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ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, May 30, 1866.
rallf) Inc Intelligence from Washington
city.
General W. T. Wofford, the member elect
to Congress from this Congressional District, tel
egraphs to tills paper, as follows—his telegraph
hearing date Washington City, the 25th instant:
“ General Howard lias directed General Tilson
louse extraordinary means to supply the desti
tute people of our devastated district with provi
sions.”
Wc make record of this considerate order
with pleasure. Doubtless it lias been issued
through the influence of General Wofford at
Washington, his representation, and his feeling
appeal in behalf the suffering people in his dis
trict—the Cherokee section of our State, so long
overrun and devastated by Thomas’arm} - . Gen
eral Tilson cannot move to supply the destitute
in that section of our State too soon. They
need prompt relief, or, we are assured, in many
places, starvation will overtake many, and the}’
will perish. To General Wofford much credit is
due for his exertions in behalf of his suffering
constituency. It affords as pleasure to chronicle
his successful efforts in their behalf.
The Bankrupt Bill.
The passage of this bill by the House of Rep
resentatives lias been at last effected. Whether
it will pass Hie Senate and become a law is still
doubted by some. That it wili be needed, or
some measure of the kind, is certain. The bank
rupt class in the North will soon be a larger one
than it was when the bill passed the House, much
exceeding too, in numbers, the same class in
1840, and much more powerful in influence.—
They are now clamorous for the law which is to
relieve them from their creditors and from their
debts. The abuses of the law of 1840, will, we
fear, he enacted over again, under any similar
bankrupt law that may now he enacted by the
present Congress. This might he avoided, hut
will not lie. Wc shall have the House bankrupt
I till a law in a few weeks, and then will follow,
us a cotemporary suggests, “a large harvest of
appointments,” and “a plentiful crop'ot corrup
tion.” As it was before, so will it be again.—
“History repeats itself.”
The Fmdmcn’n Bureau.
Most of our Northern exchanges, of the Radi
cal stamp, arc down upon the President be
cause of his recent order to Major General How
ard, to cause the arrest of every officer of the
Frccdmcn’s Bureau in North Carolina who is en
gaged, or who is pecuniarily interested in the
cultivation of plantations,"while, vice versa, the
Northern conservative presses arc warmly sustain
ing and applauding him for the act. Brigadier
General E. XV. Strong, wc notice also, has been
dispatched to North Carolina to execute the or
der, and Judge Advocate General nolt lias been
instructed by the President to make out charges
and specifications against the officers charged
with these offenses, with a view to their trial be
fore a Court Martial.
These farming speculations of officers and
agents of the Bureau will turn out badly for
them. What they have sowed, they may not
reap, and will not, if the President can prevent
it. That he is determined to do so, is evident
from his order, and liis other proceedings in the
premises. Many is the “ slip between the cup
and the lip,” and the parties connected with the
bureau, who have ventured to embark in cotton
planting and other agricultural pursuits in the
South, may realize this adage, much to their
chagrin ere harvest time comes, or cotton pick
ing begins.
A Contrast.
Hope, which “ springs eternal in the human
breast” encourages us sometimes to present
views which ought to, if they do not, make a
favorable Impression upon the radicals in Con
grass, and stay the rashness of their legislation
Wc confess, however, that the hope which ani
mates us thus, sometimes, is not so big as a mus
lard seed, nor even as the point of a needle, and
yet it is, nevertheless, indulged in, as it is now by
us, in presenting the following views of their
late successful political leader and chief—we
mean, the late President of the United States
Abraham Lincoln. We would have those radical
members of both Houses of Congress to be cou
sistent at least, and this consideration, too, urges
us on to invite their attention to the views, and
what would have been the policy, of their late
chief, had he lived to administer the Government
his second term. Day after day these radical
members, and their radical press, quote from the
speeches and writings of Mr. Lincoln, and affirm
that they are advocating and endeavoring to car
ry out liis policy, or what would have been his
policy had not his life been suddenly aud vio
lentlv terminated. Then be it so; but there
should be consistency in their acts—professions
alone will not do. Here is wlmt Mr. Lincoln
said in speaking of the negro, of his civil and al
leged political rights:
"I am not,” said he, “nor ever have been in
favor of making jurors or voters of negroes, nor
intermarrying them with the white people; and
I will say, in addition to this, that there is a phy
sieal difference between the white and black
races, which, I believe, will forever forbid the two
races living together on terms of social and po
litical equality. And, inasmuch as they cannot
so live while they remain togethor, there must
be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as
much as any other man, am in favor of having
the superior position assigned to the white man.”
How do these declarations of their late la
mented political chief and President, compare
with the declarations and policy of the Radicals
m Congress? The latter demand suffrage lor
the negro ; Mr. Lincoln said he was not, nor had
ever been, in favor ot bestowing upon them that
privilege. The Radicals would place the negro
iu the jury box; Mr. Lincoln did not favor, nor
had ever favored that policy. The Radicals
would authorize and do tolerate, the intermar
riage of the two races ; Mr. Lincoln did not favor,
nor had ever favored so degrading a measure.—
The Radicals favor the living together of the two
races upon terms of social aud jwlitical equality;
Mr. Lincoln declared that there existed a physi
cal difference between the white and black races
which would fortcer forbid their living together
on such terms. Tne Radicals contend for the
suppression ot any such distinction between the
two races as superior aud inferior; Mr. Lincoln
contended that while they lived together there
“must he the position of superior and interior,’"and
was “ in favor of having the superior position
assigned to the white man.” In what particular
then, save in making freedmen and freed women
of the negro, does the policy of the Radicals as-
simulate itself to the views of Mr. Lincoln, iu
regard to the status of the two races? We can
see none, nor can they, the Radicals in Congress,
nor the press that is sustaining them. The truth
is, Mr. Lincoln's policy is not their policy. If it
were, they would act up to it. in all its features,
as indicated in the foregoing extract from one of
his speeches. The policy the Radicals have
pursued, and are still pursuing, is one of their
own ; one that we confidently lielieve, were
Abraham Lincoln alive, he would not entertain
nor countenance. But, as we said at the outset,
our hope is small that anything we may write
will slay the Radicals, iu Congress, in their mad
career. Perhaps, however, the contrast wc have
drawn may he read by some honest Black Re
publican, and as it is a just and fair onp, may
exert the influence of keeping him without, or
withdrawing him from the radical fold. If so,
we shall not have labored in vain.
given, in a recent address said:
Peace, and not war, is the rightful test of prin
ciples and opinions. National pride will ever
give the honor due to those who offered them
selves a willing sacrifice to national glory upon
the battle field. Their deeds, their sufferings,
and their success will he forever a noble legacy
of our country’s love. But not amid the confu
sion of war’s fierce alarms should we seek our
national glory. The clieerlul sounds of worship
and factor}’, the hum of commerce, and the joy
ful harvest chorus must be our Marsellaise if we
would have the "esto perpetua" npon our banners.
The conflict is over, and now the nation starts
anew upon her course. The North and South
again stand beneath the same flag, and come to
gether again to join in the common adventure of
national prosperity. The last tour years lias
given to the North and South new and opposite
traditions of national glory.
Passing on in his address, lie asks:
How can we now agree on deeds and exam
ples for common admiration ? Can the North
with her thousands of dead, with the death ago
nies still ringing in her ears, raise the shout ot
joy for Southern achievements, and with national
holidays re-echo the pride and admiration that
swell the Southern heart for Lee and Davis ?—
Can the South, amid her ruined cities, amid her
desolated fields, in famine and in want, where
luxury once revelled, send forth the sycophant
exultation on the anniversary of Northern vic
tories, or seek the habiliments of woe in sympa
thy for our sorrow? Who expects this? "Who
can ever hope for such impossibilities ?
These are words ot wisdom, and should im
press themselves upon the minds of the states
men of the country. Emanating from one so
young, the sentiments uttered evidence a maturi
ty of thought and intellect that would be credita
ble to the best and ablest statesmen of the land.
So, too, are the conclusions at which he arrives
from the premises he lays down. We commend
them to our readers:
“ Then let not the pride of success withhold
us from the just appreciation of these glories;
in the confidence of victory let us not substitute
for the experience of a century’s growth the new
born ideas nurtured in four years of war, lest
then the flush of triumph that now mantles our
cheek should prove the hectic glow which is the
surest sign of a dissolution. The North and the
South, the East and the West, must gather around
one common hearth-stone, free from sectional
and sectarian spirit, learn the lesson of a com
mon prosperity front the teachings of our past
experience, front the warnings of our common
Washington. Ye who believe that the present
proves the inefficiency of the republic, and “pur
sue with eagerness the delusive phantoms” of
radical changes, turn to Jiis parting words and
see foreshadowed the very dangers that now sur
round us. *****
The Bridges or the Western Sc Atlantic
Ball road.
Four of the bridges of the Western & At
lantic Railroad, crossing the Cbicamauga, one
thousand feet in length, were washed away on
the evening of Thursday, the 17tli instant, but
in consequence of high water, their recon
struction conld not be commenced until the
Monday following. By the Friday morning fol
lowing, the bridges were ready for use, and on
that morning, the trains passed over the new
bridges.
Tiiis work of “ reconstruction," was superin
tended and directed by Mr. M. H. Dooi.y, the
very efficient Road Master of this great State
Road, assisted by Mr. W. S. Grambling, Super
intendent of the Car Factory in this place, and
his forces. Much credit is due these gentlemen
for the speedy reconstruction of these bridges.
Immediately upon the destruction ot the
bridges referred to, arrangements were made by
the Master of Transportation of the Western &
Atlantic Railroad, Mr. J. B. Peck, with the East
Tennessee & Georgia Railroad, for the trains oj
the former to pass over, via Cleveland, and inter
sect with our State Road, at or near Dalton; and
on the Saturday morning following the disaster,
both the freight and passenger trains were passed
over without detention, and without any extra
charge lrom that time, until the bridges were
completed.
There is in all this evidence of the very effi
cient manner in which the affairs of this road are
conducted. Enterprise and energy manifest
themselves in all its departments. We congrat
ulate the people of the State upon its present
management—the skill and energy displayed by
its Superintendent and his officials.
Who la the Fortanate Individual ?
The Tallahassee (Florida) Sentinel has an At
lanta correspondent, who, over the appropriate
signature of “Gate City,” relates the following in
cident :
“ To give you an idea ot the sudden transition
from poverty or ruin to wealth here, I will cite an
example. A citizen of the city, owning a build
ing near the Depot, had it entirely destroyed; lie
fled the city before the surrender, and being a
widower, poor and penniless, prevailed on some
widow possessing a few thousand to take care of
him, and considered himself fortunate in being
so well provided for. Imagine his surprise on
returning here to look after his wreck to find it
valued at just one hundred thousand dollars!”
We should like to know’ who is this fortunate
individual—fortunate in having captured, through
his winning ways, the “ widow possessing a few
thousand,” and in finding his “ wreck" valued
at jnat “one hundred thousand dollars” For
tunate man, fortunate woman!
Inter-State Courtesies.
In March last, the Augusta Chronicle & Senti
nel states, “His Excellency Governor Orr ad
dressed u communication to the Executives of all
the States of the Union, informing them of the
destruction of the Library of the Court of Ap
peals, and of the Legislative Library in Colum
bia, by the fire of January, 1865, and requested
them to send to his department duplicates of all
statutes, codes, journals and reports of the Su
preme Courts of their respective States. In re
sponse to this communication ninety volumes of
Massachusetts reports were ordered by special
resolution of the Legislature of that State, forty-
four of the Virginia Reports wore ordered by the
Legislature of that State; Governor Cony, of
Maine, sent thirty-eight volumes of Maine Re
ports, and Governor Jenkins, of Georgia, twenty-
six volumes of Georgia Reports, and others are
daily expected from other States. The Caroli
nian justly observes that these courtesies betw’een
the several States of the Union, embracing all
sections, furnish the best evidence of the restora
tion of friendly feelings, and commend them
selves to our unqualified commendation.”
Such reciprocity of courtesies between the
States North and South, will, in their continu
ance, certainly tend to promote a better feeling
than now exists between them, and may result iu
mutual sulistautial benefits to each and the peo
ple thereof. That Massachusetts should respond
so promptly to Governor Orris communication,
in the handsome manner she did, is, we confess,
rather surprising to us. But even that State, in
time, may he redeemed from the thrall of fanati
cism that now’ renders her “a reproach to any
people,” and which will place her upon the historic
page as one of the foremost States of the Union
to bring on the late war.
The Financial Crash In London.
Dates to the 12tli instant from London, have
been received. The financial crash there is rep
resented as being terrible in its efforts. The
Bank of England had raised the rate of discount
from eight to nine per cent., charging for special
advances ten per cent. The pressure, we are ad
vised by telegraphic items in the Western and
Northern press, was enormous even at these
rates, and it w r as on only acceptable hills that ac
commodations could be obtained. Meanwhile, it
is stated, “more serious disasters w r ere announced
The most were those of comparatively small
banks, the English joint stock for £8,000,000.—
Then came that of Peto and Bett’s for £4,000,-
000. Then that of W. Shenston, railway con
tractor, for £290,000. Finally, it was understood
that the Imperial Mercantile Credit Association,
whose paid capital is £500,000, and the Consol
idated Disconut Company, with a paid capital
of £250,000 must with extremely heavy liabilities
pass into liquidation.”
Commenting upon this financial panic, the
London Times says:
If anything can justify the suspension of the
hank charter act. the panic which pervaded the
city on Friday, May 11th, would excuse the step,
although we believe the reign of terror was ap
proaching its end and would have speedily ceased
had no infraction of the bank law have been per
mitted. Even now it is probable the license al
lowed to the banks will not be used. It cannot,
however, be denied that about mid-dav yesterday
the tumult became uproarous. The doors of the
most respectable banking houses were beseiged,
more, perhaps, by a mob imbued by a strange
sympathy which makes and keeps a mob to
gether, titan by the creditors of the banks.
Such excitement on all sides has not been wit-
nesssd since the great crisis of 1825. Each man
exaggerated the suspicions of his neighbor; and
until a report, at that time unfounded, was circu-
lsted in the afternoon, that the Government had
authorized the bank directors to issue five mil
lions additional in notes, it seemed as it the fear
and distrust ot the commercial world had sudden
ly become boundless. The statement was base
less at the time, hut served to allav the panic,
which had no solid foundation. Even the an
nouncement of Peto’s suspension did not revive
the panic in its first intensity, and the statement
it other stoppages produced little effect.
The London Times adds: Wo need to be per
suaded that had the Government stood firm, the
panic would have subdued itsell; and if, as we
ire to expect, confidence will be speedily restored
we shall attribute it to natural causes rather than
to the interference of the Government. The ac-
ion ot the Government was announced in the
House of Commons on Friday at midnight by Mr.
Gladstone, who had been engaged all the evening
with bankers and others, who represented to him j freight to. and its arrival at this point. For in-
that the panic in the city was without parallel in
the financial history of the country.
Mr. Gladstone said lie had addressed a letter to
the Bank of England to the effect that if they
should find occasion to afford relief to the wants
of legitimate commerce, and make such advances
as would require the issue of notes beyond the
amount allowed by the act, the Government re-
oiumended them not to hesitate in doing so, and
in the event ot that emergency, to make imme
diate application to Parliament for an act of in
demnity. Several failures occcrred in Liverpool.
Word* of Wisdom. | that diverted the Southern trade from its natural!
A student of Kenyon College, Ohio, said to be j channel—the cities referred to-previous to the
only nineteen years of age, whose name is not, war . And why * In the £3^, and Northern, I
more extended accommodations are given the
MEMPHIS CORRESPOXDEXCE.
Shipment of Freights South.
The delay of goods in transit designed for the
Southern trade is often so great that they become
unseasonable or unmarketable before reaching
their destination. The complaints in this regard
have become loud and frequent, The merchants
in Northern Georgia and Northern Alabama get
their goods iu many instances from Savannah,
which come from the Eastern cities quicker than
they can get them direct from this city, the chief
cause being the delay in transit after goods have
been Shipped from this point. Our attention has
been directed frequently to this subject of late by
our business men.
The following extract from a letter written by
a prominent merchant in North Georgia, and
published in the Louisville Courier of yesterday,
most aptly illustrates the point in question:
“We should have kept in constant communi
cation with you, but since the route to Savannah
has been opened, inducements have thrown most
of our trade in that direction. It has taken us
so long to get goods through from Louisville that
a state of things is produced that has taken a
large amount ot trade from you, that yon would
otherwise have gotten had your railroad compa
nies been expeditious in transporting goods.—
The lot of sugar and coffee bought by 11s of you
was ten weeks on the road. We learned that
they were detained in Chattanooga from some
cause or other. We have freight now on the
road from Nashville, which has been two months
on the way. This is provoking when we are in
a hurry for goods.”
From this extract it would appear that Eastern
merchants can furnish that section with goods by
way of Savannah more expeditiously than we
can from this point, though in direct raiload com
munication. The firm in question have had good
customers at Atlanta, Marietta, Cartersville, Cal
houn, Resaca, and various other points in that
region, all ot whom utter the same complaints.
There is evidently a screw loose somewhere, and
we have reason to know that the point ol deten
tion of goods, while in transit, is Chattanooga.
Are the complaints of our merchants on this
score never to be heard and remedied ?
Had the foregoing appeared in the Nashville
Republican Banner, some months ago, when the
“Western & Atlantic Railroad” had not recover
ed from the effects of war, instead of appearing
as it did, in so recent an issue of that paper as
the 24th instant, we might have passed it by
without notice, although even then censure di
rected at the management of the road, consider
ing its condition, would have been, to say the
least of it, ungenerous. Appearing, however, as
it now does, it is as much “out of date” as a last
year’s almanac. We have reason to know, and
do know, that there is not now any detention of
freight at Chattanooga, designed to pass over
this road, nor has there been any for the last six
weeks; and we have no hesitation in saying that
there will be none in the future. Even with one
thousand feet of bridging recently washed away,
the present management of the road, in order to
prevent detention of goods in transit to this point
at Chattanooga, promptly made arrangements at
heavy cost to the road, to run their trains via
Cleveland, thus securing dispatch to freight as
well as travel, without any extra co9t to either;
and, previous to that occurrence, the amount of
freight at Chattanooga, we are assured by the
management here, has been so small, that it was
found necessary to reduce very materially the
transportation trains, and to suspend the opera
tion of one freight schedule; nor was there, dur
ing the few days the bridges were down, a greater
accumulation of freight at Chattauooga than
could be removed the day the bridges were com
pleted. These are facts, and if there be “a screw
loose somewhere,” as our Nashville cotemporary,
the Banner, “evidently” thinks there is, that
"screw" is not controlled by the management of
the Western & Atlantic Railroad. We feel it
due to the management of this road to make this
statement. It is due also to shippers from Nash
ville and from other points beyond, to know these
facts, and to know also another important one to
their interests, that the Western & Atlantic Rail
road lias the capacity to transport aH the freights
designed for t his point without delay, evGn though
it may equal in quantity any that has passed
over it since the road has been completed.—
We state also, another fact that while such com
plaints, as our Nashville cotemporary indulges
in, are made, they are not made against the West
ern & Atlantic Railroad by the railroad compa
nies of tiie West whose interest would be seri
ously damaged by any mismanagement, or delay
in forwarding freights from Chattanooga over it.
The “screw” that is loose, as we ltefore said, is
somewhere else. Where, we shall not pretend
to say. Indeed we should dislike to bring for
ward any charges, when we have brought to our
notice, often, instances of extraordinary dispatch
over the leading connecting roads of the West, of
Southern merchants than in the Western cities.
The merchants of the former, bid higher for the
Southern trade, than the merchants of the latter.
We have long labored to open the eyes of the
merchants of Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati,
and St. Louis, to the importance of securing the
Southern trade. We have done so frequently
since the war closed. It is not railroad facilities
they have required, to secure this -trade. These
they have at their command. The only obstacle,
the great obstacle, in their way, is Northern and
Eastern enterprise, more than Northern and East
ern capital. Of capital, the Western cities have
enough to compete successfully for this trade.—
We fear, however, their merchants lack that spirit
of accommodation and enterprise jjiueh is es
sential to their successful competition for the
Southern trade. Our good wishes are with them.
We would rouse them up to their interests.—
Now that the Savaunah route is opened, “ they
must not sleep upon their oars.” The Southern
field of trade, they must now remember, is open
to the North and East. It was closed for a time,
hut the agents from the Northern and Eastern
cities, are now traversing Georgia and Alabama,
and the Western cities must not fail, having once
been over the track, to enter upon it again. For
the past twelve months, they proved successful
upon it. If they would improve upon their past
success, they must persevere in their well doing,
and not give up the field to their enterprisin
competitors. The Western Roads, and our own
State Road,will be their faithful allies. It is to
their interest that they should be so, and this is
sufficient. We have shown the way to secure the
Southern trade, will Nashville, Louisville, St.
Louis, and Cincinnati,-q®the merchants thereof,
heed our admonition ?
Postmasters'In Georgia.
We publish below a full list of all the commis
sioned postmasters in the State. The postal laws
forbid the delivery of the mails at any office un
less filled by a regularly commissioned postmas
ter, and we understand that the Department has
issued orders requiring hereafter the rigid en
forcement ot the law, which will put an end to
the somewhat loose arrangements that have in
certain cases been permitted at tfie South since
the restoration of federal service. A mere ap
pointment confers no authority to receive or han
dle the mails. As oth<?i- postmasters are com
missioned we are promised further lists from time
to time for publication. It will he seen that
nearly all the important offices in Georgia arc al
ready in full operation.
We are indebted to Mr. P. H. Woodward, one
of tlie special agents of. the Post Office Depart
ment, and a most efficient officer, tor this impor
tant information. Mr. W. has labored hard iu
Georgia, and for Georgia, with much success, for
the re-establishment of, postal facilities in the
State. That he has not accomplished more is
not his fault.
COUNTr.
Cobb, s
Casa, -
Wilcox,
Dougherty,
Cass,
Milton,
Clarke,
Fulton,
Sumter,
Richmond,
Sumter,
Pike,
Ileiiry,
Talbot,
Columbia,
Union,
Early,
Talbot,
Franklin,
Carroll,
Glynn,
Marion, -
Taylor,
Houston,
Dooly,
Gwinnett,
Gordon,
Campbell,
Immanuel,
Cherokee,
Carroll,
Cass,
Cass,
Floyd,
WalkenMf
Habers tAra,
•Tones,
Monroe,
Muscogee,
Miller,
Newton,
Oglethorpe,
Taliaferro,
Lumpkin,
Forsyth,
OFFICE.
Ackworth,
Adairs ville,
Adams,
Albany,
Allatoona,
Alpharetta,
Athens,
Atlanta,
Americas,
Augusta,
Andersonviile,
Barnesville,,
Bear Creek,
Belleview,
Berzelia,
Blairsville,
Blakely,
Bluff Spring,
Bold Spring,
Bowden,
Brunswick,
Buena Vista,
Butler.
Byron,
Byronville,
Cain’s,
Calhoun,
Campbellton,
Cannoochee,
Canton,
Carrollton,
Carters viile,
Cassville,
Cave Springs,
Cedar Grove, ^
Clarkesville,
Clinton,
Colaparchee,
Columbus,
Colquit,
Covington,
Crawford,
Crawfords ville,
Crossville,
Cumming,
Cusseta,
Cuthbert,
Dahlonega,
Dallas,
Dalton,
Dauburg,
Danielsville,
Danen,
Dawson,
Decatur,
East Point,
Eatonton,
Eden,
Ellaville,
Ellerslie,
Elberton,
Ellijay,
Etowah,
Fairburn,
Fayetteville,
Floyd Springs,
Forsyth,
Fort Gaines,
Fort Valley,
Franklin,
Gainesville,
Geneva,
Georgetown,
Grantville,
Greensboro,
Griffin,
Guyton,
Hamilton,
Hawkins ville,
Hines ville,
Hogansyille,
Homersville,
House Creek,
Howard,
Indian Springs,
Irwinton,
Jasper,
Jonesboro,
Kingston,
Knoxville,
Lafayette,
La Grange,
Lawrenceville,
Lexington,
Logansville,
Lovejo^’s Station, Clayton,
POST MASTERS.
T A Roony.
J L Gash.
J I Brown.
Miss M J Richardson.
J S Hopper.
O P Skelton.
S Williford.
T G Simms.
W C Godwin.
F Blodgett.
W C Griffin.
A II Barnes.
T McMahon.
G A Reed}-.
H D Leitner.
W J Conley.
J P Powers.
T J Whitley.
Miss A A Alexander.
T S Garrison.
B C Franklin.
Miss Sarah Kemp.
C Mulky.
T B Gough.
J S Byron.
F Waldrop.
W H Thompson.
Mrs S L Butt.
Miss M D Binsen.
L Holcomb.
W B Conyers.
T M Compton.
Miss M F Brown.
S Hammil.
W B Gray.
J R Stanford.
Miss R A Worsham.
S F Story.
T M Hogan.
F M Platt.
F S Womack.
N M Stanford.
Catherine C. Trippe.
R Boone.
J R Knox.
Chattahoochee Mrs S R Cobb.
Randolph,
Lumpkm,
Paulding,
Whitfield,
Wilkes,
Marion,
McIntosh,
Terrell,
DeKalb,
Fulton,
Putnam,
Effingham,
Schley,
Harris,
Elberton,
Gilmer,
Cass,
Campbell,
Fayette,
Floyd,
Monroe,
Clay,
Houston,
Heard,
Hall,
Talbot,
Quitman,
Coweta,
Greene,
Spalding,
Effingham,
Harris,
Pulaski,
Liberty,
Troupe,
Clinch,
Wilcox,
Taylor,
Butts,
Wilkinson,
Pickens,
Clayton,
Cass,
Crawford,
Walker,
Troup,
Gwinnett,
Oglethorpe,
WaltoD,
Lumpkin, Stewart,
Lvthonia, • - DeKalb,
jfacon, * Bibb,
McBeen Depot, Richmond,
McDonough, Henry,
McIntosh, Liberty,
Madison, Morgan.
Marshallville, Macon,
Marietta, Cobb,
Middle River, Banks.
Milledgeville, Baldwin,
Millen, Burke.
MillStone, Oglethorpe,
Monroe, Walton,
Montezuma, Macon,
Morgan, Calhoun,
Morganville, Dade,
Mountain Hill, Harris;
Mulbery Grove, Harris,
Newnan, Coweta,.
Newton, Baker,
Oglethorpe, Macon,
Oxford. Newton,
Pardue’s, Houston,
Perry, Houston,
Pine Log. Cass,
Powder Springs, Cobb.
PowersviUe, Houston,
Quitman, Brooks,
Red Clay, Whitfield,
Reidsville, Tatnall,
Renwick. Lee,
Resaca, Gordon,
Revnolds. Taylor,
Richmond Factory, Richmond,
Ringgold, Catoosa,
Tiie Cotton - Tax.—The following extract is
from a letter from one of the largest houses in
the dry-goods trade in the West:
“You must do what you can while at Wash
ington to talk down this proposed tax on cotton.
It will stimulate all the world to raise cotton, and !
when we legislate to take the tax off again, it!
will be too late, the mischief will have been done. I
Statesmen should remember that 9| cents has |
stance, corn shipped at St. Louis, the bills of la
ding signed the 16th, reached this city on the
26th iustant. Railroad men and merchants pro
nounce this most extraordinary dispatch. Oar
friends of the Nashville Banner will hardly dis
pute that it is so.
We come now to consider another point iu the
article of our Nashville cotemporary, to which
we beg leave to direct its special attention, and
that of the merchants of its City, Louisville, Cin
cinnati. and St. Louis. We allude to the com
plaints of the merchants in Northern Georgia
and Northern Alabama—we might say, allega
tions, and not complaints—embraced in the Ban
ner's article. They are, that since the Savannah
route has been opened, they can get their sup-
Rising Fawn,
Rome,
Roswell,
Russellville,
Rutledge,
St Clond,
Saunders ville,
Scarborough.
Social Circle,
Sparta,
Sprine Place.
Starkville,
Stilesboro.
Stone Mountain,
Summerville,
Swarnsboro,
Talbotton,
Tehean ville,
Thomaston,
Thomasvilie,
Thompson,
Tilton,
Toombs boro,
Trader’s Hill,
Trenton,
Tnnnel Hill,
Union Point,
Unionville,
Valdosta.
Varnell's Station,
Vickory’s Creek,
Waltho'urville.
Washington.
Waverlv Hall,
Way’s Station,
West Point,
Whites ville.
plies through quicker by the Eastern route than I Tarboron^h.
they can get them from Lonisville, the cause al- j TelIOW Birer >
It is projected in California to supply San
Francisco aud a dozen interior towns with water
from Lake Tahoe, which ties in the Sierre Ne
vada Mountains, and is by fifteen hundred feet
the highest body of water ever navigated by a
steamboat. The length of the aqueduct, if if is
extended to San Francisco, will be 200 miles.
been, and will again be, a fair compensation per
pound to the planter, and they should now stop ! leged being the detention at Chattauooga, before j
Dade,
Floyd,
Cobb.
Monroe,
Morgan.
Heard.
Washington,
Scriven,
Walton.
Hancock,
Murray.
Lee,
Cass,
DeKalb.
Chattooga.
Emanuel,
T.ilbot,
Ware,
Upson.
Thomas,
Columbia,
Whitfield,
Wilkinson,
Charlton,
Dade.
Whitfield,
Greene,
Monroe.
Lowndes,
Whitfield.
Forsyth,
Liberty,
Wilkes.
Harris,
Bryan,
Troup.
Harris,
Cherokee,
Floyd.
Gwinnett,
S N Hurd.
J T Paxson.
D W Arnold.
T M McHan.
Miss H T Danforth.
E S Cobb.
A ADeLorme.
M H Baldwin.
W C Rossean.
N H Bacon.
Mrs I S Prudden.
M Humphreys.
M H Scovill.
-Mrs M Harrison.
A L Vail.
Mrs C J Jarrett.
Elijah Sprigg.
S Harvey.
Miss P Smith.
Miss E C McCullough.
Mrs M L Snead.
O W Cone.
J A McKay.
W Wilson.
J W Murphy.
G W Jordan.
Mrs M J Neal.
W B Smith.
<T W Godkin.
D H Johnson.
G H Eaton,
Mrs M C Adair.
S F Salter.
Mrs C E Allen.
W Hammet.
G Lastinger.
S Stanley.
M P Brown.
T G Hardaway.
P Ward.
L W Hall.
Mrs M F Hanes.
F M Whithorn.
Miss E W Torrence.
R N Dickerson.
F Ball.
A E Davis.
E C Shackelford.
E M Brand.
Mrs M C Stephens.
J K Yarbrongh.
G M Philips.
J H R Washington.
J M Shaw.
8 E Daily.
S A Frazer.
L Markham.
S E Bryan.
D M Young.
W T Martin.
W E Qui Ilian.
J H Daniel.
Mrs E F Glenn.
J W Baker.
J F Norris.
W G Pierce.
R A Morgan.
Miss J CDuke.
Mrs A L Smith.
Mrs D Wheelan.
D L Parker.
J C Lovd.
J O H P Henderson.
J Chnrchwell.
E M Hulsey.
W Allen.
A J Kiser.
W E Warren.
D B Norman.
R W Weatherby.
A W Daley.
G T Ellison.
J Hill.
H Hodges.
D B Hack.
B C Yates.
MF Cowin.
A R Smith.
T D Adams.
W l! Bailard.
A K Tribble.
T J Bird.
Mrs L M Poumelle.
W C Wright.
A M Colton.
J H Burnett.
W Anderson.
Nancy Heaid.
J F Sprout
G P Bradlev.
C Phillips.'
T H Kibbee.
Mrs E J Collier.
M M Grovenstine.
A T Shackelford, jr.
Miss ME Hall.
R W Neal.
W H Harris.
C M Lindsey.
B F Jones.'
O C Johnson. ®
ID Stephens.
R A Newson.
Catherine Darden.
J Walker.
L N Speer.
J W Orr.
N Brown.
Mrs C B Robinson.
J G Edwards.
T A Owens.
OH Jones.
W Weekes.
Laura A Hardin.
Mrs M F Wyatt.
L Nash.
Memphis, Slav 22,1866.
I have already informed the readers of the In
telligencer, in regard to the late disturbances
in this city, that General Stoneman took the mat
ter in hand and appointed a committee to inves
tigate the whole affair. A few days after. Gen
eral Runkel, of the Frecdmen’s Bureau, under
the idea, I suppose, that as the “nigger” was in
terested, an adjustment of the difficulty came
more properly under liis supervision, announced
himself the judge to mete out justice to both par
ties, and forthwith commenced by arresting sev
eral of the police and an aged citizen, who was
reported to have had two sons engaged in
the row. Whether the action of the bureau and
that of General Stoneman harmonizes I am una
ble to say, but before anything further, on the
part of either, had taken place, more than I have
mentioned, we have the news from Washington
that the matter is up before Congress, and the
House had appointed a committee of three, with
full power, to proceed immediately to this city
and investigate to the minutest particular. Their
arrival is daily looked for, together with the re
tinue of stenographers, clerks, Ac., and other ap
pendages necessary to give dignity and eclat to
the investigation of so weighty a matter by such
an august trio. In view of the utter helplessness
of the Southern people to demand justice at the
hands ot our proper tribunals in matters of this
kind, they cannot look otherwise than with in
difference upon this unprecedented anil unwar
rantable action on the paijt of Congress in a mat
ter with which they cannot be interested only so
far as it affects the internal peace and welfare of
the State of Tennessee, as a State. Firm in the
conviction that they acted, only as it becomes
every man, in the defense of their lives and
property, the citizens of Memphis care not
what may he the result of this intermeddling
with their affairs on the part of Congress.—
Even Gen. Runkel,(in his report toJGen. Fisk—liis
superior—does not attach any very great impor
tance to the affair, and has the manliness to ad
mit that the negroes were to blame at the com
mencement. How happens it that Congress can
find it of such moment as to demand their atten
tion ? They certainly did not get information
from General Stoneman, or the freedmen’s bu
reau—the legitimate sources to which to look—
that would warrant this ignoring of our local
laws. The result of it all will be the collection
of a vast pile of documents, in the shape of
“ questions and answers,” over which the re
construction committee can wrangle for another
month or two; and worse than that, it will be
the means, unless the severest punishment is vis
ited upon the ringleaders (which we do not expect)
of encouraging the negroes to further acts of law
lessness and violence. Although a majority of
the regiment, who were the principal actors in
the late disturbances, have left, we still have a
very large surplus of that species of our country
men in our midst, whom neither “ love nor mon
ey ” can induce to honest labor, but live in mis
erable indolence by beggary and plunder—there
by becoming every day fitter subjects for the en
actment of such scenes as were witnessed during
the first days of the present month.
My impression is, that Memphis is behind no
city in the Union in point of morals. The num
ber and size of her church edifices and their
crowded state on Sabbaths, by attentive citizens,
will warrant 111c in saying this. We cannot, al-
waysjudge of the amount of true piety and de
votion of a community, by the number of church
goers, hut it is a sure s.ign of morality, at least
and speaks the highest praise for any city to say
that her churches are well attended. The Bap
tists have just finished a new tabernacle, on
Court Street. For the four last nights of the
past week they held a fair, the proceeds to go
toward paying the expenses of the building.
Rev. J. Ii. Graves, of “ Iron Wheel ” notoriety,
is holding a series of interesting meetings in the
Baptist Church. The ladies of the First Metho
dist gave a festal entertainment last evening.
St. Lazarus (Episcopal) church gave a Strawber
ry festival last Friday and Saturday nigms, for
the benefit of that parish. They have no church
edifice as yet, and are using Stillman Hall, com
er Madison aud Second Streets. The rector
S. W. Rogers, issued a Whit Sunday pastoral
letter to his flock last Sabbath, in which he
quotes the following sentiment, lately expressed
in a letter lrom ex-President Davis to his wife :
“ Although I can hear the voice of my people no
longer, I am comforted by the hope that their
prayers are offered for my welfare.” He then
exhorts liis congregation to offer the followin
prayer “ every night when you go to bed, and
every morning as soon as you rise :”
“O God whose mercies are everlasting, aud
whose power is infinite, look down with pity and
compassion upon Thy servant, whom thou hast
laid in a place of darkness and the deep. Give
him always a sorrowful sense of his sins and ot
Thy fatherly love and correction. Give to his
judges tenderness and compassion, and to him a
meek and forgiving spirit toward all those who
have confined him. Raise us friends to pity and
relieve him. Give him the continual comfort of
Tby Holy Spirit, and so sanctify liis affletions
that they may work for hint an eternal weight of
glory through the merits of Jesus Christ our
Lord.”
There are said to he 200 Fenians in this city.
Probably that is a small estimate of the number
who are always ready to “ blow ” about what
they intend to do, but it is a very great exaggera
tion of the number who are ready or even willing
to shoulder their muskets and march to the scene
of conflict, if we may judge from a meeting held
here some time ago, when a call was made for
men and money—four volunteers and $10 was
the result. However, Head Centre Stephens has
arrived in New York, and new hopes are re
vived among the Brotherhood. A meeting takes
place this week, and the friends of the cause ex
pect to accomplish something yet. Their flag
can be seen any day flaunting to the breeze from
the Adams’ block on Second street.
The steamer Memphis, of the Memphis and
Arkansas river line, struck a snag near Island 70,
on the night of the loth, and sunk. She is a to
tal loss, and cannot be raised. "No lives and but
little freight was lost.
James Morgan was stabbed to death, on the
night of the loth, hy a man named Matt. Both
were employees of the Mississippi & Tennessee
Railroad. Matt escaped.
Judge Wilson, from Blount county, Alabama,
is in the city soliciting aid for the destitute ot
that country.
Mr. Thompson, the Manager, announced the
closing of the New Memphis Theatre for the sea
son on Saturday night. However, it was open
for a complimentary benefit to one of the stock
actors last night, and to-night the Memphis Dra
matic Club give a benefit to the Ladies’ Benevo
lent Aid Society.
The tournament to-day at the trotting park
course promised to be the grandest affair of the
kind ever attempted in the West. Ever}’ vehicle
in the city is engaged, and the Memphis A Charles
ton Railroad will run half hour trains during the
day. An oration will be delivered by Landon C.
Hayne. Great sport is anticipated, and then the
object—to erect a monument to the memory of
the Confederate dead—is enough to fire the sonl
of even,- patriot in the land. J. B. L.
NEW YORK CORRESPOXDEXCE.
The Academy of Music Firc^Great Destruction of Pro-
pertv—Sketch of the Academy-The London Panic-Its
Effect in New York-Radicala Threatening Another
Accident and Death.—On Wednesday, the
16th, as Maj. Wyley B. Pope, of Clinton, was
returning home front Macon, he undertook to
ride a vicious mule belonging to him, and was
thrown violently to the ground, and so injured
that he died on Sunday last from the effects of
the fall. Major Pope was perhaps the oldest in
habitant of Clinton, and was nearly J>6 years of
age at the time of liis death. He was bnried
on Monday.—Macon Citizen.
making laws for emergencies, and make laws for
a nation standing among nations for all time.”
Gret Britain exported tin plate last year to
the value of more than a million and a quarter
sterling, nearly half of it to the United States.
A letter from Paris states that a sub-marine
reterred to. Now, this cannot be the case; at ; tunnel between Calias and Dover, to connect
least, we do not believe it, and are inclined to at- England and France, is seriously c ontemplated.
tribute this resort by many of the merchants in ftasibffiW ofTlie i ontmaay iasw msiae me watts ot the burnt
Georgia and Alabama, to the Eastern and North- , project, and"reports uoonlt have been made t o I J ail °‘ Clinton, from which sue was released by
era markets for supplies, to the same influences | the French Emperor. ! C*en. Sherman s army, in 1864. Macon Citizen
Hung.—The negro woman who poisoned a
white family, several years since, near Clinton,
to rescue whom an attempt was made by the
colored people of Macon, a few weeks since, was
hung on Friday last, inside the walls of the burnt
War, etc.
New York, May 22.
In losing the Academy of Music, New A ork
has lost one of her choisest treasures. When we
woke up tliis morning and found that during our
few hours of sleep it had been taken away from
us, we felt that we had suffered an irreparable
loss. The building itself was one of the finest
ornaments of the metropolis, and then the recol
lection ot the many pleasant afternoons and
nights that we have spent within its walls made
our regret for its loss all the more poignant. It had
not been with us very long—only about twelve
years—but it had afforded us so many opportu
nities for delight that the announcement of its
destruction fell upon ns like news of the death of
some dear friend whose voice had made us happy
only an hour before.
There is a general belief that its destruction
was planned by some malicious enemy, but who
he is or how he effected his work is yet to be dis
covered. There was a slim audience in the
building till eleven o’clock last night, trying to
be pleased with the Gran troupe’s representation
of La Juice. At half past eleven, after all the
actors and musicians had gone away, the private
watchman went into the auditorium to see il all
was right, and he discovered fire at one corner
of the orchestra. He extinguished it at once,
but the incendiary had planned his work too well.
The fire at the orchestra had hardly been extin
guished when the watchman discovered smoke
and flames in several other parts of the building.
Then he ran out and gave the alarm, but the fire
inside kept on burning, and when the firemen ar
rived the whole building was one mass of flames.
Steam engines puffed and snorted through the
night, and threw mighty streams of water on the
massive walls and through the broken windows,
but the fury within roared aud raged, and when
daylight came ail that remained of last night’s
magnificence was acollosal skeleton, with a mass
of smouldering splendor lying at liis feet. The
walls were there, but all the beauty was gone.
The Academy was opened for the first time on
the 2d of October, 1854, by J. H. Hackett, with
Grisi, Mario, and Susini in the opera of Norma.
The opening was not a success, lor opera was
then an alien in New York. Since that time
six or seven Impressarios have tried to naturalize
the opera at the Academy, but all failed except
Maretzek, and liis success was not absolute. The
most brilliant operatic stars who have shone in
the Academy since Hackett opened it are Mario,
Bellini, Brignoli, Frezzolini, Grisi, Lagrange,
Patti and Piccolomini. Native artists have tried
to climb from its stage to the pinnacle of fame,
but only one—Miss Kellogg—ever reached half
way. Its boards have been trodden by the
greatest American actors. I have seen Forrest
and E. L. Davenport play Damon and Pythias
there before an audience of five thousand per
sons. Edwin Booth, Charlotte Cusliman, the
elder Wallack, Barton, Jefferson, and Hackett
have illustrated Shakespeare on its stage, and
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean stood behind its foot
lights only a few weeks ago and bade good-bye
to their American friends. And not alone the
drama and the opera have held festival there. Tli
Academy was the finest ball room in New York
and the most fashionable balls and reception
ever given iu the metropolis were held within its
walls. The Seventh Regiment ball last winter
was perhaps the most magnificent entertainment
of all. Before that the building was used for the.
Prince of Wales’ reception, the Russian ball two
years ago, charity balls, calico balls, and many
other terpsichorean gatherings of fashion and
folly; and later for the Bal d’ Opera of last April
which aroused so much indignation in the hearts
of prudish old ladies who were not favored with
invitations.
The building was valued at $373,000. It was
insured for only $120,000, so the stock holders
suffer a heavy loss. But they are not discount
ed. In a fe,w days laborers will begin to clean
away the ruins, and six months lienee the Acad
emy will stand forth renewed. And by the time
it is rebuilt its prospective rival at the corner of
23d street and Fourth Avenue may be ready to
compete with it for popularity.
Maretzek has suffered an irreparable loss in the
destruction of his magnificent wardrobes. He
had costumes and properties for over seventy
operas, and all were completely destroyed. Their
value is estimated at over one hundred thousand
dollars. Manager Grau, who had the Academy
for a short season, lost wardrobe properties valued
at $30,000. And most oi the opera music in the
city, with plates, etc., which unfortunately was
stored in the building, was destroyed.
But the intrinsic value of the Academy is only
a trifle compared with the total loss caused by
the same fire. When the flames broke out there
was a high wind blowing from the West, and in
less than half an hour, the fire was carried down
the whole block to 3d Avenue, anil whatever it
touched it destroyed. The building adjoining
the Academy on 14th street, known as Use Uni
versity Medical College, was completely gutted
by the flames, and its valuable collection was to
tally destroyed. The large buildings at the cor
ner of 3d Avenue were burned to the ground.—
Hardly one brick remains standing upon another.
The Lutheran Church on loth street also caught
fire, and the efforts of the firemen to save it
proved fruitless. The entire block between Ir
ving Place and 3d Avenue has been swept away,
and the total loss cannot fall short of $3,000,000.
The new fire department is held responsible for
the great destruction of property. Since this de
partment was organized, New York has suffered
enormous losses from fires, and we have had too
much proof of the inefficiency of the department.
In the first place, it is not strong enough, though
its expense is about half a million per annum,
and in the second place, the men have none of
the vigorous dashing spirit that characterized the
old department. The new men work for pay ;
the old ones worked because they willed to do so.
They were never so happy as when fighting fire,
and though they were sometimes rough and law
less they were always fearless and reliable. If
we had the old department last night one half of
the property that was destroyed would have been
saved. But it is no use crying over spilled milk,
we have the new department, and so long as we
have a Republican Legislature we will have to
tolerate it.
The great financial panic in England has not
been without effect on the New York market.—
The feeling in financial circles to-day is decided
ly feverish. Gold opened at 130|, and despite
the large sales made by the Treasury, it worked
up to 133 this afternoon. Government securities
£ to 1 per cent, lower, and railroad bonds are
quite seriously depressed. There has been a
sharp advance in provisions, and the indications
are that the advance will go further. Rumors of
trouble in some of the commercial houses were
prevalent on the street this morning, but there is
apparently no foundation for them as yet. The
failure on the other side casued the return of a
considerable number of cotton bills, and the cot
ton market is somewhat depressed in conse
quence. But there is no apprehension of serious
trouble. It seems the panic in England was pre
cipitated by a remark of the French Emperor,
that he detested the treaties of 1815. The power
of the man may be measured by the effect which
his few words have had on John Bull’s bank ac
count. .
Robert Dale Owen—one of our social levellers
—publishes what he seems to consider an argu
ment for equal civil rights. He says the Consti
tution ought to be amended so as to place negro
civil equality beyond peradventure, and adds
that the North would renew the war to-morrow
rather than permit you to make special laws for j
the negroes in your section. If Mr Owen believes ;
that the North wants to go to war with the South,
he is enormously mistaken. A handful of rest
less radicals would probably be glad tq see the
Sooth again given over to fire and sword, but
they could not get tne men to ply the torch and
carry the sword, and I am sure they would not
do the work themselves. In truth the people
round about New York have had quite enough
of war, and they have not the least notion to
take up the sword for the enforcement of negro
equality.
Appropos of the Academy of Music fire, Imav
say that the new French theatre will be opened
next week. Mr. Grau has leased it for three
operas - each week—paying for that privilege
$18,000 per annum. So the patrons of the opera
have not lost their only opportunity for enjoy
ment. C.
Tlic Indictment Against Nr. Davis.
In Wednesday’s issue we referred to the indict
ment against Mr. Davis, and to the Grand Jury
by whom it was found. We then made the fol
lowing allusion to the witnesses on whose evi
dence Mr. Davis had been indicted :
“In order, however, that the public may judge
of the dignity and decency of the proceedings,
we give the names of the parties wlio appeared
as the chief witnesses on behalf of the Govern
ment in this great State case. The last para
graph of this "precious indictment runs as fol
lows :
‘“This indictment is found on testimony of
James F. Milligan, George P. Scarbury, John
Good, Jr., J. Hardy Hendren and Patrick
O’Brien, sworn in open court, and sent for by the
Grand Jury., ^
i>thing bf the witnesses abore
remotest intention of re-
r of any one of them.—
their names was simply
As wekne
named, we li
fleeting on tl
Our object in
to enable the
the Governm
been at the li
four years, li
men, and had
dous wars of
he is chargci
against the Fi
portaut case h
the world
Under thes
moning any
statesmen by
posed, and wh<
his acts, but in
also, the Gover
the testimony c
unknown to tii
spectable these
derstand the nature of
gs. Mr. Davis had
Government for
many millions of
lie most stupen-
“ mes. For this
itted treason
more im-
attention of
d of Burn
ers and the
tnded or op-
ly concerning
es and objects
p its case upon
Inals who are wholly
No matter how re-
men may be, we submit
that it would have been more decent and digni
tied on the part ot the Government to have sum
moned as witnesses those who occupied such po
litical or military positions as afforded them
opportunities of learning more about Mr. Davis
than ordinary citizens could do. This was all
we meant to say. But our language, we admit,
was not so guarde 1 as it should have been, which
fact we very much regret, as we have unwilling
ly given pain to a very worthy gentleman. He
asks us to publish his letter, which we do cheer
fully, and reiterate that we had no intention in
our former article oi'castin g disparagement on
him or any of the other witnesses in tiie case :—
Baltimore Gazette.
Merchants’ and Mechanics’ Exchange, )
Norfolk, Va , May 17, I860, j"
Editors Baltimore Gazette :
Gentlemen : My attention has been called to
an article in your paper of yesterday, holding me
up in 110 enviable light, as one of the accusers of
ex-President Jefferson Davis. To our own com
munity no explanation is necessary; my antece
dents and present position are weli knoivn. But
I have friends and family connections in your
city who are, doubtless, surprised and mortified
to see my name in the list of witnesses before the
Grand Jury.
I deem it my duty to them and myself to in
form you that I entered the Confederate army
as a volunteer, resigning for that purpose a high
ly respectable position in our oily government,
that of Register (by virtue of which office I was
exempt from military service by act of the Leg
islature,) raised a company, contributed of my
means to its equipment, and served as captain of
artillery until the surrender oi General Lee’s
army.
I was summoned before the Grand Jury, as
were many other gentlemen, greatly against my
inclination, and so far from volunteering my evi
dence, reluctantly obeyed a peremptory order.
If Mr. Davis be guilty of treason, I certainly
am, to a greater degree; as lie, in liis position,
only obeyed the unanimous voice of our whole
Confederacy, whilst I volunteered my services to a
cause which I considered just and holy. Your
obedient servant, J. Hardy IIendren,
Secretary Merchants’ and Mechanics’ Exchange,
Norfolk, late Captain Company B, 18tli Virgi
nia battalion of artillery.
Papers throughut the country will greatly
oblige me by copying the above.
——
A Cotton-Dicker at Lust !—Important It'
True—tlio-TVary Bostonian “ Solid men**
take Stock In It.
The little item ol intelligence which appeared
in the Argus last week, without comment, an
nouncing that Mr. W. E. Frail, of Knoxville,
East Tennessee, had invented a “Cotton Pick
er”—that is, a machine for gathering the cotton
from the stalk in the field—may turn out to lie
the most important news, in regard to the inven
tion of labor-saving machines, that lias appeared
in the public prints since the advent of WhitueyM
wonderful revolutionary cotton-gin.
The Boston Transcript, a reliable journal, is
credited in saying that Mr. Prall’s Cotton-Picker
lias found so much favor with Boston capitalists
and manufacturers, that a company of them have
clubbed together and purchased the patent. The
machines, adds the Transcript, are to be manu
factured at Hobart’s extensive Cotton-gin factory
at Bridgewater, Mass.; and, best of all, those
most familial’ with cotton-picking and acquaint
ed with the apparently insuperable obstacles in
the way of success, are represented as feeling
great confidence that the invention will prove
almost invaluable—in a word, a complete success.
Now, if this be true—audit has all the appear
ance of being the twin brother of fact—if this
Cotton Picker shall well perform tiie service for
which it is designed, Mr. Prall, of East Tenncs-
has supplied a desideratum, accomplished
an achievement, that may well rank him among
the benefactors of the human race. It is well
known to all who are familiar with the ptpduc-
tion of cotton, that next to the ginning of cotton
—the taking out of the seeds, and its conversion
into lint—the most difficult and important work
is to harvest it—that is, to gather it from the
bolls aud stalks. One hand, on good land, can
generally raise as much cotton as two can con
veniently pick, i. e. harvest. It is plaiu, there
fore, that if the East Tennessee mechanician has
invented a machine, to be worked by home or
steam power, that will successfully pick the cot
ton front the stalk, helms confers ed an obliga
tion upon cotton planters all ovet the world,
which can no more be estimated than that which
the immortal Whitney laid npon them, by the
invention of the cotton gin.
Such an invention, moreover, would go far to
ward supplying much of the lost labor of the
South ; lost by disease, the vicissitudes of war
and the grand result of the struggle. The most
important crop in the L nited States, which usu
ally takes all the fall and winter to harvest, will
be gathered with ease by the first of December,
ancf at one fourth the farmer expense and trouble.
Indeed, it is almost impossible to estimate the
wonderful saving that will accrue not only to the
South, but to all who are in any way connected
with the culture, the “handling,” or the manu
facture of our great staple.—Memphis Argus.
Demoralization In the West.
Whenever an uasual number of crimes are
perhetrated, or some crime of a very heinous
character is committed in any of the Southern
States, our Northern monitors at once read us
lengthy homilies upon the demoralization of the
South resulting from tiie war. Now and again
we have revealed glimpses of social demoraliza
tion in the Eastern and Northern and Western
States which vie with the worst features of the
depravity developed in the South. The other
day the public were nauseated with the horrible
details of the murder of a whole family by one
man near Philadelphia to secure a little money.
And now the Indianapolis correspondent of the
Louisville Journal furnishes a complete chapter
ol horrors in his dispateli to that paper dated the
20th inst. He says:
“A Newland-Evans tragedy occurred in Jasper
county on Thursday last. A wealthy farmer
named Addison Parkinson, on ascertaining that
his daughter—a girl about fourteen years old—
had been seduced by a young man in his employ
named Owen Gutliridge, took his pistol and
went to the stable where Gutliridge was at work,
called him out, and shot him three times, killing
him instantly. Parkinson expressed himself
willing to surrender himself to the authorities.
-“A dead infant was found in an alley’ this
morning,evidently killed immediately after birth
“A man named Wade shot one Baldwin hi
Gibson county, killing him instantly. No cause
was assigned.
“A beast named Wood committed a rape on a
little girl thirteen years old in Porter county
and it is expected she will die from the effects.—
Wood is just out of tiie penitentiary for the com
mission of a similar offense several years ago.”
The virtuous North has been demoralized by
the war, although it raged not upon its fair soil.
—Xashcille Despatch.
The prospects uf the ocean steamship lines
I were never better than at the present time. Pas-
: sengers are. securing rooms and berths weeks in
I advance, tv hole families are booked for Europe,,
i an d places in all the favorite steamers are filled
before their arrival. The steamers of Saturday
last took out upwards of seven hundred first
1 class passengers.