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(Eftrotimg anft .Sentinel
WKDNESDAY AUGUST 2, 1876.
SONG.
Come, lore! the eon bu risen long,
And hedge end tree
Are ell Alive with trefaaktos song ;
Awake ! end come with me.
The grees is peerled with gleeming dew,
Tbe lerks ere trilling in the sky,
And ell the world’s ew siting yoa—
And I—my darling —L
Look from above. that those deer eyee
May dewn on me.
My lore, my life, my light, arise,
That I the morning see.
Tbere's ne’er a cloa 1 to mar the day,
The air is soft, and fresh, and sweet,
Bat all the world is doll and gray
Till thy dear face I greet.
Sweetest of ell that lire and more,
Arise! Anne!
The day is short, too short for 'ore,
The wift hoar fl .eta and Airs.
The moments ne’er will come agsin
That heedlessly yoa waste.
And joy deferred is half a pain.
Then, haste! my darling
[W W. Story. ,
THE FARMER FEKOBTH ALL.
Mv lord rides t 1 rough the palace gate.
My lady sweeps along in state.
The sage thinks long on many a thing,
And the maiden muses on marrying ;
The minstrel merrily;
The -ailor plows the foaming sea.
The huntsman kills tne good red deer.
And the soldier wars witbonten fear;
Bat fall to eaoh what’er befall,
The farmer he most feed them aIL
Smit i hammereth cheerily the sword,
Priest preacheth pure the holy word,
Dame Alice worketh broid-ry well.
Clerk Bichard tales of lore can tell.
The tap wife sells her foami g beer,
Dan Fisher fi-heth in the mer.
And courtiers ruffle strut aud shine,
While pages bang the Gascon wine ;
But fall to each whate r befall.
The farmer he most feed them all.
Man builds his csstles fair and higlv
Wherever river runneth by,
Great cities rise in every land.
Great churches show the builder s hand,
Great arches, monuments ani towers,
Fair palaces and pleasing bowers;
Great work is done, be't here or there,
And well man worketh ev< rswheie,
But work or rest, whate’er befall.
The farmer he must feed them all.
HUSH!
‘ lean scarcely hear,” she murmured,
“For mv beait beats loud and fast,
But surely, in the far. far distance,
I cm hear a sound at last.
"It is only the reapers singing
As they carry home their shesvss ;
And tbe evening breezs has risen,
And rustles the dying leaves.”
“Listen ! there are voices talking,”
Calmly still she strove to -peak,
her voie grew faint and trembling,
And the red flushed in her cheek.
“It is only the children playing,
Below. nw their work is done,
And they laugh that their eyes are dazzled,
By the rays of the setting sun.”
Fainter grew her voice, and weaker,
As with anxious eyes she cried,
“Down ths avenue of chestnuts
I can hear a horseman ride.”
“It was only the deer that were feeding
In a herd on the clover grass,
They were startled and fled to the thicket,
As they saw the reapers pass.”
Now the night arose in silence,
Birds lay in their leafy neot
And the deer crouched in the forest
And the children were at rest.
There was only a sound of weeping,
From watchers aronud a bed,
But rest to a weary spirit.
Peace to the quiet dead!
Adelaide A. Proclor.
THE GOLDEN SIDE.
There is many a rest on the road of life,
If we only would stop to take it ;
And mauy a tone from the better land
If the querulous heart would wake it.
To the sunny soul that it full of hope.
And whose beauti6ul trust ne er f aileth,
'l*l,o gra-s is green and the flowers are bright
Though the wintry storm prevaileth.
Better to hope, though the clouds hang low,
And to keep the e es still lifted ;
For tbe sweet blue sky will soon peep through,
When the ominous e ouds are rifted.
There was never a ight without a day,
Nor an evening without a morning ;
And iho darkest hour, the proverb goes,
Is tbe hour before the dawning.
There is many a gem in the path of life,
Which we pass in our idle pleasure.
That is richer far thaw the jeweled crown
Or the miser’s hoarded treasure ;
It may be the love of a little child,
Or a mother’s prayer to heaven,
Or only a beggar’s grateful thanks
For a cap of water given.
Better to weava in the web of life
A bright and golden filling.
And to do God’s work with a ready heart,
And bain's that are swift and willing,
Thau to snap the delicate rilver threads
Of our curious lives asunder,
And then heaven blame for the tangled ends,
And sitdo gr eve and wonder.
THREE ANGELN.
Thoy say this Life is barren, drear, and cold,
Ever the c&me 8 sung of old,
Ever the nams loo(< weary tale is told,
And to our lips is held the cup of strife ;
And yet— a little love eftu sweeten life.
They say our hands may gnsp but joys de
stroyed. . . . ~
Youth haß but dreams aud ago an aehing void.
Which Dead Sea fruit long, long ago has
cloved,
Whose'..ight with wild, tempestuous storms is
rife;
And yet—a little hops can brighten life.
They say we fling ourselves in wild despair
Amid the broken treasures scattered there
Where all is wrooked, where all onea promised
fair, , . .
And stab ourselves with sorrow s two edged
knife;
Aud yet—a little patience strengthens Ufe.
Is it then true, this tale of bitter grief,
Of mort il anguish finding no relief ?
Lo! midst the Winter shines the laurel leaf :
Three angels share tbe lot o f human strife,
Three augels glorify the path of life.
Love. Hope, and Patience, cheer us on our
wav;
Love. Hope, and Patieuce, form our spirit s
stav;
Love. Hope, and Patience, watoh us day by
day;
And bid the desert bloom with beauty vernal.
Until the earthly fades in the e'er al.
[Frazer't Magazine.
* A NEW POE II BY BRYANT.
[We give below the concluding lines of Wil
liam Cullen Bryant's new po m. •• The Flood
of Ye r<.” the whole of which wdl be foHnd in
Hcribner's This poem will have for many an
interest akin to that of Mr- Longfellow’s
“ Morituri Salntamus.”]
Sadly I turn, and look before, where yet
The Flood must pasß, aud I behold a mist
Where swarm dissolving forms, the brood of
Hope,
Divi 'ely fair. that re*t on banks of flowers
Oi wander among rainbows, fading oon
And re-ppaartng, haply giving place
To shapes of grisly aspect, such as Fear
Molds from the idle air ; where serpents lift
The head to strike, and skeletons stretch
forth
The bony arm in menaoe. Further on
A belt of darkness seems to bar the way.
.Long, low and d.etaut, where the Life that Is
Touches the Life to Come. The Flood of
Years
Bolls toward it, near and nearer. It must
pass
That dismal barrier. What is there beyond ?
Hear what the wise and good have said. Be
yond
That belt of darkness still the years roll on
More gentry, but with not less mighty sweep.
Thev gather up again and softly bear
All the sweet lives that late were overwhelmed
And lost to sight—all that in them was good,
Noble, and truly great and worthy of love—
The lives of lufauts and ingenuous youths,
Sages and saintly women who have made
Their households lia^py—all are raised and
borne
By that great current in its onward sweep,
■Wandering aud rippling with carressing waves
Aronud green islands, fragrant with the
breath
Of fl )era that never wither. So they pass.
From stage to stage, along the shining course
Of that tair river broadening like a sea.
Aa its smooth edd es curl along their way,
They bring old fneuas together; hands are
clasped
In j y unspeakable ; the mother’s arms
Again are fo'ded round the child she loved
And lost. Old sorrows are forgotten now,
Or bat remembered to make sweet the hour
That overpays them; wounded hearts that
bled
Or b oke are healed forever. In the room
Of this grief-shadowed Present there shall be
A Present in wnoee reign no grief shall gnaw
The heart, and never shall a tender tie
Be broken—in whose reign the eta nal Change
That waits on growth and action shall pro
ceed
With everlasting Concord hand in hand. *
Mortality Among Children.
[Boston ©lobe ]
The mortality among children in New
York during the hot season presents the
saddest spectacle that can be found in
anv civihzed city. Last week there
were 1 22S deaths in that city, 862 being
children under five yean, of age. A
lartre majority of these deaths of chil
dreu were caused by Summer com
plaints, traceable directly to- the un
wholesome conditions w ith w h' c h they
were surrounded. This terrible mor
talitv is no Divine visitation, bnt the re
of mans neglect. New York situat
ed on a narrow island, with the salt
water enclosing it about, might fee one
of the healthiest cities ui the world and
it is one of the unhealthiest It is
easily drained but it ...badly dmned
T ie'uoor population la crowded to
setheiTTu enormous tenement houses,
iLn are allowed to be m a most na
wholesome condition, while the streets
STuTUiem are filthy and noisome All
t the result of bad management and
1. . But there is no city
bad go '}„ this particular, aud
greater cleanliness and the
to seen B. i.jj ip and about the
conditions of neaiui . . -K on iA
dwellings of the po° r * 4- , -
not be delayed b£t
ed by the increasing death
vigorous meaeazes of prevenuon
be adopted at ooee^
Mr. Jonathan CoUia^aaoWa^bigt
ly respected citizen •® un
day morning, after a brief filnetf,
GEORGIA GLIMPSES.
GREENE FOR STEPHENS.
Greensboro, Ga., July 21, 1876.
Editor* Chronicle and Sentinel:
Gentlemen —l see that an incorrect
inference has been drawn from the
action of onr county meeting on the
15th inst. aa to tbe delegates sent to the
Congreaaional Convention for the
Eighth District. The resolution was
mtrodaced by Dr. Walker, nominating
Dr. I. ft. Moore, W. H. Branch, James
Davison and Jas. B. Park, as delegates,
and they be instructed to vote for Hon.
Alexauder H. Stephens as the choice of
Greene county. The above delegate
were unanimously elected. Dr. Harris
moved to strike out the last clause of
tbe resolution so as to send the dele
gates nninstmeted, stating at the time
that Mr. Stephens was his first choice
as long as he should live, and doubted
not he was the choice of this oonntv
Others gave expression to the same
sentiment. Upon this Dr. Walker
withdrew that part of tbe resolution in
strncting the delegates, an 1 the resolu
tion so amended was unanimously
adopted. Eveiy delegate is in favor of
Mr. Stephens first, last and all the time,
and he is tbe choice of this county. In the
first part of the meeting we had defeated
a resolution instructing the delegates to
the Gubernatorial Convention, and it
wonld have been inconsistent to have
sent instructed delegates to the Con
gressional Convention, hence the strik
ing out of that part of Dr. Walker’s
res< lution.
Jas B. Park, One of the Delegates.
qHE GUBERNATORIAL CANTABS.
A New kilght Eaters the Lints.
Edi’ors Chronicle and Sentinel:
Wtnle every other county in Georgia
has offered one or more of their citizens
as worthy to wear the mantle of Tronp
.ind Cobb and Johnson and Jenkins,
old Richmond, with all her wealth and
numbers and intelligence, occupies the
degrading position, in this glorious cen
tennial year, of having presented the
claims of no man worthy to compete
with this noble array of her sister coun
ties for Gubernatorial honors. Asa
native of Richmond, zealous of her repu
tation, I desire that the world should
know that the astonishing fact above
mi ntioned is not owing to any want
with us of those elements which com
pose governors and statesmen and
iieroes, and when I point to one among
the many the truth of the assertion will
be justified in the minds of all.
Huckleberry H. Snifflss was born of
poor, but it is said of honest parents,
near tbe classic waters of Sandy Run.
ffis grandfather was the celebrated
Raney Sniffles, whose eventful career
engaged the labor and learning of the
distinguished Longstreet in an admir
able biographical sketch which has been
read by thousands. His early life, like
that of most men who have risen to dis
tinction in our Republic, was one of
hardship.
Many of our older citizens have seen
in Broad street, during tbe Winter sea
son a small cart, holding about one
armful of lightwood, the motive powe
of which was a bobtailed bull ox;
astride of the wood sat a small boy,
the very image on a diminished scale of
his celebrated grandfather Raney. This
small boy was t&e grown up Huckleberry
H. whose claim to Gubernatorial hon
ors I now present. During the Sum
mer season his time and industry were
diversified in the gathering of those
delicious native fruits the black berry
and huckleberry, the proceeds of which
largely assisted in the support of his
father and mother in their declining
years.
Ills War Record.
His enemies (and who that is
worthy, has not enemies) will tell
you that at the first sound of war he took
to Sandy Run swamp, an i was seen no
more until two years after peace, when,
being caught robbing a neighbor’s pota
to bunk, he for the first time learned
that the fighting was over. It was dis
covered that he was lame of a leg, and
bis enemies again assert that he was
shot during the war while robbing a hen
roost —but Ist justice bo done though
the heavens fall. If you ask Huckleber
ry himself how he become lame, his in
variable answer is, “got hurted in de
war.” Now I ask if this is not conclu
sive ? I could give many faots, going
to establish Richmond’s claims to Gu
bernatorial honors in the person and
merits of her distinguished citizen,
Huckleberry H. Sniffles, but I am sat
isfied in the simple fact that old Rich
mond is now on a footing with her sister
counties, and no longer sustains the dis
graceful attitude of haviDg no candidate
of her own. If Gen. Colquitt, after
throe years in packing a oonvention,
should fail of a two thirds vote, and my
friend Huckleberry should be chosen as
a comprilmise, I shall regard the pre
aeuta’ion of his name as the proudest
aet of my life, Richmond.
GEORGIA POLITICS.
A Review of the Gubernatorial panvara.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinet :
'Greensboro, Ga , July 19, 1876
Our oonuty held a meeting on the 15th
iust. to elect delegates to the Guber
natorial Convention, at which the State
(Jbmmissioner of Agriculture, who is a
zealous Colquitt man, was present, and
took occasion daring the day to say
that, the opposition to General Colquitt
“was a war upon the Grangers ” Now,
I kayo nothing to say against his sup
porting tfre man of his choice; this is
the right of every freeman, but to mis
represent the true issue is an outrage
upon the rights of a free people, and a
secret thrust at tbe mofiyes of a body
of pure, intelligent patriots who dare
prefer another. If the Grange, A 8 B Uch,
has any thing to do with the selection
of a candidate for Governor, I have
misunderstood its whole object. Asa
body of agriculturists they have the right
to organize an association secret or otlier
wise, for the promotion of tfre farming in
terest, and no ne can dispute ffreir
right to have a secret word,
sign an i token by which to know a
brother in the dark as well as in tbe
light; bnt if, ** a secret order, it has
been resolved into a political organiza
tion the sooner it is denounced and sup
pressed the better for tfre frfrerties of
ou country and tbe peace eufr pros
perity of our people; because secret po
litical orders have always proved the
greatest curse of all good governmentß
- are a blotch upon humanity and a
sub verier of liberty. I am a Granger,
believing it designed, by association and
an interchange of ideas, to promote our
farming interest; aafr pyery man and
everv business is directly interested in
the success of the agriculturist; bat, fry
the everlasting boys ! wfrsoeyer it per
mits itself to be turned into a political
machine by a parcel of designing dema
gogues, whose object is to use it for rid
ing into office and fixing up easy, fat
places for a Patch of bankrupt parasites
or mere theoretical fantasties, let us
choke it to death on green pumpkins,
for truly it will have departed from tlie
faith and become a reprobate.
Opposition to Gen. Colquitt'! -”A
war upon Grangers 1" “Ooh, me dar
liu’!” when and where 4td FPU make
this discovery ? Did Gen. Colquitt fell
you eo ? Did his friends say it ? Did
the Grauge produce it ? Be careful ;we
might “swap the devil for a witch j”
for aught I know, Judge Reese, ex Gov.
Johnaou, aud all the .other aspirants are
Grangers. No objection has been urged
against Gen .Colquitt for being a Gran
ger nor has anything been said against
auy of the others because they are not.
It ie a Ju-lie (July) fly, just hatched,
with a fresh song—a wicked, unfounded
assumption, deserving the condemnation
of every honest mau in the Grange *ad
out of it-. .
Should Gen. Colquitt be nominated
he will receive the cheerful support of
the whole Democratic party, Grange or
no Grauge. We are proud of his mili
tary record, and applaud him aa our no
ble fel ow-citizeu of Georgia, and hope,
if elected, that he will assume the office
unpledged, untrammeled, and free,
wisely to dispense public patronage to
the interest of all our people; but do
not crowd him in the sacrifice of
truth aud the good name of others ; and
God forbid that the Democratic party
should ever foist any man upon our
grand old Commonwealth as Governor
through “ bargain and intrigue.”
How greatly troubled some have been
to find objections to ex-Goveruor John
son, who are not even worthy to untie
his shoestring; he is too old; opposed
to sending white convicts to the chain
gang; too poor; does not want it; was a
Douglas man. In all these charges we
still “find no fault in this man. Alas I
that their extremity should drive them
to the falsehood of “a war upon Gran
gers.” If I understand it the friends of
ex-Goveruor Johnson propose in no way
to make war upon any man, but they
prefer him because of his sage experi
ence, his stern virtue, his sterling worth
and unsurpassed statesmanship, and as
Governor of Georgia be would enter
upon its duties uncorrupted, itworrupti
ble and unterrified, adding new lustre
and dignity to the office. Such a man
we need lor the incoming four years.
In saying all this we detract from the
merits of no man. A Gbasozh.
NEWS AND TIBWB FROM THE
line of the STATE ROAD.
[Special Correspondence ChromcUsnd SonwAJ
Cabtzbsville, July 24, 1876 -Your
traveling correspondent has just re
turned from a visit of four days to the
towns of Statesboro, Rock mart and
Cedar town. The twp last places are in
Polk county. Cedartown is quite
pretty place, with two weekly papers,
two churches and a good school. While
there I had the pleasure of meeting
with an old friend, Senator Jas. A.
Blanco, also Judge Sparks. Both are
warm friends of the Chronicle and
Sentinel, as are many others I met in
Cedartown. I hear qnite a number
spoken of np beie for tbe Legislature.
First from all that l can learn, Thomas
J. Lyon will be the man. Mr. Lyon ia
much of a gentleman and a true man.
Bartow will elect him I am sure.
I then visited Rockmart, on the Euhar
lec. Rockmart is the terminus of the
Cherokee Railroad. There is a pleasant
class of people in the little village, and
i first class hotel. I find that in the
Gubernatorial contest in Polk all of the
most solid men are for Hon. H. V
Johnson. This is also the case in Chat
tooga county, which held a meeting on
tbe 15tb, at which Colquitt delegates
were appointed, bnt owing to the great
dissatisfaction created thereby the conn
ty will hold another meeting on Satur
day next, tbe 29sb, when Johnson dele
gates will be appointed. Haralson’s
delegates are instructed for Underwood,
bat are for H. V, Johnson. The great
majority of tbe people of Bartow will go
for Johnson next Saturday. I under
stand that Gilmer will 20 for Johnson,
and probably Union and Pickens. Such
is mv information. Cartersville will
send Johnson delegates. The people of
Bartow will turn oat on next Saturday,
29th, and will add fonr delegates to the
Johnson list, which is small according to
some papers, but I have had Colquitt
men to come to me, as well as Johnson
men, to know how both stand, for some
papers have made gross falshoods
about Colquitt’s great numbers. They
say they do not believe any of them, so
they turn to the Chronicle and Senti
nel for something reliable. This side
of Atlanta since I have been up on the
State Railroad I have sent in one bun
dred and twenty-five subscribers for the
daily, tri-weekly and weekly. I send
you a list of forty subscribers got at
Stilesboro, Rockmart and Cedartown;
will be able to send you a uew list from
Cartersvi le next week. Superior Court
is in session here now and has been for
three weeks, Judge McCutcben presid
ing. Solicitor-General Haggett is on
hand attending to business with great
skill and ability. Carte sville is the
most flourishing place on the State Rail
road, with a population of 3,000. There
are about oue hundred business houses,
ah iron foundry, machine shops and
steam mills, also a first class weekly
paper; editor and proprietor, 0. H. C.
Willingham, who is a fearless and inde
pendent writer. Long may the Carters
ville Express live and receive a good
support, aa it deserves it. Cartersville
can boast of her good hotels. The
Pecks House, B. F. Colling, proprietor,
is first class in every way; Judge Mc-
Cutchen makes it his headquarters, as
do also the visiting bar. There is great
talk on the Gubernatorial question up
here in the mouutains of Georgia. I
have yet to hear the first man say aught
against H. V. Johnson. Bartow is
about solid for Johnson, with all the
misrepresentations made through other
papers. G. W. N.
THE SPIRIT IN EDGEFIELD.
“Straight-Out” Opinions Strongly Priralent
—The County Convention and Its Nomina
tions—Resolutions Abont the Hamburg Af
fair.
[Correspondence of the Neu>s and Courier. \
Edgefield, C. H , July 19.—The first
County Nominating Convention in the
State was held here to-day, and con
sumed from 12, m., until 10 at night in
its deliberations and business.
At 8 o’clock this morning the people
from the Country had commenced to
flock in, and at 12 the meeting was called
to order in the court room, which was
crowd and to excess, with Gen. M. W.
Gary as Chairman, and Messrs. J. R.
Abney and James T. Bacon as Secreta
ries. The convention was opened with
prayer from Rev. G. F. Round, and was
then organized, about one hundred and
twenty-three delegates, representing
about"thirty clubs, taking their seats on
the floor. The various offices to be filled
were then stated by the Chair, and
although there was comparatively little
speaking, owing to the adoption of a
three minute rule, still the requirement
that no person could be nominated un
less he received a majority of the votes
cast occasioned a great loss of time, and
a frequent repetition of the ballotings
where there were several candidates.
Gen. M. C. Butler rose to make the first
nomination, and he spoke for some time
urging unanimity upon the meeting
Never before was there an occasion when
it was so necessary to present a solid,
nnbroken front to our common enemy.
There were many watching us now, and
hoping for a division in our ranks upon
which they oould prosper and rule. He
pressed Gen. M. W. Gary as a nominee
for the State Senate from Edgefield,
eulogising him in almost unqualified
terms as possessing all the requisites for
that important position, and as one who
would represent the county with fidelity,
intelligence and honesty. An enthu
siastic admirer followed in a still broad
er strain of panegyric and seoonded the
nomination, assuring the meeting that
Gen. Gary would carry South Carolina
with not one blot on,ber escutcheon, or
perish in the effort with his people. Ex-
Gov. M. L. Bonham was also nominated,
but his name was withdrawn, upon the
assurance that he was both unwilling to
run and under political disabilities.
General Gary was unanimously nomi
nated amidst a gr at deal of cheering.
G. D. Tillman, Esq , urged upon the
delegates to throw aside all personal
prejudices and to forget all jealousies
aud bickering in the Convention. The
spirit that should guide the people in
their del berations should be that of
Arisfides, who shook hands with his
energy ’jPhemistocles at the battle of Sa
lapiis, saying: “For the sake of our
country fet us shake frauds until this
battle is over J aifr willing fop to-day
to put myself under you aud figfrt as
your subordinate.” With such a spirit
in our midst, he said, we will not only
redeem Edgefield in November, but go a
long yay towards redeeming the State.
The ioltQwjpg a list of all the nomi
nations made: For Senatpp, Gen. M. W.
Gary; for House of Representatives, W-
S Allen, J. C. Sheppard, Jas. Callisop,
Dr. T. E. Jennings and Dr. H. A. Shaw;
for Sheriff, J. H. Gaston; for Probate
Judge, L. Charlton; for Clerk of Court,
n. f. jQheatham ; for County Commis
sioners, presto” Blackwell -—,
:—• for Coroner, A. Broadwater;
for School Commissioner, ’fbomas Mor
gan; for ftelegaies to State democratic
ConventioMf. Q. Butler, G. ft. Till
man, M. W. Gary, J. ft. Abpey, O.
Sheppard, P. Blackwell ; Alternates, M.
L. Bonham, James T. Bacon, N. W.
Brooker, J. H. Brooks, L. W. Young
friood, Thos. Jones.
resolutjon was adopted recommend
ing the State Copyention to urge the
of G. ft- Tillman as 9 candidate to
Congress far this district, and of • ft-
Abney, s young upfr distinguished mem
ber of this bar, for the position of Soli
citor of the Circuit.
Towards the close of the meeting Mr.
J. C. Sheppard rose and presented a
sarieg of resolutions prepared by Gen.
Gary and himself. They had exclusive
reference to the tyaiphnrg disturbance,
and recited that persisted and malig
nar,f attempts to create a bad feejiug
against oftp citizens had been made, and
the causes of fii/i outbreak should be
distinctly unaeratqqijl. ftig recent affair
had resulted from the aiming ajui equip
ping of disorderly negroes, apfl r the 1
State government is to blame for this,
and also for the inefficiency of the negro
officers commissioned there to preserve
the peace. They charged S. J. Lee and
Henry Spwajck, of Aiken, and Lewis
Schiller with having instigated the
whole affair for party purposes; stated
that t,he recent diabolical murder pi the
Ha-mons b#ij given rise to apprehension
iu the whites so 4 placed them in an
attitude of defense, and jg conclusion
expressed readiness to submit the cause
of those who took part in the occur
fence to any fair pledged
the people to supporjt thee; through all
the chaanels of the law, ludiyidnally
and collectively. They deplored ib.e
death of young Merriwether, and exten
ded the condolence of Edgefield to the
afflicted family.
Some little opposition was developed
to the resolutions, but Gens. Butler
and Gary and the movers of them came
to their support and they were adopted
unanimously. Gen. Butler urged them,
he said, because oar own papers have
deliberately falsified the occurrences.
The accounts given were a malignant
lie and a deliberate lampoon Jupon the
people of Edgefield, and the objects of
the resolutions were only to sustain the
cause of the whites, and giye thein but
justice. He wasfollowed by Geo, Gary,
who spoke in the same strain. The af
fair haa beea terribly magnified over
the country. It was mot the result
rashness of the people of Edgefield
county, bt Lee;, Sparmok and Rehjller
were wholly responsible for it The
papers have tended to saddle upon one
of the most distinguished sooa fif South
Carolina the brunt of the whole affair.
The language of both speakers, smart
ing aa they naturally were at the reflec
tions which, hoyever justly, fell upon
themselves and the county on an ex
parte view of the matter, were very
strong and denunciatory in the extreme
towards the News and Courier and the
Auguste CpaomcLS asd SKsnsKL.
There is to be a mass meeting here on
the first Monday of August, which Gen.
Wade Hampton has consented to od
dness, F-
Grasshoppers era praying exceeding
ly troublesome to the cottop prop in the
neighborhood of Colombo*,
THE WAR IN THE WEST.
LATEST FROM THE FRONT.
Nunw Escape of a C-omrter Gen Croak’s
Intention*.
Cheyenne, June 23.—The courier who
left Goose Creek on the evening of the
16th instant, arrived at Fort Fetterman to
night. His delay was caused by having
met at Powder river a body of two hun
dred Indians, from whom he escaped,
hiding himself in the timber for twenty
four hoars. One Indian followed his
trail nine miles. He says they were evi
dently waiting for him, and he fears that
the couriers who left Fort Fetter
man on the 16 instant with dispatches
for Crook, were intercepted, as he saw
their trail this side of the river, but not
beyond. His delay ran him out of rations,
compelling him to fast two days. He
lert all quiet in camp. The hostile
Sioux are believed to be north of Goose
creek forty miles, and not far from the
scene of the massacre on Little Big
Horn river. They have not fired into camp
nor attempted to barn it oat, although
the parched condition of the grass ren
di-rs this somewhat easy. At least the
animals may be robbed of their susten
ance. The wagon train gives them a
supply until October. The command
marched seven miles north, on the day
of the courier’s departure, to another
branch of Tongue river, near the foot of
Big Horn Mountains, where they will
camp until the Fifth Cavalry, which
leaves Fort Laramie on Monday next,
reaches it, abont tbe sth of August.
Gen. Crook will make no aggressive
movement until this event, when if the
couriers whom he has dispatched to Gen.
Terry, advising him to join him, succeed
in reaching that command, he will have
made a junction with Terry, aud the
next action will prove a decisive one.
There is nothing that has not already
been reported pertaining to General
Merritt’s late engagement with the
Cheyennes. The Indian killed by Buffa
lo Bill was named Yellow Hand, a young
chief. The agent at Red Cloud admits
that to this date 1,000 Sioux and 1,200
Cheyennes have left that agenoy for the
north, though all is quiet there now,
and it is believed no more will go.
The stage to-night brought in SIO,OOO
in dust from Dead Wood. Gardner, a
reliable man, who had spent five weeks
in traversing that region intent on satis
fying himself of its richness, reports
marvelous discoveries being made, and
that fully a million of dollars awaits
safe transportation. He saw in posses
sion of Mr. Beary, of this city one nug
get weighing $147, and a number rang
ing from $5 to sls. He also brings
seven hundred pounds of sample quartz
for smelting.
Washington, July 24.—The following
dispatches were received last night :
Chicago, July 23 — To Gen. W. T.
Sherman : The following dispatch from
Gen. Crook is transmitted for your in
formation. Gen. Merritt will reach
Gen. Crook’s camp on August Ist, with
ten companies of cavalry, instead of
eight as first contemplated. Gen. Ter
ry has moved his depot from the north
of Powder river to Big Horn, or Rose
bud, and has notified me of his inten
tion to form a junction with Crook.
[Signed] P. H. Sheridan,
Lieutenant-General.
Headquarters Big Horn and Yel
lowstone Expedition, Camp on Goose
Creek, Wyoming, July 16. —General
Sheridan, Chicago : I send in courier
to-day to carry in duplicates of my dis
patches to Gen. Merritt forfear the origi
nals may not have reached their destina
tion. I send a courier to Gen. Terry,
to-night, to inform him that I will co
operate with him and where to find me,
also giving him what information I have
in regard to the Indians. My intention
is to move out after the hostile Indians
as soon as Merritt gets here with the
sth, and shall not probably send in any
other courier unless something special
should occur requiring me to do so. I
am getting anxious about Merritt’s abil
ity to reach me soon, as the grass is get
ting very dry and the Indians are liable
to burn it at any time.
[Signed] Geo. Crook,
Brigadier General.
REINFORCEMENTS TO THE
FRONT.
General Merritt on the March—Crook to As
sume the Offensive at Once—Superior Num
bers of Sitting Bull’s Sioux.
New York, July 26—A special to the
Tribune from Fori, Fetterman, Wyom
ing, says that General Merritt’s column
of tbe Fifth Cavalry leaves there to-mor
row to join General Crook. It consists
of ten companies of cavalry and abont
100 recruits for infantry companies now
wit b General Crook. It will reach the
main command about the 2d of August.
General Crook will then have twenty
five companies of cavalry and ten com
panies of infantry, with 200 Snake In
dians. With thie force active opera
tions will be immediately begun against
Sitting Bull’s forces, but the command
will even then be much smaller in num
ber than the Indians against whom it
will contend, any co-operation from
General Terry’s troops will hardly be
practicable before another engagement
is had, as the Indians are encamped
very near General Crook, and are evi
dently preparing for the struggle. The
building of posts at the mouth of Ton
gue and Big Horn rivers will begin at
once under the protection of General
Terry’s forces. It is probable the cam
paign against the Indians will be con
ducted entirely by General Crook under
the direction of General Sheridan.
Chicago, July 26.—General McKenzie,
with six oompanie a , has been or.dered
from the Indian Territory to Red Cloud
to take the place of General Merrit’,
who joins Crook with the Fifth Cavalry.
Providence, July 26—Orders have
been received at Fort Adams to forward
four companies of the First Artillery to
the West forthwith.
A Graphic Account of the Fight—. What n
Crow Indian Says—Some Yarns aud Some
Truth.
New YO3K, July 26.—The Herald has
a communication from Bismark dated
July 12th, from an officer high in com
mand of the forces operating against the
Indians. The Crow Indian, Curly, is
believed to be the only survivor of the
250 men who went into the action with
Custer. He is very clear in his knowl
edge of the frght and has made a state
ment. JJe went frown with two or three
Crows, and went into the action with
Custer. The General, he says, kept frown
the river on the north bank four miles,
after Reno had crossed on south side
above. Custer’s object was to out off the
Indians. He thought Reno would drive
down the valley at the same time and
attack the village on both sides. He be
lieved Reno would take it at the upper
end, wfrilp -he (Gnster) would go in at
tfrp Iqwef epd. Custer frad to go further
down tfre fiyejr, anfr fofthej.’ Wff from
Reno than he wished, on account of the
steep bank on the north side, but at last
he found a ford and dashed for it. The
Indians met him and poured a heavy
fire from across the narrow river. Cus
ter dismounted to fight on foot, but
Could BO? get his skirmishers over the
stream. Ifreantime hundreds of Indians
on foot and on ponies poured over the
river, wticV WC 8 opjy 1 three feet
deep, and filled the'rayifres on efrpfr sjde
of Caster’s men. Custer then fell back
to some hilly ground beyond, and siez
ed the ravines in his immediate vicinity.
The Indians completely surrounded
(jqsjjir, and poured in a terrible fire on
all sides!' shey charged Custer on foot
in vast nuthbers;'biit yetf again and
again driven back.' The flglft begun
"boat 2 o’clock, and lasted almost
until ihu sun went down over the hills.
The men fStfghj 'desperately, and after
the ammunition in their belts was ex
hausted went to (heir sitdijle bags, got
more end continued the fight." Curly
says more Indians were killed than Ous
ter had men. He also' says the pig
Chief (Ouster) lived until nearly all his
men had beea killed or wounded and
went about encouraging his soldiers to
fight on. He got a shot in the left side
and sat down with hi? pistol in his
hand. Another Rhot strnok Gqstpr in
Um breast and he fell over. The last
officer killed was a man who rode a
white horse, beiinyed to be Cook, Adju
tunt of tlie Seventh, gs Lieutenants
Cook and Calhoun were the officers
, who whit6 horses, and Lieutenant
Calhoun was found dead on thfe skirmish
line near the ford, and probably fell
early in the action. Curly Bays when
he saw Custer he was hopelessly snr
rounded. He watched his opportunity
to get a Sionf blanket, put it on and
went iDto a ravine and ®£en the
Sioux charged he got among them
and they ’ did not know him
from one of their own cue*. There were
some mounted Sioux, and seeing ope
fall, Gariy pan to him, mounted nis
ponv, and galloped flown as if going to
ward the white men, bat went up a
ravine and got away. He says as be
roflp off he saw, when nearly a mile from
the batcis field, a dozen or more soldiers
in a ravine figuring with the Sioux all
around them. He think* were killed,
£s they were outnumbered ‘five ic fine,
and (apparently dismounted. These men <
were ho doafe* £ Dart of the thirty-five
missing men reported ip *he official dis
patches of General Terry, parly
says he *aw ope cavalry soldier who pad
got away. He wag well mounted, bat
shot through both hips, and parly
thinks he died of his wounds, starved to
death in the bad lands, or more likely
hie tr?il was followed, and he was killed
by theSioaf. Curly did not leave Cns
ter until the battle wag pearly over, and
he describes if as desperate in t) }g ex
treme. He is quite sure the Indians
had 3gore killed than Caster had white
men with him, and says the soldiers
fought until the last man fell. The
other Crow Indiana in the battle were
killed.
THE KINGDOM OF MISRULE.
THE BANK ROBBERIES OF SOUTH
CAROLINA’S OFFICIALS.
The Pretended Reform of Governor cham
berlain—Affiliation Wtah Farmer Comrades
—The Cane or the Republican Printing
Company—Also, the Emigration Report
Swindle.
[Ac York Hun.]
Columbia, 8. 0., July 16.—The politi
cal situation in this State at the present
writing is peculiar. For the past eight
years the Republican party has had
everything its own way. There is no
necessity to inform the readers of the
Sun that those eight years have wit
nessed a reign of misrule, the parallel to
which cannot be found in any State in
the Union. When Gov. Chamberlain
came into power the State had an in
debtedness of nearly $15,000,000, at
least half of which represented the rob
beries committed by her officials. En
terprise of every character had been
stricken as with a palsy. The very
name of South Carolina was a synonym
for political and financial corruption.
But there was great promise for the fu
ture. It was known that Gov. Cham
berlain, upon whom the people relied for
reform, had been as corrupt as any of
the faithless officials who had brought
destruction upon our borders; but he
made such flattering promises, and
bound himself by so many solemn
pledges, that there was some hope for
him. It was understood that he bad
made a fortune ont of the State, which
he had nicely and securely invested, and
it only remained essential to his happi
ness that he should make a record for
respectability equally satisfactory, and
as this seemed to be his object, he was
trusted and believed.
It is needless to say he was trusted,
to the sorrow of all who had, and have,
the welfare of the State at heart. He
has proved himself a delusion aud a
sham. His war cry of reform has been
a pretext, the hollowness and hypocrisy
of which are at length becoming evident
even to those who have trusted him most
and believed in him unwaveringly. Per
sonally, he is cold and cynical in dispo
sition, with some natural shrewdness.
But he is immensely egotistic. Even to
his personal friends he never betrays
the slightest symptom of warmth, but
seems to regard them all as objects of
suspicion. His most trusted compan
ion.-. and advisers are Jim Thompson,
his editor and stool pigeon, to whom is
delegated the conduct of his organ, the
Columbia Herald, aud Treasurer Car
dozo, whom he is said to hate worse
than a rattlesnake, but whose hand is so
heavy upon him that he cannot shake
him off, or rather dare not. Then there
are Colonel Low, one of the Bonanza
Commissioners, and Tim Hurley, the
Treasurer of Charleston. Apart from
tuese, it is known that he ever converses
or associates with any living soul except
in the most formal aud stately manner.
He never goes into society, and is never
seen except at his office. That he has
admirers there cannot be any doubt; but
he is constantly disappointing them.—
He has been tolerated only and solely
because he represented an idea—a senti
ment—namely, that of Reform. From
his administration more than from any
other the correction of abuses has been
looked for. He has said and done some
things which have awakened the hostili
ty of the thieves and robbers who elect
ed and afterward opposed him. He has
fought them for the cast year in regard
to robberies iu which he was n6t per
sonally interested, and won much praise
therefor. But now it appears that, after
all his display of virtue, the hypocrite
and demagogue were there still behind
the specious mask.
In short, Chamberlain has fought his
former associates, simply to make a lit
tle capital for himself. He has made
them fear him. He wants to go to the
United States Senate. He don’t like
South Carolina or its atmosphere. He
is as ambitious as he is unscrupulous,
aad all his preteuded reform has had for
its objective point the Senatorship. He
is likely to secure it. The party leaders,
who have been North, are gradually
coming home, and with each returning
oracle comes rumors of secret combina
tions formed at New York, Philadelphia
and elsewhere, Recently Judge R. B,
Carpeiiter arrived, and I trace almost
direotly to him a report that there is in
very truth a settlement of all differ
ences. Gov. Chamberlain is going to be
nominated again, with Carpenter for
Lieutenant-Governor. Next Winter
Gov. Chamberlain will be made Senator,
and Carpenter will be Governor, unless
the straight Democracy carry the State.
This will secure the recognition of the
conversion bonds and Blue Ridge scrip,
of which so much has been written, and
in which Senator Patterson, who is the
great Mephistopheles of the occasion, is
largely interested. Let them deny it as
much as they like, time will ‘how that
this is the case. Gov. Chamberlain will
get the credit of having the best of the
bargain, and once seated at Washington,
precious little will it trouble him to
know that he has been the means of
turning the State over again to the
thieves with whom he formerly con
sorted. ;
I confess that I was reluctant to be
lieve these stories, for I have been of
those who hoped that the “Reform Gov
ernor,” as he nas been termed, was sin
cere in his professions, notwithstanding
his past record. Bat I am fast losing
faith in him, and I verily believe it to be
the duty of every law-abiding*citizen of
this State to prevent the accomplishment
of bis villainous schemes.
Very few people have any adequate
idea of the bold oharaeter of the rob
beries which have been oommitted by
the party now in power in South Caro
lina. Few readers of the Sun have any
thing more than a general, indefinite
idea of the extent and character of these
swindling operations. For instance,
there is the case of the Republican
Printing Company. Certainly, outside
of the parties who have participated in
the plunder which has come into the
coffers of this company, I doubt if there
are a dozen persons in this State who
are cognizant of the whole extent and
nature of the wholesale robbery which
has been perpetrated. Your correspon
dent happens to be one of these, and for
the information of this poor-ridden com
munity he proposes to expose it. Small
wonder is it that the State has to repu
diate its obligations, and postpone the
day of payment of even the interest of
its acknowledged indebtedness, or be
obliged to withhold payments of Ifre
paltry salaries of its public servants,
when the Treasury is robbed of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars at one
steal.
This Republican Printing Company,
which was originally set in operation
with a view to securing the contracts
for printing the legislative and other
public documents, was and is composed
of two or three' infriyiduah! who hold
prominent offices in the State. What I
shall have to say oan be substantiated,
and not one of the guilty ones will dare
deny my statements. I wish to call at
tention to what was termed the “Emi
gration Report” swindle. To print and
publish; this report, a bill was carried
through the Legislature in 1873, by
which an appropriation was made of
&J3fi,QOA, Qt course, to get so large a
sum as this’, it was neepssayy to expend
a great deal. I have before me a little
statement, a sworn copy of the entries
in the books of the concern, showing
that to expedite and facilitate the pass
age of this bill, and the payment of the
money, the enormous sum of $150,000
was paid to Senators, Representatives,
and other Stale officers. Eyen the judi
ciary was provided for, by’ reason of an
ticipated legal proceedings to enjoin the
payment of this sum. Many of the
Senators received as high as $5,000
each, some $7,50Q, and Others all the
way down to sl,#). Twenty-fquf Sen
ators grace tft>o rp}l of honor. Jn the
House the pavments were lower. Sums
ranging from $7,500 down to the paltry
figure of $25 were found. E'ghty-four
representatives in all were thus taken
care of. Outside of the Legislature,
oup official received $1.00t), another
$10,504"50, and another 917.866. All of
these amounts were paid between De
cember 6 and December 16, 1873, over
the counter of the company, in nice
crisp certificates, to the individuals in
perflen. that the appropriation made
by the Legislature for prititing this re
port—nflmety, §235.600— only SBO,OOO
was left—for what ?To print the re
port? Bless you, no; bnt to divide
among the two or three owners of the
concern, for the report w s never print
ed. N( ris this ail. An appropriation
additional ie this was insisted on the
Little Bonanza Bill, at thjj last ppySlOD,
and, I believe, has been paid, and still
the work js not done. = *
Js if not high time that the people of
the State were awakened to thpgie faeta ?
LETTER VfIOJI CfttPllflW.
ScratchtoatUm or Coalltloo—Waitinc—Pre.
paring for the Fray—Some Old Cry—Sow
ins the Wind—Chamberlain nt Home.
(Qm Columbia Correspondence ]
Columbia, Jaly 22 — Ever since the
assembling of the Democratic State
Convention, the question has been agi
tating thp rninfls of tfie Democracy aa
to whether the aPßFWhihg eampaign
shonlfi be prosecuted upon a strictly
Demoeratie ’ line, or whether by a sys
tem of fusion with Radicalism we should
unite and elect to office the beat man of
that party. An almost insurmountable
difficulty, however, presents itself In the
fact that the material from which a
choice is to be made is corrupt in the
extreme; and were the coalition plan
operated successfully, it is yery doubt
ful whether the State government would
be purified, administrative reform oar-
ried into effect, or aDy degree of advance
ment secured. Chamberlain promised
these when he was seeking the 'guberna
torial chair; and it may be fair to admit
that he has partly maintained his pro
fessions- It is true that in any move
for the public good he has been com
pelled to buffet the most corrupt, proty
gate and unscrupulous political wave
that has ever lashed with fury the shores
of an American State; for his opponents
within his party embrace the most aban
doned and worthless demagogues that
ever defiled a party or disgraced legis
lative halls. But it is clear that he has
not exeroised the full weight of his in
fluence in order to check the onward
march of corruption and restore good
government. And why ? Because
HU Re-Election
Is now, and has been for a length of
time, dear to his heart, and is looked
forward to as a stepping-stone in the at
tainment of the goal of his ambition,
which is a position beyond the gift of
the Democratic or Conservative ele
ment. He could not, as Governor,
throw himself entirely into the breach
and press forward with determined en
ergy, for the reason that he has had to
conciliate a portion of his party, in or
der to secure the prospect of a position
at the bead of the State government for
the next two years. He has been exert
ing his powers of eloquence throughout
the State to harmonize the discordant
elements, and has been speechifying
from the mountain to the seaboard. So
far, his efforts have met with success,
and some of the extreme members of the
Radical party, who were formerly op
posed to him and his policy, have been
completely won over and are regarding
his shadow with admiration. Thus it
will be observed that Chamberlain is
paving the way.
But there comes a voioe on the breeze
which declares that the party leaders
are determined to throw Chamberlain
overboard and place in power a more
willing tool. Prominent among these
dissatisfied leaders are Elliott (black),
Patterson (commonly termed “Honest
John,” because it is his nature to pilfer,
and who now holds a seat in Congress
through bribery), and Judge Carpenter
(who was a determined reformer when
the whites were foolish enough to place
him in the front rank as their candidate
for Governor). It has been regarded as
certain for some time that they would
put
Another Caudidute in the Field.
As they are the recognized leaders of
the corruptionists, and as the rank and
file of the party are inclined to support
men of their stamp, it would be difficult
for Chamberlain to overcome this op
position without procuring a balance of
power from the Democrats. This fact
brings us to a consideration of the
Coalition movement.
What has been stated will explain
what the fusiou plan is intended to ac
complish. Boiled down, it means that
the only hope of the Democracy is the
election of Chamberlain, whioh may be
considered rather a contradictory con
clusion in view of the iact that he is a
pronounced, emphatic, dyed-in-the-wool
Republican. No one here oan or does
regard him as anything else. It is con
tended, however, that he is the best
available man of his party, whose elec
tion wqtild secure to the Democracy a
measure of justice. This may or may
not be true; but certain it is that his
friendship for or sympathy with the
,white people of this State is yet to be
proven when he declares that the dear
est object of his life is the success and
maintenace of Republican principles,
which are beyond question inimical to
the interests of our people.
Waiting far the Signal.
General James Conner, as Chairman
of the State Democratic Executive Com
mittee, has published a call for a Con
vention of the Democratic party, to be
held in this city on Tuesday, 15th Au
gust, for the purpose of announcing a
pletform of principles, and nominating
State officers and electors for President
and Vice-President. The number of
delegates apportioned among the coun
ties numbers 157. It is thought there
will be a large and influential represen
tation. Mighty issues are at stake. It
will require the collected wisdom of the
State to devise proper men and meas
ures for our relief. Not a sanguine
undertaking will be the effort on the
part of the Democracy to secure a por
tion of the colored vote, which is now
solidly cast on the side of Republi
canism. On this point more will be
mentioned hereafter.
I am informed that the
Valiant Member* of the Militia
Here are having mighty drills at their
respective halls. This strikes me as
unnecessary, as it does not require a
knowledge of military tactics to push
pell-mell into a brick house or to*seek
the cellar either. This conduct in hav
ing private drills is quite in contrast to
that exhibited by them a few years ago
when they at night continuously para
ded our principal thoroughfares, caus
ing unnecessary alarm on the part of
timid persons. That was before the era
of rifle clubs, with their pacifying in
fluences.
The Resolutions
\dopted at the Hayes and Wheeler
ratification meeting the other night, to
which I referred, were in accord with
those usually presented on such occa
sions; but one of them was irrelevant to
the object which oalled them together,
referring solely to the Hamburg affair. I
prophesy that every irresponsible Radi
cal meeting which shall be held during the
next three months will blate on the
same subject, no matter what may be
the occasion of their assembling.
The Laurens Murders.
Several murders have recently oc
curred in Laurens county, in this State,
in some cases the perpetrators not being
discovered. To my mind, there is no
doubt that these murders are committed
by hirelings of the Radical party for po
litical effect. It must be remembered
that Laurens has been represented in
the Legislature entirely by Radicals ;
that a strenuous effort is now being put
forth by the Democracy to defeat them,
with some hope of success ; that it has
ever since reconstruction beep regarded
a “rebellious” section, because it would
not complacently tolerate the presence
and domination of Joe Crews and others
of that elk, and that disturbances there
now will advance the interets of Radi
calism immensely. Not long since the
local paper advised the white people to
be moderate and forbearing, having in
view the influence any disturbance
would have on the political situation
throughout the State. But the Radicals
are determined to carry the county by
fair means or foul, and are playing a
deep game to accomplish their purpose,
as they always do. Only the other day
a farmer, a white man, was fired upon
by parties in ambush and killed. Of
course, we will now have startling ac
counts of Ku Klux outrages in Laurens
and insecurity to the lives of Repub
licans. It is to be hoped the result of
next November’s work will put a stop to
all such tales.
Chamberlain
Has arrived. His return has been
looked forward to with more interest
than ever before. A few days will per
haps develop what he intends to do re
garding Hamburg,
Companies I and F,
Of the 18th Infantry, U. S. A., now sta
tioned here, will leave this afternoon at
7 o’clock, for Aiken. A dispatch was
receive# by Colonel Black, command
ing, ordering this move. This is Cham
berlain’s work. The num
bers seventy-two inen—-a foncp sufficient
ly large to take care o| the important
point of If.ambqr£. Palmetto.
SIAMESE eiAMfIEEUS.
People Who Stake their Wives and Children
and Even Themselves.
A correspondent of a foreign news
paper gives the following description of
Siamese gambling:
The Siamese are inveterate gamblers.
Gambling-houses in Siam are as plenti
ful as coffee-houses at Bagdad and Cairo,
orjts grog-shop in Calcutta and fiombay;
arid perhaps the largest portion of the
Government revenue is derived from
them- One single division of the fort
at Bangkok is farmed ont for 360,000
ticals, equivalent to about four and
three-quarters lakhs of rupees a year.
These gambling-houses are large sheds
erected in every directioh, and always
filled with men, women and childreq,
who squat aroniid in circles of teg or §
hevotipg fbemaefyeg fteqyV god
so hi to tfie demoralising propensity,
which they have neither tfie wiU nor the
ability to oyerpoipe. have a ser
vant who has perhaps served yon well
and faithful through the month. Yon
pay him bia wages, and be is at onoe off
to some gambling shed where, if he is
unlucky, be loses every fraction of his
money. Not till then does he return to
duty; and in some instances, by no
means rare, he does not return even
the?}.
Qnee taken poseesion of by the demon
of gambling, be is not content with lose
ing his money only; but if hg has a
familv he stakes bis wife and children
an# loses them also. Still he is not satis
fied, and very often he stakes his life
Ik id liberty. The man goes to a money
lender and borrows a certain amount, at
a ruinous rate of interest, on conditon
that if he is not able to repay him with
in a certain time he will work for bigg
until the debt, principal and interest,
has been Iqinidafed. A bond is exacted
to this effect, the borrower receives the
money, goes and gamhles with it in the
hope of winning back whgt he has pre-
viously lost, loses again, and becomes
the slave and bond-servant of his credi
tor, who hires him out and appropriates
half his wages in liquidation of the
debt incurred. This state of things con
tinues for years, and not unfrequently
the poor slave dies in his slavery, hay
ing over and over again paid his credi
tor the sum originally borrowed, but
yet hot free from his debt, which the ex
orbitant rate of interest has swelled out
to a most enormous sizfe. This is a most
cruel species of slavery, and the present
King of Siam, who calls himself an en
lightened prince, ought to devote him
self vigorously to its extirpation. Royal
interference is the more urgently called
for, as not only do adults gamble away
their own lives and liberties, but even
those of their children, who, on arriving
at an age when they are able to work,
find themselves enslaved to hard task
masters, who dispose of them as they
please.
GEORGIA POLITICS.
The Voice of Old Screven—Governor Henchel
To Johnson First Choice.
Sxlvania, Ga., July 22 —ln obedience
to a oall previously made the Democracy
of Screven county assembled at the
Court House in Sylvania, on tue 22d
instant, for the purpose of reorganizing
the party for the coming campaign and
selecting delegates to the Gubernatorial
Convention to be held ki Atlanta on the
2d of August next.
The meeting was called to order by
Col. J. L iwton Singellton, Chairman of
the Democratic Executive Committee
of the-county, and proceeded at once to
reorganize; whereupon Col. J. Lawton
Singellton was unanimously re elected
Chairman and W. L. Mathews, Jr., Sec
retary. It was then
Resolved, That a committee of twelve
be appointed by the Chairman as an Ex
ecutive Committee, to be composed of
at least one from each militia district,
and that the selection be reported at the
next meeting.
The selection of delegates being next
in order, it was Resolved, That the Chair
appoint six delegates to oast the vote of
the county, and that they be instructed
to cast the same for Governor Hersohel
V. Johnson as the first choice of Scriveu
for Governor, end for General A. H.
Colquitt as second choice.
Pending the vote on the resolution,
Colonel George R. Black addressed the
meeting in au eloquent and feeling man
ner, in which he warmly advocated the
cause and claims of General Colquitt.
He was followed by Judge E. B. Gross
in a few appropriate remarks in behalf
of Governor Johnson; and also by Hon.
John C. Dell in an able speech support
that illustrious old statesman and pure
patriot, whom Georgians love so well to
honor.
The Chairman then appointed as dele
gates the following named gentlemen,
to-wit: Colonel George R. Blaek, Cap
tain W. H. Lanier, Hon. John 0. Dell,
T. W. Oliver, Jr., V. H. Burns, W. R.
Mims. And as alternates, Dr. H. H.
Smith, W. L. Mathews, Jr., Captain
William M. Henderson, Dr. James A.
Mims, U. P. Wade, Dr. W. L. Mathews.
It was then resolved that the thanks
of the Democratic party of Screven
county be tendered to Col. J.. Lawton
Singellton* for the able and efficient
manner in which he has filled the posi
tion and performed the duries of Chair
man of the Democratic Executive Gom
mittee in the past, and that the pro
ceedings of the meeting be published in
the Morning News and the Chboniole
AND bENTINEL.
The meeting then adjourned subject
to the call of the Chairman. The ut
most harmony prevailed throughout the
deliberations. W. L. Mathews, Jb.,
Sec’y Dem. Ex. Com. Screven county.
A “HAMBURG HORROR * IN INDIANA.
The Oranse County Vigilant*—A Witness in
a Murder Cose Mobbed and Almost Killed-
Other Work of the Masked Marauders.
Louisville, Ky., July 24.—Two weeks
ago au armed mob broke into the jail
at Paoli, Orange county, Ind., and at
tempted to murder four prisoners,
named Jones and Jolliver, who were
charged with murder. The prisoners
had arms and drove the mob off. The
prisoners were sent to New Albany for
safe keeping. At Mitchell, Ind., Abe
Jones, a saloon keeper, was snspected
of having been hired to give testimony
that would break down the proseoution
of the sukpected murderers. Sunday
morning, at one o’clock, one hundred
masked and well armed horsemen en
tered Mitchell, Ind. They soon sur
rounded the saldon of Abe Jones, and
knocking at the door, demanded ad
mission. This was denied. The vigi
lants commenced the demolition of the
saloon bnildiDg. They were determin
ed and energetic men, and it was not
long before the building was a wreck.
Jones, finding that be oould not pre
vent the entrance of the mob into his
house, attempted to escape by the back
way, but tbe effort failed. The vigi
lants were determined that Jones should
die, and as soon as he appeared at the
back door a dozen shots were fired at
him, one penetrating through the langs,
inflicting what is believed to be a fatal
wound. Jones fell to the ground, and
not moving or showiog any signs of
life, the vigilants, supposed him killed,
mounted their horses and gallopped out
of town. This morning, however, Jones
was still alive, and he will doubtless be
added to the long list of those who
have preceded him to death through
the agency of tbh Orange oonnty vigi
lants.
RATIFICATION AT BLACKVILLE.
A Grand Turnout—Tilden and Hendricks
Heartily Endorsed.
[Special Dispatch to the News and Courier.]
Blaokville, S. C., July 24.—There
was a grand Tilden and Hendricks rati
fication meeting here to-day. The at
tendance was large and the enthusiasm
unbounded. Stirring speeches were
made, fixing the responsibility for all
our oppression upon the Republican
party, and endorsing the nominees and
platform of the Rational Democratic
party. •
The following resolution, presented by
L. T. Izlar, was unanimously
adopted ’ We, theDemooraoy of Black
ville Township, pledge ourselves to use
every honest and legitimate means in
our power to accomplish the election of
Tilden and Hendricks to the Presidency
and Vice-Presidency of the United
States, and thus secure peaoe, prosperity
and happiness to our whole country.
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factor of fire human family.
WM. P. CORBIT,
Chairman of the Methodist Church Exten
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N. Y. Only 50 cents and $1 a bottle.
J. H. ALEXANDER.
Jyl-dAwlm Agent.
Tie Georgia Colton Gin,
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BRICES OIT* GINS :
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Old Gins repaired iu the best stylo and at
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Or Messrs. BOTH WELL BROS.. Agents.
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