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ggf Hon. J. H. Reagan, late Confederate
Postmaster General, was married on the 30th ,
ult., to Miss Mollie F. Taylor, of Anderson
county, Texas.
I3T* Hon. Freeman Clarke, Comptroller of
the Currency, has tendered his resignation, to
take effect on tbo 24th instant, and it has
been accepted by the President.
pjg- jt }s reported in Washington that
Secretarv Seward has prepared a letter of res
ignation. His object is thought to be to in
duce other mere obnoxious members of the
Cabinet to follow his example.
On Saturday last, the family horse of
the late President Lincoln was sold at pub
lic auction in Chicago. He was bid in by
the owner at $05—$00 being the highest
sum offered. The animal was 18 years old.
tVe again call attention to the “American
Standard School Series,” for the sale of which
Rev. Mr. Macey is general agent. These Books
have been highly recommended by Teachers in
several of the Southern States, and in the adver
tisement which appears to-dayyou will find tes
timonials from Professors and Teachers in the
city of Macon, which will add still more to that
already given. The writers are well known, and
nothing but an interest in the well-being and
proper instruction of the youth of our country
would induce them to give the weight of their
recommendations to the successful sale of the
same.
The New Tariff Bill.—The Tcriff bill,
which passed the House last Wednesday, is
almost purely administrative in its character.
It imposes duties on but three articles, to-wit:
Cigars, two dollars and a half per pound and
fifty per cent, ad valorem, forbids their im
portation otherwise than in boxes containing
not more than five hundred, and requires
them to be stamped by a regular Custom
house stamp, and provide* «i»»* sold with'
such stamp shall be subject to seizure and
forfeiture. Imposes a duty of three cents per
pound on Cotton, and provides that all mix
turcs in which alcohol is tbo chief ingredient,
shall pay the same duty as is imposed upon
distilled spirits. The section providing for
Bureau of Statistics is included in the bill.
Gen. Tillson.—The Augusta Constitu
tionalist, of the 21st, says: This officer left
the city yesterday morning for Washington
City, under orders from the War Department
to act as President of a Board, which will
convene for the purpose of revising the reg
ulations of the Freedman's Bureau, and
making such changes and improvements as
may be suggested by past experience, and
rendered necessary by the passage of the
new bill continuing in force the Bureau two
ears longer.
The General’s absence is temporary, and
this appointment as President of the Board
referred to, indicates an appreciation of his
ability, and is on endorsement of his admin
istration of affairs in this department
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE ; Eatonton, Ga., July 18th, I860.
of the qeorc.lv telegrafil We are suffering exceedingly much, on ac-
Effcct in Washington of the Last News from Eu- j count of the want of rain. And the weatli-
ropc -Congress Vi ill Probably Take a Two
A Disocstixo Creature.—If
Gov. Brownlow has excelled himself in the
following dispatch to Forney:
“Executive Department, Nashville,
Tens., July 19, I860.—John W. Forne;
Clerk of the Senate, Washington, D. C.—1
battle has been fought and won. We have
carried the constitutional amendment in the
House. Vote 48 to 11, two of A. Johnson’s
tools refusing to vote. My compliments to
tho ‘dead dog’ in the White House.
W. G. Brownlow.”
To what are we coming, says the Nashville
Union and American, when such language is
used by the Governor of a State towards the
Chief Executive of the Union. It was done
deliberately and for the distinct purpose of
casting odium upon the President, and of de
grading him in the estimation of the countiy.
It is only worthy of the scorn and contempt
of a free and virtuous people.
The Cholera at Ttbee.—The Savannah
Herald of Thursday says: Wo learn from a
gentleman who arrived by the steam tug
Webster, from below, at seven o’clock last
evening, tbe followingconditior.of things on
board the San Salvador and on Tybec Island,
when the Webster left, about five o’clock:—
There was one death on Thursday night, and
three deaths yesterday from cholera among
the troops on Tybee Island. There have been
uo new cases, and those now afflicted are
doing very well.
‘•The passengers on board the San Salvador
continue in good health. There arc among
them about forty-five from Southwestern
Georgia,the rest being from Savannah. Those
from this city were receiving supplies of deli
cacics from their iriends in town, while those
from Southwestern Georgia do not fare so
well.”
THE CROPS.
A letter dated Madison, Morgan county,
July 21st, says:
“The crops in this vicinity are suffering
very much from want of rain; indeed, even
under tbe most favorable circumstances, so
much have they been already injured, that
the supply of bread for another year must be
come a question of grave import to the people
of this county.”
On the other hand, we learn from passen
gers that fine rains havo fallen in the last few
days all along the line of tho Southwestern
Railroad. From indications afforded by tho
clouds on Sunday, it is hoped that Jones, Put
nam and Baldwin counties, which have suf
fered greatly, have been similarly favored.
Just in this immediate section of the State,
the seasons are all that could bo desired.
A letter from Charleston, Tenn., July 28th,
says: “About halt a crop of wheat was made
in ,this county. The corn is suflering from
want of rain, and there is no prospect of a
shower at present. All tbe signs indicate a
drought."
The Radical Trio of the Cabinet.—
The Boston Post sketches those members of
the Cabinet who are understood to have
something of the brimstone of radicalism
about them. Mr. Speed, it says, is a man of
small talents, and but little professional
learning. Mr. Harlan is a tricky partisan;
cunning in promoting his selfish, purposes,
but no more of a wise statesman in office,
than a meek Christian in the pulpit Mr.
Stantou pushed from the Confederate break
ers, where he first launched his boat, to the
opposite shore, and as soon as he was upon
firm ground, was in favor of hanging his
own crew as pirates. His manners are un
couth—his temper revengeful—his action
the promptings of envy and prejudice, and
his ambition a labor to sink superiors to his
own level. A great blusterer, with arro
gance only equalled by the conceit of his
own importance. The trinity can be spared,
without fear ot danger to the public interest
or depression to the spirits of the peo
ple.
Months’ Recess—Tbe Presidein'6 Policy in Rc-
luiiou to Removals—The President Squelches
Parson Brownlow—Startling Disclosure of a
Radical Plot, by Mr. Raymond.
Washington, July 21,1866.
The last news from Europe is of vital im
portance to this country. It is regarded, by
those persons here who are best informed on
the subject, as indicating (if cot actual peace,
if not a speedy termination of hostilities) at
least that the war will be a short one ; that
it may terminate with France and Austria in
alliance: and that at all events, it will not
put it out of the power of either of those
countries to carry out whatever designs, in
relation to Mexico, may have been entertain
ed by them before it commenced. These
views, it is said, have greatly modified the
nature of the report which the Committee on
Foreign Relations were on the point of mak
ing: and it is now said that their report,
when made, will be a mild and tame affair
compared with what it was when it was sup
posed that Napoleon’s hands were tied.
The House has passed a resolution to ad
journ on the 25th inst, but the Senate has re
fused to entertain tbe motion, and lias laid
the resolution on the table. Even in tbe
House, tbo resolution was adopted with great
reluctance. Thaddens Stevens now proposes
to adjourn on tlio 80th, but to empower the
Speaker of the House and President of the
Senate to call the two Houses together at any
intervening period that they may deem pro
per, before December. The understanding
in the case is, that Congress is merely to take
a recess from tbe 1st of August to the 1st of
October, and that the two houses are to be
called together again on that day.
There is more probability, now, that this
plan will be adopted, than any other. What
the Radicals dread most, is (as they admitted
in their caucus) that the President will make
a clean sweep of all the Federal offiooJioM-
eis, as soon as Congress adjourns. The cau
cus was called expressly to devise means
whereby this might be prevented, and where
by “their friends” could be continued in of
fice. And the caucus miserably and utterly
failed to devise any such measures. The
Radical leaders candidly admit that they
will lose the elections this fall, in most of the
Northern States, if any considerable number
of Federal office-holders shall be removed
by tbe President: and yet they have utterly
failed in devising any measures to pre
vent such removals. It is reasonable to be
lieve that tbe President will make such re
movals, beginning with Stanton and Harlan
and running through with the wbole-descend-
ing scale. But of one thing I am certain,
and that is, be will not refrain from making
such removals because Congress is in session,
nor will he make them because Congress may
have adjourned.
Doubtless you will have noticed ‘that on
the 17tli inst, the Secretary of War telegraph
ed to Gen. Thomas, who commands “the
Military Department of Tennessee” command
ing him not to allow the military foroe under
hiscommand to be used by the beastly Brown-
low in coercing the attendance of the mem
bers ot the legislature of that State. The
wording of this dispatch contains & gross in
sult to. Stanton’s superior officer, the Presi
dent of the United States. The beast Brown-
low applied to Gen. Thomas for permission
to use U. S. troops, in order to compel the
members of the Tennessee legislature-to obey
tbe wishes of that miserable wretch whose
veiy existence on her soil is a deep and damn
ing disgrace to that once noble State. The
atrocity of the demand creates even less sur
prise than the conduct of Gen. Thomas in
listening to it for a moment He viewed the
application with favor however, and only as
a matter of form, asked Gen. Grants permis
sion to comply with Brownlow’s infamous
demand. Gen. Grant did not know whether
to grant the request or not But he instantly
went to the President, with the dispatch of
Gen. Thomas in his hand, and laid the mat
ter before him. The President was perfectly
astounded, and his manner showed at once
that he was greatly moved. He immediately
turned to his desk, and wrote as follows:
“Washington, July 1C 1866.
‘Gen. Grant will instruct Gen. Thomas that
the facts stated in his telegram do not warrant
the interference of the military authority. The
administration of the laws and the praam-
tion of the peace in Nashville belong proper
ly to the State anthorities,and the duty of the
United States forces is not to interfere in any
way in the controversy between the political
authorities of the State,and Gen. Thomas will
strictly abstain from any interference between
them.”
The President then called one of his Sec
retaries, had a copy of what he had written
given to General Grant, and then sent the
original, with the despatch of Gen. Thomas,
to the War Department, with instructions to
the Secretary of War to write a formal or
der to Gen. Grant, embodying tho substance
of that which the President had informally
written, in order that the order might reach
Gen. Grant through the proper channel and
in the proper form.
Instead of writing a formal order to Gen.
Grant, and stating expressly that he does so
by'dirQction of the President of the United
States, Mr. Stanton merely sends to Gen
Grant a copy of what tho President had
written, signed by tbo Secretary of War,
and without any mention whatever of the
President! thus arrogating to himself all the
credit of rebuking Thomas and Brownlow
for their revolutionary designs.
Mr. Raymond, of New York, is a bundle
of contradiction. One day he appears in
the role of a conservative—the next day he
plays the part of a radicaf domagogue. He
generally votes with Thaddena Stevens, but
his speeches and editorial articles arc usually
on the sido of the President Since the
publication of the caucus proceedings,
be bas declared that he did not re
tract Ids speeches, and that he did not
promise to obey Thaddeus Stevens. And
now, as the crowning achievement of his life,
he has written a letter, a copy of which I en
close, which has drawn upon his head the
red-hot maledictions of all the other Repub
licans. This letter is nothing more nor less
than the detailed exposure of the whole plot
by which the Republican party in the North
intend to retain themselves in power, in case
the fall elections result, as they no doubt will,
in largo Democratic gains. This plot is noth
ing less than to cause another civil war, not
between the North and the South, but be
tween the Republican party and tbe Demo
cratic party, and their respective adherents,
in the Northern States. In order that the
plot may be successful, all the arms in the
Northern States are to be so distributed in
tbe respective States that all the Republicans,
and tbeir adherents, shall be armed, while all
the Democrats, and their adherents, will find
it impossible to procure arms!
Warwick. |
er—how excessively hot! The very dust in
Coolie Labor for the South.
The Richmond Enquirer admits t.o its col
umns a letter from an abolitionist in advocacy
of coolie laborfor the Soutli. The writer ar-
THE POLITICAL FUTURE.
the streets seems to be on lire, and the at- gues that the Chineese coolies would cost less
Fears and Purposes of the Radical Lead
ers—The Union Party and the Phila
delphia Convention.
mosphere a molten flame. Every now and
then a cloud comes up to tantalize us, and
then gracefully (to itself, no doubt,) flits away
upon the wings of the breeze, without giving
us rain. But we acknowledge ourself unable
to appreciate any such grace. Yesterday, the
thermometer, at Jake Feilcr’s store, stood in
the shade at 100 degrees. When we chance
to get a very small sprinkle indeed, men. wo
men, and children pull off their hats, and go
ing out to enjoy the shower, all become, lor
the nonce, pedo-baptists. They are all willing
in the first instance than the Guinea importa- |
tions, and could be fed and clothed at less
than half the annual cost of negroes. Tin
Enquirer's opposition to tlie coolie system is
very pronounced:
“The opening of the cooiie slave trade
would doubtless be very profitable to tlie ship
ping interest. The Yankees would make i )til(
more money cut of it than tlieir fathers did
out of the Guinea trade. But after supplying
the market tnd filling their purses with the
gains, the next thing in order would be to
get up a cooSe excitement agaiu.-t the South,'
and to abuse us as the greatest ot earth s vil-
LSTTER FROM HON. HENRY J. UAYMO.N
NEW YORK.
to be sprinkled. Indeed, they will roll up i lians. Such was their course about the ne-
their eyes towards heaven, like a flock ot l groes; and they have as little conscience and
• • . , , . , consistencv now as then,
geese in a ram storm, each endeavoring to ” a ,* e nbtMf opposed to this coolie
trade. We do not want our Southern popu
lation debased by tbe importation and acl-
get a lull benefit on the occasion. Day alter
day and hour after hour of the hot spell, per
spiration rolls out in torrents, saturating the
clothing, and making one feel as if he was in
a scalding bath. The only places in town
where one can keep cool, arc at Vining’s
Gray bill’s, and Ross’s. These gentlemen gen
erally keep ice, with the ct-ceteras, and arc
extensively patronized. Whether they get
their supplies from Ells' establishment, in
Macon, or not, we know not, but judge their
ice is a’most too cool to come from Hells'.
The weather has been so hot, that, for a
month past, we have been able to do nothing
but patronize the ice establishments, and
compose—
THE SUMMER SOLSTICE.
Devoted to the Last Three Hot Hays.
Down from his brazen, burning throne,
The sun-god hurls his molten rays,
Like lava by the fire-fiend blown
From Moloch’s forge with h—1 ablaze.
Red lava burn* the lurid sky,
The Naiads fly Apollo’s kiss,
The parched earth is scorched and dry,
And sun-beams in the waters hiss.
The Forests curse the Summer’s name,
The flocks are panting with the heat,
The grass and flowers are wrapped in flame,
The molte? beams their winding sheet
Oh! Phoebus, once unbend thy bow.
And cease to twang its maddening string—
Thy fiery darts no longer throw,
But give us back the showers of spring!
Our people are almost universally in favor
of the Philadelphia Convention. We have
heard but one or two feeble dissenting voices,
and those under misapprehension, which pro
per reflection will soon correct Our county
will be represented in the District Convention
in Macon.
Our County Court is in full blast. Judge
Bowdoin presiding with dignity and ability.
Some amnsing things have occurred in this-
Court At its first session, B. R. had sued J.
L. for some amount less than $100, and judg
ment was entered against the defendant—
Upon this, Johnny who had seen a “wee
drap o* the crayther,” enquired of his
Honor what he should do. The Judge,
taking it for granted that Johnny was, like
every other man in Putnam county—without
money—answered that •“there was no way to
make a man pay money unless he had it, even
by due press of law.”
“And I never will pay it naither, without
due process of law,” responded Johnny.
“But Mr. L.” said his Honor, “if you have
the money you ought to pay it without wait
ing for legal compulsion."
“But he sued me,” replied Johnny, “and
I swear I niver will pay it without legal com-
spunction."
At this second lapsus of Johnny, “there was
a roar of laughter, tho sheriff called to order,
and an intimation of fine for contempt stopp
ed the unruly member of the defendant
After the business of the court was over, on
this same day, just before the adjournment,
and while tbe bench and bar were indulging
in pleasantries, Dr. IL, a wag, applied for li
cense to plead and practice law in the County
Coart In order to humor the joke, the court
appointed J. A. Turner to examine the candi
date lor license.
Quoth Turner to applicant, with great dig
nity and gravity—“What is the first requisite
for making a good lawyer!"
“To be a d d rascal,” wa* H’s. ready
response, followed by great laughter, tbe
spectators, evidently thinking Turner was
“done for.”
But Turner arose with dignity, and, ad
dressing the Court, said: May it please the
Court: I deem it unnecessary to prolong this
examination. Dr. H. has said that the first
requisite to make a good lawyer is to be a
d—d rascal. I pronounce the Doctor fully
qualified, and move that he be enrolled as an
attorney of this Court.”
The laugh was now against Dr. H., and the
Court adjourned.
Such are the tales, as they arc told, and
they are not entirely without foundation.
On the first occasion of trying a “nigger"
in [our County Court, the defendant was
indicted upon the charge of stealing com;
but there was not evidence enough to con
vict, although every one believed the nigger
did steal the com. But the boys say that
Judge Bowdoin, Laving prepared in his own
mind, a lecture for the nigger, under the be
lief that he would be convicted, determined
that his lecture should not "spile," and so
delivered it to the nigger “anyhow,” winding
up by telling him that he “had been found
not guilty, but he must not steal any more
com, and be brought before him unless fully
prepared, by the very best evidence, to prove
h imself innocent!"
All of which is but a fabrication. But
Judge B., who is fond of pleasantry, enjoys
the joke as much as any one.
By the way, an important point of law, in
connection with the County Court, has been
decided by Judge Reese, of the Ocmulgee
Circuit There is one clause in the act organ
izing the County Court, which would seem
to make judgments obtainable at the first
term of the Court Upon hearing a case that
went up from Putnam County Court, Judge
Reese has decided that judgments cannot be
obtained at the first term.
The Countryman.
mixture cf the interior breeds of men. Wc
do not want any of the Asiatic race. We
want met of tbe Caucasian race, anil no oth
ers, as a reinforcement of our population.—
We want white men—and we do not want
yellow men, brown men, red men, or black
men. Our fathers protested against allowing
the Yankee ships to bring negroes here du
ring the colonial times; we protest against
their bringing tho coolies here now. A\ e do
not choose to be humbugged by names. Tho
slave trade is none the less the slave trade, for
calling it apprentice trade. Coolie slavery is
the most horrible in the world. We do not
want the poor wretches here We do not to
buy them for $180, and to make them
support themsclres on $00 per annum while
toiling as negroei never toUed. We hope the
Yankees will tlink of some other way of
making an hoiest penny for themselves.—
They have breught misery enough upon one
colored race—let them spare the others.—
They have ciliated us enough with their slave
ry enterprise—let them try something else.
We want no coolies here.”
The North in Motion.—The Conventions
at Reading, Pa,, and Annapolis, Md., last
week, are represented as among the largest
and most enthusiastic meetings ever held in
Pennsylvania and Maryland. Both were in
support of the National Conservative Con
vention. The Reading Convention was ad
dressed by a large number of speakers,
among them, Heister Clymer, Richard Vaux,
Montgomery Blair and George H. Pendleton.
The Maryland Convention was addressed by
Gov. Swann and ex-Gov. Bradford. Both
Conventions advocated immediate restora
tion of the Southern States to the Union and
equal rights.
A Federal General’s Estimate of the Cour-
aje and Character of the South.
Gen. F. P. Blair, in a conservative Union
speech at St Louis, a few days ago, paid the
following compliment to the Southern States:
They have evinced courage and endurance;
by their gallantry and by their long suffering
in this cause, so mistaken, and so erroneous,
and so criminal, they have shown themselves
to be the equals of an equal number of any
mm upon God Almighty’s globe. [Applause.]
Those who have contended against them are
those who are readiest to admit that they have
shown themselves to be the equals of any
other people in the world. [Applause.] Not
only have they shown themselves ready to ad
mit that these men are their equals, but they
have shown themselves the readiest to over
look tbe past, and forget what there is need
of forgetting; and to receive these men back
into the Government, with all the rights and
dignity of their respective State* unimpaired,
simply requiring from them upon the pledge
which they will give, that they will renew
their allegiance to the Government of the Uni
ted States. [Applause.] Cannot we trust
that pledge if these men will give it to us ?
Have we not reason to believe that they are
men of sincerity f Can we not confide in
these brave men ? I say that we can. [Ap
plause.] I say that this is the only way in
which they can be brought back into the
Government and bound to it by links of grati
tude, stronger than any links of steel that can
be wrought. [Applause.]
And now I will ask, what foreign nation is
there on earth that would not be proud and
happy to receive these people and give them
all the rights of citizenship enjoyed by any
of their citizens? [Applause] Would
not France be eager to doit? Would
Great Britain not be too proud to ex
tend her dominion over that proud coun
try, sharing her Government with those
gallant, noble men who have vindicated their
right to manhood in this contest unparal
leled in the history of the war ? Would not
any foreign nation upon the face of the earth
be willing to receive this people ? Not re
ceive them on degrading terms, but receive
them in open arms upon an equality with her
other citizens.
Mabtial Law fob Georgia.—Gen. Till
son forwarded an application, on the 18th
tor permission to place Stewart county, in
this State, under Martial Law, on account of
the indisposition of the civil authorities to
do justice to the freedmen. He writes:
“ I have repeatedly called upon the civil
authorities to enforce the law and secure jus
tice to all, and have offered military assist
ance. Cases are constantly reported where
tbe authorities have joined the rioters in
murdering freedmen after they have been ar
rested ana bound over. Judge Robert Wat
son killed, with his own hands, a freedman
who had been arrested and bound by the
Sheriff upon .lie warrant issued by the Judge,
the oflence of the negro being that of defend
ing himself against a gang of ruffians who
came to his farm to rob.
“The freed people are refused protection of
any kind, and it is impossible to impress the
citizens and authorities that it is their duty
to suppress this growing system ofnegro mur
ders.” The practice ot whipping, ho cites, as
having beer revived with all its former hor
rors, and a Dr. Slaughter is instanced as hav
ing frightfully mangled two women for non
performance of an allotted task, and he asks
to be allowed to enforce the decisions of of
ficers with nilitary power, until such time as
civil law in that countiy shall be meted out
forthe protection of all classes.
Commencement Exercises
On Friday last, the Commencement Exer
cises of Momoe Female University began with
tho examination of the Primary classes. On
Sunday, Commencement Sermon by Elder S.
G. Hillyer, to a large and appreciative audi
ence, an excellent sermon designed to advance
the cause of religion, one that really done us
good to hear. On Monday and Tuesday the
examination of the College classes; in all there
was a commendable exhibition of scholarship,
showing evidence of thorough training, and
well sustaining the past reputation of the Uni
versity. We hope in the future, its course
will be “Onward and Upward.” On Tues
day evening wo attended tbe Alummen Fes
tival, and eveiytbing passed off" charmingly.
We saw nothing to mar the enjoyment of the
occasion, and the excellent supper provided
was enjoyed and appreciated by the whole
assembly. Commencement Day devoted'to
tbo usual exercises, delivering diplomas to
the three Graduates, Misses Harmon, Melson
and Cloud, lollowed by the excellent and en
tertaining Literary Address of Thomas Har
deman, Jr., was attended by a large audience.
We have rarely seen an audience better pleas
ed. The reading of Compositions creditable
alike in matter and manner. It is difficult
to discriminate where all acquitted themselves
so well.—Forsyth Journal, 19th.
Believed to be a Murderer.—We men
tioned the fact yesterday that one of the ne
groes fined lor fighting on Wednesday
had furnished strong proof to convict
himself of the robbery of Mr. Dennison’s
house, .by offering for sale or pawn Mr. D.’s
watch, as a means of raising money to pay his
fine. We learn that still stronger proof
against him has been afforded by tno discov
ery among his “effects” of other articles sto
len from Mr. Dennison’s house; and, worse
yet, that he is strongly believed to be the ab
sconding negro who participated in the mur
der of Mrs. Rollins. It is said that he an
swers the description fully—even to little ac
cidental marks on his person. He is in jail,
and parties who can identify him, if the mur
ere >jf Mrs. Rollins, have been telegraphed
for.—Col Enq., 22d.
Another Old Citizen Gone.—Mr. G. T.
Donic, one of our oldest and most succesful
merchants, died nt his residence in this city,
on yesterday. He was, during a long and
useful life, prominently identified with the
commercial interests of tho city. His fu
neral will take place at 8 this morning.—
le
Augusta Chronicle, 22<£.
From the New York Times.]
Washington, Sunday. July 15, 1866.
Political panics are quite as mischievous in
tlieir way as panics in an army. Parties are
and sometimes routed, by the
apprehension ot dangers that prove to have '
been wholly imaginary. Sometimes, too. 1
these fears create the dangers they dread, and .
thus fulfill their owu predictions. The Union !
Part}- in Congress is just now experiencing a I
panic of more than usual severity, and its ac- 1
tion under the circumstances does more credit
to its zeal than to its discretion.
You may have noticed the passage in the
House, a few days since, of a resolution offer
ed by Gen. Paine, of Wisconsin, calling on
the States to organize, discipline and equip
tlieir militia, anil directing that two-thirds of
the arms, ordnance and ammunition now un
der custody of the General Government be
distributed among the States,—the distribu
tion among the loyal States to take place im
mediately, and that among the States lately iu
rebellion to be postponed until further orders.
The resolution came up trom the Commit
tee on Military Affairs and was pushed to a
vote, without debate or delay, under the pre
vious question. It attracted as little attention
in Congress as it has in the country; anil tho
public will doubtless receive with incredulity
the assurance that it was intended, by those
who secured its passage, as the first step to
ward preparation for another civil tear. Al
though no debate was had upon it, members
were urged to vote for it by direct conversa
tional appeals on the floor on the part of the
few who were privy to its introduction.—
Some were told that it was necessary to en
able the Southern loyalists to protect them
selves :—others that it was simply a matter of
detail in the War Department:—others that
the arms must be taken out of the hands of
the President: and others that it was propos
ed at the instance ot the Secretary of War.—
An appeal was made by Mr. Kassoh, of Iowa,
to allow debate upon it, as it seemed to be a
matter of importance—but it was refused.
Most of the leading and reflecting Radi
cals in Congress take this view of the case:
If the Fall elections result in the choice of
Northern Democrats enough to constitute,
when added to the members from the South
ern States, a majority of the House, they as
sume that this majority, thus constituted,
will claim to be the Congress, and will act
accordingly, and that they will oe recogniz
ed by the President as the body to which he
will send his message, and whose sessions he
will, if the necessity should arise, protect by
military force. They assert, on the other
hand, that the Union members from the loy
al States—if they constitute a majority from
those States—will claim to bo the only legal
Congress, and will, if necessary, jnyoke an
insurrection of the people to maintain them
in that position. They do not, in the least,
conceal their purpose, in the event of such
a collision, to appeal to force, and to “ drive
the rival Congress, with the President and
his Cabinet and supporters, into the Poto
mac,” to use the language of one of the ablest
and most sincere of their number. If you
will recall the remarks of Mr. Boutwell, of
Massachusetts, in last week’s first caucus,
you will see this movement clearly fore
shadowed—indeed avowed. He declared bis
belief that an issue of force was rapidly ap
proaching, and that we must be prepared to
meet it. He acts, and all who co.operatc with
him in these measures profess to act, under
the apprehension that the President intends
to resort to force—that he means to disperse
the present Congress on its re-assembling
December if it refuses to admit the Southern
members: and Mr. Farnsworth ascribed to
Mr. Seward the declaration, that this Con
gress should never re-asscmble unless the
Southern members were admitted—in sup
port of this belief. I need scarcely say that
Mr. Seward never made any remark of tlie
kind, nor that the project ascribed to the
President is purely an invention, or at best
the crazy dream of a political nightmare. But
in either case it serves the same purpose. It
covers, and is held to justify the determina
tion to arouse the North, and prepare for a
resort to force upon the assembling of the For
tieth Congress in extra or in regular session;
and this determination is avowed. And the
resolution to which I have referred, for an or
ganization of the militia and the distribution
of arms in tho Northern States, is the initial
step to its execution.
I do not propose to comment upon tho re
sult of such a movement. It is obvious that
if any such contingency should arise, the war
would not be sectional, as was the last: it
would be a war of political parties and of
neighborhoods. Not only havo the great
body of the Union Party in Congress no sym
pathy with these views and purposes, but
they are in tho main ignorant and incredu
lous of their existence. That the extreme
Radicals entertain them, however, there is
not the slightest doubt, and we know, from
the experience of Secession in 1861, how few
men it sometimes requires to plunge a great
party or a great nation into war.
Tho Philadelphia Convention is another
source of panic to the Union Party. By the
Radicals of whom I have spoken it is regard
ed as intended to pave the way for bringing
Northern Democrats and Southern rebels in
to close concert of action under the protec
tion of the President, at the opening of the
next Congress for the purpose referred to
above. And by nearly the whole Union
Party, as represented here, it is believed
that" its object is to break up the
Union organization and form a new party
which shall embrace Northern Democrats,
Southern rebels and such portions of tlie
Union Party as may be detached from the
old organization. It seems to be overlooked
that tho Convention is called simply for con
sultation—that it is not proposed to make
nominations for any office, to organize any
new party or to interfere in any way with ex
isting political parties. Any one or all_ of
these things may be done by the Convention
—but none of them are embraced or proposed
in the call for it. Those who may do them
in convention, or support them when done,
will of course be responsible for tbeir action
If the Convention should take steps hostile to
the Union Party, no one could longer adhere
to both. If it should make hostile nomina
tions, or adopt a hostile platform, no one
could support both. But until something of
that sort is actually done, it is not easy to sec
why any man of any party may npt go into
consultation with his fellow-citizens, from
ever? party and from every section, without
forfeiting his party relations. The idea that
members of Congress have any right in caucus
or elsewhere, to issue decrees of expulsion or
exclusion in such a case, is simply absurd.
At the same time it is evident that the
Philadelphia Convention is regarded with
great disfavor by all sections of the Union
Party. That party is not disposed to forget
that "it was the only political organization up
on which the Government relied during the
war, and that it saved the integrity of the
nation against the armed efforts, of the rebels
in tlie Soutli and the political hostility of
Democrats in the North. It feels, therefore,
that it is now entitled to control the Govern
ment as against both these parties, and it is
not disposed to co-operate with either of them
or to accept their co-operation in. any political
action whatever. They objected to the first
call for the Philadelphia Contention that it
would admit all Southern rebels who would
not accept the Union they had tried to de
stroy, while it excluded many of the men who
had saved it. They object to the second call,
that while it excludes all Union men who in
sist on guarantees and conditions of restora
tion, it expressly hands over one-half the Con
vention to those who opposed tbe Union Par
ty in the election of 1864—giving them, in
fact, the preponderance, inasmuch as in eleven
States the Union Party had at that time no
existence, and can now, therefore, have no rep
resentation. And they arc still further repel
led by the eager alacrity with which the re
cent rebels of the South and tlie intense Cop-1 Terrible Tragedy.—Peach-’
perheails of the North, like Fernaudo Wood was thrown into a fearful state
ancl Vail and Ighahi, accept the invitation and j ment last night about 9 o’clock
prepare to take part in its proceedings. r I be the bloodiest tragedies that ever o,
repugnance which they feel to a political as- this city. * Tho circumstances tr.r,.
: sociation with men whose record is so utterly. ! the back yard of the little -tore in v./
! unpatriotic and so obnoxious to public rep ) C. Hammond is doing business, on ;
nd 0p i robation, is by no means unnatural or unjust ; street, and the particulars are as f, ",
and contributes largely to prejudice tlie pub- far as we could learn last night:
' lie mind against the Convention and all con-1 Mr. Hammond has had in his eum;
1 nected with it. It gives color to and con- a negro woman and her son, whom ci
31 of late, has been such as to cause a h i
firms the charge that its object is to reinstate j
in office and iu power men who have been I _
justly expelled by the people for tlieir crimes : lias been especially insolent, and at Xa
:o evening, a son of Mr. Hammond
, nmondtvaj
«hom the country is indebted for its salva- pelled to correct him, when a sligl,-
tion. occurred. It was supposed.
The Union Party must not forget, however, I tlie difficulty was ended. Later in the*’-'
that the Philadelphia Convention is clue en as young Hammond was in the bac',;
tirely to its own failure to comprehend and j the store, he was assaulted in a
meet the necessities of the hour. When the i lent manner by the mother and sou,
war was over and the rebellion suppressed, a The mctlicr, who is a very stout
powerful public sentiment, pervading all par- wencli, seized the young man sad btkJi
ties, demanded the prompt restoration ot na- firmly, while her son inflicted a *
tional action under the Constitution and
accordance with the fundamental principles
of tlie Government. If the Union Party Had
responded to that sentiment, which was very
powerful in its own ranks—ifit had co-operat
ed with tlie President, who did comprehend
and sympathize with it—and had made the
restoration of union, peace and concord the
first object of its endeavors, it would have
broadened its own fundaments and left neither
motive nor excuse for any such movement as
that which is now on foo't. If Congress had,
two months ago, admitted to the s.:ats loyal
members from Southern States, who could
take the oath prescribed by law—in other
words, if they had admitted the members
from Tennessee and Arkansas, the on
ly States which have sent such men
the Philadelphia Convention would never
have been heard of. Unfortunately the Uuion
Party, contrary to tlie judgment of very many
of its own members, surrendered itself" to the
guidance of men with whom other things
were more important than the peace and har
mony of the countiy. It followed the lead of
men who insisted upon “ reconstructing ” the
Government from its foundations, instead of
restoring the Union, which the rebellion had
for the time destroyed, and repairing the
breaches which the war had made. It listen
ed to tales of tbo provinces it had conquered,
the new rights it had acquired, the absolute,
unchecked power it now enjoyed; and while
it was indulging its dreams of subjugation, of
confiscation, of universal suffrage and the ele
vation of the negro race, the enemy quietly
stepped in and took possession oftbe strong
hold of the Union and Constitution where all
its victories had been won, but which for the
moment it seems to have deserted.
These defaults of its own have given the
Philadelphia Convention a degree ot strength
which it is not wise for the leaders of the
Union Party to ignore or underrate. By ju
dicious counsels nt the outset they might" have
prevented it; at a later stage they might have
controlled it; it is not yet too late to save
themselves from being ruined by it. But
they will make a fatal mistake if they con
tent themselves with ignoring or denouncing
it. If it should happen to be under the guid
ance of wise and patriotic counsels—if the
Southern delegates who may participate in
its deliberations should proffer, in their words
and tlieir action, unmistakable evidence of
the sincerity with which they accept the ad
verse result of the war they waged, and of
their readiness to adapt tbeir laws, their hab
its and their whole political action to the ne
cessities which that result has created—if the
Northern Democrats, who share its action,
should cut loose from the men and the meas
ures which made them so obnoxious to public
censure during the war, and should pledge
themselves to the honor ot the nation and to
a liberal policy worthy alike of its history and
its destiny—if the platform of principles
wound near his neck v. it:i ; ,
which bad evidently been pri-i-tir, I
purpose. The unequal contest was t ■ ]
moment’s duration, and resulte 1 in • L
of young Hammond. The negro bov att*J
ed to escape, but was apprehended
store of Cox & Hill. The mother, we
made no effort to get away. They were?
taken into custody, and so infuriated and'
raged were the crowded throng of ■
ers, at the fn.-ndishneas of the act, that i-T
with tbe ntTimt diffiirnlty they were ptJ
ed from vi-iting -uniur ; v , J
the boy then and there. As the eiremj
ccs became more generally known oil
streets the excitement increased, and
ofmen were hurrying to and fro in sYyf
the murderer and his mother. We
apprised, as we go to press, if the police3
ceeded in shielding th m from Lynch y
Allanh! hit, -Y/'/t/. 22
Foreign Items.
The Paris correspondent ot the Pal] J
Gazette says that it is quite a mistake tod
pose that Austria placed herself at the cjj
of France when proposing to cede VenetjJ
She knew beforehand what she was to m
compensation.
The London Times of the 7th says thJ
too much reason to fear that hostilities j
be resumed in both the theatres of 1
so Austria will be unable to withdraw J
considerable number of troops from Ye«)
and unless sheltered by the aegis ol FrJ
may soon be compelled to hear terms of raj
dictated by Prussia in her own capital'’
The Post thinks that should the Cong
meet in Paris, England will be tepre - i
by Lord Clarendon, and it is probi! U
French Government will propose a gt
disarmament.
In the House of Lords, on the 5th, Lrl
Brougham adverted to the hostile state ofa
rope. He hoped a Congress would be shd
hr held, and peace firmly established]
He did not think Venetia ought to bdJ
to Italy, but at the same time ought to]
freed from the Austrian yoke.
Princess Helena was married to PriJ
Christian of Augustenbure, at Windsor, ]
the oth, in presence of the Queen, the h|
and Queen of the Belgians, and a distingj
ed company; but the affair was companri
ly private.
The Marquis of Landsdowne, wholJ
been named for office in the Derby Minis]
died suddenly on the 5th fnm paralysis.
The shore end of the Atlantic Telegrej
Cable was successfully laid on the 6th inti
The old cable was tested and lound tohti
perfect condition.
•••••• J5F”The New York World savs: Mini)
which the Convention may adopt, and the ac-1 Kilpatrick lias not only been guilty in ft
tion it may recommend shall prove thus re
sponsive to the enlarged and lofty aspirations
of the national heart, it may be found that no
party organization, however compact it
may seem to be, and however strongly for
tified by the memory of past services, can
withstand its influences upon the sentiments
and the action of the great body of the
American people. It is a mistake to deem
party organization solid and unassailable
merely because it looks so. A political party,
like the ice of a frozen lake, melts away from
beneath, and while at evening its surface may
seem to be perfectly solid and untouched by
rift or seam, the breeze of a single night may
perfect the work which weeks of silent, un
seen decay have been preparing. Doubts as
to the continued necessity or usefulness of a
party never begin with its leaders or active
workers, but always with the silent masses,
who merely watch and think, while others
act, and whose action, in a season of com
motion, can never be predicted two weeks
ahead. Nor must it be forgotten that the
position of the Union Party, to-day, is one
which it lias never held before. The is
sues to which it will stand committed are
new to its organization, and to the public
mind. The people have never been called to
vote upon them, and while they may seem to
their zealous advocates and authors, to be
very strong, others may prove to be still
stronger than they.
The Italian army suffered a sad reverse the
other day because, trusting in the goodness
of its cause, it marched boldly upon fortress
es whose strength it despised. The Union
Party will consult its own safety, and the
good of the country, by not throwing itself
against the Philadelphia Convention, until
it knows a little more ot the nature and
strength of its armament R.
Couldn’t Stand the Tax.—The Thom
asville Enterprise says that a colored man in
that county “planted, and lately had in a
prosperous condition, two acres of cotton,
from which he promised himself much profit
in the fall, when it should go into the market,
and looked in pride every day upon his in
creasing prospeet of wealth. But alas! Some
of his mends told him of tho tax on cotton
recently passed brjr Congress, and when it was
explained to him, so indignant did he be
come, that he immediately threw down the
fencing and turned in the stock to devour his
crop. Cuffee thinks cotton planters the most
ill used of men.
An Honest Puff.—The Bainbriage Ar
gus publishes the card of the Savannah Re
publican, in return for a similar favor, which
was unsought, and says:
“ The Republican is a “ loyal ” newspaper,
and a consistent advocate of the Stevens and
Sumner wing of the black republican party,
and as such, we commend it to the abolition
ists and black republicans of Southwestern
Georgia, should there be any such in this sec
tion of the State. "We mean no disrespect to
our coteisporary, but seek only to give it the
benefit of its position ns a partizan organ of
the present majority in Congress.”
l5F"Two sisters recently met at the Relay
House, near Baltimore, who had not seen , ^ : f’*7-u 1C -n' C r ^° t rk ^' v ? D * n F
- ■ - hauled Mr. Darting, for saying in tni
in pronouncing a eulogy on Mr. Hn»P*q
that “his gentlemanly spirit winged '•• s
to its Maker.” It turns out that
ing really did say, was that “without_ss*|
g!e ora groan, the gentle, manly
Humphrey was wafted into tlie preset
his Maker.”
each other for forty-eight years, though living
only a short distance apart, and frequently
exchanging kindly messages. They talked
thirty-six hours, and were still talking when
last heard from.
E3F“R. H. Dana, Jr., Esq., has been chosen
the successor to Hon. Edward Everett, to
lecture upon tbe law of nations in the Cam
bridge Law School during the next academic
year.
l3F“It is rumored that Judge Stuart, ofthe
Fourth Virginia Circuit Court, will be im
peached for allowing rebel attorneys to prac
tice in the Courts without taking tlie lest
oath.
£^“Lieut. Jas. J. "Waddell, late commander
of the Shenandoah, is said to be residing
near Liverpool in a bad state of health,
is threatened with consumption.
Forney, as a public officer, makes very ex
tensive charges against the government. The
Dead Duck presents a broad bill.—Louisville
Journal.
of the indecorums charged upon him i
and explicitly by Colonel Halpine in tie!
Y. Citizen ; be was guilty of the same id
corum, the same contempt for decency, if:J
the same insults to virtuous women.ini
last New Jersey campaign. The leaden i
the party “founded on great moral ida
were perfectly aware of this; and, in tu
arrangements for the travels of that braitfe
spouter, provided also for the safe transpc
of his frail impedimenta. Secretary Sew
should recall Kilpatrick at once. Whata
his services in the war, the doctrine of ^
tary necessity” ought not to survive it. i
be extended to the courts of foreign po>:
The Sympathies of Queen Victoria-
The sympathies of the Queen of Eng!
must be very strangely divided in the
test now being waged in Europe. A Lot:
correspondent writes: “The husband of I
eldest daughter commands a division of!
Prussian army, in which near relatives afl
late husband occupy prominent position*
The husband of her second daughter ha
command in the Austrian army. Prince Ts
just married to the Princess Mary of Oi
bridge, has accepted a command in the ij
trian army, and sets out for the seat ot ’
with his bride, before the honeymoon is:
over. There is scarcely a member of i
royal family in Europe who is no;
in this war.
The Memphis Swindle.—Some rich i
astounding developments will soon be tw
in regard to the Memphis swindle. It ap ~
that the government lost nearly nine
dred thousand dollars through the tw
tion of Parkman, Brooks & Co., of that c
A large number of surreptitious five-ts
gold coupons are daily being returned to h
Treasury cancelled. The cheat was <"
ed by finding two coupons bearing tbe«
number, showing fraud somewhere,
duplicates appear to have been printed f
tbe same plate as tbe genuine. Whether t
arc manufactured in New York or are*
from the Treasury and afterwards nuot*
is a mystery yet to be solved.— Win'"
Chronicle.
JEpF“ A London correspondent says I
ens is very careful about the arrangi-
made for his readings, having iavarii":'
tittle red velvet table, with a shelf on
side for handkerchief and water, and onti
other a little block for the book to *l y
almost never refers. He dresses in » 1
that might be regarded a3 foppish in J
ca, flourishing a big watch-chain withtto
large jewelled shirt-studs, and a little 1
quet in the lappel of a dress-coat.
Agents from some of the large
facturers in England have made their»P
ance in New Orleans and in other p* 10 '
the South, for the purpose of looking j
the prospects for the next crop of wt
what dependance can be placed epen
freedmen as laborers, the position 01
planters, &c. The inquiries are made *“*]
view to the government of manufacturer:- -
spinners in their future operations.
JST* “Uncle Tom,” without a cabi*.ff
tested by an Augusta paper, as the t»* j i
new book for Mrs. Stowe's authorship
der such a title she can make a book lef'
pathetic than the dramatic Uncle To® ^
m, and need not draw so heavily, n°^' k ,
the imagination as when the other o°-
written.
Died Suddenly.—On Thursday
Mr. Martha E , relict ot the late M. J- .M
__ and the mother of Mrs. Hines Holt. 01
“ e ton, died very suddenly at tier
residence, iu the seventy-fourth yea ‘
a ge-
ETRev. J. Knowles has become*^!
The Boston Post calls Forney's paper the
Chronic-iW.
date for membership, and perhaps ^
in the Protestant Episcopal Church. -
Methodist minister, and vas once.
the Macon Journal «fc Messenger.-'
Union.