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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.