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macon, Wednesday, Aug. u, 1867.
Resident Agent* for the. Journal and
Messenger.
Americus—WM. O. GODWIN, P. M.
Cuthbert—J. M. BROOKS.
Dawson—. 7. C. F. CLARK, C. S. C.
Albany—E. RICHARDSON, P. M.
Thomaston—l. H. TRAYLOR.
Korfcyth—F. O. MAYS.
Perry—J. S. JOP.SON, Esq.
Fort Valley—J. A. Me KAY, P. M
Eufaula, Ala.—B. 15. FIELDS.
Hawkinsv.ille—L. C. RYAN.
Oglethorpe—W. .). J. SMITH.
Montezuma—lCtfAßOD DAVIS.
Talbottou—J. CALLIER, P. M.
Griffin—JASON BURR.
Milledgeville—F. L. BRANTLEY.
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OUR PLATFORM.
All who love the law and its safety,
the truth and its rewards , the country
and its peace, our children and their
prosperty, oral liberty and its guaran
tees, will register and vote against a
Convention, lend never cease to resist,
in all forms and on all occasions, this
sum of American oppressions, this em
bodiment of American treason, this
aggregate of American dangers, these
Military Hdls enacted to keep their
authors hi power. —[15. H. Hill.
To Plante its. —The eolumus of the
Journal is, Messenger axe at ail times
open to j udiciwis and intelligent commu
nications from our country friends upon
all questions of importance to the plant
ing iniexv is -such as crops, labor, and oth
er matter of general or local interest. We
intend to devote a good deal of our space
to matters of interest to (lie planter, and de
sire their assistance In giving such news
as in their power.
Distributing Rations to Negroes. *
The United States Government lias been
distributing large amounts of rations to
negroes, very indiscriminately, since they
have adopted them as pets, and as better
than those of their own race and color.
We shall not dissent from opinions, that
it may he so, with regard to all such as en
tertain them. They have selected their
affiliation, and let them enjoy them.
But the experience of a few years past
lias shown, that you make an able bodied
negro a pensioner, ulais beggar, by giving
him rations, and you malte him a listless
vagrant, who will never earn an honest
living aftei wards. Many such have drawn
rations from the government.
These rations will be stopped on the 20th
of tliis month. Then how will these ne
groes subsist? Dozens of them could dai
ly he seen about our city, in yards and
streets, playing marbles anti discussing
politics. Will they now go to the corn
fields and pull fodder, or pick out cotton?
We have only to anticipate another means
for their support, which will he plunder
ing in any manner thafthey may devise.
There are many hereabouts, of which
“their women” complain, that they have
had to support them by their labor, while
hundreds were idle and did nothing for
them.
But there is another and most essential
point for *• Northern friends” to take into
consideration. They have been imposed
on by those who could have taken care of
themselves and families.
They abandon giving ; rations to all. —
Now, what is to become of feeble women
with many children, and the aged and
infirm? Who will employ or support
them now? It is not in the nature of
their race to do it. Here is a chance for
Yankee sympathy ! Let us see you do it ?
Every one, has had their protectors. You
having assumed their places, let us see
how you will fill it? But already your
backs are turned on them? you have left
very many thousands without food or pro
tection, to fill' premature graves, if so for
tunate as to get any. This is your work—
not ours, .
If a Radical or abolitionist should read
our paper, we would refer him to a very
sensible and truthful article written to the
New York Times, from Beaufort, S. C.,
which will give a full view of what has
existed of the free African in that region,
and what it may he hereafter when the
“ rations are stopped.”
Slavery and Polygamy.—A Califor
nia correspondent of the New York Jour
nal of Commerce calls attention to the
practice of polygamy and slavery on the
Pacific coast, within the States and Terri
tories. Both these institutions, he says,
prevail among the China settlements and
native American races, without hindrance
or denunciation. The higher classes of
the Chinese inCaliforniaare said to import
slaves direct from China, and great num
bers are kept in the State, both inale and
female, who daily deliver up to their
masters all th< ir earning-, and never sue
for or expect Ur ii freedom. The Indians
enslave all of their captives, have as many
wives as they choose, and separate from
them when they please. The same poly
gamic customs prevails among the native
Mexicans of California. The correspon
dent thinks it would he - appropriate and
wise if philanthropists who devote so
much time to the ex-slaveholders of the
Bouth would give their attention to slavery
and polygamy as practiced by the Asiatic
races, Indians and Mexicans in Califor
nia.
South Wkstkrn Mai r,.—We are in
formed from the I’ost Ollice of this city,
that in consequence of the sickness of the
Mail Agents on that route, no mails were
forwarded yesterday. Arrangement will
probably he made to have them delivered
at the several post offices to-day.
We trust that many of our readers can
understand this, from a shaking of their
hones—and to speak of it in the words of
“holy writ,” from what we learn from
many seetiohs of the country, such cases
arc “not a few.”
Jsri kalo, August s.—The court-martial
convened at Fort Porter for trying seven
teen of the privates of battery M, 4th
artillry, for parading with the Fenians at
their late picnic, was concluded to-day.
I learn'that lifteen of the nrisoners have
been found guilty, and sentenced to eigh
teen months at the Albany jail. The
others are to receive a reprimand from the
commanding officer. The findings of the
court were forwarded to Washington to
day by General Parry lor the approval of
the Secretary of War.
Unemployed Clerks. —The New York
papers speak of a very large number of
clerks that arc now out of employ from
their stores. They might have ventured
one idea further. These clerks are out of
employ from the stores not receiving “ or
ders from the South,” as heretofore. And
these orders will pontnue to be very lim
it and, till the most outrageous taxon cotton
he a butts I and the equality of the cotton
{States restored.
Bushwhackers in Massachusetts.—
Ten shots were fired at State Constables
McKay and Savage in North Adams,
Massachusetts, on their return from mak
ing sei/.ures of liquors. The assailants
were concealed in the woods near the
road. The shots entered the carriage, hut
the officers were uuiujured.
Editorial Correspondence.
Athens, August Bth, 1867.
Gut of the depths of a Dead Sea calm
and stillness that is wonderfully grate
ful after the feverish rush, and bus
tle, and concentrated gayety of the past
four days, I find leisure and inclination to
write. If the readers of tiie Journal ifc
Messcnger declare my pen more halting
than usual, and the gift of unreadiness of
narrative more generously developed, I
pray their anathemas to light upon the
proper cause, to wit: Something like fifty
speeches, long and short; very much con
versation, on every subject within the
range of polite debate; a great deal of go
ing to and fro en attendance upon pretty,
witty, wise, and otherwise femmes ; miles
of dancing; and sleep infinitesimal. —
Behold the ingredients to make one thor
oughly stupid, and fairly to loathe any se
vere mental exercise than adding up
the hours of lost sleep. I pray charity,
then, in advance, for short-comings to he
spied out further on.
COMMENCEMENT SUNDAY.
The (ourth inst, found a crowded audito
ry in the venerable old Chapel of the
University. It was a faint picture of the
brave old days of ante helium, and the flut
ter and rustle of numberless silks, and la
ces, and muslins; the nodding of plumes ;
and flush, and sparkle of cheeks, and
eyes, brought back with a sad distinct
ness, and a thrill of mingled pain and
pleasure, the days that are no more.—
The sermon by the Chancellor. Dr. Lip
scombe, was an effort entirely worthy
his fame and attainments. Ordinary men
might rest the reputation of a whole life,
upon a single discourse of half its merits.
The peroration addressed to the graduat
ing class was singularly and touchingly
eloquent, and its pathos stirred; the hearts
like tlie solemn strains of some grand
old organ. I have certainly never heard
auything more admirable, either in
thought or diction.
MONDAY
A still more crowded audience this fore
noon to listen to the budding Demosthenes
and Cicero’s of the Sophomore class,
eighteen in number. I coufess to a par
tiality fox this jKxrtiou of the exercises over
all the rest, and .the feeling seems univer
sal. Where all the young gentlemen did
so handsomely, it would seem rather invid
ous to single out auy of them by name,
for special eulogy. The distribution of the
prizes is generally considered, too, to set
tle all questions of superiority, but I can
not refrain from referring with warm com
mendation to the declamations of B. 11.
Hill, Jr., H. M. Green, and A. C. Rucker.
Neither of them were so fortunate as to
win a medal, but they won much applause,
and the suffrages of not a few of their lis
teners.
Monday afternoon witnessed the delive
ry, by the Rev. Dr. Brantley, of Atlanta,
of an oration upon the life and character
of the late Chief Justice Lumpkin. It
has never been nxy good fortune to hear
pronounced a truer eulogy upou auy man.
This was its grandest beauty. Nowhere
could it have been more appreciated than
right here, in the midst of his friends and
neighbors, and those who knew ami loved
hirnso well, it wouldbesuperfluous to say
more in praise of the orator. His fame as
one of the most finished, and eloquent di
vines in the State, is too well established
to permit it.
TUESDAY.
Declamation by selected members of the
Junior Class filled up this morning, all
marked by much excellence of thoughts
and preparation, and‘culture and style
as to oratory, reflecting very gratify
ingly both upon pupils and instructors. —
The speeches of Davenport Jackson, A. H.
Cox, and VV. W. Thomas were for above
average merit, and indisputably superior
to all the rest. When the second
named orator concluded, a thunderous
hurst of applause shook the very walls,
and as he passed from the stage, his hand
was grasped in cordial congratulation by
Hon. B. H. Hill, and other gentlemen
seated on the stage.
Thank God for this demonstration of
popular approval too, if for nothing else
than because it taught one seated on that
stage that the truth was not dead, and
that if it slept at ail, it was very lightly.—
That it was still honored, despite his efforts
to bring it into contempt.
At the conclusion of the exercises proper,
Bishop Bierce delivered the medals to the
successful contestants of the sophomore
declaimers —the first to 11. A. Haralson,
of La Grange, and the second to J. W.
Walters, of Albany, i was not so fortu
nate as to hear the Bishop, but the bare
mention of his name is the amplest guar
antee that the duty could have been
assigned to no worthier hands, had the
State or the South been searched for the
purpose. In the afternoon, the Rev. J. 8.
Lamor, of Augusta, delivered the annual
address before the two literary societies of
the University. It was a trial to follow
such an orator as the one who preceded
him in the forenoon, from which almost
any man might naturally shrink, but Mr.
L., I am pleased to know,entirely satisfied
the hopes and expectations of his many
friends.
WEDNESDAY.
Commencement day, closed the exerci
ses of the week. At an early hour every
inch of space was monopolized, and hun
dreds retired unable to obtain even stand
ing room. The first honor of the gradu
ating class was shared by Allen Fort,
of Americus, and Samuel Spencer, of
Columbus—no second or third being
given. An intimate acquaintance with
Mr. Spencer for eighteen months war
rants me in predicting for him a bright,
and successful career if he be as true to him
self and his duty hereafter, as he has
shown himself here. Mr. Fort I have not
the pleasure of knowing. Both have my
best wishes for the future.
The speeches of all the young gentle
men graduates, were fully up to the
aigtoge mark of promise usually shown
niWich occasions.
Thus endetli the sixth-sixth session of
this honorable seat of learning, the Alma
Mater of most of the worth, valor, genius,
and talent that has so gloriously illus
trated our beloved commonwealth in every
sphere of action. I say has, because an
accursed despotism makes it a thing of the
past. To-day there is not one of all the
honored names of Georgia, that appear
upon the college rolls, allowed the rights
and privileges of the most brutalized Afri
can within tier borders. Thanks to the
indestructahility of principle though the
rising generation who are emerging each
year from the quiet of tiic schools into the
broad highway of active life; are true to
the core. They have caught the standard
as it drooped, and will yet crown _it with
victory.
PROSPECTS OF THE UNIVERSITY—CHANGE
IN THE BOARD OK TRUSTEES.
The session of the college just closed,
has been eminently satisfactory to its
friends. The classes have all been full,
and the standard of scholarship kept up
admirably. Ido not think I have ever
known a time when young men seemed
more determined to prove their thorough
appreciation of the educational advantages
afforded them here, by an orderly, quiet
demeanor, close attention to their studies,
and the profoundest deference and respect
for their instructions. There is every
reason to believe that the next session,
eommencingin September, will be, if any
thing, more prosperous than the one just
closed.
Several changes have been made in the
Board of Trustees this session. Seven new
members have been added to fill the num
ber of vacancies caused by death, resigna
tion and removal from the State. From this
place Messrs.Barros, and S. Thomas,Esqs.
have been selected; from Columbus, Hon.
Martiu J. Cramford ; from Macon, Gen.
Armstrong; from Madison, J. A. Billups,
Esq.; Samuel Hall, Esq., Oglethorpe ; and
Bishop Pierce. The vacant Adjunct Pro
fessorship of Mathematics lately held by
Capt. Pembroke Jones, has not yet been
filled. It is not settled positively, as yet,
whether it will he, this year, at least.
COMMENCEMENT, SOCIALLY
Has been a grand success, if a perfect
parterre of beauty, wit and fashion and
fun and frolic galore, could make it so. I
do not ever recollect more pretty faces
on similar occasions than graced the grim
walls ot the old chapel this year of our
Lord 1567. At the Newton House, for in
stance, there were a half dozen represent
ing as many different places in Georgia,
whom it would be hard to match in beauty
anywhere. Augusta was represented by
Miss \V; Madison by Miss VV ; Adairs
ville, by MissF; Covington, by Miss il ;
Savannah,by Miss McD; and Macon, Miss
W. T.—all these at one house, to say noth
ing of dozens of others at private houses.
You can judge from my enthusiasm, wheth
er or not our friend of the Constitutionalist,
whom I had the pleasure of meeting here,
did me justice in one particular at least. To
be calm under such a fusilade of glorious
loveliness,would write any man down in
sensible, or an idiot. And I beg to plead
uolguilty to either charge. He is rather
premature, too, iu his announcement of
the settling of preliminaries, and the ap
proaching happy events, which he gives
as a reason for my coolness under fire. As
it may spoil fun, to say the least of it, to
have such an impression spread abroad, 1
look for a correction at his hands.
As has always been the proud boast of
the good people of Athens, a generous hos
pitality was dispensed all the week, at the
numerous elegant private residences that
beautify the town. The magnificent en
tertainment given by the Hon. B. H. Hill,
Wednesday evening, was a fitting conclu
sion to the gayety of the week. It was
all that the most cajitious critic could have
asked, and left nothing that was thorough
ly enjoyable to be wished for. To the in
spiring strains of a full hand beautiful
dames and damsels, eiegaut cavaliers
“chased the hours with glowing feet” till
nearly 1 A. M.,aud even then almost sigh
ed to think that daylight must appear.
Your correspondent, for one, doth fondly
hope the whirligig of time will bring for
his share many returns of such a charm
ing occasion. R.
Improvements on “ HellGate."—The
New York Heiald has an article on that
subject, to show that the way should he
enlarged and improved, with more ample
dimensions than wasonce necessary—both
for tiie ingress for education, and espe
cially for the egress when “ done for” from
that city.
No one who was acquainted with the
residents of New York from tin* good old
days of 1823, morally, politically and re
ligiously,|upt o the present date,will doubt
but that the suggestion is* a good one (even
ii it come lrom the Nazareth of newspa
perdom and of newspapers.).
That way seems to he inconveniently
crowded, and the improvement quite nec
essary. If not enlarged, it will need jack
screws to force them through to their
destiny, very soon. Those wliostart upon
it with whole clothes will find tDeir
elbows rubbed through, and get no better
reception from Charon, Cerberus or Pluto
than the veriest vagabond from this planet.
That gate should be speedily enlarged for
the benefit of the people of New York.—
The Herald is generally ahead of any
paper in making shrewd and valuable sug
gestions .
SjThe Knoxville Whig, of the 7th, says:
“The common laborers of this country,
who wear dirty shirts, intend to rule.
These me«f who stand upon Ir»ur streets,*
change shirts every day, smoke fine cigars,
and drink fine brandies, have had their
day.”
And when the wealth, intelligence and
refinement ot a country are excluded from
a voice in the administration of its affair-,
the cow,try has had its day, too.
Raleigh, Aug. 10.—The following tele
graphic correspondence between Governor
Worth and Gen. Sickles took place this
evening :
Executive Department, 1
Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 10th, ’67 j
Maj. Gen. Sickles, Commanding 2d Mil
itary District, Charleston : The County
Courts whose duty it is to revise and pro
vide Juries both for our County and Su
perior Courts, in many counties have not
made such revisal sinee your order, No. 32.
This omission lias not sprung from any
disposition to disobey your orders. Your
order qualifies those that have been assess
ed, ami who shall have paid taxes for the
current year. The words current year
have been construed as the present fiscal
year, ending the? 30th day of September
next. Our revision act, section 44, page
12, requires the tax lists to be placed in
the collectors hands on or before first day
of July.
The machinery ofour revision law makes
it impossible that the clerks can have the
tax lists ready tor delivery much before
the first of July.
Sheriff usually begin to collect about the
20tli of July and are allowed until October
Ist to complete collection and make return
The County Court cannot know who have
paid taxes this year uutill thesheriffs shall
have made there returns at the first term
of our County Court occurring after the
first of October. I have no doubt all the
County Courts will comply with your or
der. The fall circuit ofour Superior Courts
is just commencing. It is believed that
in many, and probably all the counties,
the jury lists will not have been revised,
two ofour Judges now in my office, on
their way to their circuits, report to me
that they have just consulted Col. Bomfonl
and that he construes your order as forbid
ding them to try any suit before a jury not
drawn conformably to your order No. 32 if
it be true, as I think it is, that the County
Courts have coustrued your order as above
set forth. The calamity will result that
no Courts will be held on the fall circuit
iu very many of the counties. If you can
suggest any mode of sending this calami
ty by telegraph, I will communicate by
telegraph to the Judges.
(Signed,) Jonathan Worth,
Governor of N. C.
Headquarters, Charlebtou, S. C. \
August 10, 1867. /
His Excellency Jonathau Worth, Gov
ernor of North Carolina.
The communication set forth in the tel
egram of your Excellency show that it has
been impracticable to revise the jury lists,
in compliance with Gen. Order No. 32, in
time for the present term of the courts,
for North Carolina. And the Jurors for
said term, may be em pan nulled as hereto
fore provided by law.
The publication of your excellency’s tel
egram, and the reply is authorized for the
information and guidance of all concern
ed. By command of Maj. Genl. D. E.
Hiekies.
Signed, J. W. Clouse,
Capt. & A. A. A. G.
Liverpool, August 13, Noon. —Cotton
firm, Uplands,at lot ; Orleans, to:. Sales i
11,000 bales. Weather favorable. • j
Fighting Editors in Vicksburg and
Whipped Editors in Columbus.
(Front the Statesman.
The Vic test wry (Miss.) Rep üblican, s j teak -
ingot the various editors who conducted
the Sentinel, of that city, before the war,
says:
“Dr. Hagan took charge in 1837, fought
a duel with the editor of the Whig, partici
pated in a number of free lights, and was
finally killed iu 1862, in a street light, by
W. D. Adams. His assistant, Isaac Part
ridge, died with yellow fever in 1840. Dr,
J. S. Hall, associated with Mr. Partridge,
was k;| a noted duelist, and had it number ot
affrays, in one of Which he was severely
wounded. The next unlucky editor was
James Ryan, who, in vindication of his
honor, was killed by R. E. Hamit, of the
Whig. From JUe report of the fight it
would seem that, the Whip ?uan got the
best of it. Next of the list came Walter
Hickey, who indulged in severl street
rows, and was repeatedly wounded. He
killed Dr. Maeklin, and was soon after
killed himself, in the Lone Star Slate.
The next editor was John Lavins, who,
it seems, declined glory on the field of hou
nors, and consequently is not entitled to a
place in the niche of fame. He indulged,
however, iu the usual amount of Southern
indiscrete abuse, and atoned for his folly
by serving a time in prison. Mr. Jenkius,
his successor, in aspiration to immortality,
came to an untimely end in a free fight
with 11. A. Grabbe; Mr. Crab bp was as
sassinated in the same manner in Sonora.
Mr. F. C. Succeeded Jenkins, but not find
ing the editorial chair an easy one, he did
the most sensible tiling an editor could do.
and drowned his sorrows and body at the
same time in the Father of Waters. Wil
liam Roy, Esq., suhsequentlyassumed the
editorial charge of the Sentinel, and soon
after lie celebrated the event wijh a street
light. This exercise was repeated at inter
vals until finally he was assassinated in a
street row by his book-keeper. The book
keeper died a natural death about two
years since.”
Asa part of the history of journalism in
Columbus, I wish you would give a nistory
of the hoggings the editors of the Ohio State
Journal have received from citizens for
scandalous-abut It‘would !w<uW rich
chapter.
My memory only goes hack to 1640,
when Col. Janies Allen received a trounc
ing from T. J. Buchanan, then Speaker
of the House of Representatives, for bring
ing a lady into a political contest. This
was soon after followed by M. 11. Madary,
tiien one of the proprietors of The States
man, Hogging another Journal editor,
believed to bo Mr. O. Collect, for a similar
offence. Tiien Dr. Miller, editor of tac
.Oid School Republican, gave a sound dig
ging, in. front of the American, to V. W.
Smith, best known as Lot Smith, then
editing the Ohio State Journal, for a gross
slander. Then Col. Medary gave a sound
caning to John Teesdale, Smith’s successor
on the Journal. Teesdale then left the
establishment, and was succeeded by O.
Follctt, Esq., who, in 1845, was also badly
whipped by Medary.
This, i think, was the last Hogging the
editors of the Journal received, as the pa
per about that time changed its tone and
became, until recently, more decent.
If some of your correspondents, or you,
yourself, Mr. Editor, would write up this
history of the Journal editors, I am quite
sure it would not only be readable, but
might do your neighbor of the Journal
good, as pointing out to him the punish
ment which slanderers received in bygone
days. As old tilings may again become
new, he might thus, being duly warned
govern himself in a different manner.
Shari- Practice of an Atlanta
Merchant.—A correspondent of the
Chattanooga Union tells the followingof a
shrewd and cynical Atlanta merchant:
I heart! of a good thing perpetrated by
one of them, which was related by him to
a New York “drummer. The merchant
afon-said is in the ready-made clothing
bus.i -less, and he told the gentleman from
New Vork, that, when a customer comes
in, after letting him try on several coats,
he would say to him that he had a coat
which lie had given a gentleman to take
home the night before, but he was not sat
isfied with it and returned it. Perhaps it
may fit his customer. “Now you know,”
says he, "all men are more or Jess dishon
est; so I put ,i pocket-book in one of the
coat pockets, which only cost me thirty or
forty cents. Now when the man tries the
coat, ho puts his hands in the pockets and
feels this pocket-book, and he buys the
coat at once, for a considerable advance on
the usual price; and lie never comes back
to see about it.”
Being in want of an item last week we
jokingly mentioned the killing of a Chi
nese (Shanghai chicken) here by a negro
woman. The Cincinnati fJazetti swallowed
bait, hook and line, and even strained at
the pole, and forthwith patc**dup a“hor-
muittcT ei mibatitni -a the
terrible SouthaE society in
general, and Shelbyviile ito particular.—
“ Murder iu Shelbyviile! A colored lady
kills her former mistress,” <sco. Os course it
was then telegraphed all over the country
that a Southern woman had treated her
late slave so barbarously that the negro
had to kill her in self defence. This is a
splendid and convincing sample of how
Radical li< .sand slanders on the South are
hutched up. Say “ negro" tonne of those
Abolition fanatics arid he instantly gets as
crazy as a bull at the sight of a red rag.—
And when not naturally crazy, they are
so from design. But you were caught this
time, dear Rad. How are you, “ Chinese
murder?” How are you, Cincinnati Ga
zette ?—[Shelbyviile (Ky.) Sentinel.
‘lu;t Justice he done though the
heavens fall.’—lt. being evident to
every person present at the recent trial of
the parties charged with complicity in the
dastardly outrage recently committed in
Rutland District, that some of the wit
nesses in the case were guilty of false
swearing, does it not behoove our law
givers to bring to justice the perjured
scoundrels who voluntarily attempted, by
their daninig testimony to deprive in
nocent men of their life or liberty?—
Justice and the public weai ulii*u demand
that some step be taken to nip in the hud,
this, the most in humous of all the crimes
in the catalogue, and we for one would
add our feeble voice in exhorting the So
licitor of this Judicial District, to sec to it
that the perjurer, regardless of color, go
not unpunished. If the hearer of false
witness is permitted undisputed sway,
tiien shall we be the advocate of the aboli
tion of legal tribunals and urge every man
to assume the judicial ermine and become
the arbiter of every offence committed
against himself and society.
Houses and Stores to Rent.—The
Augusta ConstitntionaltSt has nearly a
column of advertisements of this kind.—
Does this indicate anything of the times,
high rents, or of the locomotive disposi
tion of the people ?
The Savannah Republican says, that there
is a great scarcity iu that city ot such hous
es as people of ordinary means are able to
rent, and such people are suffering for the
actual necessaries of life to satisfy the ex
liorbitant rents of landlords. Many peo
ple in Macon can say the same.
Only the wicked have reason to dread
the rain of fire and brimstone. —Nushvlilc
press an d Times.
Well you had better be hoisting your old
cotton umberelia. —Banner.
We haven’t got any umber-el-la you
ignorant bumpkin. — l 3 re, sand Tina s.
The “el” you havn,t. Well, if the po
lice don’t keep their eyes oil you, none of
your ueighborss will have any.
Plantation Bin err hy the Milk.—
Messrs. P. H. Drake & Go., last, year
sold nearly two million bottles of Planta
tion Bitteis. Allowing twelve niches to
the bottle, set in a continuous lino, they
would extend 13!) miles. What a nation of
invalids we are! Just think of a stream
three inches square extending ftoni New
York to Buffalo, being swallowed in hu
man stomaehes in a single year. Yet,
people appear to thrive under it, and re
peat with pleasure. We are inclined to
think Drake and Go. are entitled to the
persimmons, Viva la Plantation, S. T
1860—X.
Popular Sovereignty Exemplified.
—ln 1866 the people of Texas had an elec
tion for Governor, which resulted a, fol
lows .
Governor —Throckmorton 48,671
“ E. M. Pease 12,05]
Pease was the Radical candidate, and
tlie jitjople intimated that they did not
want itim by a vote of four to one. Hut,
of what avail is a vote of the people of a
sovereign State?
I From the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
A Pujjuof lliitury fronts Civil)" Wltnens.
The Treatment of Confederate Prisoners of
War —Life in Northern Prisons
Your renders no doubt have read and
heard many accouts of the hardships and
privations tiiat Union soldiers were sub
jected to in Libby Prison, and the “pens”
at Andersonville ; but, as there is so little
published or said of the rebel prisoners in
our Northern prisons, they know very lit
tle about it. Therefore, 1 v. ill endeavor
to give a fair and impartial account of my
experience in some of them.
On the 19th day of February, 1861, J was
taken prisoner at Baldwin, Florida, by
the Union troops under Gen. Seymour. I
was coulined at Jacksonvill, Hilton Head
and several other pjaces fora few days at a
time, receiving very good treatment until
I arrived at N. V. Here I was taken over
to Governor’s Island, and confined, with
forty-two others, in one casement in “Old
Castle Williams.” Then, indeed I began
to realize the horrors of prison life. In this
small casement we were Compelled to eat,
sleep and do everything else, as wo were
not allowed to go out for any purpose
whatever, excepting when our cooked
rations were brought us, we were allowed
to go out and get them, but hail to return
immediately. Several of our party were
sick, and how they managed to live in this
miserable hole is a wonder. The room had
but one window that was allowed to be
open ; there were two port-hole windows,
but were kept closed by the guard ; there
fore, we had very little ventilation, and
the smell was awful. Why they did not
put part of us in another room, 1 do not
know, for mostof the rooms were empty.
After remaining at “Castle “Williams”
four weeks, an order came for us to be re
moved to Fort Delaware. This news we
received with joy, as we thought there
could be no worse place, but had we
known what w’as in store for us we would
gladly have remained. We were marched
out, marched aboard a transport, and sail
ed for Fort Delaware, where we arrived in
three days.
Fort Delaware, as many of your readers
are aware, is on an island in the Dela
ware iiiver, below Philadelphia. The po
sition is a good one for n fort, but the last
place in the United States the Govern
ment should have thought of for confining
prisoners, for the island is a low, marshy
place, always wet and damp, and were it
not for the levees that surround it, it would
be entirely submerged during very high
tides; of course, such a place is anything
else but healthy, but on this small island
were confined from five to eight thousand
prisoners and privates of the Confederate
army.
hen we arrived at Fort Deleware, we
had President Lincoln's Amnesty Procla
mation read to us, and were told that all
who took the oath would be immediately
released and allowed to go where they
pleased. Several stepped out to have the
oath administered to them, and the rest of
us marched into the inclosure.
The barracks are very comfortable, that
is as far as room and veutillatiou is con
cerned There were long frame buildings,
with three tiers of bunks extending the
entire length of the buildings—these
buildings forming a square inclosing
others. On the side next the river
was the dining room and rxxik-hou.se.
Our first meal after arriving at the Fort
was breakfast, which was served up as fol
lows ; The timing room was a large frame
buildiog, contaiuing five tables. On eaeb
of these tables were set one hundred ra
tions. This ration consisted of a pint of
coffee and four crackers—sometimes in
lieu of crackers we had about fourouces of
bread, made of hour and corn-meal, which
was very w hoJtsome and good. When all
was ready, a door at the upper end of the
building was opaned; and the prisoners ad
mitted in double file; as they approached
tin tables they were filed right and left,
and marched down the tables and closed
up to their ration by file detailed for the pur
pose. If the prisoners attempted to steal
a ration he was immediately knocked
down by the file closers, dragged out and
tied up by the thumbs for two hours, with
their feet just touching the ground. Af
ter they were all done-eating, they turned
out in a back yard, the table set again, and
five hundred more admitted. This wa
repeated until! all had got through, then
all were let out of the pen and permitted
to go to their quarters. This was done to
keep them from going into tiie same meal
the second time, and it was necessary.
Dinner, which commenced at twelve
o’clock, was served in the same manner
as breakfast, but it was better. It consist
ed of a pint of soup (which was very good),
four hard-tack, and about four ounces of
beef or pork. Perhaps your readers will
say this was enough for any mail, and so
it wa», but, considering, wegot no supper,
and had to fast afterwards for eighteen
or nineteen hours, it was not enougu, and
many a poor pri-oncr would lay down at
night so hungry he could not sleep.
As we i«assed from the ilining-rooifc to
our quarters, i saw men standing on each
side of the walk offering for sale the tour
hard-tack and piece of meat they had
received at dinner for five cents. Most of
these men were victims of the scurvy, and
their object in selling their rations was
that they might hoy molasses, apples or
any thing else to keep off this awful
disease. This looked hard, that men in
this land of plenty should be deprived of
enough vegetable diet to keepofl thescurvy.
There was some excuse at Andersonville
wheie medical supplies were boekaded and
provisions of all kiudsscarce ; but here at
Fort Deleware there was no excuse. It i
true, we had molasses and pickle- issued
onece every two weeks, hut it was merely
for the name of it, as it only amounted to
one pickle andagillofmolussestothe man.
Every two weeks the prisoners were
turned out of their quarters, the quarters
then searched ami all articles of clothing,
blankets, &e., found in their bunks taken,
the prisoners then ordered to return, and
as they passed the gate in single file they
were searched, and all clothing excepting
what they had on and all blankets ex
cepting one taken from them. What tlie
Government wanted with these miserable
rags I could not tell, as they were only lit
for the paper mills, and as the poor pris
oners seemed to prize them so highly it
was cruel to deprive them of them.
Whenever prisoners had boxes of provis
ions sent them by friends at the North,
word was immediately sent to the person
to whom the box was addressed, opened
before him, and if it contained nothing
contraband, lie was allowed to take it to
his quarters. This was a good arrange
ment, and prisoners always got their box
es. It was the same with money. All
letters on arrival were opened, and if they
contained money, a note was sent through
the Post-office to the one it was for, and
on his calling at the office, he received an
order on the sutler for the amount in mer
chandise.
All persons who had taken the oath of
allegiance were not released according to
promise, but were confined in a building
to themselves, in the same inelosure as
the other prisoners; the only difference In
treatment, was they did not have their
clothes taken from them, and received
three meals a day.
During the short stay in Fort Delaware
I saw two men shot without the least
provocation by the guard, and heard of
many others, but of course reports of this
kind, among so many men, could not be
relied on. The two I saw were shot by a
German belonging to the First Maryland
Heavy Artillery ; he was on guard on the
bank of the river ; the prisoners had been
allowed to go to the river for the purpose
of washing, &c. I suppose the guard had
been instructed to stop this, but the pris
oners knew nothing of the order until two
of their number were shot without a word
of warning.
Tite prisoners at Fort Delaware were the
the best behaved ami disciplined set of
men I ever saw ; they quietly submitted
to their fate without a murmur, and to
see these fellows who had fought bravely
and honorably in many battles, kicked
and cuffed about by German soldiers of
the Union army, who had never saw a
battle, it was heartrending.
I do not give this statement for the pur
pose of justifying or as an offset to the
treatment of Union soldiers in rebel pris
ons, but merely to let your readers know
something about Northern prisons, and in
so doing 1 have confined myself strictly
to the truth and stated facts only, and 1
defy auy one who knows anything of Fort
Delaware to deny it.
G. F. 0. 11.
This is a very mild account of tite bar
barities practiced at Fort Delaware in its
early administration by a dutch savage
whose name we do not now recollect from
citizens of Macon and elsewhere. The on
ly water they have to drink was then from
a ditch that had communication with the
privies for several weeks. But were final
y relieved after a representation of the
circumstances at the city of Washington.
The barbarities there practiced, and the
mortality in Northern prisons far exceed
anything at Audersonville, and facts will
show that the commandant of Fort Dela
ware should have been hung in the place
of «Virtz of Andersonville. All accusa
tions ou the South, for matters of this kind
will yet react on the barbarians of the
North, when the true record is placed on
the page of history, and there will be re
cords, for which future generations will
wish to forget or disown their paternity.
Republican Kcacliou.
The following letter is from Ex-Senator
Harris of New York. Now the deed is
done and he helped to do it, he does not
believe in negro supremacy or equality.
New Yoke, August 10. —The following
notice is published very conspicuously in
this morning’s Herald:
Tice New Crisis—Ex-Senator Harris
ok New York ok the Present Condi
tion of the Country.
New York, Augusts.—“ To the editor
of the Herald. 1807. 1 thank you for your
manly announcement in this morning’s
Herald, in the article headed “ The New
Crisis.” Your views in that at tide are so
wholesome, that I cannot leave the city
this morning, being transiently here,with
out expressing gratitude. I assure you,
sir, tiiat the present effort of party leaders
to secure political power, by making tiie
Southern States negro States, is most
alarming, and the people of the North
must not allow its success, if they value
their own freedom and prosperity.
If the people stop to think they will
spuru such an attempt with indignation
Nothing but false issues can allow such a
ruinous project to succeed.
To cheat tiie people the advocates of this
nefarious scheme will keep before them
the idea of martyrdom, ami all that sort of
tiling, but tiie true issue should be ever
present toourxqinds, and martyrs reward
ed at less expense than the overthrow of
our institutions.
Now, sir, I have done my humble part
in the late war for the Union ; two of my
sons have fallen under the Union flag,and
my part has l»een in contribution, and not
in the reception of a penny’s profit during
the strife; hut never have I wished auy
-tliiug Oula restored Union. For this,and
tliis alone, 1 have sacrificed, and not for
the elevation of the negro, nor the disfran
chisement of the people of the Mouthern
.States. If the (leople of the Houth ate not
to tie restored to tiie Union, then the old
Cop)>erhead cry, i* That the Union could
not be restored by arms,” is verified. The
idea that the Houth must be Africanized
before its Htates are allowed to return, is
an admission tiiat the war has been a
wicked failure, and lias been waged for the
destruction of the Republic. It is not a
debatable question. We did not send our
sons to die for the erection of negro Htates
in the Houth. I appeal to the greatmasses
in the North, who generously poured out
their blood in the conflict, (if this was their
object. Mr. editor you have hit a tender
chord in your remarks thin morning, and
f know will awaken the sleeping sense of
the people on this crisis. I have pur
chased a plantation in Alabama and con
template removing there, and am encour
aging others in the North to follow me;
hut if that State is to be a negro Btate,fare
well to my purchase. The reasons are ob
vious—fanatics may not see them, but men
of common sense can.
I thank you again from my heart.
Ira E. Harris.
Attempt to Ron a National Bank
by Tt kneeling. —A bold attempt to rob
the National Bank of Lawrenceburg, I ml,,
came to light a day or two since. The
facts of the case are thus stated :
Tiie bank building is located in such a
way that its rear is on an alley, while in a
yard, across the alley is a deep pi ivy
vault, recently dug. Thetheives evident
ly had made themselves fully conversant
with the nature of the ground before com
mencing operations, and went to work
with a full knowledge of what was to be
done. For many nights mysterious noises
ivaj'i■ ii.-ard in the back yard of the bank
budding, but the watchmen were unable
to trace them out, or even form a rational
conjecture as to their nature. Other par
lie-were then called, but they were as
much puzzled as tiie watchmen, and the
whole tiling, each night, remained a mys
tery. One thing was noticed —it gradually
approached the bank building, and on
Saturday night it became louder, and
seemed to be a stirring and pounding in
the vicinity of the batik vault, where tiie
money was kept, and accordingly several
parties went into the building, and in so
doing made a disturbance, and llie noise
ceased and was heard no more. Still tiiere
was no clue to the matter, but a strict
guard was kept around the premises, and
this morning it was discovered tiiat the
privy vault was nearly filled with fresh
dhrt, when an investigation showed that a
iujiHiel had been dug from it to the exact
spot where the hank safe was, and had
not the watchmen been alarmed at the
noise, they would soon have succeeded in
obtaining and carrying off the treasure
thev coveted.
The Rutland Difficulty.—We have
given a full account ol the trial of six of
our citizens, for an alledged firing on a
negro meeting, and that live of them were
proved clear by iucontestible testimony
against a cloud of ignorant, irresponsible
and perjured negro witness —such as we
understand the prosecuting Attorney re
marked that he ‘could not convict a dog
upon.’
The other party was held to bail,
although he proved himself at home, by
one witness, at the time of the difficulty.
What we design to remark, is, that all
those men were proved innocent beyond
the shadow of a doubt, and discharged by
the civil court are still held in mili
tary 'custody, but for what reason or
purpose no one knows or can imagine.—
If they were subject to military authority,
why were tiiey not tried by it, and why
wds a civil court permitted to do It? The
case is a most extraordinary one and would
lie a novel one on the records of our judi
ciary.
ft is a very hard one on these prisoners,
as they are all laboring men, and it is a
critical period with regaad to a portion of
their crops which now need their at
tention.
lio ently, in the French Chambers, on e
of the speakers said that the fear of war
with Prussia rests like a nightmare upon
all France ; the Bourse is feverish ; trade is
utterly stagnant; real estate finds purchas
ers only with the greatest difficulty; mer
chants hesitate to replenish their stocks;
the shipyards are idle. In spite of the
hand-shakings of the Exhibition, he ad
ded, the whole country is ill at ease.
Getting an Invitation.—The Rev. Mr.
Bad traveled far to preach to a con
gregation at . After the sermon, he
waited very patiently, expecting some of
tlie brethren to invite him home to din
ner. In this he was disappointed. One
after another departed uutil the house was
almost as empty as the minister’s stomach.
Summoning resolution, however, he walk
ed up to an elderly looking gentleman and
said :
‘Will you go home to dinner with me to
day, brother?’
‘Wheredo you live?’
‘About twenty miles from this, sir.’
‘No,’ said tlie man, coloring, ‘hut you
must go with me.’
‘Thank you—l will, cheerfully.’
After that time the minister was no
more troubled about his dinner. .
Tlie Su ord in History'.
At the Conservative Convention which
nominated Gen. Helm for the Governor
ship of Kentucky, Col Wolford, a distin
guished officer of the Federal army, said :
“If history shall show in the end, that
that the war was for overrunning and sub
jugation of the Southern States, for the
purposeef elevating the negro to political
power at the expense of white men, horn
freemen, descendants of our revolutionary
siros, then I shall turn from my sword
with sorrow, if not with shame.”
We submit to Col Holford and thousands
of gallant men of the Northern army that
iiistory has already brought proof and the
sword of shame rests on many a household
wall. It shall never be the sword of hon
or until the men who fought to preserve
tlie Constitution, the Union and true Re
publican freedom, insist upon a perfect res
toration. If these never be restored, his
tory will wreathe the swords of the Nortli
in cypress ami the ages will halo thesword
of Robert Lee.
[Augusta Constitutionalist.
Tko Child at Prayer.
Into her chamber went
A little child one day,
And i>y a chair she knelt
Ami thus began to pray:
Jesu*, iny eyes I close,
Tty form I cannot see;
If thou art near me, Lord,
1 pray Thee speak to me ;
A still snail voice she heard within her
soul,
“What in it, child ? I hear thee—tell me
all.’
Ipray thee, Lord, she said,
That Thou wilt condescend
do tarry in my heart
And ever be my friend,
flic path of life is dark—
I would not go astray ;
Oh, let me have Thy hand
To lead me in the way.
“Fea/ not, 1 will not leave thee, child,
a one;” .
Hhe thought she felt a soft hand press her
own.
They tell ine, Lord, that all
The living pass away—
The aged soon must die,
And even children may,
Oh, let my parents live
’Till 1 a woman grow ;
For if they die, what can
A little orphan do?
“Fear not my child —whatever ills may
come,
I will not forsake thee ’till I bring thee
home.,’
Her little prayer was said,
Ami from herebamber now,
Forth passed she witli the light
Os heaved upon her brow ;
“Mother, I’ve seen the Lord
His hand in mine I felt;
And oh, I heard Him say,
As by my chair I knelt,
“Fear not my child—whatever ills may
come,
I’ll not forsake thee ’till I bring thee
home.”
The City <>» Hlciu|>lil« iu Peril.
THE SUIiTERANEAN FLOW OF THE MISSIS
' 8I1»PI.
A correspondent of the Nashville lYiion
and Dispatch, haviugsuggested that Mem
phis was liable at any moment to “fall in”
to a watery abyss beneath it, caused by the
subtorauean flow of the Mississippi, the
Memphis Bulletin adds the following:
“ The river shore in the navy yard lias
rapidly disappeared. There steamers
rarely land, lu front of the city proper
there are always from ten to twenty steam
ers. By these the earth, at the water’s
edge, is protected and the force of the sur
face current is broken. Hence it happens
that the earth at the water’s edge, and for
ten or twenty feet below, remains un
broken. The great body of the mighty
tide of waters, forty and fifty feet iallow,
rushes onward in its unresisted course
rending away the earth. How far the
stream passes beneath the city there is, of
course, no means of ascertaining. The
explosion of torpedoes, forty or fifty feet
below the river’s surface, shook every
building west of the bayou. Beyond the
bayou the shock was unheeded, unfelt.
“ Many years ago a sawmill wasat work
in the swamps of Arkansas, twenty uiiies
from the Mississippi. The owner awoke
one bright morning u> find his well dry,in
which the day before there was water
three or four feet deep, He out a trench to
a broad, long surface pond, not far away,
and was again supplied withan abundance
of water. This trench connected ihe jxuid
and well. Three days elapsed, and pond
and well both were empty. The old man
of tiie mill was amazed. The story was
told to a traveller from Memphis. ‘lt is
plain enough,’ he said, ‘ the river is lower
than for years (wist, ami your well and
pond have emptied themselves mto the
great sewer of tiie continent.” The Mis
sissippi not only overflows, but underflows
all trie broad valley through which it
passes. Its channel; bower broad and
deep, could not contain all the rains tiiat
fall and streams that comes down from the
mountains, territories and Htates of Amer
ica. At Fort Pillow and Randolph every
evidence of war has disappeared, swallow
ed up by the great river. Earthworks at
Randolph, built in 1861, three hundred
yards from the shore, have gone to the
Balize. At both these places the river
current, as here at Memphis, sirike the
shore at almost right angles. A city paper
tells u- how a planter within the week
deposited five thousand dollar*’ worth of
supplies upon the river bank somewhere
in Arkansas. He had not gone half a mile
when the country behind him disappeared
with all his stores.
“ Keelfoot Lake is fathomless. It is not
far fwhn tho river. yigllt Dcfore US)
earthquake of 1812,,10fty trees stood where
deep, silent, still waters have unbroken
rejioee. Cypress trees, two hundred feet
high went (town. Their loftiest branches
did not reach the surface of the wonderful
lake. Years before the great river had un
dermined the country, thelaml went down
and water came up. Everywhere around
New Madrid we have indubitable evidence
that the mighty river finds its way far be
neath the earth’s surface. An earthquake's
shock broke down tho earthen bridges that
everywhere along the river shores span
mighty streams and deep subteranean
lakes that are resorvoirs to supply atmos
pheric moisture, and hold tiie superabun
dant waters of this broad valley.
Winn wo are Comming to
[From the Paterson (N. H.) Guardian.]
Mr. McAuslaud. well known to our peo
ple, and a highly respected citizen,former
ly of this city and latterly of Texas, has ar
rived here. We believe he thiuks Texas
used up as a place for white men in the fu
ture. Before he came away he saw a jury
in tlie court-house composed of eleven ne
groes and one white man. This was now
nothing uncommon.
Mr. McAuslaud brings the correct ac
count of the atrocities now practiced upon
tlie white by tlie negroes, instigated by
tlie troops. He gives full particulars of the
burning of tlie town of Brenhamiu Wash
ington county. The first trouble occurred
at a private invitation ball given by a par
ty of young men, who had taken their
sisters and sweethearts to tlie hall hired
for the purpose. In tlie midst of their en
joyment, the officers of the troops stationed
in tlie vicinity attempted to gain admis
sion, and afterwards brought in five negro
wenches, whom they insisted on having
admitted promiscuously in tlie dances.
Os course this produced trouble. The
young men protested, and declared the ne
gro wenches must not only keep out of the
quadrilles, but leave the room, as it was a
private ball. The officers declared the
should keep their black partners iu tlie
room, and also that they should be admit
ted indiscriminately to the dances. The
white girls declined to 'dance in quadrills
with the negro wenches and were about to
retire,when they were insulted by the offi
cers; this produced a rumpus; the young
men of the town rallied, a fight com
menced, and the result was that the offi
cers and the wenches were cleared out.
The next day the troops returned, and
in revenge burned up the business part of
the place and gave the whites notice to
leave as they would come back and finish
the job. This they did, and burned up
the court house and churches, again or
dering the whites to leave. They next,
aided by a drove of negroes, destroyed
every building iu tlie town. Not a single
bouse was standing when Mr. McAuslaud
left, to mark where stood so recently tlie
nourishing and happy town of Breuliam,
Washington county, Texas.
Mr. McAuslaud recites other acts show
ing the desolation and horror now spread
ing over once fertile and happy Texas
He speaks discouragingly of the future and
has little hope of relief for* the white peo
ple, at the mercy now of their former
servants. Every day negro outrages oc
cur, and there is no longer safety for man,
maid or woman.
Loyalty with a Vengeance.—The
New York Citizen says; “The ‘loyal’
Btate Legislature conferred on Governor
Browulow the power of setting aside auy
registration, of his own motion, and ap
pointing anew register, and this power
seems to be used in a partisan interest, and
that a personal one besides. In one dis
trict the singular spectacle is presented of
a man who acted as a colonel in the rebel
army set to pass judgmeut upon the loyal
ty ot a man whoserved in the Union army
—the former having espoused the cause of
Browulow, and that the latter being op
posed to that redoubtable Governor and
caudidate.”
Georgia State University.—Wo re
ceived yesterday, a full report from our
Editorial Correspondent of the Proceed
ings at the. commencement, which took
place last week. We shall give it in our
next paper.
. The Tcnnesxee Frauds.
Bullets and bayonets have prevailed in
Tennessee, and Bro.wnlow is re-elected.
The mere forms of an election were oil
served. All the essential elements of tlus
great American institution were openly
disregarded. Like Napoleon, who declared
that all Frenchmen might vole as they
pleased, but at the same time made it a
penal offense foi any man to print or
write a ticket from which his name was
omniitled, Browulow took care that Ihe
machinery of political and despotism
should work in ins favor. The most out
rageous and indefensible course of conduct
was pursued with reference to the Const r»
ative party. Laws were passed disfran
chising over fifty thousand of the white
men of Ihe State, while at the same lime
tiie negroes were enrolled, without ques
tion as to their residence or tin* fact qf
ttieir having any of the few qualification!)
made necessary under the Browulow djv
nasty. The election laws of the 81 aft
have been changed four or live mm#
within the past three years, and each
change was intended to and did limit tiie
franchise so far a» tiie white men of 1 lag
Htate Were concerned. Ail tho Jaws of
Tennessee were passed under the direct
supervision of Browulow, and carried out
by his tools, ami hence the disfranchise
ment of white men who are in favor of tiie
Union and Constitution, and the respect
shown to negroes who support Browulow
and his military despotism, fn addition
to this, the Conservatives were preveuttp
from making a full and complete canvas#
of the Htate by bands of ruffians and cult
throats, organize) 1 by Browulow, marshal
ed and led by his fiiends, both black and
white, armed with State muskets, rifles
and pistols, and paid from tiie Stale Treas
ury. These gangs were instructed to breas
up the meetings of the Conservative party,
to murder those who would presist in de
nouncing Browulow and his unlawful acl 1,
to assail prominent and influentialcitizens
at their own homes, and thus terrify tl®
masses and prevent them from participat
ing in the election. While the whit;
men of the Htate who have a real ami übit]-
ing interest in its progress and welfare
were thus stripped of their yolitieal right!
thus distrain bised, insulted and prevent* and
from instructing the people upon the re:J
issues of the day and occasion, the negroii
were inflamed against tin-whites by prom
ises and fal-hood*, tendithus their - it
the polls were secured.
In this manner tiie farce called an elec
tion was played in Tennessee. Now as t*»
its results. Who have been forced into
position by this surging tide ■' ■
l a
:
hands. Claiming to Is- the
enemies of all who, doting the ~ AjfePj
tlid not openly side with the North, tie
Browulow party scrupled not to baiguia /
will) the “rebels” when they coubl gain
by such an alliance. To them principled
was nothing. It wits power they needui
at this time, power to be used in* the I'uJ
lure ns a means of riveting still morel
tightly those chains by which the
men of Tenn-ssee are now fettered. JU
Nashville correspondent of a leading R.vi-J
ical paper in New York gives some f;.,-J
on this j«oint which are interesting, lii-j
states tiiat in the Nashville Congressional!
district, the ultra Radical conliseatio I
candidate for Congress edited a ramps hi
secession newspaper in Georgia in
ami served in the Confederate, aru, j
whereas his Conservative opjiontiit, .Mil
Bailie Peyton, was an earnest and cohm-iI
eat Union mail throughout tho whole v:iri
The same writer remarks tiiat all theOuf
servative candidates for Congress ci.uflt
show a consistent Union record, w ,i|3
among the Brownlowites more than one!
was in the ranks of the “rebel” armv dur-l
ing the war. Os the Radical legislative!
candidates, one voluntarily took command]
of a “rel*el” company in tiie beginning ofi
tue war; while of the Conservative cim;
didates, there are several who were ofii > 4
of tiie Union army during the war, and 1
pretty large proportion of the (.onservativi
candidates are ex-Federa! soldiers, ai-irt
number of those Northern men who iiavt*
settled iu the Slate during and ,-ince ilidl
war. These facts are cited to show whafl
means were resorted to by Browulow jiii.il
his friends to hold power in Tennessee. I
and wiiat has been tiie result of the elec.)
tion when viewed from the standpoint of)
Northern Radicalism and “loyalty V”
In this Tennessee gia-s the'people of ass ,
the Northern Htates can see reflected their
own condition, if the bill giving the elec
tive franchise to negroes 1“ passed by Con
gross. Under tiiat measure Brownlov.
will spring up in all parts of the North, :<»
trample uj>on the rights of white men,
destroy Htate governments, uml enslave
tiie peoplo. Then white men, will 1-e
driven from the (tolls by soldiers*,
anil nrev«" f - 1 jou-tonbto.* (Jjfchc
mgs vA the sai«; pfwer. Tr.C iftfT
done in lenness%e,aiid theLoy}; Leaguers
of this city drape their hall with t*LT s !n jj
exultation over the event. Will \W ~•<>- 1
pie be w arned by thir Tennessee fraud f
, [Philadelphia Age. *?
Geo. Alfred Townsend gives the foi- j
lowing naughty sketch of life atNewport: j
Here is a bathing scene that struck me 1
yesterday: A lady dressed all in jq,,,, A.
even to her hoots, which were of (lie -\m« P
ethereal hue; likewise her parasol, her fc
gloves, her little flat fanchon of a hat. mbO
the'ouly relief to (hi- rare uniformit v, lunjfej
file golden chignon of hair lhai ioook.’.i
if it might be the reservoir of ai!
dye. Hhe had that pretty walk and
lish manner of the New York belle, .-.id*"
coming down the sand trippingly, -it 1
looked only more real than those Fren.-Kj
lithographs we see a siijk-;b!
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meet the anthropophagi, and 1
bathing-box down by the rezumfrule .ml 1
looked in. There hung a littlKkirt mi
jacket of azure; little azure Jfioots villi
azure strings were set down coquotti-hlj
on the sand ; the little hat, like a leaf xjis
dangling from a nail; and a ball of goji-ii
hair as big as a pumpkin, swung ir « »>*
from a beam. I could account for the di
minished height of niv lady now she
had been decapitated. Directly, all cla-H
by tier wet masquerading garb, so that the !
roundness of youth was half come Ki-k, 1
she re-entered the box. Os course 1 had
quitted it. In five mjnutesan azure sylph
lit for Thetis herself, came daintily out I
upon the sand, golden ball and all. I 1
thought Ovid or the Davenport brothers
would have a hard time to beat this u.eta- j
niorphosis.
The Ranchero states that Lope/., after
betraying Maximilian, went to vi.-it his
family at Puebla. His wife advanced to
meet him, leading their little son by the
hand, and addressed him thus : “Sir, here
isyour sou ; we ernnot cut him in
him. You have betrayed ymtr-tvWfflFy*
ami your benefactor. From this hour we
are strangess ; for T shall this day return
to my family. Go.”
Bkownlow’s Gaming Table.-—Brown -
low so bitterly hated anything tinctured
with anti-slavery that lie railed at the
Southern opposition in Congress for a »
seeming disposition to untie with the
Black Republicans. Rather than do ‘that
he would play push pin on Northern cof
fins. Here is what ho said in Ins paper
in 18G0:
We, of course, will not advise Stiff hern
Opposition members what to do, believing
them competent to preserve their own
self-respect., and to discharge a sworn duty
to their country and their constituents,
hut were we a member of tlie Bout hern
Opposition in Congress, before we would
ceupv the paltry and contemptible atti
tude of creeping after a party that had
spurned us by its deliberate nets, we won la
see the Capitol of the nation, and ah the
territory, North and South, sunk to etern
al perdition. Nay, we would see all Un
political organizations iu America as far
in hell as a pigeon could (ly in a tliousinnH.
years, or a forge hammer < onld&ugHßl
twice that time! Sooner tirflffHjm
ourselves under the pretence of iSiusH
for the homes and rights of our
we would see them starve to death and
then seat ourselves upon their coffins with
a Southern gentleman and play push pin
for the layer beer. 1
It is said that in Walton county Ga
there is not a single known Radical t.io
rious old county ! Rut it must lie a i«.or
district, containing little that is worth
stealing. We advise those people if they