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ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
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Wednesday, August 8, 1866.
A Word of Cantloa.
We apprehend the land holders of oor State,
in its most productive sections, estimate their
lands too highly—by which we mean, they de
mand from would-be purchasers of their .now
surplus acres, prices largely "in excess of those,
if we are not misinformed, demanded previous
to the war. There is no good reason for this;
it is bad policy, and will prove detrimental as
well to the State, as to the land holders who
pursue it. The labor of the State does not recog
nise a scarcity in productive lands. These are
abundant in our estimation, the supply exceed
ing the demand. To a great extent, the culture
of cotton will decrease, and rich cotton lands
can readily be made to produce com and wheat.
Of these land3 there are an abundance in our
our State—an excess over any demand that will
for years be made for them by white labor.—
Land holders should think of this, and mode
rate their prices for their surplus lands. The
best policy lor them to pursue, in every section
our State, is to encourage the cultivation of their
rich lands by while labor; to sell portions of
them at reasonable price to white settlers, foreign,
or “ to the manor bom”—honest, laboring men,
good farmers who will not fail to improve them,
and thus add largely to the value of the remainder.
There are numerous individuals, for instance,
now in Middle and Lower Georgia, who have
heretofore been slaveholders and cultivated cot
ton largely, who recognize the fact that the labor
of the freedmen is not to be depended upon,
and who are therefore turning their attention
from the culture of cotton, to that of grain,
and the raising of stock. Many of them have
already sought our Mountain, or Cherokee
country, for that purpose, but have latterly been
frightened away, by the prices demanded for
good lands, $30 per acre, and even beyond that
We know of one or two of them who remind us
very forcibly of an anecdote related to us in 1836,
by Judge D. formerly of this State, but now a
resident of Alabama, a gentleman
* * * “ Clever at a Joke
Expert io all the arta to tease and smoke.
In nhort, for strokes of humor, quite the thing.”
The Judge in 1835, or thereabout, took the
then “land fever” and started from his home in
Georgia to seek a new one somewhere on the
Mississippi, or on one of its tributary streams.—
After traversing for some weeks the States of Mis
sissippi and Arkansas dissatisfied, and having
made no selection of a new home, entering the
State of Louisiana, chance one evening threw
him upon the hospitality of a generous and
wealthy Frenchman, a planter in that State.—
Every inducement was held out by Monsieur, the
planter, to the Judge to become bis guest for a
few days at least—if ’twas good land and cheap
land he wanted—a good neighborhood to settle
in—the Judge wa^ assured .these were at his
command ; he had only tof look over many sec
tions, all of which were owned by Monsieur, and
take his choice—he should haye it “sheap as
noting.’’ Thus solicited, and being so hospita
bly entertained, the Judge assented, and spent a
day or two in examining the rich lands of his
generous host. Pleased beyond measure at what
he saw, for ho had seen no such lands in all his
grand tour, and at the assurances of the French
man that he could have any section “sheap as no
ting'' the Judge made his selection, and pressed to
know the price per acre. “Ah! monsieur,” said the
Frenchman, “I am very much please you be my
neighbor—dat is a good section of land; you
can have it at $200 de acre.” The Judge had
been hunting land at government price, $1.25
per acre, and therefore paled before the French
man, when the latter hurriedly inquired—“how
much you take, monsieur f"—de whole section V”
—no answer—“half de section ?”—still no an
swer—“how many acres den V” Thus pressed,
the Judge drew out his pocketbook, containing
just $250, and, handing it to the Frenchman, in
his despair answered, “ 1’U take just one acre and
a quarter,” from that moment was cured of his
“ land fever” and, bidding his host good-bye,
returned to his Georgia home.
The prices asked for choice lands in our Cher
okee country, aud other sections of the State,
will place many who desire to settle upon and
improve them, pretty much in the condition of
Judge D.—they will not be able many of them
to pav for more than “ just one acre and a quar
ter,” and so tens of thousands of acres of the
best lands in Georgia, will long remain unculti
vated, while au industrious population will seek
localities where lands can be procured upon
more favorable terms.
Spirit of the New York Free*.
THE NAVAL BATTLE.
The World refers to the statement received
through the Atlantic telgraph that about the
middle of last week, the Italian fleet CDgaged
the Austrian fleet, and that after a sharp conflict
the Austrian ships were victorious, sinking one
and blowing up three of the Italian iron-clads.
It is added that this news comes to us, it must
be remembered, through Austrian channels only.
But if we assnme its truth, it must be admitted
that, in the first place, it falsifies the general ex
pectation of Europe, and, in the second place,
that it may well disturb our own confidence in
the perfection of our own system of naval armor.
It was just as commonly believed that Italy
would beat Austria at sea as it was that Austria
would beat Prussia on land. This event before
Lissa would now seem to have shown that Europe
in the one case underrated the Archduke Maxi
milian, now Emperor of Mexico, by whom the
Astrian navy was reorganized and developed,
just as much as it underrated Count Bismarck,
whose energy and forecast have put Prussia
where she stands to-day, in the van of military
powers. But this is not all that this event would
seem to show.
The best of the Italian iron-clads were ships
of American build; the be6t, if not all the Aus
trian ships of this Lind, were of English build.
The Italian shins, too, carried heavy guns of the
calibre used in our own navy, though not of the
Dahlgren model. As this is the first serious na
val action in which iron-clad ships have encoun
tered each other in squadrons and on anything
like equal terms, it will be seen at once that the
details of the encounter will be frill of the very
deepest interest for naval men everywhere, and
especially for the navy of our own country.
THE SALARIES AUD BOUNTIES.
The World is very severe on the Bounty bill
passed by Congress. It 6ay6 that the bounty
swindle, which, according to Senator Fessenden,
will cost $t 5,000.000, purports to be a bill for the
“equalization of bounties.” It is defended as a
debt, as a moral obligation, as a generosity due
from the Union to its preservers. It is neither of
these in tact.
It is not a debt. Where is the evidence of it V
where is ihe law ? where are the p&perain proof ?
We do not owe this $350,000,000 to anybody, for
anything.
It is not a moral obligation. Soldiers were paid
by a bargain to which they were free parties.—
They agreed to perform military service for cer
tain sums, which sums they have been fully
paid.
It is not even generosity. In the first place, jus
tice takes precedence ot generosity. Be just be
fore you are generous, is an old maxim and s
sound one. It is not just to toiling tax-payers to
add a whole ninth to their crushing burdens. It
is cruelty it it were necessity; it is crime when
neither necessary nor just Nor is the Bounty
bill even-handed in its generosity, we have seen,
were every dollar ot its $350,000,000 to go where
the law assumes to place it. But the fact is,
three-fourths ot it will go to the hands of bounty-
swindlers, land-sharks, and Congressional thieves.
The soldiers’ claims have been bought up in great
part—thousands ot them will be forged.
THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
The New York dailies have full accounts of
the laying of the Cable. The steamship Great
Eastern arrived at Berehaven on Thursday
morning, July 5th, and received the balance of
her coals and provisions.
On Saturday, the 7th of July, the end of the
Irish shore cable was landed, and the next morn
ing the laying was successfully commenced.
On Friday, the 13th of July, the shore end
was connected to the main cable on board the
Great Eastern, and the telegraph fleet started for
Newfoundland.
The average time of the ship, from the time
the splice was made until land was reached, was
a little less than five nautical miles per hour, and
the cable has been paid oat at an average of five
and one-half miles per hour. The total slack
was less than twelve per cent. The whole dis
tance run was 1,669 nautical miles. Cable paid
out 1,864 miles.
From the time when the splice was made on
the 13th, daily news was received from Europe,
which was posted up outside of the telegraph
office for the information of .all on board of the
Great Eastern, and signalled to the other ships.
Mr. Cyrus W. Field, who has been mainly in
strumental in the success of fhe -enterprise, says
that after taking in coals, the telegraph fleet will
sail for the spot where the cable was lost last
year, recover the end, and complete a second line
between Ireland and Newfoundland, and then
the Medway will proceed to lay the new cable
across the Gulf of 8t. Lawrence. Mr. Field was
born in Stqckbridge, Massachusetts, November
3ft, 1819. At an early age he came to New York,
and commenced his business life as a clerk in a
counting house. As a mercantile man he was
eminently successful, so much so that in 1853 he
was enabled to retire from active business pur
suits. After spending six months in South
America, he turned bis attention to the subject
of oceanic telegrophs. This became his-.-hobby,
and the plan of laying a cable across the broad
Atlantic his pet idea. In 1854, he succeeded in
procuring a charter from the Legislature of New
foundland granting him an exclusive right for 50
years to establish a telegraph from the Continent
of America to that colony, and thence to Eu
rope. In 1854 and 1856 he visited England tor
the further prosecution of his schemes, which
were so far successful that in 1857 an attempt
was made to lay a cable across the Atlantic
ocean, which failed. In 1858, a second attempt
was made, which was also unsuccessful, as was
a third. The fourth was triumphant, and Amer
ica and England were neighbors. Messages were
sent to and fro. Queen Victoria congratulated
the President, and the President congratulated
Queen Victoria. But, alas! this did not last;
news came that continuity was destroyed, and
to all intents and purposes the cable was useless.
Even this did not deter Mr. Field from making
another attempt, and in 1865 the laying of the
cable was again attempted, but resulted disas
trously. The success of 1866 is before our
readers!
The Express says that since Saturday last, no
fewer than five European steamers have arrived,
with later advices, the main points of which, the
reader will see, have been anticipated by the dis
patches received through the sub-marine tele
graph. It adds that this shows how the news
market is to be affected by this ocean telegraph.'
The advices by the steamers, though fuller, more
definite, and (may be) more reliable than any the
cable can give us, will always be so far behind
hand, that, in this busy, bustling, go-ahead age,
they will be of but little use. The knowldge we
shall get of the world’s affairs, will be more su
perficial than substantial, it is true, but the super
ficial must be endured until the multiplicity of
sub-ocean lines so cheapen the transmission of
intelligence that details can be forwarded, as well
as facts in outline.
m Darts.
The Hartal Problem.
THE TARIFF ACT.
The Express says that but one Tariff Act pass
ed Congress, going into effect August 1st. The
first section raises the duty of cotton from abroad
from two cents to three cents per pound, to cor
respond with the internal tax on our own cot
ton. It also raises the duty on Havana and oth
er foreign cigars to three dollars a pound (net
weight,) and fifty per cent ad valorem on the for
eign invoice value, and commissions added. The
same charges by the ninth section of the act are
added to all foreign importations, where the du
ties are made on the ad valorem, or specific and
ad valorem combined. After Tuesday, July 31
the provision will apply to all goods, wares, ex
cept such articles as are taxed exclusively with
specific rates of duty.
The effect of this law will add materially to
the increase of duties on foreign goods, and is re
garded as a most uncalled for and indirect mode
of increasing the tariff. The effort to do this has
been made before, but not before accomplished.
ITEMS OF NEWS.
The President will shortly issue a proclama
tion announcing the full restoration of the “Lone
Star” to all its privileges in the Union. This
will also secure the installation of the recently
elected State officers, the regular opening of the
courts, etc.
Over two miles of the track were laid on Mon
day, of this week, of the Union Pacific Rail
road ; and on Friday, tjie27th July, 11,200 feet
of the track was laid—being 2 miles 640 feet,
The road is now contracted from Omaha to
within forty miles of Fort Kearney.
The rapidity with which this road is being
constructed, is unprecedented.
Among the confirmations by the Senate on
Friday night, were the commissioners to revise
the laws of the United States, viz: Caleb Cush
ing, Win. Johnston and Charles P. James.
The Fetes says that the trade of New York for
the past week has been active for the season,
though much depressed in all branches in any
way dependent upon or at the mercy of Con
gressional legislation. But a respite for the next
few mpnjths has St last arrived.
Among the Acts passed at the late session of
Congress, a list of whiGh is published in the New
York papers, we find one under date of July
26th, to change the place of holdiug court in the
Northern District of Georgia. The change is
from Marietta to Atlanta.
The Washington CDrrespondent of the Times
writes tb*t aindhg the important bills that failed
in either House for jyant of time, or because of
opposition under the rules, are the following:
In the Senate, General Banks’ Neutrality Bill,
Mr. Stevens’ Air Line Railroad, Mr, Jenckes’
Bankrupt Bill, Mr. Bingham’s Wool Tariff Bill,
and Mr. Conkling’s concurrent Congressional
Adjournment Resolution. In the House, Mr.
Hooper’s Bank Bill, the Northern Pacific Rail
road Bill, and Mr. Sherman's Funding Rill were
all postponed until December.
The same correspondent says that Mr, Ro
mero, the Mexican minister, received to-day offi
cial news from the vicinity of Chihuahua, the
present residence of the Mexican Government,
up to the 30th ultimo. President Juarez and his
Cabinet and Government, arrived nt Chihuahua
on the 17th.
In the July report of the Commissioner of
Agriculture, the commissioner congratulates the
country upon tlie prospect of a year of average
fruitfulness.
Of the wheat crop, ilia present indications, as
marked by correspondents, point to an average
ot about 84-tenths in quantity, and of a quality
that will make it equal in value, to last year's
crop. The testimony from all quarters renders it
certain that the quality will be excellent. This
superior excellence will not only go far to make
up the difference in quantity between the crop
of this year and that of 1865, (which difference
is far less than was expected-on the 1st of June.)
but it will, it is believed, make even more good
bread, and prove of greater value, than the crop
of last year.
The Express says of the congratulatory tele
grams on the completion of the laying of the
Atlantic Cable that the Queen's message is bfief,
and happily conceived. So is the President's, to
Mr. Cyrils W. Field. (We wish we could say
the same in regard to Mr. Seward’s, which is any
thing but felicitous.)
-tflie Washington Republican has a just pepw f ""W® devote most of our space on this page to-
ception of the enormous practical difficulties
the Asa^KET^;- { ofithe-problaai in vtlnch emancipation bas in
reived -the country; but which the Radicals
fee Judiciary, to whRn was j fffify they solve toy an. act of Congress* ^which so many lives were sacrificed to gratify the
3 of the flouse ofjgepr&j an amedtpent to the Constitution, and re- malignity and thirst for power ofthe radical lac-
l and April 30th, lww, IB- j .k »»« . *v„ tion in that c.itv and State, we would call atten-
REPORT OF THE UX7DI Cl ART COMMITTEE OF THE
HOUSE OF BKFfrjtteEXTATIVES IN REGARD TO
- HIS ALLEGED £0*?LICITY WITH
ATlON''OF.M
the Gommi:
referred die resolutions
sedative* of April s feh
stjrt*ctingthe Coi
ture of the evidence Implicating Jefferson Dims
and others in the assassination ot President Lin
coln, and also whether any legislation is necessa-
to mquire intojfceJi- set# at the drc|> of a hat.
a! Y-AX* A T\ Tk nnw I ' *** * •
impartial trial, if it should appear that there was
probable cause to believe that said persons, or any
of them, are guilty ot inciting, concerting or pro
curing the assassination of the late President it
the United Stales,-and also whether any legal**
tion is necessary in order to bring said persons to
a speedy and impartial trial for the crime of trea
son, submitted a report to the House yesterday.
The report is very long, and contains a Humber
of letters aud documents belonging to the official
records of the late Confederacy, now in possession
of the War Department, relating to what was
termed fhe “ secret service” of the Confederacy.
With regard to the trial ot Davis the commit
tee are of opinion that there are no obstacles to a
speedy and impartial trial which can be removed
by legislation. The evidence in possession of the
committee connecting Jeff.'Davis withllie assas
sination of President Lincoln, justifies the com
mittee in saying that there is no probable cause
to believe that he was privy to the measures
which led to the commission ot the deed, but the
investigations which have been made by the War
Department and by the committee have not re
sulted in placing the Government in possession
of all the facte in the case. The committee are
of the opinion that a further investigation will
result in full development of the whole transac
tion. The examination of the captured rebel ar
chives, though not - complete, has gone far
enough to throw light upon the general policy of
the rebel authorities, which in many particulars
involved a total disregard of international law
and the usages of civilized war.
The committee in tills connection give a de
tailed history of tJhe course pursued by the-Con
federate Government towards slaves found in the
ranks of the Union army. Most of this is taken
from the published orders of the rebel War De
partment
In summing up this part of the report the com
mittee says: “ The declarations made and the
acts done in pursuance of the declarations, are
conclusive proofs of the brutal aud malignant
feelings by which the leaders of the rebellion
were controlled, and rendered it not only possi
ble, bat probable, that they would at once en
gage in projects for the destruction of the chief
men of the Republic.”
A considerable portion of the report of the
committee is devoted to the evidence in the case
of C. C. Clay, Jr. Clay’s letter to President
Johnson, dated November 23d, 1865, is quoted,
wherein he denies having been in Canada at the
time of the assassination. This the committee
says is shown to be a falsehood, according to
evidence before them. They say the falsity of
the statement goes far to show that he has some
reason for attempting to conceal the fact as to the
time when he left Canada; and inasmuch as the
statement was made in order to relieve himself
from the charge contained in the President’s
Proclamation, it has a strong tendency to con
nect him of complicity in the deed. A number
of letters are produced to show that Clay was in
Canada at the time, and also, that he was the
originator of the various raids on the Northern
border of the United States. The first allusion
in point of time made to the presence of Clay iu
the South among all the papers in possession of
the Government yet examined, is a letter dated
at Richmond. March 8,1865, and written by H.
L. Clay to C. C. Clay, Jr. Tlie statement of
Clay that be has never known any of the per
sons accused and convicted of participating, in
the assassination of President Lincoln is slpwn
to be false by the evidence before the committee.
Clay, while in Canada, acted under the following
commission:
Richmond, Ya., April 21,1864.
Hon. C. C. Clay, Jr., tSkc., ifee.;
Sir : Confiding special trust in your zeal, .dis
cretion and patriotism, I hereby direct you to
proceed at once to Canada, there to carry out
such instructions as you have received from.me
verbally, in such manner as shall seem most
likely to conduce to the furtherance of the inter
ests of the Confederate States of America, which
has been entrusted to you. Very respectfully
and truly yours, Jefferson Davis.
The committee say it is well established by
letters and documents derived from rebel sources
that Clay, under this commission, was instru
mental in organizing and executing, with more
or less success, the raids upon the cities and
towns along tlie border, the plans for the .intro
duction of pestilence, the organization of con
spiracies to liberate prisoners confined in Camp
Douglas, Chicago, to destroy our commerce on
the rivers, lakes and ocean, and finally to thwart
and overthrow the Government by inciting a
new rebellion in the North. It ip also ascertain
ed that Jacob Thompson, Beverly Tucker, Geo.
N. Sanders, W. C. Clearlv, Bennett H. Young
and R. J. Stewart were all employed in Canada
as secret agents for the Confederate authorities.
In proof of this the committee produce a large
number of letters, orders and dispatches which
passed between these men and the officers of the
Confederate Government at Richmond, showing
that they were acting directly under its authori
ty, and that they received orders to make the
raids and other offensive demonstrations on tire
Northern border of the United States.
Testimony taken at the trial ot the assassins,
together with that taken by the committee, justi
fies them in the inference that the murder of
President Lincoln was procured by the use of
money furnished by the Richmond Goyemment.
The remarks said to have been made by Davis,
on the receipt of the intelligence of the death of
President Lincoln, is in harmony with the con
versation of his agents, Thompson, Tucker, and
others, as given by Richard Montgomery, a wit
ness who was before the committee, and also a
witness in the trial of the conspirators.
Thompson told Montgomery, in 1864, that he
could have the tyrant Liucoln put out of the way
at any time. He said he had his friends all over
the Northern States, and it required but his nod
to have them do anything he wanted dona Clay
is said to have talked in a similar vein about the
assassination of Lincoln. The committee say
there is substantial harmpny between tlie evi
dence furnished by the official documents found
in the hands of the rebel authorities and the tes
timony of the various witnesses brought before
the committee, as to the participation of Davis,
Thompson, Clay, Cleary and others in the scheme
for the assassination of the President
With reference to the testimony in possession
of the bureau of military justice, taken toy Judge
Holt, and on which President Johnson based his
proclamation, the committee makes the follow
ing statement; “ When the committee entered
upon this investigation, in April last, tile evi
dence in the War Department, if accepted as
true, was conclusive as to the guilt of Jefferson
Davis. The Judge Advocate General had taken
the affidavits of several persons who professed
to have been in the service of the rebel govern
ment, and who had been present at an interview
between Surratt, and Davjs, and Benjamin.
“Those affidavits were taken before the Judge
Advocate General in good faith, and in the full
belief that the persons making them were stating
that only which was true, The statements made
by these witnesses harmonize in every impor
tant particular with facts derived from docu
ments and other trustworthy sources. The com
mittee, however, thought it wise to see and ex
amine some of the persons whose affidavits had
been taken by Judge Holt. Several of the wit
nesses, when* brought before the committee, re
tracted entirely tiie' Statements which they had
made in their affidavits, and declared that their
testimony, as given originally, was fdse in every
particular. They failed, however, to state to the
committee any inducement or consideration
which seemed* to the committee a reasonable
explanation for the course they have pursued,—
The committee are; ’therefore, not ac this time
able to say, as the result of'their investigation,
whether the original statements of these wit
nesses are true or false. But the retraction made
by some of them deprives them of all claim to
credit, and their statements so far impeach or
throw donbt upon the evidences given by other
witnesses whose affidavits were taken by Judge
Holt, that the committee jn (be investigation
which they have made, and in this report; have
disregarded entirely the tdstimopy qP all those
persons whose standing hag been so impeached.
On the other hand, the committee have relied
verv largely upon documents found in the rebel
archives, and have introduced only the testimony
of those persons whose reputation for truth and
veracity has not been impeached by any of the
investigations that have bepn loaded Nor has it
been the purpose of the cpnimitfrfe ttf'draw un
natural or forced inferences from the trustworthy
testimony which they have esaaijiied, blit father
to present a truthful statement pf fopts.
The report concludes with an expression of
opinion on the part of the committee that it is
the duty of the Executive Department of the
Government, for a reasonable tune, and by the
proper means, to pursue the investigation, for
the purpose of ascertaining the truth. If Davis
and his associates are innocent of thegreat crime
with which they vypre charged in the president's
proclamation, H i<* due to them tipii a thorough
investigation should bo uiadu, dial they mgy be
relieved froth the suspieiou that ijaw rests upon
It says!
The sudden abolition of slavery as suddenly
^forenri tite-patmlarot the Statea where it moated
into the trial of an experiment which has never
yet peacefully succeeded,—the experiment of so
adjusting the laws and modifying tlie tempers,
habits mid bearings of Anglo-Saxons and freed
negrdes de welting "together upon terms of civil
equality; (social “equanty is out of the question)
in the samV communities as to satisfy both and
produce a condition of mutual contentment. To
zealots unadvised of the struggles which have
occurred heretofore under such or similar cir
cumstances, it appears to toe a snject of no con
cern whatever.
To the Radicals in and out of the present
Congress, judging from their flippant method of
treating it, it appears to be an experiment which
may be resolved by the application ot the dreams
of Thaddeus Stevens—an *en forced application
of the equality doctrines of the Declaration of
Independence. But our best informed and most
sagacious aud considerate statesmen, whilst they
are equally philanthropic,, are painfully appre
hensive that the furore with which impudent
reformers push their notions upon and into the
communities where slavery has recently existed,
before their present wounds are cicatrized, will
produce a war of races oPa very terrible charac-
-ter. The reasons for this apprehension are too
numerous for a newspaper article. They would
fill a volume. *
The slaves of the ancients belonged to the
same race as the masters. ;They were trophies
of war, and frequently, as in the cases of AS sop
and Terence, the superiors of their masters in
intellect and learning. Freedom was the only
distinction between them, and when this boon
was conferred they came upon a common level.
And, although it was found that a prejudice
against those who had 8MB enslaved lasted
long after the period of tbHr enfranchisement
the freedmen bore so close ^resemblance to the
free-born that it became aftep a while impossible
to distinguish one class from the other. Slavery
in the United States has been united with the
visible badge of color. The negro has been the
subject of it, Doubly dishonored by color and
the fact that his race has'been enslaved from
time to him out of mind, the colored freedman
is in a far worse condition- for enjoying equal
civil right with his former master than were, the
slaves of antiquity. This led De Tocqueville
"to remark that “the law may abolish in form
the institution of negro slavery, but God alone
can obliterate the traces of its existence.”
In attemptiug to bring our freedmen into har
mony with the white men. we have, beside the
fact of former servitude, three sorts of prejudices
to contend with—the instinctive prejudice of
color, the prejudice of the former masters, and
the prejudice of the race. These, separately or
combined, have in all known instances of negro
emancipation been fruitftti and never-ending
causes of discontentment and discord, so that
wherever the whites have been the most numer
ous they have found it necessary to their per
sonal safety to keep the blacks in a subordinate
and servile position; and wherever the negroes
have been the strongest they either have, or
have striven to destroy the whites.
And when we remember how difficult and
slow has been the process in every country, inclu
sive of our own, of rooting out the distinctions
of aristocracy which we inherited from the Old
World, and of preventing the growth of others,
such as aristocracies of wealth and of sect,
scarcely less prejudicial to everything like equal
ity and harmony, we are compelled to ac
knowledge that it is not strange that no exper
iment of the kind we are now trying has ever
S jcceeded. There havtAfoeen, and yet are,
rightfully we do not say, rot actually, neverthe
less, these intrinsic differences hitherto between
the two races, which statesmen, and particularly
those in charge of our Government, are not at
liberty to disregard. It is the full knowledge of
these, and of the horrid massacres and wars they
have heretofore produced,'which admonishes
the President of the necessity of moving in the
woifc of reconstructing Southern society accord
ing to the altered condition of things, with the
utmost circumspection.
From the Memphis Bulletin.
A Genuine Ghost Story.
Few persons, with all the faith they may have
in the other world, would for one moment im
agine or believe, that a spirit, in the shape of a
lady fair, in bridal array, would be likely to be
encountered at midnight ohu Main street, in the
bustling and thriving city of Memphis. Yet
there is one individual in this city, belonging to
what is known as the intelligent portion of the
community, who is ready to aver that he saw a
veritable phantom on the sidewalk opposiie
Court Square shortly after 12 o’clock a few nights
ago. It may be stated that the gentleman in
question, who occupies a prominent position as a
merchant, belongs to the matter-ot-fact class.—
He is strictly temperate in his habits, and on the
night in question he had been visiting a friend
who resides in the Northern portion of the city,
and was returning home when the vision appear
ed unto him.
Twelve o’clock had thundered from the bell
tower on Jefferson street about an hour before.
The streets were “quiet as a cemetery at mid
night.” The gentle moon was wading through
a wreath of clouds, and not even a solitary dog
on the silent street to bark at Queen Luna as she
emerged from under her fleecy covering. The
pab-stand was entirely deserted, and not a sound
was to be lieqrfi, \yith the exception of the mil
lions of insects buzzing among the trees of Court
Square. The citizen already referred to walked
slowly along the side-walk, enjoying the delight
ful cool of the night, and was quietly passing the
park, almost afraid to break the stillness with his
toot fall, when he was suddenly frightened from
his propriety by seeing standing on the corner
of .Court street, a lady, all arrayed in the robes
of a bride, and lookiug as it she had just step
ped aside from the altar where she plighted her
troth. The gentleman was dumb-founded at
seeing a lady in such a garb, standing alone and
unattended on the quiet and silent street. He
rubbed, his eyes and coughed slightly to attract
her attention, when she turned on him a counte
nance In which grief, despair and remorse were
painted in every feature. Fearful to intrude, the
gentleman stood still for a moment in the middle
of the cfossiDg. He looked anxiously around to
see it she had any male companion, but seeing
no oue, he determined to advance and. gallantly
proffer his services to do any service that she
squire. Still wondering ftt tife appear
ance of this “lipjy White,” he advanced at a
_Sjqw pace, but his astonishment m^y be imagiaed
when the beautiful phantom seemed to dissolve
into thin air, and pass completely from bis sight.
If the gentleman had rubbed his eyes on the
first appearance of the lady, lie rubbea them still
more on her disappearance. He looked hurried
ly around, but all traces ot the fair phantom had
vanished from the sight. He walked towards
the nearest building and searched the doors and
passages, but the “bride of an eyening” had gone,
Os he thought, forever, into the invisible world.
He rercrossed the street and looked ajl around,
determined to fathom the mystery, but could find
no clue, and be turned to pursue his midnight
journey homeward. The middle of the street
was again reached, when the spectacle of the
lovely, but grief-stricken lady in white, again met
his wondering eyes. He was determined not to
be baulked or “fooled”, a second time, and he ad
vanced at a rapid pace toward her, but before he
could reach the spot she had vanished oiit of
sight, even more quickly than before. This was
perplexing, but he tried the experiment a third
time by returning to the crossing. When he got*
to the middle of the street, there, in propria per
sona, if such a term can be applied to a “poor
ghost,” stooff the “lady in white” again. He was
How Cxcited beyond endurance and made a rush
for the bride, but she was out of sight in an in
stant, and the disappointed, puzzled and cha
grined gentleman proceeded to hjs apartments,
Wondering greatly at what he had seen and what
could be fhe meaning of the vision—as a vision
it certainly was, in his opinion. All, however,
was thoroughly inyolved in mystery.
Next tnorning he told a friend all Shout “the
White lady of Main street,” and hjs friend re
solved to accompany film to the spot at the same
time on the following night to see what be ooula
see. They wailed patiently till the “we sma’
hours about the twal,” then sallied out. It was,
however, to meet with a disappointment; ghosts
never, according to their orthodox rule, appear
to two persons at the same time, and so they had
to return home without ec-eing!‘the lady in white.”
The gehtlqhjan who really,dn his own'opinion,
did see her is' still'firm in bisffielief that a young,
]qyely, CTjefistrjcjmn bride haunts the'Court
[Square, all c}ad Ip‘bridal array- Doubtless some
pft tlie “lynx-eyed” Metropolitans will be able (q
solve the mysfery) as they have received all the
needful information regarding “the white lady”
who walks Mam street during the small hours of
the morning.
The Hew Orleans Riot,
day, to the accounts of the late riot in New Or
leans, which we extract from the Times, of that
city. In connection with this terrible affair, in
tion in that city and State, we would call atten
tion to the following remarks of the Times, that
the reader may see who caused the sanguinary
riqt, and who are responsible for the same. That
paper says:
The incendiary teachings of a pestilent gang
of demagogues have produced their natural fruits
—tumult and bloodshed. The wind has been
sown and the whirlwind reaped. Fearful indeed
is the responsibility which rests on the heads of
those who had been concerned in the great crime
of attempting to overturn &)1 civil authority
among us, aud of superseding it by a wicked
usurpation. It is a matter of sincere regret that
so terrible a disturbance should have occurred,
yet till human nature completely changes, vio
lence will beget violence, and those who counsel
lawlessness are likely to meet with a lawless end.
A band of poor, deluded negroes, urged on by
unprincipled white men, have, unfortunately for
themselves, been the principal sufferers. Armed
with pistols, clubs and razors, they collected in
great numbers in the neighborhood of Mechanics’
Institute, for the avowed purpose of defending
the revolutionary Jacobins who bad raised the
banner of negro suffrage, and the result of their
folly is sorrowfully apparent. Left to themselves,
the negroes never would have joined in a trea
sonable scheme to overturn the State Govern
ment; but they listened to the words of the
tempter, and into the pit dug for others they have
fallen.
The riot was commenced in every instance by
negroes, spurred on by white men, and it is highly
creditable to the police of the city that they suc
ceeded in quelling it without any military aid.—
Many of them were wounded, but it is not likely
that the results will prove fatal in more than two
cases—officers Hennessy and Sokoloski, both
brave and worthy men. For a time the police
had to unite their efforts not only against the
negro rioters but the indignant populace, some of
whom were quite anxious to extend their volun
teer assistance to the city authorities in an un
authorized manner, and did far more of harm
than good. It is true that the impulse which
prompted them was generous, tor blood is thicker
than water, and it was difficult to witness the at
tack of armed and infuriated negroes—no matter
how innocently they may have been brought into
the matter—without rushing to the rescue of the
assailed guardians of the peace.
And so the convention of 1864, which com
menced in usurpation, has ended in riot and
bloodshed. As Mr. Roseiius declared yesterday:
“Every participant in the treasonable scheme
should be arrested and sent to jail.” This, it
must be remembered, is not the opinion of a poli
tical adventurer, but of agrave jurist, an original
Union man, a sober, quiet citizen of the highest
respectability.
We have the best of reasons for supposing
that for several days vile attempts have been
made to excite* the negroes into rebellion, and
to organize them into bands for that specific pur
pose. This view of the matter is strengthened
by the disclosures made last night by R. F.
Daunoy, relative to the expected rise of the ne
groes in the Third District at 12 o’clock last night,
under a man named Bertin, but whether white
or black, we could not learn.
Had Gov. Wells but performed his duty with
the wisdom and discretion which should have
characterized the Chief Magistrate of Louisiana,
all this trouble might have been avoided. He,
however, in an evil hour, linked his political for
tunes to a usurping cabal, and in a desperate
venture to get out of one difficulty, has plunged
the State and himself into another.
Such facts of the sad doings of yesterday as
our reporters have been able to collect will be
found detailed under appropriate headings. The
wounded men were all sent last night either to
their residences or to the hospitals.
The following are full particulars of the riot
It is our painful duty to record the occurrence,
in this city yesterday, of one of the most disas
trous disturbances of the public peace which ever
disgraced the city, and attended by more loss of
life aud maiming of body than any similar occur
rence in the history of New Orleans. Below
will be found such particulars of the affair as our
corps of reporters was able to glean:
PROCEEDINGS INSIDE THE BUILDING.
We were an eye witness to a great part of the
proceedings inside the building, of which a faith
ful account during our stay is appended:
President pro tern. Howell took the chair at
12:10 o’clock, after which a prayer was delivered
by Rev. Mr. Horton.
The roll was then called, and the following
members ot the old Convention found to be pre
sent: Robert W. Bennie, Terrence Cook, R.
King Cutler, John L. Davies, James Duane.
James Ennis, W. R. Fish, G. H. Flagg, Edmund
Flood, Edward Hart, John Henderson, William
H. Hier, R. K. Howell, George Howes, H. Maas,
L. P. Normand, P. K. O’f’onnor, Benjamin H
Orr, John Payne, Eudildo G. Pintado, 0. II.
Poynot, Chailes Smith, Joun A, Spellicy, C. W
Stauffer, W. H. Waters—in all 25.
[Thomas M. Wells, J. J. Healy, and one or two
others, whose names we do not remember, af
terwards made their appearance in the building.]
As there was no quorum present, (a quorum is
76,) R. King Cutler moved to send out the Ser-
geant-at-Arms for absent members.
An amendment was offered authorizing.W. P.
Judd, Acting Sergeant-at-Arms, to appoint a num
ber of assistants to aid him.
The motion, as amended, was carried.
On motion of R. King Cutter, a reoess of one
hour was theu taken,
Mr. Judd then called out the names of the as
sistants he had appointed, and Mr. Waters called
out to Mr. Millspaugh (door keeper) to allow no
member to leave the hall.
At this moment a number did leave the hall,
and the mass of colored men who were outside
the bar were admitted to the inside pf the cham
ber.
Simultaneously with the adoption of the mo
tion to take a recess, a band, heading (we under
stand) a procession of negroes, came up Phillippa
from Canal street, and was received by the black
crowd outside with the wildest and most excited
cheering. The exejtemeqt \vqs communicated
to those assembled inside the lobbies, and the
cheers from the street were responded to.
In a moment afterward the band marched into
the representative hall, where the Convention
members met, and it was stated a difficulty had
occurred on Canal street.
While this event was being discussed, a tumult
uous shout arose from the street, and rushing to
the windows ofthe Canal street side ofthe build
ing, we si*w about a dozen negroes standing i;t a
brick pile throwing these missiles in the direc
tion ot Canal street, while two (apparently lead
ers) were firing new, glistening, long barrelled
revolvers. Other shots were being fired from
the front of Mechanics’ Institute, but the crowd
here was out of range of our vision.
In probably a minute and a half the negroes
fell back, and the police and citizens came iu
sight, having up to this time been hidefoq fr-tup
view by a new building that js going up next the
The Hartford Times reports sales of the AStna
Company at $200 a share. It sold at $260 be
fore the Portland fire. Hartford is quoted at
$175, a decline of about $40; Phoenix, $130
, aud $135 ; Merchahts,'$120 and $125; City, $100
thi-in. Iu on the other iiund, they are guilty,,it j and $105; Connecticut,' $95 and $100. The
js dije to justice, to the country, and to tliemgm-
ory of bjm who tyjjs the victim qt a fqul conspi
racy, that tije qrigiuatdrs-siipqid suffer the just
penalty of the law. The committee are, there 1
fore, of the opinion tliat the work of investiga
tion should be further prosecuted.
Charter Qak has lost half its capital, and is
quoted at $30 and. $40. It will, however,
promptly pay its loss and go on with business.
The Bank of France, on the 14th of Jane, held
£24,520,000 in gold.
A rush was made up to the assembly room by
both colored and white men from the street, and
asking wh&t had occured, were answered by a
colored man, as follows:
“ A light colored mulatto was standing in front
ot the hall, haranguing a party of mixed colors.
He called the police rebel sons of , and said
any black who permitted himself to fje arrested
by them w T as a coward,’!
After continuing this strain for some time, a
policeman, who had been behind him all the
while unobserved, arrested him for attempting
to incite a disturbance of the peace. He resign
ed, and at this moment, a boy (ofabout 12 years)
began swearing at the negroes.
The bqy was knocked down, and as the pofieq*
man attempted to pin away he was struck with
a brick. Almqst simultaneously the policeman
turned and fired, aud a black man fired at him
from across the street.
The shooting then became rapid from each
side.
While listening to this statement there had
been a lull. Dr. Dostie encouraged the party by
repeating a remark he had previously made, viz':
“ Thefe is not a negrq in New Orleans who is
not organized and prepared.” This was received
with marked satisfaction.
The next evidence of fighting that we saw,
came from the yard of a colored washerwoman
next the Institute toward Canal street. This old la
dy was, apparently, exhorting a number of black
men to go into the street fight, tout as they refused
she locked tfie gate and put the key iq her pock
et. This seemed to give the men confidence fqr
they seized bricks from the pile lying in the yard
qua threw them in the direction of the palioe,
who were agained concealed from our view.
A rush was then made from the front of the
ha]], and fhe firing from both sides became rap
id. The negroes as a body soon again fell back,
hut two or three, with revolvers, stood their
ground. Finally, one black man fell apparently
dead on the barquetta opposite the hall and in
sight from the window where we stood.
Mr. Cutler was asked what he thought of that,
meaning the bqdy. He replied: “That fixes us
and ends the power ofthe d—d rebels,” or words
to that effect.
No one apparently, at tliis time, anticipated
an attqck upon the hall, and tfie crowd posses
sed anything but a serious air. Finally, shots
were fired from the dpor-ways down stairs (and
it is also said from the upper windows,) and the
police and citizens turned the attack upon the
building.
Several wounded were bronght up to the main
hall, the name of-only one of whom we learned:
Adolphe Barbarin. shot through the shoulder.
Several bricks then broke the windows, and
persons inside began to draw their weapons.—
These were both white-and black persons, but
how jnany we cannot say, as the excitement in
ride began the grow intense.
Mr. John Henderson thought the best plan
would be to rush out en mam, and all who were
not armed to procure weapons and return to
“fight it out.” , _ . . ...
Both Messrs. Cutler and Dostie were at tins
time upon the platform, ordering tht doors to be
shut and fastened. This was done, but we could
not gather what else they said, for the confusion,
which had now become intense.
One poor frightened darkey attempted to pray,
but being stopped in this, he endeavored unsuc
cessfully to get a hymn sung. .
Bullets ana bricks now rained through the hall,
and & few were returned; but as the windows
opened to the floor, little protection could be had
from behind which to shoot. ‘
The main crowd gathered in the centre of the
room, but we are unable to give a description of
the fearfully excitable scene.
It was little less than a miracle that we es
caped unhurt, as we fell into the - hands of the
exasperated crowd upon the stairs, but our note
book and pencil, and the club of a friendly po
liceman who recognized us, turned aside the pis
tols that were pressing unhealthily against head
and breast-.
We got away, and what followed no pen can
tell. The blood splashed walls, the masses of
clotted gore, the wrecked furniture, and other
evidences of mob passions, tell a fearful story
which is sickening now to think of
the riot as it occurred in the street.
As our people well know, the Mechanics’ In
stitute building stands about the centre of the
square on Dryades street, between Canal and
Common. When the procession of negroes had
left the corner of Canal and Dryades streets,
they massed themselves in a crowd around the
portico of the building, listening to the harrangue
of one of their number.
Meantime the crowd of citizens on the corner
of Canal and Dryades increased until citizens
and policemen in dense mass filled the whole
comer. The procession gathered in strong force
in front of the building, and were appealed to in
words which could scarcely be distinguished
from the rapid manner of their utterance.
At this moment the attention of our reporter
was attracted by loud cries rapidly repeated, and,
in looking out of the window, he saw a police
officer, in the uniform of the force, dragging off
a prisoner. Loud cries arose from the crowd of
negroes:
“Stop him 1”
“No—he’s a.police officer.’’
“Kill the d—n rebel.”
“Take him off.”
“Let him go.”
Such were some of the cries which at first at
tracted the attention of our reporter.
At first there seemed to be no. disposition on
the part of the negro throng to interfere with the
policeman in the arrest of the prisoner; the ne
groes, affrighted, packing themselves close to
gether, much as a flock of scared sheep.
But one or two, followed by three and four,
parted from the outskirts of the mass and ad
vanced steadily toward the policeman, who, with
his prisoner, had approached the old fence that
closes in the Mechanics’ Institute. The excite
ment become contagious. The negroes scatter
and divide, looking for missiles and stones.
The disposition to attack the officer becomes
manifest The cries of hostility are repeated and
redoubled until a Babel of tongues are heard.—
At this time a negro pulled a revolver, a large
navy, and fired on the officer, or in the direction
where he was moving. Another and another
negro fired.
Now the throng move on towards Canal street,
where the crowd of citizens stand with the mass
ed police, firing a rattling volley.
The shots are returned until balls up and
down the space between the Canal street side of
the building and Canal street traveled both ways.
The negro crowd, scattering wide, ran back
toward the building and disappear, some dowu
the side alleys, others in the portico and door
fronts of the opposite row of dwellings, while
the great body took refuge in the entrance to the
Institute, out of which they fire on the police,
who fire back in return, and many of the negroes
fall, while the floor is soon spotted with the blood
of' the wounded, and resembles a slaughter pen.
As the negro crowd fall back, they disappear
from the open street, and barricade themselves
in the building, the police officers in regular
march taking possession of the street. The fire
between the police and negroes is now carried
on—by the police from the street, by the negroes
from the second story front.
No police could prevent the crowd of citizens
from rushing into the open street and ever and
anon making with the police a rally into the
building. It was about one that bells'of the city
were tolled, while the firing, stray shots and mis
siles scattered like hail. The firing is now trans
ferred from the front of the building to either side
where the negroes, as they appear, are stoned
by the crowd outside.
From the police officers in the street arose cries
of “Do you surrender! Do you surrender!” to
which there was no answer whatever. The street
about 2 o’clock was cleared of all negroes who
were fast escaping from the windows, letting
themselves down from the rear part, and running
to the rear for safety.
A lull occurs in the firing and the front is now
in comparative quiet. The police do not enter,
notwithstanding a lull in the fire, and the ne
groes who come out of the front door, as well as
those who are dropping from the windows, one
by one, are attacked and killed—many of them—
notwithstanding the efforts of the police.
To see the negroes mutilated and literally
beaten to death as they sought to escape, was one
the most horrid pictures it has ever been our ill
fortune to witness.
Policemen among the force, fell one after an
other as they were either shot by those in the
upper stories or bruised and stunned from missiles
flung at them.
One by one the pel-sons inside tlie building,
white as well as black, are, as soon as they ap
pear carried off by two policemen to the Station,
in the direction of Common street, as well as to
wards Canal street, where the great reserve of
the force was stationed.
Chief Adams and all of his subordinates were
eyeiy where upon the scene, seeking to prevent
violence at the hands of white citizens, who,
armed with sword canes, clubs and missiles, at
tacked the escaping inmates of the building.
Only when a prisoner attempted to escape was
lie fired at, though there is testimony of some
firing at prisoners hy policemen that was both
wanton and, as it appeared, unnecessary:
The particulars ot those wounded, as the riot
progressed and continued, are found elsewhere,
and we give only Incidents such as occurred to a
looker-on. One negro fell cut and beaten, cov
ered with blood, near the fence. Another and
another fell, killed whije the police were bearing
him off. At 2£ o’clock a white handkerchief
daunted out of an upper window. Before that
time there had been repeated cries of “we sur
render!” “we suree^der S” but as soon as the
police aUerqpted to enter, they were beaten back.
Crowds hurried to the corner of Common and
Dryades streets and as member after member of
the convention appeared, they were greeted with
hooting, yelling and hisses.
There were many among the crowd who were
drunk and infuriated, and attacked even police
men who were escorting away prisoners, besides,
in several instances, killing the prisoners.
Over twenty dead m,en lay in the street about
thr§e o’clock, when we left the scene of the ca
lamity.
in the office of the private secretary to
JHE GOVERNOR.
In the office tyere collected several gentlemen
—not meinhers Of the convention, or in any way
affiliating lyith it—who remained during the
course of the riot in an unpleasant predicament.
N, C. Sneethen, Private Secretary, escaped by
the means of a lieutenant in the Federal service.
Judge Howell was alternately in the room of the
Private Secretary and again in the Governor’s
room, in a state of great uneasiness and agitation-
He was finally carried to the station.
R. F. Daunoy was also in this room and escap
ed by arrest. This reporter was also there, and
escaped by the skin of his teeth. The bullets
rained around the windows like hail during the
whole progress of the riot.
origin of the riot on canal street.
A procession of freedmen, some 100 to 150 in
number, with a flag and a band of music at their
head, came manfipng up from the lower part of
town, towards 3leckanics’ Institute.
A white man, who was standing on tlie neutral
ground looking on, was shoved aside by one of
the freedmen, and tripping against the curbstone,
fell.
The policemen in the neighborhood, on seeing
this, supposed that the white man had been
strack, and advanced to arrest the supposed as
sailant.
The policemen were met by a volley of pistol
shots, bricks, etc., which at once induced a gene
ral alarm. Several arrests were made, but we
could learn of no fatal results from the firing.
The alarm among the storekeepers induced
them fo close their stores previous to the firing.
The shots were very brisk tor a timo, and much
excitement prevailed.
at the central police station.
The following is a list of white men under ar
rest at the First District police office:
S. C. Blanchard; C. W. Bridge; E. Tooth;
A. D. Mitchell; Michael Caulfield; John Mc
Cann ; R. F. Daunoy, member of convention;
L. Louis; Geo. Howes, badly wounded; E. Le
gion ; M. Cameron; S. S. Fish, two serious
wounds; L W. Horton, minister, badly wound
ed; A. Obre; W. H. Waters, member of con
vention, not hurt; R. King Cutler and W. H.
Nelson, not wounded; 8. H. Hurst, badlv wound
ed ; Michael Hahn, slightly wounded ; T. Cook;
Dr. W. H. Hire, seriously wounded; E. Auguste;
Joseph Dupaty; B. Osnard: Dr. Pique; \V.
Orr; W. R. Fish; Alfred Shaw, shot wound in
the back; E. Sinclair; John Henderson, jr., sev
eral wounds, dyiug; C. P. Daplessis; Mr. Wa-
ples, brother of Rufus Waples.
Many of the above give themselves out ns
spectators arrested by mistake. Several are
wounded besides those marked above, but in the
confusion which prevailed, we were unable to
obtain particulars. Up to 4 o’clock this after
noon some two hundred prisoners were brought
to the First District police office, the greater num
ber being more or less wounded. Our reporter
counted tea bodies, and observed several per
sons mortally wounded. Dr. Dostie received
five shots, and was at one time reported dead ;
however, we have it on reliable authority that lie
was aiive up to 7 o’clock last evening.
Policeman Mark Sokolowsky was lying at tlie
station suffering from a pistol shot in the left side.
The ball had been extracted, and the case was
not considered dangerous.
Michal Halm was brought in covered with
blood, but more scared than hurt. R. King Cut
ler was observed reclining gracefully on the top
tier of a cell full of wounded men. lie com
plained of being very thirsty, and said the heat
was exceedingly unpleasant. The conventioners
expressed considerable surprise at the remarka
ble disappearance of Judge Howell. His wor
ship skedadled as soon as the disturbance com
menced
wounded police officers.
Dr. W. H. Berthelot, assisted by Drs. G. S.
West and Cowan, attended to the wounded as fast
as they were brought in.
Dr. Berthelot at first alone performed the ope
ration of ligating the posterior brachial arteries
of a member of the police, name not known.
The wounded came in quick succession, but
Dr. Berthelot, in spite of his well known dis
patch of such cases, would not have been able to
attend to all the wounded, were It not that help
in the person of Dr. Cowan came, who volun
teered his assistance.
Dr. West being observed on the other side of
the street, was hailed, came over, took oft his
coat, and went at ouce at the Samarium work of
extracting a bullet in the left shoulder of one of
the patients—a member of police.
There were 28 casualties of importance treat
ed at Dr. Berthclot’s office, of whom 22 were
members of the police and six citizens.
As above stated, only one of these—Hennes
sey, is not expected to recover, and remains yet
under the care of Dr. West.
Among the members of police treated by Dr.
Berthelot, we remember only the names of
Messrs. Theard, McDonnelly aud Hennessey;
one of the citizens gave his name as Duffy.
The casualities following in quick succession,
the names of the wounded could not be noted
down as all hands in the offices ot Drs. Berthe
lot and Smith had their hands tull of work.
Not enough praise can be given to Dr. Berthe
lot for his promptitude, as otherwise a good many
of those who were treated by him would have
bled to death before they could have got medical
assistance, all the houses on Canal street and vi
cinity being closed with tlie exception of Dr.
Berthelot’s.
Among the wounded were Rev. Mr. Horton,
severely, and Glendy Burke, Esq., in the side.
the first arrest.
. The first shot was fired by a negro in the pro
cession. Policeman Edward Crevon, aid to the
Chief, gallantly charged into the heart of the
crowd, and with the aid ot a citizen whose name
we unfortunately did not learn, succeeded in
arresting the man who fired the shot. The gal
lant act should not go unrewarded.
DEATII FROM SUNSTROKE.
Day Corporal Walgamott, of the First District
Police, fell dead under the combined influence
of excessive heat and excitement.
A TRULY LAMENTABLE INCIDENT.
Edgar Cenas, ouly son of one of our most re-
specable citizens, was shot whilst entering the
Mechanics’ Institute with the police. The un
fortunate young man, who had exerted himself
nobly to save the lives of others, avas mortally
wounded by an accidental shot.
At the inquest this afternoon, it was discover
ed that the ball entered the right cheek half an
inch above the corner of the lip and passing
through, made exit near the vertebral column.
The deceased was attended by Drs. Nichols anil
Tebsult.
THE MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE IN POSSESSION OF
THE MILITARY.
By the courtesy of Major Greely, of the 18th
U. S. colored Infantry, we were permitted to in
spect the interior of the Institute. Tlie entrance
was slippery with blood, the walls were horribly
bespattered—shot marks in every direction.
Quite a number of hats, caps, and other arti
cles ot clothing strewn around, gave evidence of
the fearful panic which had prevailed. The fur
niture was in the utmost disorder. The Mayor
found some dead bodies and a number of wound
ed men lying about wlieu be took possession.
POSITION OF THE MILITARY.
At sunset all the approaches to the Mechanics'
Institute were guarded by sentries. The infantry
were under arms, and the artillery were in posi
tion, commanding the principal streets, ready
for any emergency. The cavalry are on patrol.
CITY CARS STOPPED.
The city cars ceased running hist evening about
5 o’clock, and a higher appreciation of their con
venience was superinduced among the many hun
dreds who were unexpectedly forced to walk
home or to incur the expense of hiring hacks and
cabs.
ORDER FROM GEN. BAIRD—MARTIAL l.AW PRO
CLAIMED.
Headquarters, Department op Louisiana, >
New Orleans, La., July 30, 1866. f
General orders No. 60.—In consequence of the
notorious and unlawful proceedings of to-day,
martial law is proclaimed iu the city of New Or
leans. Brevet Major General A. V. Kautz, is ap
pointed Military Governor of the city. lie will
make bis headquarters in the City Hall, and his
orders will be minutely obeyed in every particu
lar.
All civil functionaries will report at once to
Gen. Kautz, and will be instructed by him with
regard to such duties as they may be hereafter
required to perform.
By order of Brevet Major General A. Baird.
Nathaniel Burbank,
1st Lieut. Ating Ass’t Ad’t GeneruL
PBOCLAMATION BY THE MAYOR. .
The following was issued by the Mayor last
evening:
Mayoralty op New Orleans, >
City Halt, July 30,1866. k
Whereas, The city is in a state of great agita
tion, arising out of the riots precipitated by a rev
olutionary faction; and
Whereas, It is absolutely necessaiy that order
he restored and violence suppressed,
_ Therefore, I, John T. Monroe, Mayor of the
city of New Orleans, do call on all sucli citizens
as are willing to assist in maintaining the peace,
to appear at the City Hall, this day, at 6 p. m.,
to be sworn in ns extra policemen. No one, not
holding my authority, will he allowed to make
any arrest.
All good citizens, with the exception of those
on duty, are requested to retire to their homes,
and not to assemble in crowds on ihe public
streets. ' John T. Monroe, Mayor.
In the same paper we notice the following em
phatic telegraphic dispatch from Washington
City, bearing on the same lamentable aflair:
INTERVIEW OF NEW ORLEANS CITIZENS WITH
PRESIDENT JOHNSON—HE IS FULLY INFORMED
OF THE RIOT.
Washington, July 30, 9:30 p. to.—J. Ad.
Rozier and myself had an interview with the
President, according to appointment, at 8 this
evening. He read my dispatches from your citv„
and I found that ho was fully informed in regard
to the riot in New Orleans.
An Kxeeqtive order is now being made ouf,
addressed to Attorney-General Herron, investing
him with authority to put down all disturbances
of the public peace, arrest all persons assuming
to set up a new government, and to call upon
the military,"if necessary, to issure the execution
of his offteis. This is positive, and entirely re
liable. W. H. C. King.
Washington, July 30,1866.
To Judge J. N. I^ea :
Just called on the President with King, editor
of the Times. The President will send a dis
patch to the Attorney General to put down all
disturbances of public peace, suppress any as
semblage of persons getting up any pretended
government, and call on the military authorities
for aid.
All is right aud bright. Publish this in tlie
Times. J. Ad. Rosier
Rubkin says, with his old pungency, in one
of his new essays: “You women of England are
all now shrieking with one voice—you and your
clergymen together—because you hear of your
Bible being attacked. If you choose to obey
your Bibles, you will never care who attacks
them. It is just because you never fulfil a single,
downright precept of the book that you arc so
careful of its credit. The Bible tells you to dress
plainly, and you are mail for finery; the Bible
tells you to have pity on the poor, andyou crush
them under your carriage wheels; the Bible tells
you to do judgment and justice, and you do not
know nor care to know so much as what the
Bible-word justice means.”
A young lady in Meade township, Pennsylva
nia, recently killed a young man whom she loved,,
but who did not love her, by placing “ love pow
ders” in bis food.