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Newspaper Page Text■J “ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefferson. VOLUME XIX. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 22,1867. NUMBER 21. UMlg jBtflliflfnrrr. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, ' Wednesday, May 22, 1806. Land Tax for the Present Year. Our attention has teen called by our fellow- citizen and representative from this county in tire last State Legislature—Col. It. F. Maddox— to an important provision in the “ Act to regu late the manner of giviDg in land for taxation,” Ac., which has doubtless escaped the attention oi most oi our land-holders, and which was de signed to save them much trouble in making returns of tbeir wild lauds beyond the counties in which they reside. It reads as follojvs: Suction V. All persons owning unimproved or wild lands la counties without the county of their residence, shall be required to make returns of the Mime to the Comptroller General or to the receiver of the county where the land lies.— Said returns may be made by ibrw&rding by mail or other sale conveyance to either of said ollicers a statement und r oath of the lands owned and the vaitie thereof, and when the rate ol the ad valorem tax has been fixed, and the collection of taxes ordered, the tax due upon said wild lauds shall be paid to that officer to wbom tiie return wuA made. Till? pI'UVloilH HCCi.itm ol* the not provides fur tin* return of improved hinds having a tenant or tenants thereon. These must he made in the county where tiic land lies. The same act provides also for the redemption of land sold for taxes in this wise : The owner to have the privilege of redeeming the same at any time within two years, l»y paying to the purchaser the amount ol his purchase mouey and costs, together with interest at the rate of ten percent, per annum thereon; or on making salislactory evidence of his titHVlrr the Comp troller General, he may receive‘the purchase money, leas the amount of taxes due thereon aud the cost expended in collecting said tax. Since writing the foregoing, we have noticed a circular address'id by the Comptroller General to the several Receivers of Tax Returns in the Slate, in which he constitutes each of them his ageifl for receiving returns of vacant or wild lands, sending them also separate Digests for that purpose. The returns, therefore, may be made in any county to the Receiver thereof, in- stead of the party transmitting them to the Comptroller at Milledgeville. Letter from Derrlt Siultli. In the New York Egress we notice the fol lowing letter from Gerrit Smith to the President of the United Slates : Petkkuoho’, N. Y., Aug. 24, I860. I'rt sulent Johnson : I Ignored Sir—I have this clay subscribed a memorial to yourself, in behalf of Jefferson Da vis. 1 have donu so with great satisfaction, for 1 deem his very long confinement in prison, without, a trial, an insult to the South, a very- deep injustice to himself, and a no less deep dis honor to the government and the country. 1 trust that Mr. Davis may either have a speedy trial, or las admitted to bail. There are many men who have no sympathy with his political views, and who opposed slavery as strenuously as he upheld it, that w’ould eagerly become his hail. 1 am one ot them. Your obedient ser vant, Gerrit Smith. Commenting upon the loregoing letter the same paper appropriately remarks: “It is im possible not to respect and honor the manliness of a letter like this. It shows that there are those in the original Abolition ranks who see that there must be an end ot war, revenge, blood shed and revolution. With the South hungry, starving, poor and dependent; with slavery prostrate aud slaveholders ruined in their for tunes, men like Gerrit Smith are content aud de sire for the future no more strife, no more malice, no more stripes and imprisonments. It is mar velous that all men do not leel the same way.— There is usually enough ot generosity in man kind to be content when they see an enemy stuck to the ground without binding him there, hand and foot—but the Radicals seeiu just as eager to strike a wounded iniiu as one able to defend him self. They add the worst refinement of studied cruelly to their admitted ability to do the great est possible damage to those they hold under foot.” There were other prominent Northern Aboli- tionis's who labored long and earnestly for the release ol Mr. Davis, some of them, too, for liis release without trial. The Southern people will long remember all such. A Sad Prospect Tor Louisiana. The New York Express publishes the following extract of a letter troui a merchant in New Or leans lo a friend in New York, dated May 4th, 1867: We are having registration here with a ven geance. Eight thousand tugroes registered to this time iiiul only two tlwusand whites! The prospect is we shall be ruled by negroes.” Says the same paper—"Is there any respecta ble man at the North who is willing to look at such tacts with indiflereueo V Can we, indeed, see our lellow-citizeus of the same nice and blood—some of them, in fact, brothers—reduced lo such a stale ot degradation, and not give them our aid in delivering them front such a condi tion 1 It we can. then woe to the future of our country.” Woe indeed to Louisiana if this predominance prevails throughout that State! And well may the Editor of the journal from w hich we have quoted invite his fellow-citizens of the same race jind blood as himself, to aid iu delivering that State from the woeful condition iu which it will tie plunged if left to be ruled by a nice inferior in all respects to the Caucassian, as is indicated in the foregoing extract from the letter referred to. It will become a Jamaica in all respects save name, w hen such tele shall prevail. Wilson's Threats. - The political veuture ot Senator Wilson iu the South, is not receiving much encouragement from the Republican jour ► itals ot his own section. Indeed, tiie only papers which approbate his course—his incendiary ap peals, tor they are nothing less—are the little radical concerns located here and there in the South. The tallowing is from the New York Times : Senator Wilson is reported to have said at a meeting in Augusta, that “ if, in Georgia or anv other State, any man is dismissed or turned out of doors by a rebel on account of voting, I will vote to confiscate rebel property.” We should le sorry to think that Mr. Wilson means just what .he says. It would ben very mean aud eouieoipu- Uile act for one Southern man to turn another out ot his employment tor not voting as lie might wish him to do ; but it would not be much meaner than it is for a Northern man to do the same thing. Yet we have reason to suspect that this, or something very like it, is done quite often by Northern mm—and that, too, without subjecting themselves to any such threat as that uttered by Mr. Wilson. Dbcaiilon and the military Act. Under the foregoing beading, we notice the following in the Charleston Mercery ol the 14th instant Referring to the advices from New Orleans, which state that the Times, Crescent, and Picayune newspapers of that city had received official warning not to publish articles reflecting on the Reconstruction act, the Mercury says: “If the military authorities had determined that there should be no discussion either in the press or in popular public assemblies of the peo ple, on the Reconstruction act, no one would have a right, perhaps, to complain. They were put over the Southern country for the purpose ot seeing that this act should be carried out Im partiality would be fairness. If discussion would produce dissatisfaction or contention, then stop discussion—discussion on ail sides—in the public press and in political assemblies. But to allow political emissaries from the North to traverse the whole South, and to harangue the black population at every Village or muster ground, in favor of the Reconstruction act, and lo flood it with political tracts, manufactured at the North for the same purpose—and then to turn round and say to Governor Jenkins, or the New Orleans press, that they shall not discuss the merits of this set. in the gn.Mt-ai tyranny. Such a course must take, from the enforcement of the Military act, even the semblance of choice or approval on the part of the South. All its contrivances of registry and voting arc entirely superfluous. A vote in a barrack, at the call ot the drum, would be far simpler, and just as efficacious, in Its manifesta tion of popular opinion in its favor. If the ob ject of the act, and of those who are in the South to administer it, is simply to get the act through, to promote party ends, perhaps this coarse may be just what we ought to expect; but if the ob ject is, really, to tuKe the sense of the people, and to effect an actual, not a sham, reconstruc tion of the Union over the Southern States, dis cussion on all sides ought to be permitted. Dis cussion on one side only, is the argument of the bayonet. “As the Supreme Court of the United States has thrown over the cases ot Mississippi and Georgia, lately pending before them, the Attor ney-General of the United States must give his opinion as to the extent of the registry required by the Mditary aet, aud it becomes the duty of our citizens to prepare for the elections which now is inevitable. For our part, we would have preferred that the wh jle matter, without discus sion or agitation, should have been left to the quiet administration of the Southern people.— But the Radical party of the North, will not allow the Southern people to manage their affairs in lheir own way. Their emissaries arc travers ing our country, in the fiendish enterprise of ar raying the black race against the white, in direct antagonism. What will be the future effect of this policy, tliey^eem not to care. That if car ried out, it will "%stroy the black race in the South, the experience of all history declares. It will be the duty of the Southern people, if pos sible, to prevent this catastrophe.” We have noticed, we are pleased to state, no official warning to the press of this military dis trict, emanating from General Pore, or any of his subalterns, as the one referred to in General Sheridan’s command. Perhaps the course pur sued, and being pursued by the Georgia, Ala bama, and Florida papers, may have saved them from any such infliction. Perhaps, which we think is actually the case, and we say this with the utmost respect for that officer and his official position. General Pope does not intend to inter fere with the papers of this district in their tem perate discussion of the reconstruction measures, nor to restrain them in it, when individuals from the North are traversing the South, haranguing the black and white population, urging upon them, not only the acceptance of those measures, which they have a right to do, but urgiug upon them, also, the formation of a party in the South, of which the negro is to be the chief element, and who is to be arrayed agaiust the white mau for the spe cial benefit of the Radical party North, which we think is all wrong,and will prove greatly de trimental in the end to the unfortunate race who, it is pretended, will he benefltted thereby. Thus far in his progress through Georgia and Alabama, on the part of Senator Wilson, it may be said, free discussion was tendered, and had his propo sition been accepted in Atlanta, we have not a doubt. Unit, in the presence of Gen. Pope him self, it would have been permitted without re straint’ What would he accorded, in “stump declamation,” ought not, in our humble judg ment, to lie denfod the press, nor do we believe it will in this military district. We say this much, not that in the political conduct of this journal, there is any intention, or even desire now, to discuss the merits, or pronounce judg ment, upon the reconstructions measures of Con gress. The time is past for that, and while our opinions in reference to them can undergo no change, other duties to our State—duties which we owe to our noble Commonwealth and her people—will demand most ot our attention. To the discharge of those duties we shall in the fu ture devote ourself, in the new era that is upon us and the people of the South. God grant that wisdom and patriotism uiay direct our course! MEMPHIS CORRESPONDENCE. [sraciAX. co the ismuGiscxs.] I on the stage, stand in awe when he speaks.— | Over sixty, and quita go&ty, he is not now suited -w , to many of the standard plays, but his percep tion thern Baptist Convention—Two Hundred Delegates I . „ . , . , , and Thirteen States Bepresentcd-Missionaries among : tl0ns of the characters which he represents, are the Jews—The next Meeting to be in Baltimore, May, so perfect, that in our admiration we lose sight of these failings. His engagement is for ten 1888—Bnsiness at a stand in the Bluff City—Rents Coming Down— Political—The Canvass Opened—Street Paring Commenced—City Railway—Health of the City —No Cholera yet—New Theory Relative to Rheuma tism—An Item for the Ladies--Edwin Forrest, etc., etc. The Future of thh South,—It is stated in a Washington correspondence that letters have been received iu that ■ *v from eminent citizens of the South, some of .hem from U. S. Senators elect, aud Irom Ex-Governors, full of the most gloomy forebodings as to the future of the South, politically and commercially. As to planting and farming, they say this year will be a lost year, because labor cannot be relied upon, pend ing the political agitation. They also represent that all the Southern States, with the possible exception of Virginia, will be re-organized under the auspices ot the Radical party, and in the in terest of that party. It is to be hoped that these gentlemen will find themselves mistaken. However, it might be for the present, and lor a year or two, no one can believe lhat the free uegro element will be per manently alienated from the support of Southern interests. In Virginia, Conservatism will be dominant. The State, when re-organized and represented, w ill stand aloof from all mere party associations. That will ultimately be the case with other Southern States. The Question.—The Richmond Times says iu regard to the riot in that city, a full accouut ot which appears on the first page of our paper this morning: This disgraceful ri.»t is but another proof of the evils resulting from the brutal teachings of j The failure such incendiary emissaries Irom the North as Couwav, Haywood, Hilton, Underwood, and • tiers,'who have lately pi dinted our city with their presence, and poisoned the minds of the negrot* by their violent harangues. Is it not ••me that such government-uprooting seutiments as these fanatics are in the habit of uttering, should be put a stop to by the proper anthorf- Wasuington Item.—The report that Secre tary McCulloch has ordered the stoppage of pay ment of additional bounties for the present is, as yet, without foundation. These payments only amount to a million dollars per month. The I fact i>, however, lhat the Treasury is laboring j under a temporary embarrassment, brought about by the following causes: Payments lor the last six months on account ot claims arising • >ut of the war, have very largely exceeded the estimates. The falling ofl in receipts of internal revenue has been greater than was expected.— f Congress to make provisions tor certain contingencies, aud the cutting down of others below what was really needed. It is ex pected that the monthly statements ol the public debt, for some months to come, will show a marked increase, while the coin and currency interest will make a heavy draft on the funds in the vaults ot the Treasmy. Memphis, May 13,1867. The biennial session of the Southern Baptist Convention, now sitting in this city, is an event of no small importance. The bringing together of two hundred ministers of any denomination of Christians naturally attracts attention, and makes an epoch in the history of a country not soon to be forgotten. Every Southern State is represented, and each by her most distinguished divines. I notice in the delegation from Geor gia the familiar faces of Rev. W. T. Brantly and J. J. Toon, Esq., of Atlanta. A resolution is under consideration setting apart Saturday be fore the last Sabbath in June as a day of fasting and prayer in all Baptist churches throughout the South. The question of sustaining the South ern Baptist Theological Seminary, at Greenville, Rnuth Dftrnlln*, Km Kmor» thoroughly diar>i){taA<] and the members of the Convention have shown their zeal in the cause, and an earnest determina tion to sustain the Seminary, by subscribing over $10,000 among themselves. A resolution has been passed changing their sessions to annual in place of biennial, and the next to be held in May, with the Seventh Baptist Church of Baltimore. The most retnarakublc part of their proceedings, so lar, is the resolution of liev. R- Furman, President of Furman University, South Carolina, to the following effect: Resolved, That it is our duty, as Christians, to labor and pray more earnestly lor the conversion of the Jews. The reverend divine spoke at length in sup port of his resolution, payhtg a high tribute to the Jews, and suggesting the sending of mission aries among them, as we do the heathens. Does he not know that they are the most intelligent and generally educated class of people iu the world ? However, the resolution was well meant, and was unanimously supported by the convention, several other members speaking in its behall.— Rev. Mr. Renfroe, of Alabama, took the occasion to remark that when he was about leaving liis home for the convention, a Hebrew citizen of his town, hearing that he had not sufficient means to defray his expenses, obtained the deficiency from his own people and gave it to him. This is but another instance of many that have come under my own observation ot the liberality of the Jews. I have long since changed my no tions ot their penuriousness and love ot gain, for respect for their indomitable energy and perse verance in placing themselves above the reach of want—a duty which every mau owes himselef— and their cheerful liberality in filliug every de mand made npon them by charity. Business is about as flat as you can imagine.— There was considerable stir in the cotton market a week ago, caused by the sudden rise, but with little ot the staple in the city and now arriving, the field in which to operate was so small that it soon subsided. Rents are falling. As a general thing the reduction, is 38} per cent., but in many instances it is more than that. The true remedy lor the exhorbitant high rents, heretofore charged in this city, Jias at last been brought about by the number of buildings exceeding the demand. Business houses are being daily closed, “ To Rent” posted on the door, there to remain until our impoverished section gains her wonted strength and thrift New buildings, however, are going up, capitalists being encouraged by the fact that people—always ready to welcome any thing new—will leave their stands for new and more showy ones, which a profuse quantity of paint and the modern “ ginger bread ” style of architecture gives. The local politics of the State are demanding more attention than they have since the surrender. The conservatives have gone to work in earnest to elect their candidates at the coming election, to do which they are besmearing themselves with much of the filth of the dirty radicals.— Mr. Etheridge has started on his canva s ot the State, aod speaks in this city next Friday. West and Middle Tenuessee will un doubtedly give him a majority; how radical East Tennessee, where the largest number of votes will be polled (under the Franchise law) will go, remains to be seen. Great confidence is felt in his complete triumph and the downfall of the Brownlow oligarchy. Mr. Leltwich, for Congressman from this district, and Messrs. Smith, Able and Coleman, to represent Shelby county In the Legislature—all on the conserva tive ticket—will be elected beyond peradventure. The radicals are strong enough to hold conven tions and nominate candidates, and are doing their utmost to elect them; but the “ rebel ” ele ment is too strong for them, in spite of their Franchise law. Elect a conservative Governor, and this section of the State will not be disturbed as it is now, by having radical officers to admin ister the laws, as it will surely never elect such to fill these offices. I have said this much with out any reference to- the negro vole. It is be lieved that lhat will also go conservative; but it is impossible to form any correci judgment oi how and how many ot these poor, deluded crea tures will be voted. The radicals count largely on their votes, and some are of the opinion that they will obtain a majority sufficient to overbal ance the conservative whiles. The health of the city is good. Now and then we hear a case of cholera reported, but it gene rally comes from some nervous individual whose anxiety causes him to anticipate another visita tion of that dreadful scourge this summer and tall. If it visits the United States this year I have no doubt Memphis will be one of the suf ferers, and it is well enough our citizens should be alarmed in time, if it would only cause them to make the proper provision. This it does not do, and we may as well keep quiet and take the chances. A very prominent physician of this city has recently propounded a» original theory in re gard to the cause of rheumatism. He says it is caused by a poison which oollects in a little bag just under the heart of a person, and when the bag bursts or overflows it causes rheumatism.in the parts of the body to which the poison is car ried, and when it is transferred through the blood to different parts ot the system, the rheu matism changes its seat, as we notice in many cases. The Doctor claims that he has found this bag in some thousands ot bodies that he has dissected. An item for the wearers ot chignons, water falls, eta: A box of human hair recently re ceived in this city, irom Europe, smelt so badly on being opened, that parties around it almost fainted. It was found that the hair was impreg nated with myriads of little insects, such as has recently been discovered to be generated by hu man hair. Some inventive Yankee ought to be • able to produce a substitute for the original, and j thereby do away with this shocking practice. Edwin Forrest is drawing large houses at the new Memphis Theater, at double the usual price I of admission. I thought I had seen some veiy fair acting in try time, but Forrest's representa tions cannot be compared to any of it. He has certainly mastered the art His very supporters nights. J. B. L. [TCSX TOE ISTEI.I.IOESCBB.] Things in Memphis—Southern Baptist Convention—Its Origin—Receipts— Larce Attendance—The Grant IPreacher of the Day—General Porreat and Dr. Fnllei The Gayoso Hoase« dee., Ac. Memphis, Tknn., May 13,1867. Have you ever been in Memphis ? It is the great city of Tennessee; and if its progress be as marked for the next ten years as it was for the same number of years immediately preceding the war, it will contain a population of 150,000 souls. As it is, they claim about half of this number; and everything about the city indicates it to be, even in these dnll times, in a condition of healthy growth. I find in business here sev eral gentlemen who have emigrated from Geor gia. They all seem to he quite satisfied with their home by the great father of waters. I hear loud lamentations upon the civil disabilies under which they are now laboring, bnt there is no despair. The dislrancbised are not insubordi nate, whilst the conservative voters are hoping to dislodge, by the aid of Mr. Etheridge, the no torious individual who now wields the Guberna torial sceptre. The Southern Baptist Convention is at present in session here. This body, your readers may know, was organized in the year 1845, in the city of Augusta, in your State. It owed its ori gin to the refusal of the Boston Board of Mana gers of the Foreign Missionary Work of the Baptists, to appoint as a foreign missionary, any person who was a slaveholder. The Southern States said that if discriminations were made against slaveholders, they would retire from all religious associations with the people by whom they were thus censured. The result was the creation of the organization which is now hold ing its eleventh biennial session in this city— twenty-two years having elapsed since it was constituted. I am thus particular in mentioning the time of Lite origin of this assembly that it may be known that it is not the offspring ol pas- ion, begotten by the late internecine war. Notwithstanding the depressions of the times, and the fearful devastations with which the late Confederate States have been visited, the receipts into the treasur}', both for foreign and domestic purposes, have nearly equalled what they were in the most prosperous years of the past. This has been owing to the fact that Missouri, Mary land and Kentucky have so largely increased their contributions as to compensate, in a good measure, for the diminution from other sources. These “ border States” have stood up nobly to their Southern allies. At a meeting last evening more than five thousand dollars in cash and sub scriptions were raised, for the foreign mission work—upwards of one-half the amount being paid by the three Stales named. The interest in the work of the Convention is attested by the fact that the number of delegates in attendance at the present time exceeds two hundred persons, aud that all the late Confede rate States, except Florida, are well represented, and in addition delegates are present in con siderable strength from Missouri, Kentucky, Marylaud, and the District of Columbia. Without disparaging the merits ot the other ministers in attendance, and they comprise some of the ablest men of the denomination, I may be permitted to say that the great preacher of the Convention is Dr. Richard Fuller, of Balti more. Indeed, I have heard that the late Dr. Wayland remarked that as a pulpit orator he was without a peer on this continent. He preached on Sunday morning in the First Baptist Church in ibis city one of those sermons which, when once heard, can never be forgotten. The tears of his hearers composed the eulogy of liis discourse. When he finished large numbers crowded around him spontaneously to grasp his . , hand, and to thank him from overflowing hearts' driver, for the rich spiritual repast which he had provi ded. More than than thirty years have passed away since 1 first listened to the appeals of this fervid herald of the cross. He must now be in the seventh decade of life; but he preached to day with as much unction, and with as much vital force, as when I first heard him in the pul pit. The Memphis Bulletin of this date pro nounces the discourse to which i ltave just re ferred, to be, iu some respects, the most extraor dinary ever preached in Memphis. A pleasant episode occurred at the Overton House during the session ot the Couvention. Col. Brown, of Virginia, now of Tenuessee, gave a dinner to about fifty of the delegates at this house. The dinner was in the best style of the establishment iu quesliou. At one end of the table sat Gen. N. B. Forrest, at the other Dr. Richard Fuller, ol Baltimore—the former hav ing been invited by the host to meet his guests. I could not but think that they were representa tive men. Rebels, both, in the beginning of the war, and honest and ardent friends of the South, the Divine, being a citizen of Maryland, became thoroughly reconstructed (externally, at least) before many moons had waxed and waned, after the fall ol Sumter. But the soldier drew his sword and fought iu .a hundred bloody battles, giving up the cause only when overpowered ut terly. He is now, however, a true and loyal cit izen of the United States, and would fight, if ne- c ess ary, lor the stars and stripes, as gallantly as he fought for the stars and bars wh'en overhaul ing Col. Straight, and with five hundred men capturing nearly two thousand who were on their way to your city. Both were consistent The Dicine, as a citizen of a State which did not go into secession, did well, notwithstanding his rebel sympathies, to continue true to his flag. The soldier as a citizen ol Tennessee, was faithful to his convictions of patriotism and honor, when he rushed into tiie conflict and stood where the fight was thickest. Should any of your readers have occasion to visit Memphis, let me commend them to the Gayoso House, it they desire a hotel which may be pronounced strictly number one in every re spect. Clean beds, clean chambers, first-class fare, thorough discipline; in short, all you need iu a hotel, may be found at the Gayoso. In the reception office, yon will find Mr. A. E Sinclair, a gentleman who is as affable and courteous as he is handsome and graceful; and when you come to settle your bill, if you are as fortunate as I was, yon will be told, “ I have no bill against you—I am much obliged to yon for your com pany.” Besides enjoying the good thingB of this house, I also had the pleasure of sharing the .elegant hospitalities dispensed by Mrs. Tarley, widow of the late Judge Tarley, at her beantifnl villa in suburban Memphis. The Convention determined that hereafter they would hold annual, instead of biennial, sessions. I do not wonder at the change. We were so handsomely treated in Memphis, that some ol the delegates suggested that we make the body a permament institution, and continue in session throughout the year! Delegate. Brevities. Go from home if you want to hear the news. The Cincinnati Commercial oi the 11th says:— “Senator Wilson was honored with a torch light procession of black people, at Augusta, on Wednesday night, and spoke in Atlanta on Thursday. His audience was more largely com posed of whites than usual, and he was intro duced by a thoroughly reconstructed rebel Col onel. General Saxton, General Pope, ex-Govern- or Brown, and many prominent citizens, occu pied seats on the platform. The colored Re publican Union Club were on the ground, with transparencies, mottoes, Ac. A dinner was given him in the evening by Governor Brown. A publishing house in New York has given to the trustees of the Peabody educational fund thirty thousand volumes ot school books, in cluding five thousand of the Teachers’ Library. The value of the gilt is $25,000. Orders have been received at the United States Armory, at Springfield, Massachusetts, lor a large and immediate increase in the production of breech-loaders ol the latest model. The force ol workmen will be greatly enlarged, and the old muskets re-modeled at the. rate of five or six hundred per day. Washington dispatches state that Attorney General Star-berry holds the removal of civil officers, by the military commanders in the Southern States, to be illegal, except in cases where such officers attempt to obstruct the exe cution of the law. There is a negro in New Albany, Indiana, who is gradually turning white. And a good many whites in the South are rapidly turning black. John Minor Botts was excused from serving ontke grand jury at Richmond, on account of illness, resulting, it is supposed, from Under wood’s charge. The New York Freedman's Journal of last week, says: “Let us prepare to repudiate the Lincoln war debt! When we do that labor will once more make a good living for the laborers.” A list of the nominations made by the Pres iefont and rejected by the Senate during the spe cial session of the Fortieth Congress has just been completed. It has been printed for the confidential use of the Senate, but a copy has leaked out. The following are the numbers re jected for the positions named: Postmasters, 113; Collectors and Assessors of Revenue, 57, Sur veyors of Customs, 13; Collectors of Customs, 5; Indian Agents, 2; in Public Land Offices, 4; Pension Agents, 2; Consuls, 2 ; Consul Generals, ; Ministers to Austria, 7. The late frost did a good deal of damage in Tennessee. The Columbia Herald says: “The cotton that was up has gone down. Corn in the bottoms is badly bit, but will come out if well worked. The wheat—the crop in which we feel the most interest—so far as we can learn is un hurt.” A tragedy occurred on board the Nestorian during her voyage to Montreal. A lady, name unknown, embarked at Liverpool, and between that port and Derry, discovered her former hus band on board, ’ and was so seized by remorse that she sprang over the side of the vessel and was drowned. Peaches in the great fruit country of South ern Illinois are as large as walnuts already, and the!trees hang full. The rot &nd the curculio perinitting, there will be an abundant crop. It was a gratifying relief to an astonished hus band, as his amazed bride, at a recent crowded fair, suddenly dropped her arm from the shoul der of the “ handsome man of the parish ” and exclaimed, “ Why, John, I thought it was you.” A queer accident happened to a picture- frame vendor in Hartford, a day or two since.— He had his arms full of glass wares, when his fool caught, in the tilting hoops of a feminine who passed him under full sail, and over he went to the pavement, dashing the glass in atoms, and getting a bruised face. “ No blame attaches Arrested.—A man named Gillespie was ar rested at Savannah a few days ago lor hiring ont negroes without a license. As the cottou fields are covered with the plants, and corn in some sections almost ready to tassel, we suppose suggestions tocullivate less of tbe former arid more of the latter, might with propriety cease—at least lor this season. The National Intelligencer says : “Waiting for car otl a street corner recently, our ear was ta kere by a strikingly novel but highly expressive discrimination of classes. A cotiple of colored women were exchanging expressions of surprise at the conduct of some third person mentioned by one, the other thereupon inquiring: “ Was she colored or plain ?” “ Plain !” was the satis factory answer. Addison was not a ready talker. A lady once rallied him in his backwardness in- this respect. Madam,” said the essayist, “I don’t carry small change about with me, but lean draw on my lianker for a thousand pounds.” We don’t sec but he talked well enough then. William Lloyd Garrison was among the passengers from Boston yesterday for Europe in the steamer Cuba. Several of his friends went on board just previous to the sailine of the stea mer, and Rev. R. C. Waterson, on their behalf, made known, to Mr. Garrison that thirty thou sand dollars had been contributed, and deposited subject to his order, as a partial tribute for bis life long and successful labors in the anti-slavery cause. A British tourist, Lord Lome, is out with a book in which he says he found, “ Boston de testable.” The people seemed to him “ bitter, with a disposition akin to savages.” The Radical Convention of Ohio, to nomi nate the State ticket, will be held at Columbus, June 19. Tbe call declares that the plan of res toration of the Southern States which is now before the country, and which it is believed will be accepted by the South, in spite of the adverse counsels of the Northern Democracy, must be the leading issue in the campaign, together with the question of the fall enfranchisement of the negroes of the State. No good reason can be urged for the admis sion ot negroes to equal rights in tbe govern ment which will not apply to Indians, if “ the law should know no race,” the truism applies as well to the red race as to the black.—Palladium. Certainly! and to the Chinamen, Japanese and Malays! and by the time the radicals have “fixed tbe elective franchise ” to suit them, it will have become degraded and contemptible. The people of Pittsfield, Mass., in town meet ing, the other day, voted that a colored man could not be a member of a jury! whilst Sena tor Wilson, of the same’State, is traversing the South, and threatening a “ general confiscation” if the freedmen of the Sooth ore not admitted to a social and political equality ! Massachusetts evidently wants “ reconstructing.” “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is said to be still sell ing 2,000 copies per year. The original pub lishers have sold 312.000 copies of it in all, and counting foreign editions, it is probable nearly a million copies of this famous but deceptive and misleading book have been printed. It has led thousands of people, at home and abroad, to be lieve the Southern slaveholders were such brutes as the imaginary Degree. The war-cloud in Europe seems to be melt ing into the blue of heaven. Tbe Blot In Richmond. The Police Assaulted and Overpowered by a Mob— The Military ordered ont—Speech by Gen. Schofield- Threatening Attitude of the Negroes. The telegrams on Friday gave our readers a synopsis of the exciting events in Richmond, on Thursday. We take from the Examiner the following report, in detail: Yesterday afternoon, during trial of engines between tbe Deleware firemen and those of tliis city, on Eighth street, near the basin, a difficulty occurred between some of the colored men present and the Richmond firemen, which came very near resulting in a serious riot. It com menced in this way: Chief Engineer Charters had occasion, in measuring the distance which each of the steamers had thrown streams of water, to posh a colored man who was standing on the edge of the crowd, out of his way.— When he did so, a colored mau standing behind the one who had been shoved out of the way, reached over and struck Captain Charters on the head. He was seen by some of the firemen, who immediately closed iu,«and a fight, in which four or five persons were engaged, ensued. Two policemen were standing on the outskirts of the crowd, and immediately went in, and arrested the ring-leader in the fight Atter some little delay they started to the Se cond Ward station house with their prisoner. A large crowd of colored men and boys followed. When they reached the corner of Eighth and Cary streets, a.colored barber who has a shop in that vicinity, came out, and taking off a portion of the striped sign in front of his floor, waved it over his head and called out “freedmen to the rescue, now is the time to save your nation.”— He repeated this cry several times, and other colored men called ou them to “rally and rescue the prisoner.” When this was done, many of them provided themselves with brickbats, rocks, and such missiles as they could lay their hands on, and followed tbe officers up Cary street. On reaching Seventh, they turned up towards Main, but no demonstration of a forcible attempt lo resene tbe prisoner had been made up to this time. On reaching the corner of Main aud Seventh, some person in the crowd of colored men threw a brickbat, which was the signal for a volley of rocks, bricks and other missiles, at the police men. Captain William S. Jenkins, who had charge of the prisoner, was struck over the left eye and had quite a severe cut in consequence. Policeman Southall was also struck on tbe shoulder blade and disabled for the time. Other policemen had come up in the meantime, and many ot them were struck with stones, but not so severely hurt as to cause them to give up their prisoners. After Captain Jenkins received the blow, Captain Kelley, of the Third Ward, got hold of the prisoaer, and started for the station house. The crowd followed up Seventh street, but made no further attack oa the police until they got to the corner of Broad and Seventh.— Here they again commenced throwing stones and brickbats at the policemen, and prevented them, for some time, from going to the station house. The crowd of colored men had increased greatly during their passage up Seventh street, and, by the time they had gotten to Marshall street, numbered some thousand or fifteen hun dred. On reaching the Station House, they got between the officers and the door, and swore that the prisoner should not be locked up. The prisoner told them not to make a disturbance; he had no objection to being put in the cage, and said he was willing for the law to take its course. He was not listened to, but was taken from the officers aud carried with the crowd to Broad and Seventh streets, where they remained for some time. The Captain ot Police at the Second Ward Station House sent to Police Head quarters for re-intorcements, and his Honor the Mayor was informed of what was going forward. At tke same time General Schofield was notified of the presence of the mob in the streets, and ot their apparent intention. Mr. Mayo, immediately on hearing of the dis turbance, left his office and went to where the crojyd had assembled. On reaching it, he order ed those present to disperse and go to their homes. It appeared for a few moments as if his order would be obeyed. Many left, and it was thought that the matter was at an end. For some unaccountable reason, most of those who had started, turned back, and many new comers made their appearance. The crowd grew larger every moment, and it was feared that a serious riot was on the point of being commenced. Fortunately at this moment a company of sol diers from the Elaventh United States regiment arrived, and were followed in a few moments by General Schofield, who came in a carriage with General Brown, Mayor Mayo, and Captain Poe, Chief of Police. His vehicle was driven to the center of the crowd, and the General stood up on the front of it and commanded the crowd to disperse and go to their homes. He was re ceived with three cheers by the crowd, but his order was not obeyed as promptly as it should have been. The soldiers were then ordered to “fix bayonets” and disperse the assemblage. The order was obeyed with promptness and alacrity, and in the course of a very few moments not one colored man or boy was left where so large a crowd had lately been. Those who manilested an indisposition to leave were soon convinced by the application of cold steel and the butts of muskets that they were to go, nolens volens. The conduct of the police throughout the whole affair was of tbe most praiseworthy char acter. The fact that they refrained from using their pistols when assaulted with stones and brickbats, probably prevented a most serious col lision in the streets between the white and col ored people of the city. We omitted to mention that, when near the corner of Main, and Seventh streets, the excited crowd imagined that a boy named Irving had a slung shot. They attempted to get hold of him; and would probably have handled liim very roughly, but for taking refuge in Miss Bidgood s hoarding house. His brothers were with him, anti were taken to the station house for protec tion after the crowd had dispersed. Last night rumors that the colored men were assembling in force on Navy Hill and in the neighborhood of the factories iu the lower por tion of the city, were rife. The Eleventh regi ment was put under arms and kept in the city daring the night. Threatened Riot in New York. The New York papers publish a report, ac companied by details of a conspiracy alleged to be in active progress fora renewal, on a formida ble scale, of the riots which proved so disastrous in that city nr 1368. The alleged provocation is the execution of the Excise law, and the per sons engaged in the movement are said to be those most directly affected by that law. This information, it is stated, comes directly from the police authorities of that city, and its publica tion is authorized by them, as the best means of preventing the execution of designs which they know to exist. The Tunes says: It has been for a long time evident that the en actment and enforcement of the Excise law has engendered among the lower classes a feeling of hatred towards the police upon whom the duty devolves of enforcing Us provisions. Thi3 feel ing ot hostility has been eagerly fanned by sun dry politicians and liquor dealers, who hoped by this means to defeat the execution of the*Excise law. For several weeks past ti e disaffected popu lation in the different wards have held frequent' secret meetings at various po nts. At these gathe rings the language used bus been of the most hostile and bitter charac er. Speakers have al luded to the dreadful scenes enacted iluriDg the draft riots of July, 1863, with evident relish, as though they regarded 'hem as triumphs. The Police and the Excise Commissioners have been cursed and threatened w ith vengeance for their strictness in carrying out the provisions of the laws. A large number oi these liquor dealers who have been denied licenses have taken an ac tive part in these gatherings, and they have spo ken with strong resentment of the destruction of their business. In short, the meetings are de scribed as having b..en wild aud frensied In tbeir denunciations and threats of vengeance. Fully aware of these proceedings, the police commis sioners, through Superintendent Kennedy, have placed a select number of reliable special detec tives on the alert, and these officers succeeded in obtaining access to the meetings,in some instances taking active part in them, when they deemed themselves to be objects of suspicion. Tim de tectives have “spotted” nearly every prominent leader in the movement, and in some cases they have kept continuous watch npon their daily movements. The superintendent »f polifte has the names and residences of si! these ringlead ers, and the details of the entire movement me also folly known. ~ Fine china is always better than what is cracked up to be. Coming; Collision of Wim, There have been two negro riots at Richmond within the last ten or twelve days, and the com mander of that District, General Schofield, an officer of more than ordinary prudence and wis dom, found it necessary upon both occasions to use a portion of the troops at hand to suppress the lawless demonstrations. Similar manifesta tions have been made at other points. These things, which augur so badly for the future peace and quiet of the country, may be traced directly to the teachings and influence of radical emissa ries and of bad and nnscrupulous men, a few of whom can be found in almost every community, who desire to use the negro for the vilest and most selfish purposes. They are not the friends of the Black race, but, on the contrary, are lead ing them rapidly into trouble such as they have never encountered before, where they will leave them, upon the first indication of danger, to take care of themselves. We find an article on this subject in the Rich mond Enquirer, a portion of which we quote: The events which are transpiring around us, indicate a situation of peculiar delicacy and in vest the future with anxious apprehensions. The times require of us great prudence and self- command, in the presence ot the irritating ques tions that are thrust upon us. The tendency at this time seems very distinct ly towards a conflict of races. It is evidently the anxious effort of the agitators of the day to bring about this result. The negroes are plied with incendiary harangues, and are instigated to throw themselves in collision with the whites in every possible way. They are urged not merely to insist on equal accommodation, but to demand indiscriminate accommodation; to be rode in the same cars; to be seated in the same schools; to be accommodated in the same hotels, &a Where all this will end, no man can doubt; and least of all is it doubted by the instigators. It is their manifest purpose to bring about a conflict of races—in order to make a party use of the disorders to which it would give rise. It should be tbe earnest effort of the white race of the South, to disappoint this diabolical scheme. Let us bear ourselves with the most conspicuous prudence and the most exhaustless patience. And still more vital is it to the colored people to shrink from the encounter of races to which they are urged, and to withdraw them selves from the counsels of the bad men who would engage them in that fatal step. Let them delude themselves by no absurd calculations. If a war of races should be joined, let them not think they will receive any white support. When ODce the cry of black man against white man is raised, it will quickly be the blacks on one side against the whites on the other. The very white men who are now leading them to ruin, will de sert them when the storm bursts. How was it in the late war ? There were men at the North who encouraged the South to assert independ ence, with promise of support. But when war came, and when it became a struggle of North against South, these men deserted us, and took sides with their own section and people. New York Correspondence. The New York correvpondent of the Charles ton Mercury writes of Mr. Beecher’s new novel: Beecher’s Ledger story is already pronounced a failure. There was a great rush for the papers containing the first chapters, but those who read them say they are mere trash and twaddle. They do not even contain a particle ot the dash that makes Mr. Beecher’s pulpit efforts effective, and in the matter of construction they are sufficiently outrageous to make Lindley Murray uneasy in his grave. A school boy would be punished for such flagrant offenses against grammar as Mr. Beecher commits in every second or third paragraph. All the critics were ready to pounce on Beecher as soon as he gave them a chance, and he has given them plenty. The Brooklyn Union, which circulates extensive ly among Mr. Beecher’s congregation, says of the opening disqusition on New England, past and present, that it is “marked by singular even ness of platitude, and a well sustained lack of force or originality.” That is pretty severe, but not a whit more severe than the verdict of all the impartial critics. Mr. Beecher bad better stick to the pnlpit, and let novel writing alone. Bonner pays him $10,000 for “Norwood,” but won’t invite another story from the same pen. Sylvanus Cobb is a better story writer. He learned the business, and Beecher didn’t. The correspon lent attended the meeting cf the Anti-Slavery Society, and says of that gather ing : I stopped writing about an hour ago. to go to Stienway Hall, where Wendell Phillips and Anna Dickinson were advertised to speak ou “the political situation.” Fifty cents and a piece of red pasteboard brought me into the presence of a pretty thoroughly mixed crowd. About fifty persons were on the platform. They seemed to be equally divided in sex and color. One half of the women who were not black were dressed as Quakeresses. They looked ancient and friendly. Half ot the white men had thin laces, long hair, and a lunatic-asylum expression about the eyes. The negroes and negresses were comfortably sandwiched between the pale faces, long bonnets and drab cloaks. My eye went round tbe platform in search of somebody that might be Miss Dickinson, but came back with out finding its object. Phillips was speaking about tbe next Presidency, and I was just in time to hear him say that if the Republicans elect “a man of no ideas like Grant, filty per cent, of what was won by the war will be lost,” and if they elect “ a huckstering traitor like Fes senden or Sherman, they will lose seventy per cent.” A few hisses arose, but these were soon drowned in thundering applause. A few min utes later he said that Seward had told hkn to go on making public opinion, and he (Seward) wonld use it as fast as it was made. This brought out a sepulchral sort of laugh. ANNA DICKINSON, THE FEMALE ORATOR. When Phillips finished bis speech .1 noticed a female head rising behind two very old ladies in drab. Tbe old lr.dies in drab moved aside, and a plump, well formed body came forward, carry ing the female bead with it. The head was a peculiar ODe. It looked rather flat, but this de fect was made up for in breadth. The hair was cut short, like a school girl’s, and hung over the forehead in such a way that there was hardly any forehead to be seen The face was broad and pltunp, the features regular and rather pret ty, and the expression Dot unpleasant, exactly, but a little bit tigerish. This was Anna Dickin- sod. She stepped briskly to the footlights, and began the speech. She held a few slips of pa per in her hand, which she occasionally turned over and consulted. At first she spoke in a sing song tone that reminded me of a reading class in school, but presently sbe got warmed up, and I concluded that a curtain lecture from her would not be pleasant. Her voice is strong and somewhat sonorous, and there is a trill in it when sbe is most earnest that impresses and rather pleases one. But she is fearfully Radical. I couldn’t stand much ol her speech, and I came away with tbe impression that her husband, when she gets him, won’t care much for going out to hear female speakers. She will be able to give him as much talk as he can stand. African Civilization.—The New York Journal of Commerce, in a review of Du Chaillu’s Book on African Explorations, looks in it in vain for any evidence of the faintest progress oi civilization in that land of perpetual barbarism. Now, says the writer, “The hope that some explorer might yet strike the evidence of uegro civilization, might yet in the deep forests of Africa find the remains of a temple or tiie foundation of a house, or the bro ken fragments of a plow, or the rudest outlines ot a forgotten alphabet, anything to indicate that this miserable degradation and debasement bad not been the characteristic of the black man in all times, and that it might yet be different in the luture, this hope must be abandoned. From the days ot Rameses, when the negroes were pictured on the Egyptian monuments, to the present day, the same characteristics mark him wherever found in his native state. These vari ous books of travel iu Alrica are worthy the study of all who are interested in the negro and Lis development. It appears to be the opinion of travelers that the race is decreasing in Africa. It is also decreasing among us with fearful rap idity. By the time that philanthropists have es tablished the doctrine ot the equality of the race?, it will not be strange if there are no ne groes left to enjoy the new status.” In certain parts of New Orleans there is a split between the muiattoes and darker com plexions, because those of the lighter hue with to monopolist the offices.

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Weekly Atlanta intelligencer. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1865-18??, May 22, 1867, Image 1