The New York Herald Newspaper, October 24, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1874. LOUISIANA. he Recent Change of Heart Among the White Leaguers and the Blacks. SPREAD OF THE FUSION MOVEMENT. mis) LY A Colored Convention and What a Correspondent Saw There. THE FAILURE OF THE “ADVISORY BILL.” ——___ +. point of decorum this Convention will not com- pare [avorably wita the Constitutional Gonvemtion | Of 1s67—the drst biack and tan oody that met as | State legislators, Then the bUsiness of politics Was hew to tae blacks, and their natural umidity restrained them from violent demonstration. But | in seven years me | have advanced in the science | of legislation until they are almost as weil versed tn the tricks and sharp practices necessary to pack a convention, carry @ primary or choke of | & political enemy as are Mark Lanigaus’ iambs | ot Fourtu ward of your city, or John O'Brien's | Tenth ward repeaters. An hour's attendance upon this Convenuon proves to me that tue Diacks are fully the equal of the whitesin this articular, aud I record that opinivo here in justice to the nation’s pets who have fastened | upon Louisiana a government not 0: the people nor the choice of the peopie who bave a pecuniary interest in the sotl. | them to lay the pipes for carrying the election by have certaloly carried out in good faith the prom- ise to prevent, as far as possible, intimidation of biack voters; but on the other polat named, as to the ruling of the umpire, they have proved as treacherous as have the repubiicans in the matter of appointing conservatives on the Returning Board. What the upshot will be of course can only be surmised, ‘The conservatives instst that the re- pubiicans were never sincere in their desire to make the labors of the Conterence Committee a suocess, and that they entered into negotiations only to allay excitement and gain time vo enavie fraud, Fshould not now be surprised if further bloodshed should ensue, on or betore election, in THR ARBITRATION. To-day [ had a pleasant chat with Governor Mc- Enery as to the cundition Of affairs in (he state, and [ tound thut be ls very moderate and colsery ative in bis views on the question of a tugion with the negro. te seems to be extremely anxious to have the dispate between him and Kelogg set | timally at rest as soon as possible, that peace may be restored and an ead put to the frequent manw@avres | that keep business paralyzed and the id resi- | MORE FEDERAL ARRESTS. New ORLEANS, Oct. 19, 187 That the whites of this State are beginning to experience a Change of heart toward the negro ts very evident from tre sudden change in the tone of their organs in this city, A month ago they were defiant, and, witn one exception, gloried in the platform of the White Leagaers, whose landamental principie is a white government. To-day they are “cultivating” the vince man most affectionately, and coufdeutially advise him that alter all the whites are lis real ‘rieads aud wi'l give him more than he has ever nad in the past, or is likely to secare tn the future by alliances with the white carpet-baggers and scalawags witbin the ranks of the Kellogg party. A month ago the whites breathed a spirit of deflance against the negro, whose treachery to the party who has given them employment and deiriended them when the waite hoodlums, who used their backs upon which to vault into the pulitical saddle, entitled them to nosympathy, A mouth ago the flat was being circulated that the whites would uo longer employ negroes who voted with the Northern thieves who robbed the taxpaymg masses by levying of heavy assessments; @ month ago the cry was, “The whites will take care of themselves—we want no combinations wita negroes.’ What a change has a month brougnt forth | It has seen the long-su!- jering Masses arise in their might and in a few minutes scatter the legions of corruption before them like anst belore the broom of the sweeper; it bas seen @ new State government of order, peace and quiet instttuted and ad- Miaistered for five days, until removed by tee arm of the federal government, it has demonstrated that the men wno are reoels tm their allegiance to a government they look upon ag a usurpation sre loyal to the national govern- | ment, be ore whose power they laid down their arms only ten years ago. Buta month bas seen a more tmportant soctal revolution in public senti- anent. It has battered down THE WALL OF PREJUDICES that has been erected to separate the white mas- | ter and the black torler, until at last tuyere is some hope for a healthy spirit of union pervading both races. The address of the colored volters, issued | the other day, disapproving of the Kellogg admin. | istration and favoring a union with the whites on | certain conditions, made the first break in the wall | of separation. At first the whites were disposed to look with suspicion upon this sudden destre of | the blacks to make concessions; but when tntelli- gence reacbed the city from the parishes that Pincnback and others were circulating in the inte- rior advising the biacks to desert the Kellogg repnblicaps and make the best terms possible | with the whites, the conservatives of the city be- ganto meet the advances of the negroes with favor. The defiant spirit of the White Leaguers | toward the blacks has passed away, and, with the exception of a few isolated cases, the general dis- position of the whites isto givein the ensuing | election an Opportunity for the colored people to prove the sin-erity of their professions of a desire to unite with the whites, Various causes are — assigned for this sudden change both on the part of the blacks and whites. The revolt on the lith of September must have convinced the blacks that the white race, in an issue at the berricades, will invariably win; and hence it is to their interest to cultivate friendly relations with the men who cannot only repulse them in battle, but who can in peace employ white labor and per- mit them to subsist their families. The whites, on the other hand, have discovered that emigration of blacks from other States, recently returned to white rule, is making this State blacker than ever; that if Alabama or Mississippi in the next election becomes conservative the blacks will flock into this State and swamp the whites at the polls. They see that there is a probability that Louisiana may become a second St. Domingo, yearly becoming more and more a@ retuge for the blacks irom otber States. They also see tbat by the bolting of the viacks from “he Kellogg party, owing to the internal dispntes that can scarcely be settied beiore election, there 1s a possibility of @ union with the maicontents that will insure to a fusion ticket substantial victories in the November election. THE FUSION FRELING SPREADING. Governor McEuery, who uas just returned from a canvass of all (he western parishes ot the State, | has strong hopes that the conservatives will carry the State in a fair registration and count. While he ls pot Very sanguine of acompiete union be- tween the conservatives and black bolters from Kellogg’s ranas, he reports that in the parishes of ‘Terre Bonne, Piaqvemine, Ascension, Iberville and ‘Tangipaoa tuey have iused on parish officers, and a | sunular course will likely be pursued in ail the other parishes that fave not aireagy nominated tickets. On tie State ticket, of course, there can be uo lusion, as the candidates were nominated before the iusivn movement took form and rength. Some of the Governor's party iriends are not dis»osed to entertain apy proposition of alliance wiih the negro, claiming that he 18 treacuerous, and will séll out his democratic iriends = in =the = «future as he has iuvariabiy in the past, These gentlemen say (Nat the policy pursued at Vicksburg im the jast local election of arming, and telling the Dlacks that they will see thut there ia a fair ele lon, is the only way to deal with the negro, T was the policy 01 Colonel Young, o1 the Democr: Committee in Vicksvurg, and the resuit was that the leader of the Diack radi deserted his party | and fled, while the blacks who wanted to compro- mise came ap and voted “opeu’ ballots for the democratic ticket. This 1s the policy, they say, that must be pursued in this city. The majority of the White Leaguers with whom [ have conversed take this view of (he situation and declare tuat they will carry phe election sere in spite of the blacks and federal bayonets, i there is not fraud perpetrated. | A COLORED CONVENTION. For three days tne Parish Convention h fn session in tuis city to nominate office voted ior 1) the next election for the parish of Orieans, and J bave availea wmysell of the occasion to familiarize inyself with the ability of the colored people to manipulate party politics. The Cunven- tiom probably numoers about filty delegates, about pine-tenths of whom are colored. manipulators of the coored voters have fxeo up 2 s\ate for the adoption of the Uonvention which gives the Diacks two out of ten of the offices only, and while some of the biacks are disposed to rebel against the ukase of the white leaders of their party, the impression at this writing is that ‘they will acquiesce and nominate the ticket arranged for them to swallow. Tne col- ored people of the city, following the exampte of those of some of the paris! where the whites have a majority, seem disposed to fight sny of the party feshpots, and allow the white radicals full swing at toem. They reason that the late revolt in tye Cit; we inst a Diack government, ana ence they hope by electing white repubiicans to Bye less offence to the conservatives than they ‘would’ {f they filled the parish offices from their cows race. Shonid they nominate white repnoit- cans who are old residents of the city and have @ roprietary interest in its preven T have no loubt the object sought to be attamed by the col- ored men will be achieved; but if they select what are known ag ' pe they will have one from bad to worse, My¥Pxperience is that he white conservatives have mofé prejndice against the scalawag than they have aguiog’t [be Degro. Of the two they would sooner trust (he Ts ‘yateaint of intelligence the representatives are tar Men who will favorabi body in the country. ‘There are among red tes juily fifteen or twenty gentle- zy le for decorum, familiarity with partia- inen 3% and education, would put to blush w York Ward convention; bat tne bulance o negroes are men of no peng th one @od derimg upon the insolent. At intervals in jows will skirm: 5 See ac oni indulge in ion4 and unseemly demonstrations, yell like wild Indians, ‘Mr. Char- man, Ize wot de fu’! “i wout be shut of if | knows myself!” “Ize got de rignt to be heard nyar!” and similar disorderly exciamations. At ‘one time, on we convening 0! the body, I counted ‘no less (han twenty biacks standing ou their feet, end, with their index fingers pointed at toe eat, Felling with ail thelr power, 80 4s to be neaid above ine nowe Ub WOM Cal Was Lear Gi Ai aiieS, Aid The white | compare with any | dents in # lever of alarm, and the credit of the | etty and state from assuming toe status it haa belure the war. He expresses his willingness for any bonorabie compromise with the Kellogg party | that will set all dispuces at rest and prevent @ | recurrence ol the sttring events 1 the last two } years. Mr. McKnery claims that he has always | been disposed to submit bis claims to his seat bo ab wnblasseu arbitration, Governor McEnery stili maintains his willingness to produce the returns beiore arbitrators onother constituted authorities and abide by the reault; but be hus no idea that Governor Kellogg has any | Intention of presenting aa issue of this Kind, and | belleves, with all tue conservatives, that his re- cent offers o1 this kind were mereiy made tor po- litical evect, well Knowing that Presid nt Grant has neither the power bor Wclnation to designate arbitrators. GOVEKNOR KELLOGG ON THE ARBITRATION. lalso had an interview with Goveruor Kellogg | to-day regarding the two propositions made in an | interview the other day, whch I telegraphed you. | Mr. Kellogg admits that he has nv taea that Presi- dent Graut could eatertain @ proposition to arbi- | trate the matter; yet the proposition was | made to. S8now bis readiness te hav full and fmpartial investigation by a Congres- sional committee or other properly cohsttiuted authority. indeed, he asserts that Cong’ess can | scarcely fail to do sustice in the premises, and | Maintained that it must, early in the session, Bend | down a comralttee to make & thorough investiga- tion and report. He toinks that sucn committee can be ransed, all the testimony taken and are- | port be made to Congress within forty days of its | assem liug, 80 a8 to enabie Congress at ite next | session to legisiate in tue Interest of peace in the | State, In expianation farther 0: hia proposition he says that,in the ¢vent of such arbitration | showing that he was not elected, he does not pro- | pose tu surrender tne oMce to McKnery, but | merely to resign. In the event o/ his resignation, as thé present government uas veen recogn.zed | at Wasuiogton, 01 course Lieutenant Governor | Antolue would claim the seat. In respomse to the | letier of Goveruor Mcénery, published yesterday, | in which the latier shows vhat ne had all along | been wiiing to arbitrate the matter, Mr. Kellogg | to-day publishes @ reply, in which be endeavors, | > bat fails, to show that Mcknery broke off the ne- | gotiations. Kellogg conciudes his better thus un- | satisiactorily, Tue proposition, it will be seen, 18 | Situtlar to the one made on tuesday by telegraph | through tue HERALD, and is utterly impractic- | able: 1 can now of course only speak for myself, bat I would | even now be wiliing that the reiurns. though they have | been for weariy two years “in the hands of the spoilers,” | should be suomitteu wo the examination of three or five | disinterested persons to be appointed, say by the President the United States. if ry thorooge, investigation it does uot that L was elected I wil willingly resign. The stances attending the last e.ection in thi: never yet been thoroughly and fairiy inv ‘or | can they be except upon the spot oc- cured, and where the proofs, pro and con, are readicst to hand, 1 tear nothing trom au inquiry #0 conducted but on the contrary earnestly hope that some such iuves: tigation may be had. | KRLLOGG’S CITADRL. | Yesterday I strolied into the ball of Representa. tives in the State House, in which Governor Kel- togg also uas his executive office, and the scene presented was ideed a Dovel one, About the hall were scattered the army sent down here by Attorney General Willums to prevent the White Leaguers from periorating the hide of woat they style the great De Facto and to engage in the sport of Ku Kiux hunting, when S. B. Packard, | prime minister of Ulysses’ court gives the order “forward.” Around upon the seats where huve rested the portly torms of tue Jat scalawag, the | earnest colored legisiator and the dictatoriai car- | pet-bagger, were scutsered knapsacks, haver- backs, beits, canteens and bundles appertaining vo the outfit of the private soldier, Upon the eie- gant chandeliers were bung littie toilette articies to dry aud air; the Speaker's cuair isa kind of com- | missary sergeant’s quarters and asdjutant’s office combined, where rations are issued and reports | made. Out of a remodelling ol desks an ingenious private nas founded @ barber's shop, where he shaves 43 inde.attgably as tue politicians do in an- otuer quarter Oo: the State House camp. In tus room Can be seen lazy soldiers jolling about the desks, reading dime novels, mending rents made | on the plains in encounters with the copper- colored Lo, or arranging their underciothing be- hind blankets put up as temporary screeus. These men are Kellogg's body guard, waiting patientiy jor the bugle blast of the White League to sum- mon them to arms or the flat of Attorney General Wiliams to mount lor the Bans of the Ku Klux in | the interior. About the doors of ingress and | egress, too, Of the knightly Keliogg, who has a courtly smule for all, are dis:ributed armed metro- | politans, who scan the features o! every visitor |0 | See that no assassin gets hear tne august presence Of their cniei. Ln the language 0: « local paper :— | | _ What greater satire can there be than its conversion | | | and atter | ear a arcum- have di, to tary barracks, the metamorphosis of legisia HS JRL AEGS soldiers’ tables wad’ beds cof tne Stent. er's chair into a watchhouse. [I but another picture of @ state converted inw @ military satrapy,as greata | i mon the Kellogg government as ever pen or pen- | i 4 | A BALLOT BOX ADVENTURE | [had this morning. Walking up St. Charles street @ Meuiber of Lhe White League tapped me on the Shoulder with the remark :—"Come with me. You New \orkers can stuff baliot boxes scientifically ; | bat Ican show you how stupidly tt ts proposed to do it here in the next election.” We walked a ew viocks, and suddenly, by the right fank, fled into a large establishment, where my guide asked to | see the ballot boxes that had been prepared for the | Bext election. One of many that been tp overhauled and pronounced secure, | | with an Iron hasp and a padiock confining tl | wooden cover to the body of a wooden box about | fourteen inches long, eight inches high and tweive ioches wide, was suown us. I turned it upside down, and in the bottom found an aperture be- tween the boards forming the bottom over a six- teenth of an tnch wide, and running the entire | length of the vottom. Pulling from my pocket a thick envelope, containg six lolds of heavy note | paper, Taltyped it tp and out easily. Turning tue | book over I siipped the same thickness of paper between the box and the cover with the greatest | ease. The openings were so large tuat with a! piece of tin with the ends waxed an expert | could pull out batiots irom tne locked boxes at the rate of three @ minute and could stud it with bogus ballots at the rate of two a minute. If this | be # specimen of the ballot boxes used in the last election no wonaer there were irands perpetrated equaling the best efforts of lammauy's veteran | experts, The Federal Arm Stretched Out to Gov- ernor Kellogg—Arrest of Alleged Cou- shatta Murderers—The Compromise Between Parties a Failure and a Sham. | NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 20, 1874, | What promised to ve @ guarantee of peace and | | quiet in tne contess next monsn in this city bas + | been defeated by the ill-advised councils of the | members of the Advisory Board, appointed under | the conference committee of the two parties | Om the 10th of September, and the belief is now | general that the rupture is so great that all the | | efforts taken looking to a compromise between | the conservatives and repubiicans will be of no avail, The reader will understand that, witha | View of securing peace and the rights of the minority to @ fair election, Dr. Bonzano, a con- | servative republican, was accepted by both | parties as an umpire, and two conservatives and wo republicans were associated with him as | AN ADVISORY BOARD, who were to arbitrate all questions in issue be- tween the rival parues, Among the points cov- ered in the protocol of agreement it was agreed by the conservatives that they would exert ali of their influence to allay excitement and prevent intimidation of colored voters throughout the State, and the republicans were bound to secure vacancies on the Returning Board of Elections for | Wo conservatives. For several weeks the Advisory | Board have been holding sessions, and good re- | sults were likely to follow, when suddenly the conservatives protested against the ruling of the Umpire, who resigned and declined to serve jonger og the Board of Arbitration, This course ; Of the conservatives, to say the least, was highly objectionable, after they had bound themselves to | be governed by this court of last resort; ana | Dr. Bonzano’s self-respect compelled him to tender bis resignation. In this the conservatives cer- | tainly broke fatth, But the republicans were | equally culpable, conservatives on the Returning Board within | twenty days, The time expired last Sunday, ana Kellogg, having failed to get the members of the | old Board to resign in a body, was unable to make the new appointments, The result of these broken pledges is that al| the efforts taken to compromise the troables nave failen through, and while the rad- jcals profess to still hope for the reorganization of the Advisory Board there is little probability of , tue eMule beim succedsu, Abe Commervauives | lected this time, when ¢he whites are exasperated, | the parties to the arrest, To-day is published an | any | Degroes. Yesterday actaavits were made against | ard, United States District Attorney Beck | and itmprobabie to be creditea, ‘They agreed to appoint the two | & the city. PEDERAL ARRESTS, Unforsunately the federal government tiave #e- to still further excite them to acts of hostility to the Kellogg government by the arrest, with the aid of the cavalry, yesterday, of thirteen citizens of Coushatta, charged with complicity in the mass- acre that occurred there recently, and their con- templated removal to this city-1n irons for trial. It 18 not $0 Much the-mere arrest of these men that aggravates the whites, but the treachery of agreement, entered into on October 6 by # com- mittee of clitzens of COushatta on the one hand and Senator TwiicheH, tae United States Comais- | sioner, on the other hand, in which Twitcaell, act- | ing as a iederal oflicer, declares on benati of the | United States that tt 18 not ois purpose to disquiet | the minds of the puvitc, and that he wili have 10 citizen @rrested on count of tie recent dis- turbances im this parish, except it be those | engaged in the murder of #,8, Kdyerton and others OM or about the 30th oO: August last, in Gaddo parish, and ti wo avoid unnecessary | hurdships \and deiays, and to aiford the reauiest | possible Means Of showing their imnocence, party arrested On charge’ of partici- pating 10 satd Killing ‘Bhall Irave tae rigut to ve heard iminediately before the Commissioner at Cous atta With witnesses, and siiall be disc narged | on reasouable (rool of innocence, and tu ucfault ol such showing may be ueid nswer under vond or otherwise, Should any citizen charged or suspected with being Of the’ party mentioned svove voluntiril appear before the acting Commissioner, demaud- | revolution in the Ntatory. of our race. SOUTH ; CAROLINA, —_—.—___. Social Changes Resulting from the War of Secession. CAREER OF A CARPET-BAG GOVERNOR. Pleasant Gossip Concerning the Old Families. The Rich, the: Ruined and the Reviving. COLUMBIA, Oct. 21, 1874. Having wedded slavery witi an unreasonable- ness which has suvordinated everything else tn the history of the State, South Carolina stands out | to-day as the exponent of the most radical social | Politioal revolution involves everything soclat. The daughter of James Pettigru, consigned to labor —TRIPLE ‘SHEET.’ River, and ig said to be a Greek temple in form, which Cost 6160,000. Governor Manuing, while at Washington with Governor Alken to represent the saxpayera, ‘Was Bandsomely entertained by Mr. eth. % os Aiken was a very great slaveholder, and ts said to have had a8 high as 2,000 slaves in the rice cul- ture. He 1s still the owner of mavy rows of honses in Chariestou and their value 1s slowly ap- prectatiog, ‘he richest men in Charleston, with Aiken and Trenholm, are George W. Williams, wholesale grocer, Warehouseman, banker, cotton factor and aud exporter of naive phosphates, he was in: Robert Adger, steam~ supper; ner, owner of much real estate which barely pays taxes, and hence is not atrictly nip egg the election oi Green will add militons to the value of Charleston real estate by making tt appreciate; W. &. Smith, banker dhd cotton dealer, said to be wortn $1,000,000; F. J. Pelzer, exporter of cotton and phosphaves; @ negro butcher, native ip the State, George Sirewsbury, ts sald to be possessed 01 $200,000. SENATOR ROBERTSON. At Columbia and in the interior probably none 18 in more. comiortable circumstances tan United States Senator Thomas J. Rovertwon, & native of the State and @ son-in-law of a very successtul flnancier and merchant, Caldwell. He is the oaly republican tn the Senate from the South, Lewis, of Virginia, excepted, bi to the manor boro and peilectly respectable otherwise, and he ts not to be classed with either oarpet-bagners or scala- Wags. Shrewd and close with his money, he/re- garded the war 01 secession as a piece of intrigue which Hed got beyond tne control of its agitators, and he ueld off all the time of the war and at the peace stepped lorward with the little regyhant of the Union party, expecting better things than ac- companied tue sequel. His standing and the t portance of his. accession obtathed his mediate promotion “to the Senate of in one of the departments at Washington, accepts for her husband a radical Congressman, and tn a cupolaed mans.on on Sullivan’s Island, the largest object along that strand, they live to this day with alternate passion and showers, This matron was once the enamorer of Pierce Butler, one of the greatest siavenoiders in the State, who took tn- stead Mistress Kemble the tragedienne and lived briefly and stormily with her. Again, the prede- cessor of Mr, Bowen in the Sheriff's office of Charleston, has resolutely invaded the code of social ethics and married @ lady of African blood, One of the leading negro legislators has taken a white wife; so nas Jones, the mulatto clerk of tne Legisiature. And the Governor of the State, with ing an inguiry a8 to such charge, such person | shal be allowed to return to nis. home without mvlestation or surveillance, wuavever may be the evidence ior or | against him, free from further inquiry, should his | proot of innocence be satisfactory. aud suvject to arrest aiterwards if deemed necessary vo meet | toe demands of the iaw, it being tae object of | this Clause of the ayreemynt to obviate tie arrest of aby citizen who might be deemed liable to ve arrested ag a co-conspirator in consequence of any action taken by lin fu the recent Uousuutia troubies, and tO mean that only such us are charged with the actual perpetration of any Lom. cide should ve arrested aud heid to trial. In vioiation of the plighted taitn of the federal governmen: It 18 announced that these men are to be deorived of & hear.ng in the place wuere the fence was committed, and covveved to this city in irons, where they must remato until cried and possibly reieased, as were the Grant Parish pris- | ouers under the decision of Mr. Justice Bradiey, | Tue Bulletin, the organ oi the Waite Leaguers, | asserts that :— This shameiul action, which, no doubt, has {ts inspira- tion in Washington, Is' 4 deliberate attempt to cieae condition of affairs in Louisiana waich 1. was the des un of the Chuttanouga Convention to pruve existed in all the southern States, Soldiers are sent tramping through the parishes at the heels of United states marshals, who are coufidently expected to spread terror among the Waites by arbitrary arrests and brutal tressmeity and it would seem to Le | the wish-ot United states. officers, instigated, nu douot, by Willains, to invite # coniict, nay. 1orce the people to detent themselves the robbers who are ra Ang thruuvh the country 1 the guise of deputy L Renee Dress, wath [nfanury, cuvairy aod artillery at | eir back. We all Know what it means. We know full woll that an elec ion is to come off, and that Louisiana must be made to go republican ‘it'it takes the wuole army and navy ot the Unated States to keep her in ihe traces, and we know that uniess there can be & serious trouvle cre- ated someboy that Mr. Willams will stan! betore tie world the convicied liar and tagenious evil that ae It cannot be pretenied that the Unite! staves cou have any right to wteriere in the mutter of the ou- shatta murders, for on this point Justice Bradiey ex- , preasly held. Simultaneously with the arrest of these Cou- shatta men a similar tederal demonstration of power was made io Shreysport. it seems toat | most of the large mercuants of the town, some sixty-five or seventy, the olher day sigued and pubiished ia the Times an obligation uot to employ as drajymen or PoEiers negroes who shall vote the radical ticket, and fuother pledge not to jurnish supplies to any planter who renews his contract witb radical all of them before Judge Levissee, Untied siates Commissioner, who is in doubt whether to issue Warrants 0; arrestor resign, He says uf he resigns the parties will be seut to New Orleans; otherwise he can retease them on bond. CONSERVATIVE INDIGNATION. AS may be readily supposed, these arrests and the issue 0/ Warrants against other wiites has greatly exasperaied the whites 1 tue State, and, | | coming at this moment, when the negotiations for | peace are being oruken off, is accepted by taem as a warning from Washington that tne Grant government Propow to use the federal troops in the interest of Kejogg to intimidate the whites. The conservatives, however, ure not dis- heartened aud h pe that this Jederal terrorism will only more closely unice the dem cratic masses, white and biack, against what they style the heel | of the usurper Keliogg. BOUTH CAROLINA'S COLONRL MERRILL. | You will rewember that lt informed you over a | Week ago, by telegrapi, that Lieutenant Colonel Meriil’s Seventh cavalry bad gone into the Red River county for the purpose of making arrests, bat the HERALD’s Xclusive wn nouncement was discredited until proved true yesterday. There isa pointl may here mention {| that is important in this connection, Eight or ten | days ago, in conversation with a radical State omMicer upon the White Leugue movementsin Ked © River, he remarked in a whisper, *I’li tell you | secret. To-morrow there will be a general order issued assigning Lieutenant ‘'o'ouel Merrill to the command Of that district. He has been selected be- cause he is one Of the most pronuunced radicals | in the jederai army. He is going up vnere, and be will make it hot for the conservatives. We've got the best man in the United States Army tor our purpose.” Sure enough, two days aiter Merrill Was sent up there, and be ser ms to be meeting the expectations of radical iriends there, while perbaps no% overstepping his army orders. further proof that the seventa cavairy was trans- Jerred Bere from the piains ior the especial purpose of jacing ite radical Lieuten- ant Colonel im command, {| may state that only jast Saturday I heard @ prominent radical politician irom that section of the State, ashe warmly grasped the hand ofa State oMicer, exclaim, “We owe you our neartielt thanks for getting us that man Merrill,” and then, with @ knowing wink, he aaded, ‘‘ne'll dol’? With these facts coming to my knowledge | cannot but | conclade that Colonel Merrili’s assignment to the culmmand is the result of a conierence between the radicals of this State and tne gu- thorities at Washington, and that the | Tegiment of whico Merrill 18 Lieutenant Colonel was ordered here iu compliance with @ | well understood purpose between Kellogg, bin i thand | Attorney General Williams, 1 learn that Colonel | Merrill accepted the command with a regret, tear- | Ing tbat old South Caroi.na matter would be re- opened; but officers wou know om assure me that he will not likely stretcn his orders to aid the radi- cals unless he bas explicit instructions to do 80 irom Washington. HAMILTON'S: RETURN, . The Defaulting Treasurer of Jersey City Surrenders to the Authoriti Between midnight and one o'clock yesterday morning a carriage was driven ata furious rate through Jersey City. The only inmate of the car- riage was Aleck Hamilton, the defaulting City | Treasurer, He bad become tired of nis rambles, , | aud me was in quest of the Ontet of Police | to deliver himself np, Failing to find the mel, he arove to the residence o! Inspector Murphy, t0 +) | woom he surrendered, They drove to the resi | dence of Chief of Police Champney, and the trio, after partaking of a hearty supper, proceeded to Police Heauquarters, where Hamilton passed | the nignt. He was conveyed to the | County Court House yesterday forenoon, and was arraigned before Judge Hodman. His coun- | sel, Mr. Winfleld, pleaded not guilty, and tne | Court demanded vali in the sum of $25,000, Ham- | | Hton offered Mrs, clewes, his motner-in-law, as | security: but tue Court refused to accept at an she had only @ lile interest in the propery her | deceased tiusband. Hamilton was theredpon re- | manded to jail. The indictment charges him with at $51,000 in ty? bonds and $15,000 1D cash iroum the treasury ol Jersey city. Hatniiton recited a long account of his travels | i his experience with the vanditti of the Mex- | Nan border, who, he said, robbed nim of neatly ail | his bonds. His story, however, ts too romantic | He will be placed | on trial in the second week of November. His re- | vurn does not relieve nis bondsmen irom their re- sponsibility. A suit is now pending avainst them im the Supreme Court for the iuli amount | of their security, the city, and thus obtain Hamilton's release, but | proposivion was rejected. Hamilton was | Visited ig the jail by his famuy and by several city ofictais, Wno realized ao last th | rave significance iu the title, « whicn was applied three years ago to the leg aocument which handed Jersey City over wo 4! | Unscruyulons ring. | Hamilton o! yesterday that he conid at any | time lay ms hands On $20,000 of tue stolen ponds, but big statement was oo. credived. Those who knew him best predictea that when le bad squan- dered the stulen bonds he woula ieturn and be; for mercy. A rumor that he wonid turn State’s [Ae a and implicate others is without iunda- , How, | nor. , ton snd | 1 | amored of a beautiful qaudrovn or octorvon girl, | gatd ty be Of no less exalted ancestry | | | | | | n—to be juliy periected im her educativn, | upon his political prosperity. | Presidential They have offered to inaemnify | Virginia hotel keeper's Gaughcer during the war,— | imparttal favor, sits in the synagogues of Alricans, messes with them and-dines and coquettes, ‘There’s one of "gs Degro rnistresses," Bild a United States Senator, pointing out a small frame cabin, Dear the park, His carriage is there almost every night. These are not new phenomena ex: ceptin public recognition, else why would white Men Still be dying and leave in their wills pro- vision for some female slave and her children, This is not unfiequent, and it proves that freedom has made it possible ior masters to compound for their sins oy providing for their bond orispring. [ have heard the names Of at least three of the most eminent statesmen of South Carolina coupled with Mving offspring pointed out in the streets, The orator wuose debate with Webster gave him @ celebrity above his argument still walks in darker visage ‘tirough the streets, Calvuua’s most ponderous successor is not all dead while his biood Kindies in more than one negro’s oye. THE MEMORY OF SLAVEXY is deeply engraved on the black man’s mind, and the ease with which the carpet-bagger can urouse it 18 the long hindrance to good government. Yesterday a gentleman leot me Lis buggy and driver to go to the capitol. 1 said to the boy:— “Were you a slave t”” “Yes, sir." “What did you do when you became free?” ‘1, went right to school uud I studied there when I didn’t bave bread toeat. I used to be hungry at my desk many along day. Tuen 1 ielt that I must make some money, but it 'peared to | | ; Me that I oad learned nothing at all as svon as I got out inthe world. So I went back to school again two years more. Now I’m a working, but I wan! to try to gu through college.’’ “Could you read injslavery ?”” “Oh, my, no! Why, if a man could learn to read | be’d know the map to run away vy. If he could write he’d write nimsel! a pass, It was a crime to read, “Was slavery a bad state for comfort?’ “Yes, sir, Some of them was no better off than the peop.e that is being damned down in the bad place tis minute, Some bad betier masvers, Some masters would wiip their own uegroes, but U cpother Man struck one of them they would get out their pistols and fire on him.” THE MACKEYS AND MOSESRS, Curtosities, in their way. are the two native houses of Mackey aod Mose: course, are Scotch, and provi trom a@jamily of patriotic tame. ibe Scotea bad their power in this province frum tue vu'start, but the Hebrews hardly foe beyond tie countenance of such jemales as they wooed and won until the era Of ccallawaggery begua. Then, lu the persuns of Solomo's and Moses, they arrived at their re. veuge. commonly wita tne rejected negrocs, The stones which the oullders rejected, tne same be- came the chiet o/ the curuer, aud there ts a corner in every ring nowadays, Whatever geometry may say. vid br etigct the father, had never been able to be more than State Senator from Sumpier, aithough @ man of knowledge as a lawyer, unc when the day Of truce arrived, the people tnemseives, not the negroes, made bim a andes of Circuit, as a half Way repubiican, Young Frank, his only svn, who had been received by Governor Pickens as secretary, in exchange for oid Moses’ support, nad bis ipfuence on tie iortunes Oi all the moses iam- ily. His unc.e, Montgomery Moses, played tne conservative 80 As to preserve tue ‘amily fortunes whichever way the political blanks were thrown. Two O1 them are nOW on Lue Lencd, ove ts Guver- They are tntermarried witn Christians. Shylock und Bassano meet in them and they have the plausibility of Portia As to their capacity, it is 80 jar @ subject of mys‘ery that I have seen in this campaign a mulaito lad stumping for Green, tinmeasurably the super- for o1 Governor Moses in self-respect and rever. ence. i THE MACKEY FAMILY 1s also fortunate in ia‘ely acquired honors. The head of this family, Mackey, sr., Was an anti-se- Cessivnist and one of the highest Masons in tuts | country. At the close of the war lie received im- mediate 8) preciation and became Collector of tne Port #t Charleston; while his son, K. W. M. Mackey, hi 4 coalition with tne well kuown Bowen, became Sheriff of Charleston, Mackey, Sr., now resides in the city of Washing is known #8 @ Masonic author ol considerable repuce, His brother, i. 5, Mackey, 1s One Of the eight circuic judges of South Caro- lina, and is @ native of Charieston, aged about fiity. While regarded asa brainy man, 18 not tuought to be particular; nor are any of the Mackeys, while they are still regarded as men of too muca pride to descend to coarse and brutal Jobbery, such as would ieave them without enough respect to be disliked, Bowen, Butz, Frank | Moses, Pattersun, Lesie, Parker and such coarse | Ciay are not reckoned up to the austere, If selfish, | ine of the Mackeys. E. W. M. Mackey did a bola, if improper, act 4 few months ago. He became en- than the | granddaughter of Thomas Sumter, tue | Carolina patriot General of the Revolution. | Toe oung girl had been deiicately and | proudly reared of a free family. Finding upon ac- quaintance that she was virwuons and spirited, Mackey sent her to Baltimore cit) —some say Ober- on her return he married ber, {his act, though sub- | Jecting him to s0..e low criticisms is silentiy cum- | mended by a few clear-headed men, who observe | that if a man does love in that tinted direction, he had vest be respectiul enough to hts affection to | give it legailty, At the present time Mackey is waging a desperate conflict witn Bowen for the mastery of Charleston. iis success is tue better alternative of the people, and he is heartily sup- rting the Green and Delauy independent tickel, Poaskea @ prominent citizen of Charleston what effect Mackey’s matrimonial ailiance would nave The answer was, “Sone whatever!’ THE OLD STATE HOUSE at Columbts, now destroyed, was a respectable structure of one ye With a basement, a portico and four columns, aud bo orbamentation except the paimetto tree monument of .ouated iron, which ig now the principal object in the new State House Yard. There, Novemver 6, 1800, Governor Gist called the Legislature togeviuer to choose electors, and Chestnut made o speech resolving “to live and die as became his giorious ancestry.” That is whas he is doing. United States Judge Magrath, who ripped his robe off a8 he resigned bis Office, had ason tn the Conservative nVvention the other day, @ modest young man, @ing well. Francis W. Pickeus, the Governor at the seces- sion, Was the political father o: Frank Moses, the | resent high toned Governor, Who had nearly been js 80N-iN-laW, according to report. He is vead, W. Porcher Miles, a prominent Congressman at | the secession, which he urged on behall, as he said, | of the administration av Washingwon, married & proprietor of one oi the Springs~and is now @ candidate for the Presidency of the Joins Hopkins University at Battumore. Henry fimrod, the Southern songster, died of | equal mental and bodily atiment. Governor Orr | is said by his iriends |o ave Veen @ fell-indulgent, | capabie Man never at case out of office, | BX-GOVERNOK MANNING gave me the joiuowtny account of iimsell:— ! states post and slept with some of the oMicers lor United States without purchase, aithough it is mooted that bis re-election in 1870 cost the ysual douceur, Belore he appeared in pabiic life Robert- son showed that he had not kept out of the war from bodily fear, Hearing that @ notorious rebel Was ip the habit of abusing him he attacked the man in the street, in the midst oi @ crowd, was stabbed three'times and would have been mur- dered but that he drew big pistol and broke the arm and shoulder Of bis abuser. He has been “severely let alone” since that time, A lew years ayo Senator Robertaun was partiy paralyzed and uisabied irom active work tn the public field; but he-is@ veteran 1ox hunter, and while 1 have been in Columbia tas led three foxes on three sererey Dunts, riding each, time above tweuty miles CARPET-BAGGERS IN PANIC. Apropos of 10x hunting, | will give you a well | accredited instance of a “Southern Outrage,’’ Wuich happeued at Columbia two weeks ago, A train of cars passed @ point at tne environs of the town, aud some Georgia colored men, belonging to a soviety in regalia, luoked out of the car win- Gow and said:. ‘ule women, we’s Ku Klux. Look out! de Ku Klux ts coming!” ‘The negro women had just looked their last at the departing trata when a party of Robertgon’s fox nanters dashed up, with horns and hounds, and, seeing some trepidation in the blacks, asked Its cause. It then Was suggested that they um- prove tue oppo: tunity to try the MBITLE OF THE STATB HOUSE RING, and send a messenger in to apprise them that Ku Kiux pad really veen seen in the vicinity of Co- lumbia and would raid the city that night. The mtelligence struck United States Senator Patterson, Moses, tue Governor; Dennis, the jailer, aud the rascal Who attempted to defraud the state Out of $40,000 on a furniture bill for the Stace House, with dismay. they not together a guard oj their henchmen and stayed in Moses’ big mansion until Patterson had drank up a bottle of Hostetter’s bitters—the only liquor there, as Moses has the solitary virtue o: temperance. ‘Then, in the dead Of nigut, they stole off to the United saety. The main points of this story will be cor- roborated by anybody in Coiumbia. Patterson lett the town next day, and, aiter nts wont, dis- | turbed the Executive with more revelitions of atrocities by the Ku Klux of south Carolina. This person, by the eminence oi his oilice, may be considered the leading carp t-bagger in south Caroiina. Bred in the lobby, without an iuea that anynody can be without a price; o! shal- low sensibility and no fortitude, be is to be re- membered in all the hereafter us the representa- tive detamer of the North in the south; for he leit in the Norto scarcely bis duplicate. He does not be.ong to the bold, Pigarro type 0! invaders, like Ciaytn and Davis, but to the commercial class, ke Dorsey and Avbott, Senator Robertson ts the first native white Man who. begun to sell lots and lands to negrovs aiter the war, giving them time. He says that in every case they appear with their bhp beiore he is looking jor them. 1 asked lun If he was to be at THE CHATTANOOGA CONVENTION. “No, sir. [donut see anything to call any re- sponsible man to that Convention. You go home | and say that I say—as good a republican as there 18 in the Souch—that nowhere in the worid is tuere more iree speech than iu South Carolina. Ihave understoud that Robertson possessed 300 slaves, Iu his former residence—a pleasant, willy house— Chamberiaine, the radical caudidate for | Governor, DOW resides, witl bis stylisi wile. Governor Moses’ Tribute to Public Sen. | timent—Changes in the Boards of, Election Commissioners=An Honest | Election Secured. CHARLESTON, Oct. 23, 1874. Much dissatisfaction bas prevailed tor weeks | past among tae independent republicans, owing to | the fact that the Boards of Election Commissioners | throughout the State were composed exclusively | of members of the Chamberlaine party, and conse- quently ieared that the vote for Green, the inde- pendent republican candidate, might not be fairly counted and declared. Governor Moses nas, therefore, issued a proclamation changing the Commissioners in every county, so thateach Board shall be composed of one regular republican, one independent republican, and one conservative. ‘rhe proclamation Is as follows :— Whereas numerous complaints have reached me irom various quarters of tue State that the | several politival parties are not adequacely, repre- sented in the Board of Commissioners of Election at present constituted, and whereas this lack of represen:ation has given rise in many instances to grave apprehensions of troubie in the conducs of the approaciung elections, and whereas tt is the duty of the Executive tu give to the whole | people of the State ali proper and reasonable guarantees jor the Sen chit of, the ballot box and @ fail and fair expression of the popWar will | throagh its Instrumentaitty, Now, theretore, i, F. J. M and over the State o/ South Carolina, do issue this my prociamation, making the following changes in the Board of Commissioners of Elec- ton in the several counties of the State. Then follows the ist of new appointees. The News and Courier, commenting upon the prociamation, says :— Weil advised now, if never before, Governor Moses has gratified his iew friends and disap- pointed his many enemies, and by one broad, Biraigotior\ ard exercise of the Executive power, | has removed a deep-seated distrust ana discon- | tent, insured the maintenance of the public peace and given confldeace and cheerrulness to every good citizen of the State. With the new Commis- aioners an honest and fair election is certain, and the people, witnout marmuring, will abide vy and submit to the verdict of the majority of the voters uf the State. COUNT VON ARNIM’S CASE, PERSIAN CS French Opinion of the Arrest of the Prussian Statesman. {From Galignani’s Messenger, Oct. 10,] The arrest of Count Von Arnim has, in general, produced a painful impression, and is very severely criticised by the foreign press, as weil as by such of the German journals as are not in the service of Prince Bismarck. The fact that a states- man 80 highly placed, and who has for a long period enjoyed in so marked a manner the cona- dence of his sovereign, and whom the opinion of his fellow citizens designated as the future chief of the government, has been arrested and incar- cerated, like @ vuigur criminal, i8 unprecedented in the history of modern Kurope. Lhe Press, of | Vienna, says:— Doubtless contemporary annals have registered many | infringements of inuividdal liberty comuittea by men bower under (ue inpuise of political passion and in the ardor of @ party struggle carried to extremes, but they do not record anything approaching, even remotely, the case of this diplomaust. Tue Presse expresses similar sentiments of Gisapprobation, with a iittie iess vivacity in the | terms; but the Morgen Post, the organ of the | democratic party, goes so far a8 to say that, in this circumstance, Prince Bismarck bas only once more applied “those despotic and yiolent doc- trines, to the practice of which he owes the unheard-of success o1 bis policy Of Iron and blood.”” (From the Parts Constitutionnel, Oct. 10.) * ** The couduct of the Ohancellor might have been justified if the Count had been suspected of any criminal attempt against the safety of the State; out, according to the assertions In the semi- oMictal journals of Berlin, the 8o.e Object O1 we measure taken against him 18 to prevent the pab- Neation of documents which might more or less compromise Prince Bismarck, One of those dr., Governor tn organs even goes #0 lar as to yak te | arrest and imprisonmeat of the ex-Ambassador | are not @ punishment inficted on tim, but a | wimple means of constraint to compel him to re- # ore certain papers which he has 10 bis posses- | sion, Hf that imterpretation was accepted the measure taken by the Prussian police would no longer be solely an act of rigor, but one of violence and arbitrary power. According to the articles of tue German Code which have been cited and which we have reproduced, the arrest of the Count “My father and three overs of my kin and con- nection Were Governors Oo! this State. I had 400 negtoes at the sugar culti on In Louisiana. Just beiore the war t invesied $70,000 in more negroes and bought more laud to tila sugar. itis ail gone, except my homestead.” 1 Anus pomestead, by tae Way, Is gear the Santee seems jolutely legal, and cannot be wttacked | Irom that point of view, What nas shocked pablic | opinion is the enormons disproportion between the severity of such @ measure und the asserted offence which Prussi justice seeks to punish; it is, let us say trankiy, the suspicion | entertained, that the act was inspired pb; | mens Of personal vepgeauce, indicaves that the oF aeaer is wo make the restitution demanded of him. Pa Mt pr await in bis vresené-firm attitude Fesult of the judicial investigation and the sen- tence of his judges, it ia it Dot possible for | Prussian justice to employ an intentional delay in | didates for re-eiection ; and their anti order to.overcome, the resistance of the prisoner Tas and suffering? He is in fact said to be subject fo the rigorous treatment Of ordinary criminals, and; moreover, the state of his heaith is reported to be unsacisfactory. ‘he knowledge of those details has probably contributed in oeprens Measure to predispose public opinion in his faver. The. Prussian Penal Lew which Ap- . . plies. to Von Arni ‘ The part of the Prussian Penal Code in virtue of which Count Von Arnim has been arrested is article 138, thus worded :— Whoever shall have destroyed, misappropriated, ee Ta ot 0 servad ” fa @ place dongnatea Yor that purpose, oF handed officially to a functionary or a third party. is hed with imprisonment. When any such off mitted with & view to procuring gain, the confi is ment cannot be leas than three months; the tribunal can also promounce the loss of civil rights. MASSACHUSETTS POLITICS. The Supremacy of the Predominant Party in Danger—Agitation Among the Republican Leaders—Opposition Congressmen Likely To Be Elected— The Canvass in Banks’ District. Boston, Oct. 23, 1874. There begins to be something of the genuine ring of political excitement in the campaign which 18 now in progress here in Massachusetts. Whem General Butler saw fit to ‘step down and ont” of the gubernatorial contest it was reasonably presumed that the canvass would be utterly barren of any strifes beyond a few local contentions in the -country districts for the minor legislative honors. Ali these antictpations have been removed, nowever, for there has been | Suddenly precipitated one of the most entertain- ing cauwpaigns experienced here for a long time. The contests are culefly in the Congressional dis- tricts, and hence there is more than a local inter- est and importance attached to their progress and result, That the party so long dominant iu the State and country is thorougnly alarmed at the sudden Mani-estations of tue people ts eviaent from , the prowpt and vigorous measures which have been taken to prolong their supremacy. in years gone by there has been that feeling of as- sured victory that rendered the campaigns avso- lutely stupid—except when stirred up by some such inveterate and industrivus statesman a8 Butler; but now all this time-honored apathy seems to have been succeeded by the most ener- getic action in behalf of party welfare. The ides of anything like 4 DEMOCRATIC VICTORY on the very soil where republicanism was born and nourished could tave been very propery laughed at @ few years ago, out now there are very grave tears that such an event may be realizes, Ido not mean to be understood as con- veying an impression that Massachusetts is going to be swept by the democrats or that tuere is to be @ democratic Governor elected this jail; but it i asact admitted ail around that the compara- Uvely small majority of 1873 will be still (urther re- duced this year, This probable result is due to various causes. Talbot is personally unpopular, except with the blue blooded aristocrats, and many of his Own party will go azainst him on ac- ovunt of bis radical temperance prociivities, On the other band Mr. Gaston, tue democratic nom- tuee, is Dot one of the old school hunkers of tue party, and furthermore he is 4 pronouuced triena of itveral legisiation, and possesses a personal popularity which will secure aim many votes toat would not be thrown for any other democrat in the State, excepting, pernaps, Mr, Stearns, .of Springtield. Passing over ail these injurious elements, it is transparent to all partial as Weil as tupartial ovservera that the republican party here is aillicied wit whac may be well termed a general and dangerous de- bility, and not a few of its old ieaders and joilow- ers are likely to forsake it on accoant of political reasons, The disiribation o/ patronage and cue exposure Of the manver iu which power is. se- cured and held has carried no little disafection into its ranks, and a movement in tne direc- tion of an independent party is uot among the impossibiliues, io dant this is aiready indicated 1D @ most unmistakable manner in the way in watch the compalga 1s being carried on in some of the Congressioual disiricts, and it would not be surprising that it among the results would ve the election Of two or three opposition Congressmen. Take it, for instance, in the Futh district, now represented by Mr. Govcu, of Meirose. Here is all the patronage of the Navy Yard, and still the chances are more whan eveo that Mr. Gooch and | the administrauon party will ve defeated, and that GENERAL BANKS WILL BE ELECTED by a handsome majority. So alarmed are the repubucans at this threatening aspect of affairs that they are throwing all the vim and effort ut command into this single district. Not only are all tue iocal stump orators brought into requisi- tion, but importutions have been made irom weighboring States, and Mr. Gooch himse.t has leit obliged to take a hand at educating the masses as to the proper candidates ior whom to exercise their right of suffrage. Among those from @oroad who are iudustriously talking in tia bebali is the ireely-spoken falter Harriman, once or twice Governor of New Hamp- Shire, aud in @ jew days the voice Oo: Speaker Blaine will be heard throughout the district. Visions of the election of General Banks to Con- gress are evidently uot pieasing to the distin- guished Speaker, when he reflects upon the com- position of the next House of Representatives, | and oe can therefore be pardoned for coming up into a neighboring State to instruct the people gongenues their political duties and responsi- aties, All of the old members of Congress who are can- irom Massachusetis are very auxious about the contest between Mr. Gooch and General Banks, and one of them—Mr. Pierce, of Boston, I jormed—said the other be deleated himself tu: day boat he would ri have Mr. Gooch beaten, He regarded such an event a8 an entering wedze which would split tue republican party in Massachusctts, and as an earnestness of What he said it i related that le contributed @ handsome gum to the Campaign | Committee of the district, Up in the Kieventn. or Springfeld district, there is considerabie dissatisiaction among many of ube republicans at the nomination of Henry Alexander, Jr., a8 & Candidate to fill the vacancy caused by the withdrawal of Mr. Dawes, He 1s violently op- posed by both of his party organs in Springfield, onistic influence will teil heavily agatnst him, r. Ohapin, the democratic nomi- nee against Mr. Alexander, 1@ ® man away up in. ability and integrity. He has ior years been President of the Boston and Albany Railroad, and is a director in both the New York, New Haven and Hartford, ana tue New York Ceatral and Hudson River rail- roads, In the Worcester district, as in the Springfield, there is a dangerous democrat in the fleldio tue person of Kil Thayer, woo is matched against George F. Hoar. The campaign is being vigorously pushed on both sides, aod speeches, torchlignt processions and the like are of nightly occurrence. Investigation of County Affairs by the Legislative Committee—Rottenness Dis- red. ee Boston, Oct. 23, 1874. The Traveller of this evening says:— The air is murky with rumors ot rottenness discov- erel’by the Legisiative Cominitiee engagad in invest. gating county ai Nouning 1s dednuely known ex. Cept by the gentlemen performing thisnecessary work of Unearthing omicial dishonesty. aud their report will made to the next Legistature; but certain tacts already established by inquiry understood to have hanged the political slate in oF i Se ee tonwealt Pievelopiments are -ilkely to the commonweaith. | The create considerable sensation when they come to the public knowiedge. Culess apparently autnentic reports are mere exaggerations there ¢ been Irregularities more of jess flagrant throughout the Commonwealth in relation w county accounts, THE PRINOE \IMPERIAL IN ARMS, Trial of Skill in a Grand Assault at Woolwich. {London (Oct. 6) correspondence of Edinburgh Scotsman.) A curious féte tool piace at Woolwich yesterday in which the French Prince Imperial took part, and made his appearance as one of the competi- tors at @ grand assauit-at-arms, given at the Roya Military Academy of Woolwich, under the author- ity of Lieutenant General Sur J. L. Simmons, Gor ernor ofthe Academy, and in the presence of @ large assembiy, which incinded nearly all the oMicers ot the garrison. A contest with foils not on the programe was incidentally announced by Lieutenant Torkington, R. A., who conducted proceedings, anu immediately two youu, gentiemen, equipped jor the encounter, stepped on the piatforiu, snd were respectivety introduced as the Prince Imperial and M. Connean, son of the doctor who attended tne iate Emperor. The Prince was loudly cheered, aud the «wo combatants, alter the customary sainte, got to the encounter. They both siowed themselves good swordinen, and Prince Louis, who is especially active, gained the frst bit. Both fenced very canonsy pas D> & dexterons thrust, M. Connean toncaed his ifrend~ | ly adversary's breast, and scored one also (The contest jor the third and dectuing hit was watched with great interest, till at length the Prince, after parrying cleverly two or three well-meant drives, got in tis foil by an expert movement, and made # lair hit oo the left breast amid wuch applause. His imperial Hy e838 alxo took part With bile other cadets in a series of athletic exerctats, tn | whieh some ol the students exmudived remarkable OUAMDE, 80 JAS, | BhUle . ——————S SEE