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Georgia Journal & Messenger,
j. W . 511 l!KI'. A. to., Proprietors.
A. tv. ISEI.SE, )
S. KOSE, , minors.
SATURDAY', MAY 23, 1868.
T!ie coi H*r. or thi; s elkeuaph.
Under this head, one of the proprietors
of tlie Telegraph has much to say about
a good many tilings in yesterday’s issue of
that paper; principally in regard to the
ideas of its proprietors with reference to
( the manner in which it should be eon
\ ducted—the “ t lbics” of its management,
in a few words. Itis a very luminous and
a very comprehensive platform—luminous
in that it states very coolly that the Tele
graph “is published in the interests of its
proprietors,” and that if they are pleased,
inferentially it is a matter of small mo
ment what their subscribers think. We
hope it will be entirely satisfactory to
the hitter, although we fear many of them
have been resting under the delusion that
their interests and the public weal, de
served some consideration.
To the “ sinister motive” charged against
our strictures upon the publication of Tur-
ner’s letters, we beg to plead not guilty.
We fear the very natural infirmity of
“judging others by ourselves,” is at work
there. As this paper is not published
exclusively “ in the interests of its pro
prietors,” but for the public good, and in
the interests of society generally—even at
a pecuniary sacrifice, as lias been instanced
to the public, very lately, too—we deemed
it our duty to (animadvert upon the very
questionable taste displayed iu opening
the columns of any journal that has been
built up and is now sustained by those
whom Turner and his “ marvellous man,
Stevens,” hate so thoroughly, to puffs and
appeals for sympathy and admiration of
his wonderful powers. Our opinion upou
that point is unchanged, and we have a
decided conviction that it is the opinion
of a vast majority of the citizens of Macon,
who know, and have seen so often, the
workings of Turner’s evil influence. We
are sure they do not and will not see the
“taste and good judgment” of opening
the Telegraph to him as a medium of
sounding Thad Stevens’ praises, even
though he (T) may display his “ taste and
good judgment” in keeping the infamous
and vindictive principles and purposes
avowed upon that occasion, in the back
ground. One or two words more in refer
ence to our ideas of how a newspaper
should be conducted, and we dismiss
t subject.
In the lirsUplace it should not be con
ducted exclusively “ in the interests of the
proprietors.” Its subscribers and tbe pub
lic generally, should have a share in the
partnership. Secondly: it should have a
due regard, not only to the taste and
wishes of its patrons, but should consult
even their prejudices, where those preju
dices are natural, aie held by nine out of
every ten men in a community, and are
the result of a war upon their dearest
rights, tlieir property, and even life itself.
Thirdly : it should not, to subserve “ the
interests of its proprietors,” perhaps, give
Radicalism, through any of its representa
tives, even oue half an inch, with the idea
that it cau be stopped when it comes to
demand the ell. If it is an anti-liadical
paper, so published, and so supported, it
should neither touch nor handle, iu any
shape or form, the unclean thing of Radi
calism. Its motto should be towards that
monster and all its allies and tools of every
degree: No favors shown and none re
ceived—no quarter given, and none asked.
-
A Fitting Rebuke.—lt seems to be
agreed that the most fitting rebuke to the
Senators who voted for acquittal, more
direct and lasting than a formal reading
out of the party, would be the nomination
as the Union candidate for the Vice Presi
dency of Benjamin F. Wade of Ohio.—
Wash. Cor. Cincinnati Chronicle.
The New York Sun says: “One result
of the impeachment trial will lie to secure
the nomination of Ben Wade for the Vice
Presidency on the picket with Gen. Grant.
The Republicans are hot with anger at
their failure to convict Andy Johnson.
They attribute it to the jealousy of Wade.
They will accordingly go in to make it all
right lor him at Chicago. His chances
are a great deal better than if he were to
day sitting in power at the White House.”
Such paragraphs as the foregoing were
found very plentifully besprinkled through
the columns of the Jacobin papers before
the meeting of the Chicago Convention.
Their meaning, read now in the light of
what did happen at that Convention, is
very plain. There is no doubt that Wade
and impeachment have been struck a
staggering blow in the nomination of Col
fax. True, the resolutions endorse im
peachment, but then Wade was beaten
disgracefully for Vice President, and that
“ most fitting rebuke” lias not been ad
ministered. If Wade bad been nomi
nated, impeachment would have beeu
resurrected, and with the aid of a lot of
carpet-sack Senators lugged in for tlie
purpose, been pushed to a successful issue.
The mills of the gods have ground both
impeachment and the Ohio ruffian to ex
ceedingly line powder, and Mr. Johnson
may sleep in peace. We feel a peculiar
gratification at the defeat of the old pirate.
It is one of those “crushers” that satisfy
eveu the most exacting and avaricious
hunger for vengeance. We contemplate,
now, with a serene satisfaction that has
no word iu our vocabulary fitly to describe
it, the spectacle of the thorough defeat and
prostration of lliis enemy of our country
and her people. Driven from the Senate
by tlie verdict of tbe very people who had
honored him in the past, he goes, after
tiie 4th of March next, to an obscurity
unrelieved and made endurable even by
the reflection that his plots and assaults
against his country and its Constitution
have even half blossomed towards their
evil fruition. In the name of the people
of the South we thank Heaven for its
timely justice and retribution!
Republican Government.— Tlie fol
lowing comes to the New York World,
from a gentleman in the Government
service. It carries its owu comment:
To the People of Marion District, S. C. :
I am the wife of Edward (' Collinsand
daughter of Col. Levi l.eggete- I have
seven small children, and the eldest sioklv
my husband was my only means of su ;U
port; he was arresotd by military authority
on the 18 th of August last and is now j,,
prison at Castle Pinckney, Charleston
Harbor. When in the Marion jail the
officers refused to let his friends see him.
He had bought Gallivant’* Ferry, and was
making support for liis family. The
officers said that the ferry was abandoned,
and gave an order to Clayton Bailey to
take the ferry, which he still has in his
possession ; 1 have no mule, horse, or ox,
or means to buy; my father is in the
seventy-second year of his age; my father
in-law six or seven years older, and threat
ened with apoplexy ; has been slek more
than a year. My father, and my father
in-law are very jtoor aud can hardly sup
port their families ; my father has reduced
himself to want by assisting my family;
my father had twenty negroes, and my
father-in-law seventy; my friends are
reduced to poverty—those who would help
are unable; I am now in suffering cir
cumstances, myself and chlldrcfc are al
most without clothes, and if my husband
is not released from prison, or 1 receive
assistance from his friends, we must inev
itably starve. lam ashamed to make
this appeal, but my children are heart
broken aud starving.
Mary Coi.lins.
The Way to Please Them.—Forney
complains that “do what we will, we
can't please the Democrats.”
Prentice asks him to try a little arsenic
or strychnine.
POLITICAL ONI>ITS.
Under this head Lamar, of the Colum
bus Sun, who has been on furlough from
his editorial labors for a few days past,
discourses as follows:
In the course of a little trip away from
home, we picked up an item or two in re
gard to the inside of the Radical King.
They may be of interest, and we think are
reliable. Joseph Rrowu is not going to
have his political disabilities removed.
Tlie faithful, both in Georgia and Wash
ington, have no opinion of the honesty of
Joseph. The poor creature is suspected
and despised eveu by the band of thieves
with whom lie is associated. Joseph has
ceased to look to the Senatorship, and as
jpires to the Chief Justiceship of the Su
preme Court. McCay, Hawse Walker,
and other small fry are looking in tlie
same direction. Farrow will take any
thing he can get. Parrott had arranged
with Wade for the U. S. District Attor
ney’s office, but as Wade has no office of
his own and none to give, Pretty Poil will
take a smaller cracker, and one more suit
able to his intellectual calibre—say a Jus
ticeship of the Peace. Joshua Hill is hun
gry and hopeless. James Johnson is am
bitious, malicious, but. fortunately, power
less. Erskine and James L. Seward are
putting in for the Senatorship. The first
is weak, exceedingly weak; the latter,
from long practice and a fellow feeling,
will proven formidable man among tbe
mangy crew who compose the radical rep
resentation in the Legislature. Blodgett
and Hulbert desire something that will
pay heavily. Bryant is to be settled as
Mayor of Augusta. Bullock’s organ, tbe
National Republican, is to be removed to
Atlanta, to take the pap the New Era has
fondly imagined its own.
So matters stood a few days since.—
They change in some particular almost
daily, and the impecunious tribe are not
dwelling together in harmony.
With tlie exercise of good sense, discre
tion and judgment, it is clearly within the
power of the honest people to set these
snarling curs by the ears, and to disappoint
the most, if not all, of them iu pretentious
and cherished ambition. The impression
among the best informed men throughout
the Slate is strong to the effect, that many
men claimed as Radicals will spurn affilia
tion with that party, and that the drift
wood thrown into tlie Legislature by tlie
late convulsion will float withiu reach of
the longest pole.
AT HIS OI.U TRICKS.
When we saw a few days since, a notice
of Joe Browns’ departure for Chicago, we
could but speculate upou the probable ob
ject of his visit. The Chicago correspon
dent of the New York World, throws light
upon the subject, and relieves all further
necessity for surmise. Iu speculating up
on the probable vote iu the Convention on
the contested candidacy for the Vice-Presi
dency—after disposing of the Northern
States—he says: “The Southern delegations
are doubtful, for they are promising to
vote for all of the candidates to get admit
ted ***** one of tlie delegates
from the Southern States, asserted that
their delegates are poor, and propone to
make something out of their votes if they
can /”
This is so thoroughly “Joe Brownish”
all over, that no one who knows the man,
can doubt, that he is the elclcgate, who was
ready to sell his vote.
How much did you get, Joe ?
Butier says Bingham is a murderer.
Bingham says Butler is a coward and a
thief—Donnelly says Washhurne is a
scoundrel and' a fool. Washburne says
Donnelly is a convict and a liar. Such
men make our laws and impeach our Pres
idents.
And these are the men who own Joe
Brown, and through him seek to destroy
the liberties and property of tlie people of
Georgia.
THE AOUTHERV PRESS «>\ ACQUIT
TAL.
From the New York Tribune.
Well!
Mr. Johnson remains in the White
House. The Xlth was deliberately, and
we doubt not judiciously, selected as the
article that would command most votes.
This failing, alt fail. There may be those
who deem it wise and well to admit Sena
tors from the reconstructed States and
force a verdict of guilty by their votes;
but we cannot concur. Jt might have
been well to defer the impeachment until
those States should be represented in the
Senate; but, having initiated it, we think
it would not do to admit new Senators to
vote upon it after the testimony was taken
and the argument closed.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
It would be folly to say that tbe people
have not beeu sadly disapppointed by tbe
vote on Saturday. Not so much because
the bad man who has succeeded to the
chair of Mr. Lincoln is to remain there
for ten months longer, is this regret most
poignant. We have endured him since
1863 and can bear the infliction to the end.
But the great grief is the alarming fact
that the dictates of conscience, honor and
principle cau he deliberately spurned by
men iu positions like these Senators, and
the professions of their lives deliberately
j falsified at the most critical moment of
| trial. It is scarcely worth while to attempt
to divine the reasons for the extraordinary
changes which the vote of Saturday shows.
The mind may choose between the very
worst causes for tlie betrayal, and the very
best that can be imagined ; the result is
still the same. These men have sorely
disappointed the country and disgraced
themselves. They have furnished another
argument to those who declare that there
is no such tiling as honesty in a public
man. And who, knowing what they have
been and what they are, will venture to
defend them ?
From the New York Herald.
Cowardly, contemptible, mean to the
last, impeachment lias been beaten to
death like a vile reptile in its chosen place
of refuge. Driven distinctly from every
point they had taken which could he
called fair ground, the Managers of this
great case aud the Radical Senators known
to be for conviction, heart and soul, had
remaining one opportunity to redeem
themselves—one way by which they could
in tlie last scene demonstrate to tliecouutry
that they were moved by just motives and
were wronged by the iightin which much
of tlieir conduct had shown them. Hud
they, with some final grace of moral
courage, faced the verdict fairly—taken,
even defiantly, the responsibility of their
course—that spirit would have covered
many df their sins. But if they could have
acted with manly honor, aud so put them
selves before the court as either to win
their case or openly acknowledge its de
feat, giving theaccused the plain acquittal
to wliich lie lias aright, they might have
saved for tlieir cause some popular respect
and stood to the future only under the
common odium of error, and not as men
exhibiting in a whole career absolutedis
regani to and even defiance of common
ideas of right.
The Kansas people have found a
way to circumvent the grasshoppers. It
consists in turning sheep upon the wheat
to eat it down, so that when the insects
come and find nothing, they leave in dis
gust. The wheat recovers from the feed
ing of tiie sheep, but if tlie grasshoppers
go over it they take root as well as stalk.
Not So.—The Louisville Democrat is of
opinion that ex-Gov. Brown “disgraced
hiißself” by his speech in Chicago.
W® beg to differ with our cotemporary.
1. is not possible for him to do over again
tnat which tie lias so thoroughly done al
ready. ° J
Mu In.monMsaid to-day to a promi
n. A' e^ b . ,<Ja a , sen “ tor he expected
.‘h i’ o n 0 J ,aild b \ &mi 80 over with him ;
t..ut he had more than one-half the news
? , tbat aifleouhi, side, and
that if the Chicago Convention should
resid him and friends out of the party it
will only increase his strength.— New
lork Tribune.
Brought Balk.—We regret to have to
.say that tb6 Huscoiuliug; young man
whose name we refused last week to mem
tioii in our notice of the stealing of a large
amount of money from the store of Allison
& Griffin, of this city, is, without doubt,
guilty of the theft, a part of the stolen’
money—about s4o—together with a pocket
book, belonging to the store, having been
found upon Ids person. Jesse H. Mitchell
is the name of the young man, who hav
ingbeeu caught and jailed in Jacksonville,
Fla., was brought back last Thursday by
Col. J. B. Griffin, and is now iu the Bain
bridge prison. The young man has a
wife and child, and several relations of Ills
wife connected with his family, in this
city.— Eainbridge Georgian.
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER.
AFFAIRS IN GEORGIA.
Tt eatment of Northern Men at the South.
Fro-nOurOwn (N. Y. Times) Correspondent.
UQUSTA, Ga., Monday, May 11, 1808.
'! ne author of the communication which
was published in the Times a few days
ago signed “ A Georgia Editor,” expresses
ace irately the sentiments of niueteen
tweutieths of the white inhabitants of
Georgia, and gives a very truthful picture
of he condition and aspirations of the
pec. ole.
1 have been in Georgia almost all the
tin : since the close of tbe war. I have
mixed with all sorts and conditions of men
in svery direction of tlie State. I have
had abundant opportunity to observe and
jud oof tlie disposition and feelings of the
inb ibitauts ; have seen them when they
we. o hopeful and when they were despond
ent elated and cast down, pleased and
an/: -y, and it is due to truth to say that I
have never at any time, or iu any place, or
unc er any circumstances, seen tlie least
dis, osition to insult, do violence to, or
treat with disrespect, or even coldness,
any Northern man who came here for
business, pleasure or observation, who
conducted himself with ordinary courtesy
or propriety, or with reasonable regard for
the sensibilities and situation of those
among whom lie happened to be thrown.
On tliecontrary 1 have met, both in town
and country, very many Northern men
who were either engaged in commercial
business, and in that most disagreeable of
all business, collecting old debts; some
who were traveling through the country
with a view to settling either in the towns
or on plantations, and many going from
place to place from motives of curiosity',
and they will bear me out in sayiug that
where they did not provoke ill-will and
controversy by offensive remarks, arro
gant assumption of superiority, or ungener
ous and irritating allusions to the “ way
we (the North) whipped you (tiie South,”)
they were kindly and hospitably received,
aided iu obtaining tlie object for which
they came, and encouraged to come and
settle, w'here they evinced an inclination
to do so.
I have seen some whose manner, con
versation and general bearing were in the
highest degree offensive and irritating,
grumbling at everything they saw and
heard, depreciating and sneering at all
ttiat was Southern and contrary to their
notions of propriety and comfort , and con
tinually endeavoring to impress on South
ern people how richly they deserved all
their suffering and privation, and how
thankful they ought to be that they were
not all hanged. These men have been
very severely snubbed and have not re
ceived much hospitality, it is true. In
some cases hot-headed persous have angri
ly forbade them to continue their offensive
remarks. But never in hotel, steamboat,
railroad car or private house have I met
a Northern man who conducted himself
with propriety and courtesy, even though
tie alluded to the most tender subjects and
freely expressed his own opinions, who
received tlie least incivility, much Jes*
threat of personal violence.
The misfortune is that tlie many who
came here, behaved themselves becoming
ly and received no ill usage or unkindness,
have returned home and have not said or
written any thing on the subject of tlieir
travels in the “ rebel States;” while the
few whose ill-bred arrogance and aggres
sive language and demeanor have pro
voked censure au<l conflict, have in the
Hum© rtpirit wliich caused the hail feeling
of which they complain, published elab
orate details of their adventures, aud set it
down as a universal rule that “ no North
ern man can live at tlie South without
danger of violence or insult.”
I tvve known, also subordinate Federal
officers of the army, commanding little
posts, who, when ttiey reached tlieir place
of duty, put on all the airs of conquering
heroes, aud spared no pains to impress up
on the inhabitants ttiat henceforth they
were to be entitled for life liberty aud the
pursuit of happiness, to the Lieutenant,
Captain or Brevet Major “commanding
United States forces.” These little officers
have gone out of tlieir way to make all
classes of the people feel that they were
subjugated, and never missed an oppor
tunity to display their “little, brief author
ity” to gall, annoy and inconvenience.
They have beeu astonished, or rather they
have expressed astonishment and spoke of
it as a grievance, that they have not been
visited oi been shown any hospitality by
the citizens of the place where they were
stationed. It is perfectly true that from
the day they assumed command totheday
they were relieved, they have never re
ceived the visit of a citizen, aud have never
been invited to enter a private bouse. But
was it not their own fault ? 1 have known
little bureau officials, and Assessors, Col
lectors, &c., who pursued a similararro-
gant and offensive course, treated exactly
iu the same way, with cold politeness
when official business demanded inter
course of any sort, aud as perfect strangers
at ail ottier times. But again, I have
known a number of military aud civil of
ficers who adopted a different policy, w ho
did their full duty strictiy, impartially
and conscientiously, but who never made
any parade of their authority, never did
anything to provoke ill will or wound the
sensibilities of the people, who were al
ways kind, affable and courteous in their
behaviour, aud who seemed to prefer con
ciliation to blustering assertiou of authori
ty, who have been treated—they and tlieir
families—with hospitality and studied
civility, and been made to feel that they
were as much at home as if they were iu
their own native place. What I state is
not from hearsay or third-hand experience.
It is what I know and have seen.
I remember a couple of years ago, being
for a time iu a small town in Middle Geor
gia, and meeting there at the houses of a
number of the first citizens a Northern
clergyman and his wife and daughters,
who had come to visit a relative. They
were all Ultra-Radical—had miniature
photographs of Thad. Stevens, and esteem
ed Mr. Ben. Butler the ne plus ultra of
military glory, and renown as a statesman.
The ladies were remarkably prononce iu
their political opinions. They were, nev
ertheless, kindly received and treated with
marked hospitality, until the young ladies
at an entertainment given at the house of
their relative, to which the citizens were
invited and came,* decorated some orna
ment in tlie centre of the table iu wliich
were some evergreens, by hanging by a
cord from a braucli a lull-length portrait
of Mr. Jefferson Davis, and placing the
United States Hag conspicuously on the
summit of tlie ornament with the ( oufed
erate flag reveised beneath it. Nobody
present made any manifestation of annoy
ance or resentment at the time; all re
marked it, however, aud neither the cler
gyman nor his family received any further
attention from the citizens, not even per
sonal recognition. I mention this inci
dent to show tiiat Northern men and wo
men are not slighted or insulted because
they are northern, that on the contrary,
when they are introduced and known to
be respectable they are hospitably received,
and that when they are not so it is attribu
ted to their own bad conduct. These la-
dies may have thought that to “hang Jets.
Davis from a sour apple tree” was an ap
propriate and well merited punishment,
and that the raising of the United States
llag over the Confederate Hag was but the
operation of a fixed fact; but it was ill
bred, malicious and offensive, to show
their feelings in such a way to people who
had done them kindness, and who, they
knew, would feel shocked and insulted by
the display.
1 might cite hundreds of other incidents
of like import, but perhaps of less marked
character.
The Northern adventurers who came
here in search of political offices, who are
kno'vn'us the “carpet-baggers,” have not
been favorable or kindly welcomed to
what they call “their State.” From the
first, with an eye single to their attain
ment of the desired offices in the only
way they could possibly hope to obtain
them, namely, hv negro votes, they have
sought and courted the society of negroes,
and those not tire most reputable; have
made themselves, like the unfortunate
Richardson, the volunteer advocate of
every negro litigant, the promoter of strife
between tire races, and tire blatant eulogist
of the negro race, or like Mr. Prince,
member of Congress elect, they have
declared their self-imposed mission “to
eniighted Georgia ignorance, and give the
people the advantages of New England
irabits and civilization.” Ido not suppose
that Bryant, Richardson, Prince or Clift
have ever been inside a gentleman’s house
by invitation since they came to Georgia,
or that they have any association with
what is called the better class of the com
munity where they live. They will tell
the North that fora Northern man toconre
Boutli is a service of considerable risk and
danger, entailing social ostracism, if not
actual ill-treatment. But if you ask Gen.
fete adman, Gen. Tillson, Geu. Sibley, Gen,
urauuan, Col. Bprague, and las%aud most
prom merit of all Gen, Meade, it will be
lUUiid that “ tire Yankee,” if he is cour
teous ana well-behaved, need never dread
a coat or tar anu K-aihers, or a ride on a
rati, but may- count with confidence on a
kind reception and such limited hospital-
ity as the limited means of the peoplQ will
allow.
The professional letter writers whti
sent to write up a particular politicalwiew
io meet an emergency, and whose sensa
tional imaginations render them wejl tit
led tor tlieir peculiar service, can and do
tei 1 of their own hairlireath escapes tfrom
all sorts of tortures aud dangers, ortho
Union men hanged, drawn aud quartered
at every cross-road, and of the holocaust
of negroes of all sexes, in every part of
tlie country, under the immediate patron
age and supervision of the judges, sheriffs,
and constables. But beyond their own
imaginations worked to radical order, tluiy
have never heard or seen of a
outrage to themselves or anybody er§X -V '-
The stupid Kuklux myth never had any
existence in Georgia, even as a boy’s joke.
Mr. Ashburn’s assassination is generally
believed to he the not unnatural result of
his unfortunate associations. The inhab
itant of a negro brothel is more exposed
to violence and danger than one who fixes
his abode in some more reputable and
peaceful locality among the people whose
“moral sense” is not as blunt as were the
unhappy Ash burn’s fellow lodgers.
J can assure the readers of the Times
with all the sincerity of earnest convic
tion, based on thorough knowledge of the
temper of the people and of their feelings,
that any Northern man who desires to set
tle iu Georgia can do so as safely, ami with
as great a certainty of exemption from
slight or insult to himself or his family, as
he could in any .State of New England, if
lie will only show the same kind consid
eration for tlie feelings of others as he
claims for his own.
The South is interested iu the encour
agement of a thrifty well conditioned im
migration. Her waste places will never
“blossom like the rose” until itcorues, aud
therefore, it is in the interest of both North
and South, in the interest of truth and jus
tice, I have devoted this letter to an honest
statement of the results of niy owu obser
vation of the treatment of Northern incut
at the South. Quondam.
THE rKEMIBEHUY.
The Contest for the Democratic Nomina
tion— Hancock's Friends Hard at Work
—A Third Party Organization Pro
posed—Chief Justice Chase to he its
Candidate.
Correspondence of tße Cincinnati Commercial.
Washington, May 18.
A sharp hut quiet, contest is going on
between the friends of Hancock and
Pendleton, which is attracting much at
tention here. Hancock’s friends claim
that he is the first choice of New England,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the second
choice of New York, and will be preferred
by a majority of the Southern delegates
on the score of availability. The Charles
ton Mercury, Lynchburg Republican,
Petersburg Index, Mobile Register, New
Orleans Picayune, and other Southern
papers advocate his nomination. The
Virginia politicians propose to take a hack
seat, hut will advise Hancock's nomina
tion. Still Pendleton’s friends are very
active and hopeful.
The topic next to impeachment, which
is most discussed here is the third party
movement, wliich, it is deemed, will be
come a matter of much political signifi
cance. The Democrats, while they are
ready to give all praise to Chief Justice
Chase for his attitude during the impeach
ment trial and to accord to Grimes, Fes
senden aud Trumbull alt tlie glory possible
with them, except to help them to office,
are not yet prepared to abandon the prin
ciples to which they owe tlieir existence
for the purpose of showing tlieir apprecia
tion of the aid, which Mr. Chase has been
able to give them. Ever since tlie an
nouncement of Chief Justice Chase that
tlie President had been acquitted on tlie
eleventh article, to tlie present time, the
belief has been current here that Chase
would he tlie candidate of tlie Democracy
at the New York Convention. Mr. Chase,
there is little doubt, would accept a nomi
nation at tlie hands of any convention
whose platform accorded with the princi
ples wliich he has maintained fora life
time. Indeed, he iias substantially so
declared, over aud over again. The Dem
ocrats. of course, will not go to Chase, and
Chase won’t go to tlie Democrats. So, to
night, the general belief among the Rad
ical Democrats and Radical Republicans,
is that anew party, composed of anti
impeachers among Republicans an i the
Conservative portion of the Democrats,
sloughed off ty tbe excitement of the past
three months, will be formed, and that a
third candidate will be in the field, in the
person of the Chief Justice. A Chase pa
per is already in contemplation here,
under the sanction, it is said, of tiie Chief
J ustiee.
THE HOUSE MANAGERS.
The Managers proceeded with the ex
amination of witnesses to-Jay in pursu
ance of the resolution of Saturday after
noon, authorizing investigation as to tlie
alleged attempts to influence the votes of
Senators upon impeachment. The wit
nesses examined to-day were Perry Fuller,
Hon. D. W. Voorhees, General Thomas
Ewing and S. W. Huntington, of the
First National Bank. The three first
named were interrogated with reference to
a conversation with Senator Ross, but it
does not appear ttiat any proof was ad
duced to warrant tiie imputation that any
improper propositions were made, or tiiat
any of these witnesses did effect the action
of Mr. Ross.
General Ewing was asked if he did not
visit the Senator at his rooms on Friday
evening last, and he in reply stated that
he called and inquired for the Senator,
and was informed by one of the ladies of
the house that Mr. Ross had just gone out.
General Ewing was asked what else the
lady had said to him. He replied that she
said she was very much annoyed at the
report that she had attempted to influence
the vote of Senator Ross ; that she had
said nothing to the Senator on the subject
of impeachment, nor had he to her, and
she did not know what his vote would be;
that none of her acquaintance had urged
her to speak to Mr. Ross, except a radical
member of Congress (Mr. Julian), who
had requested her to beseech the Senator
to vote for conviction. General Ewing
further testified tiiat at the conclusion of
the revelation of tiie conversation Senator
Ross returned, and the latter and himself
had a brief conversation, in which refer
ence was made to the impeachment ar
ticles, but no attempt was made by the
witness to induce tlie Senator to vote one
way or another.
The purpurt of the testimony of Messrs
Voorhees and Fuller was that no attempts
had been made to induce the Senator to
vote for acquittal, so far as they were ad
vised.
Mr. Ewing and Mr. Fuller are old ac
quaintances and intimate friends of Sena
tor Ross, and are citizens of Kansas.
The testimony of Mr. Huntington was
to establish tlie fact that a draft for $20,000
passed through the First National Bank
of this city, indorsed by certain parties,
whose purpose in obtaining the money is
to be sought through evidence to be offer
ed hereafter.
THE SICK SENA i OKS RECOVERING.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.
Washington, May 18.—The Senators
who were so ill last week, are now all in a
fair way of recovering. Messrs. Nye,
Morton and Conklin appeared in their
seats to-day, and gave their usual attention
to business. Though Morton looked feeble
and emaciated, Mr. Howard seems to have
found his journey to the Senate on Satur
day, good medicine for him, since he has
been rapidly mending. He sat up several
hours to-day, and if he has no relapse, will
soon be able to resume his Senatorial du
ties. Mr. Grimes was apparently worse
for a time, after returning to his house on
Saturday from tiie Senate, but had a good
night’s rest, and to-day is quite percepti
bly improving. He begins to use his half
paralyzed leg a little, aud cau manage his
arm well enough to sign his name. Entire
rest from all exciting labors is enjoined
upon him, and he will leave the city as
soon as he is able to travel, on the indefin
ite leave of absence which was granted
him to-day. It is doubtful if he will re
turn here this session, unless it shall be
much protracted.
The Funeral Services of Mrs. W. B.
Bullock were conducted at Christ Church
yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Bullock, at her
death, was seventy-six years of age. She
was highly respected and beloved by a
large circle of friends, aud the full attend
ance at the funeral services was a fitting
tribute of respect to her worth. —Savannah
News, 21. sf.
—
The Bayonet Rtft.ES.—Mr. George
Betts, son of Mr. George Betts, the tailor,
one of our most respectable citizens, was
arrested by tlie military authorities yes
terday morning. The cause noone knows.
Mills, the Commandant of the Post
replied to Mr-Betts and Maj. Moses, his
counsel, that he could not tell why he'was
arrested. Radicals appear fij rule in all
military circles. We may state, while on
this subject, that the parties arrested last
week are lodged iu Fort Pulaski.—Colum
bus Sun, 22 d. i
MONDAY, MAY 25, 1868.
From the Savannah KcpaoEcftß,
SHOOTING AiJ'U'U.
An Old Lady Attempts lo Kill her Son-in-
Law —The Cause of the Trouble and Con
dition of the Wounded Man.
Yesteiduy morning about nine o’clock,
Lieutenant Charles F. Moore of the ltiili
United Stales Infantry, and (Quartermas
ter and Commissary at this Post, was
walking down Bull street, and when he
reached York street lane, u woman who
was standing in the lane, hack of George
W. Anderson’s house, suddenly stepped
*out, dyiw a pi-dol and shot him. the ball
entering the upper part of Tils throat, on
the left side, just below the angle of tlie
jaw. The blood spurted out from the
wound profusely, and Lieutenant Moore
stepped out into the street, turned and
looked back at her, when she cocked the
small revolver in her hand again, in a
threatening manner. Finding that he
was rapidly losing blood, he turned and
ran down York stieet Igne to Drayton
street, with the tdood issuing from iiis
wound and from his mouth at every step.
Tbe fences and doors of the negro quar
ters were bedaubed with it, and the cloth
ing of the wounded man, by the time that
he reached Dray toil street, was completely
saturated with his life current which was
fast welling from the puncture tnade by
the leaded missile. A gentleman stepped
up to his assistance and helped him to the
Barracks. Along Drayton street the blood
flowed freely, and the track of the victim
of vengeance could be distinctly traced
yesterday, by the blood stains upon the
bricks. Being a powerful man, tie kept
up bravely until Liberty street was reach
ed, when faint and weak, tie fell to tlie
ground, and was carried into the United
States Barracks where Dr. Wynne,United
States Army, and I)r. Bulloch attended
him. The ball, which was a very small
one, had severed some of the branches of
the carotid artery (lienee tiie bleeding),
and had gone somewhere in 1 lie palatine
region. The surgeons were unable to find
it by probing. *H*> continued to bleed '.or
some time and sank very low ; but tlie
physicians managed to stop the hemor
rhage, and when we visited tlie Barracks
last evening lie was better, and it was the
doctors’ opinion, that if no second hem
orrhage ensued he would probably re
cover.
The woman who did the shooting is
named Mrs. Eliza H. Mason ; she is a per
son of between forty and fifty years of age
and quite well known in this city. Her
daughter is the wile of Lieutenant Moore,
and tlie shooting was the result of a deep
rooted hatred of tier son-in-law. Immedi
ately after accomplishing her purpose she
walked away to lnw boarding house, on
Hull street, near West Broad street, no at
tempt being made to stop her. Informa
tion of the affair was sent to the Police
Barracks, and Sergeant Green was dis
patched to arrest her. Oil arriving at the
house he was told that she had left, and
she had told the people there to tell any
oue who called tiiat she hud gone to give
herself up. We learned tiiat she walked
down iu the city again, and on Whitaker
street met Constable Ottermau, stopped
him, and asked lobe taken to Justice Ver
de ry’s office. lie took her in his buggy
! and drove her to the Magistrate’s. She
! alighted from the vehicle, walked into the
office, aud told J ustiee Yeidery that she
had siiot Lieutenant. Moore, and had come
to give herself tip.
He was astonished, and would not be
lieve the statement at first, (until it was
confirmed by outside parties, when lie in
formed Mrs. Mason that she would have
logo to jail. She appeared to be nervou.-
aud excited, and expressed a willingness
to go, and was accordingly sent to that
institution.
The affair created great excitement in
the city, and the wildest and most absurd
reports were diligently spread about re
garding the affair. It was said that the
Lieutenant had treated Ids wife her
daughter) so cruelly that her mind had
become almost crazed on the subject, aud
that she could noi separate her, daughter
from him, and had thus wreaked her ven
geance upou him. Tlie.se reports of ill
treatment have been circulated during the
past six months, and have frequently
reached our ears. As true and laithful
journalists, desiring to do injustice to no
one, we have searched every one, and
cannot trace these rumors and reports to
i uny reliable source.
Mrs. Masou is from Columbus, Indiana,
j latterly Formerly, we believe she lived
| in Cincinnati, and her husband (since de
i ceased) was Demonstrator of Anatomy in
Ia Medical College there. About three
years ago her daughter Stella went on the
stage, and by studied attention to tlie de
tails and ininutiue of her profession, gave
great promise of becoming an excellent
actress. She performed in Nashville,
Tennessee, where her quiet, ladylike de
portment attracted great attention, aud
she became quite a favorite with tlie the
atregoers. It was here that Lieutenant
Moore first saw her. Tbe mother became
elated at the daughter’s success, and tier
ambition became boundless. She came
to Savannah, and performed here in 1800,
aud a- a comedienne, she gained great
{•opularity. Lieutenant Moore again met
her, tlnd marriage was proposed. Mrs.
Mason refused consent, and the two were
united without her sanction. The three
Jived together for some time, but, as the
mother and her son-in-law could not agree
the former was furnished with another
home. She fell sick, as was supposed, de
clared that sLe was going to die, and asked
tiiat her daughter be allowed to accom
pany her home to Columbus, I ml. The
Lieutenant acceded to her request, and
not being able to obtain leave of absence
himself, he put them on the train and
saw them start. This, it would appear,was
but a blind, the sickness was quickly re
covered from, and having her daughter
with her, she went home and there de
tained Mrs. Moore for some time, until her
husband, havingobtained ie&veof absence,
went after her and brought her away.—
Mrs. Masou followed them back to Savan
nah .
During the past mouth Mrs. Mason has
appeared almost monomaniacal on the
subject. She has recounted her grievances
time and again to every one she knew,
and has importuned strangers on the
street, and told almost every one that
would listen to her stories of distress, that
her daughter was being cruelly treated by
Lieutenant Moore. The stories which
were put afloat were perfectly terrible. —
During the past two or three weeks she
might have been seen almost every night
standing by a tree in front of the Inde
pendent Presbyterian Church, and oppo
site the Pavilion Hotel, where the Lieu
tenant and his wife boarded, watching
there until late at night. Wednesday
night she was there until near midnight,
waiting and looking up at the windows of
her daughter’s room. It is thought that
her disappointment at the marriage of her
daughter, and the failure of subsequent
efforts to separate the two, had under
mined her reason, and finally led to the
commission of the bloody deed.
The first intimation that Mrs. Moore
had of the affair was when a negro boy
shouted from the street to her that her
husband had been killed. She at once
went to tlie Barracks where he had been
taken and waited upon him during the
day. Lieutenant Moore, who graduated
at West Point, is the son of an old and
gallant Sergeant of the Federal army ; is
a native of a New York State ; he is well
known in this community, and is uni
versally esteemed and respected by those
who are acquainted with him. In persona
appearance Lieutenant Moore is one o'
the finest and most soldierly looking off!"
cers we have ever met, while his gentle
manly and genial deportment has won for
him hosts of warm friends who lament
and deeply sympathize with him in his
dreadful misfortune. We sincerely trust
his injuries will not prove fatal, and that
he will speedily recover and resume his
duties.
We publish with pleasure the following
statement which has been handed us, from
Mrs. Moore, and express the hope that it
may entirely set at rest the reports wliich
have been circulated in this community:
Savannah, Ga., May 21, 1868. — Editor
Republican —Sir:—With perfect aston
ishment I have heard the reports which
have come to me in my distressed condi
tion, while watching by the bedside of
my wounded husband. That there is not
one word of truth in them 1 can positively
assert. It is the refinement of cruelty to
thus force me before the public, but my
husband’s reputation and my owu must
be vindicated against the foul slanders
which have been uttered. It is hard for
me to speak against my owu mother, but
necessity demands that I should at once
make public what both myself and my
husband have endeavored to keep a secret
siuce our marriage. To substantiate my
statements aud to give a clear and succinct
account of everything, permit me to refer
to some acts of my past life.
My mother always held me completely
qnder her control, and Buever disobeyed
her iff anything oavo when I married
Lieutenant Moore. At ten years of age
she forced me to go on the stage, and
pictured to me the honors that F might
win. ''ids life, which was one extremely
repugsmut to my feelings, 1 led for eight
years, and frequently, when J have not
had the heart to act well, she would pinch
and a'.use me behind the scenes, and
frighten me into acting a part. When
Lieutenant Moore wished to marry me,
we begged and implored her to grant her
consent, and, although I was very ill. and
my life was in danger, she was not willing
for us to he married, but said that I must
remain on the stage, and that we would
go to Europe. We were married*, how
ever, without her permission, and my
husband treated her with exceeding kind
ness, but her conduct towards him was
terrible,as is well known to the ladies of
the garrison at Macon, where we resided
then. About a week after our marriage
sin; feigned sickness, and wanted to go
home, to Columbus, Indiana, ."he begged
my husband to allow me to accompany
her, promising faithfully that 1 should
return within a week. She recovered im
mediately after we started from Macon,
and when we reached home she said that
1 should never go back, and that 1 should
stay on the stage. My uncle and cousins
aided her in trying to coax, and in threat
ening me, in order to indui-e me to yield
to their desires. My clothes were packed
in a trunk and sent back, to my husband,
and letters (which are now in my posses
sion) were forged and sent to him, pur
porling to come from me* and telling hun
that I would never come back to him
again. They took my wedding ring from
oil'my linger, after choking me until I
fainted, and allowed me to lie upon the
floor until I came to my senses, and when
siie would go from home she would lock
me up in a room, and threatened that if I
screamed I should be sent to a lunatic
asylum. My husband came to Columbus
aud brought, me away with him, and since
Mrs. Mason followed us. Siuee we have
been in Savannah our life has been one
endless round of persecution. Everything
she has done, which her ingenuity could
devise, to injure my husband. .She vowed
that she would separate or kill us. She
lias come to my room, and threatened my
life, until for safety I had to forbid her
coming -there any more, and then she
went around and told people that my
husband would not permit her to see me.
We have time and again heard of the
reports that she had spread, but my hus
band always dreaded the publicity, which
would attend any attempt to stop tier. Hhe
lias made friends in this city, and strove
to enlist the sympathies of many people
in her behalf. With her alone these reports
about cruel treatment on the part of my
hu-band towards me have originated. N o
woman has ever led a happier life than
mine lias been since ruy mar iage, so far
as my husband is concerned. No person
could have been more kind nor affection
ate than he has been. My every wish has
been gratified, and so far from beating
and abusing me lie has never laid ids
hand upon me save in kindness.
Mrs. Mason lias endeavored in every
possible manner to destroy his charac
ter, and lias told stories which any man
much less a woman should have been
ashamed to repeat. .Site has written let
ters to persons living in the hotel, threat
ening them with vengeance if they asso
ciated with us, and bus followed us with
a spirit of iutense hatred which it is truly
astonishing to think that any mother could
bear tow ards her child.
The Judies and gentlemen at the Har
racks, who have known us intimately, can
corroborate my statements regarding our
life—that aside from this persecution, it
has been peaceful, quiet ami happy. We
have always shrunk from any publicity of
the mat ter,-ami have borne these scandal
ous asperse ns as patiently as possible, and
in silence, hoping that they would onu
day cease, the terrible event which has
haj :>i ned has brought matters to a crisis,
and 1 can see no way to firmly and forever
set at re t ths.ro rumors and rejairts than
by giv.' to tin- public .a true and faithiul
version .f the affair. Mrs. Mason lias al
ways been crazy for me logo on the stage,
and to that I alone can attribute her con
duct.
I am, very respectfully, yours,
Ms?. Si r.i.i.A .Mookit.
Litrrfcit itaim \*-.» mum.
[From our Special Correspou.eut.J
“6W fy”-Charing /W.
jjifU for Ur hviuorrucy —77*,: South in tin J>d<j
u., nhm—Tlu S,cluA»m IbccnoU—
Trifle*.
New Yokk, May I', lbiiS.
The incorrigible managers of impeach
ment have as little mercy on thepublic a
on the President; and us they seem de
termined to keep the subject before the
gaze of a disgusted country indefinitely, 1
shall, i trust, be pardoned for making it
the leading topic of another letter. The
vole on Saturday settled the question prac
tically, and left it as dry of further inter
est us a squeezed orange. But there are
numerous facts, incidents, and rumors,
connected with the matter, which, as they
are to hold an enduring place in the na
tional annuls, give them importance as
topic -of current comment. The telegraph
lias told you of the excitement in Wash
ington, and of the filing of guns in Bos
ton, i roy, and elsewhere, in honor <•; tip-
President’s vindication ; and the mails:
will convey to you a fuller and wider view'
of the expressions of public opinion con
cern iug the event than 1 can give. 1 here
have been no noisy demonstrations in
this city. Tne bulletin boards of the va
rious newspapers on Saturday attracted
considerable attention, and the sales of
the evening journals were enormous.
Those of the Daily ficus, the fir.-t to an
nounce the result, reached over 100,000
copies. Tnere was none of the passion
and fury predicted by T tile Tribune as the
result of acquittal, and no especial enthu
siasm. No blood was spilt, and beyond a
slight increase in the consumption of whis
key, there was nothing indicative of un
usual excitement. Gold, which has been
and drooping for several days, gently
subsided to 37£, and money was reported
unusually abundant and easy. So the
long agony,Though not technically over,
has ceased to affect business interests, and
“demnitiou cash” assumes ils legitimate
relations to the popular concern.
Politically, the failure of impeachment
has, as 1 have before intimated, little sig
nificance. Whichever way it went, it had
become a dead weight to the Republican
party. It has undoubtedly weakened the
strength of Grant, and there is a strong
pressure on him to withdraw from the
canvass, which lie will not do. A rumor
is current from Washington, tiiat Chase
is determined to run, even if Grant is
nominated, and that-the President’s ac
quittal is the result of an intrigue, by
which Mr. Johnson is to go into full alli
ance with him aud the Conservative Re
publicans, to form anew party. This is
hut an old story, revived, no doubt, to op
erate ou the Chicago Convention.
It cannot secure for Chase a nomination
by that body; and the Democratic party
will hardly tie frightened into self-stultifi
cation by accepting him as its standard
bearer. Certain leading Democrats, among
them Voorbees, are nam' and as favoring
this alliance. The Democratic party has
a record and a prestige that forbids tlie
consideration of ail motives of mere expe
diency. A straight-out adherence to the
old landmarks, under which it has
inarched to victory in the late elections
with the tread of a giant, wilt secure such
a triumph in November as has not been
accorded to auy party since 1852. Mr.
Johnson’s defection, and the Democratic
defeat incident to it, is so fresh in the
minds of the people as to render it impos
sible for that party to extend him any
very cordi .1 confidence or support; anil
the garments of Chase have the Radical
savor too strong to give him any weight
with conservatives of any party.' There
fore, the Democracy can well afford to let
j the President and the Radicals settle their
| little family quarrel among themselves.
While the South cannot expect to have
j much weight in the selection of a candi
! date, and should, as she evidently will,
give a cordial support to the Democratic
nominee, it is regarded here of the utmost
importance that there should be authentic
expressions of public opinion from the
Southern States in reference to their new
status in the Union. The Democratic
party is taunted here, on all sides, and on
all occasions, as in alliance with the reb
els, and the masses are made to believe
that a Democratic administration will re
open tlie question of the right of secession,
the payment of the rebel debt, and com
pensation for slaves freed as a result of the
war. The South has nothing to lose by a
distiuct and authentic declaration that she
has renounced the right of secession, and
ail expectation of damages or annuities iu
any shape, for her war losses. The Dem
ocratic party on the question of suffrage,
is true to the white race and to civil
ization. This much of our battle it is
fighting successfully North anil West.it
is ot the utmost importance that the dele
gates to ttie National Convention in Juiy
come impressed with the magnitude of
these questions, and prepared to give au
thentic expression to tliesentiiuents of the
people. The utterances of Southern news
papers do not reach the eye of the in asses
here: and the more intelligent classes have
no tangible and reliable evidence of the
true aud earnest adhesion of our people to
fho Constitution, and our entire “r'i|iiics
ence in the result of the war in then |
ing upon our permanent policy- *
of the whole country will be upon i.ic
Southern delegates to the July < onv- ii
tion, and win re it is possible, they should
come backed up with resolutions from
Conventions and primary meetings. '1 hey
will he watched with critical vigilance,
both in their personal bearing and official
conduct, and while the South may not
hope, and should not seek to exert any
controlling influence in Ihe choice of a
nominee, the result of the nomination
may lie materially influenced by the im
pression her delegates make on re-enter
ing the National Convention of the party
seeking to save the wreck of constitutional
liberty.
It is apparent to the most casual obser
vation, that the Republican party, to use a
cant phrase, has ‘‘gene up.” I meet
Republicans daily, from the towns and
cities of the East and West, who are pro
fuse in their expressions of disgust for the
follies and crimes of the party. Bach dis
affection cannot be patched up at Chicago.
The people North feel the burden of tax
ation more keenly by far than we of the
South. They are burdened by the most
enormous local war debts—debts incurred
in bounties to volunteers. In some of the
States tiie poll tax is as much as §5, and
the assessments on properly two and a
half per cent.! Think you that with
such a load, weighing down their necks,
paralyzing industry, that they will sub
mit to the reckless waste of the dominant
party?
And especially when the bondholder»
art exempt from these grievous burdens.
There never was a time, when the road
to victory was so clearly blazed out, as
it is before the Democratic party in the
coming contest. And there never was a
time when it was so imperative for the
people of the Botitli to take an active
interest in polities. We have a common
interest in the struggle. We have our
full share of the burdens of government
to bear, and we have some hope of
lightening, if not throwing off, the galling
yoke imposed by the reconstruction policy.
There should he no discouragement at tiie
result of the late election. Eternal
vigilance is as much the price of liberty
now, a-* it was when those words were
first blazed oil tlie page of our history.
Turning aside from jiolities, and the
current of eveutsisquitebarren of interest.
There is increasing confidence in business
circles, hut the spring trade is nearly
over, and remnants of winter stocks are
offered at greatly reduced prices.
THE NICHOLSON X’AVKMKNT.
A number of the principal streets are
being laid with the new Nicholson pave
ment, which promises to be a great im
provement ou tiie rattling rocks so long in
u-e. iii tiie first place, after tiie dirt is
nicely graded, inch plunk are laid down,
weli saturated in a composition of which
tar is the chief ingredient. Then live
blocks six or eight inches long, aud three
or four inches thick, aic set upright, also
saturated in tar. Between each riw of
tlies -, strips of half inch boards about four
inches wide are nailed, and tar aud gravel
are poured in to fill up the remaining
.-pace, even with t lie surface. Then a thin
luyer of the tar mixture, wiib a listle more
gravel, is spread over the surface. The
tar is poured in hot, and the gravel is
heated, to dry it, and make tiie tar adhere
toil. When finished it makes a smooth
surface, much safer and easier for horses,
than any pavement in use, and obviates
much of tiie noise which pervades streets
paved with rock. The process of laying it
in an object of general interest ami hence
I have ventured to give a rough idea of it
to your readers.
TBIKLES.
Among the go; and hits of the day, the
Telegram accompanied its announcement
of the vote on impeachment with a line of
small cuts of negroes, such as were in use
in slavery times to advertise runaway ne
groes. Coder them wan tiie heading,
“The Radical Senators leaving tiie liait,
after the first ballot.”
Cussing along Fulton street, in Brook
lyn, this afternoon, I noticed a picture,
which deserves mention. It represented
two darkies—one in a rough barb, with a
whitewash brush and bucket, and the
other in fine toggery, with an umbrella
under liis arm. Darkey No. 1 says:
“H-Jis., i-t-tc, wnar you gwine in dem
fine harness?”
*‘Ki, Compey, gwine toriheeogger (Chi
cago.) Tse dun wid dem tools, I is. I’se.
turned politishimer— specs to go to Con
gress in <ie fall.”
Not a bad hit at the Southern situation.
Tiie outs here of course make a constant
clamor about the abuses of ihe ins, and
one would think, to read tiie Radical pa
pers, that the policemen were a fearful set
of roughs. On the contrary, they are
aliout the most geuteel looking men in
tiie city, those on Broadway are all
picked men, uone under six feet in height,
and many of them men of considerable
culture. They are always polite and at
tentive, and it is said tiiat one of them,
who escorts the ladies across the crowded
way, fascinates his fair charges in six lan
guages.
An evening paper wonders whether
Stanton will continue to “stick,” as ad
vised some time ago, or "cut stick.”
Brigham Young evidently intends that
his harem shall “all take a ride.” He is
having seven first class carriages made in
this city.
A meeting of humanitarians is called to
devise relief for the poor Indians. Better
fall home the government agents who are
j poisoning them with mean whisky.
| Weather rainy and cool. Spring very
; backward. Oconee. *
Hhadqttartkrs Third Military District, j
(Department of Georgia. Florida, and Alabama.) >■
Atlanta, ‘.a.. May 20, ISOB. )
General Orders, No. NO.
So much of the sentences of the prison
ers (William Pettigrew, Frank H. Mun
day, Hugh L. White, Thomas W. Rob
erts, James Steele, John Cullen, and Sam
uel Stray-horn, citizens), sentenced by
General Orders No. 72, to confinement at
hard labor at the Dry Tortugas, as re
mains unexpired, on the receipt of this
order at Fort Jefferson, is hereby remitted,
and the prisoners will he discharged.
Iu thus early releasing these prisoners,
the Major General Commanding trusts
the clemency extended toward them will
not he misunderstood. These misguided
and thoughtless young men were convic
ted, after a fair trial, of acts of violence
and outrage against a citizen with the
object of driving him out of the State.
Tlie frequent complaints of similar con
duct, ami tiie failure of the civil authori
ties to repress the evil, rendered it neces
sary to exercise the power conferred on
him by law, and bring these prisoners
before a military tribunal. Their convic
tion and punishment having, however,
vindicated the principle involved, the
Commanding General, in view of the suf
fering imposed on the relatives and friends
of tlie prisoners, of the promises made of
future good conduct, and iu tlie belief
that a proper example, earlier made,
might have deterred tlie prisoners from
committing the offence, has directed the
discharge of tlie prisoners.
The Commanding General takes this
occasion to state that similar clemency
need not he expected in future, and he
warns the people of his district, that lie is
determined to suppress all lawlessness and
violence, and all attemptsof individuals to
take the law into tHeir own hands, or de
cide who shall not live in tlie country.
To protect every person in his rights of
person and property, is made by the law
the paramount duty of the Commanding
General, and it is well the people of the
District, and tlie authorities having in
charge the preservation of the peace, and
the execution of the laws, should know
that he is determined to exercise all the
power under hiscommand in the discharge
of this duty, and that hereafter, no con
sideration such as are here allowed, will
influence him to relieve the guilty from
the just punishment awarded them'
By Order of Major Geueral Meade :
R. C, Drum, A. A. G.
Bolters.—J. B. S. writes to the World:
“ Fessenden has declared that lie is done
witli the party ; that he never found out
what they were before, and is glad to know'
now their real nature and purposes, so as
to beware of them. He is also said—and
the same is reported of Trumbull—to lie
particularly indignant that the chief part
of the persecution to -which lie has been
exposed has come from renegade Demo
crats like Logan and Butler.”
A Daring Attempt was made on Sat
urdayiast to rob the baggage ear on the
VV ilmingtou and Weldon Railroad t.v two,
white men and a negroon hoard the train
1 bey were discovered and arrested ami
the negro confessed that the plan was com
ccr, 1 22</ at Goldßboro Inlelligen.
TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1868.
‘•Tiie Naked Drama” and ll* Defender)..
That disgusting exhibition called the
“Black Crook,” which invoked so much
hearty and deserved censure from even
the least scrupulous class of play goers while
here, is tracking its noisome way through
the country. Worst of all, it seems to be
reaping a harvest of greenbacks, and para
lyzing in some very mysterious way, the
protests, if not the condemnation, we fain
Imped would greet it from our cotempora
'ries, wherever it uncovered its nakedness
Ik-fore tlie refined audiences of Georgia.
We augur ii) of the state of the public
morals when such things are seen. We
fear that the virus of a rotten civilization,
transplanted from the haunts of Parisian
derni-mondeunn, and intensified by seeth
ing in the foul cauldron of Yankee lust
and lechery, is gradually stealing its deadly
way into the veins of .Southern morals and
manners. We fear that among other de
moralizations, consequent upon the recent
war, this, tiie last and worst of all demur
alizations, is about to attack us. We fear
our people are about to forget the prestige
of the past, a prestige that has ever dis
tinguished them, and which wehavebeen
prouder of than all else combined—the
prestige of an uncompromising refine
ment and delicacy. 11 lias been our boast
tiiat in this, at least, we have been above
ami beyond reproach. That our women
were as pure as they were brave, amt good,
and beautiful, and that the men of the
.South cherished no sentiment stronger
than a profound disgust for all that
sought, upon the stage or off it, to win ap
plause by appeals to their sensuous and
sensual passions. We have pointed, in
days gone by, many a weapon of defense
against those who availed us, with this
proud record. It has been at once our
.iiiei.i and buckler, and however much
and at other points we have been vulnera
ble, there at least tiie harness showed no
joint.
Is it so now, though ? Can we challenge
criticism, or defy comparison with the
same fearless assurance, now ? We biu-h
to answer the question in the face of wiiat
is seen daily in the public prints of Geor
gia, in reference to this very exhibition.
We are told, in newspapers that tirid their
way into the sacred prcciflcts of virtuous,
well ordered houses, that tiiere is nothing
wrong about it, tiiat there is nothing seen
and nothing done in its representations
tiiat can shock the sense or outrage pro
priety. We are even told tiiat the cos
tumes are no more objectionable than
those that are worn on the streets ami in
the parlors of our cities. The public are
assured that it is a tit and proper place for
pure sou led women and innocent children,
and tiiat an introduction to its salacious
displays, aud shocking disregard even of
the conventionalities of a respectable bal
let. can work no detriment to innocence
and purity. New.-papers that protest
against such outrages are stigmatized as
“puritanical,” and sneers and inuendoes
art* thrust at their conductors and mana
gers.
Oh! men and women of Georgia—you
who have typified in the past, iu thought
and deed, so much that ennobles, so much
that exalts, so much that lifts you to the
highest level of purity and refinement—
will you sanction such a crusade? Will
you drag your spotless robes in the sham
bles tiiat Yankee vulgarity and malice
have prepared for their defilement? Will
you cease to be what you have been, aud
become even as they are? It you heed
not the living, will you not hearken to
the voices that cry out from every battle
field and patriot grave of cur last revolu
tion* 1 They died to save you from politi
cal domination ami ruin. If such a thing
were possible, we know their very hones
would tight to preserve you from this still
more frightful danger. If you cannot be
free, we conjure you at least to be un
tainted.
Fiuk in Savannah.—We learn from
the Savannali papers that a fire occurred
in that city on Saturday moraing, in the
store of H. J. McDonald, grocer, on the
corner of Whitaker and Bay streets,
wiiicii consumed the building, with his
entire stock, as also tiie printing establish
ment of E. J. Purse, Esq., which was in
the second story Neither party succeed
ed in saving anything, and we regret to
learn that the original copy of the pro
ceedings of the last Convention of tbe
Protestant Episcopal Church, which was
in Mr. Purse’s office to be printed, was
also lost.
napoaclimeut .tlaiteri.
New \okk, May 23.—The Herald’s
Washington dispatch says if the President
is convicted Tuesday, a bill will he intro
duced for such a reconstruction of the Su
preme Court as will got rid of Chief Jus
tice Chase, and, under the rule of Ben
Wade, places Man ton at the head of tiie
highest judiciary tribunal. The same dis
patch slums that Senator Fowler, of Ten
nessee, tiled liis opinion upon the eleven
articles of impeachment Thursday. It is
quite lengthy, covering 'about fifty pa»es
of legal cap paper, about half of which is
devoted to the first article, and the argu
ment against the second article occupies
about eleven pages more. Tbe paper is
very ably prepared, and presents an over
whelming array of the most powerful
arguments against every articleoi the list,
the tiling of tiiis opinion leaves only
Senator Ross, of tiie seven Republicans'
required todeleut conviction, uncommit
ted on tlie remaining ten articles.
ibe tribune says it is understood the
Court of Impeachment will adjourn next
Tuesday without voting on the remaining
articles, tiie Congress being unwilling to
risk another vote at present.
Mr. Stevens is preparing new articles,
which lie declares he will present to the
House if the Managers will not accent
them. 1
Special to the Cincinnati I oinmercinl.
Washington, May 21
Great confidence is felt in Radical
Circles that the second article of impeach
ment will he adopted on Tuesday, and the
conservatives agree that the result is very
doubtful. It is conceded at present that
the vote is to be taken on Tuesday.
Messrs Anthony, Sprague and Willey are
claimed lor the second article, and will
probably so vote. Mr. Ross is also claimed
for this article. The second article will
it is believed, he first voted on, and, if
th * iere 18 no ilo P e lor any of the
Messrs. Blaine, Stevens and others
give up impeachment and declare tha*
there is no hope of success. Instead of
Messrs. Butler and Bingham, it is re
ported that Mr. Stanton lias been the
prmcipa l adviser in the movement, and
that the disaster on Saturday is due
entirely to a disregard of his counsel.
Southern Emigrants tq Brazil.—A
friend has sent us a copy of the Brazilian
H,u Agr , lCU iturist, published
at Rio, by Emerson A Cencir. Mr Fm
\n« ,U W \i S a „ for “ e . r cilizetJ of Meridian,
,!*!?• *’ l Lenoir is a Brazilian.
1 he paper before us is dated March 25th
and from it we take the following extracts
from an editorial iu relation to Bouthern
ers who have sought a home iu that coun
try. After uoticiug the death of Major
Hastings, the article states- J
We are sorry to learn that his colony is
now rapidly breaking up and being dis-
Dr Do’JmP “T y ° f whom » Rt the date of
JhR on ' ,g ? leU, ‘ r - waiting favor-'
»^ l . UU . l . l !« ! " ffctHru to the Mat, -,
inn • to^ his w ere the results that fol
lowed immediately on the death of the la
inented Major McMullen, who founded u
colony m San Paulo.
We learn that this large colony is now
almost entirely broken up, and that scarce
any one member of it, who possessed
means of getting away has remained.
It truly saddens our hearts to he com
pelled to chronicle these reports hut our
journal is a medium through which to
communicate facts, rather than fancies,
and we shall prove true to our friends and
ourselves by adhering strictly to our prin
ciples, in such matters, as set forth in our
prospectus when we first connected our
selves with the Immigrant.