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ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wodnesday.'August !S, 1808.
Political m4 Hclldoaa Pcraaentlon.
While the whole South is eaduitjg political
jicrsecution, it has yet—save in two Stabs thereof,
set down as Southern, on account more of their
institutions previous to the abolition ot Slavery,
than from their geographical position—been Veed
from what is far worae, religious persecution of
any description. The two States to which we
refer are Tennessee and Missouri. Unhappily,
the former has not escaped, in this respect, the
intolerant example and teachings of the Rever
end Governor of that State, who, in his vindic
live nature, has seized upon churches, persecuted
the ministers thereof, and in many ways violated
that fundamental principle of the Constitution,
which guarantees to every American citizen,
freedom of conscience, and the right to worship
God as he pleases. Bnt Missouri is the State,
upon which the fell spirit of religious persecution
has fallen with no limit to its exactions, not even
the sparing of blood. The Church there has
been mixed up with the State, and penalties im
posed upon clergymen of all denominations for
preaching the Wobd, save it be done nnder the
provisions of a statute—involving that guaran
teed liberty of conscience in religious matters—
which, according to the faith that is in them,
Christian priests and clergymen cannot, nay,
dare not, observe. Catholic Priests, and Protes
tant Clergymen of a^ denominations, have been
violently seized and dlit into prison, for non-ob
servance ot the radical edict; and many an in
stance of cruelty may be cited exercised by the
officers of the law and their attendants, in ma
king their arrests, upon the penons of their vic
tims, which have no parallel, save in ancient
times. Blood, too, has flowed freely—martyrs
have not been found wanting to stamp infamy
upon their persecutors. It is hut recently that
another has been added to the list The 8t.
Louis Republican of the 2d instant contains an
announcement of th a murder committed upon the
body of the Rev. Samuel H. Head lee, an esti
mable gentleman, x minister of the Methodist
Church South, and Presiding Elder of the Spring-
field Circuit—“ a gentleman widely known
throughout the State, and more than respected
for his learning, piety, and devotion to the min
istry of his church." Accompanying this mourn
ful announcement is the following account of
the brutal murder:
Another has fallen a martyr to intolerance.—
Rev. Samuel B. Headlee, of the St. Louis Con
ference, is no more. He was killed day before
yesterday by a mob for preaching the gospel.—
The circumstances are about these: He had an
appointment to preach and to organize a church
at Pleasant View, a meeting bouse in this coun
ty, belonging to the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, on the 28th and 29th ult Threats had
been made that if he preached there, he would
never preach again.
The day catne (the 28th), and there were a
number of men, women and children present at
the place to hear the preaching. They thought
the threats bad been made only to terrify the
minister. There were also some twenty or more
armed men present, headed by a member of the
Northern Methodist church. Before the minis
ter came, the leader of the band and his men
seemed to be mad. They said he should not
preach, and threatened to use violence in case he
attempted it. They also threatened others who
were present.
The preacher came, and went to these armed
men and tried in a very mild manner to persuade
them to calm down and be reasonable. He told
them thut if he had violated the law by preach
ing, they could enforce the law against him, for
he was willing to abide the consequences. The
leader said he (himself) cared nothing for the
law. “ There is my law,” (pointing to the armed
men). The preacher then asked him if he would
let him preach if “ we (himself and friends) will
leave this place and go on my own land ?” (He
had land not far off.) They said they would not
molest him. The preacher and those who went
to hear him then started off. When they had
gone about a half a mile, some of the armed men
came galloping up. One of them drew a revolv
er and shot the preacher three times. Two of
the balls entered his body, the other his arm. He
lived until ten o’clock that night Then, after
giving his wife and friends his dying counsel,
and, like Stephen, praying for his murderers, he
ralmly fell asleep.
Such arc the results of religious intolerance in
a State, the people of which were once so pros
perous and so happy, and so free to worship un
der a ministry of their choice, and none to make
them afraid. Thank God, no such intolerance
prevails in Georgia. It is engrafted in our State
Constitution, as one of its declarations of rights,
that ‘‘Perfect freedom of religious sentiment be,
and the same is hereby secured, and no inhabit
ant of said State shall ever be molested in person or
property, nor prohibited from holding any public
office or trust, on account of his religious opinions."
Long may this “perfect freedom of religious ftfen-
timem” prevail in our good old commonwealth 1
Radical triumphs may blot it out, as it has done
in our suffering sister State, Missouri, but naught
else will or can. Political persecution the peo
ple of Georgia will endure ; religious persecution,
never.
Atlanta. Inteljgentfr.
Under the foregoing heading, we have ob-
seived the following flattefing notice of this
pajer in the last number of ‘The iM&iei Home"
for vhich we “bow our respectful acknowledg
ment” to that most excellent journal.
One of our favorite exchanges is the Atlanta
IttTELUGENCER. There is so much taste dis
played in its tvpographv and the arrangement,
as well is in the selection of the matter itself,
that it is a pleasure to take up the paper. The
poetical selections are unusually excellent.
We take the above well merited notice from
the Southern Cultivator, Athens, Ga. In endors
ing it, as we do, to the fullest extent, we beg
lv ave to say that the editor of the Cultivator
does-jot g 0 quite f ar enough. The Atlanta In-
tellig. ncer is not only one of the neatest pa
pers in the country in typographical appearance
and arrangement., but it is also one of the very
ablest papers published South ot the Ohio. As
a political, news and family paper, it stands in
the front rank among Southern journals. Highly
conservative in its tone and temper, with a re
cord as a political journal, singularly consistent,
and reliable in all things, it is just the paper for
a man to take who desires a faithful and truthful
record of passing events. It is, by many years,
the oldest paper in Atlanta, and has always re
flected the political and social axioms of a large
majority of our people. It is now one of the
ablest exponents of the policy of President
Johnson in the State of Georgia, thus reflecting
the political opinions of nineteen-twentieths of
the people of this State.
Hon. Jared I. Whitaker is the proprietor
of the Intelligencer, and there is not a more
highminded gentleman, purer Christian, or ardent
patriot in the State of Georgia than he. He is
our beau ideal of a gentleman. The Intelli
gencer is edited with pre-eminent ability.
The office of the Intelligencer has recently
been removed to the Muhlenbrink Building, west
side of Whitehall street, near the comer of Ala
bama street. The job office and book bindery
connected with the Intelligencer office are
also located in the same building. These estab
lishments turn out as good work, and upon as
reasonable terms, as any Northern or Southern
establishment. To those in want of a number-
one Daily or Weekly political and news paper,
we recommend the Atlanta Dailt and Week
ly Intelligences.
Terms, Daily per annum, $10. Weekly, per
annum, $3.
Post Offices In Georgia.
We have received from P. H. Woodward,
Esq., Special Agent of the Post Office Depart
ment, the following list of Postmasters who
have been commissioned since July 4th. About
t wo hundred and fifty post offices in Georgia
have now been regularly reestablished.
Adams,
Air Line,
Bairdetown,
Bethany,
Carnesville,
Culloden,
Dallas,
Pavlsboro,
Dawsonville,
Doctortown,
Doable Welle,
Graysville,
Green Hill,
Greeuvillo,
Gnm Creek,
Harmony Grove,
Hiawasee,
Jefferson,
Jones' Mills,
Liberty 11111,
Louisville,
Melville,
Midville,
Milner,
Monntville,
Naylor,
Nochway,
Norris’ station.
The Rock,
Saw Dust,
Sharon,
Siprlngflcld.
Twiggaville,
Villa Bica,
Warrenton,
Watkinsvllle,
Waynesboro,
Winchester,
Wiuterville,
Wisdom's Store,
WoodriUe,
COUNTY.
Wilcox,
Hart,
Oglethorpe,
Jefferson,
Franklin,
Monroe,
Paulding,
Washington,
Dawson,
Wayne,
Warren,
Catoosa,
Stewart,
Meriwether,
Dooly,
Jackson,
Towns,
Jackson,
Meriwether,
Pike,
Jefferson,
Chattooga,
Burke,
Pike,
Troup,
Lowndes,
Randolph,
Quitman,
Upson,
Columbia,
Taliaferro,
EfUingham,
Coweta,
Twiggs,
Carrol),
Warren,
Clark,
Burke,
Macon,
Oglethorpe,
Harris,
Greene,
POSTHASTES.
G. M. B. McDuffie.
Mies Sarah Aekia.
O. A. McLaughlin.
J B. Randall.
Pleasant Holley.
Wm. H. Dewees.
J. B. Adair.
W. A. Morgan.
Sirs. M. V. Perkins.
D. J. DiUon.
Ed. L. O'Brien.
G. C. Wheeler,
R. F. Gawlev.
Miss J. H. McLaren.
Wm Culpepper.
W Vaughn.
W T Crane.
J. Warren.
A. S. D re wry.
J. P. Brown.
B. J. Pound.
L. J. Hosteller.
S. Goodwin.
E. Bradshaw.
J. N. Carleton.
Miss L. E. Stephens.
J. W. Bone.
Miss R. Wall.
J F Black,
G L Revillc.
D. O. Keeffe.
A. F. Hahn.
Mrs. F. C. Gay.
R. C. Carroll.
S. W. Noland.
J. A. J. McDonough.
Miss L. B. Grady.
C. F. Gilmore.
T. Holcomb.
J. Winter.
W. H. Bass.
J. Willingham.
The Freedmen’s Bureau In Georgia.
We copy the following from the report made
to the Secretary of War by Generals Steed-
man and Fullerton, at New Orleans. The re
port is full of interesting information, but too
lengthy for our columns. While mismanage
ment, corruption, and fraud, has been attached
to the Bureau iu other States, it will be seen that
these Commissioners report its offices as having
been “honestly administered” by General
Tilson in this State, and that it “ has accom
plished all the good of which the system is capa
ble." (Italics ours):
The Bureau in Georgia, under the manage
ment of the present able and efficient assistant
commissioner, Brevet Major-General Tilson, has
been honestly administered, and has accomplish
ed all the good of which the system is capable.
It has been assisted by the Governor, by the
Judges of the Supreme Court, by the civil author
ities, and to some extent by the citizens. The
amended laws of Georgia are fully as liberal as
those of any Northern State, and place the ne
gro in all respects on a perfeet equality with the
white man as to his civil rights. Notwithstand
ing this fact, we have found that agents of the
Bureau have taken cases out of the hands of the
civil authorities, and have tried and disposed of
them in a manner never contemplated by the
laws ofthe State. For instance, the citizen judge
of the freedmen’s court at Savannah sentenced
two negroes to thirty days’ labor in the chain-
gang, on the charge of horse-stealing, to which
they pleaded guilty. A white nmn committing
the same offense would have been liable, under
the State laws, to be sentenced to the peniten
tiary, or even to death, at the discretion of the
jury. In cases previousfy disposed of in this same
court, one freedman, for assaulting with a knife
with intent to kill, was fined twenty dollars, and
another freedman, for a similar ollense, was
sent to prison for live months, when, by the
laws of Georgia, the punishment prescribed for
the crime is imprisonment in the the penitentia
ry for not less than two or more than ten years.
Decisions such as these must ot necessity create
among the white people a lecling of contempt
for the freedmen’s courts and of ill-will towards
the United States Government, which permits
such an unjust interference with the laws of the
State. In the freedmen’s court at Macon, presid
ed over by Captain Louis J. Lambert, more seri
ous irregularities have occurred. A Mr. M. J.
Morgan and his son, a Mr. Boulton, and a Mr.
Stansel Berwick were tried in this court for cruel
ty to’a freedman, were convicted, and were fined
in the aggregate $550. The fine imposed upon
the two Morgans, amounting to $300, were re
ported by the agent, but no account was render
ed of the remaining $250. Capt. Lambert, in a
written explanation, herewith forwarded, (mark
ed A,) states that the money and papers in this
case were stolen from his office, and that he
made up his report from memory. It does not
appear, however, that Captain Lambert made
any official mention of the burglary until after
the discrepancy was discovered by us. We
found that Captain Lambert’s records, as a rule,
were very loosely kept, and that his predecessor,
who had collected thousands of dollars, had left
no record or evidence behind him of the disposi
tion made of the money received. A similar ab
sence-of records prevented our makiug a thor
ough investigation in other offices iu the State.
The freedmen of Georgia, when w r e went
through the State, were generally at work, and
wherever their wages were remunerative and
regularly paid them, were contented and doing
well.
Wanted—Southern Biota to help the Rad
icals.
Under the above heading, the New York Her
ald says: “It having been deemed necessary to
repeat the old game of “bleeding Kansas” in
order to humbug the Northern voters at the com
ing elections, a number of riots are desired at
various prominent points at the South, such as
Richmond, Mobile, Memphis and New Orleans.
If twenty or thirty negroes, martyrs to liberty,
can be killed at each of these places, so much
the better for the radical cause. For lurther par
ticulars, terms of compensation, Ac., apply to
Old Thad. Stevens or any other member of the
Reconstruction Committe.”
The Kentucky Election.
The Louisville Courier, of Wednesday last,
says: “ We publish in this morning’s Courier
returns official and reported from forty-four
counties in the State, which foot up a majority
for Duvall ot 27,388 votes. The Democracy
make a clean sweep, as not a county yet reports
a majority for Hobson. The nearest to it is
Lewis countv, in which the result is stated as
doubtful. There are 66 counties yet to hear
from, many of w hich are small, but m localities
claimed by the Radicals. The figures now indi
cate that the Democratic majority in the State
will exceed 40,000, and may even reach or go
beyond 50,000.”
Cotton.
In an elaborate estimate in the New York
Times, the yield is put down at nearly one-half
of that of 1860, except in Tennessee and Flori
da, the last being 100,000 bales against 65,000 in
1860, and in the former 125,000 bales against
996,404 in 1860. By this calculation, the esti
mate makes out a yield of 2,640,000 against 5,185,-
925 bales in 1860. All accounts that reach us
from all quarters accord in the fact that the land
planted will fall considerably short of a full
yield, while all know that the extent of ground
planted is not one-half ot that tilled in 1860.
A Sicn.
The Philadelphia North American, edited by
Morton McMichae], Mayor of the city, beretoiore
a radical sheet, contained a leader on the 2d in
stant, favoring the administration of President
Johnson-
Forney, the Bead Buck.
Prentice says Colonel Forney is raving and
raging and fuming and foaming through his two
newspapers,the Philadelphia Press and the Wash
ington Chronicle, over the call ofthe Philadelphia
National Convention. He is scared. He is alarmed.
He is terrified. He is chock-full of trepidation
and fury. We can’t prescribe tor him. We are
no poultry-doctor.
Confiscation of Santa Anna's Estate.—
The following is the decree of the Imperial gov
ernment of Mexico ordering the sequestration of
Santa Anna’s estate:
We, Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, decree:
Article 1. There shall be appointed a receiver
to take an inventory of the property which Don
Antonio Lopez de Santa Auna possesses within
the limits of the empire.
Art 2. Said receiver shall keep an exact ac
count of the revenues yielded by such property,
and shall make deposit of said revenues for safe
keeping, without deducting any sums except such
as, with the approbation of this government,
shall be allotted to the members of Santa Anna’s
family actually residing within the territory of
the empire.
Art. 3. No contract having relation to said
property shall have the force of law without the
written approbation of said receiver.
Our Minister of the Interior is charged with the
execution of the present decree.
Given at the Palace, in Mexico, on the 12th ot
July, 1866. Maximilian.
The Autorshtp of Junius.—Among the
many singular revelations made during the re
cent trial of the royal scandal case in London,
is one which, if it be true, clears up the long
disputed point as to the authorship of the letters
of Junius. They were written by Dr. Wilmot,
his grand-daughter asserts, to obtain redress
from George III., who. writhing under their
sharp lash, was induced to sign certain certifi
cates testifying to the marriage ot Olive Wil
mot and the brith of her child. The youthful
Olive made the discovery accidentally, when
she was but fourteen yeras old. She chanced
to take from her grandfather’s library some
loose sheets of old manuscripts to scrible and
draw upon, and they were found to be some of
the letters of Junius.
spirit or the New York Frees.
PEACE IN EUROPE.
The World states that by the proposed terms
of peace Austria is expected to surreunder Vene-
tia to Italy, and Schleswig-Holstein to Prussia;
to retire herself from the Germanic Confedera
tion ; and to consent to the formation of two
new confederacies in Germany, the one of North
Germany under tie leadership and control of
Prussia, the other of South Germany, under the
primacy, as is probable, though upon this point
the telegraph is silent, of the Kingdom of Ba
varia.
It then remarks that the importance of the
changes to be effected by such a peace as this, in
the political organization of Europe can hardly
be over-estiraated. Retiring finalfy from her pre
ponderance both m Italy and in Germany, Aus
tria, of cocrse, admits the thoroughness ot her
defeat by ;he Prussia-Italian alliance ; but it may
well be questioned whether her prospects for the
future are not really brightened rather than cloud
ed bv this result. Iu losing Yenetia she loses a
population of some two millions and a half of
souls, but she gains in return a freedom of action
which she h*s never possessed since she accept
ed the fatal gift of the first Napoleon, seventy
years age.
Her future now turns from the West to the East.
Mistress of the lower Danube, with a powerful
Germany and a powerful Italy on her Western
and Southern frontier, she at once becomes a for
midable rival of Russia for the control of thfj
Black Sea, and tor that eventful prize of Con-
s^ntinople upon which the Czars have so long
set tEeir hearts, but which will be further from
their grasp upon the day which witnesses ^je
signature of such a treaty ot peace as is fore
shadowed in the brief telegrams which we this
morning publish, than it has ever before been.
THE PHILADELPHIA CONTENTION.
This subject occupies a prominent place in the
columns of the New York papers. The Express,
of Monday, in discussing the question of the ad
mission of delegates, says the parties most anx
ious about the admissions to the Philadelphia
Convention are the radicals, who wish to destroy
it, and who have given out indirect hints in Wash
ington, Philadelphia and elsewhere, that it would
be broken up, and if in no other way, by creating
disturbance in the Convention. The good sense
of the majority of the delegates, we presume, will
prevent all such excesses. The call to this Con
vention embraces just these words:
“ No delegate will take a seat in such Conven
tion who does not loyally accept the national sit
uation and cordially indorse the principles set
forth in the call, and who is not attached in true
allegiance to the Constitution, the Union, and the
government of the United States.”
This is sufficiently comprehensive to exclude
all improper persons, and all who act in the spirit
of the call, and who are duly accredited, we pre
sume, will be admitted.
The World remarks upon the very great impor
tance of the Convention, that no convention ever
held in this country, not even that which met in
Philadelphia to frame the Constitution, was look
ed to with so much interest, nor perhaps was
fraught with consequences more important, than
that which is about to assemble for the rescue of
the Union. There is some aptness in thtuargu-
ment by which Cicero offered incense to his van
ity after he had saved Rome by the suppression
of Cataline’s conspiracy, namely, that the day iu
which we are preserved outranks that iu which
we are bom, inasmuch as we are neither con
scious of our birth nor know whether it will
prove an advantage, whereas the joy of escape
is felt, and we are qualified to estimate the value
of the life which is saved. On the same princi
ple, the restoration of the constitution whiphjnay
come from Philadelphia in 1866, may prove not
less worthy of commemoration, than its forma
tion in that city in 1787. t
THE TRIBUNE’S DEFINITION OF A WHITE MAN.
We do not often see the Tribune, as it is not
one of our exchanges, but we find in the News
of the 6th au article on the Tribune, which has,
it seems, defined a “ white man” as “ a man who
is white.” The News does not admit that this
definition will do to determine the exact propor
tion in which white and black blood must be
mixed in a man’s veins in order to constitute
him a white man. And iu illustration of the
difficulties attending an application, it quotes a
familiar story of a Welsh baronet, whose scanty
income did not suffice to bear the port and
charges of a gentleman, and who was often put
to sore straits to maintain au external appear
ance corresponding to his station. He had but
a single pair of silk stockings, which, when oc
casion required, his housekeeper was wont to
darn with worsted ; and it came to pass in the
fullness of time that the original material entire
ly disappeared, having given place to the more
homely substitute wherewith the dame was ac
customed to conceal tiie ravages produced by
time and service. But Sir Hugh still spoke of
the articles in question as his silk stockings, and
indignantly repudiated the idea that they were
of any baser stuff. “ They certainly were silk
stockings when I bought them,” said he, “ and
if they are now worsted, there must have been
a time at which they ceased to be silk—lost their
identity, in fact. But can any one point out
that time ?”
The Tribune may not be convinced by the il
lustration. The News perhaps only intended
that it should be puzzled.
THE PRESIDENT AS AN ECONOMIST.
The Times, of Monday, in stating the different
positions of the President and of Congress with
regard to extravagant expenditures remarks that
the people may be divided touching the course
to be pursued toward the South, but they are
united with reference to the reduction of the Na
tional expenditure. They are heartily, earnestly,
determinedly in favor of retrenchment; and they
are not likely to forget that while Congress, du
ring the recent session, evinced an indifference
to the necessities of the Treasury, and lent itself
to schemes of an extravagant nature, the Admin
istration has steadily exerted itself to keep down
expenditure, and, as lar as possible, to repair the
waste engendered by the war.
Iu all that concerns retrenchment, then, the
facts are in favor of the Administration and
against Congress. For whatever saving has been
accomplished the countiy may thank the Ad
ministration. For resistance to further saving,
and for proceedings which entail heavy additions
to the load of taxation and debt, the countiy is
indebted exclusively to Congress.
A contrast so damaging and suggestive will
attract the attention of the people in the ap
proaching campaign.
THE GRAIN CROP.
The Express says that the indications are that
the cereal crops of the West and the Middle
States, soon about to be, if not already in good
part, harvested, will be the most abundant on
record. That is the substance of the reports
which are coming in to us from all quarters.—
With but a limited demand for exportation, we
do not see how lower prices can be avoided—a
contingency which consumers now compelled to
pay $14 and $15 per barrel for flour m the sea
board markets must contemplate with delight.
The World states that the National Union Ex
ecutive Committee have entered upon negotia
tions with all the railroad companies with a view
of obtaining a reduction in the rates of fare for
delegates to the Convention at Philadelphia in
their passage thither and return. Replies have
been received from nearly all the railroads, ft
is worth noting that every Southern road, so far
as heard from, has acceded to the request of the
committee.
AUSTRIAN RND AMERICAN CAVALRY.
In the Times we find a letterfroin the military
correspondent of its Loudon namesake. The
writer.’learniug the movements ol the King of
Prussia and some of his Ministers and officers of
high rank, wrote from Bowtowitz, that if there
were such a cavalry General on the Austrian
side at present as Uie Confederate General Stu
art in the American civil war, he would have a
grand chance to-day to win a glorious stake by
a raid upon Brunn. The King of Prussia is in
that town at the present moment, and only two
battalions of Infantry have been left as hia es
cort. With him are Count Bismarck, General
Yon Moitke, the War Minister, Gen. Yon Rood,
and a large staff of officers. If these could be
captured, or even one alone, on what different
terms could Austria sue for peace ? But it would
need a man of Stuart’s intrepidity to attempt to
seize the prize, and the capture would not be ef
fected without severe cost; but to secure the
King would compensate for any sacrifice. The
Austrian cavalry probably does not even know
of the defenseless state of Brunn, but iu one of
their own provinces, where the inhabitants are
lellow-countrymen, they ought to have ample in
formation, and the perfect knowledge of the
country which thep should have would material
ly assist in such an enterprise.
FRENCH IMPROVEMENT ON THE NEEDLE GUN.
The Paris correspondent of the Times writes
that the excitement about the needle gun does
not, in any sense diminish. Whenever one ot
these guns, true or false, is exhibited in a win
dow ; wherever even the picture of one is ex
hibited, there is sure to be a perpetual crowd
The newspapers also are full of the subject; and
now we learn all at once that France is lull of
breech-loading inventions which surpass the
Prussian gun as far as this latter surpasses the
old muzzle loader.
So that the French army is soon to have—so
the Government papers say—a million of guns
so destructive that the Prussians could not stand
before them a moment. The Emperor is giving
fiis personal attention to the subject, and yester
day went on a long visit to the gun museum ot
Vincennes. The Prussian gun and the Ameri
can monitors have proved a serious humiliation
to the French military and naval pride, and the
Emperor, who is a man of progress and hates
routine, will probably attend to these matters
himself in the future.
GOV. BROWN ON THE PHILADELPHIA CONVEN
TION.
The Times copies Governor Brown’s letter of
July 25th, and remarks upon it that it is but
simple justice to the South to say that this letter
is in keeping with the general tenor of commu
nications on this subject from their wisest and
most considerate men. It suits the purpose of
the Radical press in the North, which are oppos-
“ The Negro Boy Plantit. ”
The London Morning Advertiser, of the 19th
ultimo, appeared on our table yesterday among
our exchange newspapers. We noticed in it the
following account under the above heading, of
“Blind Tom,” personage familiar to our readers,
who, it seems, has passed muster in the great
British metropolis, and bids fair to create quite a
sensation there. Our readers will doubtless be
interested in a perusal of the following account
of the test of “Tom’s” skill before the “musical
celebrities” of the first city in the world:
There was a private soiree last evening at the
Queen’s Concert rooms, Hanover square, to
which many of our musical celebrities and a
large number of distinguished amateurs received
invitations. The object of the interesting re
union was to afford an opportunity of presenting
to an intelligent and critical audience “Blind
Tom,” the negro boy pianist, who has just ar
rived from America, and whose performances
throughout the Southern States caused consider
able excitement. So tar back as the.year 1862,
one of the contributors to All the Year Hound
gave au account of this plantation prodigy. At
the time it seemed almost incredible that the
musical capacity and attainments of the untaught,
and in many points apparently idiotic negro youth
—he is stilted to be only seventeen years of age—
could justify such a portraiture as they received
from an evidently enthusiastic admirer of this
child of nature, but the test applied last evening
in the presence of an appreciative and discrimi
nating assemblage removed all doubts that may
have heretofore existed with reference to the
fidelity of the narrative. The negro boy, ex
cept when engaged in the interpretation of
some difficult classical work, or iu developing
other features of musical science, has a hideously
repulsive appearance bordering upon the lowest
class of negro imbecility, but the moment he is
placed at the pianoforte, or requested to impart
information on any subject identified with
music, the idiotic, vacant stare leaves him,
and his countenance beams with intelligence.—
Not only is “Blind Tom” a pianist of great
ability, his execution of difficult masterpieces
being marked with feeling, thorough knowl
edge of the composer, and graceful finish,
but he possesses a faculty peculiar, perhaps, to
himself alone. There were played for him two
pieces by a gentleman indiscriminately selected
from the audience. One, we believe, was a man
uscript sonnet. “Blind Tom” listened atten
tively to the amateur’s performance, and no
sooner had it concluded than be reproduced each
composition with astonishing fidelity, foliowip
bar for bar, note for note, and photographing, a
it were, the passages ot variation. Chords and
discords, too, he analyzed, standing at a distance
from the piano-forte, without approach to mis
take, announcing the notes of which they were
made up almost as soon as the instrument con
ed to the restoration of the Union, to represent vey ed them to his ear. Many other examples
” -* " °—*■*— ‘ ’ were given of his prodigious musical capacity,
and there can be no doubt that both in musical
and medical circles the negro boy pianist will for
some time to come find himself the observed of
all observers.
the men of the South who were most prominent
in the rebellion as most eager to secure seats in
the'Philadelphia Convention ; but nothing can
be more utterly false.
THE EXTRA PAY.
The Express says that it has already taken
$712,000 to pay off the extra appropriation for
extra pay, to the very extraordinaiy Congress
men who voted themselves $5,000 a year, and 17
months back pay 1 The Washington correspond
ent of the World says that Congressman Hub
bard, of West Virginia, has sent to the conscience
fund of the treasury the extra two thousand dol
lars which Congress voted itsell.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
The Washington correspondent of the Express
writes that the White House seems to be the
center of attraction now-a-days. Nearly every
morning a large crowd of strangers can be seen
waiting patiently in the halls and ante-rooms.—
They come from all parts of the country—the
North, South, East and West being alike repre
sented. Their business, of course, is a matter of
speculation among outsiders, although it is gen
erally understood that the majority of them are
looking after appointments, either present or
prospective. The President receives them cour
teously, and as rapidly as possible. The applica
tions for positions under the different depart
ments are generally referred to the Secretaries,
barnum.
Another correspondent of the same paper says
of Bridgeport, Connecticut, that Barnum has in
process of construction in its vicinity au im
mense acclimatization garden, to be used in con
nection with the great Zoological institution he
intends to incorporate with his museum in New
York. Van Amburg’s great menagerie is to be
incorporated with it, and he is already prepar
ing to ship from Africa and Europe rare beasts
for the show. The gardens here are merely to
he breeding places. A charter for the enterprise,
with a capital of two millions of dollars, has
been obtained from the Connecticut Legislature,
and thirty acres of land have been purchased in
the vicinity of Bridgeport, Connecticut, on which
are to be erected suitable buildings and glass
edifices for the breeding and acclimating rare an
imals, birds, &c., and for training some of them
for public performances.
PILLS FOR THAD. STEVENS AND SUMNER.
The same correspondent, under the above title,
quotes from a sermon of Father Synnott, who
had just returned from a visit to Maine, whither
he had gone to purchase lumber for a new and
superb Church he has in course of erection in
Bridgeport; and on his journey he stopped in
Portland a day. Said Father S.: The desola
tion on all sides was heart-rending to contem
plate. The misery was universal—but it was
mitigated by the thought that in all sections of
the country the voice of Mercy was pleading tor
the sufferers, and that Charity, her kirtle loaded
with the golden bounties of the whole-hearted,
was coming to their relief. In the midst of this
scene of wreck and woe, he thought of the
wreck and woe existing in the ruined cities of
the South, chere disasters as terrible had fallen
upon heads as little deserving of the blow as
those which found desolation in Portland. They,
however, had no lips to plead for them. The
voice of Mercy was silent in their cause—the
hand of Charity paralyzed! Proceeding then to
urge upon his congregation—among whom were
many hard-faced Yankees—the practice of those
great virtues, mercy and charity, the good priest
concluded with the assurance that the destruc
tion of Portland (the home, doubtless, of many
who had been leading in urging the punishment
to their Southern brethren) was not the less per
mitted by Heaven than had been woes inflicted
on the cities of the South.
ITEMS.
The World contains a dispatch received at Bos
ton from the Isle of Wight, in which it is stated
that the yacht, Alice, of twenty-eight tons, had ar
rived, having crossed the ocean in nineteen days.
The Washington correspondent of the Express
says that the effort to induce Secretary McCul
loch to authorize the sale of government gold, is
not, by any means, given np, and rumor asserts
that it will be successful. It is not proposed, I
believe, to break in upon any part of the $60,000,-
000 now in the vaults ofthe Treasury, but to sell
the daily receipts from customs, that may here
after be paid in
The Treasury Department is now ready to sup
ply applicants with sets of specimens of fraction
al currency of all descriptions ever issued, inclu
ding varieties of ten cent notes, which are signed
by the Register and Treasurer. The sets of full
notes may be purchased for five dollars and seven
ty-five cents, while sets of half notes,or those hav
ing the face and back separate, will be sold for
tour dollars. The latter variety will be printed
on Confederate bank note paper, bearing the let
ters C. S. A., in water mark, which was manufac
tured in. London for the Treasury Department of
the Confederate States, so-called, and was found
on board a blockade runner captured by one of
the vessels composing the blockade squadron.
A correspondent of the Express writes from
Washington that the most remarkable fact re
cently known to the friends of President John-
son has just come to light It is now understood
that lar^3 niinioin tLo clerks in the various
departments are correspondents of Eastern and
Western journals of the intensely radical school;
tmd while holding office under the Administra
tion of Andrew Johnson, denounce his policy
and impugn his persoal motives in the most li
belous and dastardlv manner.
A Short and Sad Story.
About ten weeks ago a gentleman passed
through this city on his way to Arkansas, where
he intended to locate. An Englishman by birth,
he had been for years a commercial traveler for
a house in one of the largest mercantile cities in
Europe, and in that capacity had visited every
part of the world. He was a polished gentle
man, and spoke fluently several different lan
guages, and had accumulated an amount of in
formation concerning the countries through
which he had traveled that was not only valua
ble but interesting in the highest degree to those
who were fortunate enough to be numbered
among his friends. Of a good family in his native
country, he had moved in the best circles of the
commoners in England, and was, in every sense
of the term, a perfect gentleman. Of a sensitive
and retiring disposition, he was illy calculated,
however, to make acquaintances, and lacked the
assurance which we daily learn is necessary to
thrive in this world of ours. He had heard a
glowing account of our sister State, and went to
Pine Bluff, where his means became almost ex
hausted. Writing to his wife to remit to him at
Camden, he started to that point on foot, where
he had arranged to meet a friend. In this he
was disappointed, and the unsettled state of mail
facilities preventing the receipt of means from
home, he determined to return to this city and
await here until he heard from his family.—
About this time two gentlemen from Kentucky
arrived in Camden on horseback, and put up at a
hotel there. In the morning their horses were
missing, and the citizens turned out, headed by
the city marshal, and started in pursuit of the
missing animals. They were found tied in the
woods about a mile from town; and when on the
way back to town with them the parties met the
gentleman of whom we are writing. Being a
stranger, he was immediately arrested as the horse
thief, and told by the marshal that if lie would
tell who were his confederates in the matter, he
would he released. A denial of any knowledge
whatever of the theft was all that could be elicit
ed, and the marshal then took the halter off one
of the horses, and making a slip noose, passed it
around the gentleman’s neck, and hung him to a
tree, until, as the officer stated afterwards before
the magistrate, “ lie turned black in the face and
his tongue stuck out half a yard.” When life
was nearly extinct lie was dropped to the ground
and when it again began to assert itself, lie was
once more urged to confess. As before, nothing
could be told, and a second time the hanging
scene was enacted until death nearly came to the
rescue. He was, however, cut down, and then
taken before a magistrate and committed upon
evidence that would not have detained any oth
er than a stranger for a single moment. lira
few weeks, during which time he remained in
jail, his trial came on before the criminal court at
Camden, and he was honorably acquitted, not
one particle of evidence appearing to impli
cate him. On the contrary, the real culprit,
a well known horse thief, who lived not far
from the place, it was ascertained had stolen the
horses. After his acquital, the gentleman, too
proud to ask for assistance where he had been so
foully wronged, started for this city, and lived
upon such precarious subsistence as his sensitive
nature would allow him to ask for by the way
until he arrived at Eunice Landing, Arkansas
where he sought for and obtained work. He
toiled along in the hot sun, for which he only re
ceived his board, until he became sick. Never
having done any outdoor labor, the sun, com
bined with the treatment he received at Camden
had its effect upon him. 'Wishing to reach this
city, where he hoped to hear lrom those who
were dear to him, he took passage on the deck of
the Des Arc upon her last trip up bat one. He
arrived in this city sick and worn out with want
and suffering, and one week ago to-day the
morning papers told of a man being found dead
on the bluff, the Coroner’s jury having returned
a verdict that “ George Russel! had come to his
death from want and exposure.” Such rea
der, is the history of the last two rnontus of
the life of one who while living was an upright
gentle, Christian man, and an honorable, high
toned gentleman. May the sod rest lightly on
his grave, and God, who knows the sufferings of
his body here below, reward him in that world
where the wicked cease from troubling and the
weary are at rest.”—Memphis Avalanche.
Briggs has a great faculty for getting things
cheap. The other day he had a ^beautiful set of
teeth inserted for next to nothing. He kicked a
dog.
The Wigwam for the Philadelphia
Union National Convention.—The Johnson
Club of Philadelphia have pitched their wigwam
at the intersection of Twentieth street and Gi
rard Avenue. The builder has at work a large
force of carpenters, and the building will be com
pleted in ten days. The convention will assem
ble on the 14th. A description of the building
is thus given in the New York News :
Its outside dimensions are one hundred and
forty-six by one hundred and sixty-five feet. It
will be constructed of boards, and will be used
as a hall for mass meetings during the coming
campaign. The interior will consist of a vesti
bule, an amphitheatre, two galleries and four
ante-rooms. Into the vestibule a door of twelve
feet wide wiil open from Girard Avenue. A
door of equal 9ize will lead to the amphitheatre
and lower gallery, and a private entrance will
open into the ladies gallery above. The ante
rooms will be used for committee purposes. At
the head of the building will be placed the
speaker’s desk, and on either side the reporters.
The amphitheatre will be seventy feet by one
hundred and forty. From it the galleries will
rise in nearly the same manner as the seats in
the square for the 4th of July celebration. The
capacity of the building will be over ten thou
sand people. The largest audience ever seen
in the Academy of Music could be seated in one
wing of the immense galleries. The standing
room upon the floor will accommodate three
thousand, while there will be seats for seven
thousand. The galleries will be supported by
iron pillars sixteen feet apart. These will lie
hung with evergreens and festooned with flowers
during the sessions of the convention. Within
a fortnight it will be assembled in the largest
building ever known in Philadelphia, excepting
the sanitary fair structure.
The GrMn Products of the Country.
There is scarcely a doubt that the grain pro
duct of the country at large will constitute a
supply of the prime necessities of life, aniplefbr
all wants of consumption and commerce. The
great bulk of the wheat crop has already been
secured in excellent condition, and the. united
testimony of our Western exchanges is, that
whatever deficiency there may be in quantity
will be made up in quality. Even the fanners,
who are proverbial “croakers" seem to be abun
dantly satisfied with the result of their labors.
The Commissioner of Agriculture. thinks the
crop will be au average of 84-tentlis iu quantity,
and of a quality that will make it fully equal in
value to last year’s crop. An Ohio correspondent
makes an elaborate approximate estimate of the
cereal crops, and inasmuch as his deductions are
made principally from personal observation, his
views are entitled to some consideration. He
places the wheat crop of the country as follows :
1SU0 128,104,921 bushels.
18(10. ltv>, 134,000 bushels.
At the ratio of increase iu the Wheat crop
from 1840 to 1860—5 per cent, a yeai—it is ar
gued that we should have 225,134,000 bushels as
the yield for I860. The estimated yield of corn
this year is set down at 1,000,000,000 bushels,
against 832,792.740 in I860, as ascertained by the
decennial canvassers. Such a crop; it is calculat
ed, would alone support 60.000,000 of people and
all the cattle necessary for their meat and butter.
The world has never seen anything in agriculture
at all equal to this. The fact that tins staple
product is rapidly working its way into popular
favor in Great Britain is all the more gratifying,
in view of its steadily increasing production in
this country. The strength of this branch ot
agricultural country lies iu the Central West, ami
there it will no doubt remain for the next cen
tury at least. The Oat crop of 1866 is estimated
at 200,000,000 bushels, against 172,330,722 in
1860. The Rye and Barley crops are expected
to be iu excess of those ot any previous year,
while root crops give promise of great abun
dance.
Here, in brief, is an exhibit of the situation, as
far as concerns the supply of home products
essential to the subsistence of the masses, and no.
outcry of scarcity, raised for sinister purposes,
can do away with the substantial facts upon
which we predicate a year of plenty, if not of
low prices. What the prospects are likely to be
for an outlet for our surplus crops, it is yet too
early to judge with any degree of certainty ;
though with peace and abundant, crops in Eu
rope, the foreign demand for American bread-
stuffs, it would seem, must continue to be very
limited, thus necessitating their consumption
chiefly by our own people.—New York Commer
cial List.
A Prairie Belle.
As I was returning from the plains, after hav
ing explored the Brazos river to its source in
1863,1 met, near the most remote frontier house,
three girls, who were accompanied by a young
man, who were picking wild grapes beside the
road. As we had a vacant seat in our wagon,
and as the party were on foot, I inquired if one
of the young ladies would not like to ride with
us to the house. On one of them assenting, my
companion, a New York gentleman, politely
extended his hand to assist her ; but, instead of
accepting it she made a sudden leap from the
ground over the side of the vehicle, and landed
directly down by his side. She appeared to be
eighteen yea.s of age, witli rather a masculine
phybique, her figure tall, erect, and lithe, but
well rounded, and exceedingly graceful and fem
inine in outline, the incarnation of perfect health
and vigor. Her face was thoroughly browned
by exposure and exercise in the epen air, and
was constantly lighted up with a cheerful, happy
expression, indicating an overflowing exuberance
of spirits, which disseminated an atmosphere
the fascination of which was irresistible to those
who came within its influence, and her laughing,
dancing blue eyes seemed ever on the quivive for
fun ana frolic. She wore a closely fitting bloomer
costume, with a jaunty little straw-hat on one
side of her head, fastened under the chin with
a pretty pink ribbon, and her luxuriant natural
hair curled in ringlets all over her shoulders.
She was evidently the reigning belle ot the
neighborhood, as well as the favorite spoiled
child of her family; and she was just as free
from the absurd conventionalities of society as
the mustangs that roamed over the adjacent
prairies. My companion related to her some of
the most remarkable incidents of our expedition,
which seemed to interest her vastly; at the same
time her credulity appeared to be somewhat
taxed, and would occasionally find utterance in
such ejaculations as “O git out,” You go-long
now,” "Look at him !” etc., which seemed the
spontaneous outburst of her impulsive nature,
and rather in the character of a soliloquy than
seriously intended to express doubt at the truth
of the narrative. In one instance she became
intensely absorbed in my friend’s account of a
visit we had received from the Comanches, and
some of the peculiar habits of those people,
and gave vent to her feelings by administering
a violent slap on his knee, and at the same time
exclaiming, “The h—e—e—1 you say, stranger!”
giving particular emphasis to, and dewlling upon
the most objectionable word in the sentence.
She inquired very particularly about our camp
ing arrangement, and manifested a good deal of
curiosity concerning the shape, capacity, and
material of our tent. She lmd never seen one,
it appeared, and I remarked to her after ours
was pitoliod if oLo T*uuld Uuuur us with a call
she would have a good opportunity of seeing how
comfortable we could make ourselves in camp.
At this she turned round, facing me, applied her
thumb to her nose, with her fingers extended,
closed one eye, and with hpr coutentance assum
ing a most ludicrously severe expression, ob
served, “I am afraid of wolves, ole boss.” As I
was quite unconscious of having intended any
disrespect to the young lady, I was a good deal
surprised at -this exhibition of indignation.
From the savage expression her countenance as
sumed, however, I did not feel inclined to press
her for an explanation, and changed the subject
as soon as possible.—Col. Marcy's New Book of
the West.
Dr. Dostle’s Speech.
The New Orleans Times has been furnished,
by a gentleman who was present, witli the fol
lowing report of the speech of Dr. Dostie, de
livered on Friday evening, 27th ult., to an as
semblage of negroes. Another speech, deliver
ed an hour afterwards, is said to have been even
more violent and inflammatory:
Dr. Dostie, in the course of his remarks on
Friday uight, said, “I want the negroes to have
the right of suffrage, and we will give them this
right to vote. There will be another meeting
here to-morrow night, and on Monday I want
you to come in youi power. I want no cowards
to come. I want only brave men to come who
will stand by us, and we will stand by them.
Come then in your power to that meeting, or
rtounr nrn tn arinflior r\nl ill no I „ *i •_
Prom the Ladies* Home.
Home for Invalid Ladle*.
In previous numbers of the Home, we have
given to our readers extracts from letters address
ed to us by many of the most eminent medical
men, and distinguished gentlemen not in the
profession, concerning the want and feasibility,
of a "Home for invalid Ladies" in the South.
Below will be found a letter front a distin
guished physician of this city on the same sub
ject We highly appreciate this letter, because
the author is = au eminent medical practitioner
and a conscientious gentleman. Our object in
addressing letters to eminent gentlemen on this
subject, is to get their opinion concerning such
an institution'll! the South. We not only had
the good of the afflicted at heart, but our own
character and the dignity of the profession. We
have never received one word from these gentle-
in regard to our enterprise other than encour
agement.
From a sense of duty, as a physician, and the
encouragement we have received from medical
gentlemen, and good men and women every
where, we intend to persevere to the end, until
our plans are crowned with success.
As it lias been stated by one, “such an institu
tion, it conducted properly, would save thous
ands of languishing and afflicted women from
premature graves,” and thus, as another has said,
“prove a powerful auxiliary to the scientific and
sanitive appliances of regular medicine;” both
of which are the objects of this enterprise.
With full faith in our eventual success, we
have established this journal with our own pri
vate means for the double purpose of building
up a pure Southern literature, and ol' obtaining
the means necessary for the erection and furnish
ing The Home for invalid ladies—our long cher
ished object. And while we cherish a two fold
object in the conduct of this journal, we ask up
one to subscribe for it except on its literary merit
alone. We offer to our subscribers a literary
and family paper, fully worth the subscription
price—a paper which one of our leading South
ern journals has complimented by saying: The
Ladies■ Home is certainly not excelled !ty an ^lite
rary journal in the country. • * •“
Atlanta, Ga., July 25, 1866.
Prof. T. S. Powell—Dear Sir: Your letter,
in which you do me the honor to ask my opinion
relative to a plan which you have inaugurated
for the establishment, in this city, ot a “ Hospi
tal for Invalid Ladies,” is before me.
A long experience in the practice of the medi
cal profession enables me to say that the views
you express touching the inconveniences and
difficulties of treating in private practice, a cer
tain class of female afflictions, are entirely cor
rect. In an Infirmary of the kind proposed, con
ducted upon humane and scientific facilities
and comforts adapted to such cases, these diffi
culties would be obviated, and a desideratum
supplied which has been long felt by the profes
sion andby a large and unfortunate class of suf
ferers.
As to your fitness and capacity to conduct such
an Institution upon the most approved principles
of science, and in accordance with the dictates of
kindness and humanity, I entertain no doubt In
this, I do but reiterate the oft expressed opinions
of the press and of the inteliigent classes in this
community, where you have long resided, and
where you are professionally and personally
known.'
The plan which you have instituted for the ac
complishment of the end in view is happily tie-
vised, embracing as it does a three fold object, the
terms of which separately considered, constitute
useful and highly important enterprises: 1st. The
establishment ol a first class literary weekly in
the South. 2d. To develop and give expression
to the literary talent known to exist amoug us.—
3d. To institute with the proceeds of the first, a
Home for Invalid Ladies.
The 1st, which is the grand lever for the ac
complishment ol the others, you have already
in successful operation, and though but a few
numbers have been published, I think it may
truthfully be asserted that it is equal in typo
graphical execution and neatness to any similar
production issued in the United States. Tlie
articles which grace its pages evince a high
order of literary talent and taste, and for elegance
of style, chastity of language and high moral
tone, are in striking contrast to the sensational,
vulgar and corrupt literature of most Northern
journals.
I doubt not that an enterprise thus happily in
augurated, and having in view objects so noble
and praiseworthy, wil* meet the cordial approval
of the members of the medical profession, and
of every benevolent Southern heart, aud will, I
trust, be crowned with a speedy and happy suc
cess. Respectfully, your obedient servant.
R. €. Word, M. D.
From the LaGrange Reporter.
Imposing Ceremonies at West Point.
It is always a matter of pleasure to us to chroni
cle evidences of progress in our county. Espe
cially does it afford us much pleasure to enume
rate, in a short way, the ceremonies which occur
red near West Point, on the 1st instant. The
friends and promoters of the two noble enter
prises, recently referred to by us, and known re
spectively, as the “Georgia and Alabama Manu
facturing Company,” and the “ Chattahoochee
Manufacturing Company,” have our most sincere
thanks for the cordial invitation extended to this
office to participate iu the laying of the corner
stones ot their respective buildings; but cir
cumstances, over which we had no control, in
tervened to prevent the representation of the
Reporter on that occasion. To a kind aud oblig
ing friend, who was present, we are indebted for
the notes we proceed to use :
The corner-stone of each of the factories were
laid in the presence of a large concourse of peo
ple. The impressive Masonic ceremonies ofthe
occasion were conducted by D.\ G.\ Ms.’., W.
W. Boyd and B. H. Bigham, of.t.he Grand Lodge
of Georgia, assisted by other brethren. (A list
of the officers will be given next week.) They
consisted of William Johnson, of West Point,
Grand Marshal, and Messrs. Chandler, Fay, Mar
shal], Bass, Barrow, Orme, Alexander, and Gab-
bett, of Atlanta, and Messrs. Oslin, Griggs, Bass,
Pichtmlcnn TMr-b- inarm fiuri Wool
Tue United States and England.—In a
laie speech Lord Stanley thus spoke of the Uni
ted Suites: “ The United States, by its extent, by
its population, by its rapid increase, the energy
and intelligence of its people, and lastly, by its
display of military and naval strength lias come
to rank among the foremost powers in the world.
I look upon a proper and friendly understanding
with the United Statesjas almost the first, requi
site of English diplomacy. [Hear, hear.] No
one power, exeept France, is so closely bound to
us by ties of public interest”
never go to another political meeting in this
State. We have three hundred thousand black
men willi white hearts. Also, one hundred
thousand good and true Union white men, who
will fight for and beside the black race, against
the three hundred thousand hell-hound rebels,
for now there are but two parties here. There
are no copperheads now. Col. Field now mak
ing a speech inside, is heart and soul with us.
He and others who would not a year ago speak
to me, now take me by the hand. We are four
hundred thousand to three hundred thousand, and
can not only whip but exterminate the other
party. Judge Abell with his grand jury may
indict us. Harry Hays, with his posse commitatus,
may be expected there, an/l the police, with
more than a thousand men sworn in, may inter
fere with the convention ; therefore, let all brave
men, and not cowards, come here on Monday.
There will be no such puerile affair as at Mem
phis, but if interfered with, the streets of New Or
leans will run with blood !
The black race with *900 million, are bound
to rule the white race of 300 million. The reb
els say they have submitted and accept the
situation, but want you to do the work and they
will do the voting; and will yon throw over
them “the mantle of chairty and oblivion ?”
"We will!’ “we will!” was the unanimous
response of the excited throng, to which Dr.
Dostie vehemently replied : No, by God ! we j
wont. We are bound to have universal suffrage ;
though you have the traitor, Andrew Johnson,
against you,” etc., etc.
[*We think the Doctor has made an error in !
his calculation.]
How a Swindler Come to Grief.-—The
Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette gives the following account of the arrest
of an accomplished swindler:
The author of the recent forgeries upon the
Navy and Treasury Departments, mentioned in
these dispatches a few days since, proves to have
been Wm. Ringgold Cooper, Acting Ensign of
the navy, lately on duty in the Bureau of Navi
gation. The young swindler has been moving
Richardson, Dickinson, aud Davidson, of West
Point, and others.
Many valuable and curious articles were de
posited in each of tiie corner-stones.
The formal addresses of the day were deliver
ed, in behalf ot Alabama, by bis Excellency
Governor Patton, and, in belialf of Georgia, by
Judge B. H. Bigham.
Other interesting addresses were delivered by
Judge Chilton, of Alabama, and Messrs. Griggs,
of West Point, and Marshall, of Atlanta.
A splendid collation was set out by the ladies
of the vicinity, on the first floor of tiie boarding
house for operators, now nearly completed at the
Chattahoochee and Georgia Factory, known as
the lower (or Huguley) Factor} - . This was in
tended as a compliment to the stockholders of
the upper (or Trammel) Factory, as well as to
those of the factory at which it was prepared,
aud the visitors.
At the request of some gentlemen, and also
some ladies present, the stockholders of both
companies consented to open their books for
subscriptions for a short time. Quite a number
of subscriptions to stock were made.
One of the prominent managers of these en
terprises is Geo. Huguley, well known in Ala
bama and Georgia as a financier. Another is
James Metcalfe, well known in manufacturing
circles as a successful business conductor of such
enterprises. Another is Elisha Trammel, whose
reputation is unequaled throughout Wsetem
Georgia as a manager of mills and other ma
chinery propelled by water-power and as a man
of unimpeachable integrity and enterprise.—
Another is General R. H. Chilton, who was Chief
of Gen. Robt. E. Lee’s staff, and is celebrated
as a gallant and intellectual gentleman and able
engineer.
The gentlemen in charge of the topographical
surveys are under charge of Mr. Engineer Gab-
bett, whose skill in the profession is known to be
fully equal to the task, and the experience of Mr.
Alexander, who has been for twenty years en
gaged successfully upon important public works
in Georgia, has been called into requisition in the
erection of the dams and buildings.
In conclusion, we would say to capitalists, that
this is a good opportunity for making good in
vestments; and those desiring to do so, would
do well to apply for stock early aud without de
lay-
A Gift to tiie President.—It was announc
ed yesterday, in our local column, that the first
bale of cotton of the new crop, which arrived
here on the 4th, and was the first reported in the
south, had been purchased by a party of our
leading cotton merchants, and sent as a present
to President Johnson. As the first fruits of
Southern toil under the protection of his benign
administration, the compliment is an appropriate
one, and will no doubt be highly appreciated.—
. \ °eheve, however, that the President has,
established a rule to receive no presents while in
the Executive chair, and it may be that he will
reel constrained to decline in the present ease.—
Defrees, an accomplished yc
of the Public Printer. Im
in the best Washington circles for some timi We honetbomrhThifS'Ln > it
past, and was yesterday married to a Miss Julia least accent tlu- enm 1 r* "'! n °V H , e m , lgLt ’ at
- - - - epl lhe com Piiment, and, as lie does not
need the cotton, or its value, turn it over to some
benevolent association—the Ladies’ Relief Asso
ciation of St. Louis, for instance, who would he
proud to exhibit and dispose of it at their ap-
proaclnng fair.—Macon Telegraph.
A German journal recounts the following
episode of one of the late battles : A young
soldier m the midst of the tumult of battle,
thought lie saw on the grass a four-leaved
shamrock growing. As such a plant is rare,
and is considered to bring good luck, he stooped
to take it. At that very instant a cannon ball
passed over his head so near that he must have
been killed if lie had not been bending down.
The man so miraculously saved has sent the
plant to which he owes his life to his betrothed
at Kcenigsberg.
oung lady and niece
mmediately after the
marriage service, Cooper and his wife took the
train for Philadelphia, en route lor Europe; but
the detectives were on the same train, and the
bridegroom forger was nabbed on his arrival in
Philadelphia. All of the sixty thousand dollars,
with the exception of about twenty-five hundred’
dollars, was recovered.
A French gentleman asked a Hungarian
friend in Paris whether the time lmd not come
when Hungary could avenge herself in Austria?
"Ah, mon cherreplied M. de S , “we have
had our revenge; we have given Austria Bene-
dek !” The General, it 9eems, is a Hungarian
and fought against his countrymen, as you
know, in 1848.