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GEORGIA WEEKLY OPINION.
VOL. I—NO. 17.1
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 26,1867.
ITERMS—$3 00
TUESDAY MORNING:
Mb. Chase ix Virginia.—The Richmond
Dispatch, speaking «f:lie recent visit of
Chief Justice ('hase to that city, says:
“Mr. Chase claims that lie is more Radi
cal iu name than in fact and complains
that ho has indiscreet supporters. We un
derstand this to menu that while he favors
negro suffrage In the abstract, ho is oppos
ed to forcing it upon any State, hilt desires
each one to decide the question for itself."
Insurance Vkudict.—The Norwich and
New York Transportation Company has
recovered a verdict against the Western
Massachusetts Company, for Insurance on
tlie steamer City of Norwich, which collid
ed with a schooner In April, I860, took fire
and sunk. The defense was that the risk
was merely a lire risk, sad they did not
take marine ones, and the loss was occa
sioned hy the perils of the sea. Plaintiffs
claim tiiat the boat would not have sunk
hut for the hurtling of the upper works.—
Amount awarded, 94,923.
cir The Secretary of State tins referred
to the Attorney General a new and inter
esting question, arising under the emanci
pation amendment to the Constitution.—
The captain of a British vessel recently
brought Into Key West three bluck sailors,
whereupon the local authorities indicted
him under State laws, which prohibited
tlie importation or immigration of free ne
groes. The captain appealed to Mr. Ford
Charge d’AffUire* for Great Britain. who
Immediately addressed a note to Secretary
Seward. Pending the netion of the At
torney General, the proceedings against
the British captain were stopped.
Mcd.—The Paris “mud crop” sold this
year for 9120.000. Could not the mud of
the cities an this side of the big pond be
made equally profitable? What a tine open
ing, for instance, for an enterprising man,
Atlanta would present during the rainy
season.
Softiysithe Augusta Republican. The al
lusion to the Gate City suggests that If there
is any enterprise in tlie pnragrapliist of the
Republican, lie will try tho speculation.
He is half right, perhaps; hut we should
like to see him “stuck in the mud” of the
other half. ^
FiHK.fi in Tennessee.—Tho Chattanooga
Union of the 17th says, passengers rejiort
a large fire yesterday morning at London.
A number of dwellings were burned, and
it was rumored that a life was lost. Tills
we arc unable to vouch for. Another Arc
was discovered yesterday morning, at tlie
largo saw mill cast of Athens. Tlie mill
was completely destroyed.
Price of Tknxksskk Lands.—In the ta
ble of average values of land per acre Imthe
several counties, furnished by the Comtsol-
ler of the Treasury in his report, the value
of land in Hamilton county Is averaged at
#12.00 per aero.
Personal.—lion. A.J. Fletcher, Secre
tary of State, for the State of Tennessee,
has purchased a nine thousand dollar farm
near Cleveland In that State, where lie pro-
]loses settling permanently.
t3T The Alabama Convention, by a vote
of.53 to 32, has adopted a resolution ap
pointing a special committee to enquire
Into the expediency of removing the State
Capitol from Montgomery.
Skksirlk.—A dispatch to the Commer
cial gives the following:
At tlie session of tlie Maryland Baptist
Union Association, now being held here,
tlie question of negro equality wnadiscuss-
ed. and some of the white members em
phatically said they would never admit the
negro to social equality; that they never
would sit down to the same tabic with
them, hut would willingly extend to them
the hand of religious fellowship. Tills de
claration was meekly received by tho co
lored brethren present, one of whom said
the colored people did not desire social
equality with til • whites, and the equality,
like water, would find its own level.
Sensible, so far as both slues are con
cerned, _
{Jr A special to the Cincinnati Commer
cial, from Washington, says:
The otUce of'Collector of Customs, at
Brownsville, Is vacant, owing to tlie death
of tlie former collector by yellow fever.
There are many applicants for the plnce.
The salary ana perquisites amount to lesa
than two thousand dollars annually, and
greenbacks don’t pass there readily; hut
as considerable smuggling is carried on
along the boundary between the United
States and Mexico, the politicians think
there is moaey in the place. The Presi
dent will make no appointment till after
Congress meets.
This amouais to an Insinuation that It Is
expected the appointee will derive some
perquisites from smuggling.
|WT A large meeting of the 13th army
corps was In session at Chicago on the 14th.
The officers elect were General John A.
McClcrnand, President, General W. B.
Scales, Adjutant General, and Colonel R.B.
Hatch, Quartermaster.
A banquet was held at tlie Briggs nouse
ta-night. __
or A, wo probably have iln, enough of
our own to answer for, tho Atlanta Htw
Era anil Oi’iNioN will oblige ua by not
giving credit to the Telegraph for artlclca
which they clip from oilier paper..—Macon
Trleijraph.
It we hare credited tlie Telegraph with
anythin# good, that ahould have been
credited to«oraebody else, we owe an apolo
gy to aome one; if we credited tlie Tele
graph with anything bad, an apology la
due that journal.
Orr von LtRRRU.—Several hundred
fteedmen pasacd through Augusta la»t
week, on their way to Liberia.
:NOV. 10. Washington item*.
Tho General Fite John Porter ease, about
which there has been much gossip, is stated
by tho special of tlie Commercial. from
Washington tho 15th, U3 follows: It i» u -
derstood that in the interview to-day in-
tween tlie President and Fitz John Porter,
respecting hfs ease, the former fndicaUt!
that if General Porter eould secure tlie fa
vorable recommendation of General Grant
to have the case reopened, it would In-
granted. What aetiou tlie Attorney Gen
eral lias taken respecting tho legal ques
tion involved has not transpired.
Personal,
lion. 8. S. Cox has gone to Europe, to lie
absent two or or three months. On ids re
turn he expects to run for Congress In tlie
district lately represented by II. J. Ray
mond.
An Evening Democratic paper of New
York has nominated Gen. Sherman and
Com..Stockton for President and Vico Pre
sident.
Rev. Dr. Breckinridge, of Ky., was In
Washington last Saturday.
Something of an effort is proposed by
North western Republicans, to induce the
Senate to go into an election of Clerk of
that body, whim view of electing one from
tlie West in place of Col. Forney.
Gen. P. W. Strader, of Cincinnati, of
railroad fame, it is understood, will receive
tlie appointment ofrAssessor of the First
District of Ohio, vice General Laugdon -de
ceased.
Hon. Wm. E. Chandler, Assistant Secre
tary of «the Treasury, will withdraw from
the department of the 1st of December.
Secretary Welles Is slowly recovering,
and It >is hoped lie will be well in a few
days.
The male of the well-known “Aztec
Children” died recently, in Charleston,
South C irolina.
General nancock and family, and seve
ral members of his staff, left St. Loads on
the 15th, for New Orleans, where lie will
assume command of the Fifth Military
District.
The Empress Eugenie Is cultivating a
moustache. Our fashionable ladies will of
course follow suit.
II. B. Claflin & Co„ of New York, during
1800 sold 973,000.000 of dry goads—the
largest year's business of any wholesale
house In tlie world.
tar Senator Sumner, we see h, stated,
has lntely given to tlie library at Harvard
University a large collection of pamphlets
and four hundred hound volumes. In five
years he has given to this library seven
thousand pamphlets and one thousand vol
umes.
ty Tlie Tuskogce (Ala.) News <
following account of an occurrence, that
happened in that place last Sunday week:
On Sunday evening last, as a constable
was conveying several negro prisoners to
tlie jail in this place, a large crowd of freed-
men made a serious effort to release them
and It was with difficult) that the guard,
aided by several white citizens present,
could prevent it. The prisoners had con
fessed to stealing and for tills offense had
been regularly committed by a Justice of
tlie Peace. The town negroes seemed de
termined and indeed expressed their de
termination that no more negroes should
Ik* put in jail. They were led by Amos
Phlllpot, Henry Cook, and Jliu Bcntly.
Who swore they eould shoot ns often ami
as accurately as any **d—d wlfite man.”
and after the officers had succeeded in lodg
ing the prisoners in jail, called on their
followers to “tear down the jail** and
“clean out the whites,” By tills times offi
cers Sinclair and Green had heard of tlie
affair. nn<fnt once arrested Cook nnd Jfent-
ly blit failed to secure PI ill pot. On Monday
the two former were brought before Esq.
Dougherty nnd the ease thoroughly Inves
tigated; (’apt. Ferguson representing the
State and Messrs. Me Ivor nnd Cobb the de
foliants. Tlie defendants were required to
give bond in tbc sum of§300 each for tbelr
appearance at the next term of the County
Court, to answer a charge of unlawful as
sembly and inciting to riot, Ao.
Thk Anti-Masonic War in Cut a.—An
Havana letter of tlie 4th instant, says:
‘•The anti-Masonic movements on the
part of the Government still coiitbtucs.—
On the 28th ult. tho rooms occupied by the
Masonic; Lodge of Puerto Principe were
visited by agents of the Government, but
us the brothers had received information
of the proposed visit long previously, no
papers or documents were found, nnd al
though it was a regular stated meeting
night only four persons could bo found in
the building. Male visitors in the houses
around tlie lodge were very plentiful that
evening. The four gentlemen found were
taken into custody by tlie guardians of tlie
public peace and morals, and liberated
again after a confinement of three hours.
Whitt the end of all this will be, nobody
knows. The Government is alienating
from itself the sympathies and good-will
of a largo body of its most influential citi
zens, and without tho least possible chance
of gaining a friend, except among the Ig-
noraut.”
Woman’s Rianm—A dispatch from St
Louts, of tho 14th, says:
Mrs. Elizalietli Cady Stanton, of New
York, who. with Susan B. Anthony and
Lucy Stone, has been canvassing Kansas
during the past summer for woman’s suf
frage, spoke on that subject, to-niglit, in
Mercantile Library Ilall, to a very largo
audience, ncr address was very able, and
presented the questions of woman’s rights
and female suffrage in nearly all tnclr
bearings, eliciting frequent nnd loud ap
plause. A large portion of tho audience
wire ladles, who sympathized heartily
with the speaker, and showed very positive
evidence of deep nnd growing interest in
the question. The Female Suffrage Asso
ciation will hold a meeting here to-mor-
row^nn I a grand rally fovtne advancement
of tills cause is announced for the 2Gtli
Instant, at which George Francis Train
will speak.
tyTlie anual conference of tho Metho-
ist Episcopal Church of Virginia Is in
Mston in Petersburg, Bishop Doggett pre
sides. This being the first conference In
which laymen are admitted, a large dele
gation are present.
Walrussia
! from Mr. McCoook, the United States
asiiini,ton, Nov. 14.—The following re- i Minister at Honolulu in the Northwest,
ports have lieen made to the Secretary of —
tho Navy: Tlie following letter has just been rc-
Navai. Oiiskhvatorv, \ . ooiv«|gt tho Department:
II. A. N
Washington. Nov. 14.18G7.) ,
have tlie honor to submit tlie fol- I
nvliminnry report of the inctebrfo ■
•!’ tfil- morning. The display of
was the most brilliant scon in this
since tli • great shower of1833. In
ice with the request of Professor
•wton. observations in tho north*
* United States Leu
tween the liotin
rioN at Honolulu,
Augusta 22,1807.
Sin—From paragraphs in *hc few new:
itipcrs which reach here. I am led to bc-
levew climate and resources of the Rns-
iian territory, recently purchased by tlie
, tilted States are greatly misunderstood
»y some of tin: press and people of tlie At-
paradox wen* made be* luntio States. Many of the seamen wilt
l 11 and 2 o’clock. Very frequent these islands, have made voyages
iwever. till 1 o'clock.-*- tqjhocoast ami islumlsof Russian Amerl-
Tho observations were made and the track ItHOtfr years past, and l transmit to you
of tlie meteors drawn upon the map of'tfcHw limited information concerning
Main. Llndoiiknh. Timhrock & Fitinan, a *thtt conn try us I have derived from them,
partyofasfilstautsoftlie United State* Coa*-t trusting that it may prove acceptable, ana
Survey, who volunteered their services. ho|f*’
Forty-six meteor tracks were mapped \yon_ „
down by the United States Coast Survey. 1 “Captain'Meek*, an old New England
Observations In conjunction with Professor ♦ hi pinaster, and one of the most intelligent
darkness, of the Observatory at Richmond- L? tills community, says that lie tra-
for parullex was commenced shortly alter dc ■ *Jitli tlie natives of Russian America
three o’clock, by the Observatory part} , for inure than twelve years. Dnrlng that
consisting of Messrs. Newcomb Eastman, j time he passed t wo winters in Sitka,and saw
Harrison, Doolittle and Gardiner. Arrange- very little snow on the coast near the harbor
ments bad been made by the courtesy of tlie during either winter; in one—the winter
manager of the American Telegraph Co., to of 1828—none at all. although tho uioiin-
exchange telegraphic signals with Prof, tainssurrouudingthescttlcmentwerocov-
IIarkues8,on the appearance of each meteor, ered. Rain fell through a great portion of
‘ ’ ’ each winter, ami heavy logs frequently
prevailed. The winter temperature is not
so low as at points on tlie Atlantic
coast, from thirteen to fourteen degrees
south of the same parallel: and altlu ’
no tliermometrtcal record wuo kept by
lie believed the climate during these
ter* to be warmer than the sea-coas
Southern New York or Northern Virgin
ia. in the vicinity of Sitka, line potatoes
are raised, and all the oilier vegetables of
tlie tan iterate zone. Barley is al reaby cul
tivated, and a little wheat, and all tho oth
er cereals could no doubt be cultivated to
advantage. Kodiac is one. of tlie largest of
tho islands, and the best for all purposes.
The soil Is good, tho country less moun
tainous, and the cod and other fisheries ex
tensive. On tome parts of tnost qf those
islands and ooasts, stock can be grazed for
about nlno months in the year. During
three or four mouths they wotfol have to
bo housed and fed. Grass Is abundant in
tho localities fitted for stock, and apparent
ly rich and nutritious. The summers of
the westerly islands are cooler than those
of Kodiac or Sitka, on account of winds
from tlie North, which sometimes blow
witli much violence. The forests on tlie
but through some derangement of tlie wires,
communication could not tie established.
One hundred and twenty-five meteor tracks
were mapped down before 4:30 o’clock.—
When the meteors flew so think that Iden
tification of those seen from the two sta-
stons here became hopeless and simple
counting resorted to. one thousand mete
ors were counted in tlie 21 minutes be
tween 4:14 o'clock and 4:35 o’clock. Af
terwards successive hundreds were count
ed in the following intervals: 4 min.; 5
min. 30sec.; 5 inln. 35 see.; 5 mitt. 44 sec.;
0 min. 6 see.; 1) min. 37 sec.; 10 min. 31
sec.; 18 min. 20 sec. - The first thousand
being partly counted while mapping was
still going on, it is probable that one-half
were not seen, so that It may be estimated
that '1,000 really fell in the coarse of 21
minutes. The time of tlie maximum thick
ness of the shower was 4h. 25 min. This
is two hours later than given by the Euro
pean observations of last year, showing a
slight change in the position oftho stream.
The radiant point was very well defined,
lielng in right ascension, 10b. Ian., declina
tion 22 deg. 30s.
Next year the shower, If there lie any,
will not begin until 10 a. Washington
time. and. therefore, will lie -seen only in
tlie Pacific Ocean. Many were remarka
ble for their brilliancy and for a brilliant
train, which usually vanished in a few se
conds. but in one or two cases lasted se
veral minutes.
Signed. B. F. Sands,
Cnnidr., Superintendent.
Tiie Pittsburgh Explosion.—The Pitts
burgh Commercial gives further particu*
law of the dreadful explosion at the Fort
Pitt Iron Works In that city, which re
sulted in killing thirteen men and wound
ing twenty-eight, The Commercial says:
Tin* ruins were In such a confused mass
that it is almost impossible to describe
them. Tlie explosion had made such a
complete wreck tiiat not one board on the
building had been left standing. A por
tion of the structure used in rolling iron,
and located on the cast side, and about
twenty feet from the forge department, was
torn down by tlie ex|Kt>*don. Two large
smoke stacks in this building were thrown
down hy the (lying timbers, and failing on
a shed near hy were beat very badly. In
tlie largo department the ruins in some
places had mussed very kjgh. None of the
timber belonging to the building was
blown any great distance, but principally
fell In a confused mass together. Singular
to say, all the chimneys in this building
were left standing, although everything
else belonging to the building was a com
plete wreck. A number of pieces of the
boilers nnd timbers were thrown a con
siderable distance from the ground. As
soon as tlie flames had been subdued suf
ficiently to admit of tlie removal of the
charred timber and Iron, efforts were made
to take out the bodies from the ruins.
Many of the spectators present assisted In
the work, and succeeded in recovering
about half a dozen of the some of
which were so terribly burned us to be al
most unrecognizable. A sad spcctnblc was
presented to the eye of the spectator os he
reached tlie scene of tlie disaster shortly
after tlie explosion. As a laxly was extri
cated from tlie ruins, women, little girls
and boys would crowd around It to get a
glimpse of the corpse, fearing to discern in
it the features of some husband, father or
brother, who had been employed in the
mill and was missing. The agonizing tears
of file women and childrcit as they recog
nized in some mangled corpse the well
known features of those nearest and dear
est to them, was heartrending in the ex
treme. and the bystanders could but look
on and pity them. As tlie bodies were ex
tricated from the ruins they were laid on
uml near by or taken into the ud-
S houses. The injured were re-
Into tlie houses, where everything
possible was done for them. As soon as
the nature of tlie disaster had been ascer
tained, a number of physicians from this
city and viclnty repaired at once to the
sconce and administered relief to the in
jured. A great many of the bodies tnd
Injured men were conveyed to their homes
during tlie afternoon In wagons.
Farbaout in Clover.—The editor of tlie
Albany Knickerbocker, now in Europe,
discloses tlie ffict that Admiral Farragut
wot almost Smothered with kisses” by the
ladies of the Court of the Queen of Sweden.
Ills officers seem to have been less lucky,
as their hair was only “treasured os souven
Ira, and laid away In gold lockets by many
of tlie most elegant louies of Stockholm.”
The Pestiferous Peripatetic Still
Marchino on.—Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 15.—
Weston, after remaining here part of yes
terday and last night, and visiting the
theatre, left early this morning for bis
walk West. By calculation here he has got
to mako fifty and three quarters miles daily
to get to Chicago in the next eleven days.
Silver Creek, N. Y n Nov. 15.—Weston
arrived here at 3 r. m. He remains here
until 12 midnight, when he will start upon
his one hundred miles trlnl trip.
HP*The Chronicle and Sentinel says:
Mr. Bancroft, of Athens, Georgia, has
f licked this season from one anil tlirce-
ourth acres of ground 4.200 |khiiu1s of
cotton, and expects to get 800 ponmis more.
Tlie reasons for this yield are one hundred
pounds superphosphate, one hundred
pounds Peruvian guano, and one hundred
pounds of salt.
main land are large, tlie trees of luxuriant
growth, and capable of furnishing an al
most inexhaustible supply of ship-timber.
Tlie fact tiiat the coast and islands have
many good harbors makes the timber ac
cessible and consequently valuable in the
ftiture. The country abounds in coal of a
quality not known. The Captain has seen
native copper, and there has always been a
tradition utnong the traders that gold ex
ists. although he has never seen any evi
dence of tho fact.
“Tlie natives are treacherous, warlike
and acquainted with the use of arms.
“For many years, one of the prli ^
articles of traffic with them has been small
arms and ammunition; consequently, they
are nearly all armed with guns. The fact
that they are constantly at war among
themselves, lias heretofore made them less
troublesome to their civilized neighbors.
The voyage from Honolulu to Sitka has
been made in ten days, and in tho same
line from San Francisco, under sail.—
Judging from the imperfect description
these men have given me, the country,
taken altogether, is anything but the un
inhabitable, desolate, frozen region many
ncwspaiiers I have read represent It to be:
on the contrary, it contains thousands of
square miles of land as well adapted for
cultivation nnd stock raising as many
parts of the New England States.
“Its fisheries are rich and extensive, and
require only development to make them a
large and profitable source of Rovenue. It
possesses that inexhaustible supply of ship
timber which we will need to build a navy
and merchant marine on the Pacific, when
the United States pursuing the policy you
have so successfully inaugurated, wilihavc
become masters of the great commerce of
Chinaand the East. It will become the birth
place and nursery of a iiardy and enter
prising race of seamen, who will man our
ships and make our commerce as supreme
on the Paeilic coast as it once was on the
Atlantic, and it will become to the Pacitie
coast what New England was to the At
lantic before her rare of adventurous and
intrepid seamen had given place to genera
tions of thrifty manufacturer*. I have the
honor to be your obedient servant.
Edwin M. Cook.
“Hon. William 11. Seward, Secretary of
State.”
Railroad Meeting — Indianapolis, No
vember 15*—On Thursday of last week, a
meeting of the Superintendents of all rail
roads centering in or miming through In
dianapolis. will Ik* held here for the pur-
|K>se of arranging the winter time-tables
to suit each other.
The Indiana ami Illinois Central Rail
way running from this city to Decatur, has
received a new impetus, and there is a
probability of something being done to
ward its completion. A responsible com
pany is ready to take hold of it for the
right of way nnd the donations already
granted, provided 972,000 of stock held by
W. II. Talbot Is bought. To effect this, De
catur has voted 940.000. and the County
Commissioners of Hendricks county yes
terday appropriated 910,000, conditioned
upon the completion of the line from In
dianapolis to Danville within two yean.
Citizens along the route arc moving active
ly, and there seems to be no doubt tiiat the
work will be speedily commenced.
Charles K. Reddle, Master Mechanic of
the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Rail
road, hns been promoted to the Superin
tendency of that road, vice J. D. Herkimer,
appointed Superintendent of the Terre
ifnute and Alton railroad.
T. E. Frazee, formerly clerk In tho In
dianapolis Post-office, has been appointed
paymaster of tho Terre Haute anu Alton
railroad.
Narrow Escape of Senator Sumner.—
non. diaries Sumner met with quite a se
vere accident at Elkart, Ind* a few days
ago, and had a narrow escape with his life.
On stepping from tiie ears, not noticing
they hud started and were under consider
able headway, he was precipitated violent
ly forward U|>on his head. Ills lint broke
somewhat tlie force of tlie Bill, and perhaps
saved his life. As ft was, he was rendered
nearly unconscious, and badly bruhed
about tlie face, shoulders, and other parts
of the body!
millions of tnnchlnes are made and used
dally, or about nine to each of the populo
George II* Pendleton*
Tho following article, descriptive of tlie
non. George It. Pendleton, is from tiie
New York Tribune of the 8th:
Tho Democrats of this section have little
knowledge of their probable candidate for
next President, nnd will thank us for mak
ing him better known to them. HU namo
Is George If. Pendleton, and ho lives at
Cincinnati, Ohio. His father, Nathaniel G.
Pendleton, was a scion of an eminent Vir
ginia family, who migrated to Cincinnati
some fifty years ago, practiced law and
made a handsome fortune there, and was
chosen to Congress as a Whig in 1840, beat-
Ing the Ifon. Robert T. Lytle, his Demo
cratic competitor, by ten majority, If our
memory serves. (Hamilton county was
strongly Democratic in thosodays, but was
carried tiiat year for Gen. Harrison on tho
Presidential vote which followed the Htato
election aforesaid.)
Nathaniel G. Pendleton was an excellent,
though not a great man. Ills son George
has rather more civilization, and perhaps
more natural ability though far from being
a genius. But he U a thorough gentleman
In manner and address: and if. outside of
his politics, he ever did an unjust or un
worthy act, we never heard oflt.
We think he will be the Democratic
candidate for tho noxt President, for these
reasons:
The party Is now on its high horse, and
not likely to stultify itself, as it did when
it ran a General on a peace platform. It
believes it may consult its wishes rather
in choosing its standard-bearer, and is not
likely to he undeceived beforo making its
national nominations. Now. Mr. Pendle
ton embodies its ideas and its purposes as
thoroughly nnd palpably ns Mr. Clay ever
did those of tho Whig party. A Wlilg by
education, lie is a Democrat by conviction
and by deliberate choice. Never desiring
disunion, ho had early studied Calhoun anu
becumc a convert to his views of State
rights and Federal limitations, and he read
the Constitution as giving the Federal au
thority no power to coerce or constrain a
State. And, detesting the national debt,
he is now open in Ids advocacy of its
prompt extinction by printing oft’ two
thousand millions of fresh greenbacks, nnd
giving every holder of that debt" the face
of ids bonds in currency, thus stopping tho
Interest of tlie debt at once, and justifying
a reduction of all Federal imposts and tax
es by one-half.
Mr. Pendleton is likely to bo tlie candi
date, because the South and West arc now
a decided overmatch for the East, while the
Democracy of tlie West is scarcely distin
guishable iu type from tlie Conservatism
of tlie South. We do not believe there is a
Conservative in all tlie South who would
object to Mr. Pendleton; if there be one
such, lie must be very bigoted and ex
clusive. There are many bogus professors
of Democratic orthodoxy, but lie Is the
genuine article. His version of tlie Bible
evidently reads, “God made the white
man in His own image;” his copy of the
Declaration of Independence sets fortli
that “ We hold these truths to be self-evi
dent that all whito men arc created equal."
There is a silver lining to most clouds.
If the elections of 1807 had gone like those
of I860, wo should probably have had some
ambiguous, half-and-lialf, shuffling candi
date for President to oppose In 1868; but
tlie late results have cleared the atmos
phere decidedly. A square, clean Issue
between tlie two parties will now be made
up: the Democracy will select a represen
tative man; and for such it lias none bet
ter in Its ranks than George II. Pendleton.
Tux! Legality of tux Emancipation
Amendment.—An important question has
been referred to the Attorney General for
decision, by the Secretary of State, touch
ing the legality of the Emancipation
Amendment to the Constitution. It ap
pears that a Captain of a British vessel re
cently brought into the port of Key West,
Florida, three black tailors, whereupon
the local authorities indicted him under
the State laws, which prohibits tiie intro
duction ;or emigration of freo negroes.—
The;captain has appealed to Mr. Ford.
Charite <TAffaires of Great Britain here,
who has addressed a note to Secretary
Seward on tlie subject. Pending the ac
tion of the Attorney General, action
against the English captain has !>ecn sus
pended.
Tlie Constitution provides that the mi
gration or importation of such persons as
tlie States think proper to admit shall not
be prohibited prior to the year 1808. Tiiat
is. the slave trade should not be prohibited
before tiiat date. As is well known, as
soon as that date arrived, Congress in
strong and elaborate acts, which have re
mained ever since iu force, prohibited the
slave trade. The language of one of the
principal of these acts is: “Shall import
or bring any negro, mulatto, or other tier-
son of color, not being a native, a citizen
or registered seaman of the United States,
or seamen, natives of countries beyond the
Cape of Good Hope, into an.v port or place
of the United States which shall tie situa
ted in any State which by law Inis prohib
ited, or shall prohibit the udmlssion or im
portation of such negro, mulatto or other
ixuson of color,” etc. In most of the States
in tlie South./re« persons of color are pro-
hlbtcd from coming, or being brought into
the State. Of course, no person Is a “slave”
in any legal sense, until after he has been
brought Into the State and sold.
The question now Is, whether tho aboli
tion or slavery by amendment of the
Constlutlon. anu the passage, too, of the
us civil rights bill, do not repeal all
laws now In force prohibiting what Is
known as tho slave trade, by removing all
restriction to free immigration.
Fobtuxatb.—A few days since a cloth
ing house in Troy, New York, received a
consignment of goods from New York
city, and the lot was offered for sale.
Among the goods was a large number of
vests, several of which had been sold, when
a note was received from the Boston house
of which the goods was purchased, saying
that in the inside pocket of one or tlie
vests was a roll of money amounting to
9200, which had been placed there by one
of the Arm, who had worn the vest and had
carelessly thrown it among fhe pile ship
ped to Troy. A search among tho remain
ing vests was at once instituted, and very
fortunately the very Identical vest contain
ing the money was found. It had doubt
less lieen handled and rejected many times
by buyers. _
A New Loan.—Secretary McCulloch Is
of tho opinion that a new consolidated live
percent, loan can be properly Issued at
this time, and will recommend the same in
ui* report to Congress. He hns had fre
quent conferences with various members
of the Finance Committees, all of whom
have expressed themselves as favorable to
the loan, it Is thought that Congress will
authorize the same early in the coining
session.
Society ot the Army of the Tennee*
see—Election off Officers.
To tho Western Associated Frees.)
St. Louis, November 14.—The members
of tho Army of the Tennessee, at tlie busi
ness meeting this afternoon, elected tho
following officers for tho ensuing year:
President, General Rawlins; Vico Presi
dents, Generals Howard, G# A. Smith,
Belknap, 31cArtbur, Fairchild and Caven-
der; Recording Secretary, Colonel L. M.
Dayton; Corresponding secretary, Gene
ral Illckenlooper; Treasurer, General
Corse.
Chicago was selected as tlio next place of
meeting.
The commlttcoon tho McPherson monu
ment reported over 93,000 on hand, which
was left In the bauds of tlio commltteo for
disposal.
During the afternoon tho members of tho
society were conveyed In carriages through
tho city, and visited all places of note m
tho suburbs.
In tho evening about 200 officers and citi
zens sat down to a magnificent banquet at
the Southern Hotel, at which the following
regular toasts were given:
* The Government of the United States,
the Array and Navy.’* Responded to by
General Sherman.
“The “Army of the Tbnnaasoo.” Re
sponded to by Col.T. L. Dickey.
“General Grant, tho first Commander of
tho Army of tho Tennessee.” Response by
Gen. Reed.
“The honored dead of tho Army of tho
Tennessee.” “March to the Sea.” Response
by Gen. Howard.
“Our comrades of all the armies of tho
Union.” Gen. Belknap.
•Tho commander of the Army of tho
Tennessee.” Gen. Sclmrz.
The Memory of McPherson.” Response
by Gen. Strong.
“The Volunteer Soldier.” Response by
Gov. Fletcher.
“The loyal men and women of tlio
Union.” Response by Capt. Kllnk.
■Tlio future.of America.” Response by
Col. Loomis.
Our Invited guests.” Hon. Henry T.
Blow.
Telegrams were received from Generals
Grant and Bawling, regretting their Ina
bility to attend the meeting.
The banquet was prolonged to a lato
hour, amid mucii harmony and general
good and hilarious feeling.
miscellaneous*
Tho receipts of customs from tlie 1st to
the 0th instant was 93.366,390.
Returns from Arkansas show that tlie
State has given a majority for a Conven
tion.
A census of Washington and George
town, for school purposes, shows the pop
ulation of the former to be 100,000, and the
latter 15,000.
Mrs. Fuller, with three children, lias ar
rived in Philadelphia, having walked all
the way from Lynn, Massachusetts, in six
weeks, a distance of three hundred miles,
because Rhc was too poor to pay for a rail
road passage to Norfolk, Virginia, where
tlie jioor woman lias friends.
A call lias been made for a Conservative
meeting in Muscogee, to appoint delegates
to the proposed “Conservative” State Con
vention.
The Mississippi Conference of tiie Meth
odist Church lias been postponed by Bish
op Paine, to December 11.
Cluis. II. Gowcn has been appointed Spe
cial Agent of the Post OfHcc Department
of the State of Mississippi. His headquar
ters are at Jackson.
Capt. It. A. Davis, n nephew of Jefferson
Davis, died at the residence of his mother
in Vicksburg, on the 31st ult. His disease
was yellow fever; ills age about 40.
Tho Vicksburg Times says that a disease
resembling blind staggers, is prevailing
among the cattle In that city nnu Its vicin
ity. The animals get sick, stagger about
for a while, and then lie down and die.
Forelrn Item*.
Gen. Garibaldi, says a disputed dated
November 8, will be tried in Florence. A
subsequent dispatch, however, not only
announces the postponement of the trial
but declares that it is doubted that the
Courts have jurisdiction In tlio east*. Ills
sons have thus far escaped apprehension.
The agitor’s friends aver tiiat at the battle
near Monte Rotondo lie had only 4,000 men
under his control.
The jury in the of Castello, who was on
trial in Dublin for alleged complicity in
Fenianism, was unable to agree.
Telegrams have been received in London
stating tiiat a second tvphoon had occurred
at Macao, in China. The damage to prop
erty was Immense. Beyond this no details
have been received.
England, France and Austria have come
to a common understanding as to the policy
to be hereafter pursued by them iu their
Eastern question. The Porte, iu reply to
last Joint note of these Powers, declines
to hearken to their proffered advice.
A terrible explosion hns occurred in tiie
Ferndale Colliery, In Glamorgnn county,
Wales. At last accounts the mine was on
fire. Of the three hundred miners it was
feared that few would escape.
Bread riots have broken out a new* in
Devonshire.
Mercantile circles arc much depressed In
consequence of the news of the gaeat hur
ricane at 8t. Thomas.
At the Liverpool races on Nov. 8, Man
drake won the Liverpool cup.
A Word for Boys.— 1 Truth is one of tho
rarest gems. Many a youth has been lost
to society by allowing it to tarnish, and
foolishly throwing it away. If this gem
still shines in your bosom, suffer nothing
to displace or dim its lustre.
Promnity Is a mark of low breeding.—
Show us the man who commands the best
respect; un oath never trembles 6n Ills
tongue. Rend the catalogue of crime. In
quire the character of tliose who depart
from virtue. Without a single exception,
you will find them to be profane. Think
of this, and not let a vile word disgrace
you.
Honesty, frankness, generousity, virtue
—blessed traits! Be those yours, niv boys,
and we shall not tenr. Yon will Malm the
respect and love of all. Yon are watched
*»y your elders. Men who are looking for
forks ami apprentices, have their eyes on
you. If roil are profane, vulgar, theatre-
going, they will not choose you. If you
are upright, steady and industrious, before
long you will find good places, kind mas
ters, and tlie prospect of a iiseflil life be
fore you.
t9* The Insane patients In the asylum
at Lexington, Ky„ are to have a billiard
table.