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Ctjromcle anb Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY.. OCTOBER 18, 1876.
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Mask Twain presided at a Republican
meeting recently some where “up
North."
One thousand and five hundred
copies of “ Daniel Deronda ” have been
ordered for Mudie’s, one of the largest
libraries in London.
THBLondon Times, noticing the course
of political events, gravely says: “A
widow laay named Butler has been
nominated for Congress in the Seventh
District of Massachusetts.”
The election in Georgia demonstrates that
there is not muck danger of a war of race* in
that State, which affords a pleasing contrast to
unhappy South Carolina. The colored citizens
of Georgia voted the Democratic ticket by
tbourauds, and no violation or intimidation ia
reported.— JVeta York HeraM.
Mb. Josh Hill, in his letter declining
to run for Congress in the Ninth Dis
trict, says: “Boon the waves of oblivion
sweep away their faintest traces, and
not a foot print will remain to show that
1 was of those who lingered by the
stormy seajof politics.”
The Cincinnati Enquirer says there
are eighty thousand office holders who
are contributing their money to keep
Tildes out of the White House. They
want no change. Treasury rats are al
ways tenacious of their good quarters.
The taxes in New York city, for all
purposes, reach the large total of 884
per inhabitant, aud the city’s indebted
ness, if divided equally, would leave
$126 as the share that every man, wo
man aud child within its limits will
some day have to pay.
Hon. Thomas Stocks, one of the old
est and most prominent, citizens of
Greeno county, is dead. He was ninety
two yeais old at the time of his death,
aud had consequently lived during the
entire Federal Administration of affairs
—from Washington down to Grant.
It is said that Bowen, the most
prominent Republican leader in Charles
ton county, is so confident of Hampton’s
election that he lias offered to withdraw
all oppositiou if the Democrats will not
disturb him in the Sheriff’s office, and
that the proposition had been declined.
A.n Atlanta Letter to the Savannah
News states that since Colonel E. Y.
Clark it, of the Constitution, has return
ed to that city lie has transferred his in
terest in the paper to Messrs. Hemphill
and Finoh, who now oontrol uine-tenths
of the stock.
Ninety-eioht counties have been
beard from and General Colquitt's ma
jority for Governor exceeds sixty thou
sand. Forty counties are yet to be
heard from, and these will doubtless
swell the Democratic majority to seven
ty-five thousand. Georgia can safely
promise Uncle Sammy the same majority
in November.
The Saturday Jievicw says that spirit
ual manifestations are uever heard of
exoept in a select company iu a private
room, and undercironmstancea iu which
almost any amount of trickery may be
practiced; that the voices of the spirits
usually talk nonsense and bad grammar,
and that there has never been a single
occasion ou which their supposed com
munications have been of the slightest
value.
Revolting against the irreligious dec
larations of Inoebsoll, the New York
Presbyterian says that the Republican
party cannot afford to have the moral
sense of the oountry outraged in the in
terest of atheism aud vulgar malignity.
It is likewise true that no party not re
-dueed to the utmost straits of despera
tion would ever have dared to enlist so
blasphemous a blatherskite iu its ser
vice. The fact that Bob Inoebsoll has
been employed to stump the country for
the Republicans is enough of itself to
show that Republicanism is on its last
legs.
The Philadelphia Democratic Com
mittee have keen actively canvassing
the election divisions and the Chairman
claims that he will be able to prove that
from 25,000 to 30,000 fraudulent names
have been registered as voters. For
several years the Democratic managers
.have succeeded in decreasing the re
ta rn of voters some thousands, and, al
though nothing like a 30,000 depletion
has ever been attempted or thought pos
sible, it is believed thpt out of the 185,-
000 aud odd names on the lists of the
city, at least 40,000 are fictitious and are
likely to be so shown.
The Cincinnati Enquirer relates the
following startling rascality; the ques-!
tion now is how far will it be allowed to
go: The Enquirer says that the editor
of the Evansville Courier, suspecting
that letters to or from prominent Demo
crate were opentyl by Radical postmas
ters, wrote a decoy letter to a Democrat
ic Congressman, underlining certain
passages, when, a few days later, the
passage* thus marked made their
appearance in display type in a
neighboring Republican paper. It
further appears that the pre-paid pack
ages of Democratic papers are broken
open, and Radical documents folded in.
We call the attention of all subscribers
to Democratic papers, and beg them to
report any such gross impatience on the
part of postmasters.
Apart from the depressing influences
of the yellow fever at Savannah, reports
from'.Georgia as to business prospects
are of ths'most encouraging character.
For the past three years a large propor
tion of country merchants in that and
adjoining States purchased their stocks
of goods in* home markets, not feeling
justified in laying in such a large stock
as would warrant their making a trip
to New York and the East. This sea
son, #>wever, the vast majority of these
small dealers, we are told, are seeking
the first markets and.buying much more
heavily. It is estimated that more than
double as many Georgia merchants are
registering in New York this season as
have registered for any year since 1872.
The manufacturing industries are like
wise on the road to reoovery. All the
rolling mills of Rome, which* were do
ing nothing five months ago, are now
running night and day, with orders
ahead. The cotton factors also are all
working on fall time.— 2f. Y. Daily
-Bulletin.
CHINA AGAIN SUCCCJIBS.
London dispatches confirm those pre
j viously received from Shanghai, of the
satisfactory arrangement concluded be
tween Great Britain and the Chinese
Government to heal the Yunan outrage.
An exchange thinks that with the sharp
surveillance exercised by Mr. Wade,
Britain’s diplomat, and by John Bull’s
naval forces, backed by the menace of
military intervention, China had either
to yield or snbmit to complete subjec
tion by this Western power. China
would doubtless leave all the rest of the
world alone, after her experience, but
other nations cannot afford to leave her
alone. Great Britain must send her
cotton fabrics and iron manufactures all
over China, and other nations wish to
do the same. Mankind do not desire to
see universal empire, such as the sub
jugation of China by Great Britain
wonld be. But the opening of fonr new
ports to the commerce of the world,
which are conceded by this treaty, the
improvement of the judicial system rel
ative to all foreigners, and the conces
sion of other increased facilities to com
merce which have been secured, will be
an advantage to all nations as well as to
Great Britain^
RADICAL CONSPIRACY AND INTIMIDA
TION IN THE SOUTH.
Whatever may be thought at the
North concerning former elections in the
Bonth, it must at length, from all the
tangible proofs so far furnished, be clear
that in the present campaign the intimi
dation is on the black and tan side. It
is not in South Carolina and Louisiana
alone that desperate methods are re
solved upon by the Radical leaders. The
evidences of conspiracy are cropping
oat in North Carolina. At Wilmington,
on the night of the 22d inst., a Republi
can ward meeting, attended by two or
three white men and between eighty and
a hundred negroes, unanimously adopt
ed, amid the most incendiary demon
strations, a resolution “that any negro
who would vote the Democratic ticket
should be hunted np and killed.” This
foul conspiracy was exposed by one
John Bcdbuby, a spectator at the meet
ing, whose affidavit to the above facts,
signed before a notary public, is pub
lished in tho Journal, and for whose
veracity that paper vouches. The next
morning Isaac Jones, a colored Demo
crat, was set upon and beaten in the
streets by one Anthony Foster, a color
ed Republican, backed by a dozen ne
groes, and who assigned no other rea
son for the assault but Jones’ politics,
and did in effect assign that by the epi
thets he used toward the assailed. The
facts of this ontrage were exposed by
Jones, whose affidavit also appears in
the Journal. The testimony and cir
cumstances are conclusive as to the ex
istence of the ounspiraoy. When the
Democratic party obtains the ascen
dency in North Carolina, as it has in
Georgia, or Texas, such a deplorable
state of affairs, the calamity of which
falls mainly on the colored people them
selves, will be a matter of history only
THE ILLINOIS CORN CROP.
The Illinois corn crop for this year is
estimated at 270,000,000 bushels. If it
could be sold at New York and Boston
prices—say 60 cents a bushel—it would
bring $162,000,000 to the Illinois far
mers. But it will be sold for only about
20 cents on the average, bringing $54,-
000,000. New England farmers who
raise corn sell it at 55 to 60 cents a
bushel, but Illinoss farmers are gener
ally thankful to get 25 oeuts a bushel
for theirs; frequently of late years many
of them have been forced to taka 15 to
17 cents.
A Western exchange says it would be
of immense advantage to Illinois farm
ers if their corn crop could be shipped
abroad for foreign consumption. But
our Republican tariff discourages this
by levying excessive protection dnties
on foreign manufactures. As Mr. D. A.
Wells says: “If foreigners cannot soli
they cannot buy; if they are not allowed
to sell us their goods they cannot buy
our crops.” The high tariff levied for
the protection of Eastern manufacturers,
therefore, not only taxes Western farm
ers for the benefit of these manufactur
ers, but impairs the foreign market for
their grain by impairing the powers of
foreigners to buy it. The only manu
facturing use that corn can be put to is
in making spirits; but eveu here the
hostile legislation follows it, for if the
surplus oorn crop of Illinois is made
into spirits, the internal revenue law
levies a tax of 70 cents a gallon on it. It
is very plain that the Illinois corn grow
er is not a favorite with our legislators
at Washington. What is called protec
tion is not for him.
SHOULD .HARRIED WOMEN TEACH i
An exchange says: "The question of
excluding from positions, as teachers in
the publio schools, married females, is
being discussed in New York, one of the
prominent school officers having taken
the ground that no married woman
ahould bd employed in the capacity of a
teacher. There is much that may be
fairly said in argument on both sides of
this question, bat we are not inclined to
favor the policy of exeluaion. We do
not see that the single fact of a woman
beiDg married disqualifies her for teach
er, any more than it does a mau, and
many of our male teachers are married
men. If a woman has a family of little
children at home requiring her care,
she, of course, could scarcely fill the po
i sition of a teacher any more than she
t could any place which would necessitate
her protracted or stated absence from
i home each day. But we know of no
' such married ladies who are teachers, or
! who wish to be. There are, however,
many young married women who have
no children, who have been and are suc-
cessful teachers, and we do not see why
they should not continue to be both
good teachers and good wives—at the
same time. If a female is to be arbi
trarily excluded from teaching because
she haa been so fortunate—or possibly j
so unfortunate —as to have secured a ■
husband, why ahould it not also be made
a rule that no female teaohers shall en
gage in the enterprise of getting a hus
band, in other words, why not interdict
all courtship ? Yet, if that were at
tempted or enforoed, we imugine that
moat of the positions now held by yonng
ladies as teaohers would be speedily va
cated- It may be said that it is not fair
for women who have husbands who are
supposed to support them to crowd out
of teachers’ positions the unmarried
girls. Yet this does not seam to us to
be a very weighty consideration, be
cause many wives do quite as much to
ward supporting the family establish
ment as their husbands do, and are
I therefore all the more helpmeets as
wives and husbands both should be.
After all, the only real teat should be
the fitness of the person who seeks a po
sition as a teacher, and this should in
clude not merely the requisite knowl
edge of the various things that are to be
taught, but also aptness to teach and
ability to govern children and yonth,
and if these qualities are fonnd in a
married woman we do not believe that
her non-celibate, or matrimarial condi
tion ahoaid be regarded as a barrier to
her panning the vocation of a teacher.
Give ns the best teachers we can pro
cure and let the matter of their being
married or single take care of itself.”
THE CAROLINA RIFLE CLUBS.
If there was any donbt lingering in
the minds of Booth Carolinians as to the
true character of Daniel H. Chakbrb
lain, it has certainly been removed by
his recent proclamation concerning the
rifle clnbs. He has exhibited the cloven
foot in an unmistakable manner. He
has shown a determination to bring
about trouble and bloodshed, and to se
cure his election by means of fraud and
violence. He has, after deliberate con
sideration of the consequences, adopted
a step which he believes and hopes will
cause collisions in every county of the
State. He has no right to order the
disbandment and dispersal of the rifle
clubs. They are not militia organiza
tions s abject to the order of the Gover
nor. They are composed of private citi
zens associated together for private pur
poses. Such arms as they possess were
purchased with their private means, and
are each as citizens in this country usu
ally own. In addition to this, we under
stand that most, if not all, of these olubs
are regularly chartered by the General
Assembly, and have, therefore, a perfect
legal existence.
In order to effect a dispersal there
must first be an assemblage. Tho rifle
clnbs cannot be “ dispersed, ” in the
language of the proclamation, because
they have never assembled. How can
men “ disperse and retire peaceably to
their homes ” who are already at their
homes and never leave them except upon
some lawful errand. There are no “un
lawful assemblages ” in either Aiken or
Barnwell counties, as Governor Cham
berlain well knows. How does he pro
pose to execute such an absurd proclama
tion ? When he sends troops to a coun
ty they will find that their errand is
fruitless —that there is not. and has not
been, any unlawful gathering of the peo
ple for them to forcibly disperse. Will
Chamberlain procure the names of
men belonging to the organizations and
have soldiers sent to their houses to
disarm them of the shot-guns, which
they have bought for the purpose of
hunting and to protect their homes
from the burglar and the assassin ? He
has no right to do any such thing. The
Constitntiou of the United States gives
every citizen the right to bear arms in
bis own defense.
This proclamation is mere brutem
fulmen, and, from the very nature of
the case, oan not be enforced. It is
doubtless intended to make the North
believe that the people of South Caro
lina are in a state of insurrection against
t'.e civil authorities—to give offioial
sanction to the slanders which have
been so industrously circulated by
Patterson & Cos.
AN EXAMPLE SHOULD BE MADE.
We are mortified at having to reoord this
week ODe of the most shocking case* of rape
we have ever heard of. In this instance white
men are tho hellish perpetrators. It is said
that five armed men, white, two or three dayß
ago, went to the house of a respectable color
ed man, living in the upper portion of this
county, with the deliberate design of commit
ting rape. The colored man had a daughter
about sixteen or seventeen years of age. The
five armed men took the said oolored man out
of his house and threatened his life if he
made any noise or resistance. They then went
into his house, it is said, and outraged his
daughter. One of the party to the outrage,
by the name of Henry Owens, has been ar
rested and lodged in jail at this place, and the
others are being looked aftor and will proba
bly be also arrested and imprisoned to await
trial. We have no comment to make —com-
ment is unnecessary.— Laurensville (S. C.)
Herald.
We hope as we believe that the out
laws who did this fiendish deed will be
arrested and made te suffer the extreme
penalty of the law. Death at the hands
of the hangman is a mild punishment
for th'e’frightful offense which they have
committed. We condemn lynching in
such cases, for no matter with what
crime a man is charged the safety of the
oitizen and the security of society de
mand that he should be condemned and
punished according to the requirements
of the law; but we commend the decree
of the Legislature which awards death
upon the gallows to the violators of wo
men, be the latter white or black. The
crime in this instance, as described
above, shows attendant circumstances of
unusual atrocity, which nßako us wonder
that the perpetrators could have the form
and semblance of human beings. The
people of Laurens oounty, South Caro
lina, owe it to themselves that these
men should not he allowed to escape
punishment; that indignation at their
depravity should not cease until they have
been arrested and arrest is followed by
trial and conviction. We are well as
sured that they will do their whole duty
in the piemises and show to the world
how much they condemn such brutal
deeds.
DISCUSSIONS ON THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
The American Fablio Health Associa
tion began its fourth annual meeting at
Huntington Hall, Institute of Techno
logy, recently. The discussions will take
a wide range and be participated in by
men who have made a careful study of
the conditions affecting the health of
people congregated together in cities
and towns. Among the more important
topics announced are "Sanitary Regu
lations Relating to Abattoirs;” “Sanitary
Appointments and Ontfittings of Dwell
ing Houses;” "Food in Its Relations to
Personal and Publio Health;” “Illumi
nating Gas in Its Relations to Health;”
“Sanitary Requirements of Large Fac
tories;” “Life and Health Problems
which Concern the State,” etc. There
are papers to be read on these and other
topics by such men as Henry G. Crow
ell, of the Boston Board of Health;
Stephen Smith, of the New York Board
of Health; Dr. J. G. Thomas, President
of the State Board of Health of Georgia;
Dr. J. M. Woodworth, Surgeon-General
of the United States Marine Hospital
Service, and others. Among those who
are to take part in the discussions are
Dr. E. H. Janes, Assistant Sanitary Su
perintendent of the New York Health
Department; Professors Wolcott Gibbs,
Benjamin Pierce, H. P. Bpwditch, and
E. S. Wood, of Harvard University; Dr.
Austin Fint, of New York; Prof. Brew
er, of Yale, and several others.
The Globe says there are no ques
tions of more vital importance, especi
ally to the people ef large cities, than
those which pertain to the publio health.
In our regulations in this matter we are
far behind the requirements of an intel
ligent civilization. The subject is very
imperfectly understood even by those to
whom the interests of the oommnnity
are largely entrusted. There can be
little donbt that it lies within the power
of man to remove most of the causes
which breed disease in populous places
and sap the strength and destroy the
lives of the people. It is only necessary
; to understand folly the conditions.neces
sary for the preservation of health and
the source of those influences which
militate against it, to be able to devise
measures to secure the former and re
move the latter. Of course when the
subject is clearly understood' there is
still need of practical measures and ener
getic action, bnt to make these effective
there must be a full knowledge of the
subject It is even neoessary that the
people at large should be well informed,
in order that the authorities may be
spurred up by an intelligent public opin
ion and a popular demand, to a perform-
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 18] 1576.
auce of their duties. Hence we regard
this meeting of the Public Health Asso
ciation as of great importance, and one
which should receive the attention of
the people. There are many problems
affecting the general health of the com
munity which need to be worked out in
thia city of Boston, and no doubt a good
deal of light may be thrown upon these
by the discussions at Huntington Hall
this week.
THE GEORGIA ELECTION.
As we predicted yesterday the Geor
gia election shows no appreciable Re
publican opposition. Hon. A. H. Col
quitt has been chosen Governor by a
majority which patient figuring will have
to place at the proper distance between
40,000 and 70,000 votes. The Legisla
ture is almost unanimously Democratic.
Under Democratic rule Georgia has ad
vanced to the front rank of prosperity.
More negroes own land in Georgia than
in all the rest of the Southern States
put together, and Georgia is the most
pronounced Democratic Southern State.
These two facts explain the prosperity
to all races under Democratic rule. The
people are so forgetful that only a few
can be expected to remember what the
condition of Georgia was under bayonet
imposed and bayonet sustained Repub
lican rule, which was kept in power by
disfranchisement. It was a condition
of bankruptcy in resources and of Hayti
in society and of grand larceny and
murder in administration. The highest
officials were robbers, forgers, highway
men, murderers and conspirators, in the
severest legal senses of those terms.
With Democracy have come peace, or
der, prosperity, the full recognition of
the rights of all, and harmony between
all classes. The reason 'the South is
Demooratio is because the most rudi
mentary matters which make life toler
able are impossible] under] the
sion of society which Republicanism
produces. It is a necessity of human
nature for Republicanism and rascality
are synonymous terms ia the South.
Northern citizens who have traveled
South appreciate this fact. The South
knows it. In time all the North will
know it, for the truth is making its own
impression better, deeper, clearer and
further than lies this year. —Brooklyn
Eagle.
AN OBSOLETE MYSTERY.
“An attempt i* now being made to prove
that Thomas Paine, the author of ‘Common
benee’ and the ‘Age of Reason,’ was the au
thor of the celebrated Junius letter*. Sir
Philip Fbanoib baa been generally admitted to
be their author.”—Houston Telegraph.
‘‘Hon. Alexander H. Stephen* doesn’t ‘ad
mit’ any such thing, and will fight it out a*
long a* he oan move an eyebrow. Perhaps the
Houston man will venture to tell him that Sir
Philip Francis wrote the letter* of Junius.”—
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and Sentinel.
No, the Telegraph don’t wish to provoke
from Mr. Stephens another history of the
Constitution of the Unit. and States, or any other
man, therefore it will not undertake to tell
him anything about Junius. Without knowing
anything about Mr. Stephens’ theory of the
authorship of the remarkable compositions
known as the Junius letters, arid not venturing
an opinion as to their authorship, save that the
great mass of the most credible testimony on
the subject fixes the responsibility with all but
absolute certainty on Bir Philip Francis, we
present the names of the persons to whom the
Junius letters have been attributed or by
whom they have been claimed, and Mr. Ste
phens, or the Chronicle man, or any other
man, can take his choice. They are, James
Adair, Isaac Barrs, Hugh Maciulay jfoYD,
Edmund Burke, Bis op John Butler, Lord
Camden, William Pitt (Lord Chatham), Lord
Chesterfield, De Lolme, John Dunning
(Lord Ashburton), Samuel Dyer, Henry
Flood, Dr. Philip Francis, Sir Philip Fban
sis, Gibbon (the Historian), Richabd Gloves,
Henby Grattan, William Gbeatbakeb, Geo.
Grenville, James Grenville, William C
Hamilton, James Hollis. Sir William Jone.
(the Orientalist), John Kent, Gen. Charles
Lee (afterwards of the American army),
Charles Lloyd, Lord Lyttleton, McLean
(Duke of Portland), Thomas Pownall. bir
Robert Rich, John Roberts, Rev. Philip Ro
senhaoen, Viscount Sackvillf., The Earl of
Shelbune, Earl Temple, John Horne Tooke,
Horace Walpole, John Wilkes, Alex. Wed
derbun, Dr. James Wilmot, Daniel Wray and
Thomas Paine. Take your choice.— Houston
Telegraph.
CHAMBERLAIN’S INFAMOUS PROCLA
MATION.
The infamy of D. H. Chamberlain is
established out of the mouths of his own
political associates and allies. Two
Judges of the Supreme Court, both of
them pronounced Republicans, and
both of them anxious for the success of
the ticket headed by Chamberlain, bear
testimony to the falsity of his state
ments. Five-eighths of the Circuit
Judges, who go among the people of
every county, who were elected by a
Republican Legislature, and most of
whom are Republicans, give the same
sort of evidence, and one of them gives
a stinging fjebuke to Chamberlain for
his infamous conduct. Ex-Gov. R. K.
Scott, who is the bitterest of partisans,
is forced to admit that the portion of
South Carolina in which he resides is as
quiet as any portion of the North which
he visited. Judge Willard, a Northern
Republican Judge ef the Supreme
Court, not only denies Chamberlain’s
statements, but he goes further and
says there is less personal bitterness in
the present than in any political cam
paign he ever witnessed in South Caro
lina. Chamberlain’s reply to the tem
perate but firm address issued by the
Democratic Executive Committee and
to the letters of the Judges, simply re
terates his slanders and professes his
ability to make good his assertions.
Why does he not do what he says he
can do t He knows very well that he
can not. Any attempt to prove the
truth of his monstrous statements will
inevitably] reveal him a self-convicted
slanderer.
It remains to be seen whether Gov.
Chamberlain will attempt to enforce his
proclamation; whether he will declare
martial law in two counties of the State
and employ United States soldiers to ar
rest peaceful citizens. If he does the
people may have to submit to force
which they cannot successfully resist.
They can only appeal to the people of
the North to avenge their wrongs at the
polls. They cannot wage war against the
United States flag, even when it is pros
tituted to the protection of thieves and
murderers. But they should not let
Chambeblain’s proclamation, the sus
pension of the writ of habeas corpus, or
the presence of bayonets, intimidate
them from prosecuting the good work
in which they are now engaged. They
have put their hands to the plow and
they should not look back. They may
not hold meetings of their rifle clnbe,
and they may abandon the organization
sanctioned by the laws of the State.
Bat they can work for Hampton and-
Reform as vigorously as ever. They can
still reason with the polored men and
induoe them to quit the party which is
bringing ruin upon them as well as on
the whites. They can go to the polls in
November determined (q vole, and de
termined that their votes shall be
counted.
Baltimore is experimenting in the
use of steam on street cars, and the pa
pers express the hope that they will su
percede the use of bones in sity and
suburban transit.
The Savannah Benevolent Associa
tion has received up to this date $65,-
000 for the benefit of the yellow fever
sufferer*.
NOVEMBER SKIES BRIGHTENING.
The battle has been fongK in Ohio
and Indiana, and the retnrt* are now
sufficiently definite to indieafe the pro
bable result of the contest.
As to Ohio : In this State he Demo
crats had no gronnd for and
did not expect, snocess. It ii properly
a Republican State, and for npny years
past has given almost oobrokn Repub
lican majorities ranging froa five to
forty thousand. In the camjaign just
closed the chances were all sgainst us
there. The Republican canddate for
the Presidency was an OhiofU, nomi
nated, among other reasons, for the
purpose of making iu that Shte assur
ance doubly sure. If the RembliCans
had lost Ohio their cause wcnld have
been irretrievably ruined, aid they
knew it. Hence they straintd every
nerve to compel success. Thar ablest
speakers were out in shoals; fie State
was deluged with money. On tie other
hand the Democrats conceded Ipe State
to the enemy from the cemmetctment
of the campaign. In every estimate, in
all political calculations, Ohio was paced
among the Republican States, The
Democratic party there had be@i weak
ened by schisms and torn bj dissen
sions. There was a strong eleaent op
posed to the speedy resumption <f specie
payments, and to this class thenomina
tion of Governor Tilden was qtoedingly
distasteful. Serious fears wire enter
tained that it could not be rallied to his
support. Under these circumstances, if
the Republicans had carried the State by
fifteen to twenty thousand majority, we
should have been neither alarned nor
disappointed. As it is, the Democracy
have made a glorious fight; hare' man
fully disputed every inch of ground;
have so lessened what should hare been
the Republican majority that Oljio may
be counted as almost certain for Tilden
in November.
As to Indiana : Notwithstanding the
reception of dispatches, up to the time
of this writing, asserting that th> State
is close, we feel confident the Dem
ocracy have carried the election The
consequence of such a victory is very
apparent. The Republicans me ob
liged to carry both Ohio and Ind.ana in
order to stand any chance of sucsess in
November. The Democrats had only
to carry Indiana in order to elet Til
den. The Republicans have not carried
both States. The Democrats havt car
ried Indiana. The vote of Indiana,
added to the States that are certainly
Democratic, makes Tilden’s ejection
almost inevitable. The loss of Indiana
to the Republicans renders Hayes’
candidacy almost hopeless. T* our
eyes November skies are brightening.
Since writing the above the following
dispatches to the Chronicle and Senti
nel from the Chairman of the State
Democratic Executive Committees in
Ohio and Indiana have been reoeived :
Columbus, 0., Octobar 11.
To the Chronicle and Sentinel, Augusta. Ga.:
This State is close and doubtful. The official
vote is necessary. Indiana is claimed by the
Democrats. John G. Thompson,
Chairman Democratic Executive Committee.
Indianapolis, Ind., October 11.
To the Chronicle and Sentinel, Augusta, Ga. :
Returns are scattering and come in slowly.
They show gains and losses on both sides. The
precincts heard from do not vary muoh from
the vote of 1872. Returns from thirteen coun
ties in full aud official show Democratic gains
of over two thousand on the vote of 1872.
Think the State safe by from two to five thous
and. M. D. Manson,
Chairman Democratic Executive Committee.
THE SOUTHERN QUESTION.
‘‘Strike for your altars and your fires;
Strike for the green graves of your sires,
God and your native land!"
Washington, October 6, 1876.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel :
The fact can no longer be disguised
that it is the purpose of the Republican
party, through Grant and his subordi
nates —Cameron, Taft and Chandler—
to prevent the free and untrammelled
expression of opinion at the ballot box
in the Southern States on the 7th of No
vember, proximo. Their talk of intimi
dation of the blacks by the whites of
these States is the merest olap-trap to
disguise their real intentions of not only
intimidating the whites by the presence
and use of the military at the polls on
the day of the Presidential election, but
to intimidate and compel the colored
voter to cast his ballot for the Republi
can candidates. This is more distinctly
set forth in the speeoh of Attorney-Gen
eral Taft, made at Cincinnati, Ohio, on
the 28th ultimo. In this speeoh he
says: “In view of the extraordinary
condition of affairs in the South,
the question is now gravely presented
whether the negroes shall be allowed
to share in the election of officers who
are to administer the Government or
not; or rather whether the dominant
class, with property and superior intel
ligence in the South, shall be allowed to
deprive them and us of their right to
vote. ” Whom does the Attorney-Gen
eal mean by the pronoun “ms," if he
does not mean the Republican party ?
Is it not clear, then, that they intend,
by the use of the military under control
of their partizan marshals, to carry the
negro vote of the South solidly for the
Republican ticket? But mav not this
be counteracted legitimately and prop
erly, and without intimidation or de
priving any man, white or black, from
going to the polls and there casting his
vote for the man and party of his choice ?
Let us see.
In the first place, let all Democrats
and conservative Republicans, white
and black, who desire and who are de
termined to see a fair and untrammeled
and nnintimidated vote of the people of
the Soute, organize thoroughly and
efficiently in every county pr parish, and
elect as their advisers and*leaders their
ablest and most conservative as
well as most firm and discreet
men. And in the second place,
let these men so organized be as
well and as thoroughly armed as the
nature of the case will admit, and pro
ceed to their respective polls on the
morning of the 7th of November, and
through their leader or captain, tender
their services to the United States Mar
shals or'military officers as a posse com
itatus, to aid them to keep the peace
and to see that every voter has the fall
est and freest opportunity of casting his
vote for the party whom he may elect
without past, present or future intimi
dation or threats of violence of any kind,
by either party, black or white, Demo
cratic or Republican; and if there should
be any attempts at violating these rights
and privileges of the voter to freely oast
his ballot, that summary punishment
will immediately follow, whether that
violation and intimidation be by indiv
idual or concerted action of the blacks
or whites, or by the military in com
mand of the United States Marshals,
sent into the Southern States for the
covert purpose of controlling the negro
vote and seenring it solidly for the Re
publican ticket.
The moment the United States au-
thorities violate the compaot or agree
ment to see that none are intimidated or
in any way hindered or molested in the
free exercise of the legitimate right of
every legal voter to cast his ballot as he
may see proper, whether he be Republi
can or Democrat, the citizen posse oomi
tatus is absolved from all control of snch
United States Marshal or military posse,
and would be free to act as their best
judgment, under the circumstances,
might determine. To secure and main
tain the peace at and the freedom of the
ballot, being your first and sole object,
you would have the prestige of law on
yonr side whenever it might become ne
cessary to use summary means to main
tain these fundamental principles of our
republican institutions.
By this plan, if adopted in those
States where Government influence and
intimidation is intended, it wonld not
only awe all eyilly disposed persons
from committing violence at or near the
polls, bnt it wonld also awe the Radical
Republican military posses into the
keeping of law and order, ant} thus se
cure the highest good to all concerned.
Without some such organisation of the
people of these States, violence and in
timidation will most assuredly follow un
der Radical organization at the polls.
And third and last, let the legal au
thorities of the States of the South close
the doors of every place on the day of
the Presidential election where liqnors
are sold, and prohibit its sale and nse
by black or white at or near the polls on
| that day. It iB generally the excess of
the nse of intoxicating drinks at these
times, and especially if there is much
partisan feeling manifested by the two
contending parties, that is among the
irritating causes that lead to riots, blood
shed and death at the polls.
If this advice "be treason, make the
most of it!”
Respectfully, C. P. Culver.
THE TRIBUNE AND THE SOUTH.
Editors Chronicle and /Sentinel:
In an editorial of the New York 7W
bune, under date of October 4, 1876, the
question is asked : “Where are the lead
ers of the South?” and asserts that “the
South lies crushed under burdens;
that the South is ruled by brutish and
turbulant people; that the dominant
party is hated by the negroes, because
of brutal hostility to the rights of the
colored population.” How is it that a
newspaper commanding in its editorial
corps remarkable talent, unbounded pa
tronage, and wonderful influence in po
lities, can, with such economy of the
truth, with such withholding of honesty
in statemeut, with such perversion of
facts as appears in this editorial, set it
self up as a moulder of public opinions
and a leader of the people Is beyond the
comprehension of an honest mind. The
leaders of the South—A. H. Stephens,
John B. Gordon, T. M. Norwood, Hart
ridge, Cook, Wofford, Colquitt, Lawton,
Hansell, Smith, honored and trusted
sons of Georgia—are at their respective
posts of duty, while the Republican ele
ment in the State, and who were in pow
er in the State a few years ago, viz :
Brown, Joshua Hill, Conley, Walker,
Saffold, are allowed to remain at home,
or are filling Federal appointments
(deemed unworthy of confidence or place
by the people) for their devotion to
their party, fed on Government pap.—
Are Stephens, Gordon, Ben Hill, Col
quitt, Smith, Lawton, turbulant and
brutal ? Do they propose to inaugurate
or countenance brutal or turbulent
measures for the administration of pub
lic affairs ? Certainly not. If so, put
the finger upon the act or measure of
such a character connected with their
names. It cannot be done. What rights
of the negro are brutally disregarded ?
By the Constitution of the State of Geor
gia they are privileged to sit on juries
and do enjoy that right. They do not
occupy as full a representation in the
jury box as the whites do, and very
properly so. The law provides (and this
law was made by a Republican Conven
tion and Legislature, partly composed
of negroes) that jurors shall be selected,
by persons appointed by the Court,
from the upright and intelligont citi
zens. By this law many unletter
ed, unworthy and irresponsible white
men are excluded. In one county
of the State, from a voting white popu
lation of over six hundred, there are
(217) two hundred and seventeen names
in the lury box. It is usually the case
that all of the negro population of vot-.
ing age are unlettered and incompetent
of considering the rights of parties, of
construing law, and of determining is
sues ; hence they with many whites of
like character and capacity are excluded
from the jury box. By the Constitu
tion and laws of Georgia, the negro is
allowed to vote, just as the same privi
lege is extended to the white man. By
our law, if he wishes to vote, the hinder
ing party commits a misdemeanor if he
prevents it. In this the negro, who is
the laboring class in the Southern
States, enjoys a privilege that is denied
the unnaturalized foreigner in the
Northern States, who is generally the
laborer there. Should we not be com
mended for granting and guaranteeing
to the negro a right and privilege not al
lowed a white man who is born in an
other country ? Or should the North
ern States be censured for denying its
laborer, a white man of foreign birth, a
right and privilege that we of the South
grant our former slaves ? But you say
by unfair means the white men of the
South control the vote of the negro ? Do
you not by fraud obtain naturalization
papers and vote some who have not the
right to vote? Do you not by persua
sion, by threats of discharging from your
employ—aye, from Government clerk
ships—by making drunk, by violence,
by every means known to the ingenuity
of man, influence and control the igno
rant voters of your section ? Why cer
tainly you do. In the South, the De
mocracy are the whites, are the property
holders, are the landlords and the land
owners, are the majority of the people,
The negroes, in great part, are the Re
pnblicaus of this section in politics; are
ignorant, unlearned, are paupers, are ir
responsible, were former slaves, are the
laborers of the country. Their inter
ests are closely allied to the interests of
the whites, in the prosperity of our com
merce and trade, in the production and
money value of our crops, in the open
ing up of new farms and the building up
of comfortable homes, in the peace and
good order of society, in the proper ad
ministration of just laws, in the peace
ful, intelligent and economical adminis
tration of government. Knowing this to
be true,' the negro who has brain enough
to look after his interests naturally apd
freely votes with the Democracy ; and
the whites seeing the prosperity and
good of the country in this light, in
fluences the negroes to vote with them.
The same means are used to influence
the negro to vote with the Democracy
that is used in the Northern States by
any and all parties upon the ignorant
and irresponsible voters. These means
are proper and right. The whites are in
the majority in these States. Their
blood and treasure obtained the soil and
their forefathers settled it. Being here
as this day and time finds us, with a la
boring olass of a different color, we
must continue to occupy the country in
this way. The white man must natur
ally control. Having the material
wealth of the country as his own, hav
ing the brain and the learning, he must
rule for years to come. Consider the
idea a moment of the agrarian principle
suggested by the Republican party, of
forty acres of land and a mule to each
negro who voted with them in 1860 ; of
the attempt in the States of Georgia and
South Carolina to squander the public
money in such a way as to burden the
property owners with such taxes as to
disable them from payment, and forcing
property upon the sheriff’s block, that it
might be bought up by negroes and
adventurers, and thus reverse the posi
tion of the races, makiDg negroes the
property owners and the white men the
paupers of the South; and how nearly
the scheme succeeded in Georgia, with
Bullock as Governor, and ‘South Caro
lina is not yet free of the meshes thus
delivishly woven around her.
Our laws guarantee in specific terms,
“without regard to color or previous
condition,” in our rights of property, in
our protection of life, liberty and prop
erty, in our privilege to sue and defend
in suits at law, in the enjoyment of re
ligious privileges ; these things being
true, the words of the Tribune, that the
rights of the negro are brutishly denied,
is an outrage upon our impartial legis
lation and upon the intelligence of its
readers.
In the State of Georgia there is a
common school system, the funds for
which is raised from interest npon cer
tain bonds of the State, the rental of
the “ State Road,” the license of liquor
vendors and the poll tax of the people.
To this fnnd the money of the whites
pay the larger part, and while the ne
groes have and enjoy an equal benefit
with the whites in the common schools,
they only contribute the poll tax that is
collected frog) them, which is a small
proportion. Tet Democratic Legisla
tures provide for this educational Bene
fit being extended to the negroes. And,
strange to say, in this county, the Re
publican candidate for the Legislature
in the reoent campaign run on a plat
form of opposition .to the common
school laws ! Should citizens who are
so stupid as not to know what laws
operate especially for their good, with
representatives equally stupid or cor
rupt, be allowed the control of affairs ?
In this State negroes, occupy seats in
the Legislature, fill county offices, and
such rights are not brutishly disputed,
as the Tribune charges,
We who tastefi of the sweets of a free,
honest and honorable government as
administered by Washington, Troup,
Adams, Crawford, Fillmore, McDonald,
before the war j and survived the de
struction of every thing except the vital
principle of civil and religions liberty
by the results of the war ; and ex
perienced the profligacy af Bullock,
Blodgett, Farrow, Conley apd Company,
and enjoy the peaceful, honest apd cor
rect administration of the present, know
the difference between the oorrnpt •ad
ministration of the Republican party in
Georgia, and thp upright, impartial and
righteous government of the Democracy
in oar State. And tips administration
is not brought about by unfair means,
else we would have discord and dissen
tion. Nor are the rights of the negro
brutishly disregarded, else the negro
would not have the right to sit on juries,
to hold offioe, to vote in all eleotions, to
appear in our court houses in defense of
gereon and property, to acquire prop
erty, or enjoy the benefits of a oommon
school education. X.
THESTATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
To-morrow is “Georgia Day” at the
Centennial
A female compositor is the latest at
traction in Atlanta.
Oglethorpe oounty sends two baohe
lors to the Legislature.
The Atlanta Sunday Herald, for a
ohange, is trying eight pages.
The municipal oanvass has commenc
ed in good earnest in Atlanta.
General Colquitt is enjoying a breath
ing spell at present in Atlanta.
The Northeastern Railroad, at Athens,
is doing a very heavy cotton business.
The Timber Gazette thinks that there
is a good opening in Darien for a good
physician.
C. W. Seidell, of Hart oounty, will be
a candidate for Clerk of the House, in
tlxe next Legislature. -
Courts in the Western and Northern
Cirouit are held this week in Franklin
and Hanooek counties.
Mr. Thomas Hoge, an old gentleman
well known and respected in Georgia,
died in Virginia the other day.
Norcross obtained majorities in Lee,
Dougherty, Baker, Decatur, Mclntosh
and Burke. These six and no more.
Dr A. G. Turner, a prominent oitizen
of Hart oounty, will shortly move to
Athens for the purpose of eduoatiag his
children.
Uncle Jonathan Noroross has gone to
the Centennial. This is sensible. Un
cle Jonathan needs a change of scene
and air, undoubtedly.
J. G. Thrower, G. W. C. TANARUS., will de
liver an address at the anniversary
celebration of Mt. Zion Lodge, Jones
boro, next Wednesday night.
Col. Carey W. Styles, of the Com
monwealth, and Pete Lawshe, , of the
Gainesville Southron, had a pugilistic
bout in Atlanta, Monday night.
Old Norcross got a pretty stiff vote in
Athens last week. The negroes voted
with a singular unanimity, showing evi
dences of a thorough organization.
The Athens Watchman, having re
viewed its Encyclopedia and consulted
a stud book, concludes that Joshua Hill
aud Benjamin H. are not related.
J. T. Olive, of Lexington, and J. P.
Shannon, of Elberton, are prominent
candidates for Sam Lumpkin’s saddle
bags, as Solicitor of the Northern Cir
cuit.
The last issue of the Dahlonega Moun
tain Signal was printed upon eoru col
ored paper. This, we suppose, was in
honor of the disoovery of anew gold
mine. v
An almost fatal cutting scrape occur
red in Atlanta Saturday afternoon be
tween Messrs. Andrew Ford and W. H.
Thrash, near the State Road round
house.
The attendance at the opening of the
University at Athens was beyond general
expectation. The University offers every
faoility to young men completing their
education.
Married, in Jefferson, on the evening
of the 4th instant, by Rev. A. J. Kelly,
Mr. Camp, of Douglass county,
and Mrs. Paralee Oarithert, widow of
the late Tom Oarithers.
Matt O’Brien, Esq., was prevailed
upon by the Atlanta citizens to remain
over aud participate in the concert giv
en in that city last night, for the benefit
of the Catholic Chnroh.
Turner Moon, an Athens polioeman,
whose skull was dangerously fraotured
last Friday by a negro whom he had ar
rested, is recovering. The negro is a
very desperate character.
Mr. Stephens expects to be able to
take his seat in the United States
House of Representatives at the opening
of the session. We sincerely hope his
expections may be realized.
Lee oounty calls for the banner. It is
asserted as a positive fact that not a
white man could be found who would
run for the Legislature, hence a negro
was elected without opposition.
The Atlanta Constitution celebrates
the business revival by publishing four
columns of marshal’s sales of property
aud a thrilling account of a weekiy star
vation case. This is seemingly para
doxial.
Commenting npon the Senatorial race,
Colonel Christy thinks, with due defer
ence to all his respected cotemporaries,
that it might be well to hear from the
Legislature in reference to this weighty
matter.
An Atlanta paper says that although
Savannah spent $20,000 on the Green
Line excursion from a few
years ago, that city has, as yet, failed to
contribute a cent to the suffering Savan
nah people in this their greatest hour of
distress.
A National Hotel colored porter in At
lanta skipped off an incoming train last
Sunday and landed headforemoat upon
a cross-tie. The negro was seriously
hurt, but the damage done the track did
not not cause any delay in the running
of trains.
At a first-class negro “setting up” in
Atlanta laßt Sunday night, the floor
upon which the corpse and mourners
were ensconced, gave way, precipitating
the living and the dead into a cellar be
low. The resurrection was not impres
sive but rapid.
A negro man and his wife made an as
sault on Mr. Henry Jarrell, of Madison
county, one day last week—the man ad
vancing on him with an uplifted axe—
when, in self-defense, Mr. Jarrell shot
him, producing instant death.
The Atlanta Times accuses Uncle
Jonathan Noroross of having waved the
“bloody ahirt” during his late canvass
in the State. We think that this is a
mistake. Uncle Jonathan, to give him
his due, was remarkably temperate and
conservative.
Rev. A. B. Campbell, who was ten
dered the pastoral oharge of the First
Baptist Church in Columbus, has de
clined. His declination, however, is
based entirely upon bis • usefulness to
his present congregation at Americas,
says the Times.
Victoria Woodhull and Tennie
Claffin, remembering the cordial greet
ing given them last Winter by Colonel
Grady and Major Smith, of the Atlanta
press, propose to again visit that city
and hold forth at DeQive's Opera House.
—Savannah News.
The following telegram was sent from
Angnsta to the Chicago Jnter- Ocean up
on the day of election; “The State has
gone Democratic, as was known before
hand. The negroes were so frightened
that they did not dare approaoh the
polls to vote.” This is one of the' hol
low lies noised from the “Solid Sonth, ”
The Georgia Railroad baa recently
given to Mr. Jaa. Galloway, one of the
oldest engineers on the road, a free pass
to the Centennial, and in addition, has
given him holiday for the time, paying
him full wages while gone. This is a
deserved and handsome compliment to
Mr. Galloway, who has been upoq ffie
road about twenty yea^s.
Qlorioqs old Walton county, gays the
Cens*ituti<m, the birth-place of Gov
ernor-elect, Alfred H. Colquitt, gave
her gallant son in the late election a
solid vote of 69q \ There was not a
vote cast for his opponent. We do not
fear that onr next Governor will prove
a less worthy son of old Walton than
the sooroe of other distinguished jurists,
soldiers and statesmen whom she has
given, to Georgia.
The Atlanta lady who married a Bos
ton manf sold her property and left for
the Centennial with her husband, af
ter trying in vain to obtain her money
from her liege lord, who had gbsoondod
has returned tq 4s*nsa: Under the
laws of UennsylYanja,, a woman’s prop
erty becomes that of her husband’s upon
their marriage; therefore her efforts to
regain her stolen moqey were futile.
Atlanta i^mmoriweaUh The Sec
ond Georgia district is inperil.—
The vqte of Dougherty. Raker. Mit
ehell and Deqatqr, op
showed a eeuqp(*ctnsß of organization
and thoroughness of drilling among the
negroes not heretofore exhibited'. Whito
ly has shrewdly planned his campaign,
and It is a Mantahle fact that the
whites have allowed him to occupy the
ground without an effort to counteract
his dirty tricks. Compromises, inde
pendents and treason will ruin any party
in the world, and we are apprehensive
Second District fa raped %nd
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID.
THE BATTLE OF BALLOTS.
TUESDAY’S ELECTION IN THE
WEST.
What tie Paper* Say—Ohio Republican—
Indiana Doubtful—Weat Virginia Demo
cratic.
New Yobk, October 11.—The Iribune
says that Indiana seems to have been
carried by the Republicans, though the
contest: is dose, Harrison leads the
ticket Everywhere and is probably eleot
ed. Holman, Demoorat, is defeated
for Congress. Ohio returns are more
definite, both parties claiming that
State. The Republicans made gains in
nearly all sections. The World's de
tailed returns are lacking from Indiana,
although the indications invariably are
that tho Democrats have carried the
State by from 10,000 to 20,000. The
Democrats fully hold their own in the
Congressional district. In Ohio the
heavy Democratic gains from the cities
quite overcome the narrow majority for
Hayes last year, and unless the rural
Republican vote is much larger than ex
pected, the State is sure for the Demo
crats from 3,000 to 5,000. The Times
say s that in Ohio the Republicans have
oarried the State by at least 7,000 ma
jority, and elect at least 12 out of 20
Congressmen. In Indiana, Harrison
is probably elected Governor but tho
rest of the tioket is probably defeated.
Scattering returns indicate that the Re
publicans have elected 8 out of 13 Con
gressman. Returns from West Virgi
nia are not sufficient to indicate any re
sult.
The following was received yesterday
morning early :
[Special Dispatch to the Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Atlanta, Ga., October 11.—J. G.
Thompson, Chairman of the Democratic
State Executive Committee of Ohio,
telegraphs this moral ug that the Demo
crats have carried Ohio. The Chairman
of the Democratic State Executive Com
mittee of Indiana telegraphs that the
Democrats have earned Indiana by five
thousand majority.
OHIO DEMOCRATS HOPEFUL BUT NOT
CONFIDENT.
Republican Gaia* in the Country onset
the Democratic Majorities in the Cities—
The leraeUtish Vote Solidly Democratic
—Thompson, Chairman of the Democratic
State Executive Committee Doe* Not Con
cede the State to the Republican*.
Columbus, October 11.—Since the
last report 56 preoinotsout of 86 in Ham
ilton oounty considerably reduoe the
Republican gains; counting these and
five wards from Cleveland and Dayton
complete, show total gains for Barnes,
12,039; Bell, 11,274; Republican gain of
765 over Hayes’ majority. MoMahon,
Demoorat, re-elected from Third Dis
trict. Probably Matthews beats Ban
ning in the Third Distriot. Boynton,
Republican, for Supreme Court is
thought certainly eleoted. Later—lt is
stated that Matthews beat Banning 5
votes.
Dayton, 0., October 11.—Montgom
ery county gives 1,300 Democratic ma
jority. Drake county gives 1,000 Dem
ocratic majority. Preble oounty gives
400 Repnbliean majority. Greene coun
ty Republican majority 1,900. The vote
is close but it is thought McMahon is
eleoted.
Cincinnati, Octobo. 11.—Complete
returns from Hamilton county give Bell,
Democrat, for Secretary of State, 28,-
362, Barnes, Republican, 27,664; Fink,
Demoorat, for Judge of ihe Supreme
Court, 27,934; Boynton, Republican,
28,102. Clough, Democrat, for member
of Public Works, 28,019; Evans, Repub
lican, 27,451. Sayler, Democrat, for
Congress from the First, Districi, 14,099;
Foroe, ’Republican, 13,500. anning,
Democrat, for Congress from ; eoond
Distriot, 14,11$; Matthews, Repuuiioan,
14,138.
The Republicans elect the sir riff,
County Clerk, Recorder and Commis
sioner. The Democrats elect the bil
anoe of the ticket. The Gazette charges
that the vote of this county of 55.306
against -48,597 in 1875 is an evidence ot
fraud. The Commercial says that the
most important single influence has
been that of the Israelites who have al
most unanimously voted the Democratic
ticket, and may be credited with the
result in the Second District. It is un
derstood that the Republican Israelites
have generally succumbed to the argu
ment that Cincinnati has put her capital
in Southern railroads, and must look
out for Southern trade. The Enquier
says that the result iu Ohio is so close
that nothing definite can be given this
morning. If the Republicans have car
ried the State their majority is not
likely to reach beyond that of last year.
The Gazette estimates the Republican
majority in Ohio at from 5,000 to 8,000
and Indiana Republican by from 3,000
to 5,000. Holman for Congress is pro
bably defeated. The Republicans olaim
a gain of perhaps ten and certainly
eight Congressmen in Ohio and Indiana.
Columbus, 0., October 11.—Returns
indicate the election of Barnes, Repub
lican, for Secretary of State, by a small
majority. Boynton, for Jndge of the
Supreme Court, will have a much
larger majority.
Cincinnati, October 11.—The Dem
ocrats claim a miscount in Banning and
Matthews’ votes, which would give Ban
ning 95 majority, bat this cannot be
discovered in the tables now at hand.
According to the returns at hand Mat
thewß has 5 majority.
Columbus, October 11.— Further re
turns from the country show continued
Republicans gains which still keep Bar
nes somewhat ahead of gains made by
Bell in the large cities. It now ap
pears that if the same ratio is
kept up in the remaining half of the
country the Bepublican gains will more
than offset the loss in Cnyahoga county
and make the Republican majority in
the State about 7,000.
Columbus, Ootober 11. - John G.
Thompson, Chairman of the Democratic
State Executive Committee, concedes
the State to the Republicans. The
election of Matthews, Republican, for
Congress, over Banning, in the Second
District, leaves the estimate of the re
sult in the Congressional Distriots the
same aa given last night, namely; Re
pnblioans, 12; Democrats, B—a gain of
five Repnblioan Congressmen.
The summarized returns from Hamil
ton county show that Boynton, Repub
lican candidate for Supreme Court
Judge, runs ahead of Barnes nearly 900
votes and carries the county by 161.
Boynton also runs ahead of Barnes
Cuyahogo county 400 votes. The Re
publican majority iq Cuyahogo connty
on the Secrefafy of State is 3,227; on
the Supreme Court Judge, 3,629.
Cincinnati, October 11.—The Times'
Columbus special says that Gov. Joel
Parker, of New ?ork, who is in Colum
bus, concedes the State to the Republi
cans by 4,000 majority. The Republi
can Executive Committee claim 5,000
majority for Barnes. Bets are offered
on five thousand majority for Barnes.
Columbus, Q., October 11. dark
county gives a Republican gain of 553,
Warren county, 545, Highland county,
30, Lawrence Bounty, 185. Every countv
in Garfield's district, show Republican
gains. Only about half a dozen addi
tional returns have been received since
the last report. These rendered Bell's,
Democrat, for Secretary of State, net
gains to be 708 over gains for Barnes,
leaving Barnes’ majority 4,834, with
nearly qqothaif the country precinota to
be heard from. The majority for Boyn
ton, Republican candidate for the Sn
preme Court Jndge, is 6,400.
Cincinnati, October H.—An error in
the oount of the Thirteenth Ward, giv
ing a hundred more votes to the Repub
licans than they were entitled to, elects
Banning, Democrat, to Congress, and
the entire Democratic county ticket ex
cept Recorder and Commissioner. An
error of 115 in favor of Matthews is
claimed in the Nineteenth Precinct
which, if allowed, defeats Banning. An
official count is required.
Columbus, October If. — Mnahingum
connty giyei Bell a Democratic majori
ty of 18p; a Repnblioan gain of ,15ft, The
probabilities' are that the Republicans
elect their connty ticket except the Clerk
of Court. Roeking county shows a net
Democratic gain. The inferior conn
ties and West Reserve returns come in
slowly.
CtNUpfUATi, Ootober ID—A Times
special says sixty counties give Barnes
2,138 net majority over Governor Hayes’
majority of last year. Foster’s majority
in the Tenth Congressional District is
m
Wassonosqk, Ootober 11.—John G.
Thompson, Chairman of the State Dem
ocratic Committee, telegraphs from Co
lumbus that the Republicans claim the
State, hut the Democrats do not oon
i oede it “We are hopeful, but not eon
fUtont. 1 *
Dayton, October 11. —MacMahon’s
I majority for Congress is 98.
: Columbus, October 11.—While it is
impossible to-night to send offioial fig
ures by Congressional Districts, suffi
cient returns have been reoeived here to
make it certain that the Democrats have
elected the following Congressmen:
Sayler in the First District, Banning
in Second, MoMahon in Fourth, Rice
in Fifth, Dickey in Seventh, Ewing in
Twelfth, Southard in Thirteenth and
Finley in Fourteenth.
The Republicans have elected the fol
lowing Congressmen: Gardiner in the
Third District, Cox in Sixth, Keeper in
Eighth, Jones in Ninth, Foster in Tenth,
Neal in Eleventh, Van Voorhees in Fif
teenth, Danford in Sixteenth, MoKinly
in Seventeenth, Monroe iu Eighteenth,
Garfield in Nineteenth and Townsend in
Twentieth. The Republicans gain five
Congressmen.
Columbus, Ootober 11.—At midnight
Republicans claim and Democrats admit
the election of Barnes by 6,500, and
Boynton by about 8,000.
INDIANA.
The Result Still in Doubt—Republican Gains
In Many Precincts—An Offlcinl Vote Ne
cessary to Determine—Both Shies San
guine.
Indianapolis, Ind., Ootober 11.—Sixty
towns and wards in thirty-four counties
give a Republican majority of 66; the
same gave in 1874 a Democratic majority
of 502; ’72 a Republican majority of 12.
Sixty-one precincts show a Democratic
gain of 459, and a Republican gain of
1,496. Union county complete gives a
Republican majority of 236, Republican
gain of 40. One hundred and thirty-four
preoinots heard from give a net Republi
can gain of 1,630. Corresponding gains
in the State would give Harrison, Rep.,
for Governor, a gain of 14,500, as com
pared with the vote of 1874.
Indianapolis, Ootober 11.—Returns
from 135 townships and wards in 46
counties give a net Republican majority
of 2,318, The same places in 1874
gave a net Republican majority of 538,
and in 1872 a net Republican majority
Indianapolis, October 11,11:15, a. m.
—Returns from 184 townships and wards
in fifty counties give a net Republican
majority of 1,852; the same places in
1874 gave a net Ropublican majority of
15, and in 1872 a net Republican major
ity of 862. The result of the State ticket
in the State is still in doubt. Both par
ties are confident, and the oflioial vote
of almost the entire State will be re
quired to determine the result. Returns
have been received from 220 townships
and wards in fifty-eight counties, which
give a net Republican majority of 3,190.
The same places in 1874 gave a not Re
publican majority of 1,395, and in 1872
gave a net Republican majority of 2,322.
Indianapolis, Ootober 11.—Four hun
dred towns and wards in 79 counties
give a Republican majority of 1374. The
same places in ’74 gave a Democratic
majority of 1402. The same in ’72 gave
a net republican majority 0fj1,256. Re
turns from 249 townships and wards in
62 counties, give a Republican majority
of 4196. The same places in ’74 gave a
Republican majority of 2093, and in ’72
a Republican majority of 3004.
4:30 p. m.—Returns from 346 towns
and wards in 70 counties, give a Repub
lican majority of 1702. The same places
in ’74 gave a Democratic majority of
858. The same places in ’72 gave a Re
publican majority of 1267.
Washington, October 11.—Holloway,
postmaster at Indianapolis, Morton’s
brother-in-law, telegraphs, “We have
been losing heavily all day, and the
ohanoes are against us. ”
Indianapolis, October 11—8:45 p. m—
-428 towns and wards in 80 counties giv9
a Republican majority of 1488. The
same plaoes in ’72 gave a Republican
majority of 1476. 456 towns and wards
in 81 oounties give a Democratic major
ity of 1388. The same places in ’72 gave
a Republican majority of 2166. The
most reliable returns reoeived give the
following result for Oongress : Ist dis
trict, Fuller, Democrat; 2nd Cobb,
Democrat; Bd, Bioknel, Democrat; 4th,
Doubtful; sth, Browne, Republican,
over Holman by 1500 majority; 6th,
Hobinoon, Bopublioau , 7*ili, lluuuu, Ho
publican, over Landus by 83 majority ;
Bth, Undee, Republican, probably re
elected ; 9th, White, Republican ; 10th,
Colkins, Republican, probably; 11th,
Evans, Republican; 12th, Hamilton,
Democrat, re-elected. Republican gain,,
three.
10:45, p. m.—Returns fron 463 towns
and wards in 81 oounties have been re
ceived, which give a Republican majori
ty of 1466. The same places in 1872
gave a net Repnblican majority of 2347.
The Very Latest.
Indianapolis, Ootober 11.—From all
returns received up to midnight, the in
dications are that the entire Democratic
State tioket is eleoted by a small majori
ty, but it may require the the offioial
vote to determine the result for Gover
nor. The Democratic State Central
Committee claim that Williams’ majority
willjbe from 2,000 to 6,000. Hunter Re
publican, for Congress iu the Bth Dis
trict, is eleoted by SQQ majority.
Midnight returns from 492 towns and
wards, in 81 counties, which give a net
Republican majority of same places
in 1872 gave a net Republican majority
of 100.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Republican Gains Reported—Meagre Re
turns Indicate a Democratic Majority of
6,000-A Long Ticket and Slow C ounts.
Cincinnati, October 11.—The Demo
crats, from scattering returns., claim
West Virginia by five thousand ma
jority.
Wheeling, W. Va., Ootober 11.—The
ticket voted for yesterday was a long one,
and in most places the count was aban
doned until this morning. Returns are
very meagre, but as far as received show
Republican gains. Brook county giveß
about its usual Democratic majority of
100. Taylor county, heretofore strong
ly Democratic, gives 300 Republican
majority. Two townships in Wetzel
county show Republican gains. Came
ron township, in Marshall county, shows
a Republican gain of 105 over the vote of
1874. Three townships in Berkely
county give 260 Democratic majority—
a Democratic gain of 250. Mason coun
ty, partial returns indicate about 150
Republican majority. Jefferson county
gives about 800 Democratic majority.
Greenbrier county give* an increased
Democratic majority, Mineral county
gives heavy Democratic majority.—
Wood oounty gives about 250 Demo
cratic majority. No returns have been
reoeived from Ohio oounty, but it is
supposed to be oarried by Goff, Repub
lican for Governor. These reports are
from private sources and official returns
may entirely change them. Adjacent
townships in Ohio county show Repub
lican gains.
Wheeling, Ootober 11.—The State
will go Democratic from 2,000 to 5./000
sure. The majority may reach li;,000.
(Signed) E.M. Grocbcpt,
Chairman Third Democratic club.
Wheeling, October 11.—Returns are
very meagre, bat there seems no room
to doubt that West Virginia has gone
Democratic.
(Signed) A. A. Campbell,
Chairman. Republican State Committee.
THE 810 ENGLISH GUN.
Trial of the Eighty-One Ton Cannon at Bhoe
hnrynett*, England.
[From Resident Correspondent of the World.]
London, September 28. —The eighty
one ton gun was fired yesterday at Shoe
buryness for the first time with its ser
vice charges and projectiles. The effect
of the first shot was carious ; there were
two explosions, one from the vent the
other from the muzzle of the gun ; the
sound to those who stood near was not
so painful as had been expected, but the
coneussion at a greater distance was re
markable. Many windows were broken
in the officers’ quarters and in the vil
lage near by; the plate glass window of
a shop three hundred and fifty yards
distant was broken, and the padlock of
an iron gate was fractured by the shock.
The gnn stood on a heavy railway, with
an incline of one in thirty, and with an
1 allowance of eighty feet for recoil. The
first shot fired was four feet long and
the gun was given an elevation of seven
1 degrees. The gun was fired by electrici
ty. The shot flew with remarkable
steadiness; it touched the ground at
[ 4,500 yards, in ll.fi seconds, throwing
l up a pile of mud; then it went bound
ing along lor several miles, until it at
last buried itself in the channel. Ihe
recoil of the gun was only twenty-one
feet, and the officers were delighted.
Great difficulty was experienced in keep
ing vessels out of the line of fire. There
were seven shots in all. The last two
shots were fired with the gnn depressed
so as to strike the ground at one thous
and yards distance, and both these shots
entered the ground at precisely the same
place, showing that the gun can throw
with great precision.