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MACON, GA., MONDAY, AUGUST 20. I860.
VOL. 1. NO. 8
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" t0Sl jOB PRINTING:
„ attention will b« Riven to the
of JOB PRIN1TO0 01 cvcry dwcri I’*
.-fTlit Atlantic cable despatches pub-
2in tbe New York papers of Tuesday
|L,co»t$8,500in currency.
•naj Pahs, Mayor of Ylemphis, was ar-
I Id and taken before the Recorder, some
■v and fined for drunkenness. Great
f
Augustus W. Callaway, one of the
Lr ’ 0 f the Inferior Court of Baldwin
" . wd a member of the City Council of
ii \ grille, died in that city on the 9th
■ s?( (| 47 years.
pr The Jackson (Aliss.) papers arc com-
[2; s „ mightily of military drilling by the
En»t that place. Gen. Terry was trans-
■ j from llichmond to Poke’s Peak for per-
Pii'n» that sort of thing at Richmond.
PRErAEATORT SCHOOL.—Wc
W, A 8S )j attention to the advertisement of
I »• ilex. V. Scuddcr, ot Athens, Ga. Wo
jL v idm to lie an excellent teacher of young
[gaud boys, and cheerfully recommend his
| a.xiI to the public.
ItsrWe regret to learn, from the funeral
which appears in our columns, that
[ficillent wife of our contemporary, Dr-
Ur. W. Andrews, of the Citizen, died yes-
morning. He has our sympathy in
■ Miter bereavement.
^Womac."—Ve introduce to our readers
liv a new correspondent at Washington
[trtlie above ps:>uionym. He i3 a gcntle-
L) of intelligence and excellent opportuni-
| for correct information, and we hope his
H will prove acceptable.
»♦>
I Am. Right.—We perceive that Capt. J.
|Oliver, of the Tallahassee Sentinel, has
iadea raid into Decatur county, Georgia,
I ..nil carried off--a wife! As the Captain is
I very clever, and wc have a plenty of pretty
1 girls in Georgia, und perhaps a few to spare,
I we .‘hall not make a fuss about it.
‘ Tlie cable across the Gulf of St Law-
connecting Newfoundland with Nova
■ceii.i. was completed on Sunday evening
This makes the needed connection be-
i the lines <>n this continent and the At-
cabie, and place us in almost instanta-
; connection with the Old World.
Tnr. National Express.—It was cxpect-
new Company woul«_ mec. with n
"a; anttyYrre opposition. An institution
grown rich on the public and laid up
cillions of surplus, will not complacently
I' competition. This is all reasonable and
Bn: it was hoped that the Nn-
-I Express, designed to serve the public
?ive employment to disabled soldiers,
-id at least be opposed honorably and
j* by it* enemies. In this* however, ex-
::s!; °b has been disappointed. The dc-
faicirs of the card published yesterday,
uvihing but creditable to the parties en-
in the dirty transaction. To buy up
k cf n Company simply for the purposo
M:a - t ie authority acquired for its dc-
i* opposed to good morals and fair-
if.wecn man and man. Wo know
3 - of the facts beyond the statement in
u: 'l referred to, but if they be as true as
•uted, we very much mistake public
3 if such conduct does not recoil with
1 ft'et upon its authors. If the unfair
taken against the National Express
■ give an impulse to its busines and
' -t «]> in the public estimation and pat-
• it will be because the spirit of justice
'Patted.
buRaivENEss, no ]>cacc for the South:
K">eription and negro equality on the
H'nd. or the sword, the torch, utter dcsola-
the other/ Such is the Radical doc-
' t,; proclaimed by the great Western
^I'tonof the party, Maj. Genl. Logan, in a
printed on our outside. The Indian, it
®ever forgets nor forgives—how the
^°ftlie savage crops out in this Wes-
-'itvotec of Mare, who, a few years ago,
' to lie a staunch friend of the South
7* ^ uncompromising hater of everything
" ring to abolition!
REVOLUTIONARY PLANS OF THE RADI
CALS—THE GOVERNMENT MUST PRO
TECT THE SOUTH, OR THE SOUTH WILL
PROTECT ITSELF.
Recent events, in different localities of the
Southern States and at the Federal capital
are of fearful moment The time has cvi
dently arrived when the Government roust
take active and vigorous steps for the mainte
nance of its own authority, and the protec
tion of the Southern people against anarchy
and bloodshed. The Radical party of the
North, foiled in their recent schemes for
aggrandizement, have grown desperate, and
here resolved to retain their power even
at the sacrifice of established social order and
the cost of civil war. The circumstances
that recently transpired at New Orleans, at
Richmond, at Griffin and other points in tl
Southern States, establish, beyond the
shadow of a doubt, tho conviction heretofore
vaguely hinted at, that the Radicals, believ
ing that they are in a minority with the white
people of the United States, have resolved to
maintain their ascendancy, if possible, by
force, through the enlistment of the negroes
in a war for superiority against their former
masters. To this end, military organizations
have been forming among the blacks for
some months past, who hold their periodical
meetings and drills with the connivance, if
not under the immediate patronage, of the
military and Frcedmen'3 Bureau; and in some
mysterious way nearly every male negro in
the South has been effectively armed.
Now, what is the solution of all this? Mil
itary organization means war, and it is a wil
full falsehood to say that the negroes are arm
ing and drilling in order to defend themselves
against the whites of the South. Nobody
knows better tlmn the negroes themselves that
they need no such protection, that their former
masters arc disposed to treat them kindly, to
give •them employment, und ever to protect
them against tha cruelty and wicked devices of
those who pretend to be their peculiar friends.
The man who says the Southern people would
impose on the negro and offer him harm and
violence, is a wilfull fabricator and slanderer.
The very nature of our present relations gives
the lie *o such an accusation. The negro is
necessary to our prosperity and success, and
it is to our interest to make him comfortable
and contented in his present condition, and
to reward him justly for his labor. Without
this mutual interest and sympathy, neither
class can prosper and get along harmoniously.
Ever}’ intelligent negro knows this as well as
ive do, and, with the exception of a few am
bitious or designing villians, wc find that en
tire class actively occupied at their regular
vocations and co-operating with the Southern
whites to bring about harmony and domestic
prosperity.
The object, then, of all this negro organiza
tion and parade is to build up an atmy of
blacks in the South to aid the Radicals in
overthrowing the popular voice and uproot
ing the foundations of society. They Intend
to use these black Southern soldiers, if they
can, to accomplish their own diabolical po
litical ends—in plain words, to revolutionise
the Government, and establish a pieball re
public. Wc have not a doubt of such inten
tion; and furthermore, that one half the Bu
reau agents and missionaries and Yankee
teachers in the South arc but the instuments
by which they hope to accomplish this bloody
work
Now, we have but little fear of negro vio
lence in the South. As n general rule, the
blacks are getting along well with their for
mer masters, and are too sensible not to know
that a collision of tho kind indicated would
be but the signal for the indiscriminate de
traction of their race. There are, though,
among them weak and wicked ones enough
to give way to the tempter, and for the time
being, create no little trouble and disaster
in certain localities, and it is against these
sporadic cases of violence and murder that
we would provirte. It is important for all
concerned, but far more so for the black man
than for the white. We would protect Aim
agninst these foul abolition machinations
as well as ourselves. The recent bloody
transactions in New’ Orleans, where the poor
deluded negroes were led on by wicked white
men to their rain, is an example that will
servo to show who is to lie the real sufferers in
such a conflict. It is a most remarkable cir
cumstance—providential we might say—that
whilst the negroes began the fight and con
tinued it with fierceness, from fifty to sixty of
their number were slain, and nearly every
white leader who participated on their side,
whilst no account records the death ot a sin
gle eitizen or officer of the law! What
lesson have wc here!
We then call upon the Government for its
active interposition to put down this vile and
dangerous conspiracy. .It should , suppress
forthwith every step toward military organ-
k < v p quiet. Mr. Logan; the people will j^tion among the blacks, and order a disarm-
r Monel in due season and render J mcnt t hat entire class, thus removing a
Ml your anathemas. ! strong temptation to do wrong. What pro-
*** _ j tection they need i9 amply afforded by tho
'■ J i k ( oi’rier. VN c are in receipt j an d we f cc ] surc they will be impartially
j * ""Hiber of this weekly paper, just | af ] m j n istercd. The second step is to recall
liV .i* I!r,lnH ' v ' ck ’ Gn -< Messrs. Orme j weT j military officer in the South wlioissus-
.j!, • tl,c former being editor. It is a j pectet | „f sympathy for, or actual complicity
J -1 and readable sheet, and promises ! witb? t j, e R ad j <;a i revolutionists of the North.
P* 'Suable support to our growing j A t ) n - rd stC p j s to make a clean sweep of the
,3t *rpriaing sister city. Wo wish the | Burcau officials, and administer the lav
through agencies of it* own appointment.
The Government has no immediate control
over the army of peripatetic teachers, male
and female, who are now swarming like so
P-ttors
success.
RarcRU Trials in North
Carolina.
August "10.—Tho court-martial 1 , . -.
. "•'m been engaged here for six w ceks j n,an y locusts over the whole Southern coun-
-,l r. ur my officers oftheFrecdnv Ms Bu- 1 try, and under the pretext of educating the
M11 0 q1* < - ; " ro,ina on the char .s raised 1,lacks, distilling poison into their minds and
iHlfii ^ tcc ' lman and Fullertf 1, to-day | sow i ng the seeds of hatred, outbreak and
■^maam’^Thtf eviden! • ’in’the 0 six I revolution. These areiuost efficient coadju-
' *ridi linv.j taken place has been of the j tors o« the Radicals, and if we cannot succeed
■'t t—I - n taking their occupation out of their hands
and scntv.ng them back to their homes and
some honest employment, we hope the next
Legislature will enact n criminal law strin
gent enough to bring all fomentors of mischief
among them to a speedy punishment. Their
intended victims know tar more of their
wicked interference and malicious designs
than they tliink we
them to be eirenmsp
" ,J?P°rt« n ce, as exhibiting minutely
.King of the Bureau. All classes of
. Te been examim d. The forth-
btijj! ml °f Mu Fitz, Mr. Hayden, and oth-
I ter IT “" en,;a before military commission,
iii.« exhibit the offences alleged
uicm by Generals Stccdman and
•on.
Thu Dispatch is 01
* nBI "e of Hawkin
^ lc Mijcction to 1
forts to foment discord, for the Southern
people are resolved that no such vipers shall
nestle in their bosom. Self-protection is the
highest law of society, and if these people
expect to come among us and plot trouble
and bloodshed, they are simply mistaken.
There is a point at which forbearance ceases
to be a virtue, even with the long-suffering
and best disposed.
We earnestly call the attention of the Gov
ernment to these tlrirgs. Some remedy must
beapplied, or the Southern people will be
compelled to take protection into their own
hands.
Special Correspondence ot the Telegraph.]
Letter from Washington.
Wamu.notox, Aug. 13, 18GG.
The Radical defeat in Kentucky by a ma
jority ranging between forty and fifty thous
and, together with the very encouraging and
reliable estimates of prominent gentlemen
from every section, who have reached here
en route to the Philadelphia Convention, as
to the evidences of a powerful political revo
lution in their several localities, have com
pletely dumfounded the Jacobin faction.—
Nothing is more clearly foreshadowed than a
thorough repudiation of the extremists, who,
but lor tho stemming of the torrent by a
national Executive, would have ere this com
passed a subversion ot the entire system of
our government, with the view ef perpetua
ting their wicked, revolutionary and despotic
hold of power. It is time for them to shrink
aghast when taking a glance at the immense
revolution in the late Kentucky election,
where they find a Congressional District
which two years ago gave a Radical majority
of two thousand, now repudiating that fac
tion by the immense majority of six thousand
and three hundred votes.
We have evidence multiplying here, that
the revolutionists have concocted the vile
scheme in the event of their rcceivingmarked
condemnation at the ballot box in the Autum
elections, of impcaching the President so as
to ..substitute a Wade or some other such
rule or rain person, in order to thwart a con
servative and national coming Congress from
engrafting upon the country a legislative
policy looking to a restoration of the Union
in its original Republican purity and entire
ty. All signs must fail, if the thundering re
buke which will fall upon their troubled
consciences, will not completely paralyze
them, and render them powerless for increas
ed mischief. Unfortunately by reason of the
unconstitutional and in excusable expulsion of
conservative Senators and Representatives
from the seats to which they were entitled, to
the detriment and wrong of their several con
stituencies, they possess the requisite two-
thirds Jacobin majority, during the remain
der of the existing Congress to perpetrate
their revolutionary purposes.
The attempts so insidiously and energeti
cally made to seduce the soldiers of the late
Union army into an adoption of the disunion
policy of the Robcspicrrcs in Congress, has
proved an utter abortion. At the recent
Kentucky election, this large class of voters
were found balloting for the Union.
The political electioneering campaign doc
uments, which had been printed at a heavy
outlay of money from the Treasury, under
the auspices of the Rump Congress, are now
being disseminated from the folding room of
Congress at another large expense to the Gov
ernment. The immense horde of employes
recently rewarded with a douceur of twenty
per cent, addition to their already handsome
pay, arc busily engaged preparing these in-
ccndjary and atrocious missiles for distribu
tion under the franks of the extremists who
tarry here to do such work. Prominent
umong those documents is the famous, or
rather infamous, Woshbum-Bromnll report
ot the Memphis riot, embracing twelve liun-
•dred pages. Many other such documents arc
being put forth with the hope of buoying up
their dissolving political fortunes. They are
willing to inaugurate a bloody war of races,
if by so doing they can secure an additional
lease of power.
Major General Slocum is appointed Naval
Officer for the port of New York. It is given
out in official circles that Dunicl E. Sickles is
to be appointed a Major General in the
regular array. He has great aspirations for
the governorship of New York, but his pre
tentions are not sufficiently met. General
Eckert, Assistant Secretary of War, designs
resigning, and Genl. Canby is prominently
mentioned as his successor.
The Bounty Bill recently passed, providing
for the soldiers, makes no provision for the
sailors, who, pending the late civil strife, ful
ly shared its privations and vicissitudes.—
They are not only not rewarded but their past
agencies in the cause arc uot alluded to.—
Much feeling is expressed by this class.
Official notification is hourly expected of
the inauguration ot the newly elected Thock-
morton State officers in Texas. As soon as
received the President will order the Provis
ional Governoi, “Jack” Hamilton, to turn
over the State government to the duly elected
officials. This popular verdict being consum
mated in that State, a proclamation will be
issued declaring the whole country in a stato
of peace, and restoring the writ of Habeas
aries, have tendered their resignations, to en
gage in other enterprises. Their resignations
are held in abeyance, awaiting the return
home of the Secretary, when, it is expected,
that he can induce them to continue in office
by means of additional pay, through the
agenev of some reserved fund which he has
at his command.
The criminal and wicked cabal which is
continually harping upon ftie negro ns a pe
destal on which to consummate its hellish
purposes, still persistently proclaim that the
riot and bloodshed in New Orleans is t.irectly
aseribable to the President, who (as they al
lege) insidiously put the machineiy into play
to compass such a result, for political purpo
ses. Political malignity, malevolence and
libelling was never before so industriously
plied as is now the case with tiro miserable
spies now hovering about WMiiRghlP.
The amount necessary to pay bounty to
negro soldiers, under a joint resolution passed
on the last day of the session, is $20,000,000.
Full one-third of this amount will find its
way into the pockets of agents, who have re
solved themselves into a “negro amelioration
society."
An order hn3been issued from the Commis
sioner of Indian Affairs, prohibiting traders
from selling arms and ammunition to Indians
in the territories.
Gen. Rosseau, recently expelled from Con
gress for vindicating his reputation from an
attack of another member, is to settle here,
and practice the profession of law.
The demand at tho Treasury for invest
ments in government securities has been very
heavy during the present month; the great
est avidity being to convert seven-thirties
into five-twenties. The favorable exhibit of
the national finances, showing a considerable
liquidation of the Government indebtedness,
has stimulated capitalists to invest. The de
mand is partly for home investment, and
partly for exportation. All issues of five-
twenties here are accumulating gold interest
at the rate of six per cent
Much indignation is expressed by the many
officers ot the army and marine corps here
assembled, at the action of Congress in leg
islating so as to reduce their commutation
pay from fifty to thirty cents. This reduc
tion falls very heavy in the case of a Lieut,
of the Marine Corps, nis pearly compensa
tion is decreased about four hundred dollars.
A corresponding decrease applies to the high
grades. Tlie officers demur very much, es
pecially when they contrast the conduct of
Congress with their professions of devotion
to the “boys in blue,” and their facile adop
tion ot a measure to increase their own com
pensation seventy-six per cent.
Ex-Postmaster General Dennison, has sig
nalized liis advent to private life by promul
gating a long tirade of exceptions to the (in
his judgment) political heresies and incon
sistencies of the President. How passing
strange that this immaculate should have per
sisted for months in foisting himself upon
an administration, whose genenJ -olioy has
remained unchanged from its inauguration to
tlie present time. They continue to serve as
an incubus upon a President with this known
incompatibility with his ideas of reconstruc
tion policy.
“When the Devil was sick, the Devil a monk
would be;
When the Devil was well, the Devil a monk was
he.’’
The Mission to the Hague, to which Gen.
Dix was confirmed, has been declined by him.
lie is prominently mentioned as the conserv
ative candidate for Governor of New York.
Potomac.
Philadelphia Convention.
GEN’L. DIX’S SPEECH.
j in its late troubles, and also for tlie assemblage
1 of this Convention to consult for the publ
! good.. He prayed that the members might
j lay aside all selfish motives and unworthy per
From the proceedings of the first day, we j sonal and sectional considerations, so the
clip the following: ' union ot these States maybe iullv re
Mr. Randall—The Convention will come to t - ored an<1 re . nd . erc (l Perpetual. (A loud ame
order for the purpose of eflecting a temporary
organization of this Convention, I propose
the name of Gen. John A. Dix, of New York,
as Temporary Chairman of this Convention.
[Applause.]
-vor.of ciiang-
Union.
The Secretary of War, by direction of the
President, hasordcml an investigation of the
outrages alleged to have been committed by
colored soldiers at Helena, Arkansas.
A large number of delegates to the Phila
delphia Convention, headed by Gov. Sharkey,
called upon the President, when a very
lengthy and enthusiastic audience was held.
The President is very sanguine that happy
results will follow from the deliberations of
the body.
The clerks of the Treasury Department re
ceiving the lesser grade of salaries, were yes
terday paid fhe $100 additional amount ac
corded to tliem bv the recent act of Congress.
Quite a number of the wore responsible and
Tlie Texas Election.
[From the Iloutton Telegraph, Aug. 4.]
The returns from eighty counties, nearly all
complete and official, foot up as follows:
For Governor—Throckmorton, 42,153;
Pease, 9,085.
Lieut. Governor—Jones, 40,418; Lincbav,
7,141.
Attorney General—Walton, 24,841; Ban-
ton. 9,407; Binkley. 6,782.
Comptroller—Robards, 35,390; Shaw, 7,-
500.
Tresurer—Royston, 23,CG9; Durham, 9,737
Harris, 0,708.
Commissioner of the General Land Office—
Crosby, 35,329; Ward, 3,028: White, 6,650.
Supreme Court Judges—Coke. 28,412;
Moore, 29,008; Donley. 29,793; Willie, 23,-
520: Cleveland, 14.713; Ochiltree, 10,064;
Bell, 7,908; Caldwell, 5,688; Jones, 9,475;
Johnson, 5,141; Smith 19,200.
The majority for the Amended Constitution
has increased above a thousand since our last
footing up. It is certainly cairicd by a ma
jority which will not be less than five thou
sand, and may ascend to eight thousand.
We think about fifteen thousand votes re
main to be heard from, of which it is no
more than fair to assume that two-thirds have
been thrown for Throckmorton. Ilis major
ity will be somewhere in the neighborhood
of forty thousand.
fiom one of the delegates.] He prayed
God might manifest his especial lavor on tli
President of the United .States, and make
! him a great and lasting blessing to the coun
try. [Another loud amen.] And lie praye
„ , - , , •, f° r maintenance of the Union inviolate
General Dix came forward and said: under the Constitution as adopted by our
Gentlemen of the Convention, and fellow- fathers,
citizens of the whole Union: [Applause.] I
return to you my sincere thanks for the hon
or you have done me m choosing me to pre
side temporarily over your deliberations. I
regard it as a distinction of no ordinary char
acter, not only on account of the high social
and political standing of the gentlemen who
mpo?e this Convention, but because it is a
Convention of the people of all the States of
the Union, [Applause.] nnd because we can
not doubt if its proceedings are conducted
with becoming and good judgment, that it
will lead to most important results. [Ap
plaise.J
It may be truly said that no body of men
hare met on this continent to consider events
so momentous and so important since the
year 1776. [ Applause. ] The year when our
ancestors assembled in this city to form a
better Government for the States which com
posed the old confederation and government,
which has been confirmed and made more en-
daring, as we trust, by the fearful trials and
perils which it has encountered and overcome.
[Applause.] The Constitution which they
come hero to frame, wc are hereto, vindicate
and restore. [Applause.] We are here to
arrest the supremacy of a representative gov
ernment and all who are within the confines
of the Union. [Applause.] A government
which cannot without a violation of its fun
damental principles be extended over any but
those who are represented in it. [Applause.]
Over those who by virtue of that representa
tion are entitled to a voice in the administra
tion of public affairs. [Applause.] It was
such a government that our fathers
lratncd and put in operation. It is such a
government which we are bound by every
principle of fidelity and justice and good
faith to defend and maintain. [Applause.]
Gentlemen, we are not now living under such
a government. [Applause.] Thirty-six
States have for months been governed by
twenty-five States. [Applause.] Eleven
States’ have been w holly without representa
tion in the legislative deliberations of the
nation. The proportion of represented and
unrepresented States has [applause] just been
changed by the admission [applause] of dele
gations from fifteen States. A unit taken
from the smaller has been put to the larger
number, but ten States arc still denied rep
resentation in Congress, to which they are en
titled under the Constitution. The Presi
dent. not in pursuance of any Constitutional
power, had called on the Confederate States
to accept [applause] the conditions for their
admission to the exercise of
tlicir functions ns members of the
Union. The ratification of the amendment
to the Constitution abolishing slavery, and
the repudiation of debts contracted to over
throw the Government, were these conditions.
They were met and accepted, the exaction ot
the new conditions is unjust, and a violation
of the faith of the Government, subversive of
tbe purposes of our political system, and dan
gerous to the public prosperity and peace.
[ Applause^ Each house of Congress uiny, as
the judge of the qualifications of its own
members, reject individuals for a just cause,
but the two bodies, acting conjointly, cannot
exclude an entire delegation without one, un
warrantable assumption of power. [Ap
plause.] Congress has not only done this,
sut has gone further; it has incorporated new
conditions with amendments to the Constitu
tion and submitted them for the ratification
of States; there is no probability that these
amendments will be ratified by three-fourths
of the States of this Union. To insist
on the condition they contain is to pro
long indefinitely the exclusion of more than
one-fourth of the States from their right to
be represented in the legislative body and
from their rights under the Constitute op.—
They had that right under the resolutions
passed in both houses of Congress in 1804.
[Applause.] These resolutions were not con
current, but they were substantially identical.
But they were entitled to be represented on
other grounds of fairness and good faith. It
is this wrong which we have come here to
protest against, and. as far as in ns lies, re
dress it. [Applause.] When the President
of the United States declared that it was
over, all the States had a right to represen
tation in Congress. [Applause.] Is this tho
Government our fathers fought to establish ?
[Loud cries of no.] Is this the Government
we have been fighting to preserve ? No, no!
Tho President has done all in Ins power to
correct this wrong. [Applause.] ne has
done all in his power to restore the rights of
the States in the Legislature of the country
by giving to each section its full status. Leg
islation without representation isan anomally
in our political system. Under any other
form of government it would be but anther
name for usurpation and misrule.
Gentlemen, I trust that in our deliberations
here, we shall confine ourselves to one muin
purpose, that of redressing the wrong to
which I have referred. There is much in the
administration of the Government which
needs amendment; some things need to be
done and others need to be undone. There
are commercial and financial reforms which
On motion of Mr. Randall, Postmaster
General, tlie following were appointed Secre
tarics of the Convention: E. O. Perrin, of
New York; John Hoyle, of the District ot
Columbia; A. R. Potts,' of Pennsylvania; J
R. O'Brinc, of the District of Columbia, and
G. E. Bves.
Rebuilding of Charleston.
The friends of the Palmetto City, every
where, will rejoice to hear that she is about
to arise from her ashes. The Courier, of
Wednesday, says:
The work of rebuilding the city of Charles
ton engages the. earnest attention of her au
thorities and citizens. Since the memorable
conflagration of 1801 opr eyes have been
wearied by the ever present reminiscences of
that calamity, and our hearts have grown
faint at the consciousness of our inability,
heretofore, to retrieve that disaster. During
the continuance of the war we had few op
portunities to repine—there was then other
employment for our energies and thoughts;
but since its conclusion the full measure of
our loss is being felt in our circumscribed
conveniences for thq transaction of business,
and the lack of sufficiently commodious ac'
commodations for our increasing population,
It is of tho greatest concern that these wants
should be met. In no other way can the
commercial prosperity of the city be ad
vanced, and all the energies of our people
should, therefore, be bent to the accomplish'
ment of so important an object.
The scheme proposed by Alderman Mar
shall, at the meeting of Council last night,
looks to the immediate commencement of the
work, and will be read with great interest.—>•
It contemplates the issue of seven per cent,
coupon bonds, guaranteed by the city, to the
amountoftwo millions of dollars, to owners of
lots who desire to build, in such sums as shall
be most effectual in affording them aid within
specified limits. The pith of the plan is to ad
vance to the lot holder,at their par value,bonds
to the amount of the appraised value, with
fifty per cent, added, of the lots whereon
buildings are proposed to be erected; the
city to be secured by the execution of a bond
in a sufficient penalty, conditioned for the
payment of the principal sum of whatever
may be loaned in fifteen equal annual in
stalments, the first payable within
three years from the date of the bond
and also tor the payment of the interest quar
terly, in advance, with the further condition
that the money loaded shall, within six
months from its receipt, be expended in the
erection of stone or brick buildings, with
roofs or coverings and cornices of incombus
tible material; such bond to be secured by
mortgage or mortgages of the lot or lots, in
such forms as shall be prescribed by the Gen
eral Assembly of tbo State. The scheme also
restrains the borrower from the erection of
buildings of wood, provides for the require
ment of security that if such buildings exist
on the lots to be improved, they, snair~tje
removed within six months from the date of
the application for loan, aud further provides
that no building less than two stories high
shall be erected.
The redemption of these two millions of
bonds is provided by the setting aside as a
special fuLd of all and every sum of money
which may be received by the City Council
in re-payment of the loan, and the interest
thereon, to be exclusively appropriated to the
redemption and extinguishment of the bonds
and interest. The further details of the plan
will bo seen by reference to the report of the
proceedings of Council, published elsewhere
in our columns.
Rumored Riot in Helena.
A rumor has gained credence on the streets
here, und may find its way to the Northern
S ress by telegraph, to the effect that a riot
ad occurred at Helena, on Friday, which
had proven destructive of life, and broken in
upon the peace and dignity of the town to an
extent alarming, and calculated to make a
residence there by negroes or Northern peo
ple very precarious.
Major J. C. Anderson, a practising lawyer
of Helena, and who left that town on Friday
evening, called upon us yesterday, and au
thorized us to say there was no truth in the
report, and the only foundation for it was in
the fact that a negro man had a difficulty
with an inebriated white man, whom he even
tually succeeded in subduing by a sound
thrashing.
So far from their being any riot, there has
been no occasion for it. Tlie’ best feeling lias
existed, and does now exist, between tlie ne
groes and whites ot that town, "and indeed
every other part, so far as wc are informed,
of our neighboring State. Tbe old relations
of confidence between the former slaves and
their masters ate being restored and the best
feeling exists. Both whites and blacks are
realizing the new order of things, and are la.
boring harmoniously for the common good.
Major Anderson, from whom we gather these
facts, is a gentlman of standing and influence
at Helena, and his statements are entitled to
weight, and wc hope as here given, will have
tlie effect of preventing the spread of mis
statements concerning Helena, calculated to
injure it, and through it the whole South.—
Memphis Commercial.
Speech ofGcn. Logan at Springfield,
Illinois.
He Denounces the President as a Demagogue,
Upholds the Radical Congress, Pitches fnto the
South and Declares himself a Revolutionist.
are indispensiblc to the public welfare, but
I vre shall not have tlie power to carry out
A Yankee General Beaten bv a Negro, these until we change the political complex-
—A correspondent of the Metropolitan Re- ■ * on ot Congress, which should be our
cord, writing from Lake Providence, Lonsi-1 first and our immediate aim. [Applause.] It
ana, says: : is in the Congressional District that the vital
In Issaquena county. Miss., just opposite contest is to take place. The control of one
our parish, Gen. Andrews, of Massachusetts, ! body will ennble us to prevent partial, unjust
(who claims to he a brother of the great Ab-; «>»d pernicious legislation. The control of
olition demagogue, nigger worshipper, and both houses with the power to introduce and
ex - Governor) has been endeavoring to run a carry out salutarv reform to bring the Gov-
plantation; A few days since one of the de- ernment back, in the language of Jeffer-
scendnnts of Ham, in the employ of General ; s 00 ? t° the Republican track, will come bet- Chicago Ansr 9 1800
Andrews, was exercising his family preroga- ter [applause] by wise, harmonious and judi- . . ’. .' ’ ‘
live by administering, according to the laws 1 «ous action on our part, and the part ot On the WOMM!of the^ommaUon^f Gen.
and customs of old Puritan Massachusetts, a those present, that period need not be long John A. Logan lor Con D ressman-at-largc, by
severe lesson of corporeal punishment upon 1 delayed. I believe that public opinion is the State Republican Convention at Spnng-
. . . , , ,,, one ot his own children The General coniin”- ripe, and that it is only necessary to present field yesterday, the General accepted the
Corpus throughout the whole extent ol the nlong ordered h - m to dcsist whicl J Samb f : to the people clearly the issues between us nomination in a speech of great length. He
refused to do so. asserting at once the privi- and the other party which controls the action commenced his speech with a defence of Con-
lege guaranteed by the Civel Rights bill.— of Congress, and, gentlemen, is not the object gress and its acts and a severe attack upon
Hereupon the chivalrous General"undertook • < or which we arc contending, a consumuia- the President, saying that Johnson became
to coerce the arrogant darkey, who, on the tion worthy of our highest and most devoted President by the hand of an assassin, whose
other hand, “couldn’t see it.” A skirmish efforts to bring back the republic, punhed and heart was black and braiu was diseased with
ensued, and alas! our gallant General was strengthened by the fiery ordeal through the desire to perform some great act for the
most wofullv used up, retreating in a demor- which it has passed, to its ancient prosperity benefit of traitors and treason. He became
alized condition, dismav-d and disgusted and power; to present to the world an exam- President in that way by the act OI this man
with free niggers. Southern plantations and pie worthy of imitation—no Utopian vision Booth, and most faithfully lias he performed
all. He tolil some of the members that he of good government, but the grand old real- his duty by that only constituent who made
half expended thirty thousand dollars in start- >‘y of tho better times, bringing up the mem- hm. President. After appealing to the Con
ing the cotton planting adventure, lmt would ory of our fathers and the recollections ot the venW to stand by Congress, be passed to
give it lip. He said that lie had “fou'dit past, and with the past and future msepara- tiro platform. Tho issue on which the .con-
four years to make the nigger free, aud now blv entertained—one country, one flag, onei. test i» to bo fought, is the constitutional
a willing to fight the remainder of his life- Union of equal States. [Long continued ap | amcna^jut. AU^mcn Jzwra. should
relation to disfranchisement of rebel officials
civil and military, the only lault he had to
find with the amendment was that it does not
go far enough. He was opposed to the re
peal of the iron-clad oath, and would sit and
starve in Congress before lie would give his
consent to its repeal. The South should be
grateful for our proposition in relation to the
national debt. \\ e propose to protect them
from paying their debts to England, who as-
sisted them to go into the rebellion and gave
them encouragement, nnd trusted them for
her pay. We propose to protect them, by
saying to these English holders of rebel bonds:
“Gentlemen, you can't collect any such debts
as those.” We propose to protect the South,
and in return tlie South will have to help us
pay our debts. When you do all these things
you may be represented in Congress, but un
til you consent to do them you cannot be. It
may be five years, and it may be more, and if
it was left to me I would say:—“Until you
adopt the constitutional amendment, if i’t is
forty years, you shall not come in.”
Tiie speaker felt alarm at what was going
on in reference io the future. He believed
that Andrew Johnson, when he was inaugu
rated Vice President, by his own conduct lost
the confidence of his party. Believing that,
and looking at all that had happened since,
he (General Logan) came to this conclusion.
When all things were created, in the creation
it was necessary to have animals for all kinds
of work, and when the Almighty looked
around for. a demagogue he found Anflrew
Johnson and made him. Thereupon Andrew
Johnson began to look around to see what he
could do to make his calling and election
sure. He said to himself: ‘hi cannot be
nominated again by the people who nomina
ted me, before. I must figure up a plan of re-
nomination by another party.” Hence he got
up a policy to create a breach between him
self and Congress. By this means he would
get the sympathy of the democracy and con
struct a now party, go before the people and
be re-elected. When nominated the democ
racy will organize in the North and the South
and hold the election, and if wc fail to electa
President by the votes of the North, and he
fail to carry a majority of the United States,
he will declare himself the constitutionally
elected President. Be assured that is what they
are aiming at, and when they do that, it will in
augurate another revolution nnd more blood
shed. The South understands this plan, and
we must deteat it by carrying every Northern
State as a unit. He was opposed to tempor
izing with the South. There was but one
way to treat with rebels. Take the torch in
one hand and the sword in the other, and
march to the music of the Union, with the
flag unfurled, aud sweep over their territory.
He had no sympathy for the leading traitors,
no commiseration for them. He could forget
no man who had lost his life and who had
been maimed in this war for the Union, and
he could forgive no man who had fought
against it. If elected to Congress, he would
carry out what he had said. He could not
forgive the South. Tlffire was no use in ask
ing” him to do it.' If he changed his princi
ples, he would give his constituents due time
and notice to elect another man in his place.
■ After an appeal to the Convention to go
home and go to work, the General concluded.
Many of Mr. Trumbull’s friends think that
Logan’s nomination for Congressman-at-large
withdraws him from the Senatorial track.
This is by no means certain. Senator Trum
bull was appointed Senator wliile holding a
similar position to Logan’s, and therefore pre
cedents are against him.
TUc Bank Tax ana Us Application
to Saving. Bonks.
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time to put him back into slavery again.”— plausc.] ; I ,c and Ykosc vUio C01 j 1L
Sic transit gloria amtmdi. General Dix then announced that pro- here should be made citizens if they can take
‘ ccedinffs would be opened with prayer. [Ap-1 the oath of allcguuicc. He was heartily in
wille
rillc?
and we now warn ■ competent clerks in that department, because
and nlistsin from ef- ; of tho failure of the bill increasing tlieir sal- percent,
_____ ceeding8 would be opened with prayer. [Ap-
gTThe tax valuation of the city of New plausc.]
York is $023,593,040, and of all other parts of The Rev. J. N. McDonald made the prayer
the State, $928,284,645. Total valuation of in which thanks were returned to God for
60 ■ the State $1,550,379,645. Tho city pays forty the blessings which the nation has enjoyed,
•- per cent, oi the-State tax. ’ more particularly in having been preserved
allegiance. lie was heartily
favor of naking negroes citizens. He .was in
favor of equalizing representation in Congress.
The South must have no more for its votes
thau the North. Representation must be “pen palsy”—caused by using
based on t^e actual voting population. In ing ink which contains arseni
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has written the following letter with respect
to the tax on Savings Banks:
Treasury Department,
Office cf Internal Revenue,
Washington, Aug.
Sir—Your letter of the 31st ult., is received.
Section 9 of the Act of 13th ult., provides
that every National banking association, State
bank, or State banking association, shall pay
a tax of ten per cent, on the amount of notes
of any person, State bank„ or State banking
association used for circulation, nnd paid out
by them after tlie 1st day of August, instant.
You inquire if savings banks are subject
to the tax thus imposed ? If the associa
tion in question is a bank or banking associa
tion ? If it is, 1 see no reason why the tax
docs not lie. The purpose of the laiv, as evi
denced by the amount ot tax, was unquestion
ably the suppression of State bank circulation;
and as saving bauks are not specially exclud
ed, it is just, and, in fact, necessary, to pre
sume that they arc included among the banks
liable to tax.
Banks are fully defined in paragraph ono
of section 79 of the law. It is there provided
that every incorporated or otliec bank, and
every person, firm or company, having a place
ot business where credits arc opened, by the
deposit or collection of money or currency,
subject to be paid or remitted upon draft,
check or order, or where money is advanced
or loaned on stocks, bonds, bullion, bills of
exchange or promissory notes, &c., shall be
regarded as a bank or as a banker.
It was necessary, it‘scems, In tlie opinion of
Congress, that in the paragraph here cited
savings banks should be specially exempted
by name, in order to relieve them of the spe
cial tax which takes the place of the license
tax, but no exemption in tlicfr lavor is made
in the 9th section now in question. The gen
eral provision of that section, therefore, must
fall upon all hanks, whether of issue or sav
ings. Very respectfully,
E. A. Rollins, Commissioner.
Generous Donation.—Mr. Henry B. bot
toms, upon whose place the battle of Pcrry-
ville was tought. and where so many gallant
Southern spirits yielded up their lives in the
cause of their country, has set apart a por
tion of the battip-field as a cemetery,, and at
his own expense lias put around it li substan
tial stone fence, and laid off the ground Hand
somely in squares and walks, anil planted
roses and evergreens within the enclosure.
♦as - - —
Sale of Point LooKotrr.-Tliis well-known
point, situated at the mouth of the Potomac
river, much resorted to previous to the. war
ns a summer resort, but which for some time
previous to the close of the conflict was used
as a prison for Confederate prisoners, liqs re
cently been purchased by a csmpuny of New
York capitalists, wlio design putting every
thing in first-rate repair by next season, with
view of using it as a watering place. The
price paid for the Point has not- been made
public, although it must have been quite
arge, ns during the time it was occupied by
tho Government upwards of half'a million of
dollars is said to have been spent in. putting
up buildings alone.
Fcnbbal of Dk. Dqsite.-—The remains of
Dr. A. P. Dostie were carried to their final
resting place yestenl t? morning at 11 o’clock.
There were but fifteen persons in attendance.
Four ladies, two Federal officers, seven citi
zens and two negroes. The hear *. five car
riages, a cab anil a buggy :.>r: . i the luce ral
cortege.—AT. 0, picayune, 7th.
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