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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
<§ro cjia »fhljj ® rlrru'ap I;.
Fast.—In our telegraphic column will be
found n despatch which left San Francisco
yesterday, was received in New 1 ork and sent
South whore it arrived by Op. ni. \crily
apace is annihilated.
{3T* Wb cam, attention to the “Card”
of several business men of ntir city, who en
dorse and recommend the “Arrow Tie,” a
band for haling cotton, for which Mr. James
A. Hall, is agent.
New Cotton Pb«R—We yesterday exam
ined a model of a new Screw Press, which is
advertised in our columns, this morning, by
Mr. Robert Howard.
The main idea wick gives convenience and
excellence to this Press is a capital one; and
if the Screw can be properly erected as to
carry out the design with facility, we think
it will be superior to any plantation Screw
Pi ms that we have ever socn.
On ACEKiir..-Tbc Columbus Sun * Times, in
a very patriotic spirit, abstains from urging
its own opinion in opposition to what it sees
to bo the sentiment of the Southern people,
and assents to the proposition for the ap
pointment of delegates to the Philadelphia
National UDion Convention. Let other pa
pers in Georgia follow its good example.
Now that the question of representation has
lvccn settled, nothing is to bo made by keep
ing up the fight
Not True.—The Augusta Constitutional
ist publishes the plntform of the “National
Union Convention at Washington,” and says
it contains the conditions prescribed for
Southern representation in the Philadelphia
Convention.
We are not a little surprised that the sa
gacious and respectable gentlemen who edit
the Constitutionalist, are willing to risk their
reputation for fairness on such a statement
If Oio Convention cannot be put down by/air
argument, better yield opposition and go in
for it.
A Beautiful Set.—The call for a Conven
tion of Southern Radicals will be found in our
columns. Georgia is represented, and first, if
we mistake not by u pcripaletic Yankee em
issary, who has been trying for a year past,
, under the protection of Federal bayonets, to
Stir up strife through the Columbus newspa.
pers, and secondly by a Yankee hotel keeper
at Marietta, who was put in jail for treasona
ble sentiments during the war and kept there
to the close. If the representatives from oth
er States are of n like character, we should
say that the call was not overburthened with
potency. The object seems to be to upset the
Southern State Governments and erect others
through the agency of Congress that should
admit such fellows as themselves to administer
them. But tho whole thing is too contempt,
ible to write about, and we only publish the
call as ono of. the political curiosities of the
day.
Religious
*» COMMON SENSE.
An honest, solid-minded countryman called
at our office yesterday, and we concluded to
sound him on the question of Southern rep
resentation iu the Philadelphia Convention.
“Do you think the South ought to be repre
sented ?” was our question; to which he re
plied : “Well sir, to tell you the truth, I am
not hopeful of anything in the future, but we
are so thoroughly crushed out already, if it
does'nt do us good, it will, at least, do us no
harm, and we shall be great fools not to take
the chances. As a sensible people, we owe it
to the President, who is our friend, and to
ourselves, to give the Convention a trial,”
This aged patriarch took a correct view of
the subject, and we fully agree with him, on
ly we go farther in entertaining the firm con
viction that great good—nay, ‘lie salvation
of the South, and the complete overthrow of
the enemies of the Constitution—will lie the
result of the contemplated union. On the
other hand, we consider the objections urged
against the Convention as most frivolous.—
Even granting that the Washington Commit
tee have proclaimed principles regarding the
relations between the' States and Federal
Government to which we cannot fully sub
scribe, there will, at least, be no impropriety
in going into the Convention for the sake
of its great national objects with which wc
fully concur, and which we consider essential
to our restoration and welfare. That much,
at leapt, is pledged to the South, and we may
well trust the Convention to avoid all unne
cessary subjects of a speculative nature upon
which it knows we arc obliged to differ. If
it should pursue this conservative course, we
shall have gained everything and compro
mised nothing. If, on the other hand, it
should travel beyond the line of duty and
seek to impose upon us terms of co-operation
which Southern men cannot accept with bon-
qp qj* gafpijr. wLj, we can simply decline to
co-operate, in which event we shall be at the
point from which we set out—no better and
no worse off. We submit to every sensible
man in tbe the South: is'nt the thing worth
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE
OF TIIE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH.
Passage of the Tariff Bill, aai its Postponment by
" — - - -flu—,*
the Senate—Virtual Defeat of tbe Bill—A Clear
Majority against it ia the Wnatc—The Cabinet
Dissolved.
Associations.—We acknow
ledge the receipt of pamphlets containing the
proceedings of ecclesiastical bodies recently
convened in this State, os follows:
From Rev. Mr. Reese, of Christ Church,
the “Journal of the Fourth Annual Council
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
Diocese of Georgia, held in St. John’s Church,
Savannah, May, 1866. Savannah—Pucsc &
Son, printers.” Besides, the regular business
proceedings of the Council, the pamphlet con
tains the excellent Annual Address of Bishop
Elliott, the Canons and Constitution of the
Episcopal Church, plan for organization of
now parishes, &c., &c.
From Rev. 8. Boykin, “Minutes of tlie For
ty-Third Anniversary of tho Georgia Baptist
State Convention, held at Macon, April, 1866.
Macon; Daily Telegraph print.”
Tar. case in a Nutshell.—A contemporary
remarks that the rock upon which Russell,
Gladstone & Co. split was this: The fifth
clause of the reform bill, as proposed by the
Ministry, conferred the franchise on all those
whose property would yield a clear annual
rental of £5. The Opposition moved to
amend this by conferring in on the local poor
rates for taxation to the amount of £7. By
tho first method about two hundred thousand
would have been franchised, but by its sub
stitute this cumber is greatly reduced, being
equivalent, as Mr. Bright remarked, to rais
ing the qualification two pounds. The House
of Commons decided upon the more restric
tivc plan by a vote of 515 to 504, making a
majority of eleven against the Government
Mr. Gladstone had previously declared that
the Government wculd make this a test ques
tion. The Ministry were compelled therefore
to resign.
Affairs on the Mexican Border.—Wc
have news from the Rio Grande a3 late as the
4th inst, that the Imperialists are concentra
ting at Monterey, and that they have no in
tention of giving Up the Rio Grande Valley,
without further fight, to their enemies. We
must, therefore,-take their movements into
account before judging of tho future. It is
well known the Imperialists have for some
months past been concentrating in the moun
tains with tho intention of uniting with Gen.
Mejia at Matamofas, to clear out the whole
country. In the meantime Mejia loses his po
sition, but the Imperialists are above in force
still, at Monterey, Saltillo, San Juan dc los
Lagos, at Sau Luis Fotosi, and even faraway
up in Chihuahua. In ull probability General
Mejia will soon find his wav, .back into the
mountains via VcraCrqs||. 1 the ifty of Mex
ico, and in general cocNfterd or the concen
trated troops. . If so, will he not be very like
ly to swoop down upon the Rio Grande Val
ley as the Liberals did upon him, and again
occupy Matamorcs 1
a trial ? Ilad’nt we better take the chance of
serving our country and conferring upon it a
great good, than remain where we are,in cer
tain degradation t Is the South to do nothing
for her own emancipation ? This is tbe doc
trine of some Southern papers, but for the
life of us we cannot appreciate its philoso
phy. A great writer has said: “Who will be
free themselves must strike the blow”; yet,while
the South is conqered and held in subjuga
tion by an unfeeling and oppressive tyranny,
we are coolly told that she must fold her
arms and await the day of deliverance at the
hands of others! Wc hope the people have
too much good sense to listen to such fatal
counsel as this.
An unanswerable reason why the South
should be represented at Philadelphia, is that
we shall place frqsh weapons in the hands of
our enemies by refusing. The only plausible
reason allegedly the Radicals forour present
exclusion is, that the Sonth is still rebellious
in feeling and has none of the sentiment of
nationality in her breast Now Ictus repudi
ate this national movement, and what will
the Radicals say ? Will we not have verified
their allegations, snstained their policy and
shut the mouths of our friends and defend
ers at the North. “Did’nt ,wc tell yon they
were still burning with sectional hate, and
would not even go with a national movement
with their own friends?” Snch will be the
Radical cry, and it will prove an effective one.
It will be through God’s mercy alone if wc do
not lose every friend we have and make even
the President indifferent to onr fate.
But such is not the state of feeling at the
South, however it may be argued from our
blunders. Our people are sincerely desirous
of union, peace and harmony nnd*r tbo Con
stumion and Jaws, and nre firmly resolved to
stand by the President and his Northern sup
porters. They only differ os to the lime and
circumstanccs that call for their active co-op
eration ; though in this we may make a mis
take that will be fatal. We cannot afford to
lose more that we have lost, and every oppor
tunity that presents the slightest prospect of
gain, if we are wise, will be embraced with
avidity.
CABINET RESIGNATIONS.
This work goes bravely on. The telegraph
announced, some days ago, the resignation of
Postmaster General Dennison, and more re
cently we have the gratifying news that the
Attorney General, Speed, has followed his
example. Before the week is ontwe shall
probably bear that Ilnrlan— the most obnox
ious of them all—has also committed political
suicide. This is all very well. Andrew
Johnson’s administration is a conservative
one, and Radicals should have nothing to do
with it. A house divided against itself can
not stand. If Harlan does not move, and
quickly, tbe President should show him the
door, ne owes it to himself and to the
country.
Dennison’s cose is a rather curious one.
lie has heretofore been considered, and con
sidered himself, a Conservative, at least in
favor of the President’s policy, and that is all
the Philadelphia Convention proposes to rati
fy and defend. The Radicals, by some means,
have won him over to their side. A remin
iscence just here will prove interesting in his
cose.
As late as tbe 23d May, the friends of the
President serenaded him and his cabinet, on
which occasion Mr. Dennison made a speech
endorsing the Administration cordially and
siding with the President against tho Radi
cals. How do his remarks tally with his
recent course ? He said on that occasion
“It is true that tbe restoration of the South
ern States to their constitutional relations to
j tbe General Government is not yet accom
T.ie Mgnct 6t Journal, plished. So far as that duty or that vonsum-
A jnontMy magazine devoted to Free Ma- motion fa devolved upon the Extrude branch
son) y. Science, and General Literature. l.\ofths Government, it fuis been fully performed.
Emmett Blackshear, Editor, Samuel Law
rence, Associate Editor—Monthly, at $5 per
annum, J. W. Burke, & Co., Publishers, Ma-
•on.
No. 1 of vol. 1, for August, has been furn
ished us by the publishers. It is a handsome
pamphlet of fifty pages, well filled with mat
ter interesting to the craft, and published in
the best of style. The “Signet” will no doubt
share liberally of the patronage of Southern
Masons. From the editor’s salutatory we
make the following extract:
The work, as stated in our prospectus, will
bo mainly devoted to the Philosophy, Sym
bolism, Jurisprudence and Literature of An
cient Craft Masonry; but wo- shall admit to
Us pages well written articles on all subjects
of Science and General Literature. By this
means we hope to render it scceptable, as well
to the general reader as to tho nicmbere of
the Order. Especially will it be our aim to
make it a welcome visitor to tho Family
Circle, whereby those who who participate
not with us in tho labors of the Lodge, may
nevertheless experience the benign influence
of the moral teachings and sublime beauties
of our ancient and honorable institution.
fApplause.1
this regard.
Jcannot now recall any failure in
regard. The close of the war brought
with it the necessity of re-establishing the
Federal authority in the insurgent States as
rapidly os possible, and connected with it,
the duty of encouraging the reorganisation of
local governments in each of the States. To this
subject, my fcllow-citizcns, the attention of the
President and the Cabinet sens early directed,
with what success I need not point out to
you. I think I venture not too far in saying
that history furnishes no parallel to such sue-
C6$S.”
“TheFederal authority has been established,
recogniz’d and obeyed in every State South of
Mason and Dixon’s line. [Applause.]”
“The local governments in those States have
been reformed substantially to meet tbeir
changed condition resulting from tbe aboli
tion of slavery, and are now being peaceably
administered."
“But one thing remains, my fellow-citizens,
to complete the work of restoration and to clothe
the Southern States with all their constitutional
privileges, and that is their representation in
Congress.”
WA8Hington\ July 18,1866.
The Tariff bill passed the Bonse of Repre
sentatives on the 10th, by a vote of 92 to 53,
about 20 members being absent. Of the lat
ter, it is known that 10 would vbte against it,
so tlint in any event it is impossible for the
bill to pass the House by a two-thirds vote.
The most strenuous efforts were used, and the
most extraordinary means were resorted to,
to gain 8 of the above 92 rotes. The eight
representatives to whom I allude were known
to be opposed to the bill, and it had been as
certained that they had made up their minds
to vote against it But it wss known that
they were not insensible to influences of a
certain kind. These were brought to bear
upon them, and they yielded, it is due to
Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, and Messrs. Ftmswortli,
Wentworth and Washburn, of Illiuris, four
of the most influential Republican Members
of the House, to say that they consistently
opposed the abominable measure, both by
their speeches and votes. These gentlemen
represent the real, honest, ngricultniil inter
ests of the West; interests by no a vans in,
compatible with the interests of tb< South-
and they warned the House that the day
could not be far distant when a tariff would
have to be made which should havs regard
to the agricultural interests of the Test and
South.
The bill, as passed by the House^was sent
to the Senate yesterday, where it net with
fierce and effective opposition, not from Dem
ocrats alone, but from Messrs. Doolittle and
Wilson: t.h*» me most eloquent, the
tatter the most influential of the Republican
Senators. The bill was read twici by its ti
tle, and then two motions were made: one
by Mr. Fessenden, to refer it to tie Finance
Committee; another by Mr. Grilles, to in
struct that Committee to report oi the 10th
of December.. Both of these motions were
carried after a very brief debate, by tbe fol
lowing vote:
Yeas—Messrs. Brown, Davis, Doofittle, Fos-
tor, Grimes, Gnthrie, Harris, Henderson,
Hendricks, Johnson, Kirkwood, Lane, Mor
gan, Nesmith, Norton, Pomeroy, Riddle,
Saulsbury, Sumner, Trumbull, Willey, Wil
liams, and Wilson—23.
Nays—Messrs. Anthony, Chandler, Clark,
Conness, Cowan, Cragin, Edmunds, Fessen
den, Howard, Howe, Poland, Ramsey, Sher
man, Sprague, Stewart, Van Winkle, and
Wade—17.
The Republican Senators above named who
voted to postpone the bill, together with Mr.
Fessenden, have already expressed their de
testation of its unjust and odious features, in
the most unmeasured terms; and as they arc
not men like Mr. Raymond, who talks one
way and votes another, they will be sure to
make their opposition effective when the bill
comes up again in December. It is worthy
of note by the way, that both Thadrieus Ste
vens, and Mr. Raymond, dodged the vote on
the bill in the House. The postponement of
the bill, and the vote by which it was recom
mitted, is equivalent to its defeat. The fol
lowing will be the final vote on the bill next
winter, according to present appearances :
For tbe bill, Messrs. Anthony, Chandler,
Clark, Conness, of California, Cragin, Cress-
well, of Maryland, Edmnnds, Howard, Howe,
Lane, (there is only one now. The Kansas Sen
ator would have voted against the bill), Mor
rill, Nye, ofNevada, Poland, Ramsey, Stew
art, ot Nevada, Sprague, of Rhode Island,
Wade, of Ohio, Williams and Yates, total—19.
Against the bill, Messrs. Brown, Buckalew,
of Pa., Davis of Ky, Doolittle of Wis.. Dixon,
Fessenden of 3Iaine, Foster, Grimes, Guthrie
of Ky., Harris and Morgan of New’ York,
Henderson and Nesmith of Oregon, Hendricks
of Indiana, Rcverdy Johnson, Kirkwood of
Iowa, McDougall of California, Norton, Pom
eroy of Kansas, Riddle and Sanlsbuiy of Del
aware, Sherman of Ohio, Sumner of Mass.
Trumbull of III., VanWinklc and Wilev from
the counties called West Virginia, and Wilson
of Mass., total 28: with New Jersey entirely
unrepresented, whose two votes against it
would make it 30.
The last two days have been days of un
usual excitement here, owing to a col
lision between tbe President and certain mem
bers of the cabinet, growing out of tho oppo
sition of Congress against the President’s
policy of restorati m. At an early period of
the session, it became evident that Mr. Stan
ton, Mr. Harlan, and Mr. Speed, had expoused
the cause of the Radicals in Congress, and
were doing all in their power to obstruct and
thwart the President’s policy: and this they
have continued to do, openly and defiantly,
ever since. It was a great error on the part
of the President, that he did not dismiss these
marplots at once, and sui round himself with
men like Mr. Seward and Mr. McCulloch, who
would have zealously supported him in car
rying out his policy, no did however, con
vcy to the three malcontents a plain intima
tion that their resignations would be accepted,
but to this they paid no attention whatever.
They have constantly used all tlie influence of
their high positions to embarrass the action
of the President; and in consequence of their
presence in the cabinet, the President has been
rendered entirely powerless. At tbe last cab
inet meeting their language and conduct
were very dictatorial and offensive, and it is
now understood that they, together with Mr.
Dennison, the Post Master General, have eith
er resigned at last, or been peremptorily dis
missed.
A Fair which has been in session here for
some weeks past, ostensibly for tlie benefit of
orphans of Northern soldiers in the late war,
has just closed. The building in wltich it
was held was built by U. S. soldiers detailed
by U. S. Grant for that purpose. It was man
aged exclusively by New England and Penn
sylvania Boldiers, and was a red-hot radical
concern. No negroes were admitted. Only a
few applied; and these were orderly, well-
dressed, and well-behaved Bnt the orders
from the managers were imperative, that no
colored person was to be admitted. Tbe ne
groes or the city arc much excited about it,
and are beginning to see the hypocrisy ot
their pretended friends, who are continually
bawling and clamoring for negro suffrage and
negro equality, yet are careful not to mix or
associate’in any way with even the cleanest
and most decent of the colored people.
Warwick,
Call for a Nntional Convention by Southern
Radicals.
The following is the call for a convention
of Southern radicals to be held at Indepen
dence Ilali, in the city of Philadelphia, on
tho first Monday ol September, 1S66.
Loval Unionists of the South.
The great issue is upon us. The majority
in Congress and its supporters firmly declare
that the rights of the citizen enumerated in
the constitution and established by the su
preme law must be maintained inviolate.—
Rebels and rebel sympathizers assert that the
rights of the citizens must belong to the
States alone, and under such regulations ns
the respective States choose voluntarily to
S rescribe. We have seen this doctrine of
tate sovereignty carried out in its practical
results, until all authority in Congress was
denied the Union temporarily destroyed, the
constitutional rights of the citizens of the
South nearly annihilated, and the land deso
lated by civil war. The time has come when
the structure of the Southern States govern
ments must be laid on constitutional princi
ples or the despotism grown up under an
atrocious leadership be permitted to remain.
We know of no other plan than that Congress
under its constitutional powers shall now.ex
ercise its authority to establish the principle
whereby protection is made co-extensive With
citizenship. ‘Wo maintain that no State,
either by its organic law or legislation, can
make transgression on the rights of the citizen
legitimate. We demand and ask you to con
cur in demanding protection to every citizen
of the great republic on the basis of equality
before the law; and further, that no State
government should be recognized as legiti
mate under the constitution in so far as it
does not by its organic law make impartial
protection " full and complete. Under the
doctrine of State sovereignty, with rebels in
the foreground controlling Southern Legisla
tures and embittered by disappointment in
their schemes to destroy the Union, there
will be no safety for tho loyal element of the
South. Our reliance for protection is now on
ana tbe great union party that has
stood and is standing by the nationality, by
the constitutional rights of the citizen and
by the beeficient principles of free govern
ment.
For the purpose of bringing the loyal
Unionists of the South into conjunctive ac
tion with the true friends of tho Republican
government of the North, we invite you to
send delegates in goodly number from all the
Southern States, including Missonri, Kentuc
ky, West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware,
to meet at Independence Hall, in the city of
Philadelphia, on the first Monday of Septem
ber next. It is proposed that we should meet
at that time to recommend measures for the'
establishment of such government in the
South as accords with and protects the rights
of all citizens, We trust this call will be re
sponded to by numerous delegations of such
as represent the true loyalty of the South, and
that kiid of goverment which gives full pro
tection to all the rights of the citizen, such
our fathers intended and we claim as our
birth-right. Either the lovers of constitu
tional liberty must rule the nation or rebels
and their sympathizers be permitted to mis
rule it. Shall loyalty or disloyalty have the
keeping of the destinies of the nation ? Let
the response to this call, which is now in cir
culation forsignnturcs and is being numerous
ly signed, aiswcr. Notice is given that gen
tlemen at a dstance can have their names at
tached to it b» sending a request by lctter’di-
rected to D. n, Bingham, Esq., Washington,
D. C.
W. B. STOtES, of Tennessee.
JOS. H. FOWLER, of Tennessee.
JAMES GE7TYS. of Tennessee.
A. J. HAMILTON, of Texas.
GEORGE W.PASCHAL, of Texas.
LORENZO SRERWOOD, of Texas.
G. W. ASHBU3N, of Georgia.
HENRY G. COLE, of Georgia.
J. W. McCLURG. of Missouri.
JOHN R. KELSO, of Missouri.
J. F. BENJAMIN, of Missouri.
GEO. W. ANDERlON, of Missouri.
JNO. B. TROTH, ol Fairfax co.; Vn.
J. 31. STEWARD, ol Alexandria, Va.
ALLEN C. HARMAN, « “
LEWIS 3IcKENZIE, oi Virginia.
J. W. IIUNNICUT, of Virginia. ■
JOHN C. UNDERWOOD, ot Virginia
BURNHAM WARDELL, of Virginia
ALEXANDER 31. DAVIS, of Virginia.
BYRON LAFLIN, of North Carolina.
DAIEL P. GOODLOE, “
GEORGE REESE, of Alabama.
D. II. BINGIIA3I, “
31. J. SAFFOLD,
J. H. LARC03IB,
EQUAL RIGHTS CONVENTION.
Bryant Denounced as a Liar Swind
ler and Beggar.
corgia E _
freedmen, of which J. E. Bryant is President,
met in this city on Wednesday, and adjourned
on Friday night after a session of three days,
Delegates from twenty-four counties were
present The object of the Convention ap
pears to have been to organize a political
party in the interest of the Freedmen and
their equality under the law.
A leading object appears also to have been
to investigate the conduct of Bryant, both as
Editor of the Loyal Georgian and also as
the alleged swindling of freedmen. Alter an
ex parte hearing, without summoning witnes
ses against Bryant, the investigating com
mittee reported favorably to him, adding,
however, a resolution condemning the attacks
on Gen. Tillson, which have appeared in the
Georgian, and demanding that they shall
cease.
Just before the Convention adjourned
General Tilison, on Friday night, on invita
tion, addressed the Convention in a lengthy
speech, in which he gave utterance to many
sound and valuable suggestions as to tbe
policy the freedmen should pursue. In the
course of his address he denounced the con
duct of Bryant as injurious to their race, and
characterized him as a liar, a scoundrel and
begger. He declared that Bryant is engaged
in wringing money from the hard earnings
of the poor freedmen tinder the prentence of
being their friend, while his chief object is
tbe promotion of his own interests. He ex
pressed a contempt for any man who would
prostitute himself to snch shameless practices
and warned them to beware of him.
The Convention passed a resolution thank
ing the General for his speech, and tlie in
formation it contained. Bryant was present,
as chairman of the meeting. We understand
that before leaving the city a large number
of delegates expressed tbeir opinion that
Bryant is a rogue, and their determination to
discountenance him.
Gen. Tilsoo deserves t ie thanks of all lov
ers of truth and honesty, and especially of
the frccdraci of Georgia, for thus boldly
stepping forward to expose the infamous
character of Brynnt, and prevent the advan
tage which tlie ex parte investigation might
have afforded, to secure a continuance of the
subsidies lie is drawing from the pockets of
his confiding dupes.—Any. Chron. & Sent.
101 h.
Major GEE,arrived in Savannah on
Saturday, en route for his home in Florida.
An Honest Northern Book.—Wc per
ceive from some of our exchanges, that there
has just been issued from tlie press a book on
‘The Origin of the Late War,” by our old
friend, George Lunt, of Boston. We have
not seen the work, bnt wc know 3Ir. Lunt
and feel willing to vouch for its ability and
truthfulness in advance. If it be a “South-
side view,” it is an honest one, and we here
take occasion to thank him for embodying
in book form, for general circulation, hiseor-
rect knowledge of facts and high-toned Amer
ican principles.
What does it Mean?—The Nashville
Press and Times (Radical) speaks of tho fail
ure to obtain a quorum in the Tennessee
House of llepreseutativcs in order to adopt
Th»d. Stevens’ Constitutional Amendment, as
folbws:
‘There is a Gordian knot in the House, and
it ii useless to waste time in trying to untie
it. Let it be cut by the keen sword of a sol
emn duty imposed by the august voice ot the
American Congress. The spirit of disorgan
ization and nullification grows bolder by de
lay, and seeks to repeat the outrages of 18G1.
The instruments of that fell spirit now in our
legislative council arc emboldened by the
knowledge that the President is in full sympa
thy with them, and is their aider and abettor.
Depending on his favor they would again
kindle the torch of rebellion.”
Will the Press and Times be a little more
explicit and tell us exactly what manner of
instrument it means by “the keen sword of a
solemn duty imposed by the august voice of
the American Congress ”?
Tlie 'War in Europe—WUU vvlilcli
of ttie Powers should we
Sympathize.
From tlie Itichmoud Dispatch.
Wo have been requested again to explain
the origin ot the war now raging in Europe,
and to indicate the Power that is entitled to
the good wishes ot our people, We nave
more than once endeavored to do the former.
As to the latter, we have no decided epinion
First, Americans have naturally a kindly
feeling for Prussia, which, single-handed
waged for three years a successful war with
the three great powers that attempted to
crush her while the great Frederick ruled her
destinies—the same Frederick who presented
General Washington a sword bearing the in
scription, “From the oldest General in the
world to the greatest.” Nor can we fail to
applaud the diplomatic and administrative
powers of Count Bismarck, nor to admire
the genius which lias dictated the military
movements recently made by Prussia with so
much promptness and decision.
Secondly, Austria is, wc suppose, but de
fending her undoubted rights according to
European law. Her unwillingness to allow
Prussia, which has within a century grown up
from an inconsiderable kingdom of less than
three millions of inhabitants into a first-rate
Power, still further to aggrandize herself by
the absorption of tbe two Duchies in dispute,
is a very natural feeling. And the fact that
Austria*is also unwilling to surrender Yenetia
to Italy, which Power therefore takes up arms
in the interest of Prussia, is as little an occa
sion for censure. According to the law of
nations, Venetia is as truly a part of the
Austrian empire as Ireland is of the British,
or Texas of the American. So far, then, we
might sympathize with Austria
ut, thirdly, according to our ideas of
justice—not law—Venetia ought not to be
governed by Austria. We cannot but look
upon hers as a subjugated people, ruled by
force, having no sympathies in common with
her * tfjjH
Emanuel.
good wishes as against Prussia, she cannot
as against Italy.
Wherefore we leave the reader to decide
for himself as to whose victories he will re
joice over, and proceed to say something as
to the origin of the war—merely repeating,
however, what we have heretofere said upon
the suject
The orgin of tho troubles was the coveting
of Schleswig-Holstein by Prussia, that she
might have a great navy and rule the Baltic.
Austria objected, as she was equally interest
ed with Prussia in these Elbe provinces, hav
ing helped to take them from poor little Den
mark. Prussia not liking to engage Austria
single-handed, sought an ally, and that was
readily found in Italy, which wanted Venetia,
and would move upon that the moment
Austria and Prussia were engaged in fight.
The history of the Schelswig-Holstein
troubles is as follows: In the year 1848
Schleswig and Holstein were united under
the representative system common to the
Danish provinces. In 1848, at the time
that the mania for revolution was convul
sing Europe, the people of Schleswig Hol
stein appealed to Germany and Prussia to
aid them in driving the Danes out of the
Duchies. The Sehleswig-Holsteiners armed
with great unanimity; but in 1850 they were
completely defeated and subdued. In 1852
the succession to the Duchies was settled upon
Prince Christian, and upon the death of Fred
crick VII., Nov. 15, 1863, that Prince came
to the throne of Denmark by the title of
Christian IX. The accession of Christian IX,
was the signal for pressing the claims of the
Prince of Augustenberg, who did not contend
that he had a right to the kingdom
Denmark itself, bnt asserted him
self to be the rightful lineal Duke of
Schleswig-Holstein, which pertained to Den
mark. Austria and Prussia took up the
claim of the Prince to the Dutchies, and in
1864, after some ineffectual negotiation, war
was declared between those powers and Den
mark. Denmark made a gallant and heroic
fight, refusing a compromise, which would
have given her peace at the cost of volunta
rily relinquishing Holstein, and when the
war ended, found herself denuded of the
Duchies. Strife and contention soon arose be
tween Prussia and Austria,and the claims of the
Prince of Augustenburg seemed to be entirely
overlooked. Austria wished the Duchies to
become independent members of tho Germanic
confederation; but Prussia desired to carry
out her accustomed policy by absorbing them
into her own kingdom. Prussia then offered
her rival a pecuniary compensation, which
was peremptorily refused. A great show
of negotiations was for some time kept up,
and Austria succeeded in securing the coun
tenance of the smaller German States, (which,
however, has been rendered worse than use
less to her by the recent steps taken by Pros
sia); but the final result of all the conven
tions, councils, diets, and diplomatic notes, is
the war which now rages in Europe.
He was elected a popular deputy in ISIS; at
the time of tlie great social an J political
upheaval throughout the Continent, yet
all these circumstances only appear to
have inspired him with a contempt for the
people and their leader; and in discarding
the popular line of policy, and obstinately
and persistently pursuing a diametrically op
posite course, even at the daily hazard of the
assassin’s knife, he has incontestably proven
to the world that he is not a mere junker, and
that however he may apparently oppose civil
liberty and popular progress, he has a well-
formed plan of his own, a high ideal, for the
glorious consummation of which he has been
long and zealously striving. lie has allowed
nothing to make him deviate from this course,
and he has shunned neither time, toil, labor,
nor obloquy, nor clanger, in the steady pursuit
of this goal.
Although we do not approve of his course,
or even liis object, we cannot withhold our
admiration of such independence of thought,
strength of character, fixedness of purpose,
high patriotism, and perfect indifference to
threats and assaults of any sort. Pluck like
this will always gain a high meed of praise
as long as man shall remain the fighting ani
mal wo find him now. But to return to our
narrative.'
In 1855, while he was residing in Frank
fort, he was called to a seat in the Prussian
House of Lords. In 1855, lie went to St. Pe
to be now, as we have always 1 >.
ural guardians, and their bc-t t'-;,.
8. It is our interest, as well as-
diffuse the blessingsof education
possible among a!! classes of .
counirv.
4. If it ever was good policy to w
ignorant it certainly is no longer c n ^ H
very reverse.
5*. The right of suffrage will, i n
bilitv be given to this people at soml
dav.
6. Ignorant voters are the curse
country.
7. If we do not teach them some ©
In
He
tersburg, as Minister Plenipotentiary.
1862 he was made Ambassador to Paris,
only remained there six months, when his
sovereign recalled him and made him his
Minister of State; and a month afterward
minister of Foreign Affairs and President
the Council. All his preceding offices and
employments must be considered os so many
school exercises, preparing him for his real
career, on which he has now entered. No
man is better acquainted with the internal
affairs and foreign relations of every country
in Europe than the Count von Bismark. Ar
a diplomatist he has no superior on the Con
tinent, and yet is he by no means a diploma
tist of the ordinary school. We think it very
probable, in the event of the success of his
present ventures, that Bismark will institute
a great change in dpilomacy, as Napoleon did
in the art of war.
Bismark is very simple in all his habits
loves not luxury nor display; a man of fine
address, courteous, even affable at times in his
intercourse with strangers. He has always
led an active life; is passionately fond of
hunting; a huge bear skin and the outer cov
ering of a large elk form part of the furniture
of one of the halls iu his palace. One who has
recently seen him, draws his picture thus: A
;ood physique—tall and rather slight; his
lead is bald; his countenance denotes great
energy of character; a heavy moustache,
ruddy complexion, the face slightly furrowed,
a quick, piercing eye, the port of a gentle
man, and an iron constitution.
He is a man of the world in every sense of
the word, naturally polite, putting his visitor
at once at his eace. He speaks fluently the
French, English, Italian and Russian. As
might be supposed from all that has prcced
cd, he is indcfetigible in his labors. He has
three children—a daughter, 17 years old, and
two sons at school in Berlin.
Bismark.
From the Charleston Daily News.]
During the past three years, no man living
has occupied more of the at tention of Europe
than the statesman whose name heads this
article. His is the prominent figure attract
ing all eves. Tic enjoys tho questionable dis
tinction of having launched forth the Schles
wig-Holstein Pandora Box. which has set all
Europe by the ears. It is natural we should
like to know something more of so prominent
an actor in the world’s great drama, than the
mere cursory allusions we find in the papers
of the day; and we propose to-day to give
our readers some account of the history ol the
man, together with a sketch of his character.
Otto Edward Leopold von Bismark was
born in 1815, of old aristocratic lineage, near
3Iadgeburg, in tlie Province of Prussian Saxo
ny. He received the principal part of his
education in Berlin, where, after he had
passed through the prescribed course, he
graduated in law in 1855 lie took a degree,
also, at the University of Goettingen. From
all accounts, he was decidedly a fast young
man in the days of bis student’s life; pretty
much, we should think, such a man as Gustaf
Freitag paints his Baron von Fink in Debit
and Credit. We prefer to resort to the do
main of fiction for a proper analagous char
acter, as it is there rather than in the greater
book of nature and real life, we find the va
rious qualities and characteristics of the man
portrayed for our inspection.
To this day the old folks about Goettingen
tell stories ot tbe gay young Freiherr ; wheth
er true or apocryphal, matters not. They are,
doubtless, quite as authentic as those wc hear
of the first Napoleon from the gossips of
Bricnnc.
After he had completed his studies, he en
tered the army as a private, but a few years
afterwards lie left the service, passed his final
examination in Berlin, and entered public
life, or, rather, he was n candidate now for
some office to be given him by Government.
His father died, and left him the property
of Schcenhausen. The future minister retired
to this charming country seat, and devoted all
his energies to the improvement of his pro
perty.
In 1847, at the age of 32, he appeared be
fore the Council general of Iris province. In
1848, during the very heat of popular agita
tion, he w T as elected Deputy; and from that
moment, when he had fairly taken hi3 first
step, he advanced with giant; strides, nere
mportant Changes in the Postal Laws
The Postmaster of this city liasjust received
the official copy of the recent act of Congress
to amend the Jaws relating to the post office
department, together with instructions predi
cated thereon, by the Postmaster General
and has furnished us with the following items
of interest pertaining to the same:
“Hereafter, prepaid and free letters will be
forwarded at the request of the party ad
dressed, from one post office to another, with
out additional postage charge.
Returned dead letters will be restored to
the writers thereof free of postage.
Whenever the writer of a letter shall en
dorse in writing, or in print upon the outside
tnereof his namejand address, with a re
quest that the same be returned to him if not
delivered within any number of days, such
letter will not be treated as a dead letter, but
will not be returned as requested without ad
ditional postal charge.
The system of “request letters” has been in
operation lor about three years, and found to
work well. The advantage of the present
modification of the law is that such letters
are now returned to the writers without charge
whereas heretofore the writer was compelled
to pay the additional regular rate of postage
for the return of the letter.
It is hoped this plan of “request letters”
will be very generally adopted, as it is an ad
vantage both to the postoffice department
and the public, vas it will reduce the number
of dead letters, and the correspondence will
be more promptly returned, while writers will
be spared the annoyance of having their let
ters opened and read by other than the par-
aies addressed.
The Postoffice Department will furnish
stamped envelopes, when ordered, through
any Postmaster, in quantities of five hundred
or more, bearing a business card, and request
to return to a particular address, at the same
rate charged for the stamped envelopes with
out the printing. The postage on stamped
envelopes spoiled in directing, may be refund
ed in stamps by any postmaster, under certain
restrictions. This feet, together with the
liberal provision for returning unclaimed let
ters, and tbe low rates at which these envel
opes are furnished, cannot fail to commend
their use to all whose correspondence is ex
tensive.—Haleigh Progress.
will, and whoever thus benefits them
an influence over them which will
their votes.
8. If we perform this service then *
secure their identification with us i n ,
ting all our interests. i' r( t
So much for policy and interest—fe.,
elevated form of the argument. Let m 5
at the subject in its moral bearings 5 H
1. The church is the light of the worn
is therefore bound to illuminate the sun"
ing region. There is no special injuncti?]
enlighten the white race only, but we j-f
“preach the gospel to every creature.” *2!
the Scripture” is a command not add?
to our race only, but to mankind. God ?
mandeth all men everywhere to repent •
are unquestionably responsible to God j
influence and ability to do good. “Thf
ye have always with you” is the dc.; .*.
of our Savior, and by his providential >^1
ment we are constantly reminded thstt^
not for ourselves alone: the colored ra«
now emphatically “the poor among the *
pie.”
2. But do we not owe it to them ss t i
of gratitude ? We remember how thev
our sakes, endured heat and cold, vt;'
dry, summer and winter, cultivating'
fields, ministering to our comforts, prouJ!
our wealth, improving the country,
tually advancing civilization, by their ik
cal labor; attending upon ns at all sw
our lives, nursing our children, waiting t -
the sick, going with us to the burialof.
dead, and mingling their tears with oa
the open grave. Can it be that all tkj,jJ
gotten ? And is it not a small return for
this that we arc asked to make, when -
S osed that wc shall give them
icum of instruction which win £
ble them to read, or at least to know-
way of life eternal ? It is under •
pressure of these and similar cona
tions that a few’ of the citizens of Oti
have been moved to take the initistiT!
this enterprise We propose the esmtt
ment of a Sabbath school for the on: •
stroction of the colored people, as we!! i;'
teach them to read. We have organizes
school with more than 100 pupils, and ti-:
teachers. Regular preaching is also profit
for them by tue resident ministers of tbsi
ferent churches of Oxford. Wedesiretot
list in this work all our fellow citize ^ 1
there is room enough for all, and
enough for all. In such a work as this.*
doubt, the conviction of duty, t
the command of God, should be n
cient motives to actuate us. Bnt
we should not plead for the authority
great names as a sanction to our course,
inducement to others, at the same th
we rejoice to find, that in many parts of _
south, the prominent citizens and official q |onl
nitaries are actively moving in this ma:
In South Carolina, Gov. Orr and the first
zens of Charleston, are urging the estab'i-
ment of the common school system fort
freedmen. In Alabama, Ex-Gov. Moore c
ex-Congressman Curry, are engaging inf
movement, and elsewhere in Mississip;
this field of labor is occupied
some of the most distinguished
our citizens. All this shows that i:
inflnence is at work which is to put is
general operation an effective system of i
struction lor this people, in sacred and inst
ular knowledge. Let us, therefore^ engage
the work in earnest, according as God s'
open the way for us, and as you cons
your duty in* connection with the work,
ask you to decide upon that course that y
will probably approve when the light of
coming eternity shall be sbed upon the r-
ject.
J. N. Waddell, T. E. B. Peoces. 1...1
S. G. Burney, W«. Dblay,
A. J. Quinche, J. W. 3IcPh
Oxford, 3Iiss., June 12, 1866.
1L
ire-
EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO.
Measures Proposed by Citizens of Oxford, Miss.
The inauguration of all new enteqirises for
good, and all reform in institutions, is a work
of difficulty, and the movers should count the
cost of the undertaking before they commit
themselves. Very rarely lias a great people
been made to pass through so sudden and
mighty a revolution as that which the
Southern people have recently experienced—
a revolution which has resulted in the over
throw ot their long established institution of
domestic servitude. It was believed by the
wisest and most judicious and candid ot our
writers, to beffounded not only in the reason,
and fitness, and nature of things, but upon
the sanction of sacred scripture itself. Edu
cated in this way to believe as we did—that
it was right—and brought to this con
clusion by arguments that seemed to
us irrefutable, and by logic that seemed to us
irresistible, it was regarded as but a brutem
fttlmen, when the slaves of the South were
proclaimed free, by a paper edict of the Pres
ident of the United States. Nor is it to be
doubted that the author of that proclamation
himself, felt at the time, that it amounted to
little more. And yet wc have survived to
witness its sudden, and entire abolition, and
it is no matter now, what our convictions arc
of the moral right, or wrong, the justice or
injustice of tlie result, we are, in God’s Prov
idence, brought to the point where wc arc
forced to accept it as an accomplished fact,
and to acquiesce in the circumstances bv
which we are surrounded. We may add,
that with a characteristic readiness of adap
tation to the condition of things around
them, which they have always shown, the
mass of the Southern people have acquiesced,
and are now addressing themselves to the
duties and the fulfillment of the responsibili
ties growing out of the new relations thus es-
was the proper field for a rapid development j tablished between themselves and the colored
of his faculties; and three yesrs after lie had race. True, there may be a lingering residum
entered the Chamber he was sent as envoy to of reluctance in some hearts to accept the sta-
Frankfort, to represent Prussia at the German ! tus; a heart-burning on account of the wrong
t* ---° done to the innocent property-holder, which
engenders a bitterness not confined to the
A Live Frog in a Block of Mapbii.-
The Louisville courier is responsible forJ
statement that on the 13th instant as then
sons were preparing stone for the door; |nt b
ot anew banking house at Springfield, Kj
they came upon a living frog in the midi
of a large stone, walled about with sol.
stone on all sides. The stone came
quarry near Springfield, about ten feet be! ion,
the surface. There were two strata of st: ug
above the layer from which this piece 1
taken. As it lay upon the bench thev® K
men, in dressing the edges, broke throoft “v
a small aperture, in which they cliscoTCi KB
the frog. He began to give signs of 1;
soon as the breaking of the rock let in t:; -
In a short time he seemed sprightly and t..
awake, but soon began to show signs of e I
citement and pain. He was then placed n B
small jar, which was loosly corked. Inti ,e
place he lived until Sunday night, June IT. leaf
Being found thus encased in a block of ns H
ble, it is evident that the frog was an old * EH
tier, if not a pre-Adamite.
A Tribute to tiie Women of the Sorf- 1^-
—The New York News, replying to ore-' ***[
Forney’s editorial attacks upon our lads
ut at
due
makes the following remarks:
“ It never has been the habit of the mzi
of the South to attend political meetia?
and we have never heard that they did soc'-
ring the war. But the other charges brou: ive j
against them are true—to their immora , ^
honor be it said. The fervent love of cot- j n j
try. the devotion to principle, the unaffect ^ *
piety, the generous self-sacrifice, the cii ■■
courage, the womanly tenderness, tbe * IS
flinching fortitude they exhibited wheat; °U <
circumstances provoked their exercise, vbi- rife
this man Forney imputes as crimes to- mgg.
women of the South, will form their c: t
of glory in the ages to come. And long - .
Forney shall have gone down _ n
“ To the vile dust from which he sprung Eg
Unwept, unhonered, and unsung,” roc
poetry and art shall combine to do honor le
the memory of that splendid sister-hood- 1 have
‘ Women of the South.’ ” ir tip
... bre
Another Convention.—It [seems k
that corporal’s guard known as the Sou’-
Radicals, arc to get up a Convention in ** L
of Stevens, Sumner & Co., in their war
the South. The Washington Chronic! L 1
vt
ney)says:
The Southern Radicals, including* P*
schnl, Sherwood and Governor Haniil t0 °v
Texas; Fowler, Stokes and 3Iaynard, of “
nessee; Pierpont and Botts, of I 11 ?* H?
ia, and others have [had their call P re Pjj
and signed for a National Convention, W’
held at Independence Hall, in Philadelp^
early in September. It will be a mag:
demonstration of pure and unadulte-" 1 -
patriotism.”
Crofs.—During a recent visit to J aC ^
Butts co., we were delighted to see the
Diet It was during these three years, doubt
less, Bismark became thoroughly acquainted
with the internal affairs of his country, and
learned to appreciate tlie material out of which
perpetrators,, but which extends even to the
freedmen himself. But in the majority’ of
popular representatives arc made. IT we I the people of the South there seems to be a
may judge a posteriori, we should say that his j kindly feeling cherished toward the colored
experience must have been very unfortunate, | men in his new estate, which prompt them to
as he has certainly no exalted idea of popular j extend to him a helping hand. That the time
institutions or constitutional government. lias arrived when some measures should be
Were the Count von Bismark a mere ordi- : adopted by the Southern people themselves to
nary specimen of the Prussian Feudal noble provide the ways and means of educating the j has decided that the f
(junker), wc should have expected a different | freedmen, is a conclusion to which we have worth the value of the bank not'
development of his character. He was born been led by the following considerations. ! its date: ‘ §71. Six months t
1815, as wc have seen, the very year of the , i 1. This people are now thrown upon their or either of us promise to pay -Ln
liberation of Germany from French vassalage own resources in a state of freedom, for which I administrator of Wm Wray, dec
—Freiheitsjahr, “year ot liberty,” as the Gei-j ey are, to a certain extent unprepared. ! in current bank money, for v alue 1
mans have been all along pleased to term it. ‘ 2. Thev consider us, their former owners. ! him, March 3d, 1SG5."
lent condition of the crops in sight ,
road; almost all the com fields look spk*j
The cotton is small and about three *
behind, but still looks vigorous and ui ^
ing i'a-t. With a la:.- fa!! . . i
sons, a fair crop will be made on the J aC '.
road. sure, fraa citizens have shown ^ -
mendable industry by staying at home,
keeping the crop clean, instead of g’**®
town and croaking. We also ssw
farmers thrashing out very respectable
crops.—Grirfin Star.
The North Carolina Suprcni®
wing note i=
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