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prtmmttle anH Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 2, 1876.
Newton Booth having declined the
nomination for Vice-President by the In
dependent Greenbackera, Moses Field.
of Detroit, will be given his place on
the ticket.
We have the best authority for saying
that Generals Gaby and Bctlkb did not
make speeches at the Edgefield meeting
“severely denunciatory” of the Chbosi
CLE and Sentinel.
Mab* Twain, speaking of a new mos
quito netting, writes: “The day is com
ing when we shall sit under our nets in
church and slumber peacefully, while
the discomfited fl.es club together and
take it out of tbe mini&ter.
Thb investigation of Daniel Drew s
affairs necessitates the examination of
about fifteen tons of account books be
longing to sundry bankers and Wal
street brokers. Daniel has made his
creditors a good deal of trouble.
We have 6,000,000 farmers, 1,200,000
trades people, 2,700,000 mechanic.-,
2 600 000 professional men, 43,000 cler
gymen, 40,000 lawyers, 128,822 teach
era, 62,000 doctors. 2,000 actors, 6,20 '
journalists, 1,000.000 laborers, and 975,-
000 domestic servants.
It begins to be feared in Austria that
the interference of that power in tin
Servian quarrel cannot be prevented.
When that moment arrives the barriers
that now confine the war to the Turkish
provinces will be broken down, and the
real trouble will commence.
The citizens of Berrien county are
nonplussed over a mysterious colored
woman, wearing male attire, and living
in the woods in that county. She seems
to have a horrid dread of men, and is
•aid to run equal to the speed of the
swiftest horse when pursaed.
The Peoria Democrat is responsible
for th.' following: “Col. Ingebsoll, who
nominated Blaine in the Cincinnati
Convention, now at home, and bea s
his defeat like * man. He says the only
thing about the defeat of Blaine is the
fact of his having been defeated by a
d—n fool." ,
The law of Texas imposing a fine
upon those who use profane language is
proving a great success, not morally,
but financially. It is estimated that if
the preseat hot spell continues and the
cattle do not reform their habits, enoug i
will be collected from drovers alone be
fore the season ends to pay off the en
tire State debt.
The present is the fourth invasion of
the Big Horn by United States troops
Gen. Coonkb went there in 1865, and de
stroved a village of hostile Cheyennes
andArapaboes. In 1866 Gen. Cabbing
ton entered the field, and left it with the
Indians in charge; and in March last
Gen. Obook led an expedition thither,
which did not yield practioal fruit.
The Democrats jast need all the Congress
men they can get in Washington, yet at this
important juncture Hon. H B. Habbis. from
this district, and Blount, from the Macon dis
trict, are at homo. The people elected them
to serve their constituents in Congress, and
they cannot do that in Georgia.-Coiumhus
Enquirer.
Alas and alackaday! Does’nt the
Columbus Enquirer know that it has
no right to make “unfounded attacks
npon Congressmen who neglect public
affairs to attend to private interests. The
Enquirer will now be classed among
the "able and acids.”
The States holding elections prior to
the Presidential event are Alabama on
August 7 for State offioers; Arkansas,
September 4, State officers; Georgia,
Ootober 4, Governor; Vermont, Septem
ber 5, State officers and Congressmen;
Maine, September 11, Governor and
Congressmen; Colorado, October 10,
State officers and Congressmen; Indiana,
offioers and Congressmen—Governor in
1877; West Virginia, Ootober 10, State
offioers and Congressmen; Louisiana,
November 6, State offioers and Congress
men.
Judge Wilkes, of Toronto, has ren
dered a decision of interest to tarfmeu,
at least in the Dominion. Proceedings
had been instituted against the mans
gars of the race meeting at Oshawa for
recovery of a purse claimed to have been
won in the two-mile dash by Passion.
The horses were by flags, but
the judge rang the bell for a recall. The
rider of Passion knowing it to have
been the case, went over the coarse and
claimed the money, maintaining that
the starters having dropped the flags
the judges had no right to interfere.—
Judge Wilkes gave his decision in favor
of Passion.
The Territory of Colorado now only
awaits a formality to beoome a State in
the Union. As it will doubtless have a
voice in the pending Presidential elec
tion, tbe chances of its vote beoome a
matter of some interest. Its popula
tion is about 75 000, or perhaps 80,000,
of whom about 20,000 are voters Tbe
contest this Fall will be close, with the
prestige of the latest success in favor of
the Demoorats. In 1872 the Republi
cans oarried the election of delegate by
a majority of 1,336, in a vote of 13,856.
In 1874, however, the Democrats re
versed this verdict, electing their oandi- j
date by a majority of 2,163, in a vote of
16,503.
The following notice was found posted
in Greenwood, 8. 0., a few days ago—
having been pnt up during the night:
'‘Notice. Addressed to the white sedizens of
Oreenwoo 1. We do not purpose to fight for
the wickedness did us by you, aud for what
yon are yet doing to us. But, sirs, we will
turu into ashes the polish buildiugs of your
towu. What we say to oue we say to all, with
tbe exclusion of one. Mr. Ckbist Waller, for
he has done us no harm. Unless you cease to
harm us we will do et unless the living God
for bid us."
The orthography of this “notice” is
i doubtful but the meaning is plain. We
commend it to the New York Herald
and other Northern journals that are
still in hysterics over the “Hamburg
Horror.”
The recuperative power of the French
is remarkably illustrated by the fact
that the subscriptions to the City of
Paris Improvements loan amount to
seventy times the required sum. Paris
alone offered fifty times the amount
asked for. The Government proposes
to expend 120,000,000 francs on the im
provement of the city, to repair the
rav ages of the war, and the loan carries
four per cent, interest. That the coun
try is able to offer 3.403,000,000 francs
to the Government, after having paid a
war indemoity of '20,000,e00,000, is a
proof that the French people are-' indus
trious and saving, even if some m.'Uions
of them can neither read nor write.
About §30,000 have already been
raised by the Lee Monument Associa
tion for the purpose of erecting an
equestrian statue of Robkbt E. Lee in
the Capitol Square. It is proposed to
raise § 50,000, so that all of the great
artists in the world will compete for the
contract. Colonel Bassett French,
the treasurer, and the indomitable
worker and collector, says that work
will be commenced on the sculpture
•probably this Fall Mr. M. Ezekiel, a
native of Richmond, bat now of Rome,
has put in a bid for the job. Randolph
Bogebs is also understood as anxiously
waiting. But it is thought that Valen
tine, who achieved such a triumph in
modeling a recumbent figure of TANARUS.
will be entrusted with the sculpture.
General Lee will be mounted on his
favorite horse “Traveler,” and Valen
tine is the only sculptor who has the
measurements of the old horse.
Alapaha paid $12,800 for wool Hilo
year. *
THE POLICY OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Democra y of South Carolina wilt t.o*d I
a State Convention in Columbia on the 15th of
n -it month, to nominate candidates for Gov
ernor and other State offlosra. This is the one
state in the Bonth the Democracy give up a*
lost. The white pe-'pia are to be pitied, for
they have been robbed, insulted and slander
ed. and made, in one sense, the slaves of their
former slaves. Bu?h scoundrels as Mos;s
Whip pee, Whittehobe and others, who have
cursed the down trodden State by their pres
ence since the war. are still the leaders of the
Radical hoets, and. as the negroes are largely
In tbe majority, are sanguine of enccess
C BAWBEE I AIN. by his recent partisan action in
visiting Washington and asking Federal inter
ference in State affairs, has lost tbe confidence
f that portion of the Liberal Dem cracy who
thought kindly of him and his administ-atioo,
nd if he is nominated by any party it will be
by t e Radical Convention. Tbe Democracy,
despairing almost of success, will try to select
a ticket that will be acceptable to all citizens
in favor of Reform. No State is in more urgent
need of reform than poor, afflicted South Caro
lioa But a Dem cratic victory in the State
this year would be a little lees than a miracle.
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Enquirer is mistaken. South
Carolina is not the one State in the
south that the Democracy have given
up. Those closest to the scene of ac
tion, and best qualified to judge, are con
fident that the State will give Tildes
and Hesdbicks from five to ten thou
sand majority next November. South
Carolina has remained under the do
minion of the Radicals for so long a
time simply because since 1868 the
Democrats have not made a square fight.
Compromises and coalitions have beeu
the bane of the State, and have ma
terially aided in reducing it to its pres
ent deplorable condition. Bat this year
anew and wiser policy will prevail.
The Chambeblain scheme, which was
pregnant with mischief, has been aban
doned. When the Democratic Conven
tion meets next Angnst a Democratic
platform will be adopted, and a Demo
cratic candidate will be nominated.
The people are fully aroused and are go
ing actively to work. With some such
man as Wade Hampton fora leader,
they will rally enthusiastically to the
party standard. They have determined
to win. The force and fraud which the
Radicals have used in all the other cam
paigns will no longer be permitted. In
timidation will be resisted and ballot
box stuffing will be stopped. With the
right leader, a hearty support and a fair
count the Enquirer will witness the
miracle of a Democratic victory in South
Carolina next November.
CARPET-BAGGERS.
There is no word which has done the South
ern States more harm than the word carpet
bagger. Its meaning in the South is clear
enough. It is intended to apply to adventurer
from the North who went South after the war
for' the purpose of plundering the inhabitant
and i*e' itrning home with their p'nnder. It is
regarded in the North as a term of reproach,
and has had Ifie effect of deterring from the
Southern States thousands of honest Northern
men who would have beep glad to go South,
on account of *he c'imate and tbo natural rich-
ness of the soil. The Maine citizen may go to
Colorado and California and he welcome. It
is no reproach to him that he was born in the
East and votes the Republican ticket. Lot
him go to Georgia or Carolina, and carry with
him hi- principles, and his fate is social, per
sonal, political ostracism. He can assert no
independence of judgment without incurring
the worst forms of reproach. Something of
this may be due to the sorene-s occasioned by
the war. But while this was natural it should
not last always The word carpet-bagger may
gerve the purpose of a flippant polittoan like
Mr. Cox, but it should have no place in our
Uteratiwe. If we 8° * nto *** e matt 6l d ee Ply
wa shall fin* that we are all carnet-baggers,
with the exception fft Sitting Bull and his
P6 The above is tlora the Y ° rk
Herald. The Herald >■ beeo 80 u “‘
reasonable and rabid of late d n BU
ject of the Hamburg riot that we
not surprised it should be so inaccurate
in it’s statements about the treatment
which Northern people receive in the
South. In its preliminary definition of
the word “ oarpet-bagger” the Herald
is correct. A carpet bagger is an ad
venturer who comes to the South from
the North for the purpose of plunder
ing the inhabitants, but to no other
does the definition apply. A carpet-bug
... —.j- j ~ —.0.~ XL' 1. ..vAa.j ArJ<!(k w
tion of assisting to build up the State
in which he locates or permanently
identifying himself with her people.
He was not a farmer, a mechanic, a
laborer, a merchant, a physician or a
lawyer. He was simply a seeker after
the spoils of office. To get office he
must have votes ; and to obtain votes
he arrayed the credulous aud ignorant
colored people against the whites. He
thrived upon discord and fattened upon
race animosities. He looked apon office
holding as a means of making money,
and as he resorted to the worst pratices
to obtain office be was not scrupulous
in the performance of its functions so
that it enured to his pecuniary ad
vantage. Asa consequence every State,
the government of which passed into
his hands, was shamefully and shame
lessly plundered, and its people, besides
being spoiled, were oppressed and dis
graced by ignorant and corrupt rulers.
This is the history of the carpet-bagger;
and it is small wonder that the name
has become a term of opprobrium
and reproach.
But the New York Herald says that
which is utterly and absolutely incorreot
when it asserts that the Maine man who
comes to Georgia or to Carolina and
brings his principles with him is sub
jected to "social, personal, political
ostracism.” The Maine man or the
Massachusetts mau or any other Northern
man who comes to Georgia or to Caro
lina as a bona fide settler is cordially wel
comed, no matter how pronounced a Re
publican he may be in his political princi
! pies. If he comes among ns with money
i or without money—as a manufacturer, a
j mechanic, a merchant, a planter, a doc
tor, a lawyer or a day laborer—to make
the State bjs home and to ideutify him
self with the people he is treated kindly
and hospitably though he be as rank a
Republican as Benjavik Botler or
Wesdell Phillips. He may announce
hie opinions from every house-top if lie
chooses to do so and be perfectly safe
from ostracism or molestation. He may
organize aßepnbliean party if he wishes,
vote the Republican ticket and ran on it
for office and he will only be op
posed at the polkas Repabli-.
cans are opposed in New York
or Ohio or Indiana. The reason
of this distinction is patent to every
thinking mau. The carpet-bagger is a
mere plunderer. He bas no interest in
the State save his office. Strip him of
that, aud he flits like a gypsy thief from
a deserted heu roost, ihe bona fide
settler—no matter what his avocation—
has an interest in the State which will
prevent him from doing anything to
work it injury. If he espouses the Re
publican side he does it from a con
scientious conviction that it is the best.
If he holds office he will discharge its
duties faithfully and honestly. If he
finds that the policy of the Republican
party has proven rninons to the South
ern people—himself inoluded—he will
not hesitate to abandon it for the party
w will mosttwogfit Ais State and Ais
people- a
This is given as Gen. Butler’s actual
talk regarding bis van for the nomina
tion in the Seventh Patriot: That the
Republican party needs fcjm to keep up
the fight with the South; that it elected
he will take it up jns t where Blaine left
it; and that he farther flatters himself
that no man ean fill Blaine’s place bet
ter than he. He proposes to ask the
electors to elect him in order that they
may have someone in Congress to dis
cipline the unrepentant rebels. If ob
jection be made to hint because of his
views on the currency, he will waive
them. He is a good party maa, will
submit to the declarations of the party
platform. He begs the party to observe
that this is not an independent move
ment on his part; that it is not he, bat
his opponents throagh the party organs,
who threaten to bolt. And he asks how
the party is to be held together if snch
things are permitted.
| the legislature.
j We publish this morning a communi
cation suggesting the name of J. M.
Shago, Esq., as a candidate for the Leg
islature from Richmond county. That
portion of the cooaty outside of the city
bos always been entit'ed to one of the
members. The present country membei
is Hon. W. A. Clarke. Mr. Clarke,
we learn, will not be a candidate for re
nomination. Mr. Shago is an upright,
able and influential citizen, and we are
satisfied would reflect great credit on
his constituents as a member of the
General Assembly.
THE HEATED TERM.
The Hartford Times bas been figuring
pretty closely on the weather record of
this and other years, and has come to
the conclusion that the present Summer
is a hotter one than usual. The result
of ite figuring shows that “the Summer
of 1876 has been, from the beginning of
the last week of J one down to the 22d
of July, the hottest Summer of this cen-
tury. In the region between Philadel
phia and Worcester the average maxim
um range of the mercury daring the
first twenty-one days of July has been
within a fraction of 92 degrees, a fact
which we believe to be unparalled since
1792, a Summer whjch is said to have
suppassed this one.” The Times also
notes that the great and steady heat,
lasting four weeks without any interrup
tion, has caused a shocking number of
deaths. In New York there are said to
have been from forty to eighty cases of
sunstroke alone, every day throughout
the first three weeks of July; while the
death-rate of that city rose to 1,300 a
week, or nearly double its ordinary
Summer rate.
A REAL ESTATE STORY.
The New York Sunday Mercury gives
out the story that there had been formed
in Germany a stock company, $50,000,-
000 capital in shares of SIOO,OOO each, to
buy real estate iu New York city. The
proposition is to go in, and, taking ad
vantage of these dull times and low fore
closure sales, to bay right and left, im
proved property in the city that will
yield at first a fair income—say six per
cent., which is better than at home —and
perhaps eventually to sell out when tbe
certain rise in prices comes about again.
"Only noblemen of the first rank, hav
ing access to the Emperor at any time,
will be taken as subscribers.” The
Crown Prince is down as a Director,
and thirty-two millions are said to be
raised already. The property bought,
will stand in the name of two New
York merchants trustees. The Mercury
idds that in New York now the Empress
Eugenie has property that brings her
$65,000 a year, the Ruke of Nassau gets
SIB,OOO a year for his, the King of Swe
den has SSOO 000 worth of real estate
there; Alexis owns a Broadway hotel;
aud Victoria has large landed interests
in the metropolis.
CHICAGO, AUGUSTA AND PORT ROYAL.
It is gratifying that both of the great
Western cities, Cincinnati and Chicago,
are looking South for an outlet for the
immense Western trade. Cincinnati has
appropriated sixteen millions to build a
railroad from Cincinnati to Chattanooga.
Chicago has for some time been looking
South, either to Charleston, Augusta,
Savannah or Port Royal. The Hon. Mr.
Jones, of Kentuoky, has but recently
introduced into Congress a bill to incor-
porate acompany to build a railroad from
Chicago to Knoxville, Tenn., and from
Knoxville by Asheville, N. C , to Spar
tanburg, S. C., and from these either to
Charleston, Savannah, Augusta or Port
Royal. Wpbli* it ffp| be a good idea for
to go to work at onpe to secure
°“ r L : • . -t, road ? The Soartanburg
tanburg to Alston-a distance seventy
miles. From Strother’s, a point on -' fi
Spartanburg and Union Railroad, ten
miles above Alston, a direct Una to Au
gusta would pass through Newheiry,
where 30,000 bags of cottoD are
marketed every year. The distance from
about seVeifOjva referred aud
Spartanburg Railroad Company is now
rapidly constructing a road from Spar
tanburg to Asheville, & distance of
sixty-five miles, twenty-five miles of
which is already graded and ready for
the iron. The company has hired, for a
nominal price, two hundred convicts
from the State of North Carolina, and
has in assets $400,000 of oqnty bonds,
sufficient to grade to Asheville. At Ashe
ville this road connects with the Western
North Carolina Railroad, now being
built by the State of North Carolina to
connect with what is known as the Cin
cinnati and Cumberland Gap Railroad
at Paint Rock, forty-three miles from
Asheville, which road is conpleted,
and connects with the great Virginia,
Tennessee and Georgia Railroad, lead
ing from Bristol to Chattanooga. These
roads give our city a short route to
the West, in fact the shortest. The only
gaps to fill are from Augusta to the
Spartanburg and Union Railroad, a
distance of seventy miles, and from
Asheville to Spartanburg, sixty-five to
seventy miles, all of which last is under
contract. We learn the Spartanburg
and Union Road is entirely free of debt
and in fine order. Why can’t a com
pany be formed to construct a road
from the city of Augusta to the Spar
tanburg and Union Road and then
•onsetidate it with the Spartanburg and
Union Road and the Spartanburg and
Asheville Road, and by this means Au
gusta will soon have herself j n close
Connection with the great West. We
hope to farther discuss this matter and
invite the friends of the enterprise to
give us any suggestions. We are in
formed that the Governor of South Caro
lina has offered the Spartanburg and
Union Road two hundred convicts at a
Bomte&f price, and the Spartanburg
Road nov has an engineer on a section
from Alston to Columbia, looking to
Charleston. Let Aage& jpove in this
matter and secure this impertwd con
nection before it is too late.
THE GREATEST OF ALL BORES.
An exchange states that the work on
the Hoosac tunnel is now completed.
After twenty-eight years of agitation
aDd labor this darling enterprise of the
State of Massachusetts has reached a
successful The first!
passenger trains were put upon the
road Monday, duly Vf, through
connection* with the W,est oyer the
New York Central, The line which was
to induce the great Wfst to share its
prosperity with the mother State is but
jnst beginning its operations in earnest,
and Boston may now fairly compete
with New York for the Western trade.
The first passenger train passed through
the tunnel Jnly 8, *4375. Though the
road was then formally opened with
muah ceremony and celebration, so
much work remained to be done that it
has not been ready for actual use until
the present time. Daring the past year
the tunnel has been enlarged and arched,
and the road from Greenfield to North
Adams almost rebnilt, making it oee of
thf most substantial roads in the conn
try. The central shaft, which was bnilt
at an expense £f upwards of a million of
dollars, and twenty or more lives, was
originally designed as a third point
where the work of excavation eogld be
earned on and afterwards serve as an
immense chimney through which the
smoke and had air of the tunnel would
be taken off. The *bft itself was only
completed a few months before it was
overtaken by the work from the western
entrance of the tnunel, so the temporary,
advantage it gave cannot be said to be
in proportion to its cost Experience
has proved that the rush of air occa
sioned by the speed of the trains affords
sufficient ventilation, and that the shaft
is an actual disadvantage. It has
therefore been entirely dosed near the
snrfaee of the mountain. The whole
cost of the road from Greenfield to the
State line on the west, including the
tunnel, is, according to the lowest esti
mate, sl4,l24,ooo—distance, forty-four
miles.
IS HE INSANE ¥
Strangs Rumor* in Connection with the Con
dition of President Grant—Alleged Seften
ioc ef the Brain—Strong Symptoms of that
Dioorder Manifested.
[Washington Correspondence of the New York
Mercury.]
Ulysses, in the Greek poem by Homer,
feigned madness, and quite successfully,
bnt there is every reason to believe our
modern Ulysses is really becoming in
sane. History, of course, names many
monarchs and rnlers who became luna
tics, and indeed were so long before
their ministers and confidants discovered
the fall reality. There is now no doubt
that George the Third was insane as
early as the beginning of the revolution.
Strange if the second hundredth year of
onr existence shonld find ns in 1876 with
a c.azy President, as 1776 found the
colonies with a mad king. For several
weeks past I have heard rumors of
Grant’s condition, bnt declined to refer
to them because they were vagne. How
ever, during the past few days these
rumors have acquired the
.Strength of Positive Reports.
Representatives, Senators and private
citizens, who, since last Monday, have
returned from interviews with the nn
fortunate President, all have agreed and
publicly referred to it as a fact, that
President Grant exhibits the most de
cided indications of insanity. A Balti
more physician who met him last Wed
nesday avers that the President has
every symptom of softening of the brain.
This is a disorder, as even laymeD
know, that, like Bright’s disease of the
kidneys, approaches slowly, and is often
well seated before the earliest suspicion
is entertained of the horrible catastro
phe which impends. General Grant,
for some time past, has been observea
to be unusually impatient of control,
exceedingly restive under advice or even
suggestion; then to be irritable and
petulant in the minor affairs of life, and
again to become desirous of silence and
solitude, without even the company of
his usual cigar or the excitement of
stimulant. He is known to be almost
incessantly a victim to insomnia. He
gives directions one moment to coun
termand them the next, and is continu
ally doing the most motiveless things.
His appetite is very capricious, and his
eyes have assumed that look of suspi
cion and distrust which is always so
marked in patients suspected of having,
or known to have, softening of the
brain, and which is so distressing to his
family and friends.
The First Discovery.
It is said that Attorney-General Pierre
pont (who studied medicine in Ohio un
der the name of Munson—and his real
one, by-the by—for some years after
leaving college) was the first to recog
nize the impending calamity. He there-
fore took the first opportunity of ratting
from the ship and its commander to
England. Otherwise he undoubtedly
would have bad break upon him a crazy
spasm like the one which Bristow and
Jewell encountered. The first radical
symptoms appeared during the whisky
ring trials at St. Louis. Up to this time
Grant had firmly believed in his third
term. The mania undoubtedly did
much toward keeping up his spirits. He
was surrounded by men who flattered
him aud fed him on the sauce of vanity
almost hourly. He reads very few pa
pers, aud these were carefully selected
by his household cabinet. But it was
impossible for him not to peceive
the howls and drift of public opin
ion. He would get up in the
night aud walk around Washing
ton, believing himself incog. ; but he
was usually followed by two policemen,
who hovered within safe protecting dis
tauce. For the first time in his life he
began to be addicted to profanity. In
one sense Secretary Fish h s long been
his keeper. Mr. and Mrs. Fish, indeed,,
have been for a long time the familiar
confidants of Mr. and Mrs. Grant. Fish
is adroit, and manipulates Grant with
out the latter perceiving it. Mrs. Fish
cares for Mrs. Grant iu the way of en
tertainments, society persiflage, and the
Harper Bazaar business. Fish also has
great tact, born of his knowledge of so
ciety in New York, Europe and Wash
ington, while Graut was smelling tannin
and oak bark, if not something stronger,
at Galena, and Mrs. Grant was looking
after the growing babies and visiting
her numerous relatives. Fish it was
who prevented Grant from a violent
rupture with Bristow months ago, and
when the phrese
Violent Rupture
Is used it is employed with care. Grant
would scarcely speak civilly to Bristow
after the Babcock trial, and when he
saw the vote at Cincinnati, and realized
that tha Kentucky traitor (as for some
timo previously he had called him) was
likely to gpt tfie nomination and cheat
bun out of the third term, his madness
il o $ Gfij* WOft Ifou & J ) i*
House it as safe a retreat for a
violent patient (fip Flushing Ruuatic
Asylum would be. The symptoms in
creased over the Belkuap affair, and in
tensified over the Robeson charges.
His Munia
Has bee# tjjaji nil who are around him
charged with o/jfeifsm; are victims of
malice. "Was I not palled $ potfcpu thief
when in Tennessee ?” be would exclaim.
“Has it not been said that eyen jt sold
appointments?” His peculiar idiosyn
crasy, therefore, is to sympathize with
Bel£bP> Babcock, Fisher, Shepherd,
Robeson* etc., and to believe that all
about him who Q.ffi regarded as honest
are the conspirators Rgai/jst himself and
family.
Iff Jewell Would TcH
Exactly what occurred between Grant
and himself* there could be no doubt iu
the public njind tfe.ct Gen. Grant ought
not only to be under surygillance, bnt to
be really examined by .competent physi
cians upon his daily jper,easing malady.
In the Jewell matter the symptom ß of
madness and softening of the brain
were very marked. One day he was
friendly and polite to Jewell as he pos
sibly gould be. It was, however, only
the cunning of craze. The next day he
abruptly gnd eye# rudely demanded the
resignation. When it was obtained he
exulted over it as a Siouj wonid oyer a
scalp.
THE G RASS HOPPERS, '
The Appearance of the Plague in Bartow
County—A Remedy.
{Cflrtersville Express ]
The grasshopper excitement is very
considerable in and around Qartersvilie.
For two weeks the grasshopper opera
tions have assumed a serious aspeci, ,00,4
many of our farmers are alarmed on ithe
question of meat and bread, to say
nothing of the prospect of making a
surplus.
The hoppers are making sad havoc on
the farm of Mrs. Lewis TuU*, in the
edge of town. Thirty-five acres of cloyey
about ready fora second mowing has'
beet entirely stripped. Twenty acres
of cotton bps been destroyed in the
same way. Ga adjoining field the
corn has been stripped to the stalk,
even to the tender ends of tiffi ears.—
They are rapidly making their "way
other fields of corn. These pests ap
purred upon Mrs. Tumlin’s place in
oompsr&idyely small numbers some four
weeks ago." ‘ They were first seen in a
stubble field when the wheat was being
taken from the field for thrashing.—
For ten days tbe hands on the place
have been fighting the hoppers, audio
some extent there progress has been im
peded. The grasshoppers have made
their appearance in various 1 arts of the
county. Various modes have been re
sorted to to destroy them. They are
easily driven after ten o’clock in the
morning, and in this way they are driven
together and burnt with straw. In the
early morning, while the 4 ew is upon
the jgeefis, clover or grass where they
roost they wither cannpt or do not feel
inclined to move. this' pe
swhsrity, Col. J. J. fjtowjml, on Tues
day meymjqg at three o'clock, started
seven mbies ftitqbed to as many scrubby i
black jack bushes mR abreast, and com- j
menced driving across ij plover field.
It being wet and dark, and having!
about thirty-five feet front covered with
the bushes, it was difficult for the in- 3
sects to avoid destruction, and they were
kilted by the thousands. At seven, a.
m., it commenced raining, which still
further favored the operation. Daring
seven hoars of this labor Col. Howard
thinks he killed about one-half gf these
ipswets. " *
YHE GEJUEJLii ASSEMBLY.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel;
The time will soon arrive for nomina
ting candidates to represent our county
in the General Assembly. In accord
ance with the rule established in 1870,
the city of Angnsta and the surrounding
village# are entitled to two members
and the county proper to one member.
The city and tfcb adjacent villages will
doubtless have plenty gopjJ men willing
to serve them. As the candidate of the
country portion of the county I ask the,
privilege of presenting the name of J.
M. Seago, Esq. Mr. Seago is well known
in Richmond county as one of onr best
citizens. He is & man of fine sense,
strict integrity and great promise. He
is deservedly "popular. Ifyog gen say a
good word for him in your columns yon
will confer a favor on
Manx Countrymen.
An Irishman having been told that the
price of bread had bead lowered, “That
in the first time that I ever rejoiced at
the fall of my beat friend i”
THE MEETING IN BURK^.
Tbe Democracy to Cooocil —A Cl# Contest
—TbeCosnty Goes for Colquitt.
[ Specially Reported for the Chronicle and Senti
nel.]
Waynesbobo, July 27. —The Democ
racy of Burke county held a meeting
here to-day for the purpose of selecting
delegates to the State Gubernatorial
Convention. The meeting was one of
the largest of the kind ever held in
Waynesboro and a lively interest was
taken in the proceedings. Hon. J. J.
Jones, Chairman of the Democratic
Executive Committee, called the meet
ing to order. Several names were pro
posed for permanent Chairman and after
considerable squabbling Judge J. B.
Jones was unanimously chosen. Messrs.
Rmdolph Ridgely, S. W. Hubbard, H.
H. Perry and J. D. Monnerlyn were
elected Secretaries. Judge Jones ad
dressed the Convention for a few mo
ments complimenting Governor John
son and General Colquitt. Hon. J. J.
Jones then offered the following resolu
tion, which was adopted :
Resolved, That for the purpose of
ascertaining the sentiment of the Demo
cratic party of Burke county on the
subject of the nomination for Governor,
this meeting proceed to ballot for the
names of Herschel V. Johnson and
Alfred H. Colquitt, with the understand
ing that whoever shall have the majori
ty the delegates to be chosen to-day
shall be instructed to vote for in tbe
Convention at Atlanta on the 2d of
Angnst; the other candidate for Gover
nor being hereby deolared to be the
second choice of this meeting.
Hon. Alpbeus M. Rodgers offered the
following, vhich was also adopted :
Resolved, That in recording the bal
lots, the Secretaries shall keep a list of
voters in this meeting, and see to it that
a just and fair expression of the popu
lar will is obtained.
A ballot was then taken with the fol
lowing result :
A. H. Colquit 126
H. V. Johnson 122
Hon. J. J. Jones suggested that the
vote be made unanimous for Colquitt,
which was agretd to by the Convention.
The following delegates were then ap
pointed : B. M. Blocker, G. B. Powell,
J. Hope McKenze* J. Pinckney
Thomas, Randolph ltidgley, P. D. Cox.
After the delegates were elected, Col. J.
D. Ashton was called on and addressed
the meeting. Cleon.
THE GLASCO ’K DEMOCRACY.
Proceedings *f the Meeting Held in Gibson.
Gibson, Ga., July 18 —ln accordance
to previous notbe a respectable part of
the Democrat!) party of Glascock
county assemblid at the Court House,
iu Gibsou, in sad county, this day, and
organized a Deaocratic meeting by call
ing Hon. W. J Wilcher to the Chair,
and requesting W. G. Braddy to act as
Secretary. Upn taking the chair, tbe
Chairman expliued the object of tbe
meeting in a kw appropriate remarks.
Upon motion of Seaborn Kitchens,
Esq , the Chai'was requested to appoint
a committee f five from the several
militia district to arrange business for
the meeting, ad also to select two suit
able represent the county in
the Gubernatflial onvention to assem
ble hi Atlanta n the 2d of Afigust, for
the purpose ofaominating a Democratic
candidate for loveruor. Also delegates
to the DistriclConvention, which meets
in Thomson o the 6th of September, to
nominate a endidate to represent the
Eighth Cungtssional District iu the
United States Congress, and also dele
gates to a tenatorial Convention to
meet in Louisille at some future day,
to select a csdidate to represent the
Eighteenth Snatorial District in the
Georgia Legilature. The Chair ap-
pointed the Mowing Darned committee:
1167 ch Dislict, S. Kitchens, W. W.
Hnygood. 158th District, R. L, Usry.
1169th Distct, Dr. E. G. Scruggs.
1234th Distrii, J. C. A. Wilcher. The
committee retred for a short time and
reported the blowing persons as dele
gates to the sreral conventions :
To the Atlata Convention, Dr E. G.
Scruggs, J. LNeal; W. G. Braddy and
J. B. William, alternates. To the Con
gressional Diirict Convention, Dr. J.
F. Usry, S. Rchens; B. Logue and Dr.
J. L. Kelly. Iternates. To the Sena
torial DistricOonvention, Wm. Walden,
C. H Kitchen; J. C. A. Wilcher and
W. W. Haygod, alternates,
The commiee also offered the follow
ing resolutia : Whereas, The ap
proaching ’ubernatorial Convention
which convecs in Atlanta on the 2d of
August is ondraught with great inter
est to onr Stoceand county; aud whereas
every prineiile if sound policy demands
that candilates be placed iu the
field of tbe mc£t malted capacity and
soundest integrity therefore be it
R, solved ly tfie democratic party of
Glascock Ccmty, T>at in the nomina-
tion of the riie. patriotic and Christian
hearted gepl enQ an, General A. H. Col
amtt. the will select one
with ‘■'ii Qtoresta of the State will
he secure and rider ~. wise
istration the but interests oi
will be securtd.
Resolved, ‘id. '.hat our delegates are
hereby intrcteuto give him the first
vote and outside >f bis name we leave
them uninifruoted.
Resolved, 3 d. Ai to the many names
spoken of for Coigress for the Eighth
District, we high? favor the name of
Judge E. 3. Polle, but instruct our
delegates toactsois to secure the most
pea<s9 and JUimoy in the Democratic
party.
As to the aritabi names fop Senator
in the 18th Senatoial District we sug
gest the nanes f J. L. Neal and the
the Hon. W, J.Wilcher as suitable
names to represat our county in the
State Senate.
VUE tiAMUUG AFFAIR.
Gen. Butler Clallegcs Gov. C’liaiolierlaln
u Iyestigate.
EpgEyiEiD.S. C., July 21, 1876.
To the Editor if ff e Herald :
I baye just reai Qoy. Chamberlain’s
fancy sketch of i f? “Hanibgrg Rorror,”
addressed to Sinatop Robertson, at
Washington. Ater a few rhetorical
flourishes, his Sx-ellency says : “ Such
acts call for coidsnnation aDd punish
ment.” I entifeb agree with him, and
if be does not nkt steps at once to have
them coudemie' and punished he
should' be huiei from the position
which his imbcilty disgrapes. I have
beep ,the object aid target of Radical
malignity, pndassigned a position ini
this affair si mill to of Sitting Bull
in the Custer massacre. I nave been
slandered and raduced by the Govern
or’s emissaries i>r doing nothing more
than my very piin and simple duty; and
I p,ow pj)alleng< him to begin bis legal
investigation, ije knows my residence,
and knows presence of United
States soldiers is ' pot Jfgffi tor
my arrest or that of ’' apy‘ •’other.
white man wh was at Hamburg ; and
before that instigation closes, if I do
ttqt ahow that te negroes were the ag
gressors, and te whites not to blame,
that the 'efo'i series pf his Excellency
were the instigso'rs of'.tbp riot, and his
appointees couS bare prevented, and
did not preven it; that tbe company
called militia ws not militia, but a band
of rioters and tghwaymen, and that he
is responsible fc the riot; if Ido not
show all this, n4 sboTf besides a condi
tion of affairs atKimb'mg under a Radi
cal governmenblretendipg'To i)& .civil
ized, which wonie almost disgrace the
purlieus of a Crxmassee settlement, I
will undertake to mswer personally for
the .death of evdy man, white and
black, Who teR it that riot. No man
krfcws better than'Goyernor Chamber
lain that what he stted iiTtEbt vQJSpuiu
nication to Senator. Robertson is false ini
every essential partpular; no one knows
better himselfihat he has publish
ed it in the’ bioodtshirt, outrage inter-
est. But no mattefwhs&jer he has or
not, I make him a cry practical propo
sition, and he shailnot evade it. High!
sounding phrases, such Us he indulges
in, are better aiiiffd to another era of
our history, #hei'pieoplp were more
prone to be ‘ inflienoed by a sickly
sentimentality, hen Radical eant
and Radial alsehoOd had a
larger and more) billing and at
tentive audience Tbe American
people are becomiig eminently practical,
almost progy, in tteir pursuit'of fsets.
As you aptly sngjest ip your editorial:
“The Governor's ampaign rhetoric is
another thing; let him hand ap the
criminals concerned and punish them.
If, as he says, the whites of South Caro
lina reprobate the outrage, let the Gov
ernor test their iiflignation by punish
ing tbe’ offenders ’ The rhapsodies of a
par * J an politician rsjtsUy bent on per
petuating !*• peeona! supremacy and
the power of his party ** ®BC thing End
tip lppnjy discharge of duty ■■
Governor of a while State in the inter
est of all is anobey. His Excellency
has chosen the nle of U*e partisan at
the expense of hisofficial responsibility,
and, if he does not make good his oath
of office to see thd the laws are execu
ted, let him stand confessed a charatan,
who would gamtie with the dearest
rights of the pecple of the Common
wealth and bartei away the fair name of
the State te the eodthatD. R. Chamber
lain may eonfi&w to wear the Guberna
torial robes of a State Which be cannot,
or does not, govern. Very respectfully
yours, M. 0. Bctlbb.
Geo. Wm. turtle’ Candidate.
New York, July 28 — Hon. Geo. Wm.
Cnrtis emphatically declares he is not
and will not be a candidate for the
Gubernatorial nomination. He indi
cates his preference for Hon. Wm.
Bvarta as the Republican nominee.
ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE,
HIGHWAY ROBBERY IN RICH
MOND COUNTY.
.Hr. William I. Delph Stopped on the l.ouis
ville Road, Nine .Miles from Augusta, by
Two Armed Negroes, and Robbed of Bis
Watch and Twenty Dollars.
It seems that Dick Turpins and Claude
Duvals, knights of the road, whose
greeting is “ stand and deliver,” have
not entirely disappeared even in this
nineteenth centnry and in this progres
sive republic. The scenes of Hounslow
Heath are re-enacted on the highways of
America. The latest incident, we are
sorry to say, occurred in Richmond
conniy, and is an outrage which calls
for prompt action.
Yesterday morning Mr. Wm. I. Delph,
of this city, was returning home from
Hephzibah College, where he had been
attending the commencement exercises.
In the buggy with him were his wife and
their little child, thirteen months of age.
It was about nine o’clock, and the horse
attached to the buggy was proceeding
quietly along the Louisville road, at
Spring Hill, half a mile from Rich
mond Camp Ground and nine
miles from Augusta, when Mr.
Delph saw a short distance ahead, in
the road,
Two Armed Nexrees
Advancing towards him. One of the
negroes had a double barrel shot gun
and the other a rifle. The spot was
lonely, the nearest house being three
quarters of a mile distant, and there was
no one in sight except the two negroes.
Something in the appearance of these
made Mr. D.elph suspect at once that
they meant mischief. For fear of
alarming his wife and perhaps unneces
sarily, he kept his suspicions to himself.
He had nothing to protect himself with.
In a few moments the negroes had ad
vanced to within a few paces of the
buggy and their object was then made
known in no undecided manner. The
negro who had the’ shot gun quickly
brought it to bear oa Mr. Delph, at the
same time cocking both barrels. He
then called out, “Have yew got auy
money ?” Mr. Delph recollec ed that
he had had fifty cents in his vest pocket
and anwered, “Yes, I have fifty cents.”
“Yes, you have more than that,” re
plied the highwayman. He then told
his companion, a short coal black negro,
to search Mr. Delph. He at the same
time ordered Mrs. Delph to give np her
Watch and Jewelry.
The short negro proceeded to work in
a business like way. He first took off
Mr. Delph’s watch and chain and then
searched his pockets for money. He
finally found a memorandum book, in
the pocket of which Mr. Delph had
placed twenty dollars the day previous,
for a specific purpose, but which, in the
excitement of the moment, he had for
gotten. Mr. Delph had previously
taken what he had in his vest pocket,
twenty-five cents—twenty cents in frac
tional currency and a nickel—and hand
ed it to the negro. The nickel dropped
on the floor of the buggy so that the
highwaymen got twenty dollars and
twenty cents in all. While the short
negro was searching Mr. Delph, the
other kept his gun constantly levelled
at the latter. Several times when Mr.
Delph put his hands to his pockets, the
highwayman called, “Take yor hands
away from dar,” implving a suspicion
that Mr. Delph was looking for a pistol.
As soon as they found the money the
robbers
Appeared to be Satisfied
And said nothing more to Mrs. Delph
about her watch and jewelry. Jnst as
they were about to move off Mr. Delph
said to the scoundrel who had directed
the robbery, “Don’t you think it is a bad
plan to stop people on the highway ?”“You
white p°ople have had us down long
enough,” was the reply. The negroes
then walked off, one of them saying as
they did so, “1 suppose we will hear
from this.” “I reckon not,” said Mr.
Delph. The robbers walked up the
road a short distance, keeping their
eyes on the buggy all the time, and fin
ally stepped into the woods and disap
peared. Mr. Delph watched them
through the glass in the back curtain of
the buggy as long as they were in sight,
apprehending that they might fire a
parting shot as they went off and de
siring to be prepared for it. Af
ter they had disappeared Mr.
Delph whipped up his horse
and proceeded to the nearest house,
where he gave information of the out
rage. He procured a pistol and, in com
pany with Mr. Seago and another gentle
man, returned to the scene of the rob
bery, in hopes that they would be able
to catch the highwaymen, but the scoun
drels could not be found. Their foot
steps were traced a quarter of a mile up
and down the road. They evidently
been pacing backwards and forwards
for some time,
On the Watch
Fcr* onmo nno Mr. Delph recoini 7 pfT
neither of the negroes, naming never
seen either of them before. He says,
nuwever, that their images are graven
on his memory, and he would know
them anywhere. One of them was rath
er light colored, about forty-five years
of age, five feet nine or ten inches in
height, and wore a suit of brown stuff.
His companion is not more than twe.jty
years old, five feet six or seven inches
high, and is a coal black negro.
The robbery was a terrible ordeal for
Mrs. Delph. She clasped her child to
her and several times begged the high
waymen not to shoot her husband.
Mr. Delph had passed' about a mile
and a half back of where the robbery
occurred, eigut men ip a wagon.
Had these been in sight nothing would
have occurred. Mr. Delph, also, feels
certain that if he had had a pistol and
displayed it when the negroes first
came in sight, they would have made no
attempt to molest him.
The money stolen from Mr. Delph
consisted of tvro fiye dollar bille f several
ones and some fractional purrency. Thp
watch is of heavy gold, hunting case, de
tached lever, No. 9,878.
Efforts were made yesterday afternoon
to procure hounds in order to track the
highwaymen, bpt without success.—
Everything jaosjj’tye, however, will be
done to effect tbeif grrest. trust
that his Honor Judge Claiborne Snead,
County Judge, will offer a sufficient re
ward for their capture. When captured,
their punishment, should be adequate
and speedy. Their crime is one which
merits the severest penalty. It is indeed
a terrible state of affairs if citizens can
not ride it’ong the highways, with their
wives and children, without fear of be
ing stopptijl by krjoied rbbber*.
ROW fN HAMBURG.
A Negro Fires at a Constable But Kills
Another Man Instead.
For some time past Peter Weigle,
colored constable at Aiken, has been on
the lookout for two negroes named re
spectively Jjichafd Jenfijns and John
Barnes, charged with robbing a store in
that county. Ascertaining that they
were in Hamburg, he proceeded to that
place Wednesday evening. As soon as
he reached the village he secured the
assistonee Constable Nelson, of Ham
burg, and started out in search of the
accused. He found tljle® alioufc half
past eleven o’clock in the wain' street
of the village and immediately served
the warrant. He first took Barnes in
charge. As soon as he placed his hand
on ike latter, Jenkins drew a pistol and
fired a£ Ibb psqer, The ball missed'
Weigle but struck Rarfica to the head,
killing him almost instantly. Jenkins
then fled. Constable Nelson, who was
in the rear of Weigle, was prevented
from firing at JeDkins for fear of strik
iig tfee officer. Trial Justice Rivers
snmmoned'a jury yesterday morning,
and proceeded to hold an inquest over
the body of Barnes At ten o’clock the
investigation was adjourned until 0, p.
m., on account of the other inquest.
the assembling of the jury the
followingVef-jitt syae rendered :
State of South Oaroftoa, county of
Aiken : An inquisition indented taken
at Hamburg in the comity and State
aforesaid, the 27th day of July, 1876,
before me, if. JJ. Rivers, Trial Justice,
as Coroner, for the county aforesaid,
upon view of the body of John Barnes,
then and there being dead, by the oath
of A. E. Fplett, foreman (names of jurors
here follow, all solved) being a lawful
jury of inquest, who' being charged
and sworn-to inquire for the State
of Souili Carolina, where and by
what means ifie John Barnes
came to bis death upon their oath
do say that the said John Barnes came
to his death by a pistol ball wound,
fired by one Richard Jenkins oa the
pight of the 26th of Jnlv, 1876, in the
town .of Hamburg, South Carolina, on
the corneVof Centre -nd Mercer streets,
hile resisting tljelaw, tfcStobr com
mitting wilful murder, against tha peace
and dignity of the State of SouthXlaro
lina. Jn witness thereof, I, P. R. Rivers,
Trial Justice, gating as Coroner afore
said, and to this in
quest, have 'interchangeably pap per
hand and seal, the day and veSr above
mentioned.
A Martin Match.— Charleston Jour
nal of Commerce : A proposition is
on foot to get np a martin match, to
be shot at as early a day as practicable
at some convenient place. The birds
will be obtained in Georgia if possible.
This sport will be more interesting than
pigeon shooting, as the game is mnch
smaller and moves with great celerity.
Some of the gentlemen who have been
doing sach excellent execution in the
pigeon matches will take part in the
oontest.
THE GEORGIA CAMPAIGN.
VIEWED FROM AN ATLANTA
8 f AND-POINT.
How the Republican. Propose to Plank Their
Adversaries—A “Parson” in the Race—A
Hot Fight Promised in This Democratic
Stronghold—The Congressional Districts,
and Who Will Be Nominated.
[ Correspondence New York Herald.}
Atlanta, July 21, 1876.—Your corres
pondent dropped in at the Republican
headquarters this morning, aud was sur
prise:! at the activity with which the
Executive Committee is preparing for
the oampaign. Georgia has not been
earnestly contested by the Republicans
for years, and it was believed that the
present campaign would be allowed to
go by default. This will not be the
case, however, for already may be heard
right brisk pulsations of “music in the
air.” The Chairman of the Republican
Committee, the Hon. James E. Bryant,
is an admirable man for the place. He
is a gaunt, shrewd, tireless, bright-eyed
Maine man—fall of snap and pluck and
nerve—a capital organizer and an inde
fatigable worker. He has been in Geor
gia politics for more thau ten years, be
ing the Republican leader in the Lower
Honse during the ascendancy of that
party in the Legislature. He ’ was
elected to his present, position by a
unanimous vi.te of the late State Con
vention, it being understood that, if
elected, he would organize the party to
give the Democrats a hot, stubborn and
fight in every city and
county in the State. Col. Bryant is
quite hopeful that he can do something
for his party in the campaign just open
ing, and backs his hopes with the fol
lowing reasoning:
What Mr. Bryant Thinks.
“In the first place,” says he, “the nat
ural Democratic majority in Georgia is
quite small. In the race between Bul
lock and Gordon we elected Bullock
fairly by several thousand majority. The
unfortunate events of that administra
tion were so distorted and magnified by
the Democrats that a perfect storm was
raised against the Republicans, intimi
dation was resorted to, the Ku-Klux
were organized, there were dozens of
counties into which our speakers were
afraid to venture, and there were many
countie? with five or six hundred negroes
in them in which not a dozen Republican
votes were cast. Under this state of
things we thought it best to make no es
peoial fight on State questions, but to
try and carry the State for Grant against
Greeley. Hence, while the Democratic
Governor was elected by about 60,000
majority, the national ticket was beaten
only about 13,000 votes. I believe that
with the full strength of the parties
polled, in a fair fight, the Democrats
have from 5,000 to 12,000 majority. I
am confident that I can bring 90,000
Republican votes to the field this Fall;
and I do not think the Democrats will
beat that much, if at all.” While Mr.
Bryant is organizing the party in every
county, and putting active workers to
the front, there is no prominent Repub
lican yet named as a candidate for any
prominent office. The State Conven
tion, which assembled in April, declined
to nominate. The truth is the Republi
cans propose to get their fore* s into
fighting order, and then attack the
Democrats in the flank, rather thau iu
the front. They will mass their strength
on
Independent Candidates.
There is a terrible restlessness inside
the Democratic ranks. The troubles
that always divide parties with large ma
jorities have attacked the Democrats,
and rebellious iu the ranks have become
quite common. Two years ago there were
many “independents” in the field, and
they”were victorious without exception.
Dr. Felton, a quiet country parson, liv
ing near Cartersville, entered the field
igainst the Democratic nominee in the
Seventh District, overwhelmingly Demo
eratic, and after a fight unequalled in
fierceness, and engaging Democratic
speakers from all parts of the State,
who, under the lead of Senator Gordon,
flocked to the scene of action, he cap
t.nred the District. His victory was re
peated iu many local contests through
out the State, and has resulted in the
creation of an independent party, which
will this Fall put a full ticket in the
field. This ticket the Republicans will
support.
The Gubernatorial Race.
Indeed, while it has not yet got into the
Georgian papers, the Gubernatorial race
is already made up. General Alfred H.
Colquitt will, without doubt, be nomi
nated on the first ballot by the Demo
cratic party. He has already a large
majority of the Convention, and li s
friends claim that he will get three
fourths on the first ballot. His nomina
tion may be considered certain. With
Colquitt as the standard bearer of Ihe
Democrats, your correspondent has per
fect authority for saying that Judge A.
R.. Wright, ot Home, will carry the flag
of the Independents. Judge Wright
was a member of Congress before the
war, and received a pardon from Lin
coln immediately at the close of the war.
He is an exceedingly fine talker; is ac
counted, with Ben Hill, the best stump
speaker in the State. He is a veteran
campaigner, a splendid organizer, and,
like Dr. Felton, oomes of that danger
ous breed of political parsons, being
himself a hard shell Baptist preacher.
He will be very apt in taking advantage
of the uneasiness inside of the Demo
cratic camp, and will make a splendid
fight. He will get the Republican
vote solid, if the leaders can manage it.
A prominent Republican said to me yes
terday, “We will give any respectable
iqan who runs against the Democratic
nominee 80,000 Republican votes.” The
contest will be an extremely fierce aud
bitter one, and with any other man than
Colquitt at the head of the Democrats
the result would be doubtful; but it is
the general opinion that Colquitt’s per
sonal strength will give him a large ma
jority over any combination that can be
made against him. Re swept the Dem
ocratic primaries lifce a whirjwind, thus
attesting that he is all powerful with
the people. He is a pure and lofty pa
triot, and is just now the idol of the
massses in Georgia. Bence I do not
think that the Independent
combinatiqn will ftmoqnt to anything in
Georgia as fat as tue Governorship is
concerned beyond giving the democrats
what they have not had in years—a hand
to-hand fight. The policy of combina
tion with the Independents will be car
ried out in the Congressional races, ex
cept in the First, Second, Fifth and
Sixth Districts, which the chairman of
the committee thinks can be carried by
a straight fight.
*fhe Electoral Vote.
While the Bepfibliptos bopp, by the
sort of flank movement suggested above,
to beat the Democratic nominee for
Governor, and recaplure at least four of
the lost Congressional Districts, they
have not much hope of winning the
electoral vote. They will work assid
ously to wipe out the party lines as far
as the home contests are concerned by
tbe introduotio'n pf focal 'cmepfipno, such
as the removal of the capital'and the
calling of anew Convention, but there
is nothing by which they can divert at
tention from the real party issues in the
National contest. Indeed, I shall look
for Tilden to win a large number of Re
pnblipaq yoteij. There is marvelously
little enthusiasm oVet Jjayea fenq
er. Their electoral ticket 1 will, in all
probability, be headed by the Hod.
Amos T. Ackerman, and composed of
the very best men in tbe pally ranks.
In deference to “orders from headquar
ters” no federal office holder will take a
place upon the electoral 1 ticket. The
State will be thoroughly canvassed, and
the best done that can be under the cir
cumstances.
There is no particular activity irl th“
Democratic camp as yet. The Execu
tive Gommittoe tbal will conduct the
campaign will be appointed by the State
Convention, which meets on the 2d of
August, in this city. This Convention
will also put out an elector? 1 ticket,
beaded, probably, by Hon. Thomas
Hardeman, Jr., and General Lucius J.
Gortrell, two ex-CoDgressmen who have
just withdrawn' from the Gubernatorial
race. Upon the adjournment of this
Convention the committee will cut out
its work and get to business. The Dem
ocrats are perfectly confident of sweep
ing the State in all the elections—coun
ty, State' and National. They acknowl
edge the uneasiness with wfiiph the
party yoke is worn in certain sections,
and the Unexpected strength developed
by the inc|ependent movement of 1874,
but argue ’ that Colquitt’s wonderful
popularity and tfie restraining influence
of tbe Presidential raee will keep the
party well in ranks. They claim that
they will elect ther Governor by 20,000
to 30,000 majority, send an unbroken
Democratic delegation to Congress and
forward the electoral vote to “Uncle
Sammy.'- backed by 60,000 majority.
Business Depression in Pittsbubo.—
Whatever may be the cause, thebe is no
doubt that the depression of business in
BiUapiirg the oast two years has mate
rially yefjucdfl ; se eit*’ gagital, and if
ii continues many ifiontjis longer jrill
tap the vary fountain of per prosperity
and influence. A fov years ago Pitts
burg was considered the wealthiest pity
of its size in the oountry, and it still has
powerful financial resources, but they
have been terribly weakened t>f late. A
well known financier 6Bd business man
on Saturday made the assertion that the
city had depleted its capital at least
twenty millions of dollare during the
past two years, and there seemed no fair
prospect for the fature. —Pittsburg Pis
patch.
BARNWELL CO'NTY.
The Outrage Mill in Fnli Blast—Wiiipper
ana His Unas on tlic War- Path—interfer
ing With the Labor Question— Determined
Stand of n Planter—Poor Prospect for Cot
ton.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel .l
Near Elko, Barnwell County, 8. 0.,
July 28.—The “outrage mill” has been
well oiled, repaired aud put in first class
running order by the scalawag politi
cians of this law-forsakeu Btate, and the
first edition was run off to-day at Black
ville, but a few miles from this place.
As no respectable white man couid be
found who attended, information fil
trates to me from somewhat brackish
streams, but the darkies report that
Gleaves, Whipper, Elliott aud Leslie
“wrastled” with the spirit, and using
the recent occurrence at Hamburg
for a text, raised the spirits of the blaek
auditors up to fever heat, aud prepared
them to commit any sort of outrage
against the lives and property of the
white people of the State. The effect
of these inflammatory and ill-advised
harangues will be manifested without
doubt iu a few days iu the occurrence of
diabolical outrages against the whites.
While they may blanch the cheek with
horror, will only strengthen the bonds
which induce the whites to band togeth
er under the principles of that higher
law—self-preservation—and will culmi
nate in the ruin and eventual de
gradation of the unfortunate blacks.
Many planters reasoned with their
hands, telling them it would do
no good to attend the meeting
and listen to the chat of such men as
were to speak, but the negroes general
ly declined to be advised, and went
there in droves. In one case, .Captain
Williamson W. Willis, of this plaee,
made a strong appeal to his hands to re
main; but they all went, with two ex
ceptions. The Captain intends to-mor
row to set an example by discharging
every negro working for wages. He
takes the correct ground that as his la
borers fail to obey orders, he has the
undoubted right to elect who he shall
have on his plantation. It is high
ground to take just now, but the gallant
Captain, when his mind is made up, is
not a man to flinch from a position when
once taken. He expects trouble, but is
in every way fully prepared to meet it,
and will be sustained by his neighbors.
The question was asked’ here to-day :
“If we get up a barbecue in Barnwell
county, and invite some of yon Geor
gians over here, will you come iu the
shape of an excursion party ?” I as
sured the interlocutors that Georgians
have never failed to respond to any re
quest from South Carolina, and all they
had to do was to go to work and get up
the barbecue. Can’t we encourage the
people in this wise ? “A white man’s
rule for a white man’s country !” should
be the war cry.
The cotton crop does not look very
encouragiug here, aud as I passed down
the railroad from Augusta, and along
the dirt road to this place, the cotton
patches generally looked pretty sorry.
However, to oouuterbalauoe it, the corn
fields looked fine, and farmers are
speaking hopefully of their prospects
for a good yield of corn. F.
THE COURSE OF COTTON.
Weekly Review of the New York Market.
liV. I’. Daily Bulletin.}
Fluctuations of moderate character
have taken place on this market, but
frequently without any apparent reason.
The result could be seeD, but the cause
was extremely difficult to trace. Ju
short, business has been passing through
one of those peculiar periods now and
then shown on a speculative market,
where “bulls” Dd “bears” have about
exhausted all their ammunition iu the
way of influences of a decided character,
and must content themselves with light
skirmishing until strengthened by some
fresh developments. Under these cir-
cumstances matters have been rather
stupid and we find little new of positive
interest to record. About the most
noticeable features on the contract mar
ket have been an apparent diminished
demand openly, and in one or two cases
some unloading, yet always b.uyerß to
be fonnd ready to step into the breach
Vhenever there seemed likely to be a
serious decline. In view of the sources
from which a portion of this demand
came, it was supposed to be in part
as a matter of protection against
certain operations of shippers, and
in which both the Liverpool and
our own markets are involved,
and part the result of an effort to bolster
and stimulate until farther sales could
be made on the later months. The gen
eral “talk” on the market remains much
the same, with the “bears,” or rather
those opposed to the idea that any im
portant addition to values can be made
and retained, holding rather the best of
the argument. There is still to be
found floating around the old theory
that “cotton is too low and must ad
vance,” and a few solitary worms re
ported from one or two sections of the
South have afforded a grain of strength,
but the “bulls” have added very little to
the growth of their horns. Crop advi
ces from the major portion of the grow
ing area have continued favorable, ra
ther improving if anything, the supplies
available must still be considered ch
ample, and there is a continued slow un
certain call for actual use. Consump
tion in fact receives no stimulus either
abroad or here, aud iu addition to vol
untary reduction in the hours of labor
proposed at some of our mills, it is fear
ed that an important outlet may be tein
porarially closed at least by the sad
death of one of our leading manufac-
turers.
Spots have been moderately active,
but on the whole have not shown quite
so much strength as last week, and a
fraction redaction in values was made.
Holders, too, have offered stocks with
somewhat greater freedom, and though
in no case would it be safe to say that
any actual pressure to realize took
place, in several cases buyers claimed
to have been enabled to secure parcels
at somewhat off the quoted market
rates. There has been a little doing
for export, but in nearly all instances
this movement appeared to be confined
to small, irregular parcels required for
some special order, and the general at
tendance of shippers has shown no in
terest whatever. The miffs do not ap
pear to “start up” half as well as pre
dicted and on spinning account the in
quiry has kept along on about the ordi-
nary average, buyers manifesting a more
or less cautions tone on all movements
and calculating cost, quality, condition
and amount handled with the greatest
nicety before closing negotiations.
Oa contracts, the business has been
rather moderate, and values fiaye ranged
somewhat lower than last week along
the entire lipe. No undue pressure was
shown, espe.pt iu one or two eases early,
when the most serious break took place
under an unloading by apparently dis
gusted “bulls.” This was followed by
agradual slight hardening, but no posi
tive show of confidence, with some indi
cations of a simple manipulation tend
ing to work up values a little for the
purpose of effecting sales. Qu Monday,
1-lGc. decline took place, which was
afterward recovered, and the market
closed steady. On Tuesday, the offer
ings were free, especially in August,
which seemed to be thrown out pretty
liberally, and 3 32*4, in some cases, took
place. Wednesday opened slack, but
tindiDg. the market declining, a large
buypr suddenly pagein and took enough
to restore T3fic. lost early in the day.
On Thursday, the business was very
light, but about l-32c. advance took
place, and an much more on Friday,
with still another 1 16c. on Saturday;
but it was all due, to ma
nipulation, ag the detpabd was extreme
ly limited, the near-by shorts about
covered, and no faith shown in invest
ments.
MIPX.O.IIACY IN SIAM.
Disgraceful Conduct of Our Consol at llG'S
ki(k—Outrageous Persecution of Another
American Whp Had Been Appointed Cen
tennial Commissioner by the Kind.
New York, July 27.—The IJerald
publishes a letter dated on board the
United States steamer Palos, Hong
Kong, China, June 14th, detailing the
high-handed proceedings of Gen. F. W.
Partridge, United States Consul for
Siam at Bangkok. Partridge, failing to
get the appointment from the King of
Siam as Commissioner to the Centennial
Exposition, raked up an old charge
against Mr. Chandler, an American,
who had received the appointment, and
issued a writ for his arrest. Partridge’s
son, Fred, served the writ, and arrested
Chandler, who is an old man, and lodged
him in the consular jai l , knocking him
down during the operation. This
aroused tile indignation of all the citi
zens, and the King refused to have any
thing to do with the Consul, or to allow
the goods to be shipped to the Centen
nial. A missionary named Reynolds,
who had interested himself in Chand
ler’s behalf, was fined by Partridge S4OO,
and a number of witnesses, who testified
in favor of Reynolds, were fined SSO for
contempt of boutt. The steamer Ashoe
lot. Captain Matthews, arriving, tran
quility was restored. The King of Siam
made a present to the United States of
the pentenniaj goofis, and they were
taken qn board of the Asbnelo.fc. Oapt.
Matthews has written a lengthy report
of ibp matter to the State Department at
Washington, and it was hoped Partridge
would be dismissed from his post.
The Sandersville Library Association
organised last Thursday evening by
electing Dr. Horatio N. Hollifleld, Pres
dentj Mark Newman, Vice-President;
M. L. Duggan, Secretary;,C. H. Mitchell,
Treasurer; W. O. Giles, Librarian.' -
A FIENDISH CRIME.
A Little V- bite Girl Rnped by a Negro—
Prompt Punishment ot the Villain.
A diabolical outrage in Edgefield
county, S. C., came to onr knowledge
yesterday. CJn Thursday, the 20th inst,,
an old negro womau was catching geese
on the premises of Mr. Louis Preßcott,
near Red Hill, sixteen miles beyond
Pine House. A young negro named Joe
Stoluaker was assisting her. One of
Mr. Prescott’s little children, a little
girl about five years of age, was also out
in the yard. One of the geese went into
an adjoining yard and was pursued by
Stolnaker. He remained such a length
of time as to attract the attention of the
old woman, who also noticed that the
child was missing. When the negro re
turned the old woman asked him several
questions, to which he made evasive an
swers. In the mean time the little girl
went to the house. Her mother per
ceiving that she had been crying
asked h r what was the matter.
The child then told her of a terrible out
rage committed by the negro fiend.
Shocked btyond measure, the almost
frantic mother sent for Mr. Holmes, a
neighbor. Misunderstanding the report
carried to him by the messenger, and
under the impression that the negro’s
crime was much less heinous than the
reality, Mr. Holmes hastened to Mr.
Prescott’s, whip in hand, confronted
Stolnaker, and gave him a sound thrash
ing. He then went into the house to see
Mrs. Prescott. Learning, then, for the
first time what the negro had really
done, Mr. Holmes jerked up a gun and
started out after the sooundrel. The
latter, however, saw him coming, and
fled. Mr. Prescott fired at the fugitive,
aDd it is thought that two of the Bhots
struck him in the hand. Mr. Prescott
was in Philadelphia at the time of the
occurrence, but came home immediately
upon receipt of a telegram. A thorough
search for Stolnaker was organized, and
on last Tuesday evening he was caught.
He was at once taken to the woods and
hung.
The little girl was terribly injured, and
several physicians had to be summoned.
“LET So GUILTY MAN ESCAPE.”
Bln ford Wilson's Rnggngc Searched for a
Precious Document, Which is Recovered.
New York, July 27.—A Graphic
special from Washington savs : The
original manuscript of the President’s
order, “Let No Guilty Man Esoape,”
which has been missing for months, was
found to-day, in Washington, secreted,
with other documents, in Bluford Wil
son’s possession. Both Wilson and
Yaryan hail denied any knowledge as to
where the letter had been placed. Wil
son had several boxes of papers nailed
and addressed to Bluford Wilson,
Springfield, 111. This was done before he
retired. He says they were his private
papers. The President ordered Wilson
sent for, aud the papers were examined
in his | rosenoe by Mr. Talbot, the new
Solicitor. This was done this morning,
and among many papers of great impor
tance to the department was found the
President’s letter referred to.
The Solicitor Again on the Stand—Grant nud
Unbcack—How the Ring Worked—Mischief
Making.
Washington, July' 28.— Ex-Solicitor
of the Treasury Wilson gave important
testimony this evening before the Com
mittee ou Whisky Frauds. It was a
very long story, aud showed that,
although the President said “Let no
guilty man esoape,” he thought at the
time that Gen. Babcock was innocent,
hut when he found that Secretary Bris
tow and Solicitor Wilson were in earnest
in his prosecution, the President did not
sympathise with the prosecuting officers
or assist Secretary Bristow and Mr. Wil
son for the part they took with
reierenos to this case. The wit
ness says whatever difference arose
with the gentlemen on the one part and
the President on the other was due
partly to a misconception of the mo
tives and purposes which actuated the
Secretary and the Solicitor and missin
formatiou of facts aud to wilful and
deliberate perversons of facts to the
President by the scoundrels whom they
were endeavoring to bring to punish
ment aud their friends, and for the pur
pose of bringing about a disagreement
between the President and the Sec
retary, to create embarrassments to the
prosecutions and if possible to defeat
them.
NOTARIES PUBLIC.
Appointments by the Governor.
The following Notaries Public and ax
officio Ju tices of the Peace, to serve
for four years, commencing with July
23d, have been appointed by the Gover
nor:
Oglethorpe County—W. E. Yancey,
for the 226th District; James Harris, for
the 227th District; R. A. McMahon, for
the 229th District; J. J. Daniel, for the
230th District; J. H. McWhorter, for
the 233d Disirict; M. L. Rains, for the
233d District; W. A. Jacks, for the 234th
District; G. W. Glenn, for the 235th
District; J. W. Jarrell, for the 236th
District; J. H. Tiller, for the 237th Dis
trict; Kimei J. Smith, for tho 238th
District.
Lincoln Couniy—J. N. Mercier, for
the 185th District; P. P. Bond, for the
188th District; F. M. Wright, for the
187th District; P. F. Burgess, for the
186th District; J. W. Freeman, for the
269th District; A. J. Bentley, for the
183d District; S. F. Mesely, for the 182d
District.
Richmond County—Alex. Philip, for
the 600th District; James Brandon, for
the 121st District; Hezekiali Williams,
for the 124t,h District; E. L Mims, for
the 123d District; A. H. McLaws, for
the 119th District; A. B. Crump, for the
398th District; A. D. Picquet, for the
122d District.
Liitmt Notes from the Capital.
Washington, July 29.—One hundred
and sixty-five recruits have been order
ed to the various commands in the Far
West. If the President persists in with
holding his signature from the sundry
civil appropriation bills and Congress
makes no provision, there will be no
money for Tuesday’s operations. All
the departments have submitted lists of
employees they can spare with the
least inconvenience. Nearly all com
plain that they will be crippled.
The C-onferenoe Committee made lit
tle progress to-day. In the House, Mr.
Hill, of Georgia, called up the bill
passed by both Houses extending the
time for redemption of lands sold for
direct taxes, in order to have it amended
so as to exclude the possibility of its
being construed to effect national ceme
teries, The bill so amended passed.
Governor Hendricks’ Financial View*.
[A 'ew Albany (Inti.) Ledger-Standard, Bullion .]
An attempt it being made by the Radi
cal newspapers to attribute to Governor
Hendricks inflation views. They will
fail in this effort. Gentlemen who
heard JVTr. Hendricks in Ohio last year
are pretty certain that he did not ad
vance any such viewß in his addresses
before tbe people. His position was
substantially that which he has always
held, that there should be a steady ap
proach to specie payments, but not by a
policy that would completely paralyse
every industry of the country, such as
: the Radical Resumption Act will pro
duce. He believes that law is a fraud ;
that it is a profession of specio payment
without the tueaus of accomplishment;
that it will produce wide-spread ruin
without an equivalent, and that there
fore the section which provide for spe
cie resumption iu 187$ should bo re
pealed. But neither Governor Hen
dricks nor the Democracy of Indiana
abandon the sound Democratic doctrines
of specie resumption. Tbe future weT
fare of the country demands that this
should be accomplished, but not upon
the mins of the industrial and commer
cial interests of the country, which will
be the effect if the present law is suffer
ed to remain in force. But Republican
newspapers that attribute to Governor
Hendricks inflation views simply utter
falsehood.
ANOTHER COUNTY,
Bartow in Favor of Hersekel V. Joiinxan
for Governor.
f Special Telegram to (he Chronicle and Sentinel .]
Caktkksville, July 29.—A county
mass meeting was held to-day, P. M.
B. Young Chairman. A direct vote was
taken for Governor with the following
result: Johnson, 261 ; Colquitt, 215.
The Colquitt men were out in force. The
Johnson men relied upon the great ma
jority for him in the county.
Cromwell’s Salary.— When Oliver
Cromwell was asked in 1649 to accept
the post of Commander-ia-Ghief and
Lieutenant-General of Ireland, he re
plied he would go if he were “sufficient
ly provided.” The following facts from
“the calendar of State papers” will show
the pecuniary value of his demand,
whieh was granted : “He required in
addition to the ordinary salary of the
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, $15,00Q for
ail ontfit, SSO a day as long as he re
mained in England, and $40,000 a year
on his landing in Ireland. Unfortunate
ly, Cromwc-ll’s patent does not state his
salary as Lieutenant of Ireland, only
that he should have the usual fees, sti
pends and allowances; but, judging
from analogy, it seems to have been at
least $25,000. His total salary would
be, therefore, $65,000 a year, whieh,
multiplied by 3J, to represent the com
parative value of money at that period,
amounts to $226,000, the salary of the
present Lord-Lieutenant being only
$100,0$).”'
