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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1876)
qpjrontcU anft ifentintl. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBERS 1876. Th* grand jury of Hart has requested the Representative of that county in the Legislature “to use his influence for the “ calling of a Constitutional Convention “ at as early a day as possible.” Mr. James G. Blaise seems to be a little embittered by the rough treatment which he received last Bpring from Bes Hill and Pbootob Knott. In a recent speech, at a Republican meeting in In diana, he alluded to the Southern mem bers of Congress as “those seventj scoundrels who were admitted to tto House on the first Monday of December last.” Really, Mr. Blais*, this lan guage is very unparliamentary. The inevitable “pool selling on the elections” has commenced and will be kept up briskly until after November. Ohio and Indiana receive the attention of sporting men at present. The other evening at Mr. Mobrisskt’s the Demo cratic candidate in Indiana sold for SIOO and the Republican for S9O. The Democratic candidate in Ohio sold for SBS and the Republican for SIOO. Pabsoh Fkltos is running a losing race this year. His defeat seems to be a certainty. At a primary election held in Whitfield county the other day, the Felton candidate for the Legislature received only one hundred and eighty eight votes, to four hundred and seventy five cast for Dabset Democrats. At the last election Felton received four.hun dred and fifty-seven votes in that county. The Parson’s course will soot* be run. However much we may oondemn the selfish and demoralizing course of Dr. Felton in running as an independent candidate for Congress in the Seventh District, we oan but respect the pluck and devotion exhibited by Mrs. Felton. She accompanies him in his canvass through the mountains, listens to the * speeches, and is said to conduct all his correspondence. Many said she elected him two years ago. She is certainly do ing her best for him now. In answer to questions from his con stituents, Mr. J. B. Benson, the nomi nee for the Legislature from Hart coun ty, says he is, not opposed to free schools but is opposed to the present school law. He is in favor of biennial sessions of the General Assembly, and thinks members should reoeive no paj except rations issued to them duriDg the session “just as they were issued to Confederate soldiers.” He is in favor of the present mode of incorporating towns, churches and aoademies. Ho is “ opposed to any bastardy law.” The sincerity of the declaration made by the Radical Convention in this city, that they would not nominate a candi date for Congress because they were in timidated, is shown by the action of the Republicans of Greene county. At u meeting held the other day, the Greene Republicans passed unanimously a res olution endorsing the honesty, integrity, eapaoity and patriotism of Hon. Alex ander H. Stephens, and pledging them selves and their party to support him for Congress in the approaching elec tion. A oonviot in the South Carolina peni tentiary wrote a letter recently to Judge T. J. Mackey, from whioh the following is an extract: “I would like to be out “this campaign to help the Republican “party keep up its laurels. I hope they “may gain the eleotion, If the inmates . “of this place were allowed to vote as “prisoners, the majority would vote th<- “Republican tioket.” If the conviots could control the election, Chamberlain would undoubtedly be the next Gover nor of South Carolina. It is very natu ral that thieves Bhould support the thieves’ ticket. A comparative statement pf the ap propriations for the running expenses of the Senate and House, made at the last session, shows that the Senate, with seventy-three members, employed 116 persons, at an expense of $175,802 80; while the House, with 301 members and delegates, employed 125 persons, at an expense of $161,420. The contingent expenses of the Senatd amounted to $103,418; of- the House to $122,308. The cost of reporters of debates and j>jp oeedings of the Senate was $25,000; of the House, $35,000. The total expenses of the Senate for the purposes stated were $274,220 80; of the House, $283,- 728. In proportion to its members the expenditures of the Republican Senate iu these particulars were four times those of the Democratic House. This is the kind of language the Re publicans use in South Carolina. W. Magill Fleming, a white man and a candidate for office on the Radical tioket, reoently said in Spartanburg : “We intend to carry the election, and if the Democrats, by intimidation, should carry this eleotion, there will not be many houses left standing.” Again, in conversation with James and Elsy D win , he said, in the presence of a number of negroes, “that he in tended to be eleoted if he had to wade to his arm pits in blood. The white people had the arms, but we have the matches, and I will lead the way.”— When asked if he would burn the wo men and children, he replied : “ Yes, by ; put them in too.” Influenced by such teachings, it is no wonder houses are burned, women ravished, and men murdered. When it was announced that the ex plosion at Hell Gate was to take place on Sunday Hon. William E. Dodge ad dressed a long letter to General New ton on this “unnecessary desecration of the Sabbath,” and intimated that he was making a public show of the explo sion. The irate engineer sent him the following tart reply: Sin— l received a communication from yon dated September 22. in wbicn you decline an alleged Invitation from me to witness the ex plosion at Hell Gate oa Sunday, the 24th inet. At you take a great deal o. pains to go out of your way to violate the common courtesies of social intercourse, I take this occasion to in form you that I did not invite yon, nor STen know of your invitation, until the receipt of your refusal to accept one. The truth is, I left the matter of invitation to the Chamber of Oomaeree to Lieutenant Willard. United States Engineers, with instructions to invite a certain number of gentlemen. I regret to find that, in one case, he has made a mistake. Your obedient servant, John Newton, •Lieut. Col. Engineers, Brevet Maj. Gen. The fixing of the time for Sunday was not a matter of choice but of necessity, but “unco guUT of the Dodge stripe ois never so happy as when re movi fif the mete from their neighbor’s eye. _ The papers 'all over the country ap pear to be of one opinion in regard to the business indications, and that is that business is most certainly improving and promisee to eoulinae to improve. The New York Times, of Saturday last, contained a long review of the coedition of several important branches of indus try in that city and records its opinion, as a result of the search, that the pros pect in nearly all branches is better] *L.r at the corresponding period for cesoea! years. It would be rash to con ciade, the limes thinks, that the im provemmrt already realized “is certainly to be lasting and to increase, or that the more cheerful eiews entertained by mer chants are fully justified. But “it is quite evident that the indications point in that direction and these are confirmed by the experience of the last tjhxee years. ” The Chicago Tribute speaks as follows regarding the situation iu that city: “It! is generally coooeded that there is an improvement iu trade. Money is in abmdance, and, while the spirit of dis trust and caution still raise, there is clearly more confidence and faith now than there have been for more than two years.” THE SCARE OVEH. The Atlanta Commonwealth, after noticing the action of the Augusta Board of Health and the statements of physi cians published in the Ohbomcle and Sentinel, goes on to say: “We are bound to accept the testimo “ uy of theee experienced and scientific “ physicians, and theif declaration that “ there is no danger in Augusta. It “ were foolish and cowardly to do other “ wise. They can have no wish to de “ eeive—no motive to lie. If their judg “ ment is at fault, science is a liar ; il “ their theories are deceptive, observe " tion is worthless and experience is “nothing. We are unwilling to admit “ the possibility of a mistake in the pro “ nounced opinions of these learned “doctors; for, if they are in error, then “ we might as well go to the profeesion “al boot-black for comfort as to the “wisest of the medical professors “Therefore, without a doubting ‘if,’ “ we accept their theory for the present, “ and set it down that Augusta cannot “ feed the yellow fever this season.” The weather yesterday morning finish ed what little was left of the scare. A light frost fell and the atmosphere was cold, crisp and bracing. Every one feels perfectly satisfied that all danger from Yellow Jack is over and is dismissing the matter from his mind. We have had an undoubted scare, but nothing more, and the scare has done good by causing the authorities to place the city in perfect sanitary condition. The few who ran away at the first alarm can now return with entire safety. SOMETHING TO BE CONSIDERED. Next Wednesday (odb week from to-day) is the day fixed by law for holding an election for Governor of the State and members of the Legislature. The usual regulations of State elections will be observed in thfe different pre oincts of the county, and the returns made in accordance with the law. In McDuffie county there is no opposition so far as we know to the Democratic nominees, so that Gen. Colquitt for Governor and Dr. Jones for legi lator will have an easy walk-over. Bat the absence of opposition should not induce us to remit our interest in the contest. Gen. Colquitt will, no doubt, receive very nearly if not every vote polled in this county, but in some other coun ties of the State something like a show of op position will be developed. Then let every Democrat, white and black, go to the polls next Wednesday and vote for the regular nominees of the party. Let us start the groat Democratic wave in October with a momentum that will roll up a majority of one hundred thousand for Tilden and Hendbicxs in Novem ber.—McDuffie Journal. It is very important that a full vote should be cast iD Georgia Dext Wednes day. Every one conoedes the election of General Colquitt, but it is important that he should receive every Democratic vote in the State. Governor Smith was elected iu 1872 by fifty-six thousand ma jority, and the returns of the next elec tion will be compared with these figures. Elections will be held in Ohio and In diana the week following and any de crease of the Democratic vote in Geor gia will be used by the Republicans to eneourage their party in those States. General Colquitt should beat Mr. Nor -OROBB at least seventy-five thousand votes. In order to do this there must be a full turn out in every county. Let all Democrats go to the polls next Wed nesday and cast their votes for the nomi nees of the party. A QUIET RAILROAD JOB. The St. Louis Republican ssys rob bing railway trains nowadays seems to be the easiest, safest, as well as most lucrative branch of the predatory pro fession. The job seldom fails, the op erators are never caught, and the re sults are usually substantial. The last railroad robbery we read of was that of a train in Utah, near Salt Lake, and the booty was over fifteen thousand dollars, which two road agents divided. It was a very quiet job. At Salt Lake City the express driver of Well j, Fabgo & Cos. entered the express oar for .the safe and found the train messenger, Williams, struDg np to the roof of the car, with his fe£t scarcely touching the floor, and gagged with a wad of cotton stuffed down his throat. For some time after being released he was unable to speak, but he finally recovered sufficiently to tell the story of his capture and rob bery. It was at Wood’s Cross, only twenty minutes’ run from Salt Lake, when two masked men slipped into the end door of the express car, caught and gagged and strong him np before he could make any alarm. They then went through his pockets for the keys, opened the safe, abstracted the sum above named, and jumped the train, when it was running slow, at Warm Springs, and took to the msuntains, he supposes. It was very neat; the train was not delayed at all, and nobody knew anything about it except Ihe messenger. Neither is there any chance of the robbers being caught. 1 here were only two of them, marked at that, and the world out there is wide. LIES BY LETTER. We fiud the following precious morsel iu a recent number of the New York Evening Post : To the Editors of the Evening Post : In conversation this morning with a worthy judge and prominent Democratic politician of Rockland county, I remarked that the negro at the South had not the freedom of the ballot, and that in most of the Btates South the elec tions would be deoided by ballet, He replied : ■•Show me the proof! Bhow me the facte !” I herewith enclose a paragraph from a letter read to me this very day from a New York mer chant, to his partner here I will vouoh for its genuineness and hjs truthfulness. J. B. S. Wall Stbkkt, N. Y., September 19,1876. ••Acoußta. Ga., September —, 1876. • ** * * * • * • ‘One of my customers of that city (Charles ton). who is commander of a civil artillery com pany, told me it was their intention to provoke an outbreak among the negroes in order that there might be an opportunity of opening fire on the darkies, and in oase tney did onoe open the ball they intended following them up and shooting every and and nigger in Charleston. They even have it arranged so that the negroes cannot possibly retreat outside the towo. Then they are howling because the Government wants to place troops in some portions of the South (.as they say) to jptijpidate the Demo crats from voting. Tbs negroes inclined to he quiet if let alona. Unless negroes are driven from the polk, and not allowed to vote. South Carolina will go Bepuhtioan, I think- The whites sy they mean to exterminate the negro if allowed to do so. * • * * We have evidently been entertaining a scabby subject unawares. His letter is rematkable for its mendacity. Every one knows that the Republicans precipi tated the recent riot in Charleston, and that the whites were wholly unprepared for the assault made upon them. They did nothing but protect colored men who had joined the Dewocaatio party, and for this they were beaten, shot and subbed. We trust that the Post will give the name of the New York mer chant who wrote such yarns from Au gusta, and of the Charleston customer, “commander of a oivil artillery compa ny,” who gave him information of this diabolical plot to murder all the negroes in Charleston. It js easy enough to utter slander anonymously, We would like to have the Barnes given, honor able men do not bear false witness agaiost their neighbors and patrons, and this New Fork merchant, who sells goods in Chariest**! and Augusta and write* such stories as tbs for pub lication, should sign bis name j? hjs ar ticles. The private letter from the South; is the favorite-trick ol the Radicate just now. Republican papers North and West are constantly publishing amounts of "brutal outrages'* iu the South, fur-, nished by a gentleman whose name is not given feet he be murdered, or by a respectable merchant, travelling in the South, who writes whereof he knows. We would like to see the name of one of these gentlemen in print. Will not the Post oblige us? fjr.T. the nice charitable Bundsv school pieces that appear in the Constitsdson alist are written by the trooly good edi tor of that journal AH the naughty ar ticles are slipped in by the wioked port ners. The good editor suffers greatly i os this Account, A SUGGESTIVE CONTRAST. The St. Louis Republican says that a nice illustration of the comparative merits of white and black rule is fur nished by two oountie* in North Caro lina-Edgecombe and Pitt They are located side by aide, and are pretty near ly equal in population and wealth.— Edgecombe has a heavy negro majority, and, of oonrse, is governed on high toned African principles, being taxed last year over $76,000. Pitt, where the Democracy has oontrol.paid last year, iD the shape of taxes, only SII,OOO. Thirty paupers in Edgecombe cost the people more than the sum total of Pitt county expenses. It is such facts as these that make “the solid Soath” which the Re publican organs and orators are howling ever. We wonder how long Maine and New Hampshire would be “solid” in support of a political system whioh cost them seven times more than it ought to. Yet Maine and New Hampebire want to fasten upon all the Southern States the aame yoke Edgecombe county is groan ing nnder; and when the Southern peo ple outvote the negroes and carpet-bag gers they are denounced aa rebels trying to get up another rebellion. A SUGGESTION TO BE CONSIDERED. A correspondent of the Hartwell Sun says : I desire to call, through your paper, the at tention of the city authorities of Augusta, to the importance of building a platform and shelter on the basin for the benefit of cotton shippers down tbs river. It is very difficult to always oarry ootton down the river in good or Car, and when this is done, to have it rolled out on the muddy banks, putting it in an unfit condition for market until the mud is dried and beaten off, is very annoying. Now, in view of the importance of this line of trade to the oity, it is certainly dne to the trade that this accommodation be afforded, and we hope that it will be attended to at onoe, for use this season. This is an important suggestion. We re-produce it in order to call the atten tion of the City Council to the matter. The Eavannah river trade ii an impor tant element of the city’s prosperity and shonld be enconraged and protected to any reasonable extent. The request of our Hartwell friends seems to be ex ceedingly reasonable and we hope the City Council will take early action in the matter. The cost of such a plat form as is asked for will be small aDd the benefit to the Savannah river plant ers will be great. THE SOLICITOR’S OFFICE. It is stated authoritatively that Mr. Davenport Jackson, the present Solici tor-General of the Augnsta Circuit, will not be an applioant for re-appointment when his term expires next January. Mr. Jackson has held this office for nearly five years, having been appointed by Gov. Smith soon after the latter’s first eleotion. His appointment was a very handsome compliment, for Mr. Jackson had not been long enough at the bar to be eligible nnder the Code, and a special enabling act was passed by the General Assembly to allow him to hold the office. The wisdom of the Governor’s selection has been fully demonstrated. Mr. Jack son is a* gentleman of great ability—elo quent, energetic, and a close student— and has discharged the important duties of his high position in such a way as to refleot great oredit upon himself and give entire satisfaction to the people of his oirouit. His voluntary retirement from offioe, at a time when he is quali fied to be moat useful to the community, will be deeply regretted. Mr. Jackson will continue the praotioe of the law, and we wish him abundant suocess m his profession. We have heard several gentlemen mentioned as applicants for the position whioh Mr. Jaokson intends vaoating. The grand jury of MoDuffie county re oently made the following presentment on the subject: Whebbas, The official term of our present Solicitor-General, Davenport Jaokson, will soon expire, we adopt this method of express ing our high appreciation of his services since he began the duties of his effice. And it af fords us pleasure to bear testimony to his tare abilities ad strict integrity of character. We have always found him prompt and fearless in the discharge of duty, and kind and ooarteous in his intercourse with the grand jury of this connty. And as we have learned that Mr. Jackson will not be an applicant for re ap pointment, we take great pleasure in present ing to our next Governor the name of our fel low-oitisen, Juriah H. Caset, £sq., for the position of Sohoitor-General of this Circuit, and earnestly recommend to His Exoellency a favorable consideration of Mr. Casey’s fitness for the poeition. He is, in our opinion, thoroughly eduoated, talented, energetio and fearless in the discharge of his professional duties, and would fill the office with honor to himself and entire eatisfaotion to the people. In addition to Mr. Casey, it is stated that Messrs. M. P. Carroll, Salem Dutches and S. Warren Mays, all of this oity, will probably be among the applicants for the position. DEPUTY MARSHALS IN SOUTH CARO LINA. The State of South Carolina is now under the control of Mr. R. M. Wal lace, United States Marshal. Under Mr. Attorney-General Taft’s oiroular, Mr. Wallace may appoint as many hnndrds or thousands of Deputy Marshals as he chooses. His power in this respect is unlimited. He may put fifty in a oonnty, e hundred, a thousand, or he may make every Republican in the State a Deputy Marshal. The Republi can Congress whioh passed the bill pro viding for supervisors of Federal elec tions made it the duty of the United States Commissioners to select their appointees from both political parties— the same nnmber from eaoh. Bat the Attorney-General has deoided that there shall be no such fair dealing in the seleotion of Deputy Marshals. All the Marshals are Republican partisans and will appoint only Republican deputies, except in oonnties where they think the suocess of their party assured. Mr. Wallace has been interviewed on this subject by a reporter of the Charleston Journal of Commerce and states his intentions very broadly and emphati cally. He said the matter of appoint ments was left “ entirely with him, and there were certain oonnties in the Btate wh,ejre he would appoint none bnt Republicans.” The reason he gave for this extraordinary display of partisan ship was ’ ‘he did not think he coaid trust a Democrat is those conn ties.” “Certain of the upper counties” are those whioh have been pnt under the ban by United States Marshal Wallace, because he, forsooth, “can not trust” the honorable and intelligent gentlemen there who are supporting tbs Democratic candidates. He says he hay been informed that the Democrats of these certain upp* r coun ties have declared that no Republican votes he cast at the election. Who did he learn this from, when did he learn it, what Democrats made such a remark, how can he dare to charge that every Democrat in “certain upper oonn tiee” used snob a threat ? We think Mr. Wallace has a much better reason for bis contemplated conduct towards “cer tain upper oounties” than he has given iq the reporter of the Journal of Com merce. Jjr, Wallace s father A. S. Wallace a member of Congress from South Carolina, an# if a candidate for re-election. •‘♦Certain u ppef .coun ties” are in his District, and have large, white majorities. It is almost certain that Wjj.r.trw, senior, will be defeated unless the majority against him can be gotten rid of by fraud and intimidation. Chamberlain has prepared the machi nery fpr fraud by giving two put of ttiree of the eleetwc managers in these ooun ties to the ReppWjetps. Wallace, ju nior, proposes to do.the iEtis3i|jating by flooding these “certain upper oopntieff” with Republican Deputy Marshals whose duty it will be to am that Republicans vote early *nd often, and that Democrats are kept away from the polls- Water obstructs one-half of the per pendicular rays of the sun ia 17 and three-fourths in 84 feet, and lees thEn one-thousandth past reaches the depth of 200 feet; hence the bottom of deep water ia in total darkness. ELECTION RETURNS. An election for Governor of Georgia and Members of the Legislature will be held in this State next Wednesday. We beg oar friends throughout the country to send us the returns as soon as possi ble after the polls dose. Where there is communication with Augusta by tele gaph send a dispatch to the Chbonicjlb and Sentinel. In giving the vote of each candidate please state whether be ran as a Democrat, Republican or Inde pendent, and give the vote>in detail. We shall be greatly obliged for any as sistance of this kind. When dispatches are sent the sender will save us some times unnecessary expense by inquiring at the telegraph office whether a message has already been sent to this paper. TO THE DEMOCRACY OF THE EIGHTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. As Chairman of the Executive Com mittee of the Democratic party of the Eighth Congressional District, I deem it my duty to impress upon the party in each and every oonnty composing said District the necessity of a complete and efficient organization, to the end that in the elections on the 4th October, 7th November, and the oonnty elections in January, a full and satisfactory ballot may be given to the regularly nominated candidates. And as in “ union there is strength,” let ns not divide onr ballots upon “independent candidates,” should there be sneb for sny of the offices in onr gift. Let ns keep ever in view the awful consequences whioh resulted to the party and to the country in its totali ty, when in 1860 the National Democratic party fritted away its strength by a di vision, which pnt in power the Republi can party, and from whioh “Rule and Ruin ” party the entire and concentra ted strength of the Democracy will be necessary to rescue the Government and relieve the country from “ this body of death. ” The candidates to be voted for ih October and November are all an nounced, but we should bear in mind that a nomination is not always an elec tion. Now, whilst the Republican party has but little strength in this State, let us expose their weakness by an exhibit of our full strength ! Let the old Eighth contribute her pro rata share to the sum total of 75,000 majority for A. H. Colquitt in October, and for the St. Louis Reform candidates in November. And while our nominee for Congress, pronounced by acclamation the choice of the District, is without a competitor, still there is no excuse for indifference or that “ masterly inactivity ” which brings no good, and oft times fatal injury to the party. Bee to it, fellow-Demo crats, that you have a suffloienoy of printed tickets with tke names of Tilden, Hendricks and Stephens on all of them. I hope the county of Hart, which was not represented in either Gubernatorial or Congressional Convention, will full into line in Ootober and November, with the fall measure of its Democratic strength. H. R. Casey, Chairman Executive Committee Eighth Congressional District. A CONVOCATION OF SAINTM. The Republican Saints held a meeting in Cincinnati on the 21st instant for the pnrpose of praising themselves and their candidates— Hayes and Whkblbb— and denouncing all their neighbors. The bloody shirt was, of course, a conspicu ous feature of the assemblage, and the “ Hamburg massacre” a staple ol the speeches made. Here are some of the resolutions that were introduced at this political love feast in relation to the “massacre”; 0 “Resolved, Th&t the perpetrators, aiders and abettors of those murders should be bung, and we demand the life of M. C. Butleb and , his confederates, etc. Resolved, That the lands, goods and chat tels of those murderers (Gen. Butleb and the white people of Hamburg) should be sold, to maintain the families of the murdered. Resolved, That we believe the Bemocrats ef the United Statee, where suoh outrages are perpetrated, are iuoapable of self-govern ment, and shonld be put under martial law. Resolved, That the machinery of the ma jority of white churches in the South ii run in the interest of the oppressors of an inno cent and helpless people, and we believe the majority of the members are hypoorites and will go to hell for failing to observe the most obvious precepts of our Lobd Jesus Christ. Resolved, That we believe the religion of the white Southerners to be a mockery, and that the chnrch now is the refuge of murder ers, as it was formerly used to deceive the world in regard to the infamous lives of the si .ve-mongers.” The Southern man who doesn’t feel like voting for Haves and Wheeler after reading that platform of princi ples is certainly [a .hopeless case. The kindness of the sentiments expressed by these Cincinnati lambs wonld soften the hardest heart and moisten the dryest eye. They demand the lives of men, and the confiscation of their goods, who have never been proven guilty of any offense against the laws. They propose to put a whole section under martial law. They assert that the “machinery” of white churches in the South is run in the interest of the oppressors of an in nocent and helpless people; they affirm that the religion of white Southerners is a mockery and the Southern ohnrch a sanctuary for murderers. They declare that' the numbers of Southern white ohurohes are hypocrites, and piously ejaculate the belief that jthey will go to hell. Charitable Cincinnati I UNRELIABLE ESTIMATES. The New York Daily Bulletin makes some serious charges of inaoouracy against the Department of Agriculture at Washington. The Bulletin is gen erally considered one of the best and most trustworthy of the commercial journals. We have never heard that its editorial columns were manipulated by any particular interest. What it'says, therefore, is worthy our attention. The Bulletin attacks the monthly estimates of the condition of the cotton crop issued by the Department of Ag riculture, and declares that they are wholly untrustworthy. It quetes six ty estimates made by the Depart ment from the year 1871 to 1876 both inclusive—to show that in but two States (North Carolina in 1872 and Ten nessee in 1876) has more than an aver age crop been quoted. In every other State during six years the crop has been reported as less than an.average crop. In the estimates of crops the .same error always oconrs, as is shown by the fol lowing table : Department Actual Differ ing timat eg. Crop. ehoes Hales. Balea, Bales. 1875 3.852.000 4,669,000 817,000 1874 3.666 000 3,832.000 166.000 • 873 3.682.000 4.185.000 50?,u00 1872 3,442.000 8 930.000 488,000 871, 3,400.000 2.974,000 426.000 1870 3,000 000 4.352,000 552,000 1809 2 750.000 3,154.000 404.000 1868 2 380,000 2.439 00 59,000 1867 2 340,000 2,593.000 258,000 1866 1.835,000 2,019.000 174,000 From the above it will be seen that ev. ry year there has bpes a deficiency between the Department estimatea and the actual crop ranging from one hun dred and seventy-four thousand bales in 1866 to eight hundred nd seventeen thousand bales in 1875. These figures certainly show that the estimates furnished by the Agricultural Bureau can not be relied m and foe, to a great extent, worthies* to the planter and to the consumer. We don’t know that thq evil oan be reme died so long as the present system of obtfduing reports is employed. The De partment iff .compelled to rely entirely upon statements faroiafeed by volunteer correspondents scattered over the j3onth. Many of these correspondents are ooa scientious and intelligent, and furnish the most correot information they are able to obtain, JJqt others are careless and indifferent, or are gDYMSfId in their reports for a whole county by the eon-, diiiffp of their own or of a few adjaoent plantations. £qder estimates injure the planters because jbea ify) truth be eoruee known a reaction sets in some panics the market and does great damage to producers. The De partment shonld take sorpe trouble fo get trustworthy correspondents, and the latter should be exceedingly careful in making np their reports. THE NORTHFIEJ) ROBBERS. IDENTIFICATION OF THE DEAD AND WOUNDBANDITS. The Notorious DeepereiiaM, Cole ami Bo* Younger, Arrested-Tie Capture—An Ac count ef the Chase hv he People e € Watoa waa Caaaty, Mina 1 Dispatch to the Planer Press and Tribune, Septembr 21.] At 7 this morning two of the captnred tobbers passed the house of Ole Su born, in the town of Linden, Brown connty. Ole’s son Oscar suspected that they were the robbirs, and so told bis father. In less than half an hoar foar robbers bad come by couples to the house and brought bread and butter, going west into thttimber near Linden. The father directed his son to take one of the horsee and xde into M delia and communicate the inspicions, then fnlly aroused. As he r*de up to Vaught’s Hotel, in Madelia, ->ear him was stand ing James Glispiu, Sheriff of Watonwan connty, with tw* or three oitizens.— Speaking to Colonel Vaught, the boy said that the four robbers had been at bis father’s houseonly one hour and a half before, and tnd gone into the tim ber. Upon hearitg this they were sat isfied that the mm seen were the rob bers. Id five mimtes Sheriff Glispin, Colpnel Vanght, Jr. Overhatt and Jas. Severson were in ad race for the Ole son farm. Orden were left for citizens o mount and folow. A great excite ment took possesiion of the little vil lage. Stores wee shut up, and nearly all the male popuation started on horse back, in teams ind on foot for the point. After tbusheriff and his three companions had leached the distance of two and a half (piles from Medelia a horseman was me, who informed Glis pin that the rotbers were four miles ahead, and in a southwest direction. Glispin sent the horseman to Madelia with orders for al oitizens going out to go due west up tie north branch of the Watonwan river, as the robbers wonld strike the river ii that direction. Glis pin then oontinmd his ride at full gal lop, and in one tour from the time the boy arrived with iAe news overtook the four robbers just as they had crossed the Lake Hanski slough. The R*ben Halted. This slough is dot passable for horses, but as Glispin Tas within gunshot he oried out to the robbers to halt. The robbers broke into a run, going dne south towards the Watonwan river. Glispin and twoof his party tired at the fleeing robbers Vithout effect, and they were Boon out of range. Glispin divided his party, four gDing east to go around that side of the ilough, and then going west about two ind a half miles to find a western crossilg. Before Glispin and his party could cross, the robbers had made a distance of over two miles to the soutti, being oily three quarters of a. mile from the river. Glispin and Will Estes were in advance, and riding up to within twentyrdds of the robbers, the latter called out, “What do you want ?” Glispin replied “Throw up your hands and surrender!” The robbers answer ed, “Come up, and we won’t hurt you,” and continued Walking off, Glispin and Estes openedfiiß on the robbers, and the robbers eturned the fire, each one firing. Glispn and Estes were obliged to dismount,a bail just grazing Glis pin’s horse vnd others whizzing all around. The robbers retreated to the Watonwan river and skulked in the brush. By the time Glispin’s five par ties had joinid and forming a skirmish line advance! around the robbers and pursued then into the river and into the willows md plum brush on the south side, "he robbers passed out of the cover of be brush and went ujs)o Andrew Andeson’s house. It happen ed at this morent that Horaoe Thompson and son, of ft. Paul, with ladies, were out gunning, md on the hill in the stub ble opposite Aiderson’s the robbers ran toward Thonpson’s team, hoping to cateh it, as tley have since oonfessed; but Mr. Thanpson and son, ehanging their bird-shit for goose-shot, boldly stood their gound and faced the rob bers with ther fowling-pieces. Seeing this the robbe-8 fell back into the brush. Meanwhile Gispin and his party had crossed the riier to the north and west of the robbers, :nd Captain Murphy had come up on tte east side of the robbers and had left fiur men on the north side, crossing himelf to the south side, where he joinid Glispin. Sarromdinff the Banditti. Citizens noT began to arrive in num bers, aDd the lay had reached 2 o’clock, p. m. The ciizens were rapidly posted all around tte bend and brush, until about twenty tad surrounded the place. Captain Murpiy volunteered to Sheriff Gilspin to skimish the brush with any men who wouh aooompany him. Prompt ly Colonel Vaight, James Severson, Ben jamin Rice, George Bradford and Charles Pomeroy voluiteered, and under Gils pin and Murpiy were formed in a line east and west the men being posted about five pao apart. The line slowly advanced norhward toward the river, without up the robbers. This line of brave hen then wheeled, follow ing the west, ind moved up the river, the right flai|s: resting on the river. Hardly ten rods of ground had been passed when jne of the robbers rose from the thick brush, only a distance of fifteen feet froh the line advancing and opposite Muphy and Gilspin, whose places in the, line were next the river. The robber dew his revolver upon Gils pin, Gilspin (rawing at the same time his rifle on be robber. Both fired at nearly the sane instant, Gilspin bring ing down his man Gilspin dropped to his knees to leload, when Captain Mur phy advanoec and fired five shots at the stooping rotbers, who were all firing rapidly at tie advancing line. All of Gilspin’s mei opened fire at the same moment, am the engagement beoame generhl. In ive minutes over thirty-five shots had teen fired by the robbers without takiig effect, one ball striking Captain Muphy on the right of the stomach, bit providentially striking a large rosewoid pipe in his vest pocket and thus saiing his life. So true was the fire of tte citizens that three of the robbers wee laid prostrate on the ground, one being dead and two badly wounded. Ihe last man, being the man who was woinded at Northfield, threw up his hands and said, "I give up; the rest of the bijs are all shot to pieces 1” The three wounded and £ying men have oonfessed tint they are the Younger brothers, Coe, Frank and Jim, bnt re fuse to state vho the dead man is, or who the red; of the party were. The supposition ,s that the dead man is one of the Jamei brothers, being nearly six feet, with buck moustache, chin whis kers, and weighing about 160 pounds. The wounds iff the robbers are very se vere, but are rpt at this writing consid ered fatal. DEATH OF d>L. THOMAS G. BACON. [Eilejield Advertiser.] Col. Thome G. Bacon, a man emi nently prominent, popular and beloved throughout otr county, lies dead at his home, “Pine Ponds,” on the C., C. and A. R. R. Hedeparted this life on Mon day afternoon last, after but a short ill ness, altuougk bis health' had been very mnoh broken down for several years past. A bravi, true and patriotic man has departed torn among us—one who possessed in a very remarkable degree the love and confidence of his fellow citizens of a), classes. Love of country, devotion to his native South, to her spirit, her traditions, and her future — was a salian; feature in Col. Baoon’s oharaoter; and in his very latest mo ments this love manifested itself in a manner at once lofty and melanoholy. He entered the late war as Colonel of the 7th Regiment of South Carolina Vol unteers, a lommand from which, after two years services in the midst of very great physßl snfferipg, he was forced to retire ty khe painful disease which fiaally ended his life. An hour before his death, haying been perfectly con scious up to the moment, he suddenly exclaimed wish great vehemence : “Oh, I want to go baok to my regiment! Can’t I get back to my regiment!” And then the fitends who stood around his bed knew that his mind was wandering, and that the end was nigh—wandering back to that period of his life that had most engrossed his soul. On Wednes day noon, th 9 &7tb, Col. Bacon will be laid by the side of his father, mother and son, in ear village graveyard; and the Granger of which order he was a devoted member, will conduct his fu neral rites. Advertising Ma4r-GejHsmls. ITew York World.] The last ri4i?l°9B pretense set np by the Republican press to shield their party against the wrath to oonse, is the asser tion that “file leading generals of the Union” are nil on the side of Grantism. And this wkile Caster still lies unaveng ed in the premature grave to which Grantism seat him. The truth is the gpeat majority of the fighting generate were and 81® Democrats, while the great majority of tke Republican generals be long to the tame category with a certain Major-General who was captured early in the war, together with thirty malm. When the news was bioaght to Mr. Lin oofn he looked much depressed for a moment, and 'then gajd- “This is sad, very sad; to lose thirty males jnsf now is a very serious ■matter. As for the Major-General, I can make as many moke of the same sort as I like without any trouble. But lam distressed about the males.” “ Major M. E. Defahyootnesontsquare ly for Hajaptan end Reform. He is a full blooded negro, and was an officer in a colored regiment of Federal troops. WHO FREED THE SLAVES 1 A TRENCHANT LETTER FROM EX GOT. PERRY TO GOV. CHAMBER LAIN. The lljrpoeriaj and Selfishness at the Repub lican Leaden Unmasked—'The Real Credit at Emancipation Belanfis to the White Peo ple of the Sonth. Greenville, S. G., September 15. To His Excellency Governor Chamberlain : Sib— With all due reference to the high office which yon at this time fill in South Carolina, 1 shall reply to some of yoar statements in yonr campaign speeches as reported in the newspapers. The oolored people have been told over and again by their unprincipled leaders that if they voted for the Democratic party they would be thrown back into slavery again, and all their political rights taken from them. 1 do not charge yon, sir, with having uttered s flagrant a falsehood, but you did say at Lancaster, Marlboro and other places that the Republican party set the ne groes free, and that they ought to, in gratitude for their freedom, stand by and support that party. Now, sir, this assertion, in point of fact, is not true, and, as a lawyer, you knew it was not true. The State Convention of South Carolina, representing all the slavehold ers of the State, did almost unanimous ly, in 1865, abolish slavery, and declare in their constitution that it should never exist again in the State. The Legisla ture of South Carolina soon afterwards adopted the amendment to the Federal Constitution declaring that slavery should never again exist in the United States. In this way, and in no other, was slavery abolished in South Carolina. You know very well, sir, as a consti tutional lawyer, that neither the Presi dent by a proclamation nor Congress by legislation had any right or authority under the Federal Constitution to abol ish slavery in the States. No one would have dared assume such a proposition before the Supreme Court of the United States. Hence it was urged by the au thorities at Washington, knowing that President Lincoln’s proclamation eman cipating the slaves was mere brutern ful men, that the States themselves in conven tions should abolish sla ery, and accept the amendments to the Federal Consti tution declaring that it should never exist again iu the United States. Now let us analyze this great interest and tender regard whioh you say the Republicans have had and still have for the colored people. We will find that it exists solely and ever has in the ad vancement of their own interest and their noted jealousy of the Southern people. The African slave trade was in troduced by them solely for gain, and thousands of them made fortunes by it. Vessels were ntted out in all their ports and sent to Africa to kidnap the poor negro and sell him as a slave to the Southern planters. Was there any kind ness in this to the colored people ? They owned slaves themselves and kept them till the population of the Northern States became so dense that slave labor was no longer profitable. Then they sent as many of their slaves South as they could and sold them. Ultimately their own interest prompted them to abolish slav ery in their several States. Was there any tender regard for the colored raoe in all this conduct ? They saw that by the cultivation of rice and cotton In the Southern States with slave labor these States surpassed them in prosperity and wealth and had oontrol of the Federal Government. This excited their jeal ousy and hatred, and under the pretense of philanthropy and humanity they com menced their abolition movement for the purpose of consolidating the non slavebolding States and wresting the Federal Government from their hands. Was this kindness to the negro or selfish ambition and hatred on the part of the Republicans ? The Northern Demo crats had no sympathy in this move ment, and denounced it as fiercely as we did at the Sonth. The colored people have been told a thousand times, and perhaps by you, that the civil war was carried on for their emancipation ! that all the frater nal blood shed in this contest, and all the lives that were sacrificed, and all the thousands of millions of dollars expend ed were to set them free 1 when histo ry informs us that after the war had waged for a length of time, Congress declared almost unanimously that this bloody war was only to restore the Union as it was before the war, with slavery as a necessary oonsequence ! Did this show any regard for the poor slave ? Were his interests or his rights at all considered ? They did nothing for them. All they wanted, all they were fighting for, was the restoration of the Union ! W-en the slaves of Maryland fled from their masters and went into Gen. But ler's camp for protection, he sent them back to their owners. How much re gard was there in this for the freedom of the slave ? It was thought at that time that any interference with slavery would defeat the restoration of the Union, for which alone ihey were fight ing. They cared nothing for emancipa tion. It was not then in their war pro gramme. Again, when a parcel of colored troops tendered their services to the Govern ment, President Lincoln refused to re ceive them 1 He told them that they belonged, a different race, and oould not with propriety be incorporated into the army 1 This was showing great respect for the oolored people ! The hope had not then been given up of restoring the Union, as it was before the war, with slavery in full blast. In the course of time, as the civil war progressed, the 'Republican party saw that there was no hope of bringing the Southern States back into the Union except by conquest and subjugation. Then, for the first time, their kindness and considera tion for the negro began to show itself. President Lincoln issued a proclamation, declaring the slaves free in all the States that did not lay down their arms and come baok in the Union. This proclamation showed that they cared nothing for the negro or their in terests, but only as a power to preserve the Union, for which alone the war was commenced. They were willing for him to oontinue a slave if this would end the war ! Giving up all hope of restoring the Union by consent of the Southern States, they began to think how best they could conquer and destroy tne South. Then the idea came into their minds of enlisting the negro in their army, and by that means increase their forces and greatly weaken the defense of the Southern States. Was there any love for the colored people in making them soldiers, and putting them, as they did, in the front of battle ? They thought only of their own interest and their own success through the slaughter of the colored troops ! When the war was over and the con quest of the Southern States was ac complished, they did not think of giving the right of suffrage to the colored peo ple 1 Governor Morton expressed the views of the Republican party when he declared himself opposed to this exten sion of the right of suffrage. President Johnson, when he gave me my instruc tions as Provisional Governor of South Carolina, directed me to confine the right of suffrage to white persons who had taken the oath of allegiance. He did not include a single colored man in Sonth Carolina ! # And so it was in all the Southern States. I, myself, thought that colored men who could read and write, and paid a tax on five hundred dollars worth of property, should be al lowed to vote, The Republican authori ties at Waahing'on thought differently at that time. But a sudden change came over them when they found that all the Southern States had gone Democratic and elected Democratic Governors, mem bers of Congress and Senators. They then determined to enfranchise the ne groes and disfranchise the white people, in order to give all the Southern States to the Republican party. Was there any regard for the colored people in all this? Was it not their own interest and their own party purposes which prompted them to bestow this boon on the negro ? They required five years residence be fore a foreigner was allowed to vote. This was to enable him to become ac quainted with our laws, our Constitution and form of Government. He had like wise to produce in Court a certificate of good moral character. How different was their conduct all at once toward the colored people when they adopted the idea of controlling the Southern States by means of the freedmen. Without any preparation, or education or certifi cate of moral character, the whole of the freedmen were declared citizens, with the right of suffrage ! This is the pretended sympathy of the Republican party fop the negro. It is false ip eyery particular. They never had any sympathy for him except where their interest prompted them to have. They were, in the first place, actuated by a base and sordid interest in sending their vessels to Africa and kidnapping the poor negro and selling him as a slave. Thry were actuated by their own interest when, finding that his labor was no longer profitable, they set him free. They consulted their own interest and not the interest of the negro when they took him into their armies, and declared that the Southern States should not be restored to the Uh>PP till he was set free. They were actuated by the same motive when they gave him the right of suffrage. And they are now actuated by the aa;ce principles and same feel ings when they teii the aolored people to vote for the carpet-baggers and scala wags who represent the Republican party in the Southern States. Yoar Excellency knows full well the corruption of yonr Republican party iii Sooth Carolina, yourself hayp de nounced it and tried to reform it. Tfip Legislature have elected man so infa mous to seats on the bench that you have refused to commission them! Time and again you have Vetoed their fraudu lent bills, and tried to stop their roguery and plunder! Why, then, do yon ask the ignorant and credulous negro to sustain these rogues and plun derers whom you have tnus boldly de nounced ? They, such men as Moses and Whipper, Bowen and Neagle, and Leslie and Whittemore, and their sat ellites, are the Republican party of Sonth Carolina! The great masses of the colored people are too ignorant to understand the political principles of any party, and they have been led astray and tamed against their Democratic friends, with whom they were bora and raised, by just such speeches as you made to them at Lancaster, Marlboro and other places. I am sure, sir, yon have too much regard for your reputa tion to tell the colored people, as your Republican understrappers do all over the State, that if the Democratic party get into power in South Carolina they will be thrown baok into slavery or de prived of all their political rights and privileges. You know, sir, that the Democratic party now has the control of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennes see, Kentucky, Missouri, Texas and Ar kansas. And in all these States the colored peeple are better off, more se cure in all their rights, more prosperous and more of freemen than they are in South Carolina uuder Republican or Radical rale. It has been said that all mankind are governed by love or fear. You seem disposed to govern by the former principle and your understrap pers by the latter. I am, sir, most respectfully yours, &0., B. F. Pkbby. the course of cotton. Weekly Rerlew of the New York market# [N. T. Daily Bulletin.} Operators have had nothing really new to work from daring the past week, and found it neoessary to make the most of old influences iu their manipulations of the market from day to day. At first matters looked rather tame, but subse quently the “bulls” gained the advan tage of the position, and by constant and strenuous efforts held ground fairly, with values on the whole probably aver aging well up to the preoeding week. The “damaged and shortened orop” has again been daily ventilated, and to this was added rumors of the spread of yel low fever through Southern ports not heretofore affected, the latter report nat urally generating the fear of retarded deliveries of cotton on the seaboard and consequent disappointment in the amount received here this month. Suffi cient alrm was created to cause a pretty free demand to cover from the more timid shorts, especially as the stock here was moving out with some freedom; and on this basis, assisted by an occasional purchase to “stimulate,” operators for a rise managed to increase values. The more confident “bears,” however, were by no means quiet lookers on, but have stubbornly contested the improvement fraotion by faction, making a somewhat sharper fight than the market has passed through for several weeks; and some of the operators on this side of the ques tion claim that, considering the demand prevailing and the full amonnt of busi ness actually accomplished, their op ponents have made a remarkably small gain, and can show but a barren victory at the best. Accounts from abroad have shown an absence of really oheerful fea tures, and a general sort of indifference bas been the most characteristic indica tion obtained from our exporters, while some have reoeived private advices of a really tame nature. On the home situa tion, the central point now is the move ment of supplies, and thi3 seems to have been gradually gaining in volume at the interior, with a corresponding tendency toward the seaboard. There, however, a temporary check seems likely at the moment, in view of the fever at the Southern ports, and a strengthening in fluence is generated on the market in consequence. Spots have had a lower range of quo tations owing to the changing of the basis from old orop to new, which brought about the following alterations: Fair, down to and including good mid dling, reduced 3-i60.; middling reduced Jo.; strict middling and low middling re duced l-160., and strict good ordinary and good ordinary advanced l-16o.; stained strict middling reduced 3-160. and low middling Jo. In reality, how ever, the tone has been pretty steady throughout, and after the revision was made an advanoe of l-16c. all around took place. There has been very little demand for export, and as before the or ders on this outlet were mainly of a spe cial character, the average shipper en tirely neglecting the market. Spinners have continued to buy along steadily from day to day to about the former average, and though we have heard of none who were unable to obtain stock, they have not had it thrust upon them with freedom, and good, attractive se lections of old cotton to arrive was some what irregular, but hardly so free as last week, and near by deliveries ranged much closer to the value of spots than before; indeed, some holders wanted quite as much toward the close of the week, when the prospects of free re ceipts had become much less positive in character. , Contracts opened slightly nnder bear ish influences, but afterward a better demand commenced to develop and for several days the selling interest had most of the advantage, and on a good business done managed to add some what to values. The stimulating influ ence was apparently to be found mainly in the prospect of. smaller supplies thiß month than calculated upon, and this gave the greater strength to the near-by months. How mnoh of anew element has been drawn in is difficult to deter mine, but appearances seem to show that most of the operations were merely manipulations on outstanding contracts. On Monday, there was some pressure, and rates went off 1-16a3 320., with just a slight reaction at the close to be fol lowed by a full recovery on the next day’s business and a sharper and more general demand. On Wednesday, the opening was a little tame, but a reoovery followed, and before the close prices had advanced I-160. again. On Thursday another small advance took place and the close was steady, but on Friday de mand slackened off somewhat and prices weakened. Saturday’s market again brought rather an upward turn, the reports of a more extended range of the yellow fever through the South add ing strength, especially on near-by en gagements. HON. B. H. HILL. lIU Letter of Acceptance-. Athens, Ga., Sept. 21, 1876. Gentlemen— l have received yours of 13th instant, in which you say: “The delegates of the Ninth Congressijnal District, assembled this day in Conven tion, and, with a unanimity seldom wit nessed in political bodies, have selected you as their candidate in the approach ing election for Congress ;’’ and that you were appointed a committee to give me official notice of the nomination and to request my acceptance. The appro val of a good conscience is the highest possible reward for any service or action in this life. Next to this, to a public man, is the approval of bis constit uents. In the light of the circumstances surrounding me, and in view of the la bors I have endeavored to perform. The actions of the intelligent delegates com prising the Gainesville Convention, so unanimous and so oordial, is peculiarly gratifying, and the nomination is ac cepted. To make the Union once more a Union of equal States, resting in the consent of the people; to restore the Southern States to their full constitu tional place and favor in that Union and to make all sections again united, cor dial, prosperous, peaceful and happy, is now the grand mission of the Demo cratic party; Jand to aid in this glorious work is my chief ambition. The com plete vindication of the Southern peo ple from the calumnies which unscru pulous partisans, in their greed for pow er, have so industriously sought to fix upon them, is an indisable part of ibis work, and mnst be peformed large ly by our own Senators and Representa tives in Congress. Without the appro val of the people themselves, the accom plishment of this great end would be impossible, and its merit itself would be brought into serious question. With my thanks for the kind words you have employed in conveying to me the action of the Convention, and with the expres sion of my life long regard for each of yog personally, | am, very truly, B. H. Hill. Messrs. W. P. Frioe, Chairman; E. C. McAfee, Oscar Thomason, Committee. •rhelsiUaa.. New York, September 30.—A Bis marck, D. TANARUS., dispatch, of September 29tb, says a gentleman, who left Fort Peck last Sunday and who traded with Long Dog and Ink Paduty when they were here, arrived ; last evening. He says Long Dog was within twenty miles of Wolf Point when Gen. Terry was there, and that he had been into Foit Fec|£ repeatedly since then. On Satur day Lone Elk and JTast J}og cape in from the hostile camp. They announced that the hostiles were coming into Fort Peck, bqt fhey wanted tbe agent and hi* 1 outfit to go away. They did pot want i annuities or rations, but wanted the trader to remain and to have plenty of ammunition. They made presents Ip j the agency Jndians and brought in two 1 horses belonging to the Seventh Gavair < ry, also carbines and saddles evidently ' belonging to that regiment. < VOTE FOR HAMPTON. THE “HERALD’S” ADVICE TO COL ORED CAROLINIANS. Chamberlain’s Neglect of Duty—The era* ven’s Flights—Hampton’s Pledges—Honest Words—Sensible Colored Men Will Vote for Him—Wbnt Has Chamberlain Done for the Negro f | New York Herald—Editorial.] Governor Chamberlain, of South Caro lina, instead of attending to his duties has been visiting the North, and, on fiis return to Washington, which seems to be his headquarters, he gives out that he has heard of the murder of from thirty to one hundred negroes in the State daring his absence. “From thirty to one hundred” is a vague phrase. Its use oonfesses.a shameless amount of ig norance in the Governor of the State, whose sworn duty is to maintain the peace of the State, to protect the lives of the citizens, and to see that lawless ness is punished. The people of South Carolina are asked to vote for Governor Chamberlain—to re elect him to his place. But why should they ? At a time of great excitement he leaves the State, abandons bis post of duty and re turns only to send a vague report of the killing of some of its citizens. Evident ly he is not a fit man for Governor; he is not even a safe man. General Wade Hampton is his oppo nent, the nominee of the Democratic party. What does General Hampton say about the peace of the State? He is making an aotive and thorough can vass, and everywhere, from every plat form and stump, he pledges his word that if he is elected Governor he will “observe, protect and defend the rights of the colored man;” he solemnly promises to “render to the whole people of the State equal and impartial jus tice;” and to make this promise specific, he adds: “If there is"a white man iu this assembly who, because he is a Dem ocrat or because lie is a white man, be lieves that when I am elected Governor, if I should be, I will stand between him and the law, or grant to him any privil eges or immunities that shall not be granted to the oolored man, he is mis taken, and I tell him now, if that is bis reason for voting for me, not to vote at all.” These are the honest, sensible words of General Hampton. What has Gover nor Chamberlain said or done to matoh them ? What did he do on the heels of the Hamburg massacre ? Ho ran to Washington to appeal for help. What does he do in the middle of the canvass? Promise equal and exaot justice to all citizens? Guarantee that he will “ob serve, defend and proteot the rights of the colored man ?” Not at all. He leaves the State for a visit to New Eng land. Why should the oolored men of South Carolina vote for Mr. Chamber lain ? What has he done ? What does he propose to do for them ? If they are sensible men they will vote for General Hampton. He at least makes them a definite promise. He makes it for him self and for the gentlemen who are on the ticket with him. Not only that, but he warns every man who does not agree with him that all the people, oolored as well as white, shall be equally secure in life, liberty and property, that he had better not vote for him. If we were ask ed by a South Carolina oolored man how he should vote, we should tell him “Vote for General Hampton; hold him and his to the responsibility they are willing to assume. They arc men of character, men of property, old citizens of the State; go and shake hands with them; tell them you will trust them. Vote for Hayes for President if you like. It is natural that you should pre fer a Republican President, particular ly if you are going to try a Democratic State government. But vote for Gen. Hampton and the Democratic State ticket. Chamberlain has not protected you, and, depend upon it, if Hayes is chosen President, he is not going to list en to Chamberlain or any other South ern Governor who runs up to Washing ton to tell hit tale, when he ought to be on the spot to see justice done between you and your white neighbor. Mr. Hayes does not believe in Federal inter ference in the South.” That is the advice we should give to South Carolina and also to Louisiana oolored men. If they only took time calmly to consider the matter they would see that while the Southern Republican politician lives upon “outrages,” and prospers the more the more oolored men are wronged or slain, the Southern Democrat must perforoo maintain peace and order ; for if he does not the whole North hoots at him and demands that the Federal power shall upset him. Ar kansas was full of crime and disorder until the Democratic Governor Garland came into power. It has been peaceful ever since, and no complaints come from there, under his wise rule, of wrong to Republicans or colored men. THE BAGGED BOSS. Placed iu Confinement on Board the Frank lin—Hie Companion) Hunt) Set at Liberty— Much Opposition Made to the Surrender. New York, September 27.—A dispatch from Vigo states that William M. Tweed was removed at 9:30 o’clock last evening from his fortress prison, the Castillo Del Casto, where he had been confined for twenty-one days, to the United States frigate Franklin. Tweed offered very little objection to his removal. He was treated with every consideration, and the quarters of Rear Admiral Case were assigned him. Tweed’s companion, William Hunt, was taken on board the Franklin, but was almost immediately set at liberty. Hunt, after his release, was very retioent. He still maintains that his friend Secor is not Tweed. Hunt, after leaving the Franklin, went immediately to see an American friend at the Hotel Europa, registered there under the name of R. Sands. Sands is considered to be Tweed’s son. There was much opposition to the surrender of Tweed, and the action of the Govern ment is almost universally condemned. Hunt speaks well of the treatment re ceived by himself and companions at the hands of the Spanish. They were not allowed to communicate with each other and were closely guarded, but otherwise they received every courtesy and attention. Partlcalars of Tweed’s Caviare. 1 [Madrid Correspondence of the H. Y. Herald .] Tweed’s arrest has caused tbe greatest excitement here, though, as you will have been informed by the telegraph, the Spaniards had only a very vagui idea of the Boss’ name or fame. Somi* of the papers had the name “Tweed,” others “Tuild,” others “Tweid.” Some said he was a aecuestrador — i. e., a brig and of ohildren—that is, a kidnapper; others that he was a large Government defaulter. The ludicrous statement about Mr. Tweed beiDg a “secuestrador of ohildren” seems to have arisen from the caricature in Harper’s Weekly, of July 1. The following are the particulars of Tweed’s arrest, the chief points of whioh, however, have already been transmitted to us by telegram : On Thursday evening (7th) Mr. Adee, Uni ted States Charge d’Affaires, left Madrid on important business for La Granja, the Snmmer residence of the King and Government. On Friday morning announcement appeared in the papers here that William Tweed hed arrived at Vigo, and had been arrested by Government orders, but without de tails. In July last it was found Tweed was in Santiago de Cuba, having pass ed there from Havana. Gen. Jovellar was applied to by the American Consul to have Tweed seoured and sent to the States. Jovellar was quite willing, even in tbe absence of the extradition treaty, to oblige the American Government in return for their courtesy in the Argael les case years ago. Tweed, in Santiago, advised of impending danger, sailed on the 27th of July for Vigo, Spain, in the sailing vessel Carmen. Gen. Cushing was notified, and sounded tbe Spanish Government and found them willing to arrest Tweed and return him to Cuba or to deliver him to the American Con sul. Every precaution was taken by the Spanish Government to seenre Tweed ia any port of Spain or coast line ; orders were issued to the local authorities, especially those of the Vigo and Gallician coast. On the 6th of September, after a long passage of forty-one days, the Carmen hove in sight off Vige, and was immediately boarded by the Governor of Pontevedra, who at once recognized Tweed from photo graphs in his possession. He was found inscribed under the name of Se cor, and accompanied by a certain Wm. Hunt, whom ho called his Bephew. Both were immediately secured and thrown into calabozo nnder strong gnard, but were subsequently removed to a fortress in Vigo, under the com mand of the Captain General, His lug gage was seized and sealed. NEW YORK ITEMS. New Yobk, September 80.—John and Nicholas Collins were arrested for steal ing 86,000 worth of opium from John son A Co.’s bonded warehouse. Slight run on ttie Dry Dock Savings Bank. The deposits are ten millions. The Secretary says the resources are ample to meet any emergency. An informal meeting was held here to-day by the representatives of the Grand Trnnt, the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Pennsylvania and jpjrie Roads. It was the unanimous opinion of those present that the differences ought tq be settled at the earliest possible moment, i but that it is impossible without the con currence of the New fork Central which was not represented. It is believed an ] early settlement will be secured, i FUN THAT ENDED IN DEATH. A RECKLESS YOUNG WOMAN’S UN FORTUNATE ADVENTURE. Strange Freak of a Daughter oi French Actors—A Mania for Wenrlng Male At tire—A Jealeous Lover’. Terrible Mis take. San Fbanoisoo, September 19.—The persistency of Jennie Bonnet tin wearing male attire, after making her whim for several years a diversion for herself and her acquaintance, has ended in her dreadfnl death. She was bora in Paris, twenty-seven years ago, and her father and mother were actors. The family came to San Francisco in 1852, and Mr. Bonnett, being able to speak English with sufficient accuracy, was employed du ring the next dozen years or so in the poorer theatres. After that he was em ployed in a mercantile establishment. Jennie grew up about as she would, and hers ways were wild. jOne of her fanoies was the wearing of male dress, and she wore her hair short in order to assist in the disguise. Her features were not femininely delioate, nor her voice as light as is oommon with her sex; and consequently no stranger would guess that she was not a good looking, boyish fellow. Her dash in amusement was in keeping with her business vim. She dealt in frogs, supplied the large hotels and restaurants with them, and derived from them an ample inoome. The money thus secured was spent in luxurious living. Yesterday Jennie started out, in her favorite disguise, with a young com panion named Blanche Buneau, on an excursion of fun. They hired a horse and carriage at a livery stable, and drove to San Miguel, stopping there at the San Miguel Hotel, a small establishment that thrives on its restaurant, being close by the railroad depot. The land lord knew Jennie, because she had often been in his house, and her free expendi tures made him a safe guardian of her secret. That day Jennie and Blanohe went horsebaok riding, and in the eve ning they dined sumptuously at the hotel, drinking more wine than women usually do. They had intended to re turn to the city earlier, and had so in formed the liveryman ; and, alarmed bv their continued absence, be followed them to regain his property. He quar relled with Jennie, and was about to strike her, whereupon the landlord told him that she was a woman, and he de sisted. The horse and wagon were then taken away by the owner, the women de ciding to remain all night. Blanohe had an accepted lover, Wil liam Deneve, whom she was engage to marry. He was a Frenchman, and ex tremely jealous. Once ke saw her with Jennie, who was unknown to him, and whom he at once regarded as an inter loping vouug man. Deneve at that time upbraided Blanohe, but she did not un deceive him as to Jennie’s identity. It is believed that he saw, or in somo way learned of her departure yesterday for San Miguel, was furiously excited by her apparent fioktessness, followed them, and watched their movements until the terrible end of the adventure. The room in which Jennie and Blanohe were to sleep was in the first story, adjoining a balcony. They retired late, Blanohe got into bed first, and Jennie was pre paring to do so. Suddenly, without previous warning, there was a gunflash and a report at the window, and a heavy charge of buckshot entered Jennie’s side, killing her instantly. Blanche ran screaming to the door, arousing the household with her ories. The frighten ed landlord hesitated to go to the balco ny, and before he braced his courage sufficiently to make the search the mur derer had escaped. A o ironer’s jury this morning gave a verdict against Deneve, but ho has not been found by the polioe. THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK. Tlewa of Leading Manufacturers, Merchant* and Retailers The Iteturulna Tide ot Trade Healthy Hlens and Symptoms— *Wnge To Be Restored to the Rate Be fore the Late Redaction. [IV. Y. Herald .J There can be no doubt that business, wholesale and retail, has largely im proved during the last two or three weeks, and that the oity, whioh is the financial and commercial centre of the whole country, is now on the upward grade. From reports of representatives of the Herald, who were instructed yes terday to make patient, full and exhaus tive inquiries among our wholesale and retail merchants, it is learned that the feeling in business circles is better now than it has been for some time past, bet ter than at this period last year, or, in deed, for several years baok. A spurt in trade seems to have set in about the first of the month, and every day marks a higher and higher level and commercial water mark. The business men of New York are, it is no exaggeration to say, the best in the world. Obstacles and difficulties that would utterly paralyze the commercial men of almost any other community are made light of and looked upon only as so many incentives to greater energy and endeavor. They are satisfied with a smaller per centage of profit than the merohants and traders of any other oity on the continent, will take larger risks, work harder, rise ear lier in the morning, sit up later at night than any other people. It is because of these qualities and characteristics of its inhabitants, together with its great na tural advantages as the commercial me tropolis, that New Yoik is to-day the leading movement, moral or purely com mercial, the pivotal city of the Repnblio. During the last two or three yeais, be cause of its oentral and commercial posi tion, it has suffered severely; not as much so, however, as other places of lesser oonsequence. It is only natural now that it should be the first to feel the thrill of reviving trade and industry which is springing up all over the whole country. There are some branohes of industry that are, comparatively speak ing, as dull now as they were twelve months and two years ago, but all that class of trade which lies at the founda tion of business shows a very iparked improvement. Purely speculative inter ests and enterprises still suffer or are in the position they were a year sinoe; but that class of business which deals with tbe necessities of life has revived im mensely. Said a leading lumber mer chant to a reporter of the Herald yester day, “I am doing a great deal better now than a month ago. Since the first of January last there has been a steady improvement in my business, and I be lieve in the lumber trade generally. To be frank with you and to tell the truth, I have had to handle a third more stock since the first of January to show the same amount of money on my books. This is owing to the fall in prices, but I am entirely satisfied. Our sales are more than a third greater now than they were for the first nine months of 1875, but our profits, if there are any, are about the same.” POOL BETTING.- Radical Reform Demanded ky Patron* ot The Turf. One of the most serious evils of the turf is thus discussed, editorially, by the Turf, Field and Farm : That the trotting associations reoeive anything but a small revenue from the tax of pool sales is not to be questioned for a moment. At some of the tracks the tax after dividing with the pool seller, frequently amounts to five and six thousand .dollars. The commission which the pool buyer.-, pay in the maroh from Cleveland to Springfield amounts to a small foitune. Capital wonld soon be eaten up by tbe percentage charged on the in and out speculation on heat races, did not the winnings largely out number the losses. The tax would rain any man whoso aggregate winnings only equaled his aggregate losses. Almost every speculator knows this, and there fore ha is not particular as to the means by which he wiDS. The odds are so great against him that' he is tempted into schemes which will not bear the light of day. All the knavery practiced in the trotting tnrf is hatohed in the in terest of the pool box. There are thou sands of people who are fond of raciDg, bnt who will not countenance a sport used to foster a gambling spirit. We might as well look the truth in the face first as last. Wfyen professional drivers lament the evils of the day, it is time for park managers to be up and on gnard. The question for them to take into serious consideration is whether they can best afford to do without the five per cent, tax on pools, or the one dollar at the gate. Those who believe in moderate instead of extreme measures have suggested a plan which possibly might work well. They propose to retain the pool stand, but to allow no pools to be sold on a race after the race has been called. They argne that this would break np the com binations, as the speculator would have no chance to hedge after placing his money. If the judges believed that a horse was not trying to win they conld take him out of the hands of the driver and pnt someone up behind him in whom they had confidence. When made to realize the fact that honest judges would see to it that horses were honest ly driven, the spectators wonld back their candid judgment of the oapaoities of the oontending horses, instead of lending his support to a job. He wonld be without protection should he attempt . to pursue any other course. To give foroe to this plan tbe telegraph would * have to be looked after. Tt would be neoessary to instruct the operator oq the park grounds to refuse eyery dispatch offered him giving the betting odds. Unless this were done the horses wonld be manipulated in the interests of jobs pnt* np in tbe pool rooms distant from the scene of aotion,
