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SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1868.
WHAT WK ACCEPT, I* ACCEPTING
KAUICALIS.iI.
We accept, in the first place, doctrines
and principles directly in conilict with
those we have long cherished, and which
we have been taught, by the wisest and
purest of our leaders, to look to with a
faith and hope scarcely less strong than
that with which we receive thp teachings
of Divinity itself. We accept a creed as
false as it is loathsome, contrary to the
teachings, and an insult to the example of
our fathers. We accept a violated gonsti
tution, and the laws of the land mocked
at, despised, and trampled under foot. We
accept the dogma, as wicked as it is dan
gerous, that this is a government of force
and fraud, with the robber maxim for its
motto:
“That he shall take who has the power
And he shall keep who can.” '
We accept the theory, conceived by trai
tors to fill their pockets and giut their
cowardly hate, that there is no such thing
as equality among the three co-ordinate
branches of the government, but that an
irresponsible majority of Congress is the
supreme authority. We accept a despot
ism of the sword, sovereignties pinned to
gether with bayonets, drum-head courts
martial and military commissions, and all
the insignia and horrors of a state of
affairs where Liberty and Law writhe un
der the brutal heel of plenary military
power. It is not only all this, but more
that we accept.
In Tennessee, it is to pledge fealty to
Brownlow and Ids miscreants; in North
Carolina, to swear devotion to Holden and
his infamous followers; in Virginia, to
hug Underwood and Hunnicutt, and their
slimy set, to our hearts; in Georgia, to
bow down and worship, and turn our
pockets inside out for tiie filthy paws of
Bullock and ids banditti to plunder; to
deify fraud, and exalt to the highest places
in our gift a molt of miscellaneous vaga
bonds and bummers, witli neither capaci
ty nor honesty, sense nor scruple; to
reward them for cheating, insulting and
persecuting us; to accept negro suprema
cy, and to declare ourselves In favor of all
the corruptions, villainies, plundering,
frauds and sales of office that are unblush
ingly put forth as the proper Radical poli
cy. Since the destruction of Hodom and
Gomorrah, such rank corruption, such
audacious and undisguised wickedness and
abandonment of the restraints of religion,
honor, principle, law, and common hon
esty, have not been seen under the sun.
This is the party and these are the infa
mies that the people of the South are cen
sured at the Nortli for not unhesitatingly
accepting. Our opposition to them, which
we feel to be a religions, a moral, a social,
a patriotic duty, is denounced by some as
akin to treason, and tiie evidence of a sul
len disloyalty.
H’oq’ks Tumi) Military District, i
(Dep’t Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.) -
Atlanta, Ua., April lf>, tsaPS. \
General Orders, No. 01.
I. General Orders No. 52, issued from
these headquarters, on the subject of eligi
bility to office, have reference only to the
qualifications for holding office under tiie
new Constitution of this State, should it
be ratified, and after (he State should be
admitted to representation in tiie (’ongross
of the United States, as provided for in the
Reconstruction nets.
11. The question having been submitted
whether the members of the General As
sembly of this State, to be elected next
week, will bo required, before entering on
their duties, to take what is commonly
called tiie “test oath,” the Commanding
General is of opinion that, inasmuch as
said General Assembly, should the Con
stitution now submitted to tiie people of
this State be ratified by them, and be ap
proved by Congress, is required to convene
and ud..pt Uio proposed amendment to tiie
Constitution of the imm-a
ted as Article XIV, before the State can
be admitted to representation in Congress,
it may be decided that the members of
Hoiil Oaueral Assembly are, while taking
this preliminary action, officers of a pro
visional government,and as such, required,
under the 9th section of the act of Con
gresa of July 1!>, l.St>7, to take the ‘‘test
oath.” That oath is as follows:
“1, A. 8., do solemnly swear (or affirm)
that I have never voluntarily borne arms
against the United States since I have
been a citizen thereof; that I have volun
tarily given no aid, countenance, counsel,
or encouragement, to persons engaged in
armed hostility thereto; that I have neither
sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to ex
ercise the functions of any office whatever,
under any authority, or pretended author
ity, in hostility to the United States; that
I have not yielded a voluntary support to
any pretended government, authority,
gower, or Constitution, within the United
tates, hostile or iuimical thereto. And I
do further swear (or affirm) that, to the
beat of my knowledge and ability, I will
support aud defend tiie Constitution of tiie
United States against all enemies, foreign
and domestic; that l will bear true faith
aud allegiance to the same; that I take
this obligation freely, without any mental
reservation, or purpose of evasion; and
that 1 will well aud faithfully discharge
the duties of the office upon which I am
about to enter. So help me God.”
By order of Major General Meade.
R. C. I)kum,
Assistant Adjutant Geutral.
The above is the order, reference to
which was made in a dispatch from At
lanta published in this paper yesterday
morning.
We have no comment to make upon it,
further than to say that it ought not to be
allowed to have the slightest weight with
our friends throughout the IState. Gen.
Meade only says it "may be decided” that
members elect to the Legislature are to
take the test oath. He does not say posi
tively that they will be. We believe this
order was issued at the instance of Brown,
who sees the handwriting on the wall, and
seeks,*by this vague expression of opinion,
only, from the Commanding General, to
force auti-Radical candidates from the
field. Go on and elect your men, freemen
of Georgia, and if they are ruled out, let
the responsibility rest upon Gen. Meade’s
shoulders. Your duty is plain. The man
that falters under such a feeble lire, does
not deserve success. Stand by your colors
and those who bear them. We are confi
dent that you will win, and that,winning,
you will reap the fruits of victory. Let no
man falter! Do you hear that? We re
peat it: Let no man fatter .' Work, and
talk, and vote for, and elect your candi
dates next week. Do your duty, and leave
the consequences to take care of them
selves. Make assurance doubly sure, and
If vour chosen representatives are pre
vented by the bayonet from taking their
seats iu the General Assembly of Georgia,
let the majorities by which they are sent
be at once a monument to your faith and
devotion, and a sign by which the world
shall know how foully your rights have
been trampled upon, and your wishes out
raged.
Lastly, we beg you to bear in mind, that
even should this decision be made as to
members of the Legislature, it cannot
affect your candidate for Governor, the
noble Gordon. He has beeu decided, in
black and white, and over Gen. Meade’s
signature, to be eligible, and he will get
the certificate if elected. Rally, then, for
Gordon, and save Georgia!
A Washington letter to the Chicago
Times has the following: What will
honest and honorable people say when I
tell them that, at this moment, the Presi
dent has a letter from General Butler in
his possession, asking to be appointed
Secretary of War ? In this letter, Gen
eral Butler assures the President that be
will use the office in helping him to re
store the old Democratic party, to which
himself and the President once belonged,
to power. If General Butler denies that
he wrote such a letter, the President is
ready to produce it.
LOOK TO TIIE SENATE !
We beg our friends not to lose sight of
the vast importaneeof securitiga majority
of tiie State Senate. Ts Bullock should lie
declared elected, by aomc new stretch of
plenary” power, an honest Senate can
tie his hands so that lie will be jioweriess
in tiie matter of appointments. They can
make him appoint good men, by refusing
to confirm any of his motley gang. If
Gordon should be elected, and a Radical
Senate be chosen, on tiie other hand, they
can tie his hands, too. Therefore we say :
Look to the Senate! And as good a way
as any to do that, effectually, is to vote
the ticket, the whole ticket and nothing
hut tiie ticket straight through. Watch
the man that scratches the ticket in such
a crisis as the present! Frown him down !
He won’t do.
THE ‘‘LOYAL” OFFICIALS OF
ALABAMA.
We are indebted to the Montgomery
Mail for the following spirited sketeli of
the "trooly loil” officials recently voted
for in Alabama, and whom we suppose
will be declared elected by the infamous
Radical Congress, when they have de
posed President Johnson. We can match
the gang here in Georgia; heading the
list with the Judas Iscariot who captured
Fort Pulaski before the State seceded.
Smith, the Governor (so-calied), never
raised a gun or drew a sword for the Fed
eral cause. He was young, ambitious, able
aud professedly loyal, hut beyond trading
around the lines lie never exhibited tiie
slightest fidelity to the Union. Applegate,
tiie Lieutenant Governor, was dr ven
from bis home in Ohio, in 1861, for raising
a secession Hag over the court house. Kef
fer, the Secretary of Industrial Resources,
was one of Forney’s pro-slavery Demo
crats in Philadelphia when tlmt infamous
scoundrel was kissing tlie hoots of South
ern gentlemen. Cloud, the Superinten
dent of Education, was in tin* Confede
rate Army and edited, for several years,
tile Montgomery Advertiser, a strong Se
cession newspaper. Morse, the Attorney
General, was in the Confederate army,
ami whipped a negro unmercifully before
the war and then poured salt into the
quivering wounds. Felder, the Chancel
lor, was in the Confederate army and was
a secessionist in 1850. And so ail through
tiie list!
Their Love for the Fi.au. —The
Washington correspondent of tiie Balti
more Gazette, exposes the infamous liypoo
ricy of tiie Radicals at Washington, in
the following extract from a recent letter
to that papei. It is of a piece with their
persecution and denunciation of men
covered all over with scars obtained in
lighting for that Hag, but who refuse now
to dishonor themselves by joining the con
spiracy to degrade it, and will not sur
prise anybody at the South. We espe
cially commend this fact, though, to our
Northern and Western fellow-citizens :
That the only place in all this broad land
from Vicksburg to the National Capital,
where there was found any disposition to
insult the National ensign was in the
building occupied and controlled by those
who arrogate to themselves all the “loy
alty ” in tiie land:
“On reaching tiie Capitol doors the
Sergeant found what lie had not found
during his tour through all the Southern
States —men disposed to insult die (lag—
and arrest his progress. Admission to the
Capitol of tiie nation was refused him,
and he turned from it in loathing and dis
gust, and declared his purpose to plant his
little banner on the top of the unfinished
Washington Monument; but the Jacobins
swear in their wrath that if this be per
mitted by the Monument Association
Congress will never vote a dollar toward
tiie completion of this work, which, as it
stands, is a national disgrace. ‘I f any one
attempt to pull down the fiag shoot him
on the spot,’ was the declaration of Gen
eral Dix, and this was echoed and re
echoed throughout die land by the Radi
cals so long as it applied to Southern
rebels, but now the Jacobins not only
Yefuse to allow that flag to be raised over
monument commenced in honor of the
Father of his Country.”
Grant’s Unpopularity in Connecti
cut. —The Radicals, in the late Connecti
cut election, in order to avail themselves
of what they supposed to be Grant’s tre
mendous personal popularity, printed all
their tickets witli a portrait of him at
their head, shaking hands with Mr.
Jewell, their candidate for Governor.
Judge of tlieir astonishment when the re
sult proved that they were beaten with
Grant at tlieir head twice as badly as last
year! But this was not all. When the
votes came to he counted, it was found
that on many of die ballots Grant’s por
trait had been cut out by those disgusted
persons who liad voted tiie whole ticket!
Death of a Well-Known Georgian.
—We regret to learn the death, on Thurs
day last, at his plantation in Barbour
county, Alabama, of Mr. Leroy M. Wiley.
Mr. W. had long held a prominent posi
tion in commercial circles in Charleston
and New York, and was well and favor
ably known to the business community of
this and other Southern States.
WIIEHK THE EUBOU LIEN.
Itseemsto us thaton this whole subject of
reconstruction, Congress lias erred in giv
ing too little consideration to the senti
ments of the Southern people, and too
much to abstract theories and ideas. We
believe that if the matter had been treated
in a better temper, better results might
easily have beeu attained. The President's
quarrel with Congress—tiie fact of such a
quarrel, much more than the merits or the
blame of it, has had a very damaging ef
fect upon all the parties concerned, and all
the interests involved If at the outset
tiie President had consulted Congress—or
if Congress had accepted as tiie basis of its
own action the leading principles of the
President’s policy—or if the two had tried
to uct together on any policy that either or
both might devise, we should have avoided
the exasperations and hostilities, official
and sectional, which have done so much
harm already, and which threaten to do
so much more.
Whether it is too late to repair these
evils, and to adopt a wiser and better poli
cy, in dealing with the Southern States
and people,—one which will lead to better
results, aud yet sacrifice no substantial in
terest or right, remains to be seen. Thus
far it seems to us, tiie leading element in
the policy of Congress is force. Laws
have been passed which are regarded by
tbe Southern whites with deep ami hitter
hostility—aud these laws and the princi
ples they embody are enforced upon them
by military power. Whatever may l.e
tlieir feelings m regard to them—however
deep and active the hostilty ttiey encoun
ter and arouse, tlieir submission to them
is enforced. No attempt is made to con
sult the feelings or the sentiments of the
Southern whites. 1 mined, every indication
of dissatisfaction or discontent on their
part is treated with ostentatious contempt,
and is made tiie ground of new accusations
and tiie excuse for new severities.
[A. I', limes.
Gross Outrage in Wh itfielp. —On
the Ist of the month one of the meanest
and most reckless outrages of this fast,
had age, was committed in our county,
('apt. Pierce Horne, who is living on the
old Keenan place, seven miles from Dal
ton, had his corn-crib, with thirteen hun
dred bushels of corn burned, bv unknown
incendiaries. He offers five hundred dol
lars reward for the villains, ( apt. Horne
is a worthy citizen and energetic farmer,
and this matter should he thoroughly
sifted. Vice and crime under Radical
misrule are steadily on the increase. The
crib was burned to the ground aud not a
bushel of corn was saved— Dalton Citizen,
\lth.
Homicide. —We learn that a serious
difficulty occurred in Pickeus county, Ga.,
on the9th iust., in which Mr. Riley Cor
bin was killed by William Martin. We
learn that some words passed between
Mr. Martiu and a Mr. Mullins. Martin,
drew a pistol, when the Deputy Sheriff
caught hold of the pistol aud was shot
through the hand. Mr. Corbin then
caught hold of Martiu aud was cut in nine
places. The Deputy Sheriff is entitled
to much credit. Such is the statement as
we get it. — Marietta Journal, 17th.
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER.
GKNEItAL HANCOCK-
We giveon tiie fourth page of this morn
ing’s issue to tiie able, earnest, aud well
reasoned letter of tlifs distinguished sol
dier and patriot to Pease, the bogus Gov
eror of Texas. From the indications
cropping out at Washington City, and
which have been made matter of special
telegraphic mention from that city, Gen
eral Hancock may be regaided as very
prominently placed for the Democratic
Presidential nomination in July. Look
iug to that event as among the strong
probabilities of the future, his views upon
the topics discussed will, we think, be full
of interest to our people. We hope all
will read it. If Hancock should be the
nominee of the friends of tiie Constitution
for President, they will need no other
weapons wherewith to secure his election
than are furnished in this letter.
JUDGE AUSTIN.
Impression* of the Man and hi* Great
Speech in the Senate.
A Washington correspondent of tiie
Cincinnati Commercial writes:
The opening speech for tiie defense was
a quiet aud grave reminder of a sort of k
gal eloquence that was trite forty years
ago. It brought to mind, by its stately
periods, dispassionately, rationally, con
cisely uttered, the days of Marshall, Kent
and Story.
Mr. Curtis is a man without a smile or
a trifle. Sombre is his vesture, purple in
his color. He is very like Daniel Webster
in his stature, face and manner. He sel
dom walks in anybody’s company—but
with a slow, deliberate stride, leaning on
a cane, lie comes alone to tiie Capitol,
ponderously mounts the steps, wipes his
forehead in tiie ante-room, and, entering
the Senate, sits in a condition of vigilant
retirement, like a turkey gobbler bottling
up bis rage and working his craw. He
exchanges no words with his legal breth
ren. If he is introduced to anybody in
any pause or recess, lie shakes hands with
that gravity that Webster used to revel in.
He weighs about a hundred and uinety
pounds, perhaps more. Nature gave him
a good, large NVebsteriau head; and ins
lace is a line old liver-color. He perspires
with great freedom, but never through ex
citement. His paunch is stately; his
cloth gaiters are eminently legal; no gold
seal disturbs the demureness of his vest ;
bis blue eyes retreat into his brows, and
his head into the standing collar, and he
listens like a phosphorescent bull dog in a
.lark cellar.
Such is Judge Curtis, with the additions
of straight brown imir aud a face smooth
ly shaven. Rising to speak to-day, there
were about twenty books of reference be
toro him. He put his bunds on (he baize
table, looked bis gloomy grandest, and
began with the manner of a funeral ora
tion.
His voice is not strong, hut naturally
trained by the temperament of tiie man,
and pitched upon the same natural key,
it reaches the ear very pleasantly, atid
strives to do no more. As it carried so its
calm burden of argument at an equal
pace, the minds of all of us left the do
main of politics, and rose with its ca
dences into the atmosphere of law. In
sensibly we all began to feel that General
Butler’s speech, which we all had sup
posed a great performance, had been no
more than a smart audacity. 'This old
time man, never in a hurry, never in zeal,
addressed himself to the supposition that
his auditors were all learned and self
respecting gentlemen. Every time lie
said “Senators!” lie made a cold chill go
through tiie Senate; for during the past
two weeks one-half the Senators have for
gotten tlieir rank. i venture tiie supposi
tion that this speech got more respect in
every Senator’s silent mind than any ut
terance ol his own lias had for a year past.
1 did not follow it closely enough to tel!
you the effect of it as an argument. But
it did this, which Butler, Stanbery, Wil
son and Bingham had failed to do— it re
minded the Senalo of itself and of the oc
casion. Everything that had been said
before grew little and mean after Curtis
had talked an hour. In all that time lie
never changed his place, never faltered for
a word, nor used any undignified ex
pression whatsoever. Judge Chase heard
the argument with tiie gravest care. It
was a study to look at the Chief Justice
and the solid old pleader, taking his time
so tremendously.
Negro Su Urn go suut Negro Equality.
It is a noteworthy fact that only yester
day the State of Michigan repudiated ne
gro suffrage, and to-day botli of her Sena
tors here voted to fasten negro equality
upon the citizens of this District. Negro
suffrage alone seems not to satisfy Radical
Congressmen, but the offices must be held
and enjoyed by theAfriean. Senator John
son alluded to the fact thatduring tiie im
peachment trial no colored people liad been
admitted to the galleries, and asked Mr.
Sumner w r by he had not given some of his
tickets to his colored friends. Mr. Sumner
did not deign and answer—could not an
swer—and dodged by saying, “let us have
the question.” The result of the negro
equality doctrine was foreshadowed in
Warreuton, Virginia, on Saturday last,
when one of its apostles by the liame of
Tucker, a carpet-bag resident of Alexan
dria, addressed tiie negroes and advised
them to work for no man who would not
recognize full social equality, admitting
them to the domestic circle ami family
board. The address so incensed the sol
diers at Warren ton that they made an
assault upon him, ami lie barely escaped
with his life. He had to be escorted fiom
the Hotel to the depot by the officers of the
post, to protect him from maddened sol
diers. The citizens took no part in the af
fray. The result has been that the negroes
have left their employers, and are now idle
ami living on the Bureau. One gentle
man, who is repairing the buildings which
were destroyed during the war, at the
White .Sulphur Spriugs, had fifty freed
men employed at good wages. On Satur
day they notified him that they had to at
tend a Bureau meeting in Warrentou, and
since then they have refused to work, ex
cept on the terms recommended by their
friend Tucker. Perhaps the tax payers
w ill he content tosupport these negroes in
idleness until they accrue social equality
in Virginia, without reference to the repu
diation of such equality in the Northern
States.
B’Gi )' McGee—Uriel' Sketch of His Career
Mr. McGee was born in the county of
Wexford, Ireland, in or about the year
ISIM, having thus attained the age of
forty-four when lie met his fate. He im
migrated to America at an early age, and
first made His home at Lowell, Massachu
setts, when he soon removed to Boston,
and commenced the publication of the
Boston Pilot. About this time lie wrote
and published a life of Daniel O’Connell,
with especial reference to his efforts for
reform in England and Ireland. In 1547
Mr. McGee revisited his native country,
and in the following year became involved
in tiie same rebellion in which Smith
O’Brien, Meagher, Mitchell, and Me
Manus figured so largely. He avoided
arrest and escaped to America in the dis
guise of a clergyman. He next commenced
in New York the publication of the Amcr
ican (’cl', Which, at the suggestion of
Bishop Timon, was removed to Buffalo,
and tlieuce buck again, in 1855. to New
York. Iu his conduct of tiie Celt he be
came engaged in a controversy with the
Catholic clergy, wit h reference to a scheme
of his to draw Irish emigrants from Lite
cities and settle them upon farms in the
West. This controversy destroyed his
standing with the Irish musses, and ended
in the extinction of the American Celt.
Not long after, Mr. McGee went to Canada,
and, being assisted linanciallv by some of
his New York friends, was enabled to get
himself elected a member of the Muuicpal
Parliament, in w hich body lie continued
until his death, lie also held a position
in the Board of Administration, and rep
reseuted the interests of Canada at the
Paris Exposition.
Mr. McGee was a poet and author of
some repute, having published, at different
times, ‘-Irish Ballads.” a ‘‘Life of Bishop
McGau,” a history of Ireland in two vol
nines, and a work entitled ‘‘lrish Settlers
in America ” On more than one occasion
\ lie delivered lectures iu Chicago ou various
subjects.
The Weather.—Since our last issue
; we have been visited with all sorts of
i weather: first (Friday morning) with a
heavy frost, which fortunately did but
little injury to fruit and vegetables—and
secondly, with almost incessant rain,
(interspersed with vivid lightning, deep
thunder and severe winds), which flooded
the two streams east of this (Cooahaula
and Connaeauga) to such an extent as to
cut off communication in that direction i
for several days.— Dalton Republican, 17 th. !
Hon, Robert Toombs.—This gentle
man, we learn, will leave at an early day
for England, where he goes to attend an
important law suit in which he is inter- I
ested. — Atlanta Era, IS th.
MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1868.
GOV. PATTON ON THE STAND.
We beg to call particiuar attention, Mi is
morning, to the annexed extracts from a
letter written, on the 6th of March last, l»y
Gov. Patton, of Alabama, to Gen. Meade.
As Gov. l’atton is a “ Reconstructionist,”
his testimony cannot be questioned, of
course.
Freemen of Georgia! before you go to
the polls to-day, read what lie says, and
answer by your votes whether you are
willing to inaugurate such a state of af
fairs here in Georgia. If you vote for Bul
lock and tiie Radical ticket, you are will
ing. Will any man deny that all these,
and worse, evils will not come upon us
should Bullock and his bauditti triumph?
Let us see tiie man w ho dares thus to in
sult public intelligence. Let us see the
man who dares to deny that Georgia is
wrecked should the freebooter’s flag wave
in victory over her soil at the close of the
election. Let us see the man who dares to
ra’ly around that flag, with the false cry
that he does so for Georgia’s prosperity
and Georgia’s honor. Let us see the man
who dares to vote to bankrupt his State,
and ruin and degrade his fellow-citizens,
and then claim that he is a true sou of our
noble old mother. Watch the man who
votes for Bullock and tiie Radical ticket,
with any sucli lie in his mouth. He is
both knave and hypocrite. Spot him for
all time to come:
Nearly all the persons elected to office-in*
the State are new-comers, and strangers
to our people. With the peoples wishes
and interests they are wholly unacquaint
ed. In a large uumberof the counties, the ]
negroes preponderate largely over tluv
whites. Where such is the case, these
strangers, having the ear of tlie unintelli
gent freedmeu, had a complete monopoly
of tiie offices, the whites being utterly
powerless. Many negroes were elected to
offices, a considerable number of which, it
is true, arc of little value to tiie incum
bents, as tiie compensation is but trifling,
although they are of considerable import
ance to the people. These are sucli offices
as Constables, Justices of the Peace, and
County Commissioners. I know of severe
al cases where the negroes elected do not
know a letter in tiie book. In one coun
ty, all three of tiie Commissioners are ne
groes, all of whom are of tiie character
mentioned. State Solicitors have been
chosen in some counties who are not only
unlicensed lawyers, but who are wholly
uneducated.
I forbear to speak of the obnoxious char
acter of many strangers among us, who
have been chosen to prominent offices, so
far as their characters have been develop
ed in this State. To do so, T should tie
compelled to employ epithets for which I
have no taste. And yet nothing but the
very plai m st, and strongest language could
he truthfully employed. It is sufficient to
say that in a large number of cases there
is a lamentable want of all those quallies
which inspire tiie confidence or secure the
respect of good citizens.
No restoration can bo attended w'ith
good results Hint is not accomplished by
the aid of (he intelligence of tin* country.
All the material interests of the State are
suffering for the want of political tranquil
ity. We want harmonizing influences,
and not estrangements, in order to make
reconstruction a perfect work. The breach
must be closed, not widened, or a perpetu
al war of races must Inevitably ensue, and
bring anarchy and ruin upon our once
happy aud prosperous Country.
In tliis State the political party laboring
to take possession of tiie State Government
is composed almost entirely of negroes.
Opposed to them is a party comprising nl
most the entire white citizens and intelli -
gence of the State. Who can expect, har
mony to exist between ihese two political
elements, if a constitution, galling and
proscriptive towards tiie whites, is forced
upon t he Slate after it has Goon legally de
feated? Surely this cannot be the kind of
settlement, that Congress desires. Instead
of tranqnilizing the public mind, it would
increase an exasperation already too strong,
and tend to precipitate a war of races, tiie
consequence sos which arc horribly fright
ful oven to contemplate.
%, *WM*«*M. MMMIUULV,
The Plot of the Pad leal* for the Ovcrthrou *
of a Republican Government —The Execu
tive and the Supreme Court to be Abolish
ed — The Terms of Office of Grant and the
Senators to be Extended to Ten Years—A
Combined Military and Senatorial Dicta
torship Contemplated.
Washington, April 14, 1868.
History records numerous instances *f
conspiracies to overthrow existing goven
ments, or to change ruling dynasties, bat
they have generally been the work of a few
restless spirits, who have kept their ral
designs concealed from all but tlieir in
mediate associates, and thus have led their
followers blindly on in the path of revolu
tion in ignorance of its ultimate goaf.
The Jacobins of France were hold in ther
action; but even witli them when ther
revolutionary fires were first kindled on Ip
the men who applied the match knew fit
ly tiie extent of the destruction that wa
designed to follow the conflagration. Tie
Radical conspiracy now under full way t
Washington is probably the most reckles
that lias ever sought to strike at tiie life f
a strong and beneficent government ail
to reduce a happy people to a state of a
-
Events have occurred here within tb
past two or three days which rendert
certain that the ultimate object of te
men who are now striving to control te
Republican party in Congress is to effet
an entire change in our republican son
of government, and to substitute in :s
place a dictatorship more absolute and :t
--bitrary than that of Robespierre and tF
Commune do Paris. The apparent tfi
utnph of the impeachers on Saturday last
when the Senate, after giving the broades
license to tiie Managers in regard to th
admission of evidence against Presiden
Johnson, refused to the latter the privilegi
of examining General Sherman on point;
vital to tiie defense, imparted such con
fidence to the Radical conspirators as ti
tempt them to cast aside all caution, and
to boast openly of their power and of tht
manner in which they are resolved to ex
ercise it. In the bar-rooms and over the
dinner tabic principles were avowed
which, under other governments, wouli
consign their exponents to a felon’s cell.
Tiie objects of the revolutionists were de
clared to be the entire overthrow of conxti
tutionai republican government, as a fail
ure, proved to be such by the war of the
rebellion, and the substitution of a so
called “Government of the People,” Un
der the delusive Jacobin cry of “LibeJtv
and Equality.” Tile means and process
by which this end is to be accomplished
are set forth as follow :
Tiie conviction and removal of Andrew
Johnson, and llie installation of Ben Wade
in tiie Presidency for three or four mouths
before the commencement of the next
Presidential term.
The election of Grant as President an
Ben Wade as Vice President and Preside/
of tiie Senate, by the aid of martial lawi
doubtful States, if necessary.
The virtual abolition of the Snpreir
Court of the United States, by strippin
the judiciary of the power to pass upo
the uucnnstitutionality of any act of Coi
gress relating to reconstruction or to tl
business of the government.
Tiie extension of (lie term of office of 11
President-, Crane 'he Vico Presiden
Wade, and the present United States Soi
ate to ten years from the Ist of Marcl
1869, on the plea that a constantly recu
ring change in tiie government is liarmfi
in the existing condition of the oountr
and was one of the main causes of the la
war of the rebellion.
The unlimited inflation of the currene;
through the instrumentality of thenatioi
al banks, so as to throw- upon the couuti
an enormous amount of paper money, l
means of which the t>eople are to be ke|
in a state of excitement and good huinn
aud to be amused and made satisfied w il
an appatent prosperity.
This is the end and aim of the radic
conspiracy, so which impeachment is on
one of the preliminary steps. The diet
tors hip will be nominal only, and there
power will be in the Senate, with B<
Wade at its head. The appointmen
made by him during his brief term of pm
er will be carefully, selected from tiie toe
of tte conspirators, and the patronage at
influence of the office holders will stai
at the back of the revolutionary commitu
Grant will not have the power, if he hs
the disposition, to change a single featui
in the programme—a single creature i
the action of the drama—for the Senat
will hold him in a vice stronger than tin
they have prepared for Andrew Johnsor
With the latter out of the Presidential oi
fice, no voice will be raised in vetoes to ei
pose the true character of radical legisla
tion, and acts will be passed which will
strike down what little of protection yet
remains to tiie people in the barriers of
tiie constitution. With a pa|>er currency
flooding tiie country, speculation will run
wild, stocks of all kinds will rise, railroad
j schemes, land schemes, aud ail the wild
| est projects that ingenuity can devise will
find ready votaries, and in tiie general tire
and sinoite of the great revolution the
radical dictatorship will be made perpet
ual. The united power of Graut, tiie Sen
ate and tiie national banks is relied upon
to crush out all opposition and to enforce
a Reign of Terror to which the experience
of IS«2 and 1863 will be but a trifle. The
conspirators cite the case of Louis Napo
leou in support of their argument that
boldness only is required to turn into an
absolutism a rule commenced uuder tiie
guise of republican liberty.
The immediate admission of the South
ern States, with their negro constituencies
and negro representatives, will follow the
first successful steps of the conspiracy,
and then tiie vote of New York in the
House of Representatives will be nullified
by that of South Carolina. The real object
of the Radical conspiritors is no longer a
secret. Men may shut their eyes to tiie
truth, but the revolution will not go Imck
; ward, and its last acts, which are here
| foreshadowed, will come as surely as mili
tary rule, negro supremacy, tiie usurpation
of the constitutional powers of the Exec
utive, tiie destruction of the Supreme
! Court, and tiuaily, the impeachment of
, the President of the United States, have
one after.another followed the close of the
| war of the rebellion.
Krifflilful Accident on the New York
and Erie Kail road— Shocking Lodk of
Liie—Seven I'fODiiN Itnrncd to Dentil.
New York, April 15. —One of the most
terrible disasters on record occurred early
.this morning, 16 miles west of Port Jervis,
Uon lie* New York and Erie railroad. A
I train of passenger cars was thrown of!'the
’ track by tiie breaking of a rail, and pre
cipitated down an embankment 20 feet.
Thirteen dead bodies are at Port Jervis
depot, and fifty-two of tiro injured are at
the Port Jervis hotels. Two more have
not yet arrived.
One of the cars, the least broken of the
train, was so firmly imbedded in the
debris of the others as to prevent the
escape of the inmates, and several were
burned to death before relief could he
afforded them.
Mr. Lynch, the sleeping-car conductor,
estimates that seven bodies are consumed,
but it cannot be verified until the wreck
is removed.
'file officers of the railroad company
took tiie wounded to the Port Jervis ho
tels, and everything possible has been
done for tlieir relief.
LATER.
The following particulars of the terrible
accident on the Erie railroad have been re
ceived from passengers on the train, who
have arrived in this city: 'flic train to
which tiie accident occurred left Buffalo
yesterday afternoon, in charge of bonduc
t>r Judd and (’has. Douglass, superinten
dent oftiie division, nhd consisted of en
gine and tender, three sleeping, two first
class one one second class, two baggage
and and postal car. The train proceeded
on time, making the usual stoppages, until
evening, when the passengers in ttie sleep
ing cars retired for the night.
About three o’clock this A. M., Messrs.
Ames and Horton, of the general post-of
fice in this city, who were in charge of the
postal car, saw the hell rope straighten out
and break, when Mr. Judd immediately
remarked to one < f the officers that he iiad
lost his rear cars. They ran to the platform
of the car, when the four rear cars were
seen rolling down a nreclpice from 75 to
100 feet high.
The scene of tiie accident is thirteen
miles beyond Port Jervis, on the Dela
ware division of tiie road. Tiie sides of tiie
precipice are formed on jagged rock, and
in liie descent the cars were broken to
pieces. At the bottom isaeulvert, through
which flows a stream emptying into the
Delaware. The disaster was caused by a
broken rail, which threw the rear car im
mediately in front, and the wliole were
precipitated down theembankment. (Jon
u . or Judd aud Division Superintendent
Douglass were slightly injured.
The cars, in going over the embank
ment, turned several times before the bot
tom was reached, and were nearly demol
ished. The sleeping car was consumed
.by lire. The passengers iuamudxaieiv be
hpi niMiPt"i llUTlie killed. Many of the
ri itter could not be recognized. Seven
persons were burned to death and six
others were killed by coming in contact
with tiie jagged rocks, etc. The wounded
persons were placed on the train and
brought to Port Jervis, which place was
reached at nine this morning.
Several surgeons were immediately sum
moned, and everything was done to alle
viate the sufferings of the injured. The
bodies of the killed were left on tiie
ground.
Daniel I*. Snow was injured and his
wife and one of his children killed.—
Three children escaped witli only slight
injuries.
STATEMENT OF A SURVIVOR.
Mr. G. B. Holleuback, of Morris, 111.,
left. Cleveland yesterday morning, and
w hiie in the first of the sleeping cars was
awakened between three and four o’clock
tliis morning by a violent jerk With a con
cussion, and subsequent rolling of the car
down tiie embankment. On the cessation
of the motion screams of flight and pain
arose from several women and children
occupying the car, ivlio had not held as
tenaciously to tlieir berths as tiie male
passengers. He received a few contusions,
but was unconscious of them at the mo
ment, and in company with others at once
left the car and surveyed the scene. The
car had rolled over an inclined plane
down a bank, and stopped at a distance of
one hundred feet from the road.
Fearful shrieks arose from the centre
and last sleeping cars. Tiie former had
fallen perpendicularly fifty feet fron the
culvert into a small stream below, and the
latter had rolled similarly to his own car,
but had caught lire from cinders in the
stove. Both were much shattered, and
blows from fragments as the cars broke
contributed much toward the injuries
sustained.
Attention was immediately given to ex
trenting the sufferers and tiie engine,
baggage car and smoking car, and one
oilier passenger car, went to Port Jervis,
aid transferring the passengers, baggage
awl mails to another train. Immediately
i 6 limed tor transportation of tiie won nded.
.51 r. Hoilenbach readied this city about
1..>.) to-day, together witli about a dozen
oiers, who had been slightly hurt, and
Wose accounts corroborated his own.
dr. Fairman, senior partuer of tiie
Rnira Advertiser, was among the woun
(U.
HE LATEST—ADDITIONAL CASUALTIES.
By the latest dispatchas received at the
.liie railway office in tills city, it appears
lat twenty persons are dead and fifty
ouruled. Os the latter ten are seriously
not fatally injured.
Physicians will leave the city hospital
•r Port Jervis this evening, to assist in
iKing care of the wounded.
»1 FEMAIiE UUIBI.KItS.
[it Tiio Chronicle of tin's morning is respo in
visible for tlie following announcement
one of the features of Wasliiug-
Aton society:
,i “It may appear to be a slightly sensa
nitional statement, but it is none the less
1)1 true that there are two fashionable gamb
ling houses, both within half a dozen
iJsquaresof the Treasury Building which
i are exclusively for the use of ladies
ijOne, and perhaps the heat furnished and
Hmost largely frequented, is situated on
i| fourteenth street, while the other is in
•f the First Ward but a few squares distant,
jAt these places, at nearly ail hours of the
4day, may be found richly dressed ladies
(connected with families whose standing is
Ilugh in the community, earnestly engaged
in taro, ami staking their money with'an
Aabandon that would excite surprise. The
li sterner sex is risidly excluded, aud the
I players feel themselves secure from the
intrusion of watchful fathers or angry
husbands, while they at the same time
place film reliance on the silence of their
fair companions, who, we will say, arc
quite select and respectable, as the judg
ment of the crafty proprietresses enables
them to perceive that the indiscriminate
admission of visitors would l>e injurious
to their interests. We are at present
unable to obtain other than the above
particulars, as the closest secresy is observ
ed. It is rumored tiiat a certain divorce
case now pending In the District Courts
i3 attributed in a measure to the squander
in? of a husband’s money on the tables of
rUie of these places, Mme. Rumor placing
id V» amount of the losses as high as $50,000.
facts are startling, but true, and we
Atrlfesoon to be able to make a complete
n, tyse of both places, and thereby to bring
f- tjoflenders to justice.”— Wmh. Cor. N.
x* Wimas, 1 21 h.
TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 186S.
FRO.H WASHINGTON.
[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Son. 1
Interview of Sergeant Bate* with th> Presi
dent — Interesting Account of Hi s Trip
tfg'rom Vicksburg— Messages from the South
ern People to the President —Devotion to
the “ Old Flag”—Reasons for undertak
ing the Journey—Money Offerings and
Hospitality on the Route —A Recovered
Flay—(general Sherman — Demoraliza
tion of the Impeachers.
Washington,April 18.—Sergeant Bates
called upon the President to-day to per
form what he considered a very agreeable
duty ; that duty, he said, was to deliver to
the President the bind messages for the
chief magistrate of the nation which he
had received in the swamps and in the
woods, along the stretcher of pine forest
through which his route now and then
lay. At the louely farm-house and in the
villages, cities and towns: “Tell the Pres
ident,” said a gray-haired man, “we are
praying for him,” “ (Say to him,” said
hundreds “God bless him.” Many, very
many, begged the sergeant to tell the
President that their hope was that heaven
would bless Andrew Johnson, in his ef
forts to secure their rights “jti the old
Union.”
“At Richmond, Virginia,” continued
Sergeaut Bates, “a hue looking old lady,
pushing through the crowd, came to me
as I was making my way out of the city,
and with the tears coursiug her cheeks,
said, as she took my hand. ‘Tell Andrew
Johnson that he has the earnest prayers
of the matrons of Virginia for his welfare
and happiness.’ Gray-haired men, trem
bling with age, invoked upon President
Johnson Heaven's blessing.”
“ Just beyond Montgomery, Ala., my
flag was decorated with flowers and a lau
rel wreath by a young lady, who said to
her mother, as she returned to me my
colors, ‘ I wish I could send L>y Sergeant
Bates a boquet to President Johnson.”—
They would dismiss schools to meet me,
and many of the little girls would want to
kiss me and to waive my flag. My rooms
have been decorated with evergreens, and
in North Carolina girls strewed my way
with flowers and pinned boquets to my
breast.
“ In passing through North Carolina
and Virginia, I had a boquet in my hand
every hour of the day. I honestly believe,
sir, that in every State through which 1
have passed in my loug journey ; I could
raise a thousand men for the defence of
the ll tg as quickly as I could anywhere in
the entire Union. I have taken by the
hands dozens of ex-Confederate soldiers,
whose warm grasp, quivering lips ami
moistened eyes could not lie. In Georgia
for Instance, 1 met a man who had served
in the rebel armies, and who had been
watching for me along the road. He had
been engaged in chopping wood. I accom
panied .him to his home, distant about
two miles. On the way he told me that
the grave of his brother, who had fallen in
the rebel cause, was not far from the road
side. I went with him to the spot; he
stood upen one side of the grave and I
upon the other. A plain wooden head
hoard marked the place, and as I was
reading the inscription, he asked why
such a bad state of feeling should continue
to prevail—reaching his hand over the
grave of his brother. 1 clasped it; and
will any one say 1 did wrong in taking by
the hand one, against whom I had fought,
hut who now was willing to stand by the
good old flag?
“In North Carolina T met an old man
who had served in the rebel forces. He
was quite old for one who, but a short
time since, had carried a gun and knap
sack. 'flie poor old man during the war
had lost two sons and a son-in-law, his
only supports. It was eight miles to the
Catawba, the bridge over which had been
destroyed by Steadman. It had been re
built; was very high, and bad to cross.
This old soldier took such interest in me
I had stopped over night in the house
where lie lived —that he went with mo to
the bridge and led me over for fear 1 might
fall and hint myself.
“Between Selma and Montgomery, in
Alabama, I wont to an elegant residence,
occupied by a gentleman named White,
on a plantation called White Hall. Mr.
White him elf came to the door. My flag
was unfurled, hut he did not know me,
nor had.be heard of my singular journey.
He, however, warmly welcom< and me, and
I explained how I had come to seek shelter
under his rcof. During the war, lie told
me, Wilson had passed through thatcouu
jali.he hail. During a
ment that his eyes were not moistened
with tears. In the morning I found my
flag decorated by- his daughter with
wreaths of laurel and flowers. He went
with me on my way about a mile, and
finally said he would have to leave me.
1 took him by the hand. A gentle breeze
was blowing, and the flag, held in my left
hand, was flying. The old man tried to
bid me good-bye, hut he broke down, and
for minutes wept like a child.”
At the requestor the President, the ser
geant explained the circumstances under
which he had undertaken the long jour
ney which he has just concluded. “ Per
sons,” saul he, “ made assertions which I
believed to be both foolish and unfounded.
I contradicted them, saying that I did not
care for their individual opinions, but as
perhaps thousands believed as they did, I
would make a proposition that, if carried
out, would disprove their theory. I there
upon made an offer to do what I have
done. I did not think my proposition
would be accepted, nor did the principal
person of those to whom I lefer think I
would dare carry out my plan. I le, how
ever, at once accepted, my oiler, and dared
ne to fulfil its terms. He had declared,
for instance, that if the government would
withdraw the military forces from the
South, and leave the flags living, the
Union soldiers would hardly be out of
sight before the colors would be torn down
and trampled hi the dust. I replied that
I was a poor man, that I was not in a con
dition to undertake the journey, hut that
it he would give me a UoJlar a day for my
family, while I was gone, I would go to
Vicksburg and would alone, unarmed and
without money, carry the American Hag
from that place to Washington. I was
told that my life would not be worth a
cent; that indeed, I would never be per
ratted to leave Vicksburg alive.
“Articles of agreement were drawn up
and I was dared to sign them. I did so,
and thus bound myself to their perform
ance. I went home, thought over the mat
ter, saw it was a novel enterprise and
would attract some attention, but did not
think it would receive the notice it has. I
felt sure I would be treated well, and that
the Hag would be respected; but I had no
idea that the people would take so much
pains to show their respect for the Hag, or
that I would, receive an ovation. There
was, sir during the entire journey, not a
breath uttered against the Hag or myself
whether in the rich man’s parlor or in the
poor man’s cabin ; whether on the road or
in the city the old flag received the respect
and homage of all, and myself welcome
and hospitality.
“I was determined to carry out the plan,
i have done so, and when I reached Wash
ington I had not a penny in my pocket. I
did not know where I was to got a meal
or where to find a resting place. I have
iiad money enough offered me on the
route to enrich me for life ;• hut 1 have not
accepted a cent nor have I sold a photo
graph, as some have said, during my jour
“Afr. President, I recaptured one of our
Hags without expending a shot, ft was a
Hag that had been taken from us at ( 'ban
cellorsville, and it was handed to me by
an ex-Con federate soldier, who had pre
served it at his home.
“ Before I leave I will again call on you
to show a sash presented to me by‘the
ladies of Montgomery, Alabama, and
which I promised when I reached Wash
ington you should see. I hope on Mon
day next to leave for my home, near
Fdgerton, Wisconsin, where I have a wife
and two children. The last work J did
before l left, was the cutting of two cords
of wood. I left a tree partially cut and J
want to get home to finish it.”
Den. Bherman was atxwt departing
upon his journey to Fort Laramie last
night, when he received a note from
Judge Curtis requesting him to remain
here until the President’s counsel deter
mined whether they would recall him as
a witness or not.
Senator Cameron has received a com
munication from the Pennsylvania Legis
lature recommending the confirmation of
the nomination of Cos!. Burnside, of Illi
nois, to be second auditor of the Treasury*
' n !- e / ac , ‘ ers ar< r imieh chagrined and de
mmmi^A°' D, ?. bt , overtbe ,uan,ltr
In tho < ¥ u I V ut, i r 8 violent harangue
in the Senate this afternoon. They con
demn his conduct in unmeasured terms
. J Data.
A t.ettek from California contains the
following queer story : “ The large estate
of benator Broderick, who was killed in
a duei, was disposed of under a will which
was proven to be a forgery concocted after
his death, in New \ork, and so pronounc
ed by one of our district judges, before
whom the case was tried. The difficulty
| in the matter was that the forgery was not
proven until the wifi had been duly ad
mitted to probate by the County Court,
and the District Conrt decided that the
admission of the will to probate was a
finality, and after that no action could be
taken to set it aside as fraudulent. As I
said, under this decision, the whole estate,
now worth millions of dollars, was held,
and the present holders have clear title
through a will known to be a forgery. I
much doubt if such another case can be
found on the record of the Courts of any
country outside of California.”
Sale or Stocks in Charleston. —A
largo- salo of stocks belonging to the
Charleston Savings Institution com
menced in that city on Tuesday, in accor
dance with a decree in equity. A largo
number of purchasers were in attendance,
representing not only the bankers and
brokers of Charleston and the depositors
in the Institution, but capitalists from
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Savannah, Augusta and other places. We
give a partial synopsis of the sales on the
first day.
Savannah, Albany <fc Gulf Railroad
bonds, SSOO each, guaranteed by the city
of Savannah, 70a70J. South Carolina
SSOO Railroad bonds, 70.]. Charleston A
Savannah SSOO Railroad bonds, guaranteed
by the State, 38aS8. Northeastern Rail
road bonds, guaranteed by the State, 6(ia
71 k. Memphis & Charleston SI,OOO Rail
road bonds, flrst mortgage, Slab-lj. City
of Augusta SI,OOO bonds, <i2a64j. City of
Augusta SSOO bonds, 6!2]a6S. City of
Savannah SI,OOO bonds, 71a72§. City of
Savannah S6OO bonds, 73£a75j.
State of South Carolina old SI,OOO bonds,
45],a4S]. South Caroliua Railroad and
Southwestern Bank stock (par value sl3-5)
30a32',. Stock in Camden Branch (par
$100) 30. South Carolina Railroad stock,
new issue v par SSO) 15]al5], Gity of
Charleston six percent, stock, 40a44],
The Fkeshet—Damage to Rail
roads. —Serious apprehensions were en
tertained yesterday that the Savannah
tvive'r Would overflow its hanks hist night,
and thereby cause serious injury to our
city. Merchants took timely precaution
and removed the goods stored in their
cellars. Fortunately, however, the rain
subsided and all danger of a freshet has
passed. The highest point which the
water reached at the bridge was twenty
nine feel and a half. This was yesterday
morning arid the river commenced falling
in the afternoon, so that all danger is now
passed. We have not ascertained what
injury has been done to the planting
interest on the the bottom lands, but
presume that it has not been material, as
our planters could not have made much
progress in preparing for crops so early in
the Season.
The damage to the railroads has not
been very serious, although we hear of
travel having been discontinued on the
Central, between Milton and Macon, and
on the Soutlnvestern, by theWashingaway
of bridges auil culverts. The injury totlie
Central is between Macon and Milieu, the
road from Milieu to Savannah being un
injured.
A letter from Mr. J. N. Treadwell,
Southern Express Agent at Camak, to
the Assistant Superintendent here, Mr.
Hugh Dempsey, states Unit information
from Cuivcrton, on the Macon and Au
gusta Road, reports three breaches in
Gordon's Creek tfesftie, two on R:vkeom
fort trestle, and one ’of she rock piers in
Fulsom Creek bridge are washed away.—
Nothing has been heard from (he road
west of Cuivcrton. The letter also states
it will ho live or six days before a train
can be run as far as Cuivcrton. — Chronicle
it Sentinel.
Tiie Rain Storm. — We are permitted
to publish (he following extracts from a
private letter to a gentleman in this city:
Tn a he Woods, near Wahkenton, \
April 1(1, 1868. /
The rain commenced falling this morn
ing at 4 o’clock, aud continued in torrents
up to 11 o’clock. Two of the railroad
bridges—high trestles—are down between
U arrenton and Mayfield; the last one
washed down since we passed over it this
morning. The trains cannot, go either
way, Home of the workmen are under
the impression that it will be a week be
fore the trains can run.
P.B.—'Three bents of the Golden Creek
trestle are washed out; three bents of Hie
Rock Comfort trestle, west of Maylield,
are washed out, and oue of the rock piers
of Folsom Creek bridge is washed away.
4 U.iP,SOftiJ, wi,lI be in t runnitjg
serious damages have occurred.— Const.,
18 th.
Rajn in Torrents. —Wednesday night
and early Thursday morning there was an
unusually heavy outpouring of rain upon
this section. One hard min quickly fol
lowed another for hours, and tho continu
ous lightning aud thunder that accompa
nied each shower gave us a vivid illustra
tion of the power of the elements overhead
'1 he storm was a remarkable one, both for
the quantity of rain that fell, and for the
grand discharges of electricity that accom
panied it. W e have heard of one house in
the city that was struck by lightning
without receiving much injury, and we
suppose that a number of trees in the vi
cinity must have been struck.
Our river had been considerably raised
by the rain of Tuesday night, and that
ot Wednesday night caused a still further
and rapid rise yesterday morning. It
overflowed the first hank aud put of the
railroad track upon it, constructed for the
pnrp -so of carrying stone from the fulls
to the piers of the M. AG. It. It. bridge.
There was a great deql of drift wood and
lumber coming down yesterday, and the
scene at the river, where many persons
were engaged in bringing it ashore, was a
lively one.— Col., Eng. Inth.
? tic Itcjccl ion of Ccui ral SiiU)liiiiit\
C esilmo ity.
From the National Intelligencer, April 13.
On no occasion daring the trial lias the parti
san spirit which actuates and inspires the Radical
majority of the Senate been more conspicuous
than oid Saturday, when General Sherman was
upon the stand ns a witness.
* '* * * * ■» *
The Radical majority wanted no reason for
their injustice. They are and
were so before a witness was produced, tiavin
discovered the worthlessness of the accusations
against the President, upon the showin- of the
prosecution, they are resolved U> exclude all
proof which will damage them more materially
before the country. General Thomas has proved
that after his arrest, and when he made tiiat fact
known to the President, Mr. Johnson -aid to him
it was what lie desired, because tile issue would
Live to go before the courts. This was on the
J‘2d of lebrnary. Kvnrybodv has seen the un
worthy attempt of butler to impair the effect of
that testimony by unscrupulous efforts to produce
confusion in tho memory of the w itness by a com
bination of dates and circumstances. Now, Gen
eral Hherman was prepared to testily tiiat the
President, in tendering Win War Department to
liiiii on two occasions, had expressed that game
intention and desire. It formed, in fart, a part of
the offer, and, therefore, in n judicial sense,
longed to the act. This was a month before the
appointment of Gen. Thomas. The Radicals knew
perfectly well how damning to their cause would
bo this clinching testimony; and hence they
irtuae to permit it to lie heard. They know
also, that General .Sherman, as well as General
'■rant, entertained the belief that Stanton ou-ld
not to hold ttia War Ilepattincni, hot h for the
g'x.d of the scrv ice and Ibr the tieaee of the
Country. This was another reason for shutlin
out his evidence, as it would servo to convict the
mipeachers, and not. the President. Tliev did
not dare to confront it, and hence resorted to the
ihsq-ei-ate expedients of upsetting their own de
cision of tin- day before, of overruling the Chief
Ju-liee, of violating the plaino s ) rules of evidence
mid of outraging the name of justice.
Such an net may uttain it*, temporary object
but it will return to plague tie- inventor-. Keen
Mr. Bunil.ee, with all his prejudices and preoou
eened ideas, could not go the length of wrong
Which Ills extreme associate* demanded. Jb.
F fused to-tutttfy biiaself publicly, and thu , re
nuked the votes of men who on Friday iioceptcd
1 a class of testimony which they rejected on Sat
urday, Uie cases and articles bring identical in
every respect. MV are quite willing logo to the
Country upon this issue. It is only a part of a
system of fraud, wrong and partisan tyranny,con
ceived in the same spirit as the di graceful trick
by which a clause was smuggled into a revenue
bill to restrain the Supreme Court in the MeArdla
case frym arup.urn-lug an opinion after it.Jpul been
fully argued. The party w hich i- capable of such
" ilful aud wicked outrages only heaps coal -of fire
on its ow n head, and may well dread that retribu
tion which criminal defiance of ri-ht deserve- to
receive, and which must sooner or later overtake
the guilty.
From the New York T rnes (Eej».) April 13.
We were somewhat surprised at the Senate's
reported overruling of the decision of the Chief
.1 urstiee on Saturday, as to the admissibility ©f
the evidence ofGelieral Sherman. On introducing j
it. Mr. Stanbcry said it- was essential to the eon- !
duct of the defence that this testimony should be
admitted ; and the pertinacity with w hich he car- |
ried on his attempts to get it in showed the great
weight that \va« put upon it. When the prosecu
tion offered their evidence the Senate gave them
, f greatest latitude, overruling the decisions of
the Chief Justice, half a dozen times, and always
iu favor of admitting the testimony. But Butler
onght against Sherman’s testimony* as pertian*
ciously ns the counsel for it, ami on -. .
casionft he used language so offotn : V ra ‘ c
Stanbcry was compelled toprotev 'pi lt
the Senate, however, on this question '
close, and we hope that upon the ,’ a ' Vtr J
protested they will conclude to -
defence fairly* by permitting Gene ml si die
present his evidence. ''man to
In practically giving the control t
for the prosecution to Mr, Butler n ° , ' ae '
managers Law indicated the tnc!,
they desire the trial to be conducted T ANARUS: "
the best way to be'that which is ,
“shysters" of our low criminal d"*
twisting evidence, hadgering wG
over potty point#, abusing the op-„, ' -
and resorting to Hfl the mean ttiok* of n ' !l .
fogger, it is thought that their -i •' l
emi best be served, and the Sena
affected. It was as an adept in , 1 '
that Mr. Ilutler first distinguished l.h *
criminal courts of Mnesaehnsi tts ' r ,
in this great case, he has the ( ,j ,' 1
playing his powers unchecked h, 1 : '
it appears that time lias < n| v ; n . . '," :a, '\
characteristics of bis earlier vears xc'
that in permitting him to maimq,,. '
as he has thus far managed it. hi.-. n ,\
concluded that his style would p.iuy,." I!lu ‘
fective. and that it afforded the W-t ‘ 1
curing the verdict which they desire p .
they are l ight. We will not attempt t,> ,
the point. Wo know that they must ,
elusive reasons for their course. W,
that there are among them members ,
put niattevs'ona different level. There
who need not soar a contest on higher
with even such an array of legal talent
tutes the counsel for the den-mo. tv -
lowa, for example, is probably the nm-t
liensive and powerful mind on the side of th
prosecution ; but lie seems to take no put in
control. Bingham, who i- an able man. t,..- ,
played himself very little, and Bout well w!,'
honest fend earnest, bus not yet been In ~rd .
5Ve confess we should like to have seen tin
conducted differently. Perhaps it would lie
been all the worse for the President; peril.,i
would have been better for him. Dm wi,,.
better or worse, we are snro it would havi i
more creditable t i the Senatif more creditable n.
the country, more creditable to the cause ~f j,.
tiee, ami more worthy the admiration of niunkii
here and everywhere, now and hereafter.
r CONDITION OF THU SOI Til.
i Prom the New York Times,
i Wo arc not permitted to forget the r ,
> ,uaesibht oH of Mr. Asiiiujrn, in (!,
the fact that his fate has been the fated
' in the N'Ulhcrn fcutco. livery tic.-li iicairi :
' of the kind is used as evidence of •» ih , Vl ,
■ halo” with which loyal white men, of the r '
t icnls'amp, arc regardid in many Sou'lcrr
r calilies. Toe Kukiux Klan tupplhs n ,!*. v
L t x. on th.s subject and the outrages aUrihut-d
i to lt aru traced lo a lioico disloyal sj ii it rm ~
i the SvUlhtrbpeople. The, alleged oecuirot,'”-
aro always n cd 'as a jttsvfientioii of wbatev -
harshness attends tho administration ot.. , v
i rijmt nl in that section, and us a j ret, xt tern
' great deal of intolerant apptai aid h ,j xu ,.'
> regard to the litturo courto of Cun-mss t. ~,, i
1 theSoulh.
7 Them is always danger es n justieein f-w
5 cral.EitKma predicated upon Pointed taels, the
1 l arraUoii of which is ex ijenliy tingrd with
partisanship. Somoni tho sta < meat-.' t- „« ,
mose at and oven mythical They a 1 !, wo tie, x
, istsi oo of a widely--d flusfd murder, m o.; r j. ln
, localttios xvlnrc wuii-authont:eali-d oulrtc-s
, arc really few, Tho murder of AsnuuKK, ~r
imtancp, has been made tho text of in ndliis
- upon tho and, sfierato purpr ,-s < f “ the r, Id eh
i mont ”in tloorgia; alth- ugh, in proporti. nto
. its pcpillalion, we f>< lievo liters I ave |„f, w .
i (r outrages by whites in that Sate, than in
.iiy other,.North or South. 1-, fact, lookir •-
I at tho UohstUntfon pro; oa) for (!e.,rg u
; the prrero i ngs of the Convention by xvh mil
I was prepared, and at the general character oi
polilicai di ii.oiioti'HtioiH oa cither ride, as re
p rtml in the local pre.-s, wc think that in ;l,a:
Dtate, la-8 than in any other Southern State
I there ground for apprehending serious difliebl
i ty as an aecompaniinent of reconstruct! n
it is mote than probable, m verlh, 1, tlmt
in many ciitiicts ot tho South sufficient gr. uini
exists tor concluding t'.ial active supporters of
the Cot'gressional policy, especially Northrrn
1 men, canr ot bo ct nifi rtabk', ad may not In
safe. There -toes not seem any when to ho
hostility to straigcrs, as such. Ti xvbme
South is r- ady to welcome new c tn-rs. \',r
ginia and Louisiana, South Carolina am] Ain
karisns, are anx.ous to have tho country tu un
derstnt.d that tjicy have land lo teiichea],, ai ,1
desire nothing so much ns practical n,, n in
seaich of nexv homes. There is not seldom,
xvo fetr, a reservation t< tiching the pol tical
bias or the immigrants desired. lVp.uration is
wanted with an understood proviso—that it hu
not aggres ively radical. And we know tbst
in s< me cases xvbero this condit on'hasnot been
respected—where setth rs have exereice-l if,fir
- r - 1, “ w» m»o an acme
aft airs <»f tho Blato m xvuitm tt ny i.t., u
flv< —they have been vn-ited with 1 j- t \
which nothing can extonuate. Still, oatragim
by whites upon whites or their property aro
neither s > peneral nor so bJoo-iv as m lit he
inferr and from the high coloring of partisan
c.r n.c.e. \\ rt>ags inflicted by whiles upon
blacks atv ur.happily more c- rinm n, though
usually ro crMfined t-i particular jiarts of Sums
as in no way to compromise the general char
ac or of tho Southern populalio..
Nur tau we in fairness overlook tho rapid
growth of aggravated crime amoeg tho fre
men. This aspect of the ca n receives hut
slight attention at tho hand? of those who nr--
h>u i< st in denouncing tb© perj ctnt rs of the
Athburu lnurdtf 'J’ho rep .rs an eith,-.-
withheld from publfcaTon or a-• J•, led promt
nenco. Yet they have bee, rui ro.-. ejMK'lfi-•
aid authenticated. OI theft in M and
(I-orgia, and u, tieft complicated xv,t‘.i im ,
and arinu in bouth CJarylina- freeum Li: g ni,-
donlibty the er mi: al»—• nr corri-q.-,’ -lents
from these S sirs have during the Wiut
tfurnished a formidable r-c ird The nature
of tbecriuiu report,xl wekiy Ue.-- rm sn o »sc
nous Thu Associated I’retss dispatch lr< tn
A ufiarna, the of her day, narrated the rnurd- r
of an ex-Confederato in a local tv w here four
other white fica, also ex-Oonfi derates, have
been shot and ii.sta-.t y tided. Tnislr. rn Al
abama In \ irgiuia, ugu n inarjcr- by fr.ej
mpn aro on t*io ir.croaso. VV*t f .in ft wo« k our
Bicbrncmd correspondent has formed u- tlmt
white men arc waylaid and shot hy negr, . s on
roads leading to that city. There, as at helms,
the murdorcr- being black ar.d tie rreudered
white, the Sp C.a! Vlgflanca of the militarv In.
not li o • invoked, and the crimes piss - j,u-
Isbed. They have cot been paraded for tee
enlightenment pf Congress, or used as occa
sions ‘or swe ping attacks upon the race list
furnish the murderers. This cotir-e j pursued
when the purpose g to demonstrate the ne ■•--
sity cl kaepiog “a tight band upon the South
it is not adopted when tho dl’ -ct would he m.-
favorable to the class on whom the law lit
conferred a large—if not the controlling—i:
flue nee in the reorganization of the SouU .
The subject, however, has an inipoManc
superior to ail partisan considerations. How
fur the facta idverted to affect the presenter
future o! th’s or that political orgsr.iz&b
matters c< niparitively little. Their real sitr
r.illcanco is in relation to tho conditi n < ; tin*
South while reconstruction ii in progic- To
our mind lh< y toia to show a startling tender.-
cy iowar 1 a . .ate of things which would r i >!it
recon trueffon of little benefit to the Sonth **r
to the country.- This, toe, notwithstanding the
pretence of a military jiower who;e av< rag.
vigilance exceeds that of ordinary civil auth. .r
--iLy lfospfte the pre enco of military com
mander*, with fo’diers in every State, outrag.
an- on the iner«a<o—outrages of black* us well
its whites, and ndieatiig tiiegradu-d dev. p
ment < t ijasobu* which, if ui de eked, wi ) n
- in evils Tor which the Ibeor truotion law
provide no adi.piiit; remedy. It is to ly to a
Finn* tuat with- reconstruction according to
law will necessarily eerno that rrs,<-et for tl.**
author.ty of jaw which alone can secure-ord'-r
and security Tner • muet be a purpose . n tie*
past of tho eoninmnity as a whole to ru-m r t'
a Iniinihtrattv n oi civii authority, or the 'utter
wili Le an imply form, while the actum ■
must continue in lie; soldier-,’ hand-'. The
quo tioTi which challenges attention b, hi w
far have tho measure* ol reco siiuction now m
pr; gr. t% p ..looted the giowtii ol these gimran
t< e- oi the lit city wide i re. 1* on order : In
other word*, to v, hat extent have the pr .m
narirs of p o'itiefti rrorgani/ vtion iostere.l
peaceful relation* of raring which will e nlinu' 1
unequal in capacity and aim in deli* c>> < 1
edi'-t- and Oonsjiiu: ions i (firming ah.• i.t**; '
litieal equality'? Is the r. construction 1 ' '
going on genu ne and la ling, or wilt i b p
per cent on bavooet* even after O .ngre -
nave pronounced it perfect?
The ii quiries are not lendered less perti
nent by to. oxperie. ee of Toon. ssee. ifar-ii
rule ba- hud full trial th< re. Air. Joiin.-o*
bigan it, and Air Browm ow las kep,t it a',
woik to thlsdny. It the roeomtruction which
operates by force a' and pro. crintion could bo oi
any avaid, Ter.nervco th u’d at the moment J*
a model State of the. IT,;ion. The truth i-.
however, that in the whole South thore i- r
a Stale which can vie with it i.i tho nia-UB ’*.*
of the t' rn* er which animates portion*'l *'
people, in the flagranoy aid frequency < ■ 1
rage and .njnstlcc, and in the utter w r t
C TfidSnco which s* felt in the; cs< efulr;.-
future. Nowhere throughout the South m *-•
more insecure, prop, rty more nearly
or society more & rnpletely ditorgsnir. ' l j*---
in parts of the Sta'c which La*cxpe.-ienc>« t
extreme poi’oy of K (■on-tt’iietion. The kn •
K'sn origiratixl th-ro, arid there w<> ■*•' ‘j
look for tho disloyalty which is irricnitv 11 -
for the time incurablo. The lesson taug' ll
Tennessee in these respects merits »lk n ‘
when we attempt to estimate the iiossib.e .» ■
of the South under a system of governing 1 -
which intelligence and character aro su
rated to tho vehemence and rancor of b lir
ship.