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MACON, GrA., MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1867.
[VOL: 2, NO. 9
TEL.EGKAPJE1
i LABOR AT THE SOUTH. of the Committee is a member of the 40th. Con-
re n ] j 0 U 1 ft] I] II n fl Q is much unean’Rt-M felt lest tile sup- gives, and it is more than likely that when the
j Li 1 0 il 1 11 U 11 U U 0 IJ , j ply of labor in the cotton States should fall
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, ..<■ .JOB PRINTING of every dcscrip-
iOe
q>observe that Rev. Charles Wallace
r j j> writing a “ llietoiy of the War
a^is.” No man in the State is more
.,«it to do jnstice to the subject.
f 0 Sri»w<w Statu PArsns.—The At-
3 I«te)lig>-ncer i? inform cdby Maj. J. T.
i* our Comptroller General, that the
Avsnot require that Revenue stamps
L be placed on notes, receipts, orders, Ac.,
r.in the State is a party.
uitKATlox from Alabama.—The Marion
rnoawealth rays: The roads of Perry*
pflifvl with emigrants going Westward.
;nil’s branch, a mile west of Marion, has
the lig'»t of move: s’ camp fires alj-
j,»i every night for a weak past. Some
. ir , nt Alabama are becoming rapidly do-
Lsdstcd. • ■
7hj: Tucth Auoct. Uz.—A very fair and
...fidtrste letter to tlie Pittsfield ‘‘Son,
mo a Mssttchusctt# gentleman no w on a vis
t# our city, will be found in this issue of
ur piper. We fear, however, that it will
xompiidi but little good, as the majority
ii the* North believe nothing unless it suits
their purpose. Wo aro still, none tbo less
thsnkful to those who show a disposition to
do ns justice.
PSM0.VAI.—'We wear favored yesterday
«it!i a visit from Salem Dutchcr, Esq., tho
ate able itnd spirited editor of the Augusta
tba4iUitionalist Mr. Dutchcr is traveling
tT«.‘, with a view of delivering bis admirer
. lecture on the “Wits of Georgia” at Co
mhus, Montgomery, und perhaps other
hch. lie has promised to take our city in
Is route home and favor us in a similar way,
r: ire anticipate a most agreeable evening’s
-.•..rtainmvnt.
From tin Pittsfield (Mass.] Sun.
Oar Ucorgla Correspondence.
j short of the demand, and exercise a most in
jurious influence upon production and the
general prosperity. The immense emigration
of negroes from South Carolina, Georgia and
Alabama, to the rich bottom lands of the
Mississippi, and its lower tributaries, and to
Texas, has created no small degree of alarm.
It is estimated that Georgia, alone, has lost
fully a fourth to a third of her productive
field industry in this way, and that Carolina
has suffered to a still greater extent. The
evil is practically felt at.theprcsent time by
new Speaker appoints tbe Judiciary Commit
tee, tlie same membersjrill be upon it. But I
believe it Is the intention of thecommittec to
make their report, and bring in the bill of im
peachment, in February. It will then be for
Congress to decide whether to go on with the
trial now, or to hand the whole matter over
to the 40th Congress. I presume. the latter
course will be chosen, and that the trial will
take place very soon after tbe 5th of March.
For that there will be a trial, there is no
reason to doubt. The Radicals arc confident
that they can convict the President of all the
pur planters. Many have failed to procure charges that they have brought against him.
the requisite number of bands for the coming
crop, and in many cases exorbitant prices
have had to bo paid, thus rendering the prof
its of another year's labor at<lcast problemat
ical. Planting. >n shares lias been generally
abandoned, a large majority of our planters
preferring, alter experience, to hire and take
the risk.
There is no doubt but that the planters of
the older cotton regions of the South arc
destined to suffer considerable inconvenience
from the source indicated above. The emi
gration, now bearing heavily upon them, is
obliged to go on until tbe richer lands of the
West and Southwest shall have been supplied
with the necessary labor. This done, and
wages in those sections having boen reduced
Alabama Affairs.
The Legislature of Alabama met on Tues
day, and Gov. Patton sent in the following
Executive Department, 1
State of Alabama. •-
Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 15,1887. )
Gentlemen of the Senate and
House of Representatives:
In my annual message I gave a statement
of the financial condition of Alabama at the
time of your recent meeting. I deem it prop
er at this time to communicate some further
information respecting the temporary loan of
three hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
which was negotiated with Winslow, Lanier
& Co., of New York, and payable, with in
terest, on the 1st of January, 1817.
In my former message I expressed the opin
ion that by the 1st of January, rr soon there
after, funds for the purpose of paying this
loan might be real bo . retrtt »i tin
State’s bonds at pai; or }'., n desired, the
time of payment might be extended until the
State could meet it without embarrassing
Macon, Georgia, Dec. 29,1866.
'iif.xd Allen—Dear Sir : I have now
ra in this beautiful town some three weeks,
ijoiiug the hospitalities of a people etui
atl? social, and well disposed towards all,
warily Northerners, and who are noxious
have men of good character from the
: North coma here ns visitors or settlcis,
;j« a rule they aro kindly treated. It is
j( tint occasionally an individual is found,
llhardy and ignorant, who exhibits traits
character to be deplored, but they nre few
1 without influence. I have taken some
dns to 'ram their history, and find that
ey skulked from the burthens of the late
nr and acted as leaches rather than as sup-
erfer> of the fallen cause. They arc looked
;p»n by the citizcna hers with disdain But
rota all lean see this people are anxious for
le glory mid prosperity of the whole coun
ty, and I think it plaia to every observer
Sat they are the best friends of the colored
act. Their charities are unbounded, and
4ej are considerate and forbearing towards
that, knowing their ignorance ana helpless-
Tlie negroes here, many oi whom I havo
potlonsU, invariably express opinions de-
'j;itory of tiie United States troops, who
Her mj will surely get the negro’s money, if
ha* any, if they do not keep away from
n: and tltc most intelligent look to the
■'.) Police for protection ngainSt the sol-
irs. Gen. Woods stands high in the esti-
~fion of the people.
There is one thing at the South that has
-cic under my notice, that is horrible. A
5>s of men, called •• negro brokers,” who
irsnfi a traffic which is the slave trade in a
id form, aad which could not be carried
i withont the complicity of the officers of
■c Krecdmen's Bureau. They represent
wnvi lves as being planters rn the west of
iffiwippi, Arkansas, or some other region,
:d offer negroes large wages to go with
■’ui, and they, like the human race
ii'Tally, wishing to better their
edition, become the dupes of tbo
■kcr. The luttcr gets fifty or a hundred
On the other hand, however, an honest inves
tigation will show the utter groundlessness
0 f each one of the charges, and, the President
will be triumphantly vindicated. Some san
guine persons, looking forward confidently
to this result, say that it will prove to be tbe
disruption of the Republican party. But it
will do no such thing. “The iniquity of the I sacrifices. This opinion was fully justified
Amoritcs is not yet full” The Republican by the information then before me. But soon
,4 , ' . , _ _ alter your adjournment for the recess. I was
party has no doubt a long career of violence, infor ^ ed by Winslow, Lanier* Co., that an
usurpation, and tyranny, before it. Up to I extension of time could not be granted. It
this time its usurpations have been submitted I was also ascertained that, in the peculiar po-
to; but there must be a point, beyond which J litical condition of the countrj, our bonds
even tbe patient of
people will fail. When that point has been I be [ d bonds to the amount of four bun-
reached, no doubt Providence will raise up I dred and fifty thousand dollars, as a pledge
„_ e .- some Oliver Cromwell, who will dissolve the j therefor; and upon non-payment of the in
to a reasonable standard, the tide will cease | illegal and unconstitutional “Rump,” that 1 debtedness, on the first of January, they liad
to flow in that direction. Then will come j pretends to be Congress, and restore to the j£,® whatever they wouidbring. ““
the time of the oldir cotton States. There will j American people their long-lost liberties. j This being tho case I concluded to visit
be’a deficit of labor there, which, in its turn, j Not satisfied with liis position as leader of I New York in person, for the purpose, if pos-
will have to be supplied by immigration the House of Representatives, Tliaddeus | ©J arranging the loan in some way that
from the grain and tobacco producing States ; Stevens has for many months past coveted SuS a'S are
of the South. It will not only be led hither j the seat in the ^United States Senate, from J rangement I was fortunately enabled to make,
by the inducement of better prices, but it i Pennsylvania, which will be vacant on the | An amount of money sufficient to pay the
will be driven before the mighty tide of 4th of March. For some weeks past, he and J principal and interest of the loan was ob
white immigration that is destined at an early j his friends have been engineering actively to “Vhi
day to pour down upon the States of Mary— | secure this brilliant prize, and ever since tue I enterprising and liberal capitalists are named
land, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and 7tli inst., Mr. Stevens has been at Harrisburg, as two of the corporators in the charter re-
North Carolina. It will come not only from where it was supposed that his presence ccntly granted for the New Orleans, Mobile
abroad, hut, ns we are told by the Baltimore would neutralize all opposition, and secure an(i Chattanooga Railroad. They pay the
Sun,- in an articie which wo copy tins his triumphant election. But alas, at a I a3 collateral security the hypothecated eight
morning, “ the greater fertility of the lands meeting of the Republican members of the pe r cen t. State bonds which have been held
of the South will create a refluent current of ; legislature, on the 10th inst., there were only by that firm. For the amount thus obtained
migration from the Middle and Western seven men who could be found willing to I M^ssrs- Raynor & Williams, the State’
States, where land is already becoming com- . vote for him, while forty-six voted for Hon- St“
paratively high and difficult ot acquisition. Simon Cameron, and twenty-three for Gov- I of seven perc nt. per annum. I entertain no
Such is the natural course of population, eruor Curtin. The twenty-three votes for I doubt that, at the expiration of the six
and we think no serious apprehension need Curtin were then transferred to Mr. Cameron, months, the time for paying the prencipal
be felt on the subject in any portion of the giving the latter sixty-nine votes, and on K a ? hu ^^ded, ii desired by the State. I
e p i v. - . i S‘ ,lu s , „ J think that, under all the circumstances, this
country. Scarcity of labor cannot long ex-, mot j on 0 f one G f Gov. Curtins friends, the ; 8 a Yery f avora bi c arrangement in regard to
1st as an evil. In its very nature, with the nomination of Mr. Cameron was made unani-1 this loan.
greater portion of the Old World teeming m0U3> Thi S secures 3Ir. Camaron’s election. I From Duncan, Sherman & Co., Agents for
with population, it is obliged to bo tempo- of the two individuals, 3Ir. Cameron will tlle 4 St f‘ e > ^bw 3Tork, I ascertained that
rary This surplus will find its way to the j make by tbo best Senator . He is a Re-1 ne^^r’ S £ndJ*SvS
Nortu and Northwest; the redundance tncre . publican it is true. But so was Mr. Cowan a I twenty years to run, the sum of $602,000.
will find an outlet and equilibrium in the rfcpuLtlican when ho was elected. I do not I Of tlie arrear of interest, they bad funded
border States, and the negro race is obliged • »ay that Mr. Cameron will become as conser-1® P® r cent . bonds the amount,of $181,
Probabilities of Emigration Southward.
From tho Baltimore Sun.
Every day brings fresh evidences that the .
people of the Southern States have set them
selves to work to rebuild the waste places,
From the Columbus Enquirer, 17th.]
Destructive Fire—Three Thousand
Bales of Cotton Burned 1
About 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, tlie
SKea»»
and to develop the arts of peace with the new and spacious brick warehouse of John J.
same energy which they threw into the strug- J Grant & Co., known as the “Planters’ Wsre-
gle of arms, and the same fortitude with house,” in the upper part ot ..the city, wfts
which they bore the crushing disasters of' discovered to be on fire. The rapidity with
war. Their stand has been taken with re- j which tho flames swept through the building
gard to the constitutional amendment. They j was astonishing. The tiers of cotton bales
have rejected it with unanimity, and having conducted the leaping flame along, like broom
done so, they wait with no hesitating atti- sedge in a brisk wind. In a very'"tew minutes
tude to drive any bargain of political com-1 the fire was all over the warehouse, the
promise, but leave the governing majorities j towering flame rose far above tho roof,
with whom present power resides to their , and tlie intense heat of burning
own counsels, while they turn their hands j cotton drove every one outside the walls.—
with diligence to the work which lies at their ! The fire engines were promptly on the
to disappear before them. The latter, in j yative as Mr. Cowan. Bat he is far more ■ tb i 8 the Commissioner and Trus-
turn, must find an outlet »n«t refuge in conservative than Tliaddeus Stevens; and 11 tee of the State at Montgomery, has oxtended
cotton, sugar and rice fields of the Gulf States, j am t hat he will not ally himself to the I bonds to the amount of $391000, and funded
where, wo predict, in ten years, or less, labor j radical wing of the Senate, nor enlist under I $64,675 of interest.
will be more abundant and cheaper than ever ! tbebanncr of Sumner, Wade, or Chandler. . This ahowa that the aggr^ato amount of
known in our history Cotton will be raised j He ia a state smaa of considerable experience a „" unt*of interest ftmded is $245,875. ^
with profit at six cents per pound, and the > and tact. He will not aspire, at once, (as With Duncan, Sherman & Co., I also nr-
South will enter upon a career of prosperity ipj 1#( jdeus Stevens intended to do) to be a ranged for tbe payment of coupons due Jan.
unrivalled by anything in the past. i leader of the Senate But it is familiar 1 1 - on $•58,500, of 8 per cent, bonds, sold
It is a false idea that foreign labor will be „ round to bim in St. Louis and elsewhere to procure sup-
. . . , o rounu lo uira * . , Lphes for the destitute, as stated m my annual
introduced directly in the cotton growing H e was a Senator from Pennsylvania for | { nc5;sa{ je.
sections. The natural primary destination J c j„ b j years, before he became Secretary of] While in New York, I conferred with the
of that species of immigration is the ^ yy ar under Mr Lincoln- and as the Senate is U.S. Commissioners for tbe Paris Exposition.
Sortliern and Middle States, or tbe gMin-pro- j now c0 ^ inl of ta
duciug sections, and we shall receive our! y0 ung men, he will no doubt, in the course It m ^ y Dot; be j m p r0 p er to observe that
portion of it only through them, and in num-, c f a year or two, rise to a position of com- Alabama’s interest has a special friend in F.
bers according as it may become redundant; man ding influence. As a resident of Wash- A. P. Barnard, late ot the University of
there. The black man possesses a peculiar . i n a t on °he was always popular; his great I ^ labama ’ a Jl a now ^ President of Columbia
adaptation to tho labors of the cotton, rice, j wcaltb and cultivated tastes leading him to ^a^mhe principal Commissioner if r" the
or sugar field, and it is upon him that we j digpeme an elegant and generous hospi-1 United States, and is particularly solicitous
shall have to depend for the cultivation of. tgiijy. for a liberal cantribution of the various
those products for many years to come.— j The New York Legislature has elected 3Ir. miners* and other specimens that will
There may bo small parties of foreign white ] Roscoe Conklingt „ow a Representative, to gJJJ o? ^iSma^I ammged a with
immigrants coming to the Gulf btates, but; succeed Mr. Harris in the Senate, from that tbe Commissioners for the transportation,
they will bo exceptional cases, and we pre- ^ st a j e> Jir. Conk ling is a gentleman of con-1 from New York to Paris, of all such articles
diet that in time all of them will break up | 8 ;d er able ability, and has been re-elected to ns may be prepared and forwarded. A con-
and move farther North. i Congress three times. It was he who expos- ^ereble variety of valuable specimens have
_ . . . .. ... . ° . „ , „ „ , . i already been furnished, and many more are
There is no more interesting subject of c d the villainies of the Provost Jfaivhal Gen- j coa fidently expected. I respectfully submit
enquiry for the statesman than this one of era p 8 Bureau, as conducted ,by Gen. Fry.— | to the Legislature the question of making a
population and its movements, and it is to be . p or tbe j ast years, New York has had no limited appropriation to pay the expense of
regretted thet id tU,, : n.»n ol mark U ike Se.e.e. Mr. Harri, and g^jg-^*****
day our public men will not step to mvesti- j Morgan arc both estimable gentlemen, y ork . Several gentlemen of the State will
a hundred I " a * e a £U D CC ^ on which so much of the real ’ bu t neither one ol them ever has, or ever will visit Paris during tho ensuing spring, some
•Has rhe case mar be, puts them on the welfare and prosperity of the country de-, make an eloquent speech, or otherwise dia-1 of whom have kindly consented to act as
n. and after getting them well away pends. Tho South has a peculiar interest in tingtiish himself. Mr. Conkling is compare- |og eDts t° represent Alabama s interest at the
!*"., n !;f.T^L iC I U at the present time,and vreahall be greatly ] t5ve]y a young maDt and can make a good | pasting by Washington City, I availed
tion, which prevails in our Stare, and the ur
gent necessity for further assistance at tlie
passed the bill for j ban ds of the General Government. Theap-
upon our task with energy and faith, standing tbe , nee tj n g 0 f the 40th Congress on the 4th plication for additional relief was favorably
firnilv by our rights, and resisting manfully of Marcb " Tbe liri t session will probably responded to. An order was issued for a
every encroachment upon our political liber- i continno nnti , tke t . nd of j n j y> a3 it will take | Hbeml amount S f.«PpMforth^onthaof
ties.
■ '
Our Waabingtou Correspondence.
LETTER FROM “WARWICK.”
drops them where they I ecies and malice of her enemies. At least, we ; w j, a t be certainly
"btain work. 'Theyput in their claim] thiillf'♦etaWheenwirhlMet'leeiieeringtolook j ppUghcd andbriHiant orator.
. r *»gvs, according to the agreement of the j f onvar d to in tbe future, provided wo enter Botb Bousea baTe now p 8S
“ raacal, bat no one knows anything about
»ttiay have to go to work for wliat
jr? e«a get, which is less, perhaps, than
revere receiving where they were, but
* ? ' D Sno means to get back, they arc obliged
;'*»ain and make the best of it. One of
r* Wkers has been arrested sinco I came
"Mud the citizens aro anxious that be
•>o!0 l, c made an example of.
Ti'« blocks are much to be pitied. Tbou-
**“* cf them arc wandering about, half
T** 1 ! and wretched. They flock to tho
^ I aee them here this cold weather,
*°d children, crowded in the depots
1 to keep warm by each ether’s j
The trains going east to Savannah 1
' j-ilttj with them, making their way back
L *ice fields from which they fled m pur-
_'_■ freedom. In their ignorance they
r? *° think it would not bo freedom to re-
, with their former masters and work for
but the iile i with them is to go some-
r ^* to change, and many thousands havo
?®®jaiuly chasing tills phantom. Since
fiose 8 f dm war more than 10,000 have
in Macon, nearly twice the nnni-
J now reside here*. It iistoni- i j g leading spirit of the Con
P, if V bM ,i ,!?*? I and that ho talked in tin's way all las
tt looks plain to me that -..latever
Z**><xlpo\ver fnMT bo bestow- ' ifpon the I When he was prosecuting the -Jet,
February and March, arrangements having
| fully that long to get through with the un- I becn p rC yio U sly made for January. It is hoped
peachraant. Mr. Forney will continue to that by the aid thus generously furnished, we
hold the office of Secretary of the Penate. will be so far enabled to meet the wants of the
' H» predteewre kmbemte^Dick-
ens, from 1836 to 1861, a period of ~o years. by j b(J gtatcin its depressed condition.
Pennsylvania, from R. M. Patton,
f eleven years. Mr. j Gov, af AJa.
Charles Cutts, ot New Hampshire, from 1814 Important Georgia Law,
Washington, January 13, 1S67. to 1825, a period of eleven years likewis - Ah act to make the employment ofanvser-
The Judiciary Committee arc hard at work and Mr. Samuel Otis, from 1789 to 1814, vant whatever during his term of service
on the Impeachment measure. They hold a period of 25 years. The duration of these declare the same a misde-
meating daily, and hare begun the examina-1 periodi 0 f service is very remarkable, and t Tho General MsclMy do enactj
tion of witnesses in a business-like mnnner.; tbe per j 0 d s 0 f time which each one occupies That from and after t ] )e passage of this act
It is already intimated that 3Ir. Ashley has j s m uch greater than is usualin this country. sba u not be lawful for any person to em-
laid before them the most awful and terrible tb „ otbe r officers of both the Senate and [ ploy any sen-ant in the employment of an-
CYidenco against tbe President, and that bis ij 0U5e .will have to bo elected anew on the other for and during his term ot service, and
case looks blacker than was supposed. Bui 4th of March. For President of the Senate,' ^tySf^plJ^ig the servant 6 of anotlie?
people do not forget that the infamous Bout- fi0inc intensely bitter Radicnl will be chosen, during the term for which he, she, or they
Committee; p or g pe aker of the House.it is more than may be employed, knowing that 3uch servant
likely that Mr. Colfax will be re-elected. He | so employed, and that his term of ser
has worked his cards for reflection quietly,
but effectively.
Warwick.
own doors. The overflowing prosperity
which invited luxury and repose before the
war induced tho mistaken belief that the
people of the South were deficient in the
sterner virtues which combat adversity and
wrest plenty and prosperity from reluctant
nature.
iLore never was a greater misconception.
Instead of the fistlessness of despair having
overtaken them, the truth is dawning upon
tbe public mind that quiet fortitude charac
terizes their prescut political exclusion, and
their alliance* with the anxieties and cares of
misfortune is but a bridal which will give
birth to hopes and efforts which will crown
the land with plenty, and its towns and cities
with the triumphs of industry and the arts.
Heretofore emigration has set with a steady
current from the older States of the South to
the West and Northwest, nor was there any
compensating emigration from Europe. One
principal cause of this disastrous course of
emigration was the system of large landed
proprietorship. The small farmer felt him
self out of place amongst the large land
owners, and those who wanted land to culti
vate with their own hands could not find, in
the market parcels small enough for the com
pass of their means. The alternative was to
emigrate to those States where the landed
distribution was more general and equal.
But circumstances have changed all this.
The impossibility ot concentrating large
bodies of laborers necessitates the subdivi
sion of the lands of the Southern States. Land
is and will be in tlie market, abundant and
cheap, in parcels ol any size, irom the mar-,
ket garden to the farm of forty and eighty
acres, and larger or smaller, as the wants of
the community may determine. Capital
being unable to monopolize labor, it will no
longer monopolize land, which, without
labor, is of comparatively little value. The
greater fertility of the lands of the South,
the larger profit which the production of its
•taples yields than those of the West and
Northwest, will necessarily attract the agri
cultural industry of European emigrants,
and will, in time, create a refluent current of
migration from tho 31iddle and Western
States, where land is already becoming com
paratively high and difficult of acquisi
tion. ” •
The policy of granting tbe lands for pub
lic enterprise, or selling them at a minimum
in small tracts, or bestowing homesteads up
on actual settlers at nominal prices, which
was carried out in the Northwestern States so
happily, from the circumstance of the Gen
eral Government being the universal propri
etor of the territory, has been the great se
cret of the rapid development of those
States. The necessary subdivision which
will take place of tho largo plantations of
Virginia, tlie Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi, it is fair to suppose, wlU ex
ert, to a more or less extent, a corresponding
influence upon the'course of population.
There is another circumstance which has
not been generally estimated in connection
with this subject—that the nature of the soil
and the character of the staples of the South
will give employment to children and females
in many rural occupations for which their
strength is inadequate in higher latitudes.—
For example, in the culture of cotton there
is need of many more hands to gather the
product than to cultivate the plant. This is
labor of the lightest sort, in which fingers
will accomplish a great deal more than manly
strength. The whole family of the farmer
can profitably aid the gathering of the crop.
The child of twelve years of age will peiform
as much or more of this work than the man
and for this reason the returns of a farmer
who is the head of a family will he lar be
yond the profits of the grain or grass grower
of the Northern States.
Experience has shown the culture of cot
ton is for this reason proportionately far more
successful with small formers than upon the
large plantations. Perhaps the system of
small farms compares with that of large es
tates more advantageously in respect to the
culture of cotton than any other one agricul
tural product. This is well known to the
people of the cotton districts, although we
believe there is a very general impression
elsewhere that the px-ofitable cultivation of
cotton requires a large outlay of^capital and
labor.
The foregoing are but very few of the con
siderations which justify the belief that a
current of emigration will soon be directed
towards the lands of the South, and that the
ravages which the war has made will be ob
literated within a briefer space than has been
anticipated, and the population more than
compensated for the diminution it has borne.
ground and working with a will to save the
adjacent buildings, it beiug at once apparent
that no human power could save tlie ware
house. Wo are glad to be able to state that
they did prevent the destruction of any of
tiie adjoining stores, though they had to
work very daringly and to endure great heat
in doing so. The three store houses on
Broad street fronting the warehouse on th
side were all saved, though tile proprietors
must have suffered much loss in the hurried
removal of their goods, and the real estate
owners must have sustained much damage
done to the buildings.
There were, according to the best authority
from which we could get information, about
three thousand bales of cotton in the ware
house, worth say $390,000. Not more than
twenty bales were saved, and at least one cf
these was burning when roiled out. We fear
that by far the greater portion of it was unin'
sured, We have heard of large lots held by
the following parties, but have not heard of
much that was insured: Richard Buchanan
of Russell county, Ala., 300 bales;-Mr. Stone,
a cotton buyer of this city, about 70; and
Hon. 31. J. Craw-ford about 40 bales. Plant
ers of the surrounding Country Iield many
lots, of various sizes, of tlieir own raising,and
the loss will fall very heavily upon them.
Thq warehouse, as we have said, was a new
and commodious one, built since the great
raid destroyed the old one on its site. It
was owned, we learn, by Alessrs. J. J. Grant,
John Buchanan and James 31. Russell, and
cost in its construction about $15,000. It, is
said that it wasnot insured.
The total loss by this conflagration must
exceed four hundred thousand dollars—all
swallowed up in an. hour or two by the insa
tiable element. The loss will tall very heav
ily upon our city and the people of the coun
try trading here. And never before were a
people so little abie to sustain such a loss.
The origin of the fire is not known. It is
stated that some bales ot cotton on the top of
a high tier were first discovered to be oa lire.
This was near the office, fronting on Brian
street near Broad. Thence the flames spread
with such great rapidity through the sheds
a3 to arrest all efforts to roll out the cotton.
The Tennessee Franchise Law Declared
Null and Void.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee recently
adjudicated a test case under the franchise
act Of the State, with the result stated in the
following report :
“A test case has been recently adjudicated
in Tennessee. Mr. A. F. Ridley applied for 1
a writ of mandamus to compel the registrar
of his county to register his name. The reg
istrar alleged that, under the act of the Legis
lature, commonly known as the franchise act,
the relator mw not a legal voter, and not en
titled to registry. The court, in an elaborate
opinion,, held, first, that , the clause in the
schedule to the constitutional amendment
declaring the “qualifications of voters and
the limitation of elective franchise may be
determined by the General Assembly, which
shall first assemble under tho amended Con
stitution,” from which the Legislature pre
tended to derive its power for the franchise
act, did not confer, when properly construed,
any power to disfranchise those already citi
zens, but only to extend at its discretion tho
privileges of citizenship to the recently libera
ted blacks. Second, that by the exclusion of
fifteen legally elected and qualified members
of the House of Representatives, and of two
members of tho Senate, for the insufficient
reason that these persons had resigned their
seats at the previous session, and had there
by designedly left the Legislature without a
quorum, the Legislature lost its character,
forfeited its powers, and was not, at the time
of the passage of this act a General Assembly,
within the meaning of the organic law of
Tennessee. \
Tlie court in this case, says the Louisville
Journal, as our readers will observe, held the
samo doctrines held by the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania in the case of St. 3Iarv’s
Church, and lately applied to the present
Congress by the Hon. Thomas Ewing, of Ohio,
and Judge Sharkey, of 3Iississippi, tv.'o of
the foremost jurists in the country. The
opinion is noteworthy. Its most important
application is obvious. We hare already
suggested it. If it is correct, the present
Congress is not a Congress within tho mean
ing of the organic law of the Union. And
who will jirove it incorrect ?
A Comprehensive Political
are.
The comprehensive measure which wa3 so
promptly passed through both Houses of
Congress on Thursday, providing for secu
ring the equal civil and political rights of all
races of men in all the Territories of the
United States, will do away with the neces
sity of such special legislation as has- occu
pied so much time in connection with the
bills admittingNcbraska and Colorado. The
act explicitly provides that there shall be no
denial of the elective franchise to any citizen
in any Territory ot the United Stales “on ac
count of race, color, or previous condition ot
servitude;” wrd us it passed tiie Semit'c
by more than a two-thirds majority
and the House by a party vote,,
a Presidential veto, if it should bo of
fered. will have no effect in preventing the
enactment or enforcement of the law. "The
measure, moreover, as applied to the new
mineral Territories of the iiir West, will pre
clude the possibility of such legislation as
exists in California and Nevada in reference
to a race likely to be far more important
there, in the course of time,than tbe negroes,
we mean the Chinese. The Chinaman who,
landing on the Pacific Coast, is moving east
ward toward the Rocky Mountains, is denied
political rights in all the localities in which
he has settled; and the prejudice against the
yellow man, in this respect, is much stronger
than against the black man. There are now
in the Nevada mountains alone, somo
ten thousand Chinese laborers, engaged in
building the Pacific railroad; and though,
as a general thing, the immigrants of this
race exhibit no anxiety to become citizens,
yet in time they will doubtless come to ap
preciate tlie privilege. Tlie yellow race is
also penetrating into the great territories of
Idaho, Dacotah and Washington in consider
able numbers, and bids fair, in twenty years,
to form a very important part of the popula
tion. There is no doubt that, everywhere,
the whits inhabitants would oppose their en
joyment of political rights. But this compre
hensive measure which lias just passed Con
gress, prevents the exercise of such prejucices
and will doubtless save a world' of trouble
about the question in future.—JV. X. Times.
The TVorki«ff of the Amendment,
Tho operation of the third clause of the
Constitutional Amendment is forcibly por
trayed in a published letter by the Hon.
James Lyons, written in September last. He
says:
“ Where will this negrophilism and pro
tended love of universal liberty end 2 Does
it exhaust itself upon the American negro, or
embrace theinhabitants of Congo o>-La took a,
coast, or Luta N’Zige, as soon S3
Tiie Successor of Stephens.—The pa
pers give the following history of General
1 Gleason, the successor of Head Center Ste
phens :
General Gleason, the successor of Head Cen
ter Stephens, is a young Irishman, remarka
ble for his tall stature. He is about six feet
six inches in height, slightly stooped, and
has just entered on Ids twenty-eighth year.—
He was born in Fiahtnoy, near Borrisoleigh,
in the County of Tipperary, and trom bis
earlv youth he was connected with the in
surrectionary movaments in his native coun
try. In the year 1860, during the Italian war,
Card from D. II. Craig.
New York, January II.
The public statement of Messrs. Halstead,
Mcdilt, and Smith, for the Western Associat
ed Press; df 3Ir. Prime,, for the New York
Associated Press; and of 3Ir. 3Iarble, for The
World,- and in bchalf.of the United States and
European News Association, that a compro
mise, honorable and satisfactory to all pat ties
in interest, had been effected, renders if un-
nccessaiy for me toreply to-the untruthful and
silly statements or those who nre trying to
convey the idea that we were forced to aban-
dontlie field as general news reporters. So
far is this from being true that, at the mo
ment we consented to retire,, the very exis
tence of the Associated Press was, ia the es
timation of our frionds^and in the estimation
of at least two of the leading members ot the
Association, in our hands. We retired simp
ly because we wens tendered everythihg for
which we made war oil the Associated Press.
It is understood and agreed tnat the Western
Associated Press shall’control all news inat-
ters in the West anti Southwest, and they
havo placed their business in the hands ot my
friend, George B. Hicks.
Tlie monopoly of the news reports for the
benefit of the Bulletin and Alta, m California,
is to cease at the end of sixty days, and in the
meantime our newspaper friends at San FT.m-
cisco are to have the Associated Pre. .". reports
at Chicago free 'of expense. All the news
papers that have taken our reposts, South
and West, are to receive the reports' of the
Associated Press upon' as favorable terms, in
every respect, as (be papers that havo becn
receiving the reports of the Associated Ptess.
The New York Associated Press will not
compete with us in the commercial! reporting
business; and, we shall not compete with
them.in the general news reporting business.
I am thoroughly well satisfied with my
position, and am not in a condition tore-
quire the condolence of n:y friends ortho
public.
I shall now proceed at once to organize; an
association for conducting the business- of
commercial news, importing by telegraph
hourly between alb tho commercial cities of
Europo and America, and for the fcransaclion
of this business we shall enjoy extraordinary
telegraphic facilities, under long contracts,
with all the principal telegraph lines ot the
world. ■ ...
IX H. Ca-vm-
the gold _ .
they may arrive in this country, and the he raised a company of one hundred and
American Indian also ? He was the original ' men to defend the Papal dominions, and was
owner of the entire land. Will he be classed , complimented for his bravery in action by
with the Southern whites and denied the j General Lamoriciere. Subsequently he was
rights of suffrage and representation, while; taken prisoner at tho seigo of Ancona by the
they are accorded (by the amendment) to j Sardinian troops, aud re Leased after a cap-
erery negro in tbe land, even tbe vilest—tbe I tivity of six months. He then returned to
thief, the burglar, tlis incendiary and assas- Ireland, and on tbe day Lc arrived in his nn-
sin ? A, negro may command tbe army, but I tive town the sheriff ot tlic county dispussess-
tlie nobfe and renowned Lee shall not com-1 ed him of his estate, hialease having expired.
t spring,
,, — power may be bestowr itpon too | wncu ne » w pruBcvuMug Jcff - Dav13
u***tby. will he controlled by ais people, conspiracy,” belore the same Committee;
they seam to know their friends i vc j j. turned out after nil, that all his “evi-
Tl! <K> k, 0 ^ i ye. j deuce,” of which lie made so great a parade,
th ; «• “ly ««**. of‘he ^
t thill is just Conover and his hired accomplices.
Considerable jiains is being taken by many
vice was not expired, or if any person or per
sons shall entice, persuade, or decoy, or at
tempt to entice, persuade, or decoy any ser
vant to leave his employer, eitjier by offering
higher wages, or in any other way whatever.
mand a company 1
Subsequently he came to New York, and a:
“Anegro may sit in the people’s House— the beginning of the war joined the Sixty-
the white naan’s Hall of Representatives—in i ninth Regiment, and participated in forty-two
Congress; but Hunter, Hampton and Rives, ! engagements of that organization. On his
Conrad, Cobb and Curry shall not! return he joined the Fenian Brotherhood,ar.d
“A negro may be Chief Justice of the went back to Ireland on-a special mission;
United States, but the learned and eminent but while there he was arrested for “treason,”
Campbell may not sit in a district court! and lodged in the Mountjoy Prison, Dublin,
“Was ever malice so blind? Why arc where he was incarcerated for six mouths.—
these wrongs to the whole country. North as He came back to New York immediately af-
well as South, to be perpetrated ? To punish ter his release, aad was a prominent member
Southern men for defending their homes and of the Brotherhood up to the moment of hi
W in now.
Truly vours,
B.
t" J i»con. Tiiis mornin
•"a of frozen rain, vl
' tiie roofs of buildin ;s, or some dry 1
^b* ; 11 ' t*l*- ,r, ‘l>h ini' mis us that you I BeW 8|'aj>crs of the North, and by one or two
here, to produce the impression that the Ju
diciary Committee will make no report to the
present Conercss, but will content themselves
with collecting and taking “evidence” and
makin" up the case, and will submit their re
port to the 40ib Congress. They can do this ;
' r everr one of the eight Radical members
The Fruediwr.—We regret to see so during tbe term of service, knowing that firesides, their wires and children, tneir aged appointment ns its chief. During uis career
many Jroedruen loitering in and around town, | said servant was so employed, shall he deem- j parents, and. the land which gave them birth, in the Army of the Potomac, as an
’■ ■ recat indisposition t® contract ed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con- m obedience to the laws of God aswell as of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, he rec
with 1 those who^nced them aad are willing to | viction thereof shall be fined any sum not
pay good wages. ~ I j * * 1 *“'* ~
officer of
received the
Daily you see, loaferin
and wo-
«...
proc
Of r/h
t ... .'T.ijjiung upon
Untn has luvn pi rln'ted in France,
^reperjoftj Kftye their n irtrait upon their
■ l of (heir names or initials.—
■ j dd, docs not injure the j.or-
about the streets, idle negroes, men and we
men There have been oTer 25 cases, th
present week, before the County Court for
failing to complv with thc-ir contracts.
b [ILurkinsrillc Dispatch, 17th.
cable direct from the L nited States
to France is talked of.
more than two hundred dollars, or confined
in the common jail of the county ia the dis
cretion of the court, and not to exceed three
months.
Sec. 2. Repeals conflicting laws.
Approved 13th December, I8C6.
The diplomats say tfcat31r. Sumner’s
wine is the best in Washington.
the land, which they were bound to obey ? nmk of Brevet Brigadier General.
Was this crime ? The essence of crime is the ' -»*♦•*
intent. Our gallant soldiers believed they Tiie Negro Farming in Alabama.—
were right, and jierforming tlieir duty, and i Speaking of negro farming in that section,
in the sight of God are guiltless—can poor, tke Selma Messenger sqya: “We know that
pitilew men now make them criminals? But, a number of negroes who leased lands for
if criminals, th«y can bs punished only by last season, and went to work upon them un-
tho law then existing, and Dot by any ex'post ' dert.ivoralile circumstances—wed* not know
facto law, affixing a new punishment to the ot one whose crop was. sufficient to subsist
offence, as. the proposed amendment does." him until Christmas.”
Nebraska and Colorado-.—A telegram
announces that tire Senate, yesterday, passed
tho bills admitting the Territories of Nebras
ka and .Colorado as States in the Union, with
the proviso that the acts shall take effect
“with the fundamental and perpettml con
dition that within said States there shall be
no-abridgir.cnt or.denial of the elective, fran
chise, orot any other right, to any gerso^ by-
reason of race or color, excepting Indians not
taxed.” This- fbrther legislation is supple
mentary to the enabling acts with whose con
ditions tbe Territories must have complied
in forming.tbeir constitutions for admission
as States, aud it i« yet to bo acted upon by
the Territories, with a possibility of rejection
when it is con-ddered that the proposed
franchise includes the Chinese, who arc
more apttoflock to the mining regions
than are tlie negroes, who are few and far be
tween in either of these Territories. It was
stated last winter that the population in both
Territories was too small to warrant the ad
mission, ot the Territories as States; that the
statistics were untrustworthy because tho
population was migratory, going from one
Territory to another as. mining prospects in
vited; mid the exelusiou ff both Colorado
and Nebraska was urgaa oa the^e very
grounds. Without any further or more re
liable information on Ihcsu points, the State
seems willing to admit them now, if they will;
only comply with the condition precedent!
about suffrage. This readiness and event
eagerness to admit aew Slates whose qualifij-.
cations as States are, to say the least, doubt'
ful, controls strangely with the equal anxiety-
on the part of the Radical majority to throats
tbe Southern States out of the Union and.to.
revert them to a territorial condition.—
World.
Tnx Tinslrt Ca*k.— 1 The Montgemerv
Ma il snvs the case of Tbos. J. Tinsley, tor :he
killing of E. M. Dillard, came up Tuesday
morning before Mr. Justice Randolph, By
consent of tho prosecution, tlie accused was
l>i>und over to ihe next term of tbft City
Court in.the sum of £10,000.
General shinqton’s Pew tx Christ’s
Church. Alexandria.- This pew having be
come an object of historical interest, it is
worth mentioning that its original cost was
thirty -six pounds ten shillings.—S. Church
man.
Southern Railroads,—S. E. Maxwell, ex-
neniher of Congress »om Florida, has been
fleeted President of the Pensacola & Mont,
fomerv Railroad. '
t-^f.Yn American citizen ia now taxed
about four Vv’ftes as much, as a citizen of
England.
