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Iticchli) Jutelligeurer.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, August 29, 1806.
What the Radical* Propose.
Much lias been said and written of the address
of the Philadelphia Convention, and its declara
tion of principles, by those who opposed the
South’s being represented in that body. Admit
ting that there may be declarations in those pa
lmers which arc at variance with the long settled
convictions of Southern men; against which
they long contended in the National Council and
then in the field; and expressions used in them,
from the endorsement of which they naturally
shrink; would it not be well, admitting all this,
lor those who seem to delight in animadverting
upon these, to them, objectionable features of the
"address” and "declaration,” to turn their batter
ies for a time against the common enemy, and
cease directing their fire at friends ? We think
so, and trust it may soon be so. There is no
hope for the South, nor the Southern man, should
the Radical Party of the North triumph over the
Conservative Party there in the coming elections.
The "declarations” oi the latter, view them as we
may, are saving declarations to property, liberty,
and life in the South, and to Southern men, when
compared with the “declaration)?' of that Radical
Party against whom we have to contend ; who
have, in the arrogance of their nature, doomed
the South to destruction, and her people to a de
gradation more intolerable than was ever im
posed upon any since Christian civilization tri
umphed over the pagan barbarity of ancient
days.
First. The President is to be impeached and
deposed by this Radical Party should they suc
ceed in the coming elections. This i3one of their
declarations, boldly promulgated by their rump
Congress, their press and their stump orators in
every Northern and Western State.
Second. Negro Suflrage is to be forced upon
the South, and the negro, politically and socially,
placed upon an equality with the white man of
this section.
Third. Confiscation of property, and with it,
the banishment, if not the death penalty, impos
ed upon the representative men of the South,
and the leaders of her armies, during the late
war.
Fourth. A radical change in the spirit and form
of our Government—a new Constitution, new
laws, and the inauguration of a reign of tyranny
and terror over the South, by which it shall be
come only as spoils for radical leaders and the
freedmen who may inhabit it.
It is against “ declarations” like these, and
“ addresses ” promulgating audacious purposes
like these that the Southern press should protest
and denounce. And as the Party created by the
late Philadelphia convention stand pledged to op
posite purposes, no barrier to its success should be
placed in its way by Southern men, or Southern
presses. Woe will it be to the South, if the rael-
ical Philistines triumph over Andrew Johnson
in the coming contest! Good men should pray
for their defeat, and for the success of these who
would save the South from the spoilers and usurp
ers. It is said “ whom the Gods wish to destroy
they first make mad.” May the solemn adage, in
the coining future be applicable to that jacobinic
Northern host only, upon whoso black ensign
blazes “ destruction to the mouth," and not to the
Southern people for any obstacle they may pre
sent in the way of their Northern friends, in the
mighty efforts they are now making to overthrow
a common enemy, and to save the country, the
whole country, from anarchy and destruction!
The people of the South, should be alive to the
designs of their radical enemies, and the dan
gers that threat en them. They stand, as it were,
on the verge of a precipice into which the
Northern radicals would plunge them headlong.
Thus far one extended arm has saved them
the dreadful plunge. It is that of Andrew
JonNSON. Should that arm grow weaker in
stead of becoming stronger; Bliould it become
paralyzed iu its efiorts to uphold the South,
through the success of the South’s enemies;
what then of the South’s rights under the Con
stitution ? what then of political abstractions, the
nature and character of our Government ? Peo
ple of Georgia, see to it that moderation pre
vails, and that wisdom, not passion, governs you
in your policy. Look to the situation, to the
contest, in the North, and lend no aid by word or
deed to the common enemy! Sound policy, self-
prestrvation, the women and children of the
South, demaud this of her sons. See to it, col
lectively and individually, that the demand pass
not unheeded, disregarded 1
Ratification Reeling.
Tho Columbus Enquirer of Friday morning
last says: “The meeting last night to ratify the
action of the Philadelphia Convention, was very
largely attended. Speeches were made by Hon.
A. H. Chappell, Chairman of the meeting, Ex-
Prov. Gov. Johnson, and Hon. M. J. Crawford.
All the speeches urged the endorsement of the
action of Hie convention, and applauded its pro
ceedings and the course of the President. Reso
lutions to that effect were reported and unani
mously adopted, and all the proceedings were
marked by the utmost harmony and good feeling.
The Columbus Sun, referring to the call for a
ratification meeting, says: "The contest for our
rights and liberties is to be waged on Northern
soil exclusively. The Radicals will be too closely
pressed to give us further annoyance or trouble
at present, and we intend to give to those whom
we regard as our friends, all that is left to us, the
moral support of our endorsement of their action,
and our encouragement of their efforts. In so
doing we believe we shall best subserve .the in
terests of the South and the country at large,
and wc shall continue in this course until some
of the opponents of the proceedings and plat
form of the Philadelphia Convention shall point
us to a better plan for securing the rights and
privileges of which we are now deprived.”
Returned.
Judge Nicholson passed through the city on
Wednesday evening, on liis return from the Phil
adelphia Convention. Judge N.’s hopes for the
early and constitutional restoration of the Gov
ernment are greatly improved. He left home
dubious and anxious. He returns confident and
elate. This effect was prcyluced by the Conven
tion on all those who participated'in it, and it is
the effect it will produce generally throughout
the State.
Ex-Gov. Campbell was in the city yesterday.
He concurs in the glowing reports of Ex-Gov.
Brown and General Spears and Judge Nicholson
as to the Convention, and is prepared to go to his
work as the member of Congress from this dis
trict, in full faith that Radiciilism Will be sent to
the wall.
Hon. John S. Brien returned from the Conven
tion ou Tuesday evening. He reports, as do all
others but embittered and jaundiced Radicals,
that the occasion was a great one for the coun
try. The President's confidence in the tuture is
grand, and his purpose to preserve the Constitu
tion inflexible.
We clip the foregoing from the Nashville
Union <£• American.
On yesterday we had the pleasure of seeing
Col. W. F. Wright, en route irom the Philadel
phia Convention to his residence in Newnan.—
The.C-olonel. as our readers know, was a dele
gate to the Convention lrom his Congressional
District, and participated in its proceedings. He
speaks in encouraging terms of the beneficial
effects already resulting from the proceedings of
that body upon the popular mind in the North.
The Radicals are at bay, while the friends of the.
mo' ement are enthusiastically hopeful of its suc
cess.
Georgia Manotbcture*.
The Cheistian Inder, of this city, says : “ The
last Legislature granted a charier incorporating
the ' Georgia Manufacturing and Paper Mill
Company,’ located at Newnan ; M. P. Kellogg,
President, ami Win. Amis, Secretary. This
company has organized, has already secured a
capital of $50,000, and has commenced the erec
tion of buildings for a cotton factory. It is their
intention also to erect a paper mill with a capaci-
to turn out one ton of paper a day. This is the
kind of independence for our people to achieve.”
EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE.
Paris, August 10, I860.
Editor Atlanta Intelligencer :
Sir—Clouds still hang about the horizon!
Napoleon in. who had gone to Viclij' to take
the waters and rest, after so many weeks of anx
iety, has returned post-haste to his capital. Some
say from hygienic, and others from political mo
tives—both are right.
The truth is, that the Emperor is far from well.
The waters at Vichy, it is said, have done him
more harm than good. He has had a slight
touch of the reigning epidemic, cholera ; howev
er, what is still more serious is, that there is a
screw loose somewhere in the political situation.
FIRST SYMPTOMS.
The King of Prussia’s speech at the opening
of the Prussian Chambers, is considered a slight
to France and to Italy ; not a word is uttered in
allusion to the good services of the Emperor. A
few phrases even of simple'politenessjwould not
have been inopportune in such circumstances.
The cabinet of Tuilleries is now obliged to
drain the cup of political defeat even to the
dregs. We hear that Mr. Benedotte, the French
Ambassador at Berlin, was ordered to fee 1 the
ground as to the cession of the Rhenish frontier
to France, but little encouragement was given to
his Excellency. What is worse, the German
papers, one and all, talk of Alsatia and Loraine,
as German provinces, and wish to annex them
to the new Prussian kingdom.
Great disappointment to the cabinet of the
Tuilleries, and much joy for Count Von Bis
marck. The Emperor of the French, it appears,
is very irate at the slighting way in which he is
being treated by the haughty Hohenzollom, and
is determined to declare war on Prussia, should
territorial compensation be refused him, to
which he thinks he has a right.
It must be owned, that the situation of the
Emperor is embarrassing in the extreme; after
having said at Auxern, that the odious treaties
of 1815 must be torn up, he sees Prussia destroy
ing those alone which w r ere favorable to France.
The feeling in England is too evidently in favor
of the victors of Sardona.
an important dispatch
Was, we are informed, sent yesterday by the
Emperor to Monsieur.Chazal, Belgian Minister of
War, asking him, incase of Belgium being wil
ling to side with France in war against Prussia,
if she could dispose of 50,000 men.
The Emperor’s plan, which is of long stand
ing, would be to extend Belgium to the East,
making a rampart of that country against Ger
many—the most important is, however, to break
up the Pmsso-Italian alliance. It is asserted
that Prince Napoleon, who was sent to prevail
upon his father-in-law to shake off so dangerous
an ally, has almost, if not quite, succeeded.
The Prusso-Italian alliance has no longer any
raison iVctee, as Venetia has been given up to
Victor Emmanuel; however, it seems that His
Italian Majesty, like Oliver Twist, is asking for
more. He now wants a part of the Tyrol, to
which Austria will not consent. Whilst an armis
tice of a month was concluded between Prussia
and Austria, an armistice of but eight days was
concluded between Italy and Austria,which expir
ed yesterday; it was more than likely that hos
tilities between these two powers will recom
mence, and should Prussia fail to back Italy, a
rupture of the Prusso-Italian alliance will be the
consequence.
Prussia once separated from Italy it will be
easy lor the Emperor to bring Count Von Bis
marck to reason. Another version runs thus:
some say that all is arranged, and that Prussia
consents to France extending its frontiers to the
Rhine, and that this good piece of news will be
made known to the public by the Emperor on
the day of his lOte, the 15th inst.
The Seicle of to-day informs us that the French
Ambassador at Berlin, Monsieur Benedette, had,
by order of his master, asked for some compen
sation in the way of territorial extension, but
which had been flatly refused by the cabinet of
Berlin. This is the first time that any French
journal has made any' mention of the steps taken
by the cabinet of the Tuilleries in order to extend
its frontiers, and that tbe result has been with
out success.
THE CRISIS
is therefore very important for France, so much
the more so, as a very wonderful reaction is tak
ing place in Germany at the present moment.—
A month ago, the federals assumed that they
would prefer to belong to France than to Prus
sia—the wind has now turned. Bavarians, Wur-
temburgers, Hanoverians and tutti quanti con
vinced of the weakness of Austria, wish to be
annexed to Prussia. Germany is rising from its
ashes—there is a general antipathy to Prussia
proper, but all now wish to form a part of a
powerful and united government, no matter what
its name; just as did the Neapolitans, the Tus
cans and the Florentines, who would have had
great objection to be called Peidmontese, but
were desirous of uniting under one banner—that
of Italy. United Prussia, or Germany, if you like
better, will become a power with a population of
46,000,000, not a very accommodating neighbor
for France.
It can hardly be supposed that Napoleon III.
will quietly submit to this. It is now asked, are
we strong enough to cope with Prussia ? The
tenor of the English papers is also in no way
calculated to calm the general feeling, as many
articles daily appear on the other side of the
channel expressive of satisfaction, in seeing
Fiance likely to have a rival on the Continent.—
On the other hand some assert that the health of
the Emperor is tar from good at present, which
will prevent his pursuing an energetic policy.—
The sudden return of the Emperor from Vichy
was explained by
A NOTE IN THE MONITEUR
which appeared this morning; it was a follows:
“ The return of the Emperor has given rise to
various erroneous interpretations. His Imperial
Majesty, by the advice ot his medical men, has
discontinued the treatment he was undergoing
at Vichy. The health of the Emperor is much
better since his return to St. Cloud.”
Whereas it was last night asserted at St. Cloud
that Napoleon III was too unwell to see any one.
The success of Prussia, and the annexations it is
meditating have attracted the attention of Rus
sia. The Court of St. Petersburg is not at all
pleased with the encroachments of Prussia in
the Baltic, where it has been accustomed to
reign supreme. The Baltic lias ever been a Rus
sian lake, notwithstanding it washes the shores
of Denmark and Sweden, countries which are
too weak to be dangerous to the Muscovites; the
case will be otherwise should Prussia be very
much aggrandized on the ruins of the ancient
confederation; it will then become a maritime as
well as military power of the first order.
Riel will be turned into a Northern Gibraltar
and the Russian lake will be no longer Russian
but a Prussian power; it is tlieretore very nat
ural that the new order of things in Germany
should be anything but pleasant to the Russian
bear.
The Emperor Alexander has already expressed
his repugnance at seeing a new German Empire
formed by the spoliation of several of the minor
sovereigns en attendant ; every precaution is beiBg
taken to protect the Russian frontier.
England, before the war, knew no terms
hard enough to condemn the policy of Bismarck;
now there is nothing but applause for the bold
premier who will be a constant check on the am
bition of France. But let us return to our own
home affairs.
The French press still continues to be worried
and liarrassed by the present government An
other paper, the Courrieur de Demanche, which
has ever shown itself friendly to the House ot
Orleans, has just been doomed to die for having
written an article which is considered insulting
to the present dynasty. The article which was
the cause of the martyrdom of the Courrieur de
Demanche, was as follows: “France may be
likened to a Court lady, beautiful in the extreme
and much beloved by the gallant, who leaves
the dwelling of splendor and refinement, to go
and live with a groom who beats her, and ill-
treats her in every way; the lady, however, gets
accustomed to it, and nothing can make her leave
her paramour.”
Our government has already complained
to the Cabinet of Brussels of the pamphlets
which appear from time to time in the Belgian
capital, containing attacks against the reigning
dynasty of France. The consequence is that
two French authors living in Belgium have been
condemned to 10 months' imprisonment.
Though the Emperor has returned to Paris
the grande raonde is now either at Baden-Baderi
Ems, the Pyrenees, or Aix-les-Bains in Savoy,
and would think itself dishonored if seen in
Paris at the present most unfashionable time of
the t ear. The toilettes of the ladies at the sea
side and watering places are now more than gro
tesque. Every lady, it appears, adopts the -style
of dress most suited to her fancy ; so much so
that the sands at Deippe and Arcachon give one
the idea of a bed masque, minus the masks. Short
petticoat, high boots, small hat eocked on the
top of the head, plenty of rouge and poicdre de
riz, and a long walking stick, is the costume of
the present century.
There is little going on in Paris to amuse those
who are obliged to remain within its walls. The
breech loaning needle gun and its perfections is
still the theme ot conversation. A new rifle
by Monsieur Jarre has been added to the list of
murdering instruments. It fires a hundred shots
in a minute. Fortunately, a still more clever
person has invented an invulnerable coat which
is to set all these new inventions at naught.
The Duke de Grammont Caderousse trial has
at last come to an end, and the doctor to whom
he left all his money will have to refund to the
family, as the French law explicitly prohibits the
medical man. and tbe spiritual adviser to inherit
a sum of money from either a patient or a peni
tent. It will be remembered that it was the
Duke de Grammont Caderousse who killed the
English sporting writer Dillon, (the son of so-
called Bishop Dillon) in a duel some three years
back.
scraps.
The Volcanic phenomenons which have taken
place for some months past at SautQrin, (Greek
archipelago) augment daily. The two islands of
Rea-Kaimeni and Palco-Kaimeni seem destined
to be united before long, owing to the eri.ption
of the submarine volcano; this transformation
would be of great benefit to the harbor of Sau-
torin, as it would then be effectually protected
against Northerly winds.
The Messager cf Odessa, informs us that the
work of raising the vessels which were sunk in
the harbor of Sebastopol is being actively carried
on under the superintendence of of M. Teliatin
kou.
The steamers and other small vessels have
been long since raised from the water, as well as
a portion of the war vessels which were sunk.
The workmen are at present employed in do
ing the same with the remaining portions of the
ships which had been sunk from two to four
sageues in the mud. The keel of the 120 guns
ship Douze Opotres has been lately raised, and
the workmen state that it has required three
years to clear the mud from it. Two diving bells
are employed in order to carry on the opera
tions.
The Russian Government has given proprie
torship of all the vessels raised to M. Taliatinkou,
and he is bound by contract to finish clearing
the harbor in the space of five years, of which
two have already expired.
It is stated by the Epoque, that a new engine
of war is being tried by the officers of artillery,
at Mendon. It consists of a sort of cannon,
which can destroy an entire battalion at one
fell swoop. It is asserted that it covers a space
of a hundred square metres, with bullets in a
few seconds. This terrible engine has been nam
ed a Fancheuse (mowing machine.)
A curious accident, states the Memorial de
LiUe, has lately occured at Dunkirk. The axle-tree
ot a wagon loaded with ice, destined for the ice
house of Paris, was broken, in consequence of
the refrigerating influence of the blocks of ice.
The steamboat le Pereire, belonging to the
campagne generate transatlantique, has lately ar
rived at Brest from New York, having made the
passage in the extraordinary space of eight days
and twenty-two hours, thus steaming on an aver
age of 14 knots an hour.
The only vessel that can compete with the
Pereire in speed, is the Scotia, belonging to the
Cunard Company, which once in July, 1863,
made the voyage from New York to Liverpool
in eight days and twenty-three hours.
The Standard, in its Calleten scientifiqae,informs
us that the workmen employed in leveling the
ground at Escadero,have lately discovered,at some
depth of the soil, a bed of marly clay, contain
ing vegetable remains, and bones of animals,
the greater portion of which closely resemble
the race of animals and plants of Central Ame
rica.
It may be concluded from this discovery, that
the temperature of Paris at some distant period
was analogous to that of the Isthmus of Pana
ma.
extraordinary feat of swimming.
A gentleman a fjw days ago swam across the
lake of Geneva, from Belotte to Bellevue. The
time taken was two hours and a half, daring the
whole of which timq, the courageous swimmer
did not rest himself for a moment even by
swimming on his back. * * *
“Old Fayette.”
Dear Intelligencer—I believe you allow your
friends to ask as many questions as they please,
but reserve to yourself the right to answer or
not, as you think best. With such an under
standing, will you allow me to ask you why it 1s
that Fayette and some adjoining counties have
been occupying so unenviable a position in the
minds of many of the Georgia people ? It is to
me quite a mystery. I was not aware that such
an opinion existed until the beginning of this
year, when a circumstance occurred that opened
my eyes to the fact. The circumstance referred
to was this: As the pastor of the Baptist Church
of Fayetteville was returning home, he was ac
costed on the way by quite an intelligent old
gentleman, when the following dialogue took
place :
Farmer—“Stranger, which way have you been
traveling ? You seem to be pretty well fitted up
tor traveling.”
Minister—“I have only been to Fayetteville,
sir.”
F.—“What have you been there for ?”
M.—“To preach to the people of Fayetteville,
sir.”
F.—“Do you expect a man of your looks to do
any good by preaching at such a place as Fay
etteville ?”
M.—“I hope so, sir; I must try.”
F.—“Well, you had as well give it up. The
people there are too wicked; no use preaching
to any such folks; no hope for them at all.”
M.—“Well now, my old friend, if you will
meet me there on the first Sabbath in next month,
I think you will admit the fact that you have
come to a false conclusion with regard to the cit
izens of Fayetteville.”
F.—“I can’t promise to meet you there; I never
go to church there; all I know about the place
is from hearsay."
Mr. Editor, this honest old farmer clearly de
monstrates the cases of hundreds of those evil
surmisers, who are ready to catch at every idle
rumor which they hear. Such men are disposed
to blame a whole community, for an isolated act
pacifies; the physicians of Fayetteville are equal
to any in Georgia; for the legal profession of that
place, I will only say they are an honor to any
county or circuit. Are any disposed to ask, “Gan
any good come out of Fayette?” Let facts
speak for themselves!
Where did the pride of Spalding county come
from ? From Fayette. And again, where does
that man hail from who is ever foremost in
works of Christianity and benevolence, and all
that tends to advance the cause of God and good
men ? Dees his country need his services ? He
is ready to do his duty. Perhaps you ask his
name and where is he from ? His name is writ
ten upon all the public institutions of Fayette
county, and is engraven upon the hearts of all
who know him; and yet he was raised in Fay
ette county.
The two most eminent surgeons of Atlanta,
are from Fayette county. The great jurist of
Alabama also went from Fayette. And, where
will you find a more successful tteicher, in any
respect, than George C. Looney ? He is not sur
passed by any in the State. His younger broth
er, Mr. M. Y. Looney is “one more of the same
sort,” which is quite a compliment to a man so
young. Mr. Barney Strickland is also quite an
accomplished scholar, and is worthy to be asso
ciated with the Looneys. Let the citizens of
Fayette and adjoining counties discharge their
duty to the institution they preside over, and a
a more intelligent section will not be found in
any country.
I spent twenty days—and nearly as many nights
—there recently, and during that time I heard
but one profane utterance. There are two
churches in the town, both in good condition.—
A protracted meeting of twenty days has recent
ly closed, during whichtime, the Lord poured
out His spirit in a most ^copious manner. His
children were made to rejoice; sinners were
converted; mourners were comforted, and back
sliders reclaimed.
During the meeting forty were added to the
Methodist Church, and eighty-two to the Baptist
Church.
With me the people of “ Old Fayette ” heads
the list, What say you ? Justice.
We respond to the query of “Justice” in
the foregoing, and say that “ Old Fayette ” and
her people have always had our highest respect
That she and her present, hardy, industrions and
intelligent population have been maligned, may
be true, but only by those who know them not.
Ed. Int.
Prod;
Mon.
BT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA.
Gea. Martin Luther Smith.
We announced but a brief while ago, the sud
den death in Rome, Ga., of the above distinguish
ed gentleman. We wellremember to have often
looked in silent admiration upon the soldier-like
form of General Smith during that fearful cam
paign beginning at the “ Wilderness ” and ending
at Appomattox Court House. Especially during
the bloody struggle at Spottsylvania Court House
did his watchful eye scan that hastily thrown up
line of entrenchments, against which the enemy,
like the great billows of tbe ocean, surged in
vain. Calmly, silently, he was seen riding to and
fro amidst the shower of shot and shell, as if in
admiration of the heroic manner in which Lee’s
gallant veterans were defending the lines his
mathematical eye had drawn for them. Since
that day other forms than his have passed to the
great beyond. General Smith has gone to join
his comrades. An exchange thus speaks of him:
In the old army of the Potomac a silent-look
ing gentleman, but one whose restless eye seemed
to notice every shrub and bush, wearing the star
ot a general, accompained by a full staff, could
be seen riding along the lines. His presence
seemed to create an awe as he rode along and
the most noisy even hushed. Also the staff that
rode behind him were perfectly quiet. They in
dulged in no conversation, and no smile wreath
ed their lips. Like shadows they rode after a
spectre.
The soldiers would say, “Who is that ?” “Why,
that’s General Smith.” “Who’sGeneral Smith?”
would be the next inquiiy. “I don’t know;” we
have repeatedly heard these remarks, as this
great scientific man passed the lines, and never
without the thought of “What Is fame?”
General Martin Luther Smith was a graduate
of West Point, and served through the Mexican
war with distinction. He had the reputation of
being one of the best officers in his line in the
service. He entered the Confederate service,
and from that time until the close of the war,
labored industriously in his duties as general and
chief of engineers. It was he who selected the
sites for the defenses thrown up from the Wilder
ness to Petersburg; it was he who selected the
line for our heroes to dress upon, and night and
day, with industry, genius and perseverance, this
great man labored under his distinguished chief
tain, Robt. E. Lee, for the cause he loved so
well.
He died in Rome, Ga. only a few days ago,
and he goes to the grave almost nnchronicled.—
His body was carried to Athens, Ga., for inter
ment. At the time of his death he was chief
engineer of that system of railroads which is to
connect Selma, Ala., and Dalton, Ga., of which
Gen. Johnston is president, and which is now in
process of construction.
of one man. That there are men in the vicinity j
of Fayetteville not as orderly as they might be, j nitude of the issues involved, would be guilty of
From the Columbus Daily Enquirer.
Good Effects Already.
It is truly cheering to note that the sharp defi
nition of the true issues involved in tbe politics
of the day, made by the action of the Philadel
phia Convention, is already having a good effect.
We have seen that leading radical papers attempt
to shove those issues, aside, by suggesting that
Congress, when it meets again in December, will
admit tbe representatives ot the Southern States
without further preliminaries. They make this
suggestion, not because there is any assurance
whatever that this will be done, cr indeed that
there is the least cause to believe it, but simply
because they see that they cannot stand before
the people on the plain question of the represen
tation or exclusion of the Southern States. The
dodge is nevertheless an auspicious one, because
it shows the weakness of their position and the
strength of that assumed by the convention.
We have also cited one radical paper at the
North that unequivocally applauds the action of
the convention and endorses its “Declaration of
Principles.” That others will be forced to this
course, we have not a doubt. We expect shortly
to hear that many presses and politicians of the
radical school have received new lights from the
action of the convention and its approval by
President Johnson, and are seeking a refuge
from the popular wrath to come. It is stated
that the chairman of the Illinois Union (radical)
Executive Committee has pursued this course.
Here in Georgia, the supporters of the Presi
dent’s policy are daily receiving reinforcements
and help from so-called exclusive Union men,
whose countenances have not heretofore cheered
them. Whence the convention of “Southern
Unionists” (radicals), shortly to meet at Philadel
phia, is to draw its Georgia delegates, is a puzzle
to us now. We do not believe that their popular
meetings in this State to appoint delegates would
average a President and a Secretary to each
county. The Savannah Republican, heretofore
a supporter of the measures of Congress, and re
garded as a radical sheet of the most decided
kind, declares that it “stands on and approves
every plank” of the convention platform, and
says that it “wants company”—such company as
that of papers that have ail the time supported
the convention movement. We are glad that it
has at last gotten into such good company.
The importance to the people of the Southern
States of the issues involved in the political con
test now going on in the North, can hardly be
overestimated. The lines are now distinctly
drawn, and the party vanquished will be power-
less in the national councils for years. “P. W.
A.”, a delegate to the convention from Georgia,
and well known as a man of sound judgment
and close observation, writes to the Macon Tele
graph from Philadelphia : “I may add that the
conservatives of the North are in dead earnest
at last They see the danger, and appreciate its
magnitude. They frankly admit that if they do
not succeed in tlie Fall elections, the country
will be lost—that the President will be impeach
ed—that negro suffrage will be forced upon the
South—that neither person nor property in the
excluded States will be sate, and that the spirit,
if not the form of the Government, will be com
pletely changed. It was for this reason that
Southern delegates were anxious that the action
of the convention should be such as the exigen
cies of the situation seemed to call for, and it is
for the same reason that they hope that the re
sults arrived at will be received with favor by
the people of the South.”
The people of the South, in view of the mag
no one will deny. But can yon name a single
town against which the same allegation cannot
be made ? I know of none such. From personal
trifling with the great occasion, should they per
mit themselves to be soured by the expression of
some objectionable opinions and the use of some
distasteful terms, when all the practical results
observation, I feel safe in saying, that in point of aimed at are for their advantage, and when the
morals, intelligence and respectability, Fayette
ville will compare favorably with any town in
Middle Georgia. Some of her mechanics are the
most efficient judicial officers in the country;
her merchants are all men of fine business ca-
main principle contended for is the preservation
of the forms of government most dear to us.
Ccthbert Bcllett, United States Marshal
of Louisiana, has been charged with complicity
in the cotton frauds in that State.
Whereas, by proclamations of the fifteenth and
nineteenth of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-
one, the President of the United States, in virtue
of the power vested in him by the Constitution
and the laws, declared that the laws of the Uni
ted States were opposed and the execution
thereof obstructed in tbe States of South Caro
lina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi
Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too pow
erful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of
judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in
tbe marshals by law;
And whereas, by another proclamation, made
on the sixteenth day of August, in the same year,
in parsnance of an act ot Congress approved
July thirteen, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one, the inhabitants of the States of Geor
gia. South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkan
sas, Mississippi, and Florida, (except the inhabi
tants of that part of the State ot Virginia lying
west of the Alleghany Mountains, and except al
so the inhabitants ot such other parts of that
State, and the other States before named, as
might maintain a loyal adhesion to the Union
and the Constitution, or might be, from time to
time, occupied and controlled by forces of the
United States engaged in the dispersion of insur
gents,) were declared to be in a state of insur
rection against the United States;
And whereas, by another proclamation of the
first day of July, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-two, issued in pursuance of an act of
Congress approved June seventh, in the same
year, the insurrection was declared to be still ex
isting in the States aforesaid, with the exception
of certain specified counties in the State of Vir
ginia;
And whereas, by another proclamation, made
on the second day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three, in pursuance of the act
of Congress of July thirteen, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one, the exceptions named in
the proclamation of August sixteen, one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-one, were revoked
and the inhabitants of the States of Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi,
Florida, and Virginia (except the forty eight
counties of Virginia designated as West Virginia
and the ports of New Orleans, Key West, Fort
Royal, and Beaufort, in South Carolina) were
declared to be still in a state of insurrection
against the United State;
And whereas, by another proclamation of the
fifteenth day of September, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three, made in pursuance of
the act of Congress approved March third, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, the re
bellion was declared to be still existing, and the
writ of habeas corpus was in certain specified
cases suspended throughout the United States—
said suspension to continue throughout the dura
tion of the rebellion, or until said proclamation
should, by a subsequent one to be issued by the
President of the United States, be modified or
revoked;
And whereas, the House of Representatives,
on the twenty-second day of July, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one, adopted a resolu
tion in the words following, namely:
“ Resolved by the House of Representatives of the
United States, That the present deplorable civil
war has been forced upon the country by the
disunionists of the Southern States, now in revolt
against her constitutional Government, and in
arms around the Capital; that in this national
emergency, Congress, banishing all feeling of
mere passion or resentment, will recollect only
its duty to the whole country; that this war is
not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppres
sion, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjuga
tion, nor for the purpose of overthrowing or in
terfering with the rights or established institu
tions ot those States, but to defend and maintain
the supremacy of the Constitution, and to pre
serve the Union with all the dignity, equality,
and rights of the several States unimpaired, and
that as soon as these objects are accomplished,
the war ought to cease.”
And whereas, the Senate of the United States,
on the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one, adopted a resolu
tion in the Words following, to-wit:
“Resolved, That the present deplorable war has
been forced upon the country by the disunion
ists of the Southern States, now in revolt against
the constitutional government, and in arms
around the capital; that in this national emer
gency, Congress, banishing all feeling of mere
passion or resentment, recollects only its duty to
the whole country; that this war is not prosecu
ted upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor
for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor
purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the
rights or established institutions of those States,
but to maintain and defend the supremacy of the
Constitution, and all laws made in pursuance
thereof, and to preserve the Union -with all the
dignity, equality, and rights of the several States
unimpaired; that as soon as these objects are ac
complished the war ought to cease.”
And whereas, These resolutions, though not
joint or concurrent in form, are substantially
identical, and as such have hitherto been and are
yet regarded as having expressed the sense of
Congress upon the subject to which they relate;
And whereas, The President of the United
States, by proclamation of the 13th of June, 1865,
declared that the icsursection in the State of Ten
nessee had been suppressed, and that the author
ity of the United States therein was undisputed,
and that such United States officers as had been
duly commissioned were in the undisturbed ex
ercise of their official functions;
And whereas, The President ot the United
States by farther proclamation issued on the
2d day of April, 1866, did promulgate and de
clare that there no longer existed any armed re
sistance of misguided citizens or others to the
authority of the United States in any or in all
the States before mentioned, excepting the State
of Texas, and did further promulgate and de
clare that the laws could be sustained and en
forced in the several States before mentioned,
except Texas, by the proper civil authorities,
State or Federal, and that the people of the said
States, except Texas, are well and loyally dis
posed, and have conformed or will conform in
their legislation to the condition of affairs grow
ing out of the amendment to the Constitution of
the United States prohibiting slavery within the
limits and jurisdiction of the United States;
And did farther declare in the same proclama
tion that it is the manifest determination of the
American people that no State, of its own will,
has a right or power to go out of, or "separate
itself from, or be separated from the American
Union; and that, therefore, each State ought to
remain and constitute an integral part of the
United States;
And did further declare in the same last men
tioned proclamation, that the several afore-men
tioned States, excepting Texas, had, in the man
ner aforesaid, given satisfactory evidence that
they acquiesce in this sovereign and important
resolution of National unity ;
And whereas the President of the United
States, in the same proclamation, did further de
clare that it is believed to be a fundamental prin
ciple of government that that the people who
have revolted, and who have been overcome and
subdued, must either he dealt with so as to in
duce them voluntarily to become friends, or else
they must be held by absolute military power, or
devastated, so as to prevent them from ever
again doing bar n as enemies, which last named
policy is abhorrentfto'humanity and to freedom ;
And whereas the President did, in the same
proclation, further declare that the Constitution
of the United States provides for constituent
communities only as States, and not as Territa
ries, dependencies, provinces, or protectorates;
And further, that such constituent States must
necessarily be, and by the Constitution and laws
ot the United States are made equals, and placed
upon a like footing as to political rights, immu
nities, dignity, and power with the several States
with which they are united;
And did turther declare that the observance of
political equality as a principle of right and jus
tice is well calculated to encourage the people of
the before-named States, except Texas, to be and
to become more and more constant and perse
vering in their renewed allegiance;
And whereas he President did further declare,
hat standing armies, military occupation, mar
tial law, military tribunals, and the suspension
of the writ of habeas corpus are, in time of peace,
dangerous to public liberty, incompatible with
the individual rights of the citizen, contrary to
the genius and spirit of our free institutions, and
exhaustive of the national resources, and ought
not, therefore, to be sanctioned or allowed ex
cept in cases of actual necessity, for repelling in
vasion or suppressing insurrection or rebellion;
And the President did further, in the same
proclamation, declare that the policy of the
Government of the United States, from the be
ginning of the insurrection to its overthrow and
filial suppression, had been conducted in con
formity with the principles in the last named
proclamation recited;
And whereas the President, in the said procla
mation of the thirtieth of June, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-six, upon the ground
therein stated and hereinbefore recited, did then
and thereby proclaim and declare that the insur
rection which heretofore existed in the several
States before named, except in Texas, was at an
end, and was henceforth to be so regarded;
And whereas, subsequently to the said second
day of April, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-six, the insurrection in the State of Texas
has been completely and everywhere suppressed
and ended, and the authority of the United States
has been successfully and completely established
in the said State of Texas, and now remains there
in unrestricted and undisputed, and snch of the
proper United States officers as have been duly
commissionedwithin the limits of thejsaid State
I are now in the undisturbed exercise of their of
ficial functions;
And whereas, the laws can now be sustained
and entorced in the said State of Texas by the
proper civil authority, State or Federal, and the
people of the said State of Texas, like the people
of other States before named, are well and loyal
ly disposed, and have conformed or will conform
in their legislation to the condition of affairs
growing out of the amendment ot the Constitu
tion of the United States prohibiting slavery
within the limits and jurisdiction ot the United
States;
And whereas, all the reasons and conclusions
set forth in regard to the several States therein
specially named now apply equally and in_all re
spects to the State of Texas, as well as to the
other States which had been involved in insur
rection;
And whereas, adequate provision has been
made by military orders to enforce the execution
of the acts of Congress and the civil antliorities,
and secure obedience to the Constitution and
laws of the United States within the State of
Texas, if a resort to military force for such pur
pose should at any time become necessary ;
Now, therefore, I, Andrew Johnson, President
of the United States, do hereby proclaim and de
clare that the insurrection which heretofore ex
isted in the State of Texas is at an end, and is to
be henceforth so regarded in that State, as m the
other States before named, in which the said in
surrection was proclaimed to be at end by the
aforesaid proclamation of the second day of
April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six;
And I do further proclaim that the said insur
rection is at an end, and that peace, order, tran
quility, and civil authority now exist^ in and
throughout the whole of the United States of
America.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand, and caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed,
Done at the city of Washington, this twentieth
day of August, in the year of our Lord one
[l. s.] thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and
of the independence of the United States
of America the ninety-first.
Andrew Johnson.
By the President:
Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State.
From the Louisville Courier.
Au Attack of Cholera, anil How It was
Mastered.
I have had the Cholera—(writes our old friend,
Victor)—not quite so far as collapse and blue
spasms—I killed it before it run that far. But
it was the real Asiatic. I have had the tjger
hold of me twice before in my life, and I knew
the incipient symptoms in a wink. I aai only
just so far out of the depth that my pen wab
bles wilfully, but while impressions are fresh
and vivid, I fancy is the most proper time to
tell the people how I killed cholera and cured
myself—or how Madge and I did, for at the
worst I was on my “beam ends,” incapable of
much action.
Imperative business brought us to town about
the time the mercury got up to the top of the
tube, and the same necessity held us here through
the “heated term.” We occupied our own
quarters, lived as we pleased, and certainly
moderately and carefully. There was nothing in
our diet to induce cholera or any other ugly
visitor. All through the melting period, we
had kept shady through the daytime, and at
night lying about in the parlor, promiscuously,
each of us iu several places—suffering but slight
ly either night or day, until that night of the
19th of July, when the quicksilver ran down
between noon and midnight from among the
lower hundreds to chills and double blankets.
Our windows were up, shutters wide open
and I awake at midnight with teeth chattering
like castanets, and such sensations as I had had
serious experience in twice, and after ten min
utes’ study I made my diagonsis, and said to
Madge: “Cholera, as sure as you are a woman 1”
We had ice in the water-cooler, rice in the
closet, and sage in the lierb-box. So in about
twenty minutes I was flat on my back on the
sofa, munching ice, and swallowing as much as
I could. Madge was parching rice in the oven,
and steeping sage tea on the top of our hydro
carbon fire-king that burns water, and will heat
up very hot in five minutes.
By the time I had got down half a pint of
sage tea, hot, very strong, and forty drops of
laudanum in it, all the pre’iminary symptoms,
symtoms of the blue Asiatic tiger were devel
oped. I knew them unmistakably—copious
rice-water like discharges, without pain, diz
ziness, a blur before the eyes, collapse of the
abdomen, languor and considerable lassitude of
the muscles. The sensation produced by the
early stage of Asiatic cholera may be summed
up in a few words. You feel as if you were
Tbe Blowing Cave of Georgia.
„ Gainesville, Ala., Aug. 2, 1866.
pig of lead, just on the point of melting, and Editor MohUe Daily Tirne , ,
1vaa tntd 11 \r inrh ttoronr Trhor oliona ttah urn a 1a I *r
From the Dubnqne (Iowa) Times.
Eniff'U and Chloroform-All Affair in*
Dubuque Boarding-Mouse.
We had room and time to refer only very
britfly to the burglarious* entrance of u 1(;
‘ Ga ; nes House” yesterday morning. This house,
occui ied as a boarding house, formerly by Mrs.’
Town; en 1. for a week past by Mrs. Kent, is sit
uated on Bluff street, between Fourth and Fifth
In the rear of the building is an addition, a bed
room containing two beds, in each of which
slept two young ladies. This room has two
doors, one connecting with the hall of the main
building, one leading out into the yard in t ] u .
rear. About half past two in the morning, on,,
of these ladies was awakened by feeling that
some one had hold ot her feet ami limbs.
Though conscious of this, she tilt stupefied and
benumbed, and for a while could not move or
speak. In the dim light pervading the room sin-
saw a person—a tall man, heavily built, with
black hhir and whiskers, lie felt along np her
side and arms to her face, feeling over her cheeks
and chin to discover whether there was any
whiskers upon the face. The lady, by the way,
one possessed ot much common sense, self-pos
session and “ nerve,” was now beginning to re
cover control of her muscles, :uul partly rose up
in bed, and attempted to make an outcry.
Upon this the man ceased his manipulations,
took a large bottle in one hand and a cloth iu the
other, shook the bottle, poured some of the con
tents upon the cloth, and attempted to apply it to
the lady’s nostrils; but she struck it away from
her, and continued her outcries, pinching and
striking her sleeping companion, but without
being able to awake her for some time, although
she declares she heard all that was going on, long
before she was able to speak or move. Mean
while the burglar laid down his bottle and brought
a revolver into view, pressing its muzzle hard up
on the temples of the first lady mentioned. While
in this position the second one mentioned, who
slept behind the tormerjrecovered her conscious
ness and the control of her muscles, and sprang
from the bed. The burglar started towards the
outside door, while the other started for the door
leading to the main part of the house, and called
for help' The house was soon roused, but it was
not till a lamp was lit and several of the house
hold were advancing along the hall that the burg
lar left.
Early in the affair, after feeling along the first
young lady’s feet and limbs, the burglar stopped,
leaned over to tbe back of the bed to see it the
lady there was sound asleep, went to the other
bed and watched to see if they were, then slipped
the catch on the outside door,J(having entered by
the window which had been left open for venti
lation) partially opened the door so the light
would shine in, then went around the room ex
amining closely, and feeling of the dresses hang
ing upon the wall, &c., then he came back and
finished his explorations along the sides, arms
and head of the first young lady, till she regained
the use of her limbs ami lungs, as before men
tioned.
The young ladies in the other bed, when first
coming to consciousness, saw the man and his
operations, but were unable to speak or move for
some time afterwards. When all four had recov
ered, the ontcry was appalling, rousing the lodg
ers from the fourth story. The young lady who-
first recovered her consciousness, could not avoid!
inhaling some of the chloroform administered
after she began to recover her consciousness and
ability to move; and recognized it instantly as.
chloroform, bringing the bedquilt between her
mouth aud nose and the man’s hand. The room,
was intolerable from the stench of chloroform,
when the other lodgers came in.
Outside the window was certainly one, and
probably more confederates, who were heard
speaking in subdued tones to him or to each
other.
The intruder, in his retreat, left the outside
door open. He halted for a moment at the en
trance, evidently with an artist’s ey T e for a strik
ing scence. One young lady in the hall, one on the
way there, two just recovering from the effects
of chloroform sufficiently to raise from their
beds and to raise a yell, any number of lenmles
gathering from all parts of the house; the gen
tlemen boarders not far behind; none in what
Prof. Mahler would call “full dress,” and all in
dulging in one majestic, though discordant cho
rus of screams and shrieks, was a scene winch
does not occur in a boarding-house every morn
ing at three o’clock.
Of course, it will be understood from what
has been already written, that the chloroform
had been already administered to all around!
once, and the first young lady who awoke was,
just recovering from its effect, when the thief
began tampering with her toes.
was totally indifferent what shape you was to
ran into next.
In about an hour there w r as nausea, retching,
and slight vomiting. A tablespoonful of salt
and mustard, mixed in warm water, brought up
an immense amount of cholera, and then ten
drops of camphor spirits, on a cut lemon, and
dessert spoonful of the juice sucked'down the
throat, quieted the stomach beaitifully.
By this time Madge had got a pint of rice
parched as brown as roasted coffee, ground
in the coffee mill, and boiled it in a quart of
milk. Then keeping me perfectly quiet, flat on
my back, she fed rice and milk, half a dozen
spoonfuls at a time, alternating with chips of
ice. It was a pretty stubborn case. About sun
rise there were symptoms of a collapse; hands
and feet got cold, and I careless. Not a doit
did I care about the Constitution, crops, or Con
gress. But the little woman fought the fight
bravely. Rice and milk, ice, flannel wrapping,
and hot irons to the feet, were the weapons, and
with them the victory was won. By noon the
discharges had ceased, circulation was restored
and the cholera killed. But one don’t get quite
clear of the effects of such an attack very
speedily. This is the fourth day of my con
valescence, and I still fee 1 as if I had passed
through a corn-sheller, and been squeezed out
in a clothes-wringer.
I am not going to say positively that such
course of treatment will cure every case of
cholera; but it has brought me out‘safe twice,
and in very many other cases I have seen the
practice successful.
I have seen the cholera, and people dead and
dying of it in a good many quarters of tlie world,
and my own opinion is that no precautions of
sanitary measures will always fence out the pest
Precaution and preventives should never be
neglected; but alter all to be prepared with
proper remedies, and then to. begin to fight the
enemy resolutely and presistently at the very
beginning of his onslaught, is the only safety.
Victor.
From the Griffln Southern Herald.
Public Meeting.
At a meeting in Zebulon of a large and i _
spectable number of the citizens of Pike county,
on Tuesday, the 14th instant, on motion, P. H.
McDowell, Esq., was called to the chair, aud W.
C. Beckham was requested to act as Secretary.
On motion, a committee of five were appointed
bv the chair, to report matter for the considera
tion of the meeting, who after due deliberation
reported the following preamble and resolutions
Whereas, The Government of the United
States have emancipated the negroes, the former
property ot the Southern States; and whereas,
the State of Georgia has ratified said emancipa
tion by the action of her people in solemn con
vention ; and whereas, said convention did re
pudiate the State and Confederate debt, without
extending any relief to the masses of the people,
thereby leaving the good citizens of the State
without an}- means of paying debts formerly
contracted; and whereas, the almost entire failure
of a crop of grain as well as cotton in the greater
portion of the State the present year, will make
it impossible for the people to pay any portion of
their indebtedness; and whereas, there is a
manifest disposition on the part of the capitalists
and moqey dealers to press their claims to the
great sacrifice ot what little property is left the
citizens of this State; and whereas, the relief
contemplated by the General Assembly in the
passage of the act known as the Stay law, re
quiring one-fourth of the indebtedness to be paid
annually for four years until all the debt be paid,
in view of the great depreciation in the value of
property, the whole of the real estate now owned
by the citizens of this State would be consumed
in the payment of the one-fourth of said former
indebtedness, thereby failing to render the relief
intended by the passage of said act to the people
of the State ; therefore—
Resolved 1st. That the citizens of Pike county
feel it to be a duty we owe to humanity as well
as society, to call upon our Senators and Repre
sentatives of the General Assembl3', when con
vened, to pass a law relieving the people of their
present embarrassments, either by' stay law, ex
emption or repudiation, by calling together a
convention or otherwise.
2d. That we most earnestly request that the
people in the various counties of the State favor
able to this cause, to call the citizens together
and unite with ns in this great and important
movement.
3d. That the public gazettes in the city of
Griffln, and others throughout the State, be re
quested to publish these proceedings.
Upon the motion to adopt the report of tlie
committee, Col. W. D. Alexander moved to
strike out so much of tho 1st resolution as had
reference to repudiation, which motion was lost.
The preamble and resolutions were then
adopted nearly unanimously.
P. A. McDowell, Chairman.
W. C. Beckham, Secretary.
The awards to tlie captors of Mr. Lincoln’s
assasins are now ready for delivery. The total
amounts to $105,000.
Among many other interesting items contain
ed in your last issue, I noticed a paragraph in re
gard to one of Georgia’s greatest natural curio
sities. I allude to the “Blowing Cave,” as it is
called b3 r the inhabitants of the section in which
it is located.
Thinking that a few particulars in regard to
this truly strange phenomenon might prove in
teresting, and lead to further inquiry, I dot them,
down.
Blowing Cave is situated on the plantation of
Col. David Barrow, in Decatur county, Georgia
twenty-seven miles from Thomasville, the lev-
minus of the Savannah and Gulf Railroad. The
cave is at the bottom o<’ a small natural basin,
(whose diameter will rot at any point exceed
thirty feet) in a perfectly smooth plain, and sur
rounded with a dense copse of wood. There
are no indications to lead to the supposition that
it was occasioned by any eruption of a volcanic,
convulsive nature, as the face of the surrounding
country, as well as the immediate neighborhood
of the cave itself is wholly free of stones, rug
gedness and other marks of convulsive action.
When first discovered and brought into notice
by Colonels Barrow and McKinsley, in tho year
1836 or ’37, the orifice of the cave was three or
four feet to the left of the present one. and much
larger. Colonel McKinsley proposed exploring
it, but in attempting to sound it w'th lead and
line, and failing to touch bottom, gave up ilie un
dertaking as too hazardous for further venture.
The present mouth of the cave is about one
and a half feet in diameter, through which at one
period of the day there issues a strong current
of air, not in puffs, but a continuous stream,
with a roar that is heard at a distance of si.\t3'
or seventy yards.
In the winter of 1864, in company with sev
eral ladies, I visited the cave at the time of his
“blowing out;” and by way of experiment, one
of the ladies threw her veil into the mouth of it,
which was blown into the air to the height of
six or seven feet. I then threw my hat—a heavy
woolen one—into it with a like result. Several
articles, heavier than either of the above were,
tried, but were immediately expelled.
At another period of the day the suctiOD is re
latively as great. Any light article held near the
orifice is instantly drawn into the cave.
. ® r - Cotton, the State geologist, a gentleman of
high scientific ability, visited it at the solicitation
of Cols. McKinsley'and Barrow, and gave it as
his opinion that these reversed phenomena were
caused by the ebb and flow of the tide, and that
the cave was originally one of the fathomless
lime sinks so numerous in that part of Georgia.
I believe the doctor’s theory correct.
Leading from all points into the basin are In
dian trails, deep worn, indicating much visiting
to the cave by the red men ere the axe of the
white man woke up the echoes of the forest, and
it was probably regarded by them as a place of
sanctity where they held commune with the.
spirits in the great hunting-ground above
t J. J. McK.
More About Beau regard.
This gallant gentleman creates quite a sensa
tion in France, as will be seen from the following
extract from a Paris letter, of the 12th instant”
“General Beauregard has returned lo Paris •
but, in a few days, he goes to Vicheyjor the ben
efit of the waters. While here, the illustrious
Confederate has been the object of a sympathiz
ing and very flattering curiosity. There are few-
eminent, especially among those belonging to the
army, or connected with the government, who
have not sought the honor of seeing and enter
taining him. The Emperor has invited him
to visit the camp of Chalons, and General
Fave, Governor of the Polytechnic school, has
kindly volunteered to guide him through the
various military establishments of the capital.—
General Beauregard is astonished by all that he
sees here. At Versailles, the battle-pictures by
the great French masters, made a profound’im
pression on him. Before some of them he re
mained more than half an hour in contempla
tion. The things which most interested him
however were the artillery museum and the cu
rious collection at the Hotel des Invalided of
P in relief, of the fortified places of the
orld. The General has likewise received from
Government which I am not permitted to
name, an extremely brilliant offer, which, how
ever, he declined. He was offered the chief com-
an arm y of 80,000 men, a salary of
100,000 francs per annum, and a donation of
lands worth a million of dollars, with the “ grand
naturalization” of himself and his family. The
General declined, say-ing that his sword Ix-fonged
to his country, and he w-ould never draw it ex
cept for her. There is one question which is
asked him almost every moment—“ in case there
hould be war between a European power and
the United States, would tlie South revolt ?”
The General always replies that he thinks not,
and this answer invariably seems to cause as
tonishment —why, indeed, I cannot say.”
:
An extensive fire occured among the oil boats
and yards at Jersey City, New Jersey, yesterday.
The loss is not given.