The New York Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1874, Page 4

4 LOUISIANA. A Herald Correspondent’s Investigations in the Revolutionary City. ——— Careful Statement of the Situa- tion in the State. THE WHITE LEAGUERS. Continuation of the Martial Spirit Against Despotism. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 12, 1874. That the residents of the Crescent City sicep Qpon a volcano that threatens at any moment to burst Jorth and work irretrievable damage is ap- parent to all who have takeu the troable to circu- late among vne people as I have during the past jew days. That the revolution of the lith aud loth September did not eventuate in scenes such as characterized the reign of the Commune iu Paris during the laie war is due to the foresight and executive ability of the leaders of the excited men who on that day manned the cotton barricades and sent the legions of Kellogg to the right avout in such short order, and for five days held the reigns of government, to the terror and chagrin of Wiluam Pitt Kell zy and the powerful party which stands behind him and approves his every act, The men who made this revolutionary move- ment, it mast be admitted, bad great grievances to redress; butIfailto find any that justifled a resort to armed resistance. True, they bad loyally eppealed to Congress and the Executive for reilef, had exuausted all arguments to induce the Jederal authorities to relieve them of wnat they conceived to be the yoke of an usurper, had seen their hard earnings fritted ‘away in exorbitant taxes, their Industiial and commercial interests paralyzed, their credit abroad aestroyed, their late slaves rioting on the money wrung from them in the form of taxes, their houses and lands levied upon by the Sherif, who collected the rents and appro- priated them toward tae liquidation of their Webts to tne profligate State government, but there was still possessed by them the power, by peacelul means, to CONCILIATE THE BLACKS, and, by @/usion sue as has been effected in the parish of Terrebonne, rid themselves of the gov- ernment so Objectionable to them. Iustead of Accepting the actton of Congress looking to the reconstruction of the State in good faith, ana by the pursuit of a policy calculated to win the confidence of their old slaves, neutralize the influence of the carpet-baggers ana Bcalawags, the whites of this State seem to have retained all their old prejudices against the race, and ag the blacks achieved position under the State government they looked with scorn and chagrin upon the efforts made by the freedmen to direct the politics of the State. What the old Southern- ers failed to take advantage of the adventurers Who followed the rear guard of Butier’s soldiers Were shrewd enough to utivze, While the ex-Con- federates are indisposed to encourage the blacks iM their ambitions desires to become politicians and office-holders, the sutiers and Northern soldiers who were left here at the ciose of the war snrewdly took them to their bosoms and ever since have coutrolied tue votes of the ireedmen. The experi- ences 0/ the colored peopie under the administra- tions of Warmoth and Wells was not calculated to cement the relations between them and the Northern residents, who led and used them, tnto @lasting iriendship. Had the Louisiana whites St that time met the blacks In a spirit of gen, efosity and given them an equal vole in the af- fairs of state there can be but little doubt but long ere this THE INFLUENCE OF THE CARPET-BAGGER over the colored race would have ceased, and to- day the State would be prosperiag under the con- trol of the land owners and the more intelligent representatives of the colored race. Here was the Southern whites’ opportunity. But owing to their liie-long prejudices they allowed the iavor- able moment to pass by thet: opposition to the reconstruction measures of Congress, alienated the blacks irom them and drove them wo the embraces of characteriess adveutu, rers who have brought ruin and bank- ruptey upon the Commonwealth. The whites are themselves in a great measure responsible for | the present deplorable state of aairs existing here, and I am pleased to see evidences on their part of a desire to rectify the errors of the past by the exercise of a more conciliatory spirit toward the freedmen, THE WHITES OF TERREBONNE PARISH bave united with the blacks agains: the carpet> bargers aud set an example that will doubtiess be foliowed in other parishes, If tuls policy were to be generally pursued by the whites throughout the State the blacks would soon desert the men who have peen ng them to advance their seldsh schemes, and peace woul’ be restored within the borders of the State. Such a policy of conciliation abd wuiuai interest J conceive to ve the only hope left for the two races, Every imtelligeut person Who has watched the progress of the cuigred race must have observed that the tendency of the biacks is to GRAVITATE TOWARD THE SEACOAST and the lines of the great water courses of the South. The interior States since the war have emptied toeir colored population into the States of Louisiana, Soutu Caroiina and Alabama, on the Coast, and Mississippi on che line of the Father of & consequence those interior States, Teconstruct:d, aud apidly recovering P the four States a ‘plus black popula reconstruction are waded er than they were down with require a decade to eof the st eConun vestpan- ship. Wita- ai enough to outvote the Wii and con- stant acquisitions pelug mai ranks Irom the States now under whi ule, 1 see uo hope ior Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi aad South Caro- hima except by a ONION BEIWEEN THE SOUTHERN WHITES AND BLACKS. 60 long as the whites dey the blacks ana decline to excend (0 them equal politic between [he (wo races wili be the biacks must continue, 1 rights tne ling arawn, and aid of we gumerous White scalaways, to control affairs aud tax the real own or Uke soi, Unt toelr lass ilar is gone, and their iast ucre has passed the tami the Steric n started ol the Until sotne such compronl: in Terrebone becomes tne wen States stili ruled by the carpet-baggers aud negroes, THE WAR OF RACES WILT. GO ON, gud the aruiy of the Ubived states, aided by all the jaws that Congress Can enact, will not press jawiesspess nor make pioperty and lise in Vhose Staies secure, It is avont time that the Southern wittes \ooved at the matter in tuls ignt. lc is their only nope—the only soiution to the xed question of how to secure peace and re- aewed prosperity, But there are evidences in vhi8 State c: a rel urn to reason on the part of the whites. Not only are tue negroes oi this city tweated more kindly by the whiles than formeriy, but old prejudices are giving Way, and many of the conservatives siow a disposition to recognize he rigiit of tie viacks to a voice in the alfuirs oF tue State, and to wuir ti thom agatuet Kellogg and lis Wing O1 The Awican party. ‘this cuauge OF Spirit to Ward the blucas Was exuivited in the late resulution, in Which special care Was taken by tue White Leaguers to win the conflaence of the negroes; aud while the guns of the whites were directed upon the armed joices of Kellogg thave Yet to lear o! a singie a-sauit having been made Upon an unarmed vers during the ave days taat the city was under tie rue or tue whites. This seems to have wiVeUu con eto A PARI ¢ COLORED RADICALS Who are di-savistied with Kellogg's treatment of tiem; they bave even issued ap address, as you know, urging @ Closer union oetween the two faces Tnese negroes are the iaction led by Pinchback, and, wiile they are not numericaliy very poWersul, the lact tia they are disposed to Mssoive parthership with Kelosg and trust to weir oid masters’ generosiry or a recognition of their claims ty oitice, 8 a sigh ‘oi a healthy awaken. lng on their part to tue reaigation of the truth Wat enely incerests are tov viosely ailed witu those of their white brethren to permit them to rap in Couuter carrenta, (bis proposition Of the colored men for @ union With the Wiises is Varlously received by the con NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBE R 19, 1874.-TRIPLE servatives. The more ultra whites loudiy protest against any sach union, and declare that the whites Can outvote the blacks in a fair election at any tme, and that, having m twenty miuutes fighting, on the 4th wit THE SAUCY BLACKS OF NEW URLEANS that they can be masters when the Jederal arm Is withdrawn, they prop. nore them entirely in selecting candidates for oltice, Others look | upon the proposition as one not made in good juith, but rather to induce the whites to recap: sider their determination not to employ nex 3 Who vote the radical ticket. There ts stil! another party who believe that the only hope remaining jor the Whites of this State 1s 1m a fusion wit) the other race and the election to oilice of the best | Men from both. Long belore the emeue against the Kellogg government, when the White Leaguers | began a crusade calculated to widen rather than ment the opposing elements, the Tines of this City openly advocated such a union, For its gale lant efforts to rtawarof races it has been denounced as a radical organ, aud has suffered by the withdrawal of patronage; bur it has uever ceased to OPPOSE THE WHITE LEAGUE MOVEMENT. in its issue of yesterday it thus puts itself on record m ayor oi a fusion :— taining by mutual conce aton which euch party is entitie t has been vigorous! of the necessities t plats by musgoverun ¢ most pronounced practic nino) as the “Terrebonne ions that con- vithout @ by the t and disregard of al expression of the 1 plan, law. ten ts and has received the Most Unanimous approval of the press of ce xception of some extremely parti- try, with th h oly right im principle, and we i become much more general than itis, All in that direction should receive a vigorous upbort trom sensible and cons tive pember that euch a ose than 10 serve as not It will prove a large knows and aders must country the persons in Jerreboune Parisn failure. hing about re im the movement y are only glad to see Such evidences of peace and reeoueiliation. The Picayune, unt @ lew days ago, was indts posed to listen to any overtures irom the blacks jor a union with the whites; but, as you have learned dy telegraph, even this able organ of the waites has come out — ely in javor ol a com. bination Letween the KS and Whites against the adveoturers who @ fastened themseives upon the Stace, ‘the Bulletin, which represents tue ravia wiug of the Leaguers, 1s for WAR TO THE KNIFE and the knife to the hilt rather than to make any concessions to the colored race, which it beiieves Ww ve responsibie for much of tue rua and banks ruptey tuat has overtaken the State. THE LEAGUERS, The White Leaguers, who ure becoming so pow- erjul im Lhe Southern States, are composed ex- clusively of white democrats, whose fundamental principle seems to be the overthrow o! radical rue aud the Management of their own affairs Witiout the assistance Of “the tonoravie gentie- mea from Massachusetts and New York.” Those of this State I find embrace a heterogeneons ciass. In their ranks are Creoles, Germaus, Spaniards, Sicilians, Cubans, Mexicans, Scotch, irish, Kogilsh and Americans. The Joreign element largely pre- dominates in the city organizations, and as a con- sequence they are hot-heuded and rash when 100 closely pusied, as they were When tne Stute gov- ernment invaded stores aud seized the aris se- cured for tne protection of themselves from in- Umidauon, Some of the leaders of the whites, I have assurances, discountepanced the movement of September 14, and dia alt in_ their power to frustrate it by counsel and appeals, on the ground " that such a demoustration might be coustrued as a defiance | tothe national government and become capital | for the Northern republicans to use to the fall | campaign. Colonel Murr, who tigured as one of the prominent leaders of the whites, assures me most positively that he and McEnery were both opposed to an appeal to arms, as were oter lead- ers, When the people became so exasperated, however, the day bejore the outbreak, that the jeaders bad no hope of restraining them, Mr. Marr asserts that he and others foresaw the necessity for vigorous action. They argued that if tue Leaguers were not at once organized alter tiey had become invoived in actual hostilities they would in ail probability burn the residences of the radical leaders and perhaps assassinate them. It was lor the prevention of any excesses of this cuaracter, that would disgrace their party, that he and o.hers took part, and ve points with pride to tue fact that tuere was not a single indignity offered to a black man during the five days o! the Penn régime, and thit in gracetuily surrendering to the United States government they prove to tne world that they are Dot disloyal to the vational | mover nment tiat has foisted upon them a usurpa- tion. in all my intercourse with the whites] finda | determination existing, 4nd deep-seated in thelr | mineral manures since the war, Whereby one acre | aud willing to give true fuformation about the | South. hearts, to resist Kellogg by Jorce of arms and drive him from power the Moment the tederal column flies off the ground. This feeling and de- termiuation is general among the Whites. But there uve a few Who are So rash as to threaten to resist the tederai forces in the event of the troops Lemg sent into the rural parisoes to effect arreats. You nave been aiready advised by telegraph ot tue | utterances of one of the founders of the Leagues with whom I conversed on Saturday evening. He avows his belief that the whites of the imterior will assault aud defeat the United States cavalry that it is believed have been despatched \o the Red River country to arrest White Leaguets and im- | tumidate the Whites in the ensuing election. The leaders of the waltes bere admit that tney cannot | restrain their party in the parishes, because they are inuisposed to listen to dictaion from New Or- leans; yet since the signing O1 the agreement be- iween the two parties to the peace conlerence now being held, in which the democrats promise to restrain toeir party and prevent imiimidation, lia to find any evidence tuat the whites. have broken iaith. Marsnal Packard and other radical leauers, however, tnsist that in several of the par- ishes Keliogg’s officials are still prevented trom Yesuging the junctions Of their offices, and that the New Orleans Conservatives who signed the Feace protocol are unable to carry 1t out, and, therelore, not entitied to the appointment of two democrais on the Beturaing Board of Elections, GRANT, WILLIAMS AND PACKARD. The conservatives are very bit! nunciation of these thee men, and assert that to them they are indebted for ail tueir misfortune for they are the meu whose morai and physic support sustains the corruption and robbery that pervades the administration. 1 find that all ad- Mit tual so lar as bis duties of United States Mar- shal go Mr. Packard gives general satisiaction, | But it ts his unwarrantabie imterierence in Srate policies that they object to. Although @ federal onice-h ex he 1s Chairman of the Republican State Committee, ana uses his influence and patrona;e to support Kellogg and his party. In- deed it 18 opelly charged that Packard 1s tue reali Goveruor of the state, while Keilogy is merely adommy, who fits into a iittle niche jor the con- venience of the Attorney General aud the advance. ment of the ambitious third-term scheme of bis master. LIES EXPLODED, The people at the Nortu sould accept with cau- tion the stories o: outrages and intimidation sent North in wwe interest of the rival parties and pub- lished in party papers to influence the tall tions. Tne democratic papers that claim that whole South is overran Wit! armed negroes who threaten the extermination oj the whites, simply | He im toe interest of their party, widle the raaical papers that dish up harrowing tales of the lil treatment aud murderous spirit that animates the Whites lie on tie ovherexctreme. I have recentiy passed over portions of the btates of Virginia, ‘Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiaua. I carefully observed the whies and biacks, and you wil be surprised when | teil you that I didnot see one armed negro either travel- ithg apon the trains, loitering about the depors, or roaming about the country. Wi°n one exception tle coloured men, Who are uow permitied to occupy seats in first Class coaches with the whites were as well bebaved, and as inoffensive tn their mater a those of (he otherrace. Tae charge of negro ofensivencss and porcas may be true in » parisies of this State and Missippippl, but tuinly does nov apply to the entire South, jai to find apy disposition among the wiutes to murder or Ku Klux the blacks, except in cases ey have ontraged white femaies, robbed hog pens or hen roosts, or committed other depre- dations upon the property of the whites. The al disposition 1s to treat a well conducted 1 man wita Kindoess and ctvility, Tals, however, is periaps nov the case in some of the imferior parishes Louisiana aud Texas, There ale among the whites these semi-barbarians who Think it No crime to Kill a negro, and do it out of mere bravado; butit is anlar Co cast the blame lor (hese isolated outrages upon the entire people. ‘That there is intiaitdation I will admit, if you cali acetermination to discharge from employment negr tiou. 8 wo vote the radical ticket “Intinidas ihe Whites Of this State, ag a general thing, have resoived to cease «mploying negroes who vote in the next election with the party who are roe sponsible ior nistortunes of their employers. One gent I conversed on Satur. colored man e1wployed t every election, I have never oted, but I snail wke good care U he votes the radical ticket u and let him go to the men he fupports by his vote for the means of subsistence. Iam not going to keep & man in my employ who ($ my turoat by he ping tue soulawags to levy avy taxes Upon me.” Tuisis an tlastration of e wenerai White sentiment of the State, and if toils be intimidation tuen the Louisiana Whites are guilty oi it, THE PROSPECTS IN THE NEXT ELECTION. hstanding t ti sey have @ majority of toe votes, and In & juin election can elect their ticker, 1 believe vue state will go repubivan next month by a larger majority than ever. very obaituction in some ‘parishes, 1 am as- sured, is being thrown in the way of whites who attempt to regisier, and this will prevent the polling of a Jull white vote, During tie past year there has veen an immense infux of blacks irom Peunessee Ud Missiseippi Who will register and Vote the radical Uicket us a matier oi course. It is believed t| Sully 20,000 negroes foreign to the State will vote, who, two years ago, voted in ) other States. Lf tnis be so | see no hope for a con- servative victory, even il Kellogg gives them “a Jair election,” and the present stute of anarchy and depression of business must inevitably con- tinue unless Congress on reaskembling promptly ives 8ume measure Oi! relief, It Cougress satis to jo $0, the government must quarter a standing army of 6,000 or 8,000 Men in the state to keep the peace, else there Will be a resort to tue rife and barricades with every Change of the moon aud tue moods Of @ peopie driven to the brink of desper tion by the criminal neglect of the generai ernment to guarantee i & Fepaviicaa | sovernment I shail discharge ve of in their de- | ussertions of the whites | ‘SOUTH CAROLINA rconadiagealnains Gradual Recuperation of the Palmetto State. | | Planters and Traders Becoming More Hopeful. BE GS | Rings and Dishonest Jobbers De- serving Censure. Corvsra, Oct, 12, 1874. ANorthera man is agreeably disappointed in | white have move dignity th this old Palmetto State, whatever his repulsions may be. It 18 not a ruined nor yet a chaotic State. it is not a retrograding State. It makes more cot- ton and wheat to the acre, has more busy hands, more ships in Its docks, more acres under cultiva- | tion and more varieties of products than ever be- | carry tie cotton of Macon and It is, to the citizen of the world, a country | fore. ahead of tts development under slavery. No thanks to the bad politicians of the State for this. | ricl luterior of its products. Some new towns Tue schoolmaster was a necessity, There never was any community, except France at the Revolu- tion of 1789, which underwent so radical and rapida change. South Caroiina was the prosely- Uzing high priest of slivery. The greatest sugar Plantations of Louisiana, the greatest rice planta- tions of Carolina, the most delicate and exacting quality of cotton in the world were owned by these hereditary planters, who are now the re- pubditcan subjects of a vast negro majority of their former slaves. The colony was modelled for slavery; 118 constitution, by John Locke, pro- vided tor peonage; its colonists first began the deliberate business of telling captive Indians to sidvery; they fought for the products of slavery, as such, in the provisional organization for Britisd non-intercourse; when we acquired Louls- tana the Hamptons and others were the foremost Anglo-Saxons to procced to that new territory and herd their siaves upon the sugar lands there, Slaves were brought to South Carolina but a little | while before the rebcliton, and the present inde- pendent republican candidate for Governor told TRUTH VS. FALSEHOOD | me that his relative owned, and he had talked with, | native Africans, forcibly imported upon the soil of the State, A JUMP FORWARD. And yet Iam of the deliberate opinion that the political conditions of this State are better set- ted, better ordered, more durable and nearer a large and long prosperity than elsewhere in the Union. I can give native testimony from the wisest and best habituated white men to thiastate of things, andIshalldoit. In my judgment the observations of Mr. James S, Pike, author ofanew ‘here is no use paying any attention to them any publication, called “The Prostrate State,” were spasmodic and derived from less than cosmopoll- tan study. ‘The most radical slave-propaganding | o1 young white natives, They promptly responded, State in the South ts coming out ahead of all the rest in the experiment of free labor and free suffrage. | their own safety, but they did not, airaid that ‘This it will owe to the hope- ; Was required, lessness of political ambition among the whites, — whereby they are neglecting politics and attend- | 4, a, To the more periect climate | tions. Ing to industry. | and soil they possess over any of the slave States, To the discovery of vast deposits of natural ig equal to five, and the disorganized labor equaily avatiable in the ratio o! its replacement by 6p chemistry. Jo the orthodoxy and homogeneity of the blacks, ness. To the chastened intentions of the whites, | Who, having the most inevitably inevitable biack Columbia I metabroker. He was industrious to acquaint me with mattcrs, and took me here and gone I hunted up the Ku ite government, are treating their labor with most the increased versatliity of products and enterprise | compelled by the situation, | NOT A BABREN SCEPTRE. | | 1g not $35,000,000, ag has been alleged loosely. It is not $20,000,000, as Mr. Pike was led to believe. It 19 at most $18,000,000. By the decision of tho | Legisiature and courts, themselves — partis: republicans, it 1s only $12,000,000, thus divided, ac. | cording to Senator Dunn, who is not politically | keep his oath and not to take Northern corre- | interested to make it less than he can:—Legally | authorized fanded debt less than $12,000,000; float- | tng debt, $500,000. Toral, $12,000,000. Add illegally negotiated conversion bonds, $6,000,000. Total, in the worst emergency, $18,000,000 The debt of Charleston city 1s iu round nombers® | $5,000,000, all ante dellum, except some funded in- | tereat. The debt of Columbia city, which has built a new Court House and a new City Hall, is $785,000, funded and floating. Improper and dis- honest things have been done in Columbia and io the State Financial Board, but no good purpose is | subserved by exaggerating what is bad enough and borrowing that old queraious and ignorant | assertion that “nobody can find out what the debt | is.” He who cannot find out what the debt is has no business to be conspicuous in guessing at It TESTIMONY. General Kershaw said to me:—“I do not think we need be laying up Misery for ourselves in a supposititious expectation of debt. I think the State can stand its debt. I regard the dit covery of our native phosphates and their cheap and c pious employment as an abundant recompense jor the loss of our slaves, 1 am dis. josed to look out hopelully upon the future of South Carolina.” Mr. Miles, a very accomplished ton and brother of ex-v Miles, said to me as well, “There is one ee must confess ana am agreeably surprised in. old and long nightmare of social equality has »YOV to have nothing in it. inere 1s no ten- dency toward amalgamation. We are mdden by an wnscrupulous ring of adventurers, but the blacks, leit to themselves, Would prove to bea well disposed and moderately progressive race.” Colonel Harrington, who commanded a compauy of mounted rangers, aud is now a planter, said “My ands work very well. I tind sourn Carolina the only place where Ican make aliving. I tried Missouri and jailed there and came back nere to recover my 1orlune. Formerly | owned 300 slaves. | 3 { | who are without the Oreole restiess- | and bot justice. Toa reflex wave of immigration, repelled | eel jrom Texas and even from Georgia, by the barren | in that cuse, and read the following as to the k. realization of exaggerated hopes there. And to | ing Of Randolph, in 1s08:— Look at these facts. ‘The debt of South Carolina | an | Tesented certain more tadical speeches he made vyer of Charies- | man W, Fares | a 1 chink 1 ai no Worse of, except ior ready money, | than belore ie war.” Mr. 1. H. Clarke, of Camden, a Confederate officer jound several hun d bales of cotton which had | ries. South Carolina needs only a self-respecting Legislature and Executive and judiciary to be What she should have veen but for ap exaggerated sell-worsuip, founded on tactious seitshuess, Which ho amount of personal chivalry could com- pensate ior, ‘think of a port only forty-two hours by sceam from the anchorage of Havana, closer | than New York to Cuicugo, nearest the vast cote | ton telds on the Mississippi, ana still without a line of ruil to Knoxville! The pluuder of this State has been by natives, even more than by strangers, Even some native women join the rout, The Petgrews aud Mackeys and Meltons and what not forget their late importance and herd together upon no social standard for the sake of the luxurious husks of which the swine par- take, The present standard of vaiues in South Carolina may Well be comparea with the following figures for 1954, used by Helper 1n his *impending Crisis :’—Seventeen and one-third millions od acres of land Were then assessed as worth no more than $23,000,000, or about $1 874¢ per acre. One-third ‘of this amount of land in New Jersey was sessed fb $153,000,000, or nearly $30 an acre, | Robertson sells half-acre building lots on the out- skirts of Columbia for $300 a hat!-acre to negroes, Hy an inexorable law the plantations are being divided, ‘the time 18 not tar distant when every negro 1 the State will have a piece of ground. In proportion as this time 1s hastened will good government come to blacks and wuites, Honesty, Without property, i8 not to be expected ino legislative body. The schovls aud freeholds which many of the whites grudge the negroes are to be their own safeguards. When the negro and the will seek less office. e: South Carolina nas in the ka ‘usta and Columbia | and the Piedmont air line railways a trifle ad- | vanced upon ner old ratiroad facilities, At Chester 1 suw@ narrow-gauge railroad and trein bound inland. But much remains to be done to give Charieston ite true importance; as, for example, a rallroaa trom Millen, Ga, to Tennessee, to Montgomery od irom Sayunnah, The area of the dtate is 29,386 square mies, or Jess than (hat of Maine or Indiuna. A dozen good navigabie rivers drain the have sprung up as by magic, like Aiken, and I have observed that the three cities which were burned in the war have eXperienced the most rapid re- vival—Atianta, Ricumoud and Columbia. This | nacuraly arose from the assemblage uf mechanics and luorers, Who finally required habitations for themselves. ‘Aby attempt to resuscitate the personal fortunes of the oid class of great siaveholding planters will ve futie in Sout Carohna, Their habits, their Want of thri/t, their dream oi increase, are wholly out of the reach of either luck or government, “Puey will have to die out,” said Governor Scott. it is a hard sentence, but itis true, In the young men there is hope and work. The federal govern. meut would ony be doing its duty by turning out every office-holder who gives aid and comlort to tue Corrupt rug at Commbia, ‘Yhere i one wuo 13 conspicuously @ candidate for thisdisgrace. Ifthe President obeyed his genuine repuisions he would also overhaui the whole of Senator Patterson's appointees, Strip this Man o1 his foliowing aud there will be a beginning, e While I was_ in Columbia I read in the Northern press, in the HERALD With the rest, accounts of jour or five rots and outbreaks, lam well satis- fed that ifeither o1 tagge had happened in tne city oi: New York they would not have deserved a police item. One was & quarrel between two negro leaders and their partisans, at Georgetown, ove of them, known as ‘Red Hot Joues,’’? @ com bative, spiteiul negro, now, unlortuvately stump- ing the Stace ior Green, to Whom he 18 DO acquisi- tiou. ‘ihe white people snould have interfered ior such participation would get them the score o! negro Witimidaturs. A second quarrel was in tue Edgelleid district, thut remarkable place where so Many great Curolinians have been vurn, Calioun, Pickeus, Buder, Brooks, Bonham, Gray, &c. i may say of this place what Governor Scutt said to me, “They have got @ good many men o! genius there, but a quarrelsyme Irish and Scotch-Irish Set Inhabitat tue Country, who gave me more trouble, When Goverior, than all tae rest of the State. The negroes have their cussedness, more than in certain ruwdy parts of Ireland.” Another row Was between negroes in Columbia, which alarmed Moses, and he called jor 8 company and the jather of one of the boys, Mr. Childs, banker, showed me, with some Rea titoa an, his son’s rifle and accoutrements No interference The last quarrel Was of no consequence—mere cat-calis at political meetings, to ‘guy’ the speak- between the Green and Chamberiaine tac- 4 RINT, I venture the assumption that, with rare exce| tions, the negroes are the oniy people both avie fhe carpet-baggers are unwilling to tell truth, the natives uvable irom prejudice, A thern correspondent going South must accept certain small courtesles irom both these classes, h Will deceive him. ‘The negroes, on the contrary, do not know the business of the inquirer and auswer Without intention. For example, in the Alter he was port, knowiug that he had-given testimo: Everybody who knows anything that was a concocted plan on the part of the repubi arty: we belteve it firmly and we every reason. \ Believe it, They killed hin for the purpose of incensing | the colored people against the white people, &c., &¢. Now General Kershaw gave me an account of the killmmg of Kando.ph like an honest, upright Tebel oficer. He said that Randolph, in is part of the country, Wus & Moderate, peace-advising tellow, and that he was killed by assassins who ut it belie abo f 10_a less liberal part of the State, I advise this broker when he 1s under oath to | spondents in these late days for set of flats. | Many of us have been over @ good deal of the | South and we put down in the same category witn thieves and carpet-vaggers those mercantile | rebels who try to scuffus with stories which really militate against the very property and society they represent. Mr. Noah, a carpet-bagger, but a frank one, told | me that some time ago 4 lot oi the native lawyers, | jobbers, &c., of Columbia, envious of the pros- | perity of the Ring, ipropeused to cram the press and street in New York with dismal stories about | the bankruptcy of the State, having first sold South Carolina bonds short, ‘ihe Ring discovered their little game, took measures to advance tne credibility of those securities and cleaned them out handsomely. Now, can we have any more | sympathy for a man who scandalizes the credit of | hig State than for the thief who takes its assets? | ‘The Northern people must learn to discredit both these Classes Of ruscals, and it they lie downright show them up reegupiy. I met few mischie. | makers in Svuth Carolina. The professional carpet-baggers I did not go to Bee, expecting noth- | ing iron them, but I must express my surprise at the donkeyism oi certain traders and pote-shavers who traduce the ground pee live on and think to pack young reporters’ minds with folly to utter | Against their own people, THE RECENT ELECTIONS. nanerrdnemeensratte A Disaster. {From the Indianapolis Sentinel—independent.} ‘The defeat in Ohio and Indiana is certainly the greatest disaster that the republican party hasyet encountered. The Effects Sure To Be Folt. (From the Springfield Republican—independent.] It cannot be too thoroughly digested by ali con- | Gerned that the disturbance in Oblo and Indiana as a good deal more o/ admonition and warning for the republicans than o/ encouragement for the “democracy.” It means rather that a number of voters are dissatisfied with the party in power, ravher than that they are anxious, or even will ing, to briog back tne party wuat Was shown the door in 130. At the same time tne result in these States is sure to exercise more or less intiuence upon the elections still to be held; the republican gaid:—"Wneo l came home trom tue war I | Orgaiizations of New York and Massachusetts, tor instance, will pretty certainly feel the eects of it escaped the Vigilance of Sherman's soldiery. It | on election day, if not beiore. brought iorty cents a pound; but the money did me no good. Ispent it for immature epecuiation aud came down to hard pan. Now, 1 look hope+ fuily upon the future, attend (0 my own business, look after my iree negro labor, advance supplies to the laborers aid amail planters, and guess rf am as Well off a8 @ young Tan ouxht to be! These statements could be multiplied, They are all derived fiom members 01 the Democratic Conservative Convention. ite fact is, that the South Carolinians, by the very nature of ther youth and poysi vig6r, are spared the intro« Kpective, querulous philosophy o: the Virginians | ‘she lacter reasou upon idealisms aud are sult of dismal prognostications, The former are afield, orma&ing of the heaitby alr, familiar with manual work and almost mdifierent to national politica, ‘They have discovered their value as a part of the Union. Beiore they were wont, under jeaders of diseased and provincial minds, to consider them | selves alone, as a State better of without neigh+ bors oF Hauonal restrainte, PROGRESS. | The northern part o! this State has immensely developed, pusiimg the cotton eniture to the loot Oo! the Biue Ridge, where Wheat and cotion bios som cConsonantly and hither is king. ‘oat part of kets by the Ovenivg Of the alr line raliroad from Atlante to Chariotie, and the city of Greenvilie is one of the most progressive in the South. Spartan. | candidates for President and Vice President. The tendency of ail freighte | nominate Washburne, or Loutwell, or Fish, or one burg is ulso growing, is through, Herein the Carolimiais see the folly and parrowness of their Old railioad system. ib | the State has advanced in towns and ready mare | the next National Oonvention, | recover its lost ground in 1876. Learning “‘How It Is Themselves.” {From the Indlanapoils Journal—repubdlican.) A political party that cannot survive not only one but many defeats is hardly worthy of the name. In this respect republicans may learn a lesson from the democracy, who have borne uo under repeated deicats, preserved their organization, improved their discipline and gone Into each re- curring contest with undiminisaea vigor, In sporting phrase “they have always com: up smil- ing.” Republicans have far more reason to pro- serve their equaniinity under deieat than demo- crats have ever had, sor their principles are better avd their cause for more worthy of persistent ort, Political deieats are hard on the unauce sful candidates, but they are sometimes full of improving discipitne for a part; What May Be Done. {From the Chicago Tribune.) It is not impossibie for the republican party to In order to do 60, however, it must expunge the Grant dynasty in it must not ouly stamp out the third term nonsense, but it must go a8 (ar as possible in another direction tn Picea of ‘0 ol Grant's military subordinates would be con- | etraed as an attempt to prolong the Grant aa- was twisted to and iro between seifsi localtUes | ministraiion under an alias, and would bring the Without comprehensiveness. ihe raliroads suowla | odium (hat has been go heavily felt in the elec- have been jocalized at Cuariesion, not led tow | tions of the preseut year upon the ticket every- merely political Vicinage, like Columbia, ihe rice culuvation has jallen 0G, through (he disinciina- tion of the negroes io get the pneumonia by work. lug i the treiches in the cold wiater months of January aud February, bot the navai products of | magazine styiedtne Civil Kt where, itmustdo more than this. It must put & Stop not only to the outrages of whites upon blacks, but to (hose of biacks upon Whites in ihe south. it must cease Bd witu tuat powder gt its bill, Tt must South Carolina, tar, plich, turpentine and rosim | make @ show at least of stopping the irauds on tne have made up the difference, wuereas before they | public treasury. it must remand the lederal oilice- | Were scarcely accounted staples at ail in this otal Loiders to their legitimate duties, It must cease | Lheard ex-Goversor Aiken say:—“ine coildren | meddling with the private habits of the peo- | who used to drive the oirds of tie rice fields are | all at school now.” Surely, this is nothing to complain of op aay broad puman ground. A boman being driving Away birds js at best an ex. | | travagant form oO! scarecrow. Lut, by all | counts, the cotton yield 1s greater than before the war. The number of people veneuted by the in. crease is prodigious, Ihe discomioris of ae lew ebiedy in rem end whe joss of ac- | the republican party an ple ana seeking to impose temperance and reli gion upon them by Cvercive jegisiation. it must | abandon all schemes jor inflating the currency and paying the bonds in greenbacks. As between the democratic party considered as mere shells, the majority of the peo. | ple are stil Peg er but they are not sae eres Attached to that sues to tane its potten Kerne) | | There SHEET. THE CHATTANOOGA FARCE. Remarkable Failure of the Repub- lican Convention. The Committee on Address Unable to Collect Outrage Statistics. A MILITARY DESPOTISM WANTED. Clayton’s Delegates Practically Desert Him. OBAITANOOGA, Tenn., Oct. 14, 1874 In @ despatch sent from this place Monday I stated that the Southern Republican Convention would be nothing more than the merest bubble, which woula burst at the slightest provocation. It needed no giftot prophecy to foretell that the body of disappointed carpet-baggers, though bent on mischief, would fail in accomplishing their most ardent desires in the way of unveiling the unia- vorable into favorable opinions held by the North- ern people against them. ‘he Committee on Address met last night, and there was a general discussion as tothe matter that would be most politic to be set forth. Une plan was suggested and generally agreed upon, though it was thought impolitic for the republicans to advance any such idea. The remedy for the diswurbances which had prevailed, they were of opinion, lay tn the equa! division of the negro vote the same as that of every other class of citizens, But they rejected this plan as entirely inadmissible, because their strength lay in the negro vote thrown into the balance on their side, and to counsel anything that would divide that vote was to inaugurate absolute defeat ior themselves. Some other plan must be hit upon that would prevent thelr waning light trom being utterly extinguished. Thouga the most reasonable mode of bringing about more periect harmony among all classes and though 1t was the key tothe settle- ment of the Southern difficulties, yet they were unwilling vo sacrifice party for the good that might ensue, They were not ready to let the negro go and thereby rob themselves of that Political power which could be achieved by them in no other way. Their only hope of preferment and of maintaiming political power was through the negro, and this has been clung to with great tenacity since the emancipation of the colored population, To this sact alone is attributable the ascendency of the carpet-baggers, wno have never | allowed any opportunity to slip that would have a tendency to perpetuate the Influence they might have over the creaulous colored brethren, PARTISAN TRIOKERY. This discussion only tended to very forcibly illus. trate the 1act thatit was not so much the peace, prosperity and happiness of the people they most desired, but the iuliilment of their own seldsh, ambitious hopes. Several of the committeemen claimed that tueir downtall had been attrioutable to Congressional action in leaning toward and dealing with the South in too generona a manner. it should have mafntained a tighter rein over the South, and thereby porpetuated republican rule. | Ichad failed: tom very large extent to come to thetr ald, and had allowed the power gradually to slip out of their hands. They did not think the Northern press had done the right thing by them, It had listened too much to the Seductive stories of Southern men, and had yielded to the idea that the latter had been plundered and badly treated. The Northern press had treated the republicans in the South with great severity and had been over-credulous, As long agtbe Northern press shonid continue to copy extracts {rom Soucbern papers prejudicial to the Southern republicans so long would they incul- cate in the Northern mind the idea that it was | the Southern man that nad been wronged, ana not the incomer or those acting with him. Congress, too, had made their cause more des- perate by the in'roduction of the Civil Rights bill, which had played particular thunder with therepub- | It was the mixed school | lican party in the South, clause that had been most Instrumental iv bring- ing about an astounding change. despite anything that might be Said to the contrary, Congress had weakened toward the opposite party, the North- ern press had weakened, the Northern people haa weakened and given car to the stories that had been told, and the power ol the republican party intce South had been gradually waniug under these combined iniluences, Their Jease would Wear out within the next two ears, and their political ascendancy be at an end, There was a tinge of bitterness con- nected with the idea expressed, that the Northern | Journals and people had and were giving them the cold shoulder, ‘Lheir misiortunes had bad a ten- deucy to ay? alive the republican party of the North, but if it was to go back on tl useless todo anything, liaving its promotion in view, While it depressed the party in the South. But they must have av address. To go away without making one would be selves to ridicule. They would state certain tacts; but what remedy for existing evils would they sug- gest? ‘There was the rub. Lhey must follow out a certain circumlocution, putin some things, and dodge others THE aDD RES, Alter much debate the draiting of the paper was postponed until this morning, when by combined | Bet! it Was finally wrought out as the expression o! the Southern republicans and adopied to-night. There was hardly a man who came to the Conven- tion tiat had thouglit of wnat the address shoula consist and how his wrongs should be righted. I heard delegates make the singular admission that in order to perpetuate the power or Southern re- publivans the present form of State government should be changed, remanded to a ‘erri- torial system backed up by the bayonet. ‘Tnis id Beem & desparate Tesource, ending in tabiishment of a military despotism all over the country. The whoie proceedings of fils Con- vention Were badly bungled irom begl end. In the first place the cbjects of the Conven- tion Were of @ purely sectional character, and did not express the sentiments of the great mass of the people of the nation. The men engaged in it were adventurers and office seekers, Men not identified with the prosperity, but rather the ruin of the reconstructed States. They were, in tact, political vultures, feeding, or attempting to feed, on the body politic, It was certainly more destl+ tute of results than any which has been heid in this portion of tiie country for mauy « day. AN UNEVENTFUL SESSION was held this morning. The shrewdest thing, however, yet presented by any member of the Couvention was the motion of H. M. Turner (col- ored), of Georgia, to the effect that each delega- tion appoint two more additional members to uct Upon the ‘committee to collect outrages.’’ As his manner of delivering himself was somewhat eculiar, the Convention burst out into a roar of awughter, when he suggested the ‘colection of trages.” But, nothing daunted, he responded, ell, No matter how muca you laugh, I know what I’m dmving at." The body tad en tirely failed, at first, to divine the object he tad tn view, but subsequenuy Poesy engilnsolt § the situation voted unanimousiy jor the measure. He evidently Inrended to make capital by suggesting tie very lamentable tact that for fear every member on the committee might be suddenly taken of by a concatenation ol cireamatances, two more, in addition, should be placed upon it to “collect the outrages.” A few at least might possibly survive the terrible nightmare to tell the story. It may be admitted tnt many outrages have been committed in the South, but not altogether by Southern men. were a good many barbarians in the present Convention whose careers have been written in blood.’ Two representatives of the “Tar Heel State” camein to-day. But hey were regarded as siali potatoes, Kennedy was wiitte and Price colored. But Kennedy made him- sell known to-night by coe very startling statement that not an outrage had been commutted in North Carolina during tue twelve months past. They were astounded to think that he had come all the way from North Carolina to make such an an- nouncement, which no one was prepared to be- eve, They had not come here to make such Idle reports, but to ‘collect all the outrages” that night be found within the ten reconstructed States, His stavement was entirely out of place. A litte blood and thunder would have been more palatable to the ravenous appetite whtel_ they did ot 1ail to exhibit when occasion required. PRICE, HOWEVER, CAMB iO HIB RESCUB by remarking that while passing through Georgia on the way tothe Convention, Kennedy had pre- venled a white mo» irom dragging him from the train, a thing wich Jew republicans would have done lor a negro. While a letter on education ‘was being read in the Vonvention tis morning an earnest and solemn voice ejaculated, “Thank God, we're to have education 10 the South |” Looking toward the spot wnence the voice proceeded one perceived seated among the Georgia delegation an old white-haired man, whose iong locks jeli scatter- ingly about his shoulder, and with the deep far- rows which t had piougtied upon his face he appeared ag bi had ied a hermit’s Ife, end had come forth from bis obscurity to see, like the som- nolent Kip Van Winkie, What was pow going on an the gr orld. Convention he was au idcousfuous sieméut. ald was tevetued by that bem it were | Oo subject them. ° ning to | intruder. delegation, the Georgian, as an the * delegation was aes, at his remarks, as at- tracting disagreeable attention to themselves, and had him removed by Howard, colored, of Missis sippl. CAPPING THE OLIMAX. The Convention showed @ decided aninus to night in the adoption of a resolution denunciatol of the hern Associated Press agents. A deli gate had just gone to the agent here and asked im If he did Dot intend to send off the entire ad. dress, when he informed him that he nad only been instructed to telegraph a synopsis, Alread. cbagrined at the virtual fatiure oF the Convention they were ready to vent their spleen upon thé Press io happen to make adverse legates inay happen to desire, x hibited the fact that they had come down to a desperate strait, that they were on their last lei and inust very soou give up thelr chances fot Jatube proms on 8 boneless When Pinch! of New Orleans, telegraphed nere the other eet the best quarters to. be had in the city, General a prominent and highly esteemed elsizen, Was asked whether he could not entertain tne distinguished gentiemam. Wilder responded barn ata thas as oooupied by ue c iored aniver, , 8 colored ant General Wilder was a fe Sr Geant omer &nd a North “The Convention of Thieves,” {From the Memphis Appeal, October 14) A plague more dreadial than the grasshoppers which desolated several of the Western States last summer is scourging Tennessee. Chattanooge has been converted into another Jenoshaphat, and James’ Hall the Bethesda where a knot of carpet bag rogues who puraue politics only for the sake oi plunder, have gathered tor: the , ose of mak- ing known to @ sympa' World the wr they have sustained at ane nands of othe wicked and remorseless savages of the South, They are reluctant to give up their hold upon the throa of the Southern people, and witn the hope of securing @ new grip they meet at Chattanooga, where a new batch of lalaehoods will be hatched, witn a view of electing men to Congress who will restore them to power. The Chattanooga Convention will cry lustily tor more troops and represent the Kukiux as ravaging the country. These carpet- baggers meet ostensibly ‘to consider the disor. dered condition of the Southern States,” when, in fact, they meet to Consider their own disordered condition, Congress has been considering the disordered condition of the Southern States for nine years, States have been placed under mil tary rule, and the carpet-baggers at Chattanoogs can invent no new inatrument of torture, 1 meeting is called with the sole view to avert overthrow—to devise measures for the perpetua. tion of their power. The Convention is composed of seedy, needy, plundering dead beats, and command no mo! pepe than a meeting of Sing convicts, presided over by Tweed, POLITICAL NOLES. A very bad year for Parsons, Scratching did tt, The Albany Evening Journal has been overhaule ing the journal of the Assembly and alleges that in 1872 Mr, Tilden did not do his whole duty to the State. The foliowilng isthe memorandum result of the search ;— Whole numer of votes by yeas and nays, 8. J. Tilden present and recorded on. ‘8. J. Tilden absent and not recorded —-This is certainiy terrible; but the question arises whether the republicans of the Assembly objected to Mr. Tilden’s absence during that memorable session. Did the Journals examiner ascertain whether or not Mr, Tiiden was absent woen the bili Was introduced in that session toallow the town of Tonawanda to purchase @ hearse The Oneonta Herala and Demoorat ia getting alarmed about that ‘walk over’ of Governor Dix, Qnd sounds the tocsin even more loudly than the Utica Herald. Weare glad to see that even the party press ia learning to discuss defeat as well as to prophesy success, The Richmond Dispatch very gravely remarka, apropos of the late election retaros;—The Day of Judgment is either here or not far off,” Mr. Dawes, in his late speech at Worcester, de- @ingt the too prevalent cuatom of “tick: ‘8 of the masses with boastings of past achievements.” He Dawes well, If it be true that scratching @ ticket cures am itch for office the republicaus of Obio are in a fair way to retire from the political fleld, Their voters, according to the leadersin the republican organs of that State, must be like the “man in our town” whose memory Mother Goose has embalmed for ever. New Jersey is coming round; at least all douote regarding her politica) fidelity to the nation are dissipated, The State Republican, of Plainfield, prints a long communication irom a colored voter of Ehgabeth complaining of an attempt by a prom inent politician to corrupt the colored men of that city, “Will Grant be the candidate of the republican party for 4 third term seems to be one of the real, “live issues” of the day; yet, strangely | enough, ex-Governor Washburn, in his recent speech at La Crosse, thoughtlessly omitted the op- portunity to answer the conundrum, General Banks will speak a piece at Charlestown, Mass., on Wednesday next. Dr. Ayer deieats Daniel 8, Richardson (Judge Hoar's candidate), and the Springfield Repubitcan finds the heart at sach a time to say:—"It was Mr. D. Needham who moved to make it unanimous, Score another sweet revenge for Butler.” ‘This is what the Philadelphia Press has to say about the result:—‘If it 18 @ protest against any- thing it is agaimat the ‘hard money and free trade’ platform upon which the democratic party in the East has planted itself. The republicans lost only throngh their timidity, and because they failed to echo the popular demand.” The Ohio State Journal (republican) of Friday heads its leader on the election, “Tucsday’s Travail.” The Cincinnati Commercial says that the demoo racy have just about enough victory to spoil them and confirm the republicans in power. They will find their Congressmen divided and discordant on the iseues of the day, with @ strong tendency on the part of the leaders to retire to the political boneyards ior sale keeping, while bummers will revive althe old war cries and grow wild with flerce hunger for the spolls, Party spirit waxeth warm up on the Iakes. The Buffalo Axpr'ess loves history ond figures. It | Baysi—"Taxpayers will soon begin to feel th¢ | effects of the shocking democratic administration | of 1871, An extra tax of $21,000 will have to bt raised in Erie county this /ailto meet the de ficiency which the last democratic administration created by misappropriation of state funds’? The case must indeed be getting desperate. We coniess that we had no idea things Were Dearly 90 bad as the Ithaca Journal paints them t= “Where the spirit of rum and democracy heth apread its flame o desolation follows which the skill of man and the reviving dews of heaven can never reach, Itisas barren and verdureless as the sulphurous marl which ‘paves the deep track ot hell.) Poor Ohio | The prohibitionists have at last managed to hand het over, bound hand and foot, to the embraces of modern democracy.” Such alament over the triumph of the inflated currency doctrine may indeed be dubbed silk-rag journalism, Now look out for frantic appeals to ‘‘ciose up the | ranks,’ “rally for the polls,” aud much of the same | sort, We begin to see them already in the papers of this State, The National Repubtican puta on @ good face on learning tho resuit when it says, “No doubt about it, this is tne off year in Ohio ior the republicans, We are otf—badly off.” “This isnot our day,” says the Indianapolis Journal, and further observes, “one lesson to be learned irom Tuesday's election 1s that the repub- lican party needs to overhaul and repair ite on ganization.” “Certain democratic Congressmen appear to have been elected,” sneeringly remarke the In dianapolis Journal, ‘The political a3 well as historical fate of Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr has been threatened all those who bolted their ticket by the republican newspapers of Ohio and Indiana. The voters do not seem to have heeded the warning. Andrew Johnson said in his Shelbyville speech:— “] never was & republican.” Upon receipt of this iniormation in a telegraphic summary & Western journal exciaims:—Uh, if he had only said that in the early part of 19641” It certainly relieves that party of a very heavy responsibility. “Pbia must be the tidal wave,” exclaims the In diavapolis Sentinel The Washington Chronicle devotes ite editorial page of Friday to Southern outrages and Nortners outrages—in the shape oi more puoile documenta~ but judiciously avoid» wasting its space upon suct Qu unimportant mattor as the Fosuit of the clee | sons to Obie aud dndians,