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ALL COMMUNICATIONS announcing candi date* for offloe—from County Constable to member* of Congrea*— will be charged at the rate of twenty cent* per line. All announce ment* mu*t be paid for in advance. Address WALSH A WRIGHT, Cbaoxiclc A Hestinel. Augusta. Ga. i_ ..." 1 Ctjromcle anb Sentinel. WEDNESDAY.. OCTOBER 18, 1876. -= — ~ 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.