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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, - 1877.
A NEW DEPAHTCRE.
The Wilmington (N. a) Star under
stands that there is a movement on foot
among the better class of colored peo
ple, which is expected to become gen
eral thronghont that State, having for
its object an alliance with what they
term the liberal element of the Demo
cratic or Conservative party in all State,
connty and mnnicipal elections hare
after to occur. There have been several
meetings in Wilmington recently in the
interest of this movement, and it is pro
posed to hold a general convention of
the colored people of North Carolina at
an early day, when the matter will take
more definite shape. The movement is
confined entirely to the colored popula
tion, and without regard to the wishes,
approval or disapproval of the white
element of the Republican party. In
national elections, they say, circum
stances will govern their action.
KNULINH OPINION ON COTTON.
Smith, Edwards & Cos., a leading
Liverpool authority on cotton, after
having estimated the cotton crop first at
4,100,000 and then 4,200,000, now con
cede the probability of a crop of 4,500,-
000 bales. In theircircnlar of February
28th, they say:
The American receipts have been much
larger than any one anticipated, and in apite
of protestations to the coutrary from America,
public opinion bas settled upon 4} millions as
a fair estimate of crop. This figure is not
thought too large ; indeed the beat statistical
inquiries seem to point to a moderate deficien
cy in the supply even with inch a crop. But
it is sufficient to dispel all fears of famine, and
to leave the market to be regulated rather by
the immediate influences besting upon it than
by remote prospects of scarcity. These im
mediate influences are mostly unfavorable.
The stock and amount afloat for this port are
about 150,00) more than last year, while spin
ners also bold a large supply, so that there is a
probability of the stock for several months
boing considerably larger than laat year, and
it is not u.ilikely it aid roaeh 1,200,000 bales in
the mouth of May.
THE PARTY STATEN.
Says the Baltimore Attn; Of the thirty
eight States composing the Union,
twenty-one have at this time Democratic
State governments, and although three
of these—California, Nevada and Ore
gon-cast their electoral votes for
Hates, the majorities in several of the
recognized Republican Statea are so
small that they may be said to be almost
equally divided between the two great
parties. Even in Ohio, Mr. Hates’ own
State, a cliftDge of 3,500 votes would
have given the election to the Demo
crats, while 1,500 votes in New Hamp
shire, 500 in California, 500 in Oregon,
2,500 in Rhode Island and 500 in Ne
vada, would have effected a like result
in those States.
Indeed, so narrow at the last election
was the margin between the Republi
cans and Democrats in States claimed
and held by the former that a change of
8,070 votes in a poll of 1,154,074 votes
would have given forty-nine additional
electoral votes to Tilden. Even in the
New England States the Republican
majority in a vote of nearly 700,000 was
leas than 87,000; in the Western States,
in a vote of 2,000.000, bnt 182,000, and
in the mountain and Pacific States but
5,785. The actual Democratic majority
on the popular vote, and accepting the
Louisiana Returning Board count for
that State, was 250,970, and the actual
net Democratic gain iu nineteen States
was 969,456. It is well to remember
these things.
THE OI.DEnT INHABITANT.
In a plain and rather pooily furnished
room in the second story of an unpre
tending brick house on Third avenue,
New York, a man is Baid to be slowly
dying who is believed to be one of the
oldest and perhaps the very oldest
human inhabitant of the earth. It is
the famous Captain Lahrbusch, and
his 111th birthday occurred a few days
ngo, if his owu claim to antiquity is to
be allowed. Several years ago he was
regarded as a first class oelebrity, and it
was the custom to celebrate the recur
ring anniversaries of his birth with a
dinner in his honor. Some of the most
prominent men in business and in lit
erature and learning in the metropolis
were wont to grace these festive occa
sions, and they also entertained the old
man at their own houses, and listened to
the marvellous reminisoences of his long
and eventful lifo. Bat after a while one
of those iconoclastic fellows, who can
not tudtire celebrities, made a fierce
attack npon the genuineness of his claim
to longevity, and a heated discussion
followed which cast a cloud of suspicion
upon his title to the distinction of being
a centenarian and the associate of the
great soldiers of the Napoleonio wars.
Still his claim has never been disproved,
and it is said that those who have made
a careful investigation are convinced of
its genuineness.
According to the story of Oaptain
Lahkmcsch's life, which is now general
ly credited, he was born on the 9th of
March, 1766, and served in the British
army through the famous wars of the
lost of the eighteenth and the first of
the nineteenth oenturiea. He was under
Sir Arthur Wellesley in the P?ninsu
lar war, was the friend of Blucher, and
knew Marshal Net and Prinoe Eugene.
He guarded the illustrious prisoner at
St. Helena more ttasn sixty long years
ago, and retired from active service two
years later, at the age of fifty-two. He
married, suffered shipwreck, lost his
family and the savings of a long life
time, and finally survived his generation
to be regarded as a strange relio of a by
gone time. It is not easy to realise
what a stretch of years and what events
and changes such a life-time spans.—
Captain Lahrbcsch still lives, and yet
if his claim is to be allowed he was born
three years before the great Nuolios,
was five years old when Sit W alteb
Scott first saw the light, was a young
man of twenty-two when Lord Btbon
was born, might easily remember onr
great revolution, and was of mature age
when the terrible French outbreak oc
curred. He was a contemperary of Pitt
and Burke and Dr. Johnson, and of the
fathers of the American Republic. At
his birth Lons XV. was on the throne
of France, Maria Theresa swayed the
scepter of Austria, Frederick the Oreat
ruled over Prussia, and the first mutter
ings of discontent and resistance were
heard from the American coloniee of
Great Britain. He ante-dates not only
the telegraph and railroad, bnt the
steamboat and most of the inventions
and discoveries which are the boast of
onr civilization. Snch a living tclic of
the past may well be regarded as a
celebrity, and his death, which is likely
to occur at any time, will be an event
of no common interest.
The census which has just been taken
shows that there are at present in Franee
73 towns with a population exceeding
30,000 inhabitants, 108 with a popula
tion of 10,000 to 20,000 inhabitants, 800
with a population of 5,000 to 10,000 in
habitants, 2-49 with a population of 4,000
to 5,000 inhabitants, and 681 of 8,000 to
4,000 inhabitants.
Sir Richard Tcmple's dispatches
from Calcutta, giving accounts of the
terrible loss of life by the late cjolone,
turn out to have been greatly exagger
ated. The number who pariabed will
not exceed one hundred thousand. Sir
Dick has fallen into the ways and style
of Ball Ran Bussell.
It is announced that a vessel has jnat
sailed from Philadelphia for Italian
ports lsden with samples of American
goods of all descriptions. A special
agent will distribute them throughout
the kingdom, with the view of obtain
ing orders in competition with European
manufacturers.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.
This State voted on laat Tuesday for
three members of Congress and for Gov
ernor. The chief interest in this elec
tion arose from the fact that the strength
of the next House of Representatives
will be eo nearly equal as to make it a
matter of considerable interest whether
New Hampshire sends Republicans or
Democrats. In the laat Congress, the
First and Second Congressional Dis
tricts were represented by Messrs. Jokes
and Bell, Democrats—the former hav
ing a majority of 336 votes, and the lat
ter a majority of 154 votes over hie
Republican competitor. The Thiid
District was represented by Blair, Re
publican, whose majority over Kent,
Democrat, was 209. In 1878, the Re
publicans carried the First District by a
majority of 378, and the Second by a
majority of 7, while the Democrats car
ried the Third by a majority of 333. The
Second District was steadily Republican
up to 1871, when, owing to dissensions
in the Republican ranks, Bell, Demo
crat, was elected by s majority of 849,
over Stevens, Republican. Two years
later he was the competitor of Pike,
Republican, bnt was beaten by the slen
der majority of seven votee, and in 1875
was again elected by the majority al
ready stated. The returns very clearly
indicate that the Btate has gone Repub
lican, and that the Democrats have lost
alt of the Congressmen. This will make
the two parties in the new House almost
eqnally divided, the Democrats having
a very small majority.
FOREION TRADE OF THE UNITED
(STATE*.
In an elaborate article on the official
returns of tbe foreign commerce of the
United States, for the seven months
ending January 31, 1877, the New York
Bulletin says : We have the extraordi
nary resnlt of an exoess of exports over
imports amonnting to 8135,200,000 on
the seven months’ business; last year the
excess for tbe same period was $53,800,-
000, and in 1874-5, it was $52,500,000.
Were the same ratio of balance to be
continued up to the close of June, there
would resnlt from the year’s exchanges
of goods and specie with foreign coun
tries a balance in onr favor amounting
to 5263.000.000. At present, we see no
signs of any general reaction from this
extraordinary relation between the im
ports and exports. Tne general contrac
tion of consumption which has caused it
is yielding bnt slowly, and the Spring
importations have passed their olimax.
Bnt, on the other hand, the shipments
of cotton will henceforth decline, while
the Cuban sugar crop will shortly be ar
riving in large volume; bo that the dif
ference between the inward and the out
ward movement that has prevailed for
the last seven months can hardly be ex
pected to continue at the same high ratio
for the remaining five. Without, how
ever, attempting any definite estimate,
it seems safe to anticipate that the bal
ance for the whole fiscal year may prove
$200,000,000 to $225,000,000 in onr fa
vor, Under these circumstances, a de
cided probability is suggested that we
shall materially increase our stock of
the precious metals within the onrrent
fiscal year. An indefinite sum—prob
ably not leas than $80,000,000-is need
ed to pay the interest upon onr securi
ties held abroad, which has to be satis
fied out of this surplus; and any return
of seenrities in excess of the amount ex
ported has to be paid for from tbe same
source; but, ao far as these two debtor
items fail to equal the surplus of ex
ports, we may expect to receive specie
in payment. Although we rank among
the large specie exporting countries, our
net exports exceeding, on the average,
fifty millions per annum, yet in the first
seven months of the current fiscal year
we imported $5,358,000 more of the pre
cious metals than we exported; in otlur
words, we have kept at home seven
months’ prodnetiou, and have added to
it the foregoing sum from foreign stocks;
whiob, put into plain figures, meana
that we have increased the home stock
of gold and silver by about $50,000,000
since the end of June, 1876.
II KM PELT FOR POLITICAL OPPONENTS.
Mr. Hayes received a colored delega
tion from Sonth Carolina on Friday
week, and said to them:
The use of military force in civil affairs was
repugnant to the genius of American institu
tions, and should be dispensed with if pos
sible. He, however, recognized the necessity
of protection at present, until that feeling of
respect for the rights of political opponents
should be entertained by tbe Democrats of tbe
flouth. The President stated that with regard
to thep- cnliar difficulties at present existing
in South Carolina, concerning whioh the dele
gation expressed great anxiety, he proposed
to pursue ihe statu quo left by his predecessor,
and to'examtno the oondition of affairs care
fully and deliberately before he acted. The
delegation then withdrow after expressing
their thanks.
The Hartford Times says it appears
that two individuals, at least, of the Re
publican party—U. S. Grant and R. B.
Hayes -have been led to acknowledge
that “the use of military force in oivil
affairs ia repugnant to the genius of
American institutions.” In Russia there
is a military government, and a cen
tralized, or one man power. The use of
military there in eivil affairs ia in har
mony with the eharaoter of the Govern
ment, in which the people have no
voice. Bnt that it should ever have
been assumed that the military force
should be brought into tbe management
of civil affairs in this country, where it
was supposed the people were the su
premo authority, is somewhat remark
able. The Radical party, however, with
Grant at its head, has used the military
to the extreme extent of creating a Leg
islature, breaking up another, and dic
tating to the members of still another
whether they should enter the legisla
tive halls or not.
Now Mr. Hayes says the use of the
military forces ia “repugnant to the
genins of American institutions.” Evi
dently. It certainly ia, if a military
deanotism is repugnant to freedom or
the institutions of a free government.
The difference is precisely that which
separates despotism from free govern
ment.
But Mr. Hates comes to another oon
clnsiou. via: that he shall continue the
military despotism in South Carolina,
till “a feeling of respect for the rights
of political opponents shall be entertain
ed by the Democrats of the Sontb.” Un
der the circumstances this remark of
Mr. Hates is somewhat peculiar. The
fact is that Governor Wads Hampton aud
the Democrats of South Carolina, and
Governor Niohcxlls and the Democrats
of Louisiana, as well as the Democrats of
the South generally, interpose no
obstacle to the rights of the colored
race or “political opponents. ’’ They
concede them every right claimed for
themselves. This is not only their polit
ioal platform, and the doctrine promul
gated by the Democrats of the South in
their official papers and in their speeches
in Congress and in the States, bat it is a
doctrine carried into practical operation
by them. The proof of this is within
the reach of Mr. Hates. It is known to
the country. In the Democratic States
of the South the rights of political op
ponents and of the negroes have been
ear®fully protected; and since the Dem
ocrats had control of those States the
people have enjoyed better and more
honeet governments.
When the Republicans tell ns test
there have been crimes in South Caro
lina and Louisiana, they should be hon
orable enough to acknowledge that those
States bars been under the control of
their own partisans, with “ the military
in their civil governments repugnant to
American ioetitations.” In those
States Republican rule and military
force have bad foil sway. But the peo
ple were not well protested. They were
robbed, and they have suffered the evils
of negro riots, and the depredation* of
armed and lawless negroes, who were
trained in their secret lodges to hate
gad oppress their white neighbors.
When Mr. Hans talks of “ respecting
the rights of political opponents,” be
should turn to hie own party, and find
how far his carpet-bag friends at the
South have respected the rights of the
white people there; end it would be
well if be would study the effect of mil
itary power in the civil affairs cf those
States, where disorder, oppressive taxa
tion, arbitrary arrests of innocent citi
zens, without legal warrants, where the
beat citizens have been taken from their
plantations and homes by tbe oppres
sions of despotic rulers, have prevailed,
and where these outrages have brought
distress upon Statea that ought now to
Be comparatively prosperous.
SOCIETY IN NAN FRANCISCO.
-.tsrtllas Extent f the tixnix fxr Ganblhi
in Kttciit—Wtnei Mho Hx e Won and
l,ot Itaiiirnae Fortune*—How Laura Fair
Made $40,0*0.
[San Francisco Correspondence in the Sew
York Graphic ]
A letter written a short- time since
from here to the New York Times
Has caused quite a ripple of excitement
in society. Some of the statements
made were too near the truth to be
calmly endured. “Hence these tears.”
The fact "'is. “society here is in a very
crude state. ’ You see this more in the
case of the women than of the men.
Che latter have become somewhat toned
down by attrition with the world; the
ronghncES of i he pioneer rounding into
the still bold though symmetrical
strength of character that .marks the
Oaiifornian everywhere; bnt their wives,
many of them starting from the lowest
social point ia the 4 ,early days, have
only gained the poorest advantages
wealth can bestow—the means to follow
ihe latest caprice of fashion, and live ii.
idleness and luxury. The generation
now growing up are just what might be
expected. There ia an inner circle,
however, which is voted “slow” by the
yonng folks. Here one finds the hos
pitality and cordialityjnatnraljto expect
of a people who claim to be tbe cham
pions of those virtues. Still, as a rule,
San Francisco is not a social place, and
home sicknesn is not an unusual disease
to find among Eastern visitors.
1 nsed to tuink Washington was the
most barren Bpot on the footstool on
which to scatter good seed. I must re
vise that opinion somewhat by the light
of later expert nee. I was told when 1
first arrived here that if I wanted to make
myself utterly obnox'ons ut here to talk
•woman’s rights.” Did that stop me?
Not a bit of it! lam used to being
“utterly obnoxious” to certain kinds of
people; I think I rather like that. Bnt
1 found the opposition to be met pro
ceeds from the women themselves
rather than the men, who, even where
disagreeing, are almost always ready to
yield the point out of gallantry. Wo
men here need some sort of nucleus, a
rallying point, where they can be
brought together by some common in
terest. Ob, for a club like dear old 3o
rosis.
Ilorr Women Gamble in Stock*.
The Woman’s Mining Bureau aimed
at being somewhat in that way, but
from present indications it is destined
to be one more of the many sucli fail
ures. Mrs. Kellogg, the President—
and, by the way, the annt of the prima
donna— tells me she has not given it up,
but intends when stocks are better to
make another effort. But it is looked
on ontside as a defunct institution. The
cause of this is probably, as Mrs. Kel
logg said, “the apparently inherent in
ability of women to trust each other
fully.” They will go to a male broker
with their money, even with the cer
tainty ahead of losing every cent of it.
The stock market is the financial barom
eter. From the purchase of a doll to
the baying of an estate, that inexorable
power rules. Every one is “in stocks.”
Catholic priests, evangelical clergymen
—acting under c< ver of their wives—
decons, doctors, lawyers, shop girls,
servants of every grade, actresses and
society ladies.
A good story is told apropos of Brid
get’s speculative proclivities. An Eastern
lady had procured, after much difficulty,
a “perfect treasure of a girl,” a red
haired, freckled-faced Emerald Isler.
Having tested her capacities thoroughly,
the mistress ventured on asking some
company to dinner. The day arrived.
Seated in the parlor, entertaining her
guests, suddenly that oder so appalling
to the housewife—the smell of burning
eatables—hecame more and more per
ceptible. Excusing berself, she rushed
to the kitchen, to be met at the door by
Bridget’s flushed, triumphant face. A
friend had dropped in to say that “bul
lion” had gone up to a fabulous price.
Bridget had just stepped out to Ler
broker’s—about ten blocks off—sold out.
her shares, and had just returned with
$1,500 gain in her pocket 1 The dinner
was burned to a crisp, but the company
being “in stocks” largely themselves,
sympathized so heartily that the lady
was compelled to swallow her mortifioa
tion and congratulate tbe lucky specula
tor.
Gambling, in one form or another,
seems to be tbe inevitable concomitant
of every civilization. Paris has her
bourse, England her bank of England
shares, New York her railroad interests,
Chicago her wheat, while California
plays pitch and toss with fortune with
the yellow wealth of her inexhaustible
bosom. I asked an old Californian
lately if there was not a possibility that
the power of the stook market might
be broken. “Yes,” he responded
promptly, “when the mines are ex
hausted or the fools all dead.” That
last clanse destroyed all hope for saner
days for California.
Tvpea of the Female Speculators.
“You want to know something about
the women who are iu stocks,” he said.
“Well, among business men they are
not considered a success as operators.
They can seldom invest largely enough
to make any mark. They are at once
too credulous and too Bnspioions.
Credulous when once a broker has
roped them in—suspicious of every one
else. Some few old stagers have be
come as well known in the street as the
brokers themselves, but iu the main the
women who dabble in shares are oftener
seen in tbeir brokers’ office than else
where. There is a fair type of one
class now. She is probably owner of a
‘ranch,’ which she runs herself and
which she will lose perbapa to-morrow
or the next change of the market.”
She was a fair sample of the middle
class California woman—coarse, hard
featnred, and with that eager, restless
look that one sees on almost every face
here. A brown linen dress, sealskin
sack, white straw boonet trimmed with
bright flowers, and a broad embroidered
collar of the style of 1857, made up a
sout ensemble seen nowhere ontside this
State.
“Every new female face ia noted at
onoe,” my friend continued, “and a
new comer in the weeds of widowhood
ia a special prize, as there is always a
possibility of an insurance policy, if
nothing more, in the background. The
first woman to deal in stocks personally
was Mrs. S. E. Swift, now Secretary of
the Woman’s Mining Barean, originator
of the Woman’s League, and an active
member of any number of other enter
prises. Of her many sobriquets on the
street, that of the pioneer pleases her
beat. Mrs. Kellogg stands next in ex
perience. Both have lost and won in
their day. Laura Fair does a consider
able business through ber broker, bnt is
seldom seen. It ia said she made $40,-
000 while in jail for the murder of Crit
tenden. Of the small fry, whose name
ia legion, no one knows much. They
are the privates in the noble army of
martyrs.”
Are the sensational stories we hear of
suicides consequent on heavy losses
true? ”
“Yes ; but it ia only the men, so far,
who have so signaliz and their own de
feats. It is not a month since I saw a
little woman lose her $20,000 in a morn
ing, and that without a quiver of the lip
or a wink of the eyelid. She was a
widow, too, with three children, and it
was every cent she had. I thought
then we mast allow your sex the palm
for fortitude.”
“It Biietk Like aa Adder.”
But California, with all her charms,
has also her plague spot. To drink is
the rule, not only in public but at heme,
and the vice, I regret to say, is not con
fined to the male members of families.
Tf invited to stop to lunch with a lady
friend, you are expected to take yonr
toddy, as a matter of course. If not,
yon are laughed at and told at once that
your are “no Californian.” To be a
Californian, in this sense, would be
comparatively easy and pleasant were
tbe libations confined to the wines of
the country, but unhappily they are not.
Whisky, often straight, is tbe tipple
most affected. Of public saloons there
is a proportion of one to every 126 of
the inhabitants, counting women and
children. Meanwhile the temperance
societies go on trying to stem the tide of
evil, bat with little appreciable success.
Tbe St. Paul Ditpatch has discovered
skeleton closets in tbe State Capitol—
Intemperance has been increasing in the
legislative halls and statesmen have for
some time enjoyed monthly sprees.—
Some of the committee rooms have been
turned into private bar rooms, which
are run et tbe expense of the State. It
is alleged that one of the committees
obtained an allowance of S3OO for ex
penses ; that twenty dollars went for a
cupboard and ten dollars for keys, that
the balance was used to buy liquors to
pat into the cupboard, and that the
drinking men in the Legislature were
supplied with keys.
OUR VOLUNTEER CORPS.
A COMPLETE REORGANIZATION
FAVORED.
What i. Beixe Done in Atlanta—Ax Imita
tion from New Y ark—Visitor* frxin Penn
•ylvania.—The Blxea and Cadet*.
It b&3 the sanction of all statesmen
and patriots that every conntry and
State sbonld take a just pride in the
pursuit of arms, and that military train
ing is one of the first qualifications of
the valnable citizen. In onr country es
pecially is there fair opportunity and
ample occasion for the indulgence of
martial spirit and the exercise, both
physical and patriotic, to be had in the
school of the soldier.
Ceorffia’s Soldiery.
Onr famous Commonwealth has al
ways been conspicuous in the South for
the spirit f soldierly enthusiasm mani
fested by her sons and there have been
few intervals of her history in which it
could be said of her that she was with
out a well regulated mititia. Since the
war our volunteer forces have been pret
ty fairly independent bodies, witbont
systematic organization or homogeneity
of interests. Cities and county seat's
have had their companies, battalions
and regiments, but up to the present
time there has been no binding cord to
bold them together and give them a
anion of strength and fame.
The Excellent Material
Contained in the splendid companies of
Atlanta, Angusta, Macon, Columbus
and Savannah forms a basis of organize
tion which, properly manipulated, will
grow into one of the noblest military
bodies in the Union.
We are pleased to learn that the vol
unteers throughout the State are almost
to a unit in favor of the plan of orgaui
zation outlined at the recent meeting of
tbe board of officers appointed to revise
the volnnteer system of the State. The
“national guard” plan ia the popular
one, and the boys all over the State are
urging tbe adoption of such a system as
obtains in New York and other New
England States. A thorough organiza
tion of onr troops, their allignmentin
battalions and regiments, uniformed in
regulation style and moved under a de
fined line of authority, will give us one
of the finest volunteer forces in the na
tion. The full measure ot success can
not be had in this matter until the re
vised laws aro adopted by tbe next Gen-,
eral Assembly, but iu the meantime it is
urged that mnch may bo done in the
wuy of company organization and pre
paration to facilitate the regular estab
lishment when it is commenced.
A Kifle Team Invit.Uiou.
Mr. John B. Baird, who 13 in charge
of the military affairs in the Executive
office, has given us a copy of a circular
letter addressed to the Adjutant-Gen
eral of the State of New York. The
letter states that the State of New York
has donated a handsome trophy, “The
Soldier of Marathon,” to be annually
shot for iu an “interstate military
match,” at each Fall meeting of the
National R'fle Association at Creedmoor.
The lists are open to one team of twelve
men, chosen from one or more of the
regular military organizations of encli
State. The distances are 200 and 500
yards. Position —standing at 200
yards, any, with head to target, at 500
yards. Ten shots at each distance, with
two sighting shots. The weapon to be
one of those in use by the militia of the
State from which the team comes.
The match this year takes place in
September. The only expense to teams
will be their transportation and sub
sistence. The State of Georgia is re
quested to send a team and Mr. Baird
will take pleasure in assisting all who
desire to engage in the rivalry, by form
ing a team from our State.
Pennsylvania Visitors.
It is stated that in the course of a few
weeks the “State Fenoibles,” the proud
est body of men of which the Key-
Stone State boasts, will tour through
the South, and that they will stop some
days in Atlanta. In such event, they
will be the immediate guests of the Cle
burne Rifles, and be welcomed among
us with true Southern and chivalric hos
pitality.
The Fulton Blues*
Captain Joe Scrntchin is vigorously
at work to effect a complete and thor
ough reorganization of the Fulton
Blues, one of the handsomest and most
popular companies ever in Atlanta. Some
of those who had left the oompany un
der certain circumstances sometime ago
are reconnecting themselvos with the
company, re-establishing the personello
uud prestige of the old corps. When
the company is fully uniformed and
drilled, it will be hard to find an equal
for it anywhere in these Southern
States.
The Atlanta CadctN,
The always popular “Katy-dids,” arc en
thusiastically pushing their reorganiza
tion, and at reoent meetings have ac
quired excellent new membership. Cap
tain 0. W. Henderson, one of the best
officers in Georgia, will leave nothing
undone to put his beloved . company in
the van, and we look for handsome work
by the “Katy dids.”
They propose a prize drill at no dis
tant day, between the companies of the
city. On the 4th of next month, also,
they are to give a grand ball.
We wish our military all possible suc
cess and honors. May they work to
gether in perfect harmony hereafter.
THE SUPREME BENCH.
The National Republican, at Wash
ington, publishes the following commu
nication, which is evidently from the
Hon. A. H. Stephens :
Sir— There is evidently a very strong
and united effort being made by lead
ing Southern men remaining in the city
to sreure a Southern representative upon
the United States Supreme Court Bench,
to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna
tion of Judge Davis, now United States
Senator from Illinois. The South is,
perhaps, justly entitled to this vacancy.
Conceding this, the question is, whom
of the number of distinguished names
already mentioned in this connection
will President Hayes select as the fittest
man for the place? This is neither a
partisan nor a political position. It
should be above and beyond meve party,
and if President Hayes acts w’.sely in his
selection he will not a3 f ; what the
political antecedents of the man he
selects are, or have been, but will select
him alone for his legal attainments, per
sonal worth, and high integrity of char
acter—a man who would be, from his
very name, personally popular, and who
would give almost universal satisfaction
to the entire country by his appoint
ment. That man is Hon. Herschel V.
Johnson, of Georgia.
We understand that Mr. Johnson is
being strongly pressed for this position
by Senators Gordon and Hill, and
Representatives Alexander H. Stephens,
James H Blount, and others cf the
Georgia delegation remaining in the
city. Wo hope they will leave no stone
unturned to consummate this desired
object.
Apart from Mr. Johnson’s great abili
ty as a man of erudition, lawyer and
jurist, he is a man who would briDg
dignity and an unspotted character to
the Supreme Bench. He is now and
has been for some years presiding over
one of the Judicial Circuits of the
State of Georgia. His decisions in the
cases of the negro insurrectionists, so
called, some two years since, will long
be remembered as decisions where jus
tice triumphed over the passions and
prejudices of a large number of the
white people of that section who were
ready and willing to believe the ne
groes were organizing for the purpose
of a general massacre of the whites in
that leg on of the State.
Judge Johnson sifted the evidence
thoroughly, but when the facts were
fully disclosed, showing the plot a
mere concoction of a few white men to
get rid of one or two leading negro
politicians, he promptly gave a verdict
for-the defendants, discharging them
from prison amid the jeers of an excit
ed and disappointed multitude. His
determination was to do justice to the
innocent, and to protect the weak
against the strong. For this he re
ceived tbe rich plaudits of all right
minded men everywhere.
Judge Johnson was reared in the old
Jeffersonian school of Democracy, but
for tbe past twelve years has taken
but little or no part in party politics.
He will be remembered by his old
Democratic friends of the North and
West as the candidate for Vice-Presi
dent on the ticket with Stephen A.
Douglas, in 1860, and his appointment
to the vacancy would give universal
satisfaction to tbe thousands of his old
political friends throughout the Union,
while the country would secure a pure
man and the Court an able jurist.
A. H. S.
SOUTHERN DEBTS.
Adiastneat •! tke City f .
New York, March 15.—Walter S.
Bragg, now in this city, of the commit
tee appointed by Montgomery (Ala.)
Common Council to adjust outstanding
claims against the city by holders of
city bonds issued in 1870, to the amount
of $500,000, in aid of South and North
Alabama Railroad, has received the sig
natures of holders of nearly $250,000 of
bonds to the settlement proposed. Mob*.
of them reside in New York, and h e
hopes to adjust tbe whole matter amir a
bly. New bonds, redeemable in thirty
years, ore to be issued, with past due
coupons included, interest to be pa ,and aa
follows : 3 per cent, the first five ;/eare,
4 per cent, the second five years, and 5
per cent, for the remaining twenty years.
DEATH OX THE GALLOWS.
FOUR MURDERERS HUNG IN
AIKHN.
Ax Acoxxxt ofTlieir Crime*—Tbe; Are Cxx-
Ticte* by a Jnr; of I heir Own Oxlor—The
Execution Yesterday—Five Thousand Peo
ple Present—Perfect Order Prevails—The
Condemned Men Make Confessions.
Daring the latter part of last Summer
a band of black bandits was organized
in the qniet and pretty little town of
Aiken, 8. C-, by one Adam Johnson, a
abort, thick set, foil blooded negro,
tkfep an escaped convict. For awhile
the band were content with ordinary
plundering, making frequent raids on
farms and hen coops iu the vicinity.
Bnt as time progressed and the heated
political campaign opened, the bandit
captain and his chosen outlaws thirsted
for higher deeds. A series of crimes
followed which stamped the perpetrators
aa the most deeply-dved villains of the
day. On the night <f October 24, 1876,
a terrible outrage was committed at the
residence of Mr. Abram ParkinsoD, an
old citizen of the connty, wbo lived with
his wife several miles from Aiken.
The parties concerned in this were
Johnson, Dennis, Thomas and one
other, Peter btnart, who was not of the
regular gang. When they reached the old
man’s house, et dead of night, Dennis
pushed his rifle through the bed-room
window and fired two shots towards the
bed in which the venerable couple were
sleeping, and narrowly escaped killing
them. Thry then entered, plundered
the house, while Dennis committed a
Terrible Outrage
Upon the old lady. Next we find Thomas
and Brown, on the 25th of October,
burning the Baptist Church of Aiken—
a handsome and largely attended temple
of worship. Brown arranged it, saying
that he wanted to revenge hims-Hf upon
the whites for the disturbance fit Ellen
ton, and Thomas said he did aot want
the white people to meet and. pray for
Hampton. Brown tried to fire the stores
on Main Btreet, l.ut they ’were well
guarded, and he decided on the church,
saying, “If be couldn’t get a horse he’d
take a mule.” They got nothing from
the church but a tabic, three chairs and
* lamp. It contained a fima organ, and
waa a total loss to the con gregation, as
there waa no insurance on it. Brown
again was the prominent figure in the
next act of their bloody drama. There
was an old peddler namod Solomon Le
vine who traveled in a p ony cart between
Augnsta and Aiken, ti.aflicing bis little
wares. On the very tv ext day after the
church burning (Octo’oer 26) Brown was
on trial in a Justioa’s Court for hog
stealing, and Mr. Lfjvino was somehow
brought in as a Witness against him.
Thomas got on the jury and made a mis
trial, but Brown said he would
Have IFis Revenge.
On Sunday night he got Adam Johnson
and Thomas to go with him down to
Horse Creek, where they knew tho old
peddler would pass from Augusta. They
lay iu wait for him until morning, and
when he reached their hiding place
rushed out and baited him. Browu shot
him from behind, and then mutilated
him with a hatchet which he found in
the wagon. Their booty was only thirty
five cents apiece and his old clothes.
The last and culminating crime was
the murder of Hau.amann and Portmann
on the night of November 2<l. Both of
these gentlemen were Republicans and
great friends of the negroes, showiug
every confidence in them. These mea
knew it, and knew that they were well
off, and though t that they would find
plenty of cash in the house. The plan
was
Deliberately Laid,
With several others of like nature wkioh
were to follow it, one week before, and
the Dight before they started out all five
met in the house of Steve Anderson’s
father, where they burnished up their
guns (four of them were members of tbe
militia company iu Aiken, Dennis being
the orderly, and several carried State
rifles). They then started out, drinking
all along the road, s topping, now, to
drink a compriund of whisky and gun
powder to brace them ap for their hell
ish purposes, and then, to whiten their
faces with-chalk. Wtion they reached
the house t hey wakene i the two inmates,
and by pretending to be white meu in
search of Frederick A.. Palmer, they per
suaded their victims to let them enter,
and theu they rifled the house and put
everything into bund los. Johnson then
Killed B oth Men
With an axe, two of the others holding
them, and after setting firo to the house
and making sure that the men were dead
by renewed blows, they all left, heavily
laden with their plunder. When the
coroner’s jury had 'ferreted the whole
matter out, warrants were issued, and
one by otjo they wore captured in differ
ent parts of the St,at % and in January,
after a fair trial befoi 'e a jury entirely of
their own color, in w hich they had zea
lous and able count el, they wore con
victed on their own confessions. Steve
Anderson, who is tho youngest of the
five, and does not si iem to have had as
bad a record bef.ort > this affair as the
others, was reeomme nded by the jury to
the mercy of the. Governor.
On applicatit >n of J. St. Julian Yates,
Esq., counsel for Steve Anderson, who
stated that ne- r evidence in his case had
been discover ed, Governor Hampton re
spited Aedersion for thirty days. There
is hardly ar.y probability that he will
escape hanging beyond that time.
Adam Johnson was about forty-five
years of age, black, quite stout, with a
square chin, slanting forehead and pow
erful mnsjulf r development iu chest
aDd limbs. Uewa3at one time a preach
er. Brown was also a full blood negro.'
Dennis was about tb irty years of age;
quite tall and strong ly built. Ho was
originally from North ! Carolina. Thomas
was the y oungest of 1 lie party, being
about 25,, with a smooth , fu'l and rather
pleasing appearance. Ere went from
Angustr, to Aiken. His parents reside
here nr.w. He, too, was u preacher last
Summer and Fall.
Escape Attempted.
Tbe murderers having' been competed
on the plainest proof ami by a jury of
their own color, they could expec t no
escape from their doom, the punishment
which their many and heinous criLies
deserved. But while this fact stai ed
them in the face, while they could ex
pect no help from the law, they did not
abandon the hope of getting: away
through their own exertions. A. little
over three weeks 3go a white p risoner
named Ray, who had the freedom of the
corridor in front of the condemned i men’s
cells, managed to get hold of a file, and
this he secretly conveyed first to one and
then the other of the pvisoners. Oae of
the latter broke a hoc p from a bucket,
and with the aid of tb e file made a rude
saw. With this he f awed through the
boards which constituted the inner trail
of the jail, removed a quantity of
bricks, and left oj ily one layer on
the outside, which could be removed
in a few minutes. The marks made by
Rawing were artful! y concealed by to
bacoo and dirt. L joins Thomas fiiet
need the file ands jaw. and then they
were passed by Ray to the others, eac h
uf whom was in a p.e parate cell. Thomas
filed a link of the chain which bound his
leg and fastened it to the floor in such
a manner that he could break it at a mo
ment’s notice. ’He was in a situation to
effect his own escape with but little
trouble, but pi .vlerred waiting for the
others. It was intended that on .Satur
day, February 24tb, a general jail de
livery should ’a© accomplished. O a the
preceding Fr day, however, the plot
was disoovere and, and measures take n to
effectually pi event them from escaping.
From the 1 ime of their conviction the
condemned men were attended by two
preachers of their own raoe, Phelps find
Edwards. T 1 lomas, the younger of the
four, was f ,ed under their teachii lgs
with a sort of
Rc Unions Frenzy.
He declared ■to all who called to see
him that he had made his pence vrith
Heaven, and .was anxious to g’o. He
looked out of the window of his cell at
the preparation! going on for th 9 erec
tion of the gallows, with an apparently
joyous face, and occasionally sang
hymns. All tht prisoners had made
confessions, bat while each implii rated
the others, hesta adfastly maintained Lis
own innocence. No amount of per sua
sion could drew anything else out. of
them until Thu ;sda y, when Thomas m ide
a ctean bres at cl the whole aff. lir,
detailing the part he played in the t er
rible drams. The others still held on
to tbe old st ory. It was not until the
dread shado w of the gallows tree ) ’ell
across then i that the whole truth \ ras
brought to light.
Thursday night two of the eneiv—Ad am
Johnson a nd Nelson Brown— were mar
ried to tw o negro women, in the jail, by
the coloi ed preachers, the latter bav ing
refused ‘ m baptize the men unless f-his
ceremor iy was first perform© I. The four
convict ■ were then baptized .
Wht ,n the news was received that An
derso j had been respited by Governor
Ham* ptnn, one of the colon :d preachers
went to Sheriff Holly ai id protested
aga ; .nst such action. He sail 1 that Ander
sor, had repented of his a ins and made
hi t peaoe with Heaven, and that he
m jght
Fill rrmm Graf -e
Daring the thirty days al lowed by the
Governor. This was a re' w view of the
case, bnt the sheriff eonld u’t exactly see
it in that light.
The gallows upon which the con
demned tnen were to ti ike their last
stand on earth was constr ncl ed Wednes
day and Thursday, Tbe la *t nail was
driven Thursday evening, and the
avenger of blood 6tood fc rth in ail its
sombre significance. II v ras in fnU
view of the convicts’ wind* jws *°d faced
in the direction of the spot where their
last horrid deed of crime was committed.
The arrangement of the drop was an in
vention of Sheriff Holly, and was ad
mirably suited for the purpose. A
single touch on a concealed peg would
spring the whole and launch the mur
derers into eternity.
Yesterday morning,at an early hour, a
crdwd began to gather near the place of
execution, which was in the Court House
yard, close to the jail. Sheriff Holly
had summoned a posse, consisting of
the Palmetto Rifles of Aiken, and about
one hundred citizens, who were armed
with rifles, shotguns and muskets. These
were formed in the shape of three sides
of a square, the jail fence constituting
the other. The gallows was in the cen
tre of this square. None were admitted
within the square but reporters of the
press and officers .of the cruufcy. Outside
of this square was a dense crowd of
whites and blacks, the latter being large
ly in the preponderance. There were
fully five thousand people present. Trees
and* housetops were fall of anxious
gazers. The Court House windows and
piazza were crowded with ladies. The
negroes were extremely orderly. Not a
murmur conld be heard. Extra precau
tions had been taken by tne sheriff, as
rnmors had been afloat in the town to
the effect that
Desperate Friends
Of the convicts would attempt a rescue
when the latter were brought forward
and placed on the scaffold. Not the
slightest demonstration was made, how
ever.
The ropes were adjusted in the augur
holes in the beam, the triggers set and
all the other preparations made by tbe
sheriff and his assistants. The scaffold
was originally made with a view to the
execution of the five negroes, and five
holes were accordingly made in the
beam. As Anderson was respited tbe
centre hole was not used.
At eleven o’clock, the preparations
having been all completed, Sheriff Hol
ly, with a detail of four men from the
Palmetto Rifles, entered the jail and re
turned in a few minutes with the con
demned men. The latter were dressed
in long, loose white gowns and were in
their stocking feet. Two colored dea
cons headed the little procession, sing
ing a hymn as they advanced. Then
came the two preachers, Phillips and
Edwards, and after them the four con
viots, two and two. The sheriff and
Soldiers Closed the procession.
The convicts advanced with a firm
step, Thomas especially being in a sort
of "ecstatic condition. His hair was
neatly parted in the middle and a broad
smile was on his face. He con
stantly swayed his body to and
fro, and turned his eyes to the heivens.
The others were calmer. Thomas and
Deirnis were first upon the scaffold (of
the convicts), and W6re closely followed
by Brown and Johnson. When they had
taken their positions they calmly sur
veyed the crowd. Edwards, one of the
colored preachers, then gave out the
stanzas of a hymu, which were sung by
the colored deacons who stood at the
foot of the scaffold. While the singing
was proceeding, Thomas
Clasped Hie Hope
Close to him and kissed it, a smile
on his face all the time. The sing
ing over, Phillips read the burial ser
vice, after which the ropes were ad
justed about the convicts’ necks by
Sheriff Holly, who then announced that,
the men would each address a few re
marks to the crowd. Adam Johnson
first spoke. His enunciation was clear
and distinct. He invoked the crowd to
let that scene be a warning to all, white
and colored. See what disobedience to
God had brought them to. He was
raised up like a white child. He had
nursed this young man by his side (he
had called Mr. Whitman Davis from the
crowd, shook hands with him and beg
ged him to stand by bis side), and he
had nursed his sister. They were his
old master’s children. lie wanted
this young man to slay there and see
him go. He begged his colored
friends to bring up their children
right; send them to Sunday School aud
make them work in the week, so that
they can earn their living honestly.
Don’t let them steal.
Nelson Brown called on all to see
what the devil and bad company had
brought him to. It had been charged
that he burned houses, but he thanked
God that that was not true. All that he
knew Was about tbe murdering. In a
few minutes his heart and soul would
fly away to glory.
Dennis said the crowd bad came there
to see a dreadful sight. Drinking whis
ky had caused it all. He would take it
all fair and easy. He saw the blows
when they passed. Two who were
there didn’t pass any blows. They
could hang him if they wanted to,and the
sooner the better. His bands were clean
from anybody’s blood. White people
raised him. He never went around the
streets raising a fuss. What he did do
he was persuaded to by whisky and
Adam Johnson. He saw all those white
men around him with guns. He, too,
used to havo a gun. He once served in
the United States army. The white
men had been to him and told him to
confess, and because he wouldn’t they
said he couldn’t tell the truth, but he
could tell it as well as they could.
Thomas said he was now taking the
last stand he expected to take in this
life. While his feet were standing there
be felt that his soul was with God. He
first started his wicked career from vis
iting bad company and driukiDg be.d
whisky. He was converted four year’s
ago and commanded by the Spirit to
preach. He
Didn’t Commit the Murder.
He was there while it was going on.
The two first blows were struck by Ad
am Johnson and the bodies fell. After
that nobody but Nelson and Dennis
were in the house. Nelson was at the
door. Can’t say whether Nelson struck,
but what he did know was that blows
were struck. > Ho, Thomas, heard one of
the men groan and influenced by the
great adversary,he gave him a blow ivitir
the axe. He said to Stephen Anderson :
“ Brother Stephen, let’s go. Before
we came out Johnson set fire to the
bed.” [Johnson : “ No, I didn’t.”]
“ Well, God forgive me; may be it
wasn’t you. Fire was struck by Nel
son in one room. [Nelson : “Wrong.”]
Well, Dennis set fire in the book room.
[Dennisnodded ] I didn’t set fire at all.”
Thomas called for a drink of water and
Dennis noticed several persons in the
crowd, calling them by name.
The black caps were drawn over the
condemned men’s heads, the sheriff and
attendants retired from the scaffold, and
,t precisely 12 o’clock the drop fell.
Drown and Thomas apparently
Died Instantly.
The limbs of the other two quivered
for a few moments. At the end of ten
minute# Dr. T. G. Croft examined the
bodies and pronounced life extinct to all
intents and purposes. They were left
hanging thirty minutes longer, however,
when they were taken down, placed in
rough pine coffins, painted black, a.nd
turned over to their friends for bnri&.l.
The crowd then quietly dispersed.
Among the effects in the Hausemann
residence when it was plundered and its
inmates robbed was a tin box containing
between forty and fifty thousand dol
lars in bonds. This hai never been
heard of since. All the condemned men
-denied knowing anything about it, bat
their statements were not believed.
Dennis referred to it on the scaffold,
aad repeated that he had never seen it.
McEvoy’s window was opposite the
scaffold, bnt he was not seen during the
-execution. It is said that he looked on
while the scaffold was being constructed
and made jokeu about it. He is evi
dently a hardened wretch.
The execution was admirbly managed
by Sheriff Holly and his assistants.
808 IXUEBSOLL.
The Fiery Ifiiaeie Orator Pronounces lor
ilayee* Pence Policy.
New Yoke, March 14.—C01. Robert
G. Ingersoll, of Illinois, lectured to
nig'ht, at Steinway Hall, to a large au
dience, on “Political Questions and
Answers.” In regard to the policy of
the president, the speaker said that
there be peace between the North
and Sou'tb, and President Hayes has
taken pro oer and noble means for bring
ing about".mity and friendship. He has
joined the L anils of the North and South
and asked .‘-hat hatred be bnried, and
friendship sh ine forth. In the speak
er’s opinion, tfc e President had a perfect
right to select bis own Cabinet without
reference to pa rty or politics, and the
country and all honest men will stand
by him in his actions. The speaker
then reviewed each member of the Cab
inet, and declared himself amply satis
fied with them, individually and collec
tively. If President Hayes finds that
his present policy fails, he can, and will
change it; but he ought to get a fair
trial. He has offered the olive branch to
the Southern States, and let us hope
they will accept it. The speaker con
cluded with a brilliant and eloquent pe
roration, supplicating the South to join
hands again with the North, and bury
forever past hatreds. He was loudly
applauded on finishing.
Aa 014 Relic.
A gentleman of this city has in his
possession a gold ring which belonged
to the father and mother of the cele
brated Mrs. Motte, of Revolutionary
f gl> ,A It has the date 1754 engraved on
the inside.
What is homo without a baby ? Many
children have ccngha and colds just
now and should have the greatest care,
and a bottle of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup.
PRESIDENT HAYES AND THE SOUTH.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
Savannah, March 9 — Now that Mr.
Hayes has been declared President of
the United States, is it not our duty or
at least our wise policy to acquiesce so
far as he is personally concerned, and
make no factions opposition to him, but
wait quietly and judge him by the
course he pursues in the future towards
the South. The Commission by whose
decision he was declared elected was
created by Congress; the bill for that
purpose p ssed both Houses by a large
majo-ity, and was duly approved by the
President. It thus became a law of tbe
land and pointed out the way in which
•<i disputed votes should be counted
whether for Mr. Tilden or for Mr. Hayes.
This legal tribunal so determined that
Mr. Hayes received a majority of
all the votes cast, and in due form, ac
cording to the Constitution, he has been
declared elected Pre-identof the United
States. Whether tbe Commission per
formed its duties as the Democrats be
lieved it should have done; wheth
er it was just or unjust, is not a question
that should affect Mr. Hayes. He has
been declared elected by a law enaoted
by tbe legally constituted law-makers,
aud with tbe making of which he had
nothing to do, and, therefore, has per
sonally had nothing to do with the ques
tion whether or not he was really elected
by the people. This High Commission
has settled that question, and he cunnot
go behind that tribunal; certainly it
could not be expected that he should go
behind the certificates of tbe Returning
Boards and the Governors. In accept
ing the office and in taking possession,
he is bat abiding the law, and opposi
tion to him on that point should cease,
as it is unjust and useless ; he is before
us as President, and should be judged
by his merits as such.
After the law was passed creating the
Commission it was as binding on Con
gress as any other law of the land, and,
therefore, the House of Representatives
had no right to attempt its violation no
more than the Senate; it had a perfect
right to make its legal objections bnt
beyond that in attempting to prevent
the count as determined in the disputed
cases, they were offering impediments
to the prompt execution of a law which
they themselves, the large majority, bad
created, and those who attempted it
should get credit for so doing. If the
law was defective it was the fault of the
majority of the House, because the par
ty in preponderance there conld have
defeated it if they had not thought it in
all respects the best that could have
been done. Neither House nor both
oombined were judges of the law after
it was a law, nor were they above it, and,
therefore, if the House had resolved that
the Commission not having performed its
duties in the manner contemplated it
would not abide by its decision, and
elected Mr. Tilden, Mr. Tilden would
have been elected iu violation of law,
aud would not have been the legal
President. I maintain, therefore, that
Mr. Hayes is the legal President of the
United States, and that we of the South
should give him fair play. Do not let
ns commence by prejudicing him against
us; let us wait, and if he gives us good
government be content. In the mean
while, do not permit ourselves to be led
astray iu our opinions or by our acts by
inflammatory denunciations from would
be patriots. Tbe day is passed, I hope,
when our people can be made to lose
their reason by appeals made to section
al prejudices, The South has declared
through the ballot box that it prefers
Mr. Tilden as President of the United
States.
It is believed that such is the wish of
the South, more unanimously expressed
than ever before upon any subjeot; with
but few exceptions it was the wish of all
the intelligence and wealth and respec
tability of onr people. But, on tbe other
band, as Gov. Brown says, the majority
of the wealth and intelligence of the
North favored Mr. Hayes. The States
were so few in the North for Mr. Tilden
that this election looked very much as
if it was a purely sectional issue, nearly
as much as when Mr. Lincoln was elect
ed. And on that election which we of
the South called a sectional oue, the
South felt warranted in seceding from
the Union. It is not unnatural to pre
sume that the North had fears now
as the South had then iu regard to the
North, that is if a President were placed
in office whose election was due to the
united South, he would be UDduly un
der that influence, aud that his power
would be wielded in prejudice to the
North. Having that opinion, granting
that the South in the view taken by the
North of the effect to follow a “solid
South,” does it not become more prop
per aud necessary that the South
should acquiesce in the result, deter
mined as it was by our own consent, and
by our own acts or those of our trusted
representatives, and show to tho North
that their fears are groundless; that we
are now, as we always Lave been, a law
abiding people,and a Constitution loving
people, and if Mr. Hayes will pay a
proper regard to our prejudices, and
there is no more binding obligation on a
ruler than to abstain from disregarding
tbe prejudices of a people, and take
from among us as representatives of the
Government those in whom the poople
never had nor never can have any re
spect, and whose cares heretofore have
been to keep alive sectional hate and
prejudices of race; and whose followers
are but of the malicious and ill-disposed
towards our people, and have by their
acts as Government representativesdone
more to wean the people from that love
and honor and respect that otherwise
they would feel towards it, than all
other causes combined, there could be
no reason why we should not be just as
happy and prosperous under Mr. Hayes
as under Mr. Tilden, or anybody else.
There are persons who appear to desire
that Mr. Hayes should signalize his ca
reer by flagrant acts against law and or
der, and the peace and welfare of the
South, rather than he should give us
good government, because, by their vir
ulent abuse of him and his adherents iu
advance of all cause, they stir up bad
blood between the sections, and preju
dice Mr. H yes against us as a people,
provided they are in fact regarded as ex
ponents of tho opinions aud feelings of
the mass of the people. But I do not for a
moment believe that they represent the
views of but a small ultra class who are
determined not to be satisfied and there
fore are beyond the reach of argument.
In common with very many others
who are opposed to the plan of giving
aid aud comfort to the enemies of the
South in Congress, by pursuing aconrse
that gives stiength to their assertions
that we are all intolerant and stiff-neck
ed people and indisposed to accept re
sults unless entirely in accord with our
own prejudices aud opinions. I am
glad to see that yonr paper has
the manliness to recognize in Mr. Hayes’
inaugural a sincere desire to give the
South her rights of self-governnent in
common with the States in other sec
tions of the country and to withdraw
from her leaders all the hinder&nces to
prosperity which have heretofore inter
fered with the free actions of her best
people. In other words, that you stand
ready to judge him by his acts and not
indulge in indiscriminate aud cause
less abuse, and are ready and willing to
aid him in doing good to your own peo
ple. Obista Pbincipus.
AMERICAN BEEF IN ENGLAND.
Home Intcreatlns Testimony and Figures.
[From a Recent London Letter.]
It is estimated that no less than a
million and a half of ponnds are now
brought weekly from your ports. A good
portion finds its way to the provincial
towns, where the batchers are not so
powerful, and it is greedily bought by
house keepers at about three pence per
pound less than they have heretofore
been paying for English beef. The
Queen, the Lord Mayor of London and
other distinguished personag. s have
given open testimonials in its favor, and
this goes a great way.
At one of the principal clubs it was
announced, one day this week that
American beef would be supplied that
day at the club dinner, and the members
were requested to express their opinions
about it. The universal verdict was
that it was as good as could be, and that
they did not perceive any difference in
it from that they had before been using.
“There is no difference,” replied the
caterer, “for you have had nothing bnt
American beef for three months.” Any
one who understands London clnbs will
know that if, during these three months
there had been any fault to find the
members would not have failed to com
plain to the caterer, and this evidence
is, therefare, perhaps the best that could
be had. , ......
You can readily see that while your
graziers are finding a good market, the
effect here is prodigious in a pecuniary
point of view. In 1875 the amount of
meat conanmed in Great Britain exceed
ed 3 700,000,000 pound (thirty-seven
hundred million pounds!), and was sold
at 9to 12 pence (17 to 24 cents) per
pound Now if the influx of American
meat brings down tbo price one penny,
the aggrigate savings would be nearly
£l6 000,000 sterling-or eight million
dollars. Bnt the reduction cn a con
siderable portion is three pence per
pound. Therefore, taking two pence
per pound as the average, the annual
saving to families in the article of meat
would be £32,000,000 sterling, or 8160,-
000,COO. This calculation is startling,
but there is no doubt of its accuracy.
This vast sum has been annually going
into the pockets of butchers as extra
profits, and suffieently accounts for the
rapidity with which they have of late
been growing rich.
Beck k Stonebraker, pork packers, failed
for $25,000.
TRACKED 8,000 MILES.
A Murderer Tracked to Oregon and Arrested
—His Confession.
Ji.hu Heyuortb, Chief of Police of
Decatur, 111., arrived yesterday from
Portland, Oregon, having in charge John
E. Hoffman, arrested for a murder com
mitted on the fonth of last January in
Platt county, Illinois. Hoffman and
Julius Orumrig were working for E.
Frederick Delbridge, who had a farm in
Macon county. Delbridge made up his
mind to go to Oregon to better his for
tune, and Orumrig agreed to go with
him. In conversation with Hoffman,
Crumrig said that he was the possessor
of about SSOO, aud it was to obtain pos
session of this amouut that Hoffman
committed the murder. Hoffman ex
pressed a desire to accompany Orumrig
provided ho could obtain S3OO from his
uncle, wbo lived in an adjoining coun
ty. He induced Crumrig to accompauy
him to see if he could get the mo’ ey.
The two set out from Decatur to Mill
ville, and then walked over a snow
covered road for a quarter of a mile,
and there the crime was committed.
On the morning following, the body
of the murdered man was found. The
skull was crushed in, and as the pock
ets of the clothing were turned inside
out, it became apparent that tbe crime
had been committed for robbery.—
Chief Heyworth was telegraphed for.
He found that Orumrig wore boots, on
the inside of which was written the
name of E. F. Delbridge. The Chief
made diligent search, and by adver
tisements and inquiry found the man
who made tho boots, aud through him
discovered Delbridge, who stated that
he had sold them to Orumrig. Ho was
shown a picture of tho murdered man,
and identified it as that of Crumrig,
who had worked for him.
With this cluo to work upon, the
Chief got informntien which led him to
suspect that Hoffman was the man who
had committed the murder. He discov
ered that he had left for Oregon with his
employer. He then obtained tne re
quisite papers aud a complete descrip
tion of the two men, and started in pur
suit. He telegraphed to various points
along the line of tho railroad to have
the men intercepted, but those who re
ceived the dispatches failed to find them.
The Chief tracked them to St. Louis,
Omaha and San Francisco. Ho then
learned that they had gone to Portland,
and followed them. At that place he
lost them, but found trace of them again
in Salem. There ho received informa
tion that tho men had gone back to
Portland. He reached Portlaud in time
to learn that tho men had left for Ore
gon city. At Oregon city positive in
formation as to the whereabouts of the
two men was obtained. Delbridge had
gone to a point twenty miles from Ore
gen city to negotiate for the purchase of
a farm, and Hoffman was working for a
man named Meyers in a pine forest, cut
ting railroad ties at a point six miles
from Oregon city. The officers went to
the house of Meyers,met that man’s wife,
and explained their business, and with
her permission remained iu tho house
until Hoffman and the other men who
had boon working withliim came to sup
per. As soon as Hoffman came in, Chief
Heyworth placed irons on him.
Chief Heyworth says that when his
trip is concluded aud he once more sots
foot in Decatur, he will have traveled
eight thousand miles, at a cost of over
fourteen hundred dollars.
HOW TILDEN TAKES IT.
No Bad lie*nil* from His Long T.nbors, But
n Little Absent-Mindedness.
New York, March 10. —If Mr. Tilden
feels either chagrin, mortification or
disappointment over his defeat ho thor
oughly conceals it. When he greets a
visitor it is with the same frankness and
in the same resolute manner as of old.
He seems cheerful and happy, is ready
to converse about anything except the
great contest, and is evidently improving
iu health. His intimate friends, how
ever, say that he deeply feels the unfor
tunate ending of his life-long aspiratioD,
and some of them evince anxiety as to
its permanent effect on the Governor’s
physical condition. Mr. Tilden has un
questionably dono some very strange
things lately. For three years he has
worked without cessation, taking scarce
ly any time for recreation or diversion.
His fight with the New York canal ring
occupied weeks of patient toil over con
fused figures in the Comptroller’s office,
and all through the hot Summer he wa
personally directing the minutest details
of the canvass. Since tho election he
has worked hard on constitutional law
and in devising plans of action. The
amount of real labor lie has performed
has called forth expressions not only
of astonisment, but of warning from bis
friends. Oue or two of his recent acts
has added to their anxiety. Two weeks
ago, on a very cold day, Mr. Tilden ar
rayed himself in a Summer suit of
clothing, including a white vest. Then
be ordered his favorite new mare
broueht to the door, and, mounting her,
he turned her toward the Bowery. He
buttoned the bottom button only of his
vest and allowed the upper part of the
garment to spread wide open. He
walked the mare and sat very straight
in the saddle, as the animal moved
leisurely down the famous thoroughfare.
In less than two minutes two hundred
street arabs wore following him and
shouting, “Hi, Sammy I Hi, Sammy !”
But Mr. Tilden looked neither to the
right nor to the left, but slowly kept his
course down through the Bowery,
through Chatham street to Printing
House Square, where he turned the an
imal around and returned to his home
by the same route. A day or two after
ward Mr. Tilden, in returning home
from a ride, reined his st6ed to the
curb in front of bis house and then
deliberately fell off into the gutter. A
gentleman who wa3 passing hastened
to Mr. Tilden’s assistanc e and helped
him to his feet. “Thank you, sir,” said
the ex-candidate. “I must have tripped
on a rough place in the sidewalk,” aud
he ran nimbly up the stone steps of the
famous 15 Gramercy Park.
On the morning of Friday, March 2d,
Mr. Tilden arose early, and read the
head lines of a morning newspaper, an
nouncing tho tribunal’s decision. After
his breakfast he ordered his horse. The
day was one of the most stormy of the
season. Rain fell in torrents, and the
wind was very boisterous. Mr. Tilden’s
friends remonstrated with him for
thinking of going out, but Mr. Tilden
was firm. Nothing could keep him at
home, and out into the storm he rode on
his horse. He wended his way to Cen
tral Park, and for two hoars and a half
rode in the rain. When he returned he
was drenched. Mr. Tilden’s friends feel
confident that these littie peculiarities
will pass away as the excitement and
prostrating effects of the canvass wear
off.
Mr. Tilden has been very careful not
to say anything to reporters about the
Electoral Commission’s work, but after
the decision was made he was asked by
an intimate friend whether he intended
to take any proceedings through the
Supreme Court to seouie the place to
which he had been elected. Mr. Til
den’s reply Was, “No; what’s the use in
taking proceedings that must ultimately
be settled by the same Court that has
already settled the question.” Being
asked whether, in the event of the
House refusing to accept tho Commis
sion’s decision, ha would take any meas
ures toward securing his seat, he an
swered, “No; our party in Congress has
made a bed for us, and wo may as well
Tie in it.” He was very decided in his
determination to abide by the tribunal’s
verdict, and it may be said that he has
not contemplated any action to prevent
Mr. Hayes from assuming the Presi
dency.
Mr. Tildon’s household affurs are
largeiy attended to by a very pompons
body servant, who does not hesitate to
speak for the Governor, however impor
tant be the subject. This fantastically
arrayed individual was asked how the
Governor accepted his defeat. “Oh,
first rate, sir,” was the answer; “he
doesn’t seem to care mneb.”
“Then the loss of the Presidency will
not kill him, as it did Horace Greeley ?”
“Oh, no; the Governor has too much
nerve to be killed by such a trifle.”
“I suppose he thinks, with the rest of
his party, that he has been ontragoous
ly cheated ?”
“I guess so; but perhaps the other
man will make a good President. The
Governor has believed ever since that
Commission began to.vote 8 to 7 that he
would be counted out.”
“Will he appeal to the Sapreme
Court ?”
“I haven’t heard them say.”
“Will the Governor and his family
visit Europe this Summer ?”
“I have heard them talk about it, and
I believe they are going. But I don’t
think it ib fully decided.”
But if Mr. Tilden is thoroughly inter
ested in anything it is in his horses. The
day before the tribunal’s decision was
rendered be spent two hours in break
ing a colt. The colt’s name is Elmwood,
and it is half brother to the late Com
modore Vanderbilt’s Monntain Boy, and
a true Hambletonian. He had never
been saddled before, and when the Gov
ernor put his foot in the stirrup the colt
shot out of the stable like a flash. He
was dripping with sweat, and as docile
as a kitten when the ride was ended.
The Governor has also a fine mare, a
large dark chestnut horse, named Topic,
and a fine gelding called Blacks tone.
He has also three carriage horses. Every
day he takes exercises in the saddle,
and under this wholesome treatment he
is rapidly regaining strength and vigor.
He seems to delight in his horses, and
is pleased to talk about them.
CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS ANO THE
EDECT.IHAL COUNT.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
There appears to be some misapprehen
sion in regard to the action of the Geor
gia members in Congress during the
late trouble. The minds of many ap
pear to be filled with the l elief that
certain members endeavored to seat Mr.
Tilden in the Presidential chair, while
others of the delegation succeeded in
keeping him out —that some delayed the
count to secure the former result, while
others voted to continue tbe count, to
benefit Hayes and injure Mr. Tilden.
This is great injustice to the Conserva
tive members, whose fidelity end truth
are unquestioned, whtro these votes
were oast. I am willing to believe it
grows out of a want of thorough and
satisfactory information, and this is my
apology for this artiolo.
This misapprehension may be wide
spread, or it may be confined to certain
localities, but it is very evident there is
needed a plain statement of facts, to
place all in a right position, as respect
ing their notion during tbe contest iu
Washington.
It will hardly be necessary to tell you
of tho anxiety that oppressed ns all
after we fonnd that Mr. Tilden conld
not get the one vote he needed, unless
by a favorable consideration in Con
gress. If the twenty-second joint rule
had been still in force, the way would
have been easy and clear, because that
rnle (which allowed both houses in joint
session to decide upon every State, and
if objection was made, then to throw
out the doubtful State) would have
elected Mr. Tilden beyond a doubt.
This rule had become null and void, be
cause the present Congress bad failed to
establish if. It was only the preroga
tivoof theCongress,institntingits power.
Mr. Randall made a faux pas in en
deavoring to have it appear that it was
still in force, but it was plain that it
conld not be insisted upon. It was
evident, therefore, we must fall upon
some other plan by which the matter
could be amicably adjusted. Dem
ocratic leaders saw tbo difficulty. The
Constitution, as interpreted by Repub
licans, allowed Mr. Ferry to count the
vote. If that was permitted, be would
certainly count in Mr. Hayes without
let or hindrance. Democrats felt they
had the right on their side, aud were as
sured of a majority of tho popular vote.
There must be found a better plan, and
after days and nights spent in discussing
every proposition offered by the best
legal talent of the parly, the Commis
sion Bill was presented to the House
and Senate. With such advocates as
Bayard and Thurman iu the Senate,
with Hewitt and all the rest in the
House, who were supposed to be in rap
port with Mr. Tilden—in faot, bis ad
vanced guard—cau we wonder that it
met with favorable consideration ? It
was evidently distasteful to the Repub
lican sido of the House. Murmurs
hoarse and deep were heard. A “Til
den trick,” was the general remark. It
was certainly understood to be a Dem
ocratic measure, and tbe dissenting
members of that party objected to it
upon the ground of it3 unconstitution
ality alone.
You will understand the favor in which
it was held when you recollet it passed
by a two-thirds vote in the Honse, only
eighteen Democrats dissenting. It will
also be recollected that over sixty Re
publicans voted against it. It proved
to be a very satisfactory Commis
sion until the State of Florida was
reached. Then came the tug of war.
“Eight to seven” was the knell of doom.
Up to that time every momber who
stood by tbe Commission was quiet if
not satisfied. Thereafter dissatisfaction
and disturbance prevailed. The House
resembled more a liut than a legislative
body. Angry and unreasoning, the dis
appointed party was full of revolution
ary plans for upsetting the Commission.
If anything feasible had been proposed
the party would still have been a unit.
It. was clearlv seen that Mr. Tilden’s
chances were fatally wrecked by “eight
to seven." The policy to delay the
count and make tbe President of tho
Senate acting President for twelve
months, brought no ray of light to the
members who felt that either Morton or
Blaine would bo the ruler for as long a
time as they desired. The Conserva
tives were convinced by past experience
that it was better to risk Hayes under
forms of law than to fly to unknown
woes. They understood the cry of
Northern Democrats, for we heard the
same cry in 1860, and previous. We then
rushed madly to the fray, and expected
to find those Northern friends near us.
History records the North as “solid”
for the Union, and we drank the dregs
of a fall cup. The South has struggled
to regain her place by slow and arduous
efforts. Would you have her now resist
all forms of law, and throw herself into
auarohy and certain defeat? Are the scars
of that dreadful time so easily eflaced ?
Would you hold your representatives
guiltless that brought upon you tho
horrors of a second “reconstruction ?”
The mind can easily pioturo the possible,
nay, probable events in a second seces
sion. Instead of disabilities we should
have halters and confiscation. Remem
ber, dear reader, without tbe Commis
sioner we were obliged to have two inau
gurations and two Presidents. With tbe
Administration, the Navy, the Army,
the Treasury and tbe Senate to back
their man, where would have been tho
Democrats, with even Watterson’s one
hundred thousand unarmed men ? We
had our day of faith in Northern prom
ises. Sad experience is a hard but re
liable teacher.
It was often and truly said, that the
South staked all, and lost all bnt her
honor in tbe war of secession. Would
you havo disgrace added to defeat, in
another issue ? The question of right
has not been considered for the last
eleven years, in dealing with Southern
States, but who will say we have not
gain.-d much, in obtaining onr local
Relf-governments in all bnt three of our
States. The Southern men equally with
the North, pledged their good faith to
abide the result of the Commission.
Leaving out any other consideration,
was it prudent policy to forsake a dig
nified compliance, meanwhile protesting
the wrong, for a rash revolt, in which
there was a palpable foretaste of humil
iating defeat ? Reace and material pros
perity are the great needs of the Sontb.
The outside world has watched our
course with manifest anxiety. This is
the first great test of onr loyalty to the
Constitution and the Union since the
war.
History will write tho noble sacrifice
in glowing terms—for Southern men
have put aside their wrongs of the past
and present to give to the Gov
ernment stability and peace, and
thereby maintained the inherent
greatness of Southern character.
Tho South elected Mr. Tilden.
He was her choice. He carried bnt a
minimum of the Northern States. No
ble old Georgia did her best, under the
leadership of some of the very men
whose truth and honesty are
so covertly maligned. They made
common cause with Mr. Tilden. Their
snccess was his likewise. After he fail
ed through fraud in the judiciary, was
it their duty to plunge forty millions of
people into civil strife to revenge the
wrong ? The South had all to lose in
such a struggle. With all due respeot
to Mr. Tilden, was snoh a result to be
considered,when weighed in the balance
with the same difficulties that followed
the last war intensified a hundred fold?
Georgia has been also counted out
since that war in a Gubernatorial elec
tion. Will you remember the ease and
strength with which she cast off the Bul
lock regime before his term of office ex
pired!?
It is an old saying that honey catches
more flies than vinegar. If the Demo
cratic party divides, it will bo the fault
of those who charge corruption and
treason upon men whose convictions of
duty led them to preserve the peace as a
derneir resort. Discuss the matter in a
proper way if you like, bnt forbear in
sulting charges upon the motives of
your representatives, whose love of
country was greater than love of party.
Native Ghoboian.
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We consider the following receipt of
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