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‘•ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”Jefferson.
VOLUME XVIII.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6,1866.
NUMBER 23.
lilfehli) Jntrllitprcr.
PUBLISHED DAILY AND WEEKLY BY
JARED IRWIN WHITAKER,
I*roj>rletor.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Wednesday, June 6, 1866.
Vlic Death or (General Winfield Srotl.
The annouucement by telegraph of the death
of this distinguished military chief lias not taken
the country by surprise, notwithstanding its sud
denness. Alive as it were to-dav, and dead to
morrow, still the latter event was not unexpected,
for he had lived to an age remarkable among
men, especially among those who, like himself,
had seen so much of hard service, as well in the
field as in the transaction of otlieial business at
tached to the high station lie had reached in the
course of his eventful life. While the North
owes to him so much, the South will not forget
that he was once their pride and boast, “ native
and to t he manor born,” ami that when he could
not co-operate with her, he was willing for the
" wayward sisters" embraced within its bounds
to “ depart in peace." Full of years, and full of
honors, the gallant old chief has gone to his long
home—that home where the “ weary are at rest.”
And thus passetli, however exalted, or however
humble, men away, “to that bourne from whence”
none ever return. Alas, that the “ evil they have
done liveth long after them,” and that “ the good
is oft interred with their bones ! ” But, peace to
ilie asli°s of the departed veteran ! History will
do justice to his memory.
Prentice and tlie “Dead Duck.”
One of the best hits given Forney, the “Dead
Duck” and Occasional of the “Philadelphia Press"
is embraced in the following from the pen of
Prentice of the Louisville Journal. Writ i»S of
Forney he says:
“The ‘Dead Duck’ of the Philadelphia Pnxs
talks Rbout the South’s having ‘raised her puny
arm against the Union.’ Puny say you, oh de
funct aquatic bird ? Puny do you call that arm
which defied and resisted the mighty power of
the Federal Government almost live years, won
many brilliant victories, and struck down nearly
half a million of our best men upon the battle
field ' It wasn’t puny, whatever else it may have
been.”
The brilliant victories won, and the half mil
lion of men struck down upon the battle fields
in their efforts to overpower and subdue the
South by the armies thereof, give flat contradic
tion to Forney’s declaration. That a "puny"
eflort should require four years and millions of
men to subdue, is not creditable to the conqueror
in the conflict. Forney, as he is in the habit of
doing, in thus underrating the valor and resist
ance of the South in the late conflict, has done
injustice to the North and its armies. Whatever
else they may have been, neither was the attempt
made l>y' the South to achieve her independence,
a puny one, nor was that of the North to subdue
her other than a powerful, a mighty one. His
tory will give Contradiction to whatever Forney
writes on the character and conduct of the late
war.
The Failure of Sir HI or toil Peto’s Loudon
Hankins House.
When ttirqner, s of the fnllurerot this LcCdoti
banking house first reached us, we expressed the
apprehension that it would aflect largely some of
the Ruilroad Companies anil mercantile houses
of the West and North. We were not mistaken,
it seems, in our apprehensions. It is well known,
says an exchange, that Sir Morton Peto was
neatly interested in the Atlantic A Great West
ern Railway, and in consequence of this failure
>lie Western extensions of this road are much
jeopardized, possibly to such an extent as to pre
vent their being completed for some time to
come. Hir Morton Pcto’s visit to this country
last fall was mainly to look after this interest and
devise ways and means to meet the then impend
ing storm w liich has proved so disastrous to him.
lie was then much embarrassed in his endeavors
1.) procure funds to sustain the credit of the road,
submitting to rates as high ns 24 per cent per
month tor temporary loans, and had obtained
extensions to the amount of over a million and a
half sterling.
Another exchange says that the failure of Peto
A Betts is very heavy. The liabilities are put
down at £4,000,000. Sir Morton Peto says that
nearly a month ago an accountant estimated that
there would be £1,000,000 surplus on the estate.
Alas, that these estimates are so fallacious! How
can an accountant tell the value of Peto A Betts’
securities? This is rather an absurd finale to
Sir M. Peto’s grand American tour, and it makes
the Trunk shareholders feel rather uncomforta
ble.
And this is the end of the Loudon banker’s
grand tour, and the ovations paid him, in the
North and West only a few months ago. But
who, if the statement be true that he was then
borrowing and submitting to rates as high as 2J
per cent, per month, could expect any other re
sult V The finale is indeed an absurd one, and
doubtless “makes many others besides the Trunk
shareholders feel uncomfortable."
The Freedmeu** Court Discontinued In
Nashville.
The Nashville Dispatch, referring to an order
issued by direction ot Brevet Major General
Fisk, abolishing the Freedmen’s Court in that
city, says:
“ The freedmen’s court lias been discontinued.
This was a tribunal unknown to our jurispru
dence. and however fairly and impartially it
might have been administered, it was not calcu
lated to give satisfaction. The Legislature might
long since have given force to the negro testi
mony law, and thus have rid the people ot these
freedmen’s courts. The negro will now find no
impediment to obtaining his rights before the
courts of this State, but he will have to learn
jin important fact, that these courts are very dit-
terent from that to which he has been aeeus-
t uned to appeal for a redress of real or fancied
grievances. lie will find that these courts are
not the mere registry of the prejudices of the
judge, but are conducted upon the great princi
ples which underlie the jurispiudence of the
couutry. The negro need-have no tears that he
will not be protected in all his rights as fully
under our civil courts as under that anomaly
known as the freedmen’s court.”
The following is the order referred to in the
foregoing •
Bvr.E -c Refugees, Fb'dsi'x and Abandoned Lands ,
States or Kentucky and Tennessee.
Ass t Conxissioner's Office, Nashville, May 26. 1
John Lawrence. Judge of Freedmen's Court. Superin
tendent for Davidson county, Tennessee:
Sir. 1 am directed by the Assistant Commis
sioner, Brevet Major General Clinton B. Fisk, to
intorm you that, under the provisions of the Dill
which has just passed the Legislature of this
State, and has at once become 'a law. defining
the term “ persons of color," and “ declaring the
rights of such persons,” you will at once discon
tinue the Freedmen’s Court in this city, turn over
all cases to the civil tribunals, and will call upon
ihc county and city authorities to provide for the
colored paupers, sick, etc., in accordance with
the express provisions of this bill. I am, sir.
very respectfully, your obedient servant.
H. S. Brown,
Captain and Assistant Adjutant General
It is rumored that the King of Italy will him
self be the commander-in-chief ot the Italian
armv. with General de la Marmona as chief of
staff.
The National Bankrupt Hill.
Commenting upon the passage of this hill by
the House of Representatives of the present Con
gress, the Washington City correspondent of the
Richmond Examiner says:
For the Southern States, lately dislurlied iu
their business arramrements by war, Ac., this bill
is a Godsend, and it is so acknowledged by many
of tlie business and legal men of the South, who
have corresponded with Mr. .Tenckos on the sub
ject. The Bankrupt laws of ’91 and of '41 were
either partisan projects or temporary expedients
to relieve debtors. Of course they were repealed
as soon as their object was answered. But this
is intended as a permanent system governing, in
time to come, the relations between debtor and
creditor, in a uniform, and beneficient, and en
lightened manner. The celebrated William
Lowndes, of South Carolina, one of the ablest
and purest of all the statesmen of his period,
while he was in Congress, and at the head of the
Committee of Ways and Means, elaborated a
Bankrupt system, under the Constitution, which
for that day, was excellent; but it was not adopt
ed. A distinguished lawyer of Pennsylvania,
John Sergeant, proposed a law for the same pur
pose, but that failed.
The unexecuted powers of the Constitution,
one of which this Bankrupt Dill carries out, are
ample for all the purposes of an American Union.
This law. iu relation to creditor and debtor, is
one of these unexecuted, and most beneficial
powers.
The creditor interest of the Northern commer
cial States have demanded this law, and not the
debtor interest. At the South, it may be that
the debtor interest is not opposed to it. Mer
chants everywhere will find their interests pro
moted by a law which will generally adjust or
compromise cases of debt and bankruptcy’ so
that both parties, creditor and debtor, can be
free and untrammelled.
Among letters from the South, received and
considered by tlie committee, were some from
well known and most respected men, who ex
pressed the opinion that this Bankrupt bill will
do more for the South than anything that this
republican Congress, or the Federal Executive
could possibly do for them. What they most
want, they say, is to be free from their debts, and
enabled to begin again. The creditors will find
t heir advantage also in wiping out and beginning
anew. Tlius, the prince of dry goods dealers,
Stewart, of New York, writes to the committee
that a million and a half is due him from the
South, and that he desires that the debt be wiped
out iu such manner that his debtors can come
and deal with him again.
If such are to be the effects of this bankrupt
bill.Jil will prove certainly beneficial to the South
ern debtor but not more so than to the Northern
bankrupt. Noth withstanding, however, the loss
es sustained by the South, we feel almost con
fident, that its commercial indebtedness—that
leading to bankruptcy—is not greater than that
of the North—that the “ Godsend,” in the pas
sage of a Bankrupt Act, will be as well to the
Northern, as it is esteemed by the Examiner's
correspondent, to be to the Southern debtor. The
experience of the past is a lesson not easily for
gotten. The corruption and fraud attending the
execution of the Bankrupt Act of 1341 are writ
ten in the nation's liistorv, and make very black
The Financial Panic Snbaldins In
don.
Southern Baptist Convention at Hassell*
vllle, Kentucky.
The London Times of the 16th instant states
that the financial panic continues to abate, and
tbe indications increase that, although many dif
ficulties must yet be looked for, the effects of the
shook will be less general and disastrous than on
former occasions. Many, even, of the embar
rassments that may yet have to be chronicled
could, it is believed, with moderate assistance
lie entirely averted. One reason for this corn
paratively satisfactory condition consists in the
fact that the crisis has come after three or four
years of real trading prosperity, when the coun
try was inherently more wealthy than at any
previous date; while another favorable circum
stance has been, that threatenings of a continen
tal war on the one hand, and the salutary opera
tion of our currency system on the other, have
for months past tended to arrest the mad career
of the speculative public, and to cause many of
the additional schemes, to which they would
otherwise have been committed, to prove abor
tive.
The Times is doubtless light. Great Britain
has indeed had “ four years of real trading pros- w
perity.” She has let no opportunity slip of em- isting against teaching the blacks.
I . , . , . i ,n see no degradation m it.
bracing every advantage that presented itself bv
pages upon u
Cotton.
A writer in De Bom's Review says that “Cotton
is grown, as will be see n by reference to the map,
in China, Japan, a part of Australia, Bunnali,
East India, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Turkey,
Greece, Italy, Spain, in nearly all the explored
parts of Africa, in Madagascar, the West Indies,
North and South America, between the 40th de
gree of North and a corresponding parallel of
Sputh.JfUiti' and iu mnstogf Ikojsfcind-s of the
world, which lie in tlie temperate and torrid
zones.”
Commenting upon the foregoing, the Paris
(Tennessee) Intelligencer, estimating the quantity
of cotton grown in East India and China alone
at IS,000,000 bales, says, “ it is thus evident that
the Southern States grow but a small quantity of
the cotton worn bj’ the twelve hundred millions
of human beings who inhabit the earth. Never
theless, our fibre is larger and every way supe
rior to that grown almost anywhere else. Hence
it is worth more. Our planters command very
remunerative prices. But we should gently sug
gest that they should not run mad about cotton,
and neglect the cereals aud other substantial,
as it ilia}’ take the profits ot the cotton crop to
supply the necessaries of existence.”
The same journal predicts that there will be
a greater reduction in the price of cotton for the
following reasons:
1st. There is a greater breadth planted in the
United States than was anticipated a few months
ago.
2nd. There is abetter prospect that the labor
can be relied on than existed at the beginning of
the year.
dj. The late exhorbitant prices were the result
of tbe cotton famine in this country brought on
by the war.
4th. The change in the machinery iu Europe
to work the Surat Cotton will diminish the de
mand for our cotton.
5th. During the blockade of Southern ports,
while the war was going on, the cotton produc- 1
iug countries were stimulated to increase this
production for export to the European markets.
6th. Within the last five years a very large area
in other countries lias been reduced to cultivation
for the production ot the staple ; and that area is
still widening.
Tth. The cotton of the Southern States consti
tutes a very small part of the gross amount, pro
duced annually throughout the world.
The annual yield of the whole world is esti
mated at the enormous sum of three hundred
millions of bale*.
These figures of our Tennessee eotemporary
will be startling to the cotton growers of the
South. We confess they are to us, and we should
like to know from wluit statistics they are deriv
ed. Three hundred millions ot bales grown!
Prodigious !
Hilliard* aud Butler.
“ Sumter,” the New York correspondent of
the Charleston Courier relates tbe following, in
which a natural propensity of General Benjamin
F. Butler, the” Hero of New Orleans,” so-called,
is again “illustrated;’’we mean liis propensity
to run from whence danger threatens:
Lovers of the game of billiards crowded to
Cooper Institute last evening to witness the tenth
match for the American championship and $1000.
The champion. John Deery, of Washington, has
has held the master's cue for six months, during
which time he has defeated two claimants tor
the honor. Last night liis antagonist was Joseph
Dion, of Montreal. The battle ended in the de
feat of the champion, who must now relinquish
his title to the skillful Canadian. A funny cir
cumstance connected with the exhibition is no
ticed by the Daily World. General B. F. Butler
was present and seated near the reporters. At
one time there was a disturbance among tbe sport
ing men and every symptom of a fight. To the
amusement of the lookers on, the hero of New
Orleans crabbed his hat and instantaneously “ske
daddled.”
—♦ »■
Confirmed by tbe Senate.
We notice in a telegraphic dispatch, the con
firmation, recently, by the United States Senate,
of the appointment made by the President of
Mr. W. H. Watson, as the Revenue Assessor
for this, the 4th collection district, of Georgia —
Mr. Watson has been discharging, in a most
courteous and efficient manner, the duties ot this
office ever since its creation here, and we are
pleased to notice this confirmation by the Senate
of his appointment.
Information Wanted.—The Savannah Ad
vertiser publishes the following notice, with a
request to the press to copy:
e learn that the body of Captain Livingston,
of one of tlie Alabama regiments, wlicT was
wounded at Gettysburg and died in Baltimore,
was embalmed aiid placed in a vault in that city,
to await the claim of his friends. Captain L.
was at one time editor of a paper in Alabama.
Further information as to his death can be ob
tained at tliis office.
reason of the four years ot war in America, to
improve her trade, extend her commerce, and
protect her manufacturing interests. The war
in the United States was to her an event to profit
by. The longer it held out, tlie better for her.
In truth, it terminated too soon for her interests.
Had it continued years longer, the better for her.
Wliat though another million of men had been
slain, little would she have cared for that; her
commerce would have been more flourishing;
her trade would have been more extended; her
manufacturing interests still better protected;
and the financial disasters which she has just ex
perienced would hardly ha\o created the brief
panic it did. Well does the London Times rea
son when it says:
After the panic of 1847, a long period was ex
perienced during which half-finished railways
and other public works had to be abandoned, and
persons w T ere ruined who might otherwise
have partly retrieved their posilton. On the
present occasion there is no reason to apprehend
that anything of this sort to a serious extent will
be witnessed. Again, in the succeeding panic—
that of 1857—it was found that for a year or two
a large number of the most active firms in Glas
gow, Liverpool, London, and elsewhere, had ab
solutely for a long period been shipping goods at
a reckless sacrifice, for the sole purposed having
the pretext of an extensive business to enable
them to draw accommodation bills. In that
way an actual commercial loss of tens of millions
was incurred. On the present occasion there has
been no very serious squandering of national
wealth,Panel the ruin encountered has been main
ly from a fall in the prices of securities which
were previously calculated to be symbols of
wealth the}’ did not actually represent. In this
way it lyis been estimated at least one hundred
and thirty millions sterling have disappeared,
even since tlie commencement of the current
year, but it is simply from the dissipation ot pre
posterous valuations,.and not from the destruc
tion or loss of anything positive. Even of this
at least half, or perhaps two-thirds, will be re
covered with the return ot confidence, since its
enormous amount, is chiefly due to the fact that
every enterprise and every security in the king-
iom, including the English funds, and all the best
- reign stocks, have been beaten down by the
.isappearance of the fictitious premiums of a
number -of inferior concerns. The prospect,
therefore, Is much less discouraging than .might
be suppose^, and i| may be honedwftat although
tlie age is probably far 'distant when morality
and intelligence will be sufficiently diffused to
prevent altogether the repetition ol such crises,
each succeeding case of the kind will show some
advancement in the power of self-control. Tlie
general consequences of the panic of 1857 were
for less disastrous than those of 1847, and there
is good ground to trust that on the present occa
sion we shall show a further stride in our ability
to briug these periods of mania within the influ
ence of corrective processes.
Four years of war have taught the two section
of the UnitedSfates, North and South, a valua
ble lesson in regard to the policy or statesmanship
of Great Britian. While it professes to he for
the advancement of commerce and civilization,
it is only for the advancement of British com
merce and British interests, civilization and peace
in Christendom being, with her, tlie last consider
ation. She looks upon war waged by all other
nations in which she is not involved—and she
will uot be involved in any if she can help it—
as beneficial to her, aud she governs herselt and
her diplomacy accordingly. The iour years of war
in America, the Times now boasts, have enabled
her to overcome this last financial panic. Pos
sibly she will profit by the threatened continent
al war now agitating all Europe. Her position,
iu that event, is already declared to be one of
neutrality between the contending powers. We
opine, however, this will hardly be permitted
If it be, she will doubtless improve upon it, and,
in the event of another financial panic, will be
able to subdue it with as much ease as she has
done the recent one in London. Verily, Great
Britian is a trump among the nations of tlie earth,
and however much we may dislike her cold-
hearted selfishness, her statesmanship is for her
own interests, not equalled by any other nation
or power on either continent. But for him who
rules oyer France, and who watches every move
ment of Victoria’s ministry, Great Britian would
lord it over every other European power with as
much imperiousness as she doe? over any of her
provinces in India or America.
The following correspondence of the Louisville
Courier touching the Southern Baptist Conven
tion, recently in session at Russellville, Kentucky,
embracing as it does some mdliicftl questions, and
referring as it does also to some of the reverend
gentlemen ot that denomination, well known,
and highly esteemed in Georgia and the South,
we lay liefore our readers thinking it will be ac
ceptable to many of them:
[Special Dispatch to the Loniiville Courier.]
RrssELLvmce, Ky., May 25.
In the Convention to-day Dr. Tichenor, of Ala
bama, submitted a report and address upon the
subject of affording religious'ihstruction to the
colored population of the South; the encourage
ment of day schools among them, and the edu
cation of the colored teachers by the Baptist
pastors. 'V
This report elicited somedir&ussion, but it was
the unanimous sentiment of th s Convention that
the former masters of the slav^ftvere their proper
instructors, and that Baptists fobove all others
should actively and energetically exert them
selves in tbe matter. s'
Messrs. McIntosh, of Alah^r* and Poindexter,
of Virginia, alluded to the absurd prejudice ex-
x Tjievcould
Paris Correspondence of ths New York Herald.
French Living Criticised by • Live Cosmo*
Hie—Room i'or People who Keep a Ho-
Amoug the many plans and projects which
the approaching grand exhibition has brought
out for the accommodation of strangers, one of
the most useful is one just decided upon by the
finance committee of the exhibition—the erec
tion of a building in the park for an “ Interna
tional Club.” This is intended to be confined
entirely to exhibitors, and in the large reading
room it is intended to have journals from all
parts of the world; waiters who speak all lan
guages will be employed to serve meals to the
members, each of whom will have his box iu
Secretary McCulloch’* Speecb.
Mr. McCulloch’s speech to the serenaders on
Wednesday night, is worthy of a fuller mention
than the synopsis which was all we had room
for on yesterday. He thus defined his position :
My position, gentlemen, in reference to the
issues which are now engaging the public atten
tion is not, I apprehend, misunderstood by you.
[Cheers.] I took occasion, last fell, among my
old friends iu Indiana, to define my position, and
since that time I have seen no occasion to change,
much less than to abandon it. [Applause.] I
will say, therefore, as I suppose I must say some
thing on this occasion, that the general policy of
the President in reference to the Southern States
and the people recently in arms against the Fed-
Napoleon at Anxerrc.
The Emperor Napoleon's visit to the town
which gave him his first election as representa
tive, has been remarkable by the speech he deliv
ered. We give below the address of welcome of
the Mayor to the Emperor and the Empress, and
Napoleon’s speech in answer:
which his lettere wifi be deposited The club eral Government, has commended itself to my
wnica ms letters_will De deposited, lne club f deliberate 1uc1 ’ n t roheer*! And
The Southern Cnltiuator.
The June number of this most excellent prac
tical and scientific monthly, published at Athens,
Georgia, by W. N. White, and edited by D. Red
mond and tbe publisher, lias been received at this
office.
Wo lay before our readers the contents of the
number for this month, which we are certain will
interest, at least the farming and scientific por
tion of our readers. The low price at which this
valuable monthly is furnished to subscribers,
ought to insure for it the largest circulation of
any similar journal published in the South, to-
Dr. Crawford, of Georgetown College, spoke
of tlie laws formerly existing in Georgia, prohib
iting even owners to teach tligjj’slaves. He and
his children had violated that law, tor it was a
law against God.
The report was adopted without opposition.
A preamble and resolution defining the opin
ion of the Convention upon the subject of relig
ious liberty was introduced by A. P. Williams,
of Missouri. It re asserts the great cardinal and
fundamental principles of Baptist faith which
have ever been in antagonism to persecution for
conscience sake.
This declaration of opinion gave rise to a discus
sion of very general interest. The Missouri dele
gates were opposed to any personal allusion to
themselves or the persecution they have under
gone and are now suffering. But the Conven
tion prefers to express its sympathy with its Mis
souri brethren, aucl its detestation of the despot
ism that prevails there. Stirring speeches were
made by Dr. Fuller, ot Baltimore, and Dr. Bur
rows, of Richmond.
Dr. Fuller gave his personal experience in the
midst of civil war, and how lie had obeyed the
laws of tbe United States not for patriotism, but
for religion—having stated this to the authorities
at Washington when he was threatened with im
prisonment. Dr. F. spoke with his peculiar pow
er and emphasis, and witli of manner,
cogency of logic, and chasteness of rhetoric that
are so natural to him.
Dr. Burrows, of RichmomkiMated that he had
nothing to repent of what lie lmd said, thought,
or clone during tlie past five years; and that to
no man living would he ever .Nfake acknowledge
ments, or ask pardon of any but the Lord of all.
Prof Boyce, of South Carolina, who was for
mouths after liis State seceded, a warm Unionist,
but afterwards a statt officer,.--spoke eloquently
and forcibly upon tbe subject of soul liberty. It
was, lie said, Bible doctrine^ well as Baptist
doctrine, and should be re-asserted and reinstated
by the Convention.
Dr. Jeter, of Virginia, spokt? with power and
point, as did Mr. Poindexter. Their discussion
gave occasion to tlie most spirited debates of the
session, and there was evidently much feeling on
the important question of military and civil in
terference with religious affairs.
The Convention will not adjourn before to
morrow evening. The types this morning make
a glaring error in tlie amount contributed for
the domestic mission at the meeting on Wednes
day night. The sum was six hundred and sixty
dollars. ~A
The General Associa^g-^^en-^tckv Baptists
met til j ^ Lii^BlfcpnjC'rument. The ruin di-
large doregruten was prcsui.. urfl a„- every section
ot the State. J. S. Colonial, ot Ohio countv,
was elected Moderator, and W. Pope Yeaman,
of Covington, Clerk.
The report of the corresponding secretary ex
hibits the receipts of Kentucky to be §8,000 du
ring the past year for benevolent purposes.
A vote was taken upon the place for holding
tlie next annual meeting. ' Henderson, Millers-
burg, New Liberty, Owensboro and Louisville
were the contending candidates. The vote stood,
Henderson 74, Louisville 41.
Dr. Crawford, of Georgetown, was chosen to
preach the next introductory sermon, and H.
McDonald alternate. e
Rev. G. Lorimer was appointed chairman of
the Committee in Relation with the Colored
People; and Rev. Ii. M. Dudley chairman of the
Committee on Revision of the Constitution.
To-night Rev. G. C. Lorimer preached the in
troductory sermon before a crowded audience.
rooms are to remain open until eleven o’clock in
the evening.
I think it a little strange that some of your
shrewd American landlords, who, whatever else
they may he lacking in, certainly “can keep a
hotel,” have not conceived the idea of establish
ing—during the exhibition year, after which it
would necessarily become one of the fixed and
most popular institutions in Paris—a hotel kept
upon the liberal American plan. I do not mean
by this that it should necessarily be conducted
upon the old system of charging so much a day
for room aud meals, (although it would proba
bly be well to combine the American and Eu
ropean systems in this matter, giving guests their
choice,) but that the little swindles to which
deliberate judgment. [Cheers.] And although
it has been violently, and iu some instances vin
dictively assailed, I have an abiding conviction
that it will be approved by the people when they
shall be allowed to pass judgment upon it at the
ballot box. [Loud cheers.] This plan is fairly
stated in the platform of the club which many of
you represent. I need not say, therefore, in re
gard to that platform, any more than that I sub
scribe to all its doctrines fully and without re
serve. [Cheers.] I suppose, gentlemen, that
none of us expected that, at the close of the war
in which much bad blood had been excited and
more good blood had been shed, we should have
bright skies and clear seas. 1 take it for granted
that most of us expected that at the close of the
guests are subjected in European hotels should F'T 1C > nru \ P er ’
be abolished, and the benefits of American ho- rr f v* . 1 ' would take time to bring
tels introduced mto P ro P er subjugation. But although we an-
There certainly never was a wider field for en- ffidStatS,’ i P f * thC
terprise in hotel keeping than in Paris. Here in ? t d ™ lld J a e ^ hat f e 7, er
the capital of.tl.c P wof,<l,.i„ a city turnip | jS*.
nearly two millions in population, there are really
but two hotels—the Grand and the Hotel du
Louvre—of modem construction. The others,
like tlie Meurice, the Bristol, the Windsor and
the Mirabeau, are still kept in the same old
buildings that they were before the age of rail
roads, and when English “ milords ” descended
at them from post-chaises, muddy and dirty with
the travel from Calais or Boulogne. The two
hotels referred to, though new and well con
ducted, lack in many things the comforts which
are now’ considered necessiries with you. The
rooms do not contain gas nor water, and the wa
ter is carried up in pails in limited .quantities.—
The sitting-room and chambers contain no grates,
and guests are not allowed to bum coal, upon
the pretext that it injures the gilding and paint,
but iu reality to enable the proprietors to get
from five to ten francs a day out of each guest
who has a wood fire iu his room. Then the sys
tem ot charging is an annoying one. In these
two hotels the prices of rooms vary according to
the floor upon which they are situated. An un
initiated visitor, upon being informed that the
price of his room for a day is six francs, would
for settlement, the discussion of which would be
likely to agitate the country, shake it, perhaps,
from center to circumference. But we knew
also that the people had not been wanting in any
previous emergency, and we had confidence that
they would be prepared to cope with and settle
satisfactorily any question that might he pre
sented in the future. [Applause.]
That faith is with us now. It is strong with
us to-night. We have faith in the people. And
we have faith in that good Providence which,
having led this nat ion through the red sea of bat
tle, is not likely to desert it now that the dread
fill passage has been accomplished. The Presi
dent of the United States, gentlemen, stands be
fore the country in no doubtful attitude. His
voice gave utterance to no uncertain language
when it denounced treason at the outbreak of the
rebellion in the Senate of the United States.
[Cheers.] He showed no faltering fidelity when,
counting everything else as mere dust in the bal
ance in comparison with the Union and the Con
stitution, lie went back to Tennessee to fight
treason and secession iu their strongholds, and
SPEECH OF THE MAYOR.
Sire—Fifty-one years since the Emperor Na
poleon I. wa*s received in this town with such
proofs ot devotedness aud joy that lie retained a
vivid recollection of them, which he expressed
on his death-bed in the most affecting terms, as
recorded in the Memorial de Sainte Helene. Your
Majesty has just heard the same enthusiastic ac
clamations, the same cries from the depths ot the
heart of a population whose devotedness to the
Emperor, as your Majesty well knows, lias no
more been found wanting in days of trial and
adversity tlian in those of prosperity and triumph.
Let the Emperor, therefore, permit me to present
to him the keys of this faithful town, in which
the sacred fire of attachment to the Empire has
always been kept burning even in the darkest
times.
Madame—Come and receive the ardent bless
ings of our population, who venerate, admire and
love you; and, as their reward, deigmto tell the
young Prince Imperial that, like his great uncle
and his father, he may ever rely on The affection
of his old and loyal town of Auxerre.
The Emperor replied in the following
ADDRESS.
I am happy to see that the reminiscences of
the First Empire have not been effaced from your
memory. Be certain, that on my side, I have in
herited the sentiments of the head of my family
for the energetic and patriotic populations who
supported the Emperer in good as in evil fortune.
I have, moreover, a debt of gratitude to pay to
the department of tlie Yonne. It was one of
the first to give me its suffrages in 1848, because
it knew, like the majority of the French nation,
that its interests score mine, and that I detested, like
it, those treaties of 1815 which some parties of this
day wish to make the sole basis of our foreign policy.
I thank you for your sentiments. In the midst
of you I breathe at ease, for it is among the labo
rious populatious of the towns and rural districts
I find the tri
that
true genius of France.
cal. If a better policy can be presented—one
price. When lie receives his bill, however, he
learns his mistake. In addition the price charged
for room there is a charge of from one or two
francs a day for “ serviceand if tlie guest only
stops one night lie is charged one franc in the
bill for a candle with which to light himself to
bed. Now this would not be so annoying were
he informed that the price of his room would be
more in consonance with the principles of the
government, better calculated to preserve the su
premacy of Federal authority while it trenches
not on^the reserved and legitimate lights of the
States, more just, humane, better fitted to bind
the people of this country in a common brother
hood, at the same time that it places just con
li’av^^e^r^endered’hiln’ftuy al] Vhe n ‘‘’se^^ice l ' , ’ | is no7!aii U !n’th^’unHelf’fl^nles^ho
SW. *?•»« - is?-1 ir ss ssz
ter policy be presented, he must be false to him
wit: only $2 pc-r year,
§1 for six, and fifty cents
for three months. It would be cheap at treble
the price:
AGRICIT-TURAL.
Work for the Mouth.
Cotton-Picking Machiue.
Deep Culture.
Agricultural Papers, Unculti-
Chnfas as a Field Crop.
rated Lauds, etc.
The Crops—Insects on
Cattle Plague in 1745.
Grapes.
How to Get the Cholera.
Model Farming.
Cattle Pla'gue.
Sugar from Sonrhum.
Wonderful.
Crops—Freedmen.
A New Silk Worm.
Grasses which hare Stood
New Complaint-
the Test.
North Carolina..
Rotary Spader.
Fertility of Louisiana.
Bermuda Grass.
Manuring. &c.. He.
I Livp Fencr«.
rDi
TOEIAL.
j Business Notices.
The Crops.
i Exchanges.
Books and Exchnuscs.
j Now is the time to Sub-
The Cotton Tax.
i scribe.
Hor.TTrrxruTLAL.
| The Kitchen Garden.
Flower Garden.
1 Culture ot Vegetables.
A Good Garden.
Fruit.
Latest Children's Mania.
HOUSEHOLD ECOXOZtfT.
Getting up a Breakfast.
Recipe?. \
Paste that will Keep.
i
THE
xiEESTDE.
Weep! Weep!
A Domestic Sell.
More than She Bargained
Cc Ydn't Fool Her.
for.
Latest Communications and
A Smart Boy.
^Notices.
1 here i; a movement on foot in Paris for the
purpose of placing at the principal crossings a
refuge for pedestrians. The Parisians intend to
improve upon the same system already estab
lished in London by raising a huge candelabra
with five lights in the centre of each refuge as an
additional adornment to their metropolis.
Special Dispatch toltiie New York News.
Tlie Trial of Jefferson Davis Postponed.
Washington, May 25,1866.
There is no more probability of the speedy
trial of Jeff. Davis now than there was two or
three months ago. Indeed, the opposition to hav
ing him tried in the civil courts is so great some
times it seems that the wliolf project of having
him so tried will have to be abandoned. The
Chief Justice, the Attorney General and the
Radical leaders generally, aie at the bottom of
this opposition, which is founded on the well-
known fact that a civil trial would result in the
full acquittal of tlie prisoner.''
Every possible obstacle, therefore, lias been
put in tlie way of such a trial, and tlie Attorney
General has now decided to postpone il until the
next December term of the court. The Radi
cals freely express tlie most blood-thirsty vin
dictiveness toward Mr. Davis, and do not hesitate
to express the desire that he should die in prison
rather than be tried and acquitted. The House
Judiciary Committee are so silly as to continue
their efforts to have Mr. Davis tried before a mil
itary tribunal as an active accomplice in the as
sassination of Mr. Lincoln, and they authorized
the statement to be made only yesterday that
they had full proof of his guilt. It is reported
that Mr. Davis is to be released on parole, in ac
cordance with the request of Mrs. Davis. It is
the opinion of the highest medical authority that
a few weeks more confinement w’ould terminate
his life.
MR. SEWARD THANKED FOR .REPRESSING FENI-
ANI3M.
Sir Frederick Bruce has conveyed to Mr. Sew
ard the thanks ot himself and liis Government
for the efficient manner in which our Govern
ment repressed the late Fenian demonstration
against Canada. He expresses himself as being
satisfied that all danger is now’ over; but inti
mates that the British Government j|s now fully
prepared to repel all such attempts, either against
Canada or Ireland.
SANTA ANNA TO BE PRESENTED TO THE PRESI
DENT.
It is reported that the difficulties between Santa
Anna and Senor Romero have been .adjusted by
the good offices of Mr. Seward. Santa Anna
will soon be presented to the President by Sir.
Seward. In the meantime his officers who are
here express themselves as perfectly satisfied
with the progress which their scheme is making.
The information in regard to the condition of
affairs in Mexico, contained in my last dispatch,
is from authentic sources, aud may be relied ou
as correct in every particular. The European
members of the diplomatic corps here are, Itbe-
iieve, unanimous in the opinion that a European
w ar is by no means certain, aud that the peace of
Europe'may yet be preserved. It is admitted on
all bands, however, that the issue rests entirely
with the Emperor Napoleon. Dreid.
The Hoop Skirt and Baptism.—At Detroit
last week, a rather amusing scene took plaee
during the baptism of a young lady, by the pas
tor ofthe Tabernacle. The minister requested
her to assume the dress peculiar to such occa
sions, but she declined to take off her hooped
skirt; the minister told her of the inconvenience
that would result from her obstinacy, but like a
true female she persisted; but when she came to
descend into the bath the inflated skirt touched
the water, and rose up around her like a balloon.
Her head was lost to the congregation ; she was
swallowed up in the swelling skirt. The minis
ter then tried to force her down into the bath, but
she was kept above the surface by the floating
properties of crinoline, and was buoyed up so
successfully that it was not until after many at
tempts to submerge the lady that the minister
succeeded in baptising the fair one. Finally, it
was effected, to the relief of the minister and se
riously inclined audience, who could not keep
from chuckling in their sleeves, and laughing in
their pocket-handkerchiefs.
Ten Thousand persons in New York make
their living in the rag business, which amounts
i annually to §9,000,000.
waiters or chambermaids, who are employed at
very low wages, and depend principally upon the
gifts of guests.
In tlie cafes and eating rooms ot these hotels,
too, the guests, alter paying exorbitant prices for
everything, are expected to give pourboires to the
waiters, who here receive no pay from the house.
In these places as in all cafes in Paris, every
thing is done upon a microscopic plan, every
thing being ridiculously small but the charges.—
entleman takes his seat, fiyl instance* in the
seif, false to his record, and must, in fact, cease
to be Andrew Johnson, if he does not adhere to
his policy, and sink or swim with it. [Cheers.]
It is pretty good evidence, after all, gentlemen,
of the correctness of his policy, that Congress,
after liavjng been in session nearly six long,
weary,-months, has been unable to present one
which they can agree upon as a substitute.—
[Chefers and laughter.] It was once said, I think
cafi of the GrancTKotet and c&ls t&ETi 'gfoss of \ of £ J in } cer ? t,ic - c ?“ st |*
°i„„ | tutional tinkers were the most to be depreciated.
the best brandy. After a considerable delay and
circumlocution the waiter brings him upon a
silver platter, a decanter of water, a little decan
ter of brandy, and a glass about the size of an
ordinary thimble. The decanter containing the
liquor is numbered from top to bottom like a
medical drinking glass, and the little glass just
holds the range between two numbers on the de
canter. When tlie refreshment is taken, the
waiter examines tlie decanter and charges for
tlie number of drinks taken, at the rate ot fifteen
sous the glass, or “thimble full,” which amounts
to about thirty dollars a gallon. In addition to
this he expects two sous for his services. If su
gar is called for, that is charged for; if a lemon
is called for, that is charged, and extravagantly;
if bitters are called for, that is charged for, and
if ice water is used that is charged for.
These are the customs which prevail in all the
hotels and cafes in Paris. Now, it seems to me
that a smart American landlord, w’ho would in
troduce gas and hot and cold water into every
room in his house; who would permit his guests
in winter to have good coal tires at reasonable
rates; who would charge so much a day for a
room, including service and lights; who* would
[Cheers.] If the old man could rise from his
grave, wliat would he say to the present Con
gress, in which every third man, at least, is a
constitutional tinker? [Cheers aud laughter.]—
But they are not wise enough to amend that
rand old instrument, the work of our patriot
fathers, of the founders of the Republic, the glory
of the United States, and the admiration of the
world. [Cheers.]
Continuing, he declared that it was not the
President’s fault, but that of Congress, that a sec
tion basing representation upon the number of
voters was not included in the constitutional
amendment abolishing slavery; and if the course
of the President was not approved by the people,
why was it there was no opposition to it until the
“ Jupiter Tonans” of Congress met.
In conclusion, he said :
I have desired and hoped for the continuation
of this great Union party with which I have
been ever identified—[cheers]—but if its leader
can present nothing better than the programme
of the committee I am greatly apprehensive that
its days will be numbered. [Cheers.] I trust,
fellow-citizens, that this will not be the case;
Dav li’is servant! and cut off all abou that . k d^ard itg hostility and its attempt to
pay ms _er\ ants ana cut on an pou/ooires apout con t inue oiienatinn hptwppn thp tirn apetinne <vf
hi3 hotel, would immediately and always have
his house full. Eutopeans chafe terribly uhder
all these little swindles and annoyances; but
they are the custom, and there seems to them no
way of getting rid ot them. In connection with
the hotel, hair-dressing and bathing-rooms, such
as you have in New York, where a man could
have a comfortable bath and a shave, and know
how much he is to pay for them, would have
been a valuable and important feature. In Paris,
where one goes to a bathing-house (and they are,
with few exceptions, all dirty and dilapidated,)
he first buys a bath ticket; a servant shows him
to a room and takes his ticket; the tub is usually
too short, and when in it the customer finds that
there is neither soap nor towels furnished him;
the door of the bath-room is locked and the key
on the outside, and if he wants soap and towels
he must ring for them; these are charged for,
and when he is through with his bath he must
ring again and fee the waiter before he can get
out.
A Lucky Bat-maker.
The Russian peasant who saved the life of the
Czar is a signal instance of the embarrassing po
sition of a man upon whom honors are thrust.—
It appears that he is wholly uneducated, and
therefore unfit for the cultivated society into
which his lot is now cast through the gratitude
of Alexander. General Todleben, the defender of
Sebastopol, has undertaken the rask of impart
ing the needed instruction.
The name of this lucky person is the terrible
one of Joseph Kommissaroff-Kostromski. His
patent of nobility lias been published, and a
correspondent writes of him that “he is abso
lutely a martyr to public feeling, and has no
doubt many a time wished himself back at hat
making.”
Not content, with giving him ovations at the
theatres, poor Kommissaroff lias had to eat and
drink with all sorts and conditions of men, from
the artizan to the prince. At a dinner given by
tlie nobles of St. Petersburg to the deputies from
Moscow and other places who have come with
addresses to the Emperor, Kommissaroff sat next
to Court Orloff Davydoff, who was in the chair.
There was the unfortunate Kommissaroff going
through his second dinner that day, dressed for
the first time in the stuffy uniform of a nobleman,
and wiping his honest hot face with the trusty
right hand tiiat shoved Karakosoff’s elbow. His
health was drunk amidst cheers that might be
compared to the roar of artillery, and he return
ed thanks in words that did not reacli either his
neighbors or the reporters, on account of the
enthusiastic uproar which his presence created.
How Mrs. Kommissaroff passes her time is not
so well known, for her husband’s popularity is
but little reflected on her. She appears, how
ever, by his side in a photograph, which meets
with an immense sale in the streets of the capital.
But of course she will come in for some of the
good things that are lavished on her husband.—
Moscow sends him a goid sword of honor, the
Emperor gives him a pension, the inhabitants of
St. Petersburg a house, and the nobles of every
province are soliciting tlie honor of inscribing his
name in their genealogical registers. The Em
peror of Austria has sent him the Commander’s
Cross of the Franz Joseph Order.—New York
Evening Post.
Deaths in Houston.—We are pained to hear
a report that the Hon. John M. Giles died re
cently at his residence in Perry, ot a wound re
ceived from the horn of a cow, which subse
quently gangrened and proved incurable. Mr.
Giles was a distinguished lawyer and most esti
mable gentleman.
We also learn with much regret of the death
of John H. Powers, of the same county, a brother
of the late Hon. A. P. Powers, of this county, and
well known to our citizens generally.—Macon
Journal & Messenger.
continue alienation between the two sections of
the country, and that it will embrace those prin
ciples which look to harmony, to restoration,
and to peace. If it should do this, it will still
continue to be tlie great and controlling party of
the country, and cover itself with imperishable
glory. It it does not, its days are numbered, and
the epitaph that will be writtten on it will be, “ It
knew how to prosecute the war with vigor, but
it lacked the wisdom to avail itself of tlie benefits
of victory. [Applause and three cheers for Sec
retary McCulloch.]
A Political Reminiscence.
Speaking of the Hon. Bedford Brown, of North
Carolina, who was recently examined by the
“Reconstruction Committee,” the New Orleans
Picayune says that his age must be more than
threescore and ten, and tells the following story
relative to his first election to the Senate of the
United States:
There is a curious political anecdote told of liis
first election to the Senate, which was a matter
of accident. Mr. Brown was a member of tlie
Legislature from Caswell county, we think, at
the time when the two Houses were balloting
for a successor to John Branch, who had received
the appointment of Secretary of the Navy from
Gen. Jackson. The local parties of North Car
olina were very much mixed up between Feder
alist and Republican, East and West, Jackson
and Adams, and had not crystalized into the
forms of party which subsequently obtained and
ruled so long. The contest for Senator was
among four or five prominent public men, and
the balloting was protracted. Mr. Brown was
not considered as a candidate, in fact, although
he received a few scatering votes. At last,
wearied of the contest, there was an informal
agreement made by which all leading men in
nomination should be withdrawn, and a new
man, Mr. John Owen, acceptable to a great ma
jority, should be nominated and elected. The
arrangement was not quite made when it was
suggested to have, in the mean time, another
ballot, to which the votes would be scattered, as
usual, and the final ballot be then held under
this arangement. Members proceeded accord
ingly to vote at random. By the rnei est accident,
there being no concert at all*, the members threw
away their votes, as they thought, on a candidate
without chance, and a large number put Mr.
Brown’s name on the ticket, nere another
curious incident determined the election. The
town of Newbem was then a borough town in
the county of Craven, and had its separate repre
sentation. Mr. Gaston, one of the ablest men
North Carolina ever produced, represented New-
bern. Alfred Stanly, son of Hon. John Stanly,
was representative from Craven county. Be
tween the famlies of Gaston and Stanly, there
was an old feud which had descended to the
younger branches after the elder had forgotten
it. While this ballot was going on, Mr. Gaston,
a venerable gentleman, whose seat was near that
of young Stanly, folding his own ballot said to
his neigLbor, “Alfred, vote blank.” Not to be
dictated to by a Gaston, Stanly put the name of
Bedford Brown on his ballot, because Brown
happened to catch his eye, being seated in the
Speaker’s chair. On counting the ballots,
Bedford Brown was elected Senator by a ma
jority of one vote, as much to his own surprise
as that of a majority of those who voted for
him. There was a good deal of grumbling, and
we think some a tempts to revise the vote, but
all failed, and Sir. Brown took his seat to make
himself a useful aud diligent member, and to
become so popular that on the expiration of that
term he was re-elected by a large vote. He was
succeeded in 1841 by Mr. Graham.
There are in New York city 40,000 vagrant
children, the offspring of crime, vice and pauper
ism.
THE EFFECT IN PARIS.
[Paris (May 8) Correspondence of London Times.;
Tlie words spoken by the Emperor on Sunday
in his speech to the Mayor of Auxerre will have
reached you by the telegraph before this. Wliat
the telegraph will not tell you is the effect pro
duced by those words in Paris. How they will
be interpreted in England I do not know, but it
would be difficult indeed to exaggerate the dis
may, and, I must add, the indignation they have
roused here. That indignation was yesterday so
strong as to throw the most cautious, the most
timid, off their guard. People who have been
ruined, people who are desperately struggling to
escape the ruin which is hanging over them, and
people who toil now yielded a large belief to tlie
pacific intentions of the government, and did not
scan too nicely what appeared ambiguous in
them, are in consternation. It is in re [fly to M.
Tiiiers’ speech, and to the enthusiastic reception
it met with in the legislative body, that the Em
peror trumpets to tlie world his detestation of
“those treaties of 1815, which it is desired to now
make tlie basis of our foreign policy.” These
words strike upon the ear like tlie first notes of
defiance to Europe. They are the revenge taken
upon tlie commercial, the bourgeois classes,
whose hopes of peace are so cruelly dissipated.
Railroad Connection* with tbe South.
It is manifestly the interest of Nashville to ex
tend her railroad connections with the South.
It is desirable to have railroads connecting this
city with the North West, but we must look to
the South for that trade which will build up our
city. Situated as Nashville is, our business men
must seek customers South of us. It is, there
fore, of the utmost importance that we have lines
of railroad Teaching through tire South, which
will constitute great thoroughfares for commerce.
If we can get these lines radiating from Nash
ville, we need give ourselves but Tittle concern iu
regard to lines connecting us witli the North and
West, as they will surely be built by the men
whose interests are to be subserved by meeting
here the lines coming hither from the South. We
need now a link which will connect us with Pen
sacola and Mobile, and that link is to be found in
what is called tlie Montgomeiy and Nashville
railroad, extending trom Montgomeiy to Deca
tur, Alabama. Nashville is greatly interested in
building that road, and if possible, should aid in
its construction. Witli that road built we would
have a direct line to one of tlie finest harbors in
America, while we would draw trade from the
richest portions of coun try through which the line
passed. That line would be of immensely more
advantage to Nashville than any road we could
build North of ns. This, with the Nashville &
Chattanooga and Northwestern roads already
built, and the prospective construction of the
road from Nashville to Knoxville, would make
Nashville a great railroad centre, and draw
hither a very valuable trade. Let any citizen of
Nashville reflect upon this matter, and he wiii
at once see that it is of the greatest importance
to Nashville that the road from Decatur to Mont
gomery, Alabama, shall be built. It is suscepti
ble of the clearest demonstration that this line
would be second in importance to no other cen
tering here. Let our business men look to it,
and encourage the construction of such roads in
the South as are calculated to bring trade to this
direction, and they will soon see that they have
done more to advance the interests of Nashville
than by aiding in tlie construction of roads North
of us.' Let us endeavor to have ever}’ possible
railroad built in the direction from which we
shall draw trade, and in this way we shall make
Nashville an important commercial point, as
well as a railroad centre.—Nashville Dispatch.
L'nlon of tlie Old and New School Preiby*
terian Churches.
The St. Louis correspondent of the Louisville
Courier reports the following proceedings in the
New School Presbyterian General Assembly on
tlie 2Gth instant.
At tlie afternoon session a committee was re
ceived from the Old School Assembly, bearing a
communication relative to a re-union of the two
branches. Dr. Gurley introduced the subject in
a long speech devoted to a review of the points
of agreement between the two branches. He
said he would let tlie points of agreement remain
buried. He spoke eloquently, and referred to
the harmony between tlie New School and the
large number ot tlie Old School on slavery, and
believed there never would be any future differ
ence on this topic.
When he read tlie resolutions, looking to a
union, tlie Assembly applauded vehemently.
Judge Clarke, of the Old School, also address
ed tlie Assembly on the same subject.
Tlie Moderator, Professor Hopkins, responded
in a tone of fraternal regard for the Old School,
and said he had prayed to God the way to a un
ion may be smoothed and made easy.
Subsequently the Committee on Church Policy
presented a report on tlie suggestion made by
several Presbyteries throughout the country for
re-union of the two branches. They recom
mended the passage of resolutions tendering to
the other Assembly heartfelt love and sympathy,
and a cordial greeting of love and fellowship, ex
pressing a hope that this greeting may be re
ceived in the spirit in which it was tendered;
also, to appoint a committee of fifteen, consisting
of nine ministers and six elders, to confer in the
manner suggested by the Old School Assembly,
with reference to re-union. The report was
adopted.
It wa3 suggested that this was an important
committee, and should be selected with care.
On motion, a committee was appointed to nomi
nate the committee of fifteen. The Moderator
appointed on the nominating committee Messrs.
Knox, Halfield, Hogabess, ministers, and Messrs.
John H. Foote and Judge Williams, elders.
It was also resolved that all ministers and
churches be enjoined to avoid any disagreement
which may hinder such re-union.
A Decent Nigger Newspaper.—The Mo
bile Nationalist, a nigger journal, owned and
edited by niggers, has a sensible nigger corre
spondent at New Orleans, who is not in love
with the bureau. He says: “A thousand limes
better would it be for the colored man were it
abolished, for instead of being a safeguard or
protection for the freedmen, it is only a place in
which freedmen’s rights are bartered away; it
serves only to engender bitterness and hatred in
the hearts of the very people with whom he ex
pects to live, die and be buried. * * *
The sooner it is out of the way the better for all
parties concerned.” We always knew that tli*
better class of negroes objected to the bureau a*
strongly as the whites, and we are glad to per
ceive that their opinions are getting mto print in
a way that can throw no doubt over their genu- 1
ineness.
