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THE WEEKLY SIN. T. DKWQI.I. T. GILBERT. TIIOS. GILBERT A CO., PROPRIETORS. TERMS OF SlB»€BIPTIOS. ' One year (in advance) 43-00 [ Six months, “ 1-50 CLUB RATES: i Five coides, one year 113.75 I Ten “ “ 25.00 E Firteen« “ 33.75 i Twenty “ “ 40 00 I Twenty-five “ 43.75 1 Thirty copies “ 45.00 ADVERTISIXG BATES: p Advertisements inserted at II per sqnare (ten j, fe« or less, in small type,) first insertion, and pty centseach snbsequentinsertion. ICESDAY HOIHI.TC, AUGUST 11. Mr. Seymour’s letter of acceptance will be found on our first page. It breathes noble sentiments, and give? evidence that it is from the brain of a statesman. Read it. Alexander 11. .Stephens, in a letter re ceived here to-day, -ays Ibe Nashville Banner, says: “I never sent any reso lutions to the New York Convention, SUd do not even know the gentleman, Wright, who presented them.” He Mjr- that Georgia will give 20.000 Dem- SSCTatic majority. MKTKRFftTiKO Condition for a Judge. ♦.John Elliott, the lately appointed flbn'awhg Judge of the Circuit Court of As Mobile Judicial District, was arrest ed'on the streets of Mobibe last week, fbr being drunk and disorderly, and caged in the calaboose to sober down. > (Heavy Freight Business. —The AsUgusta Constitutionalist says the Cjteorgia Railroad is receiving daily, at . fiat depot, from the West, from one hundred to one hundred and fifty cars ißfreight—through and local. On Fri last this read delivered seventy-five loaded cars to the Charleston Road. JBttvy business for this season. Tiie New Post Office Law.— The post office law passed by Congress last week introduces some new and im portant changes in the mode of conduc ting the business of the department. It provides for the return of all let on which the name of the sender is endorsed, if not called for within thirty days; reduces the fees on money orders; dpubles the compensation ot postmas ters for the payment of money orders; allows weekly newspapers sent to reg ular subscribers in the county where published to be delivered free of post aga from the office nearest the place of publication; authorizes the issue of du plicate money orders for such as have been lost; makes it a felony to counter feit mobey orders; makes it felony of Mgh character to use postage stamps Kbecond time knowingly; declares that Mihail be unlawful to deposit in the ■ jjostoffleo any letters or circulars con cerning lotteries or gift enterprises of i any kind on any pretext whatever; es tablishes a blank agency in the Post Of fice Department, at an expense of five thousand dollars annually, and abolish es all other blank agencies; empowers the Postmaster General to negotiate and conclude an international money order ajrrangement; provides that the sureties on bonds of defaulting postmasters shall not bo liable unless the Govern- j meat institute a suit within three years after the final settlement of accounts. igfeWe learn from the Chambers (Ala.) Tribune that Dr. J. H. Davis, of Ran dolph county, who espoused the Federal muse early in ’the war, was a surgeon in the Federal army, and an active member of the Radical Convention that ( framed the present Alabama Constitu tion, had the candor to say, at a Rati fication meeting Saturday before last, that “if he ever committed the unpar donable sin, it was in remaining in the Radical party as long as he did.” The Tribune says he is now laboring ear nestly for Seymour and Blair, and pledges Randolph county for the ticket by an overwhelming majority. Ilia example is worthy of imitation. f We find the following advertisement going the rounds of the press, and have Concluded to give it a gratuitous inser tion: jr “Foil Sale— lo,ooo BusnF.i.s Col j laud Seed! —Notiof. to Foreign Capitalists 11 — Owing to the sudden change of climate in Georgia, which is damaging to the production of Collards, j I offer for sale at greatly reduced prices, i my entire stock of Collards and Collard j (feeds, embracing every variety. My i Collards need no recommendation from i ine, as they have a widespread reputa- • tlon throughout the Union. All orders, i particularly those of colored citizens, i white Radicals and Democrats, must be Accompanied by the cash. As some of | iny Massachusetts friends have a sur j plus of spoons and forks, I will barter i for such goods at a liberal rate. WApply to Joseph E. Brown, Atlanta, Georgia, j ®j|N B.—My address is Atlanta, Ga., j md not Washington, D. C. J. E. B.” j Manufacture of Ice.—A company has beoQ formed in this city, we under stain!, with sufficient capital at their command, to go into an extensive man ufacture of ice. The necessary machine ry will soon be procured. The reliabil ity .u.l energy of the gentlemen forming the company is a sufficient guaranty for Us sure accomplishment, and our cmn >:i£punity may soon expect to keep cool Without troubling their Northern breth- Ohn. So, Mr. Macon, you will perceive sister city is not far behind you in die good work. All such sigus of home industry are a sure indication that the day is not far distant when everything needed will spring forth from our own manufactories. So mote it he. ShWill You Have Civil Wau?— I This Question is pertinent. It comes home to every nan in the country, and no . Ane. in the light of existing facts and in flail view of the political situation, can jfcil to see its pertinency, nor can he ignore the significancy of the prospect The master issue of the campaign, as things now stand, is war or peace.— Vote for Blair and Seymour, and secure their triumph, and you have war; vote for Grant and Colfax, and you have peace. SftThis is no false alarm, but a veritable of a patent truth.— National Kepubtican. K That is to say, if the people cast votes enough for Seymour and Blair io “se their triumph,” the Grant and Col fax party mean to resort to war to pro %ent the installation to office of those me people have elected. The .success ful party would have nothing to go to isippar for. The Republican can mean iiothiug but that the defeated party will *s|P*sort to force sooner than relinquish 'Z power. The warning is frank, at least, |g and it is to be hoped that the friends of K Seymour in the North will give it due B consideration. Onions a Specific against Ebidem- K ics.—A correspondent of the Scientific I American commends onions as a speci ■ sic forepidemics—not as an esculent,but | sliced and kept in a sick room, where I they will absorb any atmospheric poi s son. They should "be replaced by fresh % ones every hour. It is noticed that in • the room of a small pox patient they I blister and decompose with great rap | ‘dity, but will prevent the spread of the & disease. Their application has also ■ Pf°ved effective in the case of snake W bites. YOL. X. Ao More Voting In tiie South. It is the settled purpose of Radicalism to permit no more popular elections in the South during the permanency of the Carpct-"bag governments. After all of the talk about universal suffrage, the parly in power is afraid to submit the claims of Grant to the enfranchised ne groes now that bayonets have been re moved and the hands of disfranchised white men have been loosed from the bands placed upon them by Congres sional enactment. The provision of tho Constitution of South Carolina which gave to the Legislature the au thority to choose Presidential electors, was always a thorn in the side of the Radical party and was ever severely de nounced by its presses and speakers. Among the first things done by the nig ger Convention of that State was to 1 strike out that clause. Alabama and \ Florida have adopted the plan at the 1 dictation of Grant and a Committee of , Radical Congressmen. South Carolina j will be forced to come hack to it and i Georgia and Louisiana will also be com | polled to acquiesce. This last outrage , is more glaring by reason of the recent 1 adoption of the fourteenth Constitu tional Amendment. By the terms of that amendment no State was to have representation in the electoral college, if any distinction was made on account of race or color as to the privilege of franchise. It follows as a matter of course, that such States as didnot make the difference alluded to were to be rep resented in that college. The recon structed States so called have adopted tho fourteenth article, and it has been formally declared part and parcel of the Constitution, and yet the people of these States are not to be permitted to vote in the coming election. Mr. Sey mour has pointedly remarked on this subject in his letter of acceptance : “That there is a dread of some expo sure which drives them on to acts so desperate and impolitic.” There is a dread of exposure, expo- ! sure of the frauds in registration and | voting, but above all a dread of expo- j sure, of the weakness of the Radical i party in the South without the aid of bayonets. This “act so desperate” is the one that must hasten and make sure the day of our deliverance. It is against the: consummation of this villainy, that the ! Democracy of the North i9 pledged to : protest in a shape and style that shall J be satisfactory and conclusive. It is no ; quarrel, no fight of ours. We know our rights and our wrongs are in the j keeping and protection of that party in the North, which if it be united and determined upon any one point more j than another, is united and determined j that Grant and his followers shall not sieze and hold the reins of Govern ment by fraud or force. They will not submit to any such juggling as is con templated in this plan to give to Legis latures elected by fraud, and the aid of the sword, the power to choose Presi dential electors. Tho Radical party is daily warned in the most solemn and unmistakable manner that this usurpa tion will bo resisted, and if it persists in violence and outrage, it must become responsible for all the results of such. We give one of these warnings. For the benefit of any of tho weak kneed and timid brethren who may be within the radius of the circulation of the ‘Sun’ we beg leave to say that the language is not ours. We take it from a leading article of the New York World, a jour nal not given to vain boasting, to in firmity of temper or exaggeration of: language, and it is as follows: When the Democratic party has elect- j ed the next President, it will be mani- j test to everybody that the negro govern ments cannot be permanent. If the ! Senate and Southern negroes shall then j yield to the will of the country, we shall have immediate tranquility. But, if they: choose to make a factious oppo- j sition, the Southern whites will proba- j bly cut the gordian knot without wait- • ing for a change in the Senate to have i it untied. If the negro governments j should suddenly collapse, a Democratic ! administration will not interpose to re suscitate them, and the local authority will easily revert into the hands of the whites. If there should be a deviation irom the usual forms, it will be because j the Senate and the negroes refuse to comply with the will of the majority, ! as expressed in the Presidential elec tion. Bniisby Bulloeli Gives an Opinion I* an Opinion. At the request of Col. R. L. Mott, we give below a letter from Carpet-bagger Bullock, to the Hon. (God save the mark) J. G. Maul, in relation to our municipal affairs. We have only to say, that Carpet-bagger B. cannot appoint a Judge who is not both shameless and ig norant, who will not upset his profound opinion. As we have before remarked, we are at present compelled to submit to an outrage for which there is at pres ent no legal remedy. We again warn the illegal Mayor and Board to be ex ceedingly cautious as to what they do, and urge all good citizens to patiently and quietly await the time, when we shall not feel the force of bayonets through the medium of a carpet-hag Government and Governor. Here is the opinion of Bunsby Bul lock : Executive Department, f Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 0,1868. ) Hon. J. G. Maul, Member Rouse Rep's, Atlanta, Ga. Sik—l am in receipt of your favor of this date, enclosing communications from R. L. Mott, Mayor, and from Mr. Duer ; with a copy of a letter from Mr. F. G. Wilkins, a citizen of Columbus, calling on R. L. Mott, Mayor, to sur render his office to said Wilkins upon the ground that Military Authority has ceased to exist in the State of Georgia. Iu reply, would say that the Mayor and Council of Columbus who were ap pointed by Military Authority in ac cordance with the laws of the United States, will continue to be a legal gov ernmer.t for the City of Columbus until their sucres-ors shall have been duly elected and qualified. Under the 9th section of the 11th article of the new Constitution, all acts done under or by virtue of, or in- ac cordance with the orders of the Military Authorities, are as valid as if done un der a law of the State ; and there can therefore be no question as to the right of the Mayor and Council appointed by Military Authority, to contiuue in office, and to exercise the rights thereof until their successors shall have been duly elected and qualified according to law. Very respectfully, RrFus B. Bullock, Governor. Article 11 section 9 of new Constitu tion—“ The judgments and proceedings of Courts, and acts of officers within their jurisdiction, as provided by law, shall be valid, notwithstanding the Judges of said Courts or the said officers now appointed by the military authori ties of the United States, and any of said judgments, or acts, or proceedings made, or done, under or by virtue of, or in accordance with, the orders of said military authorities, duly made, are as valid as if done under a law of this State.” THE WEEKLY SUN. WRITE WELLS. This mode of procuring water was discovered in Indiana. It is causing quite a revolution in well-digging. We see by our exchanges, they are being extensively adopted in Indiana,, Ken tucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and in parts of Alabana. A number have been put in operation in Selma, Alabama, where flowing Artislan wells are in common use, and the press of that city represent that the people are delighted with them. Messrs. Wooten & Beattie, of thi3 city, have purchased the right to sink these wells in a portion of Georgia, and are prepared'to sell rights for other counties, and sink wells in this city and county. They sunk one in the early part of last week, in front of the store of Hall, Moses & Cos., on Broad street, forty five feet in depth, tem porarily, to exhibit its qualities to the public. It threw out a fine, large volume, and was sufficiently pumped to test the inexaustibleness of the body of water below when ap proached in this way. A hose some thirty feet long, was attached to the spout of the pump, and with the aid of two men at the pump, water was thrown on the top of a two-story building, thus evidencing its value in case of fire in a building on the premises, in either put ting out or holding the fire in check until other assistance can be had. Also Us value in sprinkling streets, yards or gardens in dry weather. On Saturday evening last, in the space of one hour and forty-five min utes, one was put down on the premises occupied by Mr. Thomas DeWolf, to the depth of twenty-six feet, and an abundant supply of water obtained. Hundreds of gallons have been pumped out—yes, we might say thousands— without any apparent diminunitiou of the quantity below, and the water con tinuing clear as crystal. The water is free from the artificial substances so common to the wells of the city, and is as pure and well tasted as is found in any portion of the surrounding country. When compared with that of the dug well on the same premises, :he taste differs as wide as if the two sources 1 were miles apart. The cost of this well is $1 50 per foot. It consists of iron pipe perforated near the lower end with small holes to admit the water into the pipe, on the end of which is fastened a pointed irou diive, a little larger than the pipe. This pipe is driven down until water is reached, when the “sucker” is put on and the well is ready for operating. At first, mud and sand is drawn up with the water until a sufficient vacutu is opened below. The water then clears and con tinues to flow clear as crystal. Where rock does not intervene to ob struct the progress of drive, one of these wells can be sunk to the ordinary depth of wells in this city—say twenty five to forty-five feet—in from two to four hours. Their advantage over the dug well is, that they are not affected by rains or slop-water, and no bad sub stances get into them —they are exempt from the funky tastes acquired from wood or brick curbs. The water is pure. They are tho very thing for our peo ple, and every man who owns the lot he lives on, should have one. Giving pure water, we think they would add to the health of our citizens. With one, every family at a small cost, can have a hath house with pure v;atcr, easy to supply. [COMMUNICATED.] Macon, G.-.., Aug. 10, 1868. Editor Sun ff Times: There has fall en into my hands recently, a little book of some sixty pages, entitled “Tho Southern Defense,” by Joseph F. Pou, Esq., of your place. In my judgment it gives the most succinct and correct! review of the causes of our late national : conflict, with which it has been my j fortune to meet since the war. The author, with unusual modesty, puts forth this little work as a part of the record of the past and present, which in after years will be collected up by the impartial historian and incorpora ted into the history of the great events through which we have lately passed, j Mr. Pou most successfully vindicates j his countrymen “from the load of false accusation and calumny, which their | misfortunes may appear to invite, and which it has already been the practice I from many quarters to cast upon them with unsparing hand.” The object of the work is to show where the right lay in the great strug gle, and to prevent its being forever j amid the ruins of the lost cause. And I although the results of the war are ac cepted as a finality in fact and law, yetf it does not admit the rightfuiness or justness of the principles against which we contended, or of the penalties with which we have been visited. But the preservation of our system of government, complex as it is, depends upon the strict observance of the laws of its creation. There never was a more admirable system devised by man than ours, both State and Federal, when administered according to the purpose and intent of its founders. The war was the result of a violation of these laws, and all efforts to right it up, must of necessity fail, until the Constitutional or organized law is restored. The sys tem when thus observed will move on like the heavenly bodies in their orbits without disturbance forever. Efforts are being made through the great National Democracy to restore the constitutional harmony amoDg the States, and I know of no work which more sharply defines many of the ques tions involved than Mr. Pou’s pamph let. I think that it should be in the hands of every young man who prom ises himself any political future, and all would be greatly entertained by its perusal. I see that it was printed at your office, aud suppose that any num ber of copies might he fouud at the Book stores tor about the actual cost. Bibb. The Col. Johnson, whose accidental death at Malton, Illinois, was reported in our telegrams yesterday, is Col. Thomas C. Johnson, well known to many of our citizens as the head of the Confederate Wagon Making establish ment conducted in our city, during the two last years of the war, at the shop of Mr. R. R. Goetcaius. For Congress. — The Atlanta New Era of the 11th contains the following: To the Voters of the First Congress ional District: —Your most humble ser vant and friend has been requested, and under the circumstances do accept, his chance for nomination, and his better chance to receive his friends’ votes, to make him the Representative in the Congress of the United States after the 4th of March, 1869. A. Ai.peora Bradley. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1868. .WEDNESDAY HORNING, AEG. 12. The result of the Kentucky election surprises the most sanguine Democrats in Washington, and is regarded as the great foreshadowing of the Democratic ground swell that is steadily setting in all over the Northern and Western States. The news from the Pacific States brightens every day, and represents gains for Seymour and Blair in every State. Blair Understands the Situation. —Some old fogy New York politicians recently telegraphed to Frank Blair asking him to moderate the tone of his speeches. His reply was decisive. He told them that he had studied the situa tion carefully, thought he understood it, and meant to treat it freely and fear lessly. It is said that Gov. Seymour is very much pleased with Gen. Blair’s speeches. We learn from the Jackson Clarion that Dr. A. C. Edwards, postmaster at Marion, Miss., having been assessed six dollars by the “Union Republican Con gressional Executive Committee,” sent tbe amount in Confederate currency, and got a very indignant letter in reply, under the frank of Robert C. Schenck, M. C. Dr. Edwards presided over the recent Democratic Mass Meeting in Marion, and is a thorough going patriot. We are pleased to learn that there was a great outpouring of the unterri fied democracy at Opelika, on Saturday last, in attendance pn the meeting for the ratification of the Democratic nom inees for the Presidency. The immense audience were eloquently addressed by Col. Ramsey, of this city ; Col. Hod son, and Mr. Shaver, of Montgomery ; Col. W. H. Barnes, of Chambers ; and Judge Waddell, of Russell. The audi ence gave evidence of determination to elect tbe standard bearers if not swin dled out of the right to vote by the present hybril organization at Mont gomery, called a Legislature. We regret it was out of our power to to be present. Four steamboats and a barge were burned at the wharf in Cincinnati, on the 6th instant. They were the Dela ware, owned by W. & D. Rheinhard and Captain R. Calhoun, of Pitts eurg, a stern - wheel steamer val ued at $5,000 and insured. The Ezra Porter, anew boat, valued at $30,000, and insured for a small amount. She belonged to U. Porter, Jr., her com mander, and her other officers. The Pine Grove, anew boat, valued at $15,- 000—insured for $9,000. She belonged to the Nashville Packet Company. The Potomac, valued at $32,000 —insured for her entire value. She was owned by Capt. Theodore Fink and Thomas Reed, of Wheeling. The barge Sunshine, which was at tached to the Ezra Porter, and also de stroyed by the fire, was owned by Capt. Wm. Gregg, and valued at SI,BOO. She is insured for $1,500 in the Queen City office. Scene in the Georgia Senate.— The Atlanta Intelligencer says Bradley and his friends were very anxious Sat urday morning to postpone the trial of Bradley to Tuesday. Being out voted in that, Aaron, in making his defense, spoko against time, with the hope of staving off a vote at least until Monday. When the hand of the clock pointed to ten minutes of one, Mr. Higbee, Brad ley’s special friend, requested him to yield the floor a few minutes for the purpose of taking up some resolutions j important to be acted upon before ad journment. He yielded, and before he could obtain the floor again a motion was carried to extend the time of the morning session. This aroused the ire of Aaron, and he rushed from his seat to Mr. Higbee’s desk and, shaking his fist threateningly in his face, with one of those sardonic grins so peculiar to him, said: “Just what 1 expected of you.” Mr. Higbee hung his head as if in acknowledgment of the justness of the rebuke. It looked to us very much like a white man having a negro mas ter. The Columbus (Miss.) Index says the carpet-bagger, B. B. Eggleston, failing to sneak into the of Governor of Mississippi, and having acquired the almost universal contempt of the peo ple of that State, has sneaked back to the State of Ohio. He succeeded, how ever, in sneaking his son into the Mili tary Academy at West Point, as a rep resentative from Mississippi. Just as might be expected of a carpet-bagger— having failed to steal the Governorship of Mississippi, he contented himself with stealing a scholarship, and sneak ed off. Mississippi has got rid of him very cheap. The Public Debt Incbeased Thir teen Millions in Two Months. —The Louisville Journal’s Washington spe cial says “McCulloch’s statement of the public dept which was held back by him, and returned to the different heads of the department, with instructions that they should see if there was not some mistake—shows an increase of thirteen millions in two months-. Three days were consumed in overhauling every item, hut no mistake was found. The Radicals are anxious about the mat ter, and some of them begin to abuse McCulloch. They say he should have kept the statement back altogether- The Westfield (Mass.) News Letter, a Republican paper, referring to the ex emption of United States bonds from taxation, says “It is not just to have a few hundred thousand persons hold property, valued at about one fourth of all the property of the United States, and pay no taxes upon it. It lays bur dens on the shoulders of the laboring class which they are not able to bear, aud is contrary to the genius of our Democratic institutions.” The following appointments were made by the Governor on the Bth inst. : Edward Hulbert, to be Superintend ‘ ent of the Western and Atlantic Rail road. Overton H. Walton, of Crawford county, Principal Keeper of the Peni tentiary. John wills, of Hall county, Assistant Keeper of the Penitentiary. Dr. Wills, of Hall county, Physician of the Penitentiary. Clayton Vaughn, of Baldwin county, Inspector of the Penitentiary. From Colombia. Columbia, August 11.—Gen. O. O. Howard addressed the colored people ■ this afternoon in the House of Repre sentatives. The Legislature considered a number of bills for prolection of party punish ment, assaults, regulating contracts, : and organizing temporarily the school I system. From the Macon Journal and Messenger. EAST THEM OUT. Some of our citizens, either through thoughtlessness or weakness, are doing great injutice to the cause of a cruelly oppressed and outraged people by the complacency of their social intercourse with scalawags, carpet-baggers, and renegades. Surely these citizens says the Mobile Register, and we most cor cially endorse the sentiment, do not rightly appreciate the condition to which the South has been reduced through tbe agency of these wretches. We recall to thetr minds a thought re cently expoessed by Senator Doolittle: “If you go,” said he to an audience, “to Mount Vernon and the grave of Washington, you will sit under the shadow of a despotism more degrading and absolute than that which ever ruled Poland, Hungary, Ireland.” In one of his able messages President Johnson told the skeleton Congress that “no where, for five hundred years past, had the men of our blood and language been subjected to a tyranny as galling as that which it had put upon the Southern people.” Nor need we go to these high authorities or seek in their nervous language for an exemplification of our condition. Every man who thinks and feels, and who is gifted with the lowest sensibility, is conscious of the deep wrong inflicted by the vindictive and cowardly men who rule in Congress. The iron of injustice has entered his soul, and it will fester and rankle there, until by some means or other it is plucked out and its point turned against the oppressor. In what light, then, should a down-trodden people view their tyrants ? Is it not the reverse of manly—nay, is it not a base servility, to recognize or countenance in any so cial or business form the men who have shown themselves our deadliest ene mies ? Who in the South would shake hands or sit down in social converse with Sumner, Butler, or Ben. Wade ? Then why should we not equally scorn as polluting all contact with their mis erable tools ? Under centuriess of op pression Ireland has kept alive a relent less and undying protest and hatred against her tyrants in politics and re ligion. It sprang from the same source and has been nurtured by the same wrongs as our own. It is a carpet-bag rule in Ireland that has made that coun try a sore on the British body politic: j It is that rule that gave birth to Fenian ■ ism, It is that rule and its authors that have bred hatred in the hearts of Irishmen, and which will never cease to be resisted until the right of self government is conceded to its brave and spirited people. Yet Ireland’s grievances are light in comparison to our own. If 9lie is ruled against her consent by an alien people, they are at least of their owu blood and color. But our oppressors, with a refined cruelty, have inverted the order of things, up heaved the social strata, and, burying the governing powers of intelligence and experience under disfranchisement, have invested the ignorance and ezpe rieuce of a race just emerged from slavery with political domination, in order that it may be handled and swayed by our enemies, alien to the soil. Can deadlier wrongs than these be inflicted upon a brave and free people ? Can a man place himself more distinct ly in the attitude of an enemy to his people, than he who counsels, abets, takes part in, or consents to be the tool of the power that inflicts them ? If one assails your honor, slanders your char acter, or steals your money, self-respect prompts you to cut his acquaintance. But here are men who are openly rob bing you of your civil rights, stealing your offices, living on means plundered from your substance, insulting you with their loathsome presence, and making slaves of you, and yet gentle men give them their hands, take social glasses with them, and hob-nob on the streets with them. We denounce this facile complacency as a crime against the outraged majesty of this people, and as a treasonable correspondence with the enemies of the Commonwealth. They are dogs, and should be treated as dogs—dogs only tolerated now because the power of the sword is in the hands of our enemies in Congress, hut will not he tolerated one hour after the peo ple recover the liberty to do justice upon their oppressors. It is the duty of every Southern man to cut these ver min. Excommunicate them; spew them out as outcasts and social pariahs, with whom it is disgraceful to hold social intercourse. We are not talking about negroes now. We had no fault to find with them. Every error of theirs lays at the door of scalawag in stigation. But for these interloping incendiaries the white people of the South would have no trouble with the colored race, and peace and harmony would have been the law of the land. When the day of settlement and retri i bution comes—as come it will, so sure ' as there is a God of justice—we would not hurt a hair of their heads ; rncan j time they should be treated not only kindly, but should be counselled for their good, and assisted so far as the ; impoverished means of the whites can give them aid, in all their industrious efforts and enterprises. It is the white speculators in our public misfortunes end miseries that we speak of, and they should be held at arm’s length, walled out from all sympathy or intercourse, and he forever reminded that attone ment to the exact pound of flesh will be exacted for their daring insults and ac cursed wrongs to this people. The Georgia Correspondent of the New York Times, writing from Atlanta just after the Senatorial election, thus j relates what followed the announcement of the result. The writer says : ‘‘When the vote was declared the Legislature adjourned immediately. The friends of Brown and Blodgett, as well as those gentlemen themselves, tried hard to look pleasr.nt and to ex press perfect satisfaction ai the choice. But the effort was ghastly. They were pitiably ‘down in the mouth,’ and their anxiety to conceal their mortification only made it more apparent. The op ponents of Brown and Blodgett rejoiced hugely. They congratulated each oth er with tears of joy in their eyes. They grasped each others’ hands with con vulsive ecstasy, and when they found words to express the cause of their joy they were far from complimentary to the defeated candidates. “Brown is, I understand, greatly mortified and disappointed. His friends claim that if he had not been loaded down with Blodgett he could have ‘made the connection;’ and Blodgett and his backers insist that if he had not been compelled ‘to tote Jo Brown and all his sins upon his shoulders, he would have been elected beyond a doubt.’ ” On Saturday last, a bill was intro duced and passed the Georgia House of Representatives, to exempt from poll and property tax to the amount of $3500, all Confederate soldiers and their wives, j who lost a leg or an arm in the late war. The Louisville Journal thus alludes to the Lieutenant Governor of Alabama —Applegate, better know in the section where he resides, from his inate love of a certain kind of extract, as Appletoddy. The Journal says: Applegate, the Lieut. Governor of Alabama, is the scoundrel, it will be re membered, who, during the war, went with a Regiment of Federal cavalry in to Mississippi, and while there stole pa pers to tho value of SIOO,OOO from the residence of the Hou. Jacob Thompson, and wrote to Mrs. Thompson when the war closed, offering to restore the stolen papers for the sum of fifteen or twenty thousand dollars. This characteristic is a feather in the cap of a carpet-bagger, in the estima tion of the Radical party, and when known, insures his certain exaltation to power. Plunder the Southern whites, is their pass word to power. How the White and Colored Democrats do things in Mississippi. —We learn from the Clarion that at a recent Barbecue and Mass Ratification Meeting in Copiah county, Miss.,, and tended by an audience of 6,000 people— white and colored—one hundred ani sixty animals were barbecued and con sumed. The assemblage was addressed by Hon. A. G. Brown, who was follow ed by two colored orators, in support of the nominees of the Democracy for the Presidency. The speeches and sen timents uttered were received with great enthusiasm. No wonder the car pet-bagger Eggleston skulked off from Mississippi in disgust at the thought of reclaiming the State to Radicalism. Mr. Greeley does not Feel Confi dent in Regard to the next Elec tion. —Horace Greeley thus discourses in relation to the next election: Yet we do not believe, nor wish oth ers to believe, Gen - Grant’s election certain. We would have every one realize that the election is not yet de cided—that the Republicans can win if they work, but must lose if they are heedless or apathetic. We hope to car ry Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, in October, but by small majorities, such as will animate both parties to more determined efforts in November. Our Indiana friends talk of a large majori ty in that State; we shall be content with a small one. We do surely hope to carry this State, hut know w v ell that hard work is required to do it. Friends of Grant and Colfax ! do not believe we shall win easily; for, without slrenuous efforts, we should not win at all. But work on in assured conviction that vic tory is within your reach, and scan tho above table as proof of it. Protest. —The following protest to the bill taking from the people the right to cast the Electoral vote for the Presi dent and Vice-President, was o ffered by the Hon. D. L. Neville, of Monroe, and by his request spread upon the Journals of the House : To the Honorable House of Representa tives: I do hereby enter my most earnest and solemn protest against the bill, taking the right of voting from the peo ple and giving it to the Legislature ; because I believe the bill to be a bare betrayal of the rights of the people, and an outrageous and assassinable wrong inflicted upon them. I conceive the bill to be unwarranta ble, unjustifiable, unconstitutional, bloody and revolutionary in its charac ter and tendency. It is conceived in a Star Chamber spirit, and forced upon the people with more than the reckless ness of the Congress of the Thirty Ty rants of Athens. Respectfully submitted. D. L Neville. [Montgomery Mall. New Inventions. —Prof. 11. J. Har ris, of Shreveport, La., whose recent pyrotechnic displays, balloon ascen sions, etc., have brought himself into notice, leaves in a few days for the North, in order to obtain patents for a new and exceedingly ingenious hand grenade, and also for a trail match for signalizing purposes. The hand grenade consists of a hol low hall of thick manilla paper, in the centre of which is placed the charge of powder, the intervening space between the charge and the minor surface of the ball being filled with shot of any desir ed size. The whole is covered with a strong net work of twine or copper wire, and ignited by means of a fuse or per cussion cap. The superiority over the old hand grenade consists iu the light ness of the projectile, and in the fact of the charge being placed in the centre instead of mixed with the shot. The trail match consists of a long trail or fuse, to which is attached at certain intervals small loaded balls. The pro fessor has arranged a code of signals by which messages may be sent on the darkest nights long distances in this manner.— N. O. Picayune. Crop Prospects in East Tennes see.—We copy the following from the Knoxville Press of August 9th: Wheat. —The wheat crop is now all harvested and shows a total nearly double that of last year. The yield per acre has not been materially changed, but the increase is due to the greater breadth of land sown. Qats. —Avery fair crop of oats has been made this season. The yield is probably twice that of last year, when the crop was unusually small. Much of the present crop has been seriously damaged by rain since being harvest ed. Corn. —The prospect of the corn crop was never better at this season than now, although the harvest will be late on account of the delay in planting caused by the protracted spring rains. The recent rains have greatly improv ed the corn, and will probably increase the yield, we may safely calculate upon an abundant crop unless some unforseen accident occurs. Fruit. —There will be an abundance of apples this year, but not a very good peach crop. Tho Radicals think that Gov. Sey mour will probably go crazy. Grant may have the delirium Iremcns, but he is in no danger of any honest and legit imate kind of delirium. A man is said to be delirious when his ideas get tan gled, and as Grant ha 9 no material to tangle, he is in no manner of peri). One of the biographers of Gen. Grant tells us that when his grandfather was a captain in the army his pay amounted to less than $350 a year. Little did the old gentleman think then that in 1861 a grandson of his would b-j a clerk in a leather store with the enormous salary of S6OO a year. Gen. Grant’s brother positively de clares that he will not vote for Seymour, as The World charged he would.— N. Y. Tribune. There, our hope that there was at least one sensible member of the Grant family is blasted. A Lowell bootblack has challenged a Boston “artist” to compete for the championship of the State.— Ex. It is understood that the Boston art ist agreed to accept the challenge only upon the ground that the challenging party would not use Butler’s character for blacking. —Louisville Journal. Interesting to Tobacco Dealers. —Under the amended revenue law, ho tels, inns, drug stores, saloons, grocers or others, who sell cigars and tobaccos, are required to pay a special tax of $5 a year; if their sales of these articles ex ceed SI,OOO yearly, they ure required to pay an additional tax of $2 on each $1,000; but the tax of $5 must be paid, even if the sales for the year do not amount to that sum. This is the law. THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13. An Actor Changes his Role.— Capt. W. H. Crisp—all our readers ; “know him like a book”—has quit the J stage and taken editorial charge of the San Antonio (Texas) Herald. Gen. Dunn, a red hot radical, and Pope’s adviser in all his outrages, has been ordered to Washington for duty. Atlanta has our congratulations. Lieut, i Hosmer, another Federal officer on du j ty for a lougtimo at Atlanta, has taken the same direction. Russell County.— A Bill has passed j the House authorizing the Judge of Probate of Russell county, to remove the books and records of tho county from tho county seat. This bill was opposed by the Hon. T. Tyner, Repre sentative from Russell, who voted against the passage of the bill.— Mont. Mail, \Wi. Appointments by Gov. Bullock —On the Bth, Edward (“Sharp and Quick”) Hulhert was appointed Super intendent of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, and on Monday the property of the road was turned over to him and he entered on the duties of the office. Nathan P. Hotchkiss, of Walton coun ty, was appointed, on the 10th, Auditor of the same road. Denib of Tbaddeus Steven*. The telegraph announces the long expected death of Thaddeus Stevens. We have only to say that this dispensa tion of Providence will be hailed with joy and gratification by the patriotic masses of the people from one end of the country to the other. The history of the American Republic will mention the name of no man who, during a long political career, has done so much harm and so little good to his people and j country. His death at this juncture is ominous of the fate of his party, and it is safe to say that no man can be found with the requisite ability and malignity to fill his place. The character of the man is best illustrated in the fact that his death will be considered the cause of general congratulation. Gov. Smith’s Veto Message. —Wo ! reproduce in full the message of Gov. Smith, of Alabama, vetoing the hill which gives to the Legislature of Ala bama the power to elect Presidential electors. His argument against the wrong and injustice, is able and con clusive, and is a good campaign doeu- i ment for the Democracy. The Mont- j gomery Mail says of Gov. Smith: He is not a carpet-bag Governor. lie has been a citizen of Alabama thirty years, and is a native of Georgia He has no affinity for carpet-baggers. Ho opposed tho placing of this bogus Constitution over the people, being satisfied that it was defeated under the law. He is a fair man however wrong headed ho may be on certain political \ questions. He loves Alabama more than he does Maine. An Alabama Dogberry.— Our sis- j ter State Alabama is perhaps more af- I flicted with mean, contemptible, lguur ant and dishonest public officers, naiive and imported, than any other of the reconstructed Territories. We give below a specimen of the capacity and 1 intelligence of a man elected to the hon orable and responsible position of Pro bate Judge for the county of Barbour, one of the largest counties in the State, and settled by a population noted for their intelligence and prosperity. We give the precious document “verbatim et literatim.” A large number ofl skunks of the same variety, of about equal capacity to Russell, are about to be commissioned by Bullock and turn ed loose upon the people of Georgia.— | In addition to the ignorance of Russell, we are informed that he is notoriously dishonest aud disreputable in every re spect : Clayton Ala., August 3, 1868 Messrs Petitioners : My Friends— l would like to do anything to accomodate you or any one, but I am not as yet orthorize to apint any one as Justice of the Peace 1 or to any other office. If lam hereaf- j ter orthorize toapint I will apint Union j men and none others, or men that was in 'favor of the adoption of the 14th articuai, and would have voted for it if they had been in the present Legisla ture and if Mr. Weston was this kind of a man he can write to me and I will apint him if I have the apointing power and if not I will recomend your partis sion to Gov. W. H. Smith and faward it. Yours very respectfully H. C. RUSSELL. Savannah and Memphis Rail Road. In pursuance to the adjournment on the first of July, of the annual meeting of the Stockholders of the Savannah and Memphis Rail Road Company, for want of a quorum, the Stockholders of said Company convened at Opelika yesterday, and a quorum of Stock 1 being represented, proceeded to the election of officers for the present year. Col. Slaughter, who has so ably filled the office of President of the Company since the organization in 1859, declined a reelection. The convention then proceeded to the election of officers. Col. Samuel G. Jones, was put in nomination and elected without opposition, President of the Company. J. C. W. Rogers, Seeretary and Treasurer; and H. H. Epping, and Thomas DeWolf of Co lumbus ; L. F. McCoy, R. C. Jeier, J. M. Oliver, and W. C. Ross, of Lee county; J. R. Slaughter, of Tallapoosa j county, and R. B. Lindsey of Tusctnn bia, were elected Directors. The following resolutions-were unan imously adopted by the Convention: Resolved, That the Board of Direct- I ors be and they are hereby authorized | to adjust all past due subscriptions on j such terms as they shall deem to the best interest of the Company, taking into consideration each individual ease aud deciding it on its merits. Resolved, That as early as practica ble, the Board cause to be made, an ac curate estimate of the cost of refitting tbe grading already done, and of ex j tending the graduation to the commence ment of the twenty-first mile from Opelika. Resolved, That as soon as the Direc tors shall be able to relieve the Compa ny of its embarrassments by the ad justment of outstanding obligations, they be instructed to use any means within their control to put the first twenty miles in a condition to render the aid granted by the Internal Im provement law available. 1 Resolved, That the thanks of the Convention be, and they are hereby tendered to Col. Slaughter for the faith ful, zealous and unselfish manner in which he has discharged the duties of President of the Company since its first I organization. I London, Aug. 12. —The Emperor’s speech at the Tuilleries excites various comments; some journals saying it is | an indication of peace, whilst others as ; a cover of war. NO. 23. MESSAGE OF GOVERNOR SMITH. Veto of the “Bill to Rob the People of a • President.” Executive Department, 1 State of Alabama, > Montgomery, August 11, 1868. J To the Senate: By the 2d Section, Article 3d, of the Constitution of the United States, it is provided that “each State shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature there of may direct, a number of electors equal to the whole uurnber of Senators and Representatives to which the State may he entitled in the Congress ” Thus it is clear that the Legislature of I the Stato has the undoubted Constitu tional power to choose the Presidential electors. But the Constitutiou of this i State requires that “every bill or tcbo- i lution having the force of law, to which ! the concurrence of both Houses of tho General Assembly may ho necessary, except on a question of adjournment, which shall have passed both Houses, shall he presented to tho Governor; and if he approve, he shall sign it; if not, he shall return it, with his objec tions, to the House in which it origina ted.” Here is devolved upon the Gov ernor a plain and at the same lime an imperative duty. Tho Constitution is .mandatory in requiring him to approve or disapprove every bill presented to j him. lie could not, if he would, evade j the duty thus imposed upon him. For several days I have been careful- ! ly and anxiously considering the merits J of the hill which originated in the Sen ate, to he entitled “An Act to repeal Section 217 of the Revised Code, and for other purposes.” After the most mature reflection, I am forced to the conclusion that the bill is wrong in principle, aud that It would be a dan gerous precedent in a republican gov ernment. As my judgment does not approve the bill, it is my Constitutional duty to return it to the Senate, with my objections. To mo this is an un- ! pleasant duty. If I entertained any doubt in regard to the justice or policy of this bill, I should certainly give the benefit of the doubt to the General As *sembly, and approve the bill. All republics are based upon the doc- l nine that “Governments derive their just power from the consent of the gov erned.” No party in this country has proclaimed this doctrine with such per- j tinacity, or contended so earnestly for its adoption in its fullest sense, as tho | Republican party has. That party | stauds committed by the platform, re- j cently adopted by the Convention at Chicago, which nominated Grant and Colfax, to universal manhood suffrage in the States lately in rebellion. This position has boon gradually assumed by the Republican party of tbe nation, at the earnest request of Southern Union ists, upon the plea that it was necessary for the protection ol the Union men of both races that colored men should be allowed to vote. In the effort to secure this right, a conflict ensued between the Executive aud Legislative departments of the Na tional Government, which lias convuls ed the country, and well nigh precipi tated a civil war. Indeed, the full ex tent and ultimate result of that conflict cannot yet be foreseen. It cannot hut ho regarded asremarka blo that the first Republican Legislature convened iu Alabama, should, in the face of tho principles of its organization, which every Republican professes to hold dear, deny not only to the colored but to tbe white man, the right, by his vote, to vindicate his choice for a President and Vice President of the United States, aud take the matter iu its own hands. What excuse can there be for it? Is it a mere party expediency ? If so, then it is au abandonment of principles, or an acknowledgment that the material out of which the Republican party is cuui posed, cannot be trusted. Iu other words, it is to say that the colored men will not do to be trusted. This sessiou of the General Assembly will be record ed as still more remarkable when con sidered iu connection with what seems to have been the almost unanimous opinion of the leading members of the Republican party of Alabama. It was believed by most of them, and so repre sented at Washington, that a large ma jority of the voting population of the State were iu favor of tho new Constitu tion. This was as much as to say that the Republican party was in a largo ma jority in the State; for it is well known none but the Republicans favored the Constitution, and even some of them opposed it. If the party is as strong as ; it has been supposed to he, then the ! necessity of party expediency does not exist; hut even if it did exist, would i we be justifiable in resorting to it? As : much as I desire the election of Grant and Colfax, I am unwilling to become a party, in behalf of that desirable re sult, to a scheme which practically de nies the very principles for which those , standard bearers stand pledged before the country. Hut it uuiy be said that, owing to the | excited temper of the Democratic party, , we cannot have a peaceable election ; | and that this measure is merely resorted to in the interest of peaco. If this be j so, then it is a recoil from the issue on | our part, and a tacit acknowledgment i that we are are unable to protect our- I selves against the minority. I respect fully submit that the Republican party | should not be exposed to the diaparag- j ing comments, not to say ridicule, that; would result from this position. In this connection, the question may very properly be asked, if it is not safe j | to have an election now. when will it be ? If we wait until the Democratic , press and Democratic orators cease to employ violent, exciting and abusive language, it is not at all probable that the time will ever come when we can ; have a peaceful election ; and therefore, to be consistent, we should avoid all • elections in the future. It may be contended, with some de gree of plausibility, that if our political j opponents had the power, which we i possess, they would use it to secure the S eight electoral votes of Alabama for Seymour and Blair. But does this as sumption that the Democrats, if they had the power, would deprive the peo pie of the right to votu, justify us in do ing so ? It seems to me that every can ; did man must answer, no 1 It is said that the old Secession party, whoße leaders are prominent in the Democratic party now, usurped,.in 1860, ' ’6l, power which belonged to the peo ple' for the purpose of Secession and i war; and that now the Republican j party would be justified iu exercising a clear Constitutional right in the inter i eßts of the Union and peace. I admit tbut this argument iB not without some force. Still, when examined carefully, j I do not think it can be regarded as 1 sound ; for the effect of it, as I conceive, I will not be peace. The denial of any right, to a people who have been in the | habit of exercising it, will, in my opin ion, be a source of irritation well calcu lated to produce violence. Every origi i nal Union man in Alabama felt aggriev- I ed that the Convention of 1861, which passed the ordinance of Secession, did not submit its action to a vote of the j people. It was held, and justly held, I as a dime against the rights of the peo ; pic. Those who acted thus, never 1 sought to justify their conduct on any other ground than that of expediency, j By their action, they showed that they ' were unwilling to trust the people. We ! all know the consequences. They need | not he recounted here. Reference to j them is only made for the purpose of , showing that the action of political or ; Legislative bodies, based upon expedi ency alone, must,sooner or later, operato , injuriously to the party resorting to it; and that when measures of expediency are adopted, they generally lead to re sults far different from those designed; I to be reached, in the particular case re- I ferred to, the consequence was the al ; most total ruin of the State. | For these reasons, I respectfully re turn the bill to the Senate without my aP ( P Sig V ned) WiLUAiiEBMiT^ A beef pac king establishment Is being fitted up at Shreveport, La. Armine (he Black*. A Southern Representative upon the Pro position to Give Negroes Arms Against the Whites—Remarks of Hon. W. Jas per Blackburn , of Louisiana. [ When Horace Greeley was a mem ber of Congress, on a certain occasion he aimed to dolivor a speech. Failing to obtain the floor, bo ncverthless pub lished his speech with these introducto ry remarks : “ Had Mr. -Greeley suc ceeded in obtaining the floor, he would have spoken substantially as follows:” Mr: Blackburn, of Louisiana, designs a similar “freak.” Immediately prece ding the present recess of Congress, there wsb beforo the House a bill for Arming the “Union men” of the South. Mr. Blackburn had prepared some re marks on the subject; but wliun the question came up, a motion was made to refer It to a committee, and all debate was cut off, nnd the question will not come up again until next session. The following are tho remarks which Mr. Blackburn had intended to present, aud which he desires should go before his constituents and the couniry :] So far as tho African race is concern ed, I will say—as one who knows from experience, and as one who has nevet been in favor of enslaving any human being—that the Africans, ns a race, are the most sympathetic and kind-hearted people on earth, while they are the most docile aud easy to he governed, and perhaps tho least capable of govern ing themselves. Perticularly is (his the ease with the present generation of Africans in the Southern Stales. They are humble, obedient and sulunissive. To place arms iu their hands, as a class, because they are Union men—which they are, even by instinct, if not from understanding aud intelligent patriotism —would be to array them against al most the entire white population of the South: the natural and inevitable result of which would be the extermination of the black race. Therefore, Mr. Speaker, for this brief ly stated main reason, if for no other (but I have many, many others), 1 op pose the arming, by the Federal Gov ernment, or auy other Government, of the Union men of the South. I say this as one who has not only been a Union man, but hb one who has always been a safe and true friend of the black man— a friend who always denounced his bondage, hut who never advised hint to harshness. Sir, the thing has gone too far. If another war is to bo fought, it must at least be commenced in the North. We of the South have had enough of strife and bloodshed. “It Is fit tl‘9 spell should break of till* protrac ted dream— What Is writ Is writ; would 'tworo worthier I” I am not opposed to ariuiug the mili tia of the States. That is constitutional and proper. But this bill, if I under stand it, means something more—or rather, something less. It means arm ing the “Union men,” as such, against what is termed the rebel or secession element; that is to say, arming the black man against the white man. Sir, I am opposed to this, “first, last, and all the time.” Gentlemen of my party may tell me not to oppose this measure; it will ruin me politically ! Such an ar gument has no weight with mo. They mistake the man. 1 want no influence, no life, outside of principle ! If I can not be a true party man without being a rascal and an enemy and traitor to my race and to liberty, then I am Vio party may 1 But the Republican party proper requires uo such sacrifice. We, sir, of Louisiana, want no such state of affairs as they have in Teuuessee, and as they have had iu Missouri. I will advocate no measure tending that way. Sir, I speak “for myself uud not an other”—though the white and the black man of my district are of the same feel lug—but I aim now to speak only of myself, when I say I want no personal feuds in my section—no civil war—no local strife nor fraternal bloodshed. J differ from rnauy of the white men of my Bection iu political matters ; but that difference does not extend to deadly hate. I am not their personal enemy ; and I am proud to say that personally' they all love me, and have the utmost confidence iu my integrity. It is for thiß main reason that I have been spared to live thus far. I was always the open enemy of slavery, and opposed to seces sion, and all the direful programme of •*>« his li'Hllinor .Southern statesmen which has brought upon our country such ruin as we now see ; hut in a per sonal sense, and in matters of life and death, I never was against my native land, nor the enemy of my neighbor, and never will be. The truth is, the thing called “Union ism" has about played nut in the South. Asa general thing, those who “went in" for the war, and fought the most bravely—are to-day the safest and besl citizens ; while many who were so call ed Union men, until they lost their slaves, are now the most mischievous. I regret to say this ; but “truth is truth to the end of reckoning," and it hurts none but the wicked. And besides, those few native Southerners who have re mained firm and true throughout all the strife, even until now, have never been appreciated by the Government, and are almost uniyersally ignored and saori fleed by the new copiers from the North, many of whom would rather traternlze and seek alliances with what is termed the unreconstructed rebel element. 1 repeat, “Unionism” Las about played out in the South ! We will not take up the sword now far any political party. We were ready to do go, had war ensued upon the con viction of Mr. Johnson on his impeach ment. His prompt and immediate con viction would even now releave us. Rut we have had enough of fruitless irrita tion. What we want is peace—the “art of peace and the fruits of pence.” We want no more fruitless conflicts. And sir, as a friend and defender of the black man, I tell tho country this day that what the black man of the South wants and needs is not arms to shoot his neighbor, but he wants land and impli mcntß to cultivate it. He wants a homostoad, that he may be a freeman ! indeed ; and not Bureau agents to or j der him as a slave, more peremptorily I and insultingly, ofton, than overdid his ancient masters! A Radical Journal on n Knillritl Swindle. The New York Times, which exhib its a wonderful capacity for opposing many of the schemes of its parly, and subsequently acquiescing in them all, denounces the plan to deprive the Southern pooplo of the privilege ol voting in tho coming election. Wc give the views of the Times which are very sound, below, with the simple re mark, that iu the coming week it may advocate what it now sternly oppose. The Times says: But the wisdom of the step, whether taken by Florida or any ol the recon structed States, is extremely doubtful. Waving altogether the relative mei its ol the two plans—electiou by the people or election by the Legislature—it seems inexpedient to enact the latter with di rect reference to the contest now pm greasing. To render seemly the choice oi electors by the Legislature, its mem bers should have been elected in view ol the exercise of that authority. The people would then have an opportunity of expressing their preference, and the legislators would proceed with entire propriety. These Legislatures, howev er, were chosen without relereuce to this question, and they cannot now ex ercise the power claimed by the Florida Legislature without appearing to de prive tho people of a cherished privi *We put the case wholly on the ground of expediency. Asa matter ol consti tutioual right, the new Legislatures may avail themselves of tho appointing power. But we are persuaded that its exercise, in the present condition of the public mind at the South, would operate injuriously. It would look like, an at tempt to secure a snap judgment I would give color to the pretence that the Republic* ll party is, alter all, afraid to trust the Southern vote. And it would be used as evidence of a deter mination on the part of the Republicans to profit by any questionable agency that may be at hand. These impute tions would be as false as other of the rebel cries. But they should be pre vented, if possible. Not evil only, hut the appearance of evil should be avoid ed in a contest with opponents who eagerly seek a pretext for the distur bances they threaten. Louisville, AuTlj.-Corn 90@95. . Shoulders 14, clear sides 17J.
