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, WEEKLY ENQUIRER.
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COLUMBUS:
TUESDAY, JULY 30, ISG7.
The New York Herald has invented a
new discovery of first class sensational
magnitude. It is nothing more nor less
than the inauguration at the South of a
“new rebellion,” with extensive ramifica
tions and far-reaching organization I It
says that the ostensible purpose of tbo
plot is the avenging of the death of Max
imilian, and that the enrolling of volun
teers i3 actively progressing throughout
the South, under the management of cun
ning politicians and experienced soldiers.
Happily, the Herald has such a repu
tation for reckless falsehoods, that every
sensible man now sees through its “sensa
tion” disclosures as soon as they are read.
In this caee its story is too ridiculous for
anything but ridicule. Who knows any
thing about any organization of “Maxi
milian avengers,” either real or pretend
ed, in the Southern States? We venture
the assertion that hot in all Georgia has
there beon the first effort made anywhere
to enroll volunteers in such a causo. Our
people not only have as much as they can
do to earn a living at home by strictly
attending to their own business, but they
have had enough of war to last for one
generation at least. The design of such
statements is to prepare the way for addi
tional oppressions and indignities to the
people of the South, in the hope of driv
ing them, in their exhausted and unpre
pared condition, into another contest with
the United States and the “rest of man
kind.” Our people understand the game.
The Now York Sun, while sustaining
Congress in the passage of the amendatory
Reconstruction act, says that the Presi
dent’s veto message “contains some points
upon which thoughtful men may advan
tageously ponder.” There are jother evi
dences that the thoughtful men of the
North are pondering seriously upon the
truths contained in the veto message, and
that they are awakening to the necessity
of putting a stop to the destructive course
of Congress.
Savannah.—Iron for the Atlantic &
Gulf Kailroad is arriving at Savannah in
considerable quantities. The Republicun
estimates that three thousand tons have
already arrived, or are on the way, and
expresses the hope that the extension to
Bainbridge will be finished by the first of
October.-..Among the exports of Savan
nah for the North on the 22d, were 5112
bushels new wheat, and 150 barrels and
160 sacks new flour... .The new telegraph
line between Savannah and Thomasville
commenced the transmission of messages
on the 23d... .It was found that nearly all
the freight on the brig Blackfish, that
lately arrived at Savannah after a long
voyage from New York, was ruined or
badly damaged on the passage. The car
go consisted of corn, flour, mackerel, su
gar, &c. Six hundred and fifty sacks of
the corn were thrown overboard at Ty bee.
Montgomery, Ala.—Young Wreford
has given the bail of §6,000 required of
him, and been released from imprison
ment..- -The merchants of the city are to
hold a meeting this afternoon, to consider
the condition of the roads leading into
Montgomery, the bad state of which is
said to bo detrimental to its commerce.—
Wo presume that the movement has par
ticular reference to the roads leading to
Pike and Lowndes counties... .The Ad
vertiser reports the denarture of Judge
Goldthwaite, Gens. Hannon and Clanton,
Gov. Walts and Judge Judge, for Texas.
Some of them go to look after landed in
terests in Texas, and others to attend to
business for clients.
The Lawrence (Kansas) Journal says
recent arrivals from Port Gibson report
the cholera very bad at that post, espe
cially among the colored troops. Nearly
all the whites are leaving, and it has been
suggested that the town be burned to stay
the ravages of tho disease, though how
such a course would be of benefit is not
stated. Work has been generally sus
pended at the post.
The “liquor question” is to bo the main
one in the election in Massachusetts this
fall. The issue is between prohibition and
license.
Tho Louisville Democrat says that Gen.
L. H. Rousseau has been named as Com
missioner to formally accept our Russian
purchase. Ho will meet tho lfussian
Commissioner at Sitka, and there, in
behalf of tho Unitod States, formally
accept the territory.
Webster County.
The following is tho result of the reg
istration for Webster county (12th Dis-
trict): _
Whites. Colored. Total.
Preston,
Weston,
Gooseborry,
California,
Slaughter Creek,
159
209
368
83
104
187
78
14
92
24
12
36
21
7
28
365
346
711
Our correspondent adds:
"The registrars will be in Preston again
three days.”
The registration of Montgomery city
and county, Ala., has been completed,
with the following result: Whites'1S4G,
blacks 0200—total8100. Montgomeiy will
not get the fivo delegates claimed for it by
the State Sentinel.
The Finances of Georgia.
The tabular statement of Treasurer
Jones, published by us yesterday (and for
which credit should have been given to
the Macon Telegraph, from which we
copied it) affords an encouraging exhibit
of the financial condition of th» State.
Her debt is a light one, and all of it, both
principal and interest, that falls due within
twenty years, can be paid by the earnings
of the State Eoad alone, with the excep
tion of the years 1803 and 1872, when some
other resources wiil bavo to be added;
and this includes so continuous a yearly
redemption of tho principal, that at tho
end of these twenty years the debt will be
nearly extinguished. For the years 1809
and 1872, temporary loans or extensions
may be resorted to, and their payment so
regulated that the earnings of the road
may pay tho whole accruing interest and
principal falling due up to 1880. This
will leave only the current expenses of
the Slate Government to be met by taxa
tion for twenty years to come, and even
this tax may be reduced by a yearly in
come from tho State stock in the Atlun'.ie
and Gulf Kailroad. It may well be ques
tioned whethor any other State in tho
Union can show so satisfactory a balance
sheet.
It is all important, to preservo this
sound financial condition, that wise and
prudent men should hereafter give direc
tion to our Stale legislation and manage
ment to the State interests. If revolu
tionists or partisans got control, and launch
out into wild schemes of extravagance or
plunder, our impoverished people will
soon be overwhelmed with public debt
and all their energies will bo crippled
by severe taxation. .Now, more than on
ordinary occasions, we need tho guidance
of safe, well-tried, conservative men.
The New Orleans Timesoi the23d inst.
says that it has received advices fromGal-
veston to tho effect that Gen. Griffin has
taken steps to provent all filibustering ex
peditions from going to Mexico.
Nashville papers of the 24th bring us
the gratifying intelligence that Hon. John
Bell, lately reported to be dangerously ill,
is improving.
In a debate in the House of Represen
tatives, on the laet day of the session, on
the question of allowing members to pub
lish undelivered speeches in the Congres
sional Globe, Mr. Schenck instancedacase
in which two Ohio members of a previous
Congress “published identically the same
speech, tho probability being that they
both employed tho same person to prepare
them.”
Order Goods from the Southern Fac
tories 1
AVe have on several occasions adverted
to tho difficulty which Southern manu
facturers encounter in introducing at homo
goods superior to those which our mer
chants buy at as high or higher prices
from Northern jobbers. The fact that
tho cotton goods of the Augusta (Georgia)
mills are largely sold at the North, and
perhaps somo of them sent back, aftor
paying a profit to the Northern jobber,
for consumption at the South, affords an
illustration in point. Whether this curi
ous course of trade is attributable to the
neglect of the Southern manufacturers to
make extensively known their capability
of filling the orders that may be sent to
them, as well as their prices, so that a
comparison may be mado between theirs
and Northern goods, or whether it is due
to tho indifference of Southern merchants
or customers, it is not our purpose now to
inquire. The fact that our home manu
factures are primarily neglected at tho
South, while their ready sale elsewhere
attests both their merit and their cheap
ness, is one to which the attention of all
parties—manufacturers, merchants and
consumers—should be directed with a
view to putting a stop to a practice so
discouraging to home industry and enter
prise and so obstructive to the progress
and prosperity of our people?
The Richmond Southern Opinion Eays:
“It is a fact that can be established, that
manufacturers in North Carolina have
shipped paper to the North, that it has
been bought there by Southern men under
tho impression that it was of Northern
manufacture, and re-shipped to the South
and sold at a paying advanco upon tho
price at which it was originally held in
North Carolina.”
And the Raleigh Sentinel confirms this
assertion by stating that the “Forest l l a-
per Manufacturing Company,” near its
city, sends large quantities of its paper to
the North, because the orders from the
South are not sufficient to keep tho mills
running. It sells its printing paper, of
excellent quality, at 17 cents per pound,
delivered at the railroad, and Southern
printers buy it in New York at 20 cents
or higher 1
This is bringing tho evil pretty near
home to tho Southern press. And this
order, of all others, ought to be diligent
in the promotion of every laudable homo
industry.
Wo sadly need “ro-conslruction” in
regard to this mattor. Lot us “to our
own selvos bo true,” and wo will mako a
great advance towards the attainment of
rights and powers wrongfully denied us
by others.
£
The Ouachita Herald, of the 18lh inst.,
says tho corn crop of Southern Arkansas,
within tho memory of the “oldest inhabi
tant,” never promised a better yield, and
is now almost beyond tho reach of casu
alty. In view of these bright prospects,
the Herald anticipates the “good time
coming.” ( T
Chief Justice Chase has decided that
the right of the United States to collect
internal revenue tax on lotteries does not
authorize tho carrying on of such affairs
when the statutory laws of the State do-
dares them illegal.
The Chattanooga Union understands
that President Johnson contemplates
spending a short time at Lookout Moun
tain during the present season.
One of the most flimsy canards of the
New York Herald is a special dispatch
from Washington, dated the 21st instant,
which says that “the intention of Secre
tary Seward is not to send a Minister to
Mexico, as a letaliatory measure for the
rejection of his message concerning tho
life of Maximilian, and for tho purpose,
in the event of a foreign war against Mex
ico, of showing the chiefs of that boastful
Republic tho full extent of their depend
ence on the United States.”
If tho Administration intended to pun*
sue this courso towards Mexico, why did
it temporarily give diplomatic powers to
Consul Olterburgb, and why did it nomi*
nate to the Senate a Minister to Mexico?
It is very deliberate in becoming indig
nant at tho murder of Maximilian.
The truth is, we think, that Congress,
by one of its late laws intended to cripple
the power and lessen the patronage of the
President, has estopped the Administra
tion from appointing a Minister to Mexico
until the November session. We believe
that the new law provides that if the
President and Senate fail to,fill an office
by an appointment requiring their con
currence, during one session of Congress,
it cannot be filled until tho Senate concurs
at the next session.
A dispatch of the 25th,from New York,
says: “Half of Table Rock, at Niagara,
has been blown off. Two hundred pounds
of powder moved tho whole rock, but the
projecting part breaking off, tho rest set
tled back.”
So the Yankee attempt to ‘reconstruct’
Niagara Falls was only partially success
ful. Tho strongest and firmest part,
though moved from its place, “settled
back” where nature had placed it.
It is tolegraphed from New York that
on the evening of tho 23d instant the
“Union Republican General Committee”
nominated Gen. Grant for the Presiden
cy, subject to the decision of the Repub
lican National Convention. This is sig
nificant of the course of a majority of the
party. Recent developments have evi
dently satisfied the radicals of General
Grant’s political sympathy with them,
and they are turning to him ns their
strongest man.
Elections Near at Hand.
Though there are very few elections for
Representatives to Congress to be held
this year, a number of the States will
have elections between this time and No.
vember, in which national party lines will
be closely drawn. In Tennessee, Repre
sentatives to Congress, as well as State of
ficers, will be elected early in August; but
as only a favored few of the white men of
that Stalo are permitted to vote, this elec
tion will afford no test of the tendency of
popular sentiment. The simple question
thero is whether a sufficient number of the
old voters of the State have been disfran
chised to give the majority to tho handful
of white llrown’iov.'ites and the negroes
enfranchised with the understanding that
they are to go with tho radicals. In Ken
tucky a State ticket, including a Gover
nor, a Legislature, and one Representa
tive to Congress, are to be chosen. In this
State, where there is no disfranchisement
for “participating in tho rebellion,” the
people are so overwhelmingly on one side
that the only question is as to the extent
of the conservative majority. Indiana
and Illinois, we believe, have some elec
tions this year in August, but do not
choose Governors or Congressmen, and
there is not much interest felt in these
elections. In California, in September,
will occur perhaps the most significant
election of the fall. It is for Congressmen
as well as State officers. The Democrats
are united and confident; they have de
clared in opposition to the Congressional
plan of reconstruction and the other ob
jects of the radical party, and are arrayed
distinctly on the side of tho President and
the conservatives of the country. The
Republicans bavo had such large majori
ties in California of-late years that they
cannot be made to believe that their as
cendancy is in any danger; but they are
not so thoroughly united ns the Democrats,
and their differences are as to measures as
well as men. In the last Congress all tho
Representatives from California were rad
icals. The Democrats count strongly on
electing one or two of them in September,
and hope to carry the State tickets, Penn
sylvania and Ohio have important elec
tions, including Governors and Legisla
tures, in October. It is too early in the
canvass yet to speculate on the result, but
tho Democrats and Conservatives are be*
stirring themselves and intend to make a
vigorous ar.d spirited contest. Their pfos-
pects are quite encouraging, and if they
carry these two important States it will be
evident to the country that tho reign of
radicalism and despotism is near its end.
Praying for such a result, let us watch
and wait.
Tennessee.
Another disgraceful and bloody politi
cal riot in Tennessee is reported in our
telegraphic columns to-day. Let the
people of Georgia bear it in mind that
this condition of things is "the entertain
ment to which they are invited” by radi
cal compulsion and intrigues.
The Brownlow Secretary of State pub
lishes a letter in which he says that returns
from 09 counties report the registration of
85,494 voters, and that as registration was
not closed in those counties when tho re
turns were mado, they will probably reg
ister 100,000 in all. He also says that
there are 15 other counties which will
probably return 15,000 more, making
115,000 for the State. How many of these
returns have been or wiil be rejected by
Brownlow, the Secretary does not say.
Tennessee, in 18G0, cast 145,000 votes at
tho Presideniial election, all white. The
number of negroes now registered is not
given by the Secretary of State, but the
common estimato is that there are about
50,000. This would leave 05,000 white
men, out of 145,000, yet allowed tho priv
ilege of votirg, provided' Brownlow con
cludes that it will bo safe to admit tho
registration of the conservative counties !
Late advices from Mexico, by way of
Texas, say that the Republicans had sent
a strong force to capture some Imperialist
fugitives who were reported to be secre
ted in the house of the English Minister.
The Republicans were reported as saying
that as no foreign ministers recognized
the Liberal Government, ministerial
rights would not be conceded to them.
It is possible that trouble to Juarez may
arise from Ibis indignity to the British
Minister.
Atlanta.—Contrary to expectation,
tho registration in the 6th ward, at its
close on Friday, showed a majority of
nearly one hundred for the whiles. This
will give the whites a small majority in
the county. The whole number regis
tered up to Friday was 3049. ...The Era
reports the thermometer as marking 112
degrees on Thursday. Of course it means
in the sun....The Intelligencer says that
business over tho State road greatly im
proved during the past week,and that the
increased activity is due in great part to
tho large shipment of wheat. Wo aie
afraid that most of it is going North, be
cause of the discriminating freight tariffs
in favor of that direction. Wheat is
quoted in -Atlanta at $1.00(3)1.75 per
bushel.
The Tribune's special says the Presi
dent’s message vetoing the last supple
mental reconstruction bill was not pre
sented nor read to Mr. Stanton for his
opinion, and consequently he did not ap
prove or disapprove tho document prior
to its presentation to Congress. All tho
other membors of tho Cabinot approve
the message.
Macon.—One of tho heaviest rains
ever known in the city fell in Macon on
Friday afternoon. One or two houses
were undermined, and sewers were bro
ken, by the volume of water. Lightning
struck the top of the “Roundhouse” of
the Southwestern railroad, and stunned
all who were in the building... .The ther
mometer at noon on Friday indicated 83
degrees...-Stock of cotton in Macon on
the 20tb, 2034 bales.
Wo learn that the number of persons
registered.at Crawford, Russell county,
Ala., is 230. The registers do not appear
to classify the voters into “white” and
“colored,” but it is thought that the
blacks had two to one.
In Bartow county, up to Thursday
morning last, 1357 whites and 019 blacks
had registered.
The traveling correspondent of the
New Y'ork Times, in Georgia, gives a
long report of an interview lately held
with Hon. A. H. Stephens. We are un
willing to believe that Mr. Stephens made
some of the remarks attributed to him,
and therefore do not copy the letter.
Diplomatic Relations with Mexico.
The Washington correspondent of the
Charleston Courier thinks that tbo Lib
eral chiefs of Mexico regard the United
States Consul, Mr. Otterfaerg, with suspi
cion and hatred, as a prominent adherent
of Maximilian, and that Juarez will not
receive him as Consul. He suggests that
as Mr. Seward will bo obliged to take
some steps for the protection of Ameri
cans in Mexico, “the most natural and
practicable will be to solicit and employ
the good offices of the British legation.”
Whatever may have been Mr. Otter-
berg’s preferences, as between the con
tending Imperial and Republican gov
ernments in Mexico, we think that the
United States has a right to insist that his
late predilections shall not be made a
cause of refusal to receive him. The
same cause would lead the Republican
government of Mexico to decline receiv
ing tho representatives of ail tho Europe
an powers, for they all favored Maximil
ian. So far as Great Britain is concerned,
she wa» allied with France in prosecuting
the war against Mexico when the inva
sion of the country was undertaken, and
it i3 therefore hardly probable that the
“good offices” of her Minister, who ail
the time recognized Maximilian, wouid
be of much service to the United States.
Indeed we think it more likely that Jua
rez will not receive tho Briiisl^represent-
ativo than that be will refuse to accept
Mr. Otterberg. lr. the one case ha has
objection to both the government and the
representative; in the other, to the repre
sentative only.
The Courier's coirespondent stares (as
was onr own impression) itat inasmuch
as the Senate, at its late session, rejected
the nominations of Gen. McCiernand be
Minister, and Mr. Otterberg as Secretary
of Legation to Mexico, the President
cannot now appoint a Minister, but must
wait until a new nomination Cun-he made
to the Senate. In the meantime, it says,
Mr. Otterberg may continue to act as
consul.
Abd-ul-Aziz.
[Paris Correspondence (July 5th) of the Colum
bus Enquirer.}
The Atlanta Opinion (of which, by the
way, we receive only ono or two copies
per week) has boon purchased by Messrs.
W. L. Scruggs and J. B. Dumble. Not
having seen their introductory or saluta*
tory, we do not know whether thero has
been any material change in the party re
lations of the paper; but we presume not.
The Nashville Press and Times pro
fesses to be confident of Brownlow’s re-
election by a large majority, but does not
conceal its apprehensions that the con
servatives may secure a majority of the
Legislature of Tennessee. This gives us
more hope than we have heretofore en
tertained. The election comes off on
Thursday next, the 1st of August.
The same paper pretends to have infor
mation that President Johnson is work
ing to secure a conservative majority in
tho Legislature, with a view to his own
election as United States Senator. It
says that ho latoiy remarked that he
would rather he in a position where be
could confront tho radical leaders in the
Senate, tbah to be elected President for
four years more.
The visit of the Sultan to Paris is quite
an event, as he is the first who has ever
set foot iD the French Capitol. v
The relations of Turkey with France
were first of all of a purely commercial
character, and were inaugurated in 1507
by the granting of the Ereve Marchonde,
by virtue of which Sultan Bazojed 11
took under his piotection tlm establish
ment of Pilgrims and French Consuls in
the Levant.
These relations being developed in the
reign of Francis I, ended at last in an of
fensive and defensive alliince between
France and Sultan Solomon, called the
magnificent diplomatic and international
relations, there assumed a regular form,
and were fixed by capitulations. Ambas
sadors and special Envoys wero accredi
ted on both sides. The Subkino Porto
had representatives at the Court of Louis
XIV, Louis XV, Loui3 XIV, and Napo
leon I; and during the last reiqn it has
had a permanent Embassy in Paris. But
if the Ottoman sovoreignl have-sent spe
cial representatives, not only to Frunco
and other parts of Europe, but even to
America, never until now did any Sultan
ever think of crossing the frontiers of bis
State himself, and the voyage of Abd-ul-
aziz to Paris ought to be considered as a
most important political fact and a most
remarkable advancement.
Sultan Abd-ul-aziz was born on the 9.h
of Februury, 1830, seven years younger
than his brother Abd-ul-rnrjid, ho wa~
tenderly beloved by him. 4
When the laAer in ISdfl to
Sultan Mamhoudj^e, as Tyweiv, adopted
his younger brother, arid^p^tim close
to him, watching his education* Having
become a father, his affectionate feelings
far Abd-ul-aziz underwent no change, al
though he knew that ho would be the
heir to the throne, to tho exciunion of his
own children,for the law makes the eldest
member of Osman successor to the throne.
Abd-ul-aziz grow up, free and beloved,
under tho devoted surveillance of a guar
dian who educated him in the strictest
habits of sobriety and labor, inculcating
in him a horror for wine and tobacco,and
dividing his time between study and bodily
exercises, in which tho young Prince
speedily excelled.
Abd-ul-aziz also studied painting and
music, and with his savings ho purchased
a magnificent collection of minerals and
a cabinet of medals. Ho devoted himself
to agricultural labors on a moiel farm ho
constructed at Phanaraki, on the coast of
Asial, within sight of Constantinople,
whither ho wont on board of a steam
yacht, which he commanded himself, and
in which he also made frequent excur
sions in tho Black Sea and ;E the Sea of
Marmora.
The present Sultan is also a firstratc
sportsman, and owing to his examplo
“Young Turkey” has reacquired the pas
sion for bodily exercises, who h had been
neglected for some yenrs in the East.
Until his accession to the throne ho had
only one wife, now Fatma Sultana, whom
he loved tenderly, and whe-gave him a
son in 1857, Prince Yousouff Izzedin. *
Abd-ul-aziz succeeded his brother on
the 25th of June, 1807. Sultan Abd-ul-
mejid died during the night,exhausted by
the abuse of pleasures. Abd-ul-aziz is
tbe thirty-second sovereign of the dynas
ty, and tbe twenty-ninth sir/ce the con
quest of Constantinople by Mahomet II
From the day of his reign" Abdulaziz
took in band the affairs of tho State, and
to show his firm will of devoting himself
to tbe regeneration of the Empire,created
the order of the Osmaniyel, ind went to
Brcup to place it under the protection of
the dynasty, and to swear on the tomb of
Osman to devote hims^pj^hj^i^ffsrk.
He kept his oath ; for at lae pnd of a few
weeks after his accession the cares of gov
ernment had whitened the hair of the
young Sultan.
On ascending tbe throne Abdulaziz has
preserved all tbe habits and tastes of the
heir apparent. He is still as sober, and as
passionately fond of hunting and bodily
exercises as ever. He is of middle stature,
but endowed with herculean strength,and
has an energetic physiognomy, which re
minds one offthe imposing countenance
of Sultan Mahmoud.
Serious Charges.
The Rational Intelligencer of the 15th
inst. makes some heavy charges of trea
sonable plottings on the part of Secretary
Stanton and the "Republican Vigilance
Committee” of Congress. We copy as
follows:
While Mr. Cameron was Secretary of
War, it was proposed that he should be
clothed with despotic powers. The con
sent of the President and Cabinet was re
quired by .Mr. Cameron, although ho be
lieved that with such authority he would
be able to briog the war to a successful
termination in a few months. The con
sent of the Cabinet, or even of the Presi
dent, would not have been sufficient au
thority, but, without this support, the
theB Secretary of War wouid not assume
the powers proposed. In tho meantime
the Republican party in Congress began
to be jealous of Mr. Lincoln. They bai
already begun to thrust forward Salmon
P. Chase as their next candidate for the
Presidency. Mr. Lincoln was in favor of
prosecuting the war for the restonvion of
the Union. The leaders of tbe Republi
can party, with the student of Ciosar’s
Commentaries and Mother Goose’s melo
dies at their head, had become anxious
only for the safety of the Republican par
ty. The war plans of McClellan were
progressing too rapidly for them. A Re
publican vigilance committee, under the
cognomen of a Committee on the Con
duct of the War, had been organized. It
had begun to badger President Lincoln,
and to hamper the General-in-Chief of
the army. The latter, in his distress at
this political interference with his ope
rations, was induced to consult with Mr.
Stanton, who advised him "TO MARCH
HIS AR11Y INTO WASHINGTON, AND
declare himself dictator.” The ad
vice was startling,but it was not followed.
He had no sooner becomo installed in
this position than ho began to put into
practice the advice he had given to Mc
Clellan. The despotism which Mr. Cam
eron had modestly declined to exercise
without authority from tbe President and
his Cabinet, Stanton unhesitatingly as
sumed. Kb joined hands with the Re
publican Congressional Vigilanco Com
mittee. President Lincoln was ignored.
McClellan was in the way. The Repub
lican Vigilance Committee did not want
him to tako Richmond. It wouid have
put the Republican party back twenty
years. In this emergency tho new Secre
tary of War came to the rescue. A per
sonal visit from the Secretary of War,
under cover of a dark, rainy night, and a
direct oader,compelled .McDowell to allow
Stonewall Jackson to fall upon McClel
lan's unprotected right wing, and, by dint
of a superior rebel force, to drive him to
Harrison’s Landing. Richmond and the
Republican party were saved. This act
of treachery to the army and to the cour;*
try was the seal of the compact between
the Secretary of War and the Radical
factionisls in Congress.
The President and Congress.—The
New York Express has the following
sensible and very just views on the Pj-esi-
den.l's late veto message :
It is ably written and unanswerable.
Tim President evidently feels his embar
rassment in being forced to violate the
Constitution in the execution of an act of
Congress which he knows to be unconsti
tutional, and which he feels sure the Su-
preino Court of the United States wili
decide to bo whenever they can get it
through the form of the Court or of law.
It tho President does not violate the
Constitution in the execution of tho act,
he will be will be impeached next winter,
and it is for him to decide whether the
honors of tho Presidency are worth a vio
lation of the Constitution, or in other
phrase, whether posterity will acquit him
of the responsibility of turning a large
portion of his country over to military
despotism through the apprehension of
losing his place.
From tho National Intelligencer.
General Butler Pushed to the Wall.
It wiil bo remembered that Gen. Butler,
while Congress was still in session, seized
upon a minor article of the Intelligencer,
based entirely upon interpellations in the
House of Representatives, to denounce it
in phraseology consistent with practicoin
tho lower ranks by what are termed
“Tombs” lawyers.
The Intelligencer, of course, could not
retort in kind. Bearing upon the whole
subject of the exchange of prisoners, the
following letter of Col. Robert Ould, the
Confederate Agent of Exchange, whose
statements will be relied upon by tol lmen
who know him, will show that Gen. But*
lor himself was greatly in error in his pro
mises. lie forgot to stale that the most
important part of tho correspondence in
reference to the exchange of prisoners oc
curred between Colonel Ould and Gene
rals Hitchcock and Mulford during the
period when the Confederate Agent of
Exchange was forbidden by bis Govern
ment to negotiate with General Butler in
reference to the question of exchange :
Washington, July 23, 1807.
To the. Editors of the National Intelli
gencer :
1 respectfully request the publication of
the following letter received by me from
Colonel Ould, of Richmond. It will be
perceived that it fully sustains my state
ment in the House, with tbe unimportant
exception of tho number of prisoners of
fered to be exchanged, without equivalent,
by tho Confederate authorities.
Very respectfully,
Charles A. Eldridge.
A dispatch of tbo 24th from Galveston
says : “A quantity of war material has
accumulated at San Antonio, en route for
Chihuahua, Mexico, Raphael Aldretto,
the owner, alleges that the Government
intends to distribute it among the citizens
for Indian defense, despite the suspicions
of filibustering intentions.”
General Sheridan.—Tbe following
occurs in a New Orleans letter to the
Louisville Courier:
Philip of Orleans—General Sheridan,
so-called—is to be seen dashing about
generally, at all places and at all hours.
He is V9ry regular, however, in his office
duties. At nine o’clock fle has breakfast
ed, and his elegant pfiupe stands before
tbe confiscated magnificent'mansion, cor*
ner of Coliseum Place and Felicity Road,
now occupied by Pijilip,and before whose
portal paces a dragoon sentry with drawn
sabre. Philip of Orleans, generally ac
companied by one of his aids, then steps
into his coupe, and a pleasant ride of a
mile briDgs him to his office at the milita
ry headquarters, corner of Camp street
and Lafayette Square. Here Philip at
tends to and dispatches tbo local and Stale
civil and military affairs of Louisiana and
Texas. A bristling bayonet guard either
door of entrance, and any quantity of
mounted “orderlies” are within call to
carry dispatches and orders. Reports
from various quarters, of a public and
private nature, are examined, complaints
and charges are listened to, and tho office
business generally summarily dealt with
and dispatched.
Wheat Advancing.—A No. 1 article of white
wheat in Urge lots on yesterday (Thursday),
was worth *1.95 to $2.00. Red wheat in largo
lots and of a superior quality was worth $1,65 to
$1.7o.—Carterevillt EfpW> 25th.
Richmond, July 19, 1807.
lion. Charles A. Eldridge :
My Dear Sir: I have seen your re
marks as published. They are substan
tially correct. Every word that I said to
you in Richmond is notonly true, but can
be proved by Federal officers. I did of
fer in August to deliver the Federal sick
and wounded without requiring equiva
lents, and urged tbo necessity of haste in
sending for them, as the mortality was ter
rible. I did offer to deliver from ten to
fifteon thousand at Savannah without de
lay. Although this offer was made in
August, transportation was not sent for
them until December, and during the in
terval tho mortality was perhaps at its
greatest height. If I bad not made the
offer, why did the Federal authorities
send transportation to Savannah for ten
or fifteen thousand men ? If I made the
offer based only on equivalents, why did
the same transportation carry down for
delivery only three thousand men ?
Butler says the offer was made in the
fall (according to the newspaper report),
and that seven thousand were delivered.
Tbe offer-was made in August, and they
were sent for in December. I then deliv
ered more than thirteen thousand, and
would have gone to the fifteen thousand if
tbe Federal transportation had been suffi
cient. My instructions to my agents wero
to deliver fifteen thousand sick and wound
ed, and if that number of that class were
not on hand, to mako up tbo number by
well men. The offer was made by me in
pursuance of instructions from the Con
federate Secretary of War. I was ready
to keep up the arrangement until every
sick and wounded man baa been returned.
The three thousand men sent to Savan
nah by the Federals were in as wretched
a condition as any detachment of prison
ers ever sent from a Confederate prison.
All these things are suEceptibleof proof,
and I am much mistaken if I cannot
prove them by Federal authority. I am
quite sure that General Mulford will sus
tain every allegation here made.
Yours truly, It. Ould.
P. S.—General Butler’s correspondence
is all on one side, as I was instructed at
the date of his letter to hold no corres
pondence with him. I corresponded with
Mulford or General Hitchcock.
K. Ould.
Registration in Coweta.—The re
gistrars have completed registration in all
the districts except the town district, and
so far 1534 have registered. Blacks 787,
whites 747. Registration commenced in
this place Friday morning, and mostly
blacks were registering up to a late hour
of tbe day. The whites will do their
duty to-day. It is the opinion of Mr. J.
R. Smith, ono of the Board, and a citizen
of Coweta, that the blacks will have a
majority of over ono hundred in the
county.—Noonan Herald, 27th.
Correspondence Charleston Courier.
Washington, July 22.
The Secretary of the Treasury estimates
that the expense of maintaining the mili
tary force in the ten Southern States is
over thirty millions a year. Thirty mil
lions are thus added to the burden of
debt, now so grievous, by tbo policy of
Congress in regard to the South. The
sum had better be appropriated for the
repair of the levees on tho Mississippi, or
for bounties upon the product of cotton,
or for any purpose that would aid the
South in the work of recuperation.
Congress at the session just closed clam
ored for the payment of tho soldiers’
bounties, due under the act of the second
session of the thirty-ninth Congress.
Tho Treasury had hardly got through
with the payment of bounties to an enor
mous amount under one act before Con
gress made another demand for more
bounty fur soldiers. Both Houses passed
resolutions calling for prompt payment
from the Treasury of tho bounties,
amounting to eighty millions, called for
by tbe last Bounty Act, The reply was
that a large number of clerks were en
gaged in framing the lists. There is no
mode oi evading or deferring these pay-
manic- liut the Treasury cannot pay
Registration in Upper Georgia.—
We learn that the following is the result
of registration in the counties named
below :
Murray—Whites, CS9; colored, 100.
Whitfield—Whites, 952; colored, 195.
CHtoosa—Whites, 528; colored, 91.
Walker—Whites, 996; colored, 192.
Chattooga—Whites, 711; colored, 185.
Gordon—Whites, 28S; colored, 83.
Bartow—Whites, 276; colored, 151.
The registration is not completed in the
two counties last named.—Home Courier,
27th.
The Selma Messenger says: “A gen
tleman living in the vicinity of Newbern
has offered his ontire crop of corn for sale
at thirty-five cents a bushel in tho field.
We understand any quantity of corn can
be engaged in tho canebrake region at
fifty cents a bushel.
these demands without adding the amount
in some form to tho public debt.
It is perfectly well known that the sol
diers, as a body, have not called tor their
bounties. Members of Congress, in de
manding these appropriations, represent
not the soldiers, but the mercenary agents
and speculators who purchase, for a nom
inal price, tho soldiers’ claims. These
bounty claim agents can procure the pas
sage of any bounty bills they get up.
.Therefore it was at this July session a
scheme was brought forward for paying
bounties to ninety-three thousand desert
ers trom the Federal army. The whole
object wilt be carried through. General
Banks, in a speech last winter in Con
gress, maintained the policy of paying
tour hundred thousand dollars more, if
calk'd f.;r, in soldiers’ bounties.
This bounty swindle is now well under
stood, but is not the less likely to bo per
sisted m on that account. Considering
llie nature of tbo influences around legis
lation,it would not be surprising if South
ern reconstruction should bo followed, as
Wendell Phillips predicted, with an as
sumption of the entire Southern war debt,
fie said that if one-half should be given
to the agents, tho whole would be assum
ed. The agents will undertake the job for
one-halt,if the Southorn Representatives,
then in Congress, will promise their votes
and influence “lree gratis.” Bounties for
the Ooiifederrte soldiers will follow as a
matter ot course. If we give bounties
arid votes to Federal deserters and bounty
jumpers, claims in behalf of honest Con
federate soldiers cannot be rejected.
The burdens imposed upon the Treasu
ry by tlie appropriations of Congress will
bankrupt it sooner or later. • Already this
has become a matter of serious considers*
tion in the administration. But tho Ex
ecutive Government is powerless to con
trol the heedless or corrupt legislation of
tbe day.
In tho State elections, tho coming au
tumn, the Conservatives are looking with
some hope. But it is hardly to be ex
pected that the voice of warning wili bo
so soon heard or heeded by the people.
Leo.
Another Guy Fawkes—A Threat to
Blew Up the Capitol and
Congress.
The Washington Star says : Upon the
extension of the Capitol this morning the
workmen were discussing the supplemen
tary reconstruction bill—talking very
loudly against it, when one named Cbav.
Sorrel affirmed that if he had the powder
he wouid blow the whole Capitol up and
all “the d—d Congressmen with it.” He
wished they had beon "blown up before
they passed the d—d bill.” It seems
some one informed the police, and Detec
tives McDevitt and Clarvoe went to ar
rest him. As Mr. McDevitt was approach
incr trio (\inifnl hn ntao or>..n 1... v!,.--..)!
ing tho Capitol ho was seen by Sorrell,
who took to his heels and run, thus giv
ing the energetic detectives a lively race.
He was taken to the central police station
about iiaif-past one o'clock, where he is
held for a hearing before Justice Walter.
Ho now asserts that his talk was only in
common with that of tho other workmen,
and that he does not know what the bill
is ; that he cannot read.
Tho National Intelligencer says : The
Justice considered Mr. Sorrell a danger
ous character, and having regard for the
security of tho Government property, as
well hi. the lives of the citizens of Wash
ington,^ be placed Mr. Sorrell under $300
bonds for bis good behavior for six
months and for his appearance when
wanted. The security was promptly
given by Mr. W. T. Walker, and Mr.
Sorreli was allowed his liberty.
The statement of Sorrell, as will be
seen, is entirely different from that of the
complainant. From the nature of the
case it would almost seem to foreshadow
tho establishment of a system of espion
age in our midst, by which the outspoken
sentiments of a man are to be judged by
his neighbor, and if considered inconsist
ent with his feelings of loyalty,he has but
to apply to tho neighboring justico fora
warrant for the arrest of tbo disloyal citi
zen in order to muzzle his mouth and
subject him to a bond to hold hi3 tongue.
The Gkrrit Smith Libel Shit.—The
great suit of Gerrit Smith against the Chi
cago Tribune for libel, laying the dam*
ages at §50,000, was settled in Chicago on
Saturday, after a personal interview be
tween Mr. Smith and the Tribune pro
prietors. The former charges that the
Tribune accused him of feigning insanity
and taking refuge in an asylum to avoid
the consequences of complicity in the
John Brown raid. This intimation the
Tribune, upon tho strength of medical
men as to Smith’s real insanity, retract,
and admit that hewasreally insane. They
add that they have Mr. Smith’s assurance
that while personally ignorant of John
Brown’s intended raid into Virginia, he
loved and admired Brown, his principles,
and his courage, and that he reveres his
memory. This statement by the Tribune
was published yesterday. The suit has
been dismissed.
Registered Letters.—Tho new eys-
tom of transmitting registored letters went
into operation on the 1st instant. A new
stylo of canvass envelope, of large size
and of an appearance to attract the atten
tion of distributing clerks, has been intro
duced. The printed directions on these
envelopes read as follows :
“ Postmasters, route agents, railway
post-office clerks and receiving clerks,
handling this registered package envelope
while in transit, are required to keep a
record of its number, post-mark (with
date), address, date of its receipt, and the
description made of it by them on blanks
and books furnished fog that purpose.
Route agents and railway postofficecierk3
will also take a receipt for it (to bo care*
fully preserved) when it leaves tbeir hands,
and when such receipts cannot be obtain
ed at the time, there will be placed in the
pouch with this onvelopo a receipt to be
signed by the postmaster of the office at
which the pouch is first opened. This
receipt the postmaster will sign, and re
turn it (directed to the route agent or
railway postoffice clerk) by next mail.”
Bold Talk.—Col. Frank Wolford,
who was one of the bravest and most ac
tive among the Federal cavalry leaders
in Kentucky during the late war, has
come out very decidedly for the Demo
crats, and in a late speech at Jamestown,
in that Stale, is reported to have used the
following language:
"I over was and am a Union man, and
desire to see every State in our Govern
ment represented by a star upon the
American flag. Those who are opposed
to this are disunionists and rebels in the
true sense of those terms. If the Radical
candidate, Barnes, should be elected fair
ly, I say let him take his seat; and if
Helm should bo elected, and any power
attempts to resist his inauguration, as soon
as tho electric fires flash the news through
tho country a million of American citi
zens will rise and assert tbeir power and
rights, and I will buckle on my sword,
march to the conflict without counting
tho cost, and proclaim to the world that
‘Americans will be freemon, and not
slaves.’ ”
This is bold talk on the part of odo who
fought for the "Union” during tbo war.—
The address was received with great
cheering by tho largo audience in attend
ance upon its delivery, and, says tho cor
respondent of the Louisville Courier,
from which we make the foregoing ex
tract, “ti Id too plainly to tho few Radicals
present-that their cause is almost demcl*
ished here, and that Kentuckians were
getting in high earnest”—adding that “if
the election was put off a few weeks long
er, Radicalism, oven in the mountain
counties, would sink into perfect insignifi
cance.” . .
Ono hundred thousand majority is
claimed against the Radical candidate for
Governor in Kentucky.
[Atlanta Intelligencer.
Hall County.—Wo learn that in Hall
county tho number of whites registered is
1152, and colored 173.—Athens Watchman.
John M. Langston in Mississippi.
We clip from the Holly Springs Re-
porter of the 16th the following abstract
of a speech delivered at Holly Springs,
Miss., by this distinguished colored ora
tor, who has been proposed by many
Northern colored men as a candidate for
tho Vico Presidency. He lives in Ohio,
and is a lawyer :
On last Wednesday evening John M.
Langston, Esq., of Ohio, delivered a pub
lic address before our citizens. Mr. L. is
a colored person, and was born in slavery
in Louisa county, Va. Shortly aftor his
birth he was emancipated by his master,
and means provided for his education.—
We learn he is a lawyer of distinction,
and is a practitioner before the United
States Court.
On Wednesday evening, at an early
hour, a large audience, white and black,
had gathered at the Freedman’s Baptist
Church, to listen to the speaker. We do
not recollect to have seen a larger or more
attentive audience in our city since the
war, on any occasion. Tho speaker was
introduced by Judge Lawrence, ana for
two and a quarter hours enchained the
attention of nis hearers by an address cha
racterized by deep research, elegant dic
tion, sound argument, and earnest, prac
tical advico. He began by saying he had
been born a slave, and that he congratu
lated himself and the negroes who listened
to him on the opportunity he had offered
him of speaking to men of his own color
freely and without restraint; that during
the days of slavery he could not do this;
nor could any white man in the country,
before tho war, be ho ever so white or
learned, dare to speak to a white audieDce
the words he was then speaking; that by
emancipation the white man had been lib
erated no loss than the (Jack man; that
now there was freedom of speech and of
thought to all alike, throughout the entire
country; that tho lock had been taken
from his lips and from the lips of every
man, woman and child in tho wholecoun-
try, and that he could speak his senti
ments and congratulate both races at tho
South upon tho emancipation which had
accomplished this. The speaker then en
tered at length into an argument to prove
that, by the nature and policy of our gov
ernment and laws, emancipation, at all
limes, and up to the last thirty years, and
in every State, had conferred the right of
citizenship on tho emancipated people;
that no Stale had made any distinction on
account of a man’s complexion orthe tex
ture of his hair, if he was free in the eyes
of tho law.
lie then addressed himself to tho col
ored poriion of the audience, and, in an
earnest, forcible manner, told them their
duty in the present condition of affairs;
that they were now poor and ignorant,
but being free, they should not remain so,
but should work in ordor to obtain money
to educate and support themselves, and
become an element in the country for
good; that slavery meant shirk, but the
meaning of liberty was dig, dig, dig; that
they had no one now to hold them up, or
to feed them, or to clothe them; that they
wore now thrown upon their own re
sources, and if they did not work and be
honest, and thus come up out of their
poverty and ignorance, they deserved to
be sent back to slavory.
The speaker said he desired to disabuse
his colored friends of a false impression
which somehow had obtained an existence
in their minds; that he had heard colored
persons wero expecting to got lands or
other property without work. This, he
assured them, they could never do; that
not a foot of land in this country would
ever bo confiscated; that everything the
black man now got be would havoto earn
by tho sweat of his brow and the work of
his hands. Ho urged them to educate
the'msslves and their children, to abstain
from drinking whiskey and the use of to
bacco; that more money was spent by the
negroes of tho South to-day tor whiskey
and tobacco than was expended by the
Government in their education and sup
port; and yet he frequently met colored
men who pleaded poverty as an excuso
for themselves aud their children remain
ing in ignorance.
The speaker proceeded at some length
on this portion of his address. Wo wish
that every colored person in our State
could have heard him. He urged the ne
groes to build up a character for them
selves; that they had no character now,
and would never have any, unless they
mado it by being honest, truthful, Bober,
industrious and respectful; that they
should live on amicable torms with the
white people of the South, who wero their
friends, and who would respect and os-
teom them if they showed by thqir con*
duct that confidence could be put in them.
The speaker closed by expressing the
hope that he might live to seethe day that
both races in the South would join to
gether in friendly relations; that they
were joined by nature in one common in
terest, and should march forward togethor
in the new life that was now opening be
fore them—the white race loading, and
tbe black following, both helping to build
up their country and Government.
At the conclusion of the address a mo
tion was made by Col. Thos. W. Harris,
and carried with enthusiasm, returning
the thanks of tho audience to the speaker
for his able and interesting address.
‘My Policy” Endorsed by tbe Radi
cals.
“Mack,” in his letter from Washing
ton to the Cincinnati Commercial, on the
18th inst., says:
Conversing with a friend recently on
political topics, tbe President said that
during the entire seven months interven
ing between the surrender of the rebel
armies and the assembling of Congress,
while he was not only inaugurating, but
fully carrying out the “policy of recon
struction,” he did not receivo a single re
monstrance from any of tho Republican
leaders who are now clamorous for bis
impeachment, and who pronounce his
policy the gravest misdemeanor of his
administration, in itself an impeachable
offence. Ho saw many of these gentle
men betweon April and December, 1865,
and with one accord they told him to go
on with the work of reconstruction in the
line he had marked out, or, as he says,
had continued from Mr. Lincoln.
Pointing to a recent speech of Senator
Trumbull, in the Globe, he said that ex
plained tho whole thing. Mr. Trumbull
had declared in his remarks on the sup
plemental reconstruction bill of this ses
sion that if the Southern State govern
ments inaugurated by the President had
sent loyal men to Congress, all would
have bean well, and there would have
been no necessity for Congressional inter
ference. “That is,” said Mr. Johnson,
"if they had sent Radicals here it would
have been all right. As to the question
of the loyalty of Congressmen sent here,
that bad nothing to do with tbe State
governments. If they were disloyal they
should have sent them back, but they
need net nave torn down the States on
that account.” When it was suggested
to the President that the appointment of
Provisional Governors might bo the basis
of ono of the articles of impeachment
against him, if such wore ever presented,
he replied, “Weil, I wonder who is to be
impeached for appointing mo Provisional
Governor of Tennessee.”
“When I came into office, I found four
States already organized. All I did in
the case of Virginia wa3 to move Pier-
pont from Alexandria to Richmond. I
bad nothing to do in Louisiana but let
them go ahead, and the same in Arkan
sas.”
In the same conversation the President
alluded to his resignation as Senator to
accept the Governorship at a great sacri
fice, not of money, but of position, “for,”
said he, “there is no position in the coun
try as high as that of Senator. It is
twenty times better than the empty hon
ors of the White House, that so many
want to come to.”
The military authorities will see to it that
a record is kept,preserved for future inspec
tion and proof, of how each man votes—
for or against a Convention—so that the
friends of tho Government may be at
once separated and distinguished from tho
enemies of its policy. Then the Congress
can make the proper discrimination in its
future laws.—Advocate.
Then a punishment is reserved for those
who exorcise the privilege given to vote
against a Convention. How clearly the
purposes of tho disunionists crop out as
the party progresses and time rolls on.—
Proscription, disfranchisement, confisca
tion, is to bo the fate of all who oppose
the Radical programme. And this tyran
ny is suggested and approved by Figures,
of the Huntsvillo Advocate. Think of it,
citizens of Madison county ! Remember,
that if you choose to exercise the privilege
of casting your vote against a Convention
you are to be “spotted,” and set down as
enemies of tho Government, and your
property confiscated, for that is the evi
dent meaning of the paragraph above.
[Huntsville Independent.
An incautious individual of Terre Haute
the other day, after smoking, put his pipe
in his pocket with a package of powder.—
He was seen shortly after looking a good
deal surprised, and inquiring for nis coat
tail and a large piece of his pantaloons,
From the Union Springs Times, 21th.
Mr. Stevens Lies.
Thaddeus Stevens once said, "Throw
conscience to the devil.” He is an infide'l,
and, of course, recognizes no moral re
sponsibility. It is therefore by no means
surprising that he should deliberately iie,
where he hud reasonable hope to conceal
his mendacity; but that a man of his in
tellect and knowledge of men should ut
ter a falsehood which he knew must be
detected aud exposed, shows rare bold
ness or shameless depravity.
May 23d, 1 called upon this Radical
Moloch, at his home in tho city of Lan
caster, l’ooii., for the purpose of obtain
ing bis views a3 to the intentions and pro
bable policy of bis party. Considering
this man as unprincipled us l.o is certainly
able, both to prevent tho risk ot misrcpA*
resenting his statements and to protect,
by the testimony of another, my own v
racity, I took with me a gontlema
der.t of Lancaster. Tbe result otj
terview I communicated to ray
a letter published June 12th. IiJ
ter there is no false statement
ranted inference. 1 here r
Said in it, and desire again to imp
the public mind the fact lhatf
guage there attributed to Mr.
almost verbally exact.
At the time, and after writing
ter, I was more engaged in the
people than in tho reading of uu
and only learned from a friend,'onT
13th of July, that Mr. Stevens had, in ‘
conversation with a New York IleralJ r
porter, denied the accuracy of my report
This friend informed me teat he had seen
the denial, copied into tho Cincinnati,
Commercial of the 10th inst. 1 was un
able to procure a copy of that issue, and
have seen tbo article in question in no
other paper. On reaching home, 18th
July, I found two letters in reference to
the same matter, written by the gentleman
who accompanied me, making the same
general statement—that Stevens had at
tempted to cast doubt uoon tbe accurac-
of my report. In the same letters th
gentleman details the circumstances of tl
interview—substantiates my correctnes
and urges me to a defence; also offering, i
1 prefer it, to make it hnnself. Tl
has since done, under tbe impress!
suppose, that his letters had iniscaj
or that I intended to pass tho mnjl
lently. For this he has my thanks.
I have not seen his rejoinder tul
vens’ falsehood, I am sure it is f
and correct. * -
I reiterate all I said in tho
the interview with Mr. Stey
peal to Mr. A. J. Sandersd
ter, for preof. There has i'
sion betwoen us. Ho has in a
statement which 1 have
show my entire confidence in nl
redness, I will add a short acoffl
circumstances of tho interview, r!
statements can be compared and the ]
cals have the full benefit of any mail
discrepancy.
Mr. Sanderson (who knows Mr. Steve.-s
personally) expressed a willingness to tp
with me. I gladly availed myself of ha
kindness in this, and together wo went ti
Mr. Stevens' house. IVe wero received
by his yellow mistress in his law office,
which is on the first floor and opens upon
the street. Mr. Sanderson sent our names
to Mr. Stevens, who was in liis library up
stairs, by this woman, telling her where I
was from, and that wo desired an inter
view. She returned in a few moments,,
saying that Mr. Stevens was just then en
gaged with another caller, and asking us.
to await his departure. I cannot tell ex
actly how long this visitor remained after
our arrival, but remember that it was
quite long enough to weary me. At last
we heard him leave, and tho yellow wo
man, after seeing Stevens again, invited
us up to tho library. Mr. Sanderson was
cordially received—inquiries made about
different members of his family, in such
a manner as to indicate pleasure on the
part of Mr. Stevens at the meeting. 1
was courteously addressed. That there
might be no misunderstanding, I here
handed Mr. Slovens my pointed profes
sional card, with the remark tbut “gentio-
men of the press were often aecu«ed oi
violating private confidence; that I wa
there for public information only, and
desired him to say nothing to me that l.o
would wish kept secret.” He said his acts
and sentiments wero pretty well known—
that he had no desire to conceal them.—
The conversation then went on as report
ed, with the exception that some remarks
that had no special relevance to the sub
ject of reconstruction were omittod by me
in the letter. Among these was llie re
mark by Mr. Stevens,..when 'speaking - f
the acknowledgment ok belligerent right-
on the part of tho South by the Yankee
Government, that “tbo.hanging of Mrs.
Surratt was a cruel, unnecessary murder.
These were his identical words. He care
lessly added, “It is no uso- to find fault
with it now. It cannot bo helped, and 1
suppose was done to gratify a morbid ap
petite for blood on tho part of some ex
cited peoplo North.”
1 have only to ask, in conclusion, that
the papers which did me the honor to copy
my letter, will publish this for their and
my justification. We have circulated
only the truth. George M. Drake.
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Deferred Dispatch.
Richmond, July 26.—The U. S. District
Court commenced its session to-day.
Judge Underwood, in bis charge, said
the Grand Jury would have a new class
of cases before them, i:i which illegal reg
istration would bo charged. Ho urged
moderation, as many had registered upon
the strength of tho Attorney General's
opinion and that of the District Comman
der, and had not intended to commit per
jury. If any wero presented, it sli aid
not be tho ignorant, but tho prominent
men, who knew better.
The following is an order from General
Schofield :
Headqrs. First Military District, j
State of Virginia,
Richmond, Va., July 26, 18->7. )
General Orders, No. 47.
First. In accordance with section six of
tho act of Congress, passed July 19th,
1807, consttruing the words “Executive or
Judicial officer in any State” as used in
the registration oath prescribed by the act i
of March 23, 1907, paragraph 4 of tho
instructions published in General Order.^
No. 34, from these HeadquarU vjj
June 3, 1867, is hereby amend
as follows—
The Governor, Lieuten
Secretary of State, Audit
Accounts, Second Auditor,
the Land Office, State Treasur?
ney General, Sheriffs, Intenda?
or town, Commissioners of the ’
County Surveyors, Constables,
of thePoor, Commissioners of the'
of Public Works, Judges of the Su‘
Court, Judge of Circuit Courts, Jud^|
the Court of Hustings, Justices ot
County Courts, Mayor, Recorder
Aldermen of a city or town, Corone:
Escheators, Inspectors of tobacco, flou
etc., Clerks of the Supreme, District, Cir»
«.*;* • r* r) rVtnrls nnH of ?h«(’ourt
cuit and County Courts, and of the Court
of Hustings,- and Attorneys for the Com-fl
monwealth.
Second. The Board of Registration will
be governed by tho above amended
executive and judicial officers in revising®w -
toe registration at tho second session olft
the Boards to be held as required b;, ; »r-
agraph 17 of the regulations published is jr
General Orders, No. 28, from these Head- ,
quarters, dated May 13,1867. Tho Boards
will transfer to tho lists cf rejected ihe
names of all persons who may havo beer. *
improperly registered, and will register
all persons entitled to vote who may have
failed from any causo whatever to be
registered at the first session of tho said
Board. ,,|
Third. Tho Boards of Registration w
hold their second session without unj
cessary delay after tho receipt
order, and after giving the ten daya’j
required by paragraph 17 of the
tions of May 13, 1867, herein befoJ
tioned. ]
By command of J. M. Schofioii
and Brevet Major General U. S.
S. H. Chalfin, A.
The city is full of rumors reJ
changes in city officers, and it is gerl
understood that the military a nth"
are about to make many now appoifl
ments.
The Confiscation Scheme of : ' lnr p
Stevens.—The New York Tribune says-
“A great many rash, unwise projects aro
broached in either House, but how to*'
them ever obtain any sort of sanction
Mr. Stevens is tho oldest and ablest rep
resentative; yet his confiscation schema
though pressed for many months, has n
yet been even seconded, and ho, posito
and brave as he is, has never yet venture.
to ask a vote upon it.”
A postmaster at Greensburg, Indians-
who made false entries in his office bo *
and embezzled tho post-offioo funds,-
retains his place in spite of the Rf esl “
under the lenure-of-oflice bill. 1 11 “
master-General, unable to get him o *
“respectfully requests him ae:a favor i
the Department to use as little of ■
Government monoy, and make as l•
false entries, as possible.”-Cincn. E*
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