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CljcConal^forjian! J. B. BBVANT, - • - Editor. AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1868 Official Organ U. S. Government. Official Organ of the Georgia Educational Association. All comimmlcaUon* for puUllcation must be written only on one side of tlie paper, and accompanied with tlie name of the writer. We will not publish the name, unless the writer wishes us to do so, hut we must have It. as a guarantee of the truthfulness oft lie article. C@ f *'-Mu. Wm. J. White i# the Travel ling Agent for Loyal Georgian- The Principles we Advocate. Reconstruction in accordance witli the laws of Congress. The equal political and legal rights of all citizens of the United States, except those who have been convicted ol crime, or those who have voluntarily attempted to destroy the Government. The enactment of State laws for the inauguration and support of a system of common schools. The elevation of labor, and the passage of such laws its will protect the toiling masses of society in their just and legal rights.- Organize ! Organize! Organize ! i Ii is that we have been successlul in the late election, but our opponents did not work against us. True, they opposed us; hut they had no organization. Our or ganization was very imperfect. Wo have lost two hundred votes in nearly every county that might have been polled, if we had been thoroughly organized. The next contest will bo most important, , and our opponents will organize to defeat j us- In a few months wo shall he called I upon to vote to ratify the Constitution, and to elect officers under it. Wo can succeed if wo do our duty. A Union League should be organized in every county, and ti Club or League | should be organized in every precinct. A Constitution for Republican Clubs will be j found on the outside of our paper. Ju organizing Clubs, we would advise that a few true men come to gether, choose temporary officers, and adopt the constitu tion. After that, let names lie proposed and referred to a committee who shall ex amine to see if they are true men. Let the Committee report whether they are friends or enemies. Then have a vote of the Club, and let a majority decide, [fa majority vote against the Oandidatof he is , of course, rejected; if majority \ ote for, 1 then have film sign the Constitution and enjoy all the rights of other members. . 1 'Vl'iillirisS' “ 4 - liave n sentry*:! j to keep out persono not members. When u ! sufficient number of persons have been elected, have permanent officers elected in accordance with the Constitution. Wc urge upon the Central Committee the j importance of thoroughly organizing every county in the State. ’Let the members in each Congressional District see that each county in I heir District is organized. Friends ! If we fail in the next election, it will be our own fault. We can succeed, if we .work Laboring Men, Remember! That Ben 11. Ilill in his " great" (!) speech at Atlanta spoke in favor of“ a landed aristocracy." embracing cum/io i lively few people. Remember that three hundred thousand to slaveholders—the “ landed ariscracy ” of the Sou tit—have theretofore tided the Southern States, driving the laboring white, men from tint, good lands into the pine, oarrens. keeping the great mass of the peo4 pie m ignorance and poverty. Remember that this “ landed aristocra cy ” broughton awar to destroy the Govern • uient, established a “reign oi terror,” and forced the poor men to fight for them. Remember that this "landed aristocracy" have always despised laboring men, and have crushed them by oppressive laws. Remember that the Union Republican party is pledged to elevate labor, and to the passage ot such laws as will protect the toiling masses of society in their just, and legal rights. Colored Men, Remember! That the Rebel-Copperhead party —some- times called the Democratic party—fought to keep you in slavery : and that the lenders of that party have done all they could to prevent you from voting. Remember, that the Union Republican party has given you freedom and the right to vote ; that it has protected you, and " ill continue to protect you. Remember all this, and do what you can to defeat the Rebel-Copperhead party, and place the Union Republican party in power. REPUBLICAN NATIONAL NOMI NATING CONVENTION. The undersigned,constituting the National Committee designated by the Convention held at Baltimore on the 7th ol June, 1804, do appoint that a National Convention of the Union Republican party be held at the city ot Chicago, 111., on Wednesday, the 20th day of May next, at 12 o'clock m., for the purpose of nominating candidates for the offices of President end Vice President of the United States. Each State in the United States is authorized to be represented .in said Convention by the number ot delegates equal to twice the number ot Senators and Repre sentatives to which each State is entitled in the National Congress. We invite the cooperation of ail citizens who rejoice that our great civil war has happily terminated in the discomfiture of the rebellion; who would hold fast the unity and integrity of the Republic, and maintain its paramount right to defend to the utmost its own existence, whether im periled by secret conspiracy or armed force ; of all friends of an economical ad ministration of the public expenditure, of the complete extirpation of the principles and policy of slavery, and of the speedy reorganization ol those. States whose Gov ernments were destroyed by the Rebellion, and their permanent restoration to their proper practical relations with the United States in accordance with the true princi ples of republican government. Marcus L. Ward, of New Jersey, Chairman. John D. Defhees, of Indiana, Secretary. Washington, Dee. 11, 1867. td MAJOR C. C. lIICHARD BON. This gentleman, a delegate from the 20th district to the Constitutional Con vention, was murdered in Atlanta on the 3d inst., by one E. Mcßarroo Timoney. We shall allude to this death at length in our next issue. REPUBLICANS, WORK! The Constitution adopted by the Con vention now in session will he submitted to the people very soon. It will be sucli a Constitution as the Republicans will be willing to ratify. Our friends should now liegin to work with zeal, and thoroughly organize every county and precinct. ’lilt: GEORGIAN FOR THE CAMPAIGN. Wc desire to send the Loyal Georgian into every county m the State during the campaign. Will our friends assist us to do So ? Our terms are but sli2s for six mouths. The Loyal Georgian was the first Re publican paper published in Georgia, and it is one oi the few reliable Republican papers now published in the State. As the National Republican is published by the same company that publishes the Loyal Georgian , we can transfer from the Republican the most important news pub lished in that daily paper. tv c can there fore promise to lay before our readers each week the latest telegraphic news, as well as news of importance from all parts of this State. It is not necessary for us to assure our readers that we shall advocate the ratifica tion of the Constitution adopted by the Constitutional Convention nnd the election of the Republican candidates lor office. We ask our friends in every county to assist iih. We. wish to add several thou sand subscribers to our subscription list during this campaign. This is perhaps the most important political campaign that the Republican party of Georgia will ever carry on, and it is important Hint oar friends should he kept hilly informed of all matters of importance to the party. Will not every friend who receives this paper subscribe if lie lias not already done so ; and w ill he not try and send us one or more new. subscribers. I from the Atlanta Mow Era. A IflUI). Hall Hi. Constitutional Convention, / Atlanta, (fa., Jan. fit, 1808. ( To the Public: Several of the newspapers in the State, editorially and through their correspond ents from Atlanta, having referred to the unfortunate encounter lictwr.u Captain Timoney and Major Richardson, in snob a manner as to give it a politicn! signili eance, and for the purpose of making it appear that the dispute was the result of tocig respective in eferences for a Guber natorial nomination, 1 desire, in this public imtpner to say, that upon Ike article in the Opinion being brought to my notice, I was assured by Major Richardson, an. by other gentlemen who were pr eit at the meet ing referred ta in the said nrt'cle, that ItfL-.v » it.- .-4 ‘ »•-*•*—meins. - ttS'i charged, and Tg»tiiereforc, dropped the subject, as o ictdtogeth r peso,ml between the writer a id the Major, nor did 1 advise or recommend any t '.ion to he by Major R.; nor was 1 informed as to wlint action lie proposed to take, or had taken, until informed on Monday evening that Major R. had been shot byCapt, Timoney. It will, therefore, be seen that the meet ing between the parties w s the result of personal feeling upon n question of verac ity exclusively, and lias no political sig nificance. While it was to be expecUd that the opponents of reconstruction! would be greatly gratified at any want/of harmony among the friends of that policy, I am sure that no one can regret it more sin cerely than Col. Farrow and myself. It. It. liru.ocK. • ♦- the Augusta National Republican. THE HEI IEE MEASURE. ■s vexatious nml tier the circum stances. Almost every delegate lmd a plan of his own, and the proposition of Col. Bullock was a compromise, which, while it did not satisfy extremists, commanded the support ot the moderate men. Some relict was demanded by the people, and they looked to tins Convention, representing their interests, for it. Tlie present measure was adiqitcd as one which, while satisfy ing the demands of the people, did as little injustice as possible between debtor and creditor. Had the demands of extreme relief men been listened to, every debt existing or created before or during the war would have been blotted out at once. Some were in favor of repudiating all debts, even to the present time. But the exception made in Col. Bullock's plan of all fiduciary debts, and of such as were contracted for property, still existing in the hands of the purchaser, were so manifestly proper and just, that even the extreme men felt com pelled to forego their opposition. If the plan adopted passes the ordeal of ratification by the people, there is nothing to be feared from the courts. Aside from the inherent difficulty of bringing tlic question before the Courts, closed against it by the Constitution itself, if rati fied, until reopened by the Legislature, such questions are very reluctantly en tertained and tardily decided by the Courts—as we have an example in the i Stay Law, only lately declared uncon- ! stitutional. It is to be hoped, therefore, that if it be declared inoperative by the I Courts, as it is not likely to lie, still so ! much time may be gained that the people may be able to extricate themselves in a great measure from thei;- present pecuniary troubles. Kirtlaml, Ohio, once an important seat of Mormonism, has still a small remnant of the “faithful,'’ who worship in the original temple. A Paris actress fell near the footlights, but escaped injury, from the circumstance that she had nothing on which could take fire. U. L. OF A. We publish below, the admirable ad dress of the officers of the U. L. of A. for the State of North Carolina. 11 Every word and line of this patriotic paper is applicable to our State, and we can only regret that the officers of the League in Georgia have issued a circular looking only to personal advancement. We call on our friends to give this paper wide circulation. Our motto is Equal Rights, Equal Laws, and a Loyal Gov ernment in preference to any man, or any set of men, in the State, or the United Statft: To the U. L. of A. in North Carolina. State Council Chamber. U. L. A , ? Raleigh, Jan. 31,1868. J Brothers :—You will he called upon in | a short time again to exercise the right of j suffrage. The Convention dow in session in Raleigh will soon submit to you the new Constitution lor this State. This Constitu- ! tion must be ratified. We must elect loyal members of Congress, and loyal State and County officers All our past labors have been directed to this eDd. Let us stand shoulder to shoulder in this contest, and ! put to utter rout the enemies of reconstruc tion, and declare in unmistakable terms that “ LOYAL MEN MUST GOVERN.” In 110 i other way can the Union be restored. In noother’way can prosperity he revived ! and made permanent among us. In no i other way can Liberty itself.be preserved. But to make sure of these results, : thorough organization is necessary. We | should at once go earnestly to work, i Establish your Councils at every County j seat. Invite into them the loyal and the true. Bold frequent meetings. Letdocu ! ments and newspapers Le read, comment ed on, explained, and freely circulated ! uniorig the people. Frepareyourselves for the various nominations to be made fur offico; and wheu the nominations arc made, see to it by every honorable means in your power that the loyal candidates arc elected. Wo exhort you to have no strife or wrangliugs among ysurselvcs about office. The cause is too important, and the interests at stake too precious, to be put in peril ‘by mere preferences foi meu, or by the ambition of men Let us rallier "in honor prefer one another,” so that, like brothers in a common cause, wo may be able to reach the best results. Let your Council# at the Connty seats radiate throughout every neighborhood in the County. Let precinct Councils he estn blisheil, and let them co-operate with the central County Councils. In this way_ I great good can be accomplished. Be ready ! especially several days before the election j for the work to he done on llgit day. Let committees or precinct men, with the necessary tickets, pervade every neighbor hood; and let every loyal Leaguer work, work, work, upjai the last moment on the last day of vsling. Brothers, our mission is tlie noble one of reconstructing our State on the basis of Loyalty, Truth and Justice. We seek to “secure the ascendancy of the true princi ples of popular government, equal the education and elevation ot the toiling* masses, the preservation of our national, honor and faith,” *and wo inculcate, “brotherly affection nnd true charity^tfip wards all men.” Our rule of faith is tlie, Holy Bible. Our political creed is fouiPfr in the Declaration of Independence amr the Constitution of the Untied States. We Tove 4ho flag because it is the symbol of the national majesty and glory.* We arc j dor the Unan, because.,,iL»ill Us 1 '■■■ pfennnfu, Yat n naslsceu in uj*- post, is Tmiutninol innumerable benefits and bless- 1 ingc. Wo seek the good of all, the injury of"none. Ard yet, brothers, you have been misrepresented, denounced, threaten ed, persecuted a.id hunted down for these principles and sentiments. The most in famous calumnies have been heaped upon you. In public and in private, from the stump and from the press, and even in Courts of Justice, your enemies have re sorted to every effort to destroy your good name and your noble organization. But you have stood firm. To your lasting honor he it said, you have never faltered. Sustained by a consciousness of the purity of your intentions, and your smglo-eyod devotion to your country, you lmvo pre seuted an unwavering front, against which the legions of treason and rebellion liaVe raged in vain. Loyal Leaguers !■-you have done well. You have contended against fearful odds, anil have been victorious. Against you has been arrayed the wealth and power of the State. All the patronage of the State government, with all its corporations, has been wielded against you. It is to the justice of your enuso that you owe your triumph. ’ You have been victorious, be cause you have fought upon the side of Truth’and Right. Y'ou entered the field sustained only by the eternal principles which inspired you Your enemies were entrenched behind the passions and preju- dices of society, and supported by ail the prestige that former rank and power hod given them. The flag of your country floated above you, and on it was inscribed your motto, “ Equal and exact Justice to iijl men,” of whatever race or former con dition. Upon the banners of your enemies was written, “ Caste, Aristocracy', and tin viehling opposition to the national will.” As the contest opened, and ns you measured arms with your enemies, you were cheered by dio immortal spirits who to all ages have dedicated themselves to Liberty and Justice. The memories of hundreds of thousands who fell in the great war to suppress the rebellion, and who died happy in iho hope that their blood would •• cry from the ground” until the existence I’s the nation undivided should be perpetually issured, inspired you and sustained you in the darkest hours when “bloody trea son” teemed again to “flourish over ns.” Thus cheered and sustained, having in view only your country’s good, you scatter ed your enemies before you. You have met and overcome, to a great extent, the prejudice of ages. You have bridged the chasm which divided the mex of this nation in theirequality of political and civil rights; and you now present the grand spectacle oi a party, feeble at first in numbers, which has dared to do justice, to maintain the Unioli, aud to demand < equal political mul civil rights for all, in the face ot loug-set tled conventionalities, prejudices and pas sions, which no party in any country had ever previously been called to confront and overcome. But your work is not yet complete. The final issue is staked on the next election. He must rati/y the Constitution, and put loyal men tn poicer. Unless this be done, all your past labors, sacrifices and suffer ings will have been iu vain. But not this alone. Should you be defeated now, not only will you lose ihe great benefits in store for you, but the course you have thus far taken’may prove your utter ruin. The colored race,’ if they should pass again under the control of the rebel leaders of : the South—which is highly probable, if the present acts of reconstruction should fail— would soon find themselves reduced below the Russian serf to the level of the peon, with no rights save those that belong to i the beasts that would live and then perish in common with them on the soil. Every, noble hope, born gouls of the elec tric fire of FreeSK. would be forever quenched in darkness. You, Loyal white Lea®rs, with the colored 'race, have fully cßmitted yourselves to the Congressiona' Wan. You would not recede, if too ww. Should this plan fail in North CaroWa, from yonr want of energy, what wo® be your condition ? That “ hideous r®k,” placed upon you during the rebellitx for yonr devotion to the Union, would H sunk still mto your foreheads- U>ur names would oe come a reproach, Djid the finger of rebel scorn would poiatfl-ou out in your most secret retirement. gWhat hope of redress would you have wljp yon were bound hand and foot, with t® heel of your old op pressors on your ®cks! But there are hiiher considerations than these to stimulatelyou to action. Every ! interest of the Stae demands its restora tion to the Union it the earliest possible I moment. Onr so and climate, from the sea shore to the Tennessee line, present almost every varjl iy to be found in other i States. Iron, coa . copper, marble, plum bago. and other r inerals hidden in inex haustible qnantitj s in our hills and vaV i leys, while the lire fd belts of the gold and silver region rich v reward the labors of the miner. Onr crests abound with the , mon valuable t ees. Our rivers and ! streams, as they low to the sea, waste i enough power to i lrn the machinery of all America. Our p> st history, previously to the rebellion, pres ints a long succession of pages of which Ire may well be proud, illustrated as thejuare by early and con tinued devotion M\ constitutional liberty, and by a sense of honor as a people and as on which there is no stain. Why shield, our agriculture and commerce languish, and our rivers run idly to the sea ? Why have not Northern enterprise and capital poured tnupon us, to enhance the value of our lands, to em ploy labor, and-Kuild up our-jmlustrial interests ? The «Rswcr is, because we have noLueen restored to the Union. Under the atSces of those who involved us in ro belWon, and whtj, though the conflict of ceased, continue as rebellious as tfley ever were, their opposition to the national will, we are growing_poorer every day. These leaders, instead of inviting immigration, at;« repelling it by their sectional councils, and their silly repining* over the unhappy past, and -the minded, malignant manner in which they treat those whom they are pleayid to term « Northern advqplnrcrs ” and “ Radical emissaries." • Gentlemen of eTTOcatiou and character who hive come among us from the’North, to’infest their money and to share our fortalA instead of being wel comed by these -Bulcrs as American citi zens and as frills, arc [Misrepresented, maligned, and held up as the eneniios of our people. These leaders are thift intent on our ruin. Thiy can see nothing worthy of approval in pAc affairs which does not promise to contilffc them in their ill-gotten power. They spit upon this distressed and impoverished pdfjple as a most fatal in cubus, preventing the success of every effort thus far t<aj£slore prosperity by the restoration of the Union. Twice already have they induced our people to reject /Dims of reconstruction proposed by a dffaguanimous government; nnd they are now making a third attempt to plunge our qieople into fiqal ruin, to gratify their Ambition and thifit for office. Brothers, you ftre to meet these leaders (again and overcome them. With the aril of all true Republicans, keeping even step with the V nohlmarmy of Heroes of Araer icaYou have tho power nviiil to put itmrth. Cul l i tßetfioums t Iriemßy rcla tioni with all Ibjpi organizations, and with all true Republicans, whether they belong to our Councils or not. Remember your holy pledges, ond redeem them, by efforts as intriped and indefatigable ns were those by which, on a thousand battle fields, our nation was preserved in its integrity against the armed assaults of treason. With Union to inspire us, ami with Vigi lence guarding every avenue by which traitors would approach to assail us ; and with u determined purpose to use tho power wo possess for God, our country and mankind, VICTORY is certain. The Union will ho reconstructed. Our beloved Slate will once more put on the garments of prosperity aud jpy ; and our people w ill he contented and happy through tho long ages reserved for the existence of the gov ernment which Washington established, and which Lincoln' labored and died to preserve. Fraternally ypurs. W. W. Bolden, President. Jas. 11. Harris, \st Vice Pres. A. 11. Jones, 2d l r icc Pres. C. W. Horner, Scc'y. POLITICAL. The Tiay-Ku Leader relates the following incident flat he Resident, ot the Senate. Gov. (ii'twHlp. is w.dl known, is a preacher of the Memodist ptrsiuision. It seems that a hill, conferring sene special powers on the Methodists, was be tore the -Senate. A mo tion to ‘strike out tie enacting clause,’ and thus kill the hill, w:n made and carried, and the somewhat exciod Governor thus an nounced the result:'Ten yen/lemen having voted in the aflirmatve, and only eight Meth odists in iho nejptive, the motion pre vails.' ” The Annapolis co-respondent ot the Bal timore American snys there is a strong pro bability of a split SAiong the Democracy of Maryland, in consequence of an effort on the part of M i it.pinery Blair to force Johnson on the (fifty as a candidate for President. O T. P. Fjuefrockwlhe Democrat whom General Bucklaud defeated for Congress in the Ninth Ohio Dijtriet, in 180(1, lias just withdrawn' from the Methodist Church at Fremont, because a jolored couple were ad mitted. Gcue-al John M. Palmer and General Logan are named as he prominent Bepubli can candidates lor Governor of Illinois. The former, it is sad, will not accept the nomination- General Kilpatrifclus reported to be com ing home from Chu, at llie request of certain Republicans jin New Jersey, who want him to run as tfiiir candidate for Gov ernor this fall. A committee of Sr. Pendleton's friends has been established h Washington, to urge his nomination as Deaocratie candidate for the Presidency. \ It is said that Gw. Carney will be the Republican, and Geoqe W. Glick, of Atchi son, the Democratic Jindidate tor Governor in Kansas. General Burnside lifelines to be a candi date for reflection to idle Governorship of Rhode Island. The German Grant Slabs of Connecticut are taking measures'ti form a State organi zation. A It is said that Reny'J. Raymond is to write a history of Genosil Grant, assisted by William Swinton. Twenty-nine papers ot Ohio have declared for Grant, and ten hr Chase. General Grant aipeafs to be the choice of the Kentucky Repilliqjns. China never had kithflr a slave, or a feudal system, or a paupe^peasantry. From the Washington (D. C.) Chronicle.] TIIE GRANT AND JOHNSON CORRESPONDENCE. YVe have two very different men to deal with here; one who has illustrated a use ful life with heroic acts, and is singularly reticent; the other, a loud and constant talker, whose record is full of contradic tions. The General is a law abiding citi zen and soldier ; the Piesident a political trickster and lawless demagogue. The first wonld attend to his duty and refuse to in termeddle with tho affairs of others ; the second wields his badly-acquired powers to subject all departments of the Government and the very nation itself to the imperious demands of his single will. The course pursued by Andrew Johnson since he made that lamentable exhibition of himself on the 4th of March, 1865, has given the he to all his patriotic record; has denied every principle upon which his popularity was based ; has caused all those who supported him in his days of integrity, with a few exceptions, to from him as a political gathered around him tho vnlturcs upon the carcass of a Government they killed under Buchanan, but which was 1 resurrected under Lincoln by the strong arm of Ulysses S. Grant and bis boys in blue. We have only to recall his interviews withJ Governor Morton and the Indian delegaß tion alter lie became President, and ho|H of others, to lemefisber with what he acted, and how far lie placed 1 eyond tlie pale of honesty and was not content with doing ill; he his ill deeds worse by promising good. ‘ lie intended to “ make treason odiouHH to “ punish traitors,” and said if there were but four thousand loyal men in any rebel State they should reconstruct it, and the rebels should take back seats in the work of reconstruction. He pledged himself to Mr. Sumner as favorable to universal man hood suffrage, and to Mr. Stevens as favor ing negro suffrage upon named conditions. Upon every pledge he has ever made he stands foresworn Ijsfore the country. Nor have his more private and personal plilges been better kept than his public ones, as thousands of disappointed men in all parts of the country to-day bear witness. His ‘ questions of veracity” have been frequent, and invariably determined against him when the truth was known. 'J o carry out his purposes he has resorted to measures hitherto unknown, and such as it would have shocked any former Presi dent to mention. We mean the detailing to correspondents of newspapers conversa tions which took place at Cabinet meetings. These matters have so astounded the coun try that the people have long since ceased to express surpriso at any act ho might do, however lawless or atrocious. • When he wished to avail himself of Gen eral Grant’s popularity to sustain his politi cal movements, he tricked him into atti tudes where his name could be used, and had him telegraphed all over the country as a supporter of his policy. Who docs not retnemoer his unworthy “dodge” upon the occasion of the visit of tho Johnson-Ray mond Committee from tlie Philadelphia Padlock Conventum, when he senl or Grant and bis Chiel-of staff to come ov- J the White Iloifte ? These officers, sup posing the President wished to see them on obeyed his summons only to be brought into the pnjence of a speaking deljg ■ition, “bathed ißpars” over the affect ing spectacle st Philadelphia, and have their pSmes telegraphed all over the lapd a3 participants in the progV'nme. Then followed tho revolting and treasonable “swing around the circle,” which Grant in vain declined to attend, upon written invi'a tipn andj'eply. 4 f WtienTSrsVttsc T'i T-TTTn—irtTra-T-m"., ■■rr.rt nts rtiuroge up to the point ol removing Mr. Stanton, he sent for General Grant, ostensi bly to consult with him upon the subject; but already tlie General of the army had been subject to misrepresentation at tho hands of the President, and he went home and wrote out his remonstrance against that act, in the letter marked “Private.” It was not agreeable to have an eavesdropper taking down his words in stenographic writing, and then have them garbled in the daily papers, as Sheridan’s New Orleans dispatch was. The quiet General did not say a gicat deal, but he did not wish the little he did say to be misrepresented. It was, therefore, only a wise precaution in him to begin the process of asking lor the relations between him and the President to be put in writing. Even his wriiten remonstrance against Stanton's removal did not prevent tho President (ruin giving out the lie that he advised said re moval. So, also, when asked to give his opinion regarding Sheridan’s removal, Gen. Grant gave U freely, and to the satisfaction of the country, in an official letter; the Pres ident having learned by that time that Gen. Grant nicmt to have his views on the subjec, i.-i black upd whitg, From the frequent recurrence of there things, and the constant disclosure ol pri vate letters and conversations by the Presi dent, contrary to all official or gentlemanly usage, tho world at last lost all confidence in him. Tho fact that tlie boat he floats in has received additional rowers since is no contradiction of this fact: it would have as many or more without him in it. The last examplp of his lawless hi .1 tricky disposition is manifested in the cor respondence between him and Grant upon the Stanton reinstatement. We consider the question of veracity .as settled. As against a man who has proven false to every pledge he has made and every friend he had on earth, anybody would be be lieved ; hut when a man like General Grant gives him a flat contradiction, it is equal to an avalanche of proof hurting hint into the pit of everlasting infamy. Should those of his time-serving Cabinet who have bent tlie pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawning, choose to add to pub lic contempt by additional servility, it will not affect the judgment of the world. Thus much upon the peisonal phase of this controversy. Upon the public phase of it we do not know how properly to characterize the moral heinousness, the base sulileifuges, and the lawless trickery disclosed by the President’s own state ments. “You had found, in our first couferen. ” savs the President, “ that the Presid was desirous of keeping Mr. Stanton o of office, whether sustained in the suspen sion or not. You knew what reasons "had induced the President to ask from you a promise. You also know that, in case your views of duty did not accord with : his own convictions, it was his-spuspos# to fill your place by another appointment". Even ignoring the existence of ajaiitive unde, standing between us, these, conclusions were plainly deducible from our various conversations-- certain, however, that, even under these circumstances, you did not offer to return the place to my possession, but, according to yonr own statement, placed yourself in a position when, could I have anticipated your action. I would have been compelled to ask of you, as I was ei rapelled to ask of yonr predecessor in the War Department, a letter of resignation, or else to resort to the more disagreeable expedient of sus pending you by a successor.” Here is a distinct avowal of a lawless purpose into which he wished to draw Gen. Grant as a participant, so that he might shield himself front the penalties incurred, or involve the General iu the consequences. It appears to us that what the President had the right to do then he has still the right to do. If he meant to disobey or dis regard the law then, and act upon his con stitutional prerogatives, he may still do so. Has his courage oozed out since the de parture of General Grant, or is he unwill ing to tempt alone the dangers of that thorney path he wanted Grant to tread ? Does not the letter itself disclose a pur pose, so reckless of the law, and so against the morale of good government, as to con stitute a high misdemeanor in office ? To this, we tbinb no more eloquent and fitting response could have been given by a brave soldier and an honest man than the following from General Grant: “The course you would have it under stood I agreed to pursue was i-.i violation of law and without orders from you ; while the course I did pursue, and which I never doubted you fully understood, was in ac cordance with law, and not in disobedience to any orders of any superior. And now, Mr. President, when my honor as a soldier, and integrity as a man, have been so vio lently assailed, pardon me for sayiDg that I can but regard this whole matter, from beginning to enu, as an attempt to involve me in the resistance of law, for which you hesitated to assume the responsibility in orders, s to destroy my character Bitry. lamina measure ■HKpcKh® ' • I byy mr r,-< —.t ■ p, • u <!:- .b»y or b.-rs from ,Hght -B® v. sb p.F . ■ vKgi aH gjgTTior: '. nW: I > disob .-v. is a d-'Ai i t indictment of the I’resi- wishing to induce his subordinate cco.r e in violation of law. So a charge from such a man ought not Wo pass wilhoat investigation by the repre sentatives ot the people. The proper resent ment of the General again-t an assault upou his “honor as a sbldier and integi ity as a man,” is again coupled with the declaration that the President attempted “to involve him in the resistance of law, for which you hesitate to assume the responsibility jflk orders, and thus to destroy my character befo-e th J country'' Here is a charge distinctly made by a thoughtful and honest man, first in the hearts of his countrymen to-day, against the reckless disturber of the country’s peace in the White House. We take it for granted that it will not be permitted to stop bssre by those having proper authority ; bttfflti- any event, the people will settle the (Question rightfully, and in favor of the hero who con quered the rebellion. “ CORRESPONDENCE.” M. WILKINS TO HIS I*A. Brighton Academy, Jan 31, 1868. Dear Pop : I am getting along first rate at the school, and I like it very much, all except Whacks, the assistant—“ Old Bees wax,” wc call him, and we on him like a pile-driver, all us lnfl®for lie’s ignorant. Why, he’s so iguorantjie don’t know’ a blackboard from a dark mg lit, no, he don’t, and Bill Ferguson, lie put a tor pedo under each leg of old Beesey’s chair yesterday, and when he sat dow i (you sec lie sits down like he had ballast in him), why the torpedoes they exploded, and like to I low him through the roof. Golly, hut wasn't he scared ! He looked at tbe*alma nac to make sure it wasn't the 4th of July, and then lie came down, looking mad, and licked Bill like blazes. But Bill said he didn’t care a cent, and the next time ho would sprinkle gunpowder in his hair, aud busUhis old front piece off of him. Dy. Goggles, he's a nice old fellow, only he will sit and chew gum drops right be fore us boys, and never say "take some” once. Hq-wears,ereea saceka-ftsu 1 BiU_ller2u., son, no called hitn, ''•old four eyms one day, which tho doctor, lie heard Bill say it, and he nailed him and dragged him up to the desk, and then he gave us a lecture, and said thore was once a boy he knew, and lie was about Bill’s size, who insulted a gray headed old man, and called him wicked names, and the next day—the very next morning—that boy’s mother died of inflamatory rheumatism, and his sister broke out with humors. Bill, he cried, while the doctor held him by the shirt collar, but lie winked at the boys ns be came away, and wrote on a piece of paper, and threw it over to me, that he thought the doctor was “a blower,” and he dareseut hit a boy of his size. 1 want some now books very much, about ten of them, and they will cost eight dol lars. Don’t send the books, for the doctor likes us to buy them here. I don’t want any money for taffey or marbles, for I don't care about them ; but bo -jre not to send anything but the money for the books. lam in good health. I was taken sick last week, and had a sore eye for a few days, but it is now well. We was a pitying mumbly-peg out on the grass, and Bill Ferguson he grabbed my knife. I told him he had better give tk.t knife up or I would tell you, and get you to lick him when you come down, and lie said he could lick you and a dozen like you, and then he dared me to knock a chip off his shoulder. And Jake McGinnis, lie pushed me against him, and that knocked the chip and Bill, he struck me over tlie nose three or four times, and said he’d “bust me on the snoot ” if I didn’t dry up, for I couldn’t help crying, and I was taken sick, and 1 couldn't go to school all day. And the doctor, lie lucked Bill up in the garret, but he didn't care, for he chimb out on the roof and was a chasing around after tom-cats, up and clown almost every morn ing, and pulling plaster out of the chimney to throw at people in the street. Give my love to all at home, and don’t forget the money for the books. Bill is about fourteen, do you think lie can lick you ? Please send the money, and believe me your affectionate son. H. M. Wilkins. P. S—Don’t forget to send the money for those books. The Prince of Wales will visit Ireland in April. --jv Anew sect, terming themselves “Non fighting Men,” have appeared among the swlors of the British navy. Some of the ten years' men of this sect, on claiming their discharge, were asked why they wished to leave the setvice, and replied, “For the love of the Lord and liberty.” Tennyson declines any longer to acknowl edge the MS. verses which he is in the habit of receiving from strangers. He is about to issue a “Standard” edition of his works in four library volumes. This edition will be carefully corrected by the poet, and will contain some notable additions to his published writings. The German citizens of Philadelphia intend to erect a firsi class tiieatre. The Executive Committee held a meeting on Saturday night, to take counsel as to what step they should make. The sum of $67,000 has been subscribed, to which a wealthy citizen has agreed to add $‘20,000 when ever the fund reaches SBO,OOO. A Miss Smith, a school teacher in Mis souri, having dressed the wounds of a rebel soldier during Price's raid in that State in 1804, received a few days ago a letter from the administrator of H. C. McDonald, Sr., informing her that she was named in his will as legatee of $50,000, iu consideration of having saved the life of his and TIIE GEORGIA INJUNCTION CASE. The Washington Chronicle of Tuesday says, that the opinion of the Supreme Court in the Georgia Injunction Case, de livered on Monday, by Associate Justice Nelson, will throw a wet blanket upon the hopes of those who have been relying upon the judiciary as an ally of a treach erous Executive. It will be recollected that an injunction was prayed, in the name of the State of Georgia, to stay the exe. cution of the reconstruction acts. The application was dismissed for want of jurisdiction, but the reasons which influ enced this decision of the court were not given, and have not been given in the form of an opinion until the present time. But recently a startling report was put in cir culation as to what this opinion would be, but the question is now set at rest in a manner which will be as gratifying to the country as it is creditable to die dignity and honor of the court itself. Among the reasons assigned for the dis missal of the application, the most signifi cant, and the one which lias a direct bear ing upon national affairs, is that wherein court declares that it possesses no to decide on political ques tions. Holding this opinion,, it will be impossible that it should fulfil the hopes which among Copperheads and reliels were recent!w«i__£onfidently enter tained by giving a decision adverse to tire reconstruction acts. The bare possibility that it might usurp such a function as to decide upon a purely political question of that character was a sufficient cause for the apprehension of the most serious evils. Wit H-another man than Andrew Johnson in the Executive chair, it might hav« occa sioned no particular disquietude; but with an Executive whose many usurpations of power demonstrated the probability of others still more audacious* the danger of furnishing him such a pretext was too manifest not to excite the gravest tears so r the peace of the country. This opinion will be like oil poured upon the troubled waters. It will not merely tend to traL quilizc the ’political atmosphere, but, by allaying the apprehensions of some unde fined possible evil, will remove one of tlie obstacles to industrial ami commercial ac tivity, and contribute to relicvc'the country from the stagnation from which it is now so severely suffering. It could scarcely have been promulgated at a more oppor tune time. Elegant KlietoiTc. Wc can not resist the tempfs ur nish our “low flung Y'ankcc” frienSSHvith gems and models of elegant “high-toned’ rhetoric current among the pride of the earth who have “lost all but honor. We quote (not, this time, from the Augusta Chronicle) from the Native Virginian, who says, of the Convention in session in the Old Dominion: Very little space in these columns has been or will be devoted to tlie doings of the assemblage of cLuudi.-U*|ps, weevils, snake doctors, eed-ticks, chigoes, bed-bugs, cock loache-v jk'fktiejaL rea-r-tiicks, jurub-woiHi^i wood'd i<sßßßpiqpfftn, HywoWjTnsgßoP skippers, dung-beetles and pismires which now defile onr ancient capitol. AARON A BRADLEY. At last this worthless and brawling negro has been expelled from his seat in the Con vention. During the whole sitting of that body his conduct has rendered him ob noxious to both white and black members. Always full of babbling and loud-mouthed effrontery, he was a nuisance and a dead weight upon the Convention. The recent charges preferred against him would un doubtedly have resulted in his expulsion ; but we are glad to say that the end was accomplished without further waiting. As will be seen from the proceedings on yesterday, he so grossly insulted members upon the floor that Mr. Cottiug moved his immediate expulsion, and the motion was sustained by a unanimous vote—the colored delegates as well as the whites, to a man, casting their voices in favor of it. Now let him be ejected from the State. He is a dis turber ot the peace, a creator of discord ■among his race, an enemy to the black man, and a nuisance of which the people should be rid at once. Tberd will be no satisfac tion among the blacks where he is allowed to remain. While he is impotent to do evil among the intelligent classes of people, his gift of gab, his wily, scheming, arid perversa na ture. jriakes Hjgu. a dahgerous Creature artiong'Those whom he can lead. The col ored of the State, a*Mieir represent atives fn the Convention have done, should cast him off and refuse to associate with him. He can only bring injury upon them. Those colored men in the Convention who voted for his expulsion, have done them selves infinite credit by their votes. Not one so demeaned himself ns to vote against expelling him. They, iu common with the whites,- have felt him to be a burden and a nuisance upon the body. Even those who defended him in the late investigation, cast him pff utterly, and now the miserable creature may go away ams onCe'more bully Hayes, his compeer, ahnut the streets of Savannah.— Atlanta E a, Feb. 13. Ex-Gov. Jenkins and Gen, Meade.— The Washington correspondent of tire New York Times says: “The action of the Senate authorizing the War Dcparment to employ counsel to defend*Gens. Grant. Meade, and Roger, in threatened suits, was occasioned by the fact that Gov. Jenkins, of Georgia, has taken steps to bring action against them for alleged assumption of power in appropriating the public funds of that State for the benefit of the Reconstruction Convention. It should be understood that Gov. Jenkins eluded arrest by Gen. Meade by flight, as that officer had made preparations to arrest him for impeding reconstruction and embezzlement. This latter charge was based on the fact that Jenkins trans ferred the funds in the State Treasury to New York without authority, and caused them to be deposited there to the credit ot private parties.” It. is said that more than a hundred men in New York make their living by catching rats for sporting purposes. Northern Arkansas raised wheat and corn last year, beside cotton, and is doing well. Southern Arkansas raised only cotton, and is starving. Gen. N. B. Forrest, of rebel notoriety, has filed a petition in bankruptcy in the office of the Clerk of the United States Court in Memphis.