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Ctjromclf aitD Sentinel.
WfcIDNBhDAY. SEPTE MBE R 27. 1876.
Hon. I'hob. M. Norwood will make a
speech in Covington on the 27th. Mr.
Hill has been asked to come after him.
R. R. Groves, a New York million,
aire, has left a million dollars, to be ap
plied to the education of colored chil
dren in the South. A noble bequest.
It. B. Elliott, the colored thief who
ban been nominated for Attorney-Gen
eral of South Carolina, says he never
denounced Chamberlain as a felon. He
gives the Reformer a character. Who
will give one to Elliott ?
The indications are that Augusta will
do an unusually heavy cotton business
this season. On account of the yellow
fever epidemic in Savannah a good deal
of cotton which formerly went to that
city is coming to Augusta.
We finish this morning the publica
tion of Judge Black’s letter to General
Garfield. We make no apology for the
space it occupies, as we could not fur
nish more acceptable matter. The let
ter is praised iu the highest terms by
press and public.
Mr. E. H. Puohe desires us to correct
a mistake in the paragraph announcing
a change in the ownership of the Con
stitutionalist which appeared in the
Chronicle and Sentinel of yesterday
morning. Mr. Pcohe says he is still
one of the proprietors of the paper.
Mb. Jas. G. Thompson, who has for a
long time been the editor of Chamber
lain’s personal organ, the Columbia
Union-Herald, has taken his name from
the head of columns, and
stepped down aud oat. He could not
stomach the nomination of Elliott as
Attorney-General. '
Readers of th • Constitutionalist don’t
know whether there are any Democratic
candidates for the Legislature in Rich
mond county, or whether there is a
Democratic candidate for Senator from
the Eighteenth Senatorial District. The
' talk of Randall & Cos. aud the “oldest
Democratic paper” is all of indepen
dents.
It is reported that Major Merrill,
the rascally ent-throat who draggooned
South Carolina several years ago, and
received $35,000 for his services, is oom
ing back to that State with three hun
dred oolored oavalry. As there are no
colored cavalry, aud as the infamous
Merrill is Packard’s right bower in
Louisiana, the report is hardly correct.
We understand that it is iu contem
plation to have a mammoth Democratic
meeting in this city towards the end of
the mouth. General Colvjuitt will be
here, and efforts will doubtless be made
to secure the attendauce of General
Gordon, Mr. Hill, Governor Smith,
General Lawton aud Mr. Stephens.
We hope the effort will be successful.
We ueed a Democratic “ ronsement ” iu
this section of the State.
Messrs. R. G. Dun & Cos. have pub
lished their list of failures in the United
States aud Canada for the first half of
the present year, side by side with the
failures for the first half of 1875. A
table gives the total iQ each State, both
in number and amount. The whole
number of failures for the first months
of 1876 was 4,600, and the gross amount
$108,415,429, against 3,563 in uumber
and $76,844,266 in amount in 1875. In
Georgia, there were 113 failures, to the
gross amount of $2,747,591 iu 1876
against 112 in number aud $3,947,130 in
amount in 1875.
Arran the October elections, the National
Committee has arranged to send a Union brig
ade, consisting of twelve strong speakers, all
of them ec-lfajor-Generals in the Union
Army, into the Southern States, to speak until
the Presidential eleo ion. Mr. Chan dues be
lieves that with an effective canvass six South
ern States cau be carried for Hayls and
Whkeler, aud such a canvass will be made
General Banes and Stkwakt L. Woodford will
be among the twelve who have agreed to go.
Let the “Union brigade” oomo along.
The South is able to furnish suitable
entertainment. If they come to Geor
gia special care will be taken of them
We will put against them speakers
whom they will find foemeu worthy
of their steel. We welcome the “Union
brigade.”
San Francisco is jubilant over the
laying of the last rail ou the Southern
Pacific Railroad, connecting that oity
with Los Angeles. The distance be
tween the two points is 470 miles. Los
Angeles is eonneeted with the mail)
trunk liue by a branch. The formei
now extends to a point in a direct line
for the Colorado river. It is expected
that the unfinished link will be complet
ed by the Ist of January, 1877. The
trank line of the Sontberu Pacific will
then be 750 miles long, or abont the
length of the Central Pacific Bailroad.
Wheu this additional short link is com
pleted, the road will reach the borders
of Arizona Territory, and San Francisco
expects to do e large business with that
immense conutry, with its great re
sources.
In the account of the recent meeting
of the South Carolina Democracy at
Beech Island, South Carolina, published
in the Xeu-s and Courier, we find tht
following mention of Hon. W. D. Tttt,
of McDuffie connty, one of the speakers
of the occasion :
The next speaker was Col. W. D. Terr, a
prominent lawyer of McDuffie comity, Ga.,
who engaged the attention of the meeting for
an boor. Col- Terr's address was a masterly
attempt, clearly evincing to all who heard it
Ilia eloquence as an orator, his depth ol
thought aa a sound aud original thinker, and
his peculiar grace of diction. Col. Ttrrr has
eat in the Legislature of Georgia, and is a
man c# note, ffa said that he came to Sonth
Carolina inspired with an unbounded love for
her soil, her people and her fame; his fathei
had lived within her borders, his kindred rest
ed upon her boeom. He spoke of himself on
ly as the bearer of glad tidings from Georgia,
gave a graphic account of the redemption cf
his own State, drew a vivid picture of our
loved bat "prostrate State," her woes and
danger*, and dosed hie address with the as
surance that Georgia “was watching us,” and
if danger threatened us, if violence was prac
ticed upon ns, then the “tramp, tramp, the
boys are coming” would be heard along the
border. Col. Ttrrr took hie seat- amid pro
longed applause, and it is to be hoped that he
trill favor ns with another visit soon.
THE .ill -i: HP Tiri.BM.
I The last number of the Galaxy con
tains a timely and vigorous protest against
the common absurdity committed by
women in nssnming the titles that prop
ly belong to their husbands. The ar
ticle instances the Mrs. Majors, Mbs.
Generals, Mrs. Doot bs, Mbs. Gov
ernors, Mbs. Judges and Mrs. Secre
taries of State, so common in Ameri
! can life, and indignantly calls a halt,
j Every sensible person will agree with
! the writer in the Galaxy as to the ab
| surdity of these prefixes to the names
; of the wives of Smith, Brown, Jones
1 and Robinson and wish him success in
j bis crusade against such a manifestly
vulgar custom. We are afraid, how
ever, that he does not strike deep
enough. The men must be broken
of the abuse of titles befora the women
can be reached. Women will continue
to Mrs. Major and Mrs. Doctor each
other so long ksevery man in respectable
society has a handle to his name. Nearly
every person one mee‘s in the street
now-a-days is a Colonel, and the rest
are Judges and Generals. In the South
we are greatly given to clapping titles to
persons names, and John Phcbvtx’s
Western joke of the man who, when
leaving a crowd of strangers on a steam
boat wharf, by calling out “ good-bye,
Colonel,” received a volley of “ take
care of yourself, ole fel,” is peculiarly
appropriate to this section. The prac
tice lias been carried to such an extent
here since the war that sensible men,
really having a right to a title, have
grown disgusted and begged to let it be
dropped. Notably, General Brecken
ridge, when trying a oanse at Lexing
ton, after his return from Europe, re
quested a brother lawyer, who spoko of
him as “ General,” to call him simply
“ Mr. Breckenridoe.” If titles were
confined to those who had some right
to them, or if the right titles were given,
it wonld be bad enough, for in this
country so many men have held office of
some description that the streets of
every city are filled with military heroes
and civic dignitaries. But bad as that
is it is infinitely worse when we reflect
that fully half the men who respond to
the call of “ Colonel” were never in
the army and that nine-tenths of the
“Judges” were never on the bench.
Men are even promoted regularly as if
regular soldiers. We protest that we
have known men starting among us
plain Mister who rose by regular grada
tion to be Captains, Majors and Colo
nels ! Every man who is at all promi
nent at the bar is a Judge, every man who
runs for any office no matter how insig
nificant is Honorable, and every man in
any walk of life at all well known is
Colonel. A man who once has a title
always has a title. It clings to him like
a burr to a sheep’s wool, and there is no
getting rid of it, no mattar how annoy
ing or inappr priate it may be. On the
other hand occasionally a man misses a
title justly his due, and we know of one
or two men who received most flattering
promotion in the army yet who have
escaped any military prefix in civil life.
But these are shining exceptions to the
general rule. So prevalent has become
the habit of bestowing titles that it
is no unusual thing for two gen
tlemen when introduced to accost ■
each other as Colonel. If the stranger
shows age and is known to be a lawyer
he is probably saluted as Judge. Astute
politicians take advantage of the pre
vailing mania and have no acquaint
ances below the grade of Judge or
Colonel. The custom has become an
intolerable nuisance and exposes the
Southern people to the ridicule of edu
cated aud refined strangers who travel
in this section. Can nothing be done to
abate it ? As we have societies for the
promotion of temperance, societies for
the prevention of cruelty to animals, and
societies for the suppression of vice, can
we not have in each community a society
for Hie suppression of titles ? Let us
declare that we will set our faces sternly
against all Judges and Honorables ex
cept where the persons addressed adtually
occupy official position, aud that we will
abandon the idiotic habit of calling
every man we meet Major and Colonel.
Let us increase the number of Misters
and eliminate the civic and military dig
nitaries from society as much as possible.
When this is done the women will stop j
Mrs. Doctoring and Mrs. Majoring 1
each other.
1 M
THE FOLLIES OF FASHION.
Reverend Lovick Pierce, D. D., the i
venerable father in Israel who so long
has labored in the Southern vineyard,
has written a sharp newspaper article
on the follies of fashionable feminiue
dress. The Doctor’s words are addressed
to the uuder-graduates of Wesleyan |
Female College, but they will apply i
with equal force to women everywhere ’
else. He says:
In one thing only am I sadly disappointed in
the education of the daughters of oar day. I
hid supposed a good education would restore
to our women moral coarage enough to make
them contemn the abuormal taste for sensuous
fashions, and restore to society a race of wo
men whose better cultivated minds would so
utterl ’ abhor and shun these abnormal tastes
as to furnish the church and the world with
irresistible proofs that great minds never i
yield to little self-debasing aocommodat ons.
but stand firmly by normal eleganoe aud pro- [
priety. But alas ! even among our graduates,
on the stage itself, composition in hand, may
be seen fashions which no one—not even the
subject herself—can ever believe to be the
fruit of great-mindness—snob as a draggle-tail
a yard long, in her own way, and ev -rybody
else's way that has any proximity to her. Aud
aa min 1 has to be employed in all of our volun
tary arrangements, whatever in them cannot
be traced to graat-mindness must be to'it tie
mindness. There is no middle way. This is
but one of many evidences, that anything like
submission to a fashion merely to be iu fash
ion. is a great weakness, and more likely to be
set down to a constitutional female imbecility
than anything else, and when cast against me
by the deniers of woman's equal endowments,
lam hors de coinbat. X can say no more; for I
when one of these barbarian minnifiers of wo- I
man appeals in proof of his doctrine to the
long trail of costly muslins scraping the fioor, j
and to the body of the dress pinned back to 1
immodest tightness, rs proof of a native weak- j
miadedne**, I am dumb. I respectfully ask
onr Wesleyan Female College graduates, must
I give up ? Greatness and littleness are two—
not one.
Dr. Pierce is not at all too severe in
his condemnation of the ugly and some j
times indeceut attire which the Goddess
oi Fashion decrees her votaries shall i
wear, bat we are very confident his ful
minations against folly will have but lit- 1
tie effect. It is not in this age alone that j
lovely woman has stooped to folly at the i
behests of Fashion. So far as history i
has informed ns on this subject woman’s
dress has in every age provoked the
censure and aroused the sarcasm of man.
But we have yet to learn that censure or l
sarcasm corrected any of the abuses at
which they were aimed. We who make
sach a monstrous outcry over blond
wigs, puli backs and panniers should
recollect that the women of to-day are bnt
following in the footsteps of their grand
mothers—are neither worse nor better
than their ancestors. Fashion held as
imperious sway among the ancients as
the moderns, and made her votaries wor
ship in as eccentric style three hundred
years ago as now. To female fashion as
to everything else may the mournful
words of the Preacher in Ecclesiastes he
fitly applied, “Thething that hath been,
it is that which shall be; and that
which is done is that which shall be
done, and there is no new thing under
the san.” Three hundred years ago
Michael Montaigne tells ns of women
who swallowed sand and ashes to get
pale complexions. Tight-lacing was also
in vogue then as now, for the philoso
pher says: “To make a fine Spanish,
slender waist what racks will they not
endure, in tightening and bracing, till
they have notched in their sides, cut to
the quick, aye sometimes to the death.”
Our modern belles scarcely draw the
corset strings any tighter than this, and
and the cosmetics which are now ap
plied locally to gives fair skin are hard
ly worse than internal applications of
sand and ashes. Seven hundred years
before the time of the wise and witty
Frenchman, Ovid, the poet laureate of
the court of Love had sung:
“By dress we’re won; gold, gems and rich bro
cades
Make up the pageant that yonr heart invades;
In all that glittering figure which yon see,
The far least part of her own self is she;
Tn vain for her voiFltve amidst snch cost
Yon search, the mistress in such dress is
lost.”
Those who think the passion for yel
low hair, which two years ago set all the
ladies wild, was the fruit of the present,
age are mistaken. As early as the seven
teenth century the women of Venice
“oountrefeited yellow hair,” “calamin
strated and ourled it up,” and “adorned
their heads with spangled pearls and made
flowers. ” Ad English writer of the same
period complained as bitterly as we do
of the constantly changing fashions.
He says of the women of that
day: “They crush in their feet
and bodies, hurt and orucify them
selves, sometimes in lax clothes,
a hundred yards, I think, in a gown,
and sometimes, again, so close as to be
indecent. Now long tails and trains,
and short, up, down, high, low, thick,
thip, Ac., now little or no bands, then
as big as cart wheels; now loose bodies,
then great fardingales and close
girt.” Even the prophet Is/iah
complained of the daughters of
Zion: “They minced as they went,
and made a tinkling with their feet.”
Who can doubt that this “mincing” of
the daughters of Zion was the result of
the first form of the pull-back. The
immense hoops and tilters which shock
ed mankind a few years ago seemed
just as monstrous in the golden reign fcf
good Queen Anne, when they furnished
a target for the shafts of the wits of
those days and provoked the good-na
tured railery of the Spectator. The
“draggle tails” of the sweet girl gradu
ates of the Wesleyan College which so
shocked Dr. Pierce, and doubtless all
of the men present at com nencement,
are no new things under the sue. They
were worn hundreds of years ago, and
they will be worn hundreds of years
hence. Fashion, like most things else,
moves in a circle. The train of to-day
is succeeded by short skirts to morrow,
but ’ere loDg the revolving seasons will
bring round the train again. The east
off garments of one season will be the
mode a few years later. The press may
lecture, the pulpit condemn and wit
ridicule the absurdities of the garb
which covers the female form divine,
but they will do so to no avail. Since
the day that Mother Eve made fig leaves
the mode woman has ruled supreme in
the sphere of fashion, and she will sway
the sceptre till the end of time. No
matter how absurd or immodest may be
the shape her fancy takes, neither ser
mons nor sarcasm will alter the decree.
Mankind may us well let them alone,
and turn their attention to the fashions
for their own sex, which sometimes
make men, in outward appearance at
least, a living proof of the correctness of
the Darwinian theory. Let men first eman
cipate themselves from the tyranny
which one day clothes their limbs iu
bags, the next in garments tighter than
the skin; which at one time drops the
coat to the knees, at another contracts
it abqve the waist; which alternately
covers the head with stove pipes and
umbrellas; and whieh exhausts the hues
of the rainbow in finding c .dors for his
plumage.
COLORED MEN ANO THE DEMOCRACY.
On the surface the Charleston riot seems
to have resulted from negro vi >lenoe and out
rage perpetrated under the impulse of party
passions. A Republican negro organization
assaulted a Democratic negro organization,
and it is probable enough that there exists
amo g the Republican negroes a spirit of
fieroe intolerance against people of their r&ca
who act with the Democratic party. It iB quite
natural that they should regard colored Demo
crats as renegades and traitors, considering
the kind of influence under which the nsproes
have acquired their imperfect political educa
tion. But the enlightened friends of peace
aud order in the South ought to recognize this
inevitable tendency in the negro mind and to
discourage all movements calculated to arouse
it. When they inspire and aid the formation
of negro Democratic clubs they offer a need
less provocation to the passions and prejudices
of the mass of the colored population. It is
not to be presumed that the negroes wonld
organize Democratic dubs without white insti
gation ; but Democrats ought to co rt the ne
gro vote by methods which do not tend so di
reotlv to breaches of the peace. —New York
Herald.
For frosty impudence commend us to
the above. A great journal, professedly
independent in political affairs, coolly
informs the world that it is dangerous
for colored men in the South to join the
Democratic party, and advises Southern
white men not to let them organize
Democratic clubs. The Herald seems
to think it altogether natural that the
colored men in South Carolina who
joins the Democratic party should be
looked npon as “renegades and traitors,”
and that the white people should not
induce them to vote against the thieves
who have for so long a time ruled and
robbed the State. We are calmly told
that the whites when they induce col
ored men to unite with them for the
redemption of the State in which
both races have a common interest,
“offer a needless provocation to the
passions aud the prejudices” of the ne
groes who remain in the Republican
ranks. Was ever snch a monstrous doc
triue enunciated before: White men
, shall not seek the aid of black men in
j rescuing a State from the hands of
rogues, and the oolored men who dare
to act with the whites in accordance
with the dictates of their judgment
are to be maltreated and murdered with
impunity! We hope the whites of
South Carolina will not cease their!
efforts to win the blacks over to the
cause of Hampton and honest govern
ment, and we hope that they fill protect
to the last extremity the colored men
who join them from the assanlts and
violence of Radical mobs, the Herald
to the contrary notwithstanding.
Hex. Hexrx R. Harris was renomina
ted for Congress in the Fourth District j
on tho one hundred and twenty-eighth
ballot. He came near being defeated,
but the opposition failed to unite, and
he finally won the day. All of the mem
bers of Congress from Georgia have
been renominated, except Dr. Felton,
in the Seventh, and he was elected in
187 fas an Independent Democrat.
.?
War has been declared between Mr.
John L. Conley, who has been recently
ousted from his position as Collector of
Internal Revenue, and Captain John E.
Brtaxt, Chairman of the Repubjipah
State Executive Committee. We pub
lish Mr. Corlet’s letter this morning
and at the request of Captain Bryant
give his denial of the chargee made
ftg&iofit hip?,
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1876.
THE LAST COTTON CROP.
What is known as the cotton year
ended August 31st, 1876. From the
Financial Chronicle and Journal of
Commerce we get some valuable statis
tics concerning the great staple of the
South. The cotton crops of the last
years are given as follows:
„ 1874-5 1875-6.
Receipts at the ports. ..3,503,691 4,191-142
SeDt overland to manufac
turers •... 191.604 333 146
Consumed at the South.. 126.550 145.000
Total crop .3,827.845 4,669.288
From tbe-e figures it will be seen that
the crop of 1875 6 was Dearly a million
bales larger (in exact numbers 841,443
bales), than the crop of the previous
year. The crop of 1876-6 is larger than
the crop of any preceding year except
1859 60, when it reached 4,669,770 bales,
and 1661 2, when it was estimated at
4,800,000 bales. The Sea Island crop
continues to decrease. The total for the
year just closed was 14,996 bales, against
16,687 for 1874 5, and 19,912 for 1872 4.
The largest crop was in 1858 9, when the
total reached 47 592 bales. Of the last
year’s crop, 8,950 bales were from Flori
da, 1,213 from Georgia, 4,756 from South
Carolina, and 77 from Texas.
Home CoDMumptioo of Cotton.
North of Virginia. Elsewhere. Total
1853-V 665 718 154,218 819.986
1857- 452,185 143.376 595 562
1858- 700,218 167,433 927,651
1859- 885.521 185.522 972 048
1860- 650.357 193 883 843.740
1865- 594,000 72.000 666.000
1866- 690,000 80,000 770,000
1867- 884.281 81,385 965.666
1868- 846.756 79.498 926 254
1869- 777,341 85,265 862,606
1870- 1.072.426 94,542 1,166 968
1871- 1,007.540 1 30.000 1,137,540
1872- 1,063 465 137.662 1,201,127
1873- 1,192.563 128,526 1,321,089
1874- 1,073.923 126,550 1.200,473
1875- 1,211,593 145,000 1,356,598
Considerably more than two-thirds of
the crop find a market in Europe, but
the consumption in the United States is
steadily increasing. Notwithstanding
the hard times and the suspension of so
many cotton mills home consumption
the past year exceeded the home con
sumption of 1874-5 by 156,000 bales.
Comparative Crop Statement.
Bales. Bales.
1820- 430.000 1848-9 2,728 696
1821- 455.000 1349-50 2,096 706
1822- 495,000 1850-1 2.355 257
1823- 509,158 1851-2 3,015029
1824- 569.249 1852-3 3.262 882
1825- 720,027 1853-4 2,930’027
1826- 957.281 1854-5 2,847’839
1827- 7 7.593 1855-8 3 527 845
1828- 870,415 1856-7 3,930’519
1829- 976,845 1857-8 3.113 902
1830- 1,038,848 1858-9 3.851 481
1831- 987.477 1859-60 4.669 770
1832- 1,070.438 1860-1 3.656 086
1833- 1.205.324 'B6l-2.(e5t,).4.80 i,0"0
1834- 1,254,828 1862-3.(est.). 1,500 000
1835- 1,360,725 1863-4. (est.). 5110 000
1836- 1.422.930 1864-s.(est.). SOO’OOO
1887-8 1,801.497 1865-6 2.154 476
1838- 1,860.532 1866-7 1,951,988
1839- 2.177 835 1867-8 2,430 893
1840- 1,634 945 1868-9 2,260 557
1841- 1,6*3 574 1869-70 .8. ...3,114.692
184-2-3 2 373.875 1870—1 4.347 006
1843-4 2.030 4‘9 1871- 2.974.35'
18 4-5, 2.384 603 1872- 3.930.508
1845- 2,1 0.533 1873-4 4.170.388
1846- 1.778.651 1874-5 3.827.8i5
1847- 2,347,634 1875-6 4 669.28s
The following are curefully preparer
tables, whieh should be preserved lor
reference :
Highest and Lowest Price of middling Up
land Cotton at New York Duriug Each
Week of the Year Ending AugnstSl, 1876.
Wee ( High- Low- week H gh- Low
ending— eel. eat. ending— est. ’ eat
Sept. 8, ’76 .14)5 14Jg Mch. 10, ’76..12V 12k
S pt. 15. ...14 7-16 J4X Mch. 17 )2K 12k
Sept. 22 14# 13X Mch. 24 18 5-16 ls
Sept. 29... .1314 1314 Mch SI 13k 13 5-16
Ovt. 6 1314 1314 April 7 13k 13k
Oct 13.... 13)4 13k April 14 13k 13V
Oct. 20 14 7-16 14 April 21 13V 13V
Oct. 27... 14)4 14k April 21 13V 12k
Nov. 4 ...14k 13k May 5 12k 12 9-16
Nov. 11 1-k 131-6 May 12 12 9-16 12V
Nov. 18 .. .13k l k May 59 12k 12 3-16
Nov. 25.... 13 7-16 .314 May 26 lv nv
Deo. 2....13k 13 116 June 2 12 Ilk
Dec. 9 ... 13,k 13 1-16 | June 9 .. .12 1-16 1115-16
Dec. 16 .. 13 6-16 13k June 16 12V 12
Dec. 23.. 13 5-16 13 516 | June 23 12k 12V
Deo. 30. ...13k 13# | June 30 12k 12
Jan. 6, >76.13 6.16 13k I July 7 12 Ilk
Jan. 13.... 3 5-16 13k [ July 14 Ilk Ilk
Jan. 20....13k 13 | July 21 Ilk 1115-16
Jan. 27. ~l3k 13 July 28 Ilk 1111-6
Feb 3....13k 13 |A g. 4 2 Ilk
Feb. 10 13 1-16 12 1-16 | Aug. 11 12 5-16 12
Feb. 17 ..13 12k Aug. 18 1 k 12 5-16
Feb. 24. ...12k 12k I Aug. 25 12k 12k
Mch, 3 . 12k 12k I Aug. 81 12 116 Ilk
Highest and Lowest Prices of .Midland Up
land Cotton in Each of the Calendar Years
Named at the City of New York: '
Highest Lowest Highest Lowest
price price p.ice price
1825 27 13 1851 14 8
1826 14 9 1852 10 8
1827 12 8 1853 11 10
1828 13 9 1854 10 8
1829 11 8 1855 11 7
1830 13 8 1856 12 9
1831 11 7 1*67 15 13
1832 12 7 1858 13 9
1833 17 9 1859 12 11
1834 16 10 > 860 11 '0
1835 20 15 1861 28 11
1836 20 12 1862 68 20
1837 17 7 1863 88 54
1838 12 9 1864 190 72
1839 16 11 1865 122 33
1840... 10 8 1866 52 82
1841 11 9 1867 .'..36 151
1842 9 7 1868 33 16
1843 .8 5 1869 35 25
1844 9 5 1870 ; ..25 15
1845 9 4 1871 251 141
1846 9 6 1872 25| 184
1847 12 7 1873 21l 134
1848 8 5 1874 184 144
1849 11 6 1875 174131-16
1850 14 11 1876 (to S’ept.
A REPUBLICAN LAW.
The first week in next month Georgia elects
a Governor and Legislature. The Democrats
will carry the State by forty or fifty thousand
majority, and have the Legislature by a ma
jority of ten or twelve to one. In November
they will carry the State for Tilden by an
equally large majority, and elect a solid Demo
cratic delegation to Congres *. In a previous
letter I have described how it is they.happen
to have so large a majority, as it were. The
whites outnumber the blacks about one hundred
thousand. Still, in the Northern part of the
State, particularly, so many whites voted the
Republican ticket that the Republicans had a
majority. Then the Republican enthusiasts
and equality dreamers at Washington, having
been made mad by the gods, who firs* make
mad and then destroy, passed the Civil Rights
bill, which annihilated the Republican party in
Georgia, carrying at least nineteen out of
every twenty white Republicans over to the
Democrats. Since then there have been whole
oounties in Georgia without a single white
Republican! In this way the Democrat j got
all the power, and passed a series of laws to
entrench themselves. The most effective—
even beating the efficient “peaos law” of Ala
bama—is the tax law. by which every voter
(every negro, certainly) must pay his previous
yen's taxes before he can vote. In this way
between thirty and forty thousand Macks are
virtually disfranchised. I de not discuss the
theory of the measure, or the justice of re
quiring a tax receipt from a voter as a con
dition precedent to his voting, but merely
state the fact,
The above is an extract from a letter
written to the Cincinnati Commercial
by its traveling correspondent in the
South and republished in the Consti
tutionalist of this city. We are a little
astonished that a Georgia newspaper
should copy without comment a state
ment which displays such gross igno
rance of State affairs. The Demo
crats of Georgia had nothing to do
with the imposition of the poll tax as a
condition precedent to exeroising the
right of suffrage. The Coost-itation of
1868, which was framed by a Republican
convention and adopted by the Republi
can vote, imposed the poll tsx and made
its payment a pre-requisite to voting.
The convention levied this ta* osten
sibly to aid the cause of education and
declared that all the money arising from
it should be applied to educational
purposes. Another olause of the same
Constitution, made by Republicans and
adopted by Republicans, provides that
no person shall be allowechto vote who
has not paid all taxes for the year pre
ceding the election. The statutes upon
this subject were enacted to carry out
the requirements of'the Constitution.
If “thirty or forty thousand blacks were
virtually disfranchised" by this law they
were disfranchised by the carpet-bag
gers, scalawags and colored men who
made the Constitution under which the
people of this State now live. The
Democrats did not ma£e the lav for thp
purpose of eatrenohing themselves in
power. They did not make it at all.
They had nothing whatever to do with
it. They voted against its enactment.
It became a law in spite of theif earnest
opposition. When tjey obtained con
trol of the State goernment they sim
ply enforced the acli which they fonnd
on the statute book; and which, being
a portion of the law, they had
no power to repeal, j The tax ia a mode
rate one which ever; voter can pay and
is devoted to a gooejeause. Bat be this
as it may, whethej it works good or
evil, the Republican of Georgia im
posed it and are responsible for its
effects. Northern papers which de
nounce the law s an ontrage npon
colored men may fi 1 their indignation
cooled by reflection npon its origin.
BENJAMB H. HILL.
What aa Admirer 1 Inks of “Our Ban.”
Editors Chronicle t id Ssntinel :
Unanimously aa by acclamation,
who would have thoi ;ht it 1 Noteventhe
redoubtable Hill.hinself, and yet such
it turned out to be. Certainly it is one
of the most brilliant victories of the
Georgia campaign and showers the lau
rel upon big Bens brqw as thick as Val
vmbrosa’s leaves Iq 1874 the Congres
sional Couvenlion /of the Sixth,
now the Ninth District, assembled
at Cleveland, White county, Geor
gia. Before tha/ Convention were
two candidates —the lamented Garnet
McMillan and Qnjamin H. Hill, of
Clarke. The forner, in the full tide of
popularity, a hare}’ mountaineer, a leg
islator of consideable renown,was easily
elected by his ardpt friends. The lat
ter held in disfavt? abroad, quarantined
by envy at home, mrrounded by preju
dice on all sides, despite his acknowl
edged ability wq defeated. Hardly
eight months hadpassed, however, be
fore McMillain’s death brought Hill
again before the people. His friends,
more numerous anl zealous than before,
rallied around hip and for eight days
pressed his clain} at the Gainesville
Convention. The; were unsuccessful.
He never securjd'a plurality of votes,
and when at last the Convention ad
journed the opposiion, which was also
the majority, place} their candidate, J.
B. Estes, of Hall, h the race, And the
field looked murkyto the tribe of Ben
jamin. And justly so; for when we re
member that in .thsConvention prior to
thiß Hill had beei beaten; in this one
was opposed by very nearly two
thirds of the delegates, it is evi
dent that the odd} were against him.
But his canvass before the people was
vigorous and successful. Throughout
the length and beadth of the Ninth,
from the mountain ridges to the river
valleys, from CurrQjee to Oconee, rang
forth the matchless eloquence of Ben
Hill, and when upon the 6th of May,
1875,6,385 of his fellow-citizens sustained
him in his hazardous campaign, it opened
a brighter wa t. That Hill’s amnesty
speech gained for him thousands of
votes and thousands of hearts in the
Ninth cannot,De denied, and indeed his
unanimous nomination at Gainesville
last Wednesday was a most cordial en
dorsement cf this speech. Many of the
hardy pioneers of the district, whose
judgment pad been perverted by preju
dice, could not fail to admire the com
plete and manly vindication of the
South, apd the reaction in his favor
proves weighty and irresistable. Now
just here,a few words as to this famous
effort.
Should Ben Hill have answered
Blaine’s slanders? The voters of this
district'have insisted that in doing so he
did right. Many the contrary affirm,
and indeed it may be well briefly
to analyze the “why and wherefore.”
The main argument of the disaffected is
that it was impolitic. Qnare ? The
question was not upon States right
principles, nor did it devolve upon war
issues. It was a question of humanity
or barbarism. It was a charge which
alleged that Northern prisoners of war
had been treated in a manner worthy
only of the Sioux savages, a oharge
which reflected, not upon the war
policy, but upon the humanity, upon
the good name of an entire people and
demanded “ proof, retraction, or in
famy.” It was not to dispute our right
to secede, our willingness to reunite,
but our claim to the friendship of civil
ed nations. It has been ingeuiously
argued that the very fact of Blaine’s
party being in the minority then an '
there, and Hill’s in the ascendency, was
itself a refutation of the slander. Bui.
we apprehend not. There were many
Northern Democrats to whom the al
leged Andersonville atrocities had al
ways been inexplicable, many friends of
the South, unfamiliar with the facts
and statistics, to whom they had ever
appeared horrible. And, indeed, Mr.
Hill, in his Griffin speech the other
day, announced that as the proudest
day of his life which brought
from England a letter, thanking him in
behalf of a Briton, for clearing away
that which had ever seemed an incubus
noon the noble record of a noble people.
Nor indeed' did Mr. Stephens, in his
“War Between the States,’’.consider it a
matter unworthy of refutation. For
our part, we care not what Blaine’s pur
pose may have been. He is welcome to
any political capital which he may have
villainously secured. We contend that
Hill came off thrice victor, and is the
spolia opima which attest his triumph;
gleams that which, to his people, is as
dear as “honor to a man or chastity to a
woman,” Nor can we, in lauding his
readiness to repel this foul-mouthed
slander, find words more fitting than that
memorable sentence of the subtlest sage
and truest statesman of them all, “If
Centralism is ultimately to prevail; if
our entire system of free institutions is
to be subverted, amidst our own ruins,
bereft of fortunes and estates as well as
liberty, with nothing remaining to us
but a good name, unsullied and untar
nished, we will, in the common misfor
tunes, still cling to the ‘Land of Memo
ries.’ ”
And why, we beg, should the Soqth
leave such matters to “History,” to ad
just and vindicate. Why convey them
to some critical Macauley, some parti
san Hume, some erratic Parley, some
unsympathizing Addison, when the
logic of Stephens and the eloquence of
Hill have arrayed the facts and clamped
the falsehood firm. What safter ad
justment than the adjustment of to-day;
what more complete vindication than
the vindication of her sons ?
It is indeed a proud day for the Geor
gia Democracy, when it unanimously
returns to the National councils Steph
ens and Hill, the mighty leaders, hon
ored parties of yore, to join hands
against corruption. The peerless tri
bunes of a struggling people, respected
by their opponents, honored by their
constituency, admired by the world,
form a bright decade of statesmanship'
in our checkered history.
Stephens and Hill! The embodiment
of wisdom, the model of eloquence; the
paragon of statesmanship, the mightiest
of advocates!
The one, like a clear, lucid stream,
froin springs as pure as the golden
fount of Pazadora, flows on quietly,
steadily and slowly, with the depth of
“still waters”—sparkling withal in the
sunlight of a closing day.
The ether, like a glaoier from the
mountain's snmmit, gliding along the
rugged ridges, marked with morraines
it may fee, dented with an occasional
crevasee, ologged at steps by boulders,
yet bearing ail before it, moves on calm
ly and gravely, until finishing its mighty
career it floats off into the ocean majes
tically away.
McDuffie county.
Meeting of the Snperinr Conn,
Superior Court met at Thomson, tfo-
Duffie county, yesterday rqorning, his
Honor Judge Gibson presiding.
The grand jury is composed of the fol
lowing gentlemen :
Andrew J. Story, Foreman* John M.
Curtis, John R. Wilson, Davis B. Dad
ley, Edger M. Fitts, Thomas R. Young,
John R. Radford, Thad R. Wilson. Jas.
B. Wallis, Elam F. Ansley, Robert F.
Fsrr, John Hughes, Middleton Parish,
Andrew L. Hillman, Seaborn Ivey, Wm.
Davy, Elias J. Wilson, Joseph J. Harri
son, George P. Armstrong, Henry A.
Dozier, George P. Stovall, Clerk.
The ijollowing attorneys were all in at
tendant yesterday :
Local Bar—W. D. Tutt, J. B.
P. C. Hudson. H. C. Roney, Jj. H. W.
Ifeal. • ■ ’
Visiting Attorneys—M. P, Carroll. F.
T. Lockhart, Soficitbr-Ge&eral Daven
port Jackson; O. S. Da Bose, Gen. Bobt.
Toombs, M. P. Reese.
There' are very few cases on the
docket. .
In response to tEe invitation of the
mass meeting on Monday last, to ad
dress toe people of Ifewton county, at
the Court House, on the political issues
of the day, Hon. T. M. Norwood writes
to Dr. J. J. Dearing, Chairman of the
Executive Committee, that he will do so
on Wednesday neat, the 27th inat.
LATEST FROM THE FRONT.
THE FEDERAL TROOPS IN
OHARGE.
One Wkite Man Killed and One Wounded
Monday— .Several Negroes Killed Death
of an Ex-Member of the Legislature— I The
Rifle Clnbs Disperse and Leave the Matter
in the Hands of the United States Soldiers.
Yesterday morning almost as many
rumors as were circulated the previous
day were flying about the eity, in ref
erence to the South Carolina troubles.
A different report could be obtained at
every street corner. About 11 o’clock
we saw a telegram from a young man
from this city, who was at the scene of
the disturbance, to his employer, stat
ing that a fight had occurred the night
previous and that two white men
had been killed. A little later
another telegram was received from
anofner party, announcing that Mr.
John Williams had been killed and Mr.
Samuel Dunbar wonmled, the previous
day. During the moniing several rifle
clnbs, mounted, from Edgefield connty,
crossed the bridge and rode down Broad
street towards Sand Bar Ferry, which
they intended to cross on their way to
Rouse’s bridge, Among these was
Captain Bussy’s company, twenty five
men, and Oapt. Bohler’s company, twen
ty men.
Upon the arrival of the Aiken accom
modation train we learned that the two
companies of Federal troops at Aiken re
ceived orders Monday night to
Proeeed at Once
To the scene of action, and at ten
o’clock, p. m., took up their line of
march aoross the country for Rouse’s
bridge. Three men from each company
were left at Aiken in charge of the oamp.
The distance from Aiken to the bridge
is about fifteen miles.
At eight o’olock the passenger train of
the Port Royal Railroad left the city
and proceeded to Ellenton, where it met
the np train, which reached that point
the day previous from Port Royal. The
first named train then returned to Au
gusta aDd the other to Port Royal, in
order that the regular schedule might
be resumed to-day. There were rumors
on the street that the train was compet
ed to return to Augusta on,account of
fighting going on along the line of the
railroad. Such, however, was not the
case. The train returned merely in or
der to enable the Superintendent to re
store the regular schedule to-day.
A white man named John Williams
was ambnshed by the negroes, near
Rouse’s bridge, Monday, and killed.
He was first fired upon* and wounded,
and then beaten to death with olnbs.
Mr. Sami. Dunbar was severely wound
ed. No regular fight took place Mon
day, but there were several skirmishes.
A brisk conflict occurred at Robbins, on
the Port Royal Railroad Monday
night, between a large body of ne
groes and a small force of whites. The
negroes finally retreated, leaving several
of their number dead and carrying off
their wounded. One white man, whose
name we did not learn,
Was Killed
And several were wounded. We were
unable to obtain any definite particu
lars. v
In the afternoon the rifle olnbs from
Edgefield passed through the city on
their way home. They reported that the
two companies of Federal troops reached
Rouse’s bridge early in the morning.
The officer in command had a confer
ence with Colonel A. P. Butler, and
promised that if the whites would dis
perse and go home he would disarm the
negroes and assist the civil authorities
in arresting those charged with crime,
including Frederick Fort,- the negro im
plicated in the assault on Mrs. Harley.
With this understanding the clubs left
the scene of the trouble and went home.
Wheu the troops arrived the whites had
the negroes, about three hundred in
number, surrounded, and would un
doubtedly have captured the entire
party. As they only desired to see the
law enforced, however, they quietly re
tired from the field and left it in control
of the United States soldiers. What
have the bloody shirt shriekers to say
to that ?
It is positively known that six ne
groes were killed during the trouble,
and it is said that others were shot in
the several skirmishes. Simon Coker,
an ex-member of the Legislature, who
was foremost in inciting the negroes to
deeds of violence and bloodshed, was
killed at Robbins yesterday morning
On his person were fonnd a number of
orders written by himself, directed to
negro captains, instrncting them to be
certain to kill the engineers on Port
Royal Railroad trains. There was also
found in one of his pockets a letter to
Governor Chamberlain. Another promi
nent negro named Mink Holland was
killed. Three dead negroes were lying
in the grass near the wrecked train at
Jackson Monday night.
Yesterday afternoon the construction
train, sent out Monday to repair the
track at Jackson, returned to the city.
About a dozen young men who went
down Monday morning came back on
this train. They reported that while
the train was running through a out
this side of Ellenton they saw a negro
on the bank above take
Deliberate Aim $
At one of the number. They immediate
ly fired upon him and he threw up his
arms and fell. It is supposed that he
was killed. Fifteen or twenty armed ne
groes were with him at the time. All
along the road they saw bands of armed
negroes but none of them, with the ex
ception of that named above, made any
demonstration towards the train.
The telegraph wire on the Port Royal
Railroad was ent again Monday night
at the same point where it was tapped
Sunday. It was repaired yesterday
morning.
From what we learned fronib parties
who returned from Rouse’s bridge last
evening, we are satisfied that between
twenty-five and thirty negroes were
killed in the different skirmishes. A
fight took place at the bridge Monday
night, daring whieh eight negroes were
killed and several white men wounded.
When the Federal troops reached the
bridge yesterday morning the clubs were
preparing to attack the negroes in the
swamp, bnt desisted at the request of
the Federal officer in oommand and
agreed to leave the matter in his hands,
as stated above.
Among other papers found on the
body of Mimon Coker was a list of prom
inent white citizens who were to be
killed and their honses burned.
Our speoial reporter arrived in town
last night and gave us the following ad
ditional particulars: “On Monday night
the sheriff of Aiken county came near
the scene of the riot, and asked if he
should send for United States soldiers
to assist the whites in making the ar
rest of the outlaws. The whites replied
that while they felt strong enough to
restore law and order, they thought it
might be more quickly done by the
presence of soldiers, and would fully co
operate with theca.
Tuesday morning, while the whites
were advancing upon the negroes* re
treat, they were met by United States
soldiers. They then held a consulta
tion with the officers, and upon their
assurance that the blacks would be dis
persed or arrested, the whites returned
to their homes. All is quiet and the
whites are satisfied that the soldiers
will keep it so.”
We understand that the whites num
bered about four hundred men yester
day morning.
Later details report that % lumber
train. which left Ellenton yesterday
morning was fired into at Bobbins by a
crowd of negroes. The train backed to
Ellenton, four miles distant, where it
was boarded by about twenty white
men. It then returned to Bobbins and
a hot fight ensqed between the whites
and blacks, flight negroes were killed
and a number wounded. Several whites
were wounded. The negroes fled and
the lumber train proceeded on its way.
Simon Coker was killed in tbis fight.—
The whites returned to Ellenton.
The proprietors of the three stores
in Bobbins closed them and left,
apprehending an attack from the ne
groes after the armed whites left. It
was expected that the negroes would
bum the three Stores last night.
Tho following telegram was received
late last night:
Eulbktok, September 19. —Everything
quiet beta, buf think the whites and
blacks are haying if at Bobbins ; won’t
say for certain, though have just seen a
fire away off. Don’t kapw’ anything
about it. Ttfo acmpanies of United
States troops will be here to-morrow.
We are all right and are guarding the
town. JL.
•f Barnwell Coaoty-A Ftht aafUtaHy
■ult—TSiree Haafori White Bw at Meet
praafc. ... ... -t-i
The excitement in Augusta in refer
ence to the Sooth Carolina troubles had
entirely subsided yesterday.
Upon the arrival of the Port Boyal
passenger train in the afternoon we ob
tained the following particulars from
parties just from Bobbins and Ellen ton:
No fighting occurred at Bobbins or
Ellenton Tuesday night, although trou
ble was expected. During the night a
strong force of blaoks visited the plan
tation of Mr. Joseph Ashley, four miles
from Bobbins, and burned his gm house
an i other buildings on the place. They
were attacked by a body of white men,
and a sharp skirmish ensued. It said
twelve negroes were killed and a number
of white men seriously wounded.
The negroes bushwhacked Deputy
Sheriff Jas. Pat erson, of Barnwell, and
Mr. Arthur Owens, while they were
riding along the highway, near Bobbins,
Tuesday night. Mr. Patterson was
Serfeaaly Wounded,
And a Dumber of balls passed through
Mr. Owens' elothing.
It is now certain that Mr. John Wil
liams and Mr. Bobert Williams were
both killed, the former near Bonne’s
bridge Sunday, and the latter at Bob
bins during the fight Monday night.
They were no relation. Mr. Sam’l Dun
bar and Mr. Sam’l Simpkins were pain
fully wounded. Messrs. Elmore Ashley
and B. J. Dnnbar, who were reported
killed Monday, were in the city yester
day.
Gen. Hagood was at Steel oreek yes
terday, with three hundred men. A
battle was expeoted at Hattieville last
night, as the negroes had threatened to
burn the plaoe.
It is not known positively how many
negroes have been killed in the varions
fights at Bouse’s bridge, Jaokson, Ash
ley’s and Robbins. The number is re
ported, however, to be from twenty to
thirty-five.
Mink Holland, one of the prime mo
vers in the trouble, at first reported
,killed, is alive and not hurt. When the
Federal troops reaohed Rouse's bridge
Mink Holland was with them, having
put himself under their protection.
Tuesday, night as a party of young
men were riding along the road near
Brook’s pond just beyond Hamburg,
they were
Fired Upon
By negroes who were hid in the bushes.
The young men immediately charged
the bushwhackers, but the latter had
fled and could not be found.
We learn that the negroes in Ham
burg are all armed and have assumed a
threatening attitude.
A portion of the Federal troops from
Aiken arrived at Ellenton yesterday
morning. The reminder are still at
Bonse’s bridge, but are expeoted at
Ellenton to-day.
Two companies of Federal troops,
sixty-five men, from Atlanta, passed
through Augusta on their way to Aiken
yesterday morning. Two more com
panies will arrive from Atlanta this
morning and prooeed to Aiken at once.
We have no information as to the reason
of the movement. Captain W. N. Mar
tin’s company, from Behoboth, Edge
field county, arrived in the oity at day
light yesterday morning, on their way to
the Barnwell troubles. The company
consisted of sixty men, well armed and
equipped—Dr. C. M. Burkhalter, Sur
geon. Captain J. P. Blackwell’s com
pany, from the Dark Corner of Edge
field county, reached here at sunrise,
also on their way to the scene of daDger.
This company mustered seventy-five
meD, well armed and equipped—Drs. J.
H. kT. E. Jennings, Surgeons. These
brave men were fully determinea to pro
tect to the last extremity the white peo
ple of the disturbed section from the
Violence of the negro ruffians who have
inaugurated insurrection and murder.
But when they learned that the United
States troops had succeeded in qnelling
the troubles, they promptly turned
their horses heads and returned home.
PARTISAN APPOINTMENTS.
Tvo Radicals to One Democrat at Every
Ballot Bax in Mouth CnrolltlfL*
[Special Dispatch to the News and Courier ]
Columba, S. C., September 18.—
Governor Chamberlain made pnblio to
day the following list of Commissioners
of Election. The names of Democrats
are in italics :
Abbeville Gouty—E. L. Tolbert, B.
R. Desverney, J. W. Perrin.
Aiken County—S. B Spencer, George
Washington, Cha les Edmondston.
Anderson County—J. B. Cochran, G.
D. Williams, James A. Hoyt.
Barnwell County—Abram Knopff, L.
N. Jeannerett, W.' T. Blanton.
Beaufort Connty—F. E. Wilder, J. C.
Richmond, B. B. Sams.
Charleston Connty—Timothy Hurley,
W. J. Brodie, James B. Campbell.
Chester County—T. M. Graham, J.
W. Gonrdine, W. A, Walker.
Chesterfield County—T. L. Weston,
S. W. Hampton, H. P. Duvall.
ClarendoD County—E. E. Dickson, J.
D. Warley, J. E. Davis.
Colleton Connty—A. C. Schaffer, A.
P. Holmes, J. J. Fox.
Darlington Connty—Bobert Lunney,
Benj. Marshall, Oeo. W. Dargan.
Edgefield Connty—Geo. W. Hilland,
Jesse Jones, C. L. B. Marsh.
Fairfield County—Joel Copes, John
Gibson, Henry S. Elliott.
Georgetown Connty—John A. How
ard, D. J. Wilson, Benj. Alston.
Greenville County—A. L. Cobb, F.
Williamson, W. T. Shumate.
Horry County—J. H. Durham, E. T.
Lewis, John Carney.
Kershaw County—J. F. Sutherland,
Ammon Reynolds, E. M. Boykin.
Lancaster County—J. C. Clinton, D,
O. Wolf, M. J. Hough.
Laurens County—Y. J. P. Owens, W.
H. Bntheford, W. L. Boyd.
Lexingtnn Connty—Henry M. Gross,
J. F. Jackson, George A. Kaminer.
Marlboro Connty—E. Townsend, C.
T. Stnbbs, J. D. Murchison.
Marion County—E. M. Stoeber, L.
F. Spencer, A. Q. McDuffie.
Newberry Connty—David T. Leapy,
Barnwell Boyd, Silas Johnson.
Oconee County—A. Bryoe, Jr., John
son Wright, Joseph E. Nevill.
Orangeburg County—B. H. Willough
by, B. B. Dnncan, Jas. H. Eowles.
Pickens County—Jeremiah Looper,
A. M. Folger, John R. Gossett.
Richland County—H. P. Johnson, J.
F. Ensor, F. W. McMaster.
Spartanburg Connty—S. T. Poinier,
Joseph M. Yonng, Sr., J, S. S. Thou
ron.
Sumter County—J, B. Johnston, Zao
ariah Walder, James B. Muldrow.
Union Connty James H. Goss,
Charles McJnnken, F. M. Farr.
Williamsbnrg Oounty—B. A. Swails,
E. W. Ferris, James McCutchen.
York Connty J. L. Watson, B. F.
Briggs, W. A. Moore.
THE COTTON CROP.
Nearli Fire Million Bale*.
New Orleans, September 19.—The
following is the official report of the Na
tional Cotton Exchange of the crop in
the United States for the year ending
August 31st: Total crop, 4,632,313 bales.
Receipts at the shipping ports, 4,195,-
671 bales. Exports to Great Britain,
2,019,799 bales; exports to Frano*, 466,-
874 bales; exports to the ooatinent, 684,-
046 bales; exports to channel ports, 71,-
634 bales; overland movement direct to
mills, 305.327 bales; Southern QCtnsnmp
tion, 133,537 bales, including that taken
from ports, 2,325, Stock at delivery
ports at olose of the year, 114671
bales. Sea Island prop, included in the
above, 14,530.
Washington, September 19k—The cot
ton report induces two days exoept
Bostpn, Philadelphia and Memphis sent
yesterday. '
President Wilson's Tors.—A granite
boulder, weighing ten or twelve tons,
has been placed on the spot where Henry
Wilson was born in Farmington, N. H.
The stone was taken from the neighbor
ing mountains, and bears the inscrip
tion, “Henry Wilson, Vice-President
U. S. A., born here FebrnajyMAh, 1812.”
This monnment wafl erected at the ex
pense of Martin L. Bays, a prominent
shste manufacturer of Farmington, who
gave Mr. Wilson a deed of tog land
where his father lived, wbpre Mr.
Wilson spent his eqrly days up to four
teen yearwhen he was apprenticed out
till hi was of age. Mr. Haya was a play
mate and, attended school with the late
Vice-President, and “is in
timacy to the ehd.
>' Methodist Conference.—Tb.e North
Georgia Methodist Qo&iereaoe will
meet in Sparta during the latter part
of November, session will be un
usually interesting. A large number of
distinguished visiting brethren will
probably be present The body is quite
a large one, being composed of abont
three hundred delegates. It will be
quite an event in Sparta, and the peo
ple look forward to it us “the good
time coming.”
$2 -A YEAR —POSTAGE PATH
GEORGIAJPOLITICS.
STATE POLITIC • VIEWED FROM
AN ATLANTA S FAND POINT.
Tis New legislature—President of the Sen
ate and Speaker of the House—Other Posi
tions—A Chnnsre In Journalism—The Suc
cessor of Col. Clarke in the Constitution.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel ]
Atlanta, September 17.—My last let
ter treated of the Senatorial contest
which will have to be decided by the
new Legislature. The opinion i ex
pressed that Governor Smith is the
strongest candidate in the field has not
been changed.- Every day furnishes
fresh evideuce of his strength, and un
less something unforeseen oocurs I shall
not be surprised to see him elected over
Hill and Norwood on the first ballot.
But, glittering as is the prize all inter
est is not centered npon this race
There are numerous other positions,
some of them highly honorable and im
portant, to be filled, and there will be
no want of candidates.
President of the Senate.
Hon. Thomas J. Simmons, of Maoon,
who has been President of thp Jtanata
for the past two years, wonltHmv6 bSfflf
a candidat for re-election to this posi
tion if he had not been defeated for the
nomination in his district. But the
counties of Pike and Monroe put for
ward Hod. T. B. Cabaniss as their can
didate and Mr. Simmons retired
from a race he could not hope to win.
This defeat of course eliminates him
from the aspirants for the Presidency.
Under the Constitution only twenty-two
new Senators wili be chosen, and the
same number will, in political parlance,
•‘hold over” two years longer. Hon.
Rufus Lester, of Savannah; Judge W.
M. Reese, of Washington, and Hon.
Evan P. Howell, of Atlanta, are among
those who hold over and who are spoken
of in connection with the oflioe. Judge
Reese could be easily elected, but I do
not think he can be induced to become
a candidate. He prefers the position
which he has so long held at the head of
the Judiciary Committee, aud in whioh
his labors have been of such signal ser
vice to the State. I have little doubt
that Messrs. Lester and Howell will en
gage actively in the fight. Mr. Lester
has been a candidate before, but does
not seem discouraged by previous de
feat. He is popular in the Southern por
tion of the State and will make a strong
race. Mr. Howell is a young man, but
is a thorough-bred politioian and
understands politics better than any
man in the State. He has popular man
ners and works like the devil. There is
Borne mention made of Judge John T.
Sbewmake, who will be the Senator from
the Augusta District, He is well known
as, a fine lawyer and able man, and ac
quired a good knowledge of par
liamentary law during his term
of service in the Confederate Con
grtses. If any new Senator is elected
President Judge Sbewmake will be
the man. In the fight between How
ell and Lester he may bear off the
spoils from the old stagers. Hon. W.
A. Harris, of Worth, is the most promi
nent oandidate for Secretary of the Sen
ate. He ia a member of the present
Senate, but his term expires in October.
He is well known, has many warm
friends and will beeleoted without much
trouble.
Speaker of the Hoase.
The present Speaker of the House, Hod.
Thos. Hardeman, will not, I learn, come
back to the Legislature though he may
make a dash at Norwood’s brogans if
he thinks there is a chance of success.
It is stated, and has not been denied,
that Mr. Simmons is coming from the
Senate to the House; that he will be
eleoted from Bibb county; and that he
will be a candidate for Speaker. He
will find a great difference between
electioneering in the House and in the
Senate. The Senate is simply an over
grown committee and is managed with
comparative ease. In the House there
are one hundred and seventy-five vo
ters and a canvass for Speaker necessi
tates a great deal of labor and adroit
ness. Mr. Simmons will have the
prestige of his position in the Senate,
but this will not help him a great deal,
and he will be hampered by the fact
that Bibb county has had the Presi
dency of the Senate and the Speaker
ship of the House for the past four
years. Mr. Simmons’ prinoipal oppo
nent will be Hon. H. H. Carlton, of
Athens, who has just been re-nomi
nated for the Legislature without oppo
sition. Dr. Carlton is a man of brains
aud of great personal popularity. He
has had long experience in legislative
matters and would make a capital pre
siding offloer. He is decidedly the
strongest man in the race and I think
will be elected. One of the new mem
bers is a prominent man and may put in
for the place. I allnde to Hon. Raphael
J. Moses, of Columbus, who has just
been nominated for the Legislature from
Muscogee county. Mr. Moses is a dis
tinguished lawyer and has, I think, been
several times in the Legislature. There
are so many offices to be filled this ses
sion that the success of any candidate
mnst necessarily depend to a great ex
teht npon the combinations that are
formed and his must be a dextrous hand
that bolds all of the numerous threads
without letting any of the tangled skein
slip. The name of the candidates for
Clerk of the House is Legion. Hon. E.
D. Graham, of Dade, a member of the
present House, Mr. J. S. Sweat, the
present Clerk, Mr. Eugene Speer,
of Griffin, the present journal
izing clerk, are considered the most
prominent candidates. Mr. H. W. J.
Ham, of Warrenton; Mr. L. Carrington,
of Millodgeville, are also in the field,
and it is hinted that Col. J. D. Waddell,
editor of the Atlanta Times may also be
a candidate. Mr. Graham seems at
present to be the strongest man in this
fight, though nothing can be predicted
with any confidence of the result.
The Atlanta Constitution.
It is stated, and with great positive
ness, that a change is beiDg made or has
already been made in the ownership of
the Atlanta Constitution. It ia said that
Col. E. Y. Clarke, who has for some
time been one of the proprietors and the
managing editor of this paper, has sold
out and will retire from jonrnalism. The
paper is now the property of a stock
company, but the bulk of the stock is
held by Col. Clarke, Mr. Hemphill,
the business manager, and Mr. N. P. T.
Firiob, the principal editorial writer.
Some of the merchants of the city own
a few shares. Col. Clarke has sold his
shares it is said to Hon. Evan P, Howell
for sixteen thousand dollars. The latter
acqnireß a large interest in the paper
and may buy up enough of the floating
stock to give him control. Why Mr.
Howell wants to buy a newspaper when
he has always had the support of one
for nothing, I cannot at present attempt
to explain. Mr. Howell usually acts
with a well defined purpose in view, and
doubtless knows perfectly well what he
is about in this instance. If the press
has the magic power '‘hieh the world
seems to think it possesses,Evan Howell,
backed by a daily paper, will ffhke
Georgia politics very lively lor e, while.
I have not heard that be expects to take
001. Clarke's, place as managing editor
and do not think he has any snoh step
in contemplation. He is a lawyer in
.good practice and would hardly be will
ing to give up his profession for one to
which he is a stranger. He cannot com
bine the two. He oannot be editor and
lawyer both, for law and journalism are
each snch a jealous mistress that neither
will tolerate a divided allegiance.
Fulton.
Mr. Jennings writes from London to
the World : “ I can imagine any one
coming over here for the first time # n d
puzzling himself to acconnt lor the ‘im
provements’ in the English laDgnage
which he will notice in common conver
sation, especially among ladies. It is
difljcnU to deecribe pronunciation by
written signs, and the atyle of talk
whioh is faahionahle saw oannot be ex
plained to Any one who has not heard it.
It ww/A ia consist in a general dipping
and mjneing of words, mixed with a
curious drawl, the effect produced upon
the ear being tb&t of anew language It
ia a fact that k often find difficulty in
nndarrtandmg what I hear said, and am
obliged to ask to have some remark re
peated. The word here is pronounced
very much as | haye heard negroes pro
nouncp it in the South, ‘fl ye * becomes
something like Arne, pleasure is tnrned
into‘pfeashaw,’ into ‘latar,’ and so
f however, can give
idea.—or idee-aw—of the
affectation, and the desire to be fine
which are working each carious trans
formations in oar mother tongue on this
side water.”
. Nearly all the post offices in Texas are
SLif *? r ? 6 ,u° f B works so
well that the males now arrive and de
part every hour in the day %
(Mffl VS, MiVANT. •
CONLEY’S CHAHUKB AND BRY
ANT’S HEPLY.
Bryant Accused of Selling m, y ote p or
Money to the Railroad Ring—An Emphatic
Denial Returned by Bryant—How Shall the
Question Be Settled ?
Atlanta, Ga., September 18 1876.
J. E Bryant, Esq , Augusta, Georgia :
Sir—You are Cnairman of ihe u-i,ub
lioan State Central Committee of Geor
gia. This position places yon ostensi
bly in the lead of the party at home,
and obtains for yon aftroad recognition
as its month piece. The man ttiu hon
ored, you will agree, should, of ll oth
ers, viewed from a party stand-point, be
personally and politically pure. With
your political sins and shortcomings it
is not my intention at present to deal.
You are in a measure absolved from re
sponsibility for thesi sins aud short
comings by the action of the Convention
which elevated yon to the position yon
now occupy. Your personal failings,
when they become criminal in their
character and bring by the publicity
which attends, in this advanced age of
,myjlizatiot'. the discovery of a eriroe on
the part of a pnblio man, reproach upon
the party which has honored you, and
cover with ohfoquy each member of the
committee of which you are the head
who sits quietly by and hears these
crimes charged and no defense or expla
nation from you. It beoomea my duty
as a member of that committee to in
vestigate these charges, and having in
vestigated them to state to you a few
simple faots which have, by that investi
gation, come to my knowledge and mv
conclusions thereon.
*ou were a member of the Legisla
ture of this State during the eventful
period of reconstruction. By a great
boast of personal integrity and opposi
tion to what- you were pleased to term
corruption on the part of the then State
administration you justified your politi
cal defection, and raised in the minds of
the people the belief that whatever
might have been the cause of your po
litical heresy, you were, at least, per
sonally honest. I confess this belief has
obtained in my mind until reoentlv—and
since your election to that chairmanship
—when 1 learned that at the very time
yon were makiog snoh a display of your
own honesty and charging with corrup
tion those associated with you political
ly, you were secretly selling your vote
as a member of that Legislature for mo
ney. This is a serious charge; the more
serious and painful because it is true.
Upon all the bills affeoting the Bruns
wick and Albany Railroad and kindred
matters you never of yonr own motion
oast a single vote. You were upon all
those subjects the absolute property of
others, whose will you dare not oppose,
and whose money yon afterwards re
ceived.
The failure of the Brunswick and Al
bany Railroad Company, but for which
these facts would probably never have
seen the light, resulted in transferring
all the books, papers and private con
tracts of that company to other hands
than those whioh originally had contro
thereof. Among those papers, and from
which they were obtained, were the notes
and drafts paid to you for these votes
and bearing your endorsement, showing
that in these bribes you received large
sums of money. These notes and drafts,
together with letters under your own
hand acknowleding tbeir recetpt. ere
-ow in existence. You dare not deny
the receipt of .his money, nor the con
sideration for which you received it.
These are briefly the facts. In the face
of them, to retain your place as Chair
man of the State Central Committee, is
to make yourself a foul mark for the
merited denunciation of overy honest
man, be his political opinions what they
may. You owe it to yourself, if you are
yet possessed of any lingering sense of
shame; you owe it to the party you dis
graoe and whose confidence you have
betrayed; you owe it to the State whose
laws you have violated, to retire at once
from this chairmanship, and let some
honest man be chosen j.i your stead. As
a member of the committee, I ask and
demand your resignation.
In pity, yours, Jno. L. Conlex.
Augusta, Ga , September 20, 1876.
To the People of Georgia:
It has been publicly charged that
when I was Representative iu the Geor
gia Legislature I was controlled in all
the votes I gave upon all the hi'is affect
ing the Brunswick and Albany Railroad
and kindred matters by men who paid
me money for my vote; that I secretly
sold my vote for money; that notes and
drafts, together with letters under my
own hand acknowledging the receipt of
money for such purposes, are now in
existence. It is also charged that I was
paid money for failing to oppose the
sale of the “Opera House” to the State.
I pronounce these and all similar
charges as absolutely false. I have
never received, either directly or indi
rectly, any money or other things of
value as compensation for my vote or
influence or my failure or negleot to
vote for any measure that came before
the Georgia Legislature during the
time I was a member thereof. I shall
take the proper steps to have the matter
fully investigated. John E. Bryant.
BURKE COUNTY POLITICS.
Han S. A. Corker a Candidate for the Legis
lature—Ht Letter of Acceptance.
Waynesboro, Ga., September 14.
Hon. Stephen A. Corker :
Dear Sir —The undersigned were ap
pointed by a Democratic Convention
which assembled here on yesterday—
composed of the delegates who failed,
after many efforts, to agree with the op
position—to inform you of your unani
mous nomination by that body, with
Capt. W. F. Walton and Dr. E. A. Per
kins, as a candidate to represent the
people of Bnrke county in the next Gen
eral Assembly of Georgia, and to re
quest yonr acceptance of the same. It
affords ns great pleasure to discharge
this duty. The other two gentlemen
have signified their acceptance, and we
beg you to do likewise.
Your fellow-citizens,
Jas. M. Ward, Thos. Quinnery, Jno.
D. Ashton, Wm. Warnock, Jno. C.
Chew,
Waynesboro, Ga., Sept. 17, 1875.
Messrs. James M. Ward, Thomas Quin
ney, Jno. D. Ashton, Wm. Warn
ock and Jno. C. Chew:
Gentlemen —Yonr notification to me
of the unanimous nomination of Dr. E.
A, Perkins, Capt. Wm. F. Walton and
myself as candidates to represent Burke
connty in the next General Assembly of
Georgia, by the withdrawing delegates
from the late Democratic Nominating
Convention, which failed to agree, is re
ceived.
An earnest desire on part to ac
complish all that oai2, be done to pro
mote the interests 2ind prosperity of our
people—to inquire into and do
all legitimate and rightful things
tending to the suppression of high
and exorbitant taxation—to work
oat the overthrow and dispersal
of all rings, whether found in Alanta or
elsewhere—and more especially to foster
and encourage all legislation conducive
to honest reform in State an county
government, impels me to accept the
nomination, believing that in doing so
it is an important step forward towards
the evolvement aDd advancement of the
above desired remits.. I assure yon on
my part that no energy, time, labor aDd
earnest effort will be spared to accom
plish this desired object.
Thanking yon, gentlemen, for the
complimentary manner in which yon aie
pleased to con ey to me the action of
the delegates, I am, gentlemen, your
obedient servant, Stephen A. Corker.
Homicide —We learn that a man
named McWhorter got off the np pas
senger train of the Port Royal Railroad
at Jackson station, yesterday, and
walked toward another party named
Meyer, who was standing Dear by. The
latter, it ie said, is McWhorter’s brother
in-law. Meyer called to McWhorter to
defend himself and immediately fired
upon him with a doable-barrel shot gun,
killing him instantly. It is said the
killing grew out of a family quarrel.
Cure fob Corns. —Take a lemon and
roll it until it is soft; out a thick slice
and bind it on the corn on .retiring at
night. In the morning, if the corn is
white and disintegrated, poll it ont with
finger nails—never cat a corn. Some
times several applications of the lemon
slices will be necessary, but the coma
are boned to snoeumb, and yon can
dance the next night if you like. After
yon remove the corn, wear shoes that fit
and are not too stiff in the soles.
A brewer having been drowned in one
his own vats, “alas ! poor fellow,” said
Jekyll, “floating on his own watery
bier t”