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Newspaper Page Text• ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefferson. VOLUME XVIII. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24,1866. NUMBER 42. Ukfhli) jDtflligenffr. PUBLISHED DAILY AND WEEKLY BY JABED IRWIN WHITAKER, Proprietor. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Wednesday, October 24, 1866. . A Talk wlili Ike Badlral*. . prtjcle'undw the foregoing heading, from ^CicL we [hake ttye following extract, appears ' in the October number of Deliow's 1 levin v : . “-i\ word in concluSttSn to wliat are called l • Jtouthern. Radicals. There are such scattered through alCllurStales with greater or less pow Is it yoyr 'interest to keep upChose agitations Yopr JeqtlcTs jttsfceiye, it "they ctcf not tell you that you -qri in la s&afi, minority. You were not strong enough Je.! prevent secession. The wave went over-j-ofl, ' Y<m(, yjelded. Grant that you were wronged; £ranl that’ you suffered ; do you not mistake your renjeity*? • Those who opposed the old Revolutionary returned after peace and their children and ^hijdren’s children reaped the ghyics of that* efegh.' Even the property that had been seqt$s&r£d was restored. Your condition would have been much hutter than these. There arc stronger reasons Dow to ignore the past. r l'hcre is room eiumgh hi the country for all. We can all prosper, grey ri«Ii,- {mjl, pt cording to merit, share ]K>liticaI power. Better the friendship of your neighbor across Hie road or in the next county, than your neighbor in Boston or New Hampshire. You cannot success fully oppose an overwhelming public opinion. Insist u|kiii it, and sooner or later you go down Acknowledge Hie fact; graciously, manfully, gen erously, and intelligently; and you will be re ceived back into Hie family fold, and in a tew years all that existed ot strife and bitterness will lie things of the past, trifles light as air in the comparison of our harmonious Union and ac cord. We are not without hope. * * 1 Good and true men will look up. Hope will re vive, und •even the worst Radical, we care not who, will see the necessity of bending to the storm, if you have sinned, sin no more— - • While yet tlie lamp holds oil! to bnrn, The vilest sinner may return.’” There is much in the foregoing excellent ad vice that Southern Radicals should profit by. Where tl»- necessity for endless strife, endless war, la-tween men whose material interests lie in the South V Do the few radicals who inhabit and intend still to inhabit the South, expert to gain anything hv a persecution of their so-called /■</*./ neighbors-' Do they anticipate more of prosperity and more of peace by the sia-ial and political elevation of the negro and tin* disfran chisement of the while man, than they would enjoy were the status of the two to remain as it now is? Do they indulge the vain imagination that by alllliftting with that Northern party which seeks to oppress and disgrace the South, their condition socially and politically will he improv ed? If they do, time will demonstrate the delu sion under which they labor. The desire of the great mass of the Southern people is pence with all within and without its borders. It is not true that those of them who believed in the doctrine of secession, and who did all within their power to promote the Confederate cause, are now dis posed. to persecute those who held to a different opinion, and whose conduct during the war was antagonistic to that of the secessionists. Willi the ending of the war,came the cud to secession, and with the ending of both, came an end, on the part of secessionists, to all strife. It is only when they have been assailed by some Southern Radi- ciil that they manifested, what is inherent in them, that self-respect and dignity which are sure to repel audacity and resent insult. They would live in peace with their r> alien l neighbors, but it provoked into strife, they know how to conduct and how to defend themselves, without the vio lation of any law, or of any obligation they have assumed, by reason of the results ot the recent conflict between the North and the South. The appeal, it we may so term it, ot the writer in De- !tow's Review, should, it it does not, have a salu tary effect. upon all Southern Radicals. We trust that it mav. Kvllgfoun Journalism. Northern religions journalism is thus portrayed by the Washington City Notional Intelligencer. We present the article to our readers, that they may see and understand how the term religion is prostitnted to base uses by those who profess but do not practice it, and liow corrupting have been the influences of the political preachers and journalists of the North; how intolerant, per verse, persecuting, bigoted, and wicked, they have become: For religion we have the most unaffected re spect ; tor the sincere professor the most hearty admiration aud esteem. But, by as much as we revere the sacred teachings of Christianity, and the character of its genuine votaries, by so much are we called upon to protest against its pervert ed applications anti Pharisaical exhibitions.— There is, in this country, a chiss of journals pre tending to he religious, and Lnsliluted lor the avowed object of disseminating religious truth in connection with the ordinary offices of jour nalism. Some of these do their work well, and are entitled to the public confidence ; others fall far short of their high profession, and bring re proach ti]Min the cause they undertake specially to espouse. They are eternally stirring up the muddiest waters of politics. They deal in the most offensive personalities. They pour forth the most envenomed partisan spleen. They un- lcrtakc to set the abstract principles of morality in opposition to those of constitutional govern ment, and in so doing exhibit an utter confusion of moral perceptions. They spare no epithets, however harsh, and refrain from no condemna tion* hbwever unjust Among these journals conspicuous stands the New York hulejwndent, especially under its re cent management. An article in a recent num- lier -strikingly- exhibits the spirit of which we coHydain. Christ lived under a notoriously evil goVefiat, who beheaded John the Baptist in thliUlment* o" Confederate Bondi*. Tue singular announcement below appears under a New York date of the 18th. We are frank to eon less that we don’t exactly under stand it, or what its publication means. But per haps the reader will: The following note, calling attention to the Confederate call loan, is sent to the editor of the Loudon News .- On the part of the Committee, I beg leave to say that they have the greatest confidence in the rebel promises to pay, provided they are per mitted to do so, anil they base their confidences not only on the information they receive from the South, but likewise on the testimony given by Gen. Lee before the Reconstruction Committee appointed by Congress. I trust, sir, your sense of justice and fair play will induce you to publish this testimony. I may further add that no such political blunder was ever committed by any statesman who had the restoration of the Union at heart, as com pelling the South to repudiate their debt, and especially this foreign debt ot i‘2,400,000, for which cotton was hypothecated. The result has been to retard the return of prosperity to the South, aud to ruin iheir credit in Europe. They required, and still require money lor tlic cultivation of their estates, to ena ble them to grow more cotton, tobacco and sugar, and repair their railways. They offered any terms, but that tatal word repudiation, although forced on them, has been the stumbling block of their obtaining a shilling. The committee believe that this fatal word, so far as the cotton loan is concerned, is destined shortly to lie blotted out, aud then the money markets of Europe will be again open for tbe promotion of Southern enterprise, and a new era of prosperity will dawu. On behalf the committee. [Signed,] Wit. M. Morgan. The Fortieth ( outreM. The Congressional elections this fall have re sulted as follows : Republicans. Democrats. Oregon I Maine 5 Vermont 3 t'enusytvauia IS « Ohio IS S Indian* S 3 Iowa G Total 57 12 Vermont has oue representative yet to lie chosen, who is set down as Republican; aud there is also a contest in the twelfth district of Pennsylvania, whom we have enumerated as Democratic. These results show a Republican gain of two in Pennsylvania, and one Democrat iu Ohio. These are the only changes in the Representatives to the thirty-ninth Congress. The elections tor members of the Legislatures iu these Stati-s will enable the Republicans to elect United States Senators in Oregon, Maine, Vermont, Pennsylvania and Indiana.thus giving them a gain ot two, in place of Nesmith, of Ore gon, anil Cowan, of Pennsylvania. A City with a Future.—A correspondent writing from the West says Kansas City. Mis souri, will soon be a city of 100.000 inhabitants. Its annual review of trade, as published in the annals of that city, showed a business of $6,011,- 800 84. Behind and commercially tributary to Kansas City is a grain aud fruit producing coun try larger than Hie Slates of Ohio, Indiana. Illi nois, Michigan, Iowa, and Minnesota, with no other outlet save through that citv. of a foolish promise. Yet the only pjtlict e^erapplied to llerod by the Savior of men was,.“ that fox.” The apostle lived under un imperial*regime, controlled by some of the worst rulers that ever cursed the earth. Where is the evidetTctrof u solitary denunciation of their character? Tfie : great truths of religion were preached to the people^ at the sometime that they were warned to “ obey the powers that Ihj,” and to “speak not evil of dignities-!’ .Christianity is a life, not a code of ethical maxims.! • It breathes not the spirit of the divinest charity. It deals not in fierce denunciation or in enveuomed speech. When it censures, it does so regretfully, and not in a spirit ot passion. It is utterly inconsistent with Christian character to be bandying the angy word and fierce invective so frequent in tlie war fare of polities. Nay, more; it is inconsistent with the character of a gentleman to be using t he alleged traits of tlie personal appearance of a political opponent us a setting for the cheap rhetoric and tierce slang of partisan hate. We ask the readers of the Independent to re concile it to Christian pretensions, if they can, fora gentleman to speak of the President of the United States as “ the basest citizen of the Re public.” Yet the Independent says, in a late issue: “ In the midst of the spectacle (the visit to New York) thoughtful spectators give secret thanks to God that the basest citizen ot the Re public, even though its Chief Magistrate, is una ble to destroy, but only to disgrace it.” Reconcile, it you can tbe amenities of ordina- society with the following utterance: .“But that stone-cut head, that deep-set and lascivious that hall-clenched fist indicate a man who ht he a hero among bullies, but can never be a champion of moral ideas.” What gentle man would so connect his partisan censure with another’s personal appearance. Again, the editor charges the President with the garbling of General Sheridan’s dispatches, and that without the slightest evidence; and not content with that bit of tulse witness, ac cuses the President of the crime of having “sup pressed the convention (Louisiana) by murder” and declares that “He was the iuspirer, the ngleader, the aider and abettor, the apologist, and at last the official concealer ot the atrocity,” and indulges in a ghostly paragraph about the President being accompaiued with a legion of unseen spirits, “impatient to confront him «t the last day.” Again we are treated to this precious morceau, “Touched with insanity, cor- upted with lust, stimulated with drink, let the President of the United States, &c.” All this may be adapted to a religious news paper, but in our opinion it is as utterly antag onistic to the spirit of religion as it is subversive >f the decencies of journalism. The President of the United States, “ the basest citizen of the Republic.” What will the impartial verdict ol his tory be upon such a declaration try a pious news- pajier; the President of the United States pro- uounced a “ trickster,” “ a hero among bullies,” “ the iuspirer,” aud “ the ajiologist of murder.” And all because he will not endorse negro suf frage, and assume the functions of the courts by 7 forcing trials where the Chief Justice declines presiding! The Independent claims to be, and by some is regarded as a religious journal. It abouuds in hired puffs, printed in editorial type, to mislead the unwary. Its columns are filled with “quack advertisements.” Nay more, it publishes adver tisements which are an inducement to public profligacy and immorality. It has led its credu lous readers to more unfortunate investments in bogus oil and other stocks than any other news- pajier in the land, and thousands are now cursing the tolly that prompted them to trust its seduc tive assurances. It exhibits more partisan ran cor and more unbridled license of vituperation tliau half the partisan press of the country. It misstates positions, slanders opponents, under takes to peer into motives, invariably assigning the basest to those it assails and the best to those it. lauds, and all in the name of God and for the sake of religion. From such mercenary craft and malignant self-righteousness may Heaven deliver us. We trust tor the sake of Christianity aud the honor of the newspaper profession it will either mend its ways or change its profes sion. The President’s Position The New York Times, Raymond’s paper, pub lishes a letter troin its regular Washington cor respondent., containing expressions iu regard to the President and the result ot tlie late elections, which are no doubt in tbe main correct. We know Andrew Johnson, and believe that he will do pretty much as the Wasliington correspondent predicts; “Every few days since the Maine and Ver mont elections the statement has gone forth that the President, convinced of the uselessuess of further opposition to the policy of Congress, was about to commend that policy to the Southern States, and thus settle the question ot the basis ot restoration. Close upon tlie heels of the earli est returns of the elections of Tuesday comes the revived report that the President sees “ the hand writing on the wall,” and will at once abandon his position. Now I do not speak by authority, but only make this statement from what I know of President Johnson’s firmness of conviction and tenacity of purpose—matters of which ant' one may soon be convinced who chooses to kuow Mr. Johnson—that he does not contemplate any abandonment of the position he has taken on the question of restoration because tlie elections have resulted adversely to his pol icy. Should there be any change at all, it will certainly not be manifested until after all tbe elections are heard from. But I am firmly con vinced. and this is also the firm conviction of in timate friends of the President, that there will be no abatement in the energy with which he will continue to urge his “policy," nor in the te- | naeity with which he will cling to It, even though j the Congressional plan should prevail in spite of him. This may not be' wise statesmanship, but I it is—Andrew Johnson. And if the public will j look back five years they will find the same ! elwracteristic feature of resolute energv resisting | the efforts of traitors to break up the Union that ■ they will now find advocating and urgiug his ! own plan of restoration, even though it be con demned by tlie emphatic voice of all the loyal I States. I Neither will the results of the recent elections , change the policy of the administration as re- ! gards removals from office. On the contrary. I the results are claimed to be confirmatory ot the ; wisdom of that policy. The fact is pointed to j that wherever the administration has laid its j hand it has been effective. i Patriotic Resignation.—The radical offiee- I holders, when notified of their removal and the ! appointment of successors, have a way ot writing J and publishing letters declining to hold office longer under President Johnson's administration. A good many of these letters have been printed, but in no instance has one appeared until after the writer had been notified of his removal. Significant. The telegraphic dispatch from Washington City, which we published on yesterday, headed “ The President firm to his Purpose," and which stated that “ there is no probability whatever of the President changinghis present position as to his restoration policy, as has been intimated in some of tbe papers,” is significant, coming so soon as it does after tbe recent elections in Pennsyl vania, Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa. The result of these elections, it seems, does not allect the President in his determination to stand by the Constitution of the country and restore the Union. Principle being embodied in liis “ pol icy,” why should they effect a relinquishment, an abandonment, or even a modification of it? Surely there is nothing iu these results that should move him to acquiesce in the demand the radicals make upon him to yield to their usurpa tions and intolerance towards tlie South, and nothing in their threats that should intimidate him. Andrew Johnson is not the man, if we correctly appreciate him, and wo think we do, to !>e frightened info tlie position tlie radicals require him to assume. Sustained as he will be by a majority of tbe whole people of the American Republic, lie will doubtless stand firm iu his de termination to restore the Union, despite all threats of impeachment and deposition. At the head of the executive branch of the Government —the commander-in-chief ot the army and navy of the United States—he too has privileges and rights to maintain, as well as Congress, and these he will maintain especially as against a rump Congress and its usurpations. Our confi dence that Andrew Johnson knows, aud, know ing, dare maintain his Constitutional privileges and rights as the Chief Executive officer of the Government, has never been impaired for a mo ment. This confidence is now stronger than ever. In our faith we have been confirmed. * Hancock Conrl-Nortbera Circuit. ’ We take the article .below froth (hie Mjlledjjf^ vifle Recorder, of the 16th • . * T ' . HANCOCK COURT. ! * This .court was held last week and all busi ness ready for trial was disposed of. To the credit of the count} 7 , there was no new criminal business. An idiotic looking young man was tried for horse stealing, hut acquitted, as tlie tact was not made clear. Most all the civil cases tried involved the ques tion as to wliat should be allowed for indebted ness incurred during the war, a difference of opinion in the construction of the State ordi nance having prevailed. On this point Judge Reese was very clear and distinct. He no doubt takes the right view of the question, and as much litigation may be saved by parties observing his rule in settlements, we reiterate the purport of wliat lie said. The jury must confine themselves to the “con tract.” Convention says contracts in the war must he settled “equitably,” aud “either party may prove in evidence the value of the consider ation at any time hut you must construe this according to the United States Constitution, which forbids the State to impair contracts ; and the Georgia Convention is only the State. So you cannot as a jury so construe their ordinance of November, 1865, as to impair the contracts of t he parties; that contract must govern you, not the ordinance or any notion of* years about “equity.” The ordinance only alters the rule of evidence, and that merely for the purpose of show ing by parol evidence, wliat sort of money the contracting parties actually meant, and if they had no definite idea, then the jury may say what sort of money was probably intended by the par ties. The word “dollars” in a contract presump tively means “constitutional” dollars; hut now parol proof is admissible, to show you that the parties actually or probably meant “Confederate” dollars. If so, then the jury must reduce the coutract to gold and add the discount of cur rency. Horrid M*M*cre, The Rome Courier, ot yesterday, the 18th, contains an account of a horrible massacre, as follows: One of the most brutal massacres that it lias ever become our painful duty to chronicle, oc curred near Cedar Bluff, Cherokee county, Ala bama, on the morning of Monday, the loth in stant. Mr. Arthur Williams was moving with his family from Bartow county of this State, to Texas, and Sunday eveniug last camped for the night on the banks of the Chattooga river about two miles from Cedar Bluff. The appearances indicate that himself, wife and two little children were all sleeping on one bed that was spread out on the ground. When found about day-break on Monday morning, Mr. Williams and these two children were still lying on the bed, dead, and it on fire. They had been killed with an axe that was lying near, Mr. W.’s head having been literally split open, aud the children horribly mutilated—hut all seemed to have been killed instantly, as their bodies still remained upon the bed. Mrs. W. having received a terrible blow by the axe on her left cheek, destroying her left eye and breaking her jaw bone, with her clothes on fire, had rolled down the bluff to the water’s edge, and, when found, though speechless, was still alive when our informant left this awful scene. No clue is given to the perpetrator, except that a negro, hare-footed, called at a house a half mile from the place at about 10 o’clock on Sunday night and got a driuk of water. Tiiese tracks were tracked to the place, and Mr. Williams’ shoes being gone, tracks with shoes were found going from the place. We understand the negro was a stranger to the gentleman where he got the water. Bout well 0a Iuprarhmrnt. The late elections hive unquestionably em boldened the Radicals. They are now probably more thoroughly aggressive in spirit and design than at any time heretofore. Geo. S. Boutweli, of 3tassacbusetts. who distinguished himself dur ing the late session of Congress by bis unscrupu lous efforts to convict Jefferson Davis of com plicity in the Lincoln assassination, and I»y his virulent animosity i5 the President, was nomi nated by acclamation* for re-election by his con stituents on Wednesday last, at Concord, Mass. He appeared the aune night at a jollification meeting over the late elections, at Faueuil Hall, Boston. He was called upon for a speech, and complied, launchinginto a bitter invective against President Johnson. After some senseless twaddle about the duties of the President, he continued as follows: “And while as onPrepresentative of the coun try, I am in favor of an investigation into this t man’s conduct, who has allied himself to rebels at the South and traitors in the North [cheers] —not in any spirit o* revenge, hut in the proper spirit; and if it siiapl be found that this public officer is guilty ot toy violation of his constitu tional duties, then for one I should not hesitate to have him arraigned, and if guilty, condemned. [Cheering.] For fifteen months cr more the chief of this rebellion, held by authority under the power of th$ President, arrested under a pro clamation issued by the President, during these fifteen months tlic^Rrian, guilty of treason;aud suspected of the'iiitW infamous of crimes, has not been subjected to trial according to the laws of the land. v Why is it that he has not been sub jected to trial ? Arg. not the sacrifices of four years, the expenditure of thousands ot precious lives and three thousand millions of treasure, and finally the sacrifice by the hand of the as sassin of the martyred President of the country, sufficient in themselves to demand that he be tried according, to the laws ot the land ? We know also that through the South the laws of Congress have not beep enforced as they should be. Congress will look into this matter. The voice ot tour great States demand that Congress look into all these things. Justice must be done* The people of the country cannot afford to Jet suspicion remain up 'o! the Chief Magistrate.—* Pteterity will hold us responsible if we.allow a in an to disregard his constitutional authority.— Nothing in this case shall-be done lor jjarty pur poses! .We have been .disgraced by* this man.— He has by speefcirt&srifrled the co-ordinate party of .the Government.” The Nashville Union dt American, from which we take tbe above extract says, “there can be but little doubt that New England entire concurs iu the desire for the impeachment and removal of the President from office. Whether the Radi cals of the Middle and Western States will sup port this desire, and thus warrant the movement at the approaching session of Congress remains to be seen. That it will be taken into serious and [COMMUNICATED.] Stone mountain Female College. At a meeting of the trustees of the Stone Mountain Female College, consisting of the fol lowing gentlemen, to-wit: Rev. James McDon ald, Rev. F. Maddox, J. T: Meador,.Turner Gold? smith, H. P. Wootten, W. S •Hecondoh, E. R. Dean, B. F. Veal, LexVis Thntlin, W : . H. Yeal, J. L. Hamilton, 8. B. Wight, J. B. Stewart, and Thomas Johnson. The Rev. James McDonald was elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees. On motion, W. A. Moore, A. K. Seago, and Hou. Jared I. Whitaker, of Atlanta, were added to the Board of Trustees. On motion of Dr. Hamilton, the former com mittee on business were discharged. [COMMUNICATED.] ^ - Rome, Oct. 16tli, 1866. Editor Intelligcjicer: SfR: In ybur paper of the 14th, you announce the resignation of Gen. W. T. Wofford, member of Congress from the 7th Congressional District ; you also ask for an expression of public opiuion as to who shall he his successor. I regret exceed ingly the resignation ot Gen. Wofford, as he was a fair exponeut ot public sentiment in this dis trict, as well as a gallant man. I fully concur with you, that in selecting his successor pains should be taken to select a competent man, one ’who will reflect the true political sentiments ot this district; and as you suggest, for information as to who would probably be a proper person for Texas.—The New Orleans Times gives the re sult of an interview with Gen. W. H. King, of Texas, in reference to the condition ot things in that State: Gen. King states that the people are every where remarkably quiet and industrious, and that, in no period ot its history, have all classes of its citizens, engaged, as they are, in multitu dinous avocations, exhibited a more marked respect for law and order than they have done since the discontinuance- of the war. Agricul ture, commerce, manufactures and the mechanic arts engross the best energies of the entire popu lation, which, instead of being overwhelmed and discouraged by past events, addresses itself, with courage and hope, to all sorts of useful pursuits. He represents Texas as eminently a progressive State, possessed of all those elements of power, which, if no unseen disasters occur, will ere long enable it to take a prond and influential position in the great family of States. The State is thoroughly conservative in its politics, and pre pared "to maintain, with great unanimity, the policy of the President. Immigration to the South.—Notwithstand ing the persistent slanders of the Radicals to the effect that Northern men will not be toler ated in the South, the tide of emigration to that section is greatly on the increase. The New Orleans Picayune says, in a recent issue : “There is one aspect in which we view this immigration from Northern regions which is especially pleasing, inasmuch as it shows that the persistent false reports of tbe pestilential sectionalists of the feeling in the South toward Northern men, of the insecurity of their lives and property, the humiliations to which they are exposed, and the wide-spread combinations to injure and expel them from among us, have no effect on the minds of those who in great numbers, come to be with us. and to assist in restoring this fruitful Sonthern land to its for mer properous position.” A great trout, measuring four feet and a half in length, three leet around the body and weighing seventy pounds, was caught in Lake Erie, fifteen miles from Dunkirk, last week. It is believed to have been the largest trout caught in the lake in modern times. consideration and vehemently urged among members privately, it it does not assume the shape of a measure in the halls of Congress, is absolutely certain. The duties and rigiiYa ot the President in such a contingency, if the impeachment should be ac tually made, will throw upon him a responsibi lity ot the gravest character. The interrogatories which it was reported he had addressed to the Attorney General, a day or two since will then assume a shape to imperatively demand from him a decision. We cannot see how it is possible for the President to submit to an impeachment and trial by the fraction of a Congress. He will be compelled to demand an impeachment by a House of Representatives of all the .States as provided by the Constitution and laws, and a trial by a Senate composed of two members from each of the States,- the Union. Anything short of this will vioalative of both the organic aud statutory laws of the land, both of which the President is sworn to defend and ex ecute. He cannot, therefore, stand tamely by and see in his own person and station, usurpa tion and revolution proceed to the utter subver sion of the Government. When the time comes tor action—when the strides of this overshadow ing usurpation shall have reached that point which will demand of the President prompt and descisive action, the people of the Union will not be kept long in doubt. So far as the protection and defense of the Constitution and laws, and the perpetuation of the rights and liberties of the American peoplerlie in his power, they will never be deserted. ing next in order, the fdllowihg* resdhtttofT wasr offered ntkA‘urtammpudy adopted: Resolved, Thai tie 3te*v. H. C. Hornady be and he is. hereby elected President^* this Institution and that Mr. T. W. Chandler be elected Corres ponding Secretary. - On motion. Judge J.-B* Stewart, J. L. Hamil ton, E. R: Dean, B.- J*\ Veal, and Turner Gold smith wYre appoinjeij to confer with the Rev. H, C. Hornady! and .’tender bital the Presidency. On motion; M&s$rJI< J'. “Wootten, J. I. Whit aker, W. A. Moore, Thomas Johnson, B. F. Veal, W. S. Herondon, and J. B. Stewart, were ap pointed, by the Chaff-a committee to whom all matters ot business should be referred. On motion, the‘Atlanta, and all other papers throughout.thfc^ State be requested to give this publicity.- James McDonald, Chr’m. F. W.,QuArles, Secretary. Stone Mountain, Oct. 13th, 1866. The election of a President! *#d Beprela(y he-' iGen. Wofford’s successor, 1 would respectfully Nashville-^Threatened Uprlilng; or tbe Ne groes. The account below of an excitement and threatened outbreak among the negroes at Nash ville, is copied from the Dispatch of the 16th: The city was alive with rumors yesterday afternoon to the effect that a negro insurrection was imminent. What produced these rumors was a very perceptible excitement among the colored population, arising front the fact that a few nights since a lot of negro vagrants were taken out of the workhouse and sent off to some point in Mississippi to work on a planta tion. It appears that some gentleman owning a large plantation in that State was very much in need of field hands, and selected a supply from among the vagrants in the workhouse here. The latter, it is averred, were consulted on the subject, aud on condition of being released and receiving stipulated wages for their labor, cheer fully agreed to go. On Friday night about 8 o’clock forty-five were taken out and transferred to the depot, from whence they were “toted” by rail southward to their destination in Mississippi. A large portion of them being hoys, their pa rents and friends here, on learning of the affair, became indignant, and insisted that compulsion was used in sending the emigrants off. The negro population generally soon got wind of the matter, which produced no little commotion among them. General Lewis, Com missioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau, on hearing of the matter, at once ordered a thorough in vestigation, and yesterday Judge Lawrence was busily engaged in making inquiries and eliciting testimony from the friends of some of the par ties sent off. A delegation of negroes waited on Secretary Fletcher yesterday morning, and strongly protested aginst the emigration scheme. In the afternoon rumors of an insurrection be come so rife that Secretaiy Fletcher sent a note to Mayor Brown, stating that prudence would suggest that the police should be held in readi ness for any emergency that might turn up. No trouble occurred, however, nor is there like ly to be any. Gen. Lewis will probably decide to-day as to what action shall be taken in ref erence to the vagrant emigrants. Forney’* Opinion of President Johnson One Tear Ago. On the 27th of September, 1865, John W. Forney, the infamous editor of the Philadelphia Press, expressed himself in his editorial corres pondence with that paper, in the following terms respecting President Johnson, whom h« now so unscrupulously abuses: Each President, in my remembrance, has had peculiaritities. Mr. Pierce, for instance, was a most courteous gentleman. Buchanan was, in manners as in heart, an iceberg. Mr. Lincoln was genial, but it is said that, towards the last, he was at times irritable. There is no wonder in this. Four years in the white House would irritate an angel. But, so far, Mr. Johnson is successful in his endeavors to please all. He, I believe, generally receives standing, but in a minute or two requests yon to be seated. He listens with no sign of impatience, and makes business like replies. There is no attempt to impress yon with the grandeur of the position. Easy and agreeable, you at once feel at borne. There is no reticence.' He may ask yonr opin ion on the great questions of .the day, and frank ly he will tell you his own. Beyond all ques tion he is honest, patriotic and most anxious to see peace, prosperity and happiness once again in all parts of oor wide country. The only ap prehension I have is, that his natural goodness of heart will be imposed upon by the false friends and flatterers always hovering aronnd power. Yet I have no doubt, if the time shonld come, and 1 think it will, when he should be stern and unyielding in what he conceives to be right and best, he will show that he some, ‘ ‘ ’ [COMMUNICATED.] Tbe Penitentiary. ' The announcement recently made in the pa pers of this city, that the committee charged with the selection of a new site tor the Peniten tiary, had selected Stone Mountain, appears to have been premature. No decision has yet been made by that committee. This is fortunate, for it gives the mechanics of Atlanta an opportu nity of expressing their views in regard to this matter. Every sensible man knows that the number of convicts, black $nd white, will soon be very great. In two months they could supply more rock than would be bought in a year. As a con sequence, they must, to a large extent, he em ployed in mechanical trades. The same result will follow in Atlanta (as Stone Mountain is a suburb of Atlanta) which has occurred in Mil- ledgeville. The mechanics will be driven out; convict labor is cheaper than any other labor.— Let the mechanics of Atlanta remonstrate against the location of the Penitentiary at Stone Moun tain. Let it be put at some point, and the con victs be engaged in some work, in which they will not interfere with the honest mechanics. Why not put the Penitentiary on the State Road, at some central point of the road. They could be used in keeping up the track, straight ening curves, getting out and dressing rock for stone bridges, burning lime, &c., without mate rial interference with existing mechanic labor, and greatly to the advantage of the State. The committee will certainly not place the Penitentiary near this city in opposition to the wishes of a respectable portion of its citizens. Mechanic. [COMMUNICATED.] meeting m Henry County. At a meeting of the citizens of Henry county, held in McDonough, on the 15th of October, 1866, to take into consideration the subject of relief, the Rev. Smith H. Griffin was called to the chair, and Dr. F. E. Manson chosen secretary. The chairman having explained the object of the meeting, on motion of L. H. Turner, a com mittee of thirteen, one from each militia district, was appointed by the chairman to present mat ter tor the consideration of the meeting, who, af ter retiring for a short time, presented the follow ing preamble and resolutions: Whereas, In view of the devastating war which has swept over our county for four long years, laying waste most of our fields and con suming oui provisions, crippling our resources, and with our emancipation of negro slavery, ex hausting every means by which the good citizens of the State could pay their debts, we believe that justice and equality require that some plan should be matured by the Legislature, and carried into effect, by which the mass of our people could be relieved from tlieir present distressing condition. It is a well known fact that most of the debts contracted previous t” and during the war, that both creditor and debtor predicated their payment on the property of the country and the labor of negro slavery; these prospects have been blasted, and the means for paying taken away, therefore, the people are despondent of ever being able to pay their debts, and are con scious of the fact that it will require every ex ertion, and all the energy in their power, to make a competent living tor tlieir families for years to come, and moet especially after such a drought as we have had throughout the State; and with the exorbitant taxes levied upon us, both by the Fed eral and State governments, we have no idea that the present cotton crop will pay all the taxes and supply thi ■ deficiencies of the corn crop.— In view of all facta staring us in the face, we are inevitz bly compelled to appeal to the Legislature of the State for some means of re lief Therefore, Resolved, That we appeal to the Legislature ot tbe State to pass some measure of relief, as in their judgment may seem best, whether by ex tending the present homestead law, exemption law, or a repeal of collection laws. Resolved, That the Stay Law, passed by the last Legislature, afforded no sufficient relief, and that the people demand, at the bands of their Representatives and Senators, at the next session, of the Legislature, the passage of a relief law 7 that will give confidence and energy to the peo ple of the State. On taking the vote on the above, they were passed unanimously by tbe meeting. Resolved, That tbeproceedings of this meeting be pnbHshed in the Griffin and AtlantA papers, with a request that other papers copy. Smith H. Griffin, Chairman. F. E. Manson, Secretaiy. [COMMUNICATED.] Editor Intelligencer—A vacancy having occur red in this District, by the resignation of the Hon. W. T. Wofford, allow me to suggest the name of Colonel N. J. Hammond for that posi tion. It is unnecessary to speak of him; all know him to be a young man of much promise; and, should he be honored with the position, the people of this District will haven Representative of whom they may be prond. Jonathan. Tax on Incorporated Chan ge Bills.—We clip this paragraph from the M aeon Journal & Messenger of yesteniay; The Internal Revenue Tax Assessor has noti fied the various banks in this city that they will be required to pay s tax of ten per cent, on all moneys other than United States c orrency. paid over their counters. This will necessitate the refusal at the bank of all railroad and city mon- suggest a proper person to succeed him, who would prove entirely acceptable to this section I would therefore suggest the name of Col. D, S. Printup, of the county of Floyd. He was a prominent member of the Senate in 1860, and by his votes atnl action, although of Northern birth, proved himself a true Southern man, aud at the commencement of tlie war he raised a regiment at much personal sacrifice and entered the service; was with Gen. Bragg in his cam paign through Kentucky, and held several im portant positions, and upon the retreat of the army he was left at the Cumberland Gap to guard that post. The whole command was captured by an overwhelming force ot the ene my. He, with the officers, were imprisoned at Johnson’s Island until the termination of the war. I think, therefore, that a more meritorious aud competent selection could not be made tor a suc cessor to Gen. Wofford than Col. Printup, who will be likely to run in tills part of the district. Hoping that no opposition will he run against him. Yours, &c., S. at least, ol the mettle of him who sleeps beneath t eys, countylscrip, etc ; and*while tin’s money is tbe sod of the Hermitage. j as good, if not better, than U nited States _ T . , . *• _ I enrrenev, it cannot be used forbankieg purposes. The Legislature meets on Thursday, the first j Our merchants will take notice of tb® feet, and 1 retain this plage of u^oney for local t^e. day of November. The Torch aud Turpentine. Our readers are not unadvised that for several weeks a little party of Southern doughfaces, styling themselves “ Union men,” have been peregrinating through the Free North, with their mouths full of misrepresentations and lies, feeding the fires of radicalism, and doing what ever they could to keep up strife aud hatred to this section, and to throw obstacles and difficul ties in the way of restoration and harmony- These poor, miserable agitators—for they are nothing else—having traversed the whole North ern circle, close their labors with a long address to the people, in which they announce the pro gramme for the future war upon the Southern States. This address is a compound of false hood and impudence worthy its distinguished authors, at the head of whom stands Jack Ham ilton, of Texas. We have no disposition to oc cupy our space with such stuff, nor to practice an imposition upon the reader by presenting it for liis perusal. It is right, however, that the main points and leading features should be published, that it may he seen and understood what these political malungons are driving at. Of them selves, they arc not of the least importance, bnt they have been cheered and toasted by frantic mobs in the Free North, and that fact we sup pose gives some little significance to their pro- nunciamento about which we are talking. We copy into the Intelligencer as follows: We have expressed ourselves strongly in this paper because we feel deeply. The bones of onr dead are in Sontliern graves. Our homes are there. AH the clustering recollections of our childhood are connected with the soil from which we are called upon to exile ourselves. Men of America! we cannot reconcile ourselves to the fate in store for us, should we be deserted by you, and we will not believe that yon are capable of betraying ns. The ideas which we wish to have crystalized in your minds are: 1st. That the usurpations of the President eannot be repudiated by legalizing them. 2d. That the rebels cannot be kept out of power by giving them absolute control of the late rebeuious States. And, 3d. That loyal men cannot be secured in any of their rights while officers in the States where they live, from governor down to constable, are rampant rebels. • We know that the views herein expressed are indorsed by almost all of the Union men of the South of all races; and iu order that there may he no misunderstanding as to what we wish to have done, we repeat that we ask Congress to pass a law providing for tlie establishment of le gal civil governments in the non-reconstructe^ States, and that the said law shall embody the following ideas: 1. That, no man who took part in the rebellion shall be permitted to vote or hold office, at least until he shall have complied with such condi tions as Congress may see fit to impose. 2. That all loyal men, without respect to color or race, shall he permitted to vote. 3. That wherever it may be needed, a local military force shall be organized, consisting sole ly of loyal men, aud that the expense of organ izing, equipping and maintaining said force,shall be defrayed bv that portion of the community whose conduct renders its presence necessary. Appealing to all patriots to see to it that the fruits of victory are not lost at the eleventh hour, and that those friends of the nation who moat need its protection shall not be the first abandon ed, we respectfully submit our cause to the American people. Albert Griffin, Alabama, A. J. Hamilton, Texas, J. D. Newman, D. D., Louisiana, J. W. Smith, Tennessee, Jesse Stencil, Texas, Western Flint, Missouri, J. H. Bingliam, Alabama, II. Bokum, Tennessee, C. E. Moss, Missouri, C. EL Branscomb, Missouri, George Tucker, Virginia, L. Sherwood, Texas, E. J. Davis, Texas, H. C. Warmoulb, Louisiana, P. B. Randolph, Louisiana. The Radical Outrage at Baltimore— We published a paragraph a few days ago, cop ied from a Richmond paper, in reference to an attack, by radical ruffians, upon the Baltimore Transcript office. We copy below the Tran script's own account of the matter, written by the editor; . As we were engaged in our editorial sanctum, which adjoins the composing room, we were startled by a cry from the compositors of “ here they come,” followed by the hurrying of the men to the egress on North street. Rising and entering the composing room we were confront ed fay four men, two armed with large knives and two with revolvers, one of which was in- etantay pointed at us, while the two men with knives proceeded to cut the cords which sustain ed the American flag. This was quickly accom plished, ,wben the fourth man, who had stopped in the doqrway with revolver in hand, exclaimed, “ Let useiean out tbe bloody concern,” to which one of the others replied, “ no, let us get out of this ” which very reasonable advice was follow ed, and in less than it has taken us to write it the four ruffians disappeared as they came, by the back 9tairs. T!>e damage to onr office con sisted in the upsetting of two cases and tbe breaking of a pane or two of glass; but the out rage was great and unpardonable. The National Expbess,0ompany.—We find the article below in reference-,to this company, in the Richmond Times, of Tuesday: The many friends ot this enterprise will be interested to learn the action of the stockholders at their recent meeting in this city. In the first place it was determined to reduce the capital stock of tbe company from $4,000,000 to 1,000,- 000 thereby reducing the par value of each share from $100 to $25. It is believed that all of the stockholders will be willing to pay up to this ex tent If such should be the case the amount thus paid in will pay all of the outstanding debts of the company and enable it to proceed unin terruptedly. It was further determined by tlie stockholders meeting to issue $600,000 of new stock on which tbe company guarantee a dividend of eight per cent. The money raised upon this stock is to be invested and held as a fund to meet accidents and emergencies. The company are sangtpne of eventual success. Life Leaven. The day, with tts sandals dipped in dew. Has passed through the evening's guidon gates, And a single star iu the cloudless blue For the rising moon in silence waits ; While the winds that sigh to the languid hours A lullaby breathe o’er the folded flowers. The lilies uod to the sound of ihe stream That winds along with lulling flow. And either awake, or half a dream, I pass through the realms of Long Ago; While the faces peer with many a smile From the bowers of Memory's* magical Isle. There are joys and sunshiue, sorrows and tears. That check the path of life's April hours. And a longing wish for the coming years* That hope ever wreathes with the fairest floorers ; There are friendships guileless love as bright And pure as the stars in halls of night. There are ashen memories, bitter pain, And buried hopes and a broken vow. And an aching heart by the reckless main. And the sea-breeze fanning a pallid brow ; And n wanderer on the shell-lined shore Listening for voices that speak no more. There are passions strong aud ambitions wild. And the fierce desire to stand in the van Of the battleof life—and the heart of tlie child Is crushed in the breast of the struggling man. But short are the regrets and few are the tears, That fall at the tomb of the banished years. There is a qniet, and peace and domestic love, And joys arising from faith mid trulh. And a truth unquestioning, far above The passionate dreamings of ardent youth ; And kisses of childreu on lips and cheek. And the parent's bliss which no tongue can speak. There are loved ones lost! There are little graves In the distant dell, 'neath protecting trees. Where the Btreamlet winds, and the violet waves. And the grasses sway to the sighing breeze; And we mourn for pressure of tender lips, And the light of eyes darkened in death's eclipse. And thus, as the glow of the daylight dies, And the night’s first look to the earth is cast, I gaze, ’neath those beautiful summer skies, At the pictures that hang in the hall of the past; Oh, Sorrow and Joy, chant a mingled lay When to memory’s wildwood we wander away! Store Particulars of tlie Loss of tUo Eve* nine Star. On our first page this morning we publish a short article about the loss of tlie ill-fitted Eve ning Star. We find the following additional particulars in our Eastern exchanges, to hand yesterday: About midnight it began to blow 7 a hurri cane, with a very ugly cross sea. The ship was lying in the trough of the sett. Tlie night was dark, fearfully dark; nothing but the most solid and gloomy darkness all around; no news to cheer; nothing to remind the terrified passenger of the deep sea over which he rode hut the foam of the spray which fell in showers on our decks. At this time the hurricane was so terocious, and the steamship so completely at its mercy, the captain was obliged to send the women and all below, and lock them iu the cabin. “We were now about 240 miles northeast of Machinilla Reef, and 180 miles from laud, and from this time till she went down she never changed her position. At 3 a. m. Oct. 3d, we commenced bailing the ship from the engine room and after cabin, at which the women help ed with all their might, and with all their strength of frenzy and despair. About four a. in. the starboard rudder chain got out of gear, and the wheel-houses were washed overboard. At 5 a. m. the engine was entirely disabled, in spite of the superhuman exertions of the chief engineer and liis assistants. The increase of the water in the ship’s hold soon drove the men from their duty by the cargo shifting aft. The hurricane was all this time blowing with a fury which was fearful, terrific, and appalling ir« the extreme. At about 3 o’clock a. m., the captain went into the cabin and notified the passengers that he had done all in his power, and that the ship would certainly go down. Some of the seamen were at this moment assisting in getting the boats free from their fastenings. The captain was exhort ing the passengers to act coolly. The storm continued to howl in the most fear ful and deafening manner, and now came the most thrilling moment of onr trying time. TL'? wotneo, shrieking frightfully, rushed on dct-K in the most frantic manner, tearing their hair, and in many ways acting more like lunatics than be ings endowed with reason, which at this moment bad certainly abdicated its throne. The men were equally as violent, though for such a scene it may have been worse. The women com menced divesting themselves of their clothing, and madly and wildly plunged into the foaming surf] never to rise to its surface more. The cap tain and crew tried their best to prevent this, but to no avail. Despair controlled their actions, and rather than face a lingering death many of them voluntarily sought that grave which opened with such fearful jaws to receive them. Nearly all the while these fearful scenes were being enacted, which was about 6 a. in., the ship took a heavy lurch and was settling. A heavy sea boarded her, and with one fearful, continued lurch, down she went, and all was over with the Evening Star. Influence of Railroads upon Lands and Property. The Engineer of the Alabama Central Rail road who made, several year since, one of the. ablest reports ever published in any country, gives the following striking illustration of the effects of the railroad, upon the habits, manners, enterprise and wealth of the people of the in terior. “In 1837,1 was engaged on the Georgia State Road just then commenced. I there became ac quainted with the people along that road—their habits and their means. Beyond their actual wants for food they raised nothing at all. The men moped around and shot at a mark. The women seemed to do but little, whilst their chil dren poorly cared for, sauntered about from place to place, as if their highest thoughts were bent upon catching rabbits, possums, or some such small game. What was the use to work when it would cost them two dollars per bushel to get their wheat to market and then only get one. In 1857, I went back again and what a change! The rivers were the same; the Keuuesaw Moun tain had not changed—the “Crooked Spoon,” still rolled along—the men and women that, once I knew were there—the boy3 had grown to he men and the girls to be women but their mien was changed. The old men stood erect as w ith conscious pride they looked upon tlie waving fields of grain. The matrons busied themselves about their dairies and looms, whilst the sturdy boys were grappling with the plough. What has. brought this change about ? Listen for awhi}e and you will hear the iron horse come storming along. He stops at a station for fuel and water _a man gets off the train. He is a Charleston mau °r perhaps the agent of the Montgomery ifijia The cars go on and he goes to the house. He carets the farmer—they have met before.— His business is to buy his grain. Strange, but true, that the demand tor wheat shonld be so great as to induce the merchant to buy at the farmer’s door. He offers $1 50 per bushel cash, for his crop, and will furnish the sacks to put it in. That won’t do. Savannah was here yester day and Columbus the day before, and they of fered more. Here is the key to this change.— This solves the mystery. The great State Road —the iron horse—the dollar and a half per bushel, cash, tells the tale. This is literally the truth as any one can ascertain by inquiring of the men that know.” Political Parsons. The Chicago Times has a well-timed article upon the gross impropriety of prostituting the pulpit to the propagation ot political ideas and the promotion of party ends. We make a short extract * There is not a preacher in the country who has made himself notorious by dabbling in poli tics, who has not employed language in the pul pit as profane and vulgar as that which w e bav e quoted The contemptible vanity which makes this class of men itch for applause, and spurs them to the discussion of political questions, prompts them also to resort to the artifices ot the demagogue, and to attempt to create a sen sation by profanity. The business is demoral izing and congregations are taught to speak of God with a flippant irreverence, which must di minish respect for His character. Let Demo crats withdraw their feet from political churches, and their support from Black Republican dema gogical priests, and it will not be long before we shall have much more of religion in our politics, while there shall be nothing of politics in our religion. Got Whipped.—The Canton, Mississippi, Mail says that a Northern cotton planter, about the only man in Madison county who rejoices in being classed as a Radical, undertook, the other day, to whip one of his freed men, and got sound ly whipped himself. He says the Civil Rights bill is an infernal humbug.

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Weekly Atlanta intelligencer. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1865-18??, October 24, 1866, Image 1