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i;\ S. ROSE & CO.
t . Georgia Journal A Messenger
_ , , , , ctM * cUim uwrutUK at $2 u< per auuuiu.
’ 4 _s r - ’ (tor r< jiut charge ill be Oss Dot Lae
-‘j r , ~.,* ill seaai* trwkua u* L**s, tut tin; lu utioatr-
C>it tuf each mleatuttit intertiou. Alt
4:1 ", i, tit* iot * to lime, wiil be pubilsl.-d
ctiar/ed . A liberal duonaai
”'” h (hu *ilrrtte by Ur year.
* ‘n, .iiiiu’ u * will be charged at
. run us candidate* fur ofh -e, to be paM for at
, „*briiiMrr'et.
JM With county nttcera, Lruz
‘ Merchants, and other*, who may <m to
.. t 1 nirac’e
,y„ \ SnkMM, by rye flora, A.laitnialralory
‘ fl , 11Si ate rettutreil *y !*• to be advertised in a
f. t >rl> day* pTcriou* lo the Jay ot Sale.
,i-- ;id >*e net tor Utt timi TuerUay ia the aoitli
ar* of ten in the fjrenvou anl three in toe
, t tne Court bouse In the county tn which the
, . .ousted.
. Pka-oxaL ruurtnrr inot he advertised In Hke
ilk* run* HD CaantTOKs or an E*tat nun b<
II f daf*.
~p|4i ration will be made to the Ordinary to,
bead and Negroes, nattbe published weekly lo<
: .r Letter* of Administrations, thirty day* , for
frotu Administration, B>tlhy, si* months; for
.. oa from eiu erdtaiishtp. weekly, forty day*
, 4 Futtc'iMM of XmiiiMi, monihiy, four
fir establish it* lost paper,, fr the full space of
; for c<M!|'.-lUnc title* (rum ex. ewt**r or ad-
TANARUS, at.ere a bi*d has lceu Riven by the deceased,
.*ee of thre‘ u* nths
-• L; 11 ers %J4rc9Mfti to 5* Kfofc M CO.
ji oifanioiial anil HiitiiU'W Jit’ll*
eel. IMI Uc.StSKoa CteM nill be Inserted unde!
, 5. *t the fallowing rate*, vis :
■fee .!U*, per cumuli t ® d§
do 10 *
, do * •
fectve line*, -10.. 15**
ietn i.t* of tht* class will be admitted, units
, i r , ..trance, nor f.r a less term lhau twelve month*. ■
~iU of overt vdrelioe* w!U be charged ran kata.
„t* mt paid for in advance will be charged at
•tijlar rate*.
,1 UK MKK'IINdS
Ml- iSS KMGHT TKIiI’LAKS, ODD FEL
,.v S AND SONS OK TEUPKU VSCE,
uau> IS rut CITY or a a cos.
MASONS.
i |_.of (leorgin for ISAn, October Slit.
So. ft, irst and th.rd Monday nights in each
Chapter, No. 4, second Mnn.l iy night in each
C< unci I, No. 4, fourth Monday night in each
y . ..nimcnt, Ku ghU Templar, No. 3. Meeting*
.(-ry arst Tuesday n flit m each iruntli.
ODD FELLOWS.
,and Usige, first Wednesday in June,
i v in nrist, Tuesdsy previuu*.
l S t. 2. every Thursday rrening.
. No 5, every Tu iday evening.
v.. .mi.mni No. 3. second —4 fourth Mon
-1((, ugs .a each month.
4 SONS OF TEMPERANCE,
, |t . f.jorth W dnesd*y in tyctober. annually.
m (iOOIIS. CLOTIIIXfi. it.
OR? GOODS!;
HO. V KKI\ i CO.
Offer Great Inducements
to —
Country Merchants,
TOR
CASH ONLY!
rr.H. !■ -li-ri no.
IDrcdi 4<i ootl
Bla taedl Iloiiiciui*.,
Krn:ul Brill,
Calicoes* Ac.,
>25 BALES
MILITARY (iOODS,
CAHPKTS, &c.,
AT
I LOW PRICES, by
JNO. N. KF.IN A. CO.,
MACON, GKOROIA.
| Cunt derate Note* an.l Bonds raceired in payment *nr all
I *M* .loe as. JNO. N. KEIS * CO.
aie*itier Y 5, l-Ml.
look !_look:i
K K A I EAl)!!
WILUAN T. FITCH,
i ”>H TIIB NEXT SIXTY DAYS
Will sell hi* eateaaive atock of
J 0 L o T l L ING!
• FOR—
Mon nnd Yontli^*
AT SEW YORK COST!
‘••eae. *•[*. 4, iMi.
-N. S. PRUIJDEX S; CO.,
HAVK JIMT RSCFJVRD
I TRAVELING DUKSS UOttpsi,
‘•KEY FLANNELS,
‘Mall fioused prints,
HICKORY SHIRTINGS,
XUSQITTO SETTINGS,
STRIPED SWISS,
CHECKED CAMBRICS,
HCH’D. &. BORDERED H'DKFS,
IRISH LINENS,
SHIRT BOSOMS,
EMBROIDERIES,
1 -i n>Kr Mtitlw muck ueeded at this time. We
IV Goods new with jOI the money, and earnestly
’ ; iHM in- K —* 1 •* l ” P jJJ y s PRCDDEN’ k CO.
new ooods./q
XE VV GOODS.!
‘Sew
new goods.],!.
\ O
free of duty, i—
free of duty .lx
ree of duty .1 ”
Rite of dttty.V^
•
, > * L'OLBd AM h*R leave-to anno ;nce to th-eltfxcn.-
‘•* l - ,a and III* surrnudin* country that they have
!p ‘IITFD FUKK *F DUTY from the United SUU#.
• tocs of aew, deairaU* Rood*, that h* ever beer,
> h; on* house in the State of Georgia. Very many
u • ‘OR werehooht at snch KXTKEMR low price*
‘"•’H AMTS *uld do well to cull and exaaatnwthem.
•i| )’ r *‘ dock (u “Bona Me” purchased to-fore the lt
I ... fl > *‘d th efoee saves to the bwyer twenty-four pee
■ • r Cli ttlktbr ydLraUves
0,. BOe? a CO DM AM,
At theU “ Basaar of Fa*hkn ”
tri and Oab,
yOQ KRJ‘-* r "-°” ““**
M*MB * UKIMIL
#tocok Sonrud aik Jttessengcr.
BUSINESS CAROS.
I‘pmm sc HoricLn, Josnc. scnoricM>
Schofield <fe _Bro.,
FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS
JlAt’ON, t.E01i1.1%.
\V Ju '- Sl^ "WiuuuiMrum Engine*,
neoa. Mmi. uiLL ‘ ua uu * okAK
RltASs AN I) I R( )\ CAST! N<
Oi mr, ikscii|.t,.p IKON It \ ||.|N(. ai.J 1 Kit*
lNll I til*. lt:.\ iii> itie ui.T.t i usi>)>lete srssrisionl >.
.run i .ainug is the State, wbieh fur e ley nice, n,-u 11. tls, and u
atidiiy and desisn, iam*ul be sur,.ain,i, ai.d are suitable
or the front, us U •Ilii.gi, t’usi very L-is, Public v'.p aies,
Chorch Penret and Ralcntika.
Penunt desirous c.f purduung Ks.in?s wUI do well tn
■five * call, a. we are determined to udti as good b&rgsim
i* any Kortberp Eahtldirbiaelil.
Bpicm.ini of our Hark can be s*er. at It se Hill
Jemetcry. and at various private resideneo in UtH etty.
| jan 1-iMii
IBON WORKS,
HACOS, br.OKGIA.
T. c. \ I SIJE TANARUS,
I I AV.NMf removed his TOUXIIH AND MAOIIM
I A WOKKs to U.e in.* of the Hail il-.ad near the M.icun
a Western dfcops, be is how prepared to utanufaclurc a!!
.•li.lj of
MACHINERY AND CASTINGS,
Steam Engines & Boilers,
On tel ms as favorable as any Establishment ehher North or
*“*•. <m*r I*> T. C. MfibtT.
A. M QUISEN,
MACO3M, GEORGIA.
MANIFAITVHKR of Wrsugltl Iron
. KtlUSii us every .lescrtpti.ni, .nd fut ail purpos.a,
Plain and Ornamental, Ir.iu the tightest Scroll Iron, up to
the heaviest Killing used. Having an endless variety ul
New sod Original Ocs.gns, p#rcha— r* canuoifadto be stm
ed. .
Be ag entirely us WruugLt Iran, their strength c-nnot be
>)uesttoncd, and fir beauty they emn nut be surpassed any
wi.e e. All kinds of Paucy Iran M urk made to order. Par
t.cuiar attention givea tu luasing all kinds of
Geometrical Stair Kaiimtcs.
J V Spreiiueni of the work can be seen at the Residences
of T. U. Hull, L. V W Ami ewt and W. J. Mchlruy, Kaqrs.
Als at Ruse HiU Csuctcry.
juiy Id 14-tr
Uroueht Iron and \1 in-
Kaiiing*
(Secured by Letter* Patent.)
VII f| I K A II I. Y adapted fur enclosing Pnhllr
Orounds, Cemeteries. B ilconies, Collages, Ac. Hhcep
and Ox Hurdle I'a'ent Wire, Hacking Hnlstesdi, with every
variety of folding Iron Bedsteads and Iron Kurniturc. —
Patent Wire Coal Screens, Ore, Band and Gravel Screens,
Wire Netting fur Muaquito, Sheep, Poultry and other pur
poses. Wire Summer Houses, Paucy Wire Work in great
variety for gardens. Ac. M. WALKIfR A HONS,
Mauuaeturers, No. 5:iS Market, N, E. Cor *th Ht., Phila
delphia. (oct Y4-ly)
iittl WWL AID PISTOLS.
THOMAS MORSE,
I O A'the late firm of Mittvittu A Mors*, having pnr
chual live vslir* busiueas, will coutiuue the inauufac
ug of
! Double Gii:i<* and le>! Hides autl Pistols
ua-le tn the United HtaU-*,on an entirely new plan of Mr.
Norse’s.
GCNH re-storked and repaired in the b*-t niimirr, and on
. eaaonable terms, at short notice. The undersigned being
iraeticai workman, wiil guarantee all his work, and in
. ite tlie public lo give him a trial.
The bianl is under me Kloyd House, opposite Or.
Tn. impaun’s. june H- ’&t-y
nos, aistvsis, sa. *. a. irmi
HARDEMAN & SPARKS,
WARE-HOUSE
AND
Commission Merchants.
.MACON, GA.,
Ylfi i.L give prompt attention to the selling and storing
V , of Cotton, aad to the filling of orders for plantation
.nd family supplies. With tnanv year* experience and
sith their best efforts tn serve their friends, they hope to
nave a continuance of the liberal patronage heretofore
xteaded to them Liberal advances made when required.
August 15th IS6O. (I/-)
NEWFIRM.
L. V. STRONG & SONS.
| EWIS P. STRONG ten-
IJ ter h*xr*tefulth*uk
or tLts liber*! |NtUsM|l
ten Se-l to him for tl.t-last A.
went.* ven years.awl re- *wr> V, j
e tfoiiy aonouacestliat he ‘■V/* K-*
s aasu'OitteU srith him m ‘ ; \i Sfut
e farther prosecution ol ICLm V^.
t* Business, hi* two son*.
EDGAR P STRONG and r^ fffwT 'hi
FORRESTER W. STRONG. p!T
antler the name, firm an<t
style of L. P- STRONG A
SONS, and will continue to
:eep on iianS autl offer, a large and Select assortment of
Itoots and ly*;tlli‘r
,f all kinds, and Finding* fbr Country manufacturers, ne
respectfully asks for the new firm, a continuance o the lib
-ral slur extended to the old.
Maeon, January 2.1*40 41 -y
/ I*l 1a I \ K II I T ANARUS,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DRUGGISTS,
MACON, GEORGIA.
fob 2s-’4t> —y
D. C. HODGKINS &. SON,
MtUU I* AKD KimiCTtMtS OF
GUNS,
-:IYLES. t
PISTOLS,
Vnd ■ porting Appara lu "Q >_
orttiaT naaoaiermß, f ‘ <••
* FEW DOORS IIEI.OWTHE ‘
Lauicr House, fr&A ‘ %
Macon, Ga.
Jan. 1,1940. ts
1 Soots and Slioes.
A T ‘lie !*•• f *fce
A 810 BOOT. &
3, olion Av*r,
WASHINGHIS BLO K. iE/Ti
MACON, GA.
The *u'>*c r iher would re- T
turn their th.uks for the ug*
very libera! and lone cn- . ,lV—^
tinned ptr*u?e e*b tided r . ■ *
to tl.- m.attd o jld iu.t re
-pectfta’ly illicit a continu
ance of the same We have not ia store a hrfe asssort
aae--t of
BOOTS AND SHOTS,
f’r of own ntnih’ tiire, to which weekly addition*
ill be ut tte f a'l the dtW-*ent style* and
all ;d lor in dhoe a tore, aud would invite those wishinß to
purlhaas to • nil and examiiie our stock, a* we are prepared
I , as law as any house In the city a- State.
oc6-y MIX * KIRTHKI).
A ChßSt lor Cpitnlil.
MACON ClilST MILL fur SALE.
Oat IMG to the I—ißehacy of oar capital, and the
“,ewr of other en*aren*a, we are anxious to dia
noaeif the Macon Gri't Mill, to a satisfactory purchaser
tCmi!l i* now in C,,8 peU rua "‘ D * ‘“'‘‘‘l - V’ Kr,n4 ‘J
nosheli. a day. and ei n t fall to make a handsome proll
SiK£2-.£ .b. at :
I capital to carry It pryrly Tbe K*t ’
winoiunAOO.
MACON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1801.
PROFESSION AL CARDS.
PELIM.LS Jk CAVANVM,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Pulihl Til, LA.
ll ILL practice law in the count.esnf jlnroc, Bibb, Cp
vv son, Pike, Hpaidiug, rieury and butts. Mr. CabanUs
tillg.Veproiupland constant attention tu the collection and
it urn.c ot debts aud ciatras
V. PkltPLKa, GEO. A. UAHANItsa.
toriueriy ol Athens, Ga. W-ly .
J. It HAM! A H, Jr.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
.tut UN, L I.
/ tIT ICK on Colton Avenue over the Baptist jk
V/ Store, room formerly occupied by Dr. Green,
fen 4-ly
S. Ik. cool*,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MACON, GEORGIA.
i iFFH'K with Speer A Hunter, over Bust! :k‘s Store.
V f Pcb. *r, is6i—y
LA.tliH lOßli,
ATTORNEY aT LAW,
MtCON, GKOKGIA,
Olfp'lt'K on Muioerry street, over the Store of A. M
U‘a;kvh"ur ft Cos., in tfuardmari’s Washington Itlock.
Will pea ;tice in bibb. Crawiord, Dooly, tlousiuu, Macon,
#*iggi, VV .rib, and Sumter. Lb Y7-y
HAW CARD.
MESSES. COOK, UUIiiNSON ii MuNTFOHT,
Wilt, practice Law in the counties of Taylor, Macon,
Houston, Dooly, Huiuter, Marion, Hcbiey, and in such
other cuunt.es in the State at iheir business will aulhurise.
l*T tUT st b u( Oglethorpe.
IMII l.li* COOK,
W. H. KublNsON,
june ao-’o—tr T. W. MGNTTOKT.
LA.IIEK A
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
lIACGIIi, L I.
I )KACTICK lu the Counties of the Macon Circuit, and in
L the Counties us Huiuter, Munroe and Jones ; also in tne
federal Court, at Savannah.
lapr il ’SB-lyJ
<1 LI I 1C II (i I ■ A AMMVs
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
KNOXVILLE AND TORT VALI.KY, GA.
G. P. CULVER HOUSE, F. A ANSLEY,
Knoxville, Os. Fort Valley, Oa.
oct 81-’CO-ly
L. >. WIHTTfiE,
ATTORiiEY AT LAW,
MAO'OX, iWOHUiA.
iFFJCi- next to CONCERT HALL,over Payne’s Drug Store
jan. 6, [4l-ly ]
TUOIA9 88- CAIKAIVCfttt*
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
JPoi Hiy fit, Oa.
**/■ | 1.1, attend promptly to aU buaiaes*entrusted to his
care in thcCoiiulicsuf Monrue,Dibb, butts, Crawford,
ues. Hike, Spalding and I’psou. [may 12 ’sß]
JOKE it. GRIFFIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MACON, GEORGIA.
axTII.I, practice 1n tne Counlic* of .Macon and the ad-
V V joining Circuits. Also in the - .unties ol the West and
South-West tScorgia, accessible by Rail Kuad.
f particular personal attention given to collecting.
Office will. O. A Lochrane, llamour’s Building, 2d
Street. ieb 22-’6ti—4B-tf
Or*. M'IFOS Alsl A. VAI GIISiM,
DKNTI3TS,
onit-i- in Uitsliiugfoii Block, Macon, <ia„
KLKtTRiCITV ÜBKD IN EXTRACTING TKKTII.
MCDIiK.II.D’B Tootli Paste always
. on hand and for sale. Dentists can i*e
supplied with the finest style of TEETH, aI s o
Gold Foil, Gold and Silver Plate and Wire,
Lathe Fixtures, Ac., also with any kind of Instruments or
Materials on short notice. oct 18
N EW W 1 RM.
WM. J. McELROY & CO.,
Bmss <fec.
iTTvISII umlersigoed are now prepared to furnish the fol-
X. lowing article* :
Swords and liuives,
Os ILL I)£?Ci:IPTIO.N8, MADE TO OIIUER AT SHORT XOTICB
ERAS JVtOXJKTTXIMO-S,
For Hwor.ls, Knives, and Guns, also,
ORNAMENTAL BRASS CASTINGS,
Os every description.
We keep on hand at all times a full assortment of
Tin-Ware and Stoves,
Os all kinds, SOUTHERN MANUFACTURED, with a full
assortment of
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
AT THE OLD STAND, ON THIRD STREET,
MACON, GA.
r r EM K S CAB H.
W. J. McElhov, C. D. Wall, A. Reynold.
September 25, 1861. —ts
Furniture, Furniture!
ram E i tost extensive and finest assortment ever offered
X in this market,
At Prices that Del) Competition !
CAUL AND SKK FOR YOURSELVES.
We have one of the very finest stocks ever offered In
Macon. The most fastidious la.-tc can call for nothing in
the Furniture line but that we can furnish. Our stock of
HOF AS. BEDSTEADS,
TETEATKTBB, IHVANH,
ROCKING amt IASY CHAIRS,
PARI.’-R CHAIRS. PIER. CENTRE, TOILETTE,
RISING and EXTKNMON T t HI.EH.
WAHHSTANDH, port a rlk wardrobe*,
lounges, PATE'T SPRING BEDS, Ac., Ac.
i j g very Fiiperior, snd should be examined, if for nothing
ebe thau as a matter of curiosity. The extent of our stock
will enable us to make it to the advantage of all who ulsh
to purchase to give us a call. as wc are determined to sell
as low as can be sold iu this market, --ext to the Laniei
House. Macon, Ga.
sepll WOOD A GO.
avooh's
‘photographic
PALACE OF ART!
rtIfOBAHLY the largest and best appointed F.stab-
I lishmerit ill the South, it not in the United States. Is
one of the most popular and interesting places of resort in
Macon, and is daily thronged with crowd* of delighted visi
tors. The
Collecticn of “Pictures
Is very large, embracing evety style known to the art, from
the smallest Amt.r type t.i the life-sise Portrait. Wood is
del -rnitned, regardless of labor or expe .se, that his GAL
LERY shail continue to be the
Headquarters of Fine Arts in the South
Employing permanently the best talent to be procured to
color hi* Photogn |.h, ia *ry *tyte, true to nature, and
perfect salitfactlnn s guaranteed iu every instance. A
large coll < tion of the celebrities of the day on exhibition,
to a hieh ha< just tieen added a splendid Picture of the
Prince of Wales and suit, Btondin. Judge Douglas, and
others tort numerous to mention, list which the puhlic are
rooectfnl'y invited to aU and examine As Wood uses
none but t’ e best -naterials in his business,persons in went
of a good Picture will find it to their advantage lo patron
ise this establishment, as P.ctures i an be had here at price*
a* low a* < kaewhere aid of snperlor style. Amhrotypes,
Da ‘uerreotypes and Plain Photogntplt* of evety sue allow
pHGTs. Call and see *• L- WOOD,
Washington Block, nearly opposite the
Lanier House, Macon, Ga.
PLAITATION Tin.l,.
Ctmoiiin TWENTY-HIX INCH FRENCH BURR
H PTU.NE MILL, warranted tu work well moI i.kH
flour For sale hy NATHAN WEED
juiy 10 Macon. Ga.
PLAN T UriO> UKOGAHB. —Bow In
stori h nest assortmentof Negro Shoes, we
have ever ff-ed In this Market. Men’s double peg
. nailed black and ruaeetts do. heavy single stded Mack
5 russetts 4. boy. aad JoutA. Waek and ••>*
m KkeeMtWliMHilUv, MUiUitUM,
Mifl
INTERESTIN'i FROM KUBOFR.
PriMfe Napoleon on lie Hnr and Hie
Fumre Di-sliuj ol America,
We are enabl.fl to give to il ty, from our
European til, a, some very interesting and
importint intelligence. ihe letter lrom
Priuce Napoleon i* quite piquant and graph
ie, and discloses his opinions n t only ot the
w ir, but bis impressions of political parties.
Congress, leading men, social manners, and
the future destiny of America. — xastnu/e
Banner.
PRINCE NAPOLEON ON THE WAR.
[.From the Opinion Nationale, of Paris, Sept Sd ]
Washington, Aug. 10, 1861.
In the letter which I wrote you from New
York, on the olst of July, I informed you
of my intention to see more closely the po
litical men in whose hands are placed the
destinies of the United States, and to exam
ine, if possible, the positions of the bellig
erent armies. I avail myself of the sailing
of the steamer to ci.ivey to you my impres
sion, and I shall do so with all the sincerity
imposed upon me by the most iively faith iu
the future of the American nation, and by
the desire of seeing it emerge quickly from
the crisis in which it is plunged. It was < n
the 4th of August that I came here, and
halted, not at Washington itself, but fit
Georgetown, a small city which is a suburb
of the Federal capital. Georgetown is a
most delightful situation. The house which
I occupy is removed from the noise of the
city, and may pass for a villa. It is well
shaded and quiet. The surrounding sceuery
is rural and peaceful. Magnificent trees —
real trees of the New World, remnants of
the old forest —project their gigantic shad
ows over a meadow of a lively clear green,
which fulls in a gentle slope. At about a
mile distance, a river of silver appears to
How through the foliage; it is the Potomac,
an arm of the sea, four times as wide as the
llliiuc. On the oppisite shore extend beau
tiful wooded hills, which, inclining towards
the left, allow the spires and roofs of the
little city of Alexandria to be seen iu a dis
tant horizon
On the plains and slopes beyond the Po
tomac are scattered numberless small white
spots, and the tops of the great white trees
are bathed in a whitish smoke which relieves
admirably the rawish tones of the landscape.
The spots are the tents of the Northern ar
my— f the army of the Union —which
protects Washington on the right shore of
the Potomac. The white smoke is that of
the bivouics of a camp of 20,000 men. I
have crossed, at the rate of thirty-six miles
the hour, the distance which separates New
York from Washington. I have had the
spectacle of those great works of Americau
industry, which are to ours what the great
cities of lJabylou and Ninovah were to our
t<wns. I have crossed arms of the sea with
:t frightful rapidity on two iron rails sus
pended over the abyss.
I have arrived at full steam, on the top of
immense edifices, the lower stories of which
were occupied by people or applied to uses
unknown to me; then I have felt the edifice
move and have perceived that I was on a
steamboat, and that they had run on it the
train of ears just as a bale of cotton would
be placed iu on ordinary vessel. To vary
these Sidendid, but somewhat frightful, spec
tacles 1 have had along the route the sight
of an army in the field—everywhere tents,
wagons, convoys of sick or wounded, dark
and soiled uniforms, gloomy and grave faces
if soldiers, who with their guns between
their legs, and with indifferent and sad ex
pressious, watch you as you pass. Balti
more gave me somewhat the idea of a be
sieged city; as to W ashington, I imagined
myself, while tiaversing it, in it town invad
ed, overrun, stained bv war at the moment
if the passage and sojourn of great armies,
or just as two years ago, in Italy, I have
seen Alexandria, Brescia and Milan.
The peaceful Federal city has appeared to
me almost under the aspect of a camp, with
streets encumbered with horses, wagons,
guns, and resounding with the rattle of j
drums, with the houses transformed into j
hospitals and barracks, their open windows i
exposing scenes of suffering, uncleanlineafl
and disorder. Well, as a resting pi ice from
til these things, grand, or terrible, or pain
ful, not to speak of a dog day heat and a
Saharian dust, I find myself suddenly at
Georgetown, in the midst of verdure, in the
bosom of quiet, trauquil nature, taking from
its contact with the most prosaic works of
man, only some feature calculated to set oil
its poetic beauty.
We will speak some other time of pic
turesque America. At this moment our j
concern is with America political, warlike— I
a prey to civil war and most terrible revoln- i
tions, neither more nor less than are the old
nations of the Old World. 1 will speak to j
you to-day of the men of the Government; !
but first, it will be well to recall, in a few
words, some facts of cotemp iraueous history.
You know that the old American parties,
Loyalists, Federalists, Whigs, Democrats,
Know-Nothings, after successive dislocations,
fusions and transformations, ended by being
massed into two great divisions—Democrats
and Republicans. It is useless to state that j
these names, almost arbitrary, do not at all I
corresp >nd in America to the ideas which
they would represent iu France.
H re the Republicans are completely j
Democrats, and the Democrats entirely Re
publicans, in the sense we generally attach
to these words. Really, the distinction be
tween the two parties rests almost exclusive
ly on the manner of regarding the slavery
question. The Democrats—L speak of North
ern Democrats, for in the South the slavery
interest dominates and controls all politics
—accept slavery, and seek, at most, to con
fine it to the States where it exists. Buc
hanan and Douglas have btien the last heads
of that party to which the interested adhe
sion of the South has given, in these latter
times, a constant and marked preponderance
in the direction of affairs. The Republican
party, of later date, without exactly inscrib
ing on its banner the principle of the aboli
tion of slavery, has a manifest tendency to
seek that result.
The skillful men of the party are far
from acknowledging that pretension, but its
adventurous and reckless members (lex en
/ante* terrible*) do not make any conceal
ment of it. Hence the horror which the
Republicans inspire in the South; hence, in
fine, the present revolution, the South hav
ing quite simply separated from the Union
because the nomination of a Republican
candidate and tbe advent of that party to
power have appeared to it to be the
inauguration of a policy of which the last
word ia tke abolition of slavery. Perhaps
Ukere y#k wrtaide qf Uua, uHtfodiarj
question, a shade of difference betweei
Democrats and Republicans in their im*d.
of understanding the political and social or
ganization of the Uni:ed States. The Dem
ocrats, no ma ter how far advanced in the
ideas which their name recalls, are still at
tached to a certain past, to Joffersou, amon
others, who, quite hostile, as he was, to the
principle of authority, had, ueve.thcless, a
fund of ideas in common with the first and
most illustrious founders of the republic—
Washington, John Adams, Franklin—stater
lu.'n who would pass to day for aristocrats
of the first order. Thus the Democrats
have not driven back, but have rather yield
ed to that immense ultra Democratic current.
(I should say demagogical, if that expres
sion was not often employed in a sense which
would not convey my idea,) which, since
twenty years, has transformed the physiogo
rny of the United States, and altered pro
foundly the social conditions of the country.
It is that current which has, by degrees,
brought the principle of elections to a ridic
ulously short term—one year, for example,
two years, at most, for the highest offices—
those of Governor, Judge, Representatives.
It is that current which has opened the
doors of election halls to all foreigners, to
that crowd of emigrants who, almost every
where, enjoy the rights of citizens as soon
as their f,>ot has touched the soil of the
United States—a tendency menacing to the
conservatism of the Anglo-Saxon blood and
character. It is that popular wave which
has drawn with it the last prestige of Fede
ral authority uuder the pretext of preserving
State sovereignty, and which has consequent
ly weakened authority in the Stites them
selves, under the pretext of preserving indi
vidual independence, so that in all degrees
of the hierarch, public office is considered
as the spoils of a small number of men, who
dispute about them and share them among
themselves, aud so that honest and capable
citizens keep aloof through the same senti
ment of self-love which would ni tke them
seek them in another country. These are
the movement# which the political institu
tions and social habitudes of the United
States have followed —a movement which is!
interpreted to the eye of the most superficial
observer by a deplorable exaggeration of t
carelessness in manners, and by the most
complete abandonment of the usages and
forms of the world. It is under the admin
istration of the Democratic party that this
development has been wrought, for it may
be said that, since Jefferson, all the Presi-
dents—Jackson at their head—have belonged
to that party. Then came the Republicans,
who have wished to exaggerate that which
was already an excess, and to accelerate a
movement which had already attained a
frightful rapidity. They have just come in
to power for the first time with Mr. Lincoln.
, Likewise all the men whom party advance
; uient has elevated to the highest offices, are
• new men, strangers, for the most, part, to
the routine of public business, still greater
j strangers to those external forms with which
statesmen arc accustomed to surround the
exercise of authority.
The Democrats had, to a certain extent, 1
among them an uninterrupted tradition, 1
: which, although much weakened, runs back,!
however, to some illustrious personages.—
The Republicans have come, at tbe first
jump, and without any apprenticeship, to
the Government, having everything to learn’
jas diplomats,as financiers, as administrators,’
as economists, as men of the world—all
that requires practice and study; statesmen;
; are hot improvised.
Mr. Abraham Lincoln is the first-born of
the Republican party; he was first a school
master, afterwards a lawyer, or rather an
: attorney, then a deputy for two years, and
: was, besides, perfectly obscure and unknown.
When, then, the Republican party was reck
i oned at the beginning of this year, and it
! became known that by acting unanimously,
they might have a majority in the Presiden
tial election, the leaders assembled for the
great and legitimate operation of dividing
, the offices aud funds, in the event of suc-
I cess.
All went well in regard to what concerned
the offices of Secretaries of State, Ministers,!
Diplomatic Envoys, Directors, Ac. They
agreed easily. But the great question—the
reserved question —that of choosing a Pres
ident, provoked several storms. Each name
put forward raised violent protests.
Success was endangered for want of
agreement, upon whom to fix the nominal
leadership. Then it was that Mr. Seward, I
present Minister of Foreign Affairs, who, j
as a man of mind and capacity, might have
had the greatest claims on behalf of himself,
and did raise the liveliest opposition, said to
his friends; “You must have, I see plainly,!
a man who has no enemies; I have the very;
thing—let us take Lincoln.” And in this
way it was that Sir Abraham Lincoln has
come to seat himself in the chair of Wash-,
ington.
I have told you what Mr. Lincoln was
before his election. Physically, lie is a gi
ant; he has a pleasant face, with a look of
embarrassment and timidity; a slow walk,
and his back arched, like the greater part
of those whose height surpasses the propor
tions of human stature. Futurity will in
form us whether lie has no other merit than
that of having no personal enemies, as Mr.
Seward said.
The latter personage is about fifty years
of age, of a small figure; he has a little
head on a neck, of wh ; ch the habit of not
wearing a cravat, sets off the extreme length.’
His entire person denotes cunning and in-’
teUigence, and also a little conceit. Like
the greater part of the Americans of this
school, he speaks English exclusively; he 1
has traveled in Europe, anti possesses some
sterling qualities. Ho is, next to the Prcsi- :
dent, the most important min in the civil
administration of the United States.
I have been present at sessions of the
Senate and House of Representatives. I
have hail pointed out to me the most influen
tial members of both parties. Mr. Breck-i
inridge is the Kentucky Senator, leader of
the opposition, whose opinion and wishes
are almost equally divided between the North
and South, like the jieople of tbe State be
represents. Mr. Sumner, Massichusetts 8 n
ator, acknowledged 1< ador of the Abolition
ists, an educated, amiable man, having trav
eled much in France, the friend of l>e
Tocqueville, and very well versed in our lit
erature.
Contrary to what has b>en so often writ-!
ten about the tumultuous appearance of the !
Chambers, the dress and eccentric habits of
the honorable members, I found in the Sen
lato and 11 use of Representatives an aspect
very usual and decent. Without the fashion
yf the jpreuJt uuaabe? of white ushith^
woru by a number of \\ estern members, de
geuerate, by their extraordinary cut, into a
species of garment ol tbe middle ages, we
might fancy ourselves in one of our French
political assemblies. I have seen no one
with feet on his desk, not the least bit of re
volver, and I have looked in vain for those
little blocks of white wood, the cutting of
which with a penknife, forms one of tbe fa
vorite diversions of the statesman, the judge
or the American attorney, iu the exercise of
his duties.
Doubtless, in the United States, some de
tails of secondary movement shock out Euro
pean ideas and habits; but I do not wish to
dwell on these details without real impor
tance, which should not blind us as to wliat
is good and great in this country. I declare
to you, that arrived in America with prepos
sessions extremely favorable to the United
States, the reality has proved to be far be
yond those prepossessions, at sight of
cyclopian cities and those miguificent work
shops, proportioned to a condition of things
where everything has dimensions unknown
to the Old World.
I have found in the United States that
which despites my inclination to admire eve
rything, l did not expect to meet with, on
the word of even the most favorable dispos and
traverlers, and that is perfect honesty, order,
eagerness to be of service, if not urbanity,
life comfortable, easy and regular; iu fine,
an habitual intercontact by all classes of so
ciety which neither soils, wounds nor chills
any one.
I will add that I have been struck and
touched by the ardor, in some sort chivalrous,
with which tbe people of the North, contrary
to their most immediate and most imperious
material interests, have thrown themselves
into a war in which they have but one end
—that of vindicating the honor of the Hag
of the common country, which they believe
to have been outraged by the South. This
is what I have seen and what I am very hap
py tn say and to repeat. But T must also be
permitted to give, with the same sincerity,
the impression which the very (I need not
say) superficial coutaet with the political
men of the Union assembled at Washington
h is made on me.
I have found them on every step of the
ladder which they could successively reach,
a jealous and unbridled Democracy, inquest
of men sufficiently mediocre to inspire neith
er envy, hatred, esteem nor love ; everything
which wounds the sentiment of equality,
once that it has passed the bounds of reason
and common sense.
For a long time, in the United States,
p olitical careers and public offices have ceased
to be a vocation in order to become a trade,
and one of the trades least esteemed in a
country where, according to the expression
of DcToequeville, all honest professions are
honorable professions. Ministerial portfolios,
seats of judges, senators and deputies, the
very presidental chair, belongs to a limited
class of citizens, who use them, so to speak,
like a monopoly.
I think that, in consequence of the estrange
ment which puhlic, even municipal duties,
inspire men of weight and capability’, the re
public of the United States is found to pos
sess a governmental personnel far belo w the
real worth of the nation. It is plain to eve
rv one that there is there an extreme term
which cannot, possibly be passed, and that,
the evil by it own excess, carries with it its
remedy.
T do not doubt, that tbe present, crisis,
which exposes the wounds of government, its
importance, its incapacity, and its thorough
unpopularity, will be tbe beeinning of a sal
utary and regenerative re-action. Tdo not
pretend to predict the new political form un
der which America will pursue the career of
her destines ; but this people has a vitality
too great, a practical sense top powerful, re
sources too vast, for us to fear that she will
not profit, tviselv from tbe experience of tbe
past ; and that, like the extinct, races, she
will not be immovable in errors, her nor, to
avoid them, throw herself into the opposite
extreme.
Tbe crisis will pass ; the elements of ‘vi
tality which America bears within her will
give her strength to surmount it. Soon von
will see this country greater, more full of
future, than ever.
T end here for to-day this letter, already
quite long, and promise to send you the re
mainder of it by the next mail.
Capture of the Fanny.
A correspondent of the Augusta Chroni
cle gives the subjoined account, dated Oct.
4, at Elizabeth City, N. 0.:
And first of all: on yesterday, 40 prison
ers from Hat eras were placed on a barge in
front of the camp, who, the night before,
bad been taken by an expedition comman
ded by Colonel Wright, and composed of tbe
Dawson Grays, Athens Guards and Wilkin
son Rifles. The command were on board
the steamers Raleigh, Curlew and Junalus
ka, a part of Com. Lynch’s squadron.—
These steamers were armed with cannon. —
On Tuesday last, at 2* p. in., the whistles
sounded, and off the little army went—Com
modore Lynch commanding all the steamers.
In two hours and a half the deep mouth
ed dogs of war let loose, told us in the camp
the work was going on. Presently, quicker
and quicker aDd soon several together, and
then at regular intervals ; and thus it was,
until the white flag went up on board the
steamer Fauuy, a part of the U. S. N. off
Hatteras, and she was ours.
, She made all the resistance she could, but
was taken. Armed with two pieces (one a
rifle cannon) and those 40 men (one a con
traband of war in uniform), she was carry
ing immense army stores in the 14th Indi
ana Regiment, then establishing a camp
1 about 20 miles from ours.
Yesterday the captured Fanny was unload
ed anl before now has, in all probability,
June us good service. For as we came away
the cannon, at l\ M., when wc were 15
miles off, apprised us that the fleet and ar
my were again in motion.
The Fanny’s cargo is very valuable, prob
ably worth $76,000 or 880,000. One item
is 1,000 army overcoats.
The prisoners are detachments from vari
ous companies at Hatteras. and were com
manded hy Captain Hart, of the 14;h Indi
ana regiment. Twelve of them are from the
New York oth regiment, and were acting as
! artillery-man.
They are safe, in good hands, and treated
as prisoners of war. Lieut. Harris, of the
Home Guards, had them in charge when
we left, and aU bands on the barge were
desmtus to find R the co,pi forts its open
afforded*
VOLUME XXXIX—NO 30.
1 Timely Article—Where do tiie
good* come from ?
The following timely and j o nted article W3
ake from the Richmond Examiner. It is
stiauge indeed that certain articles disap
pear, and are straightway supplied, aud it is
equally strange that a few men generally
have the articles ueeded, and charge any
price fur them they can squeeze oat of the
customer. Where do they get their good*
from? We agree with the Examiner that
the subject ought to be brought before the
public for action :
There is little doubt that the business of
smuggling is going on at this time on as
large a scale as we ever known before in the
■history of the world. Nobody meets with
my difficulty in finding any article of goods
provisions that he desires. Whatever the
article may be, it can be had ; but it can
only be had at a tremendously high price.—
It is not that the supply of merchandise is
limited, tor like the oil in the widow's cruise,
it does not diminish in the hands of the few
provident dealers by the drafts made upon
it: but it is, that those who are fortunate
■Dough to posses unfailing stocks, have a
monopoly ot the trade, and can exact what
prices they chose to put upon their goods.
It is given out that, as to those brought
into Richmond. Maryland is the source from
which these constant supplies of goods and
merchandise are procured. It is said that
they are brought into Virginia by small
schooners plying from Baltimore, which
know how to run up into the creeks of the
Potomac and the Bay. Bvi this as it may,
certain it is that the goods do come in large
quantities into Virginia, and that the trade
is in tue bauds of a few enough men and
firms to enable them to command what pri
ces they may choose to fix upon their prop
erty.
No matter what may he the channel
through which these goods are brought iut >
the South, it is quite certain that they are
procured from the North. They are brought
in in defiance of our revenue laws, and they
are paid tor in defiance of our sequestration
act. The business is fraudulent from he
ginning to eud ; and the high prices exacted
by the smugglers of the goods operate as a
slave to the consciences of smugglers.
But this is not the only form in which a
large class of the community are manifes
ting a disposition to speculate upou the con
dition of the country. r l here is a general
tendency among all classes of dealers, in all
classes of articles, to demand exorbitant pri
ces for their commodities. And this tenden
cy is not confined to the dealers in those ar
ticles that are not produced in the South,
and would naturally become scarce during
the suspension of external trade. It is the
case as to every article that is bought aud
sold, except those produced by the farmer
and the husbandman. lie aloue, of all the
people who have commodities to sell, is for
ced to take half prices for his farm produce,
while he is compelled to pay double prices
for the supplies for which he goes into mar
ket.
It is a very curious phenomenon that a
farmer may hud any article of trade which
ho can possibly desire in the market, from a
hogshead of sugar to an ounce of quinine,
from a camel’s hair shawl to a paper of pins,
aud can command it by paying double pri
ces ; but the moment he offers his own farm
products for sale, at ouce he must drop his
prices to half rates, and listen to ingenious
arguments to convince him that he may
thank his stars that he can get even them.
This disposition to speculate upou the yeo
manry of the country on both sides of the
account book is the most mortifying feature
:>t the war. It is a species of Yankee trick
that ill assort with the nobles cause in which
the country is engaged. The “army worm”
never appeared iu the country in such for
midable array, with so ferocious an appetite,
or so destructive a voracity, as it has appear
ed iu the South within the last mouth or
two.
\V idle the speculators are devouring the
substance of the people, and defrauding the
Government of its revenues, the Govern
ment itself is unwittingly aiding and abet
ting them in their voracious work. The ex
cuse alleged for the high prices of sugar, salt,
molasses, meat, fuel, and all kinds of provis
ions, is, that the Government has taken pos
session of the railroads to do its own trans
portation, aud that the transportation of the
public is at a stand still. Hundreds of car
loads of sugar aud salt and merchandise ot
many descriptions are said to be lying in
the depots of the West, unable to make their
wjty to Eastern markets, by reason of the
action of the Government.
There is doubtless some truth in the nu
merous allegiatious on this subject; but it
is simply incredible to suppose that the
railroads could not bring down these articles,
if they used the proper energy, in sufficient
quantities to meet the current demands of
the community. The fat t that what ever
articles a person may want can be readily
found, and can be procured by paying the
enormous prices demanded, proves that they
exist in sufficient quantity in market for the
wants of the community, and are made to
command the elevated prices at which they
are sold by combinations of speculators.—
We will uot fay that the body of speculators
is largeaud powerful enough to influence the
policy of the railroads and to obstruct their
freight operations, for we do not know the
facts, and could not designate the names of
the conspirators or the railroads; but we do
state the uudeuiable fact that the public firm
ly believe that such combinations and con
spiracies exist.
Whatever obstruction the Government oc
casions in the freight operations of the rail
roads is hut temporary, and will be removed
wheu the necessity for it ceases. We have
no doubt that Government has laid its hand
luite heavily upon the roads running from
this city to >lauassa c . aud that a peofle
dependent upon these loads for supplies
have suffered greviously from the necessity
Government was under to monopolize ti e
trains ; but this fact does not hold in rega.d
to the roads running Southward in connec
tion with the Southern markets ; aud it is
these latter roads against which the public
feeling is more particularly directed.
There have been various convocations and
Oonventions held in the South, since the
war, with reference to currency, Government
loans and other mutters of public moment.
It seems to us that the prevailing high pri
ces, the unconscionable speculations goiog
on in the necessaries of life, the deficient
ti a importation of the railroads and the
Waobsaje smuggling that is rife also ass id
mat.. we ig fitly enough fur tfwt delibgw*
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