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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1876)
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ALL COMMUNICATIONS announcing candi dates for office—from County Constable to member* of Congress—will be charged at the rate of twenty cents per line. All announce ment* moat be paid for in advance. Address WALSH 4 WEIGHT, Chronicle anti .Sentinel^ 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 • >1 • MI ■ . * 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. • , . ■ ■'i _J* -i 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.
