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UlrcklD Jntflltflenrer.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, September 5. 1866.
Tni: following, ns it professes, is from the
l„-n of a Union man before the %var; a Union
niau during the war; and a Union man now.
P,,- writer oT it is well known !h thTs 'commu
nity, having resided here previous to, and during
i Ik* war, and was ever regarded a Southern Union
111:111 with the most decided anti-secession procli-
■L-itiwc which he took no pains to -eoncaai, ami,
uhicli rendered him obnoxious in a political
sense to the great body of our people. Such
w..~ his past position, which will account for the
allusions embraced in his communication to se-
eession and secessionists, upon which we shall
not comment, secession being now a past and
dead i-sue, and we are for letting “ the dea lbury
their dead.” It is with'the present and the lu-
ture , V c have to deal, and, in regard to these,
M u Stewart, the writer of the communication,
occupies a sound, conservative, position—one
creditable alike to his head and his heart. In
him there is no taint of ra/lindistn^ But we lot
1 lie gentleman speak for himself, and for those
Union men in the South, by whom he has been
considered a representative of their principles
and their policy:
THK TRUE UNION MEN OF TlfE SOUTH.
Mit Editor: As a Union man, not unknown
to many of your readers, and as one who ever
looked upon secession as a policy suicidal in the
extreme: and furthermore, as one who was consid
ered crazy on the subject by those who were per
haps crazy themselves, I desire a small space in
vom columns to define the views and sentiments
t | lC true Union men of the South, or at least
of those whose adherence to the Union during
ilie whole struggle of secessionists for indepen
dence, entitle them to that appellation. 1 waspf
ibis class, and believe I can truly represent
them. And here be it understood that my pur
pose in the essay is to speak particularly of those
Known as Union men during the war, and not to
disparage the claims of others who, though once
in arms against the Union, are now in good ear
nest desiring a return to their allegiance.
Those of my way of thinking were satisfied
willi the old Government as it was. We consid
ered it good enough for us. We had enjoyed
peace and prosperity under its protection. We
knew not what it was to suffer the want of any
,,f 1 lie real comforts of life. We looked upon
ibis happy state of things as evidence of the ex
istence of good government. We were nation
alized in feeling, and free from those sectional
animosities, and hatreds, which involved us in
war. .
We retained the full possossion of our sober
senses, during the whole period of the experi
ment ol secession, from its incipient steps to its
filial overthrow. We had a vivid conception at
the beginning, of what the end would be. We
saw our people under the lead of infatuated and
misguided men, going the broad road to destruc-
tion. Wo saw the dangers ahead, and never
lost an opportunity to warn our leading men of
the certainty of final defeat, and to urge them to
■consent to return to their allegiance to the old
Constitutional Union, as the only possible pro-*
lection against the evil designs of ambitious
men. We told them the Union w r as a wall of
defense against Northern aggression; that in
pulling it down, they had let the peut up and
turbid waters of abolition fanaticism, like a dead
ly sirocco, sweep over tlm South ; and that in
stead of protection to the institution of slavery,
their struggle for the overthrow of the old gov
ernment would result in its emancipation. We
warned them at the beginning of the desolations
of war, of its tendency to <le-citizenise the people,
and render them mere tools of despotic power.
These and many other warnings were the out
pourings of the, deepest solicitude in behalf of our
great and loved country, and of its complex, but
beautiful form of government.
But heedless of warnings, nud reckless of con
sequences, those who inaugurated the experiment
of secession, turned a deaf ear to nil our cautions
and entreaties; and instead.,of respecting or ap
preciating our motives, these rendered us objects
of persecution, visiting upon us many, and sore
grievances. But we endured them with much
paticnco, attributing them to a species of insani
ty which civil wars ever engender. But now
that the struggle is over we feel no resentment
for these injuries. The same reason and sober
judgment that, enabled us all along through our
deplorable war to adluere steadfast to the Union,
enables us now when the storm of phrenzy lias
past, to forgive our persecutors.
We were Union men in fact—honestly, ear
nestly, and as friends to the best interests of the
South, were Union men. We had a vivid concep
tion of the ends of disunion and never had it in our
power, as honest men, to sanction its dissolution.
And now, since the war has left us in the power
of a Radical Congress, which denies us represen
tation, and threatens us with military rule and
confiscation, wo hold that the policy of Andrew
Johnson, for the restoration of the people of all
the States to the enjoyqjent of all their constitu
tional rights*iu the Union, must be upheld ; and
that the proceedings of the late Convention at
Philadelphia, endorsing his administration and
promulgating sound national doctrine, should
receive the cordial support of ever}’ one who
loves his country, and desires the restoration of
the old constitutional Union.
The proposed Convention of Southern Union
ists, shortly to bo held in Philadelphia, Veceives
no approval from us, and in fact wc cannot re
cognize them «s Union meu it they reject the
terms for re-union offered by the late National
Convention and refuse to support the wise and
liberal policy of Andrew Johnson.
Yours most respectfully, J. A. Stewart.
Rome, Georgia, August ‘JO, 1800.
Tin' Mark and Tan Convention.
There is a good deal of speculation as to what
the Black and Tan Convention will do. Next
Tuesday or Wednesday—we are really not posi
tive which—is the time fixed for it to assem
ble. Consequently the anxious country will soon
be relieved of whatever anxiety it may have on
the subject. We learn through our Tenuossee
exchanges, which seem to bo thoroughly posted,
that Governor Brownlow and Frederick Augus
tus Douglas, the latter the most amiable and ac
complished man of the two, will be prominent
features in the august assemblage. Though we
would tread reverently over the ashes of even a
dead enemy, it is perhaps to be regretted that
the late Parson Pryne, and o ! ' Ossawatamic
Brown cannot be present in the flesh, in order
that the picture might be complete.
Hate One Another.
The New York Express remarks that how the
New Testament Radicals, who set themselves
up as ministers of the Gospel, can hold up their
heads on the Sabbath day, and preach their anti-
The Platform of the late Philadelphia
Convention.
The Radical press is very much disgusted
with the Philadelphia platform, and we are sor
ry to add that a few of our Southern ootempora-
ries apppar to be similarly affected. In criticis-
ing the platform, the line of argument against it
does not necessarily run in the same channel, yet
in some instances the innocent reader might rea
sonably he led to believe that the articles were
written for a Northern latitude.
The Convention met for a specific purpose—
to harmonize conflicting views and opinions,
to strengthen the hands of the President in his
patriotic knd statesmanlike policy, and to inau
gurate a movement that would lead to the re
demption of the legislative branch of the gen
eral government from the hands of the De
structives at an early day. Now, in our jioor
judgment, the proceedings ot the Convention
Mere eminently calculated to attain the end iu
view, and we must be permitted to say, candor
and justice, and a comprehensive patriotism,
would seem to dictate that we should possess
our minds in patience, calmly await the result,
and not be swift in condemnation of that which,
from present indications, is likely to work to our
own good. And we can certainly do this with
out being derelict to any sentiment of honor or
self-respect.
Under different auspice*, a different line of
policy might have been pursued in the Conven
tion—something might have been adopted which
would not have proved offensive to the sensibili
ties of the most sensitive. But as those differ
ent auspices didn’t happen to exist when Hie Con
vention was in session, and were not likely to
exist for sometime to come, argument on the
subject is unnecessary, to say the least.
We are growing sort of tired of the terms
“ restoration ” and “ re-construction,” but if
either, or both, are ever to occur, it must be
through a spirit of compromise and forbearance.
Those who war against such a spirit, whether
North or South, though some of them doubtless
mean to do good,.are certaiuly working out mis
chief and harm.
Stop Talking.
The New York Express highly commends
the conduct of the Southern delegates at
Philadelphia because they recognized the pro
priety ot silence. The thing it remonstrates
against is, not the freedom of speech, but the
abuse of it. We have been running strongly in
that direction for some years past, and it will do
no harm to rein in a little now. Carlyle says
gab is the besetting sin of the Anglo Saxon race,
and so it is. The Swedish legend says, “speech
is silver, but silence is gold,” and there is much
higher declaration that, “ whoso kcepeth his
mouth and his tongue, kcepeth his soul from
trouble;” also, “that a man full of words shall
not prosper on earth.” Words are largely re
sponsible for much of our recent troubles. Our
public men have been full of words. Probably
we shall be more prosperous when we are less
loquacious. At any rate, it will do no harm to
give the experiment a fair trial. These remarks
apply as forcibly to editors as stump politicians.
Too muclt gab brought the war on. Too much
gab choked the Confederacy to death, and killed
off' a host of gallant men. If we are not careful,
loo much gab will put old Thad. Stevens in the
Presidential chair, and a delegation of negroes
in the Legislature! So says tiie Montgomery
Mail, and so say we. Still, we presume it will
do no harm to speak out once in awhile—espe
cially if one should happen to have anything to
say.
Reports of Cholera.
A report has attained curency on our streets
that cholera had made its appearance at the city
of Nashville. It is therefore proper we should
call attention to the paragraphs below, copied
from Nashville papers of Friday. The first is
from the Dispatch of that day :
Don’t be Alarmed about tiie Cholera.-The
news was in everybody’s mouth yesterday after
noon that during the day cholera had made its
appearance in the neighborhood of the peniten
tiary, a couple of negroes being the patients.—
We have the authority of Dr. Martin, who at
tended on the men, for saying that their disease
was not cholera, but simply an aggravated attack
of some bowel disorder. One. of the cases had
terminated fatally last night. At this late day,
when the cholera lias nearly disappeared from
those cities and towns where it has been prevail
ing, it is hardly probable that Nashville should
be visited with the disease. There need not be
any alarm about the matter.
The following is from the Union & American,
same date:
A False Rumor.—A report gained cur
rency late last evening to the effect that one or
two cases of cholera had occured in the city dur
ing the previous night.
Wc are authorized to say that the Executive
Committee of the Board of Health, in conjunc
tion with Mayor Brown, were engaged until a
late hour last night in investigating the rumor,
and could discover no foundation for it. The
physician whose name was given as authority
denies all knowledge of the existence of cholera
in the city, and those in charge of the public
health feel sate in contradicting the statement.
Radical Decency
We copy the paragraphs below from the
Chicago Tribune, as showing the malignity
and decency of the Radical press. They are
about an average specimen. The first is as fol
lows :
Mr. Johnson is coming to Chicago with the
blood of loyal men upon his garments. We ad
vise loyal citizens to avoid him as they would any
other convicted criminal. Let those who ap
prove oftheNew r Orleans massacre run after him
and hurrah for him.
And again we find the following iu the same’
paper:
These utterances of Johnson are startling, as
coming from the President of tiie United States.
And when we consider the transcendent con
tinuity and desperate wickedness ot his lying
and perfidy, all good meu are filled with the
deepest apprehension that torrents of blood,
such as this continent has never yet seen, are to
flow in the not distant future.
Let us not be deceived. If Johnson’s utter
ances mean anything they mean that Congress
must submit to euact his will into law, peacea
bly if they will, forcibly if force is necessary.—
It would be charitable and greatly lessen anxie
ty if we could believe Johnson’s utterances, to be
the fretful’peevishness of a spoiled child. But
they are so redolent with devilish malignity as
to admonish us that if his power and ability were
at all commensurate with his mendacity and
egotism everybody who oppose his policy would
be sent across-lots to perdition instauter.’
Georgia Items.
A writer in the Rome Courier suggests that, j
as the corn c*»p is short in some sections of;
Spirit of the New York Frees.
Manufactures of Cotton.—The Newbury-
port (Mass.) Herald says; The manufacture of
coarse cotton is at present an unprofitable busi
ness at the North, and is very likely to remain so,
from the fact that the Southern Stales are better
adapted to that branch of industry. To make
cotton manufacturing profitable, with the cost of
labor, machinery and motive power, as high as
they are now, there must be a wider difference be
tween the cotton and the manufactured goods.—
Tiie South, previous to the war, was largely en
gaged in the manufacture of coarse cottons,
there being one hundred and fifty nine factories
in the States that rebelled: North Carolina has
thirty, South Carolina seventeen, and Alabama
fourteen. The largest factories and best estab
lishments were in "Georgia.
THE FREED MEN.
.. c, ^ „ , . 1 A correspondent of the Times, writing from
the State, it ra necessary to cast about for a sub- ! ,, .
stUut. He sav • ! Macon, says that while the negroes have not oeen
a,..’ - ,r ‘ . . i as industrious as we could have wished, they have
J ms may be found, to a great extent, in the :
turnip. . Let ns see to what use the turnip may
be put so as to save com : One of the farmer’s
primary considerations is his meat. To fatten
liogs corn is necessary, at the rate of seven bush
els to the liCiuL I Rave known hogs made, very
tat with three bushels of corn to the head, but
how was this economy effected? Simplv by the
use of turnips. Give your hogs cooked turnips,
with a few quarts of corn meal, and a little salt;
to my certain knowledge, they will fatten as fast,
if Hot faster, thaP when fed on raw cbm alone.
An occasion'd change to raw turnips, in mild
weather, will be found beneficial.
Tiie Columbus Sun d• Times, of Friday, says :
l p to the 1st of September, independent of
physicians’ and building expenses, the amount
for small pox cases will foot up for this year
somewhere in the neighborhood of *4,000. Add
to this the other charges* and between five or
six thousand will be reached. As recipients of
this amount there have not been more than twen
ty white people. Our own impression*is that
not more than half that number have received
aid. It the negroes had been under the control
of our citizens as formerly, or if the Freedmen's
Bureau had taken charge of them, the disease
could have been stayed in a short time and at a
comparatively small cost.
The LaGrange Reymrter says: The Freedmen,
iu this community 7 , as a class, are behaving them
selves with commendable propriety, so for as we
are aware. Except in a few instances, if any,
they exhibit nothing like insolence. They are
respectful in their deportment to the whites, and
the whites arc respectful and kind to them.—
There is no military in our midst to stir up bad
feelings between the two races; and, hence, we
are all getting along very quietly.
The same journal says: The’Western Baptist
Association will convene with the church atNew-
nan, Ga., on Saturday, loth inst. This is a Mis
sionary body only—having no eclesiastical pow
er or jurisdiction over the churches which com
promise it. It embraces a large area of territory,
and numbers, perhaps, thirty or forty churches.
The Sumter Republican says, we have had sev
eral fine showers during the past few days.—
Crops generally are doing very well; planters,
we believe, expect to make very near, or quite
an average crop.
The following is an extract from a letter to the
Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel :
“ We never saw or heard of a poorer prospect
for a crop. There are hundreds ot acres in Ogle
thorpe, Greene, Elbert and "Wilkes which will not
yield a bushel of corn to the acre. The cotton
crop is very short—it is thought will not be suf
ficient to purchase com to make up the deficien
cy. The freedmen, in many instances, are leav
ing now for West Tennessee and Mississippi. If
they were to stay they would suffer for bread.”
The railroad bridge at Columbus is to be com
pleted by the loth.
New Cotton.—The Dawsou Journal, of the
31st ult., says:
“ Captain Evans, of this county, brought to
town, last week, six bale3 of new cotton, which
he disposed of at 27 cents. We hear of a good
deal out and ready for market.
The same paper says:
The work of improvement in our town still
goes on. No sooner does one building approach
completion than the foundation of another is laid
near by. The price of building lots and town
property generally is going tip rapidly, and we
would advise those desiring to get a start with a
go-ahead town to buy at once.
Political Gossip.
The following occurs in the Washington cor
respondence of the Louisville Courier, of a re
cent date:
The offices within the gift of the President, up
to within a short period, have not been an ele
ment of strength to the administration ; for they
have heen filled by his enemies. But yielding to
the demands of his lriends, as well as the ne
cessity ot the case, lie has announced that office
holders hereafter must conform to his declared
policy, or vacate. Under this rule the guillotine
is already in operation; many removals have
been made, and before the fall of snow political
heads will be as thickly strewn as the “leaves in
Yallambrossa’s vale.” Among prominent per
sonages who will be superceded shortly are Mr
Secretary Stanton, General Howard, Contmis
sioner ot Freedmen’s Bureau, and Judge Advo
cate General Holt. Stanton would like to retain
his place, aud would endorse tiie President’s
policy 7 unqualifiedly if that could keep him
there ; but the pressure is too strong for him.—
Every- delegation from the Philadelphia Conven
lion that visited the White House urged his im
mediate removal. General Rousseau has been
active iu trying to have Stanton removed,
think he will be pensioned off with a second-
class place abroad, Spain or Russia, probably.—
General Tillson, who has given eminent satisfac
tion by 7 liis management of the Freedmen’s Bu
reau in Georgia, will supercede Howard.
The President is investigating the connection
of Holt with Sanford Conover, and other per
jured scoundrels, and will, undoubtedly, dismiss
him. Other letters than those you printed last
week in the Courier have been made public, and
all of them implicate him in the wicked attempt
to fasten crime on Jefferson Davis.
«* all ealculiila- (
building, and will be increased, since the opera
tive population, both white and black, will be in
creased, and it is labor they most need. We will
not be surprised to see the' factories of the North,
having machinery for coarse fabrics, within two
years taking it out to send South, where the wa
ter power is abundant, the cotton at hand, and
the labor cheaper than here, replaoing the same
with finer machinery, which is more'profitable,
and for which our educated labor is better fitted.
tion.
These doctrines, according to the A'rprvss, are
that the people of tiie North are to hate the
South, to abhor all Southern meu and women,
to persecute the South and to provoke the South
to do evil. There is to be no peace. The bar
barous South is never tS have self-government,
nor free institutions, until the barbarians there
humiliate aud degrade themselves, and the race
to which they belong and from which they have
descended.
A Change.—The Atlanta Heir Era of Sun
day morning comes to us divested of the name
ot its proprietors without any 7 announcement of
the change. The names of all the proprietors
and publishers have been withdrawn, and the
name of Wiiiiam L. S(*tuggs, ‘editor, only, ap
pears in the paper.
The Columbus Sun of the 29th ultimo contains
the foregoing notice. Wc had overlooked the
“change,” and are not aware now of tiie exact
date of its occurrence.
The receipts ot internal revenue for the week
ending August 25th, amounted to f7,846,566 62.
A Republican Convention in The South.
—The Kings County Union League has adopted
the following resolutions:
War—War.
The Nashville Dispatch makes some sensible
remarks upon the probability of another war iu
this country, a portion of which we quote:
“We occasionally 7 hear this feeling expressed
in the street. To us this is simply ridiculous.—
(Tome what may at the ballot-box, peace will
continue to bless us as it does this good day. A
burned child dreads the fire, and the American
people will not in our day 7 , nor in that of our
children’s children, be precipitated into another
wicked and useless internecine contest by a few
ambitious and heaven-forsaken political "bank
rupts. The only 7 people now among thirty-five
millions who -would for an instant dream ol
drawing the sword are a few selfish men who
while the late fearful strife was delugiug the land
with bloodshed and woe, occupied high and safe
positions away 7 above the bombshell and nainie
ball, or else were for in the rear, fattening upon
spoils of a defrauded government and ot swin
dled armies. These men, while but too numer
ous and very clamorous, are yet but a drop in
tiie bucket compared with the whole nation
whose hearty bate and abliorence they possess
without stint.
“As to the South—that genial and beautiful
land so foully betrayed by a weak national gov
eminent, so wofully 7 misled by imbecile and in
competent rulers, so wickedly maltreated by un
godly 7 enemies, so gallantly 7 defended by brave
skillful sons, so wonderfully 7 relieved and pro
tected by the working of the Federal Constitu
tion and the good heartedness of a generous peo
pie—no one there is so crazy as to meditate war.”
Secretary Stanton
This distinguished functionary is the recipient
of a good many 7 flattering notices at the hands of
the press lioth North and South. Among the
more pungent we find the following in the Rich
mond Dispatch :
The press speculates, the telegraph is oracular,
upon Mr. Stauton, aud his going out, and his
whither. But Mr. Stanton is as mute as marble,
and stationary as the highlands of Neversink.—
W e see that many applications are made to the
President relative to a successor to Mr. Stanton;
but Mr. Stanton can have no successor as lon_
he holds his place. Will Mr. Stanton ever give
it up? The question has a fearful significance
in it. It is one that a man doesn’t like to ask—
it reminds him of his own end, and the continu
ation of time, which must survive us all! It pro
vokes an echo from the very grave! Ah,-we
shall all leave 3Ir. Stanton iii the War Depart
ment. War is his late! Never shall war cease
with him ! Secretary of not, he is doomed never
more to know peace. We look at the eternal
hills, and know that they survive all human life
and all human actions; but they are at rest—
the emblems of peace. We turn to .Mr. Stanton
and teel a sentiment of awe; tor in him we be
hold the living impersonation of endless war and
unappeasable agitation, and are shocked aud
horrified that they must survive so long!
What Political Clergymen Might Do.—
Judging from the tone of the radical clerical
gentlemen ot the Republican party, who have
expatiated on the Philadelphia Convention, a
meeting of them would not be inappropriate,
where they could consistently pass the following
preamble and resolutions:
Whereas, The sermon on the Mount is con
trary in its spirit to our patriotic ideas.
Resolved, That we spurn its teachings and
Whereas, we are this morning informed bv a ! inaI ,^ e 8 P D ™ , us ^acinngs and
proclamation from the President of the Untied ^principles, and that we will do all
States that the nation is once more intact and 1 we caaifl opposition to i s sentiments and
restored to perfect practical relations, as in times ! ' ve ” 1 ' n ' a nor 4' J ote it, nor surfer it
past • be it therefore ; to be read, quoted nor acted on $>v any ot our
Tteolved, That the National Union Committee j congregation, if we can prevent it; and that we
be and hereby is invited to call a National conceal, and will not abide j\ its lmtnic-
Uniou Convention, to be held in the city D f! tions, so tar as m us lies.
Richmond on the first Wednesday in October
next, at noon.
The meeting ot the League was addressed by
Dr. Sidney, of Mississippi, one of the eleven men
iu the Convention of the State which passed
the ordinance of secession, who voted no.—N.
I". Evening Post.
This would give thc-m an opportunity to “place
j themselves clean upon the record” without any
circumlocution.
Havana letters state the slave trade is on the
increase. Seven hundred Africans had been
landed at one time.
behaved remarkably well during the warm sea
son now almost spent. The visit of Gens. Steed-
man and Fullerton to this part of the country
has had an admirable effect upon the Bureau sys
tem. Under the judicious management of Gen.
Tilson, many of the fevils heretofore existing have
been cut off, and planters can, with more certain
ty, make arrangements for the future. The ne
groes, as a general thing, have become thorough
ly 7 disgusted with freedom, so-Oifeal, as interpret
ed by those evil emissaries who flocked south
ward immediately succeeding the removal of all
danger. They 7 have discovered that freedom is
icork, or the more fearful alternative, starvation.
They have gone to work in good earnest, and
that restlessness which before characterized them,
is disappearing, and contracts are not unfrequent
for one, two aud even three years. We hail this
disposition upon their -part as an omen of good
feeling and confidence toward tLeir former mas
ters.
THE CONVENTION—RESULT.
The same correspondent writes that the action
of the Philadelphia National Union’ Convention
was received with the greatest satisfaction. Even
those who opposed Southern representation in it,
now regard it a great success. It has done more
to soften the feelings and lessen the animosities
between the two sections thau*any event since
the close of the war. And not only so, but it
has awakened anew the feelings of interest and
fellowship which bound us so closely together in
other days, when the North and the South stood
shoulder to shoulder in establishing this great
Republic.
change effected by tu1®Elkgrai*h.
The Express observes that^ne telegraph is
gradually turning the foreigt^news channels
from their accustomed courses. Thus, nine times
out of ten, recently, we get our jatest intelligence
front China, Japan, aud all that part ot the
world, not by way of England—as of old—but
through the medium ot San Francisco. Of course
that news goes over to London and Paris also,
through the Atlantic Cable, thus making Old
Europe receiye its latest Asiatic advices from
Young America, instead ot the reverse, as form
erly. 1
PHILADELPHIA AND THE PRESIDENT.
The World comments upon the conduct of the
Philadelphia Common Council, a body 7 com
posed mainly 7 of Radicals, saying that it has just
furnished one of the smallest instances of politi
cal spite upon record. The majority Df that
body 7 refused to give the President ot the United
States any official recognition on his passage
through Philadelphia, merely because they dif
fered from him on certain public questions.
This, we believe, is the first time any such re
cognition has been refused a Chief Magistrate.
Respectable Philadelphians are heartily ashamed
of their contemptible Common Council, and a
committee of citizens, irrespective of party, has
been formi 1 to tvelcome him to the Quaker City
in an appropriate manner. Public opinion, speak
ing through the press, is unanimous in censuring
this mean-spirited Council.
AMERICAN FIILU^S.
In the Times we find an from its Lon
don namesake, contrasting the amouut of reve
nue raised from certain sources in the two coun
tries, and the general working of the financial
system pursued in each.
It said in this article that the official reports
from the United States present an account with
which the American people cannot well be dis
satisfied. The amount of money now raised by
taxation is almost incredible, and there are no
complaints—people, for instance, rather glory in
paying an enormous income tax than try to evade
it. This enthusiasm for the ytoke will, no doubt,
disappear as the newness of^nie burden wears
off, but in the meantime the people are giving
the government, to all appearances quite willing
ly, the immense sum of $1,078,513,347 a year, or
£215,702,069. The year before the war—1860—
the total receipts from the revenue amounted
only to a little over fifteen and a-quarter millions
of pounds. In 1863 they were $706,995,493, and
what they were in the financial year ending the
30th of June last we have just stated. It cannot
be denied that the American people must have a
just appreciation by this time ot the terrible cost
of a war.
TIIE PRESIDENT’S TOUR.
In an article on the President’s trip to Chicago,
the Times remarks that although not ostensibly
political in its character, it will necessarily be
more or less political in its results. Few occu
pants of the Presidential office have had heaped
upon them the abuse, slander and misrepresen
tation of which Andrew Johnson has been the
object. The fury of his opponents lias carried
them beyond the boundaries of decency.
His character, his motives, his measures, and
purpose^ have been assailed with an unscrupu
lousness and persistency for which it were diffi
cult to find a parallel. He decided wisely, there
fore, when lie resolved to profit by the journey,
and mingle freely with (lie people as often as
the general arrangement would permit. The
people will be enabled to test for themselves the
fairness and truthfulness of his enemies, and to
judge for themselves of his tone and capacity as
they may be revealed by circumstances. And
the President will not be injured by the inter
course. In all respects a man of the people, he
cannot but be glad of a temporary escape from
the army of supplicants by whom the White
House is besieged, and a chance of talking with
the multitude who are not politicians, and have
no especial liking for politicians’ tricks.
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
The Paris correspondent of the Times says the
commission of the exhibition of 1867 has defi
nitely fixed the division of the ground surround
ing the Palace of Industry. The Eastern side of
the avenue, which divides the .^ark, will be en
tirely occupied by France,Belgium, and Holland.
England and the United States have the North
west corner, and in the Southwest comer are to
be placed, side by side, Prussia, Austria, the Ger
man Confederation, and Italy—in peaceful emu
lation.
The interior of the palace will be divided in
zones among the various nations. It is estimated
that to traverse all the passages, avenues and
galleries of the park and palace, a man walking
four miles an hour and tea hours a day, would
require a week to accomplish the journey.
MONET AND TRADE.
In the principal article of the World it is said
that the money market is easy at "4 too per cent.,
and in governments and other prime collaterals
round sums are obtained at 3 per cent. The
banks and money lenders are already overloaded
with surplus funds seeking employment in tem
porary or short loans, and there is no outlet for
them even at the low rate of 3 per cent. The
future course of the money market is tending to
ward a plethora unprecedented in the annals of
Wall street. The treasury department disbursed
about $14,000,000 to-day on account of tempora
ry loan.
The general trade of the city is improving and
aud the demand from buyers thus for favors the
opinion that the fall trade will be more profita
ble and satisfactory than has hitherto "been ex
pected. The country is bare of goods and the
consumption is likely to exceed that of last foil.
The Cholera in London.—Foreign advices
represent that the cholera is raging in London
with a fierceness of which we have little concep
tion in this country. The number of deaths in
that city from all causes for the week ending Au
gust 11th, 1S66, was 2,797. Of that number 1,407
died from cholera alone; nor is there any appa
rent diminution in the number of victimsof this
disease. Medical counsel and skill in London
seem contradictory, uncertain and helpless in the
dread presence ot this great scourge of our race.
The ravages of the disease are, ot course, con
fined to those who, neglecting all the laws of
health, breathe fonl air and drink impure water.
News from the States.
ILLINOIS.
A dispatch from Chicago says:
The invitation committee for the Douglas
monument celebration, to-day issued an earnest
appeal to the people of the Northwest, urging
them to lay aside all partisan feelings aud pre
judices, and unite without distinction of party in
the interesting and imposing ceremonies to oc
cur on the 6th of September.
The cholera reports for the past twenty-four
hours show only three deaths and nine cases.
KANSAS.
The same dispatch says .-
A company ot Fenians left Leavenworth, Kan-
sas. this morning ostensibly for the front.
Kansas is excited with reports of Indian out
rages on her western frontier. The governor of
that State calls for help.
The report of the massacre of the wife of Gen.
Carrington, of Indiana, by Indians on the plains,
is contradicted.
KENTUCKY.
The official returns show Duvall’s majority
over Hobson, at the late election, to be 37,587.
MISSOURI.
We find the items below among the special
dispatches from St. Louis :
General Hancock has given the most positive
assurance that he means to assist, and not resist,
the enforcement of all laws not in conflict with
the laws of the United States. He says that the
conservatives complain to him that Governor
Fletcher will not protect them at the November
election ; but when the Governor has had a trial
and fails to protect legal voters, then it will be
time enough to call on the military authorities.
Reports from the vicinity of Lexington show
that the corn crop has been much damaged by
prolonged drouth.
Police reports to-day show 23 deaths. Inter
ments fora! hours ending last night were S3,
from deaths occurring in the poorer parts of the
city. The cholera lias nearly disappeared from
the central wards.
In Northwestern Missouri the continued want
of rain is injuring the corn and potatoes. The
early planting of each is good, but the last plant
ing will fall considerably below the average
yield.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The Raleigh Standard says :
We have distressing accounts of the drouth
from various parts of the State. A friend writ
ing from Carthage, Moore county, says :
“ Times hard and money scare. The corn is
nearly done for, the drouth being very fatal. I
fear we shall not make a support in this section.”
We have similar reports from Orange, portions
of Granville, Chatham, Wake, and other locali
ties. We learn that the corn crops will be short
on the Roanoke and in the Albemarle country.
We are glad, however, to state that the corn
crops are said to be excellent on the Yadkin and
Catawba.
The present prospect is that the ensuing year
will be one of scarcity.
The Newbern Times says:
We w 7 ere sorry to learn from Mr. Fred. Lane,
yesterday, who has recently returned to the city
from Chatham, where he has been residing for a
few years, that the crops are very poor iu that
region, on account of the drouth. He says the
ground has not been wet thoroughly for over
two months, and that many farmers will hardly
make a bushel to the acre.
A gentleman from the Roanoke region, in
North Carolina, writes:
I had a splendid time in North Carolina.—
Crops there are splendid; cotton in my old
neighborhood will average waist-high. Some
formers calculate, should they have a late tail,
one good bag to the acre, while a majority count
safe on half a bag. The corn crop is tolerable
good, though it has been much neglected, owing
to the difficulty iu getting labor out of freedmen,
and the wet weather.
The Progress says:
A vast multitude of negroes from South Car
olina, in a starving condition, have arrived at
Charlotte, on their way up through this State,
with reports of thousands following after them.
The Raleigh Sentinel has this paragraph in
reference to maimed soldiers:
There is not a day that numbers of disabled
citizens, who lost limbs in the late struggle, may
not be seen upon our streets. Their congregation
here, to avail themselves of the merited munifi
cence ot the State in supplying them with arti
ficial limbs, brings forcibly to mind again the
horrors ot the war, while, at the same time, their
mutilated condition attests their own personal
valor and heroism. 31 ay the day be tar distant
when we shall cease to have open hearts or open
hands for them!
The Wilmington Journal, of the 31st ultimo,
says:
We have now the official vote in full of the
election for the ratification or rejection of the
new 7 Constitution. The majority for rejection is
1,982.
COLORADO.
The crops in Fremont county, Colorado, are
thus reported.- “The crops here were never finer.
The men are all engaged in harvesting. Wheat
cannot be beaten for fine, plump and well formed
kernels. The farmers ot this county think they
will have a surplus of at least 25,000 bushels of
wheat and 20,000 bushels of corn, besides cab
bage, potatoes, and other vegetables enough to
feed thousands of men.”
Full returns from all the counties in the Ter
ritory give Chillicott 127 majority.
TENNESSEE.
A grand Conservative Mass 3Ieeting is to be
held in Nashville on the 13tli instant. The ob
ject is to express approval ot the policy of the
President, and of the action ot Hie recent Phila
delphia Convention.
General Lucius J. Polk, of 3Iaury county, is
raisiug a.subscription to erect a suitable monu
ment to the Confederate officers buried in the
beautiful cemetery of Ashwo'od, near his resi
dence.
The East Tennessee Conservatives are making
great preparations for their ratification meeting
on the 19th and 29th of September.
MISSISSIPPI.
A well informed writer says:
In Hinds, Carroll, Madison, Claiborn and
Scott counties investigations show three hun
dred and twenty-three plantations, which in 1860
employed 7,624 hands on 84,311 acres, making
46,641 bales, there are this year 3,495 hands
planting 32,222 acres.
From other counfojs the reports are not full.
On this basis the crop of 1866 would be 400,-
000 bales in 3Iississippi, and 1,700,000 in the
United States.
TEXAS.
The accounts from Texas in regard to crops
are conflicting—some representing the prospect
good,'and others, the reverse. We incline, how
ever, to the opinion that the cotton crop is turn
ing out very well. The Galveston papers make
no mention of troubles in the State, and the re
ports so rife in Northern journals, that Union
men cannot live there, are, of course, without
any foundation in fact.
KENTUCKY.
The Louisville Courier in referring to “an ap
peal for the unrecovered dead_,” says :
There are no wealthy contractors, no rich and
grateful government to provide burial places and
monuments for the Confederate dead. There
are no government sinecures for the crippled
Southern soldiers, no land warrants, bounties, or
pensions for the widows and orphans of the
Southern dead. The only aid that can cherish
such objects must come from the generous im
pulses of our people through the agency of chari
table assciations.
Another Kentucky paper says:
Among the distinguished guests, recently at
this place may be mentioned Gens. 3Iarmaduke
and Hardee, of the late Confederate States army,
and Gen. Jeff. C. Davis, of the United States
army. There are now two or three hundred
guests per day at the Cave, and the arrivals are
from fifty to seventy per day.
MISSOURI.
St. Louis dispatches of the 29th sa3 7 :
The report of the police this morning shows
an increase in deaths from cholera during the
past twenty-four hours, while the cemeteries’ re
ports show a decrejise of thirteen. It is some
what singular that this is uniformly the case.—
IVhen the police reports note a decrease, the
cemeteries note an increase, and vice versa.
The head of the Radical postmaster at 3t. Jo
seph, 3Iissouri, Wm. Fowler, has been chopped
off, and Geo. H. Hall appointed in his place.
Of the corn crop the Lexington Express says:
“The long spell of dry weather we have had has
destroyed all of our late com. Hundreds of
acres will not make seed, while the large major
ity of it will hardly do it. No amount of rain
can now save it, and our only dependence for
cbm this winter will be on that which was
planted early, aDd had the benefit of the rains
when it most needed it. In the Rat 7 county bot
toms the crop will not be so short as with us, as
the soil is better able to withstand the drouth,
and their late com not yet past hope. It is to be
feared pork-corn will be much higher than usual
this winter, owing to the shortness in our com
crop.” 1
Are ire to Have Another War.
The New York Evening Post has an article on
this subject which contains reflections worthy ot
being reproduced and studied in this direction.
After refuting the proposition that there is im
mediate danger of another conflict, the article
There is plenty of hot blood on both sides ;
there are but too many reckless and unscrupul
ous men in every State ready to seiz.e upon the
first occasion to rekindle civil war. But let the
people remember that such a step is ratal, it
will be, as the spectator rightly remarks, “ war
beside every hearth,’’ it will 3Iexicaniz.e the eoun-
trv it will destroy liberty here at once and for
ever, as well as peace and prosperity. A renewal
of civil war under any possible pretext now,
will be simply min to tiie country: it will band
us over to interminable disorders; it will sub
vert the Constitution, and set up over our heads
a despotism. The authors of such a misfortune
would be cursed forever as the enemies not only
ot the American people, but of the cause of the
people everywhere.
To avert such a misfortune is the duty 01 all
good men in every part of the country. But to
avert it we need moderation in language and m
action, on all sides. None but careful and judici
ous men should be elected to Congress, and the
people should sternly rebuke all immoderate or
exciting language or conduct, everywhere. There
is blame on every side ; the leaders ot all parties
seem to tend to extreme measures, to inflamma
tory appeals, to the use of language whose only
object and effect is still further to irritate the
people of one section against the other.
Now, all this is wrong; it is mischievous, dan
gerous. There are too many bad men in both
sections ready to take advantage ot the irritation
and passion of men in authority, and to interpret
literally what is uttered in Congress or from the
White'House in haste and anger. It is time for
all true men to stand firm, and to unite in such
action and such an expression of public opinion
as will bring us as quickly as possible back to
all tiie safeguards of strict constitutional govern
ment. There is no safety outside of that; the
danger grows greater every day ot a total wreck
ot the ship of State. There is but one remedy,
but one line of safety, and that is to re-establish
all constitutional forms at once, and to put all
the parts of the government machinery in ope
ration.
The BeturnlUK Tide of Specie.
The annexed paragraph, from a late number
of the New York Herald, possesses interest for a
large class of readers:
The financial items by the Atlantic cable
which we publish to-day arc of the highest im
portance. First, it appears, that even in Paris,
there has sprung up a surprising rush for Ameri
can five-twenties and seven-thirties; and next,
that the steamer Scotia, which left Liverpool
yesterday, is bringing over a shipment of £110,-
000 in British gold, or over $500,000, to this
country. We had supposed that the late arrival
of a similar shipment was a sporadic case, an
experimental venture, merely as a speculation.—
But from this second shipment, and this simul
taneous demand for our Government securities
in Paris, we may fairly infer that larger causes
are at work on the other side than mere excep
tional ventures by daring speculators. We can
hardly avoid the conclusion that fears of a gene
ral European war still exist, even iu Paris, not
withstanding the peace between Austria, Prussia
and Italy, and Napoleon’s repeated assurances
that the empire is at peace ; and that, according
ly, holders of money on the continent are turn
ing to the United States, as the safest country
for the security of their investments. If this is
the true view of the case, then Mr. Secretary
3IcCulloch may look forward hopefully to an
early appreciation of liis greenbacks to the gold
standard ; and we may also prepare for the pos
sible contingency of a general European convul
sion, financial and political.
The Peace Prospect in Europe.—A dis
tinguished American, who has resided for sever
al years in Europe, and who has had the best
opportunity for estimating the political situation
says, in a private note addressed to a correspon
dent here:
“We have peace—for a time. No one believes
it to be lasting. The results of the Prussian or
ganization and armament have been so astound
ing that there is no disposition to dispute her
successes and her terms so long as there is in
feriority in arms on the part of those who must
be opposed to her aggrandizement. Italy, too,
must be detached from her alliance before France
says her last word in this business. These are
times of anxiety for little States and Princes.
“The governing aristocratic classes—the best
society—have been n at amity Austrian in the late
war. They were jealous for their privileges,
caste and all that; but you see the direction the
masses have taken and the results. The great
questions of nationalities, of popular rights and
divine rights, are not yet settled. We shall have
a breathing spell for a while—unless internal
difficulties in Austria or Turkey light the fires
of another and more wide-spread conflagration
—but I don't think for long. When a general
war comes, or when France and Prussia get to
fighting, Belgum wiH be in peril. You will not
however, see repeated in that little country the
scenes in the German Principalities, where the
Princes scampered off with the full assent of
their people, Antwerp is now the most intrench
ed camp in Europe, and the army will be able
there to defend their flag and government for
time against great odds.’’
French Banking.—The Paris correspondent
of the New York Times makes a singular state
ment in regard to banking projects in France.—
He says that the blind credulity 7 of the French in
all matters pertaining to projects for suddenly
making money, no matter how preposperous or
how visionary, is positively stupendous,
needy adventurer, run down at the heel, not
knowing where he is to dine, and without enough
credit to obtain a pair of pantaloons, has the au
dacity to send to the advertising bureaux an an
■nouncement to the effect that he has founded
bank, and invites capitalists to entrust their means
to his care, promising them fat dividends and no
possibility of loss. The same trick has been
played over and over again for many years, but
it never foils of success—like the “ patent safe
game,” which the French pay us the compliment
to call “ vol a V Americaine"—tiie American swin
die, and which lias been fully described hundreds
of times by the press during the past twenty
years that k has been practiced in France, but
still continues its victorious career. The self-
styled banker soon receives tuuds from the prov
inces, and it is not long before he launches forth,
a full fledged financier, until he has satisfactorily
feathered his nest, when he absquatulates, taking
with him the funds in liis hands.
Trial of a Rebel Soldier in Maryland.
—The Baltimore Gazette says : “Wm. H. B.
Dorsey, late of the Confederate army, was ar
rested by the authorities of Frederick county
last winter on a charge of robbery, for driving
off a drove of cattle whilst Gen. Lee was on his
way to Gettysburg. He was thrown into
Frederick city jail and ironed, from whence
he was released on giving heavy bail. His case
came up at the last term of Frederick County
Court. Knowing justice could not he had in
that court, where the prejudice was so strong
against him, as well as against all other returned
Confedetates, lie moved iiis case to Montgomery
County Court, where lie thought justice would
be dealt him. He was tried on the 16th inst.,
by a jury trial and acquitted, they spurning the
idea that he could be guilty of robbery by
capturing a drove of cattle whilst acting under
orders of his superior officers. His acquittal of
this charge will settle many similar cases now
pending in different courts against returned
Confederate soldiers.”
The Star of Hungary.—The leader of the
Hungarian liberal party, 3Ir. Deak, was sum
moned to Vienna and had an interview with the
Emperor or his Cabinet, but the offers of the
Austrian Government were so small that Mr.
Deak declined to accept them, and refused the
support of liis country 7 . If the Emperor had
given to the Hungarians what the} 7 rightfully
and lawfully demanded, an army of two
three hundred thousand volunteers would have
been raised in a few weeks, and neither Yene-
tia would have been ceded nor Austria expell
ed from the German Confederacy. The Aus
trian Government seems inclined to lose the
position of a great power in Europe rather than
to change her old fogy policy. 3Iore than
once the dynasty of Lolaringed-Hapsburg has
been saved "through this heroic /people. Frank
ness and meeting them half way, would have
brought the Austrian Empire again to Us old
splendor, and the Prussian army would never
have dared to cross the Danube.
New life has been imparted to business opera
tions by the prospect now afforded by the pro
ceedings of the National Union Convention, and
the President’s proclamation of sincere confi
dence in the future prospects of the country, un
der conservative counsels, will invigorate indus
try and enterprise. Commerce between the
South and the North will be restored to its
former activity, and its field of operations will
be enlarged. The product of cereals in the
West, and of cotton in the South, promises well
for active business the coming autumn. The
heavy stock of good3 now on the hands of im
porters and manufacturers will be in demand
for Southern and 3Yestern consumption, and
probably at lowest prices.
If the wise suggestions of Secretary 3IcCul-
loch, in his recent letter to a Boston committee,
be carried into practical effect by legislation, the
further depreciation of government credit and
securities will be arrested, and a gradual advance
towards a specie standard be secured.—National
Intelligencer.
Deserted.
How sad, how much more desolate than death
itself, must be the heart that realizes the fact that
it has shotvered all its wealth of love upon a
treacherous object, upon one who rifles the flow
ers of one’s life of their sweets, aud then, like a
bee, wings off to rifle other life-flowers. ’Twas
such a heart, robbed and deserted, that sung :
The river flowed with the light on its breast.
And the waves were eddying by ;
\n& the round, red sun went down in the West,
When my love’s loving lips to my lips were prest,
Under the evening sky
Now weeping atone hy the river T stray.
For my love has left ine this many a day;
Left me to droop and die.
As the river flowed then, the river flows still,
In ripple, aud foam, and spray.
On by the church, and round by the hill.
And under the sluice by the old burnt mill.
And out to the lading day;
But 1 love it no more, for delight grows cold
When the song is snug aud the tale is told,
And the heart is given away.
Oh 1 river, ran far! Oh ! river, run fast!
Oh 1 weeds float ou to the sea !
For the suu has gone down on my beautiful past,
\nd the hope that like bread on the waters I casi,
Have drifted away like thee I .
So the dream it is fled and the day 11 is -lone,
And mv lips will murmur the name of one
Who will never come back to me.
•‘An Illustration.”
The Boston Post has a foreign correspondent
whose letters possess much more than ordinary
interest. His last dates from Switzerland, way
up among the peaks and glaciers, where the
Rhone finds its source. We take from it the
extract below—for the privilege of perusing
which tills peaceful Sabbath morning, we know 7
the appreciative reader will thank us :
an illustration.
As I looked upon the mighty mass of the gla
cier that lay spread out before nu\ tranquil, ma
jestic, apparently motionless, yet ever advancing
with resistless step, I could uot help thinking
that it offered a fitting illustration of the pro
gress of mv own country. Taking its origin fin
back in the past amid scenes of tumult and con
fusion ; agitated by rude and untamed passions
which drive it none can tell whither; slowly
solidifying itself and gathering about it the ele
ments' of strength; seemingly barren and un
fruitful, yet coutaiuing within itself the seeds of
prosperity; it gradually draws into one broad
and all-embracing channel the full fore ot rough
and youthful vigor aud presses on in the full con
fidence of an hereafter rich with unalloyed suc
cess. Urged by its destiny, the infant glacier,
like the new born nation, confidingly leaves the
tlireshhold. where stand tow 7 eriDg and snow-cov
ered peaks like white-haired fathers to give it
God-speed, and moves 011 in sanguine hope. Yet
its advance is not unimpeded. Ere long it is liar-
rassed by many an imposing and fearful trial,
and all its young strength is needed to overcome
the obstacles that threaten its integrity. Giant
cliffs press down upon it and mountain slopes
shower on it rocks and boulders ; narrow gorges
arrest its advance, and mighty buttresses stand
in its way; rifts and crevasses here and there
penetrate to its very vitals; yet still 011 it goes
groaning with the pain of its wounds ; trembling
at the assaults of its enemies; scarred and seam
ed with the hardships of the conflict, yet never
for a moment thinking of retreat. Some of the
irfipediments it forces front the path by its in
domitable strength ; others it bears along with it.
The avalanches that have hurled themselves
upon it like the torrent of a mighty invasion it
absorbs into itself and invigorates its own power
by their fierce fury, thus guiding a warlike horde
into the channels of peace. Ere long its sears
are healed and quietly it moves to where the
more genial and softening influences of tight
and heat breathe upon it, and, like the progress
of civilization, mitigate the chilling and blight
ing frosts of the iron age. But one more trial
awaits it. Before it lies a gigantic abyss from
whose edge is no retreat. Mighty throes, as of a
great people in its agony,convulse its very depths,
and utter ruin threatens its shattered and dismem
bered form. For a space terrible is the strug
gle, and direful the evidences of the conflict.—
But soon even this is passed and its whole ex
panse broadens into the full sunlight of assured
prosperity.
A PEACEFUL SCENE.
And now gentle and abundant streams flow
across its surface, or down its sides, and here and
there form deep and placid pools. No longer is
its crush harsh and sharp, but soft and yielding
to the step. It expands into majestic form and
size, and its unruffled slope glides peacefully into
the valley. At its edges grow abundant flowers
and luxuriant herbage, while from its base
springs an exulting and abounding river flowing
ever onward to the sea,- nud lavishly scattering
wealth and happiness over all the land. Look
ing back it regards the scene of mortal struggle,
and lo ! it is radiant with the light of immortal
victory achieved in a glorious cause, while be
hind it still appear the forms of the fathers that
begot it, and who yet impart tiie benificeiice of
their early gifts. So do the fathers of our own
land from the heaven of their exceeding peace
look down upon us now, blessing us with the
blessing of Jacob ; even to the utmost bound of
the everlasting hills. Still from the serene
heights where their own virtues have placed
them, from the immortality in which they shine
like kindred stars, they watch over us. and tran
quilly waft their benediction over the land they
loved and for which they died. Happy are they
that we have not proved unworthy of the inher
itance they bequeathed to us. Heaven grant
that we may prove no less worthy of it in the
future. A.
From the Macon Journal & Messenger.
Central Baptlat Association, IHilledge-
vllle, Georgia.
Messrs. Editors:—This association convened
in our city oij the 25th instant, and was organiz
ed by tiie election of Dr. Brantly Moderator,,
and the Rev. S. E. Brooks Clerk.
The forenoon was occupied in the delivery ot
the introductory sermon by the Rev. Mr. Smith,,
alternate of the Rev. Mr. Butler who foiled to-
appear—the afternoon in reading letters from
sister associations, and reports from the different,
churches throughout this association.
The Sabbath day exercises will be long re
membered in this community. In the morning
I heard the Rev. E. W. WaVren, preach an able
and eloquent sermon in the 3Iethodist Church,
which had great effect upon the congregation,
and especially its members as was evidenced by
their generous contributions to tiie Missionary
collection.
At 3 o’clock P. M. I attended the Missionary
mass meeting at the Baptist Church, and heard
speeches from the Rev. Dr. Brantly, Warren, and
Sumner, and never witnessed more <}f the Spirit’s
power, and presence of God, on such an occa
sion. With a congregation of about thirty de
legates, and as many citizens, tiie evening being
unfavorable, the following amount was col lected:
For Domestic Missions $616 60
For Foreign Missions 87 00
Total $603 50
Just think of such a collection, in the line of
Sherman’s march.
This Church has about one hundred and
sevety-five 3Iissionaries in Georgia, who are do-
ag a great and good work.
Tl
he Association adjourned on 31onday morn
ing to meet in August, 1867, at Ramali church,
Putnam county.
The following resolutions of general interest
were unanimously adopted by the Association.
By Rev. L. W. Smith.
Resolved, That we have observed with pleasure
the action of the late General Assembly of this
State in making provision for the education of
the orphans and poor; and as this is a subject
on which not only all Christians, but every phi
lanthropist, can meet, we recommend it to the
favorable consideration, not only of our Associa
tions now about to meet, but to all Christian
churches.
The following, by the Hon. S. G. Lawson, of
Putnam:
Resolved, That we are pleased to learn that the
Western and Atlantic and Macon and Western
Railroads have discontinued the running of their
cars on the Sabbath day, and we respectfully re
commend the same course of conduct to the
corporations of the same character in our State,
as we consider all secular avocations, pursued
on the Sabbath day a violation of the command
of our Divine 3Iaster. Yisitor.
Who are the Discnionists ?—The Cincin
nati Daily Union tells a few truths, that the peo
ple ought to understand. The Union says:
Where do we find the spirit of disunion exist
ing to-day ? \Y ho are doing all in their power
to prevent the return of the “ era of good feel
ing” between the different sections of this coun
try ? Do we find the South plotting against it?
Are they protesting against the authority of the
Government, and refusing to recognize its de
mands? By no means. They admit that they
are conquered, aud abandoning slavery and se
cession, they acknowledge the national debt, and
ask us once more and forever to join the grand
army of the Union! It is the sectional disuniou-
istsof the North who stand in the way of a re
stored country ! They scoff at every attempt to
estore fraternal feeling, and jeer at the men who
rise above party to thwart the revolutionary de
signs of Congress.
The American Bible Society recently met and
recognized ten new auxiliaries, one in each of
the Stales of Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
South Caroliua and 3Iissouri, one in Alabama,
one in Georgia, and three in Iowa. Grants of
books were made, amounting to 10,278 volumes.
Five thousand dollars were granted to the Synod
of the Waldensian Church at Florence, for Bible
work among the soldiers of Italy.