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Chronicle and grottwel.
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 20,_187-
Walton county instructs her repre
sentative in the Legislature to vote for
calling a Constitutional Convention.
The Oglethorpe Ecfto complains, and
with some reason, that the fare from
Athena to Atlanta vih the Georgia Rail
road is 85 30, while from Crawford
(sixteen miles this side of Athens), the
fare is 86 25.
Secretary R. besom has also been
alarmed by the yellow fever in Savan
nah, and the great naval review at Port
Royal will not take place. Hampton
Roads will be the place of rendezvous
instead of Hilton Head.
It is not generally known that Tweed
has served out his term of imprison
ment, bat this is the case. At the time
of his escape he was detained in jail
because he could not give bond in a civil
suit for 83,000,000 brought against him
by the city of New York.
We are glad to learn that General
Gordon has taken the stump in South
Carolina for Tildbn and H ampton. He
spoke in Spartanburg last Saturday with
General Hampton and Colonel Rion to
an audience of six thousand people. We
hope that Mr. Hill will cross the Sa
vannah in a few days, and assist with
his splendid eloquenoe the cause of Re
form.
We publish this morning, to the ex
clusion of other matter, the speech re
cently delivered in Atlanta by Hon. Ben
jamin H. Hum upon the reception of a
flag presented by the oitizeus of Cleve
land and Cincinnati. It is like every
speeoh made by this distinguished Geor
gian, brilliant, eloquent and logical.
We commend it to the attention of our
readers.
It is stated that after the arrest of
Calhoun, the post office clerk of Colum
bus, for embezzlement, a gambler re
turned the money he had won of the
defaulter, saying he wouldn’t retain
stolen money, even though it had been
fairly won. There are some highly re
spectable people who have a holy horror
of gamblers, yet who, if similarly sit
uated, would act in a very different man
ner. .
Hon. W. H. Dabney, of Floyd, has
been nominated by acclamation for Con
gress in the Seventh District. His op
ponent is Parson Felton. In the un
fortunate campaign of 1874 Mr. Dabnby,
though put up only a few days before
the eleotion (after the withdrawal of Mr.
Trammell), was defeated by less than
one hundred votes. He is certain to b e
elected in November, and the Georgia
delegation to the Forty-fifth Congress
will not have an Independent in it.
Hon, Hbnby W. Hilliard has made
a grave mistake in announcing himself
as an independent candidate for Con
gress. He is receiving very sharp raps
over the knuckles from the papers of
Georgia and of Alabama, the State
where he formerly lived. It is to be
hoped that Mr. Hilliard will soe the
propriety of retiring from a raoe in
which he haa everything to lose and
nothing to make. The nominee of the
West Point Convention, whoever he is,
will certainly be elected.
A few weeks ago Randall A Com
taut and the “oldest Democratic paper”
.said : “When the Convention meets and
the majority expresses its will—what
ever tL'at will may be—it becomes the
minority, like good citizens and good
Democrats, to bow thereto and support
it with oheerfulcess and unanimity.”
Now Randall A Company and the
“oldest Democratic paper” are running
the independent movement against the
“will ol the majority." Things seem to
have gone a little cross-legged with
the veteran Demociats.
Immediately after Belknap's dis
charge, on the conclusion of his im
peachment trial, President Grant went
over from the White House to see him
to express his sympathy aud gratifica
tion at the issue of the trial, “I can’t
see that BelK*ap has done anything
wrong,” said President Grant, after
reading Black’s great speech in that
case. “He has only taken presents, and
every man has a right to take prevents.”
With the daath of Henry A. Wise
the 1a st of the Virginia “ fire eaters ”
passes a'way, for Roger A. Pryor has
sobered do'wn since his connection with
the Beeckbk-Tilton case. Governor
was a power in the Old South, but
■poke a language which the New South
did not understand. He vras unable to
adapt himself to the changed condition
of. his surroundings, and since the war
has not been in sympathy with the Vir
ginia and Virginians of post-bellum
days.
The young man J. M. Buckner, who
was killed in Charleston the other night
by Radical ruffians, while attempting to
protect colored men who had joined the
Democracy, was a poor mechanic, and
left a wife and young children. One of
the newspapers made an appeal to the
citizens to assist his family, and ac
knowledged Saturday the contributions
made, which footed up the handsome
•am of six dollar* and fifty cents. This
thing is simply shameful. The family
at the man who sacrificed his life on the
altar of Reform should not be allowed
to starve.
The Georgia Republicans—as Bry
ant's awkward squad is euphemisli
eally termed—have at last received some
sympathy. The Philadelphia North
American “applauds their whole policy
and attempts,” and sends them “best
wishes for their fpll success.” Best
wishes are very well in their way, but
the Georgia Republicans need some
thing more substantial. To relieve the
anxiety of the North American we will
inform it in confidence that Mr. Nob
ajboss trill not get twenty-five thonsand
voice, wid that the chances are good for
•only one Republican member of the
Legislature. Mr. Nobcbos is not mn
min g to be elected. He only wishes to
travel over the State and “expose the
of the politician!."
That Trenton fellow says it was ap
propriate the newspaper called the Ex
celsior should “go up.”
THE REFORMER’)* GRIEVANCE.
In an interview with a newspaper cor
respondent last Monday, Chamberlain
gave the trne reason for his sadden
change of front from a conservative and
mild-mannered politician to a shrieking
waver of the bloody shirt. “The situa
tion in South Carolina,” he said, “has
changed as in an hoar. When I was
here a month ago the Democrats in Sonth
Carolina were inclined to support me,
and had even said that they would nomi
nate no one in opposition to me. The
State is Republican by a majority of at
least twenty thousand, and they had de
termined, for the sake of peace and
quietness, to endorse me; bnt Gen. M,
C. Butler and Gaby, and men of that
type, captured the Convention and de
cided upon patting np Wade Hampton.
Since that time the entire situation has
been changed.” The reformer has
trnthfnlly stated his grievance. A few
months ago it seemed as if the Demo
crats of South Carolina were abont to
commit the great folly of making Cham
berlain their candidate for Governor.
Deceived by their support of Tomlin
son in 1872, and of Green in 1874,Cham
berlain believed they wonld support
him in 1876 and make him master
of the political situation. Believing
this thing, he assumed the role of a re
former, made high-sonnding speeches
which amonnted to nothing, and broke
with such notorionsly corrupt scoun
drels as Whippeb and Paitbbson. Bnt
when he leant expected it the tide of op
position to him and his sham reform be
gan to rise, and soon swept away the
possibility of his being supported by
the respectable citizens of the State.
Generals Gary and Butler, and “men
of that type,” did prevent the Demo
crats from committing political suicide
by endorsing him and his oorrupt ad
ministration, and did stimulate the
growth of a healthy public sentiment
which culminated in the straight-ont
movement and the nomination of Gen
eral Hampton. When he saw all his hopes
dashed to the ground by this nomina
tion, the bald-headed frand shook off
his sham conservatism and revealed him
self in his trne colors, as the bitter and
malignant enemy of everything honest
and white. He is striving zealously to in
augurate a reign of tenor in South Caro
lina for the purpose of securing his
nomination and election, but he will find
himself mistaken in his calonlations.
The white people cannot be intimidated,
and all the United States Marshals in
the country will not be able to save his
scalp in November.
A BARGAIN EASILY UNDERSTOOD.
It is a significant fact, and has been a sub
ject of general remark to-day, that Senator
Robbbtson, of South Carolina, a Republican
and a native of the State, was not invited to
the council held yesterday at the War Depart
ment. Senator Robbbtson returned here from
Sonth Carolina on Saturday last, and was cer
tainly a more competent person to explain ex
isting affairs in that State than Senator Pat
txbson, who has not been in South Carolina
for more than six months. Was he excluded
from a conference in which the people of his
State are so deeply concerned because of his
nativity ?
The above is taken from the Wash
ington correspondence of the Baltimore
Sun. The exclusion of Senator Rob
ertson from the conference of Cham
berlain, Patterson, Chandler & Cos.,
is easily explained. Senator Robertson
is an honest man and a moderate Re
publican. He does not believe in mil
itary law and plundering. He believes
Patterson to be a thief and does not
care to associate with him. Chamber
lain a few months ago took pains to
inform the world that he believed Pat
terson to be a thief and intended to
keep him from getting control of the
State government. Bnt after Chamber
lain was disappointed in the resnlts of
his juggling game with the Democrats
it was very easy for him to come to
terms with the man he had at one time
opposed and denounced. The term of
Senator Robertson expires next March.
“Honest John” has promised that
Chamberlain shall have the succession
and P.aiterson is to have the selec
tion of the man who, as Governor of
the State, is to make good his assertion
that “there are four years more of good
stealing in Sonth Carolina.” Chamber
lain is to be nominated for Governor,
bnt the Ring will name the Republican
candidate for Lieutenant-Governor.
In the event of a Republican viotory
next November Chamberlain will be a
candidate for the United States Senate
and after his eleotion the State govern
ment will be turned over to Patterson
ft Cos. This is the trade that has been
made. It will not be carried out simply
because Wadk Hampton will be the
next Governor of South Carolina, and
the Ring will find its time fnlly occu
pied keeping its members out of the
penitentiary.
4 revival of trade.
The Philadelphia Public Record says
reports of a revival of trade have recent
ly emanated from so many quarters that
stagnation has apparently nearly ran its
coarse and an era of commercial activi
ty is confidently anticipated. One of
the last and greatest barriers to large
transactions was the fear that prices had
not reached their lowest level, but this
apprehension no loDger exists iu regard
to many of the articles of general oon
sumption, and the desire to replenish
exhausted stocks is rapidly increasing.
One of the most noticeable features of
the industrial condition of the country
during the past year is the prevalence
of a desire among the representatives of
each leading interest to produce and sell
as much as possible, and simultaneously
to restrict purchases to the narrowest
practicable limits. This feeling has
broHght down prices and stimulated the
creation of an unusually abundant sup
ply of the useful products of agriculture
and mangfectures. It has wrought the
transition which fcfis made the United
States once more a cheap country to live
in, and rendered it possible to turn the
balance of trade with foreign nations in
our favor, fia earnest anxiety to pro
duce aud sell, to labor and economise,
has supplanted the passion for Insurious
idleness which prevailed a few years
ago and which was temporarily sustain
ed by the apparent snooeaa of many
speculative schemes. In the new order
of things trade is springing np from the
superabundance of useful articles. The
desire to purchase is stimulated alike by
low prices and the scarcity arising from
the postponement of the period for pur
chasing useful supplies. Trade based
on such a condition ol affairs promisee
to prove advantageous to aii concerned.
It is the natural interchange of products
essential to human welfare under ap
proximately fair and jast conditions.
The Irwin ton Southerner learns from
a Laurens county friend that Col. C. S.
Guyton, the regular Democratic nomi
nee for the Legislature, is opposed by
Mr. Edwin Persy, who was defeated in
in the nomination, and is now an inde
pendent candidate. The nominee for
Senator in that district is also opposed
by Mr. McCloud, of E man neb This
political mesa has emboldened the ne
groes, and several of them are canvass
ing for soonty offices. These independ
ent candidates will do much harm. Their
running will organic* the negroes, and
the majority of them will vote for Haves
and W heeleb. — Savannah News.
COMMENCING IN THE RIGHT WAY.
At a Democratic meeting held in
Charleston Friday night the following
resolutions were adopted after some dis
cussion :
Resolved, That this meeting, in behalf of the
honest white voting population of Sonth Caro
lina, ask the Democratio papers of Charleston
to arrange and publish in their columns an
honest sod exact directory of all the bonded
officials in this State, their names, nativity,
politics, office, official bond, the name of the
bondsmen, his nativity, politics, business,
place of bnaineis and the amount for which he
bonds himself, and the consideration received
by him, if ibe latter information is obtainable.
Resolved, That it is the honest conviction
of this meeting, and, we believe, of every
honest citizen of the State, that no trne and
honorable Democrat could sign his name as the
bondsman and gunrantee of any Radical Re
publican official in this State, he having been
a resident in South Carolina since H. K. Soon
wss elected Governor by the said Republican
party in 18t8.
These resolutions have the ring of
the right metal. The issue in South
Carolina is plainly presented. The hon
est men are marching under Democrat
ic colors; thieves follow the Republican
standard. There can be no half way
measures adopted. Those who are not
for the Democrats are against them, and
should be known and treated as ene
mies. Heretofore'when there was really
no Democratic party in the State—when
Moses was opposed by Tomlinson aiid
Chamberlain by Green there was
nothing wroDg in Democrats making a
ohoice of evils and assisting by bond
such public officials as they thought
wonld steal least from the people. But
no such condition of affairs exists now.
Every Democrat who is on a Republi
can’s bond shonld come off it as soon as
poseible and it shonld be plainly under
stood that no more bonds will be made
for Republican officers. This policy
will be found to work well. In 1868 the
Radical condidate for Receiver of Tax
Returns was elected in this county by a
very largo majority, but he was unable
to make the heavy bond required by
law and the office remained in the hands
of a Democrat. In many counties of
Georgia the same thing occurred. Let
the Radical office holders in South Car
olina make their own bonds.
OUTRAGE!* IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
No less a personage than General
Benjamin F. Butler has been shocked
by the outrages perpetrated upon loyal
men in South Carolina. He has been
made the oonfidant of a South Carolina
Republican and is the chosen repository
of the only correct account of the man
ner in whioh loyal men suffer for opin
ion sake in that intolerant State. Gen
eral Butler has oommnnicated to the
Boston Traveller a letter of the date of
August 28th, written him by a South
Carolina Republican and giving a graph
ic description of the persecutions com
menced by the Democrats. General
Butler vouches for his correspondent
as a “gentleman of honor and truth in
the South.” Like Bardolph’s tailor we
like not the security, and confess to
further qualms of suspicion when But
ler adds that “ he is a gentleman with
whom I am well acquainted;” but we
suppose the Beast’s constituents are not
as particular and will be content with
any statement made by him or his
friend. The name of the correspondent
and his residence are net given because
General Butler does not wish "to
bring down upon him the shot-guns of
the armed mob which attends Republi
can meetings.” For this reason the let
ter is given in what Mr. Charles Reade,
describing a letter equally as oowardly
and base, terms the “dash dialect.”
All names, dates, places and oaths men
tioned are represented by dashes, to pre
vent anything “tendieg to identifica
tion.” Notwithstanding all these sus
picions circumstances we presume it
will not be denied that General Butler
did receive the letter whioh he furnish
es for publication, for apparently know
ing what sort of character he has, even
in Massachusetts, he says he has
the original letter in his possession
and that it is “at the service of any
doubter.” Some fault-finding people
may object that a man who would lie in
the first instance would not hesitate to
forge in the seoond ; bnt we shall har-
bor no snoh unworthy suspicions, and
shall assume that Butler did receive
the letter in question. The “gentleman
of honor and truth ” knowing General
Butler to be an “unfaltering Republi
can, a man who has convictions and
dares express them,” takes the liberty
of posting him upon the condition of
affairs in South Carolina. The “ gen
tleman of honor and truth ” commences
by saying that “we are now ia the
midst of one of the squalliest eampaigus
I have ever experienced in this State.”
In 1868 he admits it was “ strong and
unpleasant, bat nothing to Be compared
to the campaign of this year.” Every
man on the Democratic State ticket was
once an officer in the “rebel” army.
This is the first complaint. The “gen
tleman of honor and truth ” evidently
forgets that nearly every white man in
Sonth Carolina—including F. J. Moses
and C. C. Bowen —was in the “rebel”
army, and that it would have been
rather difficult to put a ticket in the
field which would have ignored the Con
federate element. The second griev-
ance of Butlbb’s correspondent is that
“the Democrats have determined to carry
the State upon the Mississippi plan.”
We have heard so ranch recently of the
Mississippi plan that we are glad to
have it explained to us by a “gentleman
of honor and truth,” whose definition
can be relied upon. The Mississippi
plan aonaists in Democrats attending
Republican meetings and answering
Republican speakers. General But
ler's correspondent expatiates at
length on the enormity of this thing,
and his letter fairly bristles with
exclamations of indignation when he
describes how murderous Democrats
£*ve actually taken the stand at
Republican meetings, and demolished
the sophistries and exposed the false
hoods of carpet-baggers and scalawags
in the presence of thousands of negro
auditors. The “gentleman of honor and
truth” has attended five such meetings
with Governor Chamberlain since this
“squally” campaign was opened on the
Mississippi plan, and knows whereof he
speaks.
No second band account is this I ween—-
He tells the horrors that his eyes have seen.
We give specimens of the outrages
committed on the Mississippi plan ;
“On Thursday last, the mat., at
after Gov. Chamberlain sat down, one
an abusive and inAuUipg harangue, dur
ing which he called the Governor g ‘car
rion crow,’ a ‘buzzard who had come
here to rob and steal from decent peo
ple,’ a ‘seedy adventure* from Massa
chusetts.’” The “gentleman of honor
and truth" ought to know that sons of
poets as well as poets themselves are
given a little lioense in their language,
and tb* one- in question was scarcely
abasing this liberty by likening
Chamberlain to a carrion crow.—
The Governor has consorted with snoh
filthy creatures in South Carolina, and
has displayed such remark able aptitude
for getting his beak into ail sorts of nn
cStean messes that tbs simile, though s
trifle coarse, will be generally recognised
as exceedingly just. At another meet
ing the “geatleman of honor and truth"
says the Mississippi plan was displayed
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1876.
by some person in the crowd calling
Governor Chamberlain “a bald
headed This transaction is
evidently darker than the carrion crow
business, and we cannot refrain from
condemning the dash portion of the epi
thet hurled at his Excelleney by some
robbed and rained Carolinian. With re
gard to the other portion of the phrase we
believe Gov. Chamberlain is bald-head
ed, and that his best friends do not deny
the soft impeachment. We say it with
out tear of contradiction: Ha is es bald
as a billiard ball—let the United States
Marshals make the most of it. If the
Mississippi plan had caused Governor
Chamberlain to be called a “bald
headed frand” the epithet would have
been parliamentary as well as truthful
and even General Butler’s correspon
dent coaid not have said aught against
its propriety. As it is this fatal mis
take may cost the Democracy the
State next November. General Butler’s
“gentleman of honor and truth” has
been greatly intimidated by the out
rages detailed above and doesn’t know
“how much longer he will be able to
stand upon the out-posts of civilization
and hold np the Republican flag. ” At the
risk of being considered impertinent we
suggest that there is not the slight
est necessity for his continuing to
go through this very si’ly perform
ance. Like most of the writers of such
letters he has a wife and children who
are greatly alarmed by these demon
strations. He also not infrequently has
a guard of colored men between his
home and his office, which protects him
while holding np the Republican, flag
on the out-posts of civilization. He
oloses his letter to General Butler by
expressing a desire to know what “our
Republican friends of the North are
going to do about it ?” General But
ler does not answer the question, bnt
we thiok we can safely assure our friend
Dash that the Republicans of the North
are not going to do anything abont it.
Suoh men as Beast Butler and snch
journals aB the Boston lYaveller may
attempt to make political capital out of
this stuff, but the Republicans of the
North have grown weary of anonymous
slanders promulgated in the Southern
States at eleotion time and treat the
liars and their lies with equal and de
served contempt.
THE MAINE ELECTION.
The Republicans have carried the
State of Maine, whioh has been a Radi
cal stronghold ever since there has been
a Radical party. As we have said be
fore the Democrats did not make much
of a fight, knowing the hopelessness of
the case. The Republicans on the con
trary worked desperately to get an in
creased majority over that by which
they carried the State in the last Presi
dential campaign. They deluged the
State with documents; they sent their
best speakers there; they rung the
changes on Southern disloyalty and the
Confederate Congress; they spent money
freely and polled every Republican vote
—and they failed disastrously. They
claj.m the State by ten thousand majori
ty in a total poll of one hundred and
thirty-four thousand. This would make
the vote stand :
Republican 72,000
Democratic 62,000
Republican majority'. 10,000
Let ns see how these returns compare
with those of previous Presidential
years, which furnish the true basis of
comparison:
1868 -(Gov.) Republican 75,835
Democrat 55,431
Republican majority 20,404
1868—(Pres’t.) Republican 70,434
Democratic 42,375
Republican majority 28,059
1872—(G0v.) Republican 71,917
Democratic 54,701
Republican majority 17,216
1872—(Pres’t.) Republican 61, 4 22
Democratic 29,087
Republican majority 32,335
From these figures it will be seen that
in the largest vote ever polled in tha
State the Republican majority is ten
thousand less than it was in 1868, and
seven thousand lens than it was in 1872.
SITTING BULL SAFE.
Our dispatches yesterday morning in
dicated that the campaign against
the Indians had come to an in
glorious termination, and that Sit
ting Bull and the hostile Sioux are
left to murder and maraud with im
punity. General Terry (our old
friend of the days of re-reconstruc
tion in Georgia), who set out with so
rauoh of the pomp and circumstance of
war to ornsh his savagejadversary, seems
to have carefully copied the campaign
of that famous French King, who,
“with full ten thonsand men,
Marched np the hill—and then marched down
again.”
He marched into the Indian country
slowly and carefully, so as to give Sit
ting Bull every opportunity to keep
oat of his way, aud now complaining
that Sitting Bull will not sit still and
wait to be slaughtered he dissolves his
oolnmn and devotes bis attention to
victualling an outpost. General Cbook
seems to have been equally unfortunate
with his oommand—with the addition
that he seems to fear the Sioux will out
off and capture his wagon train—and we
will, doubtless, soon hear that he has
broken up his forces, and is devot
ing his military skill to the management
of the commissary department. Of
course those so far in the rear cannot
pretend to > criticise the condnct of the
campaign which has ended in nothing.
But without asserting who is to blame,
we know that the campaign has end
ed in nothing. The massacre ol the
gallant Custer aud bis command has
not been avenged, and SpiyiNq Bull
and the Sioux are conscious that they
have defeated and out-generalled their
antagonists. The knowledge of these
facts will make them dangerous to the
settlers in the Far West this Winter,
and will enable them to take the field
with renewed power and vigor next
Spring. If the troops detained in the
South as election agents had been added
to the force in the West and rapidly
pushed against the Sioux they might
have been orqshed. A? it is, they are
cjore dangerous than they b avo ever
been before, and a long and bloody In
dian war will result from the silly tactics
employed against them.
The Montgomery Journal scolds the Pres*
Agent at Washington for not telegraphing the
result of the election in California on Tuesday
last; declares that “party lines were never be
fore so closely drawn in that Mttate
as in the canvass just closed;” con
gratulates the Republicans there on the
healing of their lcsa* divisions; and think* that
the failure to telegraph the emotion news is
evidence that the Republicans have carried Mis
State- The rich part of the matter is that
California did 5-Cf- have any election on Tues
day. and there haa been a* fapraea in that
Btate yet. as the election does not come of nu
ll; Ngyember.
Wo leerm that gpme half-oooked indi
vidual started a similar pjsgpogt ip tjlis
city a few days ago, except that the
newipapnxs and not the Associated Press
Agent Wje;re blamed for suppressing the
news of this wonderful Republican vic
tory. Pur impression is that the Cali
foraia plpfitiog stakes place ip October.
Whenever it does come off the Demo
crat* will carry the State by a handsome
majority.
THE SENATORIAL RACE.
THE CANDIDATES FOR MR. NOR
WOOD'S SEAT.
The Senatorial Race—Flowed from an At
lanta Standpoint—The Probable Candidates
—Mr. Norwood Not Disposed to Sal-render
—Mr. Hill Id Ibf Field-Governor Smith la
the Race—Chance* of the Candidates—Gen
eral* Gartrall and Lawton.
[Special Conrespdvdenoe Chronicle and M OenUnel ]
Atlanta, September 12.—Atlanta is
as usual bustling and busy, doing much
or little, ihe town is well filled at pres
ent with persons from Savannah who
have fled from the yellow fever in that
city, and these add to the general liveli
ness of the streets. Although it will be
fonr months before the Legislature as
sembles some of the offices to be filled
by that body are already subjects of dis
cussion. Of course the basis of all these
discussions is the assumption that Gen
eral Golqnitt will be elected Governor of
Georgia by an overwhelming majority
and that the Legislature to be ohosen in
October will be almost unanimously
Democratic. The great prize to hie
awarded in January is
The United State* Senaterahip,
As Mr. Norwood’s term expires the
fourth of March next, and bis successor
will have to be chosen shortly after the
meeting of the General Assembly. Of
course this splendid position will not go
begging, and it is understood that some
notable.entnes have already been made
for the race. The present encumbent
naturally enough is perfectly satisfied
with the plaoe and desires to remain
where he is. He is working after his
kind silently bnt actively. He has not
forgotten the success whioh attended his
“still-hunt”' in 1871, and be is relying
to a great extent upon the same tactics
in the coming contest. When it was
known in 1871 that Thomas M. Norwood
was a candidate for the United States
Senate the annonneement was received
with mingled amazement and increduli
ty. He had never occupied a prominent
plaoe in the politics of his State, had
made no “war record,” aDd was soaroely
known outside of Savannah and the
Eastern Judioial Circuit—and there he
was known simply as acarefnl, painstak
ing lawyer of fair ability, cool in man
ner, stolid of countenance and slow of
action. He made no warm friends
and incurred no lasting resentments.
He was loved by some, disliked by a
few and feared by none. But under his
mask of indifference he concealed views
the most ambitions, and his reasoning
powers informed him in 1871 that the
time had come to strike. The time was
propitious. Suoh men as Stephens,
Toombs, Johnson, Jenkins and Craw
ford were laboring under political dis
abilities and coaid not contest the prize.
The State had been captured by the De
mocracy, but Bullock and Conley were
striving for a third reconstruction.
Threats of military law were loud in the
land and not without effect, in view of
the shameful experience of 1870, when
Fatty Harris organized the Honse of
Representatives and a military eoart de
termined the right of members of the
Legislature to the seats to whioh they
had been elected. There was still a va
cancy in the State’s Senatorial represen
tation, Capt. Foster Blodgett claim
ed the seat by virtue of a so-called elec
tion by the Bullock Legislature, and
Blodgett in those days was high in fa
vor with Morton, Conkling and their
compeers. It was feared by maDy that
unless a moderate and nnobjeotionable
Democrat was ohosen the Radioal parti
sans in the Senate would give the seat
to Blodgett. Mr. Norwood was as mod
erate as moderation itself, and wholly
unobjectionable because almost entirely
unknown. His principal competitor
was General A. R. Wright, of Augusta,
who had made a record as a soldier, a
lawyer, a politician and a journalist.
Bnt in the bitter war with Radicalism
waged from 1867 to 1870, Gen. Wright,
who was never moderate and not always
tolerant, had made many enemies
among Republicans and moderate Dem
ocrats. Some of this latter class dislik
ed him from personal reasons,
others thought that suoh a bold
and aggressive man would not be per
mitted to take his seat, and so Mr. Nor
wood was elected. Since he has been in
the Senate he has shown much greater
ability than he was generally credited
with possessing. He has approved him
self a sound constitutional lawyer, and
his opinion upon legal questions is said
to be highly esteemed by his brother
Senators. He has made two
one of whioh was replete with sarcasm
and with logic, and whioh occasioned a
genuine sensation throughout the coun
try. His friends say that he has made
a safe and sound Senator, has done
nothing that deserves blame and should
be re-elected. Others assert that for the
very reason he has done nothing he
shonld be remanded to private life; that
his record on the salary grab is bad, and
that he has been neither a brilliant nor
a useful Senator, The friends of
Hon. Benjamin H, Hill
Claim that he will fill the bill exactly,
and make both a brilliant and a useful
Senator. This will be Mr. Hill’s second
attempt upon Senatorial honors. It will
be remembered that he was a candidate
three years ago against Mr. Stephens
and General Gordon. In that oontest he
developed much less strength than his
admirers expected him to exhibit.—
Though he was strong where the other
candidates were thought to be weak—
though his Confederate record was
equally as good as General Gordon’s,
and he was intellectually the peer of
Mr. Stephens—he received bat a small
vote, and was scarcely a factor in the
great straggle between the Soldier and
the Statesman. There are those who
doubt whether he will do much
better next January. It is said
that the members of the Legisla
ture from the Ninth District will
support him in order to make a vacancy
in the Congressional delegation to be
filled by someone of the numerous as
pirants for Congress who are now afraid
• o contest the place with Mr. Hill. But
even if this story should prove to have
some foundation, it is doubtful whether
the members from the Ninth District
would feel bound by any such arrange
ment, and it is more than doabtfnl
whether there is any man of sufficient
prominence among the aspirants to in
fluence the members in this manner. It
is universally conceded that Mr, Hill is
a man of great eloqnenoe and command
ing ability. He is a man of whose intel
lect all Georgians are proud. But the
impression has obtained among many
that he is not reliable in a political
sense, and that it would not be safe to
trust him tor so long a time as six years.
His noble condnct in the reconstruction
days of 1867 and 1868 has not been for
gotten; bat his letter in 1870 is also re
membered. The “Notes on the Situa
tion” are remembered with pride and
gratitude; but the speech at thejßullock
banquet oau not be explained away. Un
derstand me, I am not the enemy of Mr.
Hill. lam simply repeating the objec
tions I hear urged against his candidacy.
Already the Columbus Enquirer has
stated that it is nqt safe to give Mr.
Hill an office with a term of six years.
Still if he enters actively into the fight
his talents and his eloquence may give
him a strong following, though I great
ly doubt if they, can give him an elec
tion. By the time this letter appears he
will have been re-nominated for Con
gress from the Ninth District, and a
nomination there is equivalent to an
election. Mast people will say let him
remain in the Honse, where his powers of
oratory will have freer play than in the
cirpupisoribed arena of the Senate. If I
were naked to name the most formidable
candidade in the field for the United
States Senate I should reply
ji*T. James M. Smith.
Though there hag been no rrablip an
nouncement of the fact, J think it is
generally understood that Governor
Smith will be a candidate for the place
now occupied by Mr. Norwood. That
he will be an exceedingly formidable
competitor, no one who knows the man,
or who has ever encountered bim in
other contests, will be disposed to deny.
He is a hard, though a quiet, worker,
and, what s;akes him more dangerous
still, ia an intelligent worker. He
has, also, the rare gift of attracting mea
to him, and making their services in his
behalf a labor of love. There is scarce
ly a county the Sjgte where he haa
not one or more warm personal friends,
not only willing, but'anxious to do
everything in their power to promote
hia and advance bis inter
ests. lam one of these who feel firmly
convinced that if Gov. Smith had en
tered the field last Spring, he would
hays been nominated for Governor. I
have reason to believe that fie yas urged
by hundr vs of influential men to let
bu name be need m the canvass. But
he declined, and, I think, peirsonaMy de
sired the nomination of Gen. Colquitt.
It is a well knows fact that after he re
fused to ran, most of his friends worked
for the nomination of and this
circumstance will not weaken his strength
as a Senatorial candidate. Govt. Smith’s
friends have some strong cards in their
hands, and unless I am greatly mis
taken, they will play them carefully and
not lose a trick. His war record is good.
He was a gallant and skillful officer in
the Confederate army, and did not quit
the field until wounded so desperately
that he was unfit for further service.
But even his wounds did not force him
into retirement. He was elected a mem
ber of the Confederate Congress, and
with his vote and voioe did everything in
his power to sustain the waning fortunes
of the Confederacy. After the war he was
the determined and relentless enemy of
Radicalism in all its baleful shapes and
did much to relieve Georgia from the ig
nominious yoke imposed by Bullook and
Blodgett. At the first free election by
the people he was sent to the State Leg
islature and elected Speaker of the
House of Representatives. As Speaker he
aided in setting on foot those searching
investigations of Bullock’s administra
tion whioh made Republican government
in Georgia odions to the world. When the
time came to £ll the place in the Execu
tive Department made vacant by Bul
lock’s flight, he was almost unanimously
eleoted the standard bearer of Demo
cracy and led its hosts on to a glorious
viotory. His was the task to bring order
out of ohaos, to supercede misrule with
good government, corruption with hon
esty and the rule of the mob by the law
of the land. He labored hard and faithful
ly and achieved success commensurate
with his exertions. He rigidly enforc
ed the laws, and made the Courts re
spected and evil-doers afraid. He re
stored the credit of the State and sent
her depreciated securities to par and a
premium. He encouraged and promot
ed, to the extent oi his power, the agri
cultural, the industrial and the educa
tional interests of Georgia. He main
tained the honor of the State aB a mem
ber of the Federal Union. He appoint
ed men to office who commanded the re
spect of the people. He enforced the
criminal laws rigi ily and impartially.
All these things tell, and shonld tell, in
his favor. All these things are fresh in
the remembrance of the people. If he
runs he will make a manly, straight-for
ward canvass, and if he runs he is
very apt to be elected, even with Nor
wood and Hill as his opponents.
I hear of bnt two other candi
dates mentioned as yet. These are
General* Lawton and Gartrell.
It was understood that General Gar
trell retired from the raoe for Governor
with the hope of improving his ohances
for the Senate by so doing. He has
some friends and his position on the
electorial ticket will give him oppor
tunities for mixing with the people
that he is very apt to improve. I have
heard that General Lawton will aot en
ter the field as long as there is any
ehanoe for the election of Mr. Norwood.
Whether there fls any truth in the re
port or not I can aot undertake to say.
It is, however, probably oorrect, as they
are both residents of the same place
and are personally very friendly. If
they ran against eaoh other they wonld
only divide and neutralize the strength
of the Savannah inflnenee. Bnt if Mr.
Norwood is knocked out of time before
a selection is made I feel eonfident that
General Lawton will be put np in his
stead. From this array of candidates
it will be seen that the Legislature has
a fine field from whioh to choose and
that the State cannot be injured no mat
ter what the result. Fulton.
THE WALTON DEMOCRACY.
Meeting of the County Convention—>Hon. W.
R. Minith Nominated for the Legislature.
Monbob, GA.,September s. —Mr. Now
ell, Chairman of the Executive Commit
tee, oalled the meeting to order, and
then moved to oall Mr. Willis Kilgore
to the Chair, and on motion of Mr.
Bush, A. S. Florence was appointed
temporary Secretary. Dr. W. 8. Bar
rett then moved that the delegates be
enrolled, and the following names were
enrolled, to-wit:
Monroe District: H. S. Snow, George
Folker, George S. Cowan, C. G. Nowell,
W. White. Brook’s District: Thomas
H. Phillips, William H. Stroud, John S.
Dickerson, S. W. Arnold, E. B. Bris
coe. Vinegar Hill District: William
Palmer, E. B. Watson, John W. Davis,
Jasper Smith, W. G. Garrett. Bun
combe Distriot: S. L. Moon, E. T.
Moon, W. H. Trimble, Tyron Smith,
George Baker. Tanner’s District: Wil
lis Kilgore, P. Odam, H. H. MoGaug
hey, James Whitley, A. Tanner. Al
len’s Distriot: C. L. Bowie, John S.
Harris, R. S. MoGarrity, S. I. Mobley,
W. J. Brown. Richardson District: W.
B. Hardeman, John M. Peters, David
Michael, H. H. Preston, J. E. Nunnally.
Blassingame’s Distriot: J. J. Mitchell,
Dr. W. S. R. Hardeman, Barnett Ad
cock, Robert Cannon, T. C. Blassin
game. Social Oirole Distriot: R. J.
Green, Bennett Robertson, J. J. Eckels,
E. M. Herndon, A. S. Florenoe. Moun
tain District: S. G. Locklin, J. M. B.
Moore, J. H. Thrasher, M. J. M. Stinch
comb, Harden Hay good. Out Off Dis
triot: J. M. Tucker, J. H. Nowell, Wal
ton Simms, W. H. Bash, W. H. Hill.
Broken Arrow District: Dr. W. S. Bar
rett, J. T. Mitchell, James S. Thomp
son, Samuel H. Brodnax, Harrison Al
len.
The following committee was then ap
pointed to report on permanent organi
zation : J. E. Nunnally, W. W. White,
H. H. McGanghey, W. H. Hill, S. G.
Locklin, T. C. Blassingame, John S.
Dickerson, Wm. Palmer, Tryon Smith,
Dr. W. S..Barrett, 0. L. Bowie, Robert
Green. The committee on Permanent
Organization report Bennet Robertson,
Chairman, Samuel H. Brodnax, Secre
tary.
Dr. W. S. Barrett then moved that
the delegates of each distriot present
cast the votes for those absent or oall in
any one that they might see proper,
whioh motion prevailed.
Mr. Bash then moved that a commit
mittee of one be appointed from each
distriot to report business. Amended
by each distriot appointing for itself.
The following oommittee was appointed.
C. G. Nowell, Chairman, Dr. W. S. Bar
rett, J. L. Mitchell, W. B. Hardeman,
Harden Havgqod, Dr. W. S. B. Hard
man, 0. L. Bowie, Willis K>lg°re, A. S.
Florence, W. H. Hill, S. W. Arnold, w.
J. Green.
The committee reported the follow
ing : Whereas, we the delegates of the
Democratic party of Walton county, in
convention assembled, for the purpose
of selecting a suitable man to represent
said oounty in the next Legislature, do
hereby adopt the following resolutions
as a platform by which we are willing to
be governed, and which the nominee
must pledge himself to support, and
earnestly endeavor to carry it into effect,
if he aocepts the action of this Conven
tion :
1. We avow our thorough identifica
tion with the great national democratic
party of the JJnited States, and of the
State of Georgia, and accept the princi
ples and policy of that platform as
adopted by the ia*e Conception of the
State of Georgia. 2. The nomination
by the national Democratic party of
Samuel J. Tilden, of New York, for the
offloe of President, and of Thomas A.
Hendricks, of Indiana, for the offloe of
Vice-President, meets our hearty ap
proval, and we pledge our support of
the same. 3. We heartily accept of the
action of the body in convention in At
lanta that nominated one of old Walton
county’s sons, to-wit: the Hon. A. H.
Colqnitt, for Governor of Georgia, and
thereby pledge opr earnest *qpnort of
the samp, We are in of a State
Oonyentlon, for the purpose of framing
a more suitable and equitableO onstitu
tion as a standard of government of the
State of Georgia, fi. We are in favor of
retrenchment in the various departments
of the Government. % We earnestly
soliait the aid and support of the above
principles by all who desire good gov
ernment for themselves and for their
posterity.. 7. We promise and pledge
our support to the nominee selected by
this body, after his acceptance of the
same and a pledge on his honor that he
will support and endeavor to carry into
effect the same.
The repgrt Qf tbp committee was then
adopted. Mr. Ifaygood moved that a
two-thirds majority should rale, which
motion was lost. Dr. W. S. Barrett
moved that a majority role, wi}igb mo
tion prevailed. The Convention then
went into nomination and each district
called in regular order, and on the third
ballot Hon. W- B. Smith was declared
A. S' then moved that
the nomination of the Hon. W. B. Smith
be made unanimous, with an amend
ment that the entire bouse delegatee
god spectators, be *Uawed to vote on
seme, which motion prevailed. Mr. W.
B. Hardman moved that the resolutions
adopted by the Convention be read to
tbp Hon. W. B. Smith for his approval.
Prevailed. It was then moved that an
Executive Committee bejappointed by the
Chair for the oounty, which prevailed,
and the following oommittee appointed:
Green W. Smith, Cut Off District;
Arch Tanner, Brantley’s District; J. M.
Bradley, Monntain Dis trio t; David
Michael, Good Hope District; John T.
Eckles, Social Circle Distriot; Robert T.
Bowie, Allen’s Distriot; Thomas J. Rob
ertson, Buncombe Distriot; Seaborn C.
Bnrson, Vinegar Hill Distriot; Calvin
G. Nowell, Monroe Distriot; John S.
Diokinson, Brook’s Distriot; Samuel H.
Brodnax, Broken Arrow Distriot; Henry
T. Colquitt, Blassingame’s District.
Capt. Smith’* Acceptance-
To Messrs. L. L. Bowie, Willis Kilgore
and W. S. Barrett, Committee ;
Gentlemen— Allow me, through you,
to express my profound gratitude to
the Walton County Demooratio Conven
tion, for the honor oonferred upon me
this day, by choosing me as the candi
date of the Demooratio party to repre
sent this county in the next Legislature.
Should the voters at the ballot-box con
firm yonr nomination,,,l hereby pledge
myself to use all my power and influ
ence in the support of those measures
and principles whioh will best subserve
the public good, and will at all times
oonsider your views as expressed and
set forth in the resolutions this day
adopted by your body. Hoping that
harmony and unanimity may prevail in
the counsels of the people at the ballot
box as well as in the Convention nomi
nating yonr oandidate, and again
thanking you for the honor tendered, I
aooept the nomination with a trembling
apprehension of the duties and respon
sibilities connected with the same. I
remain, your obedient servant,
W. R. Smith.
HOPE FOR SOUTH CAROLINA.
A Republican Newspaper Correspondent
Concede* the State to the Democrat*.
18. V. Redfleld, in the Cincinnati Commercial.]
Greenville, S. 0., September 6,
1876.—1 am almost ready to believe
that South Carolina will go Democratic.
At present the ohances are about even,
but the doubt is in favor of the Demo
crats. The State is aroused as it has not
been sinoe the war. It may fairly be
said to be ablaze from the mountains to
the sea. The whites are united as they
never have been. There is absolutely no
division in ranks. White Republicans,
who are not officeholders, are as soarce
as whales in the Ohio river. In nearly
every paper I pick up I find a “card”
from some heretofore white Bepublioau,
who announces himself for Hampton,
saying in effect, or directly so, that Afri
can government here has been a failure;
that the State is drifting to destruction,
and that the only relief is the eleotion
of a straight-out white ticket. Mr. W.
E. Rose, of Columbia, whom I know,
and who has heretofore been unwaver
ing in bis Republicanism, is out in a
card, with his five sons, renouaeing the
South Carolina Republiean party as a
failure, and joining the Hampton ranks.
Not because it is Hampton, not because
it is styled Demooratio, but beoause the
Republican party in Sonth Carolina has
beoome a negro party, and so laoking in
the essential requirements, in oapacity
to give good government, us to unite the
whites in a solid body. We find the
whites united and determined to oarry
the eleotion. We find the Republicans
divided, split into a Chamberlain fac
tion and an anti-Chamberlain faotion.
The colored leader, Elliott, says that if
Chamberlain is nominated next week he
will vote for Hampton. Judge Mackey
says if Chamberlain is not nominated he
will vote for Hampton. The gods have
not made these Republicans mad, bnt
they have taken away a portion of what
little sense has heretofore been oonfided
to their keeping.
HENRY A. WISH
Death ot a Distinguished Virginian.
Richmond, Va., September 12.—Ex-
Governor Henry A. Wise died at his
residence in this city to-day, at half-past
12 o’clock.
At a meeting of Irish citizens to-night
resolutions of respect to the memory of
the deceased was adopted, and it was
further resolved to attend the funeral in
a body. This action was taken in honor
of Governor Wise's victory over know
Nothingism in 1855 and his consistent
advocacy of religious liberty in America.
Henry Alexander Wise was born at
Drnmmondtown, Aocomao oounty, Vir
ginia, December 8, 1806. His father,
who was a lawyer, and had been Speaker
of the House of Delegates, died in 1812.
His mother died in 1813. The young
orphan was eduoatedby his fathers rela
tives. He studied law after he left col
lege and in 1828 removed to Nashville,
Tenn., where he married, and set
tled there in the praotice of his pro
fession. At the end of two years he
returned to his native oounty.
He was a delegate in 1832 to the
Democratic National Convention at Bal
timore where he advocated the nomina
tion of Jackson as President, but refused
to acquiesce in the nomination of Van
Bnren as Vice-President. Daring the
nullification excitement he published an
address to the electors of York distriot
in whioh he declared himself opposed
on the one hand to the measures adopt
ed by South Carolina and on the
other hand to the fQree bill
and the President’s proclamation,
maintaining the doatrines of the
Virginia resolutions of 1798, “that each
State for itself is the judge of the infrac
tion of the Constitution and of the mode
and manner of redress." In 1833 the
Jackson party of the eastern shore
nominated him for Congress in opposi
tion to the nullification candidate and
he was eleoted by 400 majority. After
the election his' antagonist challenged
him and the result was a duel in whioh
the challenger’s right arm was frac
tured. In 1842 Mr. Tyler appointed
him Minister to Franoe but the
Senate rejected the nomination. He
was subsequently appointed Minister to
Brazil. In 1855 he was elects gov
ernor of Virginia, after ft most hrilliant
canvass, by a of 10,000. To
wards pnd of his term pcourred the
the seizure of Harper’s Ferry by John
Brown and his followers and the execu
tion of John Browp ftt Charleston, De
cember 2> 1858, was one of the last acts
of hs administration. Be vrS a
member of the secession convention
and opposed haaty measures. After the
passage of the ordinance, however, he
entered heartily into the war. He was
appointed a brigadier-general in the
Confederate army and ordered to West
ern Virginia. In September he was or
dered to Biohmond and thenoe was sent
to Roanoke Island, N. C M with instruc
tions to defend it. After the surrender
of the island he returned to Virginia and
participated in the wftr until its elose.
Since the wftr hft ha? been living in re
tirement.
CBOBgIAtS NEXT GOVERNOR.
!•*♦** flrwa <*■ A- U- Clabl.
We stated a few days ainoe that an in
vitation, numerously signed, requesting
General Colquitt to deliver an address
in Augusta at his earliest convenience,
had been forwarded to that distinguish
ed Georgian. Yesterday the following
reply was received;
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 11,1876.
Messrs. R. J. Wilson, A. 11. McLaws,
Chas. 11. Sibley, and others, Augus
ta, Oa.:
Gentlemen— X have received yonr po
lite invitation to visit Augusta and ad
dress the people of Bichmond county
upon the issues involved in the coining
eleotion, at sooh a time during the
pending campaign, as will best suit my
convenience.
Prom many considerations I would be
much pleased to comply with your re
quest, and exchange thoughts upon the
momentous political situation with your
intelligent constituency. Bnt with my
present programme of appointments al
ready announoed, £ would not beat
liberty to make an engagement for
Bichmond oonnty before the 26th inst.
If, between that date and the Presi
dential eleotion, I can find the time to
visit you, and shall not be too severely
taxed by the labors now before me, it
will afford me the highest satisfaction
to visit my fellow-citizens of Biebmond,
and address them as yon request. In
such event, timely advice of the appoint
ment will be given you. Begging yon,
gentlemen, to aocept my thanks To r the
kind manner in which yon have convey
ed your invitation,
X am, very truly, yonr obedient ser
vant. A. H. CoLqprra.
In oonseqnenoe of the scarcity of
money in North Carolina, oows are now
Used as a medium of exchange, and
merohanU say sooh a currency is next
thing to hully, though we never herd of
such an idea before. Perhaps sooh a
medium of exchange suits North Caro
lina as well as any udder kina.
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Scuppernong grapes are selling at ten
cents a quart in Aiken.
The Abbeville Baptist Association
will meet at Abbeville on the 22d.
The jail at Aiken is guarded every
night by the negro militia company.
A large buck was killed near Edisto
river, by a party of young men, one day
last week.
The Abbeville Medium advises every
farmer to plant German millet for his
stock next year.
Quite a number of the citizens of
Spartanburg left last week for a visit to
the Centennial show.
There were shipped from Beaufort
daring the year ending July 31st, 72,214
tons of phosphate rook.
King’s Mountain Military School, and
the Yorkville Female Institute com
menced their Fail sessions last Monday,
Dr. Pritchard, of Beanfort, reports
that he has had a oase of yellow fever at
Hardeeville, a refugee from Savannah.
The corn crop in the upper section of
Abbeville county and in Anderson is re
markably fine, and the yield will be
abundant.
The day train on the Wilmington
Road has been discontinued. We un
derstand that the Northeastern Rail
road contemplate doing the same.
The colored people of Lowndesville
are preparing to organize a Tilden and
Hendricks club, and will probably go
on horseback to the meeting at Honea
Path.
The Democrats of Spartanburg have
plaoed the following municipal ticket in
the field: For Intendant, John E. Bo
roar; for Wardens, R. L. Bowden, A. S.
Schoppauld, John E. Bryce, Charles
Thompson, J. B. Cleveland, A. G.
Floyd.
The following is a comparative state
ment of the shipment of cotton from
Newberry for the past two years: From
September Ist, 1874, to 1875, 25,155
bales; and from September Ist, 1875, to
1876, 21,855—showing a falling off in
the past year of 3,301 bales.
While Mr, Ezekiel Kiels and another
young man were wrestling at Lynch
burg, on Friday evening last, Mr. Kiels
threw his antagonist to the earth, but
he (Kiels) falling in an awkward posi
tion, reoeived internal injuries, from
which he died Saturday evening,
A oouple of young oolored Democrats
went to Liberty Hill the other day to at
tend a Radioal meeting. They were not
allowed .to speak, but suooeeaed in dis
seminating some wholesome Demooratio
doctrine among the Radical-ridden ool
ored people of that community. They
report seven converts to the Demooratio
The Radical office seekers abont Cam
den are doing their level best to keep the
honest colored men within the party
traces, but many of them will kick out,
and oome over to the Demoorats, who
are not only their best friends, but who
will stand by and protect them until the
very last if npoessary.
Theodore G, Barker, Esq., of Char
leston, has withdrawn from the candi
dacy for Congress from the Second Con
gressional District, and Hon. M. P.
O’Connor, having been offered the posi
tion, has accepted the candidacy. Mr.
Barker will lend his personal inflnenee
to the suoasss of Mr. O’Connor,
An attempt was made last week to set
fire to the honse of Mr. Isaao Alexan
der, in Georgetown. The fire was set
under the house upon the sill, and was
crawling up between the weather board
ing and plastering, and had bursted out
through the weather boarding in the
front piazza, when it was discovered and
extinguished.
Ex-Gov. Z . B. Vanoe, of North Caro
lina, was too closely engaged in his own
canvass to aooept the invitation to An
derson, although his sympathies are
strongly enlisted for the people of South
Carolina, and when the opportunity of
fers he will visit the State before the
election. His brilliant campaign at
home is almost unpreoedent, and we are
confident a glorious triumph awaits
him in November.
On last Thursday night a storm of rain
and wind passed over Anderson. The
saw mill portion of A. H. Osborne’s
building was blown down, a freight oar
was blown from the track, and trees
were broken off and blown up in differ
ent parts or the town. One of these fell
on one end of the honse occupied by
Mrs. Keith,'bat fortunately did no se
rious damage. For a few moments the
wind was very severe.
The oitizens of Garvin township or
ganized a rifle olnb at Bishop’s Branch,
on the 31st day of August last, and eleo
ted the following officers: Captain, J. P.
Glenn; First Lieutenant, John O. Wat
kins; Second Lieutenant, W. J. Martin;
Third Lieutenant, N. T. Martin; Order
ly Sergeant, James Carson; Sergeants,
E. J. Pickle, Miles Pickens and W. W.
Watkins; Corporals, J. G. Soott, Thos.
White and William Slatton.
An attempt was made by some fiend,
either white or black, *0 fire the resi
dence-of Mr. Q. D- Brown, a short dis
tance from Grahams’, on Saturday last,
while the camp meeting was in progress
at Binnakers’. Qar informant stated
that a nuinber of persons were in the
honse at the time, and fortunately some
one of them discovered it before it had
made much headway, and thereby pre
vented its destrnotion.
Laurensville Herald.' A detachment of
Company K, 18th U. S. Infantry, Maj.
Stewart oommanding, arrived at this
place on last Sunday. Major Stewart is
not a stranger to our citizens, having
been stationed here for several weeks
some four or five yearß ago, and benoe
is well aild favorably known to many of
oar citizens as a high-toned and gentle
manly officer. The men composing the
Major’s command bear the name of be
ing orderly, quiet soldiers, Lieut- An
derson and Dr. Warren am also with
said troops. The detachment numbers
thirty men end three officers,
An action has been commenced
against J. H. MoDevitt and bis securi
ties on his official hond, by Messrs. A.
J. Norris and J. R. Abney, attorneys
representing sundry parties holding
claims g public school teachers, for
services rendered during the last
scholastic year in Edgefield oounty.
The plaintifft’ claim that McDevitt re
ceived abont six thousand dollars of the
school fund from the State Treasurer,
and that he has failed to pay out a large
portion of the same} and also that be
has collected about two thousand dol
larg poll tax and has not accounted for
it or paid it out.
THE COTTON CROP.
Repart of the Norfolk Exehaiae.
Norfolk, September 9.—The Cotton
Exohange has fifty replies from North
Carolina, and fonr from Virginia.
Thirty-three report the weather less fa
vorable, fonr favorable, nine better than
last year and the remainder complain -of
rain or drought or cold nights. Forty
five report the stand not so good, with
some shedding. Picking did not com
mence generally until the fifteenth or
twentieth. The complaint of the month
is from excessive rains oansing shedding
and rnst.
Habile Exchange Report.
Mobile. September 9. —Cotton crop
report from Ist of August to Ist of Sep
tember: Alabama, 117 letters from 46
oonnties show that the weather was gen
erally favorable. In the northern and
eastern counties there was too mnch rain
in these portions. In 14 npiand oonn
ties cotton is frniting well. In the re
maining 30 the plant has taken on but
little fruit since the first of July. There
is a general complaint of shedding.
Picking has commenoed, and will be
general about the 14th- Thirty counties
oomplaiu of worms which are the most
injurious in the prairies and oane brakes
of Middle Alabama. Paris green has
been beneficially used. Mississippi; &8
letters from 2Q counties. The weather
was showery np to the 20th, and dry and
hot since. In 7 the report is more and
in IS less favorable than last year. The
plant has taken bnt little fruit since Ju
ly. There is general oomplaint of shed
ding. The condition is good as com
pared with last year in the nplands, and
not so good in the prairie and bottoms.
Picking has commenced, and will be
come general about the 10th. Worms
are reported in 12 oonnties, severe in 4,
bnt all .report that no toporop will be
made.
*
True Politeness.—Polite yonth; “Ex
onse me, sir, but you’ve dropped your
cigar ash on yonr trousers.” Crusty Old
Gent; “Well, sir, and what then f
You ve had a fusee burning in your
sleeve for the last qnarter of an hour,
and I never interfered with you.”
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS;
Covington received 31 bales new cot
ton last Saturday.
Hampton has received twenty-five
bales of new cotton.
Marietta had two new bales of cotton
last week aDd one this week. -
Considerable sickness prevails among
the children abont Covington.
Dr. A. Means and family, of Oxford,
have returned from the Centennial.
Mrs. Pickens Tate, of Cobb oounty,
has a bed quilt with 3,669 pi ces in it.
The daughter of Mr. Manly was kill
ed by lightning near Dallis last Fri
day.
Miss Mary Walker, of Covington, will
B°. school in Corinth, Mississippi,
this Fall. *
Mr. Tom Harkness is the Democratic
nominee for State Senator for Butts
Spalding and Fayette.
The gentle zephyrs annonnee the ap
proach of Fall—the yellow golden leaf
and the money season.
Mr. G.E. Wisewas nominated for Rep
resentative of Henry county by a ma
jority ofroixty-five votes.
Mr. Langford, of Clarke county, was
married to Miss Mary Kennan, of New
ton oounty, last Tuesday.
Messrs. C. W. & I. p.' Henderson will
probably commence in
Covington abont the 15th inst.
Mr. Joseph Carroll, of Madison, and
brother of Dr. John S. Carroll, of Cov
ington, is not expected tp live.
Cols. Barpett, W. T. Newman, W. H.
Weems, and Gen. E. L. Thomas, are
candidates for Secretary of State.
Let everyone do all he can in the
way of contributing to the wants of our
sister city daring this their hour of
need.
Married, on the 24th of August, by
Rev. P. F. Lamar, Mr. J. M. Jackson to
Miss Missouri Austin, all of Jackson
county.
The watermelon season is about over
and the peppermint and paregoric sales
for the past week have decreased 200
per oent.
Dave Johnson, of Griffin, independent
candidate for Congress, addressed the
people of Jonesboro last Saturdav on
the situation,
Thomasville has taken prompt steps
to aid the people of Savannah, and will
be among the very first to render valu
able assistance.
Two negroes, Bill Thomas and Spen
oer Matthews, broke in Mr. Green Tur
ner’s barn, in Madison oounty, one
night last week.
Eleven ohildren have died of fdyptbe
ria within the past three weeks in one
neighborhood in the eastern portion of
Newton county.
The Northeastern trains are running
daily between Athens and Lula, con
necting with the eastern and western
trains on the Air Line.
The Brick Store Fair Grounds have
been improved and enlarged and several
new buildings erected. There will be
plenty of room for all.
Mr, John Dearing, son of Dr. J. J.
Hearing, has left Covington for Texas,
where he has gone to take a position in
a prominent educational institution.
Solicitor-General T. B. Cabaniss,
Monroe county, has received the nomi
nation for the Senatorship from the
Demoeratio party of the 22d District.
Governor Hubbard, of Texas, was
born in Jasper county, Georgia. He
weighs over 300 pounds and is said to
make the best Executive that State ever
had.
Everybody is in a rush to save the
snowy cotton that opens so gapingly to
the thrifty fingers. Gather this money
monger before the rains spoil its hoary
locks.
At the residence of the bride’s mother,
on the evening of the 3d instant, by
Rev. J. E. Jones, Mr. Edward A. Bank
er to Miss Ellie Gibson, all of Polk
oounty. \
Ex-Governor Brown, as we learn by a
letter of the sth, to Dr. Connally, has
recovered sufficient strength to walk up
a mountain and down again, a distance
of some seven miles.
It is said that some of the Social
Circle boys enjoyed themselves at the
camp meeting last Sunday much to the
disgnst and dissatisfaction of a large
nnmber of church-going people.
The cotton crop in Brick Store Dis
trict, Newton county, will not yield
more than one-half of what was expect
ed one month ago. Other districts in
the oounty are as bad or worse off than
Briok Store.
The cotton crop in Henry county is
thought to be cat short by the drouth
from one-third to a half. No doubt
from reports in different sections that it
will fall far short of what was one month
ago expected.
There were but 92 square toed, flat
footed Democrats in Floyd county who
voted for Felton in the primary last
Saturday. Dabney, 1,164; Felton, 92;
That’s the way it runs in Floyd county.
Rome Courier, s th.
Monday week, 18th inst., Newton Su
perior Court will convene in Covington.
Judge Hall will be on time and it would
be a good idea for jurors and others in
terested to take due notice and govern
themselves accordingly.
The oolored people of the Methodist
persuasion are now engaged in a oamp
meeting near Ac worth. On Sunday
there was an attendance of fct least one
thousand. A woman preached on the
morning of the same day,
Ben Busby, who broke into Mr. Porter
field’s store, in Madison county, was
captured in South Carolina, carried back
to Madison, where, last week, he was
convicted and sentenced by Judge Pot
tle to seven years in the penitentiary.
The Gate City Gnards, one of the
most popular military companies in the
oity, have received their guns, Spring
field B. L. rifles (latest pattern). The
uniforms of the members are being made,
and they expect soon to make a parade.
Mr. Ed. Lee, son of Goiooel Sanders
W. Lee, of Atlanta, died in Americas,
Wednesday evening, of what is known
as “Leo county fever” probably a
severe type of bilious fever. 'His re
mains ware taken to Atlanta for inter
ment.
Mr, Obadiah Johnson, a guager in
the revenue service, attempted to kill
himself a few days since by taking mor
phine in bis whisky. After imbibing
the poison he was unconscious for about
ten honrs, bnt by prompt medical assist
anoe he has recovered.
We learn that the Democratic Con
vention at Canton, Cherokee county,
last Tuesday was tumultuous and
stormy, full of wrangling and ill-feel
ing, and broke up without nominating
delegates to the Dalton Convention,
while some free fights ensued.
Bev. N. N. Edge, of Griffin, declines
a political offloe. in the following lan
guage ; “I have long since determined
never to entangle myself with political
afflurs so far as office holding is con
cerned; folly believing its tendency to
be antagonistic to my duties as a minis
ter of the Gospel.”
The following young gentlemen from
Griffin entered Emory College last
Tuesday morning: Messrs. James John
son, Arthur M. Speer, Walter Harris
Walter McWilliams and James Nunnal
ly. These will be followed In a few days
by Messrs. Jefferson Ansley, Robert
Daniel and Wm, Williams.
®ne of the best things that has yet
bappened in connection with the influx
of Savannah refugees occurred in front
of the National Hotel, Atlanta, on Friday
night. Quite a number of refugees
were sitting there, when a Savannah
gentleman came along, and looking at
the crowd a moment, remarked, “Well,
this is a pretty showing for Savannah.”
One of the crowd promptly replied,
“Ves, and you are another runaway
from tho yellow .fever.” Throwing
himself on his dignity, the gentleman
said : “That’s a greßt mistake, I did not
ran away from the yellow fever, I am a
loyal oitizen, and came up to the great
flag raising. ” This reply was received
with hearty applause, followed by a
drink all around, as a sure preventative
for yellow fever.
At an auction of miscellaneous arti
cles out-of doors it began to sprinkle,
when a bystander advised the auctioneer
that he better pat np an umbrella as the
next article.
A Saratoga letter writer asks, in de
spairing tones, “Where are the men ?”
We don’t know, dear, jnst where all of
them are, bnt from our sanctum window
we jnst now saw six of them" file around
behind the screen of a sample room over
the way.