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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
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J5F” There were forty-five Northern Gen
erals, end ubout an equal number of South
ern officers, in the Philadelphia Convention.
Gesf.rai. Bkaurkoard.—A Paris letter
states that General Beauregard has declined
every offer that has been mnde hint abroad,
and that it is his intention to return to New
Orleans aa soon as the mission upon which
he was sent has been completed.
Special Correspondence ot the Telegraph.]
Letter from Washington.
'Washington, 34th Aug. 1800.
The peace proclamation which is about to
be promulgated by the President, will declare
among other things, that by virtue of the act
which passed Congress in the early stage of the
war, increasing the pay of soldiers from $11
to $13 during the war, and to cease at its
close, the pay reverts back to the origina
sum, peace being r.ow established by official
edict throughout the land. The clothing all
lowance in pursuance of the same law, is also
reduced to its original standard.
Major B. B. French, Commissioner of pub-
cluded a very large number of the wisest, j PROF. AGASSIZ’S DISCOVERIES,
best and most respected of our people. Ma-1
Situation Wanted.—Attention is invited
to the advertisement headed “Wanted,” by a
lady from Virginia, who deaires a situation i - - ... a-
is teacher, either in a private family or in a butldmgs, and by virtue of hts office at
public school. Trustees of a Seminary who the bead ot the Capitol police, made applica-
dcsire a competent teacher would do well to tion at the Treasury for the twenty per cent
correspond with the advertiser.
A meeting was held in Memphis on
Thursday to appoint a day for assembling
the citizens to ratify the Philadelphia Con
vention. General N. B. Forrest was chair
man. General Jordan was appointed one of
the committee. Saturday last was appointed
as the day of ratification by the county.
Hon. Gus. Henry was to be one of the speak
ers.
Massenbcrg, Son & Harris.—The old
quarters of this long established and success
ful firm of Druggists having proved inade
quate to their business demands, they have
removed to the large and commodious store-
Toom on the corner ot Cherry and Third, for
merly occupied by Asher Ayers, which they
are fitting up in handsome style. Their old
friends will not fail to find them, and we be
speak for the firm a business commensurate
with their merits.
additional pay accorded to the police under
the late act oi Congress. The First Comp
troller has decided that though vested with
the appointment and control of the police, he
is not a member of tlie force, and is therefore
not under tlie Iaw entitled to the entire com
pensation.
Sergeant Boston Corbett, whom it will be
remembered shot Booth when hemmed in the
bam in Virginia, was to-day paid, at the
Treasury, $1,353.84 being the amount award
ed to him from tlie fund appropriated for the
capture of the assassins.
By order of the Superintendent of the
Bureau of Refugees and Freedmen, rations
are to be withheld in the South after the
first of October, except to inmat«« of existing
hospitals and orphan asylums. The several
local authorities are to be officially informed
of this decision, so that they may prepare
to assume tbo burden heretofore sustained by
the General Government.
Gen’l Thomas is directed to muster out of
service all volunteers, both white and colored
in the Department of Tennessee.
The malignant opposition to the policy
established by the late National Convention
The President's Bale.—President John
son is said to be quite at a loss what to do
with the bale of cotton that has been sent nHH iiuiiw
him from Macon. Tne gift of the loyal resi-1 ja still persistently kept up. The Radical
dents of that town is fully appreciated, but | press have been much disappointed at the
how best to dispose of it is at present a puz- very general acceptance manifested by the
zling question. It is not unlikely, however, Southern press. The only exception taken by
that it may be lorwarded to the World’s Ex- tlie Southern press arose not from any pur-
position at Paris, where it would probably p 0 se to present any opposition to the new
attract as much attention as most of the movement, but only as designed to set forth
American articles that will there be exhib- the ample degree of concession which the
ited. Southern people had made on the altar of
peace and national unity.
The Convention Address.—The papers Though it is authoritatively promulgated
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state positively that Mr. Raymond was not t j, at tli e removal of the Postmaster, Collector
the author of the address published by the 0 f internal Revenue and other Federal offi-
National Convention. For his own sake, we cials in this District is already determined
hope he is not. A man with so much light upon, yet the dilatoriness of the President in
that could sin in his votes under oath in Con- appointing successors, is giving much annoy-
gress as Mr. Raymond has done, is not to be ance to the citizens, especially as the present
trusted in anything. Indeed, how Raymond incumbents are very objectionable because of
got inton Convention called to support the their extreme radicalism, irecly gulping down
policy of the President after his consistent ever y j sm 0 f the Jacobins.
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war upon nearly every feature of it, is a mys
tery.
As regards the authorship of the Address
it bears the ear marks of Mr. Seward, and
we set it down os his at the time we read it.
Gmoxi & Susini Italian Opera Troupe.
—Mr. Max Strakosch announces that he will
open tho season with the above-named troupe
in Baltimore, on September the 18th. The
season will begin with three nights in Balti
more, and from thence the troupe will travel
South, giving performances in Washington,
Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, Macon,
Montgomery and New Orleans, arriving at
the latter place on November the 5th. Re
turning, Mr. Strakosch will take in his way
Memphis, Nashville, St Louis, Louisville,
and other Western cities. The company
consists of Mme. Ghioni and Mile. Canissa
prima donna; Mme. Patti Strakosch, entral-
to; Signori Irire (late of Max Maretzck’s
troupe) and Errani, tencri; Signor Marra,
baritone; and Signori Susini and Coletti,
bassi. The chorus will consist of twenty-fivo
well-trained voices, and the orchestra, under
the direction of Signor Sarti, will be com
plete in all respects.
“NIGGERS” THANKFULLY RECEIVED.
As Greeley has proclaimed that “loyal
colored delegates,” are not only welcome, but
“anxiously desired” at the Philadelphia Rad
ical Convention, the invitation is not likely to
go unaccepted; indeed, excepting Tennessee,
no Southern State is likely to send a white del
egation, and in that way only can the crowd
be made up. The border States of the South
will no doubt be largely represented by gen
tlemen of color, though further South, where
the negroes, as a general rule, have more
good sense, they will probably stay at home
and let Radical politics alone. We congrat
ulate Jack Hambloton and Brownlow on
their new political associates, provided the
negroes should consent to sit in a convention
with the latter.
But why specify “loyal colored delegates” t
Does Greely really suppose that a part of the
colored population is disloyal—that is, justly
suspicious of the Northern knaves that would
6educe them to their ruin, and only wish to
breed trouble between the negroes and their
former masters that Northern white men may
get the places of the former t
envy.
The President and Cabinet, anxious to
work up the press of business now before
them, prior to leaving on the 29th inst, had
an unusually protracted session to-day. The
party will be absent two weeks.
The city is crammed with republicans who
have deserted radicalism, and enlisted under
the banner of conservatism. They are here
to intercede with the administration to oust
extremists from office, and procure the ap
pointment of another class of men. They
are fully successful; the appointment bureaus
of the several departments are kept actively
engaged.
Gov. Johnston, newly appointed Collector
of Customs for Philadelphia, has been noti
fied by CoL Thomas, the present incumbent,
that having consulted his Attorney, he has
relented of his original purpose to prevent
a factious opposition to the change, made by
the President, and that on the 31st instant, he
will transfer the occupancy to his successor.
Herculean efforts are being put forth by
both parties to secure a triumph at the ensu
ing Pennsylvania elections. The vigor and
alacrity of the canvass surpass any heretofore
seen. The importance of the issue is duly
appreciated, as the result in this great cen
tral State is expected to exert a controlling in
fluence in other localities. The friends of
Hon. H. Clymer, Conservative candidate for
Governor, forward assurances here that he is
gaining strength daily, and the Conservatives
promise themselves considerable Congression
al gains.
Injunctions have been secured against the
National Express Company, simultaneously
in several Northern cities, which are design
ed to paralyze the operations of this new en
terprise. It is demonstrated that a powerful
monopoly, jealous of this rival company, has
succeeded in getting a considerable amount
of stock in the hands of a party who seems
willing to lend a hand to crush out the new
enterpise. The community feel much in
censed at this conduct, and are determined to
aid the new enterprise by their patronage.
Potomac.
ny have been specially pardoned, but there
are thousands to whom executive clemency
has not yet been extended. These gentle
men have been kept for sixteen months in a
stite of the niost painful suspense. They are
completely at the mercy of Underwood, Bus-
terd and the rest ot those degraded men of
whom poor Lincoln, as a “big joke,” made
Federal District Judges. They are neithar
safe in life, liberty or property, while under
the ban of excommunication and outlawry.
A sword of Damocles hangs over the head of
each of these gentlemen, wnich is suspended
by a thread. Among these unfortnnate men
are to be found the most useful, talented and
energetic citizens of the South. Their ca
pacity for usefulness is completely destroyed
by the course of President Johnson. Their
energies are paralyzed, for they know not at
what moment a “packed” Grand Jury may
indict them, or that a greedy Marshal and a
hungry District Attorney may pounce down
upon their estates.
It is highly probable that all of these gen
eighteen hundrf.d new species of fish
found in brazil.
At yesterday’s meeting ot the National
Academy ot Science, in Northampton. Mx-
Prof. Agassiz spoke of the geographical dis
tribution of the fishes in the waters of the
Amazon. He found, when he went there,
that about one hundred and fifty species had
been described, and there was trustworthy in
formation that the greatest number seen was
not over two hundred and thirty, lie him
self had collected specimens of over eighteen
hundred Fpecies, and he was convinced that
the whole number of species was at least three
thousand.
The Professor spoke warmly of the facili
ties extended to him by the Government of
Brazil, the Amazonian Steamship Company,
and by every one whom he met, without
which he'-«ould have accomplished little.—
Even the fishermen were ordered by the May
ors or Presidents of the provinces to go fish
ing for him. Often five or six bonts would
of
tlemen may be eventually relieved, either by be about bis ship, bringing fish which had
the tedious process of special pardons, or by i been speared, siot with arrows, caught in
the sweeping provisions of a general amnes
ty. But it is not humane to play with them as a
cruel cat does with a captured mouse, which
is neither devoured nor set at liberty. The
delay is still less excusable, as these very
“unpardoned Rebels,” as the revolutionalists
delight to call them, have been invited by the
President to unite with nil other conservativs
men in putting down a most dangerous party
of disunionists and traitors which has grown
strong, dangerous and insolent since the col-
lnpse of the Confederacy.
The nation is now seriously menaced, and
its life placed in imminent peril, by the very
min who are invoking the President "to
make treason odious” by wholesale execu
tions and confiscations.
The Prcsident’6 most bitter, merciless and
unscrupulous enemies are the only persons
who arc pleased by his failure to grant a gen
eral amnesty. By this unfortunate delay he
is playing into the hands of those who are
savagely denouncing him and seeking to com
pass nis destruction.
The President has just placed himself at
the head of a great conservative party which
was organized to defeat the most strenuous
disunion and revolutionary advocates “ot
making treason odious.” Standing side by
side, and shoulder to shoulder with the North
ern Conservatives are hundreds of those lead
ing and representative Southern men, whom
the President most unwisely declines to par-
don.
Ia there any justice in cordially welcomin g
these gentlemeu into the ranks of the new
Union party, while they are still treated as
outlaws and Pariahs ? Are these able and
influential citizens expected to fight for “tho
Union and the Constitution" with halters
around their necks ? Is the President still
uncertain about the fate of those who, true
nets or with liookt, or poisoned. He thought,
therefore, that such a collection of fishes as
he had brought home, would not soon be
seen again. The Emperor of Brazil, return
ing from the army on the Paraguay, sent for
him to talk with him of the Amazon. Imag
ine his delight (he said) at finding the table
covered with dishes filled yritli the fishes ol
the Uraguary, which the Emperor himself
had gathered, and which he then gave him
lor comparison.
The knf'^fislies of the Amazon are more
thim the .1 fishes ot the Atlantic, while
the numbe* 8 1 1>e 'iatic birds is amazing. He
then spoke \ . . characteristics of our fisli-
'-••rid those olfree Amazonian fishes in com
Sarlpon; Tlie most dliarac reristic class is that
of the goniodouks, which corroepnnda to our
hompouts, but much more nearly to our
sturgeons. There is a kind of sturgeon in
the Mississippi river which is very closely al
lied to them. It is a family or tropical dis
tribution. It may be said it is not possible
these fishes migrate ? so that nothing could be
inferred from their presence in certain locali
ties only. He had foreseen this difficulty, and
had divided his party, making collections on
different parts ot the river for many months
at the same time; so that he felt that his
conclusions were not based on insufficient
knowledge.
Another family, which i~ quite numerous,
is that of tho siluroids. He knew of no lake
or small river in this country which furnished
more than sixty-two species. But in a very
small lake in Brazil he obtained three hun
dred species, and from larger lakes and rivers
lie procured still larger numbers.
The next family is that of the cliromids.—
It is almost exclusively South American,
with a few species in Africa. He believed
the number of these known to exist in the
to their present allegiance, are far more feith- Amazon was eleven. lie himself had added
i* i . .1 ft m 9 m _ * * .1 il, a O Atwiciotmnt ninniA/in Wlini’O f 1l/i Im’irwl'lV’DC OT
ful to the Constitution and the Government
than Thaddeus Stevens and his godless crew?
Our best hopes are garnered up in the success
of the great Conservative party, but it cannot
succeed in crushing the Radicals while the
President undesignedly panders to the wolf
ish appetite of the Revolutionists for blood
by leaving the ablest and best men of the
South at their mercy.
There is no half-way house on the road to
mercy and forgiveness where the “offence” of
the proscribed leaders is the “crime” of ten
millions of brave people.
The Southern Delegates In Phila
delphia.
As special pains are taken to create the im
pression that the assent of the Southern del
egates to those parts of the Declaration of
Principles touching Slavery, the National
Debt and the Federal Soldiers was forced and
insincere, it may be well enough to state one
or two facts concerning their action which
will show how untrue and unjust such an im
pression would be.
The Committee on Address and Resolutions
. ’ General Sheridan, who was absent
from New Orleans when Dostie, ITahn and
other white imitators of Nat. Turner insti
gated the blacks of that city to deeds of
bloodshed and violence, anil who were very
properly put to death for their atrocious
crime, has made a report to the President,
which stamps him as a reckless Radical of
the Terry stamp.
Although admitting that the design of the
Convention was to overthrow the State Con
stitution, and to clothe the negroes of Louis
iana with political rights of which the whites
were to be deprived, he maliciously and
falsely throws the blame of the riot upon the
Mayor end police of New Orleans. His re
port is sustained by not one particle of evi- U1UUC . , vult „ „„ „ WUH » —
dencc, and General Sheridan, we fear, like py. If he wishes to be remembered through
the distinguished traveller, Baron Muncliaus- all ages as one oi the wisest as well m one ol
, r .• n-i the most humane of rulers, he should unlock
en, has a weakness for exaggeration This gatc8 and ^ore to liberty the
proclivity, which was fearfully manifest du- lm j or tunatc CX-President of the late Confed-
ring the war, seems to have increased upon era te States. To us the proclamations of the
him of late Ilis calumnies of the people of President that the war is at an end—that the
New Orleans are contradicted and dis- authority of the law is now supreme and that
. . . , .. the privilege of the writ of Habeas Corpus is
proved by the united testimony ot the At- rca torcd, sound like hollow and deceptive
torney General, Lieutenant Governor, and mockeries, while Underwood declares that we
other leading Union men of New Orleaus, still have a prisoner of war immured at For-
, .u ,1.. tress Monroe by order of the President. How
■who were in the city at the time ot tlie not, 14 . .. J . ... ^
WDO J can we believe that our liberties have been
and witnessed the whole of it. The Attar- re8 { 0re j an( j that we have been restored to
ney General was himself a Major General iu a p our constitutional rights, guaranties and
the Federal army, and although not asdistin- securities against illegal arrests and imprison-
guished as the famous raider, enjoys a reputa- ments when all resort to the privilege of the
. , . ,. , „ c , •, ... writ of Habeas Corpus is denied to the “pris-
tion for veracity which Gen. bherulan might ^ q{ war „ lo wl f ose da ii y an( i nightly tor
ture an officer of the army of the United States
The President’* Last Duty.
From the Richmond Times.
In one most important respect the Presi
dent's last “Peace Proclamation” greatly dis
appoints us. Tbo measure of Andrew John
son’s magnanimity and justice to the defeat
ed section is yet dwarfed, and its symmetry
impaired by bis failure to issue a proclama
tion of amnesty, or of free and full pardon
to all the prominent Confederate officials who
participated in the late war for Independ
ence. As long as a pure, unselfish,. noble
Christ&in hero, statesman and soldierlike ex-
President Davis is immured in a dreary pri
son, and subjected to the insults of a coarse
brute like Mih-s, and left to the tender mer
cies of a judicial ruffian who has declared
that ho “could pack a jury which would con
vict Jefferson Davis,” the President will not
occupy, in the eyes of Christendom, the ele
vated position which he is entitled to oc
cupy.
And if that noble old Confederate eagle
dies in the clutches of the “ mousing owl,'
whose slow but systematic torture has driv
en him to tho verge of the grave, history will
not assign to Andrew Johnson the proud
niche which wc would gladly sec him occu-
was very large—consisting of two from each
State and Territory. On organizing, a Sub
committee of thirteen was appointed, to
which the subject of resolutions was referred ;
and upon this Committee were placed some
of the strongest men of the South-Hon. W.
A. Graham, of North Carolina, Gov. Perry, of
South Carolina, Judge Yerger, of Mississippi,
Where the boundaries of transi-
in Geographical distributions of these
s were, and what were the causes of this
nineteen,
tion
fishes were,
distribution, he could not say. He had spread
his assistants about so that he was sure of the
fact, but he could not yet go beyond it.-—
Every prominent type of the ocean had its
type among these same cliromids. He might
speak of the habits of these fishes.
Many species carry their eggs in the sides
of the mouth like food, or tobacco, if you
please; others bury them in holes. There
are others in which the eggs become attached
to the lower part of the abdomen; others sit
upon their eggs like a bird, one class cover
ing them with the mouth: the secreted water
thus helps to batch them. Another family is
the carasids, corresponding to minnows and
herring, bidf there are some kinds of fish
which raall along the Amazon and its
tributaries. We cannot tell why they should
have a general distribution any more than we
can at present explain the local distribution
of the swordfish, &c.
He finally spent three weeks at the mouth
of the Amazon, receiving every facility from
the President of the province of Para to see
what fishes went into the ocean from the riv
er, or the other way. He did not know a
single codfishlike fish on the coasts of Brazil,
or anything like the soul pins. lie added
that the artists of his expedition had prepared
paintings of eight hundred fresh-water fish,
and of three hqKdrtd species from the ocean.
Gov. Parsons, of Alabama, and others. The If Professor could , et kim fill ten vol .
declaration on 8l avery, as .irst d , umes of tbe Smithsonian publications he had
simply stated that, Slavery is abolished and |he material therewith to do it-uVe* York
forever prohibited upon the soil and within p , . .
the jurisdiction of tho United States.” The *
clause “and there is neither purpose nor de
sire on the part of the Southern States that it
should ever be re-established,” was inserted
at the instance of Judge Yerger, and with
the prompt and unanimous assent ol all the
Southern delegates. This most important
declaration, therefore, was wholly voluntary
on the part of the South, and indicates be-
Nothinc Surprising in the Demand.
From the LondonDaily News, Aug. 10.]
The Emperor Napoleon has pointed out to
the Prussian Government that the great
changes which arc taking place in the politi
cal organizatiai of Germany make it neces-
on tne pm oi iw. oo«», Frante 9houkl bc a J gs:randize( i by a
yond all doubt their settled and sincere pur- of terri ory . The Emperor's express-
pose.
On the subject of tlio National Debt the
assent of the Southern delegates were equally
prompt and cordial. They repelled in the
strongest terms all thought, purpose or wish
of repudiating the debt or avoiding their full
share of whatever burdens it may involve.—
They unanimously insisted that any insinua
tion of an unwillingness on the part of the
South to meet this responsibility was an im
putation upon their honor, and would be so
regarded, and they were perfectly willing that
a dcclation to this effect should be inserted
in tho resolution if it would prove of the
jligbtcst service. They repudiated with
equal emphasis all idea of the assumption of
their own debt,—saying no man at the South,
except possibly some holder of Confederate
bonds, ever dreamed ot such a thing or de
sired it Their declarations on this subject
were explicit, emphatic and unanimous.
In regard to recognizing the services of the
Federal soldiers, they said they expected the
Government which had been maintained by
them would do them justice. They believed
this to be be simply its duty, and they should
co-operate and assist in performing it. They
expressed the hope that it would not be deem
ed necessary to compliment the courage,
devotion, or other soldierly qualities of North
ern men at the expense ot the Southern, be
cause on this point they felt bound to insist
upon the merits of their own troops. But
this was a matter offering merely, and would
not interfere with their voting to render full
justice to tho United States troops by paying
their dues and pensioning their widows and
orphans. They paid the highest compli
ments to them, and said they deserved the
most generous treatment from the Govern
ment they had served. And the resolutions on
this subject was adopted in committee just as
unanimously as others.
The action of the Southern Delegates in
the Committee as well as in the Convention,
was thoroughly patriotic and public spirited.
They evinced the most perfect devotion to the
Union—declaring that it was no v their Gov
ernment as much as ours, and the only Na
tional Government they knew, and that the
only rivalry between the North nnd South
hereafter should be as to which should do
most for ita honor, its welfare and its per
petuity.—New York Times.
“V* lure an oiucer ui iuu »»ui j vmv. u/uuvu
The repert of Sheridan shows that he is has devoted all of his time and cruel and
unworthy to be entrusted with the delicate wicked energies since the month of May,,1865.
, : , . , . a , But ex-President Davis 16 not the only ud-
dut.es of a command in the Southern States fo £ un “^ bonebt Southern patriot whose
where brams and veracity arc more essential &te gti „ banps on the will of President John-
tban a talent for raiding and romancing. son. From tlie benefits ofhis famous amnesty
[Richmond Times. proclamation of May, 1965, he expressly ex-
hese fashionable young ladies audi
bly comment on the costumes of their neigh
bors, audibly snicker—I beg pardon of a
polite world, but it is exactly what they do
—at a toilette a little less fashionable, at a
complexion a little less fair, at manners a lit
tle more rustic than their own. They paint
and powder to a degree which arouses in
one a desperate longing to get each and all
of them under a pump, and mercilessly force
them to confess their honest skin, and never
more hide it. And worse than all, they lace
till one’s two bandscould span their tortured
waists. There is hardly a woman here under
40 who would confess to a girdle 24 inches.—
If all the rest is folly, this is crime. What
vitality can there be in a frame so cruelly
maltreated and deformed ? What wives and
mothers can these silly, pitiable, mistaken
creatures become?
I>c«tli of Judge Avery.
Boston. August 24.—Judge Avery, of the
Supreme Court of Massachusetts, died on
Wednesday at Northampton. Aged seventy-
three years.
ion is that the French frontier should be “rec
tified,” but it B not competent to a claimant
thus to prejudjc his own cause. To simplify
the matter His Majesty has since stated that
what he specifically wonts is a restoration of
French frontiei such as it existed in 1814.—
It is a curious time to ask for a cession of
German territory, and the King of Prussia
might fitly reply that he has not placed
himself at the head of Germany to
give away the soil of the Fatherland. But
we need not doubt that the demand has
been well considered. Tho frontier notv ask
ed for is, we presume, that which was defined
by the Convention concluded between Louis
XVIH. and tie Allies, at Paris, on the 23d of
April, 1814. By this act the limits of France
were restored as they stood ou the 1st of Jan
uary, 1792, with the exception of various
cessions of snail territories, some to France
by the neighboring Powers, others by France
to them for mutual advantage, but which
gave it, on the whole, an increase of 450,000
sonls. In 1S15 the allies, annoyed by the re
ception giv<n to Napoleon on his return from
Elba, resunud tho territory they had conced
ed in 1814, tnd restored the limits of France
as they were in 1796. In consequence of this,
France lost the fortified towns of Landau,
Saar-Louis, Phillippeville and Marienburg,
with the adjacent territory ol each. If we
rightly understand the telegrams, it is these
places which the Emperor of the French now
wishes to have restored. Landau and
Saar-Louis arc in German territory, the
former in Rhenish Bavaria, the latter
Rhenish Prussia. Landau, built
by Vauren, and the professors in
the militarv colleges of France, have been
teaching, for these fifteen years, that its pos
session by the Germans lays bare the frontier
between Strasburg and Metz. Phillippeville
and Marienberg are in Belgium. The French
demands will create no surprise either in
Germany or elsewhere, as it has long been an
avowed doctrine of the French Government
that it has a right to take toll of any increase
of strength which its neighbors may gain by
putting an end to their mischievous divis
tons. It remains to be seen whether the Gcr
mans are disposed to recognize this claim,
made by a Power which has done nothing
for them but interfere to stay the progress ol
unification. It is a matter entirely for them
to decide. The concessions required of them
arc not materially very great, in the sense in
which we understand the demand; but they
mav feel that the demand itself is an encroach
ment, and a derogation from their independ
ence.’ In that case we may expect to see a
war exceeding in its dimensions that which
has just been terminated by the pacification
of Nikolsburg.
The National Labor Congre**.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas the growing and alarming en
croachments ol capital upon the rights of the
industrial classes of tlie United States have
rendered it imperative that they should calm
ly anil deliberately devise the most effective
nnd available means by which the same may
be arrested, your committee would recom
mend the adoption of the following resolu
tions:
Resolved, That the first and grand consid
eration of the hour, in order to deliver the
labor of the country lrom this thraldom, is
the adoption of a law whereby eight hours
shall constitute a legal day’s work in every
State of the American Union, and that they
are determined never to relax their eft’orts
until this glorious result is consummated.
Resolved, That it is the imperative duty
of every workingman of the United States
to connect himself with his la^or organiza
tion, if any exists; and where none such ex
ists, to immediately commence the formation
of the same; anil that it is the equal duty
every union to be represented in a trades'
workingmen's assembly, and also to aid —
the formation of a national or international
organization where the same does not exist
Resolved, That in co-operation we recoj
nize a sure and lasting remedy for the abus<
of the present industrial system, and hail
with delight the organization ot co-operative
stores and workshops in this country, and
would urge their formation in every section
of the country and iu every branch of bus :
ness.
Resolved, That the public domain belongs
to the people of the whole United States,
having been purchased by their blood and
treasure, and is to them an inheritance, en
dorsing fully, as wc do, the opinion of our
best statesmen on this subject, that a mini
mum price bc fixed for the whole agricultur
al domain, to be dUp" 00 - 1 <?f to actual settlers
only. Further, if Congress or the several
States where land may exist, as belonging to
the nation or States, that they shall not be so
considered, but shall be considered as belong
ing to the people ; anil in cases where the
legislature may wish to encourage any public
works, such as railroads, bridges, roads,
agricultural colleges, &c., for several States,
or any other improvement that may be
thought proper from time to time, then in all
cases of this kind it shall be considered un
just and destructive to the best interests
of the people to make special grants of their
lauds, but onlv the proceeds thereof.
Resolved, That we this day join hands
with labor in the interests of agriculture, and
hereby declare it primary in our different or
ganizations, and that all now or hereafter or
ganized shall adopt the same in the follow
ing words: “That the whole public agricul
tural domain shall be disposed of to actual
settlers only;” and that the proper officers of
this Convention are instructed to 6ee that the
foregoing resolutions shall be carried into
effect
Resolved, That the system of prison labor
which is practiced throughout this county is
not only injurious to the producing classes,
but is an incentive for employers to contract
with the Government for cheap labor; and
the honorable mechanics, not being able
to compete with this class of labor, and
support their families, are obliged to seek a
living elsewhere, much to their inconven
ience, and we would recommend that the
public be requested not to patronize parties
who contract for orison labor, except they
pay the rate of wages demanded by mechan
ics outside.
Resolved, That we pledge our individual
and undivided support to the sewing-women
and daughters of toil in this land, and would
solicit their hearty co-operation, knowing, a3
we do, that no class of industry is so much
in need of having their condition ameliorated
as the factory operatives, sewing-women, Ac.,
of this country.
Resolved, That this Congress deprecates
what is familiarly known as “ strikes ” among
workingmen, and would recommend that
every honorable means be exhausted before
such a course is resorted to.
Resolved, That the formation of mechanics’
institutes anil lyceums and reading-rooms,
and the erection'of buildings for that pur
pose, is recommended to the workingmen, in
all cities and towns as a means of advancing
their intellectual culture and social improve
ment. _
Resolved, That this Labor Congress would
most respectfully recommend to the work
ingmen of the country that in case they are
pressed by a want of employment they pro
ceed to the public lands and become actual
settlers, believing that if the industry of the
country can be coupled with its national ad
vantages it will redound both in individual
relief and national advantage.
Resolved, As the sense of this Congress,
that the speedy restoration of the agricul
tural interests of the Southern States is of
vital importance to the laboring men of the
North, and that the aggregation anil capital
ization of the surplus earnings of labor for
the two-told purpose of promoting an in
creased production of cotton and of aiding
and elevating the laboring classes, as propos
ed by the American Industrial Agency, is very
desirable, and wo invite the attention of the
laboring men to the subject.
Resolved, That we would urgently call tlie
attention of the industrial classes to the sub
ject of tenement bouses and improved dwell
ings, believing it essential to the welfare of
the whole community that a reform should be
effected in this respect. The experience of
the past has proved that vice, pauperism, and
crime arc the invariable attendants of the
over-crowded, ill-ventilated dwellings of the
poor, and urge upon the capitalists ot the
country the blessings to be derived from in
vesting their means in erecting such dwell
ings. _ J
A Good Crop.—We understand that Gen.
A. R. Lawton, of this county, can boast of as
good a crop of corn and cotton as any other
planter in South-Western Georgia—in fact we
are told that it cannot be excelled. The
General managed to keep his “old hands,”
and it seems that they have been as faithful
to him as when slaves. Mr. Washington Cul
pepper, (the overseer) deserves great praise
for the manner in which he has conducted
the business, and we do not hesitate in _pro-
nouncing him a good manager and an excel
lent tanner. We congratulate Gen. L. upon
having secured his services for the present
year.—Albany Patriot.
Wendell Phillips’ Opinion of the
Philadelphia Convention.
From the Anti-Slavery Standard, Ang. 25.
The great rebel Convention has met and
adjourned. Some men despise it as a failure,
sure to have no important results. We re
gard it differently. Even if its immediate
results are unimportant—which is by no
means certain—it will probably prepare the
way for a desperate conflict in 1868. News
paper critics make themselves merry over the
insignificance of one or another of the actors
iu this Convention; but we should do well to
remember that many of its leading members
are men thoroughly used to political manage
ment, accustomed to wield great States—
cunning men, utterly unscrupulous, and
backed by the whole patronage of the Gov
ernment. Some men are fond of comparing
this Assembly to the Democratic Convention
which nominated McClellan at Chicago. But
there are two great points of difference: it
was war time then, nnd the patronage of the
Government was against Chicago. Now the
Government is on the side of the rebels, aud
beside, we have fallen from the high level of
war enthusiasm to the murkey vapors and
dark by-paths of politics.
We are free to confess that we can see great
reason to fear the effect of such a Convention
as that of Philadelphia. Not that it is at all
likely that that party will bc able to carry
many elections this Fall. On the contrary,
everything bids fair for great Republican suc
cess.” But what is the meaning of a Repub
lican success ? To what is the party pledged ?
what principle does their success guaran-
^ the triumph ? Of no principle whatever.
They are pledged to nothing vital. Their canj
vass involves no principle. Republican ora
tors continually tell us to be of good cour
age—the party will succeed. Grant it: what
help does its success give to the negro l What
promise does it hold out of claiming
for him his rights? They do not
enter the canvass even claiming for
him the ballot; is it likely they will come
out from it ready to do for him more than
they offered Is there such a case in our
party history ?
Congress, tlie proper representative of the
Republican party, lias yielded the Gibraltar
of the question of suffrage. It lays before
the country the proposed. Constitutional
Amendment, the plan of which is to punish
—weaken—the States, while they refuse the
negro his ballot. Not four weeks ago Repub
licans denounced us for doubting the asser
tions of Congressmen that even the adoption
of those amendments would not secure the
admission of the rebel States, that Congress
would still insist ou impartial suffrage as a
condition of admission, that the amendment
was only part of its policy, Ac., Ac. But
read the speeches of .Mr. Senator Wilson, at
Natick anil at Boston, nnd you will see that
he parades these amendments as the "policy''
of Congress—as it answers to Johnson's “pol
icy;” and both speeches allow that, those
amendments once adopted, the btntes will be
allowed to return. Congress, therefore, sur
renders tho real question at issue. Suppose,
therefore, that the fell elections do sustain the
Republican party; then, if the amendment
is adopted, the rebel States take their places
in Congress at cnce. Once there, and wield-
their present representation (based on
couuting three-fiftlis slave basis) which shey
must do till a new apportionment is mnde—
how much mischief may not be consummated
in those few mouths ?
But even alter a new appointment, every
credible witness assures us, the South will pre
fer, years to come, the compact strength ot a
reduced white basis to tlie Democratic reali
ty of negro suffrage.
But suppose, after Republican success this
fall, Congress meets and finds the amend
ments rejected! That same syren voice, ex
pediency, which dictated givuig up the ques
tion of negro suffrage, will justify and de
mand they shall surrender the idea embodied
in the amendment, and, falling still lower,
find some basis or theory ou which they and
the rebels can meet and unite in a joint Con-
gre-ss.
We see, therefore, no hope on the mere
success of the Republican Party this Fall,
with the oanvacs conducted according to
present avowals. The South tights to avert
negro suffrage. Having failed so sustain
slavery by war, she now plans to come as
our js possible toward effecting tL» oamc
thing by political intrigue. There is no po
litical party iu the North that meets her on
this issue. This is the danger. The people
arc wise enough, mean well enough, but lack
concentration, organization' and leaders.
Now, in such circumstances, the plot con
cocted at Philadelphia is to be feared. Wily
men, corrupt men, willing to use any means
thei rabilityjdoubledby their unscrupulouness
—wielding wealth and patronage, men bear
ing the prestige of many a success hitherto;
such men are a power! Men of moderate
capacity, when they act unfettered by any
sense of right and wroDg, equal themselves
to great minds for a while. This explains
Napoleon HI. When the Devil made him
up, he took care uot to burden him with any
moral sense, and hence this jockey, riding
without weight, has distanced many a com
petitor, abler, but burdened with a conscience.
One valuable confession wc wrench from this
Convention. The promises they feel obliged
to make, the principles they see it wise to
profess, the coat their hypocricy compels them
to assume, show us what, in their opinion, is
the opinion of the loyal North. Thus we
gauge what, in their judgment, the people
long for, and will have, unless baulked.—
This list is: no slavery payment of the na
tion's debt, no right of secession, and equal
civil rights everywhere for all men. A valu
able confession that. If even the rebels confess
so much,what is probably the real heart of the
masses? Does it claim equal suffrage also?
The address of this Convention informs us
of its standpoint in the first line—“Since the
meeting of the last National Convention in
1860.” Consequently, there has been no na
tion since 1860. Surely there have been Con
ventions euough professing to represent all
the loyal States; but, you observe, in their
view there has not been, because there could
not be without the rebels, any National Con
vention since 1860. The argument against
the proposed Constitutional Amendment is
I, >M-d Oil the same idea : and. it' valid, covi-r.-
the Anti-Slavery Amendment of 1864, ren
dering that also null and void. Do the
..xn mAniknpc nr tnia Pnmronfinn infi
Illinois,
1 .iey were all ,
December. 1830, Abr-ih
coin. Stephen A. Douglas, Geier'./'T 1 .'-
Harding, Win. A. Richardson, Co', ,
Baker, General John A. Modern n,| r
.las. Shields, O. B. Fick in, Isaacpie 0 '
and many others who have since ho „ a '
guislied in the history ofthecoun-rv",.?!'
the House of Representatives
the same Legislature
men, hist entering on political "f' '■
Browning .was a Whig, and pfominrmj, ; V --'
noble party till its disruption afterthe
of the Missouri Compromise. He and y’
ham Line Din were then mainly ino - '
in bringing into existence the Remdr'
party of Illinois. Mr. Browning ^
and, with the aid of Mr. Lincoln
through the Convention at Bloomingt^
platform ou which the Republican^
Illinois was organized, and upon wi'hV.5
State was, for the first time, carri-d . v*
the Democrats. In 1843 he was the w
candidate for Congress against ,M r . i'j,■
in a district with over two thoiaand tv '’
cratic majority. The canvass v.- '
most exciting and hotly contest. . ,
in Illinois. Tlie two young cbtnpetjfoJi
the favorites and champions of their r’ .
tive parties. Mr. Douglas was elecufd
about two hundred majority; and then u
that brilliant political career which a -
name and feme national. Mr. Brownin'
mained_ in private life, pursuing steadily^ '
profession, until lie became tl.v -
tlie lamented Douglas in the Senate
United States, in|1861. i
From early manhood he and Mr Ij. -
were intimate and strongly attached faS
the kindest and most confidential j
subsisting between them, without a motoi
interruption, to the day of tho
He w as a member of the Chicago ConrsS
in 1S60 that nominated Mr. Lincoln;' '
though not agreeing with tho late Presid
io «11 lito mouaica, lie gave to his AdmU
tration a steady and unfaltering suppor
He earnestly sustained the war for th’ S C
pretsion of the rebellion from the beeilav
to the close.
Sir. Browning has heretofore stesdih-
fused to accept official position under*
General Government, and has yiddeddm]
with great reluctance, to the wishes
friends. . 01 H
He will bring to the discharge of thec’
tin of Secretary of the Interior a robust li t
highly disciplined intellect, versed inpjJ
affairs, and strengthened by study and (t*.!
lienee, a character lor integrity above \
uroach, unusual powers of application a
habits of industry, and a personal addrVJ
once affable and dignified. 1
[National Intcllige*
Southern members of this Convention intend
to warn us that they reserve tlie right to con
test that when a favorable opportunity oc
curs ? IVe know not All we do know is
that the South organized her forces at that
Convention. She deployed them into line.
Her right rests on Philadelphia, under Weed.
Seward. Vnllandiglmm and Garret Davis.
Her left is encamped at New Orleans, with
Mayor Monroe and his butchers for general
add staff. Tlie headquarters arc at the White
House, and the next move will bc on tlie
Capitol, holding Senate and House of Repre
sentatives. Our duty is to put there men who
will, at every hazard, save the nation, re
membering that they stand where the Long
Parliament stood in 1649; and though the
block and axe in front of the palace may be
no fitting measure now, they are bound to
find and use some measure fit and efficient to
secure their purpose, the deposition of the
perjured aud usurping traitor. But, alas!
the courage and “thoroughness” which
would make that possible, would at the same
time make it unnecessary. In the presence
of ?. united North, led by courageous men,
there would be now as in 1862, no rebel
Democratic party worth counting.
Some foresee a covp d'etat in the literal
sense—a violent move against Congress. Wc
hardly expect that. That is too good to be
true. ’ The cunning traitors at Philadelphia
do not intend to give the North any such ad
vantage. They see their mistake at Sumter
and have no intention of repeating it. “The
burnt child dreads a painted fire,” says the
proverb. Thoroughly whipped in that me
thod, the South will never risk provoking
another 1861, if it can possibly be avoided.
The move upon Congress—upon what this
traitor Accident dares to describe as “a body
called, or which assumes to be, the Congress
of tho United States”—will be made under
legal forms. The trick will bo so covered
that it will bear a specious argument of con
stitutionality. Seward belongs to the Bar-
num, not to the Cromwell class. But whether
a blow come from Jefferson Davis’s hand, or
a trick from the brain of Wm. H. Seward,
either will fail in the end. We have no fears
for the final result. Justice will triumph.—
We have God’s promise for that. The Jew
in Egypt, burdened and crushed, never doubt
ed he should see Canaan. God had promised
that. But whether in four years or in forty,
or through what perils, none could tell. We,
too, shall reach our Canaan. But whether in
four years or forty—through what perils—
whether as one nation or two—whether all
athered round the temple at Jerusalem, or
with one kmg there, another in Samaria—
none can tell.
Wendell Phillips.
Harp of a Thousand Strings.—TIkJ
O. Crescent says:
The papers are al announcing the death -
a young Cincinnatian—a poet and an arf.;-
to whom is attributed the authorship ol 4
“Harp of a Thousand Strings.” Web
reason to know he was not the author ofty
famous burlesque. The sermon tvas
actually delivered, of course, but somi
similar to it was heard by a young lmer
Woodville, Mississippi, who repeated it it
conversation with a Methodist minister, i-
then resided at Clinton, in this State, a
now resides in the parish of Morehouse. •
had no idea of its getting into print; but j
clerical gentleman, who is a great humork
a man of fine sense, of unexceptionable (fa
acter, and than whom no one is more;
pected and beloved by those who know ij
wrote it out, makingsome additions to it, e
it was shown around among friends, d
finally it got into print. Once started!
went the rounds. Probably no product!
was ever so extensively published by them
of the United States. Many imitations e
appeared, and the Cincinnatian mar 1:1
been the author of one of them—but:
equalled the original in absurdity and a
humor. The author has written manycJ
I humorous things, most of which hare’m
got into print, for he is not ambitious of J
| sort of fame. But, wc repeat that lie
preacher of the Methodist church, no* j
siding in Morehouse, a Christian gentled
t I
and a man ot a high order of intellect
Tiie SniprvRECK of Madam Anna fa
—The Bremen Bark Licclle, from ban h
cisco for Hong Kong, was totally lost oil
I * night of March 4th, on Wake Island. Jto
her passengers was Madam Anna Bk
and the foliowing letter from her tost
I tleman of San Francisco, Cal., descitei
catastrophe:
Guam. Mariana Islands, May
will be shocked to learn that we hart
wrecked on Wake Island, on the 5d|
I March, aud lost all. We were three *4
on the uninhabited island. No water,*
had to wait three days before we could I
I any from the ship. We had no clothier!
what we stood in up to arriving on tkl
land. The Governor and inhabitant! II
been most kind, anil furnished us with «J
materials to make up a little clothing,
have no stores here. We came, twenty]
of us, in an open boat fourteen fan
miles. How wc wished it was to Sin-
cisco! A perfect miracle our safe p^S'l
| this place. The captain of the
at the same time we did from Wake kA
in a small boat, with four of his
three Chinese; but up to this time we-
I not heard of them.
We are here a month to-day. The <
nor has sent a schooner to Wake IstorJ
the specie saved from the wreck,and
to wait its return to take us to ManillaM
we hope to commence operations. I
Read and the Japanese are allowed
with this to Hong Kong. You canmU-l
ine how we suffered all one night,
o’clock p. m. to eight a. m., thinking ‘
moment would be our last; but the/
was watching over us poor sinners.
Mr. Schultz, Mr. Lascalcs and
with us
Truly yours,
Anna Bisiiop Sen-
Tlie New Secretary' of tlie Interior.
Orville H. Browning was bom in Harrison
county, Kentucky. His father being a far
mer there, he labored on the farm during his
boyhood and early youth, attending at inter
vals the schools of the neighborhood, and thus
obtaining a respectable English education.—
Thence lie went to Augusta, Kentucky, and
resided for four years in the family of Gen.
John Payne, Clerk of the Circuit and County
Courts of Bracken county. He was employed
in the Clerk's office, but at the same time
attended Augusta College, and distinguished
himself by assiduity amiability in academic
studies. The writer of this well remembers
him at this period takings prize in Professor
McLeod’s Elocution class for the best analysis
of Mark Antony's oration over the dead body
of C:esar. He studied law under the direc
tion of the Hon. Wm. Brown, and eminent
lawyer ot Cyntliiana, and immediately after
being admitted to the bar, in the spring of
1831, he emigrated to Illinois and settled at
Quincy, where he still resides. He soon
pushed his way by diligence and talent to a
large practice, and laid the foundation of that
repute as a lawyer which enabled him to reap
the honors of the profession. In 1832 he vol
unteered for 'the Black Ilawk war,’ and served
as a private through the campaign. In 1836
Mr. Browning was married to Miss Eliza
Caldwell, daughter of Major Robert Caldwell,
of Richmond, Kentucky. In the same year
he was elected to the Senate of Illinois, in
which he served four years. On the expira
tion of this term he was elected to the House
of Representatives, and served two years and
refuse;! a re-election. He has since held no
other office than that of United States Sen
ator.
"When Mr. Browning entered the Senate of
Tiie Effect Abroad of the!
nfiA OoarrxNTioN.—The report
monious proceedings of our grand Myl
Convention was l iivulau o o'er I
Europe on Saturday last, and read <*1
Exchange from London to Naples. J
the te-r.lt ' Last night'- C L
by the cable, reports our Five-tw'l
high as 7l) 1-4. at noon yestci : I
proceedings of the Coim-nt: |
porta! in rail an ue other side
tic, there will be it further rise, *^1
drive the Radical disunionists ul c^|
that were possible—than '•
They are frothing at the : --
late financial report from Europe y|
rate them beyond all po\\v.r • • I
The cable, like all other commerce - I
dustrial appliances of the tune. I
Radical faction. They ought t# c *'
Y. Times.
nea
Itro,
A Preventive.—An exchange J
when a piece of iron is throa L
where chickens drink water they
fecteil with chicken cholera,
who has tried it, says that his c h7y . I
thriving, while those of his si-v f
dying daily. As the chicken cjow 11 J
ing to some extent throughout L
it might be well to try it Iron’ll
fowls, and a trial of it might be vt-
pict
n- ,
lau
J3F" The following is a list e-';. I
orative weddingsTwo years a .
riage is the "paper wedding t I
Ternary is the "wooden weaning;
the "t.u wedding ;" the tittver.t 1 _'. . .
tial wedding;” the twentieth tne .a
iling ;” the twenty-fifth the ' - '“ ve I
the fiftieth the “golden wedding-
tv-filth the "diamond wedding-
“ad
Plot
I tia
r'Hu
| C '>C
Pci
!• fi
The Nebraska City ri'"! 1
man the other day by the name o* ^
murder. Judge Lynch presided-
ing strung up he made a wffi.-
ing strung up nc u.-o*-,
of ten or twelve thousand don- - |
property, giving a portion
py;
r efei
church.
Duvall’s official majont) 1“ -I
«- -.i, -»s -mo lotal' , I
ties unofficial) is 37,360. 0 [!e.'-
■13,000 more than ever betor- r