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■. , f t i, n t city-E. Wclmot Walter,
occurred on the 23d.
A special from Washington says
. Ptllinl. the editor of the Richmond
' , 'liitiiig been posted as a coward
[^Tjvlor, a duel has I teen arranged to
L iatintl Seinmes has purchased a thi rd
the Mobile Gazette, and become
’ -iriftor ami editor. If ho handles
■ ;*s he did the Alabama, he will be a
p^taUgonist
,ie Resignation of Secretary
| -The Washington correspondent of
Ijihia Lodger intimates that Sec-
r vttanlhas stated to certain personal
jjgjj friends his intention to retire
r, / public life. The Ledger correspon
■ There is no doubt but that as
i[ r . Seward recovers from his present
tc trill lose no time in canning
j. '.lion into effect.
SovTHEitN Govenors.—In behalf of
'n die Southern people and the South
- •<-Mill excluded from Congress, we
i the Governors thereof to fall into
Ji-hoot further delay, in the ratification
r.. instruction constitutional amend
[ ifCongress.—,V. V. Herald.
.u * well “dry up” on that score, old
•lophelcs; you are “calling spirits
: vasty deep.” By the way, who au-
1 m to speak “in behalf of the
ami especially “the Southern people
Southern States t” Your modesty is
by admirable!
•. to avoid the Three Cents Tax.—
people could find some honorable
to tvoid the tax on cotton they
lil certtialy mil themselves of them.—
[ Xctr Orleans Picayune has discovered
f ifoidince," and we strongly recommend
liters and cotton holders in this sec-
I there we have as superior water power
I Picturing purposes as the world af-
If, says the Picayune, our planters
sly take advantage of the “protec-
[ which the Radical Congress lias unwit*
offered them, they would ask that the
6: internal revenue tax on cotton be con
duits present terms for ten or fifteen
k with collection districts, just as they
D or at least not enlarged. This tax
p to l<e charged unless the cotton leaves
I ejection district. Now, if they will
U:urc the cotton within the collection
' the manufactured goods will pay no
tit for manufacturing than Butler's
i neighbors pay, while the three cents
aw material may be wholly saved to
me producer and manufacturers. If
■ had thought ot it, they never would
Aten so much protection to the South,
sskc hay while the sun shines.
important to Planters.
' Allowing report of tbo proceedings of
of the Assessors and Collectors of
tewl Revenue in this State, contains
information to the owners and pro-
'■ of cotton. It will be seen that the
Any district need not necessarily be
the designated points lor weighing,
> ad collecting the tux in that dis-
■ aay, at the option of the owner, be
■> designated points in the districts,
faring the extra expense and trouble
Vj porting to points distant from the
r : rom c to market:
Collector's Office, )
' :to States Internal Revenue, [•
Macon, Sept. 18,1806. )
meeting of the Assessors and Codec-
Georgia, held at Macon this day, the
’"tuition was taken.
' Seers of the United States Internal
?* Department in the State of Georgia,
■ ■ duty is to guard vigilantly the inter
ne Government; second, to perform
• 5: lions with the least possible annoy-
:i the tax-payers; to facilitate com-
' a, l protect the people from any un-
^7 expense in money and time, and to
''•‘l impediment in the way of cotton
- m iu natural course to market; there-
•red. That wht nsver designated points
f - fftit counties in one district for weigh-
1 " ln g and collecting the tax on cot-
5 '« to turn it from its natural course,
I ‘mlicting on the producer a loss in
ot "hen ever the designated points for
^s-assessing, &c., in other districts,
L expensive to be reached, that the
*od owner of cotton be allowed by
, convey their cotton without hin-.
'*uch points.
r That in thus accommodating the
F* Vi 9 oren »»ent cannot possibly be
I- r 1 °* °oe dollar in taxes.
■rilt iuasmuch as frauds might
>* lr »ted on the Government by giving
ptnnits to remove cotton, wo will
giaris only, and rccommen'd that
l *meiB receipt to shippers for pci-
II. Hopkins, Assessor 1st Diitrict,
THE PROSPECTIVE RADICAL TRIUMPH—
WHAT THEN /
It is manifest to the most casual observer,
that at no time since the close of the war lias
the popular feeling of the South been so de
spondent as at the present moment. Gloom
broods over everything, and is seen every
where—in the marts of trade, in the fields of
the agriculturist, and in every department cf
Southern industry. The future looks dark
alike to all, and every effort at recuperation
is made to feel the discouragement of the
hour. Capital and labor both stand still, like
n7^i»TON.-Tbo Courier of « man in the midst of dangers and afraid to
‘ T .„ncci tbo death of a lending move - There is no assurance, and they know
— im not but that the first step may involve them
in irretrievable ruin. To stand still is almost
as bad, for ruin from causes at homo then
stares us in the face. Everything is prostrate
and lifeless.
Whence arises this wide spread feeling of
uncertainty nnd alarm ? Well grounded or
not, no one can doubt its existence, or fail to
deplore its results. It proceeds from the un
settled political condition of tbo countiy,
from tlie threats of utter bankruptcy and im
poverishment by the enemies of our people at
theNorth, and the indications that they are
likely to have the power to put into execution
their cruel and merciless designs. The Phil
adelphia Convention inspired our people
with a temporary hope,and for once a bright
gleam of sunshine shot athwart tlie darkened
political sky. But this bow of promise
lasted but a moment. Practical events soon
shut it out from sight, and left us to grope
again in the valley of despair. The elections
in Maine and Vermont, the contempt and
contumely heaped upon the chief executive
officer of the nation in his late tour to the
West, tlie maddened and revengeful spirit
manifested by the Radical press, and the de
plorable accounts brought back by our own
citizens who have recently travelled in the
North, all combine to inspire our people with
distrust aud dismay. It is, indeed, a sad con
dition of affairs.
But, for one, the writer of this, while he
contemplates with painful anxiety these unto
ward events, cannot sympathize with the liope-
laa view of the case. Bad as matters are, we
do not wholly despair. That the Radicals
will carry the North in the present Fall elec
tions, and, perhaps, even defeat some of the
little band of patriots now left in Congress,
pro think by no means improbable.—
There are no instrumentalities for parry
ing those weapons ot slander and
falsehood against the South by which they
hope to keep up the excitement anil hatred
of their people, and which, are their sole
arguments in the fight. And besides this,
there are other difficulties growing out of the
political affiliations of tlie past, that will not
permit a free and unembarrassed decision up
on tbe issue. But suppose they triumph and
re-enter the halls of Congress with ovcrwliel
ming majorities in both houses—what then
What will they be able to do that they have not
already done ? They have bad numbers suf
ficient to override all the President’s vetoes,
but in spite of this there is one remarkable
fact, developed during the late session, upon
which we may hang a hope for the future—
they have never been gble to command a par
ty support to but a jtortio.i of tlieir radical
measures. No man left Washington at the
close of the last session more utterly disgus
ted and discomfited than that arch spirit of
Evil, old Thad. Stevens. Nearly all his fa
vorite projects for persecuting and liumiiiat
ing the South, went by the board, and there
is no reason to believe that they will meet
with better success in tlie future. For ono
we think they have dohe their worst.
They talk about impeaching the President,
nnd setting up one of their own satraps in
bis stead. We do not believe that they will
attempt it, or that they will succeed if they
try. Let both houses concur in such a pro
ceeding, and it will still remain to be seen
whether they will hare the prneer to carry out
the revolutionary movement. Such an issue
would probably have to be tried by other
than peaceful forms, and iu no event have wc
any serious fears for the result
But the most serious source of apprehen
sion at the South, is the danger of confiscation.
and the utter impoverishment of the people.
We have still less fear from this question; for,
whatever may be the desires ot tlie Radical
majority, when they get in the congressional
halls they have some other chart to steer by
than their own wills. There is a written
constitution, defining the extent of their
powers, tnd whose checks they have no
power, of themsclcct, to disregard. They may
pass unconstitutional laws, but they cannot
enforce tbem except through the agency of
the Judicial nnd Executive Departments, the
former of which 1ms the power, and we think
at present the trill, to set them aside as null and
void. Where is tlie authority in that instru
ment for confiscation of the property of the
citizen by uct of legislation ? It cannot be
shown. The day for military supremacy and
despotism has passed, and it is a clear prin
ciple of law that no citizen can be deprived
of bis rights of person'or property, except
upon conviction of a crime before the proper
judicial tribunal Wbat then would an act
of Congress confiscating the property of the
Southern people be worth, until all the De
partments of the Government shall have be
come utterly demoralized and faithless to
the Constitution ?
We conclude, theretorc, that the evils of the
future are more apprehended than real. Our
advice to the people is to do wlmt is right
themselves, avoid causes of irritation, give
less attention to politics, dismiss their hnr-
rassing fears, and lastly, though not least. <70
to work with all their might nad main, and by
industry and economy build up the strength
and prosperity of the South; for in this wny
alone, let the Government do the best in its
power, can we be reinstated in our fortunes
and liberties. Poverty is even a greater des
pot than the Radicals, and more to be feared.
But while we believe that the Radi
cals have done tlieir worst, there is one thing
parition by day and by night. It is, that the
Southern people, overcome in war, crushed
down by misfortune, and deluded with tlie
idea that representation in Congress will
prove a panacea for all their ills, may be in
duced to commit tlie fatal mistake of turning
upon themseicc'. Heaven save us from this
last, greatest calamity! If our enemies can
and will bind us in ciiains. why let them do
it: we can only submit to superior power.—
Hut, in the name of all that is manly, and
righteous, and just in the sight of God nnd
christianized man, conic what will, let us
never consent with, our own hands to mana
cle the limbs of our countrymen nnd con
radcs in misfortune. The graves of the patrl
ot fathers would yawn, and the re animated
slumberera rise and heap their curses upon
the foul and unnatural spectacle.
Letter from Washington.
Correspondence of the Georgia Telegraph.
Washington, Sept 24, I860.
Tlie delegation appointed by the Soldiers’
and Sailors’ Cleveland Convention to wait
upon tbe President, have arrived here, and
will have nn audience to-morrow.
The modem Jacobins, now appropriately
designated the “torch and turpentine” party,
are encountering rocks and shoals which
threaten seriously to wreck their bark in the
vqyage through tbe muddy and turbulent
sea of revolutionary centralization. The
counter currents and eddies which they
drifted into, seem more than likely to foun
der the whole crew upon the rock of negro
suffrage. The happy family of Botts, Brown
low, Jack Hamilton & Co., have already
parted company; Botts in one latitude
preaching against negro suffrage, whilst
Brownlow is in another, exhorting in favor
of it, and hoping for a birth in the warm re
gions of h—1 for all who do not concur with
him.
The President is quito facetious at the
threatenings of impeachment so industrious
ly reiterated by the firm of Beast Butler,
Botts, Brownlow, Jrxk Hamilton, Fred,
Dongloss, Anna Dickinson & Co., and their
sympathizing kith. Whilst so assiduously
laboring in the cause of the Union and res
toration, he feels an abiding confidence in
the support of the whole people of all sec
tions. •
Ex-Governor Bigler, and other prominent
gentlemen of Pennsylvania, who are here in
conference with the Administration,respecting
appointments for that State, express the most
sanguine opinion of the result of the elec
tion which comes off ou Thursday, Oth prox
imo.
Never since the Polk campaign have the
Democracy, aided by the Conservative Re
publicans, been more harmonious, united, or
ganized nnd hopeful. They predict large
accessions of strength in tbe heretofore strong
republican counties. Notwithstanding the
immense amount of money and influence ex-
exted by the Federal and State Radical offi
rials, they count ou the success of Ciymer
and handsome gains in the Congressional
delegates.
Simon Cameron, cx-United States Senator
and War Secretary, during tha first year
of Lincoln's administration, who was so
summarily dismissed because of his inordi
nate greed for fat sums realized in any and
every way, has received lately, an active ad
vocate for a re-election to the Senate, in the
person of Bennett of the New York Herald.
Birds of a feather,” «fcc.
It is hinted here in influential Radical
quarters, that Horace Grcely, of the Tribune,
is about to lead off in a crusade against Min
ister Adams, now sojonrning at the Court of
St. James, for his known advocacy of the
peace policy of the Administration. The
purpose is to get up a movement by which,
in the reassembling of Congress, that func
tionary is to be either driven into a resigna
tion, or forced out by some one of the species
of legerdemain, so-called legislation, so much
in vogue during the past session.
The candidates of the Radical party for
Congress, in many sections, have been seek
ing to divest the scrutiny of tlie people from
an examination of their official record, by at.
tempting to catechize their competitors as to
whether they are candidates for the Congress
of the people, or the Congress of the Copper
heads, referring to the calumniating charge
that tbe President would attempt to depose
nnd ignore the Radical body. The responses
which were promptly made, and the calling
of the attention of the Jacobins to the fact
that the Constitution recognizes but two
Senators from each State, totally discomfited
the extremists, and the attempt fell stillborn.
Potomac.
2d
Assessor 3d
Collector “
Assessor 4 th
Collector “
■McBcbnkt,
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" ,r 3'» papers copy.
•y nf^r^Kadical paper printed at the
H Boosier 8tatc says “just ascer-
TC^uJPP^heads elect enough mem-
jrws.P** t° give them a majority by
I w :'j South, the lest oath will be
CT °ry disqualified rebel who
-a 1B , * 10 seceded States will be
\ c .°*zress so organized will
WWI b J tac President.”
M[r. Kelley's Interview with Mr
Davis.
Wc take the following from the Petersburg
Index, of Saturday :
Mr. Keiley returned to the city yesterday
morning. We do not feel at liberty to give
any detailed account of the interview, but it
must prove of interest to our readers to know
ot tlie health and manner of life of their for
mer leader and fellow captive.
The gentlemen arrived at the Fortress be
fore tlie breakfast hour on Tuesday mornin
last, ami were immediately shown into the
department of the casemate occupied by Mrs
Davis. After some time the prisoner came
in. bowed, emaciated, blind and totterin^
along with the liolp of a cane, as if the years
of n century had passed over him. A perfect
wreck physically, his mind is said to retain
all its clearness, and the conversation at tbe
breakfast table, which turned upon political
literature, was marked by a brilliance which,
remarked our informant, was all tbe more ap
pealing for bring subdued and chastened ■■
His spirits were good—that is, no melan
choly or lack of interest in general subjects
was apparent, and no word came from hia
lips evincing a disposition to murmur, or a
regret that he should be suffering for a cause
which is lost. “ It is best as it is,” said be
emphatically. “Neither power or success!
could have taught me as hns this suffering. —
Only these circumstances have made me the
man I am.” ■
Being asked if it were not possible that his
weakness of body bad extended its influence)
to the mind and created a lassitude which he
mistook for resignation, he quickly respon
ded, “No; my mind was never more clear nor
strong than now.”
Upon all the political questions of the day
he spoke unreservedly and plainly, but with
out bitterness, and was peculiarly fervid in
expressions concerning the kindness shown
himself and family by his people. His quar
ters are comfortable, but bis Jife necessarily
monotonous, as be reads witb difficulty and
is not strong enough for muck exercise. Mrs.
Davis is with him.
Of the mission to Washington we can say
nothing for the best of reasons, not even know
ing whether an official interview was ob
tained. I
One deduction from what we have heard
we cannot restrain, that imprisonment fast
brings the illustrious victim to that state in
which the things of this world seem ns noth
ingness. His enemies are preparing his char
acter, chiseling it to that perfect proportion,
which makes great events and whole peoples,
in history, cluster around and seem second
ary to the man of the age. Radicalism is ma
king a greater than Washington of this dyiDg
man. h
From tbe Richmond Enquirer, Sept. SO.
Tlie National Exprcm Company.
The following telegraphic correspondence
bearing date of yesteraay, will arrest tbe gen-
Troubles of the Conservajievs.—North
ern Conservatives are contending against
fearful disadvantages in the effort to over
throw the Radical dynasty. The greater por
tion ot the press is radical and their great
weapon is lies upon tlie South which cannot
be corrected for want of a medium. A corres
pondent writing from Washington enume
rates others, as follows:
In New York, the nomination of Hoffmann
for Governor, is coldly received by the Re
publican Conservatives, and without their
hearty support he may fail of election. In
the City ot New York lie will have an im
mense majority, which the rural districts may
overcome.
In Pennsylvania, the Conservative Repub
licans arc indisposed to support Ciymer, the
Democratic nominee for Governor. There
are, it is said more than forty thousand voters
in tbe State, who, though of Conservative
tendencies, have never voted for a Democrat,
and never will.
The Cleveland Soldiers, Convention have
roposed that the Democratic nominations
or State offices in Ohio be re-nominated, and
that a coalition ticket should be adopted,
with a view to success.
Gen. Grant has thrown the force of his
opinions against the election of Ciymer, and
in favor of Gen. Geary, as the candidate for
Governor in Pennsylvania, on the ground
that Ciymer opposed the prosecution of the
war for the preservation of the Union. So,
in a number of Congressional Districts, Dem
ocrats are nominated for Congress who are
obnoxious to Republicans. This is the case
in one of the Maryland Districts, where the
Conservatives ought to prevail
Relief for the South.—The report of
the managers of the Southern Relief Associa
tion ot Baltimore, shows that there was dis
bursed by their association, for tbe relief of
the suffering people of the South, from mo
nies realized by the late fair, the enormous
sum of $138,300, which was distributed as
follows: To Virginia, $27,000; North Caro
lina, $16,000; South Carolina, $16,730; Geor
gia, $17,575; Alabama, $16,250; Florida. $5,-
000; Mississippi, $20,625; Louisiana, $7,500;
Arkansas, $5,000; Tennessee, $12,500; Mary
land, $10,000. Of the total, $100,879 80 wcb
from donations in Baltimore city; $20,035 80
from the counties of Maryland; $4,731 50
from J. J. Bankard, Esq., and $1,053 80 from
E. Whitman & Sons; $22,332 04 from admis
sion tickets, nnd the donations outside of Ma
ryland, $19,154 3$.
For the Mscon Telegraph.]
Worthy of Consideration.
Messrs. Editors: Some days ago I wrote a
communication for the Journal & Messenger,
touching the labor question, but, for some
cause, that respectable journal lias deemed it
unfit to give it publicity. Of course I have
no complaints to make further than to say
“What Shall wc do for Servants f”
From the New Orleans Times.]
This question, which is constantly pro
pounded in our midst, and as yet has receiv
ed no satisfactory, reply, must soon present it
self for a general and prompt decision. The
services of freed men and women are so un
certain, and even grudgingly given, and their
wages so increasingly high, that in another
that I now have a more desirable channel I year, unless a marked change takes place, few
through which to make known my views will be willing, or able, to submit to their
upon this ii-rave subject [ extortions anil unthrift. 7. he altered rcla-
I r , ”, , T _, . . , _ tions, too, the removal of all restraint upon
or mon i» I ia\c een a quiet and silent an jg n0 rant and credulous race, who are en-
observer of the tendency among us to rush to tircly under tlie control of vicious and un-
dangerous extremes with regard to tho labor I principled meu, render them unsafe- and un
question. Too many have rashly concluded inmates in the households of tlieir
1 former owners. T. here may bo instances of
rare attachment and fidelity among them, but
tlie subversive element has been so powerful
ly instilled into tlieir minds, that in many in
stances they look upon a Southerner as a nat
ural enemy, to be spoiled and hated.
In cities, or even laige towns, German aud
wits as to how they t should get rid of him Irish emigrants can be procured at reasonable
and how they should supply his place.— [ rates, but they are too unwilling to leave the
Hence a movement was inaugurated in Macon, | neighborhood of towns where they can com
to ignore the negro altogether, assuming tlint I
he was unreliable, unfit for efficient service,
and never can be depended upon to meet the
demands of the planter. Actuated by this 1
unjust feeling, they have been exercising their
not many weeks ago, to open a correspon
dence with Europe in order to ascertain the
probability of procuring laborers from that
section.
Now the point I want to get at is this:
that ths planters, in no section of tbe South,
maud the companionship of their own people,
to make them a reliable dependence through
out the country.
Wc are not dealing with the important
question of free labor in extensive agricultu
ral operations, but in the narrow sphere of
domestic households. We believe, too, the
answer to the question we have asked, must
at a body, have had any just reason be sought and found in the good sense and
to complain of the freedmen, or to conclude I careful forethought of each family,
that they were not to be trusted and that As a general rule, Southern women have
... .. . I accepted the strange and enormous duties
the constant complaining upon this subject imp ^e d up0 n them by a new condition of
is calculated to work out ipcalculable trouble I things, with a quiet, uncomplaining diguity,
and mischief. At the very outset it was pre-1 which their countrymen would do well to
dieted that they would not enter into con- emulate. There has been little outcry and
tracts. Then it was averted that they would, I complG.nt, ? o impotent railing against an
adverse destiny, no eating dust
i and rend-
most certainly, letdown in hot weather. After h ng of garments under tbe feet of
this it was gravely assumed that they would the conquerors, nor any act, hidden or overt,
abandon the plantations when the picking which could cast the remotest reproach upon
• 1 . .1. j-i . . T I the memory of those whose dust they delight
season arrived. But theydtd enter into con- J 0 e h “ e “ No ‘ their moan wa3 m { d ^ ° nd
tracts. They did work under a scorching they acce pt the restrictions of an-altered con
sun, and they are now picUng cotton with all dition. To them our question addresses itself
their might. So in all tbii, every single pre-1 with peculiar force,
diction has proved false, and to day the freed- ^he Southern households, where the fe-
. , , „ ... males of a family have taken entirely upon
men stand fully exonerated, in our midst, in themse i ve3 the burden of domestic duty, arc
all these particulars and are \iving down these | marked by a degree of neatness and order
utterly impossible under the careless super
vision and labor of negro servants. Every
one knows of their surprising dust holes for
stowing away filth of every description, and
their maxim that “dirt never kills,” which
they carry religiously into practice. The
mere superintendence of their careless labors
was a greater drudgery than to do it oneself.
Where there is health, a moderate degree
of energy and good will, and several in a
family, the work is no heavy burden upon
any one of tbem. It is only surprising, in a
And one other I sbort time » wbat can bc done > nnd done well >
....... of the labor which six or seven servants in
assertion still stronger: The moment we e t en)a i bustle and contusion were striving to
abandon tbe freedmen and being in the for- accomplish in the twelve hours. In these
cign element, we will put tho entire planting I days of labor-saving inventions, work has
interests in the South iu the most fearful jeop- been rendered as light ns work can well be.
A good kitchen and cooking-stove will liard-
““J - . . . ly injure the hands or complexion of the fttir-
| A foreigner cannot be induced to live in I es t belle, whose heaviest task work has hith
this climate and to cultivate this sandy soil, erto been to master the difficulties of an op
One vear r or, perhaps, half that time, may era ot “Meyerbeer,” or to paint a landscape
1 from Poussin. The new waslnng-maclune
unjust accusations. There are, to be scare, ex
ceptions. It would be, indeed, a strange
thing if it were otherwise. 8ome white men
are just as bad, and have always been so, and
will continue to be so. And I boldly declare
that no class of laborers on the earth, all
things being equal, have done so well as the
negroes of the South; and I further declare
that there are no laborers, whether Dutch or
Irish, Swiss or French, who can fully supply |
the places of these negroes.
ssfficc to graitfy any desire he may have had
leaves little to be de9ircd in the way of light-
Ek-Senator James S. Green.—Some pen
ny-a-liner, and a poor piece of property at
that, has written a letter to an Eastern paper
from St Louis, in which he originates a very
disgraceful report concerning Ex-Senator
James S. Green, alleging that “he is now-
earning a pittance by any odd job of manual
labor be may get” It would be uriUecessary
to stato for tlie information of St. Louis read
ers that tbe report is false both iu spirit and
detail. Mr. Green is a lawyer of first rank
in our courts, before which lie is a daily prac-
to be among us. After that he would likely J en £ n g that heaviest ot all domestic drudgery^
repair to the beautiful prairies of the North- a division of labor there converts a toil, if
west, or hunt a more congenial home among I not into a pleasure, at least into n very bear-
the mountains of East Tennessee, or the fer- able necessity and an ultimate benefit.
. ... .. . 0 . T . We believe that in a year the amount of
tile valleys ot \ lrgima. btay here, he will mone y saV cd, and of comfort gained, if every
not. ' woman in the Southern household should res-
But the negro is here; he wants to remain olutely set her face toward the discharge of
. v ,, , ,. . , duties which will be ultimately forced upon
here. You could not persuade bim to leave. , wou , d proujote the energy l md
You know him and be knows you. You are usefulness of the whole land. A spirit of in-
acquainted with bis habits, his faults anil his dependence would take the place of that in-
imperfections. Ho is thoroughly inured to I ertness which has hitherto paralyzed all our
„ • ’ .. I efforts, anil we would become a stronger and
ttes climate is impervious to the intense better ’ pcople . 8he m5ght perhap3 , £ ad les3
rays of the sun, and can grapple with all the I tj uie f or the requirements of fashion,but quite
diseases of the South. He is a cotton raiser I as much for the management of her family,
by nature, and more perfectly so by constant I the cultivation of her mind, and a practice of
practice. From hia cradle, almost, he 3g nil those social virtues and accomplishments
1 ,. ., „ ., , , ” . which conduce so much to tho happiness of a
taught the use of tlio plow and the hoe, and | g res j de
is master of the whole routine of the culture |
of cotton. Nor is he half as inrtactible as the
white man. The latter is restive under au
thority, and must have his own way. You I
dare not use harsh or arbitrary means in his
Ladies, there were heroines among you in
the crowded hospitals, on the bloody battle
fields, wherever there was pain to bc allevia
ted, or fainting hearts to be strengthened.—
Your countrymen “rise up and call you bless
ed,” nnd we feel assured that there is no
management. But the former will bear a emergency you cannot meet, no exigency for
grrat deal at your hands, and will work far which you arc not provided,
mere patiently agd cheerfully. From South America.
[ am pleased with the tone of your paper I Settlementol onr Difficulty with the Allies
upon this subject. It is comparatively free _ r 0n c tl1 ? I unuul
.s . . . .. . 1 . Washington, September 23.—Recent news
fnm.the unfortunate spirit of grumbling and from South Atncric l a brings tbe important in-
complaining. The press is too much inclined telligei.ee that the difficulties between the
to find fault with the negroes and to bemoan United States Government and Brazil and
our condition. It is all wrong. I hold that the Re P ublic have been happily
. . , terminated. It will be remembered that our
ve are now in a situation to make more mimster to Paragual) Mr . Washburne, was
noncy and to live more happily and pleasant- retumingj to his post, when lie was stopped
ly than at any former period of our history.— I by the allied forces, who were blockading tbe
111 that we have to do is to treat the negro | Paraguay river. The United States Govern
lindly, pay him promptly and hold bim to a
ngid performance of his duties.
Fair Play.
oral attention. It will hescen that the Adams l titiuncr. We know of one casein which his
Express Company, in that persecution of the j retainer was $1,500, and we know besides
National Express Company which lias gamed ! that he is possessed of a very valuable /arm
for the latter so much of the popular sympa- j n Canton, Missouri, where he is at present
thy, has overreached itself, lod h&s fallen in- j spending his summer vacation. The whole
to the pit which it dug for its victim. It has 1 s tory is one written for sensational effect or
obtained an injunction against the National ! f rom malice.—St. Louis Timet.
which applies equally to itself, anil in view
of its Southwestern connections with even far j Who Knows Anything of Him l—We
greater force. It has been caught under its ; have been shown a letter from his wife asking
own deadfall: informatio- concerning Geo. B. Kitto. He
MR. Baldwin to mr. SMITH. j was a three years' soldier, and was then de-
RicilJto.VD, September 19, 1800. t ? i,ed “ an employe of the Bibb county (Al-
wmy . to -A r„,„ j 7.1, . abrnna) Iron Works, from whence he was
Frcis L. Smith, Attorney at Law. Alexandria . drivcn by Wilson's raid. In the attack on
What will bc result of injunction when Columbus be, with James Williams, went in-
Will it close the road? I must bc
meat, on learning the facts, immediately and
emphatically insisted that be should bc al
lowed to proceed, and that to prevent him
would be regarded as a violation both of
treaties and international law.
o tj -<TT 1. 1 In view of these representations it is now
lH°w TO DO UP SHIRT Bosoms.-Wc have 9tntcd on good authority that the allied Gov-
often heard ladies express a dc-iru toknow crnments | ia ve withdrawn their opposition,
by what process the fine gloss observable on I uul thftt M r. Washburne has accordingly
new linens, slnrt bosoms., &c., is produced, pagscd through the blockade and proceeded
and in order to gratify them, we submit tbe the rfvcr his 1>ost 1
following receipt for making gum arable * A TimC s Rio correspondent says a Buenos
starch: Take two oz. fine white gum arable | A in ono of J it3 , atc numbers, says a
■1? n:.A v.a nr. txt., .1,1,
then having covered it let it stand all night; It st . LU ” j fr . Washburn has again returned to
in the morning pour carclully from the drugs, Avrea from Corrientes, having been
into aclcanbottle cork Hand keep denied perinission to pass into Paraguay—
me. A tablespoonful of gum water stirred | The paper iayf f that he j D3 £ts up«n
going, threatening to force liis passage with
into a pint of starch made iu the usual mnu
ner, will give to either white or printed
lawns a look of newness, when nothing else
can restore them after washing. Much dila
ted, it is also good for thin muslin and bobi-
net.
Yakker Playfulness.—a man
William Henry Davis, at Hnrrisburj
sylvania, found several boys playin
the banks of the canal, and among
negro boy named Daniel Franlin
named
Pcnn-
; about
them a
Davis
Superintendent.
served ? Will it close the road ? I must bc to the trenches and wns shot in the head nc S ro nameu waniw xvmnun -
informed to protect interest of patrons and w ; t h a shell, hut was not dead when Wil-! J°° k ‘J® n *J°P® 1 uSw
the credit of our Company liams, who three months after wrote to Mrs.! f j!> ere „ w “ dee P’ aD J , " f bl mTdell h
Biuscor G. Baldwin, Kitto. was captured. Anv one who can tell ^ hc thln -” le £ hira t0 #t "*S lc lk , eadr c °'™; S?fTit h «no
where Kitto died and was buried, it he did, or j PW The , negroboycouldnotswn street, uithano
“® Se r0 nnd1urv U did S paiv,nen°ti‘tie site of an amphitheatre, and a
Caroline "Khto 1 ^ll,. £ F W >’ S^'ty of murder, while the Pittsburg papers portion of the walls surrounding the ancient
Cha T- n '' in a fic,d : lay it was a “ singular (-.-■s--of manslaughter.” capital, have also been dug out. Several
j'1 _ , AV likes county, G.t. Well, yea, rather “singular” for that lati- (coins of periods anterior to the Christian era
darkey who was sent to jail for tude, perhaps; but if jt had only been in the
marrying two wives, excused himself by sav- South.— Vicksburg (Miss.) ncrald.
ing that when lie had one she fought him, but
Ml!. SMITH TO MR. BALDWIN.
Alexandria, Sept. 10,1866.
Col B. G. Bold win, Ri-hmond:
Under the double injunction, the Orange
and Alexandria Railroad Company must rie-
resMirilv ri-t'ii-c- to carry express matter on the
passenger cars for either Express Company.
Both will have to csj the freight cars.
Francis L. Smitii.
American vessels noiv in these waters. It is
very doubtful whether Mr. Washburne has
nny instructions from the American Govern
ment authorizing him to commit any overt
act of hostility against thealliesin Paraguay.
It is hoped that this difference will bc settled
to the entire satisfaction of tbe Government
concerned.
A Roman Street Discovered in Eng
land.—Near Besingstoke, in England, the
and British capital of south-
some excavations have recently
ich have laid bare a Roman
street, with another smaller one running from
it. Two large Roman houses, with tvsselated :
a. the site of an amphitheatre, and a
when he hail two they fought each other.
that ire do tlrcad. It haunts us like an ap-
What’s the latest and sweetest tbinj
in bonnets ? Tbe ladies' faces to be sure.
A Londoner in New York paid A 1 20
to telegraph to England the birth of his
child—making it, as the world says, a twenty
pounder. ^
Mr. Lewis Gidiey has lately translated in
to Latin the whole of Poe’s Haven, in a
measure which is described as being a five-
line stanza of trochaic tetrameter, alternate
tr.ochaic dimeter hypereatalectic. “ Phmbus,
what a name!”
pi-rioiD
have been found, and a brick with parts ot
nn inscription upon it. England has, in many
parts, relics of the Roman rule in that coun
try, and the exposure of an entire city will, it
is thought, soon bc added to the other cari
osities of the days of the Cjesara. The walls
I of t ie citv, a portion of which har • been ex
posed, are said to have been three miles in.
j circumference.
The Illneranl Southern lladicab.
One of tli« Party Becomes Disgusted with His •
Associates and Deserts—Revolution of Their
Secrets—Immediate Negro Suffrage or Nigro
Insurrection—Their Main Object to’ get a Living
Without Honest Labor, vtc.
Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 10.—II. G. Nor
ton, a delegate to the mean whites’ Conven
tion at Philadelphia, and lately one of the
company of itinerant miscegens started from
the gathering, arrived here to-day. He states
that lie has been forced to leave the mixed
crowd through disgust at their designs and
repugnance at associating with negroes upon
terms of social equality. IIo spoke at Tren
ton with them a week ago last Monday, and
was with them in Albany on Sunday last.—
Ho represents himself as having been in their
full confidence, and present at their private
meetings. Tlieir secret designs, he says, star
tled and disgusted him. Their main object
he declares to bo to moke an easy living with
out honest labor, and to get what money they
can out of the credulous dupes upon whom
they can impose. In order to successfully
carry out this game they arc ready to niako
tlieir speeches to suit their audiences, agreea
bly with their instructions from the politi
cians by whom they are used in the different
localities they visit. But in their meetings
among themselves they make no secret of
their determination after the fall election to
incite a negro insurrection. They say they
must have immediate negro suffrage or negro
insurrection. In their confidential conversa
tions they say this is a yery good way
to get a living to-day ; but when the
elections are* over these people will not
want us, and then our only chance is to get
the upper hand of the Southern rebels, by
tbe aid of disfranchisement and negro votes,
or to exterminate them by a negro insurrec
tion and another war, which would be sure
to follow. The discovery of this design, Mr.
Norton says, determined him to break his as
sociation with tho adventurers. He was fur
ther resolved upon his course in consequence
of their familiar association with the negroes.
Randolph, tho black miscegen, who is one of
the party, eating, drinking and sleeping with
Jack Hamilton and the other whites. Tho
Rev. Hope Baer is represented as being also
disgusted with the company. He objected a.
few days ago to their intimate social inter
course with negroes, and was told he had
better go away.
Indeed, Mr. Norton says, nothing but the
free feeding, free ridiDg, and presents they
get keeps the itinerant miscegens together.
He says they do not pay a cent wherever
they go, and have received gifts of money,
clothing, shirts and; shoes at several
places. He describes Randolph, the negro,
as the smartest- of the band, nnd says he has'
collected a considerable sum under the pre
tence of uid to black churches and- schools
in the South. Hunnicut, another of the stur
dy beggars, solicits subscriptions everywhere
forhis paper, and contrives to sponge a tri
fle here and there out of liis dupes. Mr.
Norton refutes all Jack Hamilton’s statements
about the condition of Texas, and asserts
that he is kept away from that State, not
from fear of assassination, but of indict
ment.
The deserter tells a number of bard stories
about his late associate, and says that Hmn-
nicut, after preaching in Troy last Sunday,
was in a very unpreacher-like condition in
the evening. This is all, of course, the state
ment of a man who, os an associate of such
company, may well be open to criticism, but
liis story at least shows enough to prove the
real character of the Radical miscegen cam
paigners to induce decent men of all parties
to avoid association with them.
Amende Honorable for tlie Seizure
of the Florida.
On reaching Bahia, Admiral Godon found
the Nipsic, Lieut-Commander Blake, await
ing his arrival. That officer had properly
carried out the Department’s instructions to
salute the Brazilian flag, under the order of
July 12. The incidental circumstances at
tendant on the ceremonies were all of the
pleasantest character, and will not fail to be
agreeably remembered. The Admiral in
closed certain documents which show that
the firing of a salute of twenty-ono guns to
the flag of Brazil was to make tbe amende
honorable for an offence committed by a Uni
ted States officer, which was at once disa
vowed by tbe United States Government,
namely—the forcible seizure by the Wachu-
sett of the Confederate vessel Florida, in tho
iort of Bahia, and the bringing her to the
[Jnited States waters where she was lost—
Commander Blake, in his note to the Presi
dent of the Province of Bahia, says: “Tbe
undersigned, in executing this duty, begs
leave to express to your Excellency the sin
cere hope that, with the dying echoes of the
last gun Aill also expire any unkind feeling
that may exist in Brazil from the cause which
has given rise to this ceremonial.” The Presi
dent of the Province in reply rejoiced that the
Government of the United States, apprecia
ting in its wisdom the justice which exists in
this Empire, should not have hesitated in
giving public satisfaction for an offence com
mitted against it during the tranquility of a
profound peace; and confiding in the senti
ments which arc manifested, it also became
him to assure Commander Blake that the
honor of the nation being thus satisfied, no
resentment will remain against a Government
which thus solemnly shows before the civil
ized world that sbe does it during tbe tran
quility of a profound peace; and, confiding
in the sentiments which are manifested, it al
so became him to assure Commander Blake
that the honor of the nation being lhu3 satis
fied, not the slightest resentment will remain
against a Government which thus solemnly
shows before the civilized world that she does
not avail herself of the force at her disposal
against an injured power; and that, on the
contrary, jvill hold in the highest apprecia
tion the justice of a nation which continues to
mnke more dear the relations of friendship
and consideration which until row have uni
ted, and will continue to unite, the two Pow
ers whi.ch inhabit the same continent.
The salute was given on the anniversary of
the coronation of the Emperor, aud was re
turned gun for gun.
Treason in Tkkksssek.—The Nashville
Union & American, ot Monday, says:
Our readers will remember that a few
| months since, a Mr. Williams, a Confederate
soldier, who served for a time asaLieutetant
I of inlantry, and afterwards ns a private in the
! cavalry, wns indicted, tried an-I convicted in
1 the Circuit Court of Jefferson county, East-
| Tennessee, for the crime of treason against
1 the State. He appealed to the Supreme
! Court, and a final adjudication of the c.isc
was expectei at the presc nt term of the Cocrt
now in session at Knoxville.
The Attorney-General and Reporter, xvbjose
duty it is to prosi-cutein behalf of the State,
after carefully examining the record tu the
law bearing upon it,arrived at theconelusion
that the prosecution could not be m.-. bat .-lin
ed, and on Thursday last, with the consent of
the Court, entered a iwUc prosequi, thu.-. in
effect, putting au i-iul to all similar prosecu
tions throughout the State.
A uun will not need cleaning lor
years, if the muzzle iu tightly corked, and a
piece of rubber kept upciu the tube under the
hammer while standing idle.