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THE GEEOGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
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A MONSTER CP RlDEOrs METN.
“ P. W. A.,” in his letter on our first page,
hints broadly at the dangers to the South,
and to the whole country, that lie lurking
tiger-like, in the future, should the sway of
fanatical radicalism not be broken—they are,
The impeachment of the President, Negro
Suffrage throughout the South. The Confisca
tion of tlie property of Southerners. The ban
ishment or destruction of those in the South
opposed to radical measures and principles,
The complete alteration of the spirit and
form of our government, and, The inaugura
tion of a reign of terror which would whelm
the country and government in general
nnarcliy and ruin.
And why should we doubt the consumma
tion of results so in accordance with the
spirit of demonism that seems to control the
Radicals ? Has not Stevens in Congress pub
licly consigned us to Hell, there to be safely
uarded by bayonets? Has not Forney clam-
ia^UflilijaclrnrapI).
-p[ lf York Post says everybody
f&" .. on the September 3d Convention.
],,} fet?° —^l«»
-r* Gov. Jenkins left the Capital last
& (or the North, on business. He will
tVwhington City and New York, and
jj* absent shoot three weeks.
.fj, e president of the United States,
& nV with his Cabinet, will leave
it; C /3 t on, en route for Chicago, on the
instant, for the purpose of attending
, ledi<* t!on of tlie I)ou S las monument.
Uniiicins l>* Atlanta. The Atlanta pnii
11 inform us of the death of D. "W. Owen
F ffS entcrj ^ho was shot by John McMahon
* we Owen would not pay McMahon $5,
^ t0 him by a negro in Owen’s employ.
Qceks Emma, of th, Sandwich Islands, i- ( ore( i loudly forthe death of all Southerners?
; s \fsshinfjtcs. Secretary , war cx n u ' ^nd have not all the Radical papers been
invitation to her Majesty to become Jus
[ '"fjtfor the remaining time of her sojourn
? w hich will he until Monday. The in vi-
,tion was accepted, but was prevented by
illness of an attendant.
~3T The Baptist Central Association meets
j-Milledffevillo on Saturday next, 25th ia-
cjjnt.
' The members of the Milledgeville church
jtcml a cordial invitation to visitors mid
jelegites. Delegates coming by the tiain
iluv.ild arrive on Friday, and will be met. at
•he depot. Those arriving by private <*n-
vtjance should drive to the Baptist Chu rch.
gr The stunning effect ot the grand wc-
^ of conservatism at Philadelphia upon
the Radicals, is seen in the wretched attempt
, ht y ire making to break its force. That
Vallandigham and Wood declined to occupy
scats in the Convention, and that its declara
tion of principles is “general,” arc the only
cligaments” that have been yet presented
•gainst it.
The Proclamation of the President)
found elsewhere, is, says the National Intilli-
<n;nccr, in strict consistence with American
polity, and the recognized laws ot nations
touching neutral rights as between belliger
ents. This brutum fulmen of Maximilian,
under the circumstances, may have a deeper
significance than appears upon its face, for
he has not one iota of justification for his
course. But let results be what they may,
the President will as sternly maintain the
rights of the country as he will faithfully dis-
chatge bis sworn obligations to fully recog
nize those of others,
THE SPIRIT OF RADICADISM.
On tne night of the 16th, when “two
or three hundred’- roughs assembled beneath
the windows of Forney’s printing establish
ment. he made them a speech in which he
stigmatized the members of the Convention
u men “who, if they had their deserts, wonld
be rotting in unremembered graves.” Most
willingly would he and all those of his party
consign all who oppose radicalism to “nnre-
membered graves.” And we doubt not that
hid not sufficiently effective measures been
tiken. mnny a Southerner who sought Phila
delphia for the purpose of strengthening the
binds of fraternal concord, and shedding once
more over bur land the refreshing fxtimsof
peace nnd amity, would have found »cruel
crate.
Cotton Inspection Districts in Geor
gia—The new Internal Revenue law r jquires
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to
designate certain places in the cotton grow
ing regions of the South where the A sessors
and Collectors of Internal Revenue f hall re
pair to inspect cotton brought in by the
planters for that purpose. Acting < ommis-
sioner Holland has just commenced • o make
the designations required by the act in ques
tion. The following are the designs! ions for
the Fourth Collection District of C eorgia:
Mondays—West Point, Ringgold and Athens.
Tuesdays—Lagrange and Athens. Wednes
days—Ncwnanand Social Circle. Thursdays
—Palmetto, Kingston and Rome. F ridays—
Atlanta, Cartereville and Stone Mountain.
Saturdays—Jonesboro’ and Marietta.
Governor Orb, made a speech i i Phila
delphia, such as no high-spirited 8< uthemer
twelvemonth since would have dreamed
of uttering, but which the inexorable logic
of events has nevertheless brongbt a tout. In
that speech he makes the most pai is-taking
effort—an effort almost reaching a point
of humiliation— to convince Ills au
ditors that he adopts the Federal gov
ernment for his government, and fo • the gov
eminent of his children and grand -children,
and yet, because, in speaking of it to his
audience, and designating it as “ your gov
ernment and government,” the Radicals
affect to believe that he was alluding to the
Confederate government, and seek to throw
discredit on all his assertions, and likewise
upon the assertions of all Southerners. Such
is the unfairness, meanness and want of mag
nanimity of the Radicals.
Atlanta;—Says the New Era:
The spirit of improvement hereabout seems
to know no abatement. The “Opera House”
is to be a success. Three days ago a Board
of Directors, consisting of twelve gentlemen,
was elected by the stockholders, and now
from onr sanctum window we see a corps ot
workmen upon the spot, turning tip tlie soil,
and removing the rubbish, preparatory to a
beginning of the work. But more of that
hereafter.
* We ore to have a Street Railway! The
subject is being agitated—a meeting lias been
held—and no little interest manifested in the
scheme. Our corporato limits have so ex
panded that something of the kind is ren
dered absolutely necessary. Business men
and mechanics living upon the outskirts—for
our business has increased that it is only
upon the suburbs that private houses are be
ing erected—cannot pedestrian-us to the
trade centre. They must ride! For that
purpose a city railway must be built, and it
'fill be done! It is proposed to have it run
North and South—East and West—and to
be three miles in length.
HAVING GIVEN UP
All our available space to the address of the
Philadelphia Convention we have no room
for remarks. The “universal sentiment” con
cerning it, at Philadelphia, was that “it was
unanswerable in its logic, and unassailable in
its position.” All should give it a careful pe
rusal, for they will find it a noble paper fuff
of truth and generosity, eloquent in its state-
nients, just in its asseverations concerning,
tlie South, and scathing in its dcnunciation g (
of a wicked Congress.
HF" Resignation is a virtue that is never 1
®*de a necessity of—by Mr. Stanton. ;
papers
ever, like blood-hounds, yelling for tlie blood
of President Davis ? And have not disfran
chisement, confiscation and banishment, long
been household words with every Radical
paper ? Have we not, even in our own State
and at the neighboring village of Griffin,
paper which boldly advocates confiscation
and the disfranchisement, banishment and,
if need be, destruction of Southern “Rebels?'
Rebels !—Forsooth !
But look!
To what did radicalism bring the country ?
Once the country was peaceful, happy, pros
perous; but that fell spirit, set on fire of hell,
urged onward its devotees and so inflamed
the passions andjprejudices of men; that fire,
bloodshed and rain flooded the land, and
when an end came to tbo horrors of war, and
the fierce contestants themselves, who so ruth
lessly had sought to spread death and devas
tation, most gladly ceased from their cruel
work and hung up the implements of blood;
when the end for which so many sacrifices
had been made was attained, and men
breathed freely once more at the appa
rent dawn of a day of peace and joy
and prosperity; when the North and South
stood for a while motionless and expectant,
all prepared to extend and receive the band
of restored friendship, what spectacle did we
behold ? Why, up rises this same demon—
Radicalism —full of mean resentment, unfor
giving revenge and blood-thirsty diabolism,
and thrusting wide apart the two coalescing
sections, proceeds, with fiendish hand and
heart, to scatter abroad the seeds of discon
tent, alienation and animosity. So that,
’twas no great while before patriots beheld a
cloud blacker than ever before had lowered
over our country, looming up and threaten
ing to deluge the whole land with a woe so
fierce and dark and dismal, that
the past four dreary years of dark
ness in comparison seemed all sunshine.—
And then it was that they determined to meet
and see if measures could not be devised to
avert this storm—to stay a bloody war of
factions, and prevent the newly risen sun of
American gloiy from going down suddenly
in horrible gloom, and shrouding a continent
in a night of grief and dismay. They meet.
The Conservatives ot all shades rally around
the strained pillars of our Temple-of Liberty,
and there, band in hand, they swear to combat
the foul spirit of ruin; and there, in & spirit
of calm patriotic majesty, towering to a
height so great that the whole na
tion sees them and look! on in breath
less expectation and admiration, they
•end forth such words of truth and wisdom
for a nation’s guidance and instruction, that
the great heart of the people is made once
more to beat in unison big throbs ot hope and
brotherly kindness. But, while all arc rejoic
ing and scarce restraining the tear of patriot
ic fervor, at the glorious prospect of peace
nnd unity—twin suns—brightening skies of
late so fearlully overcast, there stands that
demon scowling in its wrath, jeering
in its mad folly, hooting in its spirit of
fiendish hate and unpatriotic insanity,
still shaking the quivering pillars of our Tem
ple of Liberty, still sowing the seeds of dis
cord and animosity, nnd still seeking
to spread abroad v “fire-brands, arrows and
death.” Malignants! They care nothing for
peace, amity, brotherhood, national greatness
and glory. They are yet bent on consummat
ing the fell ruin, which they hope will retain
them in peace nnd power, and permit them
—a Lncifer smiling amid ruins of desolation
and despair—to plant their foot upon the
neck of a prostrate people and crush out its
ifc.
That sensible and patriotic people at the
North should comprehend the animus of
such a party, and, foreseeing the destruction
contemplate, shudderingly unite to avert
so dread a calamity, is no great matter ot
wonder. Let them see that wc of the South
are willing to co-operate with them, and, re
ceiving the platform they havo enunciated
march on, shoulder to shoulder, with them,
to victory. Let us remember that all petty
fault-finding will but inure to our own injury
and that under our present circumstances it is
far heat to forget local prejudices, and, rising
to the height ot this great and momentous
occasion, show ourselves patriots indeed. Let
us strengthen the hands and encourage the
hearts of those great spirits who, amid the
anHrcby and confusion of party politics, when
they, too, might have sought the base rewards
it was in the power of success to confer, still
stood by the right, and determined to uphold
the Constitution Thus acting we shal 1 consol
idate every conservative element at the North,
and destroy that hideous Python which seeks
the life of our government and country.
For the Telegraph.
An Inquiry.
For-yth. Ga., Aug. 10, 1800.
Does tlie Mocking Bird sing during the
Dog Days, in this latitude ? This query, Mr.
Editor, if it can be nnswered in the affirma
tive, I would like to hive authenticated hy
tlie personal observations ofsome two or more
credible white persons “so called.” Two years’
close observation of the habits, manners and
morals of this favorite bird, on the coast of
the Gulf of Mexico, induce me to believe that
there lie never, during the period known as
Dog Days, breaks silence to imitate the speeeh
of liis neighbors of the same genus. I say
he, for ’tis the male bird only that is gifted
with such singular loquacity. The female is
silent, taciturn. "With true feminine grate and
propriety ,-he never speals, unlessshe has some
thing sensible to communicate. In this she is
a model to her sex. Moreover, she seems to
regard the garrulous, imitative loquacity of
her better half as a subject of ennui, and inti
mntes, by her sedate and dignified decorum,
that all his efforts to shoic off exhibit more
sound than sense. With all his din and rattle,
I like the fellow, if only for the pluck and game
he exhibits when larger birds offer him per
sonal insult, or prowl about his domestic cir
cle. Woe to the hawk, owl, crow or jackdaw
that intrudes upon his domain, when he gets
him on the wing. The Gulf coast, where the
sea-eagle has his eyrie, is the only place
where I have ever heard the mock-bird
imitate tlie clear, shrill, frightful scream
of the King of Birds, and when perched
on a tall cedar overhanging the bayou,
he will do it so perfectly as to alarm a
school of myriads of sea-mullet basking
on the surface of the wave, they with a simul
taneous plunge all seek the deep below. This
little bird never pursues and pounces upon
the eagle when on the wing laden with the
booty taken in open sea, that be is bearing to
his domicil in the far off highlands: and in re
turn for this act of magnanimity the noble
eagle never is inquisitive or curious, like oth
er birds of prey, about the business or con
cerns of the mocking bird.
• I do not know that they have any commu
nication with each other, but they seem to
entertain a mutual respect If they are never
allies they are at least quiet and civil neigh
bors. But, I woilld like to know, if ever, in
this latitude, the mocking bird is heard to
speak out—or sing, if you please—in the dog-
days. P.
[Will some of our readers, whether country
man or city folks reply to P. ?]
Bale of Cotton for the President.—
The Washington Republican of the 16th inst.
noticing-the arrival of the bale of cotton from
Georgia, says: The President was yesterday
the recipient of a bale of cotton, the first re
ceived in the market of Macon, Ga., from the
peopls of that city, in token of their appre
ciation ot the wise and statesmanlike policy
which he is pursuing on the great question of
restoration. The loyal masses of the entire
South are with the President, and were it
not for the devastating effects of war, and
the general poverty of the Southern people,
he wonld receive from them far more substan
tial assurtinces of their endorsement of his
policy of union and restoration.
The “ Radical Soldiers” of Missouri
held a convention at St. Louis on the 11th
instant. Gov. Fletcher, Gen. Logan, and oth
er distingnished Radicals being present, and
declared in favor of unrestricted negro suf
frage, denounced President Johnson very bit
terly, nnd among other resolutions, adopted
the following:
Resolved, That it belongs to the victors
and not to the vanquished to dictate tlie terms
of restoration; that the rebellious States have
no right to representation until they comply
with snch conditions as the loyal people,
through Congress may prescribe,- and that
the public safety nnd honor require that no
such State be restored to representation until
its government is controlled by loyal men
and not by rebels.
have the people enligbted with respect to 1 one hundred thous:
the results of the recent Congress. Hereto- eminent,
fore it lias been the custom enjoined, hy res
olution of Congress to prepare a list of the
appropriations made for general promulga
tion. Now. however, the clerk in charge of
that branch of service, by consent ol tlie
Clerk of the House of representatives, has
been permitted to carry the books and re
cords to Illinois, and prepare them at his
leisure, with an injunction r.ot to close liis
labors prior to tlie autumn elections. The
enormous amount and the character ot many
of the appropriation* prompt the managers
to keep the truth from the public. Such in
terference should be signally rebuked.
“Long” John Wentworth, of Illinois, who
is craving a renomination for Congress from
the Chicago (Ill.) District, has played a bi,
Buncombe card, and instructed the pay offi
cer of Congress to appropriate his two-thou
sand “extra” to the education of the children
of the soldiers of his District Jahn has a bi,
pile of corner lots, and displays a big figure
on the list of heavy incomes, and though look
ing wishfully cn the prize, he ii aiming to
manufacture capital to aid him in his Scnato
rial aspirations.
The commission as Collector of Customs
id dollars from the gov--
All those iu the several Executive Depart-
For the Telegraph.
A Relief Question.
Messrs. Editors:—I notice in the Athens
Brown & Cutler.—We call special atten
tion to the card of these gentlemen, which
will be found in our columns this morning.-
They are doing a Commission business in New
York, and offer to make liberal advance
ments on consignments. The references they
give, and their well-known character war
rant us in highly recommending them to all
those who may desire tho agency of commis
sion merchants in New York.
Special Correspondence of the Telegraph.]
Letter from Washington.
Good.—The declraation ol the President
that the appointees of the Government must
support it is a good one. lie owes it to him
self, his cause and the cause of truth and
justice, and to the entire South, to see to it
that the administration does not pet and
pamper those who oppose it in every word
and act A slight difficulty which lias been
in his way will soon be obviated, and he will
then show his non-supporters how he will
treat them, for the Attorney General has near
ly completed an claborato opinion on the au
thority of the President to appoint to office
during the recess- ot Congress persons who
have been rejected by the Senate. Tlie point
has been raised by certain Radicals who arc
disposed to contest the President's authority
in this respect. The Attorney General will
show, in an exhaustive argument, that both
tlie law and tlie practice since the foundation
of the government affirm the existence of
this prerogative with the executive. Tills
will prove his right to to remove one man
and appoint another—and he will assert his
right.
£sThomas J. Turner, late chairman of
the “ Republican Union ” State Central Com
mittee of Illinois, has re-signed his position as
-neb, and declared that he is in lavor of the
President'* policy ot restoration.
Washington, Aug.- 15th, 1866.
Norman Eddy, Esq., formerly a Democratic
member of Congress from Indiana, has been
commissioned to succeed a Radical as Collec
tor of Internal Revenue from Speaker Colfax’s
district. I* is not intended to permit the
“Across tlie Continent” Speaker to have tlie
Federal patronage to aid him in the ensuing
campaign. H. C. Bowen, editor of the New
York Independent, another malignant denun
ciatory sheet, has also been removed from the
position of Collector of Internal Revenue.
Several ot the real an<i substantial friends
of the freedmen who have been huddled here
in a condition of abject destitution, have, (in
view of the coming inclement season, which
would aggravate the sufferings of this unfor
tunate race^l busied themselves in procuring
them employment in the several States, nnd
large numbers are daily leaving tor their new
homes.
The Postmastership here is at present in
the possession of Sayles J. Bowen, a rabid Ja
cobin and President of the Equal Suffrage As
sociation. Having received an intimation
from a reliable quarter that he is to he re-
moved, and a conservative who is m political
sentiment with the citizens appointed, he has
proclaimed that (after the style of Collector
Thomas, of Philadelphia,) he will rebel
against the authority of the appointment, ar
guing that bis removal must be with the con
sent of the Senate. The President is not to
be checked in his administrative functions by
such ebullitions of spleen emanating from
such imbecile sources.
A clerk in the Treasury Department named
D. H. Bingham, who, during the session of
Congress, neglected his legitimate duties to
lend himself to the Reconstruction (!) Stevens’
Committee in manufacturing material tor the
election campaign, has been removed. His
whole time can now be given to the dissemi
nation of incendiary campaign trash, without,
however, the Government pay which he has
been pocketing.
The rabid Forney press is lugubrious at
the aspect of an a valance defeat of its allies
in 3Iarylaml at the coming election. Gov.
Swann is acting heroically to secure the fran
chise privilege to the voters of that State,
and it is confidently predicted that an undi
vided conservative delegation will be retura-
.-,1 to the next Congress.
The Radical manager! are very loth to
has been issued and forwarded to ex-Provis
ional Governor Johnson, of Georgia.
The President is kept busy to day perusin;
the volumes of despatches forwarded him
from Philadelphia. The deliberations of the
Convention are characterized by great har
mony, and nothing has or will transpire to
mar the proceedings. The Piesident and his
Cabinet are jubilant at the certain inaugura
tion of a spirit which will put radicalism
among the things that were, and assure the
early adjustment of the National complica
tions, upon a lasting and constitutional ba
sis. Secretary Stanton is occupying rather
an equivocal attitude, one line is ascribed to
him to day, and another to-mjrrow; he is
evidently anxious to watch the current before
descending from bis dubious position.
The cohesive power of the public plunder
which in past years was freely quoted as the
mainspring of the old Democratic party, seems
to have been inherited by the Radical Jaco
bins, who have been ruling with an bon rod
in the Legislature of the country. Judge
Edmonds, just dismissed from the Iterative
responsible and dignified "position of Com
missioner of the General Land Office, aa office
conferred by the President, and sanctioaed by
the Senate, ha3 accepted the suborlinate
position of Postmaster of the Senate it the
hands of the Sergeant-at-Arms. Whit
descent!
The freedmen who have been luxuariating
upon the estate of Ex-Gov. Wise, on the east-
tern shore of Virginia, are being removed by
he proper authority, and that gentleman
placed in possession of liis property.
All certificates of deposit for temporary
loans to the Government, must be presented
to the offices from whence issued, on or be
fore the 26th instant;—the Secretaiy has giv
en notice that interest on the same will cease
after that date.
Gen. Howard, of the Freedmen’s Bureau, is
much disconcerted at the report made by
Generals Steedman and Fullerton, of their
observations when Sonth, anticipating the
character of the report from his knowledge
of the actual condition of thing!, he sent a
secret agent in their track, who his returned
and an attempt is being made on the authori
ty of his statement to do away with the
prejudice which their truthiu.’ report has
created.
Potomac.
Washington, Aug. 17, 1866.
Never has a body met and deliberated with
such auspicious promises of good results as
the late Conservative Constitutional National
Convention at Philadtlphia. All who
reach here, both delegates and citizens, unite
in ascribing to the assembled members a spir
it of the most conciliatory, gratifying and
compromising cast They regard the move
ment inaugurated by the tody as one which
will pervade every sectior of the land, and
spread its benign and salatary influence
among the masses, obliterating all vestiges of
the revolutionary cabal vhich by unconstitu
tional process, and unscnpulousness has well
nigh sapped the foundation of the Republic.
All came together, actuated by the one com
mendable purpose of igniring past party dis
tinctions,' and bending their energies to
crush out the malignant enemies of the coun
try, who arc seeking te estiblish a centralized
despotism. A strict observance of the Con
stitntion. unalloyed patriotism and oblitera
tion of sectionalism, were the distinguishing
traits of all who participated. It is the pur
pose to combat the enemits of the Constitu
tion and a restored Union, in the pending
elections, by arraying all cindidates upon the
fair and sqnare platform of national unity
and conservatism. Hoi. H. Clyiner,
heretofore nominated by a Democratic Con
vention for Governor of Peinsylvania, with a
patriotic impulse and magnanimity which
does him credit, has intimated to his friends
the fitness and propriety of conducting the
canvass in liis State on the new basis, and is
willing to step aside and allow a newly cho
sen Convention to select a new candidate.
Should this be done, he is sure to receive the
nomination.
It will require twenty millions of dollars to
liquidate the temporary loan, upon which in
cerest ceases on the 20th inst. Not much of
the amount, however, will go into tho circu
lation of the country, as the holders gener
ally are asking to be reimbursed in five-twen
ty and ten-forty bonds.
It is urged upon the Secretary of the Trea
sury to make frequent sales of gold coin as it
accumulates. An indisposition to accede to
the request exists by reason of the troubled
coadition of European affairs.
The fostering protection awarded to the
destitute freedmen and refugees of the South
is about to be withheld, leaving this class to
the care of the local authorities In the several
States. It must be that the cost of erecting
school-houses, employing new emissaries, &c.,
has absorbed too much of tlie fund appropri
ated to admit of giving out more food and
raiment.
The current rumor that Gen. Lew. Wallace
had arrived at Mexico with troops and sup
plies, to take part in the revolutionary work
being enacted there, is dispelled by the fact
he is now in this city. The rumor doubtless
grew out of the fact that a secret expedition
was about to sail,from New York for Mexico.
Lewis D. Campbell still remains here, tlie
the government declining to prepare his in
structions pending the unsettled condition of
the Mexican country.
Ex-Senator Hamlin and Senator Fessenden,
of Maine, having a love for nepotism, have
foisted their families so extravagantly upon
the government, that both families draw full
policy, whilst the rabid Jacobins hay® be-1 by convening the Legislature, or by calling a
come dumb as oysters, assuming a quasi ac- I Convention of the people of the State.” And
quiescence in the policy ot the President, thev "furthermore invite our fellow-citizens of
with the hope of sti’l holding on to the high every county in the State to hold meetings in
positions which they have so much abused.— ; their respective counties to co-operate with
The Ostrich will hide its head in the aand, i us in adopting tlie best means to give tempo-
thinking that its entire body is shielded. ; rary relief to pur ruined and oppressed coun
The malignant, incendiary, and mob inci-! try! And that it isfurtliermore resolved, That
ting, speech of Forney, the fugleman of Thad-1 if our Government and the Legislature fail to
deus Stephens, et id omne-genus, and the give relief, that the body of the people of the
lieved comprise nearly all the appropriation
acts. legislative, executive and judicial ser
vices, $23,412,550; civil and miscellaneous
, ... ..... service, $3,729,048: collecting revenue from
Diems v»no were fistriclo .lie politico! jodcCj • Bonner tlie proceedings of o nipptino* of tlie > a < .
,, . * 4 ■■■ . ! .. . i' lu vceuingB oi n meeting oi me customs, $4,200,000: diplomatic service.
well as those n ha were rabid and denuncia- citizens of Jackson, county, “for the purpose $1,405,400; Indian service, $3,971,557; naval
tory anti administration men prior to the late : of devising means for the relief of the peo-! service, $18,004,007: military service, $44.-
Convention, have undergone a complete met- j pie.” “ Petitions and resolutions were unnn- 1 ~ 3 ‘> 000 i pensions, $15,440,000; reward for
umorplrisis. The astride men have jumped : imously adopted,” calling upon the Governor 1 fo?Srfci2ekTJ«fl5 MOMtobd «l“"oC5 307*
down, and are lavish in the advocacy of “ my , of Georgia to grant the desired relief, “either I This does not' include amount.*necessary to
pay the bounties under the recent bounty
law, for which no amount is given, and there
are numerous other appropriations made to
which no sums are affixed. The Trcsurcry
already estimates the amount required "under
the bounty act at from $60,000,000 to $200,-
000,000, and the other objects for which no
special amounts are given at from $100s000
to $600,000. Among the items in the civil
appropriation bill is one directing the pay
ment nut of the commissary fund arising tram
the draft, which now amounts to about
$12,000,000. the sum of three hundred dol
lars for each slave who either enlisted or
was drafted in the military service to
be paid to the loyal ownen of slaves. Tho
benefits of the bill are confined to the slave
States represented in Congress in 1864. Tlie
amount necessary to make the payment will
be about $10,000,000. The Commissioner
appointed hy the Secretaiy of War to make
rules for the payment of bounties have not
yet concluded their work, but it is understood
they will make the swindling of soldiers and
tliose entitled to the money a very uphill bu
siness. The Commissioner is now discussing
the feasibility of a plan recommended by the
Postmaster General, for tho sending of pay
masters in each congressional district, and
there distribute to each claimant the specified
bounty. This proposition meets with warm
opposition, as the inability of every soldier to
correctly prepare his record of papers and tho
necessary expense of bringing two witnesses
from a distance to testify before the paymas
ter. will lay the Eoldier liable to a class of
swindlers so numerous during the days of
substitutes. State agents arc urging that the
money DC Collected hero, an,l flint as the State
records are necessary to be searched m many
cases, special provisions be made in cases
where they file papers endorsed by the official
seal of their State.
"Washington, Aug. 17.—The following has
been issued by the President of the United
States:
Secretary of the so-called U. S. Senate, deliv
ered in Philadelphia, during the Convention,
to a band of ruffians, seems to have brought
forth its desired fruit in Baltimore. A con
servative Convention was held in that city
last evening, at which a candidate for the
Mayoralty was nominated, when a committee
was appointed to apprise him of his nomina
tion. On leaving tho hall for the purpose,
they were assailed by a band of hired ruffians
in the interest of the Jacobin clique, who
deprecate so much Memphis and New Orleans
mobs. They were, however, driven off in
confusion. Potomac.
For the Telegraph.
Interesting Letter front P. IV. A.
Philadelphia, Aug. 16th, 1866.
The Great National Union Convention has
concluded its labars and adjourned. An of
ficial copy of its proceedings will reach you
with this brief letter—at all events, in a few
days. The greatest harmony and good feel
ing continued to characterize the action and
intercourse of the delegates : abundant evi
dence of which you will find in the results
attained by the Convention. Indeed, many
Northern delegates, and especially such
had been connected with the Fed
eral army, were more liberal and
considerate and just, I regret to say, than
some of the delegates sent from the South. I
found this to be specially true as regards the
Committee ot two from each State and Ter
ritory appointed to prepare and report reso
lutions, and an address for the adoption of
the Convention. I was a member ot that
Committee, which numbered nearly one hun
dred, and also of the sub-committee of thir
teen, who were especially charged with the
duty of drawing up the address and
resolutions. I refer to these minor mat
ters for the purpose of adding that
but forthe thoughtful magnanimity of North
ern members of the sub-Committee, the re
sults arrived at might, and' probably would
have been less satisfactory to the delegates
from the South. It is not necessary to call
names, but it may be suggested that it will
not be amiss in the future for the Southern
people to exercise the greatest care in the se
lection of persons to represent them, in any
public assembly of a national character.—
What is here stated, or rather hinted, does
does not apply in any respect to any delegate
State take this matter into their own hands,
by holding meetings in every county in the
State, for the purpose of choosing delegates
to a Convention to relieve themselves.”
It is deeply to be regretted, Messrs. Editors,
that the condition of “ our ruined and op
pressed country” is such as to render such an
appeal as the above necessary. The Legisla
ture, at its last session, passed a stay law by
a constitutional majority over the Governor’s
veto, which was elaborately and ably
argued before the Supreme Court at its
late seision in Milledgeville, but that Court,
from motives known only to itself, has failed
to make public its decision upon this law,
leaving the people in doubt whether the law
will be sustained or not. It is due public
opinion—due the public welfare, safety and
happiness of the people of tlie State that the
opinion of the Court should be made public
on this important ]»w. If its constitutional
ity has been sustained by the Court, let it bo
made known, that the minds of the people
may rest at ease upon this subject; or if it
has not been sustained let the people know
the worst, that they may be prepared to shape
their course accordingly.
But whilst the Court did not make public
its decision upon this law, it did make known
its opinion upon another issue before it,
which involved momentous consequences to
the people of Georgia, as well as the other
slave holding States, and which, in the opin
ion of many of the ablest legal minds of the
State, did great injustice to a large portion
of the unfortunate debtor class of our coun
try. The Court decided that debts due for
slaves, purchased before emancipation, and
which were “warranted slaves for life,” were
binding, and should be collected. This de
cision was made upon the assumed
ground that a “warranty of slaves for life” re
ferred only to the existing status of the slave
at the time of sale, and not to his future con
dition or status. The Court also held that,
in such cases, the loss must fall on the party
in whom the legal title vested at the time of
emancipation. This latter view is doubtless
correct where there has been no failure of con
sideration of the warranty. But as this in
volves a legal question, too elaborate tor ar
gument in this communication, I will waive
it for the present. But, if what I learn he
true, the Court did not maintain its consis
tency on this point. I am informed that the
from Georgia.
The resolutions and address give perfect ( Court ! tt,so decided (but which decision lias
satisfaction to the delegates from the North.
That is exceedingly important, since it is in
the North that the great battlo tor our rights
is soon to be fought. They are not perfectly
satisfactory to some ef the delegates from the
South. There are certain terms and phrases
in the address, as well as certain portions
ot some of the resolutions, to which exception
is taken; but all agree that both are much
better than they feared they would be. An
earnest effort will be made in the Convention
to so frame the resolutions and address
as to make them as nearly satisfactory as
possible to the supporters of the President in
all parts of the country. While, therefore,
they did not in all their parts receive the
unanimous support pf the Southern delegates
either in the Committee or in the Convention,
yet as a whole the delegates do not hesitate
to commend them to the favorable considera
tion and acceptance of the Southern people.
In many respects they are admirable, both in
spirit and matter. Portions of the address,
referring to the courage, high spirit, and hon
orable deportment of the Southern people
since the close of the war, were requi
red to be read over twice to the
Convention, and were applauded in the most
enthusiastic manner by the Northern dele
gates and the vast audience assembled.
With this address and these resolutions
Northern gentlemen feel confident that the
conservatives will be able to carry this State
next October, and add largely to the conser
vative delegation in Congress. I may add,
that the conservatives of the North are in
dead earnest at last. They see the danger,
and appreciate its magnitude. They frankly
admit that if they do not succeed in the Fall
elections, the country will be lost—that the
President will be impeached—that negro
suffrage will be forced upon the
not been made public), that in the case of a
debt contracted in another State, by a citi
zen of this State, for the purchase of ‘Slaves
for life” and upon which slaves the creditor
retained a mortgage lien, that such debt was
binding and should be paid, notwithstanding
the statute laws of the State where such pur
chase was made, expressly provided that the
title, to property mortgaged, rests in the
mortgagee, and not in the mortgager, uutil
the debt is paid and that the Supreme Court
of said State lias held this to be the law,
Now, as the Court held, in the first stated
case, that, upon the emancipation of the
slaves, the loss attached to the party in whom
the title legally vested, upon what ground
of law, equity, justice, or common sense, is
this latter decision based ? But as it is my
purpose only to state and not argue these de
cisions, I will not elaborate them here.
By the Constitution our Ccarts arc made
tlie legal expounders of law and Adminis
trators of Justice. If they fail to sustain
these cardinal principles of Government, to
the full extent of their intent and meaning;
if they, through the authority vested in them,
pervert justice into oppression, wbat alter
native is left the people ? Let the fearful
revolution through which we have just pass
ed answer the question, and be a warning to
those who flagrantly disregard the rights and
meek at the calamities of “our ruined and op
pressed country.”
But as the writer lias ever been conserv a-
tive in his views, I am no advocate for ex
treme measures until all peaceful remedies
have been exhausted. I would, therefore, in
response to the suggestions of the good peo
ple of Jackson county, recommend meetings
of the people in all the counties ot the State,
to petition and memorialize the next Legis
lature for adequate relief, and, if the powers
Sonth—that neither person nor property in i vested in the Legislature be inadequate to
the excluded States will be safe, and that the
spirit, if not the form of the Government,
will be completely changed. It was for this
reason that Southern delegates were anxious
that the action of the Convention should be
such as the cxgencies of the situation seemed
to call for, and it is for the same reason tlia
they hope that the results arrived at will be
received with favor by the people -of the
South.
I may state one other fact, which vour
readers will be rejoiced to hear. The “iron-
ribbed Democracy” of the North have at last
become satisfied that the only hope of saving
the country and rescuing the Government
from the hands of the Radicals is, by a hearty
union with conservative men of all parties
under the new organization. Vallandigham
and the Woods, with their friends, have come
into the movement, and henceforth all mode
rate and anti-Radicnl men in the North will
pull harmoniously together. This is a most
important result.
Mr. Stephens and his brother, Judge Ste
phens, delegates from Georgia, did not arrive
until last night, having been detained on the
ay by the illness of the former. Mr. S. was
unable to attend the session of the Conven
tion to-day.
I go back to New York to-morrow.
P. W. A.
sr v innie Ream, to whom Congress has
oted ten thousand dollars for a statue ofLin-
>ln. is a rather handsome young woman,
ho ha3 extraordinary powers of persuasion
through lobby appliances. So far as known,
she has never accomplished a single work of
art which will stand criticism.
meet the emergency, to provide for the call
of a State Constitutional Convention, at as
early a day as practicable, that such changes
may be made in our organic law as may meet
the views of, and provide the necessary rem
edies for our oppressed and suffering people.
I may, in other numbers, more fully argue
the questions presented.
Bum.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Opinions from the Attorney General—Cot
ton Frauds—The Assassin Rewards
Ready lor Payment—Custom House
at Charleston—Public Build
ings South.
Washington, Aug. 17.—The Attorney Gen
eral has nearly completed an elaborate opin
ion on the authority of the President to ap
point to office during the recess of Congress,
persons who have been rejected by the Sen
ate. The point has been raised to contest
the President’s authority in this respect. Tlie
Attorney General will show by an exhaustive
.argument, that both law and practice since
the foundation of the Government, affirm the
existence of this perogative with the Execu
tive.
Affidavits have been filed at the Executive
Department, charging Cuthbgrt Bullet, U. S.
Marshall of Louisiana, with complicity in
cotton frauds in that State.
The drafts in payment of the awards made
to the captors of the assassins, Booth, Atze-
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, a war is existing in the Republic
of Mexico, aggravated by former military in
tervention; and
Whereas, the United States, in accordance
with their settled habits and policy, are a
neutral power in regard to the war which
thus afflicts the Republic of Mexico; and
Whereas, it has become known that one of
the belligerents in the said war, namely, the
Prince Maximilian, who asserts himself to be
Emperor of Mexico, has issued a decree in
regard to the port of Matamoias and other
Mexican ports which are in the occupation
and possession of another of the said bellig
erents, namely, the United States of Mexico,
which decree is In the following words:
“The port of Matamoras, and all those of
the northern frontier which have withdrawn
from their obedience to the Government, are
closed to foreign and coasting traffic during
such time as the empire of the law shall not
be therein reinstated.
“Article 2. Merchandise proceeding from
said ports, on arriving at any other where the
excise of the empire" is collected, shall pay
the duties on importation, introduction and
consumption, and on satisfactory proof of
contravention shall bo irremissibly confis
cated.
Our Minister of the Treasury is charged
with the punctual execution of this decree.
“Given at Mexico this, the 9th day of July,
1866.”
Whereas, tho decree thus recited by declar
ing a belligerent blockade unsupported by
competent military or naval force is in viola
tion of the neutral rights of the United
States as defined by the law of nations, as
well as of the treaties existing between the
United States of America and the aforesaid
United States of Mexico.
Now, therefore, I, Andrew. Johnson, Presi
dent ot the United States, do hereby pro
claim and declare that the aforesaid decree
is held and will be held by the United States
to be absolutely null and void, as against
the government and citizens of the United
States.
That any attempt which shall be made to
enforce the same against the government and
citizens of the United States will be dis
allowed.
In witness whereof, I havo hereunto set my
hand, and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, the seven
teenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
eighteen hundred and sixty-sixth, and of the
independence of the United States of Ameri
ca the ninety-first.
[Signed] Andrew Johnson.
Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State.
- 3Ir. Davis’ Health.—The Fortress Mon
roe correspondent of the Herald, under dace
August 18th, says:
Some apprehension regarding the health
and physical well-being of Jeff. Davis evi
dently begins to be felt in Washington as
well is here, with a show of determination to
avert the catastrophe of his dying a prisoner
in the government's keeping, and thus becom
ing idealized into a martyr. Assistant Sur
geon General Crane and Dr. Simpson, Assist
ant Surgeon United States Army, arrived here
yesterday morning to take a professional look
at the State prisoner and make an official re
port thereon to the President. These getlc-
men return to Washington to-night, and of
course will not divulge in advance the report
they purpose making. Tlie tone of their ob
servations on the subject, I am told, however,
strongly justify the inference of a firm con
viction on their part, that his extreme delica
cy of health and marked failure of the vital
forces will not admit of his being much
longer kept in prison, except at the immi
nent risk iif sacrificing his life to the hazard
ous experiment. It is understood that this
report has been called for through recent ap
plications by Mr. Davis' counsel lor his parole
or release on bail, and with a view to contro
vert or substantiate the statements regard
ing his health, upon which such application
is made.
Cholera in Savannah.
P The Savannah Herald says: “ It gives us
pleasure to state that this disease has not,
thus far, assumed in our city even the sem
blance of an epidemic form. The few spora
dic cases of daily occurrence are mostly con
fined to the negro population on the outskirts
of the city, ana are traceable to superindu
cing causes which can only be removed by a
thorough, but, perhaps, impracticable refor
mation of the loose habits of the class upon
which it preys.
It is gratifying to know"that in tho interior
portions of tlie city, where sanitary rules are
intelligently and rigidly observed, cases are
of exceedingly rare occurrence, and no fears
are entertained that it will assume a malig
nant type.”
Ei?“Thc more sensible and candid portion
of the Radical press do not attempt to jeer
at the National Convention, but find in it a
cause for serious reflection. The N. Y. Sun
says:
When men like Thomas Ewing, of Ohio,
come forth from a political retiracy of a quar-
JdE?“A Saratoga correspondent of the Troy
Times says that "Dostie was a native of this
place, liis father being a well-known barber,
and afterwards Indian doctor, who lived here
until some four or five years ago. Do.-tie
was brought up very poorly, and worked
litre many years as a barber.”
rot, Paine and Harrold, are now ready for ter « century, and when men like Astor,
lelivery to the claimants at the Treasury of-
fi;e. The whole sum amounts to about $130 -
000.
Tlie new Custom House built at Charleston:
S. C., which was destryfcd during the war,
has been contracted for. It will cosi $200,-
000.
Since the termination of the war, the Con
structing Engineer and Board of the Treasu
ry department have planned for an expendi
ture of $.5,000,000 in repairs and construc
tion of public buildings South.
York, August 18.
Stewart and Vanderbilt, representing our
great financial and commercial interests—
when such men, we say, announce their will
ingness to join hands with tho Democratic
party iu-a political movement, the importance
of that movement must be admitted. The
Philadelphia Convention, therefore, will ne-
Ci s<arily exert a powerful political influence.
Whether that influence shall be good or bad
remains to be seen,'and will depend, of course,
upon the conduct of the Convention and the
principles which it shall adopt.
New York, August 18.—A Tribune special < ^ -» -»
ays the following" are the principal amounts ! One of the very latest styles of ladies
appropriated by the last Congress : For the j hats now worn is called the “ butter ciish.”—
services of the Government, as appear by j They are a cross between a snapping turtle's
the acts already published, which it is be- shell and a. wash pan. and are “so nice."