New York Times, The (Newspaper) - October 6, 1868, New York, New York Ate VOL 5815 NEW-YORK TUESDAY OCTOBER 6 SHEET FOUR CENTS THE OCTOBER CAMPAIGN 1 PENNSYLVANIA OHIO AND Democratic in the stone State Magnificent Republican Demonstration in Indiana Don on the Issues of Day Enthusiastic Republican Meetings Throughout the State The State IV hat the say Naturalizing In Mayor Hoffman to Me Serenaded aud Still Dire Consequences From Oar Special Correspondent Oct i Tho annual State Fair ol tho Pennsylvania Agricultural which been held In this city daring the past week attracted hither from to 30.000 representing tbe more Intelligent of nearly every county ol tbe State and forded pretty opportunity to taut the political sentiment of tbe agricultural districts and to gingo with more or lots accuracy the prospects of the lag election Availing of this opportunity I made personal inquiries of large of and others in attendance and from all sections re- t le moat encouraging Everywhere I waa assured of largo accessions to the Republican Party urom iho Democratic ranks which would make themselves rlt at he State next week trot more particularly at the Presidential election in No- Light la even breaking In upon tbe old counties of Derke Backs and ton Dutch settlers hive at discovered that is doad and that Is not his solo or legitimate in York Westmoreland Cumberland Wyoming and other agricultural counties that Lave bern strongly Democratic numerous changes to ibe Republican side were reported man whom I conversed abln to the names ot his neighbors whila knew of a single change lo the other aide farmers who take the pers and the Issues of the campaign as Invariably Jor They as a general thing fully with thu of tho October election In Its bearings on the and were a s mn Republican roto on Tuesday week bo case the lican will full short of Tbe Urges t vn e In tho SuU was for n r Q tut T two years ago jihen it reached or thin tbe total vote at Ibo laat Ui Uon majority was The B volo in S sto Is now wholly with B anJ it is safe to say that has hitherto been city by a email majority bat the last legislature city limits taking in about 1.600 mow inhabitants including tho Iron Works whose workmen are all Republicans and this Fall It Is sure to elect a Republican The In Bine and their friends bad a meeting at the last night on their return from Philadelphia which wu addressed by of and others ana next Saturday they are to have toother and a final gathering B of Baltimore as tbe principal speaker The got up a meeting on Friday night while the Boys were away and bad OOT of Maryland here to talk to them He talked of ing bat himself add even tho Democracy express disgusted with him During jja ing It leaked oat that HomUR town on his way But from Pittsburgh and a com- ot Democrats out of to tbe House to get the Mayor to go over and make hem a He want of too much ing lore throat and a thousand other excuses and finally was compelled to give them aflat refusal The Idea then struck him a serenade Accordingly brass band procured and about 11 ft commenced blowing by turns divers lira window Cut not a word could they get from tbe sleeping Major He wouldn't deign to come on the balcony anil show himself nor even to stick his bead out of tbe dow and show his Neither music nor cheers nor repeated calls for with a German accent would arouse him and at lasU after shouting themselves boarae and blowing all the out of the band tie Democracy were com- to go borne without getting so moon a glimpse of our distinguished Mayor and bis magnificent mustache They had already been disgusted with and now ware doubly disgusted with It's a pity but Mayor weariness or sleepiness or sore throat or whatever it may have been baa coat more than a hundred votes In Every Democrat went home that night in a rage and many of them got up next morning licans They want no more lo do they say with such a sleepy parly as that It was In rain that tbe Mayor left bis apologies with the clerk of the hotel next morning with instructions to ten the people he thought they were serenading Gov SWANK They say know bettor or they sent tbe man who accompanied tha Mayor to bu bedroom door to tell him U waa meant for him end nobody else and they have that tbe message was faithfully Delivered Mo Mr Mayor it do you acted shabbily toward the Democracy of tbe capital of the great Keystone State and they will never forgive yon flow much better it would have looked for you to tare delivered your last groat speech of the campaign from the stops of tbe Capitol than to wasted your eloquence on a small at the Moravian settlement of Bethlehem Only week more remains of the campaign and you back hare and yourself the cause la lost 1 shouldn't wonder 11 It was loit how a INDIANA ten ol iLii changes that have occurred among voters of bten In our avor In BO a voic as Pennsylvania In the coming election will doubtless exceed on the part of the Republicans or a lew Lore and there among the Democrats may determine tho final result The Democracy are tolly aware of this and are de- termined If possible that It shell done They tare an unscrupulous and withal a very shrewd and able man ar tho h tad of their Bute Committee who bai the party the State in thorough and manner and no means lair or foul no scheme of fraud and cheating that misee tbe slightest hope of success will Oil to be re- sorted to The Republicans are no match lor In this line of business and It la no use trying They might as well pursue a He chase a or ran a race with the devil Truth crushed to earth rise In this country When every thief arrested In Philadelphia Is found with bis pockets full of papers signed by tbe Clark stamped witb tbe seal of Court and ready to bo with tho name of any vagabond who promises to TO o tha Democratic ticket Republicans may as well give up all attempts to keep pace with the Democracy in manufacturing voters They ought to be content with the magnificent effrontery of their opponents which caps the climax by accusing them of fraud They the material with to work if they had disposition to rival their opponents claiming for the Republican Party all tho morality or all he honesty of the country It u a fact that the terial out of which frauds are upon the Is almost exclusively in POPS 01 Democracy Republicans wore to attempt to use It they would themselves get cheated In the end Cp in Luzerne County tbe ire m an effort to brinn tbe vote ol the Welch who are almost to a man on thi ir side bate naturalized this Fall over 800 In ranion and the moat feature of tbe bnalacRj is tUe conscientiousness of Welch in tho matter of becoming citizens as con- tho If they lack only three days ot being in the country tbe requisite time fixed by law no power on earth can Induce them to lake tbe oath Thu aame la the case with the among countrymen who appear to establish their tity On the other hand the Irish who work In the mines they are very much the aame as you find them In Thoy would be honest If it were not for the politicians bat they allow to be mado the toola of the world over and working In the mines don't chango them If an Irishman who has only In the country six months swears himself Into it is bf cause some Democratic drel tells him it Is all only a matter of form ho lays the sin of too perjury on tbe bead of the it properly belongs I don't think however the Democracy will succeed so well m making voters up In the mining districts this Fan eaMbey did last naturalization are played out They elected to laat year but will hardly serve him a ond time Although mat district and Counties Is largely Democratic yet I am tola la good prospect for the success ol the Republican candidate The principal this yoar are to bo perpetrated In phia The Pennsylvania Democracy nave learned a trick or two from see how tbe Is made to tbe there and have resolved to the aamo tactics In Tanla Should they succeed m the baud they bare set on foot in carrying Philadelphia they will lose us iwo members of in tbe Third District and in the Fifth It U that th premature exposure of which has bMn mads during tbe nut week may block game tot Ue three or four day th Democracy of and the country round about have bad their own way and enjoyed a perfect All tbe Boys in Blue have been away to tbe Philadelphia demonstration and banner baa floated triumphant in the the boys are afl back again now and tbe Demo end look as blue as did the Calon men the army waj pa bj Og Imposing Demonstration In Lafayette Visiting In Uniform Reception ana Speech of Speaker of Large Hajari From Our Own Correspondent Friday Oct One week ago I was present at tho State mass meeting of the Democracy of Indiana and tbe reception with which Qen P their candidate for the Vice-Presidency met at bands Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating In the imposing demonstration which tha cand of tha Seventh Congressional District mado iu this city and the most prominent feature of was tho reception of Speaker and It Is no more than just and fair lor me to Bay that although tho Democratic mass meeting favored by the finest weather and although the Republican dis- rally in Lafayette was held on a most ble day and hours ot heavy ers had made roads almost Impassable tho Re- publican demonstration confined as it was to hall a counties in numbers and far exceeded tbe Democratic lion In which persona from all counties In the took part Experienced politicians have said all along that Northern Indiana at the approaching elections would give Republicans heavier than ever before and tbe magnificent stration yesterday fully theae predictions Imagine a city of twenty thousand Inhabitants visited by thirty thousand Jubilant In companies and tastefully uniformed rending the ait all day with tor Gaurr COL- and singing the popular of the campaign carrying aloft banners and clee and giving vent to their enthusiasm the raw wet October day on which they bad imagine ten thousand men ing around tbe speakers stand from which sncb men our eloquent LAME and of Tennessee addressed them In the most stirring manner and yet were unable to make themselves beard by one-third of tbe Immense crowd that tried to catch words AMD 07 Tbe enthusiasm of tbe people was carried to the highest in the afternoon when the train ing Speaker thundered Into Ibo heart of tho cltr What a contrast between tbe reception which the Democrats oi gave to FRANK P at Indianapolis list week ana that which greeted at I Bum's a few feeble cheers and drove from the train to tbe ers stand the amid an roar of deafening applause and tbe most touching of the and I might most say tenderness which tbe people of In- diana are attached to him Tbe Republican date for tbe was visibly affected when be the speakers stand and surveyed the Immense audience which was swayed to and fro by tbe wildest enthusiasm and applause and several minutes elapsed before he able to begin his speech Mr did not his Democratic competitor bsd done at Indianapolis draw a essay from bis pocket and read It la a voice and manner which fell like a wit blanket on but Improvised an speech than which nothing could be more beautiful appropriate anil calculated to arouse the enthusiasm of his hearers He spoke in terms of fiery eloquence of tbe great achievements of tbe noble party tbat bsd made him ono of standard bearers but abstained from the harsh and bitter denunciations ol blB political opponents with which Qan Blum's Indianapolis speech abounded Sfr did not aa Gen did on the aame occasion advocate tbe and enthrallment of a race but In case tbe Party should be successful at tbe proaching elections promised protection to the Unionists In tbe Southern Biates Every sentence tbat fell from tbe lips of tbe eloquent speaker was cheered to the echo Tbe most cant and Interesting portions of bis were those in which be referred to the of the Republicans and to the outrages now perpetrated by tbe Elan and other rebels in the Southern States Mr said in the moat emphatic tone that be considered tbe election of tbe ticket nominated by the Chicago Convention aa car tain If the bid been which elicited storm of that luted for several minutes No emphatic ware tbe remarks In which be misdeeds of tbe be Mid in of tbe most fiery eloquence tbat the now committed upon the persecuted of the South were a ing shame tattle country thai an end most be put to them and that Qea if elected would do and restore peace law and order throughout tbe land Tbe speaker Here evidently struck tbe key note of the popular and tbe thundering re- with which eloquent words met from the man of thousands of whom bad served IB the of the Union showed very plainly tbat the people determined that a atop murt be pat to these of and tumultuous of vent BBd admiration which bad greeted Mr appearance on tbe wen renewed at tbe oi nil and oa every tbat waa turned to blm to be read a vote of on the National ticket by tbe ddo of our groat tain THE The festivities of this memorable day tn the political annals of Northwestern Indiana closed with a ficent torchlight procession the Illy of which has never been seen here before it least 600 of whom were mounted moved for hours through the streets of city which in a of until after and Marly every house of which handsomely illuminated and decorated A many and and emblematical tion B which a magnificent ture got up by W the popular wholesale grocer of the Valley and the containing a representation of tbe office newspaper tbe ette Courier with tho compositors at their cases and a press striking off Courier whole didly constantly bathed tn fe flood of bluo tbe most noticeable Speaker tbe qfr meet and of applause wherever he made his appearance THE glorions demonstration showed very plainly and the admitted that Northern Indiana Is Republican to tbe core and on election will come down an overwhelming majority to tbe National Road Fears ire expressed by a great many Republicans that tbe nefarious business of Importing into Indiana Is now being carried on desperate energy by and for which there can bo no doubt of It they bave been furnished very Urge sums of money by wealthy in all of tbe country may increase bo Seymour majorities in tbe strong Democratic counties Disclosures which have been made In the course of tbe last week in various of tbe State leave no doubt of It that tbo rely on such illegal or carrying If possible But although they may succeed In somewhat reducing tbe majority of the State ticket in October and gallant Major Gen Jonn C in the First Congressional District I ha e no whatever for tbo result Nino Republican Congressmen the Republican State ticket and a largo Republican majority in botu Houses oi the Legislature ue certain 10 be elected in Stale on tho 13th of October I conversed with a great many experienced from parts of Indiana and the reply which all of them made to my inquiries in regard to the prospects ol the campaign always was Our ty wal do better tban ever before for tbe can cause W C OHIO Oov Bontwell 10 tbe People and Two The Weat Ohio Thursday Night Oct 1 1808 Thu baa been a day of glory for a ple It closes tbe wee ama hours approach and all are tired and sleepy We nave had tbe union tf li sails and the ot bands urged In song two have contributed lo swell the manses who came out to hear and and Ohio have united in doing bomage to and the Oxford 40 miles north ol Cincinnati on the lino of the new railway the Cincinnati and Indianapolis Junction and but four miles from tbo Indiana State line This county is strongly Democratic and has been very appropriately called of Ohio Just aa L Is the embodied spirit of tbe Lost in tbe North so is Cutler County Its bopo and cheer In Ohio It la hero where tbo Ten Cent Martyr to get the by which lio will ride into Congress over the defeat of tbo patriot Qen Hut thoro is at least one bright spot in County one oasis In this political desert Oxford City and Oxford ship are loyal Institutions of learning thrive tare This people are a reading intelligent and refined It le a suggestive commentary on the degradation of Democracy it cannot In tho presence of education and refinement Tie able fact mentioned to me by Mr NO that town in Olio where a college la ted casts a strong Republican If Butier County is Ohio's Kentucky Oxford Township is Butler County e Massachusetts In making this comparison no discredit cast on tbe Old Day Slate Gov will boar to this assertion to in the bright intelligent faces and erous culture of his andlcnco to-day I know the extraordinary earnestness of this people in political I knew that tho Republicans of the Third Congressional District are as determined tbe Spartan baud at the Pass to word off the inevitable disgrace with the election ol tbe Copperhead Democrat And knowing ibis I mado It convenient to travel a hundred and fifty miles to soo both of the case presented I Bay both sides for In tw o days TWO of tbe respective were to occur I looked forward to an immense mooting of the great Ten Cent Barefooted on yesterday bore in tbo peaceable City of Oxford and at Duller I certainly was reasonably wise In my anticipation tbat a county casting between lour and five thousand Democratic votes and fifteen or sixteen hundred majority for that organisation could rally at the ment ol approach I expected to see upon thousands come with music cheering the Inharmonious namo of the Ten Cent hero But yesterday dawned on a quiet Oxford For weeks the Martyr to Gen patriotism had been posted to appear and address tbe grand rally of Ibis county Sept 80 A D 1868 Tbe day and came and passed Tha people came not At 3 o'clock P U a few hundred not over a thousand men women and children half of whom wore originally from the Emerald Isls assembled In tho City Park It was Indeed a shallow enthusiasm which greeted the oi Hon 0 L Two or one year tgo he was received with eclat It la not so now Though the empty honor of HORATIO and boars tbe burden thereof tbo people of his own dis- do not think him a PLATO In or in statesmanship His meeting bore day waa numerically small and in demonstration as calm and placid a Juno morning For two hours Mr reiterated his Incoherent Uve against the as be calls us views and bis opinion that we should not go back la history for five or seven Who wonders that Mr desires that tbe vail of oblivion shall bo drawn over the past few years t permit me to inject Acre an extract from a book published since tbe war entitled Diary Hi W War Clerk written by one of and friends and therefore to be relied on writer says under tbe head of June 29 To-day I saw tbe memorandum of Mr OULD of tbe conversation held with Mr for file In the archives Bo Mr If we can only bold year the Peace Party of tbe North would sweep tne Lincoln dynasty out of existence He seemed to have thought that oar cause was sinking and eared we would Submit which of would be ruinous to bis party It isn't surprising the Chief tn Democratic Party a candidate on tbe Seymour and Blair ticket for Congress and the man who moved In tbe Convention Mr tion that even ibis bit of during the paat fire or seven should not be exhumed Let not tbe reader understand that nobody ta for or that this small and spiritless yesterday Is indicative that he will not poll Urge vote 1 think H simply a condition of things In the ranks in the Third Ohio our own strength is rally brought oat to Oten EoHBgcx'fsaocesa by 9.000 majority At all Mr will be beaten Leading politicians put It at this latter and backing their opinion with something MASS was bald The morning waa cloudy aad lowering I feared steady would set in by noon bat an Tbe morning boors crept along slowly however and little stir even up to midday I began to conclude that both and wore sleeping the Hip Tan Winkla Bleep All at once however my fears were banished Delegations led by music and enlivened uniformed bodies of Republican voters containing large wagons drawn by many horses and with beautiful happy bases singing Grant and songs be- gan to pour in from various roads and In an hour's time thousands had assembled la and about the City Park Tbe procession proceeded to the house of Mr Cox ono of most estimable and generous gentlemen with whom Messrs GOT of Massachusetts and Gen were sojourning These gentlemen were then seated In a carriage drawn by four beautiful match horses the vehicle J being decorated with flags and Iho bones ly caparisoned This team took its assigned in the procession and the escorted lo the stand erected In jjjjj the route the for distinguished Ex-Governor of the old Bay and tho no less distinguished leading member of tbe Lower House of By a P M not less tban five thousand persons wore in tho town and the impression waa made on me as I took a survey of tbe large sea of upturned faces from tha platform prepared for the speakers that I bad not witnessed anywhere during the an audience which bore more conclusive proof of Intelligence and refinement In particular did I remark tho extraordinary number of beautiful who would be tho observed of all ob- servers in Broadway's afternoon promenade or a drive Another feature of ovation to Gen for such It proved to waa tho elaborate manner in which the Republican citizens prepared tbe form from which the were to address tho multitude It perhaps twenty foet square nicely carpeted and furnished with sobs tables a piano and Tbe University Glee Club ed the meeting with three moat delightful campaign songs Mrs presiding over tbe and her husband taking a part In the Club's rendition of tho Bongs Shortly after 3 P M OOT was introduced For more than an hour he in an interesting and eloquent manner He referred lo be immensity of the meetings In tbo West so far as he bad gono and predicted the grandest triumph vouchsafed to any political organization in the country From what he saw be concluded that when the vote on tha 13th instant shall have bean counted out tbe country will rejoice to find tbat tbo aggregate vote will be much larger and aggregate Democratic vote smaller than to have been expected Tbe dialing Ex- Governor arraigned for his hatred of for bis infamous conspiracy to de- stroy tbe Government for his fallacious aad theory taxation and finance for bis son and hypocrisy Air mentioned Mr name along with DAVIS and E LEZ and RAPHAEL Tbe Fondle ton theory of finance met with an excoriation at Gov wherein U was shown that Aj Co intended ultimate repudiation and by that means the utter o the credit of Ibe Government after iho of the Government is destroyed and It Is una ble to get a dollar on a the Southern States can rebel and there will bo no because no to coerce them In support of bis charge that tho echo mo of paying one tn another la bnt a ruso while repudiation is tho aim ho related a conversation bo hail with a delegate to July Convention from Louisiana The Louisiana Democrat thought 11 r was en route to tho Convention and Jumped at tbe conclusion bo Mr was a brother Democrat Gov Inquired who tho Louisiana man supported for nomination His reply was and tha reason for such support was frankly stated to bo because Lho Southern people want repudiation and plan of issuing sixteen millions In backs would result In a depreciation which would go down 10 so near tbat It would be practical repudiation He said iho Southern ple didn't like to get whipped and then be taxed to psy for their own subjugation Gov also made tbe excellent point that quite all that would ba lost by the depreciation of tbe proposed of greenbacks would fall on the laboring people Bankers and men led and business men generally would keep oat of tne scrape whilo the Innocent masses would bear the enormous burden heaped upon by thu in- famous of regaining tbe Loat Cause Mr peroration was excellent It con- sisted of an impassioned on the character and public of Gen QUANT He that Gen QUANT had done more tban any man to lave and preserve tne country while he challenged any living Democrat hero or elsewhere to show one word or deed ol HORATIO In support of national unity and the great of tbe Declaration of Independence bad Deon ridiculed because he not make speeches No Ho never made speeches Nor did WASHINGTON Nor that other patriot And alongside these two treat and good mcu GRANT to-day as defender of unity in Republic and a preserver of Iho liberties ot man Gen was the speaker For two hours ho attention ol tho multi- tude I never hoard male a better speech and I have beard him mako many good ones HIB points were wall taken and went right to the core every Umr Poor was carefully dissected his internal hypocrisy and wickedness laid bare and ex- posed to the contemning disgust of the whom he had but Ibe day before harangued Finance re- construction Democratic record in the Ohio Legislature laat Winter Infamous in a high degree and every feature of tbe tional issue were In turn presented with dis- ability letter ho regarded as true Democratic platform and tbe spectacle pre- sented of and other rebels nominating of and his tors and of HAMPTON dictating the vital part ol tbe platform declaring the work of a loyal In 1804 and 1806 by a loyal people unconstitutional usurpations aud void Tbe General's presentation of tbe question was overwhelming It in a vein of boundless Sarcasm a vivid picture of the progress of matters since the to under the famous apple tree At first tha defeated could ba heard terms will be gran ted Soon wben their evil the Northern rava them encouragement they grew bolder in and we could hear them asking What terms shall we Bnt now when whole Northern Democracy has surrendered to Jimr we hear these prisoners of war ering over the Interrogation What terms shall we give ibe This point was greeted with rounds of applause and on it alone two sensible War Democrats renounced the Seymour Party and OBAMT and Both and were repeatedly in- ted with laughter and cheers and when Gon ceased speaking o'clock aad tha people cried go on I go on I Tne assemblage even larger at close than at any previous time and the attention admirable Bnt If the day meeting was a success DISPLAY a night was superbly triumphant And it was Nothing of the tike was ever before known In this part of Ohio This la my Information from who have resided here tall a century fifteen oar loads of Fighting Boys in Bine Grant other come over from ilton county seat a city ot In- fourteen miles distant A large gation armed with torches and and transparencies also came from Indiana and cama from the towns and nearer at a o'clock P M tbe grand sion wss formed it reminded me of display at on the 3d of September Of course U not 10 large bnt for a small city In the midst of a Democratic stronghold the display to-night wss eminently and At least two thousand bore aloti the biasing emblems ol of music toes and appropriate transparencies were interspersed throughout the line and a large body of the Elan gotten up on the moat approved Plan added unbounded humor to the when the line had paraded through spf bad ceased Its roaz and the confusion had somewhat abated Hon Coir I the want by quiet and orderly one of Ohio's most gifted orators I mmn 1 Mid and upright members of I one started the rumor that the was introduced II was by tbat lime E earing mid- I blades ware going to refuse obedience and over yet ne delivered an exceDant address fifty men started Ing tha stand true to the It out on this line aU taping rich harvest in October and November And I close this contribution the news comes of magnificent at Lafayette Indiana twenty people came oat to greet Indiana's COLTAX very modestly and dig eschews tbe sharper of controversy tbt contending and in so doing tn beauty to the course which by competitor p f Wra In Indiana before tha election I shall hope to be present some occasion The whole is ablaze j q T The Camilla Unprovoked of Civil War In Case of Election From Our Own Correspondent ATLANTA da Wednesday Sept 30 Having recently traveled pretty extensively In Georgia and convened familiarly with men of all parties I can perhaps give your a pretty view cf the situation as wall furnish a number ol odda and ends lhat may be Interesting to than TUB CAMILLA Col O H of tha Freedman's a man of rare position has Just finished a thorough Investigation of murderous attack upon tho procession cf colored people at Camilla and tho result that tho of tho Albany Go eight miles from Camilla of the committee that volunteered to go to Camilla to investigate Ibe ease of the cratic majority of tbe present Georgia and of the Proas of tho whole country are to be utterly CoL finds was not the ot a Justification for the attack nor a palliation for Its Ho finds that Messrs and JOINED tbe latter ono ol tho colored men ex- from the Georgia accompanied by from one hundred and flf y to two hundred col- ored men women and children went toward milla for the purpose of holding a ing Colored people are much In the habit of arms about with them to and on this occasion perhaps a third of the colored men in the had They were met a over three miles from town by JAMES JOHNS a white man who at first declared that he in search of s bnt when the roar of the procession came np to where be was be announced that he a courier lo say lhat tha blacks and their would not be allowed to bave a speaking in Camilla Tbo blacks paid no attention to thin and moved on toward Camilla Soon afterward they wero met By the Sheriff who told them lhat the people In the town were opposed lo their speaking Mr one ol the leaders of tho proposed that under the they should bave the at place near which they then were Tho colored urged tbat unless they could in a quiet and peaceable manner go into Camilla and hold meeting they would not be allowed to vote on election day wished to show thn ple of Camilla tbat they ware and would do wrong to nobody Dr ob- to having tbe meeting at his place as bo tbo waa the proper or holding It and tho ought lo go there The procession pasted on and whan near the edge of Uio town waa met by Joans who discharged a double-barreled at those wbo were in the band wagon of tho and wounded several persona Tbe white citizens of Camilla at once opened flro those In tho procession Tha colored men who bad guns fired single shots In re- turn and then men women and children took to flight Their assailants mounted their horacs and pursued the firing crowd following shooing aland beating all with whom they caught op Every negro who waa caught was shot or beaten and tbo chose was kept up for eight miles Tbe only way In which any of tho blacks wbo were caught escaped unharmed by ing tbat they bad not bean at Camilla and were Messrs and wero In the rear of the procession whan the attack began They turned the buggy In which were riding and drove rapidly away for stz or seven Four of pursuers finally came close after them and jumping from the buggy Mr ran into a cane patch and escaped Mr sprang out and ran into an old building Hia pursuers coming up called on blm to come out He declared that he would not bat would soil life dearly aa possible unless pledged their honor not 10 hurt blm They finally promised that they would not harm him and he came out Three of them then began to apeak to him when tbo fourth cama behind blm with a gun and striking him over the head Inflicted a shocking In gency murder seemed inevitable but the recognized Mr a Mason and saved life There li not a particle of evidence hat there was the slightest provocation for the attack on tbe procession and CoL Is confident there waa none It grow simply out ot the nation tbat here should bo no Republican speaking In Camilla The admit that they have burled seven of those murdered by them and it is tbo general opinion that between thirty and forty of the blacks wero wounded somo of very seriously Ot the six received slight hurls Tbe Albany aa published a of the affair and to it importance stated that It result of the Investigation of Judge TASON and Capt who bad been appointed by Col to investigate Col states that tio never authorized or appointed VASON and soa lo Investigate The Is compelled to back down from statement and asserts that some blacks it was who wanted and JOHNSON to mike tha whitewashing investigation which meo to male It appear that tho massacre waa somehow of tbe blacks or of Republican speakers Tbe fact la this Camilla bnt a manifestation of general fooling of tho Georgia Democracy i GENERAL There are very tow places In Georgia where there perfect safety In free speech by The general tone of Georgia Democracy is bitter and intolerant is determined to keep down the gro and II is exceedingly prescriptive toward Republicans Mot having force at Its command the Bureau baa tne of education In numerous In- stances that safety of Iho teachers of colored dren could not be guaranteed in particular localities In many Democratic Clubs have ta have no business or social relations with and as in some parts of tbe State there are eight white to each It easy to see lhat the situation of Republicans may be made exceedingly unpleasant and often unsafe in some U Is difficult for a Republican to buy or or get labor of any kind to do Neither be nor bis family have any social Intercourse With their neighbors and U his children an sent io school they ore very liable to be Insulted by the other children I am by many leading Georgia that this picture of the proscription brought lo bear against them in this Slate la not too highly drawn one planter who had ono of tha beat In Slate wbo assured ma that so bitter become ha would Mil bis prop erty at a sacrifice of so tbat he might get away In several who bad mado official reports of transactions In their vicinage assured me that U It known tbat bad given any tion to the authorities their Una would not be safe for a day guns and were With extreme difficulty prevented from making an attack When thu was given np ten ol them waylaid tbe road by which U was expected the leaders of the would to to kill turn but they toek another road and escaped i e It the Impression of of Union nan of Georgia with whom convened that the election of and would be Inevitably followed by an outbreak and another civil war A prominent official said to me yesterday Tea are more by far than they were three years ago A Government official recently reported I am satisfied Ural tbe tbe flag and everything connected with it la ranch more intense and bitter than at aloes of the war As always In the case ot civil tbe men who are most ready to man into another bloody and ruinous war are those who Hire least to lose but there 1s no effort by the better class of Georgia planters and people to check partisan ness to restrain violence to deprecate out- and of or even to the murder of freedmen About Bept 8 T murdered two men bnt no investigation has been had or Is likely to I am told that tbe Bureau has Information of a murder or a County on Sept IB and such eases are of frequent occurrence A memorial signed by ten oi the moat reliable freedmen of County that the freed men there are living In a perfect reign of terror and they implore protection they anticipate an attack being made noon them on Oct 1 are to hava Republican meeting on that day In some places freedmen forming tions to protect themselves tbe civil will do nothing for them and the Bureau is leas In tbe first District ot vannah It the influential centre tbe blacks are so numerous that can speak out freely and safe In the Second Dis- of which Albany the leading the De- are bitter and hostile and serious ties may at any time occur In Third District of which is tbe moti important there have been several freedmen and is a good deal of In District three Influential have been killed and Democracy ia very Intolerant In tbe Fifth there Is a bad state of In this district two of tbe colored men expelled from the on account of color wars to speak at Warrenton Warren County One of these was Senator and the other Representative They were on their way to with a of friends wben they were met by tbe Sheriff who them to have their the town did and after the peaking closed taci and had tome in getting away their Tbe had required lhat all guns In possession of the blacks present should be turned over to him and it waa done there being only two After this tho Democrats made the demonstration and chased the a long way through Ibe woods In this district tbe are said lo bo numerous and their large no- ticce aro olUn up about ike streets o ton But for the extreme moderation of the blacks an occasion would bave been found for an attack which was premeditated aa on the morning of the speaking many had come in from tbe country with their guns wrapped up in In tbe Congressional District tbo country Is mountainous and aa the people are pretty largely there Is safety for everybody In ibe Seventh there has been a decided gain to Republicanism among the whites There were voters registered In Georgia to tbe number of Of these were whiles and 99.000 colored Of these aS.OOft and voted for the new Constitution an end to a good deal of Democratic 11 there Is a election guaranteed by protection there no doubt that there would majority for GRANT even Democracy by fraud set a shore of the colored vole It difficult to see bow prelection to bo got The Bute now in the control of that Democracy which not want military to tbo of black or white aad ft Is enjoined upon every agent to make earnest and efforts tn Every agent should nave ai good whool fostered try his special o B SMITH DUed Assistant Com- Tax Order by DISTRICT 1 STATS or 1 18 Bridal No Under authority vested In that body by the following section of tbe act of passed March 28 8 In That the each StaU the fee and to be paid lo all and other oert and herein authorized or lo Uu of thla act not otherwise provided for and shall provide for and of raob taxes oa tha property In moll State u may to pay tho Constitutional Convention ot the of Texas on the 20th day of August levied a tax o of one per cent on the mentor ISM which tax tbe Assessors and Collectors now bave Instructions to collect It is hereby ordered that tbe tax be promptly paid Any obstruction or resistance to the collection 01 said lax will a tion of Uie law of and sucb will ce punished by military authority By command ot Brevet J J REYNOLDS 0 E First Twenty until United Acting Jutau COLORADO of the United Elect To thi of In accordance with tho pledges heretofore made we hereby resign pni uou we hold u SUM organization of Colorado TbU course la uken ta enable people to consider Uio question free from personal considerations Ine hill admit tbe Bute of Colorado into the Union giving all granti and Immunities lhat were lor In the Enabling oat DOW pending be- fore Congress If U be clearly made leai that U is the desire of the people lo be a State we bave no doubt tho would become a law at tha December session In the to secure admission wa bave hereto tore made we have Uren by a Ln its vital importance to the ol thu Territory and a bellet taat It wu tn toe wishes ot a majority of people Our tn regard te the will be to the people in any way may deem mr tbe consummation of what we to be highest m securing at be est practicable day JOHN BUT M J B Gen Heartily the ol Vrant and Coital FUUT Ua j Sen IT S Grant D C DEAB you will not think it oat of place for me to tender you my moil beany congratulations the action of tho Chicago Con- vention The perfect unanimity and greal asm of your nomination were certainly being a formal ratification of tbe popular of your record have heretofore been made the country But your nomination waa long mined and waa bnt the fulfillment of universal ex- On the other band whon ibe tion met there was ground for apprehension that its action In other not be so wise Bnt that apprehension haa at in a groat degree been dispelled The Judicious of Mr second on tbo and tbo u radical wisdom in framing tbe hat Is In laying down rules ol upon the of country of abstract political neatly increased iho probabilities ol anO ai the time made tbat success Uw more to bo desired I have always that hu Union could bo fully restored only by the mcj win tho rebellion wnile I have not boon with out serious that by forcing upon the country extreme tne y of he Government might bo endangered Great require time for full in which may bo and that which In sound and of practical lie unsound and chimerical anri ration In will now give the country res and Your o will bo tbe end o our t cal aa v ur i o H- slon the ol tbo Army the end of the u Very servant i IS Brevet Mu tect which means to terrorize and use force at the ing election U Federal are nnt here they only act when call ad on by the Democratic authorities tn capo negroes when turn on and gst tbe better of tbe Then the Federal would be used to check them not to proteci ibom in sny SUSPICION It Is reported thai tho United Slates bad a good deal to do with tbe expulsion of the black of tbe Ol tbo two tor lhat club Oov had support or the black members and Mr 11 ELL tbe Mr was alio toe first choice of some Republicans who voted for the eviction of the blacks now is n TO It Is tbe general impression here that Georgia soon find herself back military Her reconstruction waa bogus and itre course that is de- sired by the Georgia seems to be that Con- gress In December should appoint a committee to Investigate the wretched management of the affair by Gen and tho evils growing might ba followed by action of putting tbe State starting point again In tbe time if there in tho terrorism that 1s anticipated at tbo Presidential election tne only thing be done about It may be to leave Georgia uncounted Report of tbe House Committee on the of trie Republic Tbe report submitted to tho House of ot Georgia on the of September by iho Committee on tbB Bute of the Republic waa signed unanimously by Committee and adopted almost unanimously by the House Tbe address as That It is tha purpose of the white people of tbe to faithfully protect tue negro race in the en- of all tno and guaranteed to them by the and of the and tbe Constitution sad laws of this Slate We assert that there Is no purpose tn any of tbe State to impair the constitutional right of the people peaceably to alterable for tbe of any matter or to obstruct any portion ot the people In the enjoyment of any other rigbt or privilege In conclusion we would stated that we see no reason to apprehend that the BUta Government un- der the present Constitution tn its legitimate tion as directed and administered by tbe several de- as now constituted will bo more tive of of any of our absolutely necessary to it with and non- form it to the of and laws of the United and we trust the government win adhere to and make effective the first section In the declaration ot fundamental embraced In our protection of person and property U the paramount duty of government and snail be Impartial and complete Gen Hale In From iht and Oct 1 Upon he occupation of Uio residence on naa taken the Headquarters of tbe In command It was occupied by a number of who had the entrances guarded by with One of them wont so tar as lo cordon of around the whole block When Gen he had his ten at ibe aame p aoe We bad to call him several times not hedged about wita a was 10 be An orderly without anna stood at tho door re- kindly and Tbe a tear to his and Indian aid were and If tbe General was nnt would willi a show of respect go with ana In i rod nee them at once If engaged would tell them to call again Gen Invariably received his visitors with making them feel at cage by the and sincerity of his manner The spirit which g blm reacted throughout headquarters and we never heard of an uf during bit sojourn tn our midst Ho was then at the i all the of the no bad cause to bo proud of bis position and his No doubt be felt proud built was the modest pride or tbe soldier who felt that he hid done bts aad was not ungrateful wu none of tbe of about no parade Another incident i One fine Gen walked down lo tbe D with lie tion of taking tbe train for The doors of tbe oars were locked and a soldier on gnard on each platform Gen went to one of tdo cars and in the sot of stepping the wben be br tbe halt I of the You can't get Into this continued guard Why nof mr man I quietly the 1 am Instructed to admit no QUO further replied tbe guard Tie General bowed acquiescence and went away a in aye two planters inform me of a threatened at before tbe Camilla A cession of black and while Republicans was out marching and when they passed tbe mnalo Judge who was on the bench and he ordered to atop it The Sheriff nave Circular to of be t ft A L FOB I BOCK September IMtS No of the an not expected to slacken their ta behalf of the freedman in consequence of government ing been restored Their manner of operating of U very much modified chiefly advisory iq character oan no measures except by process of law They should nevertheless the special friends and ad- risers of and work unceasingly lor their welfare and naturally look to focal for Information and in maV ters they arid heard Kindly and such or counsel given as each case may If an falls the of bis district with self as their beat and most reliable for Inference mat tt at fault In duties II does not require order ot intelligence to discover wbo manifest a friendly feeling and kind spirit toward na even the instinct of tbe thai lur tbe education of the will unabated for renting and will bo heretofore and The of an for Grant n Oit Editor of Peat Tho Franco-American citizens of Wayne ty havo with the Democracy tor fifty and bave been tbe of that party In ibis section gone It blind many times bnt been opened and they will do so no more Let the Franco-American oi Wayne Co nnt v over ticket In tbe of Ibs Prat and aee whether they are represented They ban been In tbe selection of county officers and will repudiate the Democratic ticket and party this Fill hundred electors of French birth or descent will vote tbe Republican ticket In Wayne many of them I believe will be con- L J Damon Oat I 1868 which tho have bestowed on StaU Mr never riven canae for of m can tog vote for tee ol We nave the moit reliable 1.14 that Mr a great to that la an ardent o the and of tbe Republican Pony hi will shortly announce his opinions bj a letter tb rough the public Press and in winch no Copperhead or cowardly Conservative will least ot George O Journal Borne gossip Uio editor of the ta which a conlein yesterday gave prominence u to be said in these that Mr re- with the Journal STB not tbat hj on which he his ever hcM and it U the desire of all connected wita tbe mav hold Ibe place as loug u ha II Is prayer thai his days mav be and pleasant in the land Thus much due alike to Mr and to We laat tne rf rendered even a word Iu view of one aspect of u may bo proper to add that Mr broken down nor poor that bis not only and thai be is to live of with tula wr
