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' j ‘ - OLD SERIES—ML. XCI NEW SERIES—ML. II TERMS. THE D VILT CHRONICLE * SENTINEL, the oldest uewspxper in the South, is jpubl.sht-d daily, except Monday. Terms . Per year, $lO ; six months. $5 . three moDths, $2 50. THE WEEKLY oHBONIOMS A SENTINEL is published every Wednesday. Terms : One year, #2; six months. R 1 THE TBI-WEEKLY CHRONICLE A SENTI NEL is published every Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday Terms : One year, $5; six months, $2 60 SUBSCRIPTIONS in all cases in advance, and no paper continued after the expiraiion of the ptid for. BATES OF ADVERTISING IN DAILY.—AII | transient ad7ertteemeuts will be charged at [ the rate of (1 per square each insertion for , the first week. Advertisements in Tri-Week ly, 1 per square; in Weekly. *1 per square. Marriage and Funeral Notices. $1 each, j Special Notices, tl per square. Special rates ' trill be made for advertisement* running for one month or longer. ALL COMMUNICATIONS announcing candi dates for office—from County Constable to ' members of Congress—will be charged at the ! rate of twenty csnts per line. All announce- j merit* must be paid for in advance. Address WALSH A WRIGHT, j | 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”