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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
(Dfo rgia O'Ol whig n flcgrajjti.
py Hon. W. E. Ni black will accept our
thanks for a copy ot the Report of the De
partment of Agriculture for 1863, and other
valuable public documents.
Tekki -■4SKB.—R seems from our Washing
ton telegrams, that Brownlow has succeeded,
by some hocus-pocus, in getting a quorum of
the House ot Representatives and forcing
through the constitutional amendment. No
doubt there is some villainy about it.
The cannon that tired the first shot in the
war at the steamer Star of the TFi**t, at th e
entrance of Charleston harbor, January 9,
1881, passed through Cairo, Ill., en route to
Washington, on Wednesday, in charge of four
soldiers of the Fifteenth Regulars.
SavAKNAn.—The quarantining of a New
York steamer, with cholera on board, at
Sivaunali, we fear, will operate hardly
aguinst the travel through that city, not from
fea. > of the disease, but the detention of
vessels under quarantine regulations. We
can see no necessity for such a thing, and
hope the agents of steamers at Savannah will
lie able to give the public assurance that it
will be subjected to n6 inconvenience. We un
derstand that some thirty passengers from
this city, who intended taking the Saturday
steamer for New York, have concluded to try
the inlaad route.
Retorted Disclosures of Cabinet Se
crets by Secretary Harlan.—The Consti
tutional Union says: “We have the best au
thority in stating that at the caucus of radi
cal members of Congress held on Wednes
day evening a letter was read, purporting to
have been written by the Secretary of the In
terior, which elaborately detailed a conver
sation which took place in the Cabinet, of
course always considered, traditionally from
the origin of the government and between
gentlemen, unless by consent publicity is au
thorised, purely, strictly and religiously con
fidential.” The President’s private Secretaiy
is said to have addressed Mr. Harlan a note in
relation to the above, and requested its de
nial if untrue.
THE DELEGATES AT LARGE-LETTER
FROM GOV. JENKINS.
We are in receipt of the following letter
from Qov. Jenkins. It was written in reply
to one from the senior editor of the Tele
graph, suggesting that he recommend four
names for delegatcs-at-large to the Philadel
phia Convention, to be ratified by the Dis
trict Conventions—a course which we felt
assured would meet with universal approval.
It will be seen that he declines, for reasons
which all will respect, and suggests a differ
ent mode for selecting the delegates-at-largc,
which, however, in our judgment, is hardly
practicable, as the time will not admit of
the conference, appointment, notification of
the persons to be selected, and their arrival
in Philadelphia by the 14th of August.
Mn.LEDOEvn.LE, 18th July, 1865.
Editor Macon Telegraph :
Sir—I have your letter of the 17tb. I
have, from the first, disapproved of the sug
gestion of some of your cotemporaries, that
I should appoint delegates to the Philadel
phia Convention. It has no connection with
the duties of my office. I am not here for
that purpose. Without a clear demonstra
tion that a large majority of Georgia desired
it—(which cannot be given in time)—it
would be arrogant assumption on my part
Under any circumstances, it would be inap
propriate and distasteful to me. I have said
nothing, because I perceived that the people
were very properly taking this affair of their
own into their own hands, by moving for the
holding ot District Conventions. If they
desire to be represented in that Convention,
this is the proper plan.
I speak out now, only because I see the
proposition seriously made that the District
Conventions, by resolution, devolve upon me
the duty of appointing the delegates at
large. To avoid a false move, I beg to state
through your paper, that I respectfully de
cline making those appointments, for some of
the reasons vbove assigned, and] others not
necessary to be stated. I hesitate not to take
this course because it is so easy to appoint
the delegates’ at large through the District
Conventions in a way to ensure conformity
with the popular preference. Each District
Convention may nominate two delegates for
the State at large, and from the number thus
put in nomination, the District delegates, may
be authorized to appoint four delegates. If
such a plan were approved by the District
Conventions, the District delegates could
easily assemble and make the selection. I
make the suggestion for what it is worth.
Respectfully, &c.,
Charles J. Jenkins.
GEN. SHERIDAN’S ORDER.
In our telegraphic column allusion will be
found to an order just issued by General
Sheridan nt New Orleans, prohibiting “the
erection of any monument in commemoration
of the rebellion, and the reorganization of
Confederate companies, batteries, brigades,
&c., for any purpose whatever. ’
Our interpretation of the order is that it
seeks to prohibit the erection of monuments
bearing eulogies to Southern men who fell
in the late war, and the reorganization of
military companies, and other commands
that existed prior to or during the war. We
presume no one is erecting monuments in the
South to commemorate event*, and that, as the
Confederacy Jhas passed away, no one is de
sirous of oiganizing a Confederate company,
battery, or brigade.
Thus understanding the order of Gen.
Sheridan, we feel constrained to regard tho
former portion ot it as most harsh, tyrannical
and unfeeling, and the latter clause as impoli
tic, and an unjust reflection upon the patriot
ism and sincerity of the Southern people. A
desire to do honor to the memories of our
relatives and friends, who fell in a cause
which was once dear to nearly every South
ern heart, is not inconsistent with loyalty
to the Constitution, an honorable acquies
cence in the results of the war, and a firm de
termination to maintain the Union for the fu
ture. It is to be regretted that Northern
men cannot appreciate this honorable senti
ment on the part of the South. We will
stand by the Government for the future, but
there is no human power that can re
press the sentiment of love and respect
for those who fell in the fruitless
battles for Southern independence. They
were our fathers, brothers, friends, country
men, and they died in a cause to which we
called them; and whatever may have become
of the latter, to honor. their graves is the no
blest impulse that can animate the human
heart. Seek not to repress it, for the effort
will be fruitless, except to bind them still
closer to our hearts and memories. Affection
for them is one of those sacred emotions of
the soul which Omnipotence alone can curb
or controL •
And why forbid the reformation of old
military associations ? The order seems to
imply that the Government is afraid of us—
that arms cannot be trusted in our hands—
that we ere faithless at heart to our pledge
of peace—that nn opportunity is all we
need to renew tho war. We respect
fully submit, it the Government acting
consistently and in good faith, wftn it on
For the Daily Telegraph.
One Cause for Despondency-
The absence of party spirit in the greater
part of our land is one cauie for rejoicing that
the Southern people hare. At this time,
though, my mind revert* to one of the nu
merous causes of despondency amongst us.—
It is not necessary to sick very closely for
these that are the work of our oppressors, for
they are patent to thoworld; but perhaps we
may not have thought so much of those aris
ing within ourselves. It has always been
my opinion that if there were a nation, any
where in the world, thoroughly united, the
individuals of which were entity unselfish,
all devoted to the common goiil; charitable,
forgiving and long-suffering toward each oth
er, perfectly free iroin donu t ic jars and
broils, presenting an unbrokm front of mu
tual trust an.l support, such a people, if nny
thing like respectable in point of numbers,
must be independent and powerful. If the
South had always been tins united, who
doubts that she would, vithout secession,
without war, this day l>e occupying her orig
inal position in the old Uiion, enjoying all
its ancient blessings amlposscssing political
power sufficient to repel al encroachments up
on the rights intended, ly the fathers of the
Constitution to be securid to the whole peo
ple, both North and Scuth ?
Even now, crushed aid bleeding as wc are,
if wo had the proper spirit toward each other,
we could command the respect and admira
tion of the world. Will scorn and defiance
wc could exclaim to the people now pursuing
ns with the malignity of demons,
'Think oa our chains!
Though thay were doublid and did weigh us
Letter from Secretary Seward Approving
Hie Philadelphia Convention.
Department of State, )
Washington, D. C., July 11,1^00. \
Sir:—Excuse me for'expressing surprise
that you ask me whether I approve of the call
of a proposed National Union Convention at
Philadelphia.
After more than fiveyeirsof dislocation bv
civil war. I regard a restoration of the
unity of the country as its most immediate as
well as its most vital interest. That restora-
man to speculate on the possible conse
quences on the destinies of the Austrian Em
pire. With the exception of a few fortresses,
of no avail in modern warfare, to stay tho
triumphant progress of a victorious army,
than Joseistadt and Tauneugratz have
proved to be, Beneder lias nothing in
liis rear but open country—nothing be
tween him and the capital but a vast. smooth
battle-field, where the cannon, the cavalry,
and the dread needle gun of the Prussians
will have free play. The Austrians have
done enough for the honor of their arms.—
tion will be complete when loyal men are acl- q^y m u-t now provide for the safety of the
nutted as representatives ot the loyal people | gt a te, anc j tliis= can hardly be done by pro-
ot the eleven States so long unrepresented m i on g C j resistance. The most illustrious
Congress. Nothing but this can complete it. names ; n t] ie Empire are among the dead and
Nothing more remains to be done, and noth- tt ., )(ln ,The King of Prussia is in camp.
down
Prostrate to earth' methnks wc could rise up
again,
ith nothing but the honest pride
Of telling thee, usurper, to thy teeth,
Thou art a monster!”
We could certainly rise again. Wc could
acquire moral and, in time, political power.
We could, once more, in the course of years,
enjoy that general prosperity, that compara
tively equal distribution of property that has,
heretofore, distinguished Middle Georgia, for
instance, from many ptrts of the world. But
all this, I say, would require mutual for
bearance and kindness. The majority of
the Southern people, if forced to pay their
debts to-day, .or in the coarse of twelve
months, are bankrupt. If they are indulged
for the time that the legislature has tried to
allow them—four years—many of then can
pay. If this indulgence be denied them they
are ruined. If judgments be obtained and
executions levied, during the coming waiter,
nounces such a prohibition? We cannot I for tbe f ul1 amount of indebtedness, a luge
think that the President has any sympathy I proportion of the land in the South will be
with the motives that dictated these milita* *>M- Who is to buy ? At this time we hive
ry restrictions. He has, over and again, an-1 scarcely any money, and even the next c*t-
nounced that the Southern people were loyal to ” cro P> after the expenses of the year are
and honest, that they are sincerely desirous I pnid, will yield very little. Who, then, is to
cf living on terms of friendship and frater-1 into possession of the soil thus throw*
Macon, Ga., July 18th, 1866.
Editors Telegraph : It is important that
the South should make no mistake in her se
lections of men to represent her in the Phila
delphia Conservative Convention. Wc should
send good and true men, but men who are not
obnoxious ; else harm and not good will be
done. Men well known for the moderation
of their political views and course, yet thor
oughly devoted to the best inserests of the
South and jealous of her honor, are the right
sort. With these thoughts in view, I take
the liberty of suggesting to the Convention
of the Third District, the names ot Honora
ble Carlton B. Cole, of Bibb, and P. W.
Alexander, ot Upson.
Respectfully, Bran.
Contemptill.!:.—To show the lengths to
which party madness and political rascality
will sometimes drive men, we copy the fol-
lowing, which purports to be part and parcel
of a letter from a gentleman holding a high
official position at Washington to the Cass
county (.Weekly) Republican, in which paper
it appears:
‘'Nothing will bo done to Jeff. Davis, but
to liberate him. I have reason to believe that
President Johnson is in his power, and that
Davis has in his hands, or in those of bis
counsel, (Charles O’Connor, Esq.,) a letter
written by. Mr. Johnson at an early day, pro
posing to join the rebellion, provided he
should have a seat in the Confederate Cabi
net. You can, upon this hypothesis, account
for the fact that although sinco December last
Johnson has been fully and officially ac
quainted with the evidence, in detail, prov
ing that Davis was an accessory before the
fact in tho murder of Mr. Lincoln, he has
prevented his trial for that crime. This I
know.’’
nal union with the people of the North, and
that they are ready and qualified for a lull
rehabilitation, with all their rights, as citi
zens of the American Union. Why, then,
should his subordinates treat those people as
if they were hypocrites, and only needed an
opportunity to unsheath the sword against
the Union ? Are we of the South always to
live after this fashion—suspected—feared—
and the movements of society hedged in by
bayonets?
No. The South is honest, sincere,
just what she says she Is, and the
President owes it to himself and tbe
Southern people to rebuke these arraignments
of our patri otism and good faith.—
There can lie no real union, no harmony,
without confidence. We must be treated as
honest men and gentlemen, not as political
knaves and conspirators. Until this be done,
the Government cannot expect us to regard it
with that reverence and filial affection due
from thoscitizen to the “powers that be.”
into market—our old homesteads—the land
we love ?” Why, either the creditors of the (
present owners will buy them up for a
song, leaving the unfortunate owner* »till in
debt, or else capitalists from abroad must
come in and pqpsess it—in either event, re
ducing the large'. majority of us to a state of
vassalage almost like that of “ Gurtb, born
thrall of Cedric of Rotberwood.” A few men
will own immense estates, while the rest will
lie reduced to abject poverty. It matters
little whether the purse-proud new proprie
tors be Southern Shy locks, or Yankee nabobs.
Well, occasionally I peep forth from my
den, and I sec men taking the iniatorv steps
for bringing about just the state of affairs I
describe. I see men who had no horses.
ing more is necessary. Every day's delay is
attended by multiplying and increasing in
conveniences, embarrassments, and dangers
at home and abroad. Congress possesses the
power exclusively; Congress, after a ses
sion of seven months, still omits to exer
cise that power. “What can be done to in
duce Congress to act ?” This is the question
of the day. Whatever is done must be in ac
cordance* with the Constitution and laws.—
It is in perfect accordance with the
Constitution and laws that the peo
ple of the United States shall assem
ble, by delegates, in convention, and that
when so assembled they shall address Con
gress by respectful petition and remonstrance,
and that the people in their several States,
districts, and territories, shall approve, sanc
tion and unite in such respectful representa
tions to Congress. No one party could do
this effectually, or even seems willing to do it
alone; no local or popular organization could
do it effectually. It is the interest of all
parties alike; of all the States, and of all sec
tions—a national interest; the interest of the
whole people.
The Convention, indeed, may not succeed
in inducing Congress to act, but if they fail
the attempt can make matters no worse. It
will be a lawful and patriotic attempt made
in the right direction, an effort to be remem
bered with pride and satisfaction whether it
succeed or fail. The original union of the
States was brought about by movements of
the same character. The citizen who objects
to the Convention isbonnd to propose a bet
ter plan of proceeding to effect the desired
end. No other plan is offered, or even
thought of. Those who should oppose it
would seem to me to manifest at best uncon
cern, if not opposition to all reconstruction,
restoration, and reconciliation between the
alienated masses of the American people. To
admit that the Convention will fail would be
to admit that the people of the U. S. are defi
cient in cither tho wisdom or tbe virtue neces
sary to continue tho existence of the Republic.
I believe no such thing. A great political
writer says that government is a secular reli
gion, and that tne people of every country
are divided into two classes, each maintain
ing a distinct political faith. The one class
always fear the very worst that can possibly
happen, and the other hopes under every cir
cumstances the very best that can in nny event
happen.
Without accepting this thing ns absolutely
true, I think all men do generally act from a
motive to guard against public danger, or
else from n positive desire to do good. Both
classes may therefore favor the present at
tempt to restore the unity of the nation.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
William H. SEWAno.
Hon. J. R. Doolittle, Chairman Executive
Committee, &c.
and the Emperor of Austria is not very far
from Benedek's headquarters. Let there be
at Pardubitz or at Olniutz such an interview
as there was nfter Austerlitz and after Solferi-
no. Better terms than Austria may obtain
now will certainly not be granted to her af
ter two or three months protracted struggle
has added to the exasperation of hostile pas
sions.”
The Daily Telegraph considers it prema
ture' to discuss the possibility ot an early
peace.
The Daily News shows that the Prussians
not only gained the battle but strategical ad
vantages of the highest importance. They
dog, or leopard, or deer is overwhelmed,
killed, eaten, and the bare skeletons only
left.
They seem to travel night and day. Many
a time have I been wakened out of my sleep,
obliged to rush from my hut and into the
water to save my life; and after all suffered
intolerable agony from the bites of the ad
vance guard, who bad got into my clothes.—
When they enter a house they clear it of all
living things. Cockroaches are devoured in
an instant. Rats and mice springing around
the room in vain. An overwhelming force of
ants kills a strong rat in less than a minute in
spite of the most frantic struggles, and in less
than another minute its bones are stripped.—
Every living thing in the house is devoured.
They will not touch vegetable matter. Thus
they are. in reality, very useful (as well
dangerous) to the negroes
cleared of all the abound'
immense cockroaches
Was
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G** Chi
motion to strike out the resolution
the recommendation.
The report of th* conunitu
adopted, with but onedissentin
On motion of Mr. Lamar tl
was requested to appoint tlic’d
Grange, and tbaChair named thffe
gentlemen: Hon. R. 8. Moses 1I 0 TS
Thornton and Maj. A. M. Allen. M
The meeting then adjourned.
J. H. Martin, 8tc>
From tire
Savannah News <fe Hera!
The History ot a GeorgiaBadl tnl
Among the names signed to the t.
which we published a few days since. <■
for a Convention of Southern B*W
vrrv useiut (as well as r».:i, l-i-v: • G „ * t
roes who have their Inns ; u> September next.istlut*
inding vermin, such as 1 ”• Ashbttm, ot Georgia.' We ^
and centipedes, at least 1 Washington (D. C.) Republican of the -
several times a year. j inst., a communication giving a
When on their march the whole of the in- Li,;. __„ij K „ f.. . “"ty
sect world flies before them, and I have often ] . . I tentative of 8ont^
had the approach of a basliikouay army her- Unionism-
aided tome by this means. Wherever they In the first place, says the writer, h?-.
go they make a clean sweep, even ascending j Georgia Rebel in Columbus, Ga.. uatilu
to the tops of the highest trees in pursuit of when he turned up at Nashville, Ter-
prey. Their manner of attack is an impetu- tr “* v “ m
ous leap. Instantly the strong pincers arc
fastened, and they only let go when the piece
gives way. At such times this little animal
have concentrated eight corps of tlieir army, seems animated by a kind of fury which cau-
whicli can pour down on an enemy with over-, ses it to disregard entirely its own safety, and
whelming fury, and have cut off commu- to seek only the conquest of prey. The bite
nication between the Austrians and the Fed- is very painful.
oral army in the West. j The negroes relate that criminals were, in
The Prussian victories bad a decided effect j former times, exposed in the path of the ant,
on financial and commercial aflairs. There I as the most cruel manner of putting them to
was a general improvement in consols and death,
other securities at the London Stock Ex
change. There was great buoyancy in the
Liverpool Cotton Market, but a depression
in breadstuff's. On the Paris Bourse, rents
advanced 11-2 and Italian securities 4 per
cent.
Garibaldi, on the 3d, attacked the Aus
trians at Mantu Suells. The Austrians
made a strong resistance. The Volunteers
finally fell back in good order. Garibaldi
was slightly wounded in the thigh. The
ammunition of the Volunteers was rendered
useless by a heavy rain.
The Bavarians attacked the Prussian out
posts at Barefield. There were slight losses
on both sides.
Intense excitement prevailed at Berlin,
where the Prussian victories were announced
with salvos of artillery.
• From the Louisville Journal.
Gen. Grant’s Order.
We published, in our Washington dispatch
es on Saturday, a highly important, and, wc
must say, most extraordinary order from
Gen. Grant, directed to the Department, Dis
trict, and Post Commanders, in the States
lately in rebellion. The General instructs
those Commanders to arrest, upon mere com
plaint, all persons who have been or may
hereafter be charged with the commission of
crimes against officers, agents, citizens, and
inhabitants of the United States irres|>ectivc
of color, in cases where the civil authorities
have failed or may fail in the performance of
the duty, and to keep them in military con
finement until a civil tribunal shall be ready
mules, cows, hogs or provisions for Stone-1 and willing to try them,
man, Kilpatrick and Sherman to cany off or Wc read this order with mingled surprise
. ’ 1 , , . J,. , I nnd amazement. We could scarcely at first
destroy; who owned not a negro for x ankecs I j t g fin uinc. Nothing akin to it ever
to rob them of; whose only effects were notes I came from the distinguished Lieutcnant-Gcn-
held against their fellow citizens; who, if | eral before. .He is one of the very last of Ihe
From the London Times, July 4th.
The war in Bohemia is awful work. The
Austrians we are told, lost 15.000 men in
their various encounters witli the army under
the Crown Prince of Prussia. They had
25,COO put hors du combat, in their vain at
tempts to arrest the progress of the army
under Prince Frederick Charles—altogether
40,000 in five days. The prisoners are com
puted at 15,000, leaving 25,000 for the dead
and wounded. Whole battalions have been
annihilated; whole corps—the Clam Gallos
the Gablenz, and tbe Saxon Corps, no less
than the Kalick Brigade—are so utterly bro
ken up as to be unable to rc-appear in action
for some time. Benedeck's army has fallen
back behind the Elbe, taking up its position
between the fortresses of Josephstadt and
Koniggratz, greatly disheartened and disor
ganized, according to the account of Aus
trian officers prisoners in Prussian hands.—
The desertion of Italian soldiers from the
Austrian ranks is on the increase.
these notes are paid, will hare lost nothing
by the war; who insist that their debtors shall
P. S. Since the foregoing was pat in type, imme diately pay them the full amount of
the telegram announcing a withdrawal of the | tlieir indebtedness, or be sold out of house
order was received. Wc hope it is the last
of such hurtful nonsense.
MR. SEWARD’S LETTER.
The letter of the Hon. Wm. H. Seward, en
dorsing the Philadelphia Convention and its
objects, is the most pointed and ingenuous
political document that wc recollect to have
seen from that gentleman. It is free from
non-committalism and evasion, and boldly
throws down the gauntlet to all opposers.—
Wc thank him for it, and tbe South will re
cognize in it a firm determination to do her
justice and bring back the government to its
constitutional moorings. It will do more to
strengthen tho Convention in the popular
mind of the North, and strike terror to the
hearts of the consolidationista, than all other
influences combined. It stands out in bold
contrast with the wishy-washy, half-way sup
port given the President and his policy by
other leading conservative Republicans, who
seem afraid to assert that they have souls be
longing to themselves. We hope their back
bones will be stiffened by this bold and do- sions.
cided movement of their great file leader.
This positive demonstration on the
part of Mr. Seward ensures one thing
beyond a doubt—the utter disintegration
and dissolution of the Republican party.—
It must now be resolved into its
original elements, the abolition fanatics
going bock to their original allegiance
under the leadership of Wcndall Phillips
and Horace Greely, while the old line whigs
and Democrats who associated with them for
a time, first to prevent the extension of sla
very, and then to save tbe Union, will resume
their place by the side of the Constitution
and the Union. The latter will be met by a
unanimous South half way, and under tho lea
dership of Andrew Johnson, the powers ot
darkness that now rule and ruin, will be driv
en from the public councils, nnd banished for
ever. Their reign has been marked by
violence, injustice, and every form of
oppression and iniquity, and their death
will be “unwept, unhonored and unsung.”
The Indian Cot
broken np, t!:e i
peace except upoi
council, after au
Government, has ei
i l at Fort Laramie has
i.ms refusing to make
heir own terms. The
innous expense to the
d with no beneficial re-
The Test Oath.
“Treasury Department, Office of In
ternal Revenue, Washington, June 27,
I860.—Dear Sir: Your letter of the 20th in
stant, addressed to the Hon. Secretary of the
Treasury, in which you ask, if the acts of As
sistant Assessors and Deputy Collectors, who
have not nnd cannot take the Test Oath, are
to be recognized as valid, has been referred to
this office.
In reply I would say that these officers a re
authorized (the Deputy Collector by the Col
lector, and tin: Assistant Assessor by the Sec
tary of the Treasury, i to execute and per
form all the duties of their respective offices
during the pleasure of the Secretary; and
while they hold commissions and are allowed
to ft'sese and collect, they will bo respected
os United States officers, and their acts rec
ognized accordingly.
Very Respectfully,
D. C. Whitman,
Deputy Commissioner.”
Walter II. Crenshaw, Esq., Greenville.
Butler county, Ala.
and home, when three-fourths to five-sixths
of the property on which that indebtedness
was based has been swept away. Nay, some
of them are so utterly devoid of conscience as
to insist on receiving dollar for dollar for ti c
Confederate money they loaned, after that
currency had undergone the heavy deprecia
tion consequent upon the protraction of our
unfortunate war. They abate not their
claim to one single grain of the pound
of flesh. But take care, oh hard hearted
wretches! If ye draw one little drop
of blood with your pound of flesh, an
indignant people will hold you to a fearful
accountability I
conscience, for men to pay the full amount
of indebtedness incurred in par currency;
for as already stated, many of the land own
ers, in parts ot Georgia and other States, have
lost, by raids, all their live stock and quanti
tics of provisions, while all of us hare been
deprived of our slaves by the act of Govern-
eminent, leaving many with only one-fouth,
and same with none of their former posscs-
eminent men of the nation from whom we
should have expected either the usurpation
or tUc tyrannical exercise of power. But this
order of his, if carried out. will in our view
be gross tyranny. It requires, to a great ex
tent, the establishment and inforcemcnt of
military law throughout the whole South.—
It doesn’t indeed, ordain martial courts, but
it makes the military authorities the over
seers and supervisors of the civil authorities,
empowering and instructing the former to
decide whether the latter'have brought to
trial all who should be tried, and, if they
have not, to seize and keep in military con
finement, upon any citizen’s simple complaint
without proof or testimony, chose whom the
civil authorities have failed to hold to ac
count. Under such an order any individual,
by entering complaint, can cause as many of
his fellow-citizens ns he pleases to be arrested
and kept in military prisons until the civil
tribunal will consent to tr^r them. The mili-
It is hard* enough, in all I *«y commanders are required to compel the
1 civil tribunal to try men, every arrested vic
tim being held in confinement as It i>g as they
refuse, though it be a year or five years.
And yet we are, .-it least nominally and
tlioretically, in a condition of peace. Mili
tary sway in regard to civil matters ought to
have ceased long ago, even if it ought to
have existed. Wc do not believe that the
execution of this oppressive and despotic and
anomnlous order of Gen.Grant, a great soldier
but not a great civilian, will be permitted.
General Grant, high as he is in military rank,
has a military superior iiv the President of
the United States, the Commander-in-Chief
of the army and navy. We ars confident
that the President, who, more than almost
any other public man in the country, makes
the Constitution his guide and guards with
jealous care all the rights of all the people,
will annuel the Lieutenant-General's order
without delay.
We do not doubt that General Grant’s mo
tives in this matter were thoroughly honest
and patriotic, His integrity and patriotism
have been too otten proved to be questioned.
But, in establishing governments or govern
mental regulations over millions of people,
he is not in the sphere which he is best quali
fied to adorn.
Bat to loan a man currency of which one
dollar in specie was worth three to fifty, and
then demand dollar for dollar in currency that
is but little more than a quarter of a dollar
below par, tbe unfortunate creditor having,
in the meantime, lost three-fourths or all of
his property by the vicissitudes of war- -this is
too inhuman. Where is the man that does
it? Set your mark upon the miscreant, peo
ple of the South ! Curse him, yc widowsnnd
orphans, and strong men, reduced, by his ex
actions, to wretchedness and want! Rack,
torture and torment him, oh spirit of never-
dying remorse! Gather ye all around him in
his last moments—hover about his pillow—
hiss in his ear—clutch at his throat—send
him raving, howling and despairing from the
earth he has blotted, to the hell he has deserv
ed ! Observer.
The Den, July 7th, 1866.
The Xcw British Cabinet.
Premier—Lord Derby.
Chancellor of the Exchequer—Mr. Disraeli
Foreign Secretary—Lord Stanley.
nome Secretary—Mr. Walpole.
Colonial Secretary—Lord Carnarvon.
Secretaiy for India—Lord Cranbome.
Secretary of War—Gen. PeeL
First Lord of the Admiralty—Sir John
Pakington.
President of the Council—Duke of Buck
ingham.
Privy Seal—Lord Malmesbury.
Lord Chancellor—Lord Chelmsford.
Lord Lieut, of Ireland—Mirguisof Aber-
com.
President of Board of Trade—Sir Stafford
Northcote.
President of Poor Law Board—Mr. Hardy.
LATEST PE It NOVA SCOTIAN.
Further Details of the Battle at Sndowa.
“The Sonth and its Opportunities.”
From this text, the New York Times ad
dresses the people of the South, upon the
course they should pursue relative to the ap
proaching Philadelphia National Convention,
and the kind of men they should send thither
for delegates. The Times advises prudent
action on our part; cautions us against hot-
hcadedness and rashness; and against the
danger of sending delegates there who may
exhibit any tendency or disposition to eat
fire. Says the people of the North are
afraid of fire, and regard it an evidence
of barbarity and of a desire to burn up the
Union, to' sec men indulge such propen
sities. They never eat fire themselves, or use
it any way except as an agent to devour the
houses and other property of the Southern
people. They would therefore be disgusted,
and shocked in the last degree to sec or hear
of a fire-eater in that Convention. The Times
forsooth, if it has any knowledge of the state
of things in the South, ought to know that
all the fire in the South lias long since been
quenched in the blood of her children, and
that there is not now, not only any fire here
to eat, but no one to eat it.
But to be serious. The advice of the Times
is well meant, nnd ought to be received per
haps in a kindly spirit. His suggestions are
proper and judicious, provided, he does not
intend to exclude from bis list of “ wise,
moderate, conciliatory and national men ” ev
ery man of promise, respectability and influ
ence in tbe South; or evety one who may
have been nn active and earnest participant
in the late war. We too are in favor of send
ing such delegates to that Convention os the
Times describes. But where are they to be
found ? That is the question. Arc they only
among the few vile miscreants and contempti
ble creatures in the South, who claim to be par
excellence, the friends of the Union ? men
who were only cowards, and would as readily
prove traitors to the United States Govern
ment, if ever involved in war with a foreign
power, as they proved traitors to their own
section, when struggling for her rights and
liberty against the might of the Union ? If
the Times, or the Northern people expect us
to hunt up every slink in the country, who
pretended to be a Unym man and send him
as a delegate to that Convention, they will
simply be mistaken. Wc prefer no represen
tation in that body or the Congress of United
States, to representation by such men.
The men who led our soldiers, fought our
battles, and then yielded, when subdued by
numliers, accepting in good faith, the situa
tion forced on them, like brave and honest
men, are our “wisest,” most “moderate,” most
•conciliatory” and mist “national” men-—
They embrace all, whether they were in ac
tive service in the field or not, during the
war, who are worthy of our confidence
and respect: who are worthy of the
confidence and respect of any one: they
are the only honest and true Union men
in the country: the only men who are
worth to be trusted with the honors of the
South or of our common government and
country, and if we cannot bo represented by
I ~
From tlie Chronicle & Sentinel.
The Weather, Crops, Jkc.
During a recent short visit into some of the
neighboring counties, we had opportunities
of inspecting the condition of tbe crops, and
of arriving at an estimate of the probable
yield, based upon personal observation. We
give our opinion to our readers fer what it is
worth. An experience of several years of our
life as a practical planter enables us to speak
with sumc confidence of what we saw. We
are no alarmist; neither are we in the interest
of those who usually cry “short crops” to
iufiucnce the market in their behalf, liut our
best judgment is that not one-fourth of a com
crop can be realized in Middle Georgia.
Never, since the disastrous season of 1853
have we seen the prospect half so bad as now.
There has been no rain since the first week
in June. This long drouth—coming on, as
it did, immediately after a most unpreceden
ted season of continuous rains—lias literally
dried up the blades, and in many instances
which we witnessed, even the stalks of the
com. Owing to the long rainy season, the
crop had not been worked as well as it ought
to have been, and was consequently infested
with grass and weeds to a considerable ex-,
tent. "These have taken from the plant a por
tion of the moisture left in the earth, and in
that way have very seriously injured the crop.
Really the prospect for bread another year
is alarming. If we should have rain within
a few days, peas might still be planted in time
to mature a crop. Some relief can also be
obtained by the putting in of a very large
wheat and oat crop in the fall. Turnips, al
so, if put in good land, well prepared, will
furnish excellent winter food for cattle, sheep
and hogs. All these crops should engage the
earnest and diligent attention ot planters.
The
COTTON CROP
He then attached himself to Tfuesdalc'-"
of thieves, who were exposed by nj?
Johnson, then Alllilary Governor of Tettn "
A t:. m ; en. Giant had cleaned out
robbers, continues the writer, and 0 mS
Truesdale and his gang out of the D (r '
ment, Ashburn returned in 1804, and wre
series of articles over his own signatttrsi
the Nashville press, in favor of General*
Clellan,, in which Abraham Lincola *
Andrew Johnson were denounced bec»t>!
their anti-slavery and loyal sentiments.,
in which the Chicago Peace Platform
tolled as the essence of political wisdoo” J
much for one of the singers of the R *
address.
A correspondent in another column
ishes us some further information of tW
tecedents of this would-be represented
the people of Georgia.
[communicated.]
Messrs Editors :—At the conclusio
the article in this morning's paper haU
“Convocation ofLoyal Unionists oftheScrt
you ask, “'Who are George W. Ashburw,
Henry S. Cole, of Georgia F* Of Mr. (A
know nothing. George W. Ashbtm* |
been for twenty years a citizen of Ge s
and is probably a native of the State. 1
entered one of our schools to prepare fori
ministry, but became involved in somed
cultics, and was expelled from thcschooli
excluded from the church. 8ubsequat!i
was the keeper of the hotel in Thonui
and alterwards of a public house on Lx
Mountain. At the beginning of the w
was in the vicinity of Macon. Become
volved in some difficulties, he left the
going in the direction of Nashville and6
tucky. He joined the Federal annr. i
held a place upon the staff of some offia
perhaps that of General Buel—with the a
of Colonel. At the close of the Far hi
tamed to Georgia. Where he resides L
not know. Without entering into partiti
these general statements will give yon ™
idea of the man.
A DIABOLICAL, PLOT.
Ftf An article in at- exchange paper, an
nouncing the decease of a person, rays: “His
remains Mere committed to t|iat bourne
whence no traveller returns attended by
friends."
Ear Gen. Wade Hampton and family, ire
learn, are sojourning at the Mountain House,
where they trill remain for some time.
The Prussians were command’d by the
King in person. They met the Austrians
under Benedek between Horitz and Kon-
isggratz. The battle lasted twelve hours.—
Until 10 o’clock a. m., the battle was favor
able to the Austrians, but after that hour the
advantages were with the Prussians.
At 2 o’clock p. m., after an obstinate de
fence, the Prussians carried by storm the
strong position of the Austrians, after which
the Austrians were quickly driven out of
other positions, and by 7 o’clock p. m., the
Austrians were in full retreat to Konisggratz,
pursued by the Prussian cavalry.
The Austrians were in a complete route.—
The road was strewn with baggage which
they threw away.
Tbe number of killed and wounded on both
sides was great, but owing to the extent of
the battle-field, it has not yet been ascertain
ed.
The Prussians claim to have captured, up
to the evening of tho 4tb, 14,000 unwounded
prisoners, 116 cannon and several flags.—
Prinoc Lichenstcin and Prince Windischraz
were taken prisoners. Gen. Testifies, com
mander of au Austrian corps, lost a leg.
Gen. Coputhumc was sliot in'tbe :h*ad, and
Col. i Bender, and anotherftoff offiqcr were
killed, k, .. i; i !^ U mh inn -i.m - i; „ ; V,
The London Times, of the 5th, says:—
“ The suddenness and magnitude of the Aus
trian calamity are too overpowering for nny
such men as well in the National Convention
as in the Halls of Congress, then we want no
representatives at all.
These are our views on the subject, and if
the Time’s suggestions nnd advice are inten
ded to exclude all such from that Convention,
then we prefer our people should maintain
their own self-respect by staying at home.
{Anfaula Neics.
is also suffering for want of rain. In many
places the plant has begun to cast the fiery
Iront, and the season now is too short for it
to re-cuperate in time to mature anything like
a fair crop. The grass has been conquered
on most of the plantations which wc saw, but
the stand of cotton, very poor in the begin
ning, has been seriously injured in getting
out of tho grass. One of tho best planters in
Jefferson county—one,, too, whose crop has
not been injured for want of cultivation—told
us that he had 550 acres ot cotton in cultiva
tion, and that he could not possibly make
more than 100 bales. This land lias made
300 bales in four years. Wc saw thousands
of acres where the cotton was so small as not
yet to cover the land. Hundreds and hun
dreds of acres in Burke, Jefferson, Washington
and Johnson counties will not make a bale to
to ten acres. Indeed, the cotton does not look
as well now (17th July) as it formerly did on
the 1st of June. In addition to its great
backwardness, it has to contend with a parch
ing and exhausting drouth, which, if it con
tinues many days longer, will cut the crop off
almost entirely.
We found tbe planters in the various sec
tions very gloomy and foreboding for the fu
ture. If, they said, we could have made a
fair crop ot corn, wc could have managed to
get along another year; but with Com to
buy at a high price, and the Cotton prospect
so bad, many are preparing to sell out their
lands in the fall, and turn their attention to
some other mode of making a living. The
trouble of managing free negroes, and the bad
seasons combined, have wrought wonderful
changes in tlie feelings and hopes of our peo
ple.
Political meeting in Muscogee.
Columbus, July 18, 1860.
At a meeting of a considerable number of
The President to Reorganize
.Southern Representatives
Northern Copperheads as
True Congress \ \olr.blc •>. hr
Exposed.
BY JOnN W. FORNEY, D. D.
the people of Muscogee county, held to-day
in Temperance Hall, on motion of Hon. M. J.
Crawford, Hon. A. II. Chnppell wns called to
the Chair; and on motion oi A. R. Lamar,
Esq., J. II. Martin was appointed Secretary.
The chairman briefly explained the object
of the meeting, which was to take into consid
eration the question and tbe manner of ap
Tbe fourteentb-ot-August Conventic
Philadelphia was called to give seasai
shape to this project, and probably tr
cede a sudden and short call for a sped
sion of Congress, when, if these rebel
ants are refused admission, Andrew ~
will recognize them, in addition
ocratic minorities, as the legal Con,
the United States.
[Oh, horrible 1]
To consummate tbjs hellish plot the;
be no change whatever in the National
stitution which will prevent the enfor
f any general law for the protection 8
civil rights of the loyal whites and bl:*
To this end the money and the office :
people are to bo used with lavish am.
tious fury. No man is to be left in pic
does not consent to help this nefarious de
Disloyal and Coppeihcad judges ar<
where pronouncing the Givi! Rights
constitutional, and that great statu-'
soon become a dead letter if the nevr ."
of amendment is defeated.
When the two Houses have adjowtil
eral courses are suggested. One is tit:
tarnation ot a general amnesty, wbid
save the trouble and expense of fattie
dons, and remit to the whole rebel,
all their rights, thus enabling them
take part in the tribunital programie
ceeding this declaration u— may etfCj
“ reconstructed ” Governors to *c»!
electious in the several unrepreser- 1
tricts, to serve in the next and cld^
sions of the present or Thirty-ninthC
Senators have already been elerted
Georgia, Mississippi, South Cartiict
North Carolina, among whom la the
President of the Confederacy, who
claiming the present National Ce#* |
defective because it did not make .li«f
“ corner-stone ” of the Govcrnmert. »
fending that of the Confederacy n‘-:’
because it did, now demands al bi ; T -
under the Republic lie steadily toleJtof ■
throw’.
A Bold Britton.—The MayoiofTi
Canada, wrote the lollowing Wttf •'
pointing delegates to the national Union Con- New York Times: “Your fulsone li«*
vention to bo held in Philadelphia on the I and that of your ass of a correspuxW'
14th day of August next. I cry thing British and Canadian, vhich $
Maj. V. W. \Yynne moved the appoint-1 lately in your journal, can easibbt*®
ment of a committee of seven to draft resolu- Aye, your mock sympathy. Vhy ®
tions expressive of the sense of the meeting, not show your colors before ? The
The motion prevailed, nnd the Chairman I being now over, I beg leave t< gin?
appointed Major V. W. Wynne, Hon. H. L. understand that we, °ns true Jritai-'
Benning,' lion. M. J. Crawford, J. L. Mustian, not; that even I can raise Oranjcnicn “
Thos. DeWolf, Tbos. Ragland, and James N. to hurl back any number of Ymkecs
Ramsey, Esqrs., said committee. ian marauders which may att<mpt t0 *
During the retirement of the committee, the sacred soil of Upper Canata."
several gentlemen briefly addressed the meet- «-©-«
ing, in response to calls made upon them. I Just Found it Out’.—As ve wert
J. M. Russell, Esq., alluded to the political ling a few days ago, says the
state of the country as calling for a union of I bama, Advocate, between Ten*s sci - r
conservative men, nnd advocated the sending | we come across something inthcfiV
of delegates to' the convention. I man; he had a cap of cocnskii, d®*:
A. R, Lamar, Esq., said that he had hide ; his coat and pants nny
had doubts as to the propriety of Southern Confederate grey, but the rags?® 1 **’
participation in political movements, in I that it was impossible to identify j
view of the condition of the country; but had an old canteen and hara^st*-,
flint lm rriirfl in llln nrllincinn in tlm Imnn 1 fiiiinr fnniul fliot 1m 8
The Ants of Africa.
I do not think, says Du Chaillu’s work,
that they build a nest or home ot any kind.
At any rate they carry nothing away, but eat
all their prey on tlie spot. It is their habit to
march through the forest in long re gular line
—a line about two inches broad, anti often
several miles in length. All along this line
arc larger ants, who-act as officers, and stand
outside the ranks to keep this singular army
in order. If they come to a place where there
are no trees to shelter them from the sun.
Flour from France.—A
says that several cargoes of Frenf
now on the way to this country-
a speculative adventure. Tiis I
it is said—being of a grads co 11
medium and good western—"
that he gave in his adhesion, in the hope quiry we found out that he jr*s s *; j
that something might be done to preserve the from tlie Confederate army, .' I
rights nnd liberties of the country. laying in the Titi Swamp* <>f Flo 11 j
John Peabody Esq., urged the representn- had just heard that the war V»so« r l I
tion of the South as a right belonging to our hunting up a Federal officer togt* P
people. The meetings should send men who
truly and faithfully represented the senti
ments of the people of Georgia. They should
represent tlie desire of the people of Georgia
to unite with the conservative men of other
States in support of the Government and the
Constitution, and to resume their po-ition of
equality in the Un ion.
The committee, through Col. Crawford, re
ported the following resolutions, which Col.
C enforced in some peritent and eloquent re
marks :
Jicsolced, l*t, That in the opinion of this
meeting the people of the Southern States
should be represented in the Convention to
be held in Philadelphia on the 14th day of
August next.
hti'dred, 2d, That three delegates be ap-
Musco-
> held, [
importer, after paying tlier
of 20 per cent., gold pr.*niiu nl >
charges.
ej V Mr. Wall work, m S I
ncssee, clasma title to en invention I
supercede all other kinds of sign*',’ I
Railroad-. II- protV-,o t" ' \
application of this inr< u;>n, t0 ‘
't desired, at any distance, a ;1 “
team from an engine lire
same as if he were on th. cag-’-
whose heat they cannot bear, they immedi- j
atcly build underground tunnels, through i pointed to represent the county of
which the whole army passes in column to the 1 gee in the District Convention to hi
forest beyond. These tunnels are four or five and wc suggest LaGran^e as a suitable place,
feet under ground, and arc only used in the nnd the 1st dnv of August as a suitable time,
heat of the day or during a storm. Eesolced, 3d,' That the Hon. Hugh Buchnn-
Wlien they grow hungry, the long file j an and Judge 13. II. Bigliam are, in ourjudg-
spreads itself through the forest in a front ; ment suitable persona to represent us in the
line, and attacks and devours all it overtakes . National Convention, and wc
" ith a fury that i- quite irresistible. The 1 them to the people of the District; but we j ing bis name ami r
elephant nnd the gori la tly before this attack, do not intend hereby to instruct our delegates ! j,; s visiting car
The block men run for their lives.. ; u the District Convention to iiisi.-t upon tlieir Toutain de lie.tun
Every animal that lives in tlieir line of nomination,
march! chased. Hi ty seem to understand Mr. 1{. T. Simons made some objections to! '-t ' 1 ^ 1C <,,! c>
and act Upon the tactics of Napoleon, and [ one of tlie gentlemen recommended as a del- | Bring: air s th i
concentrate with great speed their heaviest egato to Philadelphia, undera misconception and we k
; 'ice- ii'.'t n tt.r ; cit attack. In an in- as (o his position; but alter cxnlanatior.s bv I — by tl
- 'in-'' !ii:.c. ta- mouse, or Mcssr- Rt.iusev and Lamar, he‘withdrew his 20'-
|h
. fk
pgF* General Beauregard
Americans stopping at in:.t I
lie has called at the 'tti; 1 ' 1 ''
recommend ] tion : hut he s iv. s his ci^U. .
tvl
15th Ni