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WEDNESDAY.. NOVEMBER j3,J876.
TO OFK fiIBSCUBBIIS.
We reqnest onr subscribers who owe
ns to pay their .aubsonptions. It is
important to na that every maa on onr
books -should pay at once. Let each
subscriber bear in mind that while one
or two dollars may appear to be a
trifling amount, the aggregate amounts
to a large sum. We hope onr friends
will respond promptly.
Goverkoh Smith has been stamping
Southwestern Georgia in the interests of
the Democracy. He has spoken in Arl
ington and Thomasville, and will speak
in Americas to-day.
pBKSIDBKT ThO IAS A. SoOTT, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, has
contributed 810,000 to the Centennial
fund in aid of the Washington and Lee
University at Lexington, Va.
It ia stated that Hon. R. E. Lnsran,
Senator from the First District, will
have no opposition for President of the
Senate. If this statement be true Col.
Lbstkb ia indeed a lucky man.
There is a rumor afloat that Chief
Justice Warner contemplates retiring
from the Bench of the Snpreme Court at
the expiration of this (the July) term.
Judge Warner has been on the bench
for about thirty years, and is nniversallj
esteemed as an able and upright Judge.
The New York Herald of Tuesday
had a long leader—“ Presidential specu
lations” —in which it ventures the pre
diction that either Tildes or Hates will
I>e elected. TTUen tbe /TeraM s®a7o
1(0 favorite game of fast ftfld loose on
the eve of an election, it is as clear as
mud.
The Chicago Timet is mean enough
to confront the Chicago Tribune ’* state
ment that 10,000 torches were inline
the night I.norbsoll spoke, with the bill
paid by the committee for keroaine,
which proves incontestably that there
was only oil used at the outside for
1,300
The prospect of preserving the pence
of Europe seems good. The Manches
ter market has already responded to the
peaceful reports and we hope soon to
chronicle the termination of the Tnrko-
Servian war. Telegraph operators and
be-deviled proof readers give a hearty
amen to the aspiration.
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper
contains an excellent cartoon, in which
the frenzy of Chamberlain is depicted.
He looks imploringly to Washington,
and as General Grant appears in the
distance Chamberlain shouts : “We’re
lost! We’re lost! If you don’t hurry
down with those soldiers, the darkeys
will all vote for Tildrn.”
The next Louisiana Legislature will
certainly be Democratic. In sixteen
out of the fifty-six parishes in the State
the Republicans have made no nomina
tions at all, while the Democrats have
candidates in every parish but three,
with only one case of division in their
ranks, and tickets composed for the
most part of unexceptionable material.
Henry M. Stanbeby, ex-Attorney-
General of the United States, in an
open letter to the Enquirer denounces
Grant’s proclamation and consequent
ordering of troops to South Carolina as
entirely unwarranted and unauthorized
by the Constitution and by the faots in
the case as detailed by the proclamation
itself. The opinion has been prepared
with much care and is based on points
of law and the Constitution, which are
defined with great clearness.
The interest in municipal matters in
creases. Nearly twenty-five hundred
voters have already registered, and
probably four thousand will register
before the lists olose. A ticket for the
Hecoud Ward, for Councilmen, is an
nounced this morning, composed of
Messrs. Ed. O’Donnell, Wilberfoboe
Daniel and J. K. Evans. We presume
that the other Wards will soon have
standard bearers in tho field.
The Chicago limes gives a hint to
Hayes editors of the speculative turn
by telling them to “bet 86,000 on Hater
election ; buy 8100,000 worth of rebel
claims at 1 per cent, of their face. If
Hayes be elected you win 85,000 and
lose 81,000—a net gain of $4,000. If
Tildrn be elected you lose 85,000, and,
according to yonr own assertions, gala
899,000—a net gain of $84,000. Theie’s
lmillious in it I Even if Hayes is elect
ed the rebel claims may not be a dead
loss. Send ’em *o Logan and promise
him half.”
The Chinese are apt to ]<?arn every
thing of value on the labor question in
this country, including the faot that
their work is worth as much as that of
the natives. In fact, they are rapidly
removing the objection that they make
labor too cheap. It is stated by a Cali
fornia paper that the largest shoe fac
tory on the Pacific coast has discharged
its Chinese laborers and hired white
men, women, and boys, as they find this
class of workers more profitable.
Mr. Martin V. Calvin, a special lightning
express correspondent of the Augusta Chron
icle and Sentinel, makes this startling an
nouncement in connection with the Senatorial
contest: “My observation teaches me this,
that if Governor Smith desires the plaoe, he
has only to say so." Now. we think that the Leg
islature elected by the people also have a say
so in this matter. —Saoannah News,
Mr. Calvin simply mednt that in his
opinion Governor Smith was popular
enough with the members of the Gen
eral Assembly to be elected Senator if
he desired the position. That is all.
Mr. Eads has received information
from Mr. Brtley, resident engineer at
the jetties, that the ohannel recently
dredged through the shoal which has
obstructed the entrance into the upper
end of South Pass is rapidly deepening
and widening. This channel ten days
ago was only 18 feet deep and forty
and fifty feet wide. Soundings made
through it on the 22d ult show a depth
of from 20 to 24 feet, without one sound
ing two-tenths of a foot less than 20
feet throughout its entire length. The
river where this shoal is located rises
and falls three feet independently of the
tides, which are only a few inches at
their locality. From December to July
these soundings would have shown over
22 feet clear through this shoal.
The Albany Argus furnishes a com
plete reply to the charge against Demo
crats of introducing Southern claims,
by giving a list of claims introduced by
Republican members. Tfie Argtu shows
the number of claims introduced by
Republican members, aggregating 81,-
195,630 : Fete, of Maine, 876,000; Hen
lee, of Vermont, §2,650; Sinicxson, of
New Jersey, 83,295; Daxfokd, of Ohio,
SIO,OOO; Thornburg, of Tennessee, $190,-
000; Hu lbut, of
"Wejuls. of Mississippi, $105,000; Lynch,
•at Mississippi, $120,000; O’Nirl, of
Pennsylvania, $50,000; Rainey, of South
Carolina, $120,000; Barral, of Louis
iana, $270,000; Harris, of Massachusetts,
$24,000. The Argus wiuds up with the
name of Eugene Hale, son-in-law of
Each Chandler, as one of the most
prominent and efficient Republicans
prosecuting claims—the son-in-law of
the Chairman of the Executive Commit
tee of the Republican party, the chief
•of the anti-howlers for partisan por
posee. |
The Manhattan Club's reception to Governor
Tildes, at New York. Monday night, was at
tended by about 308 gentlemen, and wae in
reality a Democratic congratulation meeting.
The principal speech of the evening wae made
by Acgcst Belmont, who congratulated his
‘•fellow Democrats upon toe Joyous omens"
which he thought he discovered in the politi
cal skies. Ex-Governor Waleee, of Virginia,
pledged his State fer Tildes and Omnaacss
by 10,000 majority.
A GOOD THING OF IT.
No wonder Hultdelplus feels regret to
lose the Centennial Exhibition. She has
made a good thing of it. A gaotiemao
well versed ia figures, and anxioa* to
find out her pecuniary gains in the
premises, oaten la tea that the sum ex
pended on acaount of tie great show, in
hotel and reatainmnt bills, hack hty#.
side amusements, street ear fares, me
mentoes, and other incidental#, will
amount to about $96,000,000. Besides
thia, he estimates that over $25. *OO,OOO
was taken in by the railroad transporta
tion lines carrying passengers and freight
IS and from the exhibition. It is re
ported steU farther, that the British will
present their exhibition building to the
city, whioh example is likely to be fol
lowed by some of the other nations and
States of tha Uaioa. In eases where
these struotare# are not given to Phila
delphia ontrigbt, she will have an op
portunity to purchase them at cheap
rates, and be ready to hold another
State, inter-Stata, or even international
exposition at comparatively trifling cost.
the fimnt district.
We hope oar friends in the First Con
gressional District of Georgia are not
content to rest upon the laurel# wen in
the State election. They must renew
their exertions and elect their nominee
for Congress by an overwhelming ma
jority. The prospect of Mr. Hab
tbidge’b election is not sufficiently cer
tain to permit indifferenoe and inactivi
ty. The large colored vote in Burke,
Camden, Liberty, Glynn, Chatham and
Milntosh will be brought to the polls
by the Republican candidate. While
many colored men will vote the Demo
cratic ticket in thia contest, as they
have in former elections, it will not do
to rely too much on assistance from this
quarter. We urge upon onr friends in
•Semen, Emanuel, Bulloch, Tstnall, Ap
pling and Ware the necessity of taming
out in force and giving Mr. Habtbidoe
a heavy majority. The Democrats of
the First District have put one of their
best m nin tbe field. They must see
to it that be is elected.
THE COLOKADII ELECTION.
The official returns of Colorado’s
vote at the recent election exhibit the
following result: For Judges of the
Supreme Court, Republican majority,
148; for members of the Forty-fourth
Congress, J. B. Belpobd, Republican,
majority, 1,088; for tbe Forty-fifth Con
gress, J. B. Belfokd, Republican, ma
jority, 939. Tbe Legislature ia divided
as follows: Senate—Republicans, 19;
Democrats, 7. House of Representatives
—Republicans, 32; Democrats, 17. Re
publican majority on joint ballot, 27.
Net Republican majority for State Sen
ators, 1,933; for members of the House
of Representatives, 3 204 The Legis
lature will elect three Presidential elec
tors sod canvass the vote for Governor,
Lieutenant-Governor, Auditor, Treas
urer and Secretary of State. It will be
observed that Judge Brlf bd, Republi
can, appears elected to both the Forty
fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses. The
Louisville Courier-Journal says that
this is a Republican arrangement, whioh
the Democrats are going to defeat by
voting on the 7th of November for a
member of the Forty fifth Congress,
agreeably to aeotion 25 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States. The Re
publicans spent all their money on the
State eleotion, and it was his fear lest
they oonld not carry an election in No
vember which led Boss Chaffee to see
that two certificates of eleotion to two
Congresses were issued to Bedford.
The proceeding was outrageous, but
consistent with Republican “principles."
VOTING IN GEORGIA AND NORTH CARO
LINA.
In Georgia the following ia the law re
garding the qualifications of voters;
Every male person, born in the United
States, and every male person who baa
been naturalised, or who has legally de
clared his intention to becomeaeitixen of
the Urilted States, twenty-one years of age
and upward, who shall have resided in
this State six months next preceding tbe
election, and shall have resided thirty
days in the county in whioh he offers to
vote, and shall have paid all taxes which
may have been required of him, and
which he may have had an opportunity
of payiug agreeably to law, for the year
next preceding the eleotion, shall be
deemed an elector.
Tbe following is the deoiaion whioh
the Radioal Attomey-Oenerxl give# con
cerning the law in South Carolina;
1. That the managers of eleotion may,
iu the exeroise of sound discretion, re
fuse to receive the ballots of persons
kuowc to be disqualified from voting by
tbe Oonstitstiun and laws of the State.
2. That the persees entitled to vote at
the coming eleotion are those ®ale citi
zens of the United States of sound
mind, of the age of twenty-one years
and upwards, who have resided in this
State one year and in the oonnty in
which they offer to vote sixty days next
preceding this election, and who have
cot been oonvieted of sending or accept
ing a (Jballege to fight with dangerous
weapons, Md who are not kept in an
almshouse, or confined in a pnblio
prison.
THE MKXT PR KM AD ENT’S CABINET.
Attention is eallad by the New York
Herald to the faot which is as plain as
noonday that Hayes mast surround
himself with any but the best men in
his party. His Cabinet must be ehosen
not from the reform element, or that
whioh is pleased to call itself a reform
element. He will be a simple agent in
the bands of his pa ty, just as Gbant
has been. General Grant tried select
ing his own Cabinet and the ffapste re
minded him of fealty to his party. Thp
Herald justly asserts that the obnox
ious reformers cannot be confirmed by a
Republican Senate. On the other bead,
it asserts that Mr. Tilden would be re
stricted by the Senate in his choice of a
Cabinet. The following is given as
those from whom both would have to
select their Cabinets, and we do not see
that any more ooald be well added:
H\YES' CABINET. TILDBN’s CABINET. I
Blaine, Thurman,
Morton, 0*
Hrietoir, £• F. Adorno,
Chandler, Belmont,
Conking! Trumbull.
Evarts, Welle,
Judge Hoar, Randolph,
Hen Butler, Mormon,
Logon,
Morgo , Goeton,
Sherman,
Curtie. 2°!P*i“ Br ’ _
Jewell. H “s‘* pd (Cvam*l
-to repreeent the eat).
South —- **** represent the
Spencer (Alabama), 9ooth—
Kellogg (.Louisiana), G<wd°ii (Georgia),
Chamberlain (8. C.) L. 0. C. Lamar.
Now there is the chanoe for reform.
It is certain, as the Herald saga, that
the beet names in the iiet cannot be con
firmed. The Republican Senate would
never confirm Bristow, Curtis or Jbf
blu It is not at all probable that they
would oonfirm Etabts or that Hayes
would appoint him since he has not
lifted his voice id the canvass. The
point is well taken, and It will have a
telling effect upon the canvass. It goes
to confirm the truth that the President
is what hia party ***** mo *
be taken with his MriSPpdwg*
their polioy oonsidered tern.
A letter from a gentleman in Maati
oelio, Jefferson county, Florida, of
whom a private inquiry was made re
cently, says that the Democratic State
ticket will have 3,900 majority, b* that
the Presidential ticket ia dose. “The
Republicans," the letter adds, “hare in
this county (one of tbe large negro
counties of the State) morearen
"registered than live the county. We
have had filly men for tbe peat thirty
days making a complete cense* of the
county, lam one of tfcem.m4 k“®w
the work to be thorough, and tbe above
fact oomee to light Now, their gamete
to repeat and vote boys eighteen and
nineteen years of age, who ocmid no*
register. There
it going to be anaeeaeial to •amdrnx
teat; I don’t think sun Tit jey
threw oerrttete ttehtt, Jfit-I **•*
National ticket ”
THE TRAIL W THE EEEFKNT.
Aicoe T. AxebmuT made hia advent
into Georgia some forty, years ago. He
Hi poor and friendless. Tbe people
reoeived him kindly, and being ayonng
man of industry; poeeoeaod of average
ability, he mode headway in his profee
rioa. He stood well at the bar. He ap
peared to be in aebord with onr people,
to endorse their political sentiment#,
and to approve the “peculiar institu
tion." When the war name on, Mr.
Akebkaw took sides with the Stats, and
for some rime wae in armed hostility to
the Federal Government. The war over,
he was quick to align himself with the
dominant party, and for the last eight
yean he has been one of tbe most bitter
and malignant enemies of the South,
He has proven himself devoid of grati
tude to hte adopted State. He has stung
the bosom that warned him into life.
For the assay seta of kindnese reoeived
at tbe honda of the people of Georgia,
Mr. Akkbman has returned abuse and
calumny. In hia misrepresentations of
tbe political sentiments of the people of
Georgia and of the entire Booth, he is
as extravagant, perverse and malignant
as either Moscow or Blaine. In order
that our readers' may properly under
stand the miornprcaentatioa and vindic
tiveness of this political Judas, we pre
sent the following extracts from a recent
letter in the interest of tbe Radical can
didates for President and Vioe-Presi
dent Mr. Axeemae says—we quote
from the Hartford Cowrant:
The election of a Democratic President this
year would “establish in the Democratic party
of the South the domination of its wont men,
would give heart to the lawless, would discour
age the industrious sod the enterprising,
would raise into flemensas strifes that are
abating, and would set book a current of public
sentiment that is advancing, slowly, indeed, but
perceptibly, toward permanent friendship be
tween white and black and between North and
South:’ He believes, and he gives convincing
reasons for his belief, that it has been vastly
better tor the South, sinoe the war, that it
has been under a Republican National Admin
istration. The evils whioh under Republican
rule have been kept under partial restraint
would have rioted without oontrol; and he
lays: “As long as that untoward feeling which
in 1861 moved the South to secession, and in
1867 moved the majority ef her white citizens
against reconstruetion, is, in any of its modifi
cations, a fores in polities, the power of re
pression, which is in the Government of the
United States, should be in hands disposed to
exert it on neoeesary oocssion.”
This feeling is still the controlling feeling of
the Democratic party of the South. It is ut
terly opposed to allowing the oolored men any
real voice in pnblio affaire. “Prom polioy
there is an intention to let enough of them
vote and to let enosgh of their votes be oount
ed, to blind the North; bat this is to be the
Umit of their suffrage unless they will votes*
their Democratic neighbors direct.’ 1
“If reminded that this statement of foots is
contradicted by tbs Msotptanoe of the amend
ments of the Coastitution in the ' St. Louie
platform, I answer that nobody here regards
that part of Ole platform at anything but a cun
ning piece of deception upon simpletons at the
North. When It is followed by a conforming
practice in any part of the South where the
Republicans are making a serious oonteet. it
will deserve some consideration, bat not till
then. Yon have resd the returns of an elec
tion tor Governor of Georgia. We have over
87,000 colored polls, besides the men who are
over sixty yean old. Tha Republican whites
are much more numerous than the negroes
who voluntarily vote the Democratic ticket
8m how far the Republican vote at that eleo
tion tells short of 87,000, and you will have
some evidence of the extent to which tbe
Democratic party has crushed out the negro
vote in Georgia.”
Snob practices do not receive the approval
of all Demoorats. There are some good men
in that party who reoognixe the faot that it is
foolish mid wicked and injurious to Southern
interests to fight further against the full and
hearty acceptance of the constitutional amend
ments with all that they imply. There men
ore yearly gaining more and more influence
over their rasher brethren. Their beet argu
ment in urging moderate views and a just
course of action upon the hot-heads was that
injustice and cruelty at the South would pro
voke the heavy hand of the National Govern
ment and would tend to defeat the Democratic
party in the Dation. Demooratio success in
the election will remove all such restraint.
“When you of the North undertook to eredi
oate slavery you probably foresaw that the
work would be only half done when slavery was
abolished in tew. Tbe sentiment, the habits,
the modes ef thought, end tbe constitutional
theories which it hod bred, would neoeasarily
outlast its legal existence, and would manifest
themselves in the political action of Southern
whites. Heoce there would come a political
struggle, a sequel of th> military strug
gle, and then would be rongea on the one side
those who would wish to keep ae dose as pos
sible to slavery and its appurtenances, and on
the other those who would rejeot every part of
that system and the ideas whioh flowed from
it That strrggle is on us now. It ie the old
against the new; the outgoing against the in
coming; proscription against innovation; pre
judice against liberality; prerogative against
equal rights. The people of .the North were
victorious in the military oonflict. They
thought proper to establish a civil policy for
the Booth embodying th principles for whi?h
they had warred; and, to seours those princi
ples mors firmly, they planted then in (he
Constitution of the United States. These
principles ore resisted and largely from the
earns motives which inspired resistance to the
national authority fifteen years ago. And it
remsius to be seen whether the people of the
North are as*?**! to this struggle as they
were to that.
“In response to their magnanimous inyita
tion the people of the South reparticipate in
the political affaire of the oountry; and I think
that we eught to do so with the understand
ing that the ideas of the party that prevailed
in (he war shxU boeforth be aooepted as the
coaman ideas of the American people. Our
Democratic citizens ia fits South b*fe not yet
brought themselves to aooept those ideas- Re?
construction, now eight years old, ie still the
staple grievance of their orators and their
presses. The polioy of advancing the negro to
equaj rights so soon after emancipation was
bold and n t ir tK "fl' but 1 believe that it was es
sentially wise. I Mf P heard objections without
number to the polioy; bat f fiv* heard noin
teltigent objector propose a policy jyhich he
wuele preodSnce bith better end practicable.
It has thrown tpm (hi* generation a trial that
in the nature of thing# W** *9 oome, and
that otherwise would bar# N# prated
through two or three generations, embittering
society all the time. We may M well meet jt
now. It is intimately connected with tbe re
adjustment of our modes of business required
by mancipation; and ws of the white race had
better lean aj once than by installments the
haid truth that ttitm Jho w#r ® 0006 nnder M
are under us no mare jeoe&pr or later we
mgs* learn it in theory end in How
long tha disciplinary process moat Jgat I.can
not ted, further thgn tins, that it will last un
til the people of the SojUfi HP thoroughly
convinced that it is the purpose of thy Npfth
to trust the Government to no political party
that is wanting in attachment to the late
aayapjljnents of the Constitution, or would tel
ter in endorsing them. The Democratic party
opposed th<?se potyepdfftente in Congress, and
generally in the $ tat* Iggi#l#tures, and has
opposed eyary measure fqr j&ejn.
All in tha Heath who deny their validity <and
there are many sash) an jo that party, and
lose no standing in it by tha* denjsi- Strike
oat of its history for the loot twelve years
what it has dime against them, end there would
be lUlte left that could be dignified with the
name of poffttegl action. With suoh a record,
nan# of whioh it has flip aped or repented of,
'it would b*-' telly- tw expsjat jt te ppfproe the
amendment* in good faith. It cotfid nof *e eg
without repudiating all its recant history and
violating eh Melnetipets.
Mr. Akeemaw has eoolribated hte
Cjaotn to the campaign fund of the Re
publican party. Living in Georgia, tee
tells the people of the North that we
are etiff-neeked aad rebellious; that we
hate the Government, and do not aooept
in good faith tbe results gnawing ot ef
the war. He aaya that the people of tbe
Soath eaaaot he treated wntil we have
adopted the ideas that prevail in Hie
North; that what he ia pleeaed to eaU
the ’.‘dieeipUnarj process” must be eon
tiaoed indefinitely. We bed expected
tkaf Hr. Akeemaw was not entirely lost
to I# fee## f>f troth and honor. Bat
we ooalm WS mistaken. U
there tea trathfod and impartial man
ia Georgia who will say that Mr. Ajps
- tetter te a reflex of pnblio senti
maat in tteeir State, we will admit that
we have dace this pobtteaf pharisee in
justice. The people of tbe South have
aooepted the results of tho way in SPfi& ,
faith. They eoneor in the 'amendments
to tbe Constitution, aad they have do
intention of questioning their validity.
Mr. Affpffix and those like him
who assert to Ate contrary are
guilty of deliberate and xteehiewooa
falsehoods, Georgia and her metre
States of ilia South accept in good faith
M*h and every result growing out of tbe
wg. 4 The people have aoqnieeoed ifi
the imendmenta, and their validity and
; binding force haver been passed upon by
the solemn enactments of the respec
tive Legislatures of each and every
Southern State, from Virginia to Texas.
When Mr. Axekman asserts that we are
acting tiie part of hypocrites, feigning
acquiescence until we obtain the power
to repeal the amendments, he willfully,
deliberately and mischievonly misrep
resents the sentiments and oonviotiona
of the Southern people.
BISHOP HAVEN’S SLANDER REFUTED.
Bishop Haven made a speech in Bos
ton the other night, bitterly abnsive of
the Southern people, and false in every
particular.
In that speech the Bishop is reported
to have said, among many others things,
“that the United States flag was no
where to be seen in the South, and that
no person wonld dare to bear it;” and
that the white people of the South hated
and ill-treated the blacks.
An aimy officer, at present stationed
in South Carolina, publishes the follow
ing reply in the last issue of the Boston
Globe :
I have been iu the South ten years as mi
army officer, and I can say from my own ob
servation that within the laet six or seven
years it hoe cot been an unoommon sight to
see the United States flag displayed in South
ern cities by Southern citizens. On eoma
holiday occasion and oooasions of political
rejoicing, 1 have seen in some cities a mass of
United States flags and bunting. This was
particularly true in Montgomery and Mobile,
Alabama, subsequent to the election of 1£64.
I have also seen many displays of United
States flags in Atlanta, Georgia, the Bishop's
home. In regard to the hostility between the
races, my observation hoe been that there is
generally a Eindly feeling existing on the part
of the white a toward the blacks, and that hos
tility exists only where it has been engendered
by bad white men from the North, and a few
from the South, for political purposes. As an
indication ef the generally humane and correct
feeling the whites have for the b'aoku, I call
yonr attention to the following facts relative
to schools: Daring Republican Governor
Bullock’s administration .6,664 colored pupils
were educated, while $376,834 37 appropriated
for the* purposes of eduoation were diverted
from that purpose. During the present Gov
ernor Smith’s administration 105,824 colored
pupils have been educated, and in addition to
this, this administration has paid $174,000
debts incurred by the Bullock administration
for edncatienal purposes. But the following
fact I wish more especially to call attention to:
There is a colored univeraity at Atlanta. Geor
gia (of which the Bishop ought to know)
whioh was established by Northern philanthro
pists. This institution is offioered by North
erners, and is managed in accordance with
Northern ideas; and yet the Legislature of
Georgia, by an act approved March 8, 1873,
made annual appropriation to this university
of SB,OOO.
I submit the above, Hr. Editor, os a matter
of aimple justice, and for the oause of trnth.
When I found the Bishop so unreliable on the
two above points, I began to read with con
siderable eirocinspection his other statements.
Justice.
South Carolina, Ootober 24, 1876.
Be is on Indiana are decided by the
offloial declaration of the returns by the
Secretary of State. The highest vote
0881 was for Treasurer of the State—
Democratic, 212,019; Republican, 206,-
218; Independent, 16,082. Total, 434,-
319. The average plurality for the
Democratic State ticket is 5,846 —that
for Williams over Harrison, for Gov
ernor, being 5,139. Vast sums of money
changed hands over the result, in the
shape of bets lost and won.
EDGEFIELD COUNTY.
Ffendlsk Crime by a Negro Constable—Fed
eral Troop- la tbeVUlaae—Avrests.
We glean the following items from
the Edgefield Advertiser :
One of the worst and most notorions
negroes in onr town is a fellow named
Oarey Harris, one of the many sons of
David Harris, the colored preaoher.
For years past this man has been a so
called officer of the law, a deputy and
right bower of all the Radical sheriffs,
and is at present a constable for Trial
Justice W. D. Ramey. On Monday
night last, whilst assuming to act as such
constable, he oommitted a rape upon a
yonng and respectable white married
woman, who was in our town for the
purpose of seeing Trial Justice Ramey,
to get a warrant against her drunken
husband, who had beaten her and threat
ened her life. They live near Meeting
Street, ten miles north of this plaoe. Af
ter the unfortunate woman was safely
lodged for the night, Harris went to her
as a constable ef Ramey, demanding her
presence at Ramey’s office. Ramey was
in reality in Columbia, where he still is.
Under pretense of steering dear of her
hnsband, who, Harris told her, bad ar
rived in pursnit of her, and was waiting
in the street to shoot her, he decoyed
her to unocoupied premises on the out
skirts of the town, and into an unoccu
pied building, where he accomplished
his purpose by brute force.
This is the sum and substance of the
wretched woman's affidavit, given on
Tuesday morning before Trial Justice
John L. Addison, Harris offered Cain
and Simkins as sureties upon bail, bnt
Mr. Addison, with his usual uncompro
mising decision, demanded other and
better securities. In default of bail,
Harris was oommitted to jail, where he
still is.
There is but little doubt that he will
be bailed by some other officer, upon
Cain and Simkins going upon bis bond ;
for, truth to say, from MoDevitt down,
free love and licentiousness have been
the practice of all the horde of Radical
leaders that have so long polluted Edge
field.
We are informed that as this woman
straggled baok to her quarters, in a very
short time after this horrible deed was
committed, about 9 or 10 o'olook, she
passed the Saluda House barracks,
where she was seen by the Sheriff of
Edgefield county and by U. S. Marshal
Reattje. Indeed, she was stopping at
the same bouse with the U- S. Marshal.
Jt is probable these men, and perhaps
many of the garrison, knew what had
happened. If they did, they took no
steps to proteot the woman.
By all means let the other three com
panies of Federal troops oome—and
quickly. We certainly need them. Bnt
if their protection of white people de
pends upon the orders of U. S. Commis
sioners ap4 Marshals, we fear we shall
never get it.
The Standing Army That Failed tq Pat
Poyrn tsittlns Ball!
There are BOW seven companies of
United States regular soldiers, of the
Eighteenth Infantry and First Artillery,
in onr town. The last three companies
—artillery serving as infantry—arrived
on Wednesday afternoon of last week.
These forces are nnder tbe command of
Brevet Brigadier-General Brannon, Ma
jor qI the First Artillery, who has su
perseded Major Jacob Kline. Between
this and’ the jhree more compa
niee will be sent to
najj’jj ooipmand to a ten oompany post.
Tha impression is that a squad
will be sent to WSff yoting precinct on
the day of eleotion, or the Jay before. In
faot it is not improbable that they will
take up the line of maroh to-morrow or
next day, and proceed to throw np earth
Works around the boxes. With ten com
panie, S half company can be sent to
each oheoi onr Depots. Bnt through
it all, let .us continue jo fat tf/h. The sol
diers themselves are gooa feflowi gener
al! j; apd so, we doubtless, are the offi
cers. And titer all, it is more their en
forced degradation than fBWF voluntary
fault that they are among as,
TEe Arret* Began in EdgefleU.
On Tuesday afternoon U. S. Deputy
Marshal Beattie, accompanied by a Fed
eraT Lieutenant and two privates, and
with the infamous gad ignorant Miles
Yeldell as guide, rode in glory from our
town and marched gallantly injo the
Nicholson Adams neighborhood, to ar
rret Messrs. Oliver Dobson, James Nor
ris and several other good oitizens M
onaed in the mailer Qt ti> shooting
of a colored man named Goodman. This
.awir happened about a month ago-—and
neroetrated, bo far as w© can learn,
bv oSberßegioe# who had been threat
<*l*sJ£r<?eidellßisbeyond ail doabttho
most infamous human bring m Edge
field county. He te the follow who, riter
a whole life of ensae and yillainly. rob
bed our postmaster three years ago, and
being coveted, aerved • £
been worse thafl bef ° r ' , Taea .
This invading force rrinmed on Tore
dav night, empty-handed and w.- hont
laurels; Ml Dobson Mr Noms and
their friends were not to be f<mod- Jpey
are patriots and citizens of tfie best class,
and they do not 4rip teing Wri
out of their vote on Tuesday. After the
slmtiss they will oome in to Marshal
Beattie, witboat the interposition of
Miles Yeldell or the soldiers.
It is becoming more and more the
habit to eat oysters out of the round
shell without a fork, got it take# a
•hart stop at base ball w catch one in
P *w£’are # haviDg pleasant weather for
ojotnenader#, #nd the streets, particu
fretyin the afternoon, are filled with
pedestrians.
SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE.
FIW MANUFACTORY near AU
GUSTA.
The Uml Cum W.rk.—A Tmek CutOmm
Fifteen Theonang Dril.ro—The Men.aero
te Be Geergia Hen—Fan Caanrlee Pat
UnAer Ceatrihatlen.
Slowly but steadily Augusta te ad
vancing in mannfactanng enterprise.
Some months since the Patspeoo Gnano
Company, of Baltimore, finding that the
demand for their fertilisers was so great
that they would be unable to supply it
irith tbe facilities then at their com
mand, determined to build a manufac
tory on their lot on South Boundary
street, just outside the city limits. Gen.
M. A. Stovall, resident manager of the
company, engaged Mr. A. M. Macmur
pby, a well known architect and bnilder,
to make the plans and erect the neces
sary buildings. The work was soon
commenced and pushed rapidly forward
to completion. The manufactory will
soon be ready for operations.. A de
scription of the works will be interest
ing to our readers.
The Brildingn.
There are four large buildings on the
premises. The most expensive portion
of the manufactory is the acid chamber.
An immense quantity of sheet lead has
been employed !* casing tbe interior of
the vast apartment. The total weight
of the metal is aot less than one hun
dred and twenty thousand pounds,
costing twelve taousand dollars. Add
to this the cost cf patting np the lead,
abont three thoniand dollars, will make
fifteen thousand dollars for the acid
chamber. The lead comes in large
sheets, weighing from one hundred to
one hundred aud twenty pounds each.
There are three of the arid chambers of
the following dimensions :
No. 1, 26x13x12 feet.
No. 2.100x32x22 feet.
# No. 3, 25x32x22 feet.
These chambers are principally used
as cooling surfaces for the acid whioh is
in pans underneath. They ocoapy near
ly the whole of the most southern build
ing. This struotare looms up nearly
seventy feet in tbe air, and is one hun
dred and fifty feet long, by eighty wide.
In the southeastern corner, on the
ground floor, is looated the furnace for
burning the sulphur which makes the
acid, one of the priicipal ingredients of
the various fertilizers to be manufactur
ed here. Five thousand pounds of sul
phur will be burned each day, making
between thirteen md fourteen tons of
acid. The snlphui is brought from Sic
ily. It is out principally from mines
around Mount Veaivius. A large quan
tity is now stored in the old warehouse
at the works, and t cargo will be landed
at Port Royal in a few days. Tnis ma
terial is very expeisive, costing not less
than sixty dollars per ton delivered at
the company’s worls in Augusta. From
the acid ohambersand the sulphur fur
nace we prooeed tothe
Honnfacury / Proper.
This is an immoise building, three
stories and a half high, one hundred
and thirty feet Ion; and sixty feet wide.
Connected with the building is a huge
brick chimney, on hundred and four
teen feet high, thipugh whioh will pass
upward all tbe smtke about the estab
lishment. Commeioing at the begin
ning we step into die boiler and engine
rooms, to take a glmceat the mechanism
whioh forms the motive power of the
works. The engios, which has a capac
ity of one hundrsl horses power, was
made by Poole & Hunt, of Baltimore.
It is a beautiful pace of maobinery and
runs as noiselessly as a sewing machine.
The great fly wheel, weighing about
eight tons, hflb a position on the left of
the monster.
East of the <pgine room, on the
ground floor, is a Blake crusher, which
is used for orushiig the phosphate rock.
This substance, whioh forms the base
of all the fertilizers to be made at the
establishment, is brought from the
Navassa Islands. A oargo of this is now
on the way to Poit Royal. After going
through the ernsbing process the phos
phate is raised by elevators and de
posited in an 4dtz dryer close by.
Thence it is conviyed by other elevators
to tbe second and third stories. Here
are three runs of mill stones, whioh
grind the crushed rock to powder. In
this state it is carried to the mixer,
where the acid tnd other ingredients
are thoronghly incorporated with it.
From the mexei the fertilizer passes
downward to a disintegrator, ’ whioh
thoronghly pulveiizes the mixture. It
is then saoked and ready for use. Many
of the details aie necessarily omitted,
bat the reader is enabled to gain a gen
eral idea of the process of manufacture.
Lead pipes condxot the acid from the
ohambers to the manufactory, where by
an automatio valve it is let into the re
ceiver in quantities as desired.
The smoke from tbe sulpher furnace
is oonroyod by an nude*giconnd pip* *o
the high chimney previously mentioned,
so as to guard as muoh as possible
against danger from fire.
Fonr Sections
Are put into requisition to famish the
ingredients for the fertilizers, Salphur
is obtained from Sicily, potash salts
from Germany, phosphate rock from the
Navassa Islands and bones and other
animal matter from the great slaughter
pens of New York and the West. In the
composition of some, of the formulas, oil
cake is used.
Attached to the manufactory are two
large storerooms, capable of holding a
large quantity of gnano.
The capacity of the works it is estimat
ed will be aboitt sixty tons a day, bnt if
needs be, one hundred tons can be made
by running then night and day. This
will all find ready sale in Georgia and
South Carolina.
Th* Total Cont
Of ths works foots up about seventy
thousand dollars. It is the desire of the
Patapsco Company that this shall be an
exclnsively Georgia enterprise and it is
their intention to tarn it over to mana
gers choscd altogether in this State.
The following are the present officers :
Gen. M. A. Stovall, Resident Mana
ger.
Mr. C. B. F. Lowe, Chemist.
Mr- A. M. Macmurphy, Superinten
dent of Factory.
Mr. Lowe will analyse all the mater
ials brought to the Factory snd all the
fertilizers manufactured.
Water is placed all over the manufac
tory to be used ip case of a fire. It is
almost impossible for a fire to gain
headway in the establishment.
THE OUTLOOK.
[New York Public. J
The improvement in business is no
longer a matter of dispute. Elsewhere
the evidences which acenmnlate are set
forth in detail; in brief they are :
I. An actual increase in the aggregate
transactions of clearing houses at seven
chief cities during tfie three weeks end
ing October 21st, compared with the
corresponding week* last year, of $38,-
751,773. Though this increase is less
then three per pent., it establishes the
faot that transactions exceed those of
last Fall not only in quantities exchanged,
but, in spite of the fall in prices, in
values also. In quantities tbe increase
appears to be over thirteen per cent.
TT, This improvement is greatest in
New York, Philadelphia and Chicago,
the very cities which have the most ex
tensiv.e trade with all parts of the coun
try. 'At New florfi, tfie improvement in
mercantile transa.ctifips js eyen greater
tfipn jfie plepriDgs ipdic§te, because
dealings iu stopk during the same three
weeks were smaller than daring the cor
responding weeks last year.
ITT, Receipts and shipments of grain
largely exceed those of last year, the in
crease in October being over 10 per oent.
in anantity, and since the opening of
about 14,000,000 bushels, or
13j>ir cenfi ffip Y production of
pdnolenm, thofigfi party in the
year, is now larger than at tfiis time in
1 sfg, Th* movement of cotton exceeds
that of last year to date by bales.
IV. Railway returns show an increase
of 1,000 loaded ears at Indianapolis last
week, a large increase during the three
weeks of October, and a volume of traffic
exceeding the car capacity of tfie roads,
gamings thus far reported for Qoiober
show an increase of oyer three per oent.
compared with fast JPrij i n spite of
abnormally low prices.
V. Foreign trade te healthy rather
Ginn large, with a growing balance ip
favor of this country. The possibility
of’foreign war stimulates the movement
of exports, bpt, independently of that
cause, the condition qf crops abroad
promises an nnnsnal demand.
VL Above all there is no more specu
lative exritam.eßt. A hours of wild
trembling at Chicago-' oyer the price of
wheat, £ (D ttikrity o?sr tfie price of
gold sufficed to proye that tfie broken
would fi?e to do thpwhqfe fiurimses
themselves ip any speculative movement,
for tha public te not ifi * gambling bn*
mor. No advance of prices is maintain
ed that doe# pot seem to be warranted
by a legitimate demand. _
All WS rlceiient signs. Tnej
promise a great revival of business when
ever the natural hesitation attending an
exciting Braaidential campaign has
passed. If the oountry doe# ugi ape the
hopeful spirit checked, and new distrust
produced, by the result of the election,
we may reasonably look for lower gold,
larger business, better' employment for
labor, advancing public credit, and bet
ter profits for enterprise and capital,
g- 1 .
Death of Db. E. E. Jokes.—A special
telegram in another column convey* the
sad intelligence of the death at Madi
son, of Dr. E. EL loses; one of tire Di
rectors of tire Georgia Railroad.
ON THE WINS.
Emigrants—Condition of Alabama—TrikMo to
a Worthy Man—Mississippi Farmers and
Teachers* Arc., dec
[Qpsciai Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel ]
Roundabout. October 30. —o*ll Texas
“the fool’s paradise,” or whatever else
yon please, it has a great attraction for
Sooth Oaroliofans, Georgians and Ala
bamians. The fact that hundreds have
bandied up their all, lived in the State a
short while and returned home—many of
them almost penniless—has no influence
at all npon those who contract the same
fever. Hope springs eternal in the hu
man* breast, and creates the belief in the
hearts of a majority of mankind that
something better awaits them than the
lot of their neighbors. I met a party on
Saturday, en route to Waoco. The gen
tleman in ohthrge told me they were from
North Georgia. A number of families
went from his section last Fall, and
from thirty to forty more are awaiting
the first opportunity to fallow. Borne
were originally from South Carolina.
All unite in saying they were doing very
well indeed where they resided, but it
occurred to them that fortune’s smiles
are broader and more lasting in the
“Lone Star” State; that whilst in Geor
gia they made bread and meat enough
and to spare, they were desirous of
going to a locality where they can make
these and cotton, too !
In this connection yonr correspondent
finds delight in chronicling the fact that
General Oelqnitt’s talks to the Grangers
in the seotion of Georgia mentioned,
has had the effect of unsettling, and, in
not a few inßtanoes, changing the minds
of these who contemplated going West.
This Western fever is an infatuation.
What our people need is to learn the
necessity of closer application to their
several callings. * With a soil as fertile
and a climate as salubrious as that of
Georgia, no man need work in vain or
hasten to the West where multiplied
difficulties await him.
Condition of Alabama.
Alabama is looking up. Under home
rule, anew era has dawned upon her—
an era of old-time good feeling between
the white and biaok people, and of a
prosperity for whioh she has long been
sighing. Your correspondent had the
pleasure of meeting the present and re
cently re-elected Attorney-General of the
State, Colonel John W. A. Sanford,
whose eloquent lecture on “The Influ
ence of Literature on the Character of a
People,” delivered in your city under
the auspices of the Georgia Teachers’
Association, will be recalled by many of
your citizens at the mention of his name.
Col. Sanford gave me a glowing account
of the condition of the State. Con
fidence is being rapidly restored, and
a marked improvement is already per
ceptible in every department of life in
the State. The political change, which
was effected two years ago was the re
sultant of systematic, untiring effort and
the exercise of great good sense. From
Chairman of the Democratic State Ex
ecutive Committee down, all were inde
fatigable workers. But of the scores
who devoted weeks to a thorough can
vass'of the State, who labored by day
and by night with lips and with pen;
who practiced self-denial on all ocoa
sions, not one discharged his duty with
more zeal, with more lofty patiotism,
with a higher degree of efficiency, with
a greater self-abnegation, with a more
intense love of the work for the work’s
sake, than Mr. M. M. Cooke, the asso
ciate editor of the Montgomery Adver
tiser, who was but a short time ago
gathered to his fathers. Than his no
heart beat in truer response to the great
heart of Alabama. To the people of the
State, his memory will bo ever dear; for
all his talents were devoted to their up
lifting, and he wasted away whilst work
ing for them. Never shaU I forget the
thrilling acoount he gave me, last Janu
ary, of the campaign referred to, and
when, between the hacking cough that
had already numbered his days, he told
me, in answer to my queries, of the
large amount of work he had done, I was
lost in admiration for the man. Mr.
Cooke rests from his labors, but his
work survives him. Peace to his soul!
The Governor elect will be inaugura
ted next month. The administration of
the department of public instrnction by
Colonel Mac Elroy, the past two years,
has given general satisfaction, and to no
class greater satisfaction than the color
ed people. They have been convinced
that their school privileges have in no
wise been restricted. Mr. Tarbox, who
succeeds Colonel Mac Elroy as State Su
perintendent, is most admirably fitted
for the responsible position to which he
has been called by the people. He will
at once bring the schools to the front.
I venture the prediction that, great as
are the improvements that have been
made, he will elevate the system to a
standard to whioh it has never yet at
tained, and in that effort he will have
the hearty co-operation of the State gov
ftrnmADt.
Mississippi
Marches onward and upward, and the
smiles of Providence are upon her. Her
farmers have done better this year than
for years past; because they have not
oonfined their labors to the culture of
ootton. In the sections of the State
where this class of farmers live, I find
everybody in a good humor, ready to
talk business—merchants, teachers, law
yers, commercial travelers, et al. Gen.
J. Z. George, who is the head-centre of
reform and local self-government in this
State, and to whose efforts Mississippi's
improved condition is largely attribut
able, is a Georgian. His name is a
household word in the State, and naught
but the unprecedented highlycomplimen
atry outside pressrue that put Mr. La
mar in the Senate, prevented that honor
bieng conferred upon Gen. George in
recognition of the services rendered in
the position he held and still holds. The
General will probably receive the re
ward which the people feel is due him
in the Governorship next year.
It is quite likely that the
teachers of this State will take
steps, ere long, similar to these taken
by the profession in Georgia, in sub
mitting a plan fdr a system of public
instruction adapted to the wants of the
people. The chief reason why the ef
forts at the establishment of a system of
publio education in some of the South
ern States has been attended with so
many difficulties, is because the law
makers have endeayored to make a
system, that ja easily operative in a
thickly populated New England State,
fit a sparsely fettled Southern State.
This, of course, can never be done. But
enough. Maktin V. Caiyvtn.
STOLEN MILLIONS.
Solution of a Hitherto Mysterious Problem^
How the Republicans Raised Their Bis
Corruption Fund—Over One Hundred Mil
lions Stolen Irons the Revenue —Startling
Array of Figures.
[Special Dispatch to the Bouton Post . j *
Washington, October 27. Hon.
Montgomery Blair has placed the Dem
ocratic party and the oountry again un
der obligations by anew exhibit of
figures, carefully compiled, whioh let in
a startling amount of light on the
hitherto mysterious problem of how the
Republican party has raised the enorm
ous amounts wherewith it has carried,
or rather held, the oountry for the past
eight years. This new table is supple
mentary to those already prepared by
Mr. Blair, and the fact that this com
pilation is his insures its absolute accu
racy. Judge Blair says:
“The vast increase of public expendi
tures under Grant’s Administration in
branches of service wholly unconnected
with the war has been shown, and this
increase traced dirpptjy to party pur
poses by showing that the increase is al
ways proportioned to the exigency, and
therefore uniformly much greater in the
years of the Presidential election than
in the other years—and attention has
been called to the donbting of the num
ber of office holders and the increased
expense required to collect half the
amount of revenue collected under John
son’s A<Jnjiißtrgtjop f fof Which no ex
planation' bpt the party requirements
can be given. Iq farther elucidation of
how the finanoes of the (government are
applied to subserve this purpose, a
statement of assessments and collections
of internal revenue from the fiscal year
18fi7 to the fiscal year 1875, inclusive,
can be submitted :
Assessments. Collections, Deficiency.
liSf |*,592,73f (258,042,568 (4,5 0,16
MS IffiS
BHtff iiffiS
1*12... 123.012,081 117,320,127 5,750,8*6
1873 125,945,060 106,238,480 20,701,480
187* 104,411,897 9, 181,318
1875 130,249,797 102,095,242 27,254,565
J0t5U..(1,5-0.813, 880 (1,381,904,443 (138,849,437
Showing a deficit in collection of the
enormous sum of $133,849,437.
“No part of this loss, it must be
borne in mind, accrues from the inability
of the officers to cpllect the amount, for
assessment appropriates the property to
the Government till the tax is paid.
Hence the deficit arises only by the re
mission of the tax by offioiafs. Is ft
credible that one-tenth of the entire
-nount was properly remitted? The
a — : j large as itself to demon
amount is-- svstem is one
etrate collusion, xua
which admits the practice, if it was not
designed to produce it The power of
th 6 eeminifisioner to remit taxes on the
recommendation of the load officers is
a discretion easily applied to party pur
poses. Ana the vast sums shown fcy this
table almost of themselves demonstrate
that this abash has been practiced on a
great scale. The demonstration is com
pleted by comparing Johnson’s admin
istration with Grants, as shown by the
following table:
“Internal revenue taxes assessed ana
collected during 1887, ’6B and ’69, three 1
years of President Johnson’s Adminis
tration :
Assessments $720,749,721
Collections 690,903,401
Deficiency 29,846,320
“Internal revenue taxes assessed and
collected during 1870, ’7l, ’72, ’73, ’74
and ’76, six years of President Grant’s
Administration :
Assessments $800,064,159
Collections 691,061,042
Deficiency 109,003,117
“Henoe Grant’s remittances are near
ly four times greater than Johnson’s,
when the sum collected in three under
Johnson was substantially the same as
that collected in six years under him,
DEMONSTRATING THAT AT LEAST
$100,000,000 OF THE REVENUE HAS
BEEN CORRUPTLY USED.
“But the profligacy of the Administra
tion finds its best illustration in the fol
lowing table :
“Amount of internal revenue taxes as
sessed sod collected in the First District
of Missouri dnriDg the fiscal year of
1875 :
Assessment $7,097,941
Collection 3,726,510
Deficiency 3,371,431
‘ This is the famous orooked whisky
distriot in whioh so large a part of the
whisky was not assessed at all. This
table shows that the tax remitted upon
about one-half of what was assessed.
These figures show a degradation of the
pnblio service scarcely equalled in Mex
ico.”
THE CENTENNIAL CROP.
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL DI
GEST.
Reduced Yield of Small Grain—Georgia's
torn Crop—Falling Off In the Growing Cot
ton Plant—Deteriorating Cauaoa —Matured
Crop* and Early Harveata.
Washington, November 3.—The di
gest of the crop returns for Ontober,
prepared by the Agricultural Depart
ment. indicates a reduction in the wheat
crop of nearly one-sixth, while the
quality is somewhat superior. Every
seotion of the Union indicates a reduced
crop, exoept the Middle States, which
increased about two per cent. The
South Atlantic States fell off two per
cent.; the Gulf States, twenty-seven per
cent and the Southern inland States
8 per cent. The figures point to a total
yield of 245,000,600 bushels. The rye
crop is four per cent below last year,
with a somewhat better quality. The
barley crop is 6 per per cent, below
last year.
The crop of Georgia equals last year.
Buckwheat is a full average, rather
above it in Virginia. The oat crop shows
a falling off ol 23 per cent- In the South
Atlantic States 1; Gulf States, 5, and
Southern inland Sta'es, 2 per cent, be
low. Georgia, Fldlida, Alabama and
Louisiana and westerly yield a full crop.
The corn crop in the South Atlantic
States, especially near tbe coast, suffer
ed from the September storms. Mary
land and South Carolina are full aver
aged; Georgia largely above; but tbe
deficiency in Virginia and North Caro
lina ent down the general condition of
this section to 2 per oent. below the
average. The crop of the Gulf States is
about the average.
Texas reporting an especially fine con
dition, and the following is the full ar
ticle on ootton. It contains some mat
ter already published. The October re
ports indicates a reduction of the con
dition of ootton during the past month
in the ten principal ootton States from
an average of 905 to 827. The October
average for these States was 88 in 1875,
and 717 in 1874. The decline from
September is slight in Georgia, Florida
and Mississippi, greater in Lower
Louisiana and Arkansas and greater in
Alabama and Tennessee. There is a
small advance in Texes. The figures for
the condition of the States are as fol
lows :
North Carolina, 84; South Carolina,
80; Georgia, 87; Florida, 80; Alabama,
70; Mississippi, 83; Louisiana, 82;
Texas, 91; Arkansas, 86; Tennessee, 91.
The impairment of the crop prospects
has been caused by the equinootial
storm in North Carolina, drouth and
rust iu Georgia, the caterpiller in Flori
da and Alabama, the boll worm in Ar
kansas and frot iu Tennessee. Tbe cat
erpillar is con Sued to tbe Southerly
portion of the Gulf States. Its depre
dations are most severe in Alabama. In
most of tbe infested districts its repro
duction was too late to destroy more
than the top crops. The September
gale prostrated much of tbe crop of
Dinwidi county, Virginia, and the in
jury from the storm of September 17
was considerable throughout
water region of the Carolines. For two
weeks following there was an excess of
rain in this region.
It is stated that the ground in Bertie,
North Carolina was whitened by the Sta
ple <lot.nehp.fi by the *>*<A<ma of the
storm. In Warren and Dnflin the dam
age from the equinoctial storm from the
15th to 17th of September, is estimated
at 20 per cent., and the loss in Lenoir,
Pitt, Wayne, Bladen, Beaufort, Eugcom
bee, Greene, Chowan and Camden is
large. Rust is prevalent in Wilson and
Greene. Picking progressed slowly in
North Carolina, in consequence of the
continuance of .bad weather. The pick
ers in Pitt exhibit positive disinclina
tion to work at the ruling price, forty
cents per huDdred.
The bolls are opening rapidly in South
Carolina, and the top orop will be light.
There is some complaint of rust, and
there has been injurious drontb on these
uplands and loss from floods in the
bottoms. Tbe caterpillar -is reported in
Richland; Sea Island ootton in Beaufort
is yielding better than last year.
The caterpillar appeared abont the
middle of July in Liberty county, Ga.,
and stripped the plantß of leaves, bnt
not so early as to materially injure the
yield. Some damage by the caterpillar
is reported in Early county and in
Muscogee, The prinoipal causes of
deterioration were drouth, rust, wind
and rain. There is much complaint of
deficiency of the top crop. In Carroll
county it is stated'that the loss by shed
ding bolls will be fifty per cent. In
some counties favorable weather for
opening and gathering is reported as
well as superiority in the quality of the
fibre. It was thought ip Oglethorpe
that the crop would all be open by the
Isth of October, and in Columbia by
the first of November. In other conn
ties there was little to open at the date
of the return.
Caterpillars have reduced the yield in
Florida, notably in Colombia, The
ripening baa been early. Premature as
they have it, the Gadsen reporter repre
sents the harvest as nearly over, with
a product of 80 per cent, le.-s than a full
yield, and says he he has never known
in an experience of 50 years,a crop to he
boused so early by a month.
The caterpillar has been somewhat
destructive of the top crop in portions
of Alabama. Tbe loss is estimated at
50 per oent. in Conecut, at 40 in Hale,
and 50 in the southern portion, where
the fields were swept by the invasion as
early as the first of September. Among
the counties, mentioning especially, the
ravages of worms are Antauga, Baldwin,
Bullock, Coffee, Chickasaw, Chambers,
MoDroe and Macon. Drouth is report
ed as tbe cause of the reduced yield
in several counties.
The causes of injury in Mississippi
are worms, drouth, wet weather and
frost. Late ootton will be serionsly in
jured by worms in Grenada and Choc
taw. In Hancock county Paris green
was used successfully against the cater
pillar. A frost sufficiently severe to do
some injury is reported in several conn
ties. Injury from wet weather is re
ported in Hinds, Choctaw and in other
counties. The crop is injured in Lou
isiana very generally by drouth, contin
uing in Jackson for ten weeks, causing
rust, shedding and premature opening.
Seventy-five per cent, of the product
was in readiness for harvest at the first
picking. The caterpillar is doing some
damage to the top crop.
A favorable season for piQkiqg is re
ported generally in Texas. Picking is
progressing very rapidly, and in some
counties drouth will reduce the length
of the harvest period. Tbe loss from
drouth is plaoed at 50 per cent, in Bex
ar; the top crop in Bell is nearly de
stroyed by grasshoppers, and in Dallis
the injuries are serious. The boll worm
is reported in Red river and Rnsk. Fine
weather for picking,a heavy growth and
a tendency to ran to weed in rich lands
are noticed.
More or less injury from drouth in
light soila, and an early ripening are
indications of tfie state of the crop in
Arkansas. The boll worm has been de
structive in several counties, more
so than ever before. In Franklin county,
a frost occurred on tbe first of October.
Late cotton has beon injured by frost
in Tennessee. The season has been fine
for ripening and gathering; picking is
one to two weeks earlier, and the harvest
will be competed at an early date. Fi
nally, the general harvest is more folly
advanced than usual; tbe season is gen
erally favorable for picking; the later
piokinga will be comparatively light; the
causes of injury are not usually exces
sive, drought being somewhat promi
nent in tbe Gnlf States; the September
storms on the Atlantic coast, the cater
pillar in Alabama especially, nd the boll
wprm in Arkansas. The seaSOU promises
to be much shorter than last year. There
is glees vigor nd thrift for future devel
opment of fruitage in ease of a prolonged
season, like th*> extraordinary one of
1875 though the indioations-of condi
tion reports of this Department up to
October point to fotfr and' two-third
million of bales. Last season there was
proved to be a deficiency of lint to seed
in the ginning and other unfavorable
indications would have limited the orop,
and inevitably to fonr and one third
millions, bnt for a full month’s delay of
a killing frost iu tbe Gulf States, fields
beiug green in a large belt up to Decem
ber Bth. The future of the present ses
sion cannot make the crop a deficient
one, bat it will determine how near to
the large crops of 1875, the result shall
came.
STATE SUPREME COURT.
DECISIONS RENDERED BY THE
SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA,
IN ATLANTA, OCTOBER 81, 1876.
[Atlanta Constitution.]
Davis v. State. Criminal law, from
Houston.
Warner, 6. J.
The defendant Was indicted for the of
fense of robbery, and on the trial there
for was found guilty. A motion was
made for anew trial on the several
grounds stated therein, whioh was over
ruled by the Court, and the defendant
exoepted. It appears from the reoord
that the indictment contained two
counts, the one charging the defendant
with the offense of “robbery,” the other
oharging him with tbe offense of an
“assault and battery.” On being ar
raigned, tbe defendant demurred to tbe
indiotment on the ground that he was
charged therein with two separate and
distinct offenses, the one of which was a
felony, the other only a misdemeanor.
The Coart overruled the demurrer, and
that is one of the grounds of the motion
for anew trial. The Court charged the
jury, amongst other things, as follows :
“Gentlemen of the jury, this oaso has
already consumed too much unnecessary
time. I have allowed this prisoner great
latitude in introducing evidence at un
seasonable times, in order that be might
show, if he could, his innocence.”
This charge of the Court is also one of
the errors oomplaiued of iu the motion
for anew trial. In our judgment, the
Court erred in overruling the defend
ant’s demurrer to the indiotment. Whilst
two or more counts charging the defen
dant with the same species of felony
may be joined in tbe same indie’,meut,
ns well as different counts charging the
defendant with misdemeanors, still the
indictment is demurrable when it con
tain two counts, the one charging the
defendant with an offense amounting to
a f lony, and the other charging him
with an offenso which amounts to a mis
demeanor only, and the reason is that
it would embarrass the defendant iu the
selection of his jury, for he might be
willing that a juror should try him for
one offense and not for the other. Ist.
Chitty’s Criminal Law 253, 254 5. L.ynes
vs. The State. 46th Geo. Rep., 208.
The charge of the Court to the jury com
plained of was also error, as it was cal
culated to prejudice the defendaut’s
case, whioh was then about to be submit
ted to them for their verdict, notwith
standing the explanatory note of the
Jadge contained in the bill of excep
tions. The clear inference whioh the
jury would naturally draw from this
oharge was that the Court believed tbe
defendant was guilty, and that he had
allowed him great latitude to show his
innocence if he conld, bnt that he had
already consumed too much time unne
cessarily in attempting to do so. This
charge of tbe Court, to say the least of
it, was calculated to hurt the defendant,
and most probably did hurt him. As
there is to be anew trial we express no
opinion iu relation to the evidence in
the case, or as to the other grounds con
tained in the motion.
Let the judgment of the Court below
be reversed.
Cherry vs. The Home Building and
Loan Association. Motion, from
Bibb.
BIEOKLET, J.
It is not tbe office of a rule absolute
foreclosing a mortgage to show express
ly on its face what particular credits
were allowed in fixing the amount of the
debt, more especially where tbe credits
are not mentioned in any of the plead
ings; and a motion by the mortgagee,
made a year after the rule was granted,
to amend it for the sole purpose of de
claring that a certain eredit not pleaded
was, in faot, allowed, is irregular and
ought to be overruled.
Judgment reversed.
Jaokson, J., having been of counsel,
did not preside.
City Bank of Macon, vs. Kent. Com
plaint, from Bibb.
Bleckley, J.
1. When an agent, having a power of
attorney to oolleet any and all moneys
due or to become duo his principal Lorn
any source, and especially a certain de
scribed olaim, and to give, for his prin
oipal and in her Dame, any and all re
ceipts and acquittances necessary or
proper on receiving, or in order to re
ceive any and all snail naonaya, and alfiO
to apply portions of such moneys to
debts of the principal, and generally to
do and perform any other acts in and
abont said business that may be deemed
necessary or proper, deposits in bank, to
the principal’s credit, some of the money
arising from the claim specially men
tioned in the power, and afterwards, du
ring tho existence of the agency, draws
out the deposit on cheeks purporting to
be signed by the prinoipal, and believed
by the offioer of the bank to be genuine,
the bank is discharged, whether the
checks be in fact genuine or not. They
are, in effect, receipts aod acquittances
in the name of the principal.
2. The ageuoy oontinues so long as
the power is not revoked and the busi
ness is not withdrawn from the agent’s
control.
3. If the authority in itself were in
sufficient, and if ratification by thejirin
oipal were necessary, ratification could
take place after knowledge b,y the prin
cipal that the money wus drawu out by
the ageut, though she were ignorant
that he had used false checks to obtain
it. On the question of discharge or no
discharge to the bank, the receipt of the
money from the bank by the agent
would be the act needing ratification,
and not the execution of the checks.
4. Ratification, if requisite, might be
inferred from receiving money from the
agent with knowledge that he had re
ceived it from the bank, or from con
senting, with like knowledge, to its use
by him or by a borrower from him, the
prinoipal being aware that it was her
money and drawn in some way from the
bank.
5. Aside from any question of authori
ty, ratification or knowledge, aDy of the
money paid by the bank to the agent
whioh the latter delivered to the princi
pal, or retained with her consent, or
disposed of with her approbation, would
be a credit to*the bank on the deposit
account, unless thus to follow the fund
and apply it would violate some pecu
liar equity.
6 Receipts in full, by prinoipal to
agent, are evidence tending to prove
satisfaction of all Collections, disburse"
meats and appropriations which had ta
ken place when the receipts were given.
Such documents are open, however, to
explanation, and when explained, what
they prove in the end is for the jury to
decide, and not for the Court.
7. If checks of various amounts are
mixed together without the fault of eith
er party, two being genuine and the rest
false, and if the genuine can not be dis
tinguished from the others by any evi
dence before the jury, or which the par
ty claiming tbe benefit of the checks
could produce, the jnry should not dis
allow all the checks for want of greater
certainty in identification, bnt should
apply the principle of average, or some
o:her, so as to approximate justice. It
would certainly be safe to allow the two
checks of least amount,
8. Testimony upon a given question
may be satisfactory, though not wholly
unimpeached.
9. In charging tbe jury how witnesses
may be impeached, it is error to speci
fy, as one of the modes, evidence of
general bad character, where there is no
snch evidence in the case. It is also er
ror to charge, in general terms, that a
witness may impeach Irroself ‘ by con
fession to infamous conduct winch, if
true, would exelude him from respect
able society. ” What respectable socie
ty might do, but has not yet done, with
a person, is not a standard by which to
test his credibility.
10. In a civil case, when evidence is
conflicting in respect to a fact set up by
the defendant, and the jury are conse
quently in doubt, they are obliged, as
matter of law, to give the benefit of the
donbt to the defendant.
11. The Judge may oaution the jury
to discriminate the evidence from all
other statements before them.
12. Where the action is upon con
tract, indictments still pending, found
by the grand jnry after the snit was
brought, are not relevant, though the
person indicted be a principal witness
for defendant, and though the offenses,
charged be forgery and larceny by the
witness, in respect to the money consti
tuting the consideration of the debt
sued for. „ ,
13. When the Judge can find no ob
scurity in the date of an instrument, he
may say so, and read the date alond iu
the bearing of the jnry, the instrument
being in evidence.
14. The Judge may speak with a wit
ness in an undertone in the presence of
th li°xibe Judge may ask counsel a per
tinent question during tho cross-exami
nation of an expert, even though the ef
fect be to put the witness on his guard
by disalosißg to him- a fact whioh the
oounsel wished to koowr -
16. When even 6 party 8 under cross
examination, the Oourt may ekeroise a
sound discretion in requiring counsel
to revelancy of his questions ap>
parent,
17. Where there is ai> order for the
separation of the witnesses, exceptions
therefrom as to witnesses not parties to
the case are discretionary with the
Oourt; aod in this iustnnce, the discre
tion was not abused in refusing to make
the exception requested.
18. Where counsel, demanding that
tho whole oharge shall be in writing,
presents ce.taiu written requests to
charge, if the requests aie given with
Additions or modifications, these also
must be reduced to writing and read to
the jury [provided the counsel requires
it), so that the entire charge,precisely as
given, may appear. It is, however, the
right of ttie Court to decline to notice
any request which wants addition or
modification to render it appropriate.
19. The jury having made a verdict,
and then dispersed by previous consent
of counsel and with ieave of the Court,
it is not proper to poll them when the
verdict is afterwards returned and read.
20. Jurors will not be heard by affida
vit, to impeach their verdict.
21. If it be error for the Court to re
fuse to hear the motion for new trial
read over at the term when the rule ni si
is granted, that error, unless exoepted
to pendente life, cannot be examined
upon a bill of exceptions sued out after
the motion is disposed of at the succeed
ing term.
22. It is much the better practice for
the Judge, when a motion for new trial
i 4 presented, to settle at once the truth
of its recitals; bnt he is not legally
bound to do so, as the motion is mere
pleading, and is what the counsel
chooses to make it.
23. On the argument of the motion,
although the Judge may know and an
nounce that some of the recitals are in
correct, he is not legally bound to point
out the errors, but may adjudicate upon
the motiou as he finds it., noting tho er
rors, if lie shall think proper, in his
final order, or in his certificate to the
bill of exceptions.
24. It is irregular for the Judge, in
disposing of a motiou for new trial, to
examine a bailiff on oath or otherwise,
out of the presence of the parties or
their oounsel, with any view to aiding
the judieial mind on a question of faot
embraced in the motiou.
25. As to those elements of the record
which are suggestive of unseemly con
flict between counsel and Court, see 12
Ga. 830, 216, 217; 18 ih. 394, 395; 11 it*.
57, 538, 539, 629, 630, 631; 10 ih. 409 to
413. A reviewing Court, as a general
rule, can deal with such matters only
by citing that law' of courtesy which all
members of the profession, whether at
the bar or on the bench, may be sup
posed to recognize and habitually ob
serve, and the breaches of which, when
they occur, every tribunal may be deem
ed competent to decide for itself, and
willing to decide justly.
Judgment reversed.*
D. H. Houser vs. Plauters Bank of Fort
Valley. Complaint, from Houston.
Jaokson, J.
1. Is a corporation whose charter does
not confer the privilege of allowing its
bills to circulate as money a bank, in
the sense of the aot of 1857, and of the
provisions iu the first Code on tho sub
ject of bank and banking ((lections 1421
—1423), so as to make all the contracts
for the loan of money at a greater rate
of interest than 7 per cent, per annum
null and "void ? Quaere.
2. By the English law the entire con
tract if tainted with UHury was void, yet
the money actually borrowed with the
legal interest thereon was held to be a
good consideration to support anew
promise to pay ibe old debt purged of
the usnry. Note-2 Blackstoue, 463-4;
4 Blackstone, 116156.
3. In such case, a plea that tho whole
consideration on which the new promise
was made was illegal is bad, and should
be stricken on demurrer, unless amend
ed ; but when the entire pleadings and
facts show that the consideration is in
part clearly legal, and in part void, and
the consideration is severable, though
the judgment striking the plea will be
affirmed, yet this Court will direct that
defendant have leave to amend, if so
advised, so as to plead inadequacy of
consideration as to the usury.
Judgment affirmed.
Lewis Butler and Charles Street vs. tlje
State. Receiving stolen goods, from
Bibb.
Jaokson, J.
1. This case is controlled by the ease
of John Jordan, alias John Stoger, vs.
the State, decided January term, 1876,
not yet reported. Pamphlet, page 64.
Judgment reversed.
E. M. Peters' n & Cos. vs. S. L. Pope.
Complaint for damage, from Hous
ton.
Jaokson, J.
1. No error of law on tbe part of the
Court being excepted to, this Court will
not control the discretion of the presid
ing Judge in refusing to grant anew
trial, when tbe evideuce is conflicting in
respect to the custom on which the suit
is founded, and in rispeetto the dam
age claimed by the plaintiff.
Judgment affirmed.
Planters’ Bank of Fort Valley vs. John
A. Houser. Complaint, from Hous
ton.
Jaokson, J.
1. Where an indorser of a promissory
note stipulates with the payee thereof
that he indorses the same with the dis
tinct understanding that the payee is
not to proceed against him until he has
first exhausted all the property of the
principal, which is covered by a mort
gage made by the principal to the payee
at the same lime that the note is made
and indorsed, the said stipulation being
iu writing, though not on the note, and
the contest being between the payee of
the note and the indorser :
Held, that the payee of the note can
not proceed by suit against such indor
see until he had first exhausted the
property covered by the mortgage, and
a plea retting forth tho above facts and
sustained by the proof, will suspend the
plaint:ff’s right to sue the indorser until
the mortgaged property has been ex
hausted.
2. A stipulation not to prooeed against
a party is an agreement not to sue,
3. Notice to sue tbe prinoipal given
by the indorser, even if in legal form,
is not notice to sue the indorser himself,
and does not estop the indorser from
setting up the defense that he is liable
only after the mortgaged property is ex
hausted.
Judgment affirmed.
FRIGHTFUL. CRIME.
Two German* Murdered Near Aikey—Their
House Pluudercd and Then Burned—Din
covery of the Criminals, Fonr Negroes.
The bayonet policy of Messrs. Grant
and Taft is bearing its legitimate fruits
in South Carolina. Tbe negroes are
convinced that tbe soldiers are sent to
protect them against law, no matter
what misdeeds they are guilty of, and in
consequence they are revelling iu a very
carnival of crime. Last Thursday night
an act was committed near Aiken by a
quartette of black fiends, which must
send a thrill of horror througn the en
tire country.
About five miles east of Aiken lived
two Germans, Messrs. Hauseman and
Portman, uncle and nephew. They
were members of the Aiken Bchuetzen
Club, and quiet, good citizens. Thurs
day night the two men, who lived in a
house by themselves, were murdered,
the house robbed and then set on fire.
Parties passing by yesterday morning
found a heap of ashes within whioh were
two human skeleton, where tbe house
once stood. The sheriff was informed
of the horrible affair, and, suspicion
having been directed to four negroes—
John Henry, alias Dennis, Lucins
Thomas, Adam Johnson and Nelson
Brown—he summoned a posse and went
in search of them. At Johnson’s the
party found Portman’s Bchuetzen coat
and a sheet full of other clothing. At
Henry’s they found Portman’* pistol
and Sohuetzan hat. At Steadman’s,
where Brown has a sister, ttas found a
trnnk of clothing and two pocket-books
full of money belonging to Portman and
Hauseman. When the posse arrived at
Steadman's a negro woman said Brown
and Steadman had just left. These two
were seen in Aiken early in the morn
ing, and afterwards Brown was seen
leaving town with a bundle on his
shoulder. At each of the houses searched
by the sheriff and his posse J fonr
or five State guns were fonod, showing
that tbe four murderers and house
burners all belonged to Chamberlain’s
militia. The furniture of the Baptist
church, whioh was burned in Aiken
some time since, was fonnd at Jerry
White’s house, where Thomas has a
room. The suspected parties admitted
to Cupid Holmes, colored, having oom
mitte l all but tbe murder. At last ac
counts tbe oriminals had not been
found. There was considerable excite
ment iu Aiken yesterday iu regard to the
affair.
ANOTHER OLD CITIZEN GONE.
Death of Dr. E. E, Jones, of Madison.
[.Special Dispatch to the Chronicle and Sentinel J
Madison, Ga., November 4.—Dr. E.
E. Jones, an old citizen, a large planter,
and an influential Director of the Geor
gia Railroad, died at his residence this
morniDg, at three o’clock. His funeral
will take plaoe to-morrow, at eleven
o’clocjfv B.
Captured.— We undefstand that two
of the' negro fiends Who mhrderdcf
Messrs. Hauseman and Pottman, neat
Aiken, robbed their house snd then set
it on fire, have been oaptnred.