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GEORGIA WEEKLY OPINION
THE WEEKLY OPINION.
BT w. b. ICBOdOl AMD J. B. BUBBLE.
SATURDAY MORNIN'USKIT. 14.
Fima—The private residence of Mr.
Field*. In tho vicinity of the old rolling
mill, caught lire Thursday night about
twelvo o’clock, and wa* entirely ronaumed.
The faudly were all asleep, and were not
conacloua of the danger they were In until
It wra too late to nave even their clothing.
They loat nearly everything they posseased.
Mr. F. had, we und-ratand, and Insurance
for about *W0 on the house.
Pi.kad* Guilty.—I.lcut. J. M. Burns In-
forma u* that Mr. David Graham, of New.
ton county, who was brought here under
charge of violating the Internal Revenue
Law*. hefore Conimlaaloner Dunning, on
Thursday last, plead guilty to the charge.
He now awalta hi* final trial.
DisnwaLNO Justice.—The Court room
at the City Ilall Waa opened, yesterday, by
order of their honors, Justice* Gauldlng
and Butts, for the dlspenalon of justice to
the good people of the 102Gth district.
It may be a great political privilege to
be entitled to “*uo and be sued," and per
form all the (Unction* pertaining to a 9IU-
zen of a free government, but from the way
ballilEi and sheriffs are harrasslng some
people we wot of this local “can’t see It"
In that light. IVonder if some of them
would not lie willing to surrender their
right to “sue” to prevent being “sued ?”
JUDOEWAEMEi’S LETTER.
The letter which we publish to-day from
the Hon. IIiham Wahnkh. Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of this State, cannot
fall to arrest the attention of the reader.
It Is .worthy of tho distinguished gentle
man who has been so long a favorite with
the people of this section. He speaks the
language of a statesman and patriot; and
manifests little sympathy with that spirit
of Destruction which would keep the
country in turmoil, because certain place
men are denied the leadership In the work
of Reconstruction. If we had more such
men as Judge Wabnkk, and fewer shallow-
pated H11.1.S. who live alone by excitement
and revolution, our troubles would soon
pass away.
VOICE OF CHATTOOGA COOItTT.
We have space only to refer to the re
port of the proceedings of the meeting held
at Sumnifcrvllle, on the 4th Instant. The
influence of Judge Milne* will be valua
ble throughout tho district; and we arc
pleased to learn that a free expression of
his views Is not considered, by him. Im
proper. Othor gentlemen, who fill Im
|>ortant stations, are expected to throw
their Influence In the same direction, at an
early day; and we predict that the voice of
the people of Georgia, In favor of a liesrty
acceptance of the policy of tho Union Re
publican party, as expressed by tbe Re
construction enactments of Congress, will
receive an overwhelming majority in the
State. The movement Inauguarated in
this city, July 4th, has not received a check
In any of the numerous counties where
meetings have been held. The prospects
have been bright from the commencement
of the campaign, and every meeting held
hat only served to Increase our conlidcnco
as to the result.
Papers “friendly to lieconstrnctlon” are
requested to publish the proceedings of the
Chattooga meeting.
tSTTho Atlanta Oration, evidently,
don’t like telegraphic predictions. It
omitted In Its press dispatches yesterday a
little Item of that character. Have you
heard from Maine ?—Jfocon Messenger.
The Opinion conceives It to be the duty
of news agents who are employed by the
joint hinds of journals representing all
parties, to telegraph the news, and leave
each Journal to make Its own comments
and “predictions.” Tho Associated Press
pay men to gather and transmit news, not
to write commentaries and make “predic
tions.” We have, however, omitted noth
ing In our Associated Press dispatches. We
give them to our readers a* we receive
them, and shall continue to do so. The
leading object of the Oration being to fur
nish a correct and reliable medium of
news, wo neither suppress the Intelligence
of tbe one side nor exaggerate that per
taining to the other.
If the Messenger will take the trouble to
compare the vote of Maine cast a few days
since, with that cast in former elections,
before and since tho war, It will sec that
at the late elections the aggregate tote felt
short ly several thousands, and hcnco tho
Republican majority could not be so large
a* when the entire vote of the State waa
cast
Hr A Virginia paper nominates John II.
Oberly, PrcsUlont of tho National Typo
graphical Union, as the Workingmen’s
candidate for President of the United
States. *«._
Ciuiu.kston Finances.—Tho city of
Charleston owe* n debt of 82.VH3 1“, sud
taxes now due to the amount of 21G0JKW.
Reuoious Notice.—Tho Fourth Quar-
tealy Confereuco for Wesley Chapel Sta
tion. M. K. C, South, will meet at Wesley
Chapel, this (Saturday) evening at seven
o’clock.
OTA writer who ha* kept a record,
state* that during laud, two hundred lives
were lost. And six millions of property do-
troyed, by kerosene explosion*.
tir non. J. McEwen, for manv years a
member of Congress from the First Con
gressional District of South Carolina, died
at Society Hill, In that State, on Friday,
aged 03 years.
Hoos IN Tennessee.— 1 The Cleveland
(Tcnn.) Banner of the 14th says hog* are
aolling gross at live cents per pound In that
market.
BEAD ISSUES—BEAD LEADERS.
A strange Infatuation seems to have
possessed the relic* of the old dominant
party In this section. Aocuitomcd to ru|e
for a number of years preceding tho war,
and having ruled with u rod of Iron during
its progress, they have come to regard po
litical place and power as their heritage,
and nil who oppose them as Ignoramuses,
agraflans, and traitors. Had the war for
disintegration succeeded, the party who
Inaugurated It, and who tilled the offices
under the sectional dynasty, might have
laid some just claim to monopoly In politi
cal aflairs. They would have had just
claim to the honor of originating the
movement, the glory of conducting It to
a successful Issue, and the reward of office
under It.
Rut the scheme failed;, the matter was
referred to the arbitrament of tho sword,
and the question of Secession nnd State
Right* was lost. It has been hard for our
people to realize this: hurdcr still for our
politician* and place-men to realize, that
by the decision of the very tribunal to
which they themselves appealed, their
power lias been swept away, and that they
must give place, at least for a season, to the
victorious party.
There are time* In tho history of all na
tions when patriotism demands that men
should lay aside schemes of pcnonal am
bition, nnd relinquish their hold upon office,
for the good of the country. Anarchy al
ways has Its origin In the desperation of
defeated parties. Ambitious men, whose
schemes have miscarried, are not apt to be
quiescent. They cling to the last hope.
It Is only where their Intelligence or patri
otism gut* the better of tlielr ambition, or
where they linvo lost Influence with the
masses, that revolutionary factions and
political disorders do not follow close upon
tho heels of civil war. Mexico Is the
scene of anarchy, and 1m* been In a state
of confusion and uncertainty for years, be
cause there Is not place and power for all
her leader*; because leaders are more am
bitious than patriotic, and because the
masses In that country are not sufficiently
Intelligent to comprehend the situation
An educated populace would reflise to be
led by defeated factions who seek personal
aggrandizement at the expense of the pub
lic good; but an ignorant and besotted
populace Is always the easy prey of dema
gogues; it Is the fhel which feeds the
flames of civil discord.
Louis the Sixteenth lost his head, and
the Bourbons the throne of France, be
cause he could not bo made to realize a de
cision of the people In favor of a change
of rulers. Bonai-arte lost his Imperial
Crown and died In banishment, because
his ambition blinded him to the wishes of
the people; he could not realize that those
Principles which wrought the Revolution
and carried It to a successful Issue, must
survive It. The Stuauts could not be
made to rclalze that the people of England
wanted a change of masters, and hence
their removal cost the British nation oceans
of blood.
In 1800, we of tbe Southern State* could
not be made to realize that the public sen
timent of the world, and the civilization
of the age had arrayed Itself against the
extension and perpetuation of Slavery.—
Tbe consequence we know. And now that
we have been defeated, both at the baUot
and In tbe field, some of our pro-slavery
leaden cannot be made to realize that the
issue upon which they attained place and
power, is among tbe tunes of a past epoch,
and that tiro American people, Including
the masses of the South, have proclaimed
In unmistakable terms for a new order of
things, and for new representatives of
public will,
The only rcmalnlngquestlon for solution
therefore, Is. Are wo sufficiently intelligent
to comprehend the situation? or, will we
permit ourselves to be led to destruction
by tho desperate loaders of a defeated
party ? Shall we continue to link our des
tinies to the fortunes of desperate, reckless
and ambitious leader*? Are we prepared
cither for a State of Anarchy similar to
that which prevails In Mexico, or for ex
termination bocauso of ndlierenco to tho
dogmas of » few men whose ambition over
rides their love of country ?
New Barrack Ground.—IVe learn that
tho Government has leased the race
track, at West End, nnd will at once con
vert it Into a military garrison, It being
understood that one thousand men will be
stationed at this point. A contract has
been entered into with Thomas Alexander,
tho owner, for tho use of the place, at one
thousand dollars per year, for five years,
We understand I
once commenced,
day.
Wo hope tho authorities at Washington
have over estimated the (rawer and influ
ence of the antl-Rcconstructlon party In
Georgia. t [ |
An Incendiary Negro Arrested in
South Carolina.—We learn from the Ben-
net tsvlllo Journal:
That Nat. Williams tho negro Incendia
ry lecturer, a description of whose ha
rangue* appeared In the Charleston Mer
cury of tho 4-lth nit, Ims been arrested nnd
carried to Darlington. He Is chargea with
reaching Incendiary doctrines to the
reed people of Marlboro District, and will
be tried by a military commission.
This is the same fellow who told the
negroes ofSouth Carolina that Mr. Lincoln
bad made a will by which they were enti
tled to forty acres of ground each, free
from taxation for ten years. Ho opposed
Convention nnd Reconstruction under the
Congressional enactments, and advocated
confiscation, etc. t
Counterfeit Five Cent Pieces. There
aro la circulation at the South counterfeit
flvo cent piece* made of lead with a coat
of quicksilver, very skllflilly executed, and
calculated to deceive. They may, how
ever, bo easily detected by the difference of
weight between the bogus and genuine.
Exchange.
Judge Kelley’s Rpeecli I n C’liicl n null ■
Hon. W. D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, de
livered a speech at tho Athenlum In Cln-
Innatl, oh Tftesday evening last, on the
condition of tho country. We extract: -
DEAD DEMOCRACY,
Wo are nut contending with the Demo
cratic (Kir-ty. It Is dead; aud it Is wrong
to w ar upon the dead. [Applauao.) It died
with Andrew Jackson, tiiuce that time, a
party which has warred u(idualltlie rights
of hunmulty, has carried the name and tho
standard of the Democratic party. Its
leaders. Deceiving that Its power lay In the
fact that tho slaveholding States were a
unit on all questions that touched slavery,
abandoned the (Utrlotlc doctrine.) of Jack-
soil, aud took up those of Calhoun—forget
ting that Jackson’s dying regret waa that
he h*d not hung Calhoun when it was Ills
duty to do so.
TJIK SOUTH DELUDED.
The Democrats of the North. In this ad
hesion to the doctrine of State rights, led
the South Into rebellion. During my re
cent Southern trip. 1 heard inoro than
twenty gentlemen, who served In tho Con
federate army, and in the Confederate Gov
ernment. say, we never would have gone to
war but for your Northern Democrat*, who
assured us that If we struck the blow there
would lie no war. They said to them;
“Didn’t we assure our people that wo
would wipe up all the blood spilled In the
war of sepafution with a cambric hand
kerchief; and without soiling it attl
Didn’t we offer to drink all the blood 1
In such a war? We wero assured that
when we struck the blew, the Democrats
In the North would hold the bauds of tbe
North. Our programme was, that when
we had established the new Confederacy,
under what was known as the Montgomery
Constitution, the border State* of the North,
But they little knew tho pulse of the
Amurlcan people. They little knew Its ap
preciation of tho value of the Union, or
the estimate In which the working people
of the country held their right In a coun
try sweeping from ocean to ocean, and
from the sunny sea that bounds us on the
South, over whose surface the summer
breezes ever linger, to tho*o grand lukes
which bound you on the North, whose
May and November gale* are the requiem
of gallant mercantile navies. [Applause.]
They little know, I say, how the people
prize these treasures.
THE NEORO QUESTION.
In the name of the Union men of the
South, white and black, I pray you to stand
by the flag until the final victory is
achieved and the representatives or the
Southern State* take their seats in tho balls
of Congress under the laws enacted by
Congress, in which now rcsldes-the sover
eignty, of this country. “Ah, but," says
some wily Copperhead, -these are specious
S lea* for negro equality.” Ah, Indeed!
peclous plea* for negro equality—for so
cial equality with the negro!
Let me ask you, my irlend, does every
man who votes in your prcclnctlnvlteyou
to his daughter's wedding when she Is mar
ried? Must you Invite every man who
votes In your precinct to the christening
of your baby ? I think not. I know there
are a great many men In my precinct who
don’t make a social equal or me, and there
are some whom I would not make social
equals of. I never found that the fact that
they and I voted made us social equals.
They who formed our government were
wise and good men. We profess all to be
governedhy their teachings.
wno SHOULD VOTE.
I go back to the founder of the Demo
cratic party, and ask him who should Vote ;
and Thomas Jefferson, from the grave, an
swers, In language penned In hla early
manhood and quoted m his tnaturer year*,
tho heyday of his power, and reiterated
when declining to an honored grave: “All
who pay taxes and may be called upon to
light, should vote.” That was tho doc
trine of the founder of the Democratic
party. [Applause.] And. when Messrs.
Vallandlghaui and Pendleton, and the
party they lead, arrayed themselves
against that doctrine, they arrayed them
selves against the Democratic creed aa It
existed In tho days or the founder of tlielr
party. When the Constitution of the Uni
ted States was adopted, tho colored men
voted In every State savo South Carolina.
That Is history. There wero thirteen States,
and the free colored men of the country
were voters In twelve of them. In the
Convention which framed tbe Articles of
Confederation which preceded the Consti
tution oftbeUnltcd States, South Carolina
Introduced two measures, each of which
wa* Intended to Insert tho word white be
fore freemen when characterizing voters.
Kight voted against tho amendment, and
two voted ror It—Sontli Carolina and Geor
gia; fur they voted by States, and not per
capita. There was oue State divided, so
that Its vote did not count and two States
were not represented. Thus, It not only
depend* upon argument, but there 1* the
fact that when the motion wo* distinctly
made to limit tho suffrage to tho while
imputation, only South Carolina and Geor
gia. and one delegate from another State
(and the journal does not name that State),
voted In favor of the so-called amend
ment.
How well would It have been,my fellow-
citizen*. had that determination been ad
hered to. The free black man, being a
voter In every Stato where ho was enfran
chised, could have then exercised his In-
iIucri.t ill ill'll.ill'Ilf till' extension of I'r
a..Education would liateboou oxtornl-
[.I IIn- colored cldldred. and to all
children, in tho Southern States then as It
tain tho Northern States now, and tho
colored people would liavo grown up In
Intelligence; they would have been voters,
and they would have secured the gradual
abolition of slavery. He would, bv haling
done this to them, nave avoided a war that
cost, us North nnd South, nearly a million
of men nnd countless mlll'ons of treasure.
However, it wns not done. State allcr
State deprived the colored men of tho right
of suffrage. North Carolina, slave Statens
she was, did not do this until 183j, Mary
land did It In 1833, Pennsylvania ta 1133;
Connecticut, tho only New Kngland Stato
In which they had not always been voters,
to conciliate tho South, did It in the ses
sions of 1817 and 1818. So that. In asking
on to give the colored man a vote, I am
lit asking you to fall back and restore the
Constitution to what It was at the bc-
glnnlng-
thu Dome
ton and those who, with him, framed
Constitution of the United States. [Ap
plause.]
COMPARATIVE EDUCATION OF NEOROZS AND
POOR WHITES.
Fcllow-cltlzcna, the Democratic party,
so-called, Is the party of aristocracy and
oligarchy. It would maintain particular
fonn* of government, as I have said, but It
would rather see tbe masses held in subjec
tion. Seventy-four thousand such ignor
ant white people, are to be found In Vir
ginia, according to a census taken by a
Democratic Marshal. I11 North .Carolina,
there arwforty-*cven thousand of tli« white
adults, alto, who ran neither read nor write.
In Alabama, thirty-three thousand; and so
you may go over all the States, and you
will find that tlicro was. no education
through public schools In any of them, and
no private schools to which a poor mam—
the ~ low-down,” as they call the small
laud holdors—could «end their children.
Gn tills liolut I venture to affirm that
there are more poor colored men, wo
men, and children at tho South to-day
who can lineally read tho I ami's I’raycr,
the Ten Commandment*, the Batltudes, and
the Constitution of tho United States, than
are poor white*. I Ait me tell you upon
what I predicate; that In ten of the lead
ing cities ami town* I looked Into tho edu
cational system. I visited the public
schools In New Orleans, and I fount! some
respectable colored school*. For white
children I found schools of equal merit,
maintained by the government recently
organized under Butler anil Banka. ’
could see no difference 111 the prog
making between tho white and calc
chlldnm, as I saw none in the capacity of
tho teacher*.
Elsewhere than that 1 found no public
school system fbr white or colored, nor any
nucleus fur one. Thu South has bueii un
der Democratic government, and Demo
cratic government docs not provide educa
tion for poor men’s children. You must
go to * Whig or Republican State for that.
New England, which they want left out In
tbe cold, educates more children than any
other part of the country. Thcro is hut
one State In tho Union which hss a higher
percentage of educational Ikcilltles than
Ohio, ana that 1s Massachusetts
-ATLANTA.
I will take Atlanta to illustrate what U
going on In the South. We are not look
ing at who are Intelligent or Ignorant to
day, hut who will bo Intelligent or igno
rant when they come to vote for members
of Congress, and othor officers In the city
of Atlanta. Our school* aro maintained,
In largo part, by tho people of Cincinnati.
The Storrs School, named after the Rev.
Dr. Starrs, of that city, 1s the largest. The
buildings are beautiful. In 011c, colored
people are educated; and In tbe other, un
der the same ausplcle*, such white children
as will go. In the colored school there are
three classes. Tho children occupy “
school hi the morning until 1 o’clock;
women and larger gll* In tho afternoon;
and In the evening It 1s crowded with men
nnd large hoys, who toil throughout tho
day fur there living. Thrco sfiool-s are
taught dally In that building. In tho white
building, they never were able to fill It
with children for one session, until alter I
had been there and addressed them on tho
importance of education, and took a num
ber of their leading citizen* to ace the col
ored schools. One of these gentlemen, on
witnessing an examination, wept like a
child, or a newly-redeemed ainuer, and
gave 111c his pledge that the schools
should bo cared lor, and that all the
people In the neighborhood should bo
asked to participate, and that tho white
schools should be attended to. 8lnce
then they have been able to fill
the white schools with pupils once
a day. Now, I reason from that, and
from the fact that wherever you find
negroes with a chance to educate them
selves, you find them at work for It, that
they wul soon be intelligent. Their appe
tite for Information seems to be in
spired. They will travel ten, fifteen or
twenty miles to attend a meeting at which
It Is announced that a Congressional speeoh
will bo read. Children from schools carry
homo Northern newapapera and pampldeta
to read to their parents, and there la a
growth of intelligence among them that
has never been equaled in any community
since education began. Therefore yon can
not refose to give them a vote because they
are Ignorant. Our country ta not to end
with tbe last day of tills year. No. It la
fixed In history now, aa tho planets In their
system. You legislate not for to-day or
to-morrow, bat for a thousand or ten
thousand years. But In tbe Interim the
colored people will, by their Industry,
their temperance and tlielr frugali
ty. havu acquired land; they will have
acquired a common school system, and
they will be prepared to bear the bur
dens and duties of American citizens. In
peace, and In war in tho way of taxes,
which the Copperheads would repudiate,
and In conquering enemies with whom tho
Copperhead* sympathise more than they do
with tholr country. [Applause.]
Letter from Chief Justice Warner*
[In reply to a note addressed to the Han.
Hiram Warner, by sevora! of the p rural
nent citizens of this city, the fallowing ha
been received, which sufficiently explains
the correspondence:]
ORtEXVILLE, Sept. 0,1807.
Gentlemen: I am In the receipt of your
letter of the 31st August, requesting my
ent crisis.” Accustomed to think am
for myself in regard to matters affect
the present and tuture welfare of our t
pie, (myself Included) have not the!
desire to obtrude tny private opinions be
fore the public. In ray judgment, It la a
doubtful experiment, even In view of tho
object you desire to
accomplish.
man’s private opinions—who 1
When a
RDPHHHMI Is not a can-
date for tbe suffrages of the people—are
scattered about tbe country through tho
medium of tho newspaper* nspoltttcal mer
chandise, Me motives are sure to b —
turned, often misrepresented, and wl
moral (rawer or lnfiucnoe lie might other
wise pos-ess. Is thereby greatly weakened,
If not entirely destroyed. My opinions In
reganl to the present condition of our peo
ple. toqpaat
view of the c
round them, era quite decided, and have
been frequently expressed. Aa you de
sire a repetition of them In this form, you
aro entirely welcomo to them for what
they are Worth. Whether tho State* had
tho rigid, tiudcr tho constitution, to accede
from the Union, It Is not now necessary to
discuss. I have my opinion about that
question. The government of tho Cattedi
state* now recognize* and treat* tho peo
ple of Georgia as being out of the Union,
outside of tho protection of the Federal
Constitution, In thort, as a conquered (icoplc
and have placed a military Government
over them, laccepttlic situation, not hav
ing cither the means or tho power ta alter
or control it. Under, this stato of fhcta.lt
would be a useless waato of time to discuss
wlltleal principle* or constitutional rights
‘or any practical purpose. The government
of the United Stales ha* provided a plan
and prescribed tho terms by which we may
relieve ourselves of military government,
get back into the Union, and have the con
trol of our domestic State affairs under the
teetton of the Constitution of the Uni-
States. Should our people. In view of
circumstances which now surround
them, accept the terms proponed by Con-:
ire**, vote fora Convention, ami get back
nto the Union as soon as they convenient-
y cun, and thereby lie relieved of tho
Military Government? In my Judgment
It Is best for them und tlielr material in
terests that they should do so, Pastevei.ts
wo cannot recall; let urf remember, them
only so far a* to prollt by the lessons they
may have taught us. Tills (leopla have
suffered enough already; they cannot aflord
to commit another military blunder, or to
dopend upon tho doubtful and uncertain
to expect from that quarter. I aw king to
tlielr present and future material interests,
our people aliould act upon their own
judgment, regardless of politic* or poli
ticians. It Is objected by some that under
the Reconstruction acts of Congress our
best men are dUfrauclilscd. Disclaiming
any wish or deaire to disfranchise any
body, the shortest and quickest wey to
have removed that difficulty. In my judg
ment, would have been quietly to have ac
quiesced in the RcconstrucUon measure*
of Congress; then tho disabilities would
liavo liecn removed at an early day. Time,
with the exercise of a moderate degree of
patience. Is the great restorative of private
grief, as well a* political .troubles. It Is
belle-cd that our present Stato Con
stitution 1s too republican in form, and
lu general provisions acceptable to the
people. It will only require a few slight
amendments so as to conform to tho new
order of things, the people will ratify it,
and it Is supposed Congress will do so like
wise. If, however, wo shall act hi good
faith In fovor of reconstructing the State
under the Acts of Congress, and she Is not
received Into tho Union, the fkult wiU not
be ottre, the responsibility of her refection
will rest elsewhere. But If our people shell
roto against a Convention, reject tho pro
posed terras, as they did the proposed Con
stitutional Amendment, then, when Con
gress meets In December, It ta quite proba
ble another Reconstruction bUl will he
passed, requiring every man who registers
na a voter, to swear, in addition to the oath
now required, that ho wo* not opposed to a
Convention, which would excludo from
the ballot box all those who voted agatnst a
Convention, and place the polltica
of the State in the hands of tho:
would bo certain to vote for it. Tho ex
tension of suffrage In tho Southern
States will greatly increase tlielr polltlcnl
power In the Union when admitted, and
tho ttmo may come, by the exercise of a
wise and discreet policy on our part In refer
ence thereto, when the Northern people,
now so clamorous for it* extension, will be
the first to desire its curtailment, and our
own people vigorously resisting it.
Deeply sympathizing with our entlro
population In their present depressed con
dition. would most heartily recommend to
them the oxerclse of “ wisdom. Justice and
moderation.” As a matter of course, my
judgment Is not entitled to any greater
consideration than that of any other man,
quite as liable to bo mistaken os others, but
my conviction* os to the best policy of our
people under existing circumstances, Is en
tirely sincere, and expressed with the ut
most kindness and charity far the opinions
of those who may differ with me.
Very respectlmly, your ob’t serv’t,
Hiram Warner,
ihoveubiits of toe people.
Electing In Chattooga County.
Summerville, (Ga.) Sept. 4,1807.
A large and respectable portion of tho
citizens of Chattooga county, to-day, met
at the court hotiac, for the purpose of con
sulting together as to the course of all
true patriots In this trying crisis of our
country’s history.
On motion or Mr. Porter, Judge A. P.
Allgood was called to the Chair, and Sam
uel Hawkins was appointed Secretary.
The Chairman, lit a few pertinent __
marks, explained the object of the meeting
to bo to adopt the platform and principles
adopted by toe Union Republican Conven
tion, held In Atlanta, the 4th of July lash
The Superior Court being In session, hla
Honor, Judgo Milner, waa called for, and
responded In s speech of about ono hour,
making aatrong appeal to tho meeting to
vote for a Convention, stating that he bad
been a Secessionist, but was now satisfied
that he waa wrong; and thought It waa
beat for the people at large, both block and
white, to accept the altuatlon and takopart
In the Reconstruction of the State, andad
vised the freedmen to banish forever from
hla mind the Idea of confiacatlon and to
cultivate friendly relations with the whites,
and also advised tho whites to cultivate
friendship with the blacks, and that aU
would get along together well. A differ
ent course, ho thought, would work preju
dice to both classes; and giving many
other strong reasons why the people should
take part lu an effort to once more bring
peace to our troubled and distracted couu-
Vlio Judge being through, Colonel Far
row waa called for, who took tho stand and
addressed the meeting in an ablo speech of
about three-fourths of sn hour, giving many
good reasons why we should vote for a Con
vention. His remarks were In tho kindest
spirit nnd to tho point—well calculated to
reach the better Judgement of all who
heard him.
At the close of tlio Colonel's address, the
committee previously appointed to prepare
business for the meeting, to-wlt: Wesley
Shropshire, Isaac S. Smith, IV. 1*. Hinton,
W. G. Simmons and Benjamin Brunner,
returned and through their chnlrmnn,
Wesley Shropshire, reported the following
preamble ana resolutluns:
Whereas, The time bus arrived when all
who are friendly to the United States Gov
ernment and wish to see the Union re
stored by means of Reconstruction under
the Sherman hill, aud the bills supplemental
thereto, should come forward and aid In
tho wor], of Reconstruction; and whereas
tho groat object In view can be accom
pllshcd only by concert of action; there
fore,
ltesolved, 1. That In tho opinion of this
meeting, no true friend of the South will
hesitate one moment In accepting the terms
of Reconstruction proposed by tho Union
Republican party tlirongh tlieUnlted States
Congress, aa every Interest of tho South
and the whole country requires speedy
restoratlon, as the only soarco of peace,
prosperity and happiness.
ltesolved, 2, That wo cordially approvo
and hereby ratify the platform of prin
ciples adopted by the Union Republican
Stato Convention, held In tlio city of At
lanta, on tlio 4til day of July last.
ltesolved, 3. That all papers In the State
frii'lnllv to K.'.'nii-iiii,'tiim I,,. rci|iio>ti',l to
publish the proceedings of this meeting.
Which were unanimously adopted.
Whereupon tho meeting adjourned.
A. 1’. Allgood, Chairman,
Samuel Hawkins, Secretary.
Damaoetotiik Rice Crop.—There arc
very unflivorable accounts In regard to the
rice crop. A planter on the Ogccchce riv
er reports that his crop Is totally destroyed
by the heavy rains and freshets; that other
planter* In that section will looso tho
greatest portion. If hot all. of tlielr rice,
teporta from Savannah river plantation*
are alto unfitvnr 1 do. Some rice Is cut, but
tha late rains prevent the harvesting of It,
aml'grcat feoi 'iitertalticd In regard
■etlon.—Sac. paper.
TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.
Front tho Now York”I’rctl Annotation.
Washington, Sept 18.—Stevenson was
to-day Inaugurated Governor of Ken
tucky. Ho Indorses and will carry out tbe
rlnclples enunciated by Helm. '
In the Cabinet meeting to-day, General
Grant expressed an Inclination to favor*
simultaneous election in tho ten Southern
States, to be held on the first Monday In
November. It Is expected that District
Commanders will concur. . ’ „
The Peace Commissioners held a meeting
yesterday at Omaha. They expect to start
for North Platte on the 14tb,to meet Spotted
Tell, who'promises to bring hie principal
men.
Stanberry attended the Cabinet meeting
to-day. Gen, Grant was absent. Tbo
session wa* short
The Express says the cholera seems to bo
spreading In New York.
Revcnuo receipts to-day two hundred
aud three thousand dollars.
Ex-Governor Pickens, of South Caroli
na. Is In the city.
Guld in the Treasury 29,807,000; curren
cy, 243,000,000.
Tho Macedoncan, with tho Naval Cadets,
has returned from her European cruise.
AU well.
The New York Herald's Washington
dispatch saya: On tho subject of the effect
of the Amnesty, the Cabinet is said to be a
a unit. In tbe discussion of the Amnesty
Proclamation tho Cabinet agreed that Its
legal effect would be to relievo excluded
whites from disabllliy as totho exercise of
tlio right of suffrage.
A dispatch from Omaha saye Sherman
has advices from Fort Laramie, stating
that tho hoatllo Indians wUl notmeettho
Commissioners at the tlmo specified. They
suspect a trap, but will send runners to
hear what the Commissioners have to ssy,
and If satisfied, will meet the Commission
ers in November. , ..
Tho Secretary of War Issued to-dsy tho
President's proclamation for tho Informa
tion of *11 concerned.
Tho Dubnqno (low*) Herald, In speaking
of the olectlon In Montana, saya: “And
In Montana James M. Cavanaugh Is said to
have been handsomely elected to Con-
t!l MEMPUis, Sept. 13.—Some time since tlio
office of the Eagle newspaper at Camden,
Arkansas, was destroyed by soldiers, led by
Major Plcrco. Col. Gilbert, commanding,
has written n tatter to Gen. Ord, in which
he says that censures of the press directed
against servants of the people may be en
dured; but Gens. Ord’« and Nell's forces
wore detailed to enable them to perform
their duties. They were not tho servants
of the people of Arkansas, hut rather tlielr
masters; and he felt It to he a great piece -
cf impudence for newspapers In tho Stato
to comment upon Gen. Noil under any cir
cumstance*.
Gen. Orel, In reply, says: “Your letter of
the 16th ulh, in whfcli you attempt to ius-
tlfly tho act of a party ofaoldlers, misled
by an officer, In forcibly entering a citi
zen’s house and destroying hla property, I*
received. You will please explain why
this act waa not prevented by you at Post
Commander, and if tho requirement* of
the thirty-second article of war haa been-
complied with. Your assertion that Gen.
Neil's forces are not tho servants of too
people or Arkansas Is unjust, both to the
people and to Gen. Nell, and Is unfounded
Jn the law*, which aro for the benefit of too
people. Tho assumption that a tarty or
soldiers can, at their option, forcibly de
stroy a citizen’s property,and commit#
gross violation of the public peace, would
not bo tolerated eveu under the regime of
a Napoleon. . * _
New York, Sept. 13.—The steamer Eu
rope has arrived with Madame Rlstori oa
board.
Boston, Sept. 13.—The Blue Hill Bank,
of Dorchester, has been robbed of fifty-two
thousand dollars, the greater part of which
was specie deposits.
Nxw Orleans, Sept. 13.—The Captain of
tho steamer Concordia, from Boston, re-
tothecroo* I:
port* having passed the steamer George
Cromwell near AUlgator Key, lying head
to the wind, apparently afloat all right, and
surrounded by wreckera.
Suit has been commenced In one of too
Justices Court* of tola city for the recovery
of the value of ten dollar* of tho city of
New Orleans notes. This Is a teat ease.
Two offleera and twenty of the crew of."
tho Iron-clad Mahaska have died from yel
low fever.
The deaths from yellow fover to six
o’clock this morning were 43.
London, Sept 13.—The bullion in the
Bank of England has Increased £300,000
torltng.
The bark Ethel, from Hong Kong for
New York, grounded when a few days out.
She waa obliged to return and discharge
her cargo.
SouTUAurroN, Sept. 13.—The Western
Metropolis put lit with shaft broken. She
will be speedily repaired.
Rome, Sept. 13.—Tho Pope has resolved
to call together a General Council of the
Roman Catholic dignitaries from aU parts
of the world. Ho has named seven Car
dinals to arrange tho preliminaries for the
Council.
Stockholm, Sept. 13.—Farragut, with
the American squadron, has arrived. He
hatUf'rand reception in which the King
Vienna, Sept 13.—Tho financial rela
tions between Hungary and Austria have
been arranged satUlhctory to both na
tions.
lticnuONixSept. 13.—John Caskln, Pros-
Mentor mo TO tracco exchange, died to-
**^chofleld’s order for tho Stato election
was to have been Itsnnl to-day, but was
delayed In view of the Washington tele
grams relative to too simultaneous election*
too first Monday In November next.
Tho revenue tax collected for the month
of August on tobacco for this District wa*
over half a million dollar*. The amount
of tobacco lu this district will reach a mil
lion and a quarter pounds.
Galveston, Sept. 12—Advices fro ns
Matamoros to tho 4th state that a convoca
tion ha* been promulgated ordering elec
tions for deputies to Congress and Presi
dent of too Supreme Court on tho 22d of
September, and In tho Sixth, Seventh and
Eighth Districts for members of Congress.
Congress will assemble on tho 20th Oc
tober.
The President will tako Id* scat 011 tho
llrft of December, nnd tho Chief Justice
Will take 111* seat on tho first of June.
The brigand troop* under Canale* sur
rendered themselves to the authorities of
Llnarcz.
llcrlozabcl lias resigned tlio Governor
ship of Tamapalas. Cnvon has been np-
pointod.
Escobedo reaeblxl Monterey oil the 43th.
ula, with 4,000 troops. In a speech lie
said that the name “America” would
always be dear to him. HI* reported in
sult to American* at Oucreturu l* denied.
He acknowledge* hi* liidAdileilnca* to the
United Blatea for his success.
Castillo wa* iHirdoued on the 13tb.
25th.
Interments In this city, on Wednesday,
were twenty.