New Orleans Republican., 1872-10-03
GEORGIA.
The Election Yesterday-TroubIe Mt sa-
vannah-Fight at 1Eacon-DemOcratic
Gains.

The Election Yesterday-TrOubIe Mt sa
vannah-FighE at 1Iacon-DemOcratf
Gains.
AUGUSTA, October 2-The election PASSED
off quietly. Richmond county is Demo
cratic by 800 majority, being gain on BuI
locks election of over 1000 votes The re
turns come in slowly and nothing oficia
can be gained until tomorrow. There is nc
| doubt OF the Democrats carrying the State
by an overwhelming majority, securing the
election OF Smith by many thousand.
| Great enthusiasm is manifested over the
news. The city is Illuminated tonight,
Greeley and Brown flags raised and salutes
fired.
SAVANNAH, October 2, P. Me, Bryant,
| deputy collector OF the port, attempted to
create riot at the polls to-day. He was
ordered off by deputy sheriff, when he re
sisted and attempted to draw pistol,
when he was struck on the head with a
| club by an officer and taken off. He is now
| in confinement.
The election thus far is progressing
| quietly.
Bradley, the negro who, for the past two
weeks, has been melting the negroes to riot
and incendiarism, left for South Carolina
last night, and has not yet returned
Reports from Liberty county say that the
Democrats are ten to one. This is strong
| negro county. The Radical leaders have
collected poll tax from the negroes, and
have given them bogus receipts, for which
they claim the right to vote.
MACON, Ga, October "A fight occurred
at the polls to-day, growing out of another
attempt by the negroes to take forcible
possession of the polls, a device which they
have successfully practiced here during the
last three elections. Very early in the
morning they massed at the City Hall, and
marched down to the polls at the courthouse
in column, under the command of their cap
tains, ieutenants and sergeants. There
they found a smaller crowd, principally
whites, and commenced crowding them and
forcing them away from the polls.
A few tishcuffs occurred in the dense
mass, and then a discharge of brick bats
came from the negroes, followed by an Or
der from their leader, JEFF Long, to fire up
on the whites. In the course of few sec
onds about fifty pistol shots were fred from
both sides, by which one white man was
killed and some five or six negroes were
wounded, two of whom have since died.
The attack came from the negroes.
These facts are substantiated by numer-
GUS atfidavits before the venerable Judge
Cole, of this circuit, who was in the court
house and himself a witness from window
that the negroes commenced the affray
After the atfray, which lasted but few
moments, the bulk of the negroes left in
haste and disorder, swearing that they
would give up the election, as they had been
driven from the polls by violence, and could
get no chance to vote. They massed
again at the City Hall, where they were
addressed by the mayor, who guaranteed
them perfect protection by strong force of
special police which had been sworn in for
the day, and full access to the polls But
with few exceptions they refused to vote,
and many went home.
The whole of this deplor BILE affair was
simply the result of an attempt by the
negroes to again carry this precinct by
storm, and a firm purpose of the whites to
prevent a repetition of the outrage. All is
now quiet.
ATLANTA, October 2.-From special re-
turns to the Constitutional Era, twenty
counties heard from give Smith, the Demo
cratic nominee, 10000. If the same pro
portion holds in the lie counties to be heard
from, Smiths majority will run over 40, 600 |
SAVANNAH, Ga, October 2-The MOTaimg
Neeos will publish tomorrow returns from |
rhlfty-hye counties. all of which, except !
two, have decided Democratic majorities. |
The Democratic majority in Chatham |
county is. 2940.
The following counties, which now 60 |
Democratic and which now give 5000 ma |
jority for Smith, gave in the Governors |
election of 1868 combined majority of |
34I4 for Bullock: Hancock, Macon, Monroe, |
Baldwin, Warren, ScriVen, Pulaski, Talbot, |
Wilkes, Newton, Troupe.
Returns from all parts of the State show
large Democratic gains over 1868.
Smith is elected by nearly So, 600 majority ]