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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
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\onTU;uN Elections.—Elections take
' Tud\«y next, 2d October, in the States
pfonsyl'Viia, Indiana, Ohio and Iowa.
l)EATn AT S.VANNATI.—Mr. Benj. White-
, > 0 f the Armor Bothwell «fc Whitehead,
i n Savannah -,n the 25th, ot Cholera.—
' ‘ -«j a native of *Jiat city, and in the 41at
f c »r of hU age.
ratification Meeting.—A meeting was
jjdd at the county seat of Twiggs on the
.'4th. I 1 was numer<Jt,8l y a <endcd, and rcs-
"jutions approving the policy of the 14tli of
tugust convention at Philadelphia, adopted.
fjp- The Montgomery Advertise! says that
jjr p. M. Micon, a well known business man
r f that city, has recently returned irom a visit
I Europe, and gives it as his opinion, that
EnrrUml and other foreign countries aro per
kily indifferent to the amount of cotton
isiRil in America, other cotton-growing re-
ions having been largely developed within
!he past few years.^
Fkost ix the Northwest.—A friend, who
ff! it in our office yesterday all the way from
ct Paul, Minnesota, informed us that there
«as a heavy frost throughout that State a lit
tle over a week ago, which destroyed vegeta-
•ion. It extended ns far South as Mihvaukic,
Wisconsin, and is supposed to haTc material
ly damaged the corn crops.
Important Decision.—An important de-
jyon was recently made at Fayette Superior
Court by Judge Warner, in the case of Grant
11 a i t tt. W. P. Allen, trover for the value of
&tc$ and hire. His Honor decided that
there the defendant had made a wrongful
conversion of the slave property, the fact of
emancipation afterwards did not protect him,
^jul that the plaintiffs could recover the value
„• slaves at the time of conversion, with in-
tervft. as damages. The jury found in ac
cordance with the charge.
The above is a correct version of the para-
:raph published some days ago.
A movement is on foot to establish in
the Episcopal Church in this country, the
grades in the ecclesiastical hierarchy which
hare Ik.'i ii disused since the separation from
the mother Church of England. The Dio
cese of Illinois in convention have resolved
that it is expedient to re-establish the office
at Dean: and a resolution favoring what is
called the Provincial system, was referred to
a special committee with considerable likeli
hood of being ndopted.
Tiif. Iron Tie.—There are indications that
the iron band, or “Arrow Tie,’’ as it is called,
is destined to supersede rope altogether in the
preparation of cotton for market. The de
mands upon the ngency at this place have been
immense, so great that he has found it im
possible. with every effort, to meet them
promptly. The bales thus secured are in all
respects better than when bound with rope,
and at no greater cost Mr. Jas. A. Hall, who
keeps them for sale in Macon, informs us that
he has several hundred tons on the way, and
expects to receive them within the next ten
davs.
[FOn THE DAII.T TELEGRAPH.]
Baker Co. Ga., Sept. 27th, 1806.
Messrt. Editors: I notice in a late issue
of your paper, some comments upon the call
in the “Early County News,” for a meeting
of the Farmers of the surrounding counties at
Fort Gaines, lor the purpose of selecting a
Commercial Agent to send to New Orleans
this winter to receive and sell their cotton,
purchase supplies and ship as may be need
ed. A similar movement is on foot in this
section, and it is owing to the course pursued
by the Commission Merchants berc, that
planters do not understand why there should
be such a difference in tlic price of cotton in
Albany, Macon, New York and New Orleans T
Other planters here speak of consigning their
cotton to Savannah, and getting their sup
plies there. Indeed, some are already doing
this. I am a planter myself, and shall seek
tint market where 1 think I can do best.—
All with whom I have talked with, say they
only intend to sell enough of the present crop
to meet their liabilities and hold the rest,
believing a large cotton crop will never again
be made in tbc county.
I lenrn that a merchant informed a planter,
a few days ago, that it coat nine cent* per
pound to ship cotton to New York. You
would do the planting interest a service, Mr.
Editor, if yon would ventilate this subject in
the Telegraph—I sec you have already given
some wholesome advice to them.
• Planter.
The Arrow Tic.
Height of Impudence.—The New York
HcraW is trying to prove to the Presi
dent that the infamous constitutional amend
ment "is not the plan of the Radicals, but
?ulift«ntially, from first, to last, tbc plan of
the President.” Bennett seems to take it for
granted that tlic President la like the Irish
man who. when nsked whether guilty or not,
declined to answer until he had head the evi
dence ! •
The amendment, the Herald says, by way
of recommending it to our adoption, “is the
shortest and only safe and easy road to a
speedy restoration to Congress.” The North
ern Radical papers dispute this, it
would be but one stage on the journey, and
wc think so too for we have already been
cheated into conditions with the assurance
that they would be satisfactory. But al
lowing it to lie the nearest and easiest road,
the South would rather travel forty years
through the wilderness than reach tlic prom
ised land that way. If we be true to our
selves, our children, at least, will get there.
To the Point.—The Louisville Courier
says: “There is not a civilized nation on the
face of the earth that would not joyfully nc
cept the Southern States as a part of its do
minions and grant them equal rights with
their own people, nor one that would not fed
its strength and power doubled by the ac
'iUisition. Their immenso and fertile terri
tory, the grand and wonderful heroism of
their people, their astonishing capabilities
for producing wealth, the fidelity of their
people to their pledges, make not only the
territory but the pcoplcwho inhabit itvaluabk
beyond all calculation. Yet, the blind and
fanatical Jacobins wbo rule this nation, pro
pose to erect that vast and valuable domain
into a negro colony, and expel from it its
heroic, cultivated, hospitable, and magnani
mous inhabitants. Was there ever such
reckless infatuation since the confusion of
tongues at the tower of Babel!”
37“ Elder Turner comes to the rescue, and
essays to defend his race from the implica
tions of our article on the “Religious Destiny
®f tho Negro.” We hope all his bright vis
ions of the future may be realized, in which
*vcnt none will more sincerely rejoice than
ourselves. He concedes tlic facts stated in
our article, but would materially modify our
deductions. This is a matter of opinion,
wd whether he and his people ngree with ns
or not, wo are glad to see that their “best in
formed ministers" ore laboring to correct the
T ery abuses that we*pointed out We regret,
however, that the Elder, as a leader among
h;s people, attaches so little importance to
them. The African race, wc concede, is on
*minently religious one, but there aie many
ftligions, and some very bad ones, into which
* people whose enthusiasm is unbridled may
v «y naturally run, even from the sacred
*nlks of Christianity. A religion to be
worth anything, must be a religion of the
ln derttanding aa well as of the heart The
'ttter, as the Good Book tell* us, “is deceit-
[ol above all things,” and a man may follow
:t oonscinetiously and go to the Devil. It
°ftcn erects gods of its own, and worships
them under the belief that it is meeting all
requirements of the soul iand of the God
Who gave it. <■
” e assure our colored friends that wc
would not “retard” them in any good work,
though we ieel it to be ©nr duty to point out
their
ASPECT OF AFFAIRS NORTH.
Hon. John Forsyth, writing to his paper,
the Mobile Advertiser, from New York, Sept.
lOtli, says:
I think I discern n better feeling the past
ffew days on the subject of the political con
test. The Democrats and the Conservatives
are not dismayed, and it is believed that the
vote of tho two New England States will on
ly stimulate them to repeut the history of for
mer years, when the October and November
elections have so often reversed the judgments
pronounced at the Yankee polls. There is
much in the aspect of affairs to alarm those
classes of the community who desire peace
and order. You will observe how freely talk
of civil war is indulged in by the newspapers
on both sides. The great cities of the North
have everything to dread from the occurrence
of such u calamity. They all contain a mon
ster, now chained down by the bonds of so
ciety and the vigilance and vigor of police
regulation, which it would be perilous to turn
loose in the saturuolia of civil strife.
The New York mob of the second year
of the war gave the people a foretaste that
is vividly remembered of what might happen
in such on event. Hence the men of sub
stance urc.gcnerally ranged on the Conserva
tive side, and with the truly patriotic and
Union men, arc in favor of the immediate
and full restoration of the Southern States.—
On the general subject of the future plans
and operations on the Administration side, I
expect to have better information in a few
days. The impeachment of the President or
the organization of the next Congress are
likely to be the periods of the great strain
upon aud trial ot the American system of
government,
Yale College.—The officiousness of the
president and scverul of the faculty of Yale
College, in urgently inviting the Torcli-and
Turpentine troupe to speak in _ New Haven
upon the politics of the day, suggests the
natural inquiry whether that venerable insti
tution is designed to give tbc young men
who are its patrons what is called~a liberal
education, or whether it intends to inculcate,
along with “small Latin and less Greek,” a
large amount of the peculiar Radicalism of
New England ? Is it a college or a Radical
K litical machine ? In past years Yale Col-
je owed much of its prosperity to South
ern patronage. It boasts among its alumni
Calhoun und hundreds of distinguished
Southern men who have attained the highest
positions in the country. Restoration and
peace, with the renewal of fraternal relations
between tbc North and South, promised to
bring once more hundreds of Southern stu
dents to Old Yale. Do the faculty of Yale
deliberately propose to drive such students
away t And does President Woolsey consid
er Jack Hamilton, who on the l?th day of
June, 1805, was arrested in company with
four dissolute females in a house ot pros-
6titution Washington, a proper model to pre
sent to the young men ot Yale ?
Neu> York World.
The Independent contains the follow
ing :
“No leading Republican in Congress means
to admit tbc ten waiting States simply on
the adoption of the Constitutional Amend
ment. These States are to be admitted on no
conditions short of the equal political rights
ot tbeir loyal Citizens, without distinction of
race. A reconstruction^ the Union on any
other basis would be a’ national dishonor.—
Until the rebel States can come back on this
basis, they shall not come back at all.”
3Ir. Henry Roser, an old merchant of
Savannah, died suddenly at New York, on
the 18th. The deceased was for a long time
indentified with the commercial interests of
this city. After n long and active experience
lie retired from business here in 1859, and
made his home in New York city. The'old-
c-r merchants remember bim as a thorough
business man, an active and energetic sup
porter of the interests of trade. Tbc cause
or his death is not stated, except that it was
sudden. Mr. Roser was 02 years old.—Sat.
Rep.
Weather, Crops, See.—Tho bod weather
holds its own with great gallantry, and for
the past month has played the deuce with
the Cotton in this section. If this weather is
general, it will certainly bring down the
amount of the crop and carry up the price of
cotton. If wc can survive the combined ef
forts of tbc weather and the Radicals, then it
is no use trying to destroy us. Old Nick
himself could not do the job.—Euf aula New*,
27tA.
4>,.
Otfr of the Wat.—A despatch announces
the important intelligence that Mr. Raymond,
of New York, declines to become a candidate
for re-election. He is wise, in this, and for
two reasons : first, he could not be re-elected;
secondly, if he could, he would only sink
deeper than he already is in the estimation of
the public. There has, perhaps, never been
a man in the public councils whose course
was so discreditable to him as a statesman.
It lias been ^vcll remarked that great emer
gencies develop human ingenuity by stimula
ting the latent, skill and inventive capacity
of a people, and especially of a progressive
people; and surely no intelligent observer can
have failed to notice at least some of the nu
merous inventions nnd improvements of our
day. affording ns they do increased facilities
for the general transaction of business, and
greater ease and security in tho handling and
transportation of merchandise and produce
from one market to another.
Prominent among tlic changes that are oc
curring, wo desire to invite tho attention of
those interested to the fact, that within the
last few years, iron has been extensively in
troduced as a substitute for rope, and in' al
most every instance demonstrating tbat the
change has been advantageous.
The most remarkable change, however, has
taken place .within tbc last ten or twelve
years, when iron first began to l>c used in the
place of rope for baling cotton.
What led to the invention of tho iron band
was the fact tbat rope lieing so expansive and
elastic, bales of cotton. bound with this ma
terial, in many instances, nearly doubled their
size before they reached their end ot the voy
age, as compared with their measurement
when first placed on board. The chief ad
vantage, therefore, which iron hooping pos
sesses over rope is lound in its non-expansive-
ness. By the use of iron bands this most se
rious inconvenience can be avoided, for they
secure a bale so firmly that expansion is im
possible, and a bale so secured has exactly
the same cubic measurement when it is taken
from the ship's hold, after a long voyage, that
it had when it was first taken from the press.
Another most important advantage derived
from the use of the iron band is that the bale,
by being rendered more compact, lias a much
smaller surface exposed to damage, as it is
almost impervious to water and almost incon
sumable by fire.
Concerning the “Arrow Tie,” we wish to
say a few words, and perhaps we cannot do
better in tbo outset than to let the Liverpool
Journal, of March 29, 18G5, speak for us. It
says : “With regard to fastening bands with
the ‘Arrow Tie,’ we would say a word. The
principal requirements for such an object are
simplicity, rapidity and perfection in fasten
ing. They are all supplied by the Arrow Tie,
which is ample in design, rapid id its appli
cation, and perfect in accomplishing the pur
pose for which it is designed. The tie is now
chiefly used in the States (United States,) In
din, Egypt and South America, nnd has given
universal satisfaction. We have seen some
bales pressed to a density of thirty pounds
to the cubic toot, and fastened with the Ar
row Tic iron bunds, hoisted into a store in
this town, after a voyage from Bombay, and
thrown out of a window without losiug one
of the bands. The bales in question were ot
the same cubic measurement when they ar
rived in Liverpool as when shipped at Bom
bay.
“A number of experiments were recently
instituted, under the direction of Dr. Forbes
Watson, tiie Government reporter on the pro
ducts j>f India, and Gen. Frederick Cotton, of
her Majesty's Madras engineers, with the
Cumulative Power Cotton Press, in which
the bale, when compressed, was fastened with
the arrow tie and i<*on bands, in tlic space of
thirty seconds. The result was so satisfactory
that Dr. Watson, ip a report to the Secretary
of State, suggesting certain experiments with
India cotton, and which we observe are now
being carried out by the Bombay Govern
ment, remarks: Tt will be necessary to have
the bales bound with iron hands, and fastened
with the arrow tie, which appears to be net
only the most effective, but the most readily
upplied contrivance yet devised for the pur
pose.’ Dr. Watson further says: “In a se
ries of experiments recently conducted under
my direction, in Liverpool, at a number of
which Gen. Frederick Cotton was present,
the time required to fasten the bands on each
bale in no case exceeded half a minute, whilst
in some, fifteen seconds sufficed, all that is
wanted being n certain but easily acquired
dexterity in adjusting the ties.’”
I Coming from suck a source, the testimony
in favor of the arrow tie is worthy ot consid
eration. But all that is claimed for the arrow
tic in Great Britain is also claimed for it here
in the cotton growing States; for it has been
introducad throughout them ell, and it gives
universal satisfaction.
Experiments and a fair trial in England
and in this country prove conclusively that
the objections raised by rival patentees of
tics, tbat the arrow tie lacks strength, arc
without foundalton. A stronger and more
durable tie bos never been introduced in any
country.
Letters from Texas and from all parts of
tho country go to prove that wherever the
arrow tie has been used, it has taken prece
dence over all others.
The bands which are accompanied by the
arrow tie are long enough for the largest
hale, and can instantly be adapted to the
size of any bale, whilst in the press, os
quickly and with the same ease as ropes.—
They are prepared of superior hoop, cut to
uniform lengths of ten and eleven feet, und
put up in bundles of thirty-five bands and
ties each, complete and inseperable until
opened for use. Messrs. Given, Watts & Co.,
186 Cameron street, or Mr. H. T. Bartlett,
General Agent, 28 Carondelet street, New
Orleans, will furnish to order printed direc
tions for working these bands and tics, so
that every planter can use them without the
slightest difficulty.
The agents for these bands and ties possess
unprecedented facilities .for obtaining sup
plies direct from the patentee, under whose
eye they are all manufactured. Large quan
tities were sold last year, and their sale is
rapidly increasing wherever they have been
introduced.
Wc would add that several railroad com
panies have already made an exception in fa
vor of cotton put up in iron in regard to
freights, and that the underwriters ot our
city agree in recommending its use as a great
safeguard against loss or damage hy fire and
water.—N. O.Pie.
TITE UNION TO BE SAVF.D, BUT TIIE RE
PUBLICANS MUST DO IT.
The New York Times of the 25th is full
of malignity towards th* Democrats, nnd.
though it does not say so in so many words,
would evidently prefer to see discord reign
forever, to peace at the hands of the Demo
cratic party. Here is what it says of
Northern sentiment, -by wbicii is meant the
narrow-minded partisan views of Henry Si
Raymond:
While we believe tho great body of the
people desire the speedy restoration of peace
and harmony to the Uuion, they are not in
clined to purchase this at the cost of restor
ing the Democratic Party to power. They
will trust the work of restoration to tho
Uuion Partv, aud none other. They find it
much easier to check the excesses and rebuke
the fanatical passions of its extreme and.
reckless men, than to infuse into the Demo
cratic organization the spirit of’progress, of
reform, and of pelitical liberty which the
emergencies of tho times demand. They
find that partv still filled with all
the narrow and illiberal prejudices which
marked its action before the Avar. The
same hatred of the colored race—the same
unwillingness to extend and broaden the
basis ot 'our free institutions—the same at-
GREAT BRITAIN.
AMERICAN TOPICS.
President Johnson's Administration not a
Failure.
From the Manchester Examiner.
Whatever view mav be taken of the politi
cal character of Mr. Johnson's Administra
tion, nobody will pronounce it a failure.—
There is assuredly no sign of weakness or de
crepitude in his management of affairs. In
no empire in the worid were the reins of
power ever grasped tvith a firmer hand. As
there is no A r acillation in the conduct of the
of the President, so let it be fairly admitted,
there is no evidence that his measures are dic
tated by caprice. He acts on clearly defined
principles. He 1ms long held certain views
of the American Constitution, of the scope of
the Executive, the duty of Congress, and the
rights of the States. These views are not pe
culiar to him; they have, on the contrary,
been held by the most accomplished states
men the country has produced from the days
of George Washington to the present time.
What is peculiar to the President is the firm
ness with Avhich he adheres to them in thb
face of opposition, and his determination to
make them the guide of his policy to the end
of his official career. All parties* have been
——-
RELIGIOUS DESTINY
GRO.
OF TIIE XE-
tachment to caste and arbitrary distinctions deceived in President Johnson. On his first
n the distribution of political power-the accessmn to office the Radicals expected from
111 mv u«u» I . • M hpnrtipr snnnnpt: than tliftr >inrl tminri in
errors, even though they should foil to
appreciate our motives and discourse. The
lecture drawn by tbo Elder of the future of
! !‘ e African race in their native country, is
c ttriog indeed, aud we hope it may be
resized in its brightest promises.
Its Effect.—The Cincinnati Union says
The neglect of official respect to the Presi
dent by tbe Philadelphia officials is having
its natural effect. Among others Samuel It.
Blender, President or the Second Ward Re-
mblican Club of Philadelphia, has resigned
tig office and joined a Johnson club, in dis
gust at the intolerance and ill temper ot his
late associates. This fact avc give on the au
thority of the Pittsburg Chronicle, a moder
ate radical sheet
Family Affliction.—A heavy domestic
affliction has befallen Bishop Gregg, of the
Episcopal Diocese of Texas. The cholera
has broken out suddenly at San Antonio, his
residence, and among its 'victims is thfe Bish
op’s eldest daughter and her husband. They
had but lately been married. But the viciss
itudes of the war, the Bishop lost his eldest
son. The two melancholy bereavements, it
is stated, have nearly prostrated him.
“JSF'My Policy” is hateful to the Radicals,
because, os the President told the people of
Pittsburg, it is a policy for restoring the
Union. They aro better satisfied with the
“fervent-heat” policy of Gen. Butler,, the
“pcnitentiary-of-hell ” policy of Tlmddeits
Stevens, and the “torch-and-turpentinc” poli
cy of the pious Pnreon Brownlow. That is
their style of Union.—Boston Post.
Generously Waiving the Civil Rights
Bill.—A friend tells the following good sto
ry, which merits being put on record. A
gentleman of this city, says the Charleston
Courier, owning a large plantation on Santee,
gave a good ltoose, formerly tho overseer’s,
to a trusty negro, one of the superintendents
ot the estate. A white family of white squat
ters, however, held possession of the house,
and the freedman was debarred from enter
ing upon his rights. He went back to the
planter, his late master, nnd complained,
when the following dialogue ensued:
*■ Planter—But, Pompey, the house is yours
—you aro the lawful owner—and no one bos
any right to occupy it without your oivn con
sent.
Pompey—Yes, mnssa, I done tole’m so;
but he say he won’t go.'
Planter—Well, Pompey, suppose you go
to the Freedmen’s Bureau, state your griev
ance, and apply for assistance to have this
man ejected.
Pompey—(Scratching his head for some
time, in an uneasy state ot inability to make
up his mind,) No, salt, I can’t do dat
wouldn’t like to take advantage ob my own
color!
Oregon Politics.—San Francisco, Sept
28.—Despatches from Salem, dated yester
day, say that Democratic contestants from
Grant county have been admitted to scats in
tbe House, and the two Union men have been
ousted. It was through the aid of tbe latter
tbat the constitutional amendment passed the
House. It had previously passed the Sen-
ate.
par* On Thursday, Norman Burton, resid
ing in Fairfield, Conn., went deliberately to a
chopping block and cat off his right hand
at the Avrist. He struck two or three blows
before accomplishing his object He has
been insane tor some years, and on being
asked why lie committed tbe deed, replied,
“The Bible says, if thy band offend thee, cut
it off and cast it from thee.”
JiPHartlcy Coleridge once being asked
which of Wordsworth’s productions he con
sidered the prettiest. Aery promptly replied:
“His daughter Dora."
sympathy with all efforts to elevate the de
graded and to improve the condition of the
ignorant and the down-trodden members of
our republican socioty, mark its action nAw
as before the great tempest which, in sweep
ing away human slavery, has destroyed the
great bulwark of all tbe injustice and ull tiie
inequality by which sur free iustitations were
deformed aud uiarnd. The people will not
trust that party with tbc reorganization of
our political societj. They dread its in
fluence on national affairs. They dread es
pecially the alliance it will form A*-ith what
ever remains of the influences of Slavery in
the Southern States. And they mean to
avert this danger by excluding the Demo
cratic Party frour power.
When this shall have been accomplished,
wc doubt not the people will give attention
to the specific work of restoration. We do
not believe public opinion will surrender it
self to the wild schemes with which extrem
ists and fanatics now alternately amuse and
alarm the public mind: What the people
now seek, with such passionate purpose and
such resolute determination, is not negro suf
frage, nor confiscation, uor the degradation
of the Southern States, nor the extermination,
bv lire, famine and slaughter, of the popula
tion of the Southern States. These pleasing
projects are left to amuse the congenial fan
cies of Parson Brownlow, or to serve as stalk
ing horses upon which Col. Forney may de
lude liimselt with grateful dreams of his own
importance. The people seek nothing of Hie
kind, nor, when they become of practical
consequence, will they tolerate them for a mo-,
meut. They seek to rescue the nation from
the party which betrayed it once, and which
they are determined neA*er to trust again.
Fred. Douglass Relates IlisExpericncenl
Philadelphia*
In Rochester, on Thursday evening, Mr.
Frederick Douglass spoke at the Union
League, and gave an account ot his visit to
Philadelphia. Wc quote:
Ou my way to Philadelphia, I met the
Indiana and Louisiana delegations. I was
in the forward car. next to the engine—a
precedence which is usually accorded to ne
groes, so that in case of accidents we should
have the first chance. The delegation came
to me and said they had a very grave subject
to discuss. They entreated me not to go to
Philadelphia. Tbe country was agitated
Avith important questions. Tlic issue Avas
between Congress and the President. If I
Avpnt to Philadelphia the Indiana delegation
feared that their Congressmen would be de
feated ; and if Congress were defeated John
son would lie in the ascendency, and tlint
meant Memphis, New Orleans, and the con
tinued persecution of Union men throughout
the South. I told them I might as well put
a pistol to my head and blow tny brains out
as to back out now. Had I been left to
choose, I should not bare come here at such
a time; but I had been appointed by the
Republicans of Rochester, and there Avas now
no means of escaping the odium of having a
negro delegntc in the Convention. If I re
fused to come, or was kept out, tbe matter
would be made worse instead of better.
“On reaching Philadelphia. I beard a ru
mor that some of the Northern loyal Govern
ors Avero regretting exceeding that Rochester
had sent an ugly child—a block delegate—
to the Convention. They ‘hoped Douglass
would have the good sense’—that was the
way to put it—‘not to attempt to take a seat
in the gathering, or join the procession. Iu-
deed, I did not know exactly how I could
get in. I had not seen our other delegate, nnd
it would scarcely have been seemly for mo to
walk alone. But nkind Providence tossed
the young, brave, eloquent Theodore Tilton
in tuy way, nnd that man of brains and clo-
qucuce und genius, like his rooster, was not
ashamed to call a black man brother. He
took me by the arm, and we marched in the
grand procession together. Arrived at the
Convention, the first man I met was Carl
Scliurz, and the second was General Butler.
They both took me cordially by tbe hand,
nnd—there i» a great deal ot flunkyism in
the most of us—after that everybody rccog-
me. All the difficulty was over at once.”
same clamor for the largest license to vice ! •» heartier support than they had found in
and immorality, and the same lack of Mr. Lincoln. 01 Mr Lincoln they had but
- - - »t- — . •*--j- one apprehension. lie was centleand placa
ble. He harbored no thoughts of vengeance.
He was anxious to smooth the way for the re
turn of the Southern States, and might, it was
feared, bo led to overlook the precautions
that were necessary. From him especially
the Southern leaders had nothing to fear.—
He Avould act justly; but justice in his bauds
might be so largely tempered with mercy as
to become inoperative or mischievously len
ient.
President Johnson was a man ot sterner
mould. There Avas something grim and al
most savage in his temper. From him it Avas
believed the Southerners would look in vain
for any compensation ; and some went even
so-far as to fancy they saw the hand ot Prov
idence transferring the task to this severe and
unrelenting mail. The South Avas equally
deceived, Lincoln was hated as an cmanci
pationist and conqueror, but Johnson Avas
loathed as a recreant, and his conduct in Tea
nessee inspired every Southerner Avith the
keenest misgivings. They feared that hang
ing and confiscation would be the order of
the day, and that the South would be com
plctely crushed. Never Avas expectation more
absolutely believed, yet it would be unjust to
charge the President Avith having been a par
ty to deception. His principles are the same,
the change lias taken place in the facts Avith
Avhich he has had to deal. While the Union
was in danger and the cause of emancipation
was doubtful, he was one of the most violent
and intrepid adversaries of the South. But
at the momen t lie assumed power the Avar
Avas at an end; the South was everywhere
submissive.; the authorities of the Federal
Government was once more acknowledged as
supreme throughout the length and breadth
ot the Confederation. Probably his unex
pected elevation awoke a corresponding sense
of responsibility, and led him to exchange
the passions of a partizan for those broad
and calm views which befit the ruler of :
great people at such an extraordinary epoch
Certain it is, that he at once marked out
line of policy from which he has never
swerved, and has displayed hi tho mainte
nance of that policy a courage and self reli
ance which must extort the admiration of
his bitterest opponents.
The struggle which has now gone on for
eighteen months between the President and
Congress, affords a spectacle which English-
men find it difficult to understand. When
they hear the President denouncing Con
gress, and the leading politicians in Con
gress denouncing the President, each select
ing the most forcible language they can find,
and hardly stopping short of violent vituper
ation, they are tempted to think that the
Government must be in a state of utter con
fusion, and the nation itself on the verge of
anarchy. When they see the Legislature and
the Executive taking diametrically opposite
views on questions of public policy questions,
moreover, of fundamental importance, and of
the widest range, they jump to the conclus
ion that the system which can lead to such
results is a failure, and that it must almost be
a matter of chance whether such a conflict
will not be settled by a recourse to revo
lutionary violence. Americans take these
things more coolly. Their trained instincts
euabic them to gauge the evil aud see its lim
its, which, after all, arc not very extensive.—
There are two or three facts Avhich may help
us to survey the state of affairs from an Amer
ican point of view. In the first place, neither
the President nor the Congress, nor both
united, possess supreme power. The Parlia
ment of Great Britain, consisting of the three
estates of the realm, is sovereign, supreme
and absolute. There is no legislative act to
Avhich it is not competent. It can do any
thing, to use Blackstone’s illustration, but
make a man a woman. We talk vaguely
of the Constitution, but tbe Constitution is
just what Parliament likes to make it. There
is no such supreme and sovereign body in the
United States. Sovereignty resides in
the people alone, and a written Consti
tution lays down precise limits, beyond
Avhich neither President nor Congress can
venture. Then, by the Constitution of the
United States, Congress and the President
are two separate powers, and are supposed to
act in entire independence of each other.—
If Congress Were ever to become-subservient
to the President, or the President to the Con
gress, the balance of the Constitution Avould
je upset, and one of the guarantees for wise
government, created by the founders of the
Constitution would be destroyed. The veto,
for example, was never meant to be a merely
dormant power. It Avas meant to be used,
and the President, by his oath, is bound to
use it, to check the passing of any measure
which he believes to be either inexpedient or
contrary to the Constitution. Again, a con
flict between the President and Congress oc
casions no inturruption in the business of ad
ministration, and need not lead it even to a
chauge of ministry, while at the longest it
cannot last more than four yeurs, at the end
of which period the sovereign power steps
in and rearranges the whole machinery. It
the government of the United States all par
ties are outspoken, because the people are the
final resort, and Avords are wasted which do
not come to their cars. Hence the dirty linen
of the State is washed in public and hung up
to dry before the world. It might be more
decorous to do it in private, but publicity is
the fashion, and the result is that the worst is
knoAvn. There are no latent dangers; on the
contrary, all dangers that exist aro -apparent,
and are generally much greater in appearance
than in reality. So much by way of explan
ation, and not of apology or defense. In all
probability a few months will bring about
harmony between the Executive and Legisla
tive of tbc United States. In the meantime,
what seems to us to be conflict is nothing
more than the rather energetic wielding of
constitutional weapons. If the energy em
ployed seems to us excessive, and the antag
onism extreme, AYe must remember that tiie
crisis through Avhich the United States are
passing should be compared, not with the
quiet times of Queen Victoria, but with those
of the Commonwealth and the Revolution.
LETTER FROM ELDER TURNER.
Macon, Ga., Sept. 20,1SC6.
Editor of the Telegraph ;
In your issue of the 25tli inst., my atten-
01R CHESS DEPARTMENT.
All those interest' I in this column
should subscribe for tli Weekly Telegraph,
Macon, Ga. $4 per annum.
Communications on matters pertain
tention was singularly attracted to one of! ing to Chess are solicited, and sliouli) be ad-
your finely written leaders, under the head dressed to “Chess Editor” of the Telegraph.
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Sir Morton Peto has again come to
grief. At a meeting of the shareholders and
bondholders of the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railroad, it was stated that there had
been an over-issne of the company’s bonds
to the extent of £128,000, equal to nearly
one-third of the Avholcsum authorized. The
directors all declared that they knew nothing
about it, and called on their constructor, Sir
31. Peto, to explain. Sir 31. Peto acknowl
edged that he bad been instrumental in thus
disposing of documents which were in their
nature really ns fradulentas forgery; but said
tbat if he had not done so be and the com
pany must have both stopped together—
which both have done since. Of course the
affair excited great dissatisfaction, especially
among the holders of worthless bonds.
Interesting to Turfmen.—The’“fastest
time on record,” at all distances, is as fol
lows: %
1 1 mile, pacing, Pocahontas,
1 mile, trotting, Dexter,
2 miles, trotting, Flora Temple,
3 miles, trotting, Dutchman,
10 miles, trotting, Prince,
20 miles, trotting. Trustee,
100 miles, trotting, Conqueror, 8.55:03
100 miles, double, Master Burke
and Robin, 10.17:22
1 mile, running, Henty Peritt, 1:12 1-8
4 miles, running, Lexington, 7:19 1-3
B37“A lit'le boy, about six years old, was
using his slate and pencil on Sunday, when
his father, who was a minister, entered and
said:
“My sen, I prefer that you should not use
your slate on the Lord’s day.”
“I am drawing meeting houses, father,”
was the prompt reply-.
Dead.—Mr. S. A. Pancoast, one of the U.
S. Direct Tax Commissioners for the State of
Georgia, and who has been residing in onr
town for over two months, died at tho New
ton Houbc on the night of tho 18th inst
[Athens Watchman, 23th.
Lt. Col. Deloxey.—The remains of this
gallant soldier and truo patriot who died in
Washington City in Sept. 18C3 from a wound
received near Brandy Station, Va., reached
this place on Monday, and were buried Tues
day. Peace to his ashes !—U>.
£57“An Englishman in India wo3 horrified
at n .lying a telegraphic dispatch from
England that his wife had been delivered of
five daughters. The message should have
said a fine daughter.
pT* A few weeks since a couple of ex-
Federal soldiers stole a pair of pants and an
old watch near Dalton, Georgia. They tvere
tried, convicted and publicly whipped as the
law of Georgia directs. About the same
time, a citizen stole a sheep; was tried, con
victed and likewise whipped.
Some Radical correspondent in Brown-
low’s organ at Nashville, misrepresents this
transaction, and asserts that the “Yankees”
were whipped by a “ mob ” merely because
they were Yankees. Not a word about the
citizen who stole the sheep! Such is Radical
tactics!—Atlanta Era,
London is but poorly supplied with
water, acd it is now proposed to bring a sup-
ply from the river Severn, a distance of 183
miles, at a cost of $43,000,000.
of, “The Religious Destiny of the Negro,” in
Avhich you endeavored to prove with argu
ments of commendable ability, that the pre
sent tendency of negro ivorship was charac
terized with the aspects of moral degeneracy,
and superstitious bigotry ; yon furthermore I
predict for its ultimatum, the subversion of i
all true religion, nnd the determination of l
all moral ideas or principles, wliicb, of course, 1
unless arrested by some miraculous agency, I
must shade our future in the ».ismal gloom of |
barbarism, and brutalize our race forever.—
This I understand to be your solution of the
negro problem, as regards his religious desti
ny. And if so, Oh, how sad the picture!
When I read your doleful review of the sub
ject, and spent a few moments in trying to
spy the evolving future through the same
prophetic glasses that I immagined - you
brought into requisition, tny very soul seem
ed to recoil from such a grim spectacle, not
withstanding! tried to dismiss illuming hopes,
and cheering prospects, and pry amid the
ghastly rubbish of a wretched future.
But presuming, as I do, that you a'.e actu
ated by no prejudicial motives, toward tny
unfortunate race, and that you spoke your
honest convictions, drawn from your hisrhest
conception of their constitutional peculiari
ties, or instinctive idiosyncracies, i# you
choose, yet, as one of the representatives of
that humble race. I most respectfully beg
leave to differ with you. True, I am cogni
zant of the fact, that you have given the negro
some study; butl am apprehensive that your
estimate of his value lias hinged upon his
commercial interest, while I have investigated
his moral, religious and intellectual worth, as
a creature inseparably identified witli human
ity at large. And with your indulgence, al
low me to inform you that our religious pros
pects were never more hopeful than at pres
ent, and out of the innumerable arguments I
might adduce, I will only mention one, viz:
Since last February, I have received over
5,000 of my people into the church. Hun
dreds of whom I have since seen happily
converted to God, and hundreds are-still un
relenting penitents.
True, our people are rather excitable in
their religious worship, and often betray a
novelous jesticulation, a fault peculiar to any
uneducated people—yet a fault that our best
informed ministers are laboring to correct.
But while much of it may be regarded as
dross, who dare say, that God, in the smelt
ing process of his grace, does not coin of that
drossy rubbish much of the pure metal. And
after all, does not our extraordinary demon
strations irrefutably argue tbe intenev of soul
which is manifested in the subject Remem
ber our Lord says, “Out of the abundance ot
the heart the mouth speaketb,” and its bear
ing only tells how the mind is absorbed in
the great subject of religion. But why treed
I defend shouting, when it has been perpetra
ted in tbo church ever since the children of
Israel crossed the Red Sea, sanctioned by
Jesus Christ, and is practiced throughout the
civilized world to-day. And if wc, the semi-
savages of America shout, we learned it from
the whites. I have attended hundreds of
camp-meetings and revivals in Georgia and
South Carolina, where the whifes have
doubled the colored in shouting; yes, I have
seen men shout who owned over two hundred
slaves. Besides, if the populace can cheer
their candidates for office, shout and* hurrah
at their victories, ptc., why not avc praise God
in loudest strains, when be blesses our souls
and pours his favor upon us, aud still not be
heathens. There is not a race under Heaven
that has a higher conception of God than the
blacks.
There may bo some such isolated cases
among us, as you quote from Rev. Mr. Mere
dith and Rev. Dr. Marshall, Avhere some fool
ish fanatics in their somnifererous revelry,
have channeled out a wild theory of their
OAvn. But if you look among the whites you
will find religious speculators and theoretical
bigotn quadrupling those among the colored.
Show me a colored Atheist, colored pantheist,
colored Deist, or a black Taos. Paine, or a
Valnez, or a Hume, and I will show you a
white devil. But if you turn to the history of
the Christian church, I will shoiv you. black
men ever and anon, standing as beacon lights,
iu the grand army of the Christian church,
yes to the number of three hundred black
Bishops.
But why need I multiply words for a news
paper article, When it would take a volume
to hold ail I might say ? Suffice it to say, you
predictjuirreturn to barbarism; no star’s
light gleams over your horizon of the negro
future. But I see differently, I see this gene
ration of blacks, wandering like Israel
through the wilderness, dying out, and giving
place to another generation, Avhose great and
grand conception of moral truths, virtue,
chastity and learning, will rank them with the
most refine nations of earth. I see them re
turning to Africa like ten thousand mission
aries, dispeling the gloom of ignorance, and
overturning the temples of superstition, and
erecting thereon, fabrics to the glory of God
and the evangelization of our father-land.—
I see the inexhaustible treasures of that fer
tile and mineral ruined continent, brought by
the influence and thriftiness of American
blacks to the Avorld’s attention, and thousands
of adventurers from every nation under heav
en, crossing every Avater basin in search of her
shores, where Avealth in countless billions will
lie scattered before the gaze of mankind.—
The wheels of progress never goes backward.
God had a purpose in American slavery, and
nothing can thwart it. AYe were sent here
to school by the sanction of heaven, and what
little avc have will never be lossed; you need
not despair, for our civilization. Help ps if
you can, but if you can not, do no retard our
efforts, for though lost now, Ave are destined
to be first. Our day is in the future, but it
will come, it must come, it shall come.
AVith much esteem,
n. M. Turner,
Elder of A. 31. E. Church,
To Correspondents.
J. Z. A. I, Knoxville, Ga.—Your problem
is undergoing examination. AVill report on
it next week.
T. B. G., Columbus, Ga.— 1 The problems
will be sent soon.
N. 31., New York.—See solutions ot “Chess
Nut ” in this issue. Have written you.
The annals of Chess hardly furnish a
more beautiful specimen of the Evans Gambit
than that we publish to day. It shows tho
real strength of the attack in the hands of a
master.
PROBLEM NO. 11.
BY .
....Mi '.Mmi
~—-et
While to play and give mate in four moves with a Kt,
or Rook, or in three mores with a Rook.
w
*
QKt7
Enigma No. G.
K 7
•f
K R 3
White to play and win.;
k
Solution to Enigma No. 5.
AS GIVEN nr THK ACTHOK.
WHITE. BLACK.'
1 Kt to Q 5
•„> H to Q B
3 B to KB4(ch)
4 B mates
A prettier solution is given by our corres
pondent, D. P.:
1 Kt to K Kl’s 2
2 K to y 4
3 B to Q B (ch)
4 Kt loK It 4. matt
1 K mores
2 K moves
3 K mores
1 K moves
2 K moves
3 K to K B 4
' If
3. K to K R 4
4. R to K R 4, mate
Beautiful solution in three moves hy our
correspondent, Lours Morel, Cuthbert, Ga.:
1 R to K Kt 6 1 K to K B 5
2 B to Q6(cli) 2 ICtoKBO
3 It to li C, mate
The solution to Problem 10 is withheld for
the present, ns D. P. and others have failed
in their solutions, taking R on Black Queen’s
Kt’s 2nd, perhaps for a White Rook, when it
is a Black one. Let them try again.
GAME,
The following is the ninth game of the
Anderssen-Steinitz match:
Evans' Gambit.
BLACK.
' WHITE.
nlE2 ANUMSSEX.
1 P to K 4
2 Kt to K U 3
3 B to B 4
4 P to Q Kt 4
5 I* to <J li 3
0 Castles
7 PtoQ4
S P takes P
9 Ptot
10 B to (
11 B to (
12 Kt to (J B 3
IS Kt to K 2
14 Q to Q 2
15 (I R to Q B square
18 Kt to Kt 3
17 Kt to K B 5
18 K to R square
.ft f. v L'.
*5
3
> Kt2
Iltr.il STDXtTZ.
1 P to E 4
2 Kt to O B 3
3 B to B *
4 B takes P
5 B to B 4
8 PtoQ3
7 P takes P
8 B to Q Kt 3
# Kt to O R 4
10 Kt to K2
11 Castles
12 Ktto KTKtS
13 P to Q B 4
14 B to Q B 2
"■5 Q R to Q Kt square
18 r to B 3 (a)
1? P to Q Kt 4
15 P to Kt 5
19 B takes Kt
20 Kt to K 4
21 B P takes B
22 Q to Q 2
19 K R to K Kt square
20 P takes B
21 B takes Kt
22 Kt to Kt. 5
23 Kt to K G
24 PtoK Kt4
25 PtoKt5
28 Pto Kt 0 (I>)
27 P Ukcs P (ch)
23 QtoKKtS
29 Kt takes B
SO P to K B 6
31 P to B 7
32 Kt takes Q(ob.) and wins
NOTES.
(a) Black has evidently a lively recollection of tite
seventh game of the match, iu which, by omitting to
make the move in the text, he speediiy lost by B takes ,
KKtP.
(b) Had Mr. Andersstn played the other games of
the match with the same vigor and determination that
he exhibits in this one, Mr. Steinits would have made
but a sorry figure at the final score.
(c) If Kt takes R, White.winsbv P to K B 6.
Qto (
23 K Rto Q B square
24 P to O Kt 0
25 P takes Q P. P
26 Kt to Q Kt 6
27 K to R square
28 B toQ square (c)
29 Kt takes R
30 R to Q B 2
31 Q takes P
J57“ “Have you no mercy for the South f”
asked a Georgian of one of the delegates to
the Flesh-Pot Convention. “Nary a mercy,”
was the reply. “Come away from him,” said
a friend, “He’s one of those radical mercy-
narys. He'd go through you in a minute.’ *
How True !—The Nashville Gazette says:
Almost every one we meet has a good tvord
for the poorthey feel for their sufferings,
but very few indeed feel in their pockets and
contribute their mite to alleviate the distress
pervading. •
Condensed History of Steam.
About two hundred land eighty years B. C.,
Nero ot Alexandria, formed a toy which ex
hibited some of the powers of steam, and was
moved hy its power.
A. D. 540, Antheminus, an architect, arran
ged several cauldrons of water, each covered
with a leathern tube, which rose to the nar
row top, Avith pipes extending to the rafters
of the adjoining building. Afire was kindled
beneath the cauldrons, and the house was
shaken with the efforts of the steam ascend-
j tiie tubes. Tliis'is the first notice of the
power of steam recorded.
In 1543, June 17th, Erasco de Garay tried
a steamboat of two hundred tons with toler
able success, at Barcelona, Spain. It consist
ed of a cauldron ot boiling water, and a mov
able wheel on each side of the ship. It tvas
laid aside as impracticable. A present, how
ever, was made to Garay.
The first idea of a steam engine in England
was in the Marquis of AVorcester’s “History
of Inventions,” A. D. 1663.
In 1701^ Newmermen made the first steam
engine in England.
In 1718, patents were granted to Savary
for the first application of the steam engine.’
In 1764, James AYatt made the first, perfect
engine in England.
In 1760, Jonathan Hulls first set forth the
idea ot steam navigation.
In 1778; Thomas Payne first proposed its
application in America.
In 1781, Marquis Jouffrey constructed a
stermboat on the Saonc.
In 1785, two Ameriians published a work
on it 'nrrtfti
In 1789, AYm. Smyington made a voyage in
one, on the Forth and Clyde canal.
In 1802, ’his experiment was repeated.
In 1782, Ramsey propelled a boat by steam
at New York.
In 1789, John Fitch, of Connecticut navi
gated a boat by a steam engine on the Dela
ware.
In 1794, Robt. Fulton first began to apply
his attention to steam.
In 1783, Olivet Evansville, a native of Phil
adelphia, constructed a steam engine to travel
on a turnpike road. /
The first steam vessel that crossed the At
lantic was the Savannah, in tlic month of
June, 1810. from Charleston to Liverpool.
|^A Southern p^per takes the New Or
leans journals to task for calling Butler “a
thief, coward, liar and scoundrel,” as a whol
ly unnecessary waste of ink, and quietly adds
—“Somethings should be taken for grant
ed.”