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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1867)
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST vyEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY 34,.1867 TO OUE SUBOBIBEES; The Weekly Constitutionalist will heie after be mailed on Tuesday insteafl day morning. We make this change to accom modate many subscribers. It is out aim and purpose to make the paper a first class news and family journal, and we confidently hope that the influence of our subscribers will be exerted to aid us in doing so by extend tag its cirtu ation. ' • . THE NEW BILL. It bats been noticed and', by a large por tion of the press, not without regret that great numbers of our white population were failing to register. As against this disin clination, the repeated efforts of journalists and published appeals from other respect able sources have been almost in vain. “No registration ” seems to have been the gen eral sentiment, and for this position we have only been able to assign Jfcc deep-seated popular conviction that this, or any other action, in hopes of regaining our rights, would at present be futile and purposeless. A burnt child, says the proverb, dreads the Are, and, perhaps, in view of the repeated and utterly useless sacrifices of tWo years past, this belief has not been w holly with out reason. Recurring also ta the text of the late bill passed by Congress to offset Mr. Stan bery’s Opinion* it is difficult not to be yet more fully satisfied that there was in this popular conviction some prescience wiser than even the best advice of the politicians and the press. By the seventh section of this bill it is made the duty of registrars to revise the registration, lists just prior to an election and to strike out from or add to the same such names as they In their dis cretion may see fit. To how absolute a nullity this reduces registration is at once apparent. Heretofore our people have been sustain ed under the many humiliations of regis tration by the belief that, those humilia tions once undergone, they would thereby acquire a full and inalienable right to vote. But now it appears that one may be badger ed by a mongrel board, forced to take strange oaths and be herded with adventu rers ami blacks, and all *in vain. To use the language of this bill, registrars are em powered “upon being satisfied that any per son not, entitled thereto has been registered, to strike the name of such person from the list." No restrictions, as will be perceived, are imposed on this power. If the' registrars think your name ought not to be there, off* it goes; and, more than this, if they think .that any other man’s name should be there, on that goes. Whereby, as is Self-CVldent, a majority, “ decisive and trustworthy,” can be manufactured to or der. Should a full and fair registration not be objectionable, then that registration will remain. Should it appear, otherwise, then the registration is to be duly doctor ed into shape. Anuexed is the w hole of this seventh section, and it is worthy, we assure our readers, of a careful perusal and some steady thought: Sec. 7. That the time for completing the original registration provided for in said act, may, in the discretion of the com mander of any district, be extended to the first day of October, .1867, and the boards of registration shall have power, and it Shall be their duty, commencing fourteen days prior to tiny election under said act, and upon reasonable public notice of the time and place thereof, to revise for a pe riod of eight days the registration lists, and upon being'satisfied that any person not en titled thereto has been registered, to strike the name of such person from the list; and snch board shall also, during the same pe riod, add- to such registry the names-of all persons who, at that time, possess the qual ifications required by said act, who have not been already registered, and- no person shall at any time be entitled to be register ed pr to vote by reason of any executive pardon or amnesty tor any act or thing which, without suoh pardon or amnesty, would disqualify him from registration or voting. THe Georgia Major in England.—Mr. Whaley, the famous anti-Popery member of Parliament, recently introduced into the House of Commons a bill to regulate the dress of the clergy. It was intended to af fect the ritualists, but it made the singular provision that no clergyman should wear any other garment, covering or ornament except a surplice and hood. He subse quently tothdrew it amid inextinguishable laughter. Mr. Beresford Hope congratula ted him on ,this decision, since the results of the bill would have been to give clergy men a curious appearance, and injure their health. f • , The Retort Personal.—Those who have lived in New Orleans —God bless it— will relish the following anecdote of well known characters. The story runs that among the depositors in Jacob Barker’s broken bank was a fortune-teller named Caprell. She appeared after the feilnre and clamored for her money. To her the teller said: “ Why <sdn’t you come last week ?” To him she said: “ How could I know your bank was going to fail?” “ Then you are not much of a fortune-teller,” the paying teller told her. Inexplicable.—A writer in the New York Times, speaking of the presence of “love and suicide,” says the victims seem to be pretty well divided between the sexes, though, perhaps, something more than half of them are females. We hope the gentle sex will at once stop this ungentle habit. It m Is possible to understand how a man might be driven to despir by some fascina ting daughter of Eve, but how a woman should go to such lengths tor any man —we must leave woman to explain. POLITICAL LIGHTNING! RODS. About the.only leg left for the Radical party in the South to stand upon, in view of the |>erfidious career of Congress, is the leg of betrayal. The would-be party-leaders drag mauy honest and well-meaning indivi duals into their meshes .by asserting that they have changed no principle held of yore, but, for the sake of policy , allied them selves with their enemies in order to betray them. Do these men dream, for an instant, that the cunning Yankee is deceivedby any such transparent humbug? Do they sup pose for one moment thqt any such shal low trickery will benefit them or their dupes-? For our part, we believe that prominent individuals thus prospecting will take good care of themselves to the detriment of their victims. Even they will fail of substantial reward at last for the Yankee is too shrewd to trust Oily Gammons beyond the length of a nose ; but the great mass of men, whose confidence lms been misplaced, will be utterly ruined and mercilessly ridiculed. The Radical journals in the South have tlie simplicity to show their hands. They bring Carnot from his grave and Lamartine from his sick bed to testify to the virtue of a co-op erative betrayal. The former coalesced with the French Revolutionary Committees in 1793 in order, as he said, “to impede their progress.” The latter conspired with the Red Republicans in 1848, “as the lightning rod conspires with the cloud to draw off its electricity.” This policy is coolly advocated by the Southern Radicals and as coolly published to the world. The Radi cals of the North will use these men but they will not trust them ; nay they will bitterly revenge themselves for such falsity. They will use the lemon but throw away the peel. How far Carnot impeded the progress of the Revolution, history can tell; how far he helped sw r ell the sea of blood that flowed through Paris, the metaphysi cian must determine. How r far Lamartine succeeded, the Emperor Napoleon must reveal. If the Southern wire-pullers deem themselves men of genius or walking light ning-rods, we fancy their mistake is equally as great in the one case as in the other. The amount of their genius can be rated by the fact that their policy of betrayal is pro claimed on the house tops of Gath and As-' kalon. The amount of their lightning-rod proclivities will be settled hereafter; for when they have the audacity to approach the red cloud of Radicalism too closely, with garments of combustible flesh instead of a sheath of impregnable iron, they will draw off just enough electricity to explode them and their tremendous humbug. STAND BACK, WHITE MAN. a r ‘ Day by day it is becoming more evident that the debauched white ffien w r ho are engineering the negro vote wjjl fail to receive their so much coveted elections to power, the determination growing among the blacks to elect those at their own race instead, and the theory, as will be seen from the following extracts from the Congres sional debates, not lacking Senatorial en couragement : Mr. Sumner advocated the exclusion of reliels from participation in the work of forming the new* governments. He could not doubt, he said, that colored Senators and Representatives would soon wel comed in the Capitol.— Debates. Mr. Sumner repeated what he laid pre viously said in his speech, that it w*ould be the duty of the Senate in a few months to w elcome colored Senators upon this floor. Mr. Johnson. How many ? Mr. Sumner. I don’t know’ how* many. . • * * [lbid, The Radicals have been explicitly inform ed that the seeond officer of the “ Nation ” must be chosen from tlie negro ranks- at the approaching Presidential contest. This fn fqrmatioiris backed by the threat that? in case of refusal, the blacks will vote soidily against their pretended friends at the North. The negro perceives the logical ad vantage he possesses and will make a de cided stand for his rights, under Radical interpretation. But why stop at Vice- President? Why not seek the Executive chair itself ? Wendell Phillips insists that no boundary, no pent-up Utica, shall confine the negro and promises to assist him to obtain thfc loftiest honors. Ex-Gov. Hawley, of Connecticut, is equally san guine and asks through his own paper, the Hartford Press: “-Who knows but that a good many of us may yet have to pay our respects to an occupant of the White House, who traces descent down from some wild and savage African chief?” The negroes will be great fools if they > permit the mean whites to cheat them out of places of profit and trust. Put the test of friendship to these gentry—the test of sacrifice. If they love you, as asserted, they ought to abandon all office seeking and give you an unobstructed chance to govern them, inasmuch as they never weary of de claring that, without your assistance, they would this day be governed by the “rebels.” Messieurs Sumner, Phillips and Hawley have assured you of a generous welcome to the seats of domination. The fruit is ripe for plucking. Will the negro shake the tree and let the designing white man gather all the apples ? A Republican Form of Government. —Alluding to the terrorism inspired by re ward in Mexico, a letter-writer says: “ Many persons have been seized by eager soldiers, who thought them Marquez. It is not a safe custom now Jo wear a cloak,-ac cording to the style of the country. Three old women have been lassoed by horsemen, who ' thought they had a prise." Good Gospel.—An afflicted editor, who is troubled with hand-organs under his window, longs for the “evil days " mention ed in Ecclesiastics, when “the grinders shall cease because they are few ” and the sound of the grinding ” shall be “ low.* CANNOT TRUST THEM. At a Radical Convention in Florida, the Committee on Permanent Organization reports—a majority and minority de claration. The majority recommended a Col. T. W. Osborn for President; the minority, Col. O. B. Hart. The great point urged by the minority was, that" Col. Hart, “ by I his uniform Unionism, the fact that he was a Southern loyalist, that lie had labored persfstenth' to get up this and other con ventions, with sundry other reasons of ihore or less weight, was entitled to be i made President.” This would appear irresistible, but the ! negro delegates djd not see it through | those lamps. They turned the very argu ments in his favor against him. A certain Lib —probably a bobtailed representative of a currish sort of Lib-erty, said : “ The faet that Col. Hart is a Southern .Union man was the very reason why he ought not to be elected ; he had lived too long in the atmosphere of slavery to be trusted. He liked, his Unionism, but only Northern born persons could understand the true spirit of liberty.” The Tallahassee Floridian declares that “ these were vociferously ap plauded, and the applause was confined to she colored delegates.” The white speakers repudiated this doc trine, of course; but Col. Hart was never theless rejected by a decisive vote of nine teen to twenty-eight. The same journal above referred to states that the redoubtable Hart left on the fol lowing morning in disgust. Like Dr. Guil lotine, he w r as “ hoist by his own petard,” for had he not labored to convene it, the very convention that vomited him forth would never have been called. The Florid ian remarks with great justice that the “ Colonel’s fate is another illustration of the ‘ingratitude of’—Republicans. He has labored, so his friends say, early and late, for ‘ the party.’ In point of fact, he was held up as the father,of the Republican party in Florida. But his children repu diate him—drive him forth and take pos session of the heritage. “ Keen pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion that impelled the steel.” “ Southern Union men —Loyalists—are not to be trusted. They will do as drudges; they may do * the dirty work ’ —the wire pulling—but don’t give them power/’ , A NEW ROAD TO FAME. The wife of Monsieur Raimbaux, the Czar’s preserver, has been presented with diamond ornaments to the amount of SBO,OOO. In accordance with an imperial custom, should Madame Raimbaux desire the value of the gift instead of the gift it self,- she can secure the cash from the Court Jeweler without any compromise of deli cacy. Whqn It is known that this magni ficent testimonial owed its origin to the nose of a horse . one rrtay well marvel at the strangeness of destiny. Mr. Raimbaux did not save the life of the Czar by any expo sure of his own person, but the horse .he rode happened to have his naSal organ in line with the assassin’s ball, and so, instead of snuffing battle from afar, like Job’s steed, he received a sanguinary missile in' the snuffing apparatus. We are astonished at the method of reward. As Madame Raim baux has been gorgeously bedecked with jewels for what her husband did not do, we suggest that the .children of the Czar sub scribe liberally to furnish the quadrupedal hero with a gold proboscis. Otherwise, they must blush forever to look that- gift horse in the pose. “ Good Bye Longstreet !”—The Baton Rouge Advocate says : “If Longstreet has gone to the Radicals, he is dead to us ; and we draw down, a veil, behind which is all that is bright and glorious of our Confed erate General. Beyond the screen, a Long street may participate in the wild deviltry of the bitter oppressors of hiS people, but there will- be few to follow him in his wild career. There Will be few who will care to recognize in the future Radieal leader the man who lead our ragged- hosts into the very jaws of death hfdefeuse of his coun try. t,t .was not then decided by the sword that -we should be deprived of our every right. It is even now left to us to swell the ranks of the great majority of the peo ple of this Union,'which majority is at this day in favor of granting us equal rights. The Radical majorities .of last year were > the fruits of the unfortunate riot In New, Orleans, and thpre is every indication that Northern public sentiment has recovered from the spasm of anger, which caused by that riot resulted in Radicalizing Congress and listening upon us the military bill. Longstreet had the right to remain with us and patiently await our restoration, but he has chosen otherwise, nnd instead of being followed into the camp of our ene mies by our people, they Mill, as did the gal lant battle-scarred Hood, turn from him with a “ good bye Longstreet.”. - • ✓ - Good. — The Watchman learns that an in telligent colored man of Newton county, who had been spoken Os as a registrar, upon hearing the “iron clad” oath read, remark ed that he could .take it conscientiously, but said he would be d—d if he w-ould sit with white men who could! Very Severe. —The N. Y. Herald has this advice to Congress regarding the Presi dent : “In any event, in this matter of impeachment, let not Congress repeat the folly of the fool in the fable who killed the goose that laid his golden eggs.” Refreshing. —ln thesq times of political cowardice, says the Mobile Register, we must say that Slieridan’s* audacity is re freshing and almost commands a certain kind of respect. We wish we could be called on to admire this quality in Presi dent Johnson or some other defender of “ the right.’ The Street Force. —A few days since we published an account of how negroes were preferred to Irish in the city of Mo bile, through the machinations of the mili -1 tarv Mayor. The Register furnishes the sequel and says: «■ it turns out that the majority of the negroes who were put oh the street force of horse and carts—an equal number of Irish being turned out to make way for them li&ve been the recipients of sinecure offices. Instead of going to work themselves, they are running their drays in the cotton press ' es. and hire colored men to do their work for the eitv. In other words, they get the pav from the corporation and then farm out the job for a less price, and pocket the dif ference. So we have the beginning of a negro official aristocracy quartered on the city treasury, and a body ot voters hired at the public expense to support a party of strangers and renegades. There is no pres ent help for it r but we put it ou record as another item in a long account to be filed for future adjustment.” The Traitor Lopez.— Traitors do not fare well even in Mexico. A private letter from that country portrays the disgust of those who profit by treason and hate the traitor: “ The fate of the officer who betrayed Queretaro and the Emperor is doubtful.— He was seen in Queretaro at large the day after the surrender. That he had received then his promised reward seems unlikely, since he made application to one of the lead ing Liberal officers for relief. Meeting Colonel Rincon Gallardo (Pepe Rincon,) he said, “ Colonel, 1 am not, like you, a rich man, with many haciendas. • I have nothing but my sw r ord to depend upon. I hope you will recommend me to a position in the Liberal army.”- Pepe Rincon (the same man who tried to let Maximilian escape,) is reported to have replied: “ Colonel Lopez, if I recommend you to any position it w ill be to a position on a tree, with a rope around your neck.” Colonel Miguel Lopez has not been publicly seen since.” Signs of a Split. —ln the name of the Union Republican party jpf Georgia we protest against the course of the Savannah Republican. We call the attention of the Republican Congressional Executive Com (mittee, of Mr. McPherson, and of our Northern Republican friends to the course of that paper, and if they are assisting it with money or patronage, we pray them to stdp the, assistance immediately, for it is doing our party more injury, than all the rebel papers in the State. . * . [Loyal Georgian, 15 th imt: Anything approximating to decency is offensive to extreme Radicals like the Union Republicans represented by. the Loy al Georgian. That threat of cutting off supplies is*of tremendous import and sig nificance. We opine that the Republican will not be greatly intimidated thereat; but, sirs, be ye brethren ? A Chance for Codfish.—The To 1 lowing" notice, put from a New England paper, is suggestive, if not odorous: “ Wanted— An American or French youth, 16 or 17 years of age, to travel with, a young colored man to Europe. Termfc— slß per month and board and traveling ex penses. None need apply unless parents are willing. For reference refer to Mr. John B. Gough, Esq., Hillside, Mass., and* address VY. A. Smith, 50 Charles* street, New Haven, Conn.” ■ ” ‘ . A Martyr Without a Niche.—Ques tion. Don’t you think, Mr. Stevens, that President Johnson desires an impeaclmlent, so as to become a martyr ? ‘ Mr. Stevens. No. His martyrdom is over. He is one already; as much as he ever will be; but no one would touch such a martyr and put him in a niche. [W. Y. Herald Correspondence. Nothing New.— The Japanese claim that the Dahlgren gun is an old affair with them. ’Some people are beginning to believe that Nofih’s ark was a steam propeller. Death of a Sweet Singer.— The widow of the late Earl of Gifford, better known-as Lady Dlifferili, author of the beautiful song, “ The Lament of the Irish Emigrant,” died on the 18th ult. - •’ > The Death Penalty. —“ I have gone to live in Jersey,” exclaimed a distinguished New England scholar and philosopher, some years ago—“ I have gone to live in Jersey because there they hang people.” Miracles Never Cease.—There is a hoax going the rounds of the press, that a negro in Virginia is gradually turning white, which seems to amaze everybody. But thousands of white men have turned niggers Within the last few years, without surprising aiiybod}". Hobson’s Choice.—The people of the Re public- must soon choose Whether this or a new Government shall prevail. Soon, we say, because if not soon, no choice can be had. — National Intelligencer. A Very Loyal Man.— Major Barton,, of Fredericksburg, asserts that in January, 1861, the remorseless and Unforgiving Hunnicut was anxious to capture Fortress Monroe and hand it over to the Confederacy. Stevens and Trumbull.—The charac ters of the two men are very well reflected in their speeches. 'That of Trumbull is redolent of the calculating demagogue, who wishes to conceal the disreputable motives and work in which he is engaged by spe cious sophistry, while Stevens comes boldly forward to defy the public sentiment which demands that Congress shall keep within constitutional limits.— Chicago Times. Cuke for Itch.—Dr. Decaisne,Tof Bel gium, reports having used successfullv the oil of petroleum in upward of six hundred cases of itch. In the great majority of cases the disease was completely cured after a single friction, in several after two, and hi a very few instances were three 6r four ap plications required. A son of the late Senator Douglas took high honors at the Georgetown College Commencement^ Our New York Oorrespcndenoe. New" York, July 11. The extent and rapidity with which the new crop of Georgia wheat can be market ed is becoming with us a very important matter. Oifr stock of sound wheat is near ly exhausted, and will not support the cur rent rates of consumption through July.— We are getting very littje from the West, and the expected supplies from California are strangely delayed. Thus far we have received very little from the South. The consequence is, prices of the better grades of flous have advanced half a dollar a bar rel, and wheat fully fifteen cents per bushel. There have been a number of applica tions to parties in this Pity for assistance in getting your wheat crop to market. It has been represented to our leading’ houses in that trade-that there is a scarcity of money among your wheat growing people, and that your banking institutions are w holly unable to advance the needed currency for a rapid marketing of the crop. I-ani sorry to say that, although -nobody disputes the truth of these representations, none of the applications have, so far as I am informed, beep successful. There are mauy reasons for these failures, which many of your read ers may lie glad to know. , The primary one is, that we have no houses who do that sort of business. We have commission houses who, on being advised pf a consign ment of property to them by parties in whom their confidence has been enlisted by some means, will pay a sight draft for the greater portion of the estimated value thereof. But the prosperity is at all times at the risk of consignor. If it pays a pro fit, very well; if not, the loss is his. None of these houses make a practice of buying or selling on their own account.— They will usually supply large suras of money to aid their Correspondents in for warding, holding and marketing w heat; but they w ill not ftirnish a dollar unless there is-property to be placed in their hands as security. Our local millers, to whom it was supposed successful application could be made, are afraid, and speak of the great risks that would be incurred. Besides, they can usually buy cheaper in this mar ket. Another drawback has been found in the necessity of a party here supplying bags in which the grain may be handled. — We have large houses here which supply bags on hire for the transportation of grain to Europe; and any number could be hired to lie sent South. But no one seems willing to incur the risk and expense. The smallness of the supply of Georgia wheat thus far received has raised doubts of* the quantity produced in Georgia, or,, more accurately, of the quantity she will have to spare. After two failures, a good crop is likely to be over-estimated. Be sides, the growth of your towns and the pas sion of your colored people for “ wheat bread,” a something that has that appear ance (for most wretched compounds have been sent to them from this city in the past six months), are likely to cause a larger lo cal consumption than you have estimated. This circumstance has contributed to tile indifference of our commission houses in the matter of opening correspondence with your buyers and extending them monetary facilities. In conclusion, I can only say to your people that all w r heat got to market the next month w r ill probably bring a dol lar a bushel more than 'afterwards, and that those who . can sell before the first of Au gust, will find. it advisable to sell down closely,' even if they are compelled to buy for their own use.at a later period*. Prime new r Georgia red sold to-day at $3 a bushel and probably will during the current month. . . THE SUMMER SEASON. The yearly exodus front New York ot' all the New Yorkers who can get away is unu sually retarded this season. What the rea son js may be disputed, but of tlie fact there is no doubt. For one thing, all the old resorts have become either unfashionable or worn out, and people know* not where to . go., Tlie racing season at Saratoga last year w r as a new* and startling sensation, and took for a time atriong people with a hank ering for doin." something outre. Young girls thought it looked audacious and-origi nal to be pinking sure bets with their ad mirers out barouche window or off a “ grand stand/’ Riid most of our belles are willing to sacrifice much, too much, to get the name of audacity and originality. But* downright vulgar greed which they dis played disgusted their beaux and in time their mammas also, ancl those judicious parents do not care to iucur a repetition of the performance this year. Besides, there w r ere unexampled numbers of the swell mob of one sex and of tlie derm monde of tlie other, dfawn to Saratoga by the races-—-our virtuous, present law -giver and late pugi* list, Mr. John Morrissey, was unpleasantly conspicuous among the rest, aiid young ladies were apt- to meet people at the hops which had therefore been one of the main attractions of the “season,” whose acquaint ance was justly considered highly ineligible for then! So, the hotel keepers of the great Spa mourn like Rachel for their boarders, and refuse to be comforted because they are not, and the correspondents whom the New York.dailies prudently sent up are languishing in inaction, and have to con fine themselves to writing up Nature, of which, in its Saratoga phase, we had a sur feit long ago, and inserting subtle but most oriental puffs of the various hotels which gratuitously lodge them, but in which the “ slave that pay? ” .can find nothing, from the aerial attic to Which he nighty climbs, down to the long mahogony trough, at which he is daily fed, worthy of commen dation. Saratoga w aters, too, for those are the specious pretexts under which Sarato ga first won its feme, are now to be had on draught at many druggists’ in New York, not much more vapid and very much cheap er than the .trip to their sources would, make them. As for Niagara, w here the season is comitionlv still more forward, it seems this year to be abandoned to young rural brides and low creatures who actual ly go there to the fells. And the idea, to your Fifth Avenoodle, of going to see anything never so sublime, where other Fifth Avenoodles are not tot>e met, for the mere sake of seeing it, is low and revolting. As for Newport, Newport never fully awakes from its long hibernation until the beginning of August, so there is a chance for it yet. But from all the lesser resorts, the White Mountains, the Catskills, the St, Lawrence fishing places comes up the same wail of injured landlords as that I have instanced in* the case of the melan choly publicans of Saratoga. Perhaps— dare we say it—perhaps our best society is really getting some sense, the native hup of their watering-place resolution is sicklied <j’er with the pale'Cast of thought, and they have concluded that even New York, or some of the many pleasant places in its im mediate n ighborhood, are just as available in summer as the distant and dismal cara vanseries to which they have accustomed themselves so peregrinate. Wonderful to say, even Mfs. Grundy herself may come in time to see that it is better to live, even in August, behind a pleasant brown stone front, where she can let down her venera ble back hairs, and read a new r novel at her dignified leisure, than to he packed with her three daughters and the thrice three trunk of each of them, under the baked roof of a vast shed at a watering-place, and be subjected to the necessity of arraying her perspiring old form six several times each day. POLITICAL. The indications are that the dominant in tluence of the Republican party deems it expedient that the Radicals shall lie hel<l in check, and thus far, during the extra sos sion of Congress, they have been held in check, but there is no telling what a day may bring forth. The Radicals chafe under their muzzle and give forth subdued but bitter threats. The struggle between the two factions seems to lie whether Johnson shall or shall not be impeached. The fight has no relation to policy or acts upon cur rent affairs, but derives its animus from the growing heat of the. contest over the next Presidency. The friend's of Grant and Chase desire to prevent impeachment, because it will strengthen the hands of their oppo neilts. The Senate and House of Representatives are not likely to agree upon the second sup plementary reconstruction bill until a vast amount of talk has been gone through with. But of the main phases of the act that will be passed there can be no doubt. The Vri bune calls upon Congress to remember that rt has no -controversy with the South, blit with President Johnson, and to act accord ingly. But I fear that this view will not be taken of the case. BUSINESS MATTERS. Money continues easy and the stock spec ulation buoyant. Cotton is firm in the face of the dull accounts from Liverp< ol —it be ing a question where our spinners will gel their supplies for the next three mouths.— We have a number of heavy failures iu the dry goods line. W lItLOUOHBT. Stevens and His Brethren. A correspondent of the New York Herald relates a long Conversation with Thad Stevens on public men and public measures We extract the following paragraphs : WADE AND FESSENDEN —THEIR JEALOUSIES. Question —You think, then, that a resolu tion of impeachment could not now be carried ? Mr. Stevens—l think not. It would be defeated on account of jealousy on the part of the opponents of Senator Wade. The contest between Wade and Fessenden for the Presidency of the Senate was a very bitter one, and personal feeling and motives will interfere to prevent Wade from occu pying the Presidential chair, even for a sin gle day. After Wade’s election, Blaine, of Maine, said on the floor of the House, “ this Congress will never vote impeachment. We don’t want any of Ben. Wade’s ‘ Shelly wag gers’ around the White House.” It is this sentiment that will defeat impeachment.— Every little tricky politician who wants this man for a postmaster or that man for a constable, and does not think Ben. Wade will give him what he w ants, will oppose it. NEW YORK ABOUT TO BE LOST. Question —What do you think, sir, of the condition of tlie Republican party in New York State? Mr. Stevens —I think you will he killed by conservation in New York. Your Re publicans are w*hat the Indian would call “ mighty uncertain.” They have no bold ness or settled principle. Your last year’s platform was one of the most absurd and cowardly that could be adopted in a coun try running rapidly to Radicalism. Greeley has generally spit upon such platfoms; but I suppose that he will be for a still more diluted one next year. Your representa tives are not reliable. I look upon Lafttin as an entirely demoralized man. Most of the others are no bettter than he. Conk ling has hithert.o been true, and I hope he will-continue so in his new position. I be lieve New York will be lost this year by want of earnestness in the cause, arid by the dishwater which has been thrown around by Greeley and Gerrit Smith. PENNSYLVANIA GOINO TOO —CORRUPTION, CAMERON AND, GEARY. Question —Is the Republican party well united in Pennsylvania > Mr. -Stevens—l fear that we shall lose Pennsylvania this next election. Ido not think we have earnestness enough in the State to unite and draw out the Republican strength, w hile the Republican portion of our Legislature has been so openly, noto riously shamefully corrupt, that all the honest people in the State are disheartened and disgusted. Question —Yon do not suppose that you can beat New York in corruption} l do you ? Mr. Stevens—l think we could. Cameron had his men w r ith their handfulls of green backs, working in the Legislature, ne bail not fourteen votes in his favor at the close of the election, but soon after lie had forty. One man now claims $50,000 for services, and they refuse to pay him. This corrup tion will certainly beat ns here next elec tion, unless we draw* oqt the Republican strength by getting up a furor and excite ment on impeachment. Gejiry, too, hurts us very much. He is art unhappy failure, and his nomination was an unfortunate thing for the party. RAYMOND AND BUTLER. In answer to questions he stated that Raymond had been the w orst failure he.had seen in. Congress. He had a pretty style of talking and a certain sort of smartness in debate, but it was of the school boy, sopho morical style, and coukl not stand an in stant under the test of earnest principles. In the midst of- his most elaborate, studied and highly perfumed harangues, a fevr words of sound common sense would knock him flat upon his bhek and leave him help less. He made a poor show in Congress among solid, earnest men. Ben Butler, according to old Thad, is a thorough feilure as a Congressman. “At flrst,” said Mr. Stevens, “I had looked upon him as a man with whom it would be dangerous to measure swords in debate.— But I soon found that he had obtained a reputation under false pretenses. He is at once superficial, weak and Impracticable.’ THE NEXT PRESIDENT. Upon the subject of the next Presidency Old Thad is not disposed to be communi cative. He regards Glen. Grant as a great soldier, who has the best positibn any man can ever occupy in- the United States, and does not believe he Would be foolish enough to look for any other. He thinks a success as and general may be a feilure as a Presi dent, Chase he regards as a negative man, by notneans popular or powerful. Butler is a humbug. Old Ben Wade has played himself out. In fact, it is very probable that Old Thad believes 'in the inmost re cesses of his heart that if, in the course of human events, the country should look to Lancaster for its next President, and should find him in a. two-and-a-half red brick house on South Queen street; the country would do by no means a foolish thing, and would be very likely to find “ Barkis will ing.” congress. The fact is, Congress had, as usual, be come thoroughly demoralized. Some mem bers had their wives at Washington and their women at home, and others their wo men at Washington and their wives at home, • and it was impossible to keep them together. The well-known French financier, M. Emile Periere, is President of twelve or fifteen joint stock companies, the aggregate capital or which is $748,000,000. His influence in Paris may be imagined.
