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Implora Pace.
[From the Norfolk Journal.
BY M. E. M.
Implora pace! This and nothing more,
Sweet Friend in Heaven, we dare to ask
of thee,
On other heads the wine of gladness pour—
The holy oil of jieace our chrism shall
be!
Implora peace! Suffering Son of God,
Once from pale lips of thine the cry was
rent
“Eloi! Eloi! luma sabacthani,”
While o’er thy enAs the pitying heavens
were l>eu t!
Implora pace ! As we toil along,
Weary and worn, and panting on the
way,
Forth from our souls too oft there comes
no song,
Hut only tears and moans bewail the
day.
Implora pace! Dost thou bid us waif'
i-irst patience milk-white* Mower-and
then the fruit,
Dow bending, purple flushed, and won
(liou+i sweet,
Jhe perfect bloom that springs from
sorrow’s roof.
Dost bid us toil, and leave the rest for thee?
Dost bid us plant, and wait for tbine
increase?
Nor weakly falter in the dreary day,
Crying, like children, till thou give us
peace.
Not so, dear Saviour, is our spirits word !
But ah, alas! the flesh is very weak.
<'nine, Idossed One, come! Do not tari y.
Lord,
And to our souls thy consolation speak.
Implora pace! Not the foaming cup
That glitters in tile morning sunlight,
erst
We’U quaff the dregs of grief, still looking
up,
II but a drop of peace, baptize us first.
Implora pace! Not as gives the world,
But as thou givest to those who on thy
breast
Shall lie, while planets are to ruin hurled,
And taste the fulness of thy perfect
rest!
Implora pace! both in life and death,
And after death, in t hat fa r world to
come—
This boon be ours, this crown of grace and
faith,
Implora pace! in the heavenly home!
U ah!iin»toii Correa|>oti<leuce «>tf < harlcft
to»i Courier.
Washington, September 12.
The Radicals are somewhat disconcerted
by the results of recent State elections,
while the Conservatives begin to feel much
encouraged to hope for further changes in
their favor. The Radical newspaper now
express fears that New Jersey and Penn
sylvania may follow in tUe wake of Cali
fornia. From New Jersey we have very
strong assurances that the State will go
Democratic-Conservative. The fever of
tile impeachment party will lie cooled
down before the meeting of Cugress.
Upon the subject of impeachment it may
here he remarked that conservative men
deride and disavow the project of offering
violence to the procedure. Impeachment,
according to the constitutional forms, is
not to be resisted by unconstitutional
means Impeachment, as a resort author
ized by the constitution, in st be acee.led
to by all parties. It must have its regu
lar and legal course. But, if the House of
Representatives, not content with this
extreme measure of hostility tc the Presi
dent, undertake to suspend him from the
performance of his functions, as soon as
the articles are preferred, it will be re
volutionary, and will uecessarially be
opposed by violence.
1 nipeaehmeiit will be of no use to the
Radical party if they cannot suspend An
drew Juhr.son’s actions as President, until
removal be efleeted in May, or perhaps
not until July next, It is'thought that
the army and the Generals of the army
Grant and .Sherman—will continue t . re
eeive and execute orders from President
Johnson until lie shall be removed from
office in a constitutional and legal manner.
The President feels perfectly secure in ilii.s
fact. It is well known to General Grant’s
friends that, while in a civil feud, lie will,
as a military man and the General-in-Chief,
receive and obey orders, be wiil recog
nize the orders of the Government in fact.
The President’s orders will l»e carried out
by him. He will consider Johnson as
President until lie has been superseded in
due process of constitutional law,
at agitation seems to prevail in* th'n "
counrrj in reference to tnenew future. —
This is one of the chief reasons for the
excitement in the gold market. Gold, it
is said, iu New York, will rise to fifty in a
few pays It is forty-six to-day.
Tin- .Secretary of the Treasury will give
file bufis a swing for some time longer.—
He is not sidling gold at present. But he j
may come into the market with a large
amount some day, and swamp tiie specu
lation.
The report gained stength in New York
yesterday lliar. Mr. McCulloch w <s to give
place to this or that mail very soon. The
report was calculated to cause apprehen
simi as to the future administration of the
Treasury. No chance at present could
fail to diminish confidence in the stability
of the preasent financial policy. But ihe
President, to-day, authorized a contradic
tion of this report to several persons. No
change in that office, he raid, is contem
plated. Leo.
A Miserable (radical Trick.
We have had [Maced before us a printed
circular, signed by “E. Huibert,” General
Pope’s Chief Registrar for Georgia, and
chief agent of (lie ‘'Southern Express
Company” in tiiis district, of which the
following is a copy. We Invite the alien- j
tion of our readers to it as a specimen of
radical trickery worthy the source from
which it emanates, and the designs it
would accomplish. Doubtless the docu
ment itself, though hearing no oflicial
sign, is designed for Huibert’s sub-regis
trars in the several counties of our Btule,
and may, for aught we know, be scattered
broadcast over it. He was told, it is
charged—“ The Convention must he held
—lt is in your power—You know your
duty.” This circular, we presume, con
stitutes a part of his extra official duty.
\V e warn the people, not to tie betrayed j
into any neglect of the solemn duty t hey
will soon lie called upon to discharge at the
polls, by any such electioneering tricks as
this one of Mr. E. Huibert and his radical
compeers at these headquarters. The
alarm that pervades in the radical ranks
here lias so added to their demoralization,
that they will stop at nothing to accom
plish their purposes. “Taste not, touch
not the unclean thing !”
[COPY OF THE CIRCULAR.]
Atlanta, , 1807.
Let the motto of the Reconstruction
Party in Georgia be “Convention and Re
lief.”
The country is heavily in debt.
Multitudes of executions are ready to he
levied.
The Stay Law is practically dead.
Several Superior Court Judges, Hon.
Hiram Warner among the number, iiave
ruled the Stay Raw unconstitutional.
Judge Warner is now Chief Justice of
the Supreme <,’ourt.
Gen. Pope bus refused to grant relief in
the premises.
Executions will now lie levied and thous
ands sold out and rendered bankiupt, un
less something be done speedily.
(lood men will sutler seriously unless
some aid is soon granted.
The Convention is now our only hope.
Let the platform of all Reconstruction
candidates for the Convention be “Recon
struction and Relief,” and we will sweep
the State by thousands.
Set the hall in motion.
E. Hulbekt.
Another Knock Down for “Brick”.
—A recent number of the La< 'rouse Dem
ocrat, publishes the contents of that
damnable tract so extensively circulated
throughout the South by Radical emis
saries, and which we published a few
weeks since. One question and answer
provokes “Brick’s” special ire, and lie
puts in a “one, two” on the Jacobin snout,
as follows:
“Q. What is the reason that several of
the Northern Htates <io not give us the
right to vote ?
■•A. Chit flu because they have <n the past
been controlled by the. Democratic party.”
New York was so controlled, was it not,
when in 1860 it gave Lincoln 60,000 major
ity, and voted down negro suffrage by
140,000 majority? And Connecticut, Wis
consin, and Minnesota, when they gave
large Republican majorities and even
larger ones against negro suffrage Oh,
generation of Joyal liars, what a big bad)-
ing poud of fire and brimstone you de
serve !
Rose Ac liurr.
Tin; Count■ loti «t tUc South.
From the Round Table.
Partisans, whose opinious throughout
the momentous struggle from which this
country has lately emerged have retained
an unchanged bias, preserved the same
monotone of color, are not always safe
guides in matters either of fact or proba
bility which have a direct relation to their
cherished theories. Starting with this
proposition, and coupling with it the state
ment that vve have ever been steadfast op
ponents of slavery and staunch supporters
of national unity, we submit some reflec
tions and circumstances relating to the
present condition of our Southern section,
asking for them the consideration which
this prefactory explanation may seem to
justify. From whatever point of view—
moral, financial, or political—we may re
gard the Southern States, their situation is
unspeakably deplorable. The effect of
subjugation is always demoralizing. Men
lose heart and hope and self reliance. En
ergies are paralyzed. Self-respect is low
ered. From the inspiration of battling
for a cause men sink to mere vulgar self
seeking and greed ; and oftenest it hap
pens that, the noble of life being
abandoned, they plunge recklessly info
base pleasures and degrading sensualities.
Yu; vied in! If the victors be not,what the
victors seldom are, magnanimous and
generously mindful of their subject thralls,
“ the lost cause” soon becomes the leustof
the regrets of the more wise among the'
conquered. A lost people is an infinitely
worthier subject of sorrow.
Under their defeat, it cannot he denied
that the Southern people have behaved
with great nobleness. Before the close of
the war, men at the North as well as at
the South believed that the surrender of
the Southern armies would be followed by
a guerilla warfare of years, yet from the
day of Johhston’s surrender not one out- i
rage has occurred such as had with reason
been anticipated. The cause of tiiis is two- i
fold. The (Southern people were always a
martial people; and however we may I
sneer at their chivalry—which doubtless I
was an element both of weakness and of j
strength—we must at least concede that j
they possessed the virtues as well as tin
defects of the martial nature. If tlnjy !
were proud, impetuous, impatent, they
were also brave, enduring, rtsolute; anil
since the war they have proved that they
possess beyond all precedent in history
(he soldierly characteristic of fidelity to i
their pledged wold. Never were such ;
numbers of soldiers let loose in a conquer- j
i-d country oil their Care parole of honor.
And surely never was parole more truly i
kept. The men of the South were chained j
as by a chain of adamant when they had 5
given their word of honor to o ey the !
government that had subjected them ; arid j
tiiis has the great cause of the tran
juility which has prevailed si ire (her
surrender. Another hardly slighter cause
ics in the judicious counsels and ttie more
udicious siience of their public men.—
Heretofore the leading statesmen of the
ountry have been generally from the
south ; and though the race of giants has
ong passed away from both the alienated
■ectiouß of th - country, it is difficult to
■onceive a course of calmer or more digui- j
led discretion than lias been persued bv
Southern public men in their late unhnp-J
iy circumstances. Here and there a !*<»!- I
ard may have vapored somewhat, and his
.'aporings, have always been extensively j
lirculated at the North Here aud there, |
no,our on own side of ttieiine some tenth- j
•ate newspaper has set itself lip as par < r
• ‘<f nee the advocate of Southern rights;
>ut it is not fiorn such sources that we j
earn the course of (southern men of note, j
It is from a Lee in his college, a -sic- ■
Miens or a Bragg on his plantation, or a
lolinston on his railroad, that we truly;
earn it. Even the crowd of significant j
jo bodies that filled the Con federate ('on
tress have behaved with unexpected wi- i
bun ; and the press, notwithstanding its :
ernptation to cater to tiie excitable ten-!
lencies of tiie people, has uniformly dis- |
•enraged all resistance to the powers Unit |
»e. Thousands of soldiers could never by |
my conceivable system of repression have ! :
Maintained the quiet, order, and suhtnis- ; 1
ive resignation which every where
•ail in the subjugated states. H h«« < m i ,
snldi7rs. ~L " 1 ’ "I J
Yet the moral of the people are very far
rotn being untouched and untainted by !
heir great disasters. It is a trite but true '
aying that poverty brings crime: and in j
lie towns and cities of the South, purlieu- j
arly those whose manufactures iiave in
hues past given employment to the poor, j !
t isa well-known fact that prostitution has
icen frightfully increased. How are we j
o condemn tiie wretched woman thus
breed into misery, disease,and early death
o get bread for her starving children?;
Heavens pity her ! The man wljfo has a
leart to sneer at her ought to leave been
nueh purer iti his life and conversation j
Jinn most men whose private history is
mown to us; and the woman who would
udge her harshly must be one who owes j
supercilious chastity to frozen blood. Much
uses as we speak of are not rare. We
neption neither states nor cities, but we
■ay wliat there is ample evidence to prove
when we affirm that thousands of poor
.vomeu lisve been forced to lives of shame
o save their helpless ones from perishing
rv hunger. To every deep there isalower
leep, and this abyss of sin and misery is
10 exception to the rule. A legal gentle
nan of ability informs us that iu his town
-a place of some 10,000 inhabitants —not
'ewer than from sixty to seventy young
vbite women, cast out of employment by
lie destruction of the factories, are openly
iving as the mistresses of megrn men.—
Hi is is miscegenation with a vengenee.—
I’hinkofrt! Not even marriage to gild
he disgusting bond. Tiie negro, when be j
inds a white woman degraded enough ot j
lesperate enough to receive his vile pro
posals, does not think her good enough to
re Dis wife, but gratifies at once his lust
tnd his vanity by making her his concu
line.
We can turn with disgust from the de
estible picture, but unfortunately there
ire some who cannot turn from it. We
lo not mean the men and women of the
soutli alone who are compelled to witness
these abominations. We do not even
mean the children of the upper classes,who
imid such horrors, are perserved from
much of the inevitable contamination by
tiie care of virtuous parents. But we do
mean the poor children of the working
classes, and much more the children of
the pauper class. What chance have they
of growing up iu virtue? Surrounded by
examples such as these, with crime and
vile diseases all around them, often with
the taint of vice and deatli implanted in
them before their birth, they are as much
devoted to destruction as if tlie destroying
angel had already uttered their eternal
doom. We iiave beard much of theequai
ity of the negro with the white man. In
the name of justice aud of mercy, let our
political negrophilists at the North begin
to do something to show that they still j
believe the white man to be equal to the]
negro. The whole cohrse of oar govern
ment has for months past been calculated I
to degrade our own blood iu the Southern
states in order to exalt the negro popula- j
tion. All our charities have been devoted I
tt> the negro. Only a few generous hearted ;
persons iiave turned their liberality to the !
poor whites. It is well known that the
school fund in more than one of the
Southern .States has been, during the last
year, diverted from its object to buy bread
to feed the starving. Yet while freedmen’s
schools are dotted off over the South and
Yankeee schoolmistresses are everywhere
—and some of them most laudibly—en
gaged in teaching negroes, not one school
has it yet entered into Northern minds to,
establish for tiie poor white children ofthe
South.
Os the financial condition of the South
it is hardly necessary to speak. The close
of the war found the people stripped of
everything. Without clothing, without
tools, destitute of all the ordinary imple
ments of industry, with no money but
Confederate rags, with little credit here or
elsewhere, and with the negro population
terribly demoarlized, their chances for
prosperity and even for existence were
poor indeed. They met their difficulties
with a patient courage worthy of the
highest praise. Without idle self-pityings
they bent their shoulders bravely to the
burden, and went manfully to work. Much
of the damage sustained by their planta
tion was repaired, and the end oi the year
saw them reasonably hopeful of results
from the ensuing season. Unhappily the
second season did not fully realize their
hopes. They had staked all on their cot
tons crops, and neglected to plant grain
enough for the succeeding year. The cou-
I sequence #as mournful, fn many places
I the amount of cotton raised scarcely suf-
I fleed to pay the cost of labor and the price
of implements employed in cultivation
find during the last winter incredible des
titution fell upon the poor. The crop now
coming to maturity was planted in the
midst of dearth, and most of it is mort
gaged to corn speculators in advance of
its production. Bti 11, the prospect of the
present crop is fair. Before the war it
averaged 4,000,000 bales. The yield tiiis
year will not he less,if fair weather contin
ues, than from 2,250,000 to 2,500,000 bales.
More grain, too, lias been raised than last
year ; so that, though a great part of the
price of what has been produced will be
immediately consumed in paying debts
contracted in producing it, considerably
less outlay will be necessary to produce
the crop of 1808. The country at large
will be immensely henefitted by the pres
ent crop, which will tbi\.w not much, if
any, less than 250, 000,(MM) of dollars into
the lap of the nation, although of tiiis sum
a mere pittance will remain in Southern
hands. Another and another equally good
year must follow before Southern men be- ;
gin to keep the wealth which is the pro
duotof their industry.
But the financial future of the South is
{ bound up with the future of her politics;!
! and the former lias been already sacrificed i
j before the Moloch of a political party, tiie [
; single object of whose being is to keep a |
few men, as we lately said, in the enjoy- j
I merit of fat salaries, “with stealings.” '
| The corruption and demoralization of tiie I
j cotton-raising negro population lias now j
I passed beyond all previous conception, !
though it bids fair to become so much I
j worse that the culture of tiie cotton plant !
iu any systematic way must speedily be
| come impossible. Already we learn from 1
private sources, in which we have perfect !
| confidence, that the negroes every \* here [
: go armed to tiie teeth; that their nights are
spent In secret political assemblies, where ;
the vilest of white men incite them to the !
most exaggerated bitterness against the I
planters, and, indeed, against the whole
white population; that they confidently,]
look for speedy confiscation of the landed
property, to give to every negro “forty ;
acres and a mule;” that on the plantations !
they are insolent and menacing in their
demeanor; tuat the planters are com pel led i
lor their own safety to overlook and wink
at the most flagrant idleness and dishones
ty; that when they threaten their deiinqu
eut laborers with ejection fromtheircahins j
or stoppage of rat ions, t hey then'selves are
threatened in reply with arson or with
personal violence ; aud that neither j
negro nor planter looks upon the present ]
■State of affairs as one that can be j
permanent.
Ihe truth is, it cannot he permanent.
No nidus’ry in the world can he permanent
under such disadvantages. While Penn
sylvania and New England require not
only-stable government hut an enormous
bonus fro oi the nation to enable t >on to
sell their iron or their manufactures to tiie
people at a vastly great.-r prie ■ than we
could buy them for elsewhere, it is an out
rage on common sense thus by inflatnma
torv legislation lo destroy an industry that
firings notiiing but profit to the country,
ami needs and asks for no protection other
than Ihe same laws as protect the peopD
of the Mate- at large. A continuance of
such legislative iiationalself-<b “traction as
now [(retails may not impossibly result in
universal bankruptcy, and the repudiation
of our national dent; hut, at ieast.it can
not fail to cause the total ruin of the agri
cultural productiveness of tiie Southern
States It is necessary to the existence of
industry that the relations of the laborer
to his employer should tie harmonized.
Mr. Wade’s late somersault shows how we
should shrink from tha inauguration of
agrarianism among ourselves. Yet our
legislation in tiie Southern States has pre
cisely the effect as if it iiad been deliber
ately planned for the disorganizing of all
reasonable harmony between theSoutbern
laborer and his employer ; and the igno
rant enthusiasm ofthe tl eg roes lias been
roused by propogatingsuHi wild notions of
agrarianism as neither of the Gracchi ever
dreamed of. Once again, la victis / Un
•!gai uucjqiecuwiljy possess the great gov- -4
eminent, the South has this year seen tiie
best year it can hope for through a long
space in tiie future. But we have said that
t iie financial future of the South is hound
up with the future of her politics. Wiiat,
then, is the future she has to look forward
to? Let us see.
Tiie plain meaning of the pseudo- Recon
struction acts of ('ongress, now being j
pushed to their most merciless eonsum- ■
mation, is simply this: Ist, To register in
the South the mtire negro population and
such whites as may unite with them in I
supporting the radical party in Congress, j
2d, To prohibit the registration of the vast !
majority ot tiie whites who have a real in- j
terest in the quiet and prosperity of the
country. 3d, To submit to the voters of;
the States thus registered tlie question j
whether they will or Wiil not hold a con
vention for the reconstruction of their ;
States under thecongressional plan. I Utter j
this mode of procedure, it may be seen ]
what a hopeful future lies before the South
and the whole country. Either theSrates
will vote for convention or no convention.
The white vote will be largely east against
convention ; for tlie present military rule
with all its disadvantages at least affords
protection, while reconstruction such as
lias been perpetrated in the State of Ten
nessee gives little protection but to negro
brigands, The radical whites and the ne
groes who are interested in subverting all
decent rule and authority will, of course,
unite in favor of convention. Now, sup
pose—although the case is hardly possible
—that the conventions is by such a mock
ery of suffrage rejected. Then the radicals
will a jail themseives ofthecrv of Southern
contumacy; Mr. Steven’s mild confisea
iott is brought into play; the South is
wholly ruined by the viilanrous atrocity,
for merely saying,as our generous ('ongress
has invited her to say, that she prefers the
ruleof military satraps to the harder rule
of uninstrueted negroes and white bravoes.
On the other hand suppose—and this is the
only supposition justified by the registra
tion which is being made—that a conven
tion is desired. Then it is practically a
negro convention. It will frame a consti
tution that will throw the whole power of
the State into the hands of negroes and
white men who hope to profit by the suf
frages of negroes. The proscription of
white men will be more sweeping than
congressional proscription. Confiscation
of t he property of white men by their negro
rulers will be* sure to follow ; and the in
direct confiscation will be more destruc
tive than confiscation outright. The
ruling class, having no property themselves
will look upon the transfer of their sub
ject’s property into their own possession
as the one great end of government. With
a penniless negro legislature to tax and
defenceless while men to be taxed, the
issue cannot long be doubtful. In every
county taxes will be laid in the same way
iby negroes upon the white men. In the
towns and cities negro couneilmen will
i vote themselves large salaries, create un
necessary offices for purpose of plunder,
j and for like ends undertake enormous jobs
;of fanciful public improvement. Justice
! administered by negro magistrateswill be
; a farce; redress of wrongs will be impossi
ble. Liberty of outrage will be amply
I secured. The liberty of death will be tiie
only liberty secured to men whose crimes
is that they were born white.
Let tbe Northern people ask themselves
whether this is what they mean. If not,
it is high time that they bestir themselves,
for it were better to iiave taken the advice
of certain gentle congressmen, and put to
deatli the men, women, and children of
the Boutii at once, than to deliver them to
such a fate as now impede.
. Radical Mischief Brewing^—A
special dispatch from Washington to|the
New York World, dated 13th inst,discloses
a fresh scheme by tiie Jacobins to invoke
Congressional interference in Maryland
affairs. It says:
The government has received intelligence
that the Radicals in Maryland contem
plate the inauguration of scheme at the
election on the 18th, when tiie new State
constitution is to be submited for ratifica
tion, which will surely lead to riot and
bloodshed, under the assumption that a
colored man has as much right to vote in
Maryland as in Virginia. The more des
perate Radical leaders in the former State
are urging the colored men to present
themseives at the polls and demand the
right to vote on the new constitution.
'Haoon, <3-**.., We<ilifisday, Septemeber 1^67.
More Radical Mischief.
We find the call below appended, in the
Savannah Republican of Tuesday. It only
confirms our conviction as to the real pur
posed! Southern Radicalism; To provoke a
collision between the races, which may
serve as excuse and occasion, both, for
the inauguration of a reign of terror that
will force every white man, woman and
child in the South to die in their tracks,
or go into exile. Brown, Johnson, and
the other more prominent tools of Stevens,
Butler, and Logan may declare that they
have no sympathy with such extremes,
and that these manifestations deserve and
receive their severest reprobation. It is
not true, in fact, aud the vast majority of
the white race will so hold. They have
nursed the lout bustard until its power aud
proportions are beyond their control, if
indeed they desire to exercise it, of which
ice have our doubts. As this revolution
progresses we cannot see how the spilling
of blood can be prevented. The very first
drop that falls to the ground will he
charged to them, and if before the contest
isover their own smokes on th*- soil that
they have turned into shambles, it will
only be one more illustration of the trutli
that they “who sow the wind, shall reap j
the whirlwind.”
The Republicanmixyi that a proposition
to regulate the rate of bank interest in
Savannah was among tiie objects set forth
in the call as necessary to accomplish, hut
that it was stricken out at the suggestion
of a “prominent white aspirant” of the
city.
The Republican concludes its article with
an invocation to Gen. Pope to interfere.
We dislike very much to say, or even think
it, Du t our cotemporary might as well “call
spirits from the vasty deep!” Here i-: the
call :
RALLY, RALLY!
! A GRAND REPUBLICAN AND RE
LIEF MASS MEET EC,
\ IN CHIPPEWA SQUARE, SAVANNAH, (it.,
Monday, September 30, ISM 7, Commencing
at 11 o'clock, A. M.
AH the white and colored people in
i Effingham, Chatham, and Bryan counties
tire requested to attend tbi> meeting win*
I love the United States and are iu favor of
a State Convention, equal rights to colored
voters aud poor white person* without
property, or the leading and writing qual
ification.
Homesteads for all men of families in the
county and town in which they belong
(paying the State in seven years) to stop
pauperism and dignify labor.
Eight hours shall be a day’s work—after
hours [(aid for.
We would reduce tent- in cities to 10 per
cent on the taxed value of all houses let;
and no arrests should b<- made on me me
process.
BREAKERS;
Ex-( iovernor James Johnson,
William Markham, G. P. U. L. (la..
Hon. C. H. Hopkins,
Aaron A. Bradley, Esq,,
Walter L. Clift, E-u.
Bays the Republican :
We now invoke, in behalf of a powerless
people, the aid of General Pope, whom we
understand has been placed in command
of this District, not only to enforce the
laws of Congress and see tlial the provis
ions of its Reconstruction program me are
faithfully executed, but to protect tbe cit
izens of th is Territory from all needless
persecutions and outrages. Surely u Gen
eral >l ill tl'hMn.R j
tion because a youth on cnimn'encer*-
day is indiscreet enough to deliver a pane
gyric on the State Bights doctrine, aud!
who lielieves that the cause of Reconsfruc,
tion can he advanced by starving out ail I
journals or getting rid of those editors who
fail to agree and endorse his individual;
views on Reconstruction, will certainly be
brave and magnanimous enough to see
that the distress and woe of a defeated
and impoverished people is not increased,
and that they are not publicly insulted by
a roaming band of political adventurers
and experimentalists. Inasmuch as Gen.
Pope is familiar with the partial failure of
tiie crops tbfs season, we [feel confident
that his superior judgment will point out
the manifold evils that will spring from
the public avowal of such infamous doc
trines, as are enunciated in this appeal,
and we think we have at least a right as
a loyal journalist, to respectfully invite his
earnest attention to a matter that if neg
lected must inevitably peril the welfare of
all honest, law abiding citizens. In Heav
en’s name, if the people of Georgia and the
South have not yet been punished enough
for their political mistakes—if revenge is
to he wreaked out at oomjwiund interest in
tiiis manner, it would be far preferable for
them to read the special edict which per
mits insults to accompany injuries- ft
would be well to know whether justice re
quires that tiie cruel mandate of Bylia,
who ordered the bones <>f Marius to be
| broken, his eyes to be pulled out, hands to
; tie cut off and his body to be torn in pieces
with pinchers, under the directions of Cat
i aline, tiie fiendish executioner, is to be
] enacted. We shall see.
The War Office—Mr Greeley and
Gen. Stekdm an.—About a month aa<>, Mr.
Greeley printed an editorial in the T. Jrune,
based on a rumor by the telegraph, that
General Steedman had been appointed
Secretary of War. In that article Mr.
Greeley says :
“The appointment of Steedman as Sec
retary of War, monstrous and ridiculous
as it is intrinsically, is in perfect keeping
with Mr. Johnson’s policy, which is al
ways to choose the worst man in the coun
try for a given position. If lie could have
found a successor to Mr. Stan toil more ob
noxious to the people, and less worthy of
the office than Bteedman, he would have
inevitably chosen him, but that was im
possible. Steedman is the last man in tiie
United States who ought to he Secretary
of War,” &c.
Something over a year ago, when Gen
eral Steedman was named as tiie then
probable successor of Mr. Stanton, Mr.
Greeley wrote a letter to Mr. Johnson, a
copy of which was retained by tiie friend
of General Steedman who delivered the
paper to the President. That friend furn
ishes the following copy :
Office of the Tribune, j
New York, January 28, 1800 /
[Confidential.]
Dear Sir— The journals generally say,
that Mr. Stanton has tendered his resig
nation, and expects soon to leave the War
Department. Should this be the case, 1
venture to suggest as his successor, Gen
eral James B. Steedman, of Ohio, one of
the bravest and truest of our Union vol
unteers, and a capable, demoted patriot.
Trusting you are aware of his merits,
1 remain yours,
Horace Greeley.
Hon. A. Johnson, President.
As it is very certain that General Steed
man will again lie urged for tiie place of
Secretary of War, and it is even more than
probable Unit he may yet be appointed to
that office, the foregoing editorial and let
ter become intereating.
i The Difference.—A negro man,elder
!of lhe church at Bethel, Ralls county,
Missouri, refused to partake of the Lord’s
: Supper, because “the flour the bread was
j made of was stolen.” For this he was
j expelled from the church.
Served him right. What business had
he to object to such a thing as tiiis, while
j many so-called Christians at the North
I were at the some time celebrating the love
!of Him who died for them out of silver
! vessels stolen from Southern Churches?
[Savannah Advertiser.
; Eight million dollars has been raised by
| the Hon. John Thompson for the con
struction of tiie American Central Rail
| way, running from. Omaha to Fort Wayne,
[lndiana. It is commonly called the
“ Sundown Railway.”
KISSING HER FEMALE COUSIN.
BY ALDftfCH,
Your coming iu last night, wy lady love,
Waa Kornewliat sudden. I was helping Nell
I o i ie the ribbon of her ngolette;
Khe put tiie crimson of ner mouth up- well,
I in fltKh and blood—and then you Hinging came
Into tiie room and, tossed your head tor shame.
i saw a sort of maiden Northern lights
Shoot, up your cheeks and tremble in yonr » yc ;
I like such things. I like to see the wind
Drive frightened clouds across the skies ;
1 like the sea, and, when it’s easily had,
A pretty woman—very, very mad !
I like the dangerous and regal air
(} on bear a queen’s name and a queer* you are.)
W ith which you donned your Thibet opera doik,
And clasped it with a diamond like a star,
1 was unarming in my mm tress—but, my life,
it would not be so charming in my wife,
I like wild things, as I have said, but then
i should not like id own them. Who would be
I ropnelor of earthquakes or loose, hurricanes,
Or cornets plunging in celestial seas ?
Or wed a maid that could, if she please,
Give me a, touch ol one and all of these ?
Not I. Don't let a female thunder storm
Hrood in your eyes, with every nod, and then
A flash of angry lightning. You have hud
Your March and April; now be June again,
And let. your fine cut eyebrows’ silken pan
Be brows ot promise to your favorite man !
i I’ve had my laugh, snd you your pout, and now
(You'll spoil that rone-bud if you twist it ho!)
Give me both hands, that I may say, “good Has*,
The good Bess, * and kiss you *re 1 go—
The good Hess, whose heart aud nilud,uud
face,
I each me to love am. women--as a race !
So, when I kissed your pretty cousin Nell
. 1 honored one who taught irie to admire
i hair women in their twenties—don’t you see?
I But then, dear H “ss, as iw *s standing by her.
Her Jips quite close -now'this Is ciifr* novs~-
Upon nip soul, 1 made believe twas you !
A Seaside Idyl*
AN OBCTJLATORY ROMANCE.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tri burn-,
writing from Atlantic City, relates the fol
lowing amusing anecdote:
i An acquaintance has told me of his
■ pleasant experience (furbearing, of course,
to give his heroine’s name, but making her
poetic and charming simply catling
i.er“an eei woman,”, during a late tem
pestuous night. He said:
“About sundown we saw by the dark a|>-
pearance of tiie sky we should have what
sailors call rough weather, and by Id
o’clock the breaker* were tumbling in
magniflcieiitiy and thf> ocean roaring like
a monster in pain. Clara < I’ll call her so
for the sake of tiie narrative) sal on theni
azza, aud said she had always wanted to
witness a storm at sea, and that she wa
resolved not to go to bed ■ i respected her
for not using the finic.il word ‘ret re’/
until the storm was over.
“Blie asked me if should like to sit up too.
I looked at her face tnd fi. iiie: they were
confoundedly captivating; drank in the
low tone-of her voice, and replied with
a warmth not n Rural tome, ‘1 should le
delighted to,’ with difficulty clipping off
the ‘darling that belonged to the sentence.
“Well, I should he delighted with your
company ’ was Ho r ; dy, ‘for I think we
always enjoy such things more with a
sayrnpathelie person, don’t vou
• ‘Ofcourse I did; ands placed my chair
close to hers, ami inked out upon the sea
and the night, and listened to the thunder
and the dash of the surf. About twelve,
the tempest was at its top, and Clara and
I were almost alone. The waves were so
high that we could leel the spray iu our
faces, aud the tumult of nature was such
that any <die with a spark of appreciation
of grandeur must have been stirred bv it.
Clara -aid it was delightful but fearful;
and before fifteen minutes of the sublime
bad prevailed she' 1 was resting upon my
shoulder, and I held her hand a willing
prisoner. Then a tremendous peal of
thunder and a livid lightning leap, as if it
had been a fiery spear hurled down into
the seething «ca, caused her to tremble
and lean heavily upon me. I found it
difficult to support her, and put n v arm
about her waist to hold her muio ***.<■ »„i..
“ ‘ Dl* i"£F •S's*''•»« "y ■ -a ” .“ t-L a bit,’. Was
*1 enjoy it exceedingly. I
never knew it was such a delightful thing.
Jove can’t please me more than to launch
all his thnndertiolts to-night and I invol
untarily tightened rny clasp, and she as
involuntarily pressed closet to met. 1
will pour him a libation to-morrow if he’ll
only keep it up until daylight.’
“Jove did keep it up. I fancy Venus
must have prompted him. As the whole
heavens were in a Maze, Clara vowed she
couldn’t bear the fierce light, and hid her
face in my lap. Bhe was terrified ; aud
yet she wouldn’t go to bed. Bhe was
afraid to be alone. By the lightning I saw
her face, and it looked lovelier than ever.
I couldn’t resist the temptation. 1 bent
down and kissed her hair; then her fore
head: then her cheek ; then her lips; and,
by ail the gods, she returned my kiss.
“At that moment my heart beat like the
sea on the beach, and my blood improvised
a little storm of itsown. J forgot all about
the tempest. I pressed Clara in my arms,
aud lifted up her head, and turned iier
face to mine, and kissed it with my hungry
lips. I felt the tears on her cheek, and my
warm mouthdrank them up with delicious
thirst that grew as it was gratified. I
([noted to her all the oseuiatory poetry I
remember, and I iiave a good memory of
such verse, f told her she was‘the sweet
est girl in the world ;’ that I loved her ;
that ali my happiness rested with her, and
did and said more ridiculous tilings than
1 care to remember.
“I fondled and caressed her until the
dawn revealed her flushing face and her
disordered hair. She rose then and said
she must go. I went with her to lipr
chamber door —it seemed tbe gate of Par
adise —and there I took her once more in
my arms and kissed her, and said, in my
lowest and be rf t modulated tone, ‘Good
night, my darlingest darling.’”
“The door closed upon my Eden, and 1
walked to my own room like an exiled
angel. I lav dowfl, but sleep was impos
sible. I reflected what a foot I had been ;
that I was a philosophic bachelor, and that
the poor girl had fallen in love with me,
and that she couldn’t help it. What was
Ito do? I couldn’t marry, for 1 wasn’t a
marrying man. But I was a gentleman,
and I must not forget what was due to
Clara. I got up and dressed, and paced
the piazza until I could have an interview
with the girl. Bhe would probably rise
late, after the excitement of the night. So
I concluded to drive out. I returned in
three hours, to liud a note in my box,
which read :
“ ‘My Gallant Friend: I forgot tojtell
you last night that lam engaged. I am
afraid I am sentimental, like yourself.
My romance got the better of ray judg
ment. The storm made me imprudent.
Draw a vail over the past I shall be on
my way to Philadelphia when you getthis.
Don’t try to see me. I don’t love you.
When we meet again— it we ever do—let
it he its strangers.
“‘Sincerely. < LARA.’
“That wounded iny vanity. She wasn’t
in love with me after all. But, then, 1
couldn’t bear to marry her. What s*curi
ty, however, has a man against wedlm k
who falls into such extravagances as 1 did
on that night? I’m beginning to beafraid
of myself. Philosphic as I am, il an
agreeable woman loved me, how could I
help making her my wife ? How could 1
cure her of neraffection ?’’
“Don’t you know?’’ I asked.
“No. Do you ?”
“Yes.”
“How?”
“By marrying her.” J. H. B.
Gen. Roger A. Pryor Certainly a
Radical.— The Petersburg Index says :
“The General avows his opinions openly,
and there are in this city twenty respecta
ble witnesses to the fact that he has long
since endorsed the Congressional action in
reference to the South —we mean endorsed!
not accepted.”
j The Radicals are welcome to all such
I “Generals.” Forty of them would not
make a respectable corporal. Pryor, we
! be'ieve, was one of the few “Generals” in
| ouiservice who was found so utterly inef
i ficent, that his brigade was taken from
! liin to save it from thorough hopeless dis
| tnegration.
| fill the garrison at Rome, except one
■ officer and thirty men, have been ordered
toAtlanta.
How it Works—The Bondholder end
the Poor Man---The Case of Each
Stated by Himself.
(From the Izi Crouse Democrat.
THE BONDHOLDER.
Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five,
thirty, thirty-live, forty, forty-live, fifty—
Fifty thousand dollars in seveu-twentj
bonds. Let us sec :
$50,000 00
Interest at 8 percent, in gold, S
$4,000 00
And in gold. That is .equal to seven
thousand dollars iti greenbacks.
( Ah. this is nice!
And there are other bonds. Let me
j count over to-night, then I will cut off the
coupons, and to-morrow go to a National
hank ami draw my interest:
I have seven-twenties $50,000 00
“ “ six-forties 50,000 oo
“ “ seven-thirties 50,00000
“ “ ten-twenties 40,000 00
Total SIOO,OOO ihi
Here is a niee little total of one hundred
and ninety thousand dollars invested in
the rich man’s comfort—United States
bonds- interest payable in gold, and no
taxes to pay on bonds or interest.
Let me figure tiie interest—
sl9o,ooo 00
Interest in gold, equal toll
per cent, in greenbacks J 1
$20,900 00
Twenty thousand and nine hundred
dollars the poor men of this country are
witlimr to pay me for living with them.
Ha! ha! ha! But the National debt is
a National Messing!
i like bonds. All of us New England
patriots like bonds. We have no taxes to
pay on them. Not a tax. Rather sharp
lighting that was.
Yankees are good at whittling, good tit
skinning!
I lie war was a godsend tome. I filled
quotas and speculated in tilings. I made
money—lots of it —invested in bonds—and
i am now rich.
I own this elegant house. This furni
ture was conquered from the cowardly
rebels. These chairs, hooks, pictures,
mirror —ail this furniture was confiscated
and shipped to me on tiie sly.
Bully for patriotism !
Good morning, bleeding country !
Long live the enduring people !
1 went to no war—not one—not any. It
was a better game to control legislation—
to figure for contract*—to pass a taw that
( nited States Minds should he ex> nipt from
tejatmn, and that tiie interest should be
paid in gold.
Gold is Democracy—l detest Democracy,
but tiie gold part of it is worth saving!
I [aty no taxes !
Not a tux!
I love that Congress—that good, Radical
Congress—that gay, festive, and rebel*
shouting Congre--. It protects intellect
and [>uts the clamps on muscle !,
If exempts us bom ;•<<' iersfrom all taxa
tion.
The tax-collectors never bother me.
Thank the Congress, the devil, or some
body, I am not called on to pay taxes.
Let the poor folk*, the working men,
the soldiers who fought, the formers of the
West, ami the miners of tiie farther West
pay taxes.
New England is cunning!
New England is wealthy!
New England is boss—the West and
Houth are victims!
J like it. All of us bondholders like it.
The |(oor p; ople suppport me in idleness.
They pay the money that makes my in
terest.
They support the army, tiie navy, the
Government—the negroes, the bondhold
ers, and can have wiiat tiiere is left and
get rich if they can.
lam a bondholder. The credit of the
nation protects me. The./ of of America
—tiie cowards who dart not lift thechajns
temaiii our staves!
Indeed! A National debt is a national
blessing —to w sharpers and aristocrats.
Tiie Boutii may starve —
Tiie West may toil
The States may fall
The Territories may suffer.
The well men may work—
The sick men may want
The orphan* may wail—
The widow.-, may weep—
The poor men, the farmers v the mechan
ic-, the foresters and miners may pay
taxes—for a few of u.-, now, are masters.
THE POOR MAN.
1 have no more crusts, my poor dog. I
gave you the last one, and God knows 1
needed it, but you could not starve!
Don't look so wistful —don’t look as if
you pitied me, for it makes me ashamed
of man when a deg is tiie better friend. I
will tell you Fido,a few things, but per
haps you can not understand them.
J must go to work in a few moments—
my nooning is nearly over. That wagon
must be finished. You and I have eaten
all the dinner my good wife put up for me,
and my little child brought me Fido, and
I must work for more.
The Bondholder, has his horses, his
carriages, his wines, his dinners, his sup
pers, Ins racers, and his bonds.
I have my tin dinner-pail—my faithful
dog, and they tax you, then kill you at
that —and my tool-chest, and my hard
palms, and tired bo ues at night, and my
hasty breakfast in the morning, a lean
purse, and a tax receipt at tiie end of tiie
year !
When quarter-day comes the bond
holder, cuts off his coupons and draws iiis
interest, and I draw my purse and pay
rent.
And when the year is gone lie counts
up his gains, rustles his bonds and has a
wine supper. And when tiie year is gone
1 look at that great robber, the tax receipt,
go to bed with an aching heart to dteam
of Democratic times, light and equal taxa
tion.
The bondholder does nothing. He is
supported.
I work. I pay taxes lo make up the in
terest oil his bonds.
I pay State taxes.
I pay country t *xes.
1 pay city taxes.
I pay town taxes.
I pay revenue taxes.
I pay school taxes.
I pay direct taxes.
I pay taxes on everything.
I pay taxes to support negroes.
I pay taxes to support (’ ingress.
J pay taxes to support tiie Government
I pay taxes to support the tiondholder
who pay nb taxes for any purpose whatever.
Aud this is equality! Fido, I wish
sometimes I was a dog—a good dog like
you, but I shall nevv-r ask you to he a man,
ii worker, a toiler -a poor <>ppr<- sed, over
taxed slave to the bonuhohiei.
My heart grows sad, ■ i tiie tears come i
to my eyes oftand often. The bondholder's
wife dressess in silk, bought with the
money the Government robs me of. My
wife is in rags—my children are often I
hungry—cold, and aregrowiug up in iguo- !
ratice.
The bondholders’children will not speak !
to mine, for they are too proud to speak to
the children of a poor working, toiling, i
taxpaying, Government robbed mechanic, j
Y'ou see, Fido, it will not do to speak to
children of slaves, and every mechanic in
America is now the slave of the bondhol
der. I was a soldier, Fido. I went to war.
1 fought to restore) he Union. 1 t'ouglu to
iiave peace and prosperity.
When I went to war 1 had a little farm, !
and the bondholder next door had nothing
hut a chair in a saloon and a glib longue.
1 fought while be staid at home to pro
tect my poor family. How he protected its |
you know, Fido. My wife and little one,
often suffered for food, but his wife did
not.
When I came back home my farm was
mortgaged—l could not pay the taxes—
the glibtongued rascal was a bondholder,
he had legislated himself rich and made
me his slave—he had money and I had
none.
And he bid on my farm on a tax title,
and 1 had to fall back to my trade, as 1
1 must in time to the poor-house, if the
people do much longer keep up this fool
ishness.
I tell you, Fido, there is a remedy, and
it is in Repudiation /
The Hon. Robert J. Walker is making
i temperance speeches in Washington City.
Is the milleuium at baud ?
Vol. liX„ ><>.
A< rial Kavliptlton .
California papers’give the particulars of
a serious attempt, in that State, at aerial
locomotion, ibe inventor of the “Autor,”
as tlie bird is called, is Frederick Marriott,
l of San Francisco. I'rneticalengineers and
1 mechanics have looked into the principles
of its construction, anil pronounce it teas
ible. Stir< wd capitalists have furnished
the means of testnig'it. Tile constructors
are a- well assured of its success as were
Fulton, Stephenson and Morse. The
moneyed men who invests have n»> doubt
as to the profits. At Sliefl Mi ml Park,
about nineteen miles from San Francisco,
a ;arge building has been put up far the
purpose, and contains the unfinished ma
chine. In shape it resembles boih a lien
and a bird—a plump, short-necked, short
billed bird in the act otHying. From stem
to stern—or rather from bijl to rump—is I
7H feet, while the tail adds 1- t et more.
Its traverse diameter in the largest part is
-1 feet. Its wings extend in feet on" each ;
side, and so constructed that one part is
always outspread while aootimr part is
movable at the will of the engineer.
I he tail, which is like that of a fish,will
be under the same control, and can be so
moved and deflected as to give it all the
advantage of a rudder. Jhe skeleton is
formed of bamboo poles and light rods of
red wood, braced and held together by
wires of steel arn! r pi-sos iron. On tins
frame is stretched a enveiing of muslin of
the strongest fibre, and coated with a var
nish which makes it impervious to water
and to gas. It is to he tided with pure
hydrogen, and Mill hold 11,Ion cubic feet.
;so far, then (lie machine is virtually a
balloon, and depend; for is buoyancy and
power of rising, in part a least, on the
same principle as other badoms. But it
is much more than this. Let u-F >k fora
moment at its machinery. It is to carrv
we are told, a small steam engine, weigh
ing, without tiie shafting, only thirty
seven pounds, and having a nominal
horse-power of two and a half—hut near a
four horse.
1 lie boiler is very peculiar. An arrange
ment of'copper plates, looking like the
book rack on anotliee desk, and not much
larger, iioides the water and admits tiie
heat. Over this i>a steam chest s.ill more
diminutive. Four and a h.lt gallons of
water till the boiler, and a smuii tank
holds seven gallons mor.*. Two or three
p*ecks of charcoal are close at hand, and
these supplies are regarded as sufficient
for two hour-' working at lull need.
To receive the machinery sputa- is left in
the lovvei pan of the body, rea- hing Horn
si ie to side, and to about half trie height.
The power is applied to a shaft placeu in
the upper part of liieckviiy and extending
through. J o each end of the shaft an arm
ia attached, which terminate-, m u two
bladed screw. 1 hese screws are the legs
und webbed feet, with which this gigantic
is to piddle amt work its way in the upper
air. i'he machinery of tie ,e propellers .*
so adjusted us to enable the engineer to
vary their po-ii.nii to tie- extent of ninety
degrees, accordingly as he may wish to
ri-t or tali, r move laterally any direc
tion.
To rise to any height it is claimed that i
be needs but to plae -her propellers "at an
angle of 4o degrees, or f-—depress her
movable wings ten or twenty degrees—
give h r tail a twist, and she will describe 1
a number of spiral circles until sin attains
the height required While the gag holder
remains in good order, ati-i her wings re
main in position , she can not fa) ,o rapidly i
as to endanger the lives of her pa-- -tigers,
even though the engine were o .toi repair.
The engineer or conductor is to occupy
a sort of cage, centrally placed within tiie
cavity which holds the machinery. The
tire and the fuel, the engine, boiler and
gauges, and the strings which move the j
train, are all dose at hand, lie can look!
down, but not much ahead. As there are
no breakers, nor iceberg-, nor iee shores |
in the aerial oceau, a front view is of lit- i
tie moment. ,
One difficulty seems not to have been
foreseen. The almoaphereic air must be i
u,r l,,is <
A I'rti ions MMt
The Tribune ycsieid.ty did an extremely j
dishonest tiling in trying to lay the blame ;
- 1 •
Internal Revenue to Thuriow Weed. It
is notorious that Callieott was Greeley's
special pet. Tiie latter eudoised the form- j
erin every way—on the stump as well as
in iiis paper. It must be that tlie Wash
ington dispatch giving Weed the discred
it of the appointment was written by a;
new person on the pap -r, who did not
know Greeley was the real culprit. But ,
what a stinging rebuke it is if that is the
explanation.
lu connection with this matter, Mr.
Weed makes the following curious revela- j
tions in last night's Coi/h/tcrc a!:
The Third Internal Keveuue District
lias, for four years, not only been lotten
itself, but by its malign influence and ex
ample has (lemoralizcdother districts. We
labored earnestly with Mr. Lincoln to ;
effect a change. Bti f tiie district belonged
especially to the extreme Kadteals. The 1
Collector was the father of tiie Independ
ent. If is dephty was the brother of Used- ;
itor. The Imiependeut then, now and i
evermore, was the organ of Mr. Ciiase. —
When hard-pressed- for we were after
them with a sharp stick”—they would j
bring “Plymouth Church” and ii» honor- ;
ed pastor into the field, on their behalf, ,
whether with liis knowledge and appro- j
bation, we know not. if be did sustain
them, he could not have known the ex- :
tent of their robberies—robberies which j
enabled them to divide five, ten, fifteen
and twenty thousand dollar.-} a week, with
a man who, until lie “codnied” with Bow
eti, Tappan and Tilton, scarcely knew the j
use of a bank book. Hut after the govern
ment had lost, by frauds, in the Third Dis- |
trict, a million of dollars, a remov i was
effected; when, aided by Senato; Pierson
and other reliable Republicans id’ Brook- j
lyn, we prevailed upon the r-eeretary of j
the Treasury to nominate, and the i’resi- j
dent to appoint. Colonel Brewster, a gal
lant soldier and honest man. But, for
some incomprehen.-ibifc,reason tlioiigh con
fessedly capable and honest —he wit's not
confirmed. Then came the struggle for I
Mr. Greeley’s man Callieott, who was
backed by ‘ rings'’ in Brooklyn and \Ya»u
ington. We otijected and protested to the
Secretary of the Treasury auti the Presi
dent against Cailimtt’s appointment Cou
pled with the ap|>ointment were others, ,
almost, if not (juice a- bad.
And yet, when Callieott *'comes togrief,”
the Tribune uot only easts him otf, but'
turns him over tous! And its echoes will j
take tip the Tribune’s refrain : “Thuriow
Weed figured then conspicuously as a
champion of < 'allicutt!”
Weed certainly comes out ahead in this !
round, and Greele’ i- brought to shame. 1
Hut the point of all this is the revelations
which it affords of the i ascality of the ex
treme Radicals, especially of the pious :
ones. It is any wonder that there isthun- i
der all round the sky,ami that the people, !
froni'California to Maine, are arising in
their might to drive these plunderers out:
of places of trust and honor?
N. V. World. I
On Monday night, a negro mob in Au
gusta cliared a Federal soldier into a sa
loon, and he only escaped their \--n-eatiee
by changing his clothes, and climbing a
high fence in the fear of the sahs.n. The
mob (bleated to search ilm h ei- . f |, g j,|
not carry it out i hey did iee. chare.- the
soldier wit it any oti'em-e exn pi w .■ n • ;.y the
“blue.”
On the saint! night, in the same city, a
party ol soldiers stopped aid sei. id a white
man on the street, mistaking him fora
i negro. When thefnistake was discovered,
I they let him go.
The Radicals in Greene and Hale coun
ties, Alabama, have nominated two ijp
; groes, and two so-called \v Lite men, for
i tiie State Convention.
Mr. Stephens is reported to have said of
Mr. Hill’s letters to Gen. (riant, “that
i they were admirable, and cannot fail to
do great good.”
Radical Doxoio<;\ . -“Lord ’.forgive
us our trespasses; but damn those that
1 trespass against us.” For further infor
mation a9 to tiie theology of the Bine Re
publicans, we refer the reader to Holy
Willie’s Prayer, by Robert Burns.
[Augusta Constitutionalist.
. The President and Coogres*
It»-velal ion from Washing!--..
Our Washington news this morning is
more than lively. It will be read by
many with alarm, by some with delight,
by ail with interest. The storm has not
yet burst, but it is brr wing, and to all
human appearance the explosion, when it
does take place, will be on a scale of be
coming magnificence.
The President, it appears, has no notion
of resiguiugbis position. On thecontrary,
jit seems lie is resolved to maintain his
ground and light it out to the last
w hatever the last may be. Pity he has
j unresolved. His determination does not
'in the least change ouropinion. It is still
our conviction —now, indeed, more than
ever—that by resigniugand makingaclear
j statement of the case, as between him an
Congress, he would not only have placed
himself on high moral vantage ground,
: but would have acted for his own good
and the gdOd of the country at large. As
he lias otherwise determined, both lie
i and we must abide by the consequences.
‘ This, however, is not all. The Presi
dent lias notonly resolved not to resign,
but lie lias resolved to prosecute with the
utmost energy tiie policy w hich, l>y the
dismissal of Stanton, tiie removal of Sher
idan ami Sickles, and tiie amnesty procla
mation, he lias so vigorously commenced,
j Taking his ground, on the constitution,
impressed with tiie solemn trust reposed
j in him as President of the Foiled Slates,
and retaining a lively recollection of his
inauguration oath, he will not, even at
I the command of Congress, sanction a
j policy the only result of which can be
that tin- Anglo-Saxon elementin tbisgreat
and free and proud republic shall be put
under the heel of a mean, a weak and
l ignorant race. As to tiie undesirableness
of this result, there are many, ourselves
! among the number, who are are in sym
pathy with President Johnson ; but it
; is their and our opinion that tiie dreaded
: result would more effectually have been
avoided if the President had voluntarily
! resigned, and, on the broad and intelligible
i-- tie of negro supremacy or no negro su
premacy, appealed to tiie people.
The President, it will he observad from
our Washington news, looks forward to
tiie certainty of impeachment, and is
preparing himself to meet it. It i« not to
be denied that tiie blood of tiie radicals is
up, and each successive move of the Chief
ot the State is goading them into wilder
fury. To the opponents of the President
the interval which must elapse before
Congress can assemble will lie an interval
of agonizing impatience. The interval,
however, w ill roll p stj Congress in due
time will as-erable, and to a dead certainty
Andrew Johnson will lie impeached ; not,
perhaps, for high crimes amt misdemean
ors, but for tiie simp e reason that he
stands obstructively in tiie wav of the
reconstruction plans of the popular assem
bly. Jo such a case, we are told, it is tne
determination of the Pie-: lent to prorogue
Congress-., on the ground that it has be
come a revolutionary assembly.
If matte;- , e allowed to advance to
this point, « . shall certainly have reached
an important .not to say serious, crisis in
cur national history, it is easy for Mr.
Johnson to say lie will prorogue Congress;
but what if Congress refuses to recognize
his auth- ri'y? Which in that case willbe
right—the imperious President or rebell
ious Congress? < >r, what is more impor
tant still, which will gain the victory? If
tbe members will nut return to their
homes at tbe command of the President,
Gy what means M ill Mr Johnson compel
them? We know of but one means. He
must have recourse to the army. He
must play the part of a Cos ail- the First,
or of an Oliver Cromwell. Has he the
bravery to do so? s-upposing him to have
the bravery, would the army obey him?—
Would General Grant or any otbergeneral
in tiie United States bare his sword for
such a purpose? Or will Congress feel
itself coin pelted, in the name of the nation,
to make an appeal to the army for protec
tion? Which will the army obey—the
President or Congress? It "is manifest
that in such an extremity General Grant,
or whoever should hold General Giant’s
position, would be master of the situation.
It is not our opiniou. however, that
matter will reach th is xtremity. Con
gre-s, so soon as it asset; >ies, it is more
than probable, will proceed to the im
peachment of the President. But the
impeachment will amount to nothing if it
does not at once suspend him from office,
Will it suspend him ? We do not believe
it. Andrew Johnson, then, will continue
to exercise his functions before. He
-jfcVfr'Kfrisiti'Ul (U r n ffTJgT.- areary length
tihtnif (i>r another year. For another
twelve months Andrew Johnson will rule.
During those twelve months lie will be
besmeared with all manner of slime and
filth. At the end of that period will come
the Presidential election. Andrew John
son will have a little while longer to ex
ereise his brief authority; but his chances
of re-election will be hopelessly and forever
lost.—[New York Herald.
Claims of the United Stateso n Eng
land. — the public lias been tavored with
another installment of the eorrrespond
enee between our Government and the
British on the subject of the so-called
“Alabama claims.”
Mr. Seward.s first letter isdated Janua
ry Lib,and was written for Lord Stanley’s
eyes. He begins by disclaiming any in
teution to impugn tiie motives of either
Lord Russell or his successor. He recites
the history of ttie pirates, “t-umpter,”
“Alabama" and “Florida,” reiterates tiie
assertion that these aDd other rebel crui
sers “were built, armed, equipped and fit
ted out in British ports, and dispatched
therefrom by or through the agency of
British subjects, and were harbored, shel
tered, provided and furnished, as occasion
required, during their devastating career,
in ports of tbe Britisli colonies in nearly
all purls of the globe.”
He then gives the history of the British
grant of bellignerent rights to the rebel
lious States; contrasts with this the course
of the Government with regard to the
Fenians; expresses a desire to have tiie
claims settled; thinks tiie best way would
be for'England to pay them without any
more words, but agrees tD arbitration, ad
ding that this Government, in ease arbi
tration is tiie method chosen, “would ex
}>eet to refer the whole controversy just as
it is found in the correspondence which
has taken place between the two Govern
ments, with such further evidence and
arguments as either party may desire,
without imposing restrictions, conditions
or limitations upon the umpire, and with
out waiving any principle or arguments
on either side.”
In his reply Lord Stanley declines to
discus* the historical points raised by Mr.
reward, declines on beha t of ins Govern
ment to conseut to the unlimited arbitra
tion proposed, and proposes in turn “lim
ited reference to arbitration in regard to
tiie so-called Alabama claims, and adjudi
cation by means of a commission, of gen
eral claims.”
Mr. Seward answers: “Lord Stanley’s
plan seems to be reconstitute two de-crip
tious of tribunals. No distinction, as to
principle, between tiie tribunals seems to
the United .-tales to be necessary ; and in
every case the United States agree- only to
unrestricted arbitration. Convenience
may require that tiie Claims should ne dis
tributed between two triuuuais, both of
which, however, in the opinion of the
United States, should proceed upon the
.-ame powers.”
Lord tstanley replies that tiie submis
sion of all the claims to ibesaine tribunal
is impracticable. “The one class on the
specific claims, such as those ‘ arising out
of the proceedings of the Alabama and
-itch voxels, depends for tlieir settlement
| of the solution of what may be called an
I abstract questiou, namely, “Whether, in
i the matters connected witli the vessels
j out of wilts" depredations the claim of
i American citizens have arisen, the course
i pursued by toe Britisli Government, and
! those who acted under its authority, was
sttcli as would involve a moral respousi
! bilily on the part of British government to
make good either in wh • or part, the
losses ol American citize tbe other, or
general class, of claims in this class on
either side may be great, the circumstances
j of each more or less ditlerent,- and the
points involved in litem complicated in
their nature and bearing; and on these
grounds alone is obvious that they cannot,
like those of the Alabama class, be com
prised with a single proposition applicable
in principle to all, and bringing ail witbiu
i the compass of a single division of atrarbt-
S ter.”
j Hero the correspondence breaks off.
Memphis, having invested sl*ooo,ooo in
I Nicholson pavement, issuing city scrip
j therefor, finds her paper at per cent,
discount at the money changes.
Cavanaugh, M. ('. from Montana, was
; one of the first representatives Minnesota
1 had in Congress. He is from Lowell, Mass.,
originally, and bullied the Beast in that
city after they both got home from the
. Charleston convention for not stahdiug up
to Douglas.