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(Etaowde and jSenftnd.
WEDNESDAY. JfOVEMBEB 1,1876.
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**A SECRET AT HOtfß.”
The itsid tint deceived me wee fatal aud fair.
With the curl on her Up nd her arrogant air :
The wife I deceived ia aa tender and true
Aa the graae on the mountain-slope covered
with dev.
Ah ! many a storm Love can safely outride.
Bat a secret at home ia like rocks under tide.
The maid that forsook me was cruel and cold;
She cared not for love, she oared only for
aoid.
The wUe of my bosom ia simple and mild,
With the heart of a woman, the smile of a
child.
Ah ! many a storm Love can safely ootride,
Bat a secret at home is like rocks under tide.
IN MEMORY OF LITTLE PIERCE B.
.CHRISTIE.
Tender babe of earthly bliss
No more shall we cl.ep thy form;
Could we bat imprint one loving kiea
’Twoutd quiet griefs violent storm.
Oar bad lies withered and blighted,
From earth an angel has flown ;
The gift to hearts sacredly plighted,
Jeans now claims for his own.
Nestle on his tender breast
And lisp his name so holy ;
Full of grace and mercy blest.
Wear his crown of Glory.
With hearts stricken and bleeding
We bow to Thy will. Oh. God !
Bless us whilst meekly bending,
Passing under Thy rod.
Te sell* u* to bear our loes
Through the pensive days and nights ;
Help ns to carry the cross, '
To unfurl the Banner of Christ. W. T.
DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR.
The Atrocities Is Blftrl-lls Killlac their
Wives and Daughters te Prevent Them from
Falling Into the Hands of the Turks.
Prom one of MacGaban’s Bulgarian
letter* : The story of the Armenian girl
regarding the events of Friday and Sat
urday ia strangely incoherent and wEcl,
end what she relates is simply incredr
ble. I can only account far this part of
her story on the supposition that she
had by this time gone partially or quite
mad. She relates that on Friday after
the murder of the two women above re
lated, the men remaining in the church
yard determined, upon the failure of this
last attempt at negotiation, to kill them
selves. She says that some of them
were on the point of putting this reso
lution into effect when their wives in
terposed and
Beared to be Killed Themselves,
Thereupon ensued a scene of horror
that we might well believe the coinage
of thia girl’s own mad brain were a
part of the story not corroborated bv all
the villagers. It seems that two of these
even actually carried tbeir resolution
into effect. Two of them, after weeping,
moaning, tearing their hair, beating
their heads against the wall, actually
killed their wives and children, and
even killed themselves. This girl re
lates that these women asked to be
illed, that they knelt down, gathered
their little ones to their arms, weeping,
aobbing, praying, while the husband and
father ahot or stabbed them one after
the other. The girl’s story with regard
to these two is corroborated by the rest
of the villagers, but she goes much far
ther. She asserted, and persists in the
assertion, throughout a series of sharp
cross questions, that there were many
more who killed themselves, or were
killed in that way; that
Fifty or Sixty Meu Killed their Wlveo
And children; that many young girls and
mftrriod jyonion whoso husbands had
been killed, or who had escaped on
Monday night, came forward and asked
to be killed likewise, to avoid falling in
to the hands of the Basbi-Bazouks; and
that their request was complied with.
She thinks there were fully two hun
dred people killed in that way. _ She
says that they even asked her if she
wished to be killed likewise, and that
she deolined. The story is so thoroughly
in keeping with the sad despondent
oharacter of the Solaves that I should be
inclined to believe it were it not that it
laoks confirmation. The truth seems to
be that there was only those two, one of
whom had two children, and the other
three, I can only account for this
girl’s story on the supposition that af
ter four nights passed in this manner,
nearly without sleep, surrounded by
horrors, she had gone quite mad, and
was subject to hallucinations. Awaken
ing probably from a fainting fit," or a
long state of insenaibility, she beheld
these two men, her near neighbors,
Killing Their Wives ul Little ftpo,
She looked about her and saw the
ground strewed with dea i bodies lying
in their bloo& She says the floor of the
church was Akin deep with blood, and
sbe instantly jumped to the conclusion
that all these people had been killed in
the same way, Bnt two aye enough.
That even two men should have decided
to kill their wives and little ones, to
plunge a knife, to fire a bullet, into the
weak, tender little beings that looked
np to them for love and protection,
shows to what a state of despair the
people were reduced by tho conduct of
the Turkish commander.
'THE FEELING IN THE ARMY.
Propping lip lb* C'nrpet-Bng Ceuee— Abhor
rence of ike Oflli'i rx and Men for this Kind
of Only— Hontlinoot of the Troop* Towards
the Southern People.
The people of Richmond enjoyed an
unusual sensation on Friday, in behold
ing several companies of United States
troops marching through their city on
their way to “toe seat of war” in South
Carolina. The Richmond Whig says ;
Our reporter conversed with a number
of the offioers, all of whoa denounced
this movement of sending troop* down
Sooth for political purposes in unmea
sured terms; nor did they hesitate to ex
press the abhorrence they felt at being
assigned to this kind of polioe duty.
Said a lieutenaut: “I think this kind of
servioe too dirty for the offioers and
srmy of this Government to be assigned
to. If the War Department and the
oAoer* at Washington desire that the
Sooth should be placed under this kind
of surveillance, why then let special de
tectives, suoh as are used in the seoret
service, be employed.' - ’ This officer, as
well as all with whom our reporter con
versed, expressed the kindest reeling to
wards the people of the South, and .unite
in (tying that the Government should
not interfere in these State matters, bnt
let these local affairs be adjusted by the
{State government.
What They Tkougkt of theMttpation in Sooth
Carolina.
We asked of another officer from what
he could gather whom he believed to be.
in fault in the South Carolina tronblee,
whether the whites are blacks ? His re
ply was, “I do not know sir; bnt judging
from other troubles of a like nature in
that State, I imagine the fanlt lies with
the negroes, whose miqds have been
poisoned by low white men for purposes !
of their own. My command was in
South Carolina daring a similar trouble
in 1879, and we had not been in the
State long before we discovered that the
whole state of affairs had been brought
on by the most aggravated and outrage
one acts on the part of the colored peo
ple.’’The officer added that they thought
alt of the troops would be ordered from
Sonth Carolina in abont six weeks.
A Lars* Helerity ef ibt Jin for Ttlden.
By a vote recently taken in each of
the three companies composing this bat
talion, a large majority of the men were
found to be in favor of Tildeu as their
next chief executive officer. In speak
peering ont from the crowd at him which
arreete his attention, and if he be a man
of sentiment it will pat him to thinking.
Bnt if he stops there long to think his
sentiment is likely to be dashed by some
other good looking face, bnt weff foal
month. The girls yon meet under gas
light in Boston don’t go a cent on senti
ment ; they prefer beer— and generally
lake it
'xt> go higher, there are some handsome
worn so in Boston, and stylish, bnt there
is little tiT none of the gay or loud dress
ing on tb<s greets one sees in other cities.
The women ato stronger and healthier
looking in Beaton than New Orleans,
bnt they haven’t tbaa beauty of figure
and foe, nor of feet, and do pot display
that exquisite taste in dress fifat tbe
lovelv women of the Crescent City <io.
A well dressed theatre or opera audi
eoce here displays a primness and ten
dency towards subdued tfc&t 18
sometimes chilliDg.
Boncicanlt is drawing immense houses
■with his “Shanghraun,” and Mend Gran
ger is langnishingiy lovely nightly in a
jiew spectacular called “Paoli.”
Phonetic.
Eight MIIm Seaare of Fire.
|S. Loot* Globe-Bemocrat.)
In Saline county, Nebraska, on the
17th instant, a pra^ le fire burned •
tion of eight nulre equarenearJyclean
destroying outhouses, staples, a number
of dwelling houses, imple
ments, hay, and grain ia stack and corn
in field. On Swan creek the o}te of
Peter Oleson, a Swede, was bu.mea to
death. She saw the prairie fire ap
proaching and ran for broken ground,
bat stopped to let the hogs oat of the
pen. She fell exhausted just before
reaching the plowed ground. When
found the body was burned to a crisp.
A woman and her two children, Rames
not given, were homed to death on
Spring creek. The fire was stopped by
Turkey creek, or it might have been
much more extensive.
A RARE ROMANCE.
A FAITHLESS GUARDIAN.
Tklrtr Mllliaua uf I'rofwrl j t^nnaAered—
Tke (imi MeClsakev Estate—A llaagkltr’.
‘JZEZZSWT" *
(FVom the Philadelphia Sunday TraMcrift,)
N*w Yobx, October 5 —Long years
ago, before Civil war Was dreamed of in
this country, and the party of abolition
wu in it infancy, the reignfcg belle of
New Orleans was Madame Duval, a cre
ole wbft had scarcely "passed her
sixteenth birthday.
Hkt Was Beaatlfal,
Accomplished, witty, of undisputed
good family (she was lineally descended
from a Spanish duke, who married a
younger sister of a Queen of Spain),
and, above all, immensely wealthy. Her
estates were scattered throughout the
lower tier of Southern : tates, and pro
duced a revenue larger than that, enjoy
ed by probably any other lady in Amer
ica. Pnilip McOloskey, a tall and hand
some yonng Irishman, who was extreme
ly popular in the society in which
Madame Dnvsl moved, won her affec
tions, and after a short courtship they
were married. Eight years after their
anion Mrs. Philip McCJoskey died,
leaving a girl of eight years and an
other somewhat younger, to the care of
the widower. He came into possession
of her estate, bnt died soon afterwards,
makiog his brother, Patrick McCloskey,
his sole executor and the guardian of
the children. This gentleman, if the
McCloskey records are to be believed,
although
A Kiad and ladalcest
Guardian, was far from being the eon
acienoious trustee. He sent the chil
dren to tbe Convent of the Sacred Heart
in Baltimore, paying for their tuition
with princely liberality (ont of their
own money), and supplying them with
all the luxuries that wealth could pro
cure. Then he began a career of dissi
pation and extravagance which ended
only with bis death in Paris abont 15'
years ago. The immense fortune of bis
dead brother flowed through his hand*
like water throngh a sieve, until at the
time of hia death it was found that the
greater portion, even of the landed es
tate, had been lost to tbe fatherless
children. On his last visit to this coun
try, Patrick McCloskey bought
A Fine iHuabn
And a tract of land near Alexandria,
Genesee county, N. Y., intendingjto oo
enpy it as hia "Summer residence when
in this country. After bis death thia
estate and a few thousand dollars, which
had been settled on the girls by tbeir
father as “pin money,” were all of the
property that was tangible. The rest of
their great wealth had taken wings. It
was known that Philip McCloskey died
possessed of several blocks of buildings
in Mobile, a tract of land in BpringHill,
s suburb of that oity, a portion of tbe
town of Pascagoula, Miss., the greater
part of Aberdeen, Miss., property in
Florida, and between 1,000 snd 1,600
slaves. Of all this property there re
mained only the Genesee county estate,
the remainder having been illegally con
verted into money by the extravagant
Patrick and spent in luxurious dissipa
tion, which would have soon eaten np
the fortune even of a Monte Cristo. To
ward the latter part of his career, when
he was pinohed for money to oarry qu
his dissolute cSrirse, be resorted Iff
questionable practices to obtain it. Not
long before his death he forced one of
his nieces to marry Levi F. JacksoD, of
Brandon, Vt., wh'> was a olerk or bar
keeper in Leroy, N. Y, Miss Victorine
Marie McOloskey,
The Victim of ThU IRarriaie,
Was a mere girl, and was easily intimi
dated by her uncle, whom she had been
accustomed to regard with reverepoe.
His object in arranging the marriage
wa>> to have a tool at his command in
the management of the estate. That be
suoceeded is shown by the rapid dwin
dling away of a once great fortune.—-
Three cbifdren—two girls and a b y—
were born to Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, and
for some year* they lived together on the
estate in Genesee county, but their mar
riage was an unhappy oDe, Mrs. Jack
son, some years after, discovered that
her husband was an infidel, and, being a
strict Catholic, she
Cansiilted Her Canfesser,
Bishop Timon, of Buffalo. He told her
that her marriage, although binding
under the laws of tbe State, was not
valid in the sight of the church, aud
from that time she ceased to be Mrs.
Jackson, except by name. They were
thus living together, althongh estranged,
in 1868, when Jackson ran away with
two sisters liviDg in the neighborhood,,
taking with him all the moDcy he ooaUJ
lay his bauds op. How much it was is
not known, but tbs sum is said to have
been very large. Dr. A. F. McCloskey,
a relative of the robbed and
Deserted Wife.
Started in pursuit, George F. Lee, a
Buffalo lawyer, a oompanying him as
bis counsel. After a hot chase he over
hauled Mr. Jaokaon in Strath Boy,
Canada, and the runaway ws taken to
the jail iu London, C, W., in January,
1869. He escaped (through bribery, it
is hinted), and with him went a goodly
portion of the McCloskey money. Mr.
Lee, the McOloskey counsel, committed
suicide February 10,1874, at the Pulaski
House, Savannah, Ga. After the
The Ftt*M of Rer Husband,
Mrs. Jackson obtained a divorce and
married Dr. McClo.-key, and from this
event (according to the story told your
correspondent by Mrs. Dr. McCloskey,
formerly Mrs. Levi F. Jackson), dates a
series of complications and family
troubles which are not yet ended. It
was not long after her second marriage
that her youngest daughter, Miss Vic
torine Jackson, returned from the con
vent where she had been eduoated. By
some means not clearly understood, this
voung lady was prevailed npon to make
an affidavit setting forth that her mother
was insane and pngt to manage her
propetty, and that she .ww
AddUMd te Opi ill*
And strong drinks. While the legal
proceedings were in progress Dr. Mc-
Closkey came to this oity, and in a few
daysfcfa wife, who feared inoaroeration in
a mad house, followed him. Bhe says
her daughter would pgt let her take
away the olothing necessary tor {jpy pern
fort.
In doe coarse of time and law, Mrs.
McCloskey was declared ins me, and Jas
per jff. Lewis, of Alexander, Genessee
county, sew Jork, was appointed a
“committee,’'’ cp jmardian of her person
and estate. Mr. Lewis, fas says, was a
total stranger to her. and sfoe gatnrally
objects to his guardianship. *a
he had the power, if so inclined, to dis-;
pot*; of her under the order of the Court,
she and her husband remained in New
York ilia His yavenues of the estate
were dealt with as is in
Cmm of Laaarr, i
With the one important exception that 1
Mrs. McCloskey, according to her own
story, has never received a cent of them
si nee the legal judgment against her
was rendered. Tte jW js establish^,-
hat it remains to be see* wlfafapr Mr.
Lewis withheld the money dnetrersc
his ward, because he eould not find her,
or for other reasons. She says, how
ever, that she bought necessary clothing
for herself last Winter, having the bills
for the goods sent to M*- Lewis, and
that he negieetod to pay them- She
says also that fa I*7l she waa decoyed
to her own house in Genessee county,
on the pretense that fato daughter Was
sick, the object being to eottfffai faff A 8
a lunatic. Bhe escaped to this city, ad
some time afterwards the County Judge
of 'Jeceestw county suspended the ope
ration of tivs order of the commission
de lunatico inquirendo, so far as her
person was concerned. Since that time
Mr. Lewis has known her address. It
has been already mentioned that Philip
McCloskey settled a snm of money upon
his daughters as “pin money.” The
amount settled on tbe present Mrs. Mc-
Closkey was abont $ 9,990, snd it was
invested iu bonds and mortgage^,, the
interest payable to her'for nfe. after
hex father's death there was a ehaage in
the t nstee of this fond; tbe present
I trustee, Mrs. McCloskey says, is united
i States ‘ ,
Senator Christian*?,
Of Marion, Michigan. Of course, since
i the decree of lunacy, the Senator has
, pid the “pin money” to the guardian,
Mr. Lewis, but Mrs. McCloekv says she.
haa not a dollar of it for five
! years, nor does she know what disposi
(. tjon has been mode of it jfijg Yicto
! rine Jackson, after the decrees UeoUfaSp;
her mother insane, took possession of
1 tbe Genesee oowiUy estate and married
WiUto Chamberlain, <fa> *cn of an old
tenant ef the MoCloaieys- By le
gal right aha afawd the estate Mrs.
McCloskey says she does not know, but
she asserts (and her assertion is home
oat by other evidence) that Mrs. Cgjjun
berlain stiff holds the property. Dae.
year ago Mrs. MeGiaekey, through Ed
win Kemptoe, * lawyer of jfo. 194
Broadway, applied to tho Geuaaee boun
ty Court for a xefeeentae to take evidence
as to her reputed insanity. The other.
faction of the MoGloakey family did ant
object, and ex Judge Taggart was ap
pointed referee. Her appUuatioa was
husked by the evidence of saver*! well
know* physicians of this city, who de
clared that they had examined her eriti
j&JiSSffi# ISA
■ T *ifW***#te&**r “ .-•* i
Nor an opium eater, oqr a habitual
drunkard —ill fine, thatehe wm in# ten
diifaoto be released from guardianship.
Mrs. McCloskey i> a gentle, mild-look
ing woman, whose beauty oowtfa*-
anxieties and troubles have only par
tially succeeded in destroying. Of her
&J(M9£&rJ3:c
jly mansion. Herman, the son, works
on a farm for a living, sbe says, and is
debarred fawn aH participation in the
property of his mother. He is a minor.
It in necessary to add that Mr. Chamber
lain claims to own the MoCloskey prop
erty by purchase at sheriff's sale. On
Abe part of those who have interested
-themselves in the proceedings against
IRs. McCloskey it ia asserted that she
waa and ia insane, and unfit to manage
her property, and alto that the waa and
if addicted to
The Cm ef 0i
And liquor. They say that before the
decree was granted she waa wasteful and
extravagant, and was robbed right and
left by those whom she esteemed as
friends. It is not at all improbably that
the case will come before the Courts of
this city in the October term, on the
suit of Mrs. Dr. MeCloskay* to reoover
the income of her estate and the back
interest on her pin-money fund from her
guardian. That she will ever recover
any of the vast Southern properties
squandered by beronole is scarcely like
ly, since the statute of limitations in all
the States in which it wasl cated would
intervene. Her husband is a practicing
physician of this city, bet ia so absorb
ed in the prosecution of his suits de
signed to recover his wife’s property,
that we fear hia patients are few and far
between. Mrs, Dr. MoCloskey’s guar
dian has offered, I understand, to make
her a quarterly allowance on condition
rarflaw**”*
CONLEY VS. BRYANT.
The Reply of Mr. Jehu L. Conley.
Atlanta, G*„ Oct. 10,1876.
J. E. Bryant, Eq , Augusta, Ga :
Si*—On the 18th ultfel addressed yon
a letter, calling your attention to certain
facts which had lately come to my knowl
edge, relative to yonr bribery while a
member of the Georgia Legislature. To
this letter you have not yet favored me
with a personal reply- I have, however,
seen a card published by yon
Augusta Chronicle ard Sentinel, under
date of September 20th, addressed to
tbe people of Georgia, in which, while
not denying the receipt of money from
the Brunswick and Albany Railroad
Company, yon say you did not receive it
while a member of the Legislature to in
fluence your vote. Subsequently, under
date of September 23, yon printed and
circulated a pmnphlet in which yon say
that you have asked a committee ap
pointed by you to investigate the charges
made against you by John G. Clark and
his associates, admitting that if those
charges are true, yon are not fit for the
chairmanship yon-hold, bnt make no
mention of the statement of foots set
forth in my letter of the 18th nit., and
whioh, if true, as I shall hereafter prove,
render yon ten-fold more infamous than
anything charged by Messrs. Clark and
Atkins, from which I oonolnde that you
intend the people of Georgia shall ad
judicate the controversy arising from
yonr bribery.
I accept the forum whioh you have
chosen, and now, before that sovereign
and august tribunal, I reiterate the
statements contained in my communica
tion of the 18th ult., and, on my respon
sibility as a man, declare my ability to
ooavict yon as therein charged. My let
ter to you contained a brief and pointed
statement of the faot, brought out by a
tborongb investigation by me, that yon
had, while a member of the Georgia
Legislature, from 1868 to 1871, sold youi
vote on certain bills before the Legisla
tnre, for money. Your denial of the re
ceipt of the money from the Brunswick
and Albany Railroad Company as “com
pensation for yonr vote,” is not such p
refutation of this charge as the people of
Georgia, to whom, in the extremity oi
your desperation, you have appealed,
demand or have a right to expect. Nor
is it such a denial as the veriest yaga
bond in the land, conscious of his inno
oenoe and smarting under the sting of
an nnjnßt accusation, would have made.
None bnt a guilty man, one ready to
grasp at any parsing straw to avert a
certain and deserved destruction, could
have penned that card. It io simply a
plea for merfi/, and in appeal to some
indefinite power to intervene and stay
the hand which castigates you.
Now for the facts : In August, 1870,
the Brunswick and Albany Railroad bill,
and other like measures, were pending
in the House of Representatives, oi
whioh you were a member. These bills
involved the issue of millions of dollars
of Georgia State bonds. You did not
oppose these bills, nor did yon fail to
oppose any moasare hostile to tbe inter
ests of that company. In consideration
of yonr fidelity to their interests, you
received from the Brans wick and Alba
ny Railroad Company eleven notes,
automating in the aggregate to $7,000.
Seven of these notes were dated Decern
ber 6th, 1870, to rnn aa fallows : sl*ooo,
five months; SI,OOO, six months; SSOO,
seven months; SSOO, seven months;
SI,OOO, eight months; SSOO, nine months,
and SSOO, ten months. Four of the
notes were dated Deoember Bth, 1870, to
run an follows: SSOO, seven months; SSOO,
eight months; SSOO, nine months, and
SSOO, ten months. Some of these notes,
bearing your endorsement, passed
throngh the bands of Mr. G. P. Gurry,
banker, of Augnsta, as I am informed
by him, under-date of September 22d,
for collection < tfthirs, passed thjfofifcb
the hands of other gentlemen, whose
names it is not now necessary to men
tion, but srhiph are yonr service-when
ever yon see fit to begin yonr proposed
investigation. This makes in all the
snm of seven thousand dollars received
by you from the Brunswick and Albany
Railroad Company, in various install
meat*, from the adjournment of the
Legislature on the 26th of October, 1870,
to tbe Btb of October, 1871. dnring all
of whioh time you were member of the
Legislature, yonr successor not having
been elected and qualified.
Yon have never had anything since
yon have been in Georgia, oatside of
yonr Vote in the Legislature, worth near
thpimm-Jronrecgiyed from the^Bruns
that company would eare and
the faci tnat you di<| receive this large
sum of moneywhile a member of the
Legislature, coupled With the other
facts that you had no equivalent to of-'
far fay it, ap£ Jhat legislation was had
affecting ton ißtgrpst of that company
and involving million* oi (faUnr?. capnot
fail (even if the direct proof of the pri
vate contract under which you reoei-ed
this money, whioh I have and whioh will
be brought forward at the proper time,
Waa wanting) to produce in the mind of
any ijqpgst and impartial man the moral
conviction faa* vote, as a member
of tbe Georgia Legislature, £#? .bought
and sold. By Jour denia of the ee4ipt
of this money from the Brunswick and
, .Albany Kaiiroad Company as compensa
tion far FPirr 88 charged by me in
my Ifltfar oitpe Ifitp uli and substan
tiated in tfcus m'm*
added to tbe crime of bribe tajsing toe
infamy of a liar 1 In view of the farther
facts set forth in this communication, I
renetf ffif demand for yonr immediate
resignation as Chairman of the State
GentrM Cemnpttee, anu 15 default there
of I shall, a*V uuuuriMrof the commit
tee at the first meeting u??3pf, move
rafijcsNKr rassr £ ■
rendered suob a course practicable by
resigning Jpat Chairmanship as I have
heretofore reqitoate#. lon have
me and J Mate giyen yoa tfijl facts, and
paw if yop did not receive fltoney from.
tire g/nnswick, and ,Albany Railroad
Company ## f Jtiave charged, and do now
repeat, you hare dy before tbe
Courts of the epuntoy, by an ao
curiotffpr ljbejt’eifaerf ofbpfc of
proceedings I challenge'o n toinstitute.
Sadly yarn*, John L. Ooiiugy.
prfcea Clscinnail S*Bt*r WUI tri
plet ed.
|Omfiinnati Enquirer, OcL 21.)
At a meeting of thp directors of the
Southern Road, yesterday, flnfafs were
given to the contractors to begW work
at Danville end build this way. fa*
rote i/-La gig mile* of being completed
to the Kentucky river, which, when
finished, will ©pen tbe rpad 184 miles
from Lndlow to the fihjp PW- The
directors expect to here the road P 9P 1 '
pie ted snd in running order from
emnatd to Chattanooga by fte Ist of
May. Would it not be in order to cele
hrate the opening by a grand j*®®®*®®
hers is Cmteiunati? Wuere is Mayor
JohnstoßrVfa*|*ine the people of
the United £*ya
peaoe end prosperity-
iasggacsj&i sg
WSSBSS&g&gg
was with ejtts delight he saw
the store that enenfag with the bouquet
Uf ffowers in her hsnd , „
in jo. litod bio ; I
am taking them to his grave. —Raleigh
TfiE CAROLINA CONTEST.
WkAT A “HERALD" CORHBBPOND
RNT THINKS OF THE SITUATION
tk Colored' Mojorltr will be Oversow
kj the OMMenw in November.
{South Carolina Correspondence Hew York
Herald."] "
By the census of 1870 the population
of South Carolina was as follows; White,
289,667; colored, 415,844; colored ma
jority, 126,177. This surplus—the pro
portion of votes to population being one
to five—gives tbe black a voting majori
ty of 25.000. In 1870 Scott was elected
by 33.534 majority. Mosea waa elected
in 1872 by a majority of 33,324. In
1874 the Democrats nominated Green, a
Liberal Republican, against Chamber
lain, and ran a “fusion” ticket. They
ent the majority down to 11,589 votes,
and this, too, in a vote of 149,827, or
13.000 heavier than had ewer been cast
before. In thia race they put a colored
man (Delanv) on their ticket for Lieu
tenant Governor. The Democrats cal
onlate at thia writing that there ia a
black majority of 24,000 to be managed.
Almost every white Republican in the
State has “come ont for Hampton,” and
there are qnite enough confirmed Demo
cratic negroes to balance the remaining
white Republicans. When the compro
mise policy of two years ago was urged
npon the Democrats thia year they put
it aside and declared for a straight fight,
with the full knowledge that 24,000
negro majority would have to be over
come. This ia tbeir work. Will they
be able to compass it ?
“One Nera Apiece” far Each White .Man.
It is useless to apply any of the usual
political teßts to the situation in South
Caiolina. The voters here are not
moved by the influences that move
voters in the North or East or West .In
South Carolina it is prejudice, not
argument. Men move in masses here,
not singly or in pairs. It is one class
against another olasa—a race against a
race. Argument falls futile in the face
of the masses. Recognizing the hope
lessness of trying to break the black
phalanx by the ordinary methods of
campaigning, the whites have adopted a
novel plan. They have made it the rule
of the canvass that each white voter shall
make it hfs personal business to bring
one negro to tbe polls on election day
and see that he votes the Democratic
ticket. ‘‘One negro apiece” is the shib
boleth of the white olnbs. “You are to
make no display, kick np no fuss, get
into no worry; just spend a month be
tween this and election day in inflnenc
ing one negro to vote our ticket; go
with him on election day and see that
be does it. Do this, and the State
will be redeemed.” This is the advice
of all the Democratic leaders to the
members of tbe party. It ia hard to
over-estimate the strength of such a
personal canvass as this. There are
thousands of Democrats who have al
ready secured their convert aud 1 are
keeping him in training until election
day. This ohe has his room servant,
that one hia driver, another one his farm
hand. This one buys a voter straight
out, that one persuades a voter, the
other drives a voter. Each one
one purpose. “One negro apiece” is
the theory and praotioe of the campaign.
If one out of every six Democratic vot
ers captures one colored vote the fearful
majority will be overcome and Hamp
ton will be elected.
Will the Demaenu* Carry the State V
In my opinion they will. Barring the
faot that they have the advantage in ar
gument, the best organization and all
ihe hurrah and enthusiasm, I take it to
be true that, whenever the white people
of a State make up their minds coolly
and deliberately to whip the negroes in
a politioal figbt, they will do it. No
matter how large the race majority may
be againet them they will fi Q d some
means to whittle it down and overcome
it. The blacks oannot stand against the
whites in a serious hand-to-hand politi
oal fight. They must go down. No
matter of numbers can sustain them.
The white people of South Carolina
have become convinced that their salva
tion as a people depends on seouring a
change of State administration this
year, and they are going to have it.
There is much more in the simple matter
of determination down here than the
Northern people, who have never known
the negro in politics, can imagine.
An Analyst* ol the Vote.
The race of two years ago, when Green
(Independent Republican) ran against
..hamberlain, showed that the negroes
of South Carolina were not party bound
Although hundreds of “straight” Demo
orata stayed at home the negroes reduced
the majority from 83,000 to 11,000, by
which Chamberlain was elected. The
first source from whence the Democrats
may expect gains this year are tne wmte
counties. In those counties where the
whites are in majority, and the negroes
have been whipped out on their local
tickets ever since the war, they can be
easily managed. A local defeat demor
alizes the colored voters much more than
a general defeat. Where there are no
local spoils to draw them out they are
apathetic aud controllable. There are
ninC pronounced white counties —Ander-
son, Chesterfield, Greenville, Horry,
Lexington, Marion, Qconep, Pickens
and Spartanburg. The counties poll a
trifle over 30,000 votes, and their aggre
gate Democratic majority for the past
three elections has grown from 2,800 to
4,250. In this election the Democrats
o unt on 16,000 majority from the nine
counties. Spartanburg is put down for
2,ooo,.Marion for 1,600, Greenville for
1,600 and Anderson for 1,500. Next to
the white counties come Union, Edge
field, Aiken, Lancaster, York, Marlboro,
which are closely contested, usually go
ing Republican by a small vote. The
majorities have decreased every year,
aud in the last elepfipn the Democra t
carried J7aiou, missipg 4ik® n by ODly
sixty-eight votes in a poll of 4,700 and
Lancaster by fifty-two votes in a poll of
2,300. They calculate on getting de
cisive majorities in each of these coun
ties. J.n Charleston county the Demo
crats hop* to dispop® of a fargp negro
majority. This county gave nearly V,OOO
Radical majority in 1870, but since has
given the Democrats about 2,500 major
jjnc<jn two consecutive elections. It is
not impossible that Charleston will push
•tier Democratic majority to 6,000
nhthe pending poll. Sumter and Clar
endon, 1 with dyer negro majority,
gave Green a majority of oyer |,OOO in
the last election. They will not do so
-well in the present fight. In the re
mining fourteen counties the negroes
are in heavy majority, and it is here that
a stubborn fight will be made. Richland,
Hampton’s own county, is Republican
by 2,506 votes. bpt Ramrjiop |hm|is he
will capture it. Tito Democrats will
spend tbe last dsya of the canvass in
these coast counties, the “jnbileeoav
alfy ” striking Edgefield on the 18th,
and pushing thence throngh Aiken,
Barnwell, Ac. The canvass will be
tßbde exceedingly warm from then until
the end; *Ba Syery oossiblp means will
be adopted to either f oonvert tb® ?f8 ro
or keep him away from the polls. From
the morning of the sth until the night of
the 7th of November every white man
will civ* Lis --hole time to the cause,
H te* the
pressure,'
A Prediction na re Hi* Rreaft
, j I predict, after a careful survey of the
situation and a comparison of all reliable
estimates, that South Carolina will go for
Tilden by a majority of from 2,600 to
li/,O‘XI votes, and this, too, without aDy
r.ots'or diatarfcaspfs by whioh the elec
toral vote ean be ehaltonged. I farther
predict that It kill; bn the 7th of Novem
ber, go for Hampton by a majority lar
ger by one-half .than it gives to Tilden.
k' mwlM * .
j HipERIIPLP BCfCHJBfY;
1 June* McQnlllan Sentenced to Death the
Murder of Hl* Wtflp*
Tobonto, Ont. , October 19. Tester*
day n-orning James McQuillan, a neb
vonng farmer; ol the Msctoc goldMion,
was placed l bn trial fft the Boljettlfa as
sizes lor the mnrder of hia wife, Mary,
records The prisoner had ill treated
deceased thro.ugh their five jears mar
riei life, and in April last she left hint
awSiiMSi
Madoc, in order to arrange an amicable
settlement They made ftp their differ-
ate thought, and started for
their own farm with their two chl'drfln.
Subsequently McQaiilan returned to his
father's slow, ap& gye ooiitrsdictory
accounts of the whereabouts of his wife
and little one*. Neighbors made search
and found the mother lying dead in a
ditch by the roadside, and the two ba
bies cowering by her remains. McQnil
lsn had literally battered deceased’s
head ;uto pulp and disembowelled ber.
Her person wae B*repognmtole,
rough was the butchery. Me had killed
her with a huge stone, which he had
driven repeatedly into her head and ab
domen. The children were splashed
with their mother's blood, and ever
since the terrible night have been sub
ject to fits. The defense was insanity.
Evidence was called to sboy that the
prisonejr hafi regarded deceased as a
witch tod to affix'tolrit, ? Medical evi
dence was also adduced if) favor of the
insanity faeory. The Court committed
the case to tbe jury at 8 o’clock last
night. A seated fasdiet of “guilty” was
brought ia at midnight and was opened
by the Govt this morning, when Mo-
Quillao was sentenced far execution on
tea 21st of December. '
Cotton is flowing into Hberton quite
freely.
STATE SUPREME COURT.
DECISIONS RENDERED BY THE
SUPREME COURT OP GEORGIA,
IN ATLANTA, OCTOBER 17,1876.
[Atlanta Constitution.]
Finnegan vs. the State. Mnrder, from
Muscogee.
Warner, C. J.
The defendant was indioted for the
offense of murder, and ou the trial
therefor was found guilty. A motion
for anew trial was made on the various
grounds of error alleged therein, which
was overruled by the Court, and the
defendant excepted. It appears from
the record and bill of exceptions that
when the defendant was arraigned on
the bill of indictment charging him
with the offense that be filed a plea in
abatement thereto, in which he alleged
that in May, 1875, the Superior Court of
Muscogee oounty was adjourned by an
Older of the presiding Judge thereof in
vacation, at chambers, for the conven
ience of the bar; that the Court met at
the time appointed in the order of ad
journment; that a grand jury was em
pannelled and the defendant indioted
for the murder of Charles Wilding,
tried and convicted therefor; that judg
ment was arrested by the Court, and a
Dew trial ordered; that the bill of in
dictment was not grossed or set aside;
that at the same term of the
Coart, so convened as aforesaid, the
presiding Judge drew another grand
jnry to serve at tke next November
term of the Coart, und at the next No
vember term tbe defendant was again
indicted for the mnrder of said Charles
Wilding, by the grand jury so drawn as
aforesaid. To this plea of the defend
ant, the counsel for the State demurred.
Ttje Court sustained the demurrer, and
the defendant excepted. Was the grand
jury which found the indictment against
the defendant drawn acc:rding to law ?
The 3911 section of the Code declares
that the Judges of the Superior Courts
at the close of each terra, in open Court,
shall unlock the jnry box and drawn
therelrom not less than eighteen nor
more than twenty-three names’, to serve
as grand jurors at the next term of the
Coart. The 3912 section declares that
whenever, from any cause, the Judge shall
fail to draw a jury as provided for by
section 3911, it shall be the duty ef the
Ordinary, together with the commis
sioners and clerks of the county, to
draw grand jurors to serve at the en
suing term of Court. Thus it will be
perceived that the statute recognizes
but two modes of drawing grand jurors
to serve at tbe regular terms of the
Superior Court, the one by the judge in
open Court at the close of each term
thereof, the other by the Ordinary, to
gether with the commissioners and olerk
of the county. When the statute de
clares that the grand jury shall be drawn"
by the Judge in open Court at the close
of each term thereof, it must be con
strued to mean a legal term of the Court,
that is to say, a term of the Court held
in accordance with the laws of the land.
The grand jnry which found the bill of
indiotment against the defendant, drawn
by the Judge at the time and in the man
ner alleged in the defendant’s plea, was
not drawn at a legal term of the Superior
Court, according to the ruling of this
Court in the oase of Hoye vs. The State,
39th Ga. Reports, 718, snd we suppose
the verdict was set aside aDd the first
indiotment not pros’d, as alleged in de
fendant’s plea, for that reason. If the
term of tbe Court at whioh the defend
ant was first put upon his trial, was not a
legal term of the Court for the purpose of
indicting and trying him for the offense
charged, how did it become a legal
term of the Court to authorize the Judge
to draw the grand jury which found the
bill of indictment to which the defend
ant pleaded on his arraignment? To
state the proposition, is to answer it.—
The grand jury whioh found the bill of
indiotment upon which the defendant
was arraigned, was not drawn in accord
ance with the provisions of tbe act of
1873, nor does it purport not to have
been drawn under the provisions of that
act on account of any of the speoial
emergencies therein provided for. Code,
3942. We do not say that if the defendant
with a full knowledge of the facts, had
gone to trial without raising any objec
tion to tbe indictment, that he could
have taken advantage of it after verdict;
but the defendant in this case did not
wait to take his chance for an acquittal
till after verdict; he pleaded to the in
dictment on arraignment as required by
4636th section of the Code, and in our
judgment, the Court erred in sustaining
the demurrer to the defendant's plea in
abatement to that indictment.
Whenever the State undertakes to de
prive one of its oitizens of Lis life or
liberty, it is the duty of the Courts to
see that it is done iu accordance with
the laws of tb land and not otherwise.
In the administration or criminal law
judicial discretion should not be tolera
ted. The law, as it ia prescribed by tbe
supreme power of the State, should be
the rule of conduct for the Courts as
well as for th&citizen. Inasmuch as the
defendant ha"s not been arraigned and
tried upon a legal indictment for tho
offense of which he is supposed to be
guilty, we express no opinion in relation
to the other questions raised on the ar
gument here.
Let the judgment of the Cpurt below
be reversed.
Bleckley, J., concurred,
Jackson, J., dissenting.
1. The act of drawing tbs names of
grand jurors opt of tbe box where they
are kept is a mere ministerial act; the
names so drawn at one term of the
Court, to be summoned to appear at the
next term, do not necessarily constitute
the grand jury then organized ; they
may not all appear, only one may ap
pear, and yet a legal grand jury can be
built upon that one from the bystand
ers, if only the persons qualified to serve
as grand jurors fee qepfl to make np the
deficiency; the essential thing is tnat
the grand jury shall be composed of up
right and intelligent persons seleoted by
the Ordinary, the Olerk of the Superior
Court and three Commissioners appoint
ed by the Judge of the Superior Court;
if eighteen such jgen 3 4>Wl? by the
Judge of tbe Superior Court at a regu
lar term thereof, or at an irregular term
thereof, or in vacation, or at a term ille
gal for other business, be summoned by
virtue of hia precept to the sheriff to ap
pear at the next regnlar term of the Su
perior Court, and do appear and are
sworn and as a grand jury for
said regular farm, and at ' that Regular
term find faU of indictment true, auph
indictment so found is snffioient in law
to put the accused upon trial for mur
der; and if he be fairly tried by a lawful
jury of twelve men, selected by himself,
and founfi guilty, he must abide the
sentepce of "the la\v, and should not be
allowed to escape of bJ
any sqpb pafeed fagbnifiahiy' &* s, plea
that the Judge of the Superior Court
had adjourned the Court one week with
out sufficient cause, and had then, at
this session one week later than nsna),
performed the mere ministerial act of
drawing the grand jnrors for the next
regular term.
2. The whole spirit of our legislation
accords with tbe above proposition and
conclusion, fhe act of 175jfi, Cobbls di
gest, p. 547, declares that' the dodge, if
ha nof bold the Coqrt “shall,
neyerthpiesg; attPPft fn'nefaflff far the
purpose of' drawing jurors, or shall
transmit to tbe Justioes of the Inferior
Court in writing, a request that they, or
any two of them, attend at the clerk’s
office" for that purpose. The act of
1815, Cobb’s digest, p. 552, declares that
whenever there shall be a failure of the
Judge of the Superior Court to draw
jurors, then tbe Justices of the Inferior
Court or a majority may act.' Then
comes the act of 1869, Code §§3911, 3912
which declares tbat^the Judge shall draw
the jury at the close of the term, and on
bis failure tfipu toe Ordinary 'aps Clerk
aDd Commissioners ahall aCt: and then,
to provide against all emergencies,
comes the act of 187$, Code §3942,
which declares, after enumerating
other emergencies, that when,
“ from any other canse, such Court
has convened or is abont to convene, and
there bate beep no juries draws fat tbe
saqje, it shall hud may be lawful far suoh
Jadge to'draw juries, so many as may
be necessary for such Court, and cause
them to be summoned accordingly in
the manner prescribed for drawing
juries at the close nf fag regular terms
of sueh Courts respectively;” So that
the duty is upon the Judge to draw
juries, anfi he may do so at guy time, so
that they can be summoned as they
would-be if drawjj regqlaiiY- E'tten
is may 53 so ia Vacation, can be not at
an irregular or illegal term of fae Court §
The gfa#d jury yfip! faqnfl this' bill was
regularly summoned snd organized and
sworn, were regularly qualified in every
respect, and tbe only complaint is that
the Jadge drew them oat of the box at
an irregular or illegal term. It is not
pretended that defendant was hurt by
it, but the complaint is purely technical,
with the reason and spirit of our whole
legislation against it, and not only the
reason and spirit but the letter of our
last act of 1873 in its teeth.
3. This case cannot be made to fit
upon the Hoye case as a corner stone.
It touches that c*e scarcely anywhere.
There, the Court tried Hoye at a term
to which it bad illegally adjourned. All
the powers of the Court were called into
requisition to try him; toe judicial mind,
its skill, learning, discretion, all were
invoked to try a ease of life and death.
Here, a child could have done what the
Judge did; he put hia band in tbe box,
drew out a name, called it and put it in
fte otter box; a Jnd,.an,§j(p i .aT<riee
were all that were necessaty to do tbe
ministerial act. The set of the Court
iu the Hoye ’case was altogether judi
cial; here the act el the Judge i* alto
gether ministerial. What the Court did
ill the Hoye case could be done only in
Oonrt; what the Jndge did here oould
be done at Chambers. What the Coart
did in the Hoye case could be done
only in term; what the Judge did in the
case at bar, could be done in vacation.
What vras done in the Hoye case, no
body bnt a Jndge of the Superior Court
oould do; what was done in the case at
bar, the Inferior Court might have done
formerly, and the Ordinary, with the
clerk and commissioners, can do now.
What was done in the Hoye case requir
ed judicial skill, somewhat akin to that
scientific skill which General Newton
displayed in engineering the blowing up
of the rock in New York harbor; what
was done in the case at bar, the Judge’s
child oould have done as easily as Gen.
Newton’s little daughter's hand applied
the match which fired the train. All
the judicial machinery of the Court was
absolutely necessary to try Hoye; the
manual act of drawing, without one par
ticle of discretion or judgment, was all
that was required to draw the grand
jurors.
In the Hoye oase, this Court held that
the session at the term to which the
Court was adjourned, was legal for some
purposes, while it was illegal to try
Hoye; if legal for any purpose, surely it
was legal to enable the Judge to do the
mere ministerial act of drawing the
jurors to be summoned for the next
Court
4. The rulings of the Court appear to
me to be correct in the main, and not in
jurious to the defendant, the charge
legal and impartial, the whole trial fair,
the Verdict supported by the evidence,
and as the presiding Judge who tried it
is satisfied with the finding, I dissent
from the judgment of the Court in order
ing the oase to be tried over.
Killen vs. Crawford. Ejectment, from
Terrell.
Bleckley, J.
A motion by defendant to dismiss the
action because the matter of the declara
tion has been adjudicated in a former
suit between the same parties, is not
available unless the former adjudication
appears on the face of the declaration.
A defense which is appropriate alone to
a plea cannot be presented by a mere
motion.
Judgment affirmed.
Booher vs. Worrill. Claim, from Mus
cogee.
Bleckley, J.
1. Transactions between husband and
wife, to the prejudice of his creditors,
are to be scanned closely, and their bona
fides must be clearly established.
2. A conveyance by husband to wife,
made pending suit against him, and
only a few days before the rendition of
judgment, and leaving him nothing out
of which payment of the judgment can
be coerced, is, prana facie, fraudu
lent.
3. Where such conveyance purports
to be for value, and the consideration
set up is a debt from him to her, the
aotual existence of the debt must be
shown; and this is not done by proving
that she owned certain real estate, and
that at the time of executing the con
veyance there was an accounting for
rents, she olaiming and he admitting
that the rents of her property had been
collected by him and not paid over, but
the actual truth of such claim and ad
mission not being in any way proven on
the trial.
4. The charge need not be scrutinized
if the verdict is clearly right.
5. Mistake of a witness is immaterial
where its correction ought to make no
difference in the result.
Judgment affirmed.
The Eagle and Phenix Cos. vs. Bradford,
trustee. Motion, from Muscogee.
Bleckley, J.
1. When original pleadings, process,
verdict and judgment are lost, a copy
may be established, instanter, on mo
tion.
2 That they were not recorded, or
that the record cannot be found, iB no
reason for not establishing a copy.
3. The copy of an official transcript
pre erved in the office of the Clerk of
the Supreme Coart, duly certified, is
competent and sufficient evidence as to
contents, Ac.
4. With such high evidence as a check
upon fraud or mistake, the motion may
be granted without notice to any one ;
and notice given to a claimant who is
resisting a pending levy, made to satisfy
the judgment, is neither aid nor obstacle
to the motion.
Judgment affirmed.
Parramore vs. Persons. Equity, from
Muscogee.
Bleckley, J.
1. Title to land, originating in parol
purchase, payment of the purchase
money and delivery of possession, long
prior to the rendition of judgment
against the vendor, the possession being
adverse and continuous ever since it
commenced, will prevent the sheriff
from turning out the claimant of such
title and putting in a purchaser at sher
iff’s sale under the judgment, even
though the deed taken by the claimant
bears date after the judgment was ren
dered. Such deed is to bp regarded in
connection with the equitable title which
it was designed to fortify, and not sole
ly as an original conveyance as of the
time it was executed.—Stirling vs. Ar
nold, Gwinn vs. Mitchell, Morgan vs.
Taylor, July term, 1875. 20 Ga. 170.
2. Generally, an injunction against
admitting the purchaser at sheriff’s sale
into possession will not be grauted
where the act of dispossessing the com
plainant would be a naked trespass. 5
Ga. 580; 8 ib. 119; 11 ib. 294; 44 ib.
266; 45 ib. 201. And see 28 ib. 3l8; 3
Kelly 207; 6 Ga. 423; 52 Ga.'63o. Com
pare 22 Ga. 165; 40' ib. 293,; IQ ib, 576:
32 ih. 141.
3. The marshal of the United States
has only the powers of a sheriff, in the
matter of perfecting a sale of land by
giving possession to the purchaser, and
as, on the facts in the present bill, th e
marshal could not have turned out the
oomplainantg noy the defendant have
entered, without committing a trespass,
there was no oocasion for enjoining the
defendant, who is not alleged to be in
solvent, from entering under the mar
shal, and therefore there is no equity in
the biir. It is to be presumed, in the
absence of any avprraent on the sub
ject. that 'fhe marshal op being advised
by tpe complainants of the facts con
stituting their whole title, Special
ly of their adverse possession at the
time of the judgment and for a long pe
riod aoteriOT thereto, would have de
cline to disturb them. Oode, section
8651.
Judgment reversed,
<.sm m.,.-- ■ ■
pi RANT AND HATES.
Vexation in the White House—Grant Con
vinced That Ha Has Been Snubbed.
[From the Cincinnati Enquirer .]
Washington, October 19.—Grant is
on his ear again, and quite jnstly in this
instance. It will be reiqeq)b£red that
while oqr Cfoipf hgggigrafp was at L°ug
Branch,' iq due of his exuberant
moments, accepted an invitation to visit
hitp, together with Mrs. Hayes. At the
time pf acceptance Rutherford was in
Philadelphia making terms with the
American Alliance. It will be farther
remembered that Noyes, Oomly, and
others, fearing that this exchange of so
cial civilities might injure Rutherford’s
political aspirations, took the respqusi
bility in their own hands p,f declining.
His private secretary top, ’ advised
Grant that Mr. IJayes, owing to the exi
gencies of the campaign, could not again
visit the Eastern States until it was oypr.
Grant accepted this excuse good
faith, and forgot, avep, iffce'Sid not for
give, the Jireat a'aun thus heaped upon
him.’ ije has again, however, lost faith
in human nature, and is as mnek cha
grined as he is surprised to read the
Oolnmbns dispatches of to day setting
forth that Hayes has accepted an invita
tion to be present at Ohio’ at the
Centennial, and hpld a reception. Mrs.
Gfant I* ednfciqerably taxed, and makes
no attempt at eonoealment. It was her
persuasion which induced Hayes to
promise to visit the President at Long
Branch, and now tb*t hi has subse
quently de&idid to become an Eastern
pilgrim, which gives the lie to the ex
cuse offered the President for nqt kipp
ing his promise with him, the old man j
naturally aejm himself, manner of
man ean this be % Life very certain that
he hao £ 0 deep seated affection in tfc ß
heart of Grant,
What the Georgia Gold Field. Are Yielding.
Of the Georgia gold field the Atlanta
Constitution says: There are single mills
at Dahlonega that get out $5,000 worth
of gold per month. We do not believe
that less than $30,000 worth of gold
reaches Atlanta from North Georgia
every month—possibly $50,000. We
saw on yesterday several specimens of
silver ore, taken from a field near
Gainesville, which assays $76 to the ton.
There were huge blocks of it picked up
at ranejom and sent to the aasayist, W.bp,
upon returning the assay, made .an offer,
ol $10;30a for thirty acres, wbieb was
accepted. The essayist, Mr. Leman, of
Boston, is now preparing to forward ma
chinery to crash the ore and win the sil
ver heait ont of it.
The Macon Telegraph, speaking of
001. 8. K. Johnson, the efficient Super
intendent of the Georgia Railroad, says:
Oorcitiaens will not soqp forgek |4<i
MRomptnees with which he came to the
relief of tbe Mdoen ahd Augusta- KoiM a
lew months since* with his_ entire me
chanical and constructive foroe, when it*
bridge acwsiAh® Ocmnlgee WM swept,
away. "
AN ICE BODND FLEET.
TERRIBLE * TALE OP SUFFERING-.
Dragging Beau Over the Ice—Snow Storm,
oa the Deep—Hardship, of the Crew—Ten
Whaling Bark. Lost— Many of the Crew
Froaeo to Death.
Ban Francisco, October 22.—Arrived,
,the whalipg bark Florence, from the
Arctic Ocean, with one hundred and
ninety men aboard, being part of the
crews of the whaling fleet of twelve ves
sels which were lost in the ice. The re
maining survivors have gone to Hono
lulu on the bark Three Brothers. The
following is the narrative: The fleet con
sisted of fourteen vessels. There was
plenty of ice in Behring sea, with ex
treme weather and few whales. In the
early part of the season the ships worked
north toward Point Borrow, and became
fast in the ice. As the ice opened the
Arctic was crashed by ice on July 14th.
The crew escaped to the shore, and were
finally resoned. On the night of the
16th of August the wind blew a gale,
which lasted several days. There was a
thick fog on the 24th of August, with
ice closing in. The Clara Bell lost her
rudder and drifted ashore. The Flor
ence got under the lee of grounded ice,
which saved her. The ships Josephine, St.
George, Cornelius, Howland, and barks
Camille, Jam9s Allen and Onwurd were
enolosed by the. pack daring the after
noon, and drifted rapidly to the north
east, between Woody and Refugee in
lets; and the ship Marings, under all
sail, got within three or four ship's
lengths of open water, and then the ice
dosed on her. As we neared Point Bor
row, the current slackened, and for two
days we drifted slowly. The Rainbow
and Three Brothers, under Point Bor
row, lay in comparative safety, witnesses
of our ‘distress, but unable to render as
sistance. The Marengo, St. George and
bark Acors Barnes, each sent a boat
ashore, intending to follow with others
containing provisions and supplies in
oase of disaster, but owing to the ioe
starting afresh, they were unable to do
so. On the 26th tiie first officer, of the
Three Brothers, with a boat’s crew,
took the wife of Captain Hackmott, of
the bark Acors Barnes, to his ship
for safety. The next day the St.
George’s men attempted to haul
the boat ashore over the ioe,
but were caugut in a fog and thirteen of
them got on board the Rainbow and
Three Brothers and the others regained
the ship except one, who perished on
the ice. The next day the thirteen tried
to get back to the St. George, but never
reached her # Eleven were rescued by
Capt. Owen, of the Three Brothers; the
other two were frozen to death on the
ice. The prospect was now gloomy, the
ships were held helplessly in the ioe and
drifting rapidly Northeast. August 20.
—Reached the end of the bank, and the
current changed to the East. The ships
at Point Borrow were no longer visible,
and the situation was worse than ever,
the only hope being an easterly gale. Au
gust 29.—Found ourselves off Point Tan
gent. The crew of the Marengo attempt
ed to get ashore, but returned unsuccess
ful. The next day the masters held a coun
cil on the Java, and concluded there was
no further hope of saving the ships,
some of which were already badly rip
ped by the ioe. This was only a touch
of what might be expected. The
ships altogher had about three months’
provisions—not enough to last through
the Winter. After a full discussion,
seeing no way out of the difficulty, it
was decided that the only way to save
our lives was to reach land before escape
became impossible. September sth was
chosen as the time for starting. The
ships were twenty or thirty miles from
land, abreast of Meethead Smith’s Bay.
On September 6th, all being ready on
board the 0. Howland, St. George, Ma
rengo, Desmond, Jos. Allen, Acors Bar
nes, and Onward, the signal for depar
ture was given. The boats had been put
in the best possible oonaition. The bag
gage consisted oi about twenty-five days
rations of bread and meat, a change of
clothing and blanket for each man.—
Everything else but guns and ammuni
tion were left on board. The main hope
was to find open water enough inside the
grounded ice to nnvigate the boats
southward and so reach two ships which
we supposed outside of the pack. We
left at three p. in. We would first carry
baggage half a mile or so. ahead, then
turn and drag the boats along.—
The ioe was very rough and
there were many places which would
not,bear the weight of a man. Many
fell through aud suffered much from
cold. The first night we camped in the
ioe four miles from the ships. Next
morning we resumed the march in a
blinding snow storm from the northeast.
The prospect being most discouraging,
ocTcral men dcaottod and returned to
ward the ships, where numbers of the
crews remained who refused to face the
hardship and journey toward land. Of
their fate we know nothing. On Sep
tember 6 we reaohed a strip of open
water, launched the boats and pulled to
ward land all that day and the./ next,
kept working through find over ice, and
at 8, p. m., mase lend two miles west of
Point Tangent, and continued working
along the shore. At noon on the ninth
day sighted the Three Brothers and ■
Rainbow at Point Rorrou, and reaohed
them before night. Found the ice all
solid beyond, aud *be only ebanee of
escape was *'o drag the boats over
land to the open sea, a distance
of 130 miles. Made sleds and attempt
ed tne journey, but on reaching Cape
Smith found the hark Florence there.
After consultation it was decided that
any attempt to proceed would be mad
ness, and preparations were made fop
Wintering as best we conld at Point
Barrow. The boats were prepared for
whaling, as that was the only resource
for food, aud work was commenced on a
house. On the night of the thirteenth
the ice began to break up before a
strong east Wind. The next day the
Florence was able to get under way.
All hands and the baggage were put on
board. Ran down the coast and found
the Clara Bell frozen fast in the ice.
Her captain said he would stay by her
till the 17th, when, if there was no pros
pect of getting out, he would leave in
boats for clear water, where the Flor
ence was to wait for him. Made Sea
Horse Island that night; next night
Wainwrigh* inlet, and waited there for
the crew of the Clark Bell and to get
water. On the afternoon of the 18th
the Three Brothers and Rainbow,
which had escaped from Point
Borrow, joined ua, the former
bringing the evew of the Clara Belle,
which regained fast in the ice, with no
nap.ea Of getting out, A part of the
people in the Florence were then put
on board the Three Brothers, and a ren
dezvous appointed at St. Lauren’s Bay,
where they would stop for water. Both
arrived there on the 23d and left the
next day for San Francisco, the Three
Brothers sailing for Honolulu. The fol
lowing is a list of the abandoned vessels:
The barks Onward and Clara Bell, of
San Francisco: ships St. George, Mar
engo, and barks Cornelius Howland,
James Alien and Java, of New Bedford;
ship Camille aud barkentine Josephine,
of Boston; bark Acors Barnes, of New
London, and the Hawaiian barks Des
mond aud Arctic. The vessels had on
board, altogether, 15,000 barrels ol oil,
besides a large amount oi whalebone
and ivory. It is the undivided opinion
of every master that no hopes oan be ob
tained of the rescue of the ships or those
ou board of them. All of them are un
doubtedly lost, carried sway to the
northward in the immense ioe pack
which closed them in for miles aronnd.
Sale of Valuable Property in
Oglethorpe County, Ga.
BY virtu* of an order from the Court of Or
dinary of Oglethorpe oouatj, aud by au
thority granted in the labt yfih Wd testament
of Z H. Clark, l%t* o| eld cbpnty, deceased—
Will ha spiel, on the lsf Tuesday in NOYiCM-
Rfig cext. within the legal hours of sale, be
fore the Court Sotn-e door, in the town of Lex
ington, one trtcc of land, known as the Mill
Tract, conta niog 6G acres, on which Is situa
ted a good Grit Mill. The mill house was
built of stone and brick, within the last two
years. The inside machinery is all new, with
four foot wheat mill and same si?e eona mill,
all propelled by a 20 foqt vaster wheel The
water power has full of 2 feet by actual eur
vcv.
Teaus Qne-half cash ; the balance on
twelve month-credit, with interest at 10 per
cent. Bond will, be given io* title until last
payment is made, ffoaeeesion given in ten
days from sale, and the purchaser will take the
unexnUed contract with the present miller for,
two mW JOHN G. JGX tBQN>
H. A. HAXE
oct!2-dtwlAw2 Executors.
The UNEQUALLED JAS. lEFFEL DOUBLE
APDRE93, POOLE jc
1
GKOKtiU CVTTVK TOP
Fair, held at Macon in October laat, gave to
this 'lie a diploma as the highest award of ex
cellence over all other tie*. Eor saie by
CLAQHOBN. HEBBING A 00,
sep2l-d2Awtf Agents, Augusta, Oa.
'rrjHE Athens Comfcfcify*wm -
JL or CLOTH the highest mr-
KUtTKB- FLEMING, ! Au.11,-
my2B-wta Agswt
New AdverttNemeuiM,
11. A. HHAIIPL
306 BROAD STREET,
AUGUSTS, GEORGIA,
Begs to inform bis friends, customers and the public generally that
he bas opened a large and elegant stock of FIRST CLASS GOODS, which
he will sell at Reasonable Prices.
All in want of anything in my line will please giro me a call.
Goods shown with pleasure.
I would call particular attention to my large stock of TRIPPLE
PLATED WARE, from the celebrated factory of Reed & Barton.
octlS-oodlm
Good Goods at Lowest Prices
at
MULLARKY BROTHERS’
Wholesale and Retail Dry Hoods Reuse.
WHERE there can be found a complete lice ef Oaßsimera. Jeans, Flannels, Dress Goods,
Black Alpaca, Hosiery, Towels. Corsets. Gloves, Ladies’ aud Gents’ Under-vests’
Blankets, Bed Tickings, Shawls and Cloaks, which will be sold at unprecedently low prices. At
wholesale we offer :
101) Bales Factory Sheetings and Shirtings.
60 Bales Faotorv Plaid Ornaburgs.
; 10 Cases Fanoy Northern Plaids.
60 Bales Faotory Stripes.
80 Cases Bleached Shirtings, a!l grades.
600 Dozen Gray Mixed Undershirts.
260 Dozen White Undershirts.
100 Bales Sea Islands. All of these goods will be sold in aooordanoo with the market
prices, and the buyer will bo given the advanta ;e of any deoline which may take plaoe.
Mullarky Brothers,
eOJ BROAD STREET.
Dry Goods for the Million!!
Consisting in part of the following :
BLACK SILKS of the celebrated makes of Ponson A Bennett, at all prioes.
COLORED SILKS, in all the newest and desirable shades.
MOURNING DRESS GOODS, including Lupin’s beat Bombazines, Henriettas,
Tamise, Mousselines, Bianitz, Cashmeres, Ac.
COLORED DRESS GOODS, the finest line ever shown in the city, including all
the latest novelties in texture and color.
SUlTS—Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s in great variety.
CLOAKS—This stock embraoes everything now in the market.
LADIES’ UNDERWEAR—The best stook ever brought to Augusta.
INFANTS’ WEAR—An entirely new stock of Dresses, Cloaks, Sacks, Bonnets, to.
LADIES’ HOSE—The best makes of Balbriggan, English, Frenoh and German
goods ever brought South. ,
MISSES AND CHILDREN’S HOSE—Solid colored, striped, and plain white,,
from the lowest price to the finest imported.
GENTS’ HALF HOSE A complete assortment of British, Frenoh and German
goods, both plain and fancy.
LADIES’ TIES—The greatest novelties ever shown in Augusta.
CORSETS—This stook is oomplete, from the cheapest to the finest imported.
LlNENS—Damasks, Towels, Napkins, Doylies, and everything that goes to oom
plete a first-class linen stook.
CASSIMERES AND FLANNELS—A complete assortment.
And an innumerable variety of other goods, which limited space precludes u
from mentioning.
Call and examine Our Stock, Compare and bo convinced that
We Can Beat the World on Prices and Quality of Goods*
James A. Gray Ac Cos.
00*22-tf
LOB SALE
AT TIE AUGUSTA DRY GOODS STORE
BY
L. EICHAEDS.
AN immense stock of DBY GOODS. NOTIONS. HOSIERY, .to, Ac., at lea* than auction
prices. They must go; too orowded. Haven’t the 100 m f r them. Toe best Corset in
America for 60 cents, oue dozen Buchings for 10 cents, one box containing 141 for sl. Dress
Goods, all the new shades, the prettiest in the oity at the lowest prices.
Cloaks, new styles, from $2 to the finest.
Black Alpacas, the beat makes and ihe best blacks, from 25 cents-up. Can’t be beat on
Black and Colored Oashmers. Black and Color, and Silks Belts great variety from 10 oents up.
Pocket Books, new styles Necklaces. Jet Jewelry, Sleeve Buttons, Btnds, 4c.
A few pitoes Cagpets and Bugs ; will cl so out for less i bail oost
The best Hoissors in the market. Six Sewing Machine Needles for 26c.
No use to enumerate. Come and see for yourselves.
I have everything that any other first crass Dry G aid-i House has at the lowest prices.
BEMEMBEB, OH, REMEMBER MY MOT JO. NOT TO BE UNDERSOLD. “Them’s my
sentiments.’’
L. RICHARDS,
209 Broad Street.,
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" 1 -!' 11 111.1 1 *■-' J.'" 1 ." TT - *—H™— !> 11l " 1
Dry Goods! Dry Goods!
P. & M. G-ALLAHEE
HAVE just received (heir Fall and Winter Stock of DBY GOODS, consisting in part of an
elegant line of
Dress Goods Id ill the New Shades*
A SUPERB Slock of MOURNING GOODS, such as Bombazines. Oashmers, Alma Cloth,
Meiino, Henrietta Cloth, etc. A complete'took of HOSIERY, Table Damask. Irish
Linen, Towling. Napkins, Doylies and Marseilles Quilts. BL4CK BHAWL3, Merino, Oashmers
and Bombazines. NOTIONS, Corsets, Kid Gloves (best makes), Neck Hearts, Booking* and
Ribbons.
West-of-England Broadcloths, Doeskin and Best French and
American Cassimers, together with f Fall Stock of
Kentucky Jeans,
ALL (IF WHIIH WILL BS OFFERED AT BOTTOM PRICES.
P. & M. GALLAHER.
J. M. BURDELL,
Cotton Factor and Commission Merchant,
No. e Warmn Block, Augusta, Ga,
advance mad* and trlot attention to all Consignments, and Prompt Remittances.
*ep9 d2awlmAw2m
Grange Fire-Proof Warehouse,
No. 6 Mclntosh Street, Augusta, Ga.
The PLANTERS’ UNION AGENCT oontinue* ib* builneaa of tell In
COTTON AND GRAIN
at (he same charees viz • BAGGING and TIES fn-ntahed to p-trtma.-
g=i£Sf Ti*~ ** B *gsT
TOMiMffin run jmumlbbsw
OOTTON TIES !
t?acp t\KE NOTICE THAT TjrilS COMPANY OWNB AND GONTBOLB THE FOIj-
FOtt IMPOVEMENTS IN BALE TIES .
No. 81252, dated April 2fttb, mi, and extended to lames J. MeiJomb.
No. 19490; dated March 2d, 1858, and extended to Frederic Cook.
No. 5588, Re-Issied March 27th, 1878, extended Mureh 22d, 1878, p*t
ented hy George BfOdie. ' "- ’•
rfV. 5404 j Re-Issued May 18th, 1873, patented by R. M. McCiJnteek.
Ho. Septa Bth, 1873, “ by J. W. Carroll.
in^Mn^
partv selling or dealing in above Ties covered by the abava patents and not liosnsadby
ua will b* violating our right* and treated accordingly. -• _
.' min-iimßirnwt.BE company, umite*.
i f F. IK, Gerl U|l t>-
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