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tEflronicle an& Sentinel. 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.