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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1876)
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 $100,0$).”'
