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WSUN’ESDAY.NOVEMBER 1, 1876.
Abthub Obton, tbe Tiohborne claim
ant, works on a sewing machine in
prison.
Thb California papers Bay that in that
State Bswr Hast, the great genius, was
a dead beat.
Longfellow has written anew poem
which has not yet been published. It is
called the "Descent of the Moses.”
Mb. Glamtonb’s pamphlet on the
Bulgarian atrocities reached a salo of
70,000 within a few days of its publica
tion, the gross receipts from its sale be- i
ing about 88,750. i
mm mm ' I
In 1878 West Virginia gave the Re
pnblican State tioket 2,683 majority, and
since it turned that into 12,000 Demo
cratic majority last week, the Repnbli- <
oans have absolutely forgotten the exis
tence of the State.
A Northkbn paper remarks that the
worst thing Tilden ever did was to give
Oeneral Grant 81,000 towards baying
him a house soon after the war. And
the best thing that Hates never did was
not to give Grant a cent for his honse.
m wm
Wendell Phillips is ont for Butleb.
In a speech at Boston last Thursday, he
denounced Jndge Hoab, the bolting
candidate in the Seventh district, as "a
discreditable hypocrite”—which is very
bad language to apply to a Republican
of Judge Hoab’b cloth; he denonnees
Charles Fbanois Adams in nearly equal
terms; he sneered at Mr. Sohubz as
"another ‘civil service reformer’ who
cannot be trusted as a leader;” and he
declares that “it is Butlkb, Boutwbll,
Morton and Blainb and men of that
claas who are to lead in the new develop
ment of the Northern party.”
Tub first prosecution under the Vivi- 1
section act took place in the English
Coarts late in September. Dr. Abrath, 1
of Sunderland, issued a placard headed 1
"The Balham Mystery,” announcing a 1
lecture on "Antimeny,” at which he 1
would perform experiments on animals 1
to illustrate the effects of poisons and to i
demonstrate his theory that Mr. Bravo
was not killed by that drag. The Royal <
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to i
Animals immediately interfered, and the 1
lecturer was fined oue shilling morely ]
for publishing the placard. 1
To persons not familiar with the poli
ties of Indiana and Ohio, it may appear
strange that the Democracy, while gain
ing strength on the State tickets, have
lost on the Congressional. Leoal issues,
prominent among whioh is the currency
queation, have brought about this state
of things. For instance, of the three
Democratic distriots oarried by the
Republicans in Indiana, there are
two in whioh independent greenback 1
candidates ran. So, perhaps, in most of
the Democratic districts carried by the
Republicans in both States; all the facts
•re not before ns jnst now.
Ex Ooborbssman Francis O. J. Smith,
of Maine, died in Portland on Saturday
night, aged seventy years. He had long
resided in the city, and was years ago
quite prominent in pnblio life. He was
in Congress from 1833 to 1839, and when
Weastsr was Secretary of State, in 1842,
he acted as an agent in the negotiations
for the settlement of the Northeastern
boundary. Previous to his Congres
sional career he was in the State Legis
lature. He was a lawyer enjoying du
ring his aotive years a large praotioe,
and was largely interested id telegraphs
in the earlier days. In politics ilo was
• Democrat of the old sohool.
.So mb prying tonrist having deolared
that he had discovered Sheila, the
heroine of the "Princess of Thnle,” Mr.
William Black writes to the New York
Tribune to express his gratification.
He says that he has several limes in the
Highlands of Scotland been introduced
to yooog ladies who were regarded by
iheir friends as the originals of that
character; bat he found some difficulty
in the matter, as he had not known tba
young ladies previously. In this case,
however, be remembers having seen the
innkeeper who ia charged with being
the veritable "King of Borva” and his
two daughters, one of whom is accused
of being tbe charming Princess. He re
calls them as "homely bat agreeable”
people, but the idea that either of the
daughters "was afterwards to be repre
sented in a book as a woman capable of
proa oo * ll # some brief impression on
Londo. n society by reason of her nuusual
beantv su'd dignity of manner” did not
occur to hiv”L Now the hunt for the
.Princess of ThtJ® will have to be renew
ed on a different sc^nt.
The death ef Fbanois P. Blair, Sr.,
whioh occurred at Silver Spring, Mary
land, Wednesday night, remorse from
active pnblio life one of onr few remain
ing veterans of the ante-bellum times.
He was born at Abingdon, Va., in 1791,
educated at Transylvania University,
and studied law, but never practiced,
owing to ill-health, choosing ss his pro
fession instead, polities and journalism.
In 1829, on the development of the nnl
liflcation movement in fc'outh Carolina,
Mr. Blau published a vigorous article
•gainst it in a Kentucky journal. It at
tracted the attention of Andrew John
son, who invited the writer to come to
Washington and take editorial charge
of tbe Globe, then about to be establish
ed as tbe National Democratic organ.
He accepted the offer, and from 1830
till 1845 was the leading counsellor of
the party, the Globe wielding a great
political inflnenoe. In 1845 President
Polk thought it advisable, for the pro
motion of party harmony, to place tbe
Globe in other hands, and offered Blair
the Spanish mission. It was refnsed,
and Mr. Blair retired to hie estate at
Silver Spring. Three years later he
withdrew from the regular Democratic
party, supporting Van Bdbxn, and after
4he repeal of the Missouri compromise
hoeamo a Republican. Mr. Blau had
ttbvee children, Montoomxbx Ik. air, the
Postmaster-General under Lincoln,
Frank f>, Blair, Jr., who died lash
.July, and the wife of'Bear Admiral
IjBB. -* , -f
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There has not beefc an accident on tbe
Georgia Road in a year. This is a high
compliment totheeffidentSnperindend
•nt and his clever assistants.
A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT AN EXPEN.
SITE LUXURY.
The expense of the White Honse n
der Democratic rule were 847,847 50.
Under Republican rale they are 8108,-
264 85. Is not the difference, 860,-
417 36, rather a high price to pay for the
honor of having a Republican in the
White Honse? Unfortunately, this is
only an example of the general profli
gacy of Republican rale. The same
spirit of reckless extravagance runs
through the whole service, from Presi
dent down to the lowest official. The
Republican Chairman of tbe Committee
on Appropriations (Mr. Gabfibld), in
1872, said that he ventured to predict
that, if "peace oontinned,” in 1876 car
expenditures would be reduced to tbe
following easy figures:
Permanent appropriations (inter
est on pnblio debt) $ 96.000.000
Net ordinary appropriations 126,000.000
Total $220,000,000
The actual appropriations for the year
1876 were as follows:
Permanent appropriations 149.609.068
Net ordinary appropriation* 140,477,109
Total 5295.1W.177
Excess over Guram $ 78,166,177
The estimates for 1877 were as fol
lows:
Permanent appropriation# $136,629,910
Net ordinary appropriation* 167,982,698
Total $314,612,608
Bxoess over Garfield's estimates. $94,612,608
Up to 1874 the Quartermaster-Gen
eral’s Bnrean of the War Department
confessed to have received, from sales of
material not specially authorized by law,
the snm of 8107,000,000. This sum was
spent by the War Department, over and
above tbe appropriations authorized by
Congress.
GEORGIA—SOUTH CAROLINA.
In another article we have stated and
discussed the progress of the Reform
movement in South Carolina, and the
desperate excesses to which, in fighting
against the retributive recoil of their
own crimes, the political thieves of that
State have proceeded. Now, next to
the Republicanism of South Carolina is
the Conservatism of Georgia. Both
States present conditions worthy of
study. We believe they are being
studied by reflective men. South Caro
lina’s bonds are not worth a dollar a
thousand. Georgia’s credit is stable and
excellent. South Carolina is the theatre
of tnrbnlenoe. Georgia is completely
at peaoe. The negro in Sonth Carolina
is a tramp, a highwayman, a beggar, an
idler, or a “soldier,” unless be has pro
tected himself against the carpet
baggers by procuring [protection from
the white natives of the State, and ex
posing them to arrests for protecting
him. The negro in Georgia is buying
land, pursuing all the trades, schooling
himself and his children, and choosing
his politics as freely as any man here
ohooses what he will eat. Agriculture,
manufactures, and exchange thrive in
Georgia. The only fully employed and
overworked men in South Carolina are
the Bankruptcy Registers and the auc
tioneers at sheriffs’ sales or under fore
olosure proceedings. Taxes in Georgia
are less than in Queen’s county. Taxes
in Sonth Carolina are seventeen per
cent. Georgia sells* and buys lavishly
in every Northern market. South Caro
lina is stretohed on the Proonstes bed of
poverty, anaroby, and outrage. Sonth
Carolina is ruled by thieves, Georgia by
honest men, and the North is asked to
warrant the diversion of the army by the
Administration to the purpose of per
petuating the thieves of South Carolina
in power. —Brooklyn Eagle.
POST THE BOOKS.
[New York World, October 14.]
The Democracy began this oampaign
at the commencement of the present
year with aoonfident hope of suooess, on
the basis of reasonable belief that they
oonld elect their Presidential tioket
without either Indiana or Ohio. The
result of the elections thns far held have
vindicated their claims and added In
diana to the list. The States which
made np this basis of calculation were :
Electoral Eleotor&l
States. vote. State vote.
Coiineoticut 6 Texas 8
New York 35 Lousiana 8
New Jersey 9 Mississippi 8
Delaware 3 Alabama 10
Maryland — 8 Georgia It
Virginia 11 North Carolina..... 10
West Virginia 6 California 6
Kentucky 12 Nevada 8
Tennessee 12 Oregon 8
Missouri 15
Arkansas.... 6 Total 189
The whole number of votes in the
Electoral College is 369, making 185 ne
cessary for a choice. So that upon their
basis of calculation, the Democracy had
four more votes than were required for
success. The result of last Tuesday’s
eleotion has’added Indiana to the ool
umn, making 15 more votes, or 204 in
all. The elections which have been
held daring the year have renewed the
assurance that Connecticut, Delaware,
Oregon, West Virginia, Arkansas, Ala
bama, Texas and Georgia will cast their
votes for Tilden and Hendricks. The
marked ohaDge shown in the German
vote by the resnlt in Ohio also places
Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan among
the probable Democratic States, with 46
more votes. The Democracy are moral
ly certain of at least one, if not two, of
these three States, and the third must
be set down as doubtful. Florida is be
lieved to be Democratic, as is also South
Carolina on an honest vote. This leaves
as oertain or probable for Mr. Hates the
following States:
Electoral Electoral
States. vote. State*. vote.
Maine.... 7 Minnesota.... 5
New Hampshire.... S Nebraska 3
Vermont 5 Kansas 5
Massachusetts 13 lowa 11
Rhode Island 4 Colorado 3
Pennsylvania .29
Ohio 22 Total 102
Even if we concede the Republicans
the States of Illinois, Michigan, Wiscon
sin, Sonth Carolina, and Florida, which
combined have 51 electoral votes, they
will still lack 32 votes of an election.
The Democracy could also lose Louisi
ana, Mississippi, California and Nevada,
and still hare 191 electoral votes, or six
more than are neeoaaary. There is a
possibility that the BepubjUusns may
carry Nevada, but scarcely a possibility
of their carrying Louisiana, Mississippi
and California. At the beat, with the
present outlook, the Republicans can
sbt reasonably expect more than 178
votes. Oonding them all that are oer
tain, and all that abb be properly clas
sified as doubtful, Mr. Hates will obtain
bat 161 votes, and the reeeat sections
have made it morally certain that fas is
more likely to fall ten votes short of that
number than to exceed it.
The Democracy thus start on the home
stretch with a decided advantage in their
favor. The strength of all the real issues
is with them; the opportunity is theirs;
all that is required is to take advantage
of the present position and manfully
improve their opportunity. It will be
fatal, however, to take anything for
granted, for our opponents will grow
more desperate aa their ehaaoe* of suc
cess lessen. They are preparing to make
superhuman efforts to carry Hew York,
without whioh their eaee ia absolutely
hopeless. The Empire State is ante, and
by a handsome majority, unless the
' Democracy sf. New York fail to do'their
duty, a&d hbjowawaj on local issues tbe
hope and honor of the nation, now oon-
Aded to their keeping. • , .
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Elberton has a Tildes and Hendricks
* mu .
HONORS TO THE LITTNU.
It affords ns great pleasure to copy
the following graceful and deserved
tribute to Mr. J. H. Estlll and Rev. J.
W. Simmons, whioh recently appeared in
tbe editorial columns of the Macon Tel
egraph :
“In the late terrible epidemio which
still smoulders amid the desolated streets
of onr sister cities ef Savannah and
Brunswick, many fell at tkeir posts no
bly ministering to the sick and dying.
Snch have had their reward in the grate
ful plaudits of admiring oonntrymen,
and we ardently hope a crown of re
joicing hereafter. Others, with eqnal
gallantry, faced death in its most repul
sive form, but still survive, after wit
nessing horrors even transcending tbe
carnage of battle, because lacking the
glorious excitement and animated move
ments of the stricken field.
" Among those whose every name
should be cherished, we select Rev. J.
W. Simmons, the well known correspond
ent of this paper, and Mr. J. H. Estill
and Colonel Thompson, of the Savannah
Morning News, for special mention.
Onr editorial contemporaries were both
attacked by the disease, bnt while their
working force dropped off like those
who disappeared on the bridge of Myrza,
and recruits were almost impossible to
be found, still, sternly they lashed the
rudder of their noble craft and kept it
before the gale, Not a day was the pa
per suspended. And indeed it was the
lungs and vitalizing agent of the city,
keeping its necessities and sufferings
constantly before a sympathizing nation,
and speaking words of cheer and conso
lation to the sick and dying. Mr. Es
till, especially, was ever aotive in seve
ral important official positions, dispen
sing aid to the needy and afflicted, call
ing for relief from abroad, and doing all
that a good and true man oonld under
the ciroumatanees.
"Thank God they both have been
spared, we trust to reap the reward of
their unselfish and heroic efforts in be
half of humanity. Of onr Brunswick
friend, Simmons, the faithful pastor of
the Methodist Ghnroh, too much cannot
be said in commendation. A bachelor,
withont personal ties to bind him any
where, reared in an elevated and salubri
ous region and wholly nnacolimated, he
yet bravely stood firm, when others ran,
and performed feats of heroism in nnrs
ing the sick and burying the dead, which
would put to shame the prowess of the
paladins of old.
“His stalwart form and splendid phy
sique, a fair mark for the pestilence that
‘ walketh in darkness ’ and ‘ the de
struction that wasteth at noon-day,’ loDg
towered conspicuous among the forlorn
few to be seen on the deserted streets,
and his voice was continually raised in
accents of prayer or consolation for
those who writhed in mortal agony and
were soon to be launched into eternity.
Yet, amid these harrowing soenes, he
found time, almost daily, to address a
pleading word to the Telegraph in be
half of his suffering townsmen, and was
always cheerful and composed. At length,
however, when the worst was over, and
the glad day of deliverance was even
breaking, he too was stricken down, and
forced to grapple with the fell Destroy
er. Bnt God was merciful, and he still
lives to receive the congratulations of
friends, and the gratefnl blessings of
tbe unfortunates he did so much to re
lieve and comfort.”
THE OUTLOOK FROM A RADICAL’S
OWN STANDPOINT.
The Petersburg Post says we have the
last and best calculation of Tit.den and
Hates’ relative chances of an eleotion
whioh we have yet seen made out by a
Repnblioan. It is from the Oincinnati
Commercial, which stands high with its
party for its integrity. Here are its
figures:
CERTAIN FOB TILDEN.
Delaware 3i Mississippi 8
Miryland 8 Louisiana 8
Virginia lllKentucky 12
West Virginia 5l Tennessee 12
North Carolina 10! Missouri 16
Georgia 11 Arkansas 6
Florida 4 Texas 8
Alabama lojSouth Carolina 7
Total in the 16 States 138
CERTAIN FOB HAYES.
Illinois ........21 Colorado 3
lowa 11 Nevada 3
Kansas 5 New Hampshire 6
Maine 7 Ohio 22
Massachusetts 13 Pennsylvania 29
Michigan .11 Rhode Island 4
Minnesota sVermont 5
Nebraska 8 Wisconsin .10
Total in the 16 States 167
It will thus be seen that this leading
Repnblioan organ does not claim the
election of Hayes as oertain by any
means, and that it does not consider
Tilden a weak opponent. In fact, like
the New York Tribune, also a strong
Republican paper, the Commercial vir
tually admits that the chances between
the tu parties are "nip and tuck”—
lacking 47 votes of a oertain
election and Hates 28, and the latter
deficiency is just as bad as the former if
not gotten from some of the other States.
The same paper then comes to what it
regards as the
DOUBTFUL STATES.
California 8. New York 81
Indiana 15 Oregon 3
New Jersey 9 Connecticut 6
Total in 6 States 74
This is the statement of the polls as
made ont by the best Repnblioan au
thority, and, giving that journal the full
value of its figures, we consider it a vir
tual concession of Hates’ defeat; for no
candi 1 calculator of either party with
the leading lights now before him, can
fairly deny that Tilden stands more
chance for every one of the " doubtful ”
States above named than Hates stands
for one of them I We have at this time
a Democratic Governor in each of these
six States, condensed from a contempo
rary as follows:
California elected her present Govern
or (Democrat) by a majarity of 30,187
votes over the next highest candidate,
the Independents polling 29,752 votes.
Her Legislature is Democratic on joint
ballot by 53 majority. Indiana: "The
election of the 10th takes her from the
donbtful and plaoes her on the certain
list for Tilden.” New Jersey: “The
Democratic Governor holds his seat by
virtue of a majority of 18,233.” New
York : "Two years ago it elected her
Demoojratip Governor by more than 50,-
000 majority oxer the Republican, Gen.
Dix, overcoming the previous Guberna
torial election of 55,000 votes.” Oregon :
" Whioh is Democratic to-day, and has
been for three years.’’ Connecticut:
" Which was Democratic in the State
election last year by 6,533, and which
sent to the Legialatore a Democratic
majority of 34 on joint ballot, and whose
recent local ejections showed a Demo
cratic gain of six townships and a large
Democratic gain on the popular vote.’.’
Edward S. Stokes, who kil.ed James
Fisk, Jr., will be discharged from Sing
Sing prison on the £#th instant. He is
nearly utterly broken down pfcyieslly;
he suffers severely from asthma and,
though only 98 years of age, he is qnite
gray. Thoagh his long fight against
the gallows cost 8900,009, he will be a
comparatively rich man when he leaves
his cell, as his oil refining works, which
bare been cared for by his mother dur
ing his imprisonment, hays done $ goodi
business asfi are gait* reliable. Misery
has accumulated. apon the. wyetehafi
oonrict'-s bead atsoe his crime; his father
is dead of grief, and hia wife has freed
herself front him by divorce and all the
fair-weather friends of hie gilded fiays
have fersaken him.
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1,- 1876.
"REBEL” CLAIMS.
The Nashville American says the only
prominenoe the qneetien of snoh claims
deserves is that given by the Northern
press. There is no doubt about the ef
fect ef it there. The effect of a con
tinual misrepresentation, persistently
adhered to, reiterated, cannot be over
rated. Especially ia it the oase where it
touches the pockets of the people, and
besides a point of principle or pride.
We can imagine nothing more galling to
the people of the North than to be com
pelled to pay the losses occasioned by
an nnsncceesfal effort to break np the
anion of States, and to pay these, too,
to the losing party. It was a knowledge
of thal feeling whioh has led nnscrapn
lous politicians and their servile tools,
the partisan press, to reiterate and con
tinually parade this issne. It oannot
be denied that it has had some effect.
It has been exposed. The responsibility
of the Repnblioan party for the entire
olaims policy has been folly shown, and
it is not at all likely that it will in the
end prove serioos. The only effect it
has had w* to preserve tbe Republican
party to some extent from a tendenoy to
dissolution. Bftt for the persistency
with whioh it was thrust upon the peo
ple of Ohio, it is probable the Demo
crats would have oarried that State.
The tronble in the Sonth has been
that in the absenoe of any popular
opinion in favor of snoh policy, or any
sentiment in favor ’of, or expectation
of snoh policy ever being a possibility,
the press and the people have stood
amazed, astonished that snoh an issne
should have been made. As the Re
publicans made laws for the oolleotion
of olaims by loyal men it is supposed
that they had a right to present and
collect them. Hence members of Con
gress properly present snoh claims
upon tbe ex parte statement of tbe
claimant. To do this was a plain duty
which, under the existing laws, oonld
not have been avoided. The claimant
has a right to have his claim presented,
to have both the merits of the olaim
and the question of his loyalty passed
upon by the proper authority. The
popular sentiment of the Sonth is not
favorable to the payment of any olaims,
for the 9,999 men who have to be taxed
to pay war olaims are not at all favor
able to bearing additional burdens for
the benefit of the one man in ten thou
sand who has a olaim against the Gov
ernment. The very statement of the
case ought to be sufficient to assure tbe
Northern people that tbe oitizens of the
impoverished Sonth oannot look with
favor upon any attack on the Treasury
from any quarter.
The press of the Sowth oannot engage
in a better work than to reflect the exact
sentiment of the Southern people on
this subjeot. The trouble with the
Southern people and press has been to
understand how they could be seriously
suspected of suoh design, or of any
sympathy with any olaims which will
increase taxation, multiply the number
of burdens aftd enhance their weight,
benefiting only the very few. So far as
rebel olaims are concerned, the man
who would have suspected that snoh a
olaim could ever be presented or collect
ed would be regarded as an idiot.
There is no snoh thing as a rebel olaim.
No rebel would think of presenting a
claim unless he were dishonest enough
to simulate loyalty, ir some who were
Southern sympathizers, who gave aotive
or positive support to the Confederacy,
have presented claims it has been
through the Republican policy that
has made oorraption and bribery pos
sible. A restoration of honest govern
ment will put an end to all that. It is
not the least of reforms intended by the
Demooraoy that dishonest raids npon
the Treasury from any and all quarters
shall end. As for olaims, the majority
of the Southern people have le rely up
on industry and energy, and they intend
that the minority ehall do it.
WHEAT AND WAR.
An exchange thicks it was the East
ern war news that forced up the price
of oereals in Chicago last week; bnt there
had been previous reasons, wholly un
connected with war, for supposing that
there might be a slight increase. Lon
don advices of three weeks ago, withont
reference to military complications, had
deolared that there would be a deficien
cy in the English corn snpply, and that
even the harvesting of Scottish grain
orops was watched with anxiety. Mr.
Walkbb, the statistician of the New
York produce exchange, at that time es
timated that Europe would demand
from exterior sources from 120,000,000 to
150,000,000 bashels of grain for the com
ing year. Great Britain and Ireland
would, as nsaal, need the greater part
of this snpply, the amount being reck
oned at 88,000,000. Belgium, Holland,
Switzerland, Italy and Germany are
also set down as needing wheat, and all
the more because the European rye crop
is unquestionably very short.
Now, according to the same authority,
Russia’s snpply for export is from 30,-
009,000 to 70,000,000 bushels. Her av
erage exportation to all foreign coun
tries for the past ten years has been
about 50,000,000, of whioh the United
Kingdom has taken 20,000,000, and the
other Enropean countries 80,000,000.
Her crop this year in the North is esti
mated to be 70 per cent, short; Bosnian
Polland and Central and Southern Rus
sia will furnish an average crop. Lrthe
vicinity of the Bea of Azov and in the
Crimea the crop is short. The oonntries
which will be called npon to supply tbe
deficiencies of Enrope will be Chili,
which will furnish 4,000,000 or 5,000,000
bashels; the United States, 70,000,000;
Australia, 3,000,000; British India, 5,-
000,000; Anstria and Hungary, 8,000,-
000, and Russia 50,000,000. The total
supply from these countries amounts to
141,000,000 bashels, and the United
States, therefore, may rely on having a
market for the surplus of itq crops.
When, therefore, we have a prospect
that Russia, onr main rival for supply
ing Enropean wheat deficiencies, is on
the brink of war, it ie at once dear that
the chances of a demand for Amerioan
wheat in Europe are increased. It is
somewhat nnfortnnate that the north
western wheat crop should be rather
ffndep the average as to quantity,
though good in quality ; bqt the Cali
fornia crop, which is sq largely sent to
Europe, is reported to he enormous and
very much heavier than lasi year’s,
The Herald publishes a letter from
August Belmont, in answer, as repre
sentative of Rothschild, to a dispatch in
the Evening Post, saying the syndicate
was about to stop taking the new loan
until Gov. Haps’ eleotion is assured.
Mr. Belmont says that the safety sod
wisdom of investment in' the funded
debt of the United States do not de
pend Bp%. Jbe Presidential election, in
the opinion of European jnyesfors, any
more than the sonnfineea of gngiiah
consols depends on whether the minis
try is Tory gr Liberal; that the ability
of the pnited States 40 °si£)spd capi
tal depenfis on universal belief that
the noh, and that the people
will keep ftufijprqiplaes, JJQ
politician* ay wy. He poifl£? opvjtb#
last thst while -English oonaois have
dropped five per qsnfc, {foiled States f
and 4$ per eaptp have dropped leas than
ene per cent, during tfa# syi tenant over
GENERAL COLQUITT.
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE GOV
ERNOR ELECT.
The Governor ef No Clique—Hi* Hand* Tied
hr No Pledaen—"EeaneaF” the Watchword
ef Hi* Administration.
[From ths Atlanta Constitution, 19ft.
Gen. Alfred H. Colquitt, after a race
almost unparalleled in its various
phrases and its earnestness, goes into
the little red cushioned room backed by
a larger majority of votes than has been
given to any man sinoe Georgia has be
oome a State. Feeling that the public
would like to hear from this placid, de
corous stateman—this old fashioned
Methodist gentleman—this genial, flue
fibred man, who, despite his calm de
meanor and habitude of tenderness,
fought like a tiger when in battle, au<i
in peaoe won the brightest honors of the
State by a majority of 78.000 votes, a
Constitution reporter dropped into his
office on yesterday. We fouud the spa
cious room absolutely infested with
office-seekers. Hardly less than a hun
dred expectant gentlemen were in sight
or hearing. A good dozen surroui ded
the General, whose pleasant, happy face
beamed like a morning sun through the
tangle of cloudy brows that surrounded
It. Three or fonr dangled impatient
legs in the ante-room md moodily
revenged themselves by ignoring the
spittoons when they spit. One patient
seeker had curled himself np in the
wash-room, and with his hand clntohing
the water-pipe and his fevered cheek
resting against the ice cooler, glared
speculatively through his eye-glasses at
whatever peeped in upon his lair. A
group were lying out on the grass plat,
toasting themselves, like turtles, in the
sun. Another one had thrown hiifiself
on the sofa, and his tense brain, relaxed
with somnial juices, had dropped oft to
dreamland, where, if his wild smile and
his triumphant snore meant anything,
he was eating the glad fruit of victory.
Beyond this, they wers perched on
chairs, on desks, and on tables, awaiting
the time when they could confront the
calm master of the hour, and put in
their claims. We push through the
crowd, and leading the new made Gov
ernor to an ash-barrel (the only unoccu
pied seat), sat him upon it and com
menced our talk.
What Governor Colquitt Ha* to Say.
"I am glad,” he says, “to have the
opportunity of expressing through your
paper my gratitude to the people of
Georgia for the high honor they have
conferred upon me, and the pleasing
unanimity with which it has been done.
It shall be my earnest to merit
the good opinion that my election evi
dences. I shall do my best to give the
people a capable, prosperous and effi
cient administration, reducing expenses
at every possible point, and lowering the
taxes that weigh upon the shoulders of
the overburdened people. Gov. Smith,
when entering npon a term of offire that
succeeded a loose and corrupt one, an
nounced that his watchword should be,
‘Honesty, Premising, of course, that we
shall perpetuate the honesty that he has
so rigorously insisted on in all depart
ments, I think the watchword of the
coming administration should be, ‘Econo
my.’ It shall be my aim to keep the ex
penditures to the very lowest point com
patible with efficiency and completeness
in tbe public work.”
A Governor for the Whole People.
AlludiDg to the rumor spread by his
opponents that he would, as a Governor,
be unduly attentive to the affairs of the
farmers, who were his especial friends
in the campaign, he said, smilingly:
"Why, I shall be the Governor for the
whole people. I shall jealously guard
the interests of the whole State, endeav
oring to promote prosperity in every
class of people when it can be done with
out injury to another class. It is absurd
to say that I will use the powers of the
office to which I have been elected fir
the advancement of the one class to the
oppression of another. To hold as equal
ly sacred the rights of all classes is the
only way in which the full interests of
the State can be advanced, and my ad
ministration win the approval I am am
bitious to have it deserve.”
No Friend* to Reward or Enemies to Puuislf.
Touching the matter of appointments,
the Governor said : "I can give yon no
idea of my appointments, for I have not
yet determined who I shall appoint to
half a dozen offices. I can say this,
however : I went through the campaign
withont promising or even intimating to
any man that I should appoint him to
any office. I declined all offers that in
volved the idea of obligation. I am,
consequently, free to select for public
positions only those men that I oousider
the best qualified to flil them. In
making np my list of appointments, I
shall be guided solely by (he question
of fitness. All applications for office are
being filed, and I shall leisnrely, during
the time preceding the inauguration, ap
ply the test of fitness to the applicants
and choose therefrom those who appear
to me to best stand the test.”
The Inauguration Ceremonies,
Governor Golquitt will be inaugnrated
on Thursday, the I2th of January. The
inaugural ball will take place on the
Friday night following. The ball will,
as usual, be a grand affair. The Gov
ernor will leave his modest farm home
on the 13th, and take up his residence
in the mansion, where a cheerful and
sincere hospitality will reign.
AIKEN COUNTY.
Mere Arbitrary Arrest*—Vlore United State*
Troop*.'
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel ]
Aiken, S. 0., October 25.—Mr. Ohas.
E. R. Dayton, a highly respected citi
zen of Aiken, was arrested on Monday
evening last, npon the affidavit of a no
torious negro named Lewis Samuels,
upon the charge of intimidation, aud is
now in jail awaiting the arrival of Uni
ted States Commissioner Boozer, when
he will give bail for his appearance at
the United States Court, to be held in
Cojjjmbia on the fourth Monday in
November. And thns it is. A negro
can go before a marshal or commis
sioner and make affidavit that a white
man has interfered with him in the
exercise of his political rights, and
have him arrested and confined in jail
until he oan have an opportunity of
giving bail. I am informed by reli
able sources that between fifty aDd
seventy-five negroes are camped in the
suburbs of Aiken, and that they are
constantly making affidavits against
white men for the purpose of having
them arrested. These negroes are from
the Rock Island section of the country,
and have been brought here for the sole
purpose of sweariDg lies against respect
able white citizens, who are as innocent
of the offenses with which they are
charged as you are in Georgia. The ne
groes are paid $1 50 for every affidavit
they make, and therefore make it quite
a profitable business. Gol. Butler in
formed me a fe v days since that affi
davits had been made against men in
his section of the oountry who had been
ont of the State for four years, and were
now living in Texas. But our people
have deemed it best to suffer for two
weeks more—then the day of redemp
tion will come 1 Wonld to God it were
here now, for if ever a people have been
sorely oppressed, we of Sonth Carolina,
and especially of Aiken county, have
been. Onr widows and orphans have
been robbed, our jury boxes packed,
onr Courts made corrupt by infamoos
carpet-baggers, and when we ask for
redress, we are met by the United States
army, who, although their hearts are
with us, are under the control of so no
toriously corrupt men that they dare
not disofaey a ooramand in order to help
us redeem onr poor old mother State.
This thing cannot last loog. Our peo
ple are determined; and unless the sev
enth of November brings ns relief, we
will seek it throngh some other source
than the ballot box. If tbe people of
the Ndrth and West only knew what we
are suffering, I venture to say we would
be advised to resort to arms to save our
selves, Bat they do not know. It is
impossible for them to realize the suf
ferings of our people, for lan
guage fails to express it. If Gen.
Wade Hampton ‘is elected Gov
ernor, we will then have peace and
prosperity restored to ns; bnt in the
eyegt of his defeat we will still be op
pressed. Tbereiore, it behooves every
man who is a lover of liberty to exercise
his utmost powers in his behalf, and
endeavor fay all means possible to secure
his etotioßi Qur people patiently await
tSSia fftSSSMßEiiift
A|*9%F osmpany ; of. {Tmted. States,
trooiy.anjjKpd- here yesterday, number
iag aixfcy- ujen, ,raufc ¥§ We now
have fiye companies, containing in all
about two hundred and fifty men. We
wish the whole army were stationed
here*for as the old saying goes, “the
lose the merrier,” B. B R.
OUR NEW LEGISLATURE.
THE SENATE.
Senator* Elect.
Second District: J. H. Clifton, Dem
ocrat, of TatnalL
Fourth District: J. M, Maddox, Dem
ocrat, of .
Sixth District: J. W. Slaten, Demo
crat, of Echols.
Eighth District: L A. Bush, Demo
crat, of Miller.
Tenth District: C. Wessalowski, Re
publican.
Twelfth District: W. H. Harrison,
Detnocrat, of Quitman.
Fourteenth District: Drury Reid, De
mocrat, of Wilcox (probably).
Sixteenth Distriei: Neill McLeod, De
mocrat, of Emanuel.
Eighteenth District: J. T. Shewmake,
Democrat, of Riohmosd.
Twentieth District: F. O. Furman,
Democrat, of Baldwin.
Twenty-seoond District: T. B. Oaba
nis, Democrat, of Monroe.
Twenty-fourth District: D. 0. Cody,
! Democrat, of Chattahoochee.
Twenty-sixth District: T. M. Hark
ness, Democrat, of Butts.
Twenty-eighth District: Dr. J. E.
Godfrey, Demoorat, of Morgan.
Thirtieth Dietiiot: B. H. Bullook,
Demoorat, of Madison.
Thirty-second District: R. R. Asbury.
Thirty-fourth Distriot: G. W. Bryant,
Democrat, of Henry.
Thirty-sixth Distriot: P. H. Brewster,
Democrat, of Coweta.
Thirty-eighth District: W. S. Rags
dale, Democrat, of .
Fortieth District: John S. English,
Democrat, of Union.
Forty-second Distriot: J. G. Gamble,
Democrat, of Chattooga.
Forty-fourth District: J. W. Coreton,
Demoorat, of Dade.
Ueaaters Holding Over.
First District: R. E. Lester, Demo
crat, of Chatham.
Third District: D. G. Hopps, Demo
orat, of Pieroe.
Fifth District: G. W. Newborn, Demo
orat, of Clinch.
Seventh Distriot: James McDonald,
Democrat, of Thomas.
Ninth District: T. J. Perry, Demo
crat, of Calhoun.
Eleventh Distriot: W. A, Graham,
Democrat, of Clay.
Thirteenth Distriot: L. M. Felton,
Democrat, of Maoon.
Fifteenth Distriot: T. D. Wiloox,
Democrat, of Irwin.
Seventeenth District: G. R. Black,
Demoorat, of Screven.
Nineteenth Distriot: C. S. Dußose,
Demoorat, of Warren.
Twenty.first Distriot: W. O’Daniel,
Democrat, of Twiggs.
Twenty-third Distriot: W, Rutherford,
Democrat, of Crawford.
Twenty-fifth Distriot: W, I. Hudson,
Demoorat, of Harris.
Twenty-seventh District: H. D. Mc-
Daniel, Democrat, of Walton.
Twenty-ninth Distriot: W. M. Reese,
Democrat, of Wilkes.
Thirty-first Disfcricft—J. M. Freeman,
Demoorat, of Habersham.
Thirty-third Distriot: G. F. Deadwy
ler, Demoorat, of Jackson.
Thirty-fifth District: E. P, Howell,
Democrat, of Fnlton.
Thirty-seventh District: J. T. Slaugh
ter, Demoorat, of Carroll.
Thirty-ninth District: E. C. McAfee,
Democrat, ot Forsyth.
Forty-first Distriot: J. P. Chastain,
Democrat, of Gilmer.
Forty-third District: R, E. Wilson,
Demoorat, of Murray.
THE HOUSE.
Representative*.
Appling: J. J. Roberson, Democrat.
Baker; W. W. Dews, Independent!.
Baldwin : J. A. Green, Democrat.
Banks : J. J. Turnbull, Democrat*.
Bartow : Thos. TuraliD, Dr. Stokely.
Berrien : J. H. Kirby.
Bibb: L. N. Whittle, A. O. B, Bacon*,
W. A. Davis, Democrats.
Brooks : H. G. Turner*, Democrat,
Bulloch : R. W. DeLoach, .Democrat.
Burke : S. A. Corker, W. F. Walton,
Dr. E. A. Perkins, Democrats.
Butts: S. F. Smith, Demoorat.
Bryan; L. F. Cox, Democrat.
Calhoun : Dr. O. H. Paul, Democrat.
Camden : G. A. Mallette, Democrat.
Campbell: J. M. Wilson, Demoorat.
Carroll: H. Hogan, E. Phillips, Dem
ocrats.
Catoosa : J. W. Owenby, Democrat.
Charlton : Felder Lang*, Democrat,
Chatham : P. M. Rnesell, Sr„ J. L.
Warren*, A. Pratt Adams, Democrats.
Chattahooohee ; A. Woldridge, Dem
erat.
Chattooga : W. H. Penn, Demoorat.
Cherokee: W. B. C. Puckett, Demo
crat.
Clarke : Dr. H. H. Carlton*, Demo
orat.
Clay : R. E. Kennon, Democrat.
Clayton : Rev. A. E. Cloud, Democrat.
Clinch ; Lewis Strickland, Independ
ent.
Cobb : W. Phillips, W. P. Harden,
Democrats.
Coffee : J. Pearson, Democrat.
Columbia : J. P. Williams, Demoorat,
Colquitt: James Viok, Democrat.
Coweta : W. W. Thomas, Dr. R. W.
North, Democrats,
Crawford : S. H. Causey, Demoorat,
Dade : J. A. Case, Demoorat.
Dawson : J. MoAfee, Demoorat.
Decatur : W. H. Harrell, H. Brocket,
Republicans.
Dekalb : M. R. Ragsdale, Demoorat.
Dodge : N. Rawlins, Independent.
Dooly : Dr. L. W. Mobley, Demoorat.
Douglas : O. R. Bowen, Democrat.
Dougherty ; A. M. Wollihin, Demo
crat, Howard Bunce, colored.
Echols : J. D. Smith, Demoorat.
Early : W. C. Sheffield, Democrat.
Effingham ; H. P. Brewer, Democrat.
Elbert; H. J. Bunoh, Demoorat.
Emanuel : G. W. McGarr, Indepen
dent.
Franklin : D. J. M. Mclntyre, Demo
crat. v
Fayette : W. S. Brown, Independent
F mnin :
Floyd : J. H. Reese, Independent, J.
R. Freeman, Democrat.
Forsyth : Thos. Willingham, Demo
crat.
Fulton : J. R. Jam§s, R. Rillyer, G.
T. Fry, Democrats.
Gilmer : Joseph Prickett, Democrat.
Glascock : Dr. E- G. Scruggs, Demo
orat.
Gordon : M. J. Dudley, Demoorat.
Greene : W, H. Branch, V. D. Gres
ham, Democrats.
Glynn : James Bine,* colored.
Gwinnett: N. L. Hutchins, W. J.
Born, Democrats.
Habersham : J. H. Grant, Demoorat.
Hall : A. D. Candler,* Democrat.
Houston : A. Jj. Miller, R. M. Davis,
Rev. J. F. Sikes, Democrats.
Henry : G. E. Wise, Democrat.
Hancock : W. J. Northern, J. T. Jor
doD, Democrats.
Harris: L. L. Stafford, Q. A. R. Do
xies, Democrats.
Haralson : D. R. Welton, Democrat.
Heard: M. T. Almon, Democrat.
Hart: J. B. Benson, Democrat.
Irwin: J. B. Fletcher, Demoorat,
Jackson: G. R. Duke*, A. T. Bennett,
Demociats.
Jasper: J. C. Key, Demoorat.
Jefferson: M. A. Evans, J. H. Polhill,
Democrats.
Johnson: S. W, Fortner, Democrat.
Jones: N. S. Glover, Democrat.
Lanrens: 0. S. Guyton, Demoorat.
Lee: Adams, colored.
Liberty: W. C. Bcean, colored.
Lincoln: Dr. J. L. Wikes, Democrat.
Lowndes: W. A. Carter, Democrat. /
Lumpkin: W. P. Price, Democrat.
McDuffie: Dr. J. 8. Jones, Democrat.
Mclntosh: W. R. Atwood, Democrat.
Marion: Howell Hollis, Demoorat.
Muscogee: R. J. Moses, R. G. Qatis,
Democrats.
i Macon: J. D. Frederick*, W. H. Wile
lis*, Democrats.
Madison: S. W. Colbert, Democrat,
Meriwether: J. B. Boper, J. W. Tay
lor, Democrats.
Miller: H. C. Sheffield, Democrat.
Milton: J. M. Stewart, Democrat.
Mitchell: C. W. Collins, Independent,
Monroe: Jeff Hugan, T- S. M. Blood
worth, Democrats.
Morgan : J. 8. Reid, Democrat.
Montgomery : D. J. Mcßae, Demo
orat.
Murray ; Dr. Thomas Leach, Demo-
Newton : J. P. Simms, Demoorat; L.
B. Anderson,* Repnblioan.
Oconee : R. R. Murray, Independent.
jOflj&jfrt * wwh a- Mm
-Pa3din| L.dra|. Deifiq|
r Pickens : ILJ, Allred, DetBOC“
. Pierce.A. K,
Pike : Rr. w vSdpk.
Polk : Seafaorn donee,
Palaeki: G. W, Jordao, Demopr&L
Putnam ; J. A. Heid, Xtemoorat.
Quitman : Rr. L. R. Dozier, Detno-
Rabun : W. M. Pickett, Democrat.
Randolph : A. Hood, Democrat.
Richmond : J. C. C. Black,* Pat
Walsh,* W. Ewing Johnston, Demo
crats.
Rockdale : W. L. Peek, Democrat.
Schley : M. J. Wall, Democrat.
Screven : U. P. Wade, Demoorat.
Spaulding : Rev. J. D. Stewart, Dem
oorat.
Stewart: O. C. Humber, B. F. Davis,
Democrats.
Sumter : Allen Fort,* W. H. Davison,
D Tidbot t *J. O. Maund, J. M. Mathews,
Democrats.
Taliaferro : B. F. Moore, Demoorat.
Tattnall : J. B. Smith, Demoorat.
Taylor: Rev. B. Stewart, Demoorat.
Telfair: J. Wilcox, Demoorat.
Terrell: G. T. Marshall, Demoorat.^
Towns : W. G. Goodman, Demoorat.
Thomas: W. M. Hammond, *B. S.
Burch, Democrats.
Troup: J. F. Awtry, A. H. Cox, Dem
crats. -
Twiggs: J. T. Glover, Demoorat.
Union: T. J. Haralson, Democrat.
Upson: Dr. J. W. Brown, Democrat.
Walker: J. M. Shaw, Democrat.
Walton: W. R. Smith, Democrat.
Ware: W. A. McDonald, Demoorat.
Warren: Dr. W. H. Piloher, Demo
crat.
Washington: J. A. Robson, G. W.
Peacock, Democrats.
Wilkes: F. H. Colley* W. R. Calla
way, Democrats.
Worth: J. W. Rouse, Democrat.
Wayne: James Knox, Demoorat.
Webster: Dr. W. C. Kendrick, Demo
orat.
White: W. G. Goo’drum, Democrat.
Wilcox: W. T. Fairoloth, Democrat.
Whitfield: Rev. W. O. Richardson,
Democrat.
Wilkinson: N. O. Hughes, Demoorat.
Those marked with a f are contested;
those with a * members of the last
House.
OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
The Maperlor Court—The Crepe, dee.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Lexington, Ga., October 2Q.—The
Fall term of the Oglethorpe Superior
Court oouvened on Monday last, Judge
Pottle presiding. Among the visitors at
the bar are General Toombs, General
Dußose, Judge Hardeman, and Messrs.
Shnbriok and Sims, of Wilkes ; Colonel
Tharman, Major Cobb, Hon. B. H. Hill
and son, of Athens; Colonel Lewis, of
Greene; and Robt. Jones, Esq., of El
bert. The time, thns far, has been de
voted to the civil docket and a few un
important criminal cases. To dispose
of the heavy oases pending, an adjourn
ed term is necessary, and will be held
the last week in November.
The Court Honse, stores and streets
are thronged with visitors, and peaoe
and good order prevails. We rarely
witness as good behavior, where so
many people come together, and as
marked kindness and hospitality, as in
the town of Lexington. The writer has
known these people for several years,
and in no spirit of fiattery is free to
say that for all the principles that dig
nify and ennoble human character, they
have no superiors in Georgia.
Gen. Toombs says Wilkse,Oglethorpe,
and Elbert are the best oounties in the
State, and ali who deal extensively with
them will concur in his opinion.
It is gratifying to note the interest
manifested by the people of this com
munity in the cause of education. Pro
fessor Moss, who has been teaohing
here for more than a score of
years, and one of the most
deservedly popular educators in the
State, has a flourishing school in the
town, and is doing a good work for the
risiDg generation.
Farmers have succeeded well this
year, made fine grain orops and an aver
age amount of cotton. The work of
picking and ginniDg the latter is going
on vigorously and will soon be over.
The general talk now is about sowing
small grain, which will begin in good
earnest in a few days. The country is
said to bo woil stocked with mules and
horses, and but little money will go in
this direction the ooming season. It is
hoped that the day will soon oome when
every dollar that goes to increase the
boasted wealth of the West will be
spent in building up the broken down
fortnnes qf dear old Georgia. Yisitob.
THE BURKE COUNTY ELECTION.
A Card Concerning (be Recent Contest In
Burke,
Waynesboro, Ga., October 23, 1876.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
1 have read the communication of
“Bnrke” in yonr valuable paper of 16th
inst. He ia very sore over the election
of Meaara. Corker, Perkins and Walton
as Representatives from this county.
His distortion of the facta in the case is
amusing. He refers to “H. W. Q,.” the
brilliant correspondent of the Constitu
tionalist, who, in a communication of
October 6th, places Messrs. Corker and
Perkins among the Independents. That
is “where they properly belong,” says
“Burke.” “H. W. G.” has changed his
mind and in his letter dated October
16th, 1876, whioh was published in the
Constitutionalist, October 18th inst.,
he says: “I was wrong in classing Messrs.
Corker, Perkins and Walton with the
Independents. It appears from the ac
counts sent me that the opponents of
these gentlemen moved the adoption of
the two-thirds rule, and that their mo
tion was passed. When it was fonnd that
Messrs. Corker & Cos. oould not be
beaten under the two-thirds rule, that
rnle was, by motion of their opponents,
repealed and majority nominations were
made. The minority withdrew, and
Messrs. Corker, Walton and Perkins
were nominated by the minority, made
the race and were very righteously
elected.” After referring to the “fa
mous Ben Hill Convention in the Ninth
District last year,” he oonolndes on this
subject : “Hence, we congratulate
Messrs. Corker, Walton and Perkins
upon having rebuked, by their fine vic
tory, the Convention managers.” These
gentlemen did not run as Independents.
Their supporters did not yofe for them
as Independents, and their supporters
made a majority of the white voters of
the county. There would have been
only one white ticket, but for the action
of a small majority of the Nominating
Convention referred to hy “H. W. G.”
Their action received a deoided rebuke
from the white voters.
“Burke” writes: “Who bolted the
Convention, made the Independent
nomination, were Corker’s own personal
friends, manoeuvred into the Conven
tion for the express purpose of advocat
ing his claims.” “Manoeuvred” is a
most unfortunate selection for "Burke,”
in view of the facts.
The theory of “Burke” to show that
Hon. S. A. Corker failed tq get a major
ity of the white yote is falsa. He as
sumes that no “-splft” tickets were cast.
That is pot the fact. “Burke’s” figures,
however, give Judge Corner 8,70 white
votes, according to his estimate. So by
his own showing this gentleman qnjy
lacked six white votes of getting a white
majority. ‘Burhe H puts the entire vote
of Judge Corker at 1,922. He would
have been nearer correct in an “honest
investigation” had he placed it at 2,022.
The proper way of reaching the truth
is to take the difference between the ag
gregate vote of the county, and the en
tire vote of Hon. 8. A. Qoyker. The
difference is the vjhofe number of votes
he failed to gat Let us look at it:
Aggregate vote 2,402
8. A. Corker’s vote.... ........,, .2,002
Whole N<>. of votes he did not get. 880
According *0 “Brke” 100 negro
votes were cast for the defeated
gentlemen; 200 is the mqre proba
ble number, but for nig benefit
take 100, then we have this :
Deduct 100 negro vote* -j*... 100
Whole No. of white votes he did not
get... 280
Entire white vote ("Burke’s” esti
mate). 750
Deduct No. S. A. Cork 6l did not
get.......... 280
Corker’s white yote... ' 47Q
The figures tell their owp story. The
same process cap hh used for Messrs.
Walton and Perkins-
This statement is respectfully submit
ted to a candid public. “Burke** is re
quested to show wherein it is false in
fact or theory. The gentlemen elected
ran as nominees of the Democrats. •-
They were elected as such, The writer
-has nothing^taj agftinaUfce -defeated.
spl4' '^mating
to thewill of
county V’ I answer : As good Domo
oraXs they were called upon by a major
ity ofth* white people at the senator t*
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PA TP
represent them. Throngh the ballot
box they said, "Go, represent us.”
When they return to a faithfully served
constituency, that verdiot will be:
"Well done.”
" Facts are t stubborn thiDgs.”—
"Burke’s” desire to make them pliable
ia amusing. Justice.
THE STATE.
THB PEOPLE AND THB PAPERS.
Pike county is ont of debt.
Golqnitt’s official majority is 78,000.
Mr. O. O. MoKenzie, of Rome, is dead.
Polk oonnty farmers are sowing wheat.
Jndge Loohrane has gone to Chicago.
National elections two weeks from to
day.
Eleotion of Congressmen to-day, two
weeks.
Early oonnty has no candidate for
Ordinary.
The Sparta brass band will give a aon
oert shortly.
Scarlet fever has disappeared from
Greensboro.
John Robinson has made Atlanta his
headquarters.
Mrs. Taylor Powell, of Calhoun died
last week of consumption.
This will pass into history as the Sum
mer of low rivers in Georgia.
Mrs. M. L. Watson, of Union Point, is
seriously ill with typhoid fever.
The primary election for county offi
cers of Troup oonnty has been contested.
A Conyers man comes to the front with
thirty-two butter bean pods on one
limb.
The Eberhart case was not taken up
at Oglethorpe Superior Court last
week.
,W. A. Ellington, of Newton oonnty,
picked 5,846 pounds of cotton in twenty
four hours.
Dr. Williams’ fine residence in Fay
etteville was destroyed by fire on Wed
nesday night,
Mr. George D. Moore, of Greene ooun
ty, had his hand severely cut by a gin
saw last week.
_J- W. Woolfolk and Miss Josie Wil
kins, of Columbns, were married in that
oity last week.
The next annual session of North Geor
gia Conference convenes in Sparta, the
6th of December.
A little boy in Bo tier, Ga., ran about
fifty yards with the fangs of a rattle
snake in his flesh,
Mr. Charles Shivers, well known in
Maoon as a druggist, died Friday morn
ing of bilious fever.
The editor of the Oglethorpe Echo is
a strong advocate of “spiked coffee” in
oase cf railroad accidents.
Thomas Franois, a veterau of the war
of 1813 .died in Forsyth oounty recently
at the advanoed age of 90.
Mr. Jesse Leaoh, one of the faithful
compositors of the Savannah Newt, died
last Friday, of yellow fever.
Mr. James 0. Smith, of Greene coun
ty, mads over a hundred gallons of
syrup from one half aore of oane.
The Jelicatory sermon of the Con
ors Presbyterian Church was preached
ast Sunday by Dr. Irvine of Augusta.
It has been ordered that a dividend of
twenty per cent, be paid to the creditors
of Cook & Cheek, late Marietta millers.
A gin house of Mr. J. IJ. Gardiner,
of Milner, was consumed with twelve
bales of cotton, engine and gin, last
week.
The grand jury of Warren county
hopes that Judge ‘Pottle will be re
appointed at the end of his present
term.
Nathan Thompson, a defeated candi
date for the Legislature from Elbert
oounty, seeks sweet solace in picking
ootton.
Bridges Smith says that the advent of
the circus acted like a super-Dowerful
emetic from a villainous squirt-gun, in
Atlanta.
Cottage dwellings are mnoh in de
mand in Sparta. This shows that the
young Spartans are going about the
thing sensibly.
A pyramid of artificial flowers, in col
ors, made of the wool of the African
sheep, makes one of the ornaments of
the Griffin Fair.
Wyatt Moore, colored, of Lee oounty,
has been ‘stumping’ Calhoun in the in
terest of Hon. Wm. E. Smith, Demo
cratio candidate for Congress.
The Macon lelegraph says that some
sneaking thief in that city cut down the
Tilden and Hendrieks flag which was
raised by the young men a week ago.
Mr. John R. Christian, of the Sparta
Times and Planter, has quit journal
ism, and is now editing a first-class gro
cery store in Dalton, says the Constitu
tion,i
The Covington Enterprise says that
Judge W. S. Lee lost his gin house,
packing screw, gin and twenty-five bales
of ootton recently, by the hand of an in
cendmry.
A freight train jumped the traok at
Forrest station, on the Macon and West
ern Railroad, Friday night, and two or
three cart were ditohed.— Telegraph
and Mess.
A marriage notice in the Griffin News
was headed ’’Runaway" through mis
take. The caption, it appears, was left
over from a buggy accident notio# of
the preceding day.
The Jonesboro and Atlanta wagon
trains have at last gained their point and
the Maoon and Western Road has re
duced rates to twenty oents per hun
dred, their former price.
A VERMONT MYSTERY.
A Body In a Well The Ham* Tfxftl that
I*4 m a Obfurenr,
[From Ok Boston Berali.\
Sebinotibld, Yt., October 3a—The
town of Weathersfield, just north of
here, and, indeed, the while surround
ing section, is in a fever of exoitement
oyer the news that the dead body of
Herbert O. White, who has been miss
ing from Weathersfield two weeks, was
found to-day, and that there is little
doubt that he was foully murdered.
This morning about 9 o’olock, N. L.
Meador, a hired man op Renry Grave
l's farm, abound miles north of
Weathersfield Centre, and G. H. Le
land, employed as sheriff’s keeper of
Gravelin s property, while looking after
cattle in a pasture kail a mile from
Gravelin s hoqeo, ae across a well ap
parently yearly covered over with stone.
Something strange in its appearance led
them to make an examination an d, pull
ing away .name of the rubbish, they
were horrified hy the discovery of the
body ot 9 &AQ. bead downward.
The well i about nine feet deep, and
baa is it wd Sis feet of water, in which
the body was submerged, the feet only
showing above the surface. The body
was removed from tfee well, pufi proved
tq be that of the missing man, White.
An examination showed a fearful gash,
cut obliquely on the right slide of the
head, another on the back of the head,
and the right side of the head was com
pletely in, . The blows which
inflicted these terrible wounds were
probably struok With an axe. Buspie>on
at once rested upon Gravelin, between
whom Shd White au old fued existed on
account of Whim’s taming State’s evi
denoe against the former rto a criminal
oaae about a year ago- Gravelin is now
in jail at Woodstock awaiting trial on a
charge oj burning farm buildings.
Mrs. White says that since the trial
Gravelin tried to gain the good will of
her husband, bat White has been afraid
of him, repeatedly refusing to drink
with him for fear pf poisoning. On
Friday,
to-daj, TOut? gas sent for fey GraveUn,
who said he wanted to let hup a job of
laying a stone wall on hi* farm. White
harnessed his oM horse to a gig and
rode off toward GravoUu’a, since which
tig|u he has not been seen alive. The
horse was found in Graveling pasture
seven mflee fro® Weathersfield, but the
gig and bmmeu are still mjaaiug. Feo
Pie living on the road assert that they
heard a horse go past in the direction of
the pasture, and that a week ago last
Sunday GraveUn was seen returning.
Weatofa’s buddings were burned on the
night of the IQth tost.
Theffiqtanee frpmQrave'hn’s house jo
the au3 a half miles, and
lifeßifled. A man
TintraßW*Wf‘ way bet 6& the two
moiata bar night a hone' go* past
fikhoos*, toward Weston’s, on a Walk,
and Inter heard it-go back on a inn, file'
told of this, and the report roused the
neighbors, who at on*e started to follow
toe tracks. There ip. A cross road oo ra
te* from, toe mtWUXOSdito a Bowt about
W W 4 Uto sees* of ton fire.
wherjß were fbund the tracks of a horse
and i igna that he had been hitched to the
fenoa for only a few minutes. The
tract s were peculiar and easily traoed.
even in the night. Early the next morn
ing several citizens followed the tracks
to G ravelin’s barn; they demanded to
aee the horse and he was led out, neatly
rubbed down, but bearing clear marks
of saddle. Oa being questioned,
Gravelin said he had a saddle, but had
not use it for two months. It was fouiid
in the barn free from dust and bearing
sign* of recent use, horse hair and dand
ruff on the doth. Gravelin at this time
was very nervous, and kept away from
the men who were examining the horse
ana saddle. A shoe was taken from the
horse and found to fit perfeotly in over
100 places in the tracks made the night
before. Gravelin was arrested on Thurs
day, and committed to jail in Wood
stock on last Wednesday.
fSOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Charleston has had heavy rains.
Mnoh oottton is coming to Walhalla.
United States troops still arrive in
Columbia.
Cabbages are again in oiroulation in
Charleston.
Dodge Milam is the new sheriff of
Laurens connty. .
Com gathering has commenced in
Northern Carolina.
The Lee monumental fund now
amounts to $25,000.
Centennial round trip tickets from
Columbia, cost $25.
Highway robbers are enjoying the sea
breeze at Charleston.
Charleston Hotel will open on the
9th of November next.
Drunken men in Charleston continue
to oaress railroad traoks.
Mr, Peter Southern, formerlv a resi
dent of Walhalla, is dead. *
Thursday, the 26tb, is the day of fast
ing and prayer in Carolina.
Oapt. D. A. Serry and Mr. S. Brad
ford, of Georgetown, are dead.
The number of deaths in Columbia
last week, was five, all colored.
Apples are plenty in the Walhalla
market now at 50 oents per bushel.
Subscriptions are being taken up for
the families of the Cainhoy viotims,
George B. Reed, Esq., an elderly citi
zen of Charleston, died on the 20th.
The Hampton Colored Demooratio
Club of Walhalla, now numbers fifty.
Negro boys disturb the public sohoola
in Charleston, by rooking the windows.
Postmaster Bosemon, of Charleston,
will be retained in his present position.
The canvass is drawing to a close, as
General Hampton marohes towards the
sea.
Judge J. P. Reed will hold court at
Anderson this week, instead of Judge
Cooke.
The Keowee Courier says that there
has been no rain in Ooonee daring this
month.
Wild rumors of a big fight in Edge
field and Aiken proved to be false
alarms.
Mr. A. Byroe, Jr., has been appointed
Special Deputy Marshal of Ooonee
county.
There is not a single case of fever un -
der treatment at the Charleston City
Hospital.
The free sehools of Fairfield connty
will reopen on the seoond Monday of
November.
A handsome blue silk flag has been
gotten up for the Rion Sabre Club, of
Winusboro.
General Roger has returned to Co
lumbia, and will likely remain there for
a length of time.
Colleton oounty, so the Charleston
Journal is informed, will give Hamp
ton 600 majority.
The Union-Herald shrivels up with
sarcasm because the Hampton boys cheer
United States troops.
Ben Rivers, a colored oaptain in Col
leton connty, has been making inoen
diary demonstrations.
Columbia is filled with boys in blue.
A few blue boys of the Chamberlain per
suasion are also found.
In certain mountainous parts of the
State there were no frosts, and the corn
is yet green and growing.
A fellow in Charleston was deteoted,
the other day, waving another man’s
shirt and was lodged in jail.
The Democrats of Ooonee connty at
tended the Republican mass meeting at
Walhalla on the 21st instant.
Owing to the siokness of the Commis
sioner, no juries have been drawn for
Laurensville Court this week.
About 800 colored citizens will leave
Conwayboro for Georgetown to hear
Wade Hampton on the Ist of November.
The official bond of General C. L.
Stolbrand, as Constructor of the
Charleston Custom Bouse, has been
confirmed.
Mrs. M. B, Beaty announces her will
ingness ta run as an independent candi
date for the office of School Commis
sioner in Horry.
The Keowee Courier learns that the
little daughter of Mr. J. W. Holleman
had her arm broken below the elbow on
Monday night last.
The Journal of Commerce says that
the ladies run a great risk in walking
abont the streets, from the insults of
vagabond negroes.
Military posts- have been established
at Summerville, Charleston county,
Bennettsville, Darlington oonnty, and
Blackville, Barnwell oounty.
Andrew Crawford, the little son of
Mr. Drennan, who was burned Wednes
day night, now lies in a precarions con
dition.—Columbia Register.
The bodies of Stephen Holmes and
Sarah Williams, both colored, who were
drowned in Ashley river, on Sunday,
the 16th instant, were recovered Satur
day.
Miss M. A. Buie, of South Carolina,
has brought suit against the city of
Wilmington to recover $50,000 damages
for arrested and held in quaran
tine,
Some of Chamberlain’s starved out
ohums stand around the Columbia cor
ners and pick up desd fowls iu the street.
This is highly typical of Chamberlain’s
carrion crew.
The News and Courier thinks that
there cannot be a free and fair election
in the rural districts of Charleston
Oounty, unless there be at every polling
place, on election day, adequate protec
tion for the oolored Democrats.
The Union-Herald say* •• twenty
thousand Conservative voters are hoping
for the success of Chamberlain in Sooth
Carolina.” And twenty thousand Con
servative voters pronounce this the
double distilled essence of partisan
lying.
The Columbia Register says that the
colored Democrats ot Aiken carried bar
becued meats to their white friends who
had been imprisoned by the blood
hounds, and that one act will be aßd ts
appreciated by every true son of the
State, be be black or white.
The Abbeville Medium says that “the
cliok ot the pistols” wbioh Governor-
Chamberlain, in his reply to Colonel*
Haskell, said he heard on “Big Tues
day,” was only the springing of the
valves on the brass horns by the mem
bera of the band, • This can be estab
lished npon undeniable testimony. So
it was a q)iok, in a horn.
Speaking of Hon. A. H. Stephens get
ting up from hia couch and casting his
vote in the late Georgia election, the
Laurens ville Herald remarks: “We
hope every man in this county will make
a note ol this faot; will realize his indi
vidual responsibility; will go to the
polls on the day of election and secure
l toe triumph of the Democratic ticket.”
The ancient joke abont news nsofl to
be that the Dutch have taken Holland;
it looks very much as though che Jews
before long would take Jerusalem —
take possession of it, at ’,east. The emi
gration of Jews to Palestine from Rus
sia, Poland and Germany during tbe
past half doxtot years has been aston
ishing, ' and it is Temarkable thalthb
Rqtwkhukds and Montevtobes are
credited 4Ub%aridggir6n much mfeuey '
’to found schools and asylums for them.
The population of Jerusalem is said to
'have doubled since 1870, and so has
•that of some other cities in Palestine.
The warmest kind of a hat—the one
that’s got stovein.