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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
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** West Point Observer.”--'This is the
title of ;t row weekly paper recently started
in the flourishing town of West Point. Ga., by
JL I). Starnes —Col. *».'.\. Miller, well known
throughout the State, Editor. It is one of
the handsomest and best filled weeklies in tlic
State, and does credit to the progressive peo
ple jimmy* whom it is published.
Wc liad no idea of the importance of West
Point «s .»town uutil wc read the Observer.
It is said to contain three thousand inhabi
tants, and to be progressing faster than any
-place in the State except Atlanta. It lm3 ten
dry goods store.;, over forty grocery, conuni
•Son houses, millinery shops, carriage, boot,
harness, and other manufactories, three
churches, and a full supply of professional
men of every kind. Why, wc thought West
Point was a village!
u-G" The Augu.ta Constitutionalist says*
“When Anna Dickinson, for whom a God-
blessing is asked in the North hy delicate
females—when Auna Dickinson hob-nobs
with and pets Fred Douglass; when Susan
It. Anthony hankers to gain admission to a
Negro Convention at Albany and fails in
consequence of being “white trash and dis
graceful wlien Boston and Charlestown fail
to discover any virtue in Caucassian blood ;
it behooves the entire North to be on guard
against encroachments of “ Moral Idea Men ”
and unfrocked women. The signs of the
times are ominous, but if the joke is to go for
a joke ut last, we trust the Massachusetts dele
gations may be made to feel the force of their
own teaching and have their seats ir. the Sen
ate and Representative Chambers occupied
by “ friends and brothers.*’ Such an ex
change would not be wholly deplorable. Wc
sincerely trust it may come to this pass.—
Something of the kind will have to come be
fore Conservatism can take a stride that
leads to conquest."
THE TIMES’ GEORGIA CORRESPONDENT.
The Georgia correspondent of the New
York Times, (Quondam.) the gentleman who
reported Mr. Stephens as friendly to the con
stitutional amendment, in a recent letter
proves Hmsctf ns ignorant of popular senti
ment in Georgia as he is of what it takes to
constitute free republican government for the
future. lie is for laying down terms, and
bolding us as conquered slaves if we do not
agree to them. He is for such legislation as
will nssuie the North against the ‘‘possibility
»f your (our) again renewing the conflict.**
severe surgical operation to save lif',tbat
they would collectively consent t«> the pro
posed law. Assure them that it will wive life
and they will agree.
Such is the policy agaiust the Smi.it re
commended through a Northern conservative
journal, by a gentleman who is now in our
midst, and enjoying to-day, doubtless, the
courtesies and hospitalities of our Capital.
We hare only a word to add upon the results
of his recommendation.
All the Northern Stntcs hare gone in the
recent elections, by considerable majorities,
against the Administration at Washington.
The South will reject the amendment unani
mously, and would even were it proposed as
a finality and ultimatum. Tiic Republicans
have all power in Congress, and now what
will they do ? Suppose they carry out, in
defiance of every consideration of justice, this
fierce policy of the Times* correspondent,
what do they expect to accomplish I Will
thgy bring peace and quiet to the country ?
Will they restore confidence and revive com
merce ? Or will exactly the opposite be the
consequence of their polity Govern us as
conquered provinces and by the iron hand ot
military power, and what good do they bring
upon themselves? They prefer Republican
dominion with rankling hate and over
thrown constitutional liberty, to legitimate,
friendly union upon the principles of the Con
stitution. Are they wise in this, even ns
regards the best interests of themselves?
How long can they escape the ruin they
would bring upon vtf They cannot carry
out their purpose without a complete change
of government, and sowing the seeds of
discontent and revolution in the bosoms
ot ouo whole section of the Confedcr
acy. Such a policy may do for Russia
or Turkey, as against their foreign conquests,
but not in France, England, and least of all in
America, can it find a place without a com
plete overthrow of every principle of gov
eminent that has been banded down tp us by
our revolutionary fathers. When the princi
ple is adopted as regards foreign nations,
there is something to be excused on the score
of national alienation and the want of
Wendell Phillips on Gen. Sherman
In the last number of The Anti-Slavery
Standard, Wendell Phillips writes as follows
his hearty suspicion of the Lieutenant-Gene
ral:
“Sherman can hide under no such excuse.
There is no doubt he has genius. Emerson
tells us of a Col. Buford, at West Point, who
struck the trunnions of a cannon so many
thousand blows with a hammer that at lost
he broke them. Just so Grant broke the re
bellion. Sherman conquered w-th his brains
as truly as with his sword. Be will never be
a King*Log. It is vitally important that his
steps toward the Presidency should be vigi
lantly scrutinized. Long time a resident of
the South, lie has all the narrow prejudices
and absurd opinions of that section. He has
nothing but curses and and contemptuous
criticism for Massachusetts; not, of course, the
geographical State, but the principles, ideas
and purpose which that name stirs in the
rtf’ pvnr
national sympathy; but here, in Republican
America, in the enlightened Nineteenth Cen
tury, it is to be executed among people of
the same origin, the same name, nation and
brotherhood, and subject to the same destiny.
Will not the world stand aghast at the un
natural spectacle l Will not all Christendom,
shocked by this absence of magnanimity on
the part of a superior power, this spirit of
barbarity and revenge, demand, in the name
ot Humanity herself) that the despot relax
his grasp upon the unresisting victim ? We
™. ? tell the North, that it cannot venture upon
This is what he is alter. Now, wc commenced lWg crusa(]e of * crueUy w5tbout a fearful rVv-
the conflict before, and continued it, with
strong arms and stout he trie, and if a renewal
»wlmt he is providing against, it would seem
that his policy is to t ike these away from us:
in other words, to crush the spirit and para
hfzc the physical power of the South. Butler
nor any other Radical, has ever contended for
more. The only ground upon which this
writer, and others holding similar sentiments,
can found a suspicion of a possibility of a
renewal of war at tho South, is that they
intend to male their rule to oppressive and
odious as to deserve it.
There can be none other. The Southern peo
ple aro at heart peaceably inclined, and have
given every evidence and assurance of the
tact. Nothing in this regard can be alleged
against them. They will bear everything
forced upon them by the strong arm of power,
but they will inflict no injury upon them
selves. Let the North remember though that
they are responsible to High Heaven and the
epiuinn of an enlightened world—that they
cannot “deal with us as they please" with im
punity—that they must do what is right and
oust or take the consequences. Ol these they
may find a record in the history of every
oppressed and down-trodden people. The
North is making a terrible mistake when she
believes that we can be crushed and enslaved
with safely. “Great Heaven!”—wc ask
ourselves when contemplating this question—
“what has become of tho government of our
fathers and the spirit of liberty in this once
‘land’ of the free and home of the brave
To maintain the ascendency of the Black
Republican party—for tbnt is the sole object—
the cntirejpolitieal inheritance from our fathers
is to be thrown to the dogs and free, republi
can America to become a military tyranny of
less than a majority over a great Christian
people.
But we will give the text and allow this
•^conservative" correspondent of a “conserva
tive’’ paper to speak for himself. lie lias a
poor enough opinion of the people of Georgia
to believe that ihe North lms only to resort
to tho proper expedients to make u» succumb
to anything they may please to inflict upon
ns. He argue.; that the great difficulty in the
way of cramming the amendment down our
throats is that the North lias not proposed it
33 njinality, with a promise of peace after it,
and an ultimatum;to be followed by her wrath
it rejected. This, he thinks, is the great pan
acea for Southern obstinacy—the instrument
of tortnre that will bring us to ti nn?. How
little he knows of us L lb w contemptible
wc must appear in hisejesif lie in li veswhat
he says of us is true. The follow. is .in ex
tract from the letter retern d ti
If the majority in Congrt - c mid only, be
induced to “define' its po.-itioi." i;. 'i.:-re
spect, and would say to the South, “It is idle
to discuss questions ar.d split straws about
constitutional rights. Yon, the South, have
made war and been defeated. We, the
North, lmve the power, and we mean to ex
ercise it, to assure ourselves against the pos
sibility of your again renewing the conflict.
We. therefore, say to you, your political pow
er must, be diminished, and you shall only
t>e entitled to representation in proportion
to the number of uc:uni voters. Those who
took a prominent part in your rebellion, and
who bad previously sworn to support the
Constitution of the United States, shall not
be entitled to hold any office under the Fede
ral or State Government, until two-tliirds of
Congress shall remove this disability. And,
secondly, you must solemnly agree never to
pay auy part of the debt incurred for the
purpose of making war, and never refuse to
pay every fraction ot the debt which we in
curred. Agree to this, make it part of the
fundamental law, and we will impose no fur
ther conditions, inflict no other punishments
and will allow yon to exercise and enjoy all
the rights which you possessed prior to the
rebellion.
This is our final proposition. Accept it
and we will keep < ui promise faithfully : re
ject it and wc will then consider ourselves at
liberty to deal with you 03 we please, and
makc'you comply with our terms.
This would lie a very complete destruction
ol what are traded State rights, but it would
be a definite,categorical proposition to which
only a categorical answer would be possible.
Were it made, the i.nswer would lie in the
affirmative, and the treaty signed and rati
fied. The peop'e need peace, they long for
it, thirst for it, ami it is bceause.tnoy believe
that it would not secure that devoutly de
sired consummation that they cunuot bring
themselves to accept the amendment. It is
•-ily as they would individually consent to a
olution in one form or another. Heaven it
self will revolt at the cowardly nn> I shame
ful spectacle and raise up friends for the op
pressed, while mother Earth will sprout bay
onets to be used in defense of the right. Ar
rogant and defiant as it is of all considera
tions of justice and humanity, the North can
not afford to “ do as it pleases ” against the
South.
Wno WOULD SUFFER IN ANOTHER CIVIL
War. —The New York Times contcinplat
another civil-war ns possible, from the present
condition of affairs in America, and to desire
special comfort from the thought that the
South would sufler more than the North
even though she might be averse to taking
part. It says:
“Such a war so begun would plunge the
whole country into a state of anarchy and
armed tubulencc from which it could not
emerge in twenty years, and then only in
fragments,- exhausted in resources, decimat
ed in population, and powerful only for pur-
posts of domestic tyranny and misrule. There
are men in the country who think they could
better their fortunes and gratify their am
bition by plunging the country into such a
caldron. But whatever might happen to the
rest of the country, the South may rely upon
it, its ruin from such a State of thin ;; would
he speedy and complete. So long ns there
was anything left in Ilia Southern Stntcs
which could feed revenge or cram the insati
ate maw of avarice and ambition, so long
would the reckless malignauts of the North
make them their common prev. It would
only be after their utter and complete ex
haustion that the victors would commence
that quarrel among themselves which would
execute retributive justice and involve the
whole country in a common ruin.’’
The Times’inay be very shrewd on politi
cal matters—and there it sometimes gets bad
ly thrown out—but its opinion on war is not
worth much. It is not very obvious how tlic
North would be reserved as the last snffercr
and as we kept at bay the whole united
North, tor four long years, we cannot see how
we are to fnll a “common prey” to that small
portion of it which the Times styles the
“reckless malignants.”
mind of every man who hears it. Wo fear
lie 1ms learned little from the war. Bigoted,
half-informed, intensely sectional, the moment
armed resistance ceases, he is just the man to
serve the South in her effort to regain by in
trigue what she lost by arms. If he is our
next President, ho will carry out to its fulfill
ment, on a national scale, that disgraceful and
wholesale surrender to Johnson which only a
Northern growl, that drowned even the thun
der of Niagara, frightened him and his com
rades from completing. Afterliving 20 years at
the South in intimate relations with her leaders
after sweeping through her territory at the
head cf a victorious army, and taking the
latest survey of her mood and resources, he
proposed to treat the war as a frolic, and let
both sections resume, substantially, the rela
tions they held befere the Rebellion. Gen.
Sherman is too shrewd and capable a man to
allow of our explaining this on any ground of
credulity or misapprehension. Such an offer
could have come only from a mind incurably
Southern in its bias and opinions. If the hot
fires of such civil war could not burn this
folly nnd wickedness out of him, lie is past
cure. His clear, logical common sense taught
him what honor nnd fairqtlay demanded.—
While he bad no relish for the plan of allow
ing negroes to fight, and flung bis influence
•gainst it, he confessed that—•* to admit the
negro to this struggle for any purpose was to
give him the right to stay in it for all, and
that when the fight is over, the hand that
drops the musket cannot be denied the bal
lot,’—still no man has since heard one word
from him in sipport of that rule of justice
and fair play. Bis narrow sectional hate lias
smothered his logic. His old, bitter nrristoc-
racy of the skin still clings to him. There is
an old proverb that 4 an Italianized English
man is a devil incarnate.’ A Northern-born
slaveholder was always the worst tyrant. A
Northern politician steeped in Southern hate
is the most incurable of all bigots, and most
dangerous to trust with power.”
PRUSSIA.
Letter from Washington.
George D. Prentice.—This veteran edi
tor., having recovered from liis recent severe
illness, thus touchingly nlludesto the matter.
Wc clip from his paper, the Louisville Jour
nal :
“Our heart-felt thanks are due to very
many of our brethren of the press for their
very kind notices of us during our late ill
ness. Their sympathy soothed and cheered
and strengthened U9. It seemed to throw a
calm and lovely light upon the world, and
make us wish to linger still among our fel
low-men. There is much that is beautiful
nnd holy and hallowing in sickness. Its in
fluences arc purer and better thun those of
health. Indeed, the feebleness of the body
is often the health of the soul. We see and
hear what wc may not in the season of our
physical strength.’ Myriad spirits of the air
flutter over the.dividing line between two
worlds, uttering to mortal beings the tones
they have learned in heaven. As we move
downward upon the sombre and mysterious
pathway that leads to the door of the tomb,
as from the depths of a shadowy well or cav
ern, the pale serenities of floating stars, all
invisible in the glare and sunshine of the
upper air, and their sacred and blessed light
need never fade from the spirit."
Mr. Morrissey, we are assured, lias
abandoned the prize* ring forever; but his
right hand has not forgot its cunning, nor his
left either, and if any Southern bully should
undertake to ‘put upon him,’ that bully will
get polished off in about five seconds, and we
shall heartily say, ‘Good for New York! hit
him again P— Greeley.
The South is to be represented in the next
Congress, is she! But suppose 3D. 3Iorris-
sey. instead of “polishing off a Southern bul
ly” should someday plant his sledge-hammer
between the eyes of some insolent Radical—
what will you “heartily say” then ?
Tiie Promised Meteoric Shower.—To
night, or to-morrow night, is the time ap
pointed by the astronomers for a recurrence
of the great metoric shower of 1833. Let all
he on the lookout. We may see it, and then
again we may not. Should the “stars fall,”
we hope the watchmen will arouse everybody
in their respective beats, so that all may wit
ness the grand demonstration ol Nature.
Erwjx & Hardee —The new card ot this
house will bo found in our columns. The
house is too well and favorably known
throughout the State to require anything
from us- but a reference to their advertise
ment.. , ‘
PRINCIPAL POINTS OF TnE TREATY BETWEEN
PRUSSIA AND 8AXONV.
The following ore the principal points of
the Saxon peace treaty: Saxony will enter
the North German Confederation; tlic Saxon
army will be re-organized as soon as condi
tions have been arranged by the North Ger
man Confederation.
Koniglein and Dresden will have mixed
garrisons. Prussia will furnish garrisons for
other Saxon towns until the organization of
the Saxon army takes place. The Saxon
troops about to return home will be placed
under the command of the chief Prussian
General in Saxony. The war indemnity to
be paid by Saxony is fixed at 10,000,000 tha
lers, from which 1,000,000 will be deduced on
account ot cession to Prussia of the railways
of Lobau and Gorlitz.
The Prussian Jlilitary Governors and Civ
il Commissioners will cease to exercise their
functions.
The former Balleurein treaty will continue
in force, subject to a notice of about six
months should either contracting party de
sire to withdraw therefrom.
Prussia obtains exclusive possession of the
Saxon telegraph wires. Persons politically
compromised during the war will not be mo
lested on that account. Saxony will regulate
her diplomatic representation in conformi
ty with tlic general basis to bo laid down for
the whole of the North German Confedera
tion.
The King and Queen of Saxony liad_ re
turned to their capital, and were received
with enthusiasm. The King had issued a
proclamation thanking the people for their
fidelity, assuring them of his continued af
fection, and promising his best efforts to pro
mote their prosperity, <tc.; declared he would
devote himself to the new Confederation
with the same fidelity as to the old Bund,
and use every effort to render the new alli
ance a blessing.
Sensible Talk.
The Louisville Democrat says nothing can
be more shallow than the hope that any
amendments of the Constitution can furnish
any guarantees against rebellions. A gov
crniucnt that could execute itselfwithout hu
man agency might be safe from rebellions.—
If the Radicals could invent one, they ought
to take out a patent for it. If it will protect
persons and property, there will be great dc
maud for it in the world.
A government strong enough to prevent
rebellions at all times is too strong for the
liberties of its citizens. The chance for in
surrections or rebellions is the price paid for
freedom. The only security for free govern
ment is the consent of the governed. When
that is wanted, rebellions will come, of ne
cessity, and all puper guarantees are mere
trasli. The Radicals ought to know, from
personal experience, that Constitutional pro
visions arc no restraint upon interested parti-
zans.
They know that what would otherwise be
unconstitutional, may become lawful by be
coming indispensable to a party object!—
How, then, do they expect, by their amend
ments of the Constitution, to restrain men
from rebellion ? They may fix up oaths of
allegiance to a government. What do they
avail ? AU oaths of allegiance are condit : cn-
al. When a government becomes “destruc
tive of these ends,” it is the right of the
people to alter or abolish it. So we hare
proclaimed, and generations of men have
acted on it in all countries and all sorts of
governments. When whole communities feel
that they have good reasons to resist the
government, all they want is the provocation
aud the opportunity.
War in n New Quarter.
The Atlantic Telegraph brings us news that
France has declared war against Corea —
This last is not a familiar name to readers of
newspapers, but is nevertheless the designa
tion of a country quite important for several
commercial purposes. Corea is u peninsula
in the northeast of Asia, projecting southeast
erly into the ocean, which it divides into the
Sea of Japan on the cast and the Yellow Sea
on the west. It has never been accurately
sun-eyed, and little more is known of it than
that it is about 000 miles long by 135 wide!
that it is inhabited by about twenty millions
of people; that its “ foreign policy ” is more
Chinese than the Chinese; and that, although
not very fertile, nor particularly well provided
with ports, it hasreveral harbors which might
be made excellent naval stations. The ex
tremity ot the peninsula is a convenient point
d'appui for an attempt either upon Chiua or
upon Japan; the direct distance to the month
of the Hoang-Ho being only some eighty
miles, and to the westernmost end of Japan
still less than that. We may conjecture that
France expects to share with the 3Iuscovitc
rival in the partition of the goods and chat
tels of the “ sick man ” of Asia; nnd to re
tain in the North of Asia the prestige which
Clyde and Hastings long ago wrested from
her in the South.—New York World.
Correspondence *f the Georgia Telegraph.
Washington, Nov. 7,18GG.
The excitement consequent upon the receipt
ot returns from the elections is greatly inten-
sifieefby the closeness of the gubernatorial
contest in New York. Notwithstanding the
immense majority for Hoffman in New York
city, Kings county, and other strong Demo
cratic localities, the chances for the radical
candidate at present writing, look mo3t prom
ising. The excitement last evening at the
democratic headquarters was very great, and
the hope was generally entertained that he
had succeeded. Defeated or vanquished, he
is looming into prominence as the next dem
ocratic candidate for the Presidency, should
an election for such an official ever again oc
cur. The result in Maryland whilst serving
as a damper to tho destructives, has greatly
buoyed up the spirits of all the Unionists.
The Democrats in this section express them
selves unqualifiedly in opposition to being
used as an appendage to the invisible conser
vative republican party as represented by
Mr. Seward of New York, Cowan of Penn
sylvania, Doolittle of Wisconsin, and others.
In the very localities where accessions of con
servative strength were expected through the
influence of conservative political sway. The
Old Line Democrats who alpne have admin
istered the Government successfully, are by
no means chary in denouncing tli« policy of
the administration in withholding its sup
port and patronage from its friends, and hug
ging its enemies to its bosom. The rcten
tion of Secretary Stanton with his immense
power, patronage and influence has greatly
weakened and paralyzed the Conservative
party of the country.
General Schenck -md several .other rabid
revolutionists of the present Congress have
arrived, and if their expressed programme is
a precursor of Congressional action, tho peo
ple of the country may prepare to witness the
displacement of their Constitutional head, the
subversion of tho present semblance of repub
licanism and the substitution of a reign of
anarchy, chao3 and despotism.
Conover, who has rendered himself so no
torious throughout the country for his effort,
by perjury, to fasten upon Mr. Davis a com
plicity with the Lincoln assassination, is now
a prisoner, in jail here, awaiting trial for per-
jnry.
Dr. John J. Craven, author of the prison
life of 3Ir. Davis, has been appointed Post
master at Newark, N. J.
Col. Sweeny, who has been prominent in
connection with the Fenian feeling, has been
reinstated in the army.
Secretary McCulloch is now engaged in
preparing his annual report, which is unusual
ly voluminous. To enable him to give undi
vided attention to its preparation he has for
the time withdrawn from the current busi
ness of his office, and assistant Secretary
Chandler is acting in Ins stead.
Fred. Douglas has secured a house in Alex
andria, and designs publishing a paper in a
few days.
During the session of the State Court in Al
exandria, Va., yesterday, over which Judge
3IcKcnzie presided, two white men and one
negro were called as witnesses in a case, and
were all peremptorily demanded to place their
hand upon the book at the same time, to-be
qualified. The white men refused, and
though threatened by the erudite Judge, they
persisted in their refusal, ar.d were subse
quently qualified alone.
The Cabinet session yesterday was fully
attended, Governor Seward having returned
from New York. The attendance at the Ex
ecutive mansion prior to the hour of meeting
was large, though but tew obtained an audi-
enee. It is generally proclaimed that the
already existing purpose against the reten
tion of Secretary Stanton, will be further in-
ensified at the meeting of Congress by a uni
ted demand of all the Conservatives of the
body for his removal. Potomac.
THE “BUREAU” AND NEGRO SPEC
ULATIONS.
A correspondent of theJNew York Times,
who seems to be well posted in what is going
on in Georgia at the present time, (except the
sentiments of our leading men on the consti
tutional amendment,) makes the following
exposition in a recent letter:
The exodus to the West which I apprehend
ed in a former letter has begun in all the Nor
thern part of the State, nnd is causing consid
erable alarm among planters. There is hardly
a day that hundreds do not leave for Tennes
see, Arkansas and Mississippi, under the guid
ance, and at the instance of some attache ot
the Frecdmen’s Bureau, whose interest in the
operation consists in the number of dollars
per head lie is to receive from some Western
planter or speculator in negro labor. The
attache is generally a brother or other near
relative of the country agent, and not osten
sibly connected with the Bureau. With
magical rapidity he has been transformed
from a pennyless Georgian into a large plant
er in West Tennessee or the “ Mississippi
Bottom,” and he returns to his childhood’s
haunts tc get “ his own people to come out
and do well with him on his own plantation.”
His anxiety to benefit his “own people*’
(a benevolent paraphrase for the servants of
the community on which he preys) makes
him resort to false pretenses, false 'promises,
coaxing, threats, and the direct agency of the
Bureau, to force the poor negroes to quit
their homes, families and employers, and he
generally succeeds in deluding numbers to
accompany him to his “places,” which ill-na
tured people say are the marts iu which he
sells the labor which he has previously crimp
ed. Whether these freedmen are intended
to work in the United States producing cot
ton, or in the Antilles raising coffee and
sugar, is a question which is not generally
settled, but is open to grave doubts. Of my
own personal knowledge, great hardships and
cruelties are practiced by these negro gather
ers, and instead of the bureau settling
or conniving at their operations, it
is the dutjr of the agents to arrest and punish
the negro-traders who are establishing aslave
traffic more odious and more oppressive than
any slavery which ever existed in this coun
try. I can hardly credit the tales which in
telligent negroes have told me of the infamy
of these men. An old negro who was work
ing a few days ago at the house of a friend of
mine in Northern Georgia, told me that one
of these negro gatherers, the brother of the
Bureau agent, threatened to shoot him be
cause he had refused to allow his wife’s niece, SIon ’
a good-looking girl of 18 years of age, to go
with the crimp as his mistress, and that he
had already collected half a dozen young
girls whom he had carried off, avowing that
they were for himself and his friends. In
some instances these girls were induced to go
voluntarily, in others they were purchased
from their patents.
If you remonstrate with one of the local
employes of the Bureau against these in fa;
mous practices, he either affects to hear of
them for the first time, or he tells you that
labor, like every other commodity, seeks the
highest market. Of course be has nothing to
do with it. He does not interfere. The
freedmon has a right to go Arkansas if he
chooses, nis brother or bis cousin has a per
fect right to engage laborers wherever he will
and he will see that no obstacle is thrown ir
their way. He denies flatly and insolently all
that is charged as to the hardship and gailt
of the proceeding, and gabbles civil rights
where they can be quoted to defend or cloak
the iniquities in the profits of which he
beyond a moral doubt a participant.
I know several of these local agents and
their iamilies, who, previous to their appoint
ment in the bureau, could not borrow a dol
lar in the places where they live, arc now
rich, buy fast horses, smoke expensive cigars,
wear flash clothes, and get drunk daily.—
Surely the legitimate remuneration of a bu
reau agent would not warrant the financial
revolution.
Depend on it, that the beet interests of the
negro demand a revision of this whole sys
tem. These local agencies—filled by men of
no standing, and often of bail character—
should be abolished, and the guardianship
of the freedmen given to the local tribunals;
or if this be not practicable or judicious, let
better men to found to fulfil the trust.
State Aid—Huron and Brunswick Tile Yew York World
Elections.
Wc extract as followsf rom an
World of the 9th:
ink
Railroad. i _ l
[From the Atlanta Intelligencer.
A bill is before the General Assembly of
our State, entitled “An act to extend the aid
ot the State to the completion of the 3[acon These unfortunate elect; . !
and Brunswick Railroad, and for other pur- dent Johns n of v. Y:t 'K’' I
poses. The bill is carefully drawn, nnd as ! chief glory of his adtniuiEr.c* h*V,l
far as human wisdom extends, is protective j cation of the country iff.,,, t , l ,° D 'tk f j
of the State’s interests in all its features. We I contest. It is idle to ask wi, •
cau see no objection to the Legislature's grant- promptitude in breaking wifi/^
mg to this important railroad the aid it asks. I he might not have averted thi ‘ ie !
Indeed, to* suae haa ooom wJmb tba great in- I He must now take the situnt; 3
forests of our up-country section of the State : and make the best of it.
—the interests of the State's own great rail-1 the residue of his term in ill ***^1
road, the “ Western and Atlantic,”—demand ! tions ot domestic Dolitica tA-lW"
tions of domestic politics, his 0 nT^
acquiring prestige is in connect^
foreign relations. These are ’
tho control of Congress. TIi
understood to be biking to
maintain the Monroe doctrine
ly approved by the country if **«
futile for him to contend i-~, *(
mi
best consult the dignity of his uu] „,
Ins action cease with his resnf
Against Congress there
peal but to the people, and 7)*
of the war have not y e t '
subsided to permit them to iurt-f* 5
] dor. The ratification of the ,7
The recent assertion of a New York jour
nal to the effect that tlic largest cotton crop
ever made in Louisiana under the most fa
vorable circumstances was 5G0,Q00 bales, is
entirely disproved by the census of 1859,
which shows that in that year 777,738 bales
were produced in the State relerred.to.
Bead Butler at the Charleston
Convention—He promises Aid to
the Secessionists.
Alexander F. Pratt, editor of the Plain
Dealer, published at Waukesha, Wisconsin, a
Douglas delegate to the Charleston Conven
tion, in 1860, and a man who has known
Benjamin F. Butler intimately from his
youth, publishes some extraordinary revela
tions conccrnisg the part that notorious in
cendiary took in the Charleston Convention,
the efforts he put forth to bring about se
cession, andVlie promises of help from the
■North which he made in the name of North
ern Democrats, when secession should be ac
complishcd in fact.
Mr. Pratt says : “ Butler had been sent to
that Convention as we were, instructed to
vote for Stephen A. Douglas; but during the
whole of that struggle, which lasted some
two weeks, he voted persistently for the nomi
nation of Jeff. Davis.
“At that time,” continues Mr. Pratt, “scccs-
tion was openly advocated, aud was as plain
so us iu the distance, as it is now to all in the
background. Six or eight well drilled and
well armed and equipped companies were
tbca daily parading the streets of that city.
One by one were our Northern delegates led
into the private room ot St. Andrews’ hall by
Butler and others, where they were met by
such men as Slidell, Mason and others, who
have their millions in gold to purchase the
nomination of a Southern man. How much
Butler received, we neither know nor care,
but, as we said before, the last speech wc ever
beard from Butler, and it probably will re
main tho last, unless we may have the good
fortune to hear him speak from the gallows,
was at a secret meeting held one evening af
ter he and the Southern delegates had seceded
from our convention. We obtained admit
tance that evening, through a Iriend from
Alabama, and fornearly an liourlistened to a
speech from Butler upon secession.
“ In this speech Butler assured them that
we, the Douglas Democrats, were * free soil
er’; that he and others represented the Bus-
clianan, the ‘ sirtion pure ’ Democracy of the
North—that incase of a collision of arms be
tween the North and South, the genuine
Democracy Would be found defending the
rights of tho South. And when they fired
upon Fort Sumter, they had as much faith in
the belief that Butler and the Northern
Democrats would sustain them, as they had
in their powder’s igniting when they applied
the fire to it.
“ There is no one more willing to pardon
and forgive than we are, but when we re
flect upon the past and consider the human
suffering caused by the late war, the moun
tains of human bones bleaching on the South
ern soil, the rivers of human blood that have
drenched that soil, together with the home
scenes of destitute orphans and widows, and
the thousands of cripples who are hobbling
limbless about our towns and cities; know
ing as we do, of our own personal knowledge,
that Ben. Butler did more than all other
Northern men put together to bring on the
war, wc cannot but hope that wc may yet
live to hear his last speech made from a more
elevated platform, and where he will be lis
tened to by better Union men, surrounded by
the officers* of justice, sworn to do their duty.
When ‘.hat time arrives, ‘treason will be
made odious.” ’
MAGAZINES.
The Richmond Eclectic, a 3Iontlily Maga
zine of foreign literature, religious and
secular. Edited by Rev. 3Ioses D. Hoge
and Rev. William Brown.
The 1st No. of Yol. 1, of this ilagazine, is
before us. It is very neatly printed on thick
white paper, and filled with choice selections,
both secular and religious, from various for
eign periodicals. Its terms are $4-per annum.
It is printed in double columns, in large
type, and contains about 100 pages. The
design of the editors is to issue a magazine,
which, by a careful and conscientious eclecti
cism, will supply its readers with what is
freshest, purest, and best in the Theological,
Literary and Scientific journals of the Old
World, and thus render it, an instructive as
well as interesting family visitor, one which
will be appreciated by intelligent business
and professional men, and by all people of
refinement and culture. It will present ; n a
cheap, convenient and attractive form what
ever is most worthy of perusal and preserva
tion in the field of foreign literature. The
selections will never be of a sectarian charac
ter, but such as are equally suitable to evan
gelical Christiana of every denomination.—
Nothing sectional will be admitted; at the
same time nothing will appear which is out
of harmony with the convictions and senti
ments of Southern readers, with reference to
the interests, rights and institutions of the
States they inhabit.
NEGRO LABOR IN THE SOUTH.
We are informed by an observer who has
had extensive opportunities lor surveying the
condition and prosperity of negro labor in
tho Southern States, that it would be a very
liberal estimate to say that the blacks per
formed one-half as much labor as they for
merly did urher. in slavery. Their former
habits (enforced habits, it is true,) of steady
and continuous work, have, to a large extent,
given place to indolence, and employers find
it difficult to rely upon them in those plant
ing operations where formerly their industry
was so effective. In some places the condi
tion of things is exceedingly bad, and plant
ers feel utterly discouraged.
There are very many grave and threaten
ing difficulties Conner tod with this negro
question in the South, and those who think
they can all be solved by simply giving the
black population the privilege of voting, will
yet find themselves greatly mistaken.—N. Y.
Times.
This is your philosophy note, founded on
facts; but has not the Times, and the whole
North, been maintaining for twenty years that
the negro as a freeman would do more and
better labor than the negro as a slave ? You
have now tried both, and why not come out
and confess your folly, as you will have occa
sion to do with regard to all your prophecies
about the negro in the South ?
Ladies’ 3Ieetino.—We are desired to say
that it is deemed important that a large
number of ladies should attend the meeting
this afternoon at 3 o'clock, at the Presbyterian
Lecture Room, in response to the call of the
President. A Constitution is to be adopted,
and seme decisive steps have to be taken, so
we hope many will be in attendance. We are
quite sure that nil the benevolent ladies of
Macon require, is to be informed that tlieir
services are needed in a charitable cause so
holy and noble as that undertaken by this
Society, for them to enter heart and soul into
the good work.
it. The outlet to the sea from Chicago,
through Georgia and at Brunswick, is one
long contemplated and grand in its concep
tion. It is from that great Western city, the
shortest route to the Atlantic, and when com
pleted, will, through the passage of freight
and travel over our State road, make it a, xumo tur mm to contend l h, ’
source of revenue to Georgia, upon which our Radicals in respect to the flnno
people may rely for relief from taxation, and a
for the payment of our public debt, while it
will also open a seaport, than which on the
whole Southern Atlantic coast, none present
advantages so favorable to the Great West,
nor can even the outlet at New York to the
sea compare with them. Vl llie
To the fanning popnlation of the grain j not a question for hlmMmtfL*lv Rl<i ^Bi
owms resion of our own Smie thoniior/,. i ir» i, i
. tcncy. Against the ucconsI'itm;° r ° ! L
vital interest; to our own city, Atlanta, it is ’ sion of the Southern States from rBl
the same. When the day comes, as it surely was his duty to remonstrate* brf
will, that this lacking link in the long line of i pealed to tin, people in vain W ], r 8
railroads from Brunswick to Chicago shall be i sharpen acrimony by further •
completed, then will a uew era in commerce ; The elections, by virtually denriv^
and trade from Atlanta to the sea coast, and : his veto, have relieved him from
from every city beyond Atlanta to Chicago, • bility for the action of Con-r '
datvn upon us. The whole South American 1 therefore, he holds fast his oft-rm^
trade, now monopolized by New York, will j he will serve no good purpose b~T ”■
be concentrated at Brunswick. From Chi- ■ and aggressive presentation ofV 1 '
cago and beyond it, the Southern lines of rail-j did co-operation with Con»ress
road will be used to place at Brunswick the j questions, and a dignified abatin'" 1 a
produce designed for the South American pushing a controversy in which'b/'l
markets, and at that point to receive in re- j less, is the course which President t
turn their commericial commodities by which will doubtless think it wise to adn Jl
New York has so long been benefitted, which j On the South the late election u-
have drawn so much of the Western trade to bly produce no effect whatever. Ti ” 1
that great Northern city. The reason of this is peculiarly unfortunate. T1ici7
diversion is one that controls commerce every- labor supply consequent onihelof
where, and in all countries. It will be the war, the inefficiency of the treed ^
shortest and cheapest rqute from the Great i worse than all, the bad harvestofan-7 1
West to the Atlantic, and more, from Bruns- able season, keep the Southern Ptv
wick, it will be the shortest and cheapest 1 same state of poverty and
route to the South American ports.— which they were left by the war p.l
Hence, if the Legislature, now in ses- helplessness will not’induce them'*
sion, would proiqotc the interests of the Radical amendment. What w i 7
the State, it .will not hesitate for a moment' gain by doing so? Admission tor
to grant the aid asked for by the 3Iucon and perhaps—but*of that they have no nit
Brunswick Railroad. The idea that the aid with a diminished representation. V,
asked ior will embarrass the State, is an idle 1 the representatives they would hsve
nnd contracted one. It will open and ex- the amendments, added to theC'o:
pand her great resources; it will develop nil representatives now elected irom tie
of them ; it will enhance her commerce, stim- j would still be a minority, they i\ K
ulate the industry and enterprise of Jier peo- no more power of self-protection i, (■’,
pie, restore and add to her former prosperi- : than out of it. Uutil the political com !-
ty. We trust that there will be no hesitation j ihe North changes, admission Will doV
on the part of the Legislature now in ses- j good. Why should they renounce;
sion, in responding favorably to this appeal | time rights for which nothing sub
lor State aid now before it, on the part of the ! offered in exchange ? The tsonth
Macon and Brunswick Railroad; especially j serve order, obey the laws, and leave u
that there will be none, on the part of these j icals to pass such measures as they p!®.
representatives for the up-country who repre i spectacle of a quiet, loyal people nV|
sent a grain growing and stock raising con- j government in which they have nsi
stituency. It any section of our State will j will appeal to the better ’sentimeanj
be benefitted more than any other by the ■ North, and cause a re-action against \u
completion of this important link in the icals. When it is seen that th re ism;
great chain of railroad from the great West ■ in the conduct of the Southern pw
to Brunswick, it will be that section known ! they should be excluded, the respond'
as the “Cherokee country” in our State. And i keeping the Union dissolved will coki
if any railroad in our State will benefit more j to the radicals; and before the Pra,
by it than any other, it will be Georgia’s own | election there will be a great popci-
great work, the Western and Atlantic Rail j tion which will sweep them out of;
road. The time was wiien too contracted j Only a very small change is necesssrp
views were entertained by the Legislature of i duce this result. A change of om "
Georgia in reference to State aid, and even
State enterprises, designed to develope
her resources. For years the pages of
our legislative history show opposition even
to the construction of the State Road; but
that was at last constructed, and what has
been the result ? It has proved a mine ot
wealth to the State, and is now the basis of
our credit abroad. Since its construction
every other railroad in the State has been its
tributary. And it can have no surer tribu
tary, and none more profitable to it, than the
Macon & Brunswick Railroad when it is com
pleted. We look upon this appeal for State
aid as one of the most important questions
before the General Assembly, and we trnst it
will be responded to in a spirit of enlarged
and wise statesmanship, and not in a selfish
and contracted view of what Georgia risks in
the endorsement of the company’s bonds.—
She risks little, while the security is most am
ple. She loses so long ns the road remains
unfinished; she will profit largely when the
road is completed. It is an enterprise about
the success of which there can be no reason
able doubt, each day’s delay of which is but
the postponement of profitable returns to the
State.
0
Death of Judge Love.—Several days
since we heard of the extreme illness of
Judge Love, of Thomasvillc and this mor
ning we are called upon to discharge the
melancholy duty of enrolling his name on the
list of our estimable citizens who have been
summoned to render an account of tlieir
earthly stewardship. He died as we arc in
formed on Friday last. Judge Love repre
sented this district in the Congress of die
United States, and in the Provisional Con
gress of the Southern Confederacy, and was
lor a number of years Judge of the present
circuit, in which he resided, all of which po
sitions he filled in a manner most acceptable
to the people and creditable to himself.
News dc Herald.
Bold Attack on a Railroad Train.
On Wednesday night about 2 o’clock, as
the train on the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad was about five miles from Franklin,
Ry., the engineer discovered that the road
was baricaded. He immediately slackened
speed, but not until the engine, baggage car,
aud express car were thrown from the track
and upset.
The passengers being aroused, found the
train surrounded by guerrillas, who fired one
shot as a note ot warning, which passed
through the car without injuring any one.
The guerrillas then entered the sleeping
car and ordered the passengers to go forward
to the next car. As they crossed the plat
form each one was compelled to hand over
his pocketbook. One passenger had five
hundred dollars in the side pocket of his
coat, which was snatched from him. Anoth-
claims to have lost fifteen hundred dollars.
We regret exceedingly to learn that Rev
C. Homady, of this city, was one of the
unfortunate ones. His pocketbook, contain
ing about two hundred and twenty-five dol
lars, was taken.
The passengers in the other car, with one
exception, were not robbed.
The Whole transaction occupied not more
thun five minutes, aud before the passengers/
fairly recovered from their astonishment, the
intruders were gone.
Col. J. R. Slaughter, from whom we got
our information, was one of the passengers.
They got his pocketbook containing only
some fifteen dollars and a few notes. «
When the guerrillas had departed it was
discovered that the train was on lire, having
caught from the stove in the express car. The
passenger cars were pushed back out of dan
ger, but the engine, express car, and baggage
car were burned. None oftlie express freight
was saved, though most of the baggage was
removed. The safe of the Express Company
even was burned.
Before leaving Nashville on Thursday, Col.
learned that one of the guerrillas had been
arrested. There were only eight or ten of
them. They had their faces*blackened. The
man who was arrested had plenty of money
and had failed to wash his face clean.—New
hundred would accomplish it in New!)
a change of one vote in fifty would j
plish it in Pennsylvania. Tbcelcctcm
of these two States, added to tho* |
the Southern States, together with X
scy and Connecticut, would make a q
A change ot about seventeen thousa::
in the four States of New Ycrk,P<
ia, Connecticut and New Jersey, m
ble the Democratic party to elect ti
President; for it must be* borne inuii
every voter transferred from one adt
other makes a difference of two in tit
Why should Democrats despair of cii
seventeen thousand votes in them
years ? Why, we should have cam
York, this year, if the Fenians alongti
of the canal and railroads had not ha
veigled into voting for Fenton. Wt
have carried Pennsylvania il modes
servatives had not been dissatisfied *
candidate. A party which needs top
ly seventeen thousand votes in two
elect the next President, is not sepani
success by that immeasurable inteni
its enemies pretend.
In the State of New York we hue
gallant fight. In the two great citiesj
York and Brooklyn we have done V
We have come so near success tbit i
publicans have had a hair-breadth «
Fluctuations within far narrower lit I
often take place from year to year,
us the next Presidential election.
count the number of States, orthen
Congressmen against us the opptf-
deed looks formidable. But wliei '
aider how few individual votes n
changed to reverse it all, we haveer
to look with hope and confidence to
tui e. At least a fifth of the RepcHi--
lias been cast on the idea that fm®‘
South to adopt the amendment wot):
speediest method of restoring the fcj
When it is seen that that method wi!-'
store it, all these votes will be chu?
certain it is, that a majority of the Si
people will not consent to a pemn'^
lution of the Union.
A Popular Plebiscitum.—Ah^
netia was handed over by the
Austria to the Emperor of the F
by the latter to the King of Italy, it
sidered expedient to go through |
submitting the question of transfr r
Austrian to the Italian flag to theis*
of that province. At Venice. Chi"?:
San Pietro, every vote was in f* Tor 1
coming Italian citizens; at Cndiw-j
45,473 votes recorded, there was I
the negative, and also one at
16,075 votes. At Vicenza, out of8- ! 1
only two were dissentient. That, it I
lation of about 2,500,000, only J ■ £
should have been given against th?-;|
ration of Vcnetia with the Kingdo® 1 1
is the reverse of complimentary tu l
trian rule to which the province« ■
subjected since 1815.—PhiladdfM
This is a wonderful unanimity- i’"
equal to tlic “ popular plebiscite
be sent up from the South agata 31 tlt |
ern Constitutional Amendment.
Sharp Practice.—The Const^
reports the examination before J®
of one George Hancock, on a . p
ing and swindling. It is.said th
made in Savannah such repre#nti J
house of Metcalf & Co., as. ind “?ii|
to give him a letter of credit ^
Bruce & Co., of this city;. 08 -J
Hancock presented his letter t<’l
and drew three thousand dollJ^.I
hours subsequently, Messrs. ® ru £-^ .l
ceived a telegram from ir
strutting them not to honor i J
Hancock had procured l
r/mpoaonf ntinno Til6 DlOtt^y • J
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Era.
A Telegraphic Feat.—The telegraphic
operator in the Savannah office informed the
editor of the News, that he was enabled, on
Wednesday night, to communicate direct as
far as Port Hood, Nora Scotia, the line
through the entire route working beautifully.
The operator at Port Hood reported it very
cold there, and snow falling fast.
representations. j .
but Hancock was arrested a n( V I "£- j
jail. The result of the exanufl T
Justice Ker was that Hancock
his appearance at the Superior D*®
ham county.
JST* Gen. Sherman goes to 3^! I
understood, to remain there on. ■
re/. Government i- om ■' I
es at ''.du d so '■•■v -a ' |
necessary to use Uniti-d^-'-'d''
loro- the supremacy «>i the . ■ .
an officer may be pre.-t nt et , j
lienee to order the entrance o ., :l
troops into 3Iexico, and to o'.r L - I
meats when there.
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