is in the flourishing condition repre
sented by Chief Constructor Hansoom in
his late report to the honorable Secre
tary of ‘the Navy. Probably he believes
what he says, that ‘the powpr of our
iron-clads for harbor and ooast defense,
where the fighting will be done in
smooth water, must be considered equal
if not superior, to that of a large num
ber of sea-going iron-olads of foreign
nations; and that ‘no officer in com
mand in one of our monitors would hesi
tate to engage in action, in smooth wa
ter, any sea-going iron-clad, .vessel yet
afloat, except perhaps a few of the
lapcmof tvrnn II?
largest type.'"
Again, on page 405;
Many officers of the navy who now
hold prominent positions were in the
service in its palmy days, and can draw
a just comparison between its condition
now and then. They have seen it recede
from the high position it once heid, and
realize its inefficiency to protect our in
terests at home or abroad, yet they have
been obliged to stand quietly by and
witness the navy go fro u bad to worse
without power to prevent it.”
r ' "VA do puiuut It,
Tbcso were no flew facts or opinions
of the Admiral of the Navy. In his of
ficial report, made November 7, 1874,
to the Secretary, among other things’
he says :
Mimpared say that our
soldier armed witn 'k pisioi encounter
ing a mounted man clad in armor and
carrying a breech-loading rifle. It would
be easy to imagiue how little chance the
man on foot would have, should such a
conflict occur."
These facts and views are fortified
and sustained by a large number of dis
tinguished officers of the navy, who
have responded to certain interrogato
ries addressed to them by a circular let
ter. The fifth of those interrogatories
was designed to elicit their “opinion as
to the present degree of efficiency of our
vessels of war, compared with the navies
of the principal powers of the world,
class for plaas. If the comparison is
unfavorable to the United states, what
is the reason for it—in construction, ma
chinery, materials, or in want of har
mony in building?” In realy to this
inquiry Vice-Admiral Rowau (answers
to circular letter, p. 2) says: “Our cruis
ing vessels of war, as compared with the
navies of the principal powers, are in
ferior; lamentably so in speed. Most
of our wooden ships compare favorably
in model aud construction with foreign
ships but the want of speed, owing to
defective steam power, places them at
the mercy of small armored oruisers
with heavy rifled guns. Many of our
steamships now on the navy list are ut
terly worthless, and should be sold or
broken up,” 1
Rear-Admiral Leroy (Norfolk, p. 9)
says: “From my observation, thevessels
of our navy are inferior in construction,
speed, armament, and other properties,
to nearly all the vessels I have me* l be
longing to foreign nayies. We continue
our obsolete type, while foreign nations
advance. I refer to our cruising ships,
and not to the vessels of the ‘monitor’
class, which I consider valuable fpr coast
and harbor defense.”
Rear-4dmival Almy (answers to cir
cular letter, p. 7) says : “lu answer to
question fifth I will State, it is my opin
ion that the speed and efficiency of the
United States vessels of war are, in gen
eral, inferior to the speed, efficiency and
accommodations of the vessels of war
of other principal navy powers Some
times the fault is ths model, sometimes
it is in the character of the engine;
soipetiqies it is in defective steam
power, and sometimes it is in all of
these. Then, again, there is in the
battery and the fighting equipments of
the ship. There seems to De a decided
want of haygiony iu the different paval
bureaus, to judge from the results pro
duced in the way of ships constructed
for the navy. |f they would consult
aud deliberately discuss matters more
thoroughly and harmoniously, the na
tion would have much better results.”
Rear-Admiral 6. R. P. Rodgers (an
swers to oireular letter, p. 9) says :
“As compared with <the navies of the
chief foreign powers. I thipfc °U r own
inefficient, in its more powerful ships.”
The report of the Board, of which Ad
miral Qoldshorough was the senior
officer, includes the inspection of all
kinds and classes of vessels then at the
navy yards, conclusion of the ma
jority was that of all the vessels visited,
no one. in its judgment, ia fit—consid
ering the combination of qualities which
alone cap constitute efficacy in a vessel
of war in these times—to ernise at large
in war with an impunity commensurate
with her class, or to cope with the cruis
ers now possessed by the more formid
able naval powers of Europe.
Centennial
(TFosWngto* Capital}
The Centennial visitors in Washington
move in swarms very much like Kansas
grasshoppers, bat they don’t eat so
much, there’s the difference. The re
ceipts at the Exposition are far below
the anticipated average, and the capital
is disappointed in its hopes to realize
something as a side-show. These travel
ers move on an economical A
proprietor of one of oar hotels says that'
two respectable looking men, with their
wives, en,goged rooms the other day af
ter inquiring if the place was conducted
on the European plan. They dcoiined
to take supper, but for breakfast order
ed tea and tupst fot; four—expense
eighty c?sts. Shortly after enjoying
their frugal meal they adjopraed to see
the sights and did not xet&rn anti] dark.
Refusing an invitation to sop, they dis
appeared in their rooms. Shortly after
; wards one of the gentlemen took the
pitcher from the r*a*h-basin and, after a
short absence, returned with that vessel
filled with milk and a loaf of firesfi un
der his arm. The quartette left in the
early train for bqme without even, a cup
of coffee to warm their digestive appara
tus. About fiye hundred of these pil
grims visite tbe White House daily;
every one is dressed In a brown linen
duster and armed with a palm-leaf
fan, and they respond to the prophetic
idea of an exodns of carpet-baggers from,
tbe Southern States,
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
ATLANTA AND WEST POINT RAIL ROAD
Annnol Meeting of the Stockholders in At
lanta.
[Atlanta Constitution ]
The annual meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Atlanta and West Point. Rail
road was held yesterday at the office of
the Superintendent. Hon. John P.
King, President, presided. Coi. B. C
Yancey, J. F. Moreland and W. B
Berry were appointed a committee on
proxies. They reported 3,920 shares
represented by proxies. A committee
from the Georgia Railroad, consisting of
L M. Hill, Stephens Thomas, George
Hillyer, and Josiah Sibley, represented
4,000 shares, 2,431 shares were repre
sented in person, making 10,351 shares
in all. This is perhaps the largest rep
resentation for years. Dr. H fl. Cary
moved to proceed totheel-ction of seven
directors, whioh motion prevailed, and
Col. B C. Yancey, J. P. Morelaud, and
W. B. Berry were requested to act as
tellers. Col. N. D. Speer, whose name
had been mentioned for the position of
director, gracefully declined. Upon
counting the ballots the following was
the result : J. P Kiug, 9,967; F. Phini
zy, 9,967; B. C. Yancey, 9 967; W B
Berry, 9,967; J. S. Big'bv, 9,967; J. F
Moreland, 9,967; L. M~ Hill, 9,883; M.
T. Walker, 74.
Mr. L. M. Hill was elected in place
of L. B. Lovelaoe, deceased. He thank
ed the convention for the honor, and
paid a handsome oomplimeot to Colonel
Speer. The report of the Suoerintsnd
ent, Col. L P. Grant, showed the fol
lowing as the operations for the fiscal
year ending Juue 30 ;
Gross Earnings.
From passengers $ 99,211 50
From freight 170,344 99
From mails 12,151 98
From express 4,525 56
From Government transpor
tation and miscellaneous.. 7,265 25
Total $293,498 98
Ordinary Expenses*
Conducting transportation..! 50,265 69
Motive power 55,753 78
Maintenance of way
Maintenance of cars 11’298 96
Rent of Central and Georgia
Railroad tracks 7,000 00
Taxes 4,625 91
Legal expenses 850 15
. $178,905 02
Addition to property $ 10,000 50
Net over all expenses $ 99,539 56
The report of President King was an
able and succinct document. After the
adjournment of the convention the Di
rectors met and unanimously re-eleeted
Hon. John P. King, President; Colonel
L. P. Grant, Superintendent; W. P.
Orme, Secretary and Treasurer. The
Board declared their usual semi-annual
dividend.
A WOMAN’S EXPERIENCE,
Ridiculous anil Amusing .Scenes at a Recent
Train Robber; i n Missouri—The Story as
Told by a Woman—Efforts ot Passengers
to Hide their Valuables, etc., etc.
f Jefferson City Correspondence [July 13) of the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.]
Concerning the Missouri Pacific ex
press robbery, Miss Peabody, an ex-
Jefferson City,lady, and now teaching
school at Denver City, who was on the
captured train, gave the following inter
esting statement to the Jefferson City
Tribune reporter :
“After leaving Ofcteryille,” said Miss
Peabody, “I was dozing in a reclining
chair, probably fst falling asleep. Sud
denly the train was brought to a halt,
and a moment later a man rushed hur
riedly through the car. I believe he
was the express messenger. Someone
asked him what was the matter. ‘The
train is being robbed, that’s what’s the
matter,’ he hurriedly replied, and kept
on. Then all was commotion and con
fusion. Including myself, there were
three ladies in the car, I eonfess that I
was terribly frightened, and thought I
ftlmn M r> i .
that there was no one haudy to ontch or
care for a person in a faint, aud con
cluded to omit this part of the pro
gramme. Meanwhile shots were fired
on the outside, and we could hear num
bers of men cursing and swearing. 1
suppose the shots were fired for the pur
pose of intimidation. I believe our car
was next to the smoking car. Directly
the car door was throwq opeD, and iu
stalked two of the robbers. The leader
put his haDfi on the shoulder of a brake
man and said, ‘Here, I want yon,* and
hustled him out. We thought they
were going to shoot him, but I suppose
now they wanted him to identify the ex
press messenger. It was rare fun—l
mean it is amusing to look back at it
now, nothing funny in it then—to see
the passengers concealing their valu
ables. Here you would see a man yUli
his boots off, cramming his greenbacks
in his socks; several—Ml Marshall, of
Fulton, among the rest—tossed their
cash, watches, etc., into a coal box;
others were up on the backs of seats
hunting holes for their pocket books.
Wherever anything oould be oonoealed
something was sure to find its way. The
conductor, excited and nervous, hur
riedly passed through and told all who
had valuables to take care of them. The
most ludicrous incident I can now recall
was when a sanctimonious individual,
evidently scared out of his wits, broke
forth with the old familiar song, ‘ I’m
going home to die no w\ore.’ His quiver
ing, doleful yoice echoed through the
car with lugubrious effect. Some cf the
male passengers were uuguUant enough
to interrupt him with the remark that
he had better he getting his money out
of tbe way instead of starting a eamp
meeting, Haying finished the hymn he
arose and gave in his experience. He
stated that he had been a follower of
the Lord for ever so many years; that
he was a true and consistent member
of the church; that he bad never
wronged a fellow being, bpi that if he
was doomed to be murdered he wanted
his forwarded to his family in
New and to write the® that he
had died true to the faith and in the
hope of a glorious resurrection. The
tumult outside continued. We could
distinctly hear them pounding away
at the Adams Express safe, and their
coarse oaths and imprecations at being
delayed. Occasionally shots were fired.
The leader of the robbers, a tall, fine
looking man, accompanied by one of bis
comrades, parsed through the car. ‘You
need not be hiding your money,’ said
the leader, ‘we do not intend to disturb
you.’ He wore a red handkerchief over
his face, with holes cut for his eyes aDd
mouth. Below tbe handkerchief ap
peared his beard, very long, but proba
bly falsn Ris companion was smaller
and a rougher-looking man. His mask
was simply a white, handerchief tied
over the lower portion of his face. The
Upper part was plainly visible. He re
marked that we must consider them an
awful set of reprobates. The inquiry
for arms showed three pistols in our
c, One of these was owned by a lady.
Throughout the whole affair she remain
ed perfectly cool and collected, and re
fused to accommodate a gentleman with
tbe loan of her pistol. When someone
: said this was the work of the James boys
she laughingly remarked that her name
was James,but she hoped none of her rela
tives were engaged in suoh disreputable
business. The newsboy had a pistol
and made bis way to the front platform.
Looking up the blnff, he descried the
figure of a man and fired. In an instant
the shot was returned. Tbe ball passed
between tbe plucky newsboy and a gen
tleman who was aiso on the platform,
and both of them sought shelter without
ceremony. Thi king that the xopbers
might fire through the windows, I got
off the chair and position on the
floor. The saaptHßohious New Yorker,
who going away to die no more,
, thinking, doubtless, that \ was engaged
in prayer, softly approached and asked
if I was prepa'sd to die ? I was not in
a humor to enlighten him upon the sub
ject. We were detained about an hour,
When the robbers, having accomplished
their purpose, gave ns permission to
proceed. It was one of the episodes of
my life I shall never forget.”
Ooxton at Intebiob Towns.— The fol
lowing is the result to date since Sep
tember Ist of the following towns for
the past two years :
1875-6 1874-5
Augusta 165,888 174,188
Macon 53,711 66,573
Eufaula. 38,725 30,692
Columbus 51,280 57,865
Montgomery 70,705 58,715
'Selma 86,903 74.865
Nashville 49,089 58,313
Memphis 467.527 320,746
Atlanta 63,417 59,545
Shreveport 121,146 93,107
I 1,168,390 994,339
SOOTH CAROLINA. ~
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Mr. W. H. Tutt has dissolved his con
nections with the Lexington Dispatch.
The late rains have greatly improved
the crops prospects in Lexington coun
'y.
Dr. J. A. Stuart of„Ninety-Six, made
twenty-two hundred and fifty bushels of
small grain this year.
Gov. Perry has written a long letter
to the Greenville News, announcing his
opposition to primary elections.
L'he Pee Do Telegraph Company have
all of their poles cut, and expfot to have
the line completed by August 20th.
Corn iu Colleton o nnty promises a
fair yield. Cotton is doing exceedingly
will, and the prospect of fruit is fair.
The Lexington Dispatch still flies at
its mast head the name of George W.
Williams, of Charleston, for Governor.
A little son, five years old, of Mr. Sid
ney MoFaddin, of Clarendon, was killed
on Monday last, by being run over by
an ox cart..
Judge Northrop has decided to make
Spartanburg bis temporary home New
berry will be disappointed at this judi
cial decision.
The Marion Star is iu favor of prima
ry elections in that county, it fears a
defeat if the candidates are put forward
by a convention.
Jeff Puller, a colored man living near
Ookesbury, says he is a happy man
n Living nothing to eut, nothing to wear
and nothing to do.
Marion has the first, white barbershop
ever opened within its corporate limits.
&uch an institution in Anderson would
be welt patronized.
M r - John Hamilton, a young man of
Pickens county, was drowned in Mr
Berry s mill pond, near Easley Station
on Friday, the 14th inst.
A writer in the Marion Merchant and
farmer nominates Gen. Wm. W Harl
lee asa candidate for the Democratic
Gubernatorial nomination.
The shop of the Wilmington, Colum
bia and Augusta Railroad, at Florence,
will be completed and ready to be mov
ed into by the middle of August.
Col. H. T. Peake, so long and favorably
connected railroad interests of
South Carolina, has recently left the
State to take a position on the Texas and
Pacific Railroad.
Charles Jones, of Edgefield, one of
the buglars who broke into Agnew &
Bonner s store at Due West, suoceedcd
in making his escape from Abbeville
jail one night last week.
Primary elections are becoming popu
lar among the Democrats throughout
the State, and a large number of eoun
ties will nominate their candidates for*
county officers by this system.
Sam Williams, colored, from Belton,
was shot in the leg with bnck shot in a
difficulty with a white man named John
Wilson, at Doanaldsville, no last Tues
day. Wilson has not been arrested.
There are now about 1,239 white men
in Abbeville oounty who would be
willing to accept office, and the number
of sable gentlemen who would be willing
to do the same thing are beyond num
ber.
A meetipg of the Oounty Democratic
Club of Richland oounty will be held at
Seegers’ Hall, in Columbia, on salesday,
the 7th August next, at 12 o’clock, m., to
elect delegates to the State Democratic
Convention.
The primary election in Pickens coun
ty will take place on Friday, 18th of
August. The adoption of this system,
says the Sentinel, will make the Demo
cracy of Pickens five hundred votes
stronger in November.
In the possession of the Gibbes fami
ly. Goiumbia* there is the original
draft of the temporary constitution of
South Carolina, dated 26th March, 1776.
The doonment was drawn by John Rut
ledge, and contains thirty-six articles,
inst., foAlie murder ef Adam Hackett
some three years ago, at Ninety Six, is
still hopeful of his escape from the
awful fate which the Court has d< cided.
Col. J. S. Cothran, of Abbeville, made
a stirring address to the members of the
Ninety-Six Democratic Club last week,
in which he advooated the straight-out
policy in this campaign, and demonstra
ted the advantages to be derived from
such a programme.
Democratic meetings will be held at
the following places and times in Sumter
county, when speeches will lie made
and clubs organised, Lewis Chapel—
Saturday, July 823, 4, p, m ; Privateer
—Saturday, July 29th, 11, a, m.; Retd’s
Mill—. Saturday, July 29th, 4, p. m.
Only a portion of the Washington
Light Infantry have so fir reao hed
home, but all of these speak in lowing
language of the open banded generosi
ty of their welcome North. The formal!
acknowledgments of the Washington
Light Infantry will doubtless be defer
red until later in the month, when the
entire membership has come home.
Rev. Mr. Pearson, of Due West, has
another heir. He thinks of naming him
Samuel Tilden, after the Centennial
standard bearer of the Democracy. Mr.
Tilden is a batchelor and worth about
five million dollars, the boy will be
christened Samuel Tilden Pearson as
soon as the rich bachelor shall forward
draft to the father for one hundred dol
lars.
MARKHAM HOUSE.
Atlanta, Ge.,, July 23, 1876.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
Delegates to tbo Gubernatorial Con
vention are engaging rooms at the Mark
ham House, which, as during the ses
sion of the Legislature, will be the
headquarters of the Democracy, and the
theatre of all leading movements and
negotiations of the campaign.
The State Democratic Executive Com
mittee has, since the Markham House
was opened, held all of its sessions in
the reading room of this hotel by ar
rangement with Col. Hardeman, the
Chairman of the committee, Col. Owens,
the proprietor, having tendered the
oommittee the use of that room, and
Col. BtardemaD, for the oommittee, hav
ing accepted it. At the last session of
the committee, when it settled the time
for the Couventioß, the committee ad
journed to meet at 9 o’clock in the morn
ing of the 2d day of August in tbe
same reading room of the Markham
House. This will be tbe last meeting
of the oommittee, as the Convention will
appoint anew committee for the next
four years. The Markham House will
thus continue to be the headquarters of
the present State Executive Committee.
What tbe new committee will do is un
known, as it is not yet in existence, and
will not be until created by tbe Conven
tion. D.
the centennial exhibition.
The Financial Condition of tbe .Show—A
Cheering Outlook.
Philadelphia, July 26.—The cash re
ceipts at the Exhibition pates thus far
exceeded SBOO,OOO. In addition to this
$40,000 has been received on beer and
soda sold within the grounds, and a
large sum has been received from manu
facturers, who pay 1 j per cent, on all
sales of articles tuanufactured at the
Exhibition. The other concessions have
been so arranged as to contribute peri
odically to, increase the daily receipts
so the cash returns at the stiles
cjm but one of many sonrefs of revtnue.
The original estimate of daily receipts,
as made by President John Welsh, of
tbe Board of Finance, prior to the open
ing ol the exhibition, will, from present
indications, prove rather below than
above the mark It is still confidently
believed a dividend can be declared soon
after tbe exhibition closes. The num
ber of paying visitors to the exhibition
to-day was 21,914.
ACCIDENT Oil SUICIDE?
Sad Death of a Londoner in North Carolina.
Wilmington, N. C , July 26—G. R.
Ronndelia, a young Englishman who
had recently purchased lands iu this
vicinity, was found dead in his room at
the Manning House this morniDg, shot
through the head with a pistol ball. A
discharged pistol was found by his side.
There are no suspicions of foul play,
and public | opinion is divided as to
whether it was a case of suicide or acci
dental shooting. His family resides in
Lond on. _
During the recent tornado a couple of
Pennsylvania boys were up in a cherry
tree stealing cherries. The tornado car
ried off the cherry tree, and neither the
boys nor the tree have been seen since.
Moral: Never tell a lie.