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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,