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JJUjju * “ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LE^v^afe TO COMBAT IT.”—Jeferson VOLUME XIX. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESfe^, JUNE 12,1867. NUMBER 24. Wttkitf Jntflliflfncrr. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Wednesday, June I a, I SCO. A New Nation-The Brlllih Proflarea of North America. Tlic New York Albion, commenting on wbal we of the South may be permitted to term the construction of the British provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, into one na tionality, gives denial to certain Northern jour nals who have ventured to state that the people of the provinces have not been consulted con cerning said construction. On the contrary, it says that the Imperial act designed to create the new nation from the provinces combined, opens with these words : “ Whereas, the prov inces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and Near Bruns wick hnee expressed their desire to form a Federal Union tinder the British Crown, for the purposes <>i government and legislation, based upon the principles of the British Constitution, be it there fore enacted,” &c. This seems to settle the ques tion raised by these Northern journals in regard to w bet her the people of the British provinces have been consulted as to the cru&liou of the new na tionality of which each is to be a component part, the three constituting the whole of it. It nee ins that they have, and will govern themselves accordingly. Hence the sympathies of the Post, and other Northern journals, with the people of the British provinces of Northern America at their being constructed into a new nation, appears t<> he entirely gratuitous, and is thus rebuked by the Albion: “In behalf, then, of Lhis prosperous, rising, free, and eminently fortunate people of British North America, we would say to our over anxious American Cousins—“ Bestow your sympathies and counsels upon your own disfranchised, dis heartened and desponding countrymen, who are now lying prostrate at the feet of not only youth ful but ‘irresponsible’ and Inexperienced military commanders—whose word is law, ‘till another order Ls issued from these headquarters.’ Con fer your j our criticisms upon your own self-willed despots of high places in your own land; but forbear further mis-statements in reference to your neighbors, until you can, at least, compre hend the spirit of freedom and good government. The very foundation of these cherished liberties the Northern Provinces are determined to per- |m tuate on this continent, and before the close of the present century there may possibly be other communities on this continent desirous of join iug the stable and well-governed Dominion of Canada.’ ’’ Never was rebuke better timed, nor more de served. it costs the North nothing to lavish sympathy upon the people of Canada, or of Crete, or of any other countrj', hut it does cost *< unetbing to lavish it upon the disfranchised of their own, especially if it lie of a practical na ture, and designed to restore tranquility, peace, and prosperity to a despoiled land and a de spoiled people. If these Northern sympathizers with the people of the British Provinces, would hut turn tlieir attention to the people of the Southern States, and deal with them justly, for this is all they demand, that reconstruction of the Union, apparently so much desired by'many of them, whilo practically they offer so much of obstruction to it, would ere this have been accom plished, and long ere Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, would he hailed as one and a new nation, the “Union” of the States would be re-established, leaving not even the ‘Al bion, nor any other British representative of the >resa in America or elsewhere, the faintest hope of “other communities on this continent” becoming “ desirous of joining the stable and well governed Dominion of Canada.” It is how ever suid : “ Whorn the gods wish to destroy, they tii st make mad.” May we hereafter see no illus tration of the trite maxim in the future history of the North in regard to Southern reconstruc tion and the restoration of the “ Union !” The “ madness (list has ruled the hour,” it is hoped will pass away ere it shall destroy. The South has only to be justly dealt with by the North to iusure for each that union which is absolutely necessary to the active prosperity of each in the coming future. He who does not see this is nei- iher philosopher nor statesman. “ New nations ” may spring into being, around and about the present boundaries of the American Republic, but none shall ever compare with it, either in ex tent or grandeur, it wisdom and patriotism pre vail in the national council, and in the adminis tration ot the Government. No Confiscation Without Conviction for Treason. We respectfully invite the attention ot loyal leaguers and others, who are filling the heads of the freedmen with the absurd idea of confisca tion and divisiou of lands, to the extract follow ing, copied from the Courier, published in the city of Buffalo, New York. They will find in it food for reflection, and perhaps that which 'will help to dispel the immeuse amount of igno rance mixed np with the terrible bugbear of con fiscation : The interpretation of laws in accordance with judicial standards is destined to render null and void nearly all the Radical schemes for vengeance upon the Southern people. Since the close of tue war there has been considerable “ mild con fiscation ” of the property of men engaged in the late rebellion, decreed by such Judges as Pierre pont, Bustced, and others ot their class. These confiscations and sales are understood to nave been very profitable to the speculators at whose instance the proceedings have been insti tuted, and it is suspected that the Judges have not been innocent of gains in connection with i item. It is now in effect decided that these con fiscatory proceedings are void. In the case of an application for a writ of error to secure the possession of property condemned to confisca tion, Chief Justice Chase has granted it on the ground that a condemnation of property as for t reason, cannot take place until the party has l»cen adjudged guilty by a jury; and further, that the condemnation and sale of the absolute cerate are in excess ot the Constitutional power ot the court. The New York Times remarks that this action of the court will probably prove the precursor of not a little litigation. The amount of property confiscated while the rebel lion was in progress was very large, and in every instance, we apprehend, the errors noticed by ihe Chiel Justice were committed. The prop erty was sold without any trial for treason, and it was sold in tee, when a life-interest was all that could have been disposed of, even after con viction. Confiscation titles are worse than West ern tax-titles, which are arnoug the poorest of se curities. Men who have come into the possession ot real property lor a mere song will be compelled to surrender it to us actual owners, and wiil lose w hat little they may bare paid for foeir planta tions. In addition, they will be liable to pro ceedings lor trespass, and compelled to pay what damages the owner may have sustained in being deprived of his property without due process ot law. Altogether, this is not a pleasing outlook tor that class of disinterested patriots who cuai- vluted South ou the assurance that there was “a great deal of good laud down there ’’ which could be had tor the taking. It is entirely legitimate to remark that in many instances where property, both real and personal, was by agents, or pretended agents, of the government, no return was made by them of the property so seized, and not a dime of the pro ceeds of which ever reichsd the cotters ot the governmeut. When the passions of the hour t-tiall have been followed by the sober second thought, and reconstruction shall be perfected, these villainies will all come up for investigation, aud the plunderers be made to disgorge their ill- gotteu gains. The Hon. R. S. Donnell died at Newbern North Carolina, on Monday morning. '' hr followrsa “ proceedings ” of the meet ing held in this city on yesterday, were handed to his office by the Secretary thereof accom panied with the request to publish them.— W tether this was the desire of the meeting or n<><, we are at a loss to determine, for no such recuest is expressed, by resolution or otherwise, in the proceedings; nevertheless, we presume that it was, and as far os we have space and time we give place to them in onr columns. ’he meeting was composed of an inconsidera ble number of the citizens of Pulton and DeKalb cot ntiea who doubtless expressed in their “ pro- cetdings” what they honestly felt, but who, in om judgment; initiated a movement and sug- gt-tved a policy neither of which will be produc tive of any good to Georgia or her people. As a me e matter of courtesy, therefore, to the gentle- me i composing the meeting, and nothing more, we publish what we can of their lengthy pro ceedings : (■(•Use or She Cltlnaa of Valina and De- Kalb Coaatlea. Atlanta, Ga., June 4th, 1867. Pursuant to announcement, a meeting of the citizens of Fulton and DeKalb counties was held at the City Hall to-day. Col. T. C. Howard was called to the Chair, anc Dr. Charles Pinckney requested to act as Secretary. On motion of Dr. Jas. P. Hambleton, a com mittee, whose number was left to the discretion of the Chair, was appointed to prepare business for the meeting. Whereupon the Chair announ ced the following names: Dr. Jamea P. Hambleton, Chairman. Capt. — Fowler, of DeKalb, Judge Echols,- Dr.-J. F. Alexander, M. U. Sisson. Esq., Col. W. J. McGill, Eli Halsey,, Esq., Col. R. A. Alston, T. T. Smith, Esq. Upon the retirement ot the committee, the Chi.irman, Col. T. C. Howard, being called upon, entertained the meeting in a forcible, and appro- pri; te address. He had come there to act rather tha.i to speak. The Radical party was denoun ced as leading on to wreck and ruin—lashing the already dismembered South to internal strife. Weadell Phillips—the most powerful man North ot Mason and Dixon’s line—bad said that but 30,COO votes were required to place the Demo crais in power, and recent elections North har monized with the assertion. Men in our midst, wit:i dinner-pot masks over their heads, might talk of the principles ot the Sherman 8. Bill; he could see no principle but tyranny in it—a prii ciple which might condemn a man for high tree son because he don’t believe in infant bap tism. There were, no doubt, some honest men in tie Radical party—misguided men—but there were others of that infamous organization whose honesty might well be questioned. The Sher man bill has nothing of finality in it. No poli- ticit.n North or Booth could say that it offers a finality to the question of admission. Hell has no end, and that bill must end somewhere, in which consists the chief difference between the two. AUudiug to the negro he was the negro's friend—ready to accord him ail rights short of social equality and .that which some of the Northern States refuse him even to this day— the right of nnqualifled suffrage. Look at Ten- nesi ee I What has she gained ? The disfran chisement of 80,000 ot her best and most intelli gent. citizens. She is in the Union, bat she is swayed by a Radical mob, with a fiend at its hea l who tries to prove how much ot the devil may be crowded within the narrow limits of one human heart. Aye! and Georgia, too, can get bad; by giving assurance to Radicalism that she will fkvor the election of Chase, or any other of like stamp, to the Presidency. Let us not do it. Let us scorn the death of the suicide. For bis part, he infinitely preferred the military man in Atlanta to-day, who is a gentleman, to the red rule of Radical mobocracy. [Applause.] The above is but a brief outline of Col. H.’s remarks. Cn the return of the committee, its report was rend by the chairman, Dr. Hambleton, and adopted unanimously. Y'here as, The principles of all free govern ment have been subverted and repudiated in the Conmonwealth of Georgia, by. a tyrannical, ma lign ant and cruel Radical party now controlling the Legislative department of this Governmeut; and, Whereas, The citizens of the said Common- wet 1th ot Georgia, in conjunction with the citi zen i ot nine other sister commonwealths, have beei reduced to the condition of the most abject vas lalage, with their lives and property subject in our midst, aud their equality before the law; and that it is both our duty and purpose to en courage their enlightenment, to protect them in tlieir rights of person and property; and in re membrance of their having been a most faithful aud obedient people, Georgia is not only willing that in their present condition they shall enjoy every right aud privilege previously enjoyea, or at this time enjoyed by them in any Btate, North or South, but it is the sense of this meet ing that they should be entitled to a homestead tr >m the public lands, as other citizens, and that owing to their general poverty, we think they should lie relieved of all taxation for the next ten years. 8. Resolved, That we urge every good citizen to register under the provisions of the Military bill, with the view that the fair and honored es cutcheon of Georgia may not be sullied and dis honored by the acceptance of the “ infamous Sherman Act.” I 1 . Resolved, That it is the judgment of this meeting that if an unscrupulous Congress can deliberately overthrow the liberties of ten mil lions of people, and annihilate the governments of teu sovereign Southern States, the liberties of the entire American people are in great jeopardy. Col. Alston here read an able argument pre pared by the committee in defense of the resolu tions. [We have neither space nor time for the in sertion of tiie lengthy argument handed in by the Secretary of the meeting for publication. Int.] Upon motion, the argument was unanimously adopted as &d accompaniment to the resolutions. Col. Alston moved the appointment of a perma nent committee to further the objects of this meeting in the comities ot Fultoa and DeKalb. Carried. The chair, alive to the great importance ot such a committee, requested time in the appoint ment of its members. On motion, the meeting adjourned. T. C. Howard, Chairman. (’has. Pinckney, Secretary. •r c> to the fickle behests of foreign military rulers; and, Whereas, Their homes have been desolated, the: r laws abolished, their substance devoured, the r kindred slain, and their rights subordinated by his Radical party; and, Whereas, This said Radical party, through a venal and incendiary public press; by corrup- tior.; by insidious teaching; by traveling emis saries ; by military force, and through the blight ing influences of swarms of petty officials and itinerant missionaries, have combined for the to tal lestruction of every constitutional right, and of every land-mark and memento ot our unpar alleled civilization; and, Whereas, This said Radical party demand, through the “Sherman Act,” that Georgia, by her own volition, shall disfranchise her most gal ant and intelligent sons; shall brand them as traitors, and thereby render their names and uie nories odious and infamous; and Whereas, The “Sherman Act” requires us to (tigmatize, anathematize, and forever defame, degrade, disown, damn and dishonor the immor tal heroes who surrendered their lives that we might be free; and Whereas, The object of the “ Sherman Act ” is to radicalise Georgia, and saddle the State, in her impoverished condition, with an extra debt of five hundred thousand dollars, to incur the expenses of holding a convention called without the authority ot her laws, and palpably in viola tion ot the Constitution, for the express purpose of converting her free-born sons ’into vassals, and branding others as traitors and felons; and Whereas, The “ Sherman Act” requires us to write “ rebel," “ traitor, ” and “ felon,” upon the graves ot onr fallen heroes, and upon tue bright chaplets of onr living braves, besides sub jecting os to the most degrading snrveilance and humiliating legislation; therefore, be it 1. Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting that Georgia cannot accept the “ Sherman Act ” without dishonor and degradatkta. 2. Resolved, That Georgia, by her own acts, will never accept any terms or conditions prece dent whereby her liberties are endangered or her people stigmatized. S. Resolved, That Georgia will never, by her own acta, become a party to the overthrow ot the rights and liberties of any State or individual and will forever maintain, to the best of her ability, the great principle of constitutional free dom. 4 Resolved, That Georgia only asks, as it is her right to expect, and her duty to demand under the guarantees of the Constitution of which she was a co-architect and builder, the same privi leges and immunities as those enjoyed by any other State composing the American Union.— She asks nothing more, will never accept any less. 5. Resolved, That Georgia desires to live on terms ot harmony and fraternity with every State and citizen of the American Union, and having sacrificed more than half of her wealth and many thousand lives ot her youth and chivalry to accomplish that end, yet, we are not willing to cot onr throats to obtain that much cherished object. 6. Resolved, That Georgia is satisfied with the American Union as restored and administered by His Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, and we pledge ourselves to meet heartily co-operate with the President and Uie great Conservative Union party of the North ern States, in cementing the onion of the Slates, Hpyujtwg the national honor, maintaining the principles of free government, and perpetuating peace, onion, fraternity and prosperity through out our common country. 7. Resolved, That Gaoigia acknowledges, in tbs fullest senes, tbs freedoaa ot the colored race South Georgia A Florida Railroad. At a meeting of the citizens of Thomaaville, held this day, tor the purpose of considering the location of the South Georgia & Florida Rail road, the following resolutions were adopted with but one dissenting voice : Resolced, That it is the sense of this meeting, that it is lo the interest of Thomasville, and the railroad enterprise itself, to have the road to commence at Thomasville and built direct to Albanj’. Resolved, That we hereby pledge ourselves to meet cheerfully such taxes as may be necessary to pay the interest on such bonds as may be issued by the town of Thomasville, and that we recommend the Mayor and Aldermen of Thom' asville, to pass an ordinance for that purpose upon the ad valorem system. Resolved, further. That we will submit to such income aud capitation tax, as may be necessary to make the said bonds available. Resolved, That the Thomasville, Savannah, Macon and Albany papers be requested te pub- lish the above proceedings. R. J. Bruce, Chairman. The Southern Enterprise, from which we take the above proceedings, contains the following editorial notice, which will probably arrest at tention : We are requested by Mayor Harris to state, for the information of the colored people of Thomasville, that under the law of equality, they are entitled to vote at theelection to beheM in Thomasville, on the first Wednesday in Jane, on the question of City Bonds, for the South Georgia & Florida Railroad. 1‘axatlon ot tike Feoplt. When such journals aa Harper’s Weekly find fault with the action of the. Radical party, it is time the people began to look at facta as they are, aud not be led captives by their passions and prejudices. Alter declaring that “the great and paramount question of the day will soon be the debt and taxation of the people,” that paper says: We cannot help thinking, and saying, too, In strict confidence to the readers of this journal, that stupid, and dull, and voiceless as the public may be, he has some rights which politfeians will sooner or later, have to recognize. He is now paying tax at the rate of seven per cent., more than is paid by the most heavily taxed, pea- pie of Europe, and at the same time he is paying for commodities of all kinds, and labor, fifty- five and one hundred and fifty per cent more than any other people in the world. In England the taxes are heavy, no doubt, but food, clothing and rent are cheap. In Russia living is expen sive, but the taxes are light; but here in the United States the public groans under the simul taneous burden ot heavy taxes and expensive living. We have a notion that, sooner or later, he will rebel against this load, and that the party that laid it on his shoulders will itself be laid prelly low. The Agricultural Depart meat. The Charleston Mercury gleans some interest ing facts from the report of the Agricultural De partment for April. In regard to cereals, the “ statistics show how much less corn and wheat per acre is raised in this and similarly situated States than is raised in the North, and North auu Southwest. In Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont in 1866, the crop of corn per acre was about 33 bushels, and of wheat from 12 to 20 bushels. • lu New Jersey the yield was; corn 43 bushels, and wheal 13 bushels ; in Virginia, corn 20 bushels aud wheat 6 bushels; in Ohio, corn S3 bushels and wheat 4 bushels; in Iowa, corn 31 bushels and wheat 16 bushels; in North Carolina, corn 12 bushels and wheat 5 bushels; in Georgia, corn 6 bushels and wheat 4 bushels ; hi Alabama, corn 9 bushels and wheat 5 bushels; in Louisiana, corn 17 bushels and wheat 6 bush els ; in Texas, corn 26 bushels and wheat 12 bushels; against corn 5 bushels and wheat 4 bushels in the State ot South Carolina.” The Mobile Mas*. The Mobile business, growing out ot Judge Kelley’s visit to that city, seems likely to be in terminable in some of its sequences. Leo, the correspondent of the Charleston Courier, writes about it: The course of the military commander in re lation to the removal of the Mayor of Mobile is much condemned here by all judicious men.— General Swayne’s own report ot the facta, in bis letter to General Pope, does not justify the re moval of the Mayor. As fet, the military order overthrowing the municipal government of Mo bile has not been annulled by the Executive. Whether the President will interfere at all is doubted. The military commanders are, in some respects, apt to forget that they are not required by the objects of the military law to do anything more than may be necessary to insure a peaceful registration and election. Generally the South ern towns have been less exposed to riots than those ot the North and West. The Crops.—The harvests ot two hemis pheres are just now full ot promise. The re ports from England are favorable, and according to the latest advices from France the weather continues fine, and the accounts from the depart ments respecting the crops are most satisfactory. In the great West this is also true. The St. Paul Press predicts for Minnesota a heavy yield of wheat in that State this season. Like other Stales it has made extraordinary efforts to plant large crops. The area of land in wheat in Min nesota frontier settlements, where the scarcity of seed prevails, is four times as much as was sown to wheat last year. The spring weather has been exceedingly auspicious. At least fifteen million bushels of wheat will be produced in Minnesota this year if no casualty intervenes to darken the present brilliant prospect. Tin. Bishopric.—A correspondent of the Au gusta Chronicle suggests the name of Rev. C. P. Gadsden, of St Lake’s Church, Charleston, as a suitable person to fill the office of Riahnp of Georgia. The case made by Georgia before the Supreme Court of the United States on the Shermcn-Mili- tary biff, tor the present at least—and until an other political revolution shall make a radical change in Congress by divesting the radicate, or radical party, of all-power in it—settles the question as to the supremacy of that body in the Government. Whatever of protection the State- ship of the ten Southern Stales, or ot any other State, may have had ia the past under those writ ten provisions ot the Constitution by which they claimed that protection, there is none now. The States u are as clay in the potter’s hand,” being in the hands of Congress, and ot them that body may, for a time, make what they please. Says the “ Sir Oracle ” of the United States Senate, Mr. Sumner, “ the time has passed when this power can he questioned. Congress has already exercised it in the refep States. I do not forget its hesitations. Only f year ago when I insisted that it must do so, and Introduced a bill to this effect, I was answered that a constitutional amendment was needed, and I was voted down. A change came, and in a happy moments. Con gress exercised the power. The power is unques tionable in the other Slates also." What power ? Nothing more nor less than the power to force the States of the Union—each and every one of them—to recognize the supremacy of Congress in the Government—i|s supremacy over the Ex ecutive and the judicial departments thereof—its supremacy over the Constitution and over the army and navy whose enactments foe two latter must enforce. Should the President veto, his veto will be set aside, is it has been, by foe two- thirds vote. Should appeals be made to foe Ju diciary Department of foe Government, they will, as they have been, be set aside for want of jurisdiction. Should resistance be made in any .quarter to unconstitutional legislation, foe army and foe navy will suppress it. And it is now with foe North as it kwith foe South-it is now with New York as it is with Georgia—Stateship is overthrown and Congress is supreme. Win any one have, the audacity to say that this is foe government bequeathed through that written compact, or constitution, by the fathers who made it in days fbat are past, to their chil dren ol the present day ? Not one; not even Mr. Stunner will pretend that it is so; nor is it even asserted by foe leaders of that party now in power, claiming to be supreme over all other branches of the General Government, and over what was once esteemed to be foe sovereign States of foe “ Unio*.” On foe contrary, foe assertion is made; it is uttered in foe Senate chamber and in foe Representative hall; it is asserted in tbe Northern press, and even upon the Bench ; that this is a new era, in which States have lost their sovereignty; individuals their civil liberty; property, protection. Con gress only is supremi^atui States and individuals most bow to its behests. Be it so! If foe North can bear with foe assumption, of course foe South must and will. “ Sauce for foe goose is sauce for foe gander.” Whether foe sauce, ot which so much has Already been swallowed by the Sonfo, is palatable to it, or not, it has some consolation in the rejection that foe North, ac cording to Mr. bnrnaer and foe Radical party, of which he is one of ifslirost prominent leaders, most swallow it also. - Time will tell whether the sauce be nauseating or pleasant to it. Time will tell whether the once, so termed, Free States will submit, for foe sake of foe negro, to surrender their several claims to sovereignty, and rights under foe Constitution, as foe States of the South aie required to do. If they be so inclined, then, well! If they be not, then— what f As it is, no practical good can be secured to foe South, by disputing this asserted supre macy, enforced as it will be, and as it is now being, at foe point, as it were, of foe bayonet. Resistance to it at foe ballot box, even it success ful, will only entail, in onr judgment, upon an al ready oppressed and suffering people, still more of oppression and suffering. “What though foe field be lost, all is not lost.” There is yet much to be saved. Georgia must not become what Tennessee now ia It must not faff into radical keeping. Her people mast unite and save her from so sad, so deplorable a late. IakRacksaat In Tennessee. Radicalism in Tennessee has capped foe climax of its infamy by impeaching foe Hon. Thomas N. Frazier. Judge of foe Criminal Court of Davidson county, and one of foe best and purest men in that or any other State. It all foe virtue and honesty of foe entire Radical party ot that afflicted Commonwealth could be coucentrated in either ot foe members of foe cOurt which tried him, foe recipient would be unworthy to loose foe latchets of Tom. Frazier’s shoes. We trust Judge Frazier will not permit himself to be an noyed in the least by foe verdict, as it is foe highest compliment that could be paid to his integrity, both as a man and an officer. The Nashville Gatetie says of the infamous proceeding: Thus a venerable citizen, grown gray in public duty, and laden with foe honors lavished on him by a people that knew him and trusted him,is made the butt of Radical malice. Not content with re moving him from office, they go the whole length of their ill-gotten power, and would disqualify him from holding office forever. They would disgrace him I They wonld affix an everlasting stigma to his name! Fortunately they have not tiie power I God has constituted tbe world other wise. Thomas N. Frazier comes forth from foe ordeal as pore as gold from foe cracible. The trial he has undergone has vindicated his noble reputation for honesty and impartiality. All the inventive malice ot Brownlowism failed to dis cover a single flaw in his character, his judges were, per force, compelled to condemn him, on political grounds only. He stands, to-day, higher in the esteem ot all honest men than ever before in a life-time of pore unselfish well-doing—“ an Israelite indeed, ia whom there is no guile.” The Hear BepnaaaiattvM In Congress. The New York Herald claims that foe South will have one handled thousand votes, and be able to return eighty or ninety people to Con gress ; and asserts that, as a result of Republi can blundering, the white vote will elect three- fonrths of foe new members. There will, then, no longer be n mere party rule, and the Southern members will put Congress again in the normal condition of a legislative body. There is, how ever, one dark spot, and the Herald grows becomingly indignant: "Perhaps the Radical policy may be so far successful in the Soufo that in foe new Southern representation there will be half a dozen niggers. Should foie be foe case it will excite the wonder and digust of the wold. It will be justly re garded aa the moat remarkable and revolting spectacle of foe age- It will famish an argu ment to focae who bold that a tendency to ikgiwlsliiei exists in institutions baaed upon universal suffrage, since it will seem to show ti.** jn ohnnmn our lawmakers from a race just brought from a servile condition we do not seek to be governed by the wisdom, education and intellect of foe uatinu, but are ready to pander to the moat debasing debaucheries of Demo cratic theory.” This, says the Charleston Merest ry, is exactly what the people of the South always claimed to be the fact ; and, if the Herald is being converted, it k became the logic of events cannot be overcome. The parties who robbed Mr. Weaver, formerly afebkrof tise Fhmtsre’ Bank, Nashville, here been arrested, and the property stolen rescued. John Grant kthenama of onset foe Tiro Fate al LaalaUaa. A special correspondent of foe New York Tribune writing from New Orleans, says: “ In the parish of New Orleans, which includes this city and its suburbs, there have been regis tered, np to the present time, 22,646 voters, of whom 13,573 are negroes, and 9,073 are whites. In 24 other parishes, from which I have obtained returns, there are registered 16,348 voters, of whom 13,866 are negroes, and 2,482 are whites. Thk gives a total of 38,994 voters, and a major! ty of 15,884 negroes.” Commenting on the foregoing statement in foe Tribune, the Baltimore Gazette says: “ The voting population ot Louisiana in 1860 was a fraction over fifty thousand, and not one- tenth of those citizens will participate m the Sep tember election. The Tribune claims, and we have no doubt correctly, that the vast majority ot the blacks will vote lor and with foe rene gades and interlopers who represent the Radical party in the Sonfo, and It k by no means impro bable that its candidates will have a majority of twenty thousand. The condition of Louisiana foreshadows what foe situation of several other States will be after the mifftary commanders who rule them shall have completed their arrange ments for seeming foe ascendency of foe Radi cal faction.” Not so, we trust and believe, with Georgia.— Here the preponderance will be with foe white vote, so largely, that even were foe radicals to secure the whole negro vote, which we have no idea they can, still they cannot carry foe State in the general elections which are to come off this fall and winter. We have no idea either thatin this military district any undue influences will be tolerated by its commander, General Pope, to secure “ ascendency of foe Radical faction ” whatever may be tolerated or connived at in foe other military districts of foe Soufo, as intima ted in foe Gazette. Georgia, therefore, or rather her people have foe ability of saving themselves from what we fear will be the fate of Louisiana, and perhaps of Sonfo Carolina, and that they will so act when they go to the polls, we have no donbt. In some of foe Southern States, says foe same paper, “ foe black race naturally out number foe whites, and in others enough of foe latter will be disfranchised for foe purpose of giving a preponderating influence to foe former,' and from this it draws foe following, as we be lieve, correct conclusions: “ In a number of States, therefore, foe old con dition of things will be reversed, and negro judges, legislators and congressmen will make and execute laws for the men of our own blood. Whether foe white population can endure to live in such a situation, or whether foe prosperity of foe country or even its civilization is likely to be maintained under negro rule are questions we think we can safely reply to. All history an swers them in foe negative, and if a different so lution awaits them now it will be because the world and human nature have undergone some wonderful change of which we confess our selves to be in ignorance. In no age and in no country have foe negroes ever succeeded in establkbing a government which was entitled to foe slightest respect or consideration, and we see nothing to warrant foe idea that they can form or administer one now. When they take possession, therefore, of foe Golf States they will, unless foe Federal armies wield over them a more relentless despotism than they have ever as yet exercised, gradually convert those States Into another St. Domingo. Itk because of these convictions that we watch so sadly and despair ingly the progress of thk revolution. The charge that we are animated by mere prejudice or by dislike to the black man we shall leave time to refute. We have as little ill feeling against him as foe Radicals have love for him. R k for his good as well as for our own that we have op posed the schemes of those who would now use iim, bat who would afterwards exterminate him aa ruthlessly as they do foe Indians. Not one in a hundred ot the politicians of the country believe foe grounds upon which the New York Trijbune advocates foe Radical policy to be any thing but sentimental nonsense, or that “impar tial justice” and “manhood suffrage” are any thing more tjian party catchwords. The leaders ol the extremists want to get possession of foe South through foe negro, and then get possession of foe negro. They intend to use or abase him precisely as their interests or convenience may dictate, and alter they find that they can make no more out of foe ruined Soufo they will not only no longer strive to prevent foe inevitable war of races, bat will be found to be foe negro’s most vindictive enemy.” Never was truth more timely uttered than it is in the foregoing, to wit: That “ foe leaders oj foe extremists (or radicals) want to get possession of the South through foe negro, and then get pos session of the negro;” and, mark it, freedmen of foe South, and especially of Georgia, when they get possession of foe negro, “ they intend to use or abuse him precisely as their interests or con venience may dictate, and after they find they can make no more ont of foe ruined Soufo, they will no longer strive to prevent the inevitable war of races, but will be found foe negro's most vindictive enemy." Such will be foe “end of foe beginning,” let radical policy prevail in whatever Southern State it may. Ill-fated, or rather ill- situated Louisiana, we fear, will be the first to feel the effects of that policy. That she, and all her sister Southern States, may escape it, and foe worse than St Domingo fete foreshadowed in the present, will be the prayer of every patri ot, and every philanthropist in foe land. [oonmncATKD.] Chief Justice Joseph Hour) Lumpkin. “ His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up And say to all the world, this was a jus." On yesterday the announcement was made to the public, through the columns ot the morning papers, that foe Hon. Joseph Henry Lumpkin Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, was dead; and though on account of the ex tremely critical condition in which this distin guished man was known to have been for some weeks past, foe news was not unexpmed, yet, nevertheless, was it most difficult to realize that his great soul had indeed soared to its eternal home. The pale-faced messenger has made ma ny' inroads among the great intellects of our State, during foe last four years, and we would fain have hoped that we might have been spared this overwhelming calamity. Judge Lumpkin was, indeed, a most remarka ble man. His grand and towering mind was controlled by a pure and noble heart. As scholar, he was polished and cultivated “ usque ad ungusm as an advocate, McGregor never marshaled his clan npon his native heaths with greater success; as foe head of the Judicial De partment of the State of Georgia, he has erected foe greatest of monuments to himself in the ju ridical learning displayed in his decisions; as a gentleman, he belonged to the school of the old en time; as a Christian, bis exemplary life has famished an immortal example to posterity. In fact, he possessed, “ A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.” The Impression which this great man has made upon his race, is like to the inscription upon foe tombs of foe Egyptian kings, which will be eradicated and sink into oblivion only with the pyramids of the desert. As an orator, Chief Justice Lumpkin stood unexcelled; Providence had blessed him pecu liarly in this respect. He had an imagination both strong and vivid; language flowed from him as from one inspired, which, combined with his immense intellectual force and the sweetest ot voices, musical to the last degree, rendered him well calculated to retain all within the hear ing of his outpourings of eloquence bewildered and spell-bound. Those of us whose memory reaches back to the day when the late Chief Justice was an active member of the profes sion which he so greatly ornamented, cpn doubt less recall the lofty flights of his genius and the soothing melody of his voice, which, together with the moral toneot the man, oft brought tears to foe eyes of courts, juries and bar. When his life had reached its prime, the heavy drafts upon the health of Judge Lumpkin, made by constant and unremitting attention to his overwhelming practice, rendered it absolutely necessary that he should cease for a time his professional labors and seek relaxation. His cultivated taste pointed to a tour in Europe, where he might enjoy the beauties of nature aud art, for the appreciation of which his learning and education so eminently suited him. He had scarce crossed the bosom of the broad Atlantic ere he was notified that liis State required his services upon foe Supreme Bench; he imme diately returned, and in the year eighteen hun dred and forty-five commenced foe discharge of his judicial duties. This great lawyer, learned and grounded thoroughly as he was in the prin ciples of foe old common law, was, by no means, bonnd down by those forms and precedents which had not changed with the progressive times in which we live, but was most emphati cally an advocate of reform. He regarded equity as foe sonl and spirit of all law, and the most ex pedient mode of reaching equity was the one which he desired to introduce’ in the execution of justice in his native State. Time may work its many changes, memory may cease to retain much that is noble and true, but so long as law is known to the people ol Georgia, so long will the name of Lumpkin be pronounced with veneration and love. The giant oak, which has towered for generations an ornament and a pillar of strength to its native forest, may be torn up by the sweeping and deso lating tornado, though never so grand and sub lime as when crashing to the earth, yet it leaves an aching void which nought can fill. The great soul has left its earthly tabernacle, and now awaits judgment at the bar of eternal justice; and if a virtuous, charitable aud Christian course on earth there receives its reward, the great Chief Justice is now in the fall enjoyment of that promised bliss which a long and well spent life so eminently deserves. “ He ia gone who seemed bo great— Gone; bat nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own Being here, and we believe him Something far advanced in State, And that he. wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him.” * Over Vh«a Have the Abolitionists 1 rl- aaaphed t “ Words fitly spoken are like apples of gold in pictures of silver.” Such were these words ot Henry Clay, great “ Harry ot foe West,” when in 1839, he, prophet-like, foretold the war and its terrible results. Speaking of foe abolitionists, he said : “ But it they were to conquer, whom should they conquer? A foreign fife; one who has in sulted our flag, invaded our shores and hud onr country waste ? No, sir, no; sir I It would be a conquest without laurels, without glory; a self, a suicidal conquest; a conquest of brothers over brothers, achieved by one over another portion of the descendants of common ancestors, who nobly pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor, and fought and bled, side by side, in-a hard' bottle on land and ocean—sev ered our country from foe British Crown and established our independence.” Is it not so? And are these people—these conquered people—to be treated as though they were beyond the pale of civilization, and not aa foe descendants of a common ancestry? The trinmph, such as it was, can only redound to the honor of the victors and the glory of the Repub lic, in foe magnanimity displayed by them to the vanquished. Gonio Back on the Neobo.—Oberlin, Ohio, which for years has been the noted headquarters of abolitionism and freelovkm, has got more of the former than ft contracted for, and k sending all the colored folks away who are not able to provide for themselves and pay a little surplus into the common treasury. The African k a greet inetftfttiou with the people of the Western Reserve as long as he doesn’t cost anything, and can be used to contribute to their interest or pleasure. But when that fails they have no fur ther occasion for the poor dilapidated cuss, and at once proceed to kick him beyond the bounds of their philanthropy. Several cases of the kind have recently occurred at Oberlin. Contradiction.— 1 The special Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun has author ity fiw stating that the New York Timed dispatch alleging that President Johnson wrote a letter inviting John C. Breckinridge Ao return to this country, k without the slightest truth. Thecoo- tradktioa was altogether unnecemaiy, as no one believed far a moment that the President had written anything of the sort Political chances In the North. Mr. J. W. Overall, a prominent citizen of New Orleans has just returned to that city from a tour in foe North and West, and it is interesting to hear what report he brings back from those sec tions. We copy from the Crescent : I found, said he, in Maryland, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri, that Radicalism was virtually dead. I do not say this to flatter you. I found that the military tell was growing unpopular among the massess as also among foe politicians, for they feared it might eventually be also applied to them. I found a growth of liberal opinion; and foe best evidence of this was foe cordial r eception ac corded to Mr. Monroe. [Applause.] You have in President Johnson and the majority of his Cabinet, your most conscientious friends. He stands as foe champion of constitutional liberty on thk continent. We found in the Attorney-General, too, a man of infinite determination, who talked more like a Louisiana planter than a man from foe fair regions of Ohio. Perhaps we can find no better illustration than the remark of Long John Wentworth. Said he, “The radicals, in passing foe military biff, played their last card. They had enough to have kept the game for twenty- fire years, bat foe d—d fools were in too much of a bury.” The people of foe North, gentle men, want your co operation—their feelings are kindly—they want peace and quiet restored to the country.” Death of Gen. A. P. Hill.—The special correspondent of foe New York Times, who has been visiting the works around Petersburg, Virginia, gives the following account of the death of Gen. A. P. Hill in a letter dated May 26th -. In connection with the defense of Fort Gregg, I must also mention a fact which I learn from General Mahone, in regard to the death of foe distinguished Confederate corps commander, A. P. Hill. General Lee’s headquarters were but a short distance in the rear of Gregg, in a house on foe Boyd ton pl&nkroad, between the fort and foe town. At foe time Fort Gregg was carried Gens. Hill and Mahone were in conversation with Lee at bis headquarters. As the firing grew nearer and nearer, Lee, intently listening to foe sounds, suddenly turned to Hill and said : “How is this, General, your troops are giving way ?” Upon this Hill mounted his horse, dashed to foe front, bat while galloping down foe road he suddenly came upon two men in blue uniforms. “Throw down your arms!” shoaled the General. But the men qnickly sprang behind a tree, and leveling their pieces, fired. Hill fell from his horse dead. The Express.—The Express Company have established a line over foe Brunswick Road from Macon to Hawkiraville. This will prove a great convenience to citizens of both places. Brevities. It is delightful to find how much real sympa; thy with distress there is in foe world. All that is needed is something to bring it out. One touch of nature makes foe whole world kin ! Just now our exchanges overflow with condo lences with Mr. A. T. Stewart, foe merchant prince of New York, on foe diminntion of his income. Last year it was over three millions— but this year it has fallen to a little over seven hundred thousand dollars. So sudden a down fall naturally touches foe tenderest cords of the human heart To see a man thus reduced, in a single year, from affluence to a steady receipt of two thousand dollars a day, is certainly heart rending. The English papers fear that this year will witness the dire shadow of last year’s commer cial eclipse. There is in England a perfect dearth of credit, which is already painfully and pinch ing ly felt, and much of it k ascribed to foe in solvency of the railroads upon which many femilies have depended for small incomes in foe shape ot dividends. Money that Mas borrowed when money was easy to obtain, has now to be repaid when it is all but impossible to borrow, •and many families of moderate means are cast ing their hundred a year into an abyss from which not a particle of it can ever return. This condition, we suspect, is not peculiar to Eng- lan J. They have tried successfully electro-magne tism in the smelting of iron. A fixed electro magnet is placed opposite an opening in foe side of the furnace; the magnet is excited by means of a Stnee’s battery, and the current of magne tism is directed into the molten metal. The et- feci is described as being surprising. The metal appears to bubble and boil; the metal is expedi ted, which economises fuel; and the quality of the iron is so much improved that for toughness and hardness it can hardly be equaled. We see advertised in an English paper a “Vowell Washing Machine.” This must be something new. If it washes consonants as well as vowels, its general use wonld ensure foe purity of the language. The New York Courier says: It might be tried upon the editorials of foe Chica go Tribune and the speeches of Gov. Brown- low, but if the dirt were washed from these there would be nothing lett. The advertisement also informs us that one of the machines, label ed as I, will “ wash, say equal to twenty shirts.” It we only knew how much one shirt wonld wash, foe basis of calculation would be all right. The following from the Herald ot foe 29th is significant: “ We see that Gen. Sherman has renounced his trip to foe Holy Land, his pre sence on the frontier being deemed necessary by the Government. However unfortunate this inay be for his piety, it is good for his political interests. When he is nominated next year for Vice President, it is just as well that he should 1 be on band. The Radicals talk of nominating Ben Wade or Dick Busteed lor foe position; but we rather think that Gen. Grant wonld pre fer his Lieutenant-General filling it The mili tary hierarchy in the government will then be complete.” By this it would appear that foe North have become reconciled to the fact that liberty is dead and the Constitution bnried. General Scofield’s late order destroys civil rule in Virginia, and makes the military commk- sion supreme in practice as it already was in feet As the Richmond Dispatch well says: “It is another proof that we have no rights which our conquerors are bound to respect. TJie record mast be made up for foe judgment of mankind now, and of posterity.” A writer in one of the New York weeklies has much to say against the adaptedness oi what is called “ intellectual preaching.” to Sunday audiences. He maintains that allusions to as tronomy, geology and physiology are ont of place in foe pulpit. It is reasonable, however, to suppose that the works of the Creator are as high and worthy a manifestation of himself as ’ his word. The New England Anti-Slavery Society met in Boston the other day. Considering that foe only slaves left in this country are the editon of newspapers, and their emancipation k indefinitely. postponed until the good tune coming, boys, this looks like a useless session. Maynard Underwood, who is under sen tence of death for murder in Sonfo Carolina, has informed Gen. Sickles that foe killing was dime’ while he was aiding Union prisoners to escape, and if he had not killed foe deceased he would have lost his life himself. The General has or dered an investigation. The new trial granted to foe Rev. Joel Ltnds- ley. of Albion, N. Y., indicted for whipping hit little boy to death, was concluded on foe Istlnstt The jury failed to agree, standing ten for ac quittal and two for conviction. The jury were discharged. The prisoner then plead guilty of manslaughter in the fourth degree, and Mas sentenced to a fine of $2500. The Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican says there is a very rapid change of population going on in our manufacturing towns. Foreign working people have come in to such an extent as in many villages to constitute the controling element, and the natives do not find it pleasant to live among those whose religion and social and domestic life are so unlike foe New Eng land style.” Information has been received at Washing ton that Governor Hahn has been refbaed per mission to register in Louisiana on account of participation in foe rebellion, and giving aid and comfort to Confederates. It was alleged that Hahn made presentation speeches when flags were given to Rebel companies, and foot he signed a circular letter advocating resistance to foe Federal government If foe same abjection* are made and adhered to m Georgia, we know of several Atlanta radicals, fellows of immense merit jnst now, who will be cot off from the great and ga-lorions privilege of the ballot box. A slight moss occurred at Nashville last Sun day from an attempt, which was partially anc,. cessful, of foe blacks to take possession of the street cars. These troubles all grow out of the meddlesome and mischievous mean white cusses, who are a thousand times more to blame than their poor dopes. The members of the Arkansas Legislature protest strongly against the late dictum ot Gen. . Ord, forbidding that body to re-assemble. It wonld be a good idea perhaps for Attorney Gen eral Stan berry to hurry Up his second opinion, as some of the district commanders are evidently . beginning to feel their oats. Thp latest improvement in horticulture ia that of removing foe stones from fruits by a process of gradual redaction, by extractingthepith from shoots and grafting them on stocks and their own branches for successive seasons. The ex periment has been perfectly successful with the Malaga grape. The Nashville blacks have declared an inten tion to have their shaving done in the barber shops. They contend that they have jnst the same rights in the shops that foe whites have, and win claim their seats by tarn. A Yankee on being asked what he should de ft he were banished to foe woods, replied that , he thought he should split l