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Tlie Greorgia Weekly Telegraph..
for president of THE UNITED STATES,
HORATIO SEYMOUR,
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
FRANCIS P. BLAIR,
OF MISSOURI.
STATE ELECTORAL TICKET.
FOR THE STATE AT LARGE :
Gee. JOHN B. GORDON, of Fnlton.
Hok. JOHN T. CLARKE, of Randolph.
FOR THE DISTRICTS:
1. JOHN C. NICHOLS, of Pierce.
2. Col. CHARLES T. GOODE, of Snmter.
3. RAPHAEL J. MOSES, of Muscogee.
4. AUGUSTUS 0. BACON, of Bibb. _
5. Maj. J. B. CUMMING. of Richmond.
6. H. P. BELL, of Forsyth.
7. Col. JAMES D. WADDELL, of Cobb.
FOB CONGRESS.
Dist. 1. Hon. AUGUSTIN H. HANSELL. of Thomas.
■■ 2. Hok. NELSON TIFT, of Dougherty.
** 3. Hos. HUGH BUCHANAN, of Cowetacounty.
*• 4. Hok. T. G. LAWSON, of Putnam.
“ 5.
“ 6. Hok. WXER BOYD, of Lumpkin.
“ 7. Hok. P. M. B. YOUNG, of Bartow.
Eatonton, October 9th. 1868.
Mr. Editor : Please publish the following
appointments. I will address the people of
the 4th Congressional District in the follow
ing order :
At Griffin, Thursday, October 15th.
At Bamesville, Friday, October IGth.
At Forsyth, Saturday, October 17th.
At Indian Spring, Monday, October 18th.
At Macon, Tuesday evening, October 20th.
At Jeffersonville, Thursday, October 22d.
At Milledgeville, Saturday, October 24tb.
At Monticello, Tuesday, October 27th.
At Covington, Thursday, October 29tb.
At Conyers. Friday, October 80tb.
Thos. G. Lawson.
"We have a letter superscribed “ Hon. Wm.
Smith (colored). Official and important.”
Snows up North.—The telegrams of yes
terday from the North report blinding snows
as falling. No wonder. The returns from the
elections in Pensylvania, Ohio and Indiana
are enough to chill the elements.
Tran our Attention to Blackberries.
In disgust with the election news, the Mont
gomery Mail says at the head of an article,
“Let us turn our attention to blackberries!” He
dilates then to the length of a column on the
value of the improved blackberry and the
profits of the culture. Alabama, in its hilly
and rocky regions, can challenge the world
in the production of wild blackberries, both
as to size and number.
The Augusta Chronicle will receive the
attention of the Senior editor of the Tele
graph in Tuesday’s issue, as he rarely visits
the office after nigntfall and after the Augusta
mail is received. The Junior assures the
Chronicle, meanwhile, that if it ha3 been un
The Largest Export of Cotton in a
Single Steamship this Season.—The Gen
eral Barnes sailed yesterday afternoon at her
advertised hour, with a good passenger list
intentionally wronged by this paper, thdl ^and 1C03 bales of upland cotton, besides a
THE SUFFRAGE.
To borrow an expression from the New
York Tribune—“The world moves.” A
State Democratic Convention of South
Carolina last Spring declared for “impartial
suffrage.” The announcement provoked
such opposition that another democratic
Convention was held to repudiate the de
claration,’ and to-day the State Democratic
Executive Committee of South Carolina re
affirm the position of that party in favor of
“impartial suffrage."’
Yesterday the Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Georgia passed a formal endorse
ment of the report of the Committee of the
last Legislature upon the state of the Repub
lic, declaring their acceptance ot the present
status of the colored race as fixed by the
Constitution and Laws of Georgia. This,
so far as it goes, puts the whites of Georgia
in favor oT universal suffrage. Thus we see
that, in both States, the negro is accepted
as a voter—in Sonth Carolina under qualifi
cations, and in Georgia without them.
While, under present circumstances, it is
not worth while to propose any change in
the Georgia suffrage, we are not prepared to
commit ourselves finally to universal and un
qualified suffrage. We believe au ignorant
and unreasoning suffrage must almost neces
sarily, in the long run, bring with it an in
competent and corrupt public administra
tion; and, as an independent proposition, the
South Carolina declaration is by far the
sounder.
The point of the practicability of introdu
cing a restricted and qualified suffrage is
another matter which we do not propose to
consider at this time; but it is no good reason
why we should advocate universal suffrage,
simply because we do not now discover an
opportunity to make a change. Such an op
portunity may arise, and the possibility that
it may arise and be improved, should stim
ulate every voter to the attainment of at least
those simple, elementary qualifications which
will enable him to read bis own ballot.
Without them it seems to us every sensible
and candid man will agree he ought not to
vote; and the fact that he nevertheless is a
voter, is discreditable to any country and cal
culated to bring the suffrage into contempt.
We are aware there is a good deal to be
said against what is called “ impartial” or
qualified suffrage. Any qualification, however
simple, must unfortunately disfranchise a
large portion of the population. The propor
tion of whites and blacks in Georgia who
cannot read and write is large, 1 and it i9
greater in South Carolina; and there is dan
ger and inconvenience in a large non-voting
population; but there is greater still in a
mass of ignorant voters: and the mere fact of
requiring an educational qualification will
bring the masses up to it. Ignorance will be
felt to be humiliating and disadvantageous,
and not many young white men would pass a
year without knowing how to read and write,
if they found the polls once closed against
them on account of this disability.
amende honorable will be made. The Tele
graph is incapable of misrepresenting any
body or anything, intentionally.
Ogelthorpe College.—We are informed
that the Trustees of Ogelthorpe College, at
a meeting held in Milledgeville on Thursday
last, elected Chancellor Inglis, late of South
Carolina, President of that institution, and
Rev. Charles Lane. Professor n fif» j *-~* o uor
lie College is expected to open on the first
day of January next. If Chancellor Inglis
accepts, the officers will be himself, President;
Rev. Mr. Smith, Professor of Moral Philoso
phy and Rhetoric; Rev. Charles Lane, Pro
fessor of Mathematics; Mr. S. Bates, Professor
ot Ancient Languages, with a Tutor, when
the wants of the institution may require one.
Mr. Lane was also elected Chaplain
CONCESSIONS.
It is the very essence of concessions that
they must be timely ! or they are valueless.
The political concessions offered all round,
just now, remind us of the old lady’s “ cotton
kcerd” transaction daring the war. She found
a pair priced at ten dollars, but could not
make up her mind to give ten dollars for a
pair of cotton cards. When she had brought
herself to that point,she found,to her horror,
that the price had risen to twenty, which, of
course, was not to be thought of for a moment.
Necessity pressed, however, and she rose to
twenty, only to find the cards had meantime
risen to thirty. In overcoming this balk, the
cards got up to forty dollars, and when, at
last, she had come to the desperate determina
tion to give forty dollars for a pair of cotton
cards, she learned there were none to be had;
speculators had taken them all at fifty.
She was not sufficiently prompt in her con
cessions, and her case illustrates a material de
lect in a good many of the political concessions
which have been made since the war. They
are liberal, but too late. Some of the Demo
cratic newspapers in the South which say they
are willing now to sacrifice almost anything—
platform, candidates, anything—to escape
defeat, should have talked in that way last
June, when they said they preferred defeat
upon a square Democratic platform to a timid
concession of what they called principle!
We see from the elections what might
have been accomplished by reasonable con
cessions to Northern opinion and prejudice at
that time. When we see States like Ohio and
Pennsylvania, polling about six hundred
thousand votes each, lost by a few thousand,
we see, at the same time, how easy it would
have been by a course of conciliation to have
changed the result.
It was not essential to have assumed any
thing like revolutionary ground in respect to
reconstruction. It was essential to deliver the
government out of the hands of the Radical
organization and to deliver the South frem
the tyranny of political hatred and prejudice.
To that single point the South- should bave
bent all her influence and energies, at the
same time extending to the North, in the
composition of the ticket and in all her lan
guage and demeanor, assurance that she de
sired no escape from the legitimate conse
quences of the war. She only sought a fair
and just administration.
All now see and admit that this was the
valuable point to be made in the election, and
We have lost it for the lack of timely conces
sion. The offer now is unavailing, because
the l^orth has discovered her ability to en-
ioree what we propose to concede. A propo
sition to compromise must rest at least upon
a doubt about results and issues, arid Bhe feels
none. Experience is of nse mainly for wbat it
teaches, and let us learn a' little moreprudence
-fornext time,'./. t . <*
large amount of miscellaneous merchandise,
among which were nine boxes of gold ore.
{Republican of Friday.
The Productions of the South.
The New York Shipp iag List says:
Notwithstanding the many discourage
ments which the South has had to encounter
since the close of the rebellion, such as the
unsettled state of social, industrial and po-
iVgratifyingTo nofe the
substantial progress which that, section has
made, and is making, towards a reparation of
the losses and wastes of war. The Southern
States have not only become nearly, or quite,
self-sustaining in the matter of food, bat
their great staples of cotton, tobacco, rice,
sugar, etc., are increasing in volume, at a rate
which bids fair to enable them speedily to
resume their legitimate position in the com
merce and industry of the country. The
South is peculiarly favored as regards soil
and climate, which are adapted not only to
very large production of the recognized sta
ples of that section, but to most of the cereals,
fruits and root crops of the higher latitudes.
This has been abundantly demonstrated in
the last year or two, during which the North
ern markets have been liberally supplied
with a great variety of farm and garden
produce, which has yielded even better re
turns to the producers than cotton. Manu
facturers have also made some progress, but
nothing like the headway which tms branch
of industry is destined to make in succeeding
years, when a complete pacification shall
bring into requisition the necessary auxiliary
forces of capital and labor. In addition to
a fine soil and diversified climate, the South
possesses untold wealth in her mines of iron,
lead, copper and sulphur, not to speak of the
more precious metals, which will, without
doubt, be placed under tribute by unfailing
energies, as soon as the present anomalous
condition of social affairs shall give place to
law, order, and general stability. It is alto
gether probable that the healing art of time
will overcome the animosities engendered by
the unexampled progress of material prosper
ity- •
Mortified, if not Wiser.—Mr. B. H.
Hill, of Georgia, now in New York, writes a
letter to the New York Times, in which he
says: “I shall return home mortified if not a
wiser man. Mortified only because I find in
the North a bitter, systematic, adroit and
persistent misrepresentation of the temper,
desires and views of the Southern whites, far
exceeding my expectations.”
Business for the United States Dis
trict Court.—We learn that fifty-eight cases
have been entered upon the docket of the
United States District Court, to be tried at
the coming session.
In addition to these there will be a very
large number of cases growing out of the
suits commenced against the stockholders of
the old Savannah banks, as mentioned by us
a few days ago. Ninety-three suits have al
ready been reported, and there are many
more which have not yet been returned. Be
fore the Court the same course of proceeding
will probably be followed as in the case of
the suits against the banks, that is, all merged
into one common cause. This will be a big
case, and the amount involved—half a mil
lion of dollars—will make it interesting.—
Savannah Fetes.
The other day a gentleman entered a Paris
omnibus, carrying with him a bag, which he
placed on the seat behind him. Soon after a
young woman occupied the adjoining seat.
After bestowing frequent looks of surprise
and indignation at her neighbor, who re
mained perfectly unconscious of her dis
quietude, she suddenly sprang upon her feet,
and exclaiming “Insolent!” gave him a
couple of sound boxes on thenar. The as
saulted one at length ventured to ask why
ho had had become the recipient^ of these
favors. “You pinched me,” exclaimed the
lady furiously. The gentleman made no
reply, but looked under the seat, brought to
light a magnificent live lobster, which had
escaped from the bag.
A pile of “slack,” near Ironton, Ohio, has
been, on fire thirteen years. How it be'
came ignited no one knows.
PLAN OF A PLANTERS’ CO-OPERA
TIVE UNION.
To the Editors of the Telegraph ;
How far it is practicable for f armers,by asso
ciation, to escape ,the taxes or tolls of hid-
dle-men, deserves our profound considera
tion. The extraordinary number of these
middlemen, depending for their living upon
the profits of handling (conveying to con
sumers) our crops, as compared with the num
ber necessary under a well regulated system,
must startle any reflecting mind. If the
planter could realize what the consumer pays
for his produce, less the actual cost ofremit-
ting it to him, the profits of farming would
be increased four fold.
When a bag of cotton, for example, starts
on its journey to the loom, it is worth in
Macon, say $100, but by the time it reaches
the manufacturer in it sells for $150,
The planter delivers it to some ware-houEe-
man in Macon, who is entitled, by custom, to
the following charges: weighing, marking,
mending, storage, shipping, commission for
insurance and there is always a town or city
tax. These charges are repeated in Savan
nah and again in New York, with additional
expenses for sampling, re-weighing, com
pressing and commissions for selling, and
these accumulated charges bear interest at
so much an hour. Thus $50 a bale, less act
ual cost of freight, is consumed by what are
termed middle-men.
Farmers, since they produce and originate
all the wealth of the conntry, are entitled to
larger profits than any other claES; but, in
fact, there is no occupation that so poorly
remunerates intelligence and capital.
With this preface, we snbmit the following
oatline of a co-operative system :
1. Let 1000 farmers unite to form a joint
stock company, with headquarters in New
York.
2. Wherever ten or more stockholders have
a common railway station, let them estab
lish a branch agency.
3. Let them agree and bind themselves to
transact their business, wherever practicable,
through the agents of the association.
4. Let the organization be con structed with
an eye single to the purpose of escaping,
when possible, the agencies of middle men.
5. Let the corporation have banking and
insurance privileges.
Thus much for the outline—we purpose to
develop the details at some future time.
Two questions meet us on the threshold of
this enterprise: First, the capital required to
originate and start the scheme; and, second,
the difficulty of associating the farmers.
In regard to the capital—it will be ob
served that 1000 fanners, at ten bales each,
at $100 a bag, will give ns a yearly income
of $1,000,000 as a basis of credit; to which
we must add a permanent investment in
land, mules and general property, estimated
at present values, in the South, of at least
$5,000,000. The shares at $100 each, twenty-
five per cent., cash, will give us ample funds
to commence with—and the balance due
for stock, if not liquidated by credits of
dividends, may be paid by yearly instal
ments of $25.
Those who use the agency and are not
shareholders, will be charged at certain
rates, and their patronage will considerably
swell the income of the company.
We are aware this subject is almost thread
bare, but we propose to ventilate it fully.
But in the outset, we wish it understood that
we fully appreciate the services now rendered
to the planters by our commission merchants
and factnro recognize »,■—*-
worth, integrity anti enterprise.
We don’t pretend to say that any combi
nation that is practicable will totally super
sede middle men: we merely say, first, plant
ers may combine and act as a unit, so far as
that class of business is concerned, which
they now, of necessity, entrust to their com
mission merchants and factors; second, snch
a combination is perfectly feasible, and will
inevitably result in great benefit to them;
third, co-operation is absolutely necessary as
they are now circumstanced, and the limits
of profitable co-operation cannot be foreseen;
they certainly could save the profits of in
surance, banking, factorage, and the com
missions of their ’merchants. There is no
reason why 100,000 farmers, representing a
crop of one million bales, worth $100,000,-
000, and a permanent investment in land,
mules, etc., of five hundred million dollars
should not unite, and all the business usual
ly confided to factors, etc., be conducted by
a committee, or company officers in New
York. Such co-operation could be perfected
in all its details in two years, and would
then not only control the cotton markets,
but in a great measure the affairs of this
country. “Early.”
A Canny Scotchman's Experiment In £lave-
neldiug.
The Boston press has recently produced a
book called “Ten Months in Brazii,” and the
Courier givts us the following extract where
in is duly set forth the result of a very intel
ligent and benevolent Scotchman’s experi
ment in raising the black to a level with the
white race: I
Dr. Gunnrig left a high position in the
Medical Coliege at Edinburgh, sixteen years
ago, and came to Brazil for the improvement
of his health. Here, in a short time, his
skill as a physician, and some profitable in
vestments in the mines, secured him an am
ple fortune. Had his constitution permitted
him to return to England, he would doubt
less have found full scope for his benevo
lence atmng the poor whites there ; but as he
was obligtd to remain in Brazil, he naturally
turned fyis attention to the prevailing color.
In short, as an individual, he resolved to de
vote his time, talents and property to the ex
periment which nations have tried in vain.
He would raise the black to the level ot the
white race, by a practical trial of a theory
not new, but variously attempted—that of
“giving tie black man a fair chance.”
With tHs object steadily in view, he pur-
—^ a ——»= He
PRESS DISPATCHES.
Later Election Betnnu.
Washington, October 16.—Latest Indiana advices
leave Voorhees’election doubtful; buttbe defeat of
GeorgeW Julian, author of several, and aupporter of
all the reconstruction measures against the South, is
certain.
Later.—The latest returns from Indiana give Baker
500 majoritr: one county is unheard from, which went
Republican last year. Voorhees’ elcotion is now
douhtinl. Julian’s District is also close: it is claimed
for the Democrats.
Pennsylvania—No new figures; the Radicals still
claim 15.000 majority.
Ohio—Nothing new.
Wathingtok, October 15.—The following summary
of election news is culled from a mass of conflicting
and meagre reports:
The Republican majority in Pennsylvania is about
10,GOO. Covode’s election is more probable. The
Legislature is Republican by a reduced majority, se
curing a Republican Senator, vice Buck&lew. The
Age estimates the majority in the State at3000,
Greenebnrg, Penn-—Every township in the 21st
District is heard from, and they give Covode 29 ma
jority.
Ohio—The latest advices indicate 15,000 Republican
majority.
Indianna—The election is very close in .this State.
Baker’s election, however is regarded as certain;
Kc Klux.—A horrible outrage was com
mitted somewhere in the State of Alabama
a few days ago. Our informant is a relia
ble cotaed man, who heard the particnlars
from a member of the “loyal league,” who
got bis information from a fellow who lost a
cousin in the late war. It seemed that a Mr.
Carpet-Bagger wa3 attacked in his own
house by 1032 Ku Kluxers, armed with
double-barreled bowie-knives. They slaugh -
tered and ate nineteen ot Mr. Bagger’s chil
dren before his eyes, and compelled Mrs.
Bagger to cut her own head off, and hang
it on a hook in the cellar. She was then or
dered to keep still upon pain of instant death.
Bhe happened to sneeze, and the leader of
the dastardly crew immediately had a
thrashing machine set up, and ran Mrs. Bag
ger through. It’s very doubtful if she re
covers. Mr. Bagger was then forced to swal
low four tons of gunpowder and a handful
ofnitro glycerine. He was next dieted on
live coals until an explosion took place,
which subjected Mr. Bagger to such intense
pain as almost to deprive him of reason.—
The fiends then shot him full of holes, made
him hurrah for Jefferson Davis and Horace
Greeley, and finally inoculated him with the
small pox, and soaked him with strong lie.
He was threatened with instant death if he
revealed the names of any of the perpetrators
of this outrage, all of whom are neighbors
of Mr. Bagger, and who hate him because
Mr. B. was a loyal sutler and cotton specu
lator during the war, and now lives on a con
fiscated plantation, with enough niggers to
elect him to the Legislature. It is feared
that Mr. Bagger has sustained such internal
injuries that he will not be able to appear as
a witness at the military commission ap
pointed to try some ex-rebels for reading
Democratic newspapers.—Wisconsin Paper.
chased sone thirty-five or forty negroes,
bought a tact of land nearly two miles square,
on the railroad which was then building,
about six jears ago, and on it the pretty cot
tage at whch we were so hospitably enter
tained now stands.
In its neighborhood he built comfortable
huts for his aegroes, and gave to each as large
a garden spet as he required. At that time
the planters and other slaveowners were gain
ing enormously by the labor of their negroes
upon the railroad, so that the value of a slave
was soon cleared. ' The good doctor asked
himself the question, “If a planter can clear
a negro, why cannot a negro clear himself?”
A woman’s answer, “Because—’’would have
been more to the purpose than his own. At
any rate, the negroes did not clear themselves,
and they remain on hand to this day.
The doctor commenced a perfect system
of book-keeping. Each colored gentleman
had his name at the head of a page, with
Dr. on the left and Cr. oa the right; Dr. to
his first cost, and interest on the same, and
subsequent expenses, for food, clothing, etc.,
Cr. by cash, received fo: his individual labor.
When the amount balaiced he was to be free.
But none of the accounts ever came to be
balanced.
The negro is often not so much of a fool as-
his white apologist. He would have no ob
jection to freedom if it could be had for
nothing, for the da?s of idleness before him
are a tempting luiury. But " these fellows
had the sense (to see that with such a mas
ter as Dr. Gunniig, freedom would not be
worth working f#r. The result was,that they
were nearly half the time drunk, or sick in
the hospital, and when they did work they
worked so nnprofitably that the railroad
company dispersed with their services.
The planter is now using them in clearing
and planting his own grounds, and crediting
them with their daily labor. In this way he
promises himself that they will eventually
earn their freedom, His neighbors say that
the work would be done in a cheaper and
better manner if he gave them their freedom
at once, and then hired the slaves of others.
In the meantime, the Doctor submits qui
etly to the robbery of his hen-roosts, the
stealing of his traits and vegetables, the sur
reptitious milking of his cows, and the other
annoyances, great and small, which the pres
ence of these vagabonds entails 4pon him.
His com is gathered early, but it is not gath
ered for him, and his crop of green coffee is
large for others, while that ot ripe coffee is
small for himself. The black lilies “ toil not
neither do they spin,” and the slaves are hard
masters, “reaping where they have not sown.”
When our excellent friend first made his
investment, he was very inconsiderate in the
explanation of his plans to the negroes. One
morning, after instructing them in the mys
teries ot book-keeping, be added that, in case
ms death at any rime, tney wouia oe iree
at once, on the same night he was attacked
in his bed by a negro with an iron bar, and
seriously beaten over the head. Fortunately
the generous Scotchman’s head was harder
than his heart, and the only result of the
blow* was an enlargement of the organ ot
caution.
Voorhees’ election is again olaimed by the Demo
crats.
The weather continues eold and rainy.
■Washington, October 15.—Indiana close; official
returns needed to decide whether Hendricks or Baker
is elected. Holman and Voorhees elected—gain of 1.
Democrats gain 8 Congressmen and losel, in Tuesday’s
election.
Nothing farther regarding the majorities in Pennsyl
vania and Ohio; but it is believed the Republican es
timates are considerably too large.
Washington, October 15.—Latest returns make the
majority in Pennsylvania front ten to fifteen thou
sand; Ohio about the same. Both will probably be
reduced by further reutrns.
Howard has issued orders to the Assistant Com
missioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau to close his office,
November 1st.
Moaement of Coiton.—By reference to the
report of Mr. Bass, to be found under our com
mercial head, it will bo seen that there was
quite a large amount of cotton shipped over the
Southwestern Railroad for the week ending
September ICth. All the cotton transferred by
the Southwestern to the Central P.oad is con
signed to Savannah or points beyond. The
total receipts for the week foot up 4742 bales,
1340 of which was consigned to partieB in
Macon, and but 13 bales to the Macon and
Western Road.
Quite, or a little more than a fourth of all the
cotton shipped over the Southwestern Road has
been consigned to our warehouses for sale or
storage, and we venture to assert that the
owners of this cotton have saved money on
every bale they have sent here, instead of to
Savannah or New York. Our cotton buyers
have responded liberally and cheerfully to
every advance reported in the Eastern and
European markets, and at the prices at which
the 6taple has been selling in those markets, our
buyers have been losing from ten to fifteen
dollars on every bale they have bought. When
cotton is selling for only 11 pence in Liverpool,
there is no money to be made if you pay 24 or
25 cents for it here. In fact you suffer a clear
loss on every pound you buy at these figures,
Yet, such has been the action of our cotton
buyers during the present season. None of
them, thus far, have made anything on this
year's crop. The planters have made it all,
although they have lold, mostly, at a lower
figure than they expected to receive—25 cents,
There is money in producing cotton at 20 cents
and all over that is handsome profit to the
producer. We congratulate planters that they
are now on top, and they will slick there if
they can continue to sell their cotton at ths
prices they have received thus far this season
From Washington.
Washington. October 16.—Only four Senators, and
eleven Representatives are here. Wade and Colfax
adjourned the Houses to the 10th of November.
Potent party leaders express themselves regarding
the proposed change of candidates; that it is unwise,
impracticable and equivalent to the disbandingof the
Democratic forces. If a change is made it will be in
obedience to the absolute withdrawal by the candi
dates.
The Democratic Commute say the official count is
necessary.to decide Pennsylvania.
Washington, October 16.—Dispatches from Indiana
indicate that it is almost certain that Voorhies and
Jnlian are elected, and fix Baker’s majority at one
thousand.
Hancock’s headquarters are removed to New York.
The following is an answer to a dispatch from this
city, asking whether the proposition for a change of
candidates was prompted by the New York Democ
racy :
. _ _ New York, October 15.
J. D. Hooter, Washington .-
There is no authority or possibility to change front.
All our friends consider it totally impracticable and
equivalent to a disbandingof our forces. We, of New
York, are not panic stricken.
<Signed,) S. J. Tilden,
. August Belmont,
Augustus Schell.
Gen. Hooker is placed on the retiredlist, with a fall
Major-General’s rank.
General Thomas has departed for Tennessee.
Washington, October 17.—Evarts returned from
New York and had an interview with the President
and Schofield to-day.
Revenue to-day £250,061.
WEEKLY FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE TREASURY.
Fractional currency—Receipts $546,000; shipped to
New Orleans $100,000, to New York $100,000, to Louis
ville and Cincinnati $50,000 each. National Banks—
$350,0C0; securities held for circulating National Bank
notes, $342,(^0,000; for public deposits $33,000,000;
National Bank notes issued during the week, $111,800;
actual circulation at this date, £299,000,000. Fractional
currency redeemed daring the week, $500,000.
Sherman has issned a General Order, calling atten
tion to the bravery and gallantry of certain officer* and
men of his command, in the recent fights with the In
dians. Ho makes special mention of Cel. Forsyth’s
command, of forty-seven scoots, who fought and re
pulsed six hundred Indians, in several instances, and
killing seventy-five and maintaining their position for
eight days. A number of privates are mentioned by
name, as having shown unusual bravery on different
occasions.
John Quincy Adams in Charleston.
.Charleston, October 16.—A large meeting gathered
thi* evening to hear John Qdincy Adam*. Mr. Ad
am* said he had come here by invitation, and there
fore felt at liberty to give that most unpleasant of
commodities—good advice! He said be bad been a
free-wiler^-then a Republican—bad voted for " Lin
coln—was a supporter of the war, and an enemy, of
slavery. This was his position at the close Of the war;
but then, when the Southern people had: laid down
their arms, and were ready to come back, he was
ready to Jake them by the handand receive them.
Many of the best men of the Republican party held
the same views. Then came the Thirteenth Amend
ment abolishing slavery, which was ratified by all the
Southern States. Then the Fourteenth Amendment
—containing a clause disfranchising the Southern
1 eaders. He thought the Southern people right in re
jecting it They could do no lets.
He then stated that the North had always consid
ered the people of the Sonth who engaged in the war
as rebels, and when conquered, as prisoners of war,
who had no rights. They appeal to the Constitution;
but it is not their Constitution. They fought against
it, and the reconstruction acts regard the Southern
States as foreign territory.
The chief difficulty now between the Northemand
Southern people is not a difference in opinion. They
think nearly alike, but unfortunately they do net
seem to understand each other. The .'people in Mas
sachusetts still hadithe traditional idea of the South
ern man—with dirk in one pocket-pistol in the
other; cigar In one sideof the mouth—quid of tobacco
in the other; indolent and domineering—intolerant
of any difference of opinion.
Since coming down South himself, he finds that the
newspapers have not told the truth about the South.
He had spent several days in intimate intercourse
with General Wade Hampton, and learned his views
of the future, and he is now satisfied that Hampton is
no more of a rebel than himself (Adams.)
He then said that the people of the South must not
expect much from any political party. If Grant is
elected it will not be as bad for the Sonth as many
here appear to think. They should remember, how
ever, above all things, that whether they like it or
not, they could do nothing. They could not again go
to war. Where would they get ammunitions, or even
banners?
The policy of the South is peace. The North de
sires assurance that slaverylwillnotbe reestablished—
neither in the old form, nor yet as a punishment for
crime; and there must be perfect freedom of speech.
Then, and not until then, ean there be perfect recon
struction, harmony and reanion.
He spoke words of kindness to the negroes pre-ent
in large numbers, assnring them that it was to their
interest to stand by their old friends whom they had
known longest, and not be carried away by the fair
promises of carpet-baggers, who only wanted their
votes.
When the present questions are settled, as they soon
must be, white would stand by white, and black will
go down, unless the negroes abandon their present
course.
He said be was opposed to universal suffrage; bnt
was satisfied that the people of the South were ready
to concede impartial suffrage to white and black, as
in the case in the Radical State of Massachusetts'
With the extinction of slavery, all cause for bad feel
ing between North and South had passed away, and
he hoped that soon Massachusetts and South Carolina
would again stand side by side, as brothers and
friends, as they had done in the days of the revolution.
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When Fatiiue, Queen of Mohely, "was pre
sented to the Emperor Napoleon, she startled
the court officers that were present at the
ceremony by stepping close up to his majesty,
encircling him with her arms and giving
him three hearty kisses. We wouldn’t have
been in Lou’s place, as A. Ward would say,
for two dollars and a half.
London Store.—Emanuel, 1 A Victor, but
Jake, on Second street, has ano'. her lotof superb
shawls for ladies’ wear, ladies’ cloakB and dress
goods, hoops, corsets, hosiery, toweling*, etc.,
{which he is selling at .prices that would aston-
Rdminations.—Nothing is so much a failure as
some successes. People often think they win
when they lose. Cheating may seem a gain,
but the one who makes it is a loser. Success in
anything that is not clearly fair and right is a
failure; while every effort in the right direct
ion is, to that extent, a success. If a stranger
to anything of the sort, try and see.
It isn’t always the best to speak the truth.
This may seem a little paradoxical, but it will
be found correct. As for instance, you are not
to tell a lady she is homely. It may be as true
as truth, but that is no excuse for its utterance.
It will make her unhappy and do you no good.
You are to say nothing which will injure
another, even if it bo a truth, - unless, indeed, it
is to meet some necessity or serve the cause of
justice. The better way is to say nothing in
most cases, on the old ground that the least said
is the soonest mended. The fault of the world
is not that it talks too much, but that it talks
too unwisely.
Most people are two-faced. Nearly all of us,
no doubt, regard ourselves as exceptional to any
such statement. "Whatever other people may
be—whether two, three or a dozen-sided—we
fancy < urselves frank, open, honest, sincere. If
so, we are stuffing ourselves with a fiction. Let
us repeat, we are all two-faced. None of us
appear really and absolutely what we are. We
put our best qualities forward and disguise the
rest. Life is made up of an effort to do this
trick. It is sometimes successful; sometimes
not We not only deceive everybody—or at
tempt to—but also ourselves.
P. S.—The foregoing was written in thd ex-_
pectation that it would rain , to-day, and if it
does, and you can’t attend church; you will,
SNOW fell at Portland and elsewhere injish even the manufacturers of these goods, perhaps, find a text in our ruminations to preach
Maine, on Monday. 1 It’s so. ' yourself a sermon. ,
Foreiim News
Havana, October 17.—An official announcement
says an encounter had taken place between a band
of Insurgents and Spanish troops, at Tunas. The
former were defeated.
Telegraphicadvicesfrom Hayti state that the Rev
olutionists have had bitter dissensions among them
selves, three of the prominent leaders having been
proclaimed President by their respective troops.
SalnaTe was gaining ground.
Madrid, October 17.—Aguirre has been made
President of the Snpreme Court.
Dresden, October 17.—Further troubles occurred
here, yesterday, among the commissioners, bat were
promptly suppressed.
London, October 17.—The Government of Spain
has appoined Rios Rozas, minister to England.
Manchester, October 17.—The Chamber of Com
merce will give a banquet to Lord Salisbury on the
27 th.
Reverdy Johnson will be a guest of Gen. Dulee,
who was appointed Captain General of Cuba, by the
Spanish authorities, and declined on account of ill
health.
LoNDON.October 15.—TheAmerican doctrine is fully
maintained, in a treaty just concluded, regarding nat
Realization.
Johnson and Stanley are now discussing the Ala
bama claims.
Burlingame end his Chinese are gaining ground.
Vesuvius is becoming violent. Immense streams of
lava are flowing from the craters.
London. October 15.—Dispatches from Spain report
the Bishops of Taragona. at the head of 2000 men
has declared against the Junta.
From Atlanta.
Atlanta, October 16.—The Democratic Executive
Committee, of Georgia, issued the following to-day:
“It having been represented by Republican speak
ers in the present canvass, that the Southern people
favor the re-establishment of slavery in the respective
States, depriving them of the right of suffrage for
the purpose of meeting this allegation and giving it
positive denial—
Resolved, By the Central Committee of the Demo
cratic party of Georgia, representing the people of
the State, That the charge is unequivocally false.
For evidence that they do not desire to re-establish
slavery, and could not effect it if they would. We
refer to a fact that this State has assented to and
ratified an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, forever abolishing slavery and invol
untary servitude, except for crime, whereof the
party shall be legally convicted. That we reiterate
the position taken by this Committee in their late
address, and by the report of the Committee on the
State of the Republic, adopted by the House of Rep
resentatives and in the Legislature of this State, on
the 26th ultimo; we also, endorse the address of Gen.
Robert E. Lee and others, in response to a letter of
Gen. Rosecranz, that we submit to the present status
of the colored race among us, and will protect them
to the extent of our power in the right of suffrage,
secured to them by the Constitution of the United
States and amendments thereto, and the Constitution
and laws of this State.
E. G. Cabaxiss, Chairman.”
General News.
Charleston, October 15.—John Quincy Adams has
accepted an invitation from the Democracy of
Charleston to visit this city and address them. He is
expected to-morrow night.
Savannah, October 15.—The Democrats will hold a
public meeting to-nigbt*. Hon. A. H. Hansell and
others will speak.
Saratoga, October 16.—The Old School Presbyte
rian Synod, of Albany, have passed resolutions nnan-
imously favoring the union of the Old and New
Schools.
Philadelphia, October 16.—The return Judges have
been interrupted in their count of votes by a manda'
mus from the Court of Common Pleas, directing them
not to complete their totals,until further orders, as the
Court is .investigating informalities in certain pre
cincts, outside of questioned precincts.
Fox’s majority is 1979.
N ew Orleans, October 16.—This evening’s Picayune
has a leader, simular in tenor to that of the Times,
telegraphed this morning, suggesting besides the
names of Hancock and Hendricks or Hancock and
Adams.
The steamship. Alliance, of the New Orleans and
Florida Mail Line, reported ashore atHurrican
Island, has arrived from Barraneas.
Rochester, N. Y., Ootoberl7.—Two and a half
inches of snow is on the ground.
Fortress Monroe, October 17.—Three companies
of heavy artillery here ’ deported Southward, viz:
Battery G, First Artillery, for Atlanta; Battery A,
Third Artillery, for Columbia, S, C.; Battery C, Fifth
Artillery, for Raleigh, N. C.
Philadelphia, October 17.—It is very cold. The
first snow of the season is falling.’
New York, October 17.—There is from one to four
inches of Enow at and west of Binghamton. Concord,
Worcester, and other Eastern cities, report a blind
ing snow from the Northwest.
Baltimore, October 17.—The Convention of dele
gates from emigrant societies of the United States,
for the promotion of emigration and protection of
emigrants, met to-day. Business Committees were
appointed, and the Convention adjourned till Mon
day.
South Carolina on Suffrage.
Columbia, October 46.—The State Central Execa-
tiTc Club unanimously adopted the resolution pre
sented by Wade Hampton endorsing Leo’s letter to
Rosecranz. The sense of! the Club is decidedly in
favor of qualified negro suffrage. The address to the
people will doubtless bo issued in a few days.
From Central America.
New York, • October 15.—The • Henry Chauncey
brings a quarter of a million in specie.
Chirlque has revolted from Panama and whipped
the Government troops, killing their commander.—
Commander Olbadia invites Panama troops to land
in Chirlque. He is anxious to whip them.
'Flection .Returns.
Philadelphia, October 17.—Forty-nine counties
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official, and the balance reported, gives the Radicals
10,083majority, s ;
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The New Orleans Times on the Situation.
New Orleans, October 16.—This morning’s Times
has a leader based on the telegraphic report that the
New York World recommends the withdrawal of Gen.
HI ail* <W.— H— »»- MvkM. Ik cays.
Such a suggestion, confined as it is, to one of the
Democratic standard bearers, presents an invidious
aspect. If there be good grounds for the withdrawal
of Gen. Blair, there are equally good grounds for the
withdrawal of Gov. Seymour.
Both of the gentlemen arc more ambitious of making
the canse successful than of becoming themselves the
recipients of personal honors; and certainly neither of
them would like to be, in any manner, associated
with the organization of defeat- We remember with
what reluctance Gov. Seyomour permitted himself to
be put in nomination for the Presidency, and are sat
isfied that he would feel relieved, if, in any honorable
manner, he could transfer to other and broader
shoulders the responsibility under which he now la
bors, Nor can we imagine, for a moment, that the
gallant and patriotic Gen. Blair, would present any
obstacle to such a change in the political programme!
as would furnish new assurances of success to the
principles enunciated in the Democratic platform.
Harmonious and effective action is what is specially
desired. The West and South would not he satisfied
with the withdrawlof Gen. Blair, if Goy. Seymour
were to remain on the tioket. In order to satisfy al
sections, and at the same time show the undiminished
confidence of the Democratic chieftains in the two
gentleman selected by the New York Convention, to
champion the cause of the people in the approaching
Presidential contest, we would respectfully suggest
to the Democracy of the land, the propriety of leav
ing to Gov. Seymour and Gen. Blair the high honor of
selecting their successors in the canvass.
The old Democratic battle cry has always been
“Principles not Men!” and the policy of adhering to
that cry, as well in letter as in spirit, was never more
clearly apparent than at present.
Furthermore, we would beg leave to suggest that
whatever is done should be done quickly. This is no
time to haggle about forms or to bring together con
ventions from the extremes of the Republic. The
people can look forward with confidence for a patri
otic solution of the existing difficulty to the statesman
of the North, and the hero of the West. It is the
gordion knot which is now presented. We cannot
wait to unravel it—it must be cut with one swift,
sharp blow.
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golden cord of life, in those whose heads have ?!
frosted by the Winter of age. and
enfeebled by the passage of time; when we monet Z
.^. e “ ™V nt ° t4PM in ,he ill
life's fitful fever is closing” we feel that death
no victory; and in remembering their many ^
the troubles and sorrows they have undergone“S
meek submission to the will of the greatl Am’-h';.
patient waiting for the summons to lift the rtfl u
closely shrouding the great mystery—thescn^atione.r
our hearts is scarcely that of regret; it is
mingling of pleasure and of pain-pleafnre in inow
ingthat their pilgrimage of life is over and they..."
foreveratrest. Pain in the severanceofthelinks of
friendship and love, and in the thought thetthey are
of “that which ia past and gone.”
But when we seethe young, the brave, the fair, the
noble youth—at once the pride and boast of slVwho
knew him—the loving affectionate brother, the con-
fort and protecter, the solace, the stay the joy ail
hope of a widowed mother, grown prematurely .-’.j
from an excess of sorrow and woe, of amotherub
had built all her high hopes of a bright and haw
future upon this loved son of her heart. YThen we s>»
the blighting, whithering hand of death laid upaflfc
promising youth, cutting him off in the bright ccr..
ingof life, afar from his home and friends, with;)
tender sisterly hands to smoothe his dying pillow, wi:a
no loved anxions mother to whisper in his ear sw**:
words of hope in the love of bis Redeemer; but ale::,
all alone, to take the dreaded step, to penetrate tie
mystery. The shock upon onrmlnds is stunning iib
character, a thrill of horror pervades our innermost is-
ture, we feel a spiritjof antagonism towards HimVb
rules the universe; we feel that we cannot sutaiti
the decrees of fate, and our heartsmoum as those th;
had lost all hope.
WASHINGTON FITZPATRICK, the sahjectoftb
notice, after a few hours illness, departed this life*:
Lancaster, Kentucky, on the 21st day of ‘Irptreis
1S63. Aged, near 24 years. He was a son of the hi!
Col. John Fitzpatrick, of Twiggs county. There re
strong reasons for the presumption that his death tu
procured by unnatural means. He was ayoucgzai
whose true nobility of character, whoso high cord
nature, had endeared him to the entire comaui'j.
To say that he was noble, generous, Righ-tcned and
chivalric, would not be saying enough, forhewsa
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missed in the community in which be lived.
The Condition or Thousands.
No appetite; no refreshing sleep; no cheerful
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society; no interest in anything; no desire to live t
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as a positivo disease. Thousands, aye, tens of thou-
sanns, are in this condition—the martyrs to disabili
ties to which pathology assigns no technical name.
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void in the hearts of those who knew and loved Me.
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will be no more parting, sorrow ordain: where the
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creatnre, that he can stand unabashed in the preseis
of the Creator. Let ns, who are still in tho Suit-
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death of our friend, and be brought to realize the fi::
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Letters of Dismissal.
/2JEORGIA, PUTNAM COUNTY-AVH.^^;
Or John Pinkerton, Adm r of W. G. 1 - *
deceased, has applied to me for Letters o f Pi-® ..
These are, therefore, to cite and admonj*
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the time prescribed bylaw, to show cause, it a r
have, why said letters should not 1» sramM^,
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Administrator’s Notice.
rpWO MONTHS’AFTER DATE APPMCATJ^
. IVU MONTHS Ar ti.lt asaa».awj"srjjsjry
JL will be made by the undersigned to the
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a EORGIA. BIBB COUNTY.-TWO
after the date hereof, application wij.
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the estate of John J. Wood, late of said wnnff,
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Cl AL TERM,
Notice, E .
SUPERIOR COURT. SEPTEMBER.-^,
—AL TERM. 1863, atandaadjourntjltiUtr.^j
next, 16th October instant. Parties, witnesses,,^
jurors will be in attendance on that day at 1
a M. By order of the Court. _ rvri.
•ctl3-td A. B. ROSS, Pepaty Cler*-
4QF*Journal and Messenger copy. ——
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