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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST-
LOCAL DEPARTMENT,
Georgia Baptist Convention.
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Friday, April 24 —P. M.
The convention met in the Greene Street '
Baptist Church at 3, p. tn.
The former officers were re-elected by aecia- I
mation : P. H. Mell, D. D., President, and J. I
F. Dagg, Secretary.
In the absence of Rev. T. H. Stout, Assistant j
Secretary, Rev. E. H. Warren was re-elected to ;
that position by acclamation.
The President then addressed the conven- |
tion, urging the members to renewed zeal and .
confidence in their great work, despite all
seeming discouragement.
The following named delegates then re- i
ported :
ASSOCIATIONS.
Appalachee —B. 8. Sbeates, W. H. Stiick
land, G. A. Nunally.
Central—W. T. Brantley, E. W. Warren, G.
C. Conner, 8. Boykin, F. M. Haygood, T. J.
Burney, J. M. Springer, J. H. Calloway.
Clarksville—K- H. Watson.
Flint River—D. W. Gwin, W. G. McMichael,
A. B. Sharpe, D. Shaver, R. M. Nott, J. C.
Binns.
Georgia—P. H. Mell, J. H. Kilpatrick, E. A.
Steed, J. A. Carter, B. M. CallowaW. R. Young,
P. B. Robinson, H. A. Tupper, 11. H. Tucker,
T. B. West, J. R. Sanders, T. Stocks, W. A.
Overton, J. 11. Fortson, R. L. McWhorter.
Hephzibah—W. J. Hard, G. W. Evans, W. L.
Kilpatrick, W. H. Davis, E. R. i
Carswell, D. B. Plumb, J. H. Cuthbert, M. P.
Cain, H. H. Hickman.
Rehoboth—Daniel Sanford, J. F. Dagg, J. L.
Blitch, W. C. Wilkes, J. J. Toon.
Washington—W. J. Harley, J. J. Brantley,
J. G. Holtzclaw, J. T. Wingfield, L. Fowler, A.
8. Morgan.
Western—J. C. Pitts, JF. Awbrey, H. C.
Kennedy, L. M. Daniel, J. H. Hall, A. R. Cal
loway.
Stone Mountain —H. F. Buchanan, W. D. At
kinson, E. Steadman, J. 8. Echles.
Columbus —M. J. Wellborn.
Sarepta—A. Chandler, H. F. Ivey, L. R. L.
Jennings, L. W. Stephens, J. D. Matthews, S.
Lumpkin, J. B. Hardeman, T. B. Moss. .
Bethel—J. H. Underwood, T. W. Stout.
Ebenezer—G. R. McCall, M. N. McCall.
MISSIONARY SOCIETIES.
White Plains—J. W. Ellington.
Ladies’ Missionary Society, Marietta—W. L. ■
Mansfield, D. B. Hamilton.
Madison Missionary Society—D. E. Butler, j
Rome Missionary Society—J. C. Brown,
Chas. E. Hill.
Greensboro Missionary Society— J. L. Brown.
Augusta Missionary Society—E. Mastin, D.
R. Wright, N. B. Moore.
The reporters of the Chronicle * Sentinel and
the Constitutionalist were invited to seats in
the convention.
The order of business as printed in the
minutes of 1867 was adopted for the present
session.
The following committees were appointed by
the President:
On Preaching—Cuthbert, Wright, W. .1.
Hard, J. R. Sanders, Steadman, Burney and G.
W. Evans.
On Finance —H. H. Hickman, T. W. Callo
way, and C. E. Hills.
The following named Ministers were invited
to seats in the convention : James Barrow, H.
A. Williams, J. Hillman, T. A. Reid, J. P. Meal
ing, J. H. Underwood and T. H. Stout.
The hours of Session were adopted, as fol
lows 9 o’clock, a. m., to 1, p. m., and from 3
o’clock, p. m., to 5, p. m.
Rev. J. P. Boyce, D. D., was recognized as the
representative of the Southern Baptist Theolo
gical Seminary.
Rev. M. T. Sumner was recognized as corres
pondent of the Board of Domestic Missions.
The reports of the Executive Committee and
of the Treasurer of the convention were read
and the former referred to a committee : D. W.
Gwinn, W. H. Davis, W. J. Harley, J. W.
Ellington, J. C. Brown, T. B. West, W. D.
Atkinson. The report of the latter was ordered
to be printed. We extract the following from
the report: Permanent Fund for Education,
$18,789 07 ; Orphans, Fund, 81,618; Permanent
Mission Fund, 8219 55; The Heom Legacy,
86,276 54; General Purposes, $lO 85; Indigent
Ministers, $8; Town Lot Fund, $519 60.
Total, 827,441 71.
On motion of Rev. J. H. Cuthbert,
Resolved, That a half hour be consumed each
morning in devotional exercises, beginning at
11 o’clock.
The following correspondents were appoint
ed : To the Alabama convention : J. J. Toon,
J. C. Conner and 8. C. Boykin. South Carolina
convention : W. J. Hard. Virginia General
Assembly: G. C. Connor and D. W. Gwinn.
The convention adjourned to 9 o’clock Sat
urday.
Saturday, April 25.
The Convention was opened with prayer by
Rev. J. P. Boyce.
The Moderator appointed the following com
mittees :
On Deceased Ministers.—L. R. L. Jen
nings, George Stapleton, J. 11. Hall, F. M.
Haygood, W. A. Overton, E. R. Carswell,
B. M. Calloway.
On Missions.—J. J. Brantley, Asa Chandler,
J. A, Carter, H. F. Buchanan, W. G. McMichael,
Wm. Cooper, M. N. McCall, Jr.
On Education.—John Milledge, J. 11. Ivey,
W. L. Mansfield, H. C. Hornady, D. B. Hamil
ton, L. W. Stevens, W. L. Kilpatrick.
On Nominations.—Daniel B. Sheate, R.
L. McWhorter, J. O. Pitts, J. J. Pearce, J. G.
Holtzclaw, H. Evans.
Received the new Sunbury Baptist Associa
tion as a member of the Convention : S. Lan
drum, W. H. Starks, H. A. Williams, D. G.
Daniell.
Received the report of the Board of Trustees
of Mercer University and referred it to a special
committee of one from each association, consist
ing of J. H. Kilpatrick, G. A. Nunally, 8. H.
Stout, M. 8. Wellborn, J. J. Toon, J. C Binns,
W. H Davis, J. L. Blitch, W. J. Harley, A. R.
Calloway, J. D. Matthews, G. R. McCall, D. G.
Daniel, K. H. Watson, W. D. Atkinson, M. N.
McCall, Sr.
Rev. M. T. Sumner addressed the convention
in behalf of the work in which the Domestic
Mission Board is engaged.
The claims of the Christian index. were pre
sented by Rev. Dr. Shaver, the editor, and by
Rev. Mr. Mansfield.
In accordance with the order adopted by the
convention, a half hour was spent in devotion
al exercises, Rev. Mr. Warren conducting the
exercises.
Rev. T. A. Reid, Missionary of the Richmond
Board to Central Africa, presented the claims
of Foreign Missions.
On motion Rev. W. D. Atkinson, a commit
tee of one from each Association was appoint
ed to nominate delegates to the Southern Bap
tist Convention, consisting of Brethern W. D.
Atkinson, B. 8. Sheats, T. J. Burney, K. H.
Watson, D. W. Gwinn, E. A. Steed, W. L. Kil
patrick, W. C. Nclkey, W. J. Harley, A. R.
Calleway, M. J. Wellborn, A. Chandler, J. L.
Underwood, G. R. McCall, M. N. McCall, Sr.,
S. Landrum.
Rev. J. H. Cuthbert presented the following,
which was adopted:
In view of the peculiar trials of the times in
which we live, we deem it proper to re.-affirm
our confidence in the WORD and PROVI
DENCE and PROMISES of GOD, and to re
commend to our people moderation in all their
earthly pursuits and relations, and a renewal of
Christian fellowship among all the true follow
ers of Jesus.
Rev. 8. Landrum offered a resolution re
specting the support of beneficiaries which, on
his motion, was referred to the Committee on
the Executive Committee’s report.
Adjourned to three o’clock, p. m.
Convention met at three o’clock. Opened
with prayer by Rev. Mr. Young.
The next session of the convention was ap
pointed to be held at Cuthbert, on Friday before
the fourth Lord’s Day in April, 1869.
8. J. Burney was re-elected Treasurer of the
convention by acclamation.
On recommendation of the committee, W. H.
Davis was appointed to preach the introduc
tory at the next session ; M. J. Wellborn, Al
ternate ; 8. P. Calloway to preach the sermon
on Education ; R. W. Fuller, Alternate.
The former executive committee was ap
pointed by acclamation : T. H. Starks, T. J.
Burney, D. E. Butler, B. P. Robinson, W. G.
Woodfin, W. E. Milette.
The report of the Special Committee on the
report of the Executive Committee was
adopted.
The amount in the hands of the Treasurer of
the convention for indigent ministers was, by
vote, given to Rev. J. Barrow.
The announcements for Sunday’s services
were made by Rev. J. H. Cuthbert.
On motion, the convention adjourned to
nine o’clock, Monday morning.
The closing prayer was offered by Rev. H.
A. Tupper.
The Riot Thursday.—Our city was in
tensely excited Thursday afternoon, and but
for the cool courage and undoubted bearing of
Mr. Jno. A. Christian and the patience and self
possession of the whites, there would have been
a scene of bloodshed that might have sufficed
the insatiable thirst of the rankest Radical in
our midst. The day had passed off quietly up
to about 5 o’clock, at which time there were
about three hundred negroes and about seventy
five whites in the Court House yard, crowding
around the steps, waiting the closing of the
polls, all peaceable and orderly. About this
time the military Mayor of this unfortunate
city—the man appointed by Gen. Pope as chief
conservator of the peace—came out of the Hall
and, standing in the portico, flourishing a roll
of greenbacks, offered to bet one thousand dol
lars that Bullock was elected. This brag, from
the chief Loyal Leaguer, enthused the negroes,
who cheered lustily. The whites then cheered
for Gordon and others.
One irreverent individual cried out: “You
I a d perjured son of a b , you had better
pay off your police with that money.” From
this time to the closing of the polls there was
considerable chafing. When the polls were
closed, Bryant, we learned, advised his friends
to go home. The same advice was given by
Mr. Christian and Major Crump to the white
citizens present. This last named gentleman
had just left the Court Yard in company with
Mr. G. A. Snead, when the row commenced.
A general fight would have ensued, but for
the reasons stated above. The negroes bran
dished their clubs and threw showers of bricks ;
the whites standing firm and cool. Soon, at
the suggestion of Major Crump, the military
I squad was put in motion, and the bayonets
i dispersed the negroes, injuring several, and we
hear running one entirely through. The ofli
j cer in command very wisely ordered his troops
■ not to fire.
i About seven o’clock another serious disturb
j ance occurred in Broad street, occasioned by a
: mulatto, who is said to have assaulted a young
I gentleman who is, and has been for years, a
cripple. Immediately after this the same ne
gro strjjck a lady—the wife of an eminent sur
geon of this city—felling her to the ground.—
There were several crowds of people on the
streets talking over the incidents of the riot at
the City Hall, and chase was made by several
persons for the offending negro, while a couple
of gentlemen raised the lady from the side
walk and conveyed her into the store of Mr.
W.C. Jones. By this time there bad collected
in the vicinity of Hunsberger’s corner about
two hundred people. Several pistol shots were
fired, one of which took effect in the thigh of
the fleeing negro. Deputy Sheriff Crump, at
great personal risk, succeeded in arresting the
! negro and protecting him from the rage of the
j incensed multitude. A number of prominent
■ citizens arrived at this juncture and seconded
Major Crump in the preservation of the
peace. They afterwards assisted two police
men in getting the negro to the guard
house. The negro was very much excited and
did not seem to realize that he was among his
friends. We learn that he is subject to fits of
lunacy, and this may account for his strange
demeanor. His name is Alfred, and was form
erly the slave of Mr. J. E. McDonald, of Sum
merhill, S. C., but has recently been in the em
ploy of Mr. Wheelock, of this city. His wound
is not serious.
Just as the negro was started to the guard
house as above stated, some other negro threw
a billet of wood in a crowd of whites, when a
few more volleys were fired without and re
sult.
We shall not moralize on this affair. There
were several well disposed colored people who
endeavored to persuade their race to quit the
streets. These men also witnessed the suc
' cesßful efforts of the gentlemen referred to in
| saving the mulatto, Alfred.
Church Matters in Nashville.—The
| Nashville correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
! mercial, writes under date of the 16th inst., as
follows :
“ There has been some unpleasant feeling in
Christ Church, in this city, for some time,
growing out of High and Low Church differ
ences. A veiy small proportion of the congre
gation are inclined to ritualism, while the pas
tor, Rev. Mr. Ellis, has gone the extreme of
Cow Churehism. The latter, in view of the
i slight opposition manifested, has asked that the
| vestry proceed to the election of a pastor. The
; election takes place on Monday, and there is no
i doubt that Mi. Ellis will be re-elected, as he is
■ very popular with nine-tenths of the congrega
-1 tion.”
Richmond Medical Journal.—We en
dorse the following from the Richmond Zh's
patch relative to the Medical Journal :
“ This valuable monthly publication, for
April, has for some days been lying on our ta
ble. Dr. Gaillard, its distinguished editor, has
resumed its editorial department, after a long
attack of sickness, ■which rendered him unable
to attend to his editorial labors or the duties of
his profession. The present number is very
interesting for the variety and value of its con
tents. No journal in Its department can dis
play more vigilance with regard to the im
provements in medicine and surgery, and all
the appliances and mechanical inventions for
the benefit of the sick and suffering.
“ It is very gratifying to Southern people, as
well as the faculty, that so able a periodical is
printed here. It is an invaluable adjunct to
Southern practice and to the exertions to form
an enlightened and prosperous school here
which will become a high authority in genera’
science and develop thoroughly the peculiar
types of diseases in the South.
“We appeal to the patriotism and pride of
Southern physicians to sustain this work ; not
merely that it is a Southern work, but because,
in addition to this, it is the largest and best
medical monthly published in the United States,
as is admitted by the press generally, North and
South, which has noticed it. Furthermore, its
contributors represent the best teachers, prac
titioners and writers in this country and in
Europe. As any one may see from its contents,
the editor’s means of correspondence enable
him to furnish all that is best and most reliable
in contemporaneous medical literature. Be
sides, the Journal publishes more for the pres
ent currency than was given before the war for
subscriptions in gold.”
Butler hates General Thomas, says the New
York Herald's Washington letter, because
Thomas told him to his face during the war
that he was a liar, and repeated the phrase when
Butler drew up to strike him. Butler then
backed out.
Out.—The following has beea received by
Mr. J. R. Davis. In view of recent events we
deem comment unnecessary;
Bureau R. F. & A. L., I
Office Ass’t Com., State of Georgia, ">
Atlanta, Ga., April 23, 1868. )
[EXTRACT.]
Special Order No. 47.
1. The resignation of Mr. Jacob R. Davis,
Agent Bureau R. F. and A. L., Augusta, Ga.,
is, subject to the approval of Major General
O. O. Howard, Commissioner, hereby accepted,
to date, April 24, 1868.
Mr. Davis will turn over to Mr. M. L.
Whalen, Agent, who has been ordered to
relieve him, all books, papers and records per
taining to bis office.
By order of Brev. Brig. Gen. C. C. Sibley,
Assistant Commissioner.
M. Frank Gallagher,
2d Lt. 16th U. S. Infantry, A. A. A. G.
Destructive Fire.—About one o’clock on
yesterday morning our town was aroused by
the alarm of fire near the jail. From what we
have been able to- learn, it commenced at the
rear corner of the building. Whether it was
the result of accident or is the work of an in
cendiary seems to be a matter of uncertainty
at the present time. Five buildings (store
houses) were consumed, as also was the jail.—
The loss cannot well be estimated at this time,
but it is very heavy.
The prisoner in jail, King Henry, in the ;
midst of the confusion in efforts to extinguish !
the fire, made his escape, and has not yet been i
recaptured. Great efforts were made to pre- ;
vent the fire from spreading to other parts
of the town. Every one on the ground seemed '
resolute to do their duty. The Federal soldiers
; who are here at present worked like heroes,
j and deserve great praise, as also the negroes,
i for they turned out, men and women, and with
I buckets of water, and labored manfully to extin
j guish the flames. No one can doubt but that
I these negroes showed a good disposition in
this affair. Many of them deserve especial
praise, but time and space forbids us to men
tion names. Many of them during the elec
tion now being heid have shown by their votes
and the interest they have taken to promote
the voting of the Democratic ticket, that thev
were for the good of the country, and true and
faithful to its best interests. They had, on this
occasion, an opportunity to show their faith
fulness to the whites, which they nobly did.
I Let the whites remember them and their ser
j vices.
I The principle losers by the fire were Ed
monds & Stanton, J. T. McCarty’, James A.
Rumsey, and the county.
[Elberton Gazette,
Shots Fired from Bradley’s House at
Citizens.—On Thursday night four shots
were fired from Bradley’s residence, corner of
Broughton and Lincoln streets, at persons
passing by on the sidewalk. A crowd collected
immediately, and a rumor which reached the
United States Barracks brought a file of soldiers
to the spot, who left immediately upon iearn
i ing the facts. Sergeant Foley called upon
I Mayor Anderson and told him of the oecur-
I rence, and, fearing the men at Masonic Hall
I would hear of it and execute summary ven
geance, the Mayor went to the place and
investigated the affair. On knocking at the
front door, be was let in by a burly negro
armed with a cutlass.
On going into the back room the Mayor found
a party of negroes, and in the centre of them a
white man, whom Colonel Fitch, in his scathing
portraits of the Radical leaders, at the Johnson
square meeting, ealled “ the best of the lot.”
The party were drinking whisky and appeared
very convivial. The yard was also full of
negroes. They denied having fired the shots,
and were warned to keep quiet by His Honor,
i who then left.— Sav. Rep., 25th.
j Conjury.—A negro on the plantation of Geo.
: B. Holmes, Esq., bought some calico a few days
I ago and got a negro woman to make it into a
spread for her bed. When it was made and
slept under the first time the owner became
sick, and suspicion of conjury fell on the ma
ker. It was said that the conjurer blew her
breath three times in the middle of the spread.
The excitement on the plantation was intense.
On Sunday the spread was brought out and
solemnly burned in the presence of several
thousand free and independent voters. On yes
terday the conjured woman walked to town
through the rain and mud to give ten dollars to
the medicine-man who cast out the evil spirits,
and the woman who did the conjuring also came
with her friends to be cleansed of the unclean
spirit. It will cost her also ten dollars to be
absolved. In the meantime the plantation is in
a high state of excitement, and no work is done.
It is the duty of Congress to pass a reconstruc
tion supplemental act forbidding conjuring.
[Montgomery Mail.
Rev. Wm. Cooper, agent of the Sunday
School Board at Greeneville, 8. C., advocated
the cause of Sunday Schools and of Sunday
School literature.
Rev. J. P. Boyce made an address in behalf
of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
at Greeneville, 8. C.
On motion of Rev. D. E. Butler,
Resolved, That this convention cordially ap- I
prove of the design of the Southern Baptist I
Theological Seminary, not to attempt any en- '
dowment at present, but to confine its efforts
to the annual support of its interests during
the financial difficulties of the country, and
that we do recommend to the churches and as
sociations to give all possible facilities to such
ageircies as may be set on foot to procure these
annual contributions.
Resolved, also, That the Baptists in this State
are recommended to contribute sbeh an amount
as with other sources of income from this
1 Slate shall support one Professor.
Yout First Sweetheart.
Yon can never forget her. Sho was so
very young and innocent and pretty. She
had such away of looking at you over her
lyinn-book hi church. She alone, of all
the world, did not think you a boy of eigh
teen, but wondered at your size ; and your
learning; and your faint foreshadowing of
a sandy moustache, and believed you every
inch a man. Whenat those stupid evening
parties, where boys who should have been
in the nursery, and girls who should have
eaten their suppers of bread and milk, and
gone to sleep hours before, waltz and flirted
and made themselves ill over oysters and
champagne, you were favored by a glance
of her eye or a whisper from her lip. you
ascemied to the seventh heaven immediate
ly. When once upon a certain memorable
e\ e she polkaed with the druggist’s clerk
and never looked at you, how miserable
you were. It is funny to think of now, but
it was not funny then, for you were awfully
in earnest. J
Once, at a pic-nic, she wore a white
dress, and bad roses twined in her black
hair, and she looked so like a bride that
you fairly trembled ; sometimes you thought
in just such a costume, with just such blos
soms in her hair, she might stand beside
the altar, and you, most blest of mortals,
might place a golden ring upon her finger,
and when you were left alone with her for
a few moments some of your thoughts
would form themselves into words, and
though she blushed and ran away, and
would not let you kiss her, she did not
seem angry. And when you were parted,
somehow, for a little while, and when you
met again she was walking with a gentle
man, a large, well whiskered man, of twen
ty-eight or thirty, and had neither word
nor smile for you, and some well-meaning
gossip informed you shortly after that she
was engaged to the tall gentleman with
black whiskers, and that “ it was a splendid
match.” It was terrible news to you then,
and sent you off to some great city, far
from your native place, where, after a good
deal of youthful grief, and many resolutions
to die and haunt her, you recovered your
equanimity, and began to make money, and
to call love stuff and nonsense.
You have a rich wife of your own, now,
and grown-up children—aye even grand
children about your hearth ; your hair is
gray, and you lock your heart up in the
tire-proof safe of your counting house when
you go home at night. And you thought
that you had forgotten the little episode of
your nineteenth year, until the other day,
when you read of her death in the papers.
You know she was a stout lady, who wore
glasses, and had daughters older than she
was in that olden time; but your heart
went back and you saw her smiling and
blushing, with her golden hair about her
face and yourself a boy again, dreaming of
wedding robes and rings, and you laid your
gray old head upon your office desk aud
wept for the memory of your first sweet
heart.
[From the Daily Advertiser.
The So-called Election.
This thing, the Saturnalia of the nineteenth
century upon this continent, has finally come
to .a close for this occasion. For four days a
stream of votes has poured in, more than one
half of which would not be recognized in any
State of that Northern section which forces
them upon us. The eiectiou has been quiet,
and the quiet has been secured, not so much
by the presence of bayonets (a fact, in itself, a
terrible sarcasm on the freedmon of the citizen
and the stability of Republican institutions,)
as by the constant exertions of the Conserva
tives, thronged the polls and whose eon
; tinned Sflbrts were directed not more to theac
! quisition of votes than to united action with the
i military and police to preserve order and quiet.
' And here we must pause to bestow the bigh
| est praise upon the gallant and unterrified col
• ored Democracy and their leaders, who, worthy
of the great and time-honored party in which
they have enrolled themselves, have proved that
they are worthy of the highest and best enco
nium. These men before the election -were
’ made the objects of the most bitter and bloody
; denunciations ; they were assured that their
I lives and property would surely- be sacrificed
I should they dare to vote the .Conservative
ticket, as their convictions and consciences told
them they should vote. They were proscribed
and menaced. It required no little degree of
courage to face the storm, which the Radical
policy of Intimidation held before them ; but,
thank God, these brave colored men, true to
conscience and real manhood, stared the
I threatened danger boldly in the eyes, did their
' duty nobly’ and manfully, and proved tbein
| selves worthy of any trust which may hereafter
jbe reposed in them. Ali honor to John Chip,
to Jackson Brand, tQ Osborn Wray, to Francis
McNeill, to Thos. Scott, to Fred. Law, to Wm.
Vollard, and to scores of others, whom we can
not enumerate, but all of whom we equally
honor.
But if one tiling more than another redounds
to their credit, it rests in the fact that, after
they found they were in the, majority at the
polls, they refused to remember the base and
cowardly means of intimidation used against
them, and stiil “ pursued the even tenor oi
their way,” doing their duty calmly and fear
lessly, preserving the peace and evincing no
animosity at the miserable means used by the
■ Radicals against their freedom of action. On
I the last three days of the election tbeConserva-
I live colored men were in the majority at the
polls, and to their credit be it said, they controll
ed their anger under their great provocations,
behaved orderly and followed the law.
Me infinitely admire the brave and gallant
colored men who have stood by their early
associations—an admiration almost as intense
towards them as is our contempt for the miser
able wretch who, an educated and professional
man, and born at the South, has from the most
sordid motives, cast reproach upon an honor
able name aud grief upon honorable men, un
fortunate enough to be his relatives, by shame
lessly appearing at the polls to advocate the
K.uiical cause. We mention no name ; let the
cap be worn by him whose conscience tells
nun it fits; aud let him remember that there
are some disgraces worse than crimes.
The colored men of the city, educated by
association and training, voted the Conservative
ticket; the brutal and ignorant negroes of the
country voted the Radical ticket, almost to a
man; and this in itself is a test of the com
parative merits of the two parties and the re
spective causes they advocate.
Great Doctors in Consultation.—When
Ur. Bethune and his wife were in Europe, Mrs.
Bethune had been transported bv water from
Liverpool to London in order to consult Sir
Astley Cooper and Sir James Clarke. At this
place her husband joined her, to make the dis
covery that even the most learned doctors may
be found napping. The accommodations not
being extensive, when the two physicians re
tired for consultation, Mr. Bethune was in a.
position where he could overhear their re
marks. They had a pleasant interview, one re
lating how he, on a certain occasion, came very
near lighting a duel. The difficulties and dan
ger of the position occupied some time to de
scribe, and they were about to separate, when
one recalled the patient. “ But what shall we
Bethune’s wile?” “O, give her the
‘ , ’ <l P' n ;, was the ready reply. It is superfluous
to add that this most expensive medical attend*
ance quickly terminated. ‘ ’
A Yankee having told an Englishman that
he shot on one particular occasion 999 <sninc
I his interlocutor asked him why he didn’t make
it a thousand at once. “ No,” said he “its not
likely that I m going to tell a lie for one
snipe.” Whereupon, the Englishman, deter
mmded not. to be outdone, began to tell a story
of a man having swam from Liverpool to Bos
ton. “ Did you see him yourself ?” asked the
Yankee suddenly, “did you see him yourself
“ Why, yes, of course I did. I was
across and our vessel passed him a mile out o"f
Boston harbor.” “ Well, I’m glad ye saw him
stranger, ’coz yer a witness that I did it. That
was me I” |
[From the Missouri Republican.
A Eival for American Cotton —Suicidal
Policy of Radicalism.
We have from time to time noticed the un
tiring efforts of the English cotton spinners,
continued now for a series of years, to extend
the area of the cotton cultivation in countries
outside of the United States. These parties
began their work before our civil war, and
were stimulated to renewed exertions by the
experience of that war. They are still working
with their accustomed energy and perseverance,
aided by the capitalists and Government of
England. The “Manchester Cotton Supply
Association ” is now one of England's great
institutions. To aid the efforts of this compa
ny, the diplomatic and consular agents of Great
Britain, in every country where cotton can be
raised, leave no stone unturned to foster aud
promote the production of cotton. They are
among the agents through whom, by means of
capital and information as to the raising of this
crop, the Manchester company operates. That
company has, besides its special agents skilled,
well-informed and able men, who are them
selves thoroughly instructed in all that pertains
to the cultivation of this staple and know how
to instruct others. By virtue of such agencies
and large amounts of capital applied to the ob
ject, the success of this company has been most
signal.
Their largest field and that in which they
have wrought most dilligentiy is of course In
dia. 1* ormerly, India cotton was very inferior
to American, and it was supposed never could
be improved so as to be equal to it. But, nev
ertheless, a vast improvement has been effect
ed. This result has been brought about by the
introduction of seed from New Orleans. The
cotton plant from seed of this variety has been
naturalized in India, where the yield, though
in some particulars liable to the objections
heretofore made against India cotton, is twenty
per cent, in excess of the best of the other va
rieties grown in that country, and forty per
cent, over the ordinary kinds. What is more
important is the fact that the product turns out
pound .or pound a larger quantity of yarn than
can be spun from American cotton.
In the Bombay Presidency, the quantity of
land suitable for cotton amounts to over sixteen
millions of acres. There were in cultivation,
in 1866-’67, nearly two millions of these acres,
more than a third of which was planted with
the American seed. The present year the
quantity of this kind of seed used will begreat
lj’ increased.
In this country, the crop of 1867 will be but
a trifle in excess of that of 1866. It is difficult
to speak of the crop prospects for 1868, but
they probably promise no better than those of
the last year. The cotton cultivation here may
be considered as little better than stationary, if
it is not receding. Among the circumstances
which in this connection have more or less sig
nificance must be noticed the fact that a recent
meeting of the Manchester Cotton Supply Asso
ciation, communications were read from sev
eral Southern planters, offering to transfer their
capital, skill and experience to the cotton fields
of India. The reasons that have moved these
planters to take such a step—which amounts to
expatriation from their native land—are the un
settled condition of the American cotton States,
and the probabilities that hereafter the domi
nating power and prevailing influences in that
section of the United States will be exceedingly
adverse to regular and profitable industry, if
they do not prove to be incompatible with the
residence there of any portion of the white race,
who rise above the present level of the blacks
The New York Bulletin, which has collated
some of the facts stated above, correctly re
marks that their importance cannot be exag
gerated. Like every impartial paper, looking at
the subject from a commercial and financial
point of view, and in reference to the largest
material interests and general prosperity of our
country, that journal perceives that the policy
and measures of the English Government are
in broad contrast with those of the Radical rule,
which is now laying its heavy hand on the
Southern States. The agitation of negro suf
frage was a wanton piece of unmitigated folly.
The_ tyranny it necessitates is a natural accom
paniment of it. Both together trample on that
section, and have depressed, and will continue
to depress its industrj’, retard its recovery and
growth, and keep it in a languishing condition.
Had negro suffrage never been broached—had
nothing more been done than to see the Civil 1
Rights act enforced for the protection of the |
negro—the South, iong since restored to the j
Union, would be peaceable and prosperous.— |
Both white men and negroes would be con- i
tentedly at work raising cotton and sugar; and j
the cron of 1868 would have made near ap- I
proaehes to that of 1860. But Radical insanity 1
and hatred—the folly of its fanaticism and vis- j
ionary nonsense—together with a blind and
savage thirst for revenge, have inspired a sui
cidal policy, which is now having its perfect
work in more than half ruining the finest por
tions of the United States.
Another View of the Cotton Supply.— |
The following calculations and estimates have j
been submitted to us by a gentleman who :
closely observes the phases of the cotton sup- •
ply and consumption, and whose good judg
ment gives weight to his opinions :
“ While we are daily perusing statements is
sued to prove the actual prospective deficiency
! in cotton, it may be well to digest one showing
! the possibility that a few bales may be left on
j hand when our new crop comes to market,
I to-wit:
Bales.
April 18, stock in Liverpool 407,000
April 18, at sea (100,000 American).... 348,000
| Additional American at sea of week
ending April 10 48,000
Additional export of Am’n to Great
Britain, alter New York telegraphic
reports of April 10th, giving Great
Britain 50,000 more than of last years’
crop 258,000
1,001,000
Average vzeekly receipts in
Great Britain last year from
other than United States was
43,000 for 19 weeks 817,000
Less in above estimates at sea. .248,000—569,000
1,630,000
For consumption and export at Liver
pool, say 19 weeks, to Scptem
ber 70,000—1,330,000
Stock September Ist, 1868 300,000
In addition it is said the spinners of
Great Britain hold an excess 0f.... 200 000
While the Continent has also taken
largely from Liverpool, so as to di
minish their demands on that port,
and in addition have taken from the
United States, more than last year.. 140,000
The weekly estimate of receipts from other
i ports than the United States is taken from the
j average oi the entire year of 1867, although the
i tour months comprised should be the heaviest
of the twelve.
Supposing the U.S. crop to be 300,000
more than last year, I have distribu-
I ted to Continent thereof 140,0
Do. Great Britain 50,000
Leaving for distribution....’ 110,000
[Colubus Enquirer.
A Curious Calculation.—T’-e New York
Courier of to-day says :
Both parties in the West are «in favor of
paying off the national bonds in greenbacks ;
both parties in the Atlantic States favor pay
ment in gold. Let us see what the effect would
be either way. Suppose payment now, or
n nno ee . n ? ack8 ’ to cost the country 52,-
000,000,000—that is a clear loss of the whole.—
lhen suppose the $2,000,000,000 not paid until
maturity, say forty-four years from this date,
the interest on $2,000,000,000 is $120,000,000 a
year at 6 per cent, at compound interest; there
fore, the interest alone would amount to thirty
thousand millions in gold. Here’s a splendid
chance for the political economists to figure,
and tell us which costs most, $2,000 000 000
lost to day, or $38,000,000,000 lost in forty-four
years ? J
The late Archbishop of Dublin making one
day a very small joke, all the company laughed
heartily, except a certain popular author who
was present. His grace, somewhat nettled at
the very serious countenance preserved by the
humorist, remarked, “ I don’t think you see
what I mean.” “Oh, yes, I do.” w’as the re
ply, “ but the living my brother is seekim' is
not in your diocese.” ” I
[ From the N. O Picayune,
The Radical Uses for the Negro-
A disposition has been shown by the
emancipated blacks in various places to
emigrate to Liberia. The Colonization So
ciety is in the receipt of a good many ap
plications for aid, and has issued a circular
asking contributions to help it in this exo
dus.
The Anti-Slavery Standard gets very much
excited on this topic, pours a column of
abuse into the Colonization Society, and
calls it another scheme in the interest of
the old slaveholders to strengthen the par
ty of caste in this country. The negro is
advised to retuse to quit this, his native
country, to go into what is represented to
be a dismal exile in Africa.
This sounds very considerate and philan
thropic; but it is, in its essential traits,
selfish and cruel. The Standard has a prob
lem to work out, and it has use for the
black man as the subject of experiment,
and cannot do without him as an ally.
There is a conflict coming on, nay delibe
rately brought on by the Standard and its
party, between a large superior intellectual
race, with an inferior, ignorant and un
taught one, and it has been made to as
sume the aspect of a struggle for mastery.
It would never have assumed any such
shape if these pestilent theorists had not
put into it the element of political suprema
cy for the inferior race as a preliminary to
their exaction of a social amalgamation,
against which inveterate habits and un
eradicated instincts rebel. Os the ulti
mate result of the conflict we shall not
attempt to sneak. The matter for the
present is, that under the Radical policy
nine-tenths of the numbers and intelli
gence of the superior population are placed
in a subjection, which is felt by them
to be degrading, below the ignorant, delud
ed mass, and are penetrated with a deep
conviction, that in this they have been in
sulted and outraged, as well as deeply
wronged. Thejwj are the elements of chronic
discord which are not to be stilled by dis
quisitions on the fanciful idea of a republic,
which is to be established when human
nature has so thrown off all its imperfec
tions that it will need no government at all.
They are not to be removed by the direct
hand of military power. Under that dis
contents will only be more aggravated, and
the fervor of martyrdom be added to the
stubbornness of opinion, and the sense of
unmerited wrong. Good men will anxiously
desire to combat these results in the com
mon interest of society for peace, but men
to be wise, must work for practical results
with the means about them. It is a false
policy, and will have no practical good
issue, to deal with six millions of white
men who feel that they suffer and believe
they are foully wronged, as though their
Complaints were feigned and their com
plainings a new offense. Nor while these
sentiments must rankle, is there any ra
tional ground for hoping that the other
party invested with unwonted and unbound
ed power by alien influences, will not fol
low the universal rule, and abuse the supre
macy which comes to them in the nature
of the victory of a race, and, to each
one of them, as a personal aggran
dizement, which would inflame the self
esteem of much better trained minds.
These are the conditions which all re
flecting minds see in the new relations of
society, which force is going on recklessly
to impose on the Southern people. They
are not matters of choice with either race.*
They come to us from without, but they are
just as inevitable, in the constitution of
human nature, as the disruptions, devasta
tions and noisome gasses that follow au
earthquake. Quiet and fertility may come
in some day, when the volcanic forces shall
have exhausted themselves ; but the people
I who live within the range of the belching
j mountain are not wise but otherwise in
I praying for eruptions, because their poster
; ity may be thankful one day that the fires
i have gone out.’
The Standard acknowledges this to be the
condition of affairs, w’hen it demands of
(he negroes, who begin to see into what a
struggle they are being led, to forbear seek
ing a change of condition and a quieter
home elsewhere. It forgets the zeal w’hich
its friends affect for the elevation of the
race in a government of their own, and for
the Christianization and civilization of Afri
! ca, of which the colony of Liberia is vaunt
led so much as the pioneer. It wants men
I to stay here, where it can make them suffer,
where they fear to suffer, that their suffer
ings may be useful to the propagation of
some Radical theory of universal equality,
to be fulfilled in a future day, wlien their
race shall have become thoroughly enlight
ened, and the white race thoroughly recon
ciled, and a millennium of perfect frater
nization succeeds to the passions and con
vulsions which faction has so wantonly im
planted among a -people who would else
have lived together in peace, and worked
out the common happiness of the races in
the natural order of mutual interest and
mutual good will.
The Radical interest in the negro is the
interest of a serviceable tool. To keep him
here is one phase of the manifesration, but
it is also clear that a negro who might see
his true interest to be in spurning alien
influences, and clinging to the fortunes of
those with whom he has been reared, who
know his weaknesses and his wants, aud
can have no possible desire to molest or
misuse him, or hinder his advancement in
comforts and in station —would get little
aid or sympathy from these political negro
philists. If he could not give political
service for the favor he asks, he might go
to Liberia, or anywhere else, ami be fol
lowed by abuse. He would get such a
reply as the Jacobin, in Canning’s famous
burlesque, gave to the “needy knife-grinder”
who could not understand his politics:
I give thee six pence! I’ll see thee damned first,
Wretch, wh>m no sense of wrong can rci se to
vengeance I
Sordid, unfeeling reprobate, degraded—
And spiritless outcast 1
What They Say of Butler at the
“ Hub.” —A Washington correspondent of
the Boston Advertiser, a Jacobin sheet, thus
speaks of Butler’s manner of conducting
the impeachment trial:
“ Mr. Butler calls for the witnesses, Mr.
Butler examines the witnesses, Mr. Butler
explains the purpose of testimony, Mr. But
ler answers the objections of the counsel
on the other side, Mr. Butler supplies the
amusinff retorts which enliven the occa
sion, Mr. Butler bullies the Chief Justice,
Mr. Butler announces that the case is
closed. The President’s counsel—whether
Mr. Evarts, Mr. Curtis or Mr. Stanbery is
speaking, say * we;’ Mr. Butler says ‘ I.’ If
Mr. Butler has not finished his oysters
when the fifteen minutes’ recess is over, the
case waits for him; if he is ready, the trial
proceeds, whether half the Senators are in
their places or not.”
Laying of the Corner Stone of the
Second Baptist Church in Macon.—The
ceremony took place on Tuesday evening, in
the presence of quite a large and respectable
audience. It was opened with prayer by the
pastor of the congregation, the Rev. Mr.
Blitch. The address was delivered by the Rev.
David Willis, and the ceremony concluded
with nn address by the Rev.-E. W. Warren —
the whole ceremony being very impressive.
The church will now rapidly go forward to
completion.
f Journal Messenger.