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PAR AG HAMS.
—Yesterday, in New York, Gold was
quoted at 1.40|. Cotton, SI.
—The opinion prevails in Paris that war
will break out in Europe just before the
close of the approaching autumn.
. —-It is estimated that the railroads of the
United States hare cost one thousand six
hundred millions of dollars, or about two
thirds of the amount of our national debt.
—The Legislature of Massachusetts has
passed a law fnrbiddior the limiting of pas
senger cars by illuminating fluids that will
explode.
—Brighsm Young promises to put five
hundred men at work on the Pacific railroad
as soon as the exact route shall be desig
nated.
—The steamboat Daniel Drew the other
day ran fourteen and a half miles in thirty
four minutes, with n pressure of only
thirty five pounds of steam. This is said to
be the best steamboat time on record.
American belles at Paris have so dis
tinguished themselves in the way of flirting
and dressing that they have jjot into the
illustrated papers. The Paristennes are
consequently jealous.
—Over crowded omnibuses are not toler
ated in France. As soon as the seats are
all accupied the conductor hangs out a little
flag, and as long as this remains in sight no
one is permitted to get in.
Ladies with poodles should bear in
mind the fact that fashion has declared that
this Summer the ribbon attached to the
collar of the dog and held in the hand of the
owner shall he pink.
—Nowadays black is so much worn that
it is not considered out of place at any time;
with a pretty bonnet and shawl or mantle, it
is full dress enough lor any occasion, and in
black a lady can not be over dressed.
From “the sublime to the ridiculous" is
well illustrated by tlie latest New York
fashion —the performance upon the organ of
comic pieces from “La Hello Helene" at the
dose of wedding ceremonies at aristocratic
churches.
—By slow degrees all the nations of the
world are tending toward uniformity in
coinage, weights and measures. The North
German Confederation is now taking steps
with a view to arrange a uniform system of
ship measurement.
—lt is related for a fact that a wedded
couple reside in New Britain, Ct., who,
during forty two years, have never expe
rienced twenty four hours’ separation until
last week, when one of them was away from
home four or five consecutive days.
—lt is now becoming general in the Epis
copal chuichcs of Philadelphia to hold what
is called the children's church, on the after
i Oju of the first Sunday in each mouth,
and great interest is felt by the young
people in the parishes where the usage
prevails.
—The greenback circulation is about
three hundred and fifty seven millions, but
sixty millions are kept on deposit as a
redemption fund for the National Bank
currency, and much is kept on deposit
purpose; probably not over two hundred
and fifty millions are in circulation.
—The Canadian Government has refused
to forward destitute German emigrants
arriving at Quebec, on the grouud that they
are meiely passing through Canada to the
Western States, not intending to locate in
Canada, and consequently not entitled to
Government aid.
—Land Office reports show that 4,410
acres of public land were disposed of during
May, at the lucal offices at Humboldt and
Topeka, in the State of Kansas. The
greater part of the lands were taken for
actual settlement and cultivation, under the
Homestead Act.
—The Sanitary Inspectors of the Board of
Health of Chicago have nearly completed
the census of that city, and the total number
of inhabitants will reach 240,000, which is
an increase of 40,000 since October, 1800.
The greatest increase is in the South divi
sion, and particularly in the Fourth Ward.
—The competition between the different
lines of Sound steamers has reduced the fare
to $2. The Bostonians are consequently
crowding into New York. The four boats
bringing an average of 0,000 people daily.
State rooms have to be engaged a week in
advance, the rush is so great.
—Oswego, New York, must be a pretty
busy place- Its commercial business during
May was 0,320 barrels flour, 570,013 bushels
wheat, 550,581 bushels corn, 03,035 of oats,
40,054 of rye, 00,007 of peas, and 57,077,271
feet of lumber. The amount of tolls
received by the collector of the canal was
$87,060.33.
—The desertions from the Papal army
have become so serious that the authorities
And great difficulty to supply vacancies
caused by this epidemic. As the new mili
tary law of France will interfere very much
with foreign enlistments, the Pope is look
ing toward North and South America for
recruits.
—ln Maine men reach their greatest
height at 27 ; in Now Hampshire, at 35 ; in
Massachusetts, at 31. The tallest men,
averaging GO inches in height, come front
lowa, Maine, Vermont, Ohio, Indiana, Min
ncsola, and Missouri give us men of a little
over 08 inches ; and the average of all shows
the Americans to be a very tall people.
—A New York broker has in his posses
sion a number of silver coins which were
recently plowed up in a farm near Sheep’s
Head Bay. The coins are supposed to be a
portion of the treasure scattered along the
shore by the pirate Gibbs, who landed at
.Sheep's Head Bay about forty years ago,
alter having robbed a vessel ol her cargo,
consisting of $35,000 in Mexican coin.
—Epsom unit* (sulphate o( magnesia) dis
solved in beer, together with a small quantity
of dextrine (artificial gum), and in this
state applied to a pane ol glass with a
sponge or brush, will, on crystalizing, pro
duce identical designs to those produced by
frost, and a fumous German chemist has
discovered a means to transfer these fairy
like creations to stuffs and paper.
—There are about 00,000 Chinamen on
the Pacific coast, scattered along the Golden
Gate to Salt Lake, everywhere, frugal, tern
perate, and industrious, but everywhere
adhering to their oriental peculiarities. They
secure employment in families, and in every
branch of manufacturing. The more inde
pendent engage in trade and mining, in
the mining regions they number 20,000.
—The postage on paid letters to and from
Canada was reduced, on the Ist of April
last, from ten to six cents for each half
ounce letter. Notwithstanding this reduc
tion, it is said that a large number of letters
are still prepaid with ten cent stamps. Un
paid letters only are charged ten cents.
Canada postage includes Nova Scotia and
New Brunswick, but not Newfoundland and
Prince Edward’s Island. To the latter the
charge remains at ten cents.
A Trenton paper, representing the follow
ing conversation on the street, gives in a
nutshell the animus of the opposition to
General Grunt: Republican —Do you think
many Democrats will vote for General
Grant? Democrat —No. Republican - Why?
Democrat —Because ho hurt himself when
he captured Gee. Republican Oh ! nit I
I see.
NntionalHcfmblican
r ,U/aiMTA.
SATURDAY MORNING Ju"« *«.!**•
For PHEPIDENT
Os tue United States:
ULYSSES S. MUM.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Scurvied Colfax,
OF rXDIASA?
HKI‘I lll.ir.l* PI.ATFORIH.
The National Republican party of the United States,
assembled In National Convention, in the city of Chi
cago, on the IDUi day of May, 1868, make the following
Declaration of Principles :
lit. We congratulate the country on the assured suc
cess of* the reconstruction policy of Congress, ai
evinced by the adoption, in a majority of the States
lately in rebellion, of Constitutions securing equal civil
and political rights to all, and regard it as the duty or
the Government to sustain those institutions, and to
prevent the people of such States from being remitted
to a state of anarchy.
2d. The guarantee, by Congress, of equal suffrage to
all loyal men in the South was demanded by every' con
sideration of public safety, of gratitude and of justice,
and must be maintained, while the question of suffrage
In all the loyal States properly belongs to the people of
those States.
3*l. We denounce all forms of repudiation as a na
tional crime, and the national honor requires the pay
ment of the public indebtedness, in the utmost good
faith, to all creditors, at home and abroad, not only
according to the letter, but the spirit of the laws
under which it wus contracted.
4th- It is due to the labor of ihe nation that taxation
should be equalized and reduced as rapidly as the na
tional faith will permit.
sth. The national debt, contracted, ns it has been, for
the preservation of the Union for all time to come,
should be extended over a fair period for redemption,
and it is the duty of Congress to reduce the rate of in
terest thereon, whenever it can houestly be done.
Gth. That the best policy to diminish our burden of
debt is to so improve our credit that capitalists will seek
to loan us money at lower rates of interest than we now
pay, ami mnst continue to pay, so long as repudiation,
partial or total, open or covert, is threatened or sus
pected.
7th. The Government of the United States should be
administered with the strictest economy, and the cor
ruptions which have been so shamefully nursed and
fostered by Andrew Johnson call loudly for ridteal re
form.
Bth. We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic
death of Abraham Uncoln, and regret the accession of
Andrew Johnson to the Presidency, who has aided
treacherously to the people who elected him and the
cause he was pledged to support : has usurped high
legislative and judicial functions ; has refused to exe
cute the laws; lias used his high office to induce other
officers to ignore and violate the laws; has employed
his executive powers to render insecure the property,
peace, liberty and life of the citizen; has abused the
pardoning power; has denounced the National Legisla
ture as unconstitutional; has persistently and corruptly
resisted, by every measure in his power, every proper
attempt at the reconstruction of the States lately in re
bellion ; has perverted the public patronage into an
engine of wholesale corruption; and has been justly
impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and
properly pronounced guilty thereof by the vote of
thirty five Senators.
9th. The doctrine of Great Britain and other European
powers, that because a man is once a subject, he is
always so, must be resisted at every hazard by the
United States, as a relic of the feudal time, not author
ized by the law of nations, and at war with our national
honor and independence. Naturalized citizens are enti
tled to be protected in all their rights of citizenship ns
though they were natural bom, and no citizen of the
United States, native or naturalized, must be liable to
arrest and imprisonment, by any foreign power, for acts
done, or words spoken, in this country, and if so arrested
and imprisoned, it is the duty of the Government to
interfere in his behalf.
10th. Os all who were faithful in the trials of the late
war, there were none entitled to more especial honor
than the brave soldiers and seamen, who endured the
hardships of the campaign and cruise, and imperilled
their lives In the service of the country. 'Hie bounties
and pensions provided by law for these brave defenders
of the nation are obligations never to be forgotten. The
widows and orphans of the gallant dead are the wards of
the people, a sacred legacy bequeathed to the nation’s
protecting care.
11th. Foreign immigration, which in the past has
added so much to the wealth, development of resources,
and increase of power of this nation, the asylum of the
oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encour
aged by a liberal and just policy.
12th. This Convention declares its sympathy with all
the oppressed people which are struggling for their
rights.
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A TRIl> TO TUE LOCKS.
It afforded us much pleasure to accept
an invitation from our City Council, to
accompany that body on their annual
visit of inspection, along the line of the
Augusta Canal, on Thursday last.
The Coupcii and a few invited guests,
including Wm. E. .Tacksox and F. Cogin,
Esqrs., the President and Superintendent
of the Augusta Manufacturing Company,
assembled nt the Basin, about eight o’clock
on Thursday morning, and embarked on a
barge neatly arranged for the occasion.
Arriving at Red’s Creek Dam, the party
went ashore to look at the recent improve
ments in this locality, which reflect the
highest eredit upon the contractor, Mr. E.
D. Reese. The main work is 187 feet long,
15 feet high, 13 feet wide at the base, 7)
ffiet at the top, and will apparently “last
forever.’’ There arc, also, two wing dams ;
one, 25 feet long, 2 feet deep, 3 feet wide
—anil tlie other, 2!) feet long, and of the
same depth and width as the first. The
total number of cubic yards of rock wall in
this splendid structure is 1,180). It re
quired five months to construct it, and
cost $8,855.00—a good investment as time
will demonstrate.
After spending some time at this point,
the party resumed their places in tlie barge,
and ere long reached the Locks, in good
time to partake of tlie ample lunch which
had been provided. We feel inadequate to
the task, however, of rendering justice (on
paper) to the appetizing dinner to which
the company sat down at two o'clock,
arising therefrom at four. Nor shall wc
attempt a narration of the subsequent
“feast of reason and flow of soul” and best
Ileidsic, which called forth several elo
quent speeches in response to compli
mentary toasts and sentiments; and we
shall, perforce, !»• equally reticent relative
to the well-rendered songs of three or four
artistic vocalists. In brief, the trip was a
most delightful one, and naught occurred
to mar the pleasure of an agreeable day at
the head of our canal navigation.
In the course of an interesting conversa
tion with tlie worthy and efficient En
gineer of the Water Works, Wm. Phillips,
Esq., we gathered the following facts re
specting the Augusta Canal, which will
doubtless prove as interesting to many of
our readers.
The first instrumental examination of tln
line of the Augusta Canal was ma le in
September, 1844, at the request and ex
pense of Hon. John P. King and Col. llexky
H. CI'MMINU.
A Board ot Commissioners was elected
by the City Council on the 15th of March,
1815, and they organized ttu tlie lSth of the
same month.
The cost of the work was then estimated
at one hundred and lour thousand dollars, of
which one hundred thoustnl was to be
raised by a special tax on real estate in tlie
city, and lour thousand was subscribed by
four of the hanks in lien of sai l lax. Tin
work was commenced in May. 1815. On the
23d ol November, 1816, the first water was
let in on the first level to the depth of three
feet. In February, 1847, the Canal was
opened for navigation.
The Canal, as laid off by Mr. C. O. San •
Foul), the Engineer, was twentv feet wide at
the bottom, with side steps of two to one for
the water way, which was five feet deep —
thus making the surface width forty feet,
ami the sectional area of water way one
hundred and fifty square feel. Subsequently,
under the direction of Mr. Phillips, the
depth of water increased to s veil feel
by raising and extending the dams in the
river, and raising the Canal banks. The
surface width was thus made forty eight f'cel,
and the sectional area two hundred and
thirty eight square feet.
Tiie expense of repairs, includiug the
wood work of some twenty bridges, the
raising of tlie dam, banks, etc., lias ttver
ogcd'nbout $12,000 pev year. Beside this,
extraordinary expense was incurred from
time to time in the repairs of breaches,
culverts, aqueduc’s, etc. The income from
water rents has been so small that it was
considered nominal, and the whole work
may be takcu as a contribution by the
Council, with tiie sanction of the citizens of
Augusta, for tlie purpose of aiding the
development of manufacturing industry,
and in that way promoting indirectly the
interests of tho city.
It is true that tho Council is thus placed
in an equivocal position, and the question
may well be put: How far is tho Council
justified in taxing the citizens generally for
tlie benefit of a few enterprising individ
uals who may venture their capital in tho
development of manufacturing industry ?
Until lately this would he a pertinent
question, hut now, since tho system of labor
has entirely changed, and all must labor,
it becomes one of tho utmost importance
and the full development of tlie industrial
resources of the city is unquestionably a
matter of the greatest interest to our
citizens,
It is obvious to tho most casual observer
that tlie former natural advantages of
Augusta have, by enterprising competition,
become almost neutralized by the con
struction and oxtonsion of tlie artificial
railroad developments of tlie present day,
and that the peoplo of Augusta, instead of
sitting down “wringing tlieir hands” and
“weeping and wailing” their sad fate,
should be “up and doing,” and, if neces
sary, pledgo thoir last dollar to secure to
their city its ancient prestigo and success.
More anon. *
The movement to make Chief Justice
Chase tlie I) emocratic candidate for Presi
dent has culminated. Tho journals of that
party in New York have,, by a simultaneous
demonstration, pronounced with more or less
emphasis against him. The failure of tln>
Chase movement comes at such a time that
the driftwood cannot bo concentrated for
Horatio Seymour as a compromise candidate.
Pendleton holds the field against ail coiners.
Hancock and McClellan cannot compete
with him. Were the New York Convention
to assemble to day, Mr. Pendleton would
unquestionably dictate its action, and ho its
candidate- Tho advocates of Mr. Chase
have only demonstrated that he ought to bo
President, and that they Cannot discover a
candidate who can even promise the party a
triumph at the polls.
-LV ULTIMATUM.
1 he Petersburg Index, hybrid, announces
what “will not satisfy” the hybrids in the
Presidential election, and thus lays the
lash upon the backs of its submissive
Northern associates:
It will not sutisfy Democracy to secure
control of the Government merely to leni
ently execute unconstitutional Radical mea
sures.
It will not satisfy Democracy to come into
possession of and perpetuate a Union pinned
together by Radical bayonets.
It will not satisfy Democracy to adminis
ter Radical theories, to put a now Sinhad on
the Southern neck, and to win the privilege
ot experiencing all the consequences of
uncorrected Radical mistakes.
It will not satisfy Democracy to inherit
negro suffrage from the dead Radicals, and
to control a black man’s vote in that hail in
w hich Douglas declared that this was a white
man’s government, formed by white men for
white men and their children forever.
It will not satisfy Democracy to hold the
offices of the country, while tho South
writhes under the heel ot it deposed tyrant,
and is ruled by a radically enthroned negro
oligarchy.
Nol No! No! A thousand times No I
7V e will gain peace by reaction which shall
remove the leprosy from the afflicted South.
We must undo all that has been wrongly
done. Wc must go back to the very day aud
moment when the Constitution was disre
garded, mid begin anew—to build upa Union
of law, of love, ol peace, and of perma
nence, with the great Charter for its corner
stone.
If such be not tlie purpose, avowed and
resalute, with which Democracy shall enter
fields, it ought to and will be beaten, and we
shall have neither reaction nor peace.
Or, in other words, reaction means the
repeal of the laws which have given Re
publican governments to the South, and
the restoration of hybrid power in all the
insurgent States. This, and nothing less,
will be the end of a liybrid-Democratic
triumph in November.
(From cur Special Correspondent.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Collapse oj the Chase Movement—The Untcrrijicd
Terrified—Hancock's Chances on the Wane
'ihe Omnibus ttill—Local Matters—Appoint
mints to Wat Point.
Washington, 1). C., June 17, 18G8.
Tlie so-called Chase movement, though
quite formidable at one time, and receiving
support from the New York World , now
languishes, and will doubtless be entirely*
squelched before July. Tho Chief Justico
lias played his cards very adroitly, having
secured an organized body of Democratic
and Conservative political wire-pullers, with
ramifications extending throughout the whole
Northern and Southern States, who went
into the movement under the blind infatua
tion that anew party could be made up out
of the debris of the old pro-slavery Democ
racy and renegade Republicans, upon a
platform recognizing all that has been
g lined through the agency of the Republican
party as accomplished facts, forgetting as it
would seem the attempt and miserable failure
in similar directions made two years ago by
Johnson, Weed, Raymond & Cos. The move
ment was for a long time conducted in
secret, and as from time to time facts leaked
out, indicating tlie treachery of Chase to the
Republican party. VThose not in the secret
were not willing to believe, however, the
flying rumors, and treated them as an
attempt by the common enemy to injure the
political prospects of a distinguished states
man. A portion of the Democracy treating
the matter as a good joke, rather encouraged
tlic idea ot the Democratic Convention nom
inating Chase, when of a sudden they found
the Chase cu r rent had considerable volume,
and was likely to make trouble.
To day the unterrified are fairly aroused to
the danger, and nine tenths of the Demo
cratic newspapers are attempting to stamp
out the fire they have helped to kindle. The
upshot of the whole matter will bo that some
extreme man, like Pendleton or Seymour, will
secure the empty honor of a nomination in
New York city on the -Ith ol July next.
The Democratic yeomanry of the Northwest
think they see treachery on the part of
eastern Democratic lenders in tho Chase
movement, an indication of a disposition
to stultify the acts of the party during the
last ten years—-a result which would hand
t lie names of their honored leaders down to
posterity, steeped in infamy. They do not
propose to submit to this, and will bring
such a pressure upon the Convention that
the tact that the world moves will not even
bn admitted.
General Hancock’s chances are growing
less every day. The President has used all
of his influence, until recently, in this direc
tion. But the opponents ol Hancock have
created a counter movement in the Southern
States, and A. J. begins to foci again ns
though Ihe Convention could do no belter
than nominate himself. Os course, to accept
tho nomination would he a personal sacrifice,
but tlieo, you know, you know, he wauls.to
carry out “iny policy” and crush out the
Radicals. That, ho thinks, would be triumph
enough fur the Democracy, and give him
the office for his trouble, you know.
Republican!* uro very well contented with
the present aspect ot affairs. The oppo
nents of Grant and Colfax make but little
headway in maligning them. The World
sets up a fearful howl over the fact that
Grant lost more men in most of the battles
he fought tlmn the Rebels. The simple
answer to all this is that the Rebels were
generally protected by fortifications and
breastworks while Grant was in nearly
every instance the attacking party,
The President has taken no action yet on
the Omnibus bill providing for the admis
sion of six of the Southern States, and it is
quite uncertain whether lie will write a veto
or let tlie Gill go by default. Virginia will
next receive the attention of Congress. The
Constitution in this State was adopted in
Convention two months ago, but the people
o( the State have not voted upon it yet,
because the Commanding General has
issued no call. The reason given for this
is the want of money ; hut the real reason
may bo looked for at the White House.
Congress will undoubtedly toko up the case
of Virginia at an early day and direct a veto
to he taken.
The Chinose Ambassadors were received
in the Senate Chamber to-day, and created
quite a sensation in that dignified body.
Mr. Corcoran, the banker, has his house
enlivened by the presence of two of Mrs.
('Justice's children. The father of these
children was connected with the Confederate
Embassy in Paris, and the mother, now
deceased, was an only daughter of Mr.
Corcoran,
Professor Greene, of Connecticut, lias been
in town for several weeks, collecting data at
the State Department for the Ihird volume of
‘'The Life of Major-General Greene, of the
Revolutionary Army.’'
Sonor Romero, of Mexico, now of the
Mexican Cabinet, but formerly resident
Minister here, is on a temporary visit to the
capital. He takes one of Philadelphia’s fair
daughters Imck to Mexico with him as a
bride.
The Itev. Father Walters, of St. Patrick’s
Church, who has been spending several I
months in Europe to benefit bis health, is
expected to return here to-morrow, when a
grand reception awaits him at tho hands of
lus congregation and personal friends,
# WEST POINT.
I lie President has made tho following
appointments at largo of Cadets at West
Point for 1869; A. B. Dyer, of D. C.;
Stephen J. Mulhall, Jr., bugler of the 42d
Infantry ; I- rancis A. of Tennessee;
Min. G., Birney. of Pennsylvania ; Elijah
F. I’ardy, of New York; Natbamcl D.
1 endlcton of West Virginia; Thomas N.
Bariey, of Tennessee; John W. Martin, of
New York ; Francis T. Mix, of 1). 0.; G.
1). Williams, of Kentucky.
There is an exciting scramble for Ucverdy
Johnson’s place in the Senate. Just now
Governor Swann seems to bo out of the
ring, and the most prominent men talked of
are Montgomery Blair and Pinkney Whyle,
a prominent Baltimore lawyer.
Mr. Johnson will not leave on his English
mission before the 20th of July, and does
not propose to vacate his seat in the Senate
until a few days before that time.
Some of the “recusant” Senators have
lately been terribly annoyed by letters from
strangers asking for the loan of small sums
ol money. The writers of these missives
evidently think the recusants have a pile of
,non<> y- Capital.
[Correspondence Philadelphia. Press.
LETTER FROM “ OCCASIONAL .”
Washington, June 15, 1808.
Reconstruction is at last on the eve of
consummation. Had Andrew Johnson
been true to his own voluntary plan and
pledge, it would have been begun three
years ago, and finished before the close of
the first session of the Fortieth Congress,
with the consent of the conquered rebels
and in spite of the opposition of the sym
pathizing Democrats. All the sophistry
he has intermediately used to cover his
defections he scoffed at as absurd and even
treasonable in 1804-’65. The plea of State
rights, since so eagerly set up by this
wretched apostate, like that of the inviola
bility of the rebel governments, for the
purpose at once of justifying and protecting
the treason that had really suspended or
destroyed them, he only alluded to them
to trample under foot with ineffable scorn.
After incredible torture to the whole
nation, involving the loss of thousands
of human lives by the rcSncouraged
traitors, and the sacrifice of hundreds
of millions of dollars, a Republican
Congress has readmitted tho six States of
North and South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, Louisiana, and Florida—Arkansas
having been provided for in a separate bill,
which has become a law without the signa
ture of the President. That State has ratified
the fourteenth article of the Constitution,
and elected her Senators and Representa
tives, and is fully restored, or will be, when
these have subscribed the necessary oaths
and taken their scats. The six others will
follow in due course, unless, indeed, the
threatened veto of the bill readmitting them
is sustained in the two houses. My advices
do not favor this apprehension. Tho fact
that tho bill passed the Senate by a vote
indicating a constitutional number of two
thirds in its favor, and that in the House the
proportion is more decided, is relied upon
as a certain remedy tor any new Executive
freak.
The three States of Virginia, Texas and
Mississippi have not perfected or ratified
their Constitutions ; wlieu they do, tliev will
also be restored.
This completes the work of reconstruction
according to the original programme of
Andrew Johnson, accepted by Congress,
though in a much more moderate form, and
carried to success in the face of his infu
riated ami persistent opposition.
There is no way to obstruct this legisla
tion by an appeal to the Supreme Court
before the Presidential election ; and accord
ingly there is a pretty general preparation
on the part of the Democrats, if not to
recognize the validity of reconstruction, at
least to vote under it in the ten original
seceding States. The New York World
plainly advises that the negroes should be
induced to vote for tho Democratic candidate
for President by such a platform as will not
be positively against impartial suffrage, and
Gen. Beauregard is quoted as giving up the
contest for Presidential electors in all the
reconstructed States.
The Republicans ought to carry every one
of these States for Grant, now that they will
come in possession of all the county and
municipal offices, heretofore so fatally
wielded against them by the rebels, under
the old systems, just happily, and, let us
pray, forever superseded.
But the best way to save reconstruction is
to give Grant a majority of the electoral
votes of the adhering States. Before that
decree you need fear no judicial interference.
The new administration of tho General
Government will be an argument to the
Southern people almost as potent as the
overthrow of the rebellion, and Grant as
President will be left unmolested to finish
the work begun by Grant as general.
There is indeed another reason to antici
pate the submission of the deluded people
ot the South—that of tlie intrinsic humanitv
and justice of tho acts of reconstruction.
As they examine these acts they will see how
much they have lost by refusing an earlier
acquiescnce in their conditions, and how
much more they must lose by trying to
destroy them. They can not deny that three
years ago, alter Mr. Lincoln’s assassination,
•hey would have willingly closed the account
by accepting much severer conditions; and
they know that such would have been tlieir
course if Andrew Johnson had insisted upon
his own scheme, as laid down in his cele
brated Nashville speech accepting tho Re
publican nomination of Vice President, on
the 7th of June, 1864.
Unquestionably Congress will remove all
disabilities by a two-thirds vote, according
to the new or XlVth Article of the Consti
tution, the moment those people show that
they yield to reconstruction.
lho situation is full of encouragement.
The Republicans are completing recon
struction according to their covenant, and
unless some unforeseen usurpation is lurk
ing in tho White House, to be developed
flic moment the peoplo's representatives
leave their seats, all will be peace.
But the best way to prevent any such
new treachery is for Congress to take a
recess, and not to adjourn finally.
Occasional.
[From tho New York >Sun.
THE SOUTH AND MILITARY DES
POTISM.
Our old friend of the Charleston Mercury
docs not hesitate to declare his heliof that
“it Gen. Grant is elected to the Presidency,
free government is at an end in those United
States. Tho military despotism now stretched
over the South will bo extended over the
North, and tho sword, with a large standing
army, will he tho arbiter of our political
destinies.’’
II tho utterance of sentiments like these
were not calculated to produce evil conse
quences at the South, they would provoke
ridicule lit tho North. Not ten intelligent,
candid men, dwelling abovo tho Potomac,
boliovo that in the event of Grant's olection
tree government will bo at an end in this
country, or that military despotism will pre
vail in any part of tho Union ; and wo would
fain have hoped that such prophecies would
gain no currency among well informed
persons in any quarter.
Wo do not stop to vindicate Grant from
the charge that, under an administration
conducted by him, the sword, with a large
standing army, would be the arbiter of our
destinies. Every act of his life rebuts such
on assumption. The terms ho dictated on
the surrender of the Confederate armies were
of the most generous character; and though,
since that event, under Acts of Congress,
passed without bis procurement, he has been
clothed with vast powers over the unrecon
structed States, the public records furnish
ample proof that ho has labored earnestly
for tho earliest possible completion of the
work of restoration, so that be might he
relieved from disagreeable duties, and those
States resume the exclusive control of their
civil affairs, without the presence of the
sword. As to his desire for a large standing
army, everybody knows that he has urged
the reduction of the' array to the lowest
practicable standard, and is about as likely
to become a military despot in the Presi
dential office as the Charleston Mercury will
be to learn wisdom from the non-fulfilment
of its gloomy prophecies.
We notice these forebodings only to
express our regret that such extravagant
predictions can gain any hearers at the
South. It was inflammatory teachings like
these, continued through a long series of
years, that prepared the Cotton States for
secession, and finally plunged their people
into tho chaos of civil war. For a third of
a century the Mercury was the oracle of
those architects of ruin, the disciples and
apostles of John C. Calhoun. Their counsels
were followed, and the result was that
negro slavery, their darling institution, was
drowned in the best blood of the South,
while the wealthy were impoverished, the
poor reduced to starvation, and tho mag
nates of tlie land covered with humiliation
and disgrace.
What the Stales below the Potomac and
the Ohio have cause to dread is not the
election of Grant or any other Northern
President, but such fulminatious as those of
the Mercury and kindred journals and
orators, which tend to embitter the preju
dice.? and inflame the passions of tbeir
people, and divert tlieir attention from their
true interests. Let them eschew politics,
ignore demagogues of all parties, devote
their energies to cultivating tlieir lands,
rebuilding their railroads, fostering trade
and manufactures, establishing common
schools, and developing .their - resources ;
and then shall they become a prosperous,
intelligent, and powerful section of the
Republic.
[h'rom tho Cincinnati Gazette.
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
That the Democrats mean to try bard to
elect the next President, is a matter of
course, but that they regard the chances
decidedly against them is "evident, from the
fact that a large part of the most influential
leaders seriously propose to take the candi
date from the Republican party. When
Democrats seriously propose to pass by their
own leaders and seek an expediency candi
date, no one need be told that they do not
feel sure of being able to elect anybody.
The proposition, therefore, to nominate Chief
Justice Chase is an admission of weakness—
an admission that they cannot elect a straight
Democrat, and that if they would regain the
power that was lost when the party went
with the rebels, they must ride in on the
hack of not merely a Republican, but an old
Abolitionist, and on a platform favoring
impartial suffrage, recognizing the national
debt as payable in gold, and favoring an
early return to specie payments. Thus the
party, at the outset ot the Presidential cam
paign would be compelled to purge them
selves of all the leading principles which
they have advocated since 1800, and to take
all their principal planks from the Repub
lican platform.
Even if they should not nominate Chase,
the Republicans will find tlie articles that
are being written and published in the
most influential Democratic papers in favor
of distinctive Republican principles, valu
able during the campaign- When the
Democrats talk about paying the debt in
greenbacks, and about a “white man's
government,' we can refer them to their
own declarations that they are willing to
support Chase, ou liis own platform ; that
they are ready to drop the “nigger" and
take the negro ; that they arc willing to
pay the bondholders in guld; that the
National Banks, of which Chase is the
father, are admirable institutions; and we
have further, the virtual admission that
Republican principles are good enough for
Democrats, provided they will carry that
party into power. This is the sum and
substance of tiie Chase Democratic move
ment, and it must prove sufficient to con
vince the people that the Democratic party
have no principles that they arc not willing
to barter for office.
But will Chase be nominated ? It is our
opinion he will not; but his name will be
used to defeat Pendleton; and it is our
impression that this is all that the Chase
wing of tlie Democratic party expect to
accomplish by the movement.
Mr. Pendleton will enter the Convention
stronger than any other candidate; but not near
so strong as his friends profess to believe. A
great deal more is claimed for him in the
West than can be depended upon. Indiana,
for example, lias been reported for Pendleton,
but Senator Hendricks is a candidate, and
this fact makes Indiana more than uncertain.
Even in the Ohio delegation men are to be
found, even now, who are not certain whether
it would be wise to nominate Pendleton.
The same may be said of other Western
States, and when we come to the Southern
Stales, it will ho lotuul that these will yield
to the magic influence of Belmont as soon
as they reach New York. The Eastern
delegation will be almost solid against Pen
dleton. While, therefore, the hitter has
more strength than any other candidate
named, ho will not have a majority of the
Convention to start with, and the two-third
rule will he adopted, which will seal tho
fate of Pendleton, as did that of Douglas.
Thus the party of expediency will triumph,
and Hancock, or some oue who has not been
prominently named, will receive the nomi
nation, to be beaten in November by Grant;
as McClellan, who was also an expediency
candidate, was beaten in ISO 4 by Lincoln.
If the Democrats were sincere in the
principles they have advocated heretofore,
they could not now abandon them or nomi
nate a candidate who does not represent
them. They must either adhere to tlieir
principles and their men, or abandon both.
To change the one or abandon tlie other, in
the lace of tlie enemy, will make more
certain the deteat which, by a dodge, they
hope to avoid.
Nothing could have been more ridiculous
than the nomination of Gen. McClellan in
1804, on a peace platform. The people
saw through the performance, and promptly
and overwhelmingly condemned it. So they
will do, under like circumstances, in 1868;
and, as already intimated, we believe llieso
circumstances will occur. The disposition
to mask tho party for the conflict of 1808 is
too stroug to ho resisted successfully, and it
the platform can not be advanced fully to
the Republican stand point, anti-war
leaders will certainly bo shown to back seats.
lion. \V. If. Wadsworth, a prominent
member of the third party in Kentucky, is
among those who refuse to bo transferred to
the Democracy, and has taken the stump for
Grant and Col lux.
The Alabama delegates to tho ttli of July
Convention are instructed to fake no part in
the selection of a Presidential candidate, but
to leave the matter fully to the States that
are fully in the Union according to Con
gress.
Vallandigham says that ho is not only not
“sensitive” about his rocord during the war,
but proud of it.
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