THE WEEKLY OOHSTITUTIOKALIST
WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY 3, 1867 -
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lation.
THE JULY SESSION.
Tfac Radicals are bestirring themselves vig
orously to bring about a July session of Con
gress, in order to counteract the Attorney Gen
eral’s liberal interpretation of the Registration
Act. Sewral M. C’s, who have axes to grind
at the Federal Capital outside the creation of
Republican forms of government, may already
be seen on Pennsylvania Avenue. Among them
looms up the mighty Jodo, who, by superhu
man efforts, succeeded in getting ladders ex
empted from taxation. The New York corres
pondents crow over the arrival of the immortal
Judd, and declare that his great ladder feat
“stamps him as a legislator.” We have no
doubt of bis energy in the matter, and, as times
go, confess that his statesmanship is worthy of
every ladder save Jacob’s. The Hon. Leonard
Mterb has abandoned a trip to Europe, pre
ferring the bliss of legislative perspiration.—
Speaker Coi/fax has telegraphed to the hotel
keepers for apartments, apd will substitute eold
facta for warm theories. The whole Wisconsin
delegation, eager lor the spoils of the lobby and
the applause of unlimited Dinahs in the gallery,
will be on hand. Gen. Schenck, the chief cook
and bottle-washer of the Congressional. Co
mmittee, is overwhelmed with letters and tele
grams from different members of both Houses,
and predicts that a quorum will be present on
the third ol July.
The Democrats declare their willingness to
participate in the national love feast, which
may terminate ilia new era of turbulence. If
called together and a quorum be present, Mr.
Stanbbiiy’s Opinion will probably be sfct aside
and certain inquisitorial enactments or amend
ments substituted.
The Tribune thinks the President will insist
upon bis construction of the law. Mean while,
the tfiird of July is near at hand and Philip
Sheridan still lords it over Louisiana, after
pulling both ANDREW Johnson aud Ulysses
Ghant by the beard, Mr. Johnson is tardy
but Mr. Johnson is politic. He hopes and
prays, no doubt, that Congress will meet and
save him the trouble of administering justice
according to the illuminatibn *of Stanbery.
This consolation will probably be granted him,
aud then the President will say : You see, fel
low-countrymen, it is n great outrage aud the
Cabinet did its level best to save you. 1 have
sworn to execute the laws and Congress says
Sheridan’s idea is better than mine. I will
disappoint those who think my administration
of this assault upon our institutions will be
weak and effete. I will, on the contrary, vigor
ously and scrupulously obey it. In conclusion,
fellow-citizens of bur common country, let us
never forget the Constitution of otir fathers.
It has been in imminent -peril and when wc
drift away from it, thte country bids fair to be
swamped. Let us beseech Almighty God that
so direful a calamity may be spared us. The
future is full of hope ; we must never doubt
the future while Seward, our Secretary, can
raise three cheers for North Carolina in the hub
of the universe and Geus. Pope and Sheridan
assume the heaven-born right of American citi
zens to suub the President of tho Uuitcd Stat.es.
Fellow-citizens, I thank you for your confidence.
Staud by the Constitution !”
Very much in this style will President John
son talk, if Congress replace the heart of the
Military Bill so Ruthlessly torn out by the san
guinary Attorney General. Wc believe that a
failure of Congress to get a quonirn will be a
miserable eventuality lor the Executive. In
such a case, he is bound to do something or
quietly pocket the affronts of his subalterns.
Men who govern by policy and expediency
may save their lives byt not their reputations.
If there is any pluck or principle in the Con
servative ranks, for the love of heaven, let us
have an exhibit, Ii not, arise Philip Sheri
dan ! yonr day has cotae, and -the world is
ripe for your iron hpel and audacious proscrip
tion.
KELLEY AT HOME.
Mr. W. D. Kelley made a speech on his re
turn home, from which the following :
“ At Atlanta I addressed a meeting resembling
thit iu Montgomery, in numbers, character and
good order. The same generous expressions
followed mv remarks, and among the pdeasant
things said by tbe many who gathered around
me, wasau offer by th<! Quartermaster General
of tbe Confederate State oS Georgia to pay toy
expenses it I would remain in the State and
address the people of every county.
On arriving at Augusta, we were met by
Mayor Blodgett, and al the Planter s’" House, to
which he conducted us, were waited upon by
large numbers of citizens. I shall always regret
that my engagements precluded the possibility
of my complying with their urgent request to
remain and address the citizens.”
The Quartermaster General must have saved
a considerable pile of ” demnition cash,” if he
made any such offer. Inasmuch as Kbleey re
fused the inducement, there are many charitable
objects more wortlfy than Kelley supplicating
assistance and needing the benefactions of
surplus wealth' We. hope the Quartermaster
General will lend them a helping hand.
The “ large uumbers of citizens who waited
upon him at Augusta” mnst have been mem
bers of the Happy Family, reduplicated from
time to time, like mimic warriors at the
theatre. Gen. Pope’s request to “ dry up ”
and the publication of John Griffin’s terrible
letter of exposure, were enough to hurry him
away from this town in spite of the “urgent re
quests” of his political brotherhood.
Swindling the Colors® People -The iff
norancc of some of the poor colored people
of the proper way to become voters, and their
eagerness to get registered, enable rogues ot
all descriptions to practice upon them. The
Fredericksburg (Va.) Ledger reports that a man
recently appeared in that neighborhood and
churned to be a registrar of votes, and for fan
cied services in registering the names of colored
voters, collected a dollar each from them, by
which he realized 12,000 before he was discov
ered. *
REPUDIATION.
.
A celebrated English orator, Mr. Lowe,
has been telling his clamorous Liberal fellow
countrymen some plain trpths. Mr. Lowe is
the most formidable antagonist that John
Bright has ever met, and as the Bright party
in England owns many features in common
with the Radical party in America, Mr. Lowe’s
remarkable oration is worthy ol attention as
developing curions aualojdes. He shows that
the popular cry for universal suffrage, now ram
pant in England, was started by men who had
very little original sympathy for the
reatfmanntacturers grinding the faces of the
poor—and their newly awakened enthusiasm
was engendered by a lust of ppwer which
could not be gratified by legitimate methods,
and so, had to seek influence through the in
flamed aspirations of the crowd. He farther l
demonstrated that the storm thus evoked was |
passing from the coutroj of those who had
called it forth, and, if not cheeked, would rush
to any extreme, even to' that which compasses
the destruction of good government. “He
protested against household suffrage. He
protested against putting power in the hands
of the millions, who. would soon learn their
strength aud use it for selfish ends. He said
that these men, to whom they now proposed to
fling power, would soon legislate for increase
of wages, for short hour3 and for throwing the
burden of taxation on tho landholders* He
said further that they would not respect a
national debt which had been incurred by Par
liaments iu which they had not been repre
sented and for purposes of which they did not
approve, and that they would deal with it sum
marily. In plain words he spoke of repudia
tion. He adjured the gentlemen of England
not to flip g away what they had been battling
for tor yea.’s and not to abandon principles
whicli were the foundation of Engli&h liberty
and England’s prosperity.”
Making due allowance for certaiu local dif
ferences, Mr.- Lowe’s admonition might have
been addressed with equal force to the rale or
rnin party orrthis side of the water whose
leaders are setuated by the same motives as the
English reformers and equqjly reckless as to
consequences. If the grave responsibilities of
universal suffrage could culminate in national
dishonor among the masses of Saxon origiu,
how fearfully true must the prediction t>f Mr.
Lowe be when applied to the jvholesale en
franchisement of a semi-barbarous people? and
the partial political outlawry of a large number
of the whites representing the intelligence aud
blood of a vast domain? Precisely what Mr,
Lowe prophecies of the lower orders of Eng
lishmen is in course Os fulfillment among the
lower orders iu America. Already the capi
talists, who houßded .on the multitude to a war
wbieh destroyed the labor of the South, are
being plagued with their own inventions and
hoisted by their own petard. Labor shrieks
for short hours aud high wages. The Radical
Reformers, intent only upon retaining power
-nr! careless of every honorable impulse, catch
up the scream of their victims .and tell them
that not only shall they have all they
desire, but very much more than they have
demanded. Mr. Wade,' the Vice-President,
speaking for lis faction, promises a divisioii of
property at the North as well as at the South.
The negro vote has been secured by a promise
of forty acres of land to each suffragan ; the
white laborer must be enticed by similar in
ducements. The negro will be cleverly cheated
out of his portion, because confiscation is only
threatened in case of non-reconstruction under
the Sherman jßill. As all the negroes and
many meau whites favor such reconstruction,
the forty acre alternative falls to the ground,
since a divisiou of lands will not follow a
Radicalization of the South. At the North,
however, the case is different, Capital bought
up labor to fight the “rebels,” while it stayed
at home and plundered the Government. Capi
tal owns the national debt, and labor begins to
discover that it has been cheated. At tbi6 Stage
of the game, wily Radicals like Wade bid
high for labor aud turn it against capital for
party purposes. More potent than Owen
Glendow'er, Mr. Wade has called spirits from
the vasty deep aud they come at his invocation.
The great demand, East and West, is for repu
diation of the national debt. The New York
Herald , taking time-by the forelock, has long
since smoothed the way for an abolition of the
war debt by making raids upon the national
banks. It shows that a certain kind of North
ern confiscation began with their establishment
arid can only cud with their demolition. It
further shows that inasmuch as the poor have
been systematically robbed for the benefit of
the rich,.it is in perfect keeping with Radical
ism to shift sides and invite the poor to rob the
rich in turn.
Mr. Lowe had ample warraut for his Warn
ing, and will meet, perchance, with as much
heeding in England as the Cassandbas of
American politics met in IS6O. If the Bright
anarchists win the da3% good-bye to tbe En
glish Constitution, good-bye to the English
debt,
The national banks and the national debt of
America begin to cower before *the unchain
ed mpnstcr of Abraham Lincoln and tbe re
cently unshackled demon of Benjamin Wade.
George Francis Train made a speech to
the senatorial party which followed Wade
like the tail of a comet. Wade’s speech, ad
vocating universal confiscation and general
agrarianism, elicited a telling barangne from
Train. As the doctrine of the Vice-President,
pushed to a conclusion, necessitates a wiping
out of United Btates securities, we reproduce a
graphic exhibit of Posterity vs. the Radical
Parly. A Senator having inquired as to the
debt, the following statement was given: ’ .
Mr. Train— Do you want to know ? Well,
yon shall have what you probably have nCver
seou before —a debit and credit of the war, a
profit and loss account. .
1. You know that we have had a grand exhibi
tion of fireworks, and mortgaged ißtr farm to
pay for it. [“Oh !”J
3. The so-called wealth of the farmer con-!
gists in his having his soldier boy hi the grave
yard, and a seven thirty in his- pocket in ex
change. [Sensation.]
But here is the account;
DEBIT.
1. $8,000,000,000 of national debt—a national
curse to every body but Jay Cooke.
2. $1,000,000,000 State, city and county debt,
born ot the war.
3. 500,000 able bodied farmers, mechanics and
other white then dead, worth SIO,OOO a piece,
$5,000,000,000.
4. 500,000 black laborers, worth SI,OOO each,
$500,000 000. [Hisses.]
5. 4,TW0,000 black laborers, men, women and
children, that it took three generations of white
civilization to utilize into profitable labor—
totally demoralized and disorganized lor the
time being. [Applause and considerable dis
sent, the Radicals getting uneasy, and endea
t(i,6t?P Train’s “exposition” ot national
nf thlir ? mn taUted them all down, made fun
ovidpst du® 69 ’* carried his points, to the
' f °/ n y present.]
6. $5,000,000 of shipping, that it took us fifty
years of American industry, since Waterloo, to
whiten every oceau with our commerce, com
pletely wiped out by England’s neutrality.
[Applause, and “too true.”).
7. $4,000,000,000 worth of plantations, houses,
farms, factories, real estate, personal property,
wasted, burned, wiped out, completely de
stroyed—the accumulated industrv of a hundred
years.
b, and lastly. An amount of swearing, gam
ing, drunkenness, prostitution, demoralization
that cau not he enumerated by figures.
This wilt do for the debit; and when fanat
icism “sleeps fora moment, the natiou’s eyes
will open and a reaction will set in that will
emancipate my constituency, the white people
of the land. [ Applause and dissJbt.]
Bo much for debit; what for credit? Gen
tlemen, I have no figures. You must be con
tent with ideas*
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gerritsmith.
This gentleman has written a noble article,
over his own signature, defending his appear
ance on the bail-bond of Jefferson Davis
and combating the idea that treason must be j
charged against the South, after surrender. Mr. :
Smith was a decided Abolitionist up to the !
emancipation of Southern slaves. His an tag- j
onism ceased at that point, but it has gone be
yond him to the Anti-slavery Society which
now proposes td abolish tße negro. As an
honest fanatic, Mr. Smith is entitled to a hear
ing, and had his countrymen one-lialf* the gen
erosity he manifests, the problem ol reconstruc
tion would no longer prove vexatious and un
compromising. Alluding to the harsh aud per
fidious conduct of his section, Mr. Smith
says:
The simple truth is, that we made a bargain
with the South, however we may now lie tempt
ed to deny it or to break it. Our Generals, in
the terms of the sui reader ol the Southern ar
mies, recognized this bargaiu—this bargain
that we should treat each other, not sis traitors
under constitutional law, bnt as belligerents
under the law of war. The Supreme Court of
the United States unanimously held that this
was the bargain. Aias ! the iueff ible.jheanness,
the revolting infamy of our breaking this bar
gain now, when we have it in our power to
break it! Alas, what a poor use is this to which"
to put the power of victory ! How if dims the
glory ahd reduces the value of victory ! The
shame of defeat is as nothing, compared with
the shame of abusing the power of success.—
The holding of Juarez or some other Mexican
chief for treason, iu ease we should conquer
■ Mexico, would be a uo more gross, a no more
immoral breach of faith, than is our holding
Jefferson Davis for it. No wonder thstt the en
lightened and sensitive men of the South are
stung to the quick by our perfidy. We may not
recover so far from our passion and prejudice
as to be ashamed of thi t $ perfidy, but our chil
dren will be ashamed of it. Who doubts, for
even one moment, that the North, had she beea
conquered in this war, would have claimed at
the hand of the couqueror the humanities of the
law of war—of that law which knows no trea
son. Are we doing as we would be done by ?
I said the law of war knows uo treason. I add
that treason ceases just when and where the ac
knowledgment of belligerent rights begins.—
Reason teaches this. Humanity teaches this.
The political liberalists of Europe beseech us to
believe this." They tell us that they mean to
’ undertake, from time to time, to overturn their
“despotic and oppressive governments, and that
nothing could be worse for them than when,
now and then, they shall lie conquered, to have
it in the power ct the conqueror to plead the
exomple of liberal America for charging them
with treason.
Mr. Smith counsels mildness and argues
aj«aiust further exactions. He points out the
only true path to reconciliation and peace
thus-:
“ A sad mistake is it iu the present conquer
ing party in Mexico to hold the contrary of this
doctrine. It is argued that such punishments
will warn and intimidate, and thus serve to pre
vent wars. But a sounder philosophy teaches
that they will exasperate and brutalize, and thus
tend to multiply wars. The following of the
present Mexican war with bloodshed will help
to keep Mexico a laud of frequent and almost
incessant wars. On the other hand, the closing
ol it in the spirit of forgi euess would soften
the nation’s heart, and prepare it to receive the
seed of that higher civilization among whose
fruits .«re the enduring peace aud established
order, for the lack of which Mexico, though so
favored by nature, is still so uuprosperous and
unhappy. There is but oue legitimate, and in
deed, but one peaeelul way, to prevent civil
wars, aud that is justice- on the part of govern
ment.- Had our Government been just — ever just,
entirely just, instead of being ever a flagrant op
pressor of the poor —this horrid war would not
have been.''’ > "• - •
He shows that an investment in Southern
heart is worth all the Russias and their posses
sions. He condemus the principles of confis
cation and urges the greatest charity. On this
subject he says i ']
In the next place, the North must hasten to
put an end to these threats of confiscation.—
Cougress ought to say, without one dissenting
voice, and at the earliest day, that there should
bs-no confiscation. The disfranchisement I
have just referred to is galling, and, as the
masses believe, insulting to its subjects. But
these threats, paralyzing the industry of the
South, and making even her bread uncertain,
are infinitely less bearable. They are fatally iu
the way of her material prosperity. With the
clond they bring upon her titles she can neither
sell her binds nor borrow upon them. What
coaid be a more trying disability to an agricul
tural people who are destitute of money ? That
strong and patriotic man, Thaddeus Stevens,
would have certain losses of loyal men repair
ed. I would myself be glad to see a liberal per
ceuiage paid upon them. He would provide
the means out of confiscation, and at the ex
pense of the South ; I -say out of the National
Treasury, and at the Expense of tbe nation.—
There are three things which, in urging confis
cation, Mr. Stevens Seems to forget. 1. That
the North, as well as the South, was guilty of
the war. 2. That while, the North is still very
rich, the South, exhausted .by that war, for
which the North, iu common with herself, was
responsible, is exceedingly poor. 3. That con
fiscation once entered upon, it will be difficult,
if not impossible, to set limits to the spread of
its demoralizing power. The spirit of lawless
greed engendered by confiscation will no more
stop at State or other lines than will tbe flames
of a prairie-fire at the word of command. Let
there be confiscation iu the South for the bene
fit of these, Mr. Stevens’ loyal losers, and also
tor the benefit of the poor blacks, as he also
proposes, and very soon, under its debauching
influence, immense numbers at the North will
be clamoring, in the name of- “ Agrarianism,” i
“Equalization,” aud other taking names, for
their neighbors’ possessions. And these rich
possessions, it must be remembered, will kindle'
the spirit of robbery, as can none of the poor
possessions of tbe desolated South. These
tour requirements responded to, these four con
i ditions of “ reconstruction ’’ enacted, and no
others exacted, peace between the North and
South will be sore to follow. Bat to make this
peace more speedy and more cordial in other
words, to effect with the least delay an endur
ing heart union between the Norik and Sooth,
there mast be one thing more. Oar Govern
ment is getting in*the way of buying territory.
There is a purchase it can make whieh would
be immeasurably more Important apd profit
able than the purchase of any territory. Let it
buy the Southern heart, worth more to ns than
a thousand Alaska®, nay, than all Russia. There
is one way, and only one way, by which it can
be bought, and that is by proving to the South
that the North loves her—that the North has a
heart to give in exchange* for her heart.
It is related olMirabeau that, having start
ed the ball of revolution in France, he was
shocked at its impetuous course and strove to
stay it. But vain were words ot eloquence
and admonitory checks. The revolution rush
ed over the thrones of Kings and the lives of
thousands, until it spent its force upon the
creation of Robespierre. Mr. Smith helpe'd
start the ball of anarchy in America by his
John Brown raid. His piteous pleadings are
as barren as the East wind to the ears of the
North. Stevens, Sheridan and Butleb are
the monsters springing from his misguided
zeal. One is a Robespierre without con
tempt of riches; another, Danton without bis
genius; the third, Marat without his rags.
It is too late forjiious thoughts and generous,
adjurations. The creatures of wrath llvfe by
wrath, and wrath will they,M*uaihilated.
TEE OABTEKSVXLLE. AMD VABWEBT
' " , EAILEOAD. . . ...
We publish, iu another column,a commuuieu
tion from Mr. S'.'F. Stephens, President of the
Cartersville and Van Wert Railroad. This Is
one of several branches projected to connect
with Decatur and shorten the distance been
Memphis and Charleston. We call attention to
the communication and trust the different com
panies may be able to harmonize on some gen
eral plan of action. The necessity of pushing
our way Westward by rail is urgent. The Hon.
John P. King, in his late report to the stock
holders of the Georgia Railroad, dwells upon
this important enterprise and commends it to
the energy of Georgia capitalists. Mr. Stephens
gives cogent reasons for preferring-the routqbe
represents. They should be examined and
profited by. It Cartersville and Van Wert be
the proper points of connection, the people of
Georgia should aid the' enterprise as far as pos
sible.
REGISTRATION.
All who can conscientiously register should
do so promptly. A convention can be defeated
only by a general registration of the whites en
titled to the privilege. Should a Convention
be called, the State Constitution it adopts, if
objectionable, can be rejected. A July session
of Congress may nullify the Attorney General’s
decision, but the more prudent conrse seems
to be in taking the registration as you find it
aud not awaiting the possibilities of a Con
gressional raid upon Mr. Stanbery.
Welcome. —We congratulate Mr. Burr, of
the Macon Journal and Messenger, upon the faCt
of having engaged the services of A. W. Reese,
Esq. (late special correspondent of the Consti
tutionalist) as assistant editor of his journal.
Mr. Reese is a vigorous writer, and true as steel
to the interests and honor of the South. In a
brief salutatory, Mr. Reese says :
The Sherman-bill, with its logical sequences
of military rule, and the Constitution aud laws
gagged and manacled, seems to me the very
incarnation of a despotism that even thetrained
masters of the art in other lauds would not dis
dain to father. So believing, consistency de
mands that 1 declare my unalterable opposition
to legitimatizing its usurpations, and putting
my' countrymen on record as consenting to
their own shame.
Ragged and UnccrreNt Bills.—So many
ol this class of notes are sent us, and our
losses on this account are so heavy, we feel
obliged to tell our friends, says the Christian
Advocate, that our dealings -are with the bank,
and we cannot use mutilated bills, except at a
heavy discount. Wc would desire them to
send uumutilated money, greenbacks, aud no
“ shin-plasters ” whatever, except those of the
Cit-v Council of Macon, and the railroads ter
minating here.
Tribute to the Memory of a Departed
Patriot.— John R. Thompson, -now residing
in New York, has published, or rather has
printed for private circulation, a noble tribute
to the memory of George Wythe Randolph, iu
the form of au elegiac poem. We may take
the liberty of quoting a few lines, in which the
poet says that he -
“ —was a lofty house and line.
And own el, as heritage, au honored rarae;
And with it, goodlier legacy than this,
The low; of ail things ’ovply, noble, true.
Wisdom with goodness did in him combine.
Yet such a modesty most rare was his;
And so apart he liv’d from noisy fame;
Aud held so cheaply, he to duty vow’d,
As ever only may the wise and few,
The plauditory clamor of the crowd; .
Content to do the task, to bear the burden,
Careless to win the empty earthly guerdon,
His greatness might have blossomed all unseen,
Unrecognized, save in the narrow view
Dfhome, had not the tumult of the time
And sore calamity of commonweal
Called him to action on the stage sublime,
And to his life affix’d th’ - enduring seal.”
And again:
“Virginia mourns him, and with happier fates
Warriors and statesmen might have borne his nail;
And his had been a public funeral,
Lamented by a league of sorrowing States,
With eulogy and anthem, trumpet's wall, .
And pealing guns upon the evening breeze;
And nags bad droop’d half mast in distant seas,
Where he, the sailor boy, had brav’d the gale;
And we, when time all jealousies had still’d,
Had placed his marble image,in a niche
Os that majestic fame, that we shall never build.”
Shall we, indeed, says the Mobile Register,
never bnild that fame ? Will time never
“still” those “jealousies,” to which the poet
alludes ? Radicalism says no, but humanity
whispers a hope of better things to come. *
“ Would be Martyrs.”-?- We have “ laying
around loose," in our otherwise quiet Parish,
says the Iberville (La.) South, about a “ cor
poral’s ghard” of earnest working candidates for
martyrdom. One of this precious crew —a for
mer Confederate officer —is a reputed spy and
pensioned informer upon the words and acts of
those who have heretofore respected, honored
and befrieuded him. Others are bushwacking
quill drivers—well known it is- true to our citi
zens, yet too-base and cowardly to sign their
names to the miserable lies and misstatements
they would seek to disseminate concerning our
people and parish; and all are candidates for
offices which they expect to secure through the
votes of the poor deluded negroes, to whom
they “ never say turkey once."
We hope the good people of i Iberville will
neither barm nor molest these disciples of
Brownlow and Stevens in their travels, scrib
bliugs and teachings; bat rather give them all
sie rope they want, and they wHk soon hang
hemselves so effectually that even a score of
military bills could not resuscitate their stink
iug carcasses.
A Washington correspondent of ,the Cincin
nati Commercial writes: “Ou the whole, it is
hardly probable that we shall fail to see gath
ered a determined, united and crushing Radical
majority in both houses. There may, and
doubtless will, be some divisions—some renew
al of the sore points of the ultra Radicals va.
thd’Conservatives—some attempt to agitate tor
confiscation and, possibly, for impeachment.
But the necessity for harmony will bring the
old pressure to bear upon all discordant ele
ments, and Congress, after agitating the coun
try from centre to circumference by ’furious
discussions which may add fresh fervor to the
scorching heats of dog days, will quietly re
enact the reconstruction law, stop the gaps
through which the astute Attorney General has
been driving his coach and six, and adjourn to
about the first ot October.”
Merchants’ Union Express Company.
A CARD.
To the Editor of .the Tribune :' '
Sir—l notice in*to-day’is issue of the Herald
- the Statement that a suit has been commenced
■for an injunction against the Merchants’ Union
Express Company* * l tor a receiver of Us prop
erty, ol the grounds of the reckless squander
ing of the money of the company, its preseut
insolvency, and the attempt on the part ol a
portion of the officers of the company to effect,
for their own benefit, a secret and clandestine
arrangement for winding up the corapauy.”
f , not true tMt any aqU of tMe character
has Been commenced against this company; but
a snmmons and complaint Waa yesterday served
on me individually in the city of Auburn,
wherein the above charges, with many others
equally false and ridiculons, were set forth.
The' complaint is bat a part of the tactics of
the enemy, being a. tissue of falsehoods ; and
every material allegation therein is utterly and
recklessly untrue.
The proceeding, although taken iu the name
of an individual, is evidently instigated and con
trolled by the managers of the old Express
monopolies, and an unscrupulous ring of stock
jobbers, who have, from the date of the organi
zation of the company, sought every device to
depreciate its stock, and shake the faith of its
stockholders and the public in the value of the
stock. - ,
Believing this to be the fact, we shall iutcr
pose no obstacle to a full afid complete investi
gation, but, on the contrary, we shall court such
investigation, wheu we shall disprove every
material allegation in the complaint, and satisfy
foes as well.as friends that the facts set forth in
the recent report of our trustees are literally
true.
Sb far from the company being insolvent, the
fact is that it owes no debts, and never has
owed any; aud there never has been a day
since the opening of its lines whop there have
not been several hundred thousaud dollars in
its treasury. Its. business was never more
prosperous than to-day, and itg receipts have
japidly increased from the date of commence
ment up to this time; aud during the same time
the receipts of the old companies have as rapid
ly diminished. The returns to the Uuited
States revenue office show these facts. From
them as published it apjiears that the receipts
of the Merchants’ Union for the single month
of May, just passed, were greater than those
ever earned by any express company in the
same time; aud were vrithin about $9,000 o(
the receipts of the American Express Company
for the whole of last quarter, embracing Janua
ry, February;iod March, and for the month of
March last were greater than the receipts of the
United States and Atncricau Express Company
combined.' Ti -
No company of its magnitude was ever man
aged aud operated with greater care aud econ
omy.
It is running more miles of line, and doing a
larger business, aud is betterequipped than any
other express company in the United States,
aud its stock is without doubt intrinsically
worth far more tnan that of any other express
company.
Touching the “ secret and clandestine” ar
rangement referred to, it is simply ridiculous
as well as recklessly and wantonly untrue.
The complaint will be answered at once, aud
the case forced to trial.at the earliest d;ty.
J. N. Knapp,
Secretary
qf the Merchants’ Union Express Company.
Office Merchants' Union Express Company, No.
265 Broadway, New York-, June 23, 1867.
A Curious Revenge. —The publication, says
the New York Times , of the map of West
Point, made by Koaciuszko eighty-eight years
ago, wi}l reveal the Polish patriot in anew
light, that is to say, not only as an excellent
topographer, but as execrable in the matter ot
spelling English. His amusiug letter, which
accompanies the plan, describes it as a “ ruff
map,” with buildings “ for the fourage,” tbe
“steble,” the “ artellery barracks,” the “bum
prove for flvety men,” and so forth. The letter
also alleges that the “ carpenters .complained
about the provision that he hare not enof; he
beg yoar honor to allow them more bred.”—
This is almost as bad as Artemus Ward. How
ever, “rough” and “enough” are stumbling
blocks for any foreigner, both to pronounce
and spell, and, besides, we have had a century’s
revenge in spelling Kosciuszko’s name without
the z. »
Wilkes Booth and the President.— The
Judiciary Committee recently sent down to
Nashville a confidential person to ascertain the
relations that existed between J. .Vilkes Booth
and President Johnson when both were in
Nashville, during the latter part of the war.—
After interrogating many prominent men of
both parties, nothiug further was discovered
than that B*»otb and the then military governor
of Tennessee had no connection with each other
whatever. Apropos of this, a Nashville paper
says: “ StraDge to relate, General Grant, whp
knew that Booth was a rank rebel, and had re
fused to take the oath, gave him a pass to go to
New Orleans in the early part of 1864, writing
and signing the document himself.”
Coming to Taw. —The Times a while ago op
posed w July session. Now it has slipped, slid,
consented, and approved a July session as “ex
pedient and even necessary to teach Mr. Stan
bery the meaning of the law, and to tell Mr.
Johnson that Congress chooses to be its own
interpreter”—but not for any other purpose.—
Congress will meet in July and proceed to de
vise better means than these, which have failed,
to organize decisive and trustworthy [Repub
lican] majorities” in the ten Southern States,
or else to keep them out till after the Presi
deutial election.
For this purpose, were the July session to
“ organize hell” in the Southern States, we
should look to the Times to find it “ expedient
and e*en necessary,” and we should not be dis
appointed.—N. Y. World.
Cobps op Radical Orators Sent South
ward. —The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald says that a corps ot thirty
stump orators have been turned loose upon the
Southern States by the Union Congressional
Republican Committee, twenty of whom are
colored men. These speakers go charged with
the strongest Republican logic within reach of
the Congressional Committee, and with the de
termination not to permit even one of the
smallest villages to escape share of political
advice. Reinforcements to this corps are be
ing recruited daily, and will wend southwards
in a lew days.
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The Garters ville and Van Wert Railroad.
Mr. Editor : A shorter railroad from Mem
phis, Teun., to Charleston, 8. C., is a commer
cial necessity, and uo longer to be disregarded
by those interested. It can be made the short
est and cheapest route from the Mississippi to
the seaboard.
Tho only question now to be discussed by
enterprising men is : Which one of the various
connecting links proposed .will be most econo
mical, practical aud advautageous in securing
the end iu view.
Several roads have been chartered, aud effdVto
made to build them, but either from want of
means or difficulties in this way, or perhaps
both, have failed. The object of this vommani
catiou is to call the attention of the public, and
especially the cities, and railroads to be beno
flttpd to anew plan of connection, to wit: Let
all the parties interested in this connection
below Cartersville unite upon the charter
granted at the last session of the Legislature to
build a road from Cartersville via Van Wert to
the West t The object desired can he easily and
specially accomplished, and trade and travel
will of necessity flow through the same towns
aud cities that any other proposed route can
carry it, obviating any objection that cau be
raised by either Marietta or Atlanta.
Self interest being the mighty lever by which
individuals and companies are moved, and
economy the chief guardian of wealth and
great enterprises, it will only be necessary to
present for your consideration the many ad
vantages claimed for this route.
First. Consider it iu an economical point o (
view and we think yon will decide in :t6 favor.
It, has been surveyed by a practical engineer
from Cartersville to Van Wert, a distance of 30
milesy imd his estimate of cclst of construction,
ready for uso, lubor included, ia $24(),000. The
labor, if furnished by the peuitentiary, as guar
autied by charter, $150,000, aud we will have
passed over the Etowah river by bridge, and
though several little mountainous elevations,
making this first 30 miles, by far the most ex
pensive portion of the road, to the State line.
Hence, you dbserve, we can reach the Stale
line, a distance of a little over 40 miles, lor the
small sum of about *:i00,000, aud where, in the
annals of railroad history, can yon instance so
much accomplished with so little money.
From the State line to Decatur wo will have no
advantage over any' other charter, but have
already saved to the company, I think, without
an exact knowledge, about $2,000,000. So
much for its economy.
From GartersviHe to VanWert is the finest
planting Interest iu Georgia, running near an
immense belt of pine land, through many large
and inexhaustible slate quarries, grind stone
quarries, and mountains of the finest limestone
—all and each of these furnishing to tho road,
both wavs, a very heavy daily freight business,
which will, without a doubt, make this the best
paying road in the South. From VnnWert, by
way of Cedar Town, through fine pine lands
and farming country, to the State line, and with
all these advantages and this immense saving of
money, the difference in distance, compared
with the very nearest practical route, w ill not
exceed a few miles.
In conclusion, I would say to the citizens of
Augusta, Charleston, and to those controlling
their two Railroads, will you come forward to
our aid at once and pay only ouough to buy
provisions to feed the hands and pay for tools,
<fec., and managers, and the work shall com
mence immediately'. Our abundant harvest,
will enable n3 to render you much material aid
along the line. I am anxious aud desire U>
commence the work before the summer closes.
Respectfully submitted.
S. F. Stephens,
. President of Cartersville and V. R. R.
Letter from Sparta, Georgia.
Prog>css of the Macon and Augusta Railroad—
The Crop Prospects.
Editors Constitutionalist :
Gents : Work on the Macon and Augusta
Railroad is progressing rapidly ; the masonry
fur the bridge over the Oconee river is finished ;
track laying has advanced four and a half miles
from Mayfield, and by the first ol xlucust the
e'ngine will roll into Sparta. Seven and a half
miles of rails have been received at Savannah
for track laying from Milledgcvillc, and the
same quantity at Charleston for the Mayfield
end. By the 15th of November the Georgia
and Central Railroads will be connected by rail
via Sparta and Milledgcvillc.
The completion of the road is now an assured
fact, but the work would he greatly expedited
if the stockholders would come forward and as
sist the President iu his arduous duties of
building a railroad, almost without money.
Times are hard and money scarce, but it is
hoped that eqcb stockhol ’er will come forward
aud pay a portion of the installment called in.
Crops arc very promising in this section of
the State. Corn and cotton are well advanced.
A few good showers about the middle of July
will leave us ample provisions for next year.
_ _ Ju*
Forthcoming Proclamation of Governor
Wells —Ex-Governor Wells, having waited suf
ficicnt time for the President to decide on bis
removal, and the latter not having acted in the
mutter, has determined upon issuing a procla
mation declaring himself still Governor/and
Gov. Flanders a usurper; declaring null and
void his subsequent and future acts, and direct
ing the sheriff and other civil officers not to
obey hia orders. This, he believes, to bo tbe law
under the Attorney General’s Opinion. This
will compel the President to act. He takes this
course by advice of several lawyers here. His
proclamation will be issued in a day or two,
unless the President interferes.
The United States Consul General at Calcutta
has transmitted information to tbe Navy De
partment at Washington of the wrecking of the
U nited States steamer Sacramento off C’Oconada,
Godavery, District of Madras. The date on
which this unfortunate event transpired has not
been given. The dispatch, however, mentions
that all on board were saved.
Rumors gs the Resignation of Mr. Stan
ton, Secretary of War.— Rumors of th* re
signation of Secretary Stanton are again making
their way to the public. This time the report
comes from parties of high standing in official
circles, who have spoken of the resignation Os
Mr. Stanton as reaching them In an unofficial
way, but Is such guise as to admit ol but little
doubt. It is stated that Secretary Stanton has
prepared bis letter of resignation to be sent to
the President, and is arranging the matters of
his department with a view to an early depar
ture. The gronuds of his resignation ore alleged
to the want of political sympathy existing
between the President, the Cabinet and himself,
bat more especially On account of tbe great
variance of opinions disclosed in tbe recent dis
cussion of tbe instructions to military com
manders. It is also stated that Mr. Stanton
opposed the publication of the deliberations of
the Cabinet council.
• Chicago Tunnel Caved In.— lt appears
probable that the hopes of Chicago respecting
the Lake 'Tunnel are doomed to disappoint
ment. On Friday morning last the sides of the
Washington street tunnel caved In. It was ac
companied by a tremendous crash and noise
which aroused all sleepers in the vicinity, and
caused many to suppose that an earthquake
bad occurred. The tunnel had not yet reached
the river, though it was within a few feet of it.
Fears are now strongly entertained that tho
river will break through and add its volume of
water to the general destruction. This accident
seems to stamp the Washington street tunne as
an unlucky enterprise. It will indisputably
delay its completion until next year, if, indeed,
it does not much longer.
It rained every day here during the past week.
The ground is thoroughly wet, and the pros
pect foor good crops is as good as can be. —
Vegetation is growing finely, and the corn crop
bids fair for an abundant yield. —Monroe Adv.
