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Atlantic and Gulf IJallroatl A .Snip. tfcxtion. i hditor Morning New*: Til' f m looking over your very interesting ; ami instructive table of the trade end commerce of Savannah, wo find the fol lowing : ‘‘The trade that conies to our city by the Atlantic and Gulf Kail road is the life blood of our city, and brings not pnly Southern Georgia anti Florida, even to the Everglades, to us, while the trado 1 along the Central 1 tail road . . avy for groceries, yet not near the quantity of "dry goods and notions are .hipped over it as over the Atlautic and Gulf Uaiir.md. 1 If such is the fact, and no nut dis-f putes it, we believe, it i.s unite -niggix tire of one or two thing... First, that the merchants of Savannah have culti vateal the acquaintance of the people and ! sought their trade, or that Savannah, be ing their natural outlet, they come here because they Lave no other point to go to. The truth is, both have combined to bring trade to the city. If. then, the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad is the life blood of our city as to trade, does it not stand to reason that if tiie road could be extended into Alabama to Pollard, that it would send u still stronger stream of trade to our city. That the door to trade would be thrown wide open : that a larger field would bo presented to our merchants to canvass, and more trade and business would bo the result. A celebrated writer has said: “High office is like a pyramid, only two kinds of animals reach the summit: reptiles ari l eagles," which, in plain words, mean ' !■:mts and men of geniusaud talents. ' bio begs his way by low acts; the other '■mos by natural force of intellect. Let apply the idea to trade. Wealth is l i,lined by the low arts of cheating, or ' ‘ :-t, ■ by the shrewd, cunning, sharp trb ki 4 an unscrupulous operator: or it is nosh by honest energy, industry and win* calculations, combined with broad, lib n.i -ud expansive ideas as to increas ing ami inducing trade. New York, Chi- Mgo, Louis, Baltimore and even At ianta understands well the best means to entice trade. Thorn is none of your pic ayuue policies and pound foolishness in their calculations. Wo have got the goods, say they; wo want tho customers, and if they won't come wc will go after them; if they have not got the means or facilities of getting to our market, we will help give it to them. Hence, rail roads and canals are built by cities, for without them there is no trade. Savannah has been well paid for her investment in the Atlantic and Gulf Kail road. It has been her life blood as to trade, and if tho stock never pays a dol lar to her, yet she is a great gainer by what she gave in aiding in its construc tion. Our idea is this: Let our citi /ons, such as arc able, take more stock in it, and invito English capitalists to in vest. The Savannah Brunch of tho In tern&lionul Chamber of Commerce and Mississippi Vnll< y Society is organized for just such p i ' If tho Atlantic and Gul:' ilm-M i . worth ho much to Havana.c . let n . n, u ivi ■, people, make it worth . “Jupiter helps those who first tr) to help themselves,” and we would not ell upon foreign capital to help us unless wo show our faith iiy helping ourselves. The exton ion in r road to l’ollard is a noccuaitj , and the road cun bo mndo to pay wle.n it i really finished. Tho oh jtetivo point i Bollard, and there aid it to go. N < ("usiblo man expects to reap a full cup from a half cultivated field. I low many important inventions have been lost to bii world jo I for a little mom capital to hove perfected them. Savannah as a city could well afford for tho interest of trade, for tho building up of tho city,for the commercial importance it would givo her, to step ■ r\v and with more aid. l>o it, howev. r, n, .‘injunc tion with other aid, and o • > make the completion of the road us be yond porad venture. The Huvaunub Brunch of the Missis sippi Valley Society can b in;.... pow erful auxiliary in the huddle ; up of Ha vannuio’s interest, if her citizens 1! but take proper interest in the subject. In _ diHerenco never good w> Init gaseous i '.;—_ co-operation ana material util somethin,• substantial, retd and effective. K. M. O. Reconstructed. An incident occurred in n Buffalo (N. Y.) varieties theatre which was not in the bill, and which even in that institution of miscellaneous amusement was novel ami startling. An “editorial excursion” of six Mississippi editor , had been trav elling-North, and wound up in Buffalo. With a natural desire to see all that was to bo seen, thoy visited the theatre ami took seats in the parquet. When the CUrain fell for the la .t time the manager stepped forward and proposed “ three hearty elieors for the Mississippi edit ors,” a oall to which the audience heart ily responded. A response hail to he made, and Colonel Stuckhouse, of the JJazloLiurat Vopialuui , was called on to make it. 110 took the stage and made ouo of the most original speeches, we take it, ever heard in that queer place. After comparing himself uud his friends to the Queen of Hholm on a visit to Solo moil’s dominions, he said : Fellow-oUizeus of Buffalo, we assure s.yo’l thatHhis nivasioii of ours is altogether harmless in its object. We are not spy ing out the land with any hostile intent. No, we are much obliged to the few bloody-shirt gentlemen among you, who, for some inscrutable purpose Providence may have in view, are allowed to live and delay the year of jubiloo in this American family, but we have had enough of war rather too much of it. Our voice is for peace. [ Applause.) We are like the little dare devil boy who played around the heels of a mule, got badly kicked and his .'see frightfully mangled. He asked ' bis lather if the sears would ever disap pear from bis face again. “No, sonny,” roph> and the ire, “you will never be pretty but then you will haven damn more sense.” | Laughter and ap Hus, W.- are not going into any more Hrwi.i you fellows. If wo had known 'how confounded numerous you were wha, ■■ ast resources you had what a nation of git up and gitters you are —we should uover have been guilty of the nb surdif of trying to whip vou in the first I'lao. ... „ S; pk in Now Yoi:u. - Elizabeth Ho gau, of Now York, > domestic, committed Mih'iii (it Batin day by taking Paris • r,' fool, licpoismi at live o’clock ; iag, luuldn and at five Sunday morn iUr are described v iia lending j 1 ysieians as being of the most t uribk nature, the patient frothing at the mouth and contorting her body in dei.ist every conceivable shape, while ti. convulsions under which she labored were continuous from the time she took the fatal potion until death re lieved her. On Sun, - .day morning one of the keep ers of (N utnil Park found the body of a man b ’; • a a bench in one of the alley \> iv N ii the dead man was a revolver, •me * u her of which had been dis ’ ns., • The corpse was removed to the hi il, mid there it was discovered Uni! . 1 let had penetrate . heart, b papers discovered in ii,c p. a acts it wa iscertained that the d-'fid i m s name was Andreas Fuchs, a hom* .r. In jhK' of ie pockets a iott r v. und in >h the following p “My mind is not enterprising, ami tin. drives m> to despair.” V lao Spiritualists are moving to '■> m U a seminary for anew system ot tin ■ tiou at Btslvidera, New Jersey. Dr. !S. ■ Brittan is the President of the asso- Hluou, aud Misa Bell Bush is Secretary. Hi-'neudship. love and truth ” is their Hollo. They propose to raise a general fund of fifty thousand dol lars in two thousand shares of twenty ' dollars each, and they have an hou r\ 1 ird of some two hundred advi u.-uding Hon. Henry (i. Stobbens, Whitman, liev. O. B. Frothingham, Miss Busan B. • Anthony, Mr. k , gent, lion. Alfred Burr, Itev. Brown, Auna Dickinson, Wni. i Howitt, Baron de Potet, Prosi f :he SocielU) Magnolique, Paris; i! or. it General ltassolls, cx-Minister r Madrid: Alexander W, Scott, . Commodore Halifax, and Daniel A:* > lome, cosmopolitan. The semi • •••. bt, be conducted ••with a view to to -on grebe naive nature and equal edu u* s of both sexes,” and investments i Feral, spiritual and reform eocie t • > are hoped for. trial of hie NEGRO insur rectionists. The VlHilary Still Gaardin Ihe Prisoner. —A Heavy Kiprnm to ib- remit?— Kvrryihina IJulct—The Kiniflpadrr* In dtried—.Kornpc of the Moot entity of Thrm—The tonnmel for Procreation and Ocfcanc—Thc Prisoner* In Court. (Special Corr*pondencc of the Morning New*.) SxxDcaaviixK, August 31, 1875. My previous letters have given yonr readers all the important facts connected with the attempted insurrection, and the preliminary steps taken to bring the accused ringleaders to trial. When I left here on Saturday, the 21st of August the day Governor Smith spoke to the people of Handersville—it was supposed that the prisoners then under guard would lee examined on the following Monday, aud all but a very few of the guilty ringleaders discharged. For some reason, however, this step was not taken, and much to my surprise, on my arrival here Sunday afternoon with Judge John son, I found the Court House yard still occupied by the military companies, keeping guard over nearly a hundred ne groes, the great mass of whom were mere dupes of the discontented negro leaders in the insurrectionary movement. A HEAVY, UNNECESSARY EXPENSE TO THE COUNTY. The failure to discharge these prisoners, either as innocent of any purpose to knowingly do wrODg, or to appear when needed for judicial examination, has cre ated a large bill of expense for the county, and at the same time kept up a useless military display. As soon as it was ascertained that the conspiracy was “nipped in the bud,” the necessity for a formidable display of this kind ceased to exist. With the discharge of the mass of prisoners would have come relief from a hundred duties and responsibilities that have daily perplexed the over-burdened public officials of the State and county. With a dozen ringleaders safe in jail, and the people thoroughly awake to the im portance of being prepared for an emerg ency, a half-dozen extra policemen could have guarded the jail and preserved order in tho town. Why this step was not taken I cannot say, but I know that the Governor recommended aud expected that such would be the case. Ever since the court opened the two military companies, with bristling bayonets aud clinking sa bres, have surrounded the temple of jus tice, and “tattoo” and “revillie,” and “guard mounting” and “dress parade,” have served to break tho monotony of tho morning and evening hours. THE MIr.ITAIIY COMPANIES NOT TO BLAME. I do not blame tho military companies in this matter of prolonged service. They have nobly heeded every call of duty, and deserve tho grateful thanks of tho people of tho State for their prompt response to the first alarm, and lor the efficient and faithful services since ren dered in guarding tho prisoners. Still, I think that a discharge of prisoners should have been made last week, and that the court should have been opened this week without the presence of a single armed and uniformed soldier about the temple of justice. Tho Washington Dragoons, after doing patrol duty in scouring the county,transformed themselves into “dis mounted cavalry” and joined the Wash ington Itittes in doing guard duty at the court house. Both companies have done efficient service, and deserve honorable mention in this connection. The Kiflesare officered by Geo. W. Peacock,Captain; W. E. Watkins, First Lieutenant; F. J. Hop kins, Second Lieutenant; J. E. Whelan, Third Liouteuant; S. M. Northiugton, First Sergeant; J. B. Barwick, Second Sergeant; J. T. Barwick,Third Sergeant; A. S. Barnes, Fourth Sergeant; N. M. Jm don, Fifth Sergeant: 0. M. Northing ton, First Corporol; L. E. liobersou, Second Corporal; 0. J. Joiner, third Corporal; T. F. Brantley, I Fourth Corporal. The officers of the ,1 uto GttpiTlili, A.. 'l'u** button ; First Lieutenant, J. M. Minor: Second Lieutenant, F. A. GuttenLcrgcr, third Lieutenant, W. K. Thigpen; First Sergeant, O. H. Rogers; Second Ser geant, CJ. A. Wall; Third Sergeant, J. P. Biddle; Fourth Sergeant, W. J. Joiner; Fifth Sergeant, H. Q. Ward, First Cor poral, J. ]>. Davis; Second Corporal, G. W. Newsome; Third Corporal, T. G. Smith; Fourth Corporal, J. W. Moye; Quartermaster, J. 0. Harman; Surgeon, J. E. Roberts. THE COUBT PREPARING FOB BUSINESS. Court opened at the usual hour on Mon day and proceeded to oiganizo without delay. There was no unusual excitement on the part of the people, although the court house was crowded with whites and negroes (who were about equally divided in point of numbers), anxious to hear Judge Johnson's charge. The grand jury was immediately called, and Colonel T. J. Smith, its former ablo and efficient foreman, selected to preside over its de liberations. Of tho charge given thorn I need add nothing to what has already been said. The prudent course of the jury i feer their retirement to their room shows that they fully hooded its timely words of wisdom. They retired before noon on Monday, yet it was late Tuesday afternoon before they succeeded in find ing a true bill against any of the accused. This was owing to the extreme care which they exorcised in weighing the great mass of testimony before them. They were determined to make no presentments except upon evidence sufficiently full and reliable to justify such a stop. The fol lowing is their official action in regard to the ringleaders: A TBUE BII.L OF INDICTMENT. State of Georgia , Washington County: We, the grand jurors, selected, chosen and sworn, for the county of Washing toil, to wit: Theophilus J. Smith, fore man; Lawson Kelly, George W. Kelly, Sr., Littleton L. Adams, John W. Lay ton, Charles 1). Hardwick, William J. Jordan, John J. Brown, William J. Archer, Hugh L. Peacock, David S. Burns, Francis M. Brantley, Thomas D. Cullen, John E. Harrison, James Barron, Lafayette W. Watkins, Doctor F. Cham bers, Benjamin S. Jordan. John It. Wicker, William ti. Bailey, Henry Tay lor, William Waller, in the name and be -of the citizens of Georgia, charge and accuse Prince It. ltivers, Joseph Morris, Francis Uurkcrson, Corday Har ris, Asa Gilmore, Neil Huston, alia* Neil Wood, and Jerry Simmons, of the county and State aforesaid, with the offence of an attempt to incite insurrec -1 tiou, for that the said Prince It. ltivers, Joseph Harris, Francis Murkerson, Corday Harris, Asa Gilmore, Neil Hus ton alias Neil Mood and Jerry Simmons, in the county aforesaid, on the twenty fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, niul on divers other days before aud since said day, and before the finding of this •'true bill,” with force and arms unlawfully and feloniously did attempt by persuasion of the colored citizens of said county and the adjoining counties, and organizing the male colored citizens of said county into military com panies. oath-bound to follow the orders of their officers, and by falsely representing | to Jake Mooreman, Benjamin Davis, Ben j jamin Wright, John Chillis, Jas. Wright, I Tobe Norris. Gilbert Duggan, and other male citizens of color of said counties, j Unit the laws of said State generally, and ; especially as to juries, public schools, and the tenure of real aud personal prop j erty, are partial to the white citizens j and unjust and oppressive to the colored j citizens of said State, and of said coun j ties, and by other means to the jurors i aforesaid unknown, to induce the said Jake Mooreman, Benjamin Davis, Ben jamin Wright, John Chillis, Jas. Wright, lobe Norris, Gilbert Duggan, aDd other colored citizens of said counties to join in combined resistance to the law ful authority of said State, by which jurors arc euipanneled, public" schools are organized, and rights of property are secured, with inteut then and there to the denial of said authority in said counties, and then and there in tending that said denial of said authority should bo by the colored citizens of said counties manifested by acts of violence, to wit: by the practical abrogation and subversion of laws in said counties un lawfully by the burning of the court houses and consequent destruction of the evidences of the tenure of the land in said counties, and by the forcible and unlawful taking away from the white citizens of said counties their lands and household property, and unlawfully and forelby appropriating the same to the colored citizens of said counties, and by the indiscriminate, unlawful killing of the officers of said counties, and all other of the white citizens thereof who dared to oppose them in their said nefa rious design, contrary to the laws of said State, the peace, good order and dignity thereof. August special term, 1875. John W. Robison, Solicitor General. William W t abthen, Prosecutor. COUNSEL FOB PROSECUTION AND DEFENCE. As soon as this indictment was read in court, Judge Johnson immediately order ed the prisoners to be arraigned before him for trial, but the Solicitor General reported that Gen. Prince K. Rivers, Gen. Joseph Morris and Captain Dennis Murkerson, the real ring leaders aud guilty plotters of the insurrectionary movement, had escaped capture, but that Rev. Corday Harris, Asa Gilmore, Serg, Neil Huston, alias Neil Wood, and Rev. Jerry Simmons, were under arrest, aud would be brought into court. Ex Attor ney General (of U. S. G .) AmosT. Aker maii, announced himself as counsel to defend Harris aud Simmons, and all others who were not provided with pro per counsel. The following gentlemen were also announced for the defence: J.N. Gilmore, of this place, Col. J. M. Stubbs, of Dublin, S. G. Jordon, Esq., Col. B. D. Evans, E. S. Langmode, Esq., und Thos. Evans, Esq., of Handersville. Attorney General (of Georgia) N. J. Hammond an nounced himself as leading counsel for the State, with the following gentlemen as associate counsel: Solicitor General John W‘. Robinson and Salem Dutcher, Esq., of Augusta, assisted by Col. W. H. Wylly, G. C. Brown, Esq., Col. R. L. Rodgers and Capt. J. A. Robson, who had been engaged in the preliminary ex amination. It will be seen from the above lists that both the prosecution and the defence are represented by gentle men of ripe legal attainments and large experience in cases of a complicated and important character, Messrs. Hammond and Akerman being ranked among the best lawyers in the State. THE PRISONERS IN COUBT. The Sheriff, assisted by a military guard, soon produced the bodies of Har ris, Gilmore, Huston and Simmons, who were formally arraigned by the Solicitor General, and, in answer to the bill of indictment, pleaded “not guilty.” Ex- Attorney General Akerman then demur red in general terms to the bill, for the reasons already given you by telegraph. Attorney General Hammond replied in an appropriate manner, and Judge Johnson overruled the demurrer, and ordered the Sheriff to prepare a panel of forty-eight j urors. The accused are ordinary looking negroes, although Harris and Simmons, both of whom are preachers, seem to be sharp, energetic and clear headed. Gilmore is probably innocent, yet he has intelligence enough to have kept himself out of the affair. Huston is younger, looks stupid and lazy, but I am told he was Orderly Sergeant of his company. The mail is ready to leave and 1 must leave comments for another letter. Sidney Herbert. X. C. Thompson, the Georgia Winne bago. We spoke yesterday of N. C. Thomp son, of Rockford, Illinois, the man who notified the Winnebago Agricultural So ciey that he would not send anything to exhibit unless the invitation to Jeff. Da vis was revoked. His father came to Georgia about forty years ago from New England, and com menced business as a tin peddler. He eventually turned up as a merchant in Derry, Houston county, where he was known for many years as a skin-flint, shrewd and cunning, though very illiter ate. Ha ground a considerable fortune out of the people of that county, which he kept in money chiefly, though he at times owned a few negroes, among oth ers “Black Frank.” When he saw the war coming he bundled up and went off to Rockford, Illinois, where he at once became loud in his denunciations of tl e South and everything Southern. The old man died last year, leaving at least three sons living. Among them was tiiis N. C. Thompson, noticed yesterday, who was the party who refused to take stock in tho Fair. Ho was born and raised in Perry, and, with his daddy, shook the dust of Georgia off his feet in time to keep out of the Southern army. IR liuil u In oilier mimed Frank, whom he had put in jail at Rockford, after the war ft was reported that this was done for the reason that Frank Thompson sympathized with the South. At any rate, Frank re turned to Perry, where he became a con firmed drunkard, died in a horse stable and was buried at the expense of the county. For several months before his dealt he lived upon the bounty of a negro wench, who kept a shanty she called a boarding house. This N. C. Thompson is therefore of plebeian birth, and, though born in Georgia, he has not a drop of Southern blood in his veins, we are glad to state. The South is incapable of pro ducing such men.— Augusta Constitu tionalist. Wliat Tilton is Doing. [From the Golden Age.] People frequently ask us, in person or by letter, what Mr. Tilton is doing? Not having seen him for a long time, and being sadly deficient in the faculty of evolving information from our interior consciousness, we assailed that gentle man with an impertinent interrogation, to which he returned the following char acteristic reply, which, though marked “private,” we give for the benefit of those whom it may concern ; No. 174 Livingston Street,' August 22, 1875. / Dear Mr. Clarke : You ask how 1 spend my time ? The items are these— each day’s history repeating itself. I. Out of bed at 6 o’clock in the morning—the workingman’s hour. 11. A cup of coffee and a crust of bread—nothing more. 111. Feed my sparrows at the window sill of my study—those tiniest gamins of the street who flock to my window, not suspecting that I’m a dangerous charac ter. IV. Five solid hours at my writing desk—a fair day’s work for the brain. V. Breakfast at noon. VI. In the after noon, according as the weather vane of humor points, I go somewhere with Florence, or take a long walk by myself, or rummage among books, or receive friends. VII. These summer evenings are generally softened and melted away by Florence and her piano—and I listen and weep, and thank God for my daugh ter. VIII. The odd moments are put to use in picking up the threads of old studies where I threw them down a year ago. Y’ou who know the interruptions incidental to a newspaper office, will envy mo my morning solitude, into which no intruder dares to break—except (just at present) a little kitten that climbs up to my work-table and coils herself asleep round my inkstand. Hastily yours, Theodore Tilton. Death in a Ball Boom. — On Sunday evening during the ball for the benefit of the French overflowed, in the main building of the Fair Grounds, a tragedy occurred which it is thought has already terminated in the death of Capt. U. D. Terrebonne, a steamboatman, who was shot in the chin, receiving a mortal wound. The evening had passed plea santly, nothing occurring to mar the har mony of the occasion until Capt. Terre bonne, who seemed much under the in fluence of liquor, entered the room and pulled the hair of a young lady, at the time dauciug in a set of lancers with Mr. Ducros. The lady immediately called the attention of hi r partner to the affront, und he instantly expostulated. Fierce words arose between the two men, when Terrebonne,slapping Mr.Ducros upon the face, stepped back as if to draw a re volver. Before he had an opportunity to fire. Mr. Ducros presented a pistol and shot him under the chin, the ball pene trating his neck. The greatest excite ment prevailed, and numbers of ladies left the room. Mr. Terrebonne was taken out by the police, and conveyed to his residence on Esplanade street. At midnight it was reported that he had ex pired, but this rumor was-not confirmed. Mr. Ducros at once surrendered, and was taken to the Fifth Precinct Station, where he was locked up for the night.— -Veto Orleans Times. Arrested fob Passing Counterfeit Nickel. —Two men, named Brock and Rhein, were arrested at Kingston, N. C., on Friday, charged with passing a num ber of five cent counterfeit nickel. Brock had about half a gallon of the nickels about his persoD. He declared that _his father made the moulds, which were re covered by the Sheriff. The side of the counterfeit with the “five” on it was well executed, whilst the shield was a misera ble failure. Textile Products— Freedom and Free Trade. [from the Nashville Psion.) Export*. 1575. 1874. Cotton $190,638,625 *211,223.580 VG,oi 62,154 72,169 Impoits, 1875. 1874. Wool $ 11.069,701 $ 5,250,306 EUx 1.092.405 942,03s Woolen goods 43.990.039 46,853,188 Linen [roods 16,602,277 17,472,755 Cotton goods 27,657.981 28,193, >l9 If we place the cash value of the cotton exported in the last two years in one sum and divide it by two. the annual crop in round numbers sent abroad is worth two hundred million dollars. The figures are from the Bureau of Statistics in Wash ington, are instructive in many ways, and withal very suggestive. While ex porting two hundred million dollars worth of cotton a year, which requires a great deal of plowing, planting, working the crop, hand-picking, and other labor, in volving more or less injury to the soil from washing and leaching rains, we imported within the last fiscal year over eleven million dollars' worth of wool, which can Le produced without any plow ing. any washing of the soil or injury to it whatever, but with a positive benefit to the land for all tillage purposes, and to the nation as a whole. Nor did we stop at the consumption of $11,0611,701 worth of wool in 1875. We imported ne.arly forty-four million dollars’ worth of woolen goods in addition to all this for eign wool. Surely a high protective tariff neither protects the American manufac turer nor the American wool-grower. What, then, is it good for ? Good to make the consumers of woolen fabrics made in the United States pay from two to three dollars extra into the pockets of home manufacturers where one dollar is paid into the Federal Treasury as an im post duty on woolen goods." It is this dishonest trick that gives to a protective tariff all its money value. To the extent it checks free trade it secures the home market to monopolists, with an advance in price. By using the strong arm of a partisan and corrupt Congress, its favorites stop their woolen factories for months, reduce the wages of all laborers to their own terms and still hold their forty million subjects to the necessity of buying their goods rather than cheaper and better goods manufactured abroad, because the law encourages them in this iniquity. Yet this is called a free country, where all citizens have common and equal rights before the laws of the nation! Never was there a greater falsehood uttered or attempted to be disseminated among a people who had the benefits of spelling-books and new-spapers. Civilization has no freedom more valuable to the citizen than free trade with all the world without the let or hindrance of politicians, manufac turers, or monopoly of any kind. Rob bing by the use and abuse of law is one hundred times more harmful to the pub lic than all the illegal robbing done in the United States. It is in the very nature of things that every wrong done by legis lative act tends to the perpetration of still greater wrongs in violation of law. All injustice violates a principle which rises in stern rebuke and opposition. Re sistance and rebellion are nature in arms against misconduct. If bad men enact bad laws, the latter react on all the sub jects of such laws to produce ten bad men where one existed before. There is altogether too much legislation for the public good. As quack doctors want every man, woman and child to swallow and praise their nostrums, so quack law-makers in sist that the whole community shall be bound with withes at the ankles, and cords at the wrists, so as not to run, nor walk, nor work with any freedom of mo tion in violation of their restricted, nar row-minded ideas. Forty million people are tied firmly by a law of Congress, hand and foot, to keep them from cut ting their own throats if the National Legislature allows them their natural lib erty. Lunatics require protection and tlxe care of others, and what would be come of all the helpless pets of govern ment if the law gave them no advantage over other citizens ? But protection to them means robbery of the public. Without free trade in labor and all its products with foreign laborers there can bo no free labor in the United States. That labor is not free which is denied the right to purchase a woolen coat or a linen shirt where it can be had for the least labor. Any restriction compels idleness, lowers tho standard of ' comfort, robs industry of its just employ ment and reward. The best interests of American labor demand that we advance from cotton culture and the impoverish ment of land to wool growing and to the general improvement of the soil, rise from a most injurious protective tariff to free trade in wool and all woolen goods, acting on the principle that we need neither crutches nor stilts to walk with the rest of mankind. Who made American mechanics crip ples for life, that farmers must contri bute a large bounty every year to keep them from starving ? ' How shall we characterize that antiquated system of legislation, which treats the manufac turers of salt, iron, steel, edge tools, cotton, woolen, linen and silk goods, public paupers, incapable of self support, unless the law of the land secures to them special favofti in perpetuity ? Legislating money out of one man’s pocket into that of another, is doing a pick-pocket business under another name. It is time to discard all sucli primitive ways and means of getting rich, and develop true productive indus try in all classes alike, with favors to none. Free trade, free labor and a liberal currency will build up a united and har monious nation, with no strikes for higher wages among operatives, no mo - nopolies in the necessaries of life, nor in the circulating medium of the country ; no turned out old fields that fail to pay taxes; no demagogueism and instability of policy, which destroy all confidence both at home and abroad. Nothing is stable, nothing reliable, but truth and justice. Falsehood first misinforms, and then misleads its followers to their ruin. Our government is on the wrong traek. THE FIRST STEAMBOAT. A Georgia Invention. The following letter explains itself, and shows that the first steambeat ever con structed was the invention of a Georgian, and that it actually navigated the Savan nah river long before Fulton built his steamboat which was seen successfully in 1801. This is a historical reminiscence of which all Georgians should be proud. The letter is taken from the archives of the State: Augusta, Sep. 26th, 1790. Sir; I make no doubt but you have often heard of my steamboat, and as often heard it laughed at. But in this I have only shared the fate of all other projectors, for it has uniformly been the custom of every country to ridicule even the greatest inventions until use had proved their utility. In not reducing my scheme to practice has been a little unfortunate for me, I confess, and perhaps the people in gen eral; but until very lately I did not think that either artists or material could be had in the place sufficient. However, necessity, that grand science of inven tion, has furnished me with an idea of perfecting my plan almost entirely with wooden materials, and by such workmen as may be got here, and from a thorough confidence of its success, I have pre sumed to ask your assistance and patron age. Should it succeed agreeable to my ex pectation, I hope I shall discover that source of duty which such favors always merit; and should it not succeed, your reward must lay with other unlucky ad ventures. For me to mention to you all the ad vantages arising from such a machine, would be tedious and indeed quite un necessary, therefore I have taken the liberty to state in this plain and hum ble manner my wish and opinion, which I hope you will excuse, and I shall re main either with our without approba tion l T our Excellency’s most obedient and very humble servant, Wh. Longstreet. To Gov. Telfair : He afterwards did build the steamship, and Rev. C. W. Howard says his grand mother told him she saw it make the trial trip. It seems that the fact that the Bank of California’s weakness and the intention of its managers to suspend was known in New York several days before that event took place, and the Treasury Department was warned to withdraw any funds it might have on deposit in that bank. Mr. George Grant’s stock farm covers the enflre county of Ellis, in Kansas. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. Ngnntr; of the Week’* Dispatches THE NEGRO INSURRECTIONISTS. [Special Telegram, to the Morning News. Sandersville, via Texxille, ' August 31. > TBUE BILLS. The Grand Jury this afternoon re turned true bills against Rev. Corday Harris, “Gen." Joseph Morris. Asa Gil more, “Gen.” Prince R. Rivers, of South Carolina; “Capt.” Francis Murkison. Neal Houston and Rev. Jerry H. Sim mons, charging them with attempting to incite insurrection through oath-bound organizations, the plain purpose of which was to burn the Court House, thereby destroying land titles, to murder the white people and tike their property. THE ARRAIGNMENT. Harris, Gilmore, Houston and Sim mons were arraigned, and pleaded not guilty. Amo? T. Akerman appeared as counsel for the defence, and demurred on general terms to ‘.be indictments. He supported his demurrer by a very able argument which excited great interest, specially among the colored portion of the audience, who filled at least half of the court house, which was crowded to excess. Mr. Akerman was fervent and earnest in his delivery, and, with a single exception, made no political allusions. While his points were well taken in the main, they were not suffici nt to warrant the court in sustaining the demurrer. akebman’s argument. The time and p<ace, counsel said, was all right, but the circumstances of the case were not sufficient to warrant the finding of the indictments. No acts in themselves lawful could be criminal. The charges themselves were vague and un satisfactory. Military organizations were lawrful, although they might be foolish. American law allowed men to do foolish things and to be fools. No oath is un lawful in such organizations. Burning the court-house would be arson: killing the officers and people would be murder; taking their property would be robbery. There is nothing in all this, said counsel, to show real resistance to the lawful au thority of the State such as to warrant the name of insurrection. ARGUMENT OF COL. HAMMOND. Attorney General Hammond, leading counsel for the prosecution, made a brief argument in reply to Akerman, showing very clearly that the things charged all tended to make up a successful insurrec tion, when linked together, as they were in this case. He showed with great clear ness that the prosecution was right in framing its indictments as it had, and maintaining that there was no intention on his part, or on the part of the State to do the prisoners any injustice. THE DEMURRER OVERRULED. Judge Johnson overruled the demurrer of the defense, and ordered the Sheriff to be prepared with & panel of forty-eight jurors at nine o'clock to-morrow morn ing, when the work of impaneling a jury will b§ begun. THE PRIRONFas’ COUNSEL. Everything is quiet and orderly hero to a degree. In addition to Akerman, the prisoners will be defended by a large number of able lawjr-s in this vicinity, and they will have every advantage that an impartial Judge and legal acumen can give them. a correction. Avery grave error occurred in iny re port of Judge Johnson’s charge yester day, where he was made to say—address ing the jury—“You aud I are here in a political capacity.” What he did say was, “You and I are here in a judicial capacity.” Judge Johnson has been most positive in his efforts to avoid ail political issues and to treat the accused as though they were white prisoners. Sandersville, VrA Tsnnille, Sept. 1. TRIAL OF CORDAY HARRIS. Court assembled promptly at nine o’clock, and a jury was struck without delay. The first of the alleged insurrec tionists placed upon trial was the Bev. Corday Harris. EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES. Attorney-General Hammond examined the witnesses for the State, and Akerman cross-examined for the defence. Twelve witnesses were place! upon the stand, all but one of whem were white. The examination of these witnesses elicited nothing of an important charac ter tending to connect Corday Harris with the acts of Morris and Murkerson, though there is no predicting what further developments will be made. THE RINGLEADERS. There is evidence of a very strong character against “General” Morris and “Captain” Murkersen, both of whom have fled from justice, and have thus far been successful in eluding the officers of the law. Nothing of an important char acter, however, has been to-day brought out against any other parties, beyond what is contained in the confessions of Moorman and others, which have already appeared in the Morning News. NEGRO PRISONRRS RELEASED. The grand jury came in during the morning with an appeal to Judge John son to discharge from further custody thirty of the prisoners, who are thought to be merely the dupes of the designing ringleaders. The appeal of the grand jury was made upon the ground that the release of these negroes would promote the ends of justice. They were accord ingly set at liberty by the Solicitor Gen eral. Sandebsvillee, via Tennille, Sept. 2. THE TESTIMONY. The testimony in the case of Corday Harris closed this morning at 11 o’clock. Able and eloquent arguments were made by .Hammond P.nd Akerman, both of whom exhibited great fairness in the treatment of each other. Full justice was done the prisoner, and Judge John son delivered a calm and concise charge. NOT GUILTY. The jury were out about two hours and returned a verdict of not guilty, thus clearing Corday Hams of the charge of an attempt to incite insurrection. The testimony was insufficient to connect him with the guiltier of the ringleaders, whose fate will be more certain if they are ever brought to trial. POSTPONED. The other cases are postponed until the regular term, as an extra session of the Circuit Court of Johnson county will commence on Tuesday next, at which time the insurrectionists of that county will be tried. THE LAWYERS. Attorney General Hammond won high praise for his impart al conduct of the case for the State, and ex-Attomey Gen eral Akerman lias astonished everybody by his ability, eloquence and the manly and honorable course which he has pur sued in the defense of the accused. EMIGRATION MEETING. The negroes have called a mass meet ing of their race, to be held here on the 18th, to select two men to send to one or two States for the purpose of finding some suitable place for said people to emigrate to. This looks like a purpose to leave this county. akerman’s advice. Akerman, in his closing speech, ad vised them to stay here aud live in peace with the whites, and he also counselled the whites to make efforts to pursuade the negroes to remain in their old homes. His appeal was peculiarly touching, and will no doubt do much good to both races. THE CASE OF I)R. lIICKS. [Special Telegram to the Morning Sews.] Live Oak, Fla., September 2. THE COMMITTEE. The church investigation into the charges against the liev. Dr. Hicks, by a committee of the Methodist Church, be gun here yesterday at ten o’clock a. m., Dr. Feeler presiding. The committee consisted of the Rev. Messrs. Partridge, Moore, rhillips, Fitzpatrick and Miheau. Dr. Hankins and Collier are of counsel for the church, while Hicks is represent ed by Col. White. THE CBOSS-EXAMEtATION. The investigation thus far has been conducted with the profoundest solemni ty. Only three witnesses have been examined, and all have been subjected to the most rigid cross examination by White. HUE EYING WITNESSES. One of the witnesses objected to being tantalized by White, and to being plied with questions foreign to the issue ; and even the Secretary refused to act longer if the same questions were to be reiterated over and over again to no purpose. A LITTLE ROW. The chairman remarked that he would submit no longer to the court being used for the manufacture of evidence for other purposes. Objections were also raised to the conduct of the defence by White, he being employed by Hicks as attorney in the civil prosecution for slander now pending. ORDER RESTORED. After speeches pro and con, order was restored, and every thing is progressing smoothly. There are no fears of a white washing verdict. THE SEMINOLE NEGROES. Washington, August 31. The War Department has transmitted to the In dian Bureau a letter from Colonel Hatch, at Fort Texas, in relation to the Semi nole negroes, the former slaves of the Seminole Indians. He says there are about 500 men, women and children of this race living in Texas, and they desire to be sent to a locality where they can earn their own living. They ask for lands suitable for cultivation on some government reservation, and if the gov ernment cannot furnish it they beg to be sent to Florida, where, without owning lands, they can obtain them to work till means are created by their labor to enable them to purchase. Colonel Hatch says that the land in Texas is not susceptible of irrigation, is worthless for purposes of cultivation, and all good land is owned by capitalists or men. In the meanwhile, there is much good land in Florida still vacant. When they were transferred with the Seminoles from Florida to the Western Territories, their women and children were kidnapped and sold into slavery by the Indians and bad white men. This forced them to flee into Mexico. They were induced then to re turn by promises which were never ful filled. They are now living in great des titution, bordering upon starvation. A few of them are employed by the gov ernment as Indian scouts, which is their only means of support. He says they can easily be sent to Florida at a very small expense. If not, they will return to Mexico, go to the mountains below San Carlos, about one hundred and fifty miles west of the Rio Grande, depredate on the ranches of Texas, and furnish an asylum for deserters from this frontier. They aro a distinct race from the Seminoles, and are like all negre es, except they ai e accustomed to hearing arms, are brave and daring and superior to the Indians in fighting qualities. Col. Hatch advises that they be sent on the score of economy. Rations could be issued to them till they could find means for their own living, and the old men say that the Florida fisheries would furnish them abundant food. Gen. Orid recommends that they be sent. Gen. Sherman, in forwarding the letter, says: “I have re peatedly reported to the Indian Bureau the destitute condition of these Seminole negro Indians, but without eliciting any favorable reply from the Interior Department, and now forward this as a last hope that this deserving people will receive some attention.” A TRAGIO SUICIDE. New York, September 1. —At a clam bake given by Congressman Odell, other Congressmen and prominent persons be ing present, a young 4 Italian named Vi&nni, of the Italian Minister's suite, and of a prominent family of Rome, committed suicide under very singular circumstances. Dr. Doremus, one-of the guests, announced that Mr. Yianni, who possessed very remarkable dramatic tal ents, would favor the company with an Italian recitation in imitation of Rachel. The young Roman then took a position in the centre of the group and began his recitation. His voice was clear and well controlled, his gesticulation highly dram atic, aud he seemed to quiver with pas sion, while the expression of his face was startling. Once he interrupted himself, and, turning to Senator John A. King, he said: “You understand it, Alean.” He then resumed and finished with the exclamation, in Italian, “God,who judges all, will judge this.” He then took a pist tol from the outer pocket of his coat, and, placing it to his temple, fired, and fell partly on his face perfectly motion less. The spectators exclaimed “wonder ful!” and applause had commenced, when Doremus rushed forward exclaiming “Great God, gentlemen, he’s killed!” Many at first thought that this was a part of the entertainment. On lifting the body the horrible truth became manifest. Dr. Ellis probed the wound and pro nounced the case hopeless. He lived half an hour but never spoke. No cause is assigned for the terrible act. A SAD TRAGEDY. Cincinnati, September 1.- —A man named Peterson enticed farmer Trusty’s daughter to this city. Trusty, finding her, took her home. Peterson followed, making threats against the old man, and last night approached his house. Trusty took a shot gun, determined to kill Peterson on sight. Trusty’s son, aged nineteen, hearing his father’s inten tion, approached to dissuade him, when the father mistook his son for Peterson, and shot him dead. LIVELY TIMES. San Francisco, September 1. — A dis patch from Tucson, Arizona, says a wealthy merchant of Tucson and a natur alized citizen of Arizona, who went to Sonora to collect bills, was arrested on a charge of furnishing arms to the insur gents. There was no trial, but he was ordered to pay $20,000 or he shot. His grave had been dug, when the messenger arrived with the ransom. The roads are lined with refugees flying from the im pending revolution. CATHOLIC SYNOD. Dublin, August 31. —The Synod of Irish Archbishops aud Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church, summoned by Cardinal Cullen, on the express authority of the Pope, met at Maynooth to-day. Cardinal Cullen presided. The proceed ings were held with closed doors. It is understood that the education question will be the principal subject of the de liberations before the synod. KU-KLUX IN THE COLLIERIES. Pottsville, Pa., September 1. — Tfios. Sanger, the inside boss at the Lehigh colliery, was killed by five strangers. An other man was shot in the bowels, and two others are reported killed. Sanger bad trouble with the miners a year ago, and since has received “ coffin” letters ordering him to leave the country. TEBBESTBIAL CONVULSION. Kingston, Jamaica, August 11th. —A very smart earthquake was felt in the island of St. Thomas on the 3d instant. The shock was of considerable duration, and the damage, which was trifling, con fined to overthrowing crockery and glass ware and cracking walls. The people were much alarmed. bismabce’s hand. Berlin, September 1. — A ministerial order has been issued declaring that the Bishop of Paderbom has forfeited his rights to citizenship by his departure without leave from the city in which he was interned. BANK ROBBERY. Louisville, September 2.— The Plan ters’ National Bank of this city was robbed of a large amount this morning about daybreak. The teller of the hank, Louis Rehm. was discovered near the bank on his way to the police station. He could hardly speak at first, but after a while he informed the detectives that three men had taken him from fils bed during the night aud proceeded to the bank, where they forced him to deliver the keys, with which they opened the safe and abstracted money. Rehm alleges that he was chloroformed and stabbed in the side, where there is a slight wound. The bank officials refuse to give informa tion regarding the affair, further than that depositors lose nothing. The amount stolen is believed to be nearly SIOO,OOO. MURDER AND MARRIAGE. Dayton, Ohio, September 2.—Yester day William Dawson. ex-Colonel of an ludiana regiment, while attending a wed ding party at Barlow’s Hill, having re fused admission to six .roughs, was stabbed by James Murphy in the abdo men, aud died in a few minutes. Three hundred persons gathered around the jail last night with the avowed purpose of lynching Murphy, but were prevented by the entire police of the city. THE CALIFORNIA ELECTION. San Francisco, September 2. —A few scattering returns from the city do not furnish any indication of the vote. The Independents are very confident that they have elected the most of their city otfi cers, excepting the Mayor, which is loubtful. There are no later returns from the interior. PLAYING SOLDIERS. Paterson, N. J., September 2. —At Haledon Pond, Wallace Messerue, aged nine, was shot by his brother, Clelland, aged fourteen, while playing soldiers, both having shot guns, which they found in a closet The older boy raised his gun, not thinking it was loaded. FROM BOMBAY. Bombay, September 2. —Heavy rains in Baroach District will necessitate the re planting of a large part of the cotion crop there. negro shot. Cairo, Illinois, August 31.—Elijah Storias, colored, while resisting arrest, was shot and killed by Jas. K. Lane. A RADICAL PLOT. An Attempt lo Incite .Murder mid Rob bery in Our Midst. [From the Valdosta Times. Learning that an attempt bad been made by an unknown white man to se duce Dan Thomas, a well known colored man and leader of the Republican party at this place, into exciting a prejudiced and discontented spirit among the col ored people of the county for the purpose of murder and robbery, we interviewed Dan and drew from him the following particulars: “On the night of the 12th or 13th an unknown white man on horseback, hail ing from Illinois, called at the house of Ned Burgman, a neighbor of mine. Ned answered the call, and the stranger asked him (Ned) to conduct him to the house of one of the leaders of the Republican party of the county, as he had some im portant instructions to leave with him in regard to a meeting soon to be held in this vicinity. Ned knew that I had been a leader, and I being the nearest one to his house he brought him to me. lie began his conversation ■with me by in quiring my standing in the Republican party of the county and by earnestly urging me to keep his instructions to me a profound secret from any one—except my own race. I did not like his ap proach, but said nothing. The man con tinued : a couple of men will address the colored people of this county on the Kith inst., and I desire you to circulate, si lently, the appointment among them to come to the meeting, and to come well armed, as they will, probably, have a difficult job to consummate. I didn’t like this kind of talk, and I questioned him thusly: ‘Where are you from ?’ ‘From Illinois.’ ‘Did you fight in the Union army ?’ ‘Yes.’ “I here questioned him further in re gard to his connection with the United States army and the war, hut found him apparently more ignorant of the real facts than I was myself, and I, therefore, returned to the subject of the meeting : ‘For w.hat purpose is the meeting you wish me to get up besides-the ad dresses ?’ ‘For the purpose of securing to the colored people of Lowndes county equal ity with the whites in every respect, and to institute plans to force the white peo ple to employ you at higher wages. ” “Why do you think the colored people should demand higher wages for their labor ?” “Because their present wages are not sufficient to furnish them with the ne cessities of life.” “But suppose the white people should sternly refuse to give us higher wages ?” “Then you must get up secret meetings and arrange a concert of action to kill them, and appropriate their land, money, etc., to your uses.” “At this juncture of the conversation I discovered that he wanted to get me, as well as the balance of the colored people in the county, into trouble, aud that he yad some hellish end in view. I got mad and told him he was mistaken in regard to the colored people of Lowndes county not making a living. He then said I would be paid five dollars per day for my services. I told him that I did not want to hear any more of his propos als, I worked and made a living for my self and family, and all the colored people who would work could do the same. I told him further that he had some nefari ous scheme on foot, and that I would have nothing to do with it. He saw that I was mad aud couldn't be taken in by him, and he remarked ‘that I might be a fish, but he was too smart to be fished by me. ’ He then commenced cursing me, and, among other things, called me a d —d liar, and swore he would blow my d —d brains out if I ever divulged what he had told me. I stepped into my house to get my gun and he rode off towards Mr. Duggin’s at a gallop. I ran after him around the corner of D.'s palings, and intended firing upon him, but was prevented by someone coming up the path between us. He went from my house to Shack Brown’s, on Mr. Jimmie Wisenbaker’s place, where he stayed all night. I heard he kept his horse in the woods and dodged about himself iu such a manner as to prevent the white people on the place from seeing him. I heard of him next at Mr. Remer Young’s place, where he told the colored people a simi lar story to the one told me ip regard to tlie meeting and addresses. “On Tuesday, tho 17th, I went to the river fishing, and while there I saw him ahe second time. He was riding leisurely olong the road. We discovered each tther almost instantaneously, and he recognized me, probably from my hat, it being the same I wore when he saw me at my house. I recognized him by his dress and conduct, for as soon as he saw my gun he fled through the swamp. He was riding a different horse from the one he rode when I first saw him. I have not seen him since. We give the above statement of Dan’s upon its merits, but we are assured that it is not entirely a myth ; circumstances have occurred and the evidence of white persons have been given, to corroborate portions of it. A white lady will testify to the truthfulness of his statement in re gard to the chase around- Mr. Duggin’s palings, and a large party of negroes came from Captain McKay’s, Remer Young’s and other places to be in atten - ance, is conclustve evidence that a report had been circulated in regard to the meeting and addresses. We think it bears significance enough that our people should heed it as a warning, and be ever on the alert. The sedition in Washing ton and other counties of Middle Georgia is a fair sample of what we may expect from the credulous negro when his prejudiced mind becomes sufficiently aroused. 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