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THE NEWSPAPER BUSINESS IN CINCINNATI The Cincinnati Commercial gives the fol lowing as its own and the Gazette's adver tising receipts for three months, ending June 30th, 186fi. _ ** Commercial, - * * $36*985 Gazette, - - * 20,687 The sales of English daily and weekly PW« ttod ia OiMWMti ia tbe year 1864, an as fcftyow* Commercial, - $275,000 2^,000 KiMVirtf* ... - 145»000 SS 84,000 thst to MS and «h» •mmomlwom - 1810,»«6 MteOwtto, »*,867 w. are M«i| to fee “food *»o own when we «haS fbt ,p among them figures ourselves. CORRECT SENTIMENTS. The Nashville in referring to the following article frOm the National IntelU* gmeer, very justly observes : “It is certainly an extraordinary circum stance that in passing successively into the hands of different managers, this time-hon ored journal itself remains uoohanged in its essential character. . It would sc#m that the spirit of “Old Jo Gales" still hovers over the scene of his loog and glorious la bors, inspiring the head aud heart of every successive editor." This is a merited tribute to the virtue and integrity of a time-honored journal, but we rannot refrain from inviting especial atten tion to the language and spirit of the Intel* lujencer’s article below, predicated, as they are, upon a just appreciation of the princi ples of our Constitution and Laws, and so vastly at varianoe with the wild spirit of fanaticism which is gathering foroe in some sections of tho Union. The Intelligencer say3: The leading and most gratifying fact re corded among the proceedings of the just passed Fourth of July is tho truly Ameri can letter of the President on the occasion of the Gettysburg celebration, and which was published by us yesterday. “ I am greatly mistaken,”,writes the President, “ if, in the States lately in rebellion, we do not henceforward have an exhibition of such loyalty and. patriotism as’was never Been or felt there before.” Recurring to the foundation on which our Union stands, the President pronounces these true and gratifying words : “ Based as it is upon the consent, virtue, patriotism, and intelligence of the people, each year shall make it firm er and mure imposing.” This is . a wise and noble utterance, and ha*? the ring of the old L nio.i metal. Coining from the head of the nation, sentiments so Tull of assurance to patriots and of ominous warn ing to demagogues, tire even us a rock of strength. The recognition of the States as efisting governments, and the prominent feature made of the “consent’ 1 oi the gov erned, ato main clement* in our democratic nvstem, is a guaranty that, so far as the President is concerned, the fundamental principles of our institutions wall suffer neither change nor tyrannical restraint.. And the paternal encouragement which he so warmly throws out to the expanding loyalty of the South, is in noble contrast u ith that mean and destructive spirit that, assuming many disguises, nevertheless has the prosecution of sectional war and hate for its breath and blood. As we have said many times and in many forms of speech, rehabilitation of the South depends upon the cultivation of an American sentiment between the sections ; all the rest, in comparison, is simply what the poet calls “leather and prunella.” Laws and constitutions, compromises, and arrange meats, are weaker than cobwebs in such a land as ours, unless they conform to the . consent, virtue and intelligence” of the body yof the people,” which the Presi ll' L ** wisely and patriotically recognizes. MACON. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, .TUfcl 19, lW In.t«d th.rrfor, of Routing the South, holding her up m contraband of human aym pathy and American protection, the true duty of statesmanship is instantly to go to work to build up her material condition, and to r# blend the intents, pride, and affec tion of her eons and daughters with our own. Pesos has come; do we not understant the import of that blessed and welcomeannounee ment ? Bo we forget in one moment, the precious sacrifices of the past four years, which have been offered up to no Pagan deity, like Faction, but on'tbe altar of our oountry, and onr whole oountry? Once more the telegraph runs from New York to New Orleans. Ooce more steamboats go safely down the Mississippi- Union Gov ernors, demanded by the. South, have been appointed, as we think, for every State ex cept Florida. In view of tbe tragedy lengthened through four long and sad years, even this much of restoration looks like magic. Tbe men of the Sputh, but yesterday rebels, to-day ac cept the situation, afi.d ask to conform to it. W e cannot believe that these men lie. They have fought too long and too brave ly against us; they have, with ail their er rors, exhibited too much manhood to per mit the suspicion, that they are sneaking liars in their professions of loyalty,to whose truth they are incited by every motive, whether of interest, of patriotism, or of honor. And the South is in ashes I Their actual losses in substantial wealth can nev er be known. The aggregate debt, in rebel scrip, of three thousand millions of dollars, affords not even a near approxima tion to the facts. -In very truth, appalling scenes of desolation and. destitution in the South cannot be adequately described. But yet, under the inspiration which the great Frederick infused into Prussia after the Napoleonic campaign, the South can rise again. Bhe has all the elements for a grand and speedy prosperity; and the con dition of the blacks among her is at once settled by her demand for all the labor she can procure. To accomplish the glorious and philanthropic results of Southern re habilitation, the President has nearly per formed his main work* He has put the broken parts together, » the hope that na ture, aided by necessary and simple Iqfeiis ktion, will sow i perform the cure. It is for the people to crown &U efforts with sue- for the people true t^eueh -ue ham, violence aad association* against tones pay an ill compliment to the govern ment * * * * * * * Tlio torles are as much pitied in these countries as they are execrated in ours; an undue degree of severity towards them j would be impolitic as well as unjustifiable,. They who incline to involve that whole class of men in indiscriminate punishment and ruin, oertuiuly carry the matter too far. It would be an instance of unneces sary rigor and unmanly revenge without a parallel, except in the annals of.religious rage in time# of bigotry and blindness. Victory and peace should, in my opinion, be followed by clemency, moderation and benevolence, and we should be careful to sully the glory of the Revolution by li centiousness and cruelty. These are my sentiments; and, however unpopular they may be, I have not tbe least desire to con ceal or to disguise them.” To these words of one of the revered names of the Repub lic, we deem it proper aud timely to add those of Alexander Hamilton, who wrote: “ A share in the sovereignty of the Htate, which is exercised by the citizens at large, is one of the most important rights ot the subject, and in a Republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law. It is that right by which we exist as a free people,, and it certainly, therefore, will never be admitted that less ceremony ought to be used in divestiug any citizen of that right than in depriving him of his proper ty. Buch a'doctrine would ill suit the j principles of the Revolution, which taught! .the inhabitants of this country to risk their lives and fortunes in asserting their liber- other words, their right to share in the Government.” • ; i The Uonroe Deelrine. From the Augusta Constitutionalist, j The fifth President of the United States was James Monroe—who, with Washington, Jefferson and Madison, made up the famous quartette of Chief Executives from tide wa ter Virginia~~*and to James Monroe is due the credit of first formally enunciating that cardinal tenet of American statesmanship, known as the Monroe Doctrine. ■ That this has something to do with Mexico, with Cuba, with foreign intervention on this continent, with manifest destiny, and the natural ex pansion of the Union, is the vague idea most persons entertain of this oelobrated and soft argued article in the political creed of American Democracy, Even those who should be better acquainted with so ■ impor tant a doctrine, are more apt to speak of it fluently than understand rt thoroughly, and, inasmuch as late events on this continent have brought the matter once more into some prominence, it may not be uninteresting to give some exact account of the manner in which it was first formally declared to be the true policy of the United States. In 181fi, Mr. Monroe was first elected President of the United States, administering the Govern ment daring the constitutional term of four years so much to the satisfaction of the peo ple that, in 1820 he was again chosen to his high office with more unanimity than any one since Washington, receiving every vote of the electoral colleges save one. During this second term it was that he enunciated the doctrine with whieh his name will ever be associated. The exact words in which it was couched are to be found in his seventh annua! on the 2d of Decem ber, 1823, and are as follows : citizens of the United States cher ish sentiments the most friendly in favor of the liberty And happiness of their fellow men on that side of the Atlantic. In the wars of the European powers, in matters re latingto themselves, we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with cur poli cy so to do. With the movements in this hemisphere, we are of necessity more imme diately connected, and by causes whieh inugt be obvious to all enlightened and im partial observers. T 4 he political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America. This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective governments. And to the defence of our own—whioh has been achieved by the loes of so mock blood and treasure, and matured by the wisdom of Aeir most enlightened citizens, and under which we have enjoyed unexampled felici ty—this whole nation is devoted. We owe it therefore, to candor, and to the amicable relations existing between the United States fnd those powers, to declare, that we should consider any attempt on their part to ex tend their system to any portion of this hemisphere, as dangerous to our peace aud *&ty. With the existing colonies or de pendencies of any European power, we have not interfered, and shall not interfere. But with the governments wher have declared their independence, and maintained it, and whose independence we have, on 'great con sideration and on just principles, acknow ledged, we could nut view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or con trolling in any other way their destiny; by any European power,- in any other light than a e the manifestation of an urfriendly disposition toward the United States." Such is the Monroe Doctrine, which has been repeatedly endorsed by the Demo cratic party, whenever the questions of the day brought it into prominence, and be lieved in and supported by both parties und party leaders who o'pposed almost every other dogma of Democracy. To put the doctrine into Scriptural phraseolo gy, it amounts to this: that we are the saints to whom the Lord hath given this America, to be an inheritance of Eepubli caniem forever, and those whom God hath jidned no man afcaU ssvsr, though he he tanbered among the kings of the earth. The intense attachment ever displayed te the Monroe Doctrine, by the great hulk of the American people, and their extreme sensitiveness at any, the least action, on the part of European potentates, looking to wards its violation, most clearly illustrate the happy manner in which President ! Monroe struck at once, in hie seventh mes-! sage, the necessity of the country aud the desire of its people. What room there may be now for au application of ;he doe*, trine on our South- .v astern border, it is not j easy to sav, but the chances are decidedly iu favor of the exodus of Maximilian with out a recourse to arms to euforce his ob servance of it. How far in the future it may be .brought into action, is, it would seeiii iq present lights, not very doubtful, for, iu view of the colossal strength now swayed by the United States, it would be ecstacy of folly in any European power to j disregard a policy cherished and believed iu by this people lor very near a half cen tury past. Negroes, l)og«I»ay«, anti White Sla.v«Vy. Erotn the Chicago Times, July 7th.] So far as can be learned, the Fourth, with but rare exceptions, was celebrated by, for, or with reference to, the African. It was his freedom which was rejoiced over, aud not that of the nation. It was not bq much the emancipation of the United States fiom concmial vassalage that awoke the en thusiasm of the people ou Tuesday as it was the emancipation of lour millions of Degroes. At the national capital the only observance of the dav was bv negroes, and in most other places the observance was ou account of the negroes. This is an afflicted natron. We agitated the negro for a score or more of years, and then fought over the negro for four years longer, and almost solely for the negro we spent two-thirds of our entire wealth as a people, and sacrificed half a million of lives. One would think that after we had done this much for the negro we are entitled to a respite. But there is none. To-day the negro is the one thing ip every man’s, mouth from the Gulf to the St. Lawfenee. The entire press of the country is wrangl ing over, the negro; Boston philanthropists *uv holding secret meetings and arranging plans with reference to the negro, and a chief justice of the United States Supreme Court'has just concluded a lengthened tour among the negroes. It is everywhere nigger. At the South masters are combining against the negro and provost marshals are employed exclu sively in issuing orders with reference to tfye negro. In the North the negro is in the pulpit, on the street cars, at the firetide. The New York Tribune has three articles per diem in favor of the negro, and ojie in reference to the white man; ditto the- imi tators of the Tribune all over the country. The Tribune and the Times talk of the African, and the Wprld and the fferald of the “nigger,” and the same is true ol all the other newspapers in the country. Or ators are shouting about the negro, politi cians are canvassing the future with refer euce.to the negro; preachers are advocating higher la\V for the benefit of the negro; and in short, the. whole country—priests ; news papers, politicians, white, black, yellow; Fourth of July; Hail Columbia, and eve rything else—are “going it” exclusively on account of the negro. • Oh, wretchod people that we are, who will deliver us from the foul body, not of deith, but of worse than death — of this African ? The African inundates us ink? foods pour over the cation and threaten us with another and a worse than Noaehie cataeiysm The black deluge ploughs through our streets, pours along thejnational avenues, and encircles the alters of religion.. The dog days are upon us, aud so is the negro. The heat of tbe one and odor of the other stifle vis. Sirius dominates in the shy, and we pant for breath ; the Afrite dominates on earth, and the country is asphyxiated, with upolean odors. Iu Chicago every breeze from the South comes laden with Bridge j>ort and negro. Scanlon slough and the African commingle, and their effluvia falls upon the city like a hot-blabket' of stifling smells. . * . There is a chance in this country for philanthropy. There is a good opening for abolitions. It is to relieve twenty-eight millions of whites held in a cruel bondage by four million blacks. It is a bondage worse than that of Heliotism. It is one which retards our growth, directs our thoughts, and absorbs our efforts. It drives us to war, it ruptures our Govern ment, it disturbs our tranquility, and threatens direfully our future. .There never was another such a race of slaves as we; there never was another people ground so complete in the dust as this nation. Our negro masters crack their whips over ..our legislators and our religion. They have established a tyranny over us* worse than that of the PiAstracuds. It is time there was something done for those twenty-eight millions of white slaves held in fetters by four millions of greasy, flat-footed Africans. Having labored and argued and legislated and fought for these our masters for mauy years, it is time that we should be emancipated and eDjoy the fruits of our own labor. They have taken our time, our first-born and our money free ly,.and it is no more than fair that we should be permitted to husband our blood aud re sources for our own use. Having first given them tribute to the amouuc of ten thousand millions of dollars, and over half a million lives, we are entitled to our freedom. We have earned it. We have paid the largest kind of a prioe, and it belongs to us. But we do not get it. The more we do for our sable masters, the more exacting are they in their demands. We see no h<?», mi the fnture of the oonntry is as Sfoek as the snhfo* es foes ar ticle. The negro wanted ns te Mumte M«la( Ho aoor Tirr»«rln a> to a4«- oMoo kia, ud tte work of okoSiißoa fcu bogu. wilt wtM a demand far #oUl equality, and afar that the mine mans, as uaddt*;*od by TUtom, abolitionists, niggers, and misoegenation ists. The Time Im Short. Laborer in the vineyard of the Lord, en trusted by the Master with the vast charge of winning souls, give not o’er the toil.— True, the battleL3eems often doubtful, the seed appear to take but little root; the subtle enemy is busy, and the natural heart is at enmity with God. Yet, be not dis oouraged ; labor on for “the time is short." Soon the Savior’s promise shall be verified, and you shall know that he has never left nor forsaken you, while with the diligent hand and trusting heart you have been preaching by life and by precept, the word of truth. Much fair fruit, unthought of here, shall giadden, your heart on the re surrection morn. Therefore toil on, toil earnestly for the “time is short." Disciple of Jesus striving to walk the narrow road, and finding it oft times thorny and rough, cease not the oontest. Remember “His grace is sufficient for thee." You are full of sin, surrounded by temptations, weak—ah! how weak —in yourself, and yet withal; fervently desiriDg to live for God, Well, humble Christian, God your Savior knows it all. '£F. usfc in Him. Let Him be your “wisdom and sanctification," as well as your “righteousness and redemption.” Labor and pray on ; and take this as an incitement to your diligence and a soother of your sorrow : “The time is short." Unconverted sinner, careless, uncon cerned, busied about many things, oh! pause and listen •! for you also, “ the time is short.” Soon will pass the period of probation; soon will be ended the warn ing of the preacher; soon will cease the entreaties of the Spirit; soon alas ! for you too soon, approacheth the “hour of death and the day of judgment.” Prepare to meet, thy God. The Lord is *yet waiting .to be gracious;. Jesus is yet mighty to i save unto the uttermost all that came unto God by him. The Holy Spirit yet warns »nd entreats and invites, ilearken now to his voice, ere that is silent ere for you “the hour is come.” tinner, careless sinner, “the time is short.” •Anxious inquirer, seeking the way of life, and yet hesitating to walk therein; lingering, doubting, halting “between two opinions/’ you are near the kingdom of God, t at?d yet the kingdom may be Tost. Forget not the old truth: Te cannot serve two masters. Attempt; no compromise. Decide , fnr God : for “the time is short.” Ob I .so *er j short! Stand not—wait not- Choose Christ for your “all in. all.” Come to him, and come at once. Verily, soon the master of the house shall arise and shut the door. Then, how terrible their position, who have been led even to the portal of the way of life, yet “would not/* The Spirit yet call eth, inquiring sinner, but the time cometh when that will cease, and oh ! remember “the time is short/* The Paris Society for the encouragement of National Industry has offered a prize of £6O for an article of ink which will not cor rode steel pend. It instated that M. W alewski will sucoeed Prince Napoleon as President of the Paris ExibiLon committee. VOL. XLIII-No. 104. ~ rlaautt** Lr.bor, Parish of TtKmmmT., Juh* IMS. To the EH tor of the N. O Times • - T 5. m( ? armies have surrendered Jeff. Davis captured, and free euffra« talked of, the “treed man” have come to almost a ununimoua conclusion that <t*oe cotton and corn will erow without the use ot tae plow and the hoe, and that they had better freeze in the shade of freedom than toiiTihder the rays of a summer sun.. Since this is the conclusion of these “freed men,” what is to become of the unfortunate plan* ter whose crop has been partly destroyed by high water, and the remaining portion among tall weeds. There is a most per fect disorganization of the labor system in the parish, and has been for the last three months. Laborers are allowed to disre gard the agreements that they made with the planters to quit the planter when they choose, go where they wish, re turn when they please, and lay idle as long as possible. But, on the other hand, the planter is compelled to stand up to everv agreement of his contract. The planters entered into the contracts in good faith, being anxious for the labor, willing for them to be free, and willing to pay them, for their work. We thought that a system so well understood, so willingly agreed to by all parties, and so punctually made, would be kept in good faith, n We did not think in the beginning that we would be set adrift, and leR to make our wav alone to shore. If the planters had had a hint that they would not be sustained, they never would have invested what little means they had iu snch an uncertainty. We can’t say who is to blame for ail this evil. Wo ask the Provost Marshal for instance; he answers that he cannot do anything for he has no guard. e ask the Superintendent in New Orleans, and he says he will ’do all that he can.— Now, sir, we have been taxed on this labor system from the beginning? and we sup pose there will bo no rest in the ending. But \ye would uot grumtye at all this, if the contract was justly enforced; if tne negro was made to know that, he should not quit a plantation of his will if he was bound in writing to work a year. Wo were taxed in the beginning a entßnmtf svm to fey witnesses to ail contrast* be tween employer and employee, whe are taxed mx deliare a year on task planUtien for blank payrolls, and we are taxed two deflan for eaek laborer on tbe plantntfcen between tbe ages of 10 and 18 yean. And we are topay tiuc laat tu.nujHp who may nave quitted ns andoroken kii contract long ag< ». with these lazy labor ers, and the multifarious taxes upon them and our little produce, and the Htate taxes for three years, we can prophecy nothing but ruin. Two-thirds of our pariah have been Completely drowned by tno high w.t ter, and a great part of tbe other third is growing iu tall weeds, and has not been turned by the plow or stirred by the hoe year. Tot among many “freed men” set afloat we cannot, get. sufficient labor to cultivate the small part in oultive tion. The water is falling fust, and each plant er is trying to make a furrow behind it, and plant corn and rice. We fear it is too late' to do much without a most favorable sea son. Our people are in great distress and want, from the fact that* they made no crops last year and will make nothing this year—sq they will have neither inouey nor bread. And to cap the a man calling himself Tax Collector is knocking at each man’s door demanding pay for three year's taxes. We think that the negro will have to work for those who are willing to hire him and able to pay him, and that the Government will be compelled to feed the starving white families. I send you these few lines to let the pub lic know’ how badly we are floating along in this flood. As the press is so powerful, can’t your press put a little sympathy and assistance from somewhere for and oblige a Citizen. Comi UK In. The crowd of people in tliis city is very grgat, and the amount of business done here will rival that done in most of our sister cities which came out of the war with whole skirts. There are men hero from every State, from tbe St. Lawreuoe to the Rio Grande. AM corne to this city because they see in it a future and a prosperity'' un rivalled by any city of the South. The de mand for real estate was never so great as at present, aud rents reach almost fabulous figures. Kvery available house, and some that are not very available, is turned into a business house, and on every vacant lot new buildings ar*- going up, or preparations are beiug made for building. There are many things that attract busi ness to this pc .nt. In the first place At lanta is the g? mt railway centre of th*. South. There are already four great rail road arteries ooe centreing here, sad in a very few yean* as many more will be pour ing their w ealth into the bosom of the city. Then Atlanta has a fine and healthy clim ate. Never too hot and never too cold to ndmit of regular attendance upon any kind of business, and the water here is not ex celled by any water in the world. These are advantages that are not to be over looked, and will not be- overlooked in th© repopulation of the city. Men from tbe extreme North may come here and take up their residence without suffering from those diseases which usually ensue from a change from a cold to a hot climate, and men from the extreme South mav come without fear of meeting the cold winds of winter. Atlanta 19 destined to bo one o£ the first business cities iri the South.— New Era. Brigham 7oung has dispatched an agent to San Tranciaco to procure cotton seed for olaatiat in the Sandwich islands, **