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Georgia Journal & Messenger,
J. \V. KITRKE A <«., Proprietor*.
A. AV. UEI.SF, i
K. KOKi:, f Editor*.
SATURDAY, MAY 9,’1868T”
THE ATLANTA EK.t AM* THE STATE
CAPITA 1..
An Atlanta newspaper, called The New
Era, is, in all essential particulars, a radi
cal organ. It essays to be the champion
of New England ideas in the South. Its
columns every day are reeking with the
most nauseating dishes ever served up for
Southern palates. It is ready at all times
to snap, growl, snarl, grin, laugh, cry,
dance, run, walk, bow, scrape, preach or
pray for Yankees.
They told him that they wanted the
Slate Capital of Cleorgia removed from
MiHedgeviHe to Atlanta, and that in the
work of putting up new buildings they
would get a great many fat contracts. He
forthwith pitches in and declares war
against all opposition. He lustily howls
lor the consummation of the suggestion of
the pack at his back. It is said that one
wolf will make as much noise in the
woods as a thousand. This is the only
wolf in the newspaper profession in Geor
gia, and it makes up in noise what it lacks
in numbers.
i.. But it lias the insolence and the effront
ery to charge us with counseling “a down
right violation of the organic law of the
State,” because we suggested to the legis
lature to refuse the appropriation or one
dollar towards the removal of the Capital.
We deny in toto that the new Consti
tution is the organic law of the State of
Georgia. Born in the brain of New Eng
land, transplanted by strolling vagabonds,
supported by traitors to their native South,
and voted on by a people who had no right
to vote —their first vote being to establish
their right to vote—the abominable thing
was “conceived in sin and brought fortli
in iniquity.” It was not the work of
Georgia or of Georgians, but has been
forced upon us by federal bayonets. While
this rapo was being perpetrated upon our
mother State, some of her own sons urged
on the infernal crew to the commission
of tlie horrid deed.
They are not yet satisfied. They would
now tear down and uproot all her ancient
customs and institutions in order to satisfy
that devilish spite and hate red republi
cans always entertain for such institutions.
With a smooth siren song of peace and
concord these vipers wrap theirslimy coils
around the pillars of the tenipleof liberty,
and in due time bury that temple in ruins.
In the crash they are always buried be
neath the ruins.
♦ ♦
AVlij- the Constitution was Carried.
Had not the relief clause been engrafted
into the new Constitution, it would have
been rejected by a decisive majority. It
was with the hope of getting rid of debts
which threatened many with being sold
out at public sale, more than any love they
entertained for Radical principles, that
induced many to vote for it, We have
often told them that this was put into that
instrument for the purpose of deceiving
them. If law and order are ever again es
tablished in the State, the Courts will set
this measure aside and order the debts to
be collected.
It is totally unnatural to suppose that
the Southern people are yet ready to accept
the ideas of the New England Puritan.
The soul revolts at the very thought. By
cheat and fraud a temporary advantage
has been gained, aud the people of Geor
gia humiliated by the erection of a gov
ernment framed by convicts and slaves.
It is true that in this they have been as
sisted by some men to the manner horn.
Their motives in thus entailing the in
iquity upon their country was unholy lust
for place and power.
Is there not some chosen curse, some secret
thunder
Hidden in the stars of heaven, to smite the
wretch
Who owes Ids greatness to his country’s ruin.
But tlii.s work of violence will not stand
long. As soon as the people are freed
from their fetters and the galling chains
which now clang around their limbs, they
will drive the Goths and Vandals from
their land, and overturn all their idola
trous temples. A raid has been made
upon them not unlike the ones made
by the Cimbri upon Rome. Unlike it in
this, that the hordes from beyond the
Rhine and the Po found no Benedict Ar
nolds in the Eternal City, whilst the New
England Puritans found plenty of them
among us. They divided us for the pur
pose of conquering. Too well have their
plans thus far succeeded.
“At the Pirnr.ic Exuense.”— The
Radical statesmen (!) are ever ready with
a remedy for every grievance. Foster
Blodgett, and Gen. Can by are out for tak
ing care of all negroes who lost then-situa
tions about election times, at the public
expense. We are not prepared to say that
this, at least, is not a good suggestion.
Government should patronize industry,
especially when it can do so without loss
to itself. We take it for granted that no
body is fool enough to suggest the policy
of supporting able-bodied negroes, or any
body else, in idleness. The object is we
take it, to give employment and bread to
those who are out ot both. We therefoie
hope our worthy Mayor, and the Mayors
of other cities, and the county authorities
generally, will look after this matter ami
see that none sutler from want ot bread
and maintenance. At least, titty hands
might be employed on the streetsot Macon
for several months in repairing the dama
ges by the late floods, and the roads and
bridges of the country generally are sadly
broken up. Bet the authorities collect all
the negroes who have been turned out ot
employment and put them to work on
these improvements, feeding them at the
public expense, and keeping them em
ployed until they can And othersituations.
We rather like the idea, and hope it will
be carried out generally.—Much valuable
public work may be done in this way and
at a very light expense.— Macon Telegraph.
To all of which we demur, gracefully,
yet lirmly. If there is any extra work to be
given out, and any favors to be bestowed,
we recommend Democratic negroe- for
the positions. Bet as always reward our
friends in preference toour enemies. V> ba
llot tell these negroes out of employment
to apply to radicals for meat and bread.
They have promised them forty acres of
land and a mule, if they would vote their
ticket, and we insist upon the contract be
ing complied with. Surely they will not
have the coolness to ask Democrats to pay
the debt, it would be a species of refresh
ing effrontery.
White Tickets. —The Ohio Legisla
ture has passed a law requiring all elec
tion tickets to be hereafter printed upon
white paper. The regulation had been
suggested by the practice of proprietors of
large factories and workshops forcing all
their workmen to vote their way by print
ing tickets of peculiar color and watching
their men deposit them in the box. It
has been the practice of these gentlemen
for years to promptly discharge any and
every man who did not vote to suit them,
and yet they have never been arrested by
the military for it.
Election to be Okdeked.-CoI. Fitch
says Gen. Meade will soon issue an order
for the election to be held in Irwin, rel
fair and another county of that district,
where the polls were very irregularly con
ducted.
They ake experimenting at liartlord
with considerable success in the new
method of curing the whooping cough by
inhaling the atmosphere of a gas house.
Upward of three hundred children are
said to have been wholly or partially
relieved by this treatment.
THE DECISION.
Further Surmises as to the Upshot of the
Impcaehrnent Trial.
Concluding his series of letters from
Washington, Mr. Halstead, of the Cinci
nnati Commercial, indulges in the follow
ing surmises us to the upshot of the im
peachment trial:
In concluding this series of letters—for
I can not wait to see the end of this tedi
ous and unprofitable debate—there are a
few words about this trial that it seems
proper to make:
It is of little importance to the country
whether Andrew Johnson, of whose term
ten months remain, is deposed. It is of
importance that the First Magistrate
should have justice.
I assume it is still admissible to suppose
that Andrew Johnson may not he guilty
of “treason, bribery or other high crimes
and misdemeanors,” demanding his re
moval from office. Up to the 22d of Feb
ruary, the majority of the House was not
for impeachment. Even Mr. Eggleston
Voted against impeachment long after the
swinging iu-tbe-circlespeeches were made,
and alter the opposition of the President
to the reconstruction policy of Congress
was flagrant.
We have to fall back upon the removal
of Btanton, the ad interim appointment
of Thomas, and the talk with Emory.
The impeachment, then, is based upon
tiie letter of authority handed to Lorenzo
Thomas to serve in the War Department,
and upon the talk with Emory. Well,
Thomas did not commit violence. The
President did not ask Emory to break a
law.
It then becomes a legal question wheth
er (lie President was guilty in attempting
to remove Btanton of violating a law of
Congress with such evil intent that his re
moval from otlice by the constitutional
process is demanded. In this legal ques
tion is embraced the construction of the
tenure-of-offlee act, as to its application to
Btanton.
A considerable number of Republican
Senators are lawyers of distinction. Most
prominent of this class are Trumbull and
Fessenden. We may name in the same
connection Sherman, Morton, Frelinghuy
sen and Grimes.
Suppose these men believe, as lawyers
and Senators specially sworn to do justice,
that the President is not technically guilty
of the crimes with which he is charged,
and that, therefore, he must he acquitted ;
are they to be denounced as recreants
and scoundrels, copperheads and traitors,
because they have been governed by the
solemn obligations of their oaths, and by
their intelligence as men learned in the
law?
I hope not. And yet Judge Chase lias
been, and is denounced, as a copperhead
because it is known that he believes the
whole impeachmentbusiness is a wretched
and peiilous blunder. The first liberal
ruling that he made as to the admission of
evidence, drew from one of our Congress
men an outcry : “ There’s Chase gone
over to the copperheads,” and the poor
fellow was so stricken with grief that he
almost “ boo-liooed right out.” Can the
Republican party afford to countenance
such foolish intolerance as this? Are all
persons who do not regard a judicial pro
ceeding according to caucus dictation, to
he discarded and kicked out and cursed as
traitors?
That there are Senators who arc trying
the case without caring for Thad Stevens'
warning shake of his finger, or Forney’s
frantic denunciation, or the prospective
patronage of Mr. Wade, I shall continue
to believe.
I have this day been particularly con
sulting members of the House as to the
verdict of the Senate. Mr. Eggleston, who
is, I believe, entitled to distinction as the
most intense of tlie impeachers, tells me
that there certainly will be forty-three
votes for conviction on the Stanton
articles, and that of course whatever may
he the vote on the other articles, that is
sufficient. ’General Cary, who is, per
haps, the most solicitous opponent of im
peachment, insisted, with confidence as
great as that of Mr. Eggleston, that it was
absolutely certain there would be twenty
three votes for acquittal ou the most mate
rial articles, and that he should not be
surprised if a majority of the Senators
would be found against the conviction
and removal of the President. There are
fifty-four Senators, and a two-thirds vote
convicts.
A member of the House, whom I be
lieve to be better informed and of cooler
judgment than Mr. Eggleston or General
Cary, says there is no doubt the President
will he found guilty on the Stanton arti
cles by the requisite two-thirds, and a vote
or two to spare. This is my own impres
sion.
The decision of the matter is practically
in the hands of Fessenden and Trumbull,
who are not talkative. There is not the
slightest reason to believe that the tedious
argument to which Senators have listen
ed and are to listen has had the remotest
inlluence upon the result. The old law
yers who will determine the case are not
of the kind to be influenced by speecli
makiug. The Seuate has several ques
tions of importance to decide before pro
nouncing thefateof Andrew Johnson,and
if it gets through within a week after tlie
conclusion of the argument, it must mend
its pace.
In the meantime, I think it reasonable
that the whole Republican party should
not follow those who seek office under Mr.
Wade and eommitthemselves eagerly and
irrevocably to tlie issue of impeachment,
for it may he that Fessenden, Trumbull,
Frelinghuysen, Grimes,Sherman, Morton,
Tipton, Sprague, Ross, Willey, Hender
son, Fowler, Van Winkle and Anthony
all of whom have been freely mentioned
doubtful, will differ with those interested
in an immediate change in the head of the
administration as to a legal question in a
judicial proceeding; and L must insist that
"it is not entirely decorous and prudent to
declare in advance that they are traitors,
and must be driven from among the faith
ful forever if they do not find the Presi
dent guilty.
’lore Disgraceful Scenes in llie House ol
Itcpresell!alt* es.
The gross personal debate, if debate it
can be called, in the House of Representa
tives oil Saturday, between Donnelly, of
Minnesota, and Washburne, of Illinois,
was, if possible, more outrageous and in
decent than that between the Impeach
ment Managers and Brooks, Chandler and
others the day before on the Alta Vela
guano matter. The foulest epithets were
hurled at each other. Language such as
no one would expect to hear outside of the
slums of the Five Points or some other
such dens of infamy was used and reitera
ted in the halls of Congress. Here is a
specimen Mr. Washburne said it was
Donnelly’s schemes of plunder that made
him (Washburne) oppose him. “Every
corrupt measure in Congress had received
Mr. Donnelly’s support.” He, Wash
burne, “ if called upon to make a personal
explanation should only make it with a
member (alluding to Donnelly) who is not
covered over with crime and infamy,
whose record is not stained with every
fraud—with whiskey and other frauds —
with a man who has not proved falsealike
to his friends, his country, his constitu
ents, hispolities, his religion and liisGod.”
This is only a specimen of much more of
the same sort from Mr. Washburne. Mr.
Donnelly was not behind in the use of
choice Billingsgate. He said of Wash
burne: —“If there be in our midst one
low, sordid, vulgar soul—one miud barren
of mediocre intelligence, one heart callous
to every kindly sentiment and to every
goner >us emotion, one tongue leprous with
slander,one mouth which is likeuntoaden
of foul beasts, giving forth deadly odors ; if
there be onecharacter which, while blotch
ed and spotted, yet raves and rants and
blackguards like a prostitute ; if there he
here one bold, bad, empty bellowing dem
agogue, it is the gentleman from Illinois.”
Fool, liar, blackguard, wretch, and such
like epithets are freely used by these mem
bers of Congress to each other, while
Speaker Colfax sits in his chair and hears
it all and the other members laugh and
enjoy it as fine fun. How dreadfully de
moralized our national legislature has be
come ! These foul-mouthed members and
an incompetent Speaker are bringing the
country into disgrace. They are utterly
unfit for the positions they occupy. As to
Mr. Colfax, if there were any way of
impeaching and removing him from the
chair he has long disgraced and which he
is entirely iucapableofoccupying, it would
he a blessing to the country. All these
scandalous scenes, however, naturally re
sult from the Jacobin violence and usur
pation of the radical faction in power, and
there is little hope of a change we fear,
until the people become aroused and in
the next elections send another and better
set of men to Washington. —New York
Herald.
Gkeei.ey Victorious. —We understand
that in a late caucus of “ the powers that
be” at Washington, on the subject of
“Old Ben Wade’s” Cabinet, it was agreed
that Greeley must come in. Very good.
But we would still admonish “ Old Ben ”
that he must not forget it, if he would
have any peace in the family.— N. Y.
Herald.
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER.
KITI.ER.
Ills Exploit* in a New Kale.
In iiis last letter to tlie Cincinnati Com
mercial “Mack” writes:
It is not generally known, hut ft is nev
ertheless true, that Butler conducts a de
tective and spy system on his own ac
count. through which he keeps himself
informed of the most secretacts and doiogs
of prominent public men, and of great
many men who are neither prominent nor
public. His proteges in office in the de
partments are spies upon tiie Cabinet and
President, and be has several of them. He
lias secret agents around Grant’s head
quarters, too: and I am told on the best
authority that he has in his possession a
diary containing day and date for every
time Grant has “refreshed” himself in
the past four years. Several instances in
which conversations about him, occurring
in tiie street cars or elsewhere throughout
tiie city, have been faithfully aud ac
curately reported to him are within my
knowledge. A few months ago a Massa
chusetts gentleman, in crossing the Jersey
City Ferry, at New York, told a friend
that he left home to avoid voting for Ben
Butler, and added that he had locked up
his spoons before starting. Borne weeks
afterward Butler met this unwilling con
stituent and astonished him by repeating
the exact language of the ferryboat confab.
These are only a few of the great many
instances that might he related to stain
the subject of this paragraph. It is very
true that men who do right need fear no
watching, but it is equally true that there
are very few whose private life would suc
cessfully stand the crucial te9t of the Bot
tle Imp. If all his energies were con
centrated upon A. .J., tlie loyal element
would notcomplain. The loyal element
have, by common consent, arrived at the
conclusion that poor A. J. has no rights
that any but copperheads are b und to re
spect. But the loyal element will bear in
mind that the chief object of Butler’s
nmlaec ami of bis espionage is not A. J.,
neither is it Vallandigliam, neither is it
Pendleton, but it is General U. B. Grant
and bis household affairs and domestic
arrangements.
Love:, Coquetry and Intrigue in
the Impeachment Fight.—A Wash
ington letter says : “ The latest on (lit is
a mixing up of Jove with impeachment.
Senator Fowler, of Tennessee, is the
pitiable victim of womans’ deceptive
heart! the willing slave of woman’s lips
and eyes! Fowler is a widower—Mrs.
Stover a widow, and also daughter of
Andrew Johnson. Poor Fowler is in love
with her over head and ears. She de
mands, as the price of her reciprocal de
votion, his voice and vote against the im
pending disgrace of her father. Natural
enough on her part. But pitiable Senator
Fowler! he is the fly in the spider’s par
lor ; tor little vivacious Mrs. Stover would
no more think of giving the red-haired
Radical senatorial recreant her heart and
hand than she would to Ben Butler or
James M. Ashley, the ‘original’ im
peacher. Impeachment over, a little
‘ lover’s quarrel,’ cold words, colder kisses,
and the love which knows him now will
know him no more forever. Moreover,
Col. Cooper, an old confidentof Mr. John
son’s, is Mrs. Stover’s bethrothed. At
least, this is the established assertion of
the colloquial Madame, and has been so
often and so long reiterated that I doubt
not there is more truth that poetry in it.
Cololel Cooper is nearer the age of Mrs.
Stover, and he is a clever and genial gen
tleman worthy any lady’s admiration and
heart and hand. Fowler isn’t.”
Cotton. —The movements of cotton for
last week, and for the season, are given
by the New York Financial Chronicle as
follows:
The receipts reach only 29,941 bales
(against 46,152 bales last week, 35,453 bales
the previous week, and 42,439 bales three
weeks since,) making tlie aggregate re
ceipts since September 1, 1867, 2 044,435
bales, against 1,643,336 bales for the same
period in 1866 67, being an excess this sea
son over last season of 401,099 bales. The
exports also show a further decrease this
week ; the total at all ports reaching 41,-
427 bales last week, and60,148 bales the pre
vious week. For the corresponding week
of 1867, the shipments from all the ports
amounted to 51,768 bales, showing a de
crease for the week this year of 10,341
bales, and leaving the total increase in the
shipments of this season up to this date
282,868 bales, while the stocks at the ports
of the United States are 185,406 bales less
than at this date of 1867. The total foreign
exports from the United States since Sep
tember 1,1867, now reach 1,427,046 bales,
against 1,145,178 bales for the same period
last year, and tlie stocks at all the ports
are at present 200,702 bales, against 446,180
bales at the same time in 1567.
Beautiful Parable. —A distinguished
clergyman of Louisville, in his discourse
of the resurrection, rehearsed the pleasing
parable from Hally. The story is of a
servant, who, receiving a silver cup from
his master, suffers it to fall into a bottle of
aqua-fortis, and seeing it disappear, con
tends in argument with a fellow-servant
that its recovery is impossible, till the
master comes on the scene and infuses salt
water, which precipitates the silver from
the'solution, and then by melting and
hammering the metal, lie restores it to its
original shape.
Tlie celebrated Dr. Brown, of England,
used this same epologue in one of iiis pop
ular works, and a skeptic—one of whose
great stumbling blocks was the resurrec
tion—was so struck with its force that he
ultimately renounced his opposition to the
gospel, and became a partaker of the
Christian hope of immortality. This con
verted skeptic died, trusting in his Sa
viour, only six months after Dr. Brown,
was interred in the same burying ground,
and, by a coincidence altogether unde
signed, he was laid near Dr. Brown’s
grave—immediately at his feet. —Louisville
Courier.
Conjury.— A negro on the plantation
of Geo. B. Holmes, Esq., bought some cal
ico a few days ago and got a negro woman
to make it into a spread for her lied.
When it was made and slept under for the
first time, the owner became sick, and
suspicion of conjury fell on the maker. It
was said that the conjurer blew her breath
three times in the middle of the spread.
The excitement on the plantation was in
tense. On Sunday the spread was brought
out ami solemnly burned in the presence
of several thousand free and independent
voters. On yesterday the conjured woman
walked to town through the rain and mud
to give ten dollars to the medicine man to
cast out tHe evil spirits, and the woman
who did the conjury also came with her
friends to he cleansed of the unclean spirit.
It will cost her also ten dollars to he ab
solved. In the meantime the plantation
is in a high state of excitement, and no
work is done. It is the duty of Congress
to p iss a reconstruction supplemental act
forbidding conjury.— Mont. Mail.
Editorial Excursion.— Yesterday af
ternoon a nuiqber of theeditorial fraterni
ty, delegates to the Press Convention, from
Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, South Caro
lina. etc., made a pleasant excursion to
tlie Sand Hills, and enjoyed the hospitali
ties of our whole-souled contemporary,
Henry Moore, Esq., of the Chronicle <t
Sentinel. All were highly pleased with
thetripand expressed themselves enchant
ed with the many lovely villas in Sum
merville. We were much entertained by
the veteran, Major Steele, of the Atlanta
Intelligencer , who told bis stories in his
happiest vein, and sympathized heartily
with our old-time friend. Col. A. R. La
mar, of the Columbus Sun, as be spoke
feelingly of the days of his boyhood which
were passed in this vicinity.
To Messrs. Cole and Hatch we return
thanks for placing at the disposal of the
party a special car and gentlemanly driver.
—A ugusta Constitutionalist.
lowa, though not yet a quarter of a cen
tury old, lias a population of over one mil
lion, and, though not rich, claims to have
devised and constructed the most commo
dious and eligible hospital for the insane
of any fctale in the Union. It is located
at Mount Pleasant, Henry couuty. Its
central structure, ninety by sixty feet, is
four stories high; the six wings (forming
a quadrangle'are three stories; it is built
of cut stone lined with brick, has an iron
roof, and eleven miles of iron pipes for
water, gas and heating. It has 425 rooms
above the basement, 900 doors and 1,100
windows. It lias cost $600,000, including
an Artesian well 2,100 feet deep, which is
no longer used, because of the corrosive
properties of the water. Dr. R. J. Patter
sou is the superintendent.
The full Senate consists of fifty-four
members, and every Senator will undoubt
edly be present at the final vote on im
peachment, unless stricken down by sick
ness. If all are present, there must be
thirty-six affirmative votes to secure a
judgment against the President. If Mr.
Wade is present and does not vote, the ef
fect will be the same as if he voted no ;
conviction requiring not two-thirds of the
Senators voting, but two-thirds of the Sena
tors present.
MONDAY, MAY 11, IS6B.
IMPEACHMENT—THE FINAL VOTE.
The Senate will re-assemble to-morrow
and take a final vote upon the impeach
ment of Andrew Johnson. No matter
what the end will be the result will aston
ish the country. There are many friends
of the President who have given him up
as lost, while many Conservative Repub
licans fail to see any good and sufficient
reasons to depose him, and therefore re
fuse to believe that lie will be impeached.
Such Republicau papers as the New Yoik
Times and Cincinnati Commercial have
all along opposed tlie movement and elo
quently defended the President
He lias committed no other crime than
a refusal to assist the Radicals iu their ef
forts to fasten negro governments upon
the Southern States. This is tlie head
and front of his offending—the whole case
in a nutshell. The whole articles prefered
against him might have been embodied
in this one sentence.
As the result is so near at hand it is idle
to speculate as to what it will be. Politi
cal partizaiis may, however, draw a useful
lesson from the course of Mr. Johnson
during the past eight years. He had, up
to 1860, spent a long life iu the service of
the Democratic party. He was one of the
chosen champions and one of tlie ablest
defenders of that party, ready and willing
at all times to proclaim its virtues on the
stump and from tlie rostrum. In his
adopted State, Tennessee, he was the hero
of thirty political campaigns, and though
his party was often defeated, lie never
failed of an election himself. In 1861,
when all the other Southern Senators re
signed their seats in Congress, and went
with their States, he alone refused, re
mained firmly at his post and counseled
the subjugation of the South from liis
place on the floor. For this act of betrayal
of his section, Lincoln appointed him Mil
itary Governor of Tennessee, and in 1864,
the Republican party elected him Vice
President of the United States.
When Lincoln was killed, and Mr.
Johnson became President, his old Demo
cratic notions soon cropped out and Rad
ical newspapers opened their batteries
upon him. Still the more moderate por
tion of the party tried to argue with him,
but goaded by the lashings of their parti
zan organs, he cut loose from the party
and tried to carry many of its members
with him. It is only recently that the
whole pack have given him up, and they
are now trying to repair the damages sus
tained by liis defection, so-called, by turn
ing him out of office and putting in old
Ben Wade.
The truth is, Mr. Johnson never be
longed to the Republican party. He co
operated with it in its war policy, but out
side of that he lias always been a Demo
crat, and is one to-day. Here that party
made a mistake, as the Whigs did when
they nominated John Tyler.
Tlie lesson to be learned by political
parties in this matter is, it is always best
to eerect none other than true and tried
friends for their candidates.
EBi rOKS IN COMMERCIAL CON YEN
TION.
The editors of Wisconsin and Minnesota
are soon to meet at St, Louis for the pur
pose of turning the produce of the North
west down the Mississippi river, and giv
ing it an outlet at New Orleans.
The idea is a grand one. Considering
the vast influence that this class of men
exercise upon Hie commercial interests of
the world, it is remarkable that such Con
ventions are not often held, By meeting
together and, after a free consultation,
agreeing upon a line of policy, they could
build any railroad or dig any canal, or
erect any factory, or secure any other pnh.
lie improvement that tlie Interests of the
country demanded. Such Conventions
would produce harmony among them,
and have a direct tendency to concentrate
all their energies upon a given point. By
uuaniinity of action among themselves
they could quickly educate the public
mind l>y pointing out the advantages to
be obtained in such public works as might
be deemed necessary. We work now like
a badly matched team —one pulling for
ward and another holding back, and still
a third refusing to take any hand at all.
We would be glad to see the editorial
fraternity of Georgia in Convention upon
tlie subject of foreign emigration. The
business of course would not be executive,
but we could agree upon some plan of re
commendation to the people at large, by
which the tide of emigrants incessantly
pouring into New York could be partially
turned into Georgia and put to work upon
our abandoned fields and in our virgin
woods. In this simple move, we might
effect more real good for the prosperity
and glory of Georgia than the writing of
ten thousand political columns would do.
We are incessantly engaged in a disgrace'
ful wrangle over a few politicians and a
few small offices, and neglect the real in
terests of the State. Let us have a truce
to,this, and turn our almost unlimited in
fluence over the minds of the people to
the internal improvements of Georgia.
AN ll.Ll STItA S ll»N OF TIIK ELECTION
ritAl l»S IN AItKANNAN.
The registration in Pulaski County,
Arkansas, stood thus -
Negroes 2,402
Whites 1,404
Total 3,806
At the recent election the vote was re
corded as follows:
For the Constitution 4,OSS
Against the .Constitution OS7
Majority for the Constitution 3,024
Tt will he seen by this table that the
majority for the Constitution is actually
greater than the combined registration of
whites and blacks.
General Gillem, says an exchange, has
promised to investigate and punish fraud ;
but while he puts his hands in his pocket
and glances wonderingly at this Pulaski
outrage, the “ trooly loii ” are organizing
a Legislature and electing Senators to
Congress.— Cincinnati Enquiver.
And yet the bill to readmit the State of
Arkansas back into the Union under this
new Constitution was rushed through the
House last Friday evening in about twenty
minutes after it was introduced. Some
Democratic members told Stevens then
that the election was a cheat and a fraud,
and that a few days would ventilate the
whole subject. But lie eared not a straw
for that, promptly applied the gag by
moving the previous question, and the bill
passed.
The depravity of the present American
Congress stands without a parallel in the
history of civilization. Perfectly unscru
pulous,gangrened with hate for the South,
thoroughly dishonest, that body drives
ahead the Radernaut car of the Puritans,
crushing everything in the way of equity
and justice before it. What do they care
for the will of the people of the poor little
State of Arkansas ? It is Radicalism they
are serving, and not the will of an obscure
State. Had Democrats been elected Gov
ernor, members of the Legislature, Sena
tors and Representatives to Congress, the
application for aelmission would have been
quickly dismissed with au oath.
Gen. Hancock and Mrs. Surratt.—
The National Intelligencer says General
Hancock, though commander of the de
partment in which the execution took
place, had no more to do with the trial and
murder of Mrs. Surratt than the Khan of
Tartary. Mr. Stanton, Mr. Holt, General
Hunter and General Hartsuff were the per
sons most directly concerned in thatsor
rowful affair, and as they are all Radicals,
doubtless glory in the shame of their re
spective parts.
John H. Surratt. —Tlie second trial
of tliisyoung man, who has been remorse
lessly pursued throughout the earth by
the detectives of the United States govern
ment, is set down for the 12th of May, to
morrow. The only evidence brought out
against him on the first trial came from a
set of perjured villians, who, in order to
screen their villainy in the murder of his
mother, fouud it necessary to convict the
son. Hardly any one believes him guilty,
aud it will therefore be impossible to find
au impartial jury who will notset him free.
But the witnesses agaiust him say, “Let
us hang him for his mother.” j,
The Fourteen Year Locusts. —The
fourteen year locusts have made their ap
pearance near Griffin. And the assertion
is made that they are devouring every
green thing with which they come in con
tact. This must he a mistake. These lo
custs eat nothing from the time they come
from the ground until they die, which is
iu about twenty-seven days.
IMPEACH M ENT.
Special Dispatch to the New York liersl-i.
The supposed revolt of Senator Fessen
deu from tiie radical ranks has been the
absorbing theme of con versation in every
circle here to-day. Tlie facts telegraphed
you last night concerning it were not gen
erally known until this morning, and so
sudden aud astounding was tlie revelation
that many persons refused to believe it.
Borne of tlie more curious radicals, in or
der to satisfy their own minds, boldly in
quired of Mr. *Fesseuden himself. To
tlieir utter amazement, it is said, their
worst fears were confirmed. Senator Fes
senden acknowledged lie was preparing a
legal'argument to sustain his vote against
conviction, and in favor of tlie acquittal of
the President.
Some of the most prominent radical
Senators say that for the last two weeks
the question as to whether the President
should he convicted or acquitted has been
entirely in the hands of Mr. Fessenden.
His defection, therefore, will have a more
serious edict upon the plans and calcula
tions of the radicals than would that of
almost any other Senator. Mr. Fessenden
has been "considered heretofore as among
the strongest and ablest men of the re
publiiaus in the Senate, The younger
Senators, and many of the contemporaries
of Mr. Fessenden, have looked up to him
and followed his leadership almost with
out questioning. He is generally accord
ed the rare quality among politicians of
being at once able and conscientious.
These facts will serve in some measure to
explain Mr. Fessenden’s importance to
either side. Tlie radicals feel that in
losing him they have virtually lost the
whole case, while the friends of the Presi
dent are correspondingly certain of suc
cess with his aid.
Various attempts have been made, it is
said, to talk Mr. Fessenden out of his sup
posed opinion by those who are supposed
to have personal aud party influence with
him. These, however, have met with but
little success. When he has once formed
an opinion lie is not the man to be talked
out of it. The usual report brought back
by those who have attempted to convert
him is, that “ Pitt Fessenden is as stubborn
as a mule.” Even Senator Morrill, his
colleague, has met with no encouragement
in this direction. That he will take six
or eight Senators with him is generally
conceded. This will be more than enough
to secure acquittal.
There are various surmise? aud gratui
tous reasons given for Senator Fessenden’s
conduct. The more extreme Radicals,
who are greatly incensed at him, signifi
cantly hint that he is controlled by merce
nary and ambitious motives. They say
that lie is anxious to keep his friends in
office, and that he has an idea this can
better be done under President Johnson
than Ben. Wade. There are mysterious
whispers about some connection he lias
with certain doings in the Treasury De
partment. His known personal intimacy
with Secretary McCulloch, and his former
connection w ith the department, are used
by the Radicals to give coloring to these
rumors. Os course these stories are only
so many malicious slanders, which no per
son who knows Mr. Fessenden will fora
moment credit. It is also asserted that
the Senator from Maine is actuated by
hostility to Ben. Wade, and that rather
than »co the i.ittci go into tne \\ lute
House he will endeavor to keep President
Johnson there. When Wade was elected
President of the Senate Mr. Fessenden
was his competitor, and came within a
few votes of beating him. Since then it
is alleged that his feelings towards Wade
have been anything hut friendly. This
feeling, it is said, is shared by quite a num
ber of Senators, among them Messrs.
Grimes, Trumbull, Sherman, Sprague,
Pomeroy, Edmunds and nearly all of the
New England men, with the exception of
Senator Sumner. None of these are in
favor of Wade for Vice President, and
lienee, it is said, the defeat of impeach
ment has a double purpose—first, to pre
vent Wade from becoming President ad
interim, and second, to prevent him from
being nominated for tlie Vice Presidency
at Chicago. Tlie one is looked upon as ill
some measure collateral with the other.
Removal of Jutlire .Tollti T. Clark, of the
Pataula Circuit.
The following communications, copied
from the Cuthbert Appeal , throw some
light on the recent order of the military
commander removing Judge Clarke from
the Pataula Circuit:
Cuthbert, Ga., March 25, ISOS.
Major Gen. Meade, Commanding * Third
Military District , etc. , Atlanta, Ga. :
Biu—Sometime since it was reported in
the public prints that, in answer to some
inquiry in regard to the application of
your General Order No. 11, you replied
that the Relief Ordinance enforced by that
order, was subject to the construction of
the Judiciary like all other State laws, By
a subsequent order (No. 37), you have de
clared in present force all those provisions
of the proposed Constitution, on the sub
ject of debtor’s Homestead and Relief from
debts accruing prior to June 1, 1865. Per
mit me to inquire whether those pro
visions also are submitted to the Courts,
subject to that untrammelled freedom in
their construction, which has heretofore
been the prerogative and duty of the sworn
Judiciary as to all pretended laws, and, in
the exercise of which the Constitution of
the United Slates has ever been held to be
supreme.
it is the more needful that we should
learn your views of this matter, since you
have, by a still later order (perhaps No.
42) announced that any civil officer who
“shall fail, or refuse’’ to obey any of your
orders “in regard to his official duties,”
shall be subjected to trial beforea Military
Commission, and “on conviction, fined or
imprisoned, or both.”
That there may be no room for future
misunderstanding,and especially as by my
official oath, I am bound to support above
all the Constitution of the United States,
I beg to be informed explicitly, whether I
am, as Judge of the Superior Court to de
cide what 1 may conscientiously believe
to be the law, or whether your orders are
to be understood as requiring me, under
threat of fine and imprisonment at the
hands of a Military Commission, iu spite
of any conviction which I may have to the
contrary, to declare as law, whatever you
may have omitted in a military order.
An immediate reply will oblige sir, your
obedient servant, John T. Clarke,
Judge Pataula Circuit.
The only reply to the foregoing was a
copy of Order No. 37, sent without com
ment.
At Chambers, j
Cuthbert, Randoplh county, Ga., y
April 6, 1868. J
Whereas, In to the proper ad
ministration of legal justice, it is not only
absolutely necessary that judicial officers
be left free to discharge the functions im
posed on them by law, and to interpret
the Constitutions and laws according to
their own judgment under the light of
argument and precedent, uninfluenced by
hope of reward or fear of violence, but
that it should be manifest to all, that their
administration is thus free and uucor
rupted; and whereas, every judicial ofli
cer of this .State is required, before assum
ing his office, to swear to support the Con
stitutions of this State and of the United
States; and whereas, the State of Georgia
is at this time under the military dominion
of the present majority of the Federal
Congress, contrary to the intent and plain
provisions of both of said Constitutions;
aud whereas, Major General Meade, of the
United States army, is in actual command
of the Third Military District, including
this State, and, as such, claims the right
and exercises the power of interference
with the freedom of the civil courts ; has
ordered the juries in said courts to be made
up of material and iu a way violative of
the laws of Georgia ; has, by General Or
der Not 37, imposed upon the rightful ju
risdiction of the courts restraints which
cannot be maintained or recognized con
sistently with the aforesaid oath of the
Judges; and has, by General Order No.
4 2, announced and threatened, that any
civil officer, who shall fail or refuse to obey
any order issued by him in regard to the
official duties of such officer, shall be tried
before a Military Commission, and, on
conviction thereof, shall “ be lined or im
prisoned, or both and whereas, the said
Meade is in command of military power
sufficient to enable him to enforce such
illegal, unconstitutional, oppressive and
dangerous orders and menaces, and the
civil courts are powerle?s to protect them
selves and their officers against the unjust
violence threatened for a faithful and con
scientious discharge of sworn duties ; and
whereas, in our opinion, it is imprudent
and undignified, and useless to the public,
for a Court to be held under such re
straints, interferences and menaces from
those in actual power; therefore, it is
hereby
Ordered, That the Superior Court for
the county of Early, which, by appoint
ment of law, should sit on the 2d Monday
in the month, be adjourned until the 3d
Monday in June next, or until such time
thereafter as may admit of a free, useful,
and honorable discharge of the duties of
said Court. It is further ordered that
jurors drawn for the April term, 1868, ot
said Court, do appear and serve at such
adjourned term, or at the next regular
term, should such term fail, and that the
Clerk enter this on the minutes of said
Court. Witness our official signature,
John T. Clarke,
J. S. C. 1\ C.
HEiI>QC'RTEFB Tnilil) MILITARV PISTKIOT. |
(Department i>f Georgia, Klortla, and Alabama.) t
Atlanta, Ua, April —, 1868. )
Special Orders, No. S3 —Extract.
I. John T. Clarke, Judge of the Supe
rior Court, Pataula Circuit, State of Geor
gia, having published in the Early County
News an order adjourning the Superior
Court of Early Countv from the second
Monday in April until the second Monday
in June next, assigning as cause of such
adjournment the exercise on the part of
the Major General Commanding of ille
gal, unconstitutional, oppressive, and
dangerous orders and measures, the said
John T. Clark, Judge as aforesaid, is here
by removed from office. * * *
By order of Major General Meade.
R. C. Drum, A. A. G.
Official—C. IX Emory, A. 1). C.
NEW IIA,TIESIIIitE.
Meeting of the Republican State Conven
tion—Election of Delegates to the Chicago
Convention —Rejoicings over Impeach
ment— General Grant Endorsed.
Concord, May 5, 1868.—The Republi
can State Convention for the selection of
delegates to attend the Presidential Nomi
nating Convention, which is to meet at
Chicago on the 20th inst., was held at
Phoenix Hall, in this city, to-day. Ma
son W. Tappau, of Bradford, was chosen
President. He made a short address eulo
gising General Grant highly, and stated
that whoever was elected Vice-President,
would not attempt to Johnsonize the re
publican party.
The following was received from Gener
al Butler:—
Washington, D. C., May 4, IS6B.
Hon. Onslow Steans, Concord, N. II.:
The removal of the great obstruction to
peace and quiet is certain. Wade and
prosperity are sure to come with the ap
ple blossoms. Benj. F. Butler.
The annexed pithy telegram was receiv
ed from Hon. E. B. Washburne: —
Washington, May 4, IS6S.
Hon. E. H. Rollins :
Bingham is making a splendid speech.
All looks well. The constitution will be
vindicated and tire recreant put out of tire
White House before tlie end of the week.
E. B. Washburne.
The following were chosen delegates to
the Chicago Convention :
Delegates at Large. —Win. E. Chandler,
of Concord; John 11. Baily, of Ports
mouth ; E. M. ToplifF, of Manchester;
Charles S. F. Faulkner, of Keene.
Congressional District Delegates. —No. 1,
Ezra Gould, of Sandwich ; John Briggs,
of Hillsboro; Francisß. Ayres, of Nashua.
No. 3, Edward A. Vaughn, of Claremont;
Thomas P. Cheney, of Holderness.
The following resolutions were pre
sented :
Resolved, That tire Republicans of New
Hampshire hereby re-aflirm their perfect
confidence in General Ulysses S. Grant,
whose fidelity to the law and to right has
nmvpil inunrmaiiiibhlo horriai*
ecutive usurpation and treachery, and Iras
confirmed our faith in iris patriotism, his
sagacity and liis pre-eminent fitness for
tlie highest office in the gift of tire Ameri
can people.
Resolved. That the Republicans of New
Hampshire heartily endorse tlie action of
their representatives in Congress, J. H.
Ela, A. B. Stevens and J. Bentou, in
bringing to tlie liar of the Senate for trial
that great apostate, Andrew Johnson,
and send greeting to their Senators, A
H. Cragin and J. W. Patterson, feeling
confident that they will aid in finishing
up the work so gloriously begun, to the
end that peace may come again, and come
to stay, and that they shall rejoice witli
joy inexpressible when the usurper is
dethroned from the Presidential chair,and
that tried and devoted patriot, B. F.
Wade, shall become the occupant of the
White House, to remain till succeeded by
our great captain, U. S. Grant.
The Condition of Mexico.
In the Herald of yesterday we published
a special cable dispatch from Mazatlau
which shows the state of things in that
city and neighborhood to be most deplora
ble. Mazatlau is situated in the disaffected
province of Sinaloa, and is one of the most
flourishing sea ports in Mexico. The gov
ernor of the State of Sinaloa had called on
(lie merchants of Mazatlau for a voluntary
loan of thirty thousand dollars to enable
him to pay His troops. Tlie merchants
and traders of any standing in the com
munity are, with scarcely a single excep
tion, foreigners. On foreigners, therefore
—on European and American traders—this
most iniquitous burden is to rest. This,
however, is not all. General Corona con
vened the merchants at his headquarters
and demanded a loan of one hundred
thousand dollars. The merchants, of
course, had no choice hut to consent. —
Bucli is tlie state of tilings in tlie province
of Sinaloa, and it may not unjustly he re
garded as a specimen of the condition of
Mexico generally. A more hopeless state
of things is scarcely conceivable. When
a government resorts to plunder in the
name of voluntary loans, and when it lias
no other means of maintaining itself, its
end cannot he far oil'. Mexico does indeed
make progress, hut it is backward and
downward. — N. Y. Herald.
The Griffin Star is perturbed and
becomes erratic on account of the recom
mendation, by the Macon Journal and*
Messenger, of Judge' VvariW i
Henry S. Fitch for the U 8%?" 7
copy the reply of the tuuh pup,/’ which
reproduces and answers the objttions of
the Star.
By the way, this little Star’s position
and magnitude seems somewha.indefi
nite. It is doubtful whether it o'ght to
be classed among the “fixed stars,’’while
its varying magnitude suggests appnhen
sions of spontaneous combustion. We
have no evidence yet that it is a satllite ;
but recent observations indicate, amost
conclusively, that it ought to be clashed as
a comet.
On the 2d instant it attempted tocdipie
a “fixed star” of the first maguituddn the
Democratic catalogue; but inshad of
eclipsing said star, it only dischred its
own gossamer, transparent compfSiHon.
The brilliancy of the “fixed star” vas not
perceptibly obscured. (See the article,
“An Aclian in the Democratic C.-my>.”)
About tfie same time its erratb propen
sities induced it to thrust itself lytween a
large number of observers andA famous i
Hill of Georgia. In addition teflts trans- j
parency—(the grandeur of the Hill vas j
plainly visible during the conjunction)-- >
this wandering luminary showed its toil j
so plainly on this occasion, tiat it will j
hereafter be classed as a comet, and oupht
no longer to be called a “star.”
We will here add, for the corsolation of
the timid, that Astronomers assert tLa
the subtility of comets preclude the pos-d |
bility of any perturbations among tin j
fixed stars or planets, on account of tl*
vagaries of these celestial (?) phenomena .
—Albany News,
Rush of Emigrants to the Usurp ;
States. —According to the Genoa papyri,
twelve vessels left that port for Ameiici
in the month of March, taking out I,W;
emigrants, nearly all of them from North
ern Italy—that is to say, from the lest
part of the population. A letter from ire
laud says:
“ The steamers belonging to the various
companies calling at Queenstown have
been found inadequate for the number of
emigrants offering for transportation to
Uncle Sam’s territory. Although fourl
emigrant steamers sailed that week, over
five hundred persons have been shut out]
for want of accommodation.”
TUESDAY, MAY 12, 18G8.
THE fiEOISLATI HE.
The Radicals persist in tlie assertion that
they have carried both branches of tlie
Legislature, and Gen. Meade so telegraphs
to Washington. The returns do not jus
tify any such assertion or claim. Our
summing up of the result is different.
The way thev get their majority is tlie
claiming of a good many men as Radicals
who do not belong to that party. In a
good many counties there were candidates
elected upon the question ot the now Con
stitution ami its relief clause, hut they are
not Radicals beyond those points. In
many other instances candidates have
been elected upon the Radical ticket who
have not sense enough or loree ot mind
sufficient to tell what" they are. They do
not know whether Milledgeville is in Geor
gia or Africa. Such fellows, should they
Tind the Capital, will vote for tlie side fur
nishing tlie largest plugs ol tobacco.
LETTEB EUOH NEW HIBK.
[From our Special Correspondent,]
Introductory — 1 Vcathcr —Impeachment
The Congressional “ ' —J’rcsidcnt-
Mciking—Anniversaries—Rusincss, Ac.
New York, May 7, IStiS.
The art of opening a eorrespomience
gracelully is scarcely less difficult than
that of closing a discourse without being
tedious. A great metropolis like this
affords such an endless variety of topics
that it is more difficult to determine what
not to write, than to collate a resume of
current events and notabilities that will
lie attractive to the reader. I will premise
hy saying that 1 came over from Savan
nah on the good steamer Livingston, Cap
tain Eaton, and enjoyed perfect exemp
tion from any of the discomtorts or perils
wbioU (utintflimps attend those who go
down tothosea in ships, and commend
that line to your readers.
WEATHER.
The first subject, which to one from our
sunny clime assumes a practical interest,
is the weather. Cold, drizzly and disa
greeable—l will dispose of it in a word—
nasty.
IMPEACHMENT.
The next topic which is in the mouth ol
everybody, is Impeachment. While all
the papers teem with the proceedings of
the so-called trial, and with speculation as
to the result; and while almost every one
has formed some opinion as to the result,
there does not seem to he much room for a
difference of opinion on the subject. No
thinking man— no man who has read the
trial with any willingness to judge impar
tially, can assume that there is a particle
of evidence justifying conviction ; hut it is
equally conclusive that (he verdict was
predetermined, and cannot lie changed.
The Herald expresses the belief that the
impeachment will fail. To-morrow it will
probably come to a different conclusion,
as that paper is not expected to express
the same opinion two days in succession.
Tlie Republicans, especially those known
as moderate, of the Times school, are evi
dently sick of impeachment. They see
and feel that go as it may, it will injure
tlieir party. The World, and Democrats
generally look on the whole trial as a sort
of kilkenny cat affair. They of course
approve the course of tlie President on all
the points involving impeachment, and
feel a certain sympathy for him, as for
one who is the victim of tlie most malig
nant political persecution ; hut they have
not forgotten his abandonment of Demo
cratic principles, his retention of Radicals
in office, and his appointment of the most
notorious Radicals to execute the recon
struction acts. Therefore they feel that it
is a family quarrel, and quietly console
themselves with the homely old adage
that when rogues fall out honest men
come to tlieir own ; and go as it may, tlie
Democracy feel that the whole impeach
ment farce will inure greatly to tlieir
benefit and the injury of the Republican
organization. It will do this in two ways:
it will, if consummated, disgust the lair
minded men in the Republican party anti
induce them to seek some more congenial
alliance; and it will put weak and wicked
Wade in tlie Executive chair, who will
have anew set of hungry cormorants at
his heels, who must he fed or they will
become disaffected. Then again, if im
peachment fails, as there is a growing im
pression that it will, the Republican party
receives a blow from which it can never
recover; j>ut nis uaciy mar me Telegraph
will advise you of tlie final result before
you receive this and I therefore will drop
tlie sulij ect.
THE BEA K GARDEN.
Next to impeachment, the rhetorical
“ mill” between Donnelly and Washburne
(how suggestive of the fisli-niarkctare the
very names), has attracted general atten
tion for several days, and a universal sen
timent of disgust and shame at tlie dis
graceful scenes enacted on the lloorof tlie
House is expressed by all parties. The
Times, which is called moderate Republi
can, in a leader to-day on the subject, says
in conclusion :
“ The country can hear a good deal from
Congress, lias borne a good deal from the
present Congress, in tlie way of forcible
feeble legislation. Public feeding has been
pretty strongly aroused I u-regard to some
of its measures and some of its members,
and it has done much to Endanger Repub
lican supremacy and stirup opposition by
its intolerant spirit atj4 iiiistaiestnanlike
policy. But there is thing even more
dangerous than this to (lie Republican
party and Republic;#* prospects, and that
is—in the House si/conducting itself as to
secure universal atom and contempt.”
This is another family jar w hich indi
cates serious disintegration in the Radical
ranks. Donnell/ is the exponent of the
large wing of tie Western Radicals who
are jealous of /he power of Washburne
over Grant, a/d though they exhausted
the vocabulai/«f. billingsgate on the lloor
of the House they have in no way added
to the prestif'of Grant, which for months
has been pejpeptibly waning.
mESIDENT-MAIvING.
Pol iticalr circles are busy manipulating
for the opening Presidential campaign,
which p/mises to he tlie most exciting,
closely untested, and important one ever
known /> the country. The Republicans
will Jia/e to take Grant, though he is he
ginniiyto he regarded very much in the
light® the elephant won in a lottery. His
assuij/’d strength is as fictitious as his
milipry reputation, and may prove as
weal ns his intellect. Conjecture as to
thrflemocratic nominee is premature and
m/ess.
ANNIVERSARIES.
This is the period known as anniversary
/eek —the occasion when the various be
nevolent and religious societies have their
mnual convocations. Thus far little in
!terest is manifested in them. The only
yet trelfl ivtliutuf tiie ftHTOoHme
Missionary Union of the city, held yester
day, when 48,000 children proceeded in
procession to the various churches, with
banners flying, and presented an array of
innocence and purity at once novel and
imposing, and such as is seldom sand
wiched between the towering temples of
Mammon which hedge In the busy ave
nues of Gotham.
BUSINESS.
There is universal complaint of the un
satisfactory condition of trade. Those
in the Eastern and Western trade com
plain quite as much as those whose busi
ness relations are with the South. Stag
nation and feverish distrust are all-per
vading, and little improvement is looked
for until the President to be elected is se
curely installed next March. The tern
porary reduction of the public debt in
April amounts to nothing, taken in con
nection with the prodigal expenditures,
and the danger of a large increase under
tfie new Wade dynasty.
trifi.es.
A gambler named Robbins actually, on
yesterday, made oath that he was exempt
from jury duty, on the ground that he was
a sport, and kept a Farro table. The Judge
relieved him from duty, aud directed the
Attorney General to proceed against him
for violation of the law. So it is probable
that the Robins will have a nest in the
Toombs.
Passing down South street to-day I saw,
on the pillar of a store in which were dis
posed a tempting array of bottles filled
with “ amplifieating fluid,” the following
sign:
“ Hell Gate Pilot Office.”
Whether it referred to the pilots of a
noted locality in the sound, or to the keep
er of the lluids aforesaid, the sign was sig
nificant; and if to both, the coincidence
was complete.
The Woman’sGlub isnowa fixed institu
tion among the strong minded sisterhood,
kt their.second meetingat Delmonicos Miss
klice Carey made au inaugural speech de
fending the movement and defining its
[plan. It embraces a number of femalece
lebrities among its members, including
.Madame LeVert, and the toilets displayed
on the occasion are said to have been su
perb. The world moves.
Madame Phloclea Eve, of
her accomplished daughter'
with her magnificent baby,are V*' J, ‘ l •
arrival by the Champion f’ronin" ,l!;! •
on yesterday.
Col. Naphegyi, Gen. Santa ,\r
retary, has bten in limbo on stat
for alleged forgery iu obtainin'-'‘■H
some time ago to advance the p r "
I Mexican scheme. He was »lU.-i "
] yesterday in default of ti, e a ', " l ->tL.
the prosecutor. Sic transit ! 1 11,,>
Anna. ' ’ ! W,
Journalism here is said lofeei o
nation in business, very pereeiiiji!*"
dearth of advertising. Curse-, lib’/
ens come home to roost. They L 11
tlie willing instruments (with a y ' .
exceptions) of hounding <> n tig-*
mind to the present carnival 0 .-” a . *'
ism, and it is meet that they '
their reward.
Though the weather is anyth
vernal, the markets abound irfsnr ! ''
etahles, many of which are brou
the markets from near Churlish,,' 1 fr t
I will conclude by informing ...
your readers who may come to \ t .“7
on business, of a quiet hotel now ,
in favor with that clever class „fjy '
ans known as Southern drummer-"
fer to the Libby House, in \\ arreiiV. r ’
The old Manhattan in Murray .'
closed,and the Libby, being coiAral’v"
ted, near the city hall square, has ; .
ed to a large share of its husiues-' V
to this in no puffing sense, hut a-a;,
of interest to those who seek a quit"; i.
ant, and inexpensive home while "
city. It is not a Southern house, but „
he agreeable to Southern guests.
Ocosee.
sm rni KN I*l* esn .iNson.vim
Chronicle & Sentinel t>in (t
Augusta, Ga , Mayutli, 1m;- ’
The annual meeting of the S<, ul j, ,
Press Association, which was
from its regular day, the 2uth of
the Otb instant, on account of tlu*,
in this State, was held at this office,
day.
Upon motion of Mr. Stockton,
Constitutionalist, Mr. Lamar, of it
Itimhus Sun A- Tinas, in the absence,
President, Mr. Clark, of Mobile,w:e,
to the Chair; and Mr. Reese, of fee )p,
Journal Ar Messenger, in the abst-n,,
tlie Secretary, Mr. Burr, of Macon,
requested to act as Secretary.
The Chairman announced the met
ready for business ; and, first in v "
Moore of tlie Chronicle A' St ntim! m
that the Secretary find out what j
were represented personally or by pi \
The following were found to hep',.
Columbus Sun A• Times and polum;
Enquirer, hy Mr. A. R. Lamar.
Savannah Weirs A- Herald, by Mai rt\
T. Thompson.
The Montgomery Advertiser, by Mr. W
\V. Screws.
The Macon Journal <0 Mtssenge , a ,
(lie Macon Telegraph, by Mr. a. \\
Reese, of (he Journal A Messenger.
The Augusta Constitutionalist L Mr
Stockton and Mr. Randall.
The ' ugusta Chronicle A Suiiii,,' j 1?
Mr. Moore and Mr. Walsh.
The Charleston Hews hy Mr. Walsh.
Tlie tri-weekly Madison Visitor p \| r
Shecut.
A letter from Mr. Barr, Agent of (he As
sociated I’ivssat Washington, u.-t.-r,, , v ,,|
I and rcud,4tnd ordered to be spread t,,,u
j tlieminutes.
In the absence of the Secretary, v,
I tlie hooks ami papers, it was resolved ;
! adjourn till to morrow morning, In aua
his arrival; and a Committee, coiisi-i;i,e
of Mr. Stockton, of the (bnstituiioif .
Major Thompson, of the Sues <l //<
and Mr. Screws, of the Montgomery
verfiner, having been appointed to preps:
business for tlie meeting at that tin. s
motion to adjourn .was carried.
A. It. Lamar, President.
A. W. Reese, Secretary.
SECOND DAY.
Constitutionalist Ou t r,
Augusta, Ga., May 7th, Pus. ,
The Convention mot at 11, a. m., at i.
office of the Constitutionalist,
Tlie proceedings of the first day's til
ing were read and approved.
In addition to the pajicrs representede
the first day, there were reported, IL
morning, the Savannah Rejiuh/ican, r».
resented by Mr. J. E. Hayes; the Clu
tanooga Union and the Knoxville 77'--,,
Herald,hy Mr. W. J. liamage; the At
lanta Inlelligcw-er, Major John ||. sti-eli
and Judge ./. 1. Whitaker ., ;l j u IL .
vuuiian JluiLrusLi, oy air. J. l, \ jp
Pending the reception of ihe ii-j„, ; -| (l
the Committee on Business, tippoigedni,
yesterday, the letters of resignation o.y ;
W. G. Clark, late of tlie Mobile /;■
as President of the Association, and Mr.
S. B. Burr, late of the Macon Journ
Messenger, as Secretary, were read at.
received.
The Committee on Business then re
ported as follows:
report.
The Business Committee respectfully re
port :
Mr. Clark, tlie President, and Mr. iliiri
the Secretary of the Association, lav
ing severetl tlieir connection with the
press, the first business iti order i» lie
election of officers for the ensuing year.
The Committee have few su;;' iim -
make which tire not already w ,1 km
to the members of the Association.
They would respectfully
President and Board of Director.- dial it e
highly important to receive at - early as
hour as possible the telegraphic laws In
Washington.
To accomplish this, they think Hiatt!"
proper agents should be instruct* 4 m -
the various market ie|s>rls toge'dat :uri
separate from (lie miscellaneous I I
litical news. The markets <l* * b
o’clock, and the various quotation- 11
changes, if sent immediately, c,uM !
type long before the hour at wimdi J
now leave their ofiices. We would i-
I mend that tlie Washington agent m*
arrangements to file hist'ongrt --iona
other news as soon as it can bedoue. "■
use of the period and capitals iu *
proper place is esjiecially urged, as tb :
hors of editors could be greatly abride
the messages were properly' transin
and transcribed. Messages if I* ft in
hands of compositors are frequently m :
ridiculous, which, in our judgment, l”
Agent and the operators, with very
trouble to themselves, could in a ine:*-
prevent if not entirely avoid.
A proper space between each dale is ■
requested of the receiving operami
order that the proper heading may
placed over each item of news, iiist* ad *
as now running everything together, n
any arrangement is made in the way
head lines, the editor has to lake tl
trouble to make copies, thus delaying* m '
positors and extending labor far into tl
night. A proper space on the mai
paper would give ample room fort
headings and interlineations.
They, therefore, oiler the following "•
olutioiiH : .....
Resolved, l*f,'That the President o.u
Association he requested to corre-p
with the Agent a* Washington in rcla.*
to furnishing his totegrapldc news a.
earlier hour, and p;t, .yulaily in
to severing commensal and political " -
ter.
Resolved, ‘ld, That the use of the 1*‘ rl '
and capitals is urgently requested *•■
operators at transmitting and rec* i• -
offict -.
Resolved, 3 d, That operators t* l '
dispatches be requested to allow
each date and place as much as one i
of space, to insert headings, and that j 1;
write out the names of places from * J '
dispatches tire received and the*late 1
same; ami that the hours of ea*di - "
York Market dispatch be designated.
Resolved , 4 th, That the thunk-
Southern Press Association are l.<
tern led to Mr. W. G. Clark, laic Ph - '
for his faithful and efficient perform
of duty, and that the Secretary b*‘ i'*~
ed to furnish him a copy of this re-* ■
Resolved, sth, That the thank- ~
Association are likewise tendered ’ ’ , v
S. B. Burr, for his services as ■'*'
during the past year, and that the
tary he instructed to furnish him *
of this resolution.
Resolved, Hth, That this Association ,
confidence iti the ability of its Wu-m -
ton agent, Mr. M. W. Barr, and th*; ’ ,
services during the past year are
tory.
Resolved, 7th, That the maintenon”..
a separate ami independent organ l ® 1
of the Southern Press Association j
sidered of vital importance, and d“ a :„.
proceed forthwith to the election :i ; j
ident, Secretary and Treasurer, and
of Directors, for the ensuing year-
Resolved, B th, That this ■ i
should receive the aetive support
journal within its territory, and •
this end the President lie request* 1 ”
dress all publishers on the subject- ( j
Resolved, 9(/t. That the Presm*- . I
Directors of the Southern Pit-- - ’“.j,- I
tion are hereby instructed to apply p I
corporation, under the Code ol t ,e ” r ‘
the proper authority. I
Resolved, It Hh, That the matter J
graphic service being <>ue of vl “ l .jjti.iD- I
tance, involving details and neg