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VOLUME XIX.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 3,1867.
NUMBER 27.
Wrrkty ^ntflliflrurrr.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, July 3, 1866.
Tk« M portal ttrooloD—Responsibility or
the Republican Hart)’.
The Providence Journal doubts the expedi
cney of the expected session ol Congress in July
It "v. ill risk much for the Republican party,” the
Journal thinks; the opinion resting on the be
lief that the session will be used by the extremists
to Amber their confiscation and impeachment
projects:
The opinion of the Attorney General, upon
the Reconstruction act, atlords an additional a!
though by uo means the main inducement to
those who, even without it, would still have
urged the special session It is not merely for
the enactment of Anther legislation for recon
struction, it ie for impeachment, lor confiscation
for defining tlie suffrage, not only the suffrage in
the rebel States, where Congress lias the un
doubted right to decide upon it, in tlic first in
stance, as the evidence of the authenticity ot the
Constitution tiiat may be submitted, but for the
suffrage in the loyal Htales. These measures are
deemed by Mr. Btevens and others as essential to
Ibe proper closing ot the rcliellinn, and to the
proper reconstruction of the Government.—
These views were pressed ij|M>n Congress with
great [>ower, and with an earnestness that left no
doubt ol the entire sincerity of those who enter
tuined them. Congress did uot accept them, hut
In-Id it best, having passed the requisite acts of
reconstruction, to await their fair trial, and to
test the temper of the Southern people. The
resolution for a special session, contingent upon
the judgment ot individual Senators and Repre
sentatives, was adopted, out of dcicrcnce to the
judgment and wishes of the minority, and with
no intent, on the part ot the majority, to return
to Washington on the first Wednesday of July,
and Willi little hope, although with undiininished
desire, on the part of the minority, that t he iu-
leimediate session should be held.
To this the New York limes says: The risk
which the Journal tears is one over which tlie
Republican Senators and Representatives have
complete control. The party can be injured only
by their negligence, their errors of judgment, or
their surrender to the extremist faction. Tlie
moderate element is in the ascendant. It passed
the present reconstruction acts despite the dis
content of Mr. Stevens. It restrained the infla
tionists and held in check the combinations for
u prohibitory tariff. It sent the impeachment
question to tlie Judiciary Committee, much to
tlie chagrin of Messrs. Asldey and Butler. It
gave no heed to the confiscation cry. It extended
no help to plans proposed for forcing negro suf
frage upon all the States. Its ability to regulate
the policy of Congress is therefore indisputable,
and its desire to keep the reconstruction ques
tion tree from the VAgarics and malignancy of
tlie ultra Radicals has been made equally evident.
A Sharp Reproof.
No sharper reproof has been administered to
“the narrow-minded blockheads” in Congress
who stifled all discussion when their plans were
unfolding, than that given by the “Nation" the
leading Radical organ. It says : ‘‘It is not often
lliat we meet with so scathing an exposure of
tlie results of carelessness ami haste iu tlie
transaction of important business as is to be
lound in Mr. Stanbcrry’s ‘opinion’ on the power
ot the military couimuuders at the South. The
Reconstruction act was undoubtedly intended
by Congress to make the military officers su
premo in their districts, but it was framed in
such a way that no machinery was provided for
carrying on the reconstruction process at all.—
This was remedied by a supplemental act, and
now tho two having been submitted to an acute
lawyer, be drives a coach and six through them ;
sliflws that the State Governments which the
act was iutended to displace are still in existence
and in full vigor, and that the military com
manders, who were selected with so much care,
are simply peace officers subject to the civil
power. Mr. Stevens now calls for a meeting of
Congress to amend tho bill, but we should think
he aud some of his colleagues would be heartily
ashamed of their work. They appeared to
think duriDg the session that the great duty ot
loyal men was to drive hills through the House
without letting the Democrats debate them.—
We wonder if what has happened will teach them
that the ‘previous question’ is u two-edged sword,
aud that freedom ot debate is just as likely to
serve the promoters as opponents of measures.
Had the Reconstruction act been thoroughly
discussed, there is hardly a doubt that its glaring
detects would havo soone • or later attracted the
ailentiou of some lawyer on one side or the
other, and that, let party spirit have been ever
so strong, self-love would have tempted him to
expose them." This is exhaustive.
Roitou.
The Hub i9 outdoing itself iu the reception ex
tended to the Presidential party. The Pont
t>ay9: We have not had a very large number ol
the Presidents to entertain hitherto, although
some think we have extended muuicipal and
[topular civ lilies to our full share. Some were
here before their elevation to that office was
dreamed of, aud some after they’ had vacated it.
But iu every case Boston lias never come short
iu those demonstrations of respect which be
speak with the truest sincerity the loyalty
cherished among us to the Government in every
tins ot its constituted departments. The Execu
tive speaks the voice ot the uatiou. In his [s-r
son he represents it. By his act he detends it.—
There is no such exalted place iu the whole land,
ll its honors arc becomiug more or less decried,
its immense responsibilities will continue to
make it worthy of the highest respect. A city
liouors itself as it pays regard to tlie officer aud
the post on which these responsibilities rest. We
have uo tears that Boston will uot well maintain,
tiefore tlie Executive of the uatiou, the whole of
its established repute for res|>ectful courtesy and
generous hospitality.
The Yick-Pkk&idkncy.—A correspondent of
the Auti-Slacery Stand) trtl, writing lrom Virginia
with an evident understanding of the party ma
chinery among the negroes, gives the Republi
can party fair warning of what is in reserve for
them. The negro vote, he says, will divide tho
Presidential election. Tlie negroes uuderstaud
this perfectly, aud are laying their plans in ac
cordance with it. “There are several negroes,”
says the writer, “fitted for the position of Vice-
President, and that race claim that the second
office in the nation shall be filled by a negro.”
Tlie correspondent fully indorses their claim aud
wishes it distinctly understood that it must be
conceded or tlie negro vote will be cast agaiust
the Republican party.
The Second Mn.tT.utY District.—The fol
lowing is the official reply to Sickles request to
be relieved :
[CO FT.]
Wak Defabtxekt, (
WapuinkTok, D. C. June 21,13S7. t
.Vajor-General SicJdes, Charleston, S. C. :
Your telegram asking to be relieved from com
mand of the Second Military District, aud de
manding a Court of Inquiry, was submitted by
the Secretary of War, yesterday, to the President
>>t tlie United States, who directs you to retain
your command, aud he declines to order the
Court ot Ioqniryflemanded by you.
Bv order ol the Presideut of the United States.
tSigned) E. D. Townsend, A. A. G.
Official: J. W. Clous, Capi. and A. A. A. G.
A Pennsylvanian has just had to pay & fine
ot twenty dollars tor patting his arm around a
lady’s waist It was a dreadful waste of money.
Helper's Bookt-Wkat he Propoae* to do
with the Negro.
Hinton Bkown Helper, previous to the war
a fanatical abolitionist, issued a book termed
" The Impending Crisis,” and which for its abuse
of the South and its institutions—especially that
o{ slavery—exceeded anything that the notori
ous “ Garrison,” or auy other Northern abol
tionist ever wrote. But a few copies of Helper’s
“ Impending Crisis ” reached this State, it beiu
considered then an incendiary publication, the
sale of which, within the limits of Georgia, was
by her laws a penal offense; nevertheless the
book fell into the hands of man)' of our leading
men who made its contents kuown, either
through the press or upon the “stump” to our
people. Infamous, at the time, as was that in
cendiary publication, this same Hinton Brown
Helper has recently perpetrated a still greater
infamy, in the publication of another work, in
which, after having done all within his [tower to
promote the abolition of slavery in the South
he turns upon the poor freedmen, aud advocates
their being driven not only from Southern, hut
from American soil. Now, he it remembered
that this Mr. Helper, for his zeal in reference to
the cause of aliolilioii before the war, was re
warded by President Lincoln with tlie appoint
ment of Consul to some foreign country. This,
we slate, for the reason that his antecedents, and
lii.s position in politics may be known to the
freedmen of the South, who, of course, know but
little of their ajsistate friend, if friend to them
he ever was. But the struggle is past, and the
negro is free; and where do we find Mr. Helper V
An honest man would suppose he would lie
found striving by every effort in his power, to
ameliorate the condition of the freedmen; to
educate and improve them ; to provide for and
succor them in their distress; to teach them
habits of industry and economy ; so that in their
Southern home, they may become prosperous
and happy; and certainly, if lie was sincere in
i860, and benevolent ol heart as he professed t<
he then, these would he his duties now. Helper
is, however, now occupying another platform.
His views in regard to tlie negro have become
revolutionized. The latter is free, but says this
man, this Mr. Helper, who helped so much to
make him Iree, he, the negro, must no longer re
main upon American soil, lie must be deported,
or exterminated. Let him speak for himself!
In his work lie says, aud we invite the attention
of every intelligent freed man to it, that he may
impart the information to others of his race and
color:
“ Certain it is that we owe it to ourselves—
and we ought to be able—to get rid of the negroes
soon ; but il they are tube retained much longer
in the United States, (which may God, iu his
great favor forbid !) we may as well build im
mediately, for their relief and correction, in al
ternate adaptation, a row of hospitals and pris
ons, all the way lrom the Atlantic to the Pacific;
and, upon tho same plan, a range or series ol
almshouses and penitentiaries tlie entire distance
from Lake Superior to tlie Gulf ot Mexico! All
tlie devil-begotten imps ot darkness, whether
black or brown, whether negroes or Indians,
whether Mongols or mulattoes, should at once
be dismissed, and that forever, from the care,
from the sight, and even from the thoughts, of
the Heaven-born whites. Wherever seen, or
wherever existing, the black and bi-colored races
are the personifications of bastardy and beggary.
In America these races are the most unwieldly
occasioners of dishonor and weakness; they are
the ill-favored and unwelcome instruments of
disservice; they are the ghastly types of effete
ness and retrogression. At the earliest practica
ble moment, these inutile and baneful elements
ot our population must be either deported or fos
silized."
We have endeavored—perhaps not as often as
we should have done—to impress upon the minds
of the freedmen in our midst the fact, that their
best and truest friends are the white people among
and with whom they have been reared and have
lived. The time will come when they will be
compelled by circumstances, and just such a
policy as Helper iudicates should be pursued
toward them, to acknowledge this fact. There
are many worthy and intelligent freedmen in
this community, who will doubtless take warn
ing after reading tlie loregoing extract, and govern
themselves accordingly. If they do not, they
will not act wisely. Helper has many helpers
who are ready, as he says, “ at the earliest prac
ticable moment,” to either deport or fossilize,
what he terms—meaning the negro freedmen—
“ these inutile and baneful elements of our popu
lation.” __ How do the freedmeu like tlie picture
which the man Helper draws of them? How
do they like tlie fate lie would fasten upon them ?
Before closing this notice of Helper’s new
book, for the further information of the reader,
we will state that it is entitled “ Nigoque," and no
joke it is to the negro freedmen. Northern wri
ters predict for it a large sale. The w orse the
iutainy the greater the notoriety.
Brazil—One who has Been There.
A traveling correspondent ot the Charleston
Courier met with a South Carolina gentleman
who had just returned from Brazil. He says of
the interview:
Kn route to Br&nchville, 1 encountered a plan
ter—formerly of Orangeburg—who sold out in
South Carolina (iu part) and went to seek his
fortunes in Brazil. He returns without having
satisfied any ol his expectations. He reports a
tine country iu Brazil, but not such as to suit
his desires, tastes, or peculiar interests or habits.
I very well conceived, loug ago, when I lound
a sort of furore in our country in behalf of Bra
zil, that emigrants would come back disappoint
ed, ami my anticipations, and the reasons for
them, are all fully confirmed by tlie report ol
Mr. B , who is at once a mu* of experience
and thought. All the benefit offiis exploratory
voyage, was in the improvement ol his health,
and the satisfaction ot seeing something of a
new world, distinguished by curious develop
ments in ibe social and natural aspects of the
toreigu country.
Of course, Brazil is a region of great suscepti
bilities; but emigrants, impoverished here, are
hardly likely to he in possession of such resour
ces as to realize its Iruits. ll is clearly the part
ol the best w isdom, on the part ol the Southern
people, to remain at home, aud make the most
ol their remaining resources. Were there a sin
gle island in the archipelagos of the Eastern or
liie Western world, where Liberty might set her
feet firmly, and Peace might be secure in her
possessions, against some contiguous and over
whelming despotism, then there might be some
policy in our goiug into exile. But we need not
abandon our lands until they arc taken from us;
and how can tlie autocthones—the native chil
dren ot the soil—abandon their graves? It
should he something more than a hope—some
thing of a certainty—in favor ot both Liberty
aud' Prosperity, which should tempt us to such
abandonment.
Operators in Danger.—At Nashville, lith
instant, the telegraph operators narrowly es
caped with their lives, so violent were the flashes
of electricity. The B>mner says :
Most of the instruments were saved by being
cut out. The instruments connected with tlie
wire leading to Memphis had not been cut out,
and the operator, Mr. Lonergau, was transmitting
messages to i hat point,but lortuuately had opened
bis “key," thereby breaking the circuit, to ask a
question regarding a message. Doubtless his life
was thus providentially spared. As it was, be
received a stunning shock, starting back iu ter
ror and amazement at the blinding flash and
stunning report, and affording no little amuse
ment to his comrades by endeavoring to back
over the fiext table. From the brass points in
: he switch board lightning streamed six or eight
feet into the room, causing a general stampede
md scattering among tlie “lightning boys.” Out
side ot the office a ball ol tire about a toot in di
ameter was seen to leap from one of the wires to
another, a distance ot several feet.
Young Rives, of Putn&m county, reported by
the Madison News as having died from the bite
of a rattlesnake, got well.
The Two Pacific Railroad*.
A correspondent at Salina, Kansas, writes the
Cincinnati Commercial some interesting facts iu
regard to the competing lines to the Pacific. We
gather from lii3 statements that the Nebraska
route is tlie most advanced. It >s built and run
ning three hundred aud fifty miles west ofOnia
ha, and is still going down at a rapid rate. The
Kansas route is built to Fort Barker, a distance
of two hundred aud nineteen miles from tue ini
tial point of the road. It is progressing, this
summer, nearly as fast as its Nebraska rival,
twenty or thirty miles per mouth, including
bridges, being the average rate of construction.
On some days one aud even two miles ot track
are laid, but bridge-building frequently causes
delay tor a week or two.
Both routes pass through valleys that require
next to no grading at all. The Nebraska route
is the most remarkable in this respect; but the
Kansas route is so nearly level throughout i*s
entire length, that the cost of its grading exceeds
that of its rival but by the merest trifle.
The difference iu climate of the regions
through which the two roads ruu is considera
ble, and must exert important influences on their
relative commercial reliability. Nebraska, ot
course, lias more rigorous winters Ilian Kansas
—more snow and deeper snowdrifts, and more
intensely bitter weather. If the Nebraska road
continues due West through the Rocky Moun
tains, it will have terrible elements to contend
with every winter. Some engineers prophesy
that either of its proposed mountain routes must
he impassable every year between tlie middle of
December and tlie last of March. As to how
much milder the Kansas route would be if con
tinued straight on to the West, it is hardly worth
while to speculate; for it is not unlikely that it
will turn South from Denver, pass through Santa
Fe, and eventually reach the Pacific along a lat
itude where summer is perpetual. The impres
sion is that on reaching Denver, the Kansas road
will build a branch Northwest to join the Ne
braska line, and that it will throw its main line
to the Southwest, secure the great Mcxicau trade,
and ultimately reach the Pacific at some point
on tlie coast of Mexico or Lower California.—
The largest engineer party yet sent out by the
Kansas road was started a few days ago, under
command of General W. W. Wright. This
party will survey a route as far Southwest as
Santa Fe, trusting to Congress to continue its
subsidies if it is concluded to build in that direc
tion. It is tlius indicated that the Kansas route
will cross the mountains at a latitude where the
winters are too mild to obstruct a railroad for a
single day, much less, whole months.
Both the Nebraska and Kansas roads own
several million acres ot land, the same lying
along the tracks in alternate sections of ten
miles width. Unquestionably the Kansas com-
auy has the richest and most valuable gift in
this respect. If these lands could be sold to-day,
those of the Kansas company would bring four
lines as much as those of the other. Both com
an ies have plenty ol almost barren territory,
uul the further now they build, the more sterile
the country they penetrate. For the first one
hundred and fifty miles only, the Nebraska road
runs through good laud. The Kansas road tra
verses rich valleys for the first two hundred and
fifty miles, after which the soil deteriorates
rapidly.
Some sanguine persons think the continent
will be spanned by a Pacific railroad within five
years. If it is accomplished in ten, some of the
best-informed friends of the enterprise will be
gratified. There are still 1200 miles to be built,
nearly half of which are through a mountainous
region. To complete the work in ten years will
require the annual construction of one hundred
and twenty miles of track. This, counting the
working season at eight months of the year, is
at the rate of half a mile per day. If the iron
horse cross the Rocky Mountains at that gait, it
will be the most slashing it ever struck up.
nd
Revival of (lie Slave Trade.
The Havana correspondent of the New York
Imes sends that paper a fact or two iu regard
to a revival of the slave trade, worth noting.—
He says :
It seems as if the proclamation of the Captain
General had only tended to in (use new liie into
our slave traders, and as if the very fact of the
severity of the new law had called forth the
opposition and daring of the many who still
look with a longing eye upon every fast sailing,
akish craft, and who cannot forget the glories,
if such they cau be called, they once earned in
tlie slave trade. There are more rumors within
the last few days about new expeditions fitted
out, or already gone, than there have been for
months past. One vessel is reported fitting out
in Matanzas, another in this city and one in
Boston. A schooner left Boston about five or
x weeks ago for the coast of Africa, if the
statement of an old slave Captain can be relied
on. It is too difficult to fit the expedition out
here. The Remedies expedition was fitted out
in Portland, where the vessel took the necessary
ater casks, &c., on board, and ostensibly clear;
ed for Cuba. She did reach here, but picked
up a cargo of blacks on the way. . A three-
masted English schooner, called the Numero
Uno, aud lately running between Batabano and
Honduras in tlie cattle trade, left here on Satur
day morning uuder very suspicious circum
stances, and the current report is that she has
gone to Africa, having cleared iu ballast lor
Matanzas at the English Consulate, and lor
Boston at the Custom house.
The Registration Oath.
As registration is now going on in this city,
c publish for the benefit of parlies who have,
perhaps, not seen it, the oath required of all who
gister:
I, , do solemnly swear, or affirm, in the
presence ol Almighty God, that I ain a citizen
f the State of Georgia, that I have resided in
the Suite for twelve months, next preceding this
day, and now reside in the county of Fulton ;
that I am twenty-one years old; that I have not
been disfranchised for participation in any rebel
lion or civil war agaiust the United States, nor
felony committed against the laws ot any State
or of the United Suites; that I have never been
a member of any State Legislature, nor held
any executive or judicial office in any State, and
afterward engaged in insurrection against the
United Slates, and given aid and comfort to the
enemies thereof; that I have never taken an oath
as a member of Congress of the United States,
or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an
executive or judicial officer of any State, to sup-
[>ort the Constitution of the United States, and
afterward engaged in insurrection or rebellion
agaiust the United States, or given aid or com
fort to the enemies thereof; that I will faithfully
support the Constitution and obey the laws ol
the United States; and will, to the best of my
ability, encourage others to do so—So help me
God.
Tbe President, Secretary or War,
(Cent ral Sheridan.
Which of tlit-se tfitsce officials of the Govern
ment is the most important to the country, in
carrying out the work of- reconstruction, the peo
ple will find it hard jp determine, judging from
wb&tGen. Sheridan assumes, what the Secretary
dissents to, and what the President orders to be
done, that is uot proi^jptly done. Doubtless the
President thinks, :«fhe has a right to think,
that lie occupies tlie inost important position in
reference to that matter, and that lie. possesses
the right, under tlie reconstruction enactments of
Congress, to direct and control it. Mr. Stanton,
the Secretary ol War, evidently, of himself,
thinks so too, and, wliefi overruled, squirms and
sulks, and ends by threatening to resign. But of
the three, it is certain (hut Gener<d Sheridan is
more deeply iinpressedjjwilb the importance of
his .position iu reference to the same important
work, than either t he I’tpsident or tlie Secretary.
The arrogance of his assumptions is almost in
credible. Whether tliis*^ Attweito lrom inordi
nate personal vanity, or Bpsfit want ol sense, is a
mooted |>oint, ami so wc leave it. Ills refusal,
however, on a recent occasion, to execute an
order ot the President, transmitted to him
through the War Department over which Mr
Stanton presides, is almost unpardonable. Ilis
manner, too, ol refusal, was disrespectful to his su
periors—disrespeetlul to General Grant; disrespect
fill to the War Department; and disrespectful to
the Presideut, the Commander ia-Chief of the
Army and Navy ot the United States. That the
reader may see how this inflated Brigadier has
presumed to disobey tlie orders of the President,
transmitted to him Through tlie proper channel,
by his superiors iu doinniaud, we lay his dispatch
embracing that refusal before them. It is as fol
lows :
New Orleans, June 22,1867—12 o’clock p.
m.—General Sheridan sent Geueral Grant the
following to-day:
Georgia News.—The paragraph below is
from the Atlanta correspondence of the New
York Times :
In Northern Georgia tlie mass of laboring men
are white. Wages are $1 per day, and some
times less ; and a great many cannot get work at
these rates. Still, it is doubtful whether actual
starvation has been experienced anywhere in the
State (l do not undertake to speak ten other dis
tricts.) Many cannot get meat, some are out of
meal, but potatoes and other garden stuff are
abundant: and vegetarianism, however unplea
sant, (save to the philosopher,) is still tar from
famine. The corn sent to this district has all
been eaten by somebody, and has done some
good, no doubt, and relieved suffering. There
has been no end of applicants, so long as there
was bounty to distribute; but I do not regret
that the bounty was no greater. This experi
ence is forcing men to work, and the more bitter
it is the more brief it will be, and the better its
lessons will be learned. Poverty covers the
land, but it is no disgrace to be poor, bat to stay
poor, and that no one need do, even in barren
“Cherokee.”
Headquarters Fifth Military District, I
New Orleans, June 37,1SK7. )
General U. S. Grant, Washington:
General—1 am in receipt of a telegram from
the President, through Brevet Major General
Townsend, Adjutaut General United States Ar
my, directing me to extend the registration in
this city and State until August 1, unless I have
gome good reasons to the contrary, and ordering
me to report success and such reasons for his in
formation, aud also stating that in his judgment
this extension is necessary to full aud fair regis
tration, and that-the time should be thus extend
ed because other district commanders will not
get through before that time.
My reasons for closing registration in this city
were because I had given the city two and a half
months, and there were no more to register. I
have given the State two and a halt months, and
registration will be exhausted by that time. I
did not feel warranted in keeping up boards of
registration at a large expense to suit new issues
coming in at the eleventh hour. The registra
tion will be completed in Louisiaua at the time
specified, unless I am ordered to carry out the
law under Mr. Stauberry’s interpretation, which*
practically in registration, is opening a broad
macadamized road for perjury and fraud to tra
vel on.
I do uot sec why my registration should be
dependent on the time when other district com
manders get through. I have given more time
for the registration of Louisiaua than they pro
pose to give in their commands, for I commenced
six weeks before they did. 1 regret that I have
to differ with the President, but it must be remem
bered that I have been (trdsruCto execute a law to
'which the President has been in bitter antagonism.
If, after this report, the time is to be extended,
please notify, and it will be done. I would do
it at once, but the President’s telegram was con
ditional, and there is sufficient time left to issue
the necessary orders. P. H. Sheridan,
Major General, U. S. A.
Commenting upon this most extraordinary
document, the Washington Intelligencer says:
‘ General Sheridan was appointed as a subor
dinate military officer, by the President, to exe
cute a certain law, the execution of which was
confided to the President, as the head of the
military organization of the country. It is no
more the right, or duty, of General Sheridan to
assume to himself the privilege of disregarding
the orders of his superior in reference to the
execution of this law, than for a simple lieuten
ant, or even a private soldier, to set up his opin
ion against that of his general commanding in
reference to obeying any military order given
to him.
“ It is not the province of Geueral Sheridan to
argue against the obedience to an order that his
construction of law is better than that ot the
law officer of the Government, or that his rule in
regard to registration in Louisiana is preferable
to that prescribed by tlie Attorney General of the
United States, aud approved by all but oue of
the President’s constitutional advisers, aDd adopt
ed by the President himself as Commander-in-
Chief. For him to oppose his individual opin
ion under such circumstances, and to decline to
obey the order given, is gross disrespect to a su
perior officer, and should be so regarded and
treated, if military subordination is to be main
tained.
“ It matters uot what may have been the Pre
sident’s opinions of the measure in question be
fore it became a law, any more than it does to a
lieutenant under Geueral Sheridan’s command
what may have been the General’s opinions of
any order before it was issued. It is not the
place nor the privilege of General Sheridan to
set himself up as the judge over his superior of
ficer, and to countermand his orders because he
differs in opinion about them. This is the very
essence of insubordination, and unless it is cured
now there will no longer be anything like subor
dination in the army of the United States. Any
private soldier may, with the same right, say:
I differ in opinion with my superior officer, and
will not obey him, but will go before the country
with a letter addressed to partisan passions, and
bid defiance to army discipline.
“ Even the most furious of the Congressional
Radical cabal dare not sustain this insubordina
tion, for by that act they will at once and for all
time utterly destroy all discipline iu the army,
and convert it into a simple armed mob, in
which every private soldier will lie entitled to
obey or disobey an order given him, as his own
opinions or caprices may dictate.”
What course the President will take in a
matter ot so much importance in the adminis
tration of tlie Government, remains to be seen.
If he submits oue of his chief prerogatives to be
set aside by oue of his subordinates without ap
plying the proper remedy, we have very much
mistaken tlie character of Andrew Johnson.—
The insubordination of that officer, it tolerated,
will produce insubordination elsewhere, until
the “ Army ” itself will lall into disrepute, and
each Brigadier in it will set up for himself, re
gardless alike of orders from its Commander-in-
Chief, General Grant, or the War Department.
The issue is made. It is Sheridan vs. The
President. We wait to see which comes out
second best in the remarkable contest.
The Extra Session.—We have not, says the
New York Express, seen a man ot business, who
is not a Radical politician—nor have we heard
of one, who does not regret the contemplated
extra session of Congress. Should the bank or
currency questions be considered, the effect will
be deplorable upon trade, as no real business
has or can have any real success while Congress
is in session, and engaged as, this one will be, in
imposing more strenuous measures for keeping
the Union apart. On party grounds, we might
rejoice over the reassembling of Congress, but
for the sake of the country, we deplore the meet
ing, as the effect must be to create distrust, and
to increase the burdens of taxation.
Gettysburg.—A correspondent of the New
York Tribune at Gettysburg asked the hotel-
keeper how be was affected by the great battle,
“ The battle,” replied mine host, “ turned out
well tor Gettysburg. Hack drivin’ and hotel
keepin’ are a bit more encouragin’. It was dif
ficult to see what Providence set us at ween two
fires for, but on lookin’ into our cash accounts
we understand it all.”
Brevities.
- He was a practically wise one who said that
iu hard aud dull times the man of genius wrests
success from adversity l»y advertising—the pub
lic must buy a certaiu quantity of goods, wares
and merchandise, aud they patronize the adver
tiser.
The National Bank of Chattanooga, which
was chartered at the last session ol the Tennes
see Legislature, has just beeu organized and gone
iuto operation. William II. Harris, forty erly of
Toledo, Ohio, but for some years a resident of
Chattanooga, is the President of the new institu
tion.
A Richmond, Virginia, correspondent ol the
New York Herald, says that General Longstreet
has written to a friend there, deuyiug that he has
allied himself to the Radicals. He says that all
his remarks in the letter which gave rise to this
presumption was designed solely to influence the
people.of New Orleans to conform to the terms
of the reconstruction bill, and bring an early ail
juslment of the difficulties now pending.
Jeff. Thompson has written a letter endors
ing General Longstreet’s recently-expressed views
on reconstruction.
A young man tried to drown himself in Phila
delphia because he could not afford to get mar
ried. Several have recently shot themselves be
cause they had gained that great blessing.
The Courier suggests the name of the Hon.
Charles Francis Adams for the next Presidency,
and thinks he might make as good a President
as his two ancestors. There has never been hut
one administration that resembled that of the
elder Adams, to-wit: that of Abraham Lincoln.
Both were remarkable for the suppression of
liberty of speech and of the press, and of the
puuishmeut, by imprisonment, for remarks rela
tive to the political management of the govern
ment. That was, however, before Congress be
came the government.
A colored woman in St. Louis has sued a
street railroad company for not being permitted
to ride in tlie cars. She sets the inconvenience
at the modest sum of $5000.
The lriends of Generals Sheridan and Sickels,
in Washington, have sent them telegrams, giving
assurance that they wiil be sustained by Con
gress. The latter has also been advised to re
consider his determination of giving up his
command. It is doubtful, however, whether the
Bowery Boy will yield his owu proper feelings
to the suggestion of his friends.
General Sickels, in writing to Senator Wil-
sou, says that the appropriations for the expense
of reconstruction are entirely inadequate, aud
the funds set apart to his district have been al
ready absorbed. The Navy and Treasury De
partments have declined to assist him with their
funds. The full sum appropriated was half a
million, and that is required for the Carolinas
alone.
At Fort Sedgwick, on the 12th instant, it is
reported, Colonel Dodge had a citizen named
Hendricks flogged with one hundred lashes on
his bare back, for selling whisky to soldiers. On
the same day, at the same place, a soldier re
ceived twenty-five lashes tor stealing a gun.—
Next day a soldier was “ spread ” for two hours
for getting drunk—the mosquitoes and buffalo
gnats torturing him terribly.
The medicine seems to be working. On-Sat-
urday the wages of the workmen employed in
the cotton aud woolen mills at Monueux, Penn
sylvania, were reduced twenty-five per cent.
There is a terrible division in the Radical
camp in Middle Tennessee, growing out of the
contest for Congress in the Nashville District
between Trimble and Mason, both red-mouthed
Radicals. A party that has no common bond
but place and plunder cannot remain united.
J. H. Hipkins, Bureau Superintendent at Gal
latin, has been indicted by the grand jury of
Sumuer county, Tenu., for attempted rape. It
is alleged that Hipkins, in the absence ot his wife,
attempted to violate the person of a young girl
only fourteen years of age, whom he had brought
iuto his family as an adopted child.
A Nashville paper says a gentleman who
left Chattanooga on Sunday evening at half-past
Seven stated that news bad reached that place
that Brownlow could not live twenty-four hours.
The report says his physicians had informed him
of the tact, but he persisted in saying they were
mistaken, as he had no notion of “ shuffling oft
this mortal coil ” so soon.
The money markets at the West remain close
and inactive owing to the dullness of business.—
The present scarcity of currency in that section
is attributed to poverty of resources due to for
mer crop failures, but with the present abundant
harvest it. is expected there will be a decided
change for the better in all departments of trade.
Dispatches from the Kansas end of the Pa
cific railroad says the Indians have driven the
grading parties into Fort Harker ; also, that two
railroad men and two citizens were killed near
Bunker Hill, about tweuty miles west of Fort
Harker, on Saturday, and considerable stock
driven oft. Efforts were being made to procure
arms for the railroad employees, many of whom
had already left their work, and it is feared all
will leave unless they are better protected.
Kelley’s charge that tlie riot at Mobile was
instigated by Col. Mann, editor ot the Times
is proved to lie lalse by the direct testimony of
Col. Shepherd, commanding the U. S. forces
there, and that ot the members of the coroner’s
jury who held an inquest upon the body of the
man killed.
A treasure, amounting to fifty millions of
francs, has lieen found in a Coptic convent gar
den in Egypt, supposed to be the cash box of
Amenopolis XXXVII.
Two men were taken from their beds in a
hotel at Council Bluffs, by a mob, and hanged.
They had simply inquired who had lynched
Henderson ?
Paris has gone mad on the subject of low-
necked dresses. They are getting more and more
decoUette, and the leaders of ton are appearing
without auy bodice at all, merely using a band
like that worn by infants, which has the advan
tage of covering up nothing in front, and being
utterly regardless of everything behind. It re
quires tact, however, to keep it on. One lady,
with no sleeves, at a ball in Paris, and only a
narrow gold cord, in the excitement of the
dance, broke the cord, and everything came
down by the run.
That miserable time-server, the New York
Herald, appears to be greatly incensed at the
opinion of Mr. Stanberry, and tlie anticipated
order ot the President. No one knows what the
price of this indignation is, but every body knows
that the Herald is ever ready to sell anything,
even the blood of the people, for its miserable
God—Gold!
There is a ehnrch at New Haven, Connecti
cut, built aud endowed by the late Gerard flal-
leek, of the New York Journal of Commerce,
the special object of which is to “preach religion
and not politics.”
A Detroit man held a reception party the
other night to receive congratulations upon hav
ing visited Chicago and returned without being
divorced from his wife.
LETTER FROM AUGUSTA.
(special to the INTELLIGENCER.]
Political Affairs—Registration—Crops—Miss Sedgwick’s
School.
Augusta, Ga., June If), 1867
The position of tlie Intelligencer, recently
announced, iu which it counsels acquiescence iu
the terms of the militay bill, ami at tlie same time
protests against all alliance with the Republican
or Radical party,appears tome the true position
tor the South to occupy. It was not expected by
the framers of the bill that tlie people of the
South would endorse it as liberal or just; it was
simply required that we accept it, and the con
clusiou to which the Intelligencer has ar
rived, that there is uo other sale and practicable
course to pursue, appears to lie deepening into a
geueral conviction among all save those who
take counsel of their passions and predjudiccs.
The attempt to make the acceptance of the bill
a basis for the organization of a Radical party at
the South, does not originate willi the people of
tlie State, and it is difficult to conceive how any
man who is true to the honor or traditions of the
South, or has a prudec regard for his future po
litical prospects, can give it his support
It is apparent, to tho most casual observer,
that the tenets of the Republican party are last
becoming odious to the Northern people, aud
that, with the restoration ol the South to the
Union, its power, for good or evil, will be gone, A
party embodying the malignity ol Stevens, the
knavery of Butler, the intolerance of Sumner,
the fanaticism of Greeley, tlie fuss of Wade, the
fury of Ashley, and the extravagance and reck
lessness of the forty thieves, has too many ele
ments of disintegration to commend itself as a
sale or congenial city of refuge for the people of
the South.
It is possible that in the future—alter the senti
ment anu resentment incident to the war have
died out; after peace and reconciliation are fully
restored—a political organization bearing the
republican name may arise, to which the people
of the South may attach themselves without
dishonor. But it will uot be a radical republi
canism ; it will not be the kind of republicanism
that controls the loyal leagues which are plotting
confiscation and general diabolism in our midst.
It will uot be a party that tells the negroes in
Virginia that they shall have the lands;' in Ala
bama, that they shall pay no tax, save on pro
perty ; and in Georgia, and everywhere, delude
them into fealty to tlie Jacobin clubs; that
crushes the energies with partial taxation, and
muzzles the lips will! iron-clad oaths; that pro
scribes and punishes the fallen and helpless, and
refuses to regard their solemn oaths of fealty.
Such a party, I repeat- seems to me to be no
place for a Georgian, and I aiu therefore glad to
find the Intelligencer—true to the ancient
landmarks of tlie Constitution—spurning all
identity with it.
The excessive rain of the last ten clays is crea
ting lunch uneasiness concerning the crops.—
Much wheat remains in the fields, which is in
danger ot sprouting, and grass is getting a dam
aging start on cotton and corn. A violent wind
on Saturday up-rooted large trees about the city,
and prostrated corn on the neighboring planta
tions.
The wheat crop is beginning to come to mar
ket, and commands $2 to $2 50. It is believed
that it will speedily fall to $1 50 to $2. Com is
falling, and was quoted on Saturday at $1 45.
Registration is now going on in Richmond
county. Tlie total number registered during the
first three days at the precincts adjoining the city
was 740, of which 1G3 are whites and 580 color
ed. Registration begins in the city to morrow.
A large majority will be secured here for a con
vention, aud present indications point to a very
formidable Republican vote here. The Republi
cans are meeting, forming clubs, swearing in and
working in all available material, while those
who are for reconstruction and against Radical
ism, and the No-Conventionists, are doing noth
ing. If these elements could cordially unite on
delegates—though differing on the policy of
holding a convention, they might still control the
country. But unfortunately those opposed to a
convention are also many of them indisposed to
register.
The social eveut of the week has been the
closing exercises of the Misses Sedgwick’s school.
The musical examination of the pupils of Miss
Weber—the teacher of music—was a brilliant
musical festival, and was attended by the elite
of the city. Miss Weber is one of the most ac
complished pianists and organists in the whole
country, and as a teacher lias uo superior. She
is a daughter of the eminent German composer,
Professor Weber, who resides in Nashville. The
b oarding school of the Misses Sedgwick is every
way an admirable institution, and should be well
sustained. It combines all the comforts of an
elegant home, with every facility lor thorough
culture aud early training.
But I am writing too much. I may tell you
more of local affairs hereafter.
Richmond.®
Amnesty to Political Offenders.
Vienna, Friday, June 21—Evening.—The
Austrian Government has granted an amnesty
to all political offenders, including Kossuth.
This cable telegram, says the New Y’ork Ex
press, the thunder and lightning journals of this
country will generally believe as wise and just,
—while in tire same breath they will demand
the blood of Jefferson Davis, and call for the
confiscation, and perpetual exclusion lrom .citi
zenship of the millions of Americans engaged
in the rebellion.
The Emperor of Austria is a great deal wiser,
in the pardon of Kossuth, than the extremists
of our country, in their furious aud fiery calls
for blood, confiscation, and what is worse, be
cause more lasting, for the perpetual exclusion
from government ol millions of men because
they have been political offenders.
The Late Commissioner Newton.—The
New Y'ork Courier pays a fitting tribute to the
late Commissioner Newton, iu the following
short paragraph:
This gentleman, who has lieen assailed during
the last two years with persistent vehemence, by
certain interested persons, is dead. We regret
his death, not only because lie was a very worthy
gentleman, personally, but liecatisc he also made
a very efficient public officer. Mr. Newton was
a practical man. He could not babble chemical
nonsense by the hour, and so astonish the ground
lings; but he had the experience of years iu
farming and gardening, which made his opinions
of value, and he had tlie tact to surround him
self, through either appointment or management,
with a thoroughly capable set of gentlemen, each
eminent in his speciality, and one—Mr. Saun
ders—thoroughly accomplished in all that ap
pertains to horticulture. It is to be hoped that
if his successor Is to he one with a more liberal
general education than Mr. Newton, he w : ll at
least have a large share of his predecessor’s en-
ergy, good sense ami practical knowledge.
From tho Southern Vidette.
Politics In tbc Pulpit—Old Brudder Pete's
Sermon on Wolves in Sheep's Clothing;.
“ Beware of men that come to you in sheep’s
clothing, but within they are raving wolves.”
Belubbkd Brudderen : I is gwinc to do on
dis de present ’casiou what I nebber done alore
since 1 commenced spoundiu de gospit: I is
gwine to preach a political sarmiut. I is a free
American of African ’scent, aud l’s got jisl as
good a right to preach politics as briulder Bee
cher, or any odder man. De tex say, “ Bewar
of men dat come to you iu sheep’s clothin."—
Now, brudderen, do question axes itself, what is
sheep’s clothin. Sheep’s clothin you all know, is
wool; and you all likewise know tie black man got
wool slid ot bar, on his craniology. So widout
strctehin the figger inor’n a politicioner sometimes
stretches his conscience, we may read de tex iu dis
wise: Bewar oh de whiti men dat comes to you in
wool, dat is, comes to you in de guise ob de black
man; dat make out dey lub de black man; dat
dey feel like de black mau; but within dey are
raven wolves, seckiu nigger votes. Dey (mines
to us in sheep's clothin •dey call you fellow citi
zen; dey is laborhi and sufferiu persecution for
de sake ob do black mau j dey respect dcir color
ed brudderin; dey ‘lub delr colored sistern—
sometimes, my brudderen, not wisely but too well.
Dey come to you iu sheep’s clothin; dey isgwiue
todogreat things for the black man; dey is
gwine to gib eber black man a farm, and eber
oman a grand pianner; and lam all de little
nigs to cipher multiplication, aud talk Greek.—
Dey is gwine to gib de black man franchises,
and t
Insurrection Aitrehended.—The Florida
New Era says that fears are entertained among
the white people of Alachua and adjoining coun
ties, of an insurrection in that locality by ne
groes. Though it believes that such forebodings
are foolish at present, tlie Era calls upon the
whites to prepare to defend themselves. If the pro
per authorities would take cognizance of the emis
saries of the land-grabbers who are sneaking
through the country aDd bumming round the
towns and villages, there would be no trouble
with the negroes.
cHm rights, and buroe, aud pluribus uuums,
and debil knows what; make crismtiscuin twice
a year, and ebery third year a jubilo, Bewar of
dem, niy brudderen, dey lubs do black man aud
de black oman like dc wolf lulls de sheep, and
dat, you know, is for de sake ob de sheep meat.
Dey is ravenin wolves, my bruddern. seek in
nigger votes. Dey are broken-winded politiciau-
ers, my bruddern, dat. decent white men won’t
vote for, and dey thinks dey can get the votes Ob
de black men, by puffin wool ober der eyes.—
Dat’s why dey go in for nigger suffrage; when
de Lord knows ae nigger’s done suffered enough
already wid deir foolishness. What good it
gwine to do a nigger to vote? It ain’t gwine to
put meal in de barrel, meat in de pot, taters in
the ashes, nor corn in the hoss-troff. What you
know bout de laws, my bruddern ? Which of
you would know a tariff from a tarrapin, if ye’s
to meet it by moonlight? Which way would
you start to go to Congress, if anybody was fool
euuff to elect you dar? Bruddern, dey some
times take de eycscs and de noses in Congress;
and sometimes deir are more noses dan eyeses.
Has any ob you got sense enuff to tell how dat
mout be? If you don’t know nuffln bout de
laws, how you gwiue to make de laws, or mend
de laws? I knowed a smart nigger once who
undertook to mend his watch, He. got it to
pieces in less dan no time; hut arter he worked
it awhile, the debbil himself coaldn’t put it tn-
gedder. Dat’s bout de fix you’ll get the govern
ment in if you go to tinkerin wkt it. Better be
hoein corn, to make bread for ole oman and de
chilluns. vYou all knows how to do dat, but you
don’t know how to make laws, nor mend ’em ;
and you don’t know what sort of men to choose
to do it. You jest as apt to vote for a fool as
for King Solomon, and you a heap apter to vote
for a rascal dan a good man, kase de tex say it’s
de ravenin wolf dat comes in sheep’s clothin ;
and do black man can’t tell sheep from. wolf.
Dat’s what dese mean white men knows; and
dat’s de reason dey wants ybu to vote. Dey fraid
spectable white folks won’t vote for em. and dey
think dey can fool de blackman.cause dey don’t
know nuffln, and is easy soft-sawdered. Dar’s’
chcsnuts in de fire, ihy brudderin, and monkey
wants em; he rake em out wid de cat’s paws; if
it burn de cat, it don’t burn the monkey. What
dc mean white man care haw much de nigger
suffer, so dey get and keep the offices ? What dey
oare, if a hundred sassy, fool niggers get killed,
as dey did at Orleans, so as dey can get up a liel-
labello again de rebels, as dey call cicber white
men; and get an excuse to hab de handle ob de
vise turned one more time; and dey git de rule
ob deir betters ? Bewar ob dem, my brudderin.
When de monkeys see chesnuts in dc fire and
begin to be mighty perlight to de cat, let de cat
take care ob her paws.
Dey is ravenin wolves, my brudderin, seekin
whom dey may devour. Dey show their lub for
the black man for taxin his cotton three cents a
pound, while his chiluus is crying for bread, His
blankets a dollar a par, while he is slubbering
with cold. Bewar ob dem, belubbed brudderin;
if you lets em fool you wid deir soft-sawder,
you’ll be wuss dan poor Esau, who sold his birt-
riglit fur a mess of potash; and lie mouglit
knowed fore he traded for it,dat twsnt fit to eat,
but only to make soap out’n. Finally, in con
clusion, my brudderin, bewar ob men dat comes
to you in sheep’s clothin, but within dey is .ra
venin wolves.
The New York Herald.
The Herald has turned its guns on Old Ben.
Wade, Wendell Phillips, Thad. Stevens and the
land-grabbers generally. We quote from Its last
article: __
The apostles of the “advanced ideas” of agra
rianism, confiscation and repudiation are rather
behind the age. The conglomerate party of
Pacific Railroad excursionists,under the inspiring
influence of prairie air, mountain dew or whisky,
gave vent to some startling, though not new
ideas, on political; financial and social matters.
Ben. Wade was quite progressive in his views of
re-distributing property—of taking from the rich
and giving to the poor—and of re-organiziug
society on the basis of agrarianism. The Che
valier Train laid down a platform, striking in
character and sulphurous in smell. He was for
“woman’s suffrage, repudiation and hell-fire.”—
Thad. Stevens is for confiscation, to make him
self rich for the destruction ot his small iron
foundry by the rebels, and to build up the radical
party by seizing and parceling out the lands of
the South to hungry partisans. Wendell Phillips,
with all the New England land stealers and lazy
negroes of the South at his back, go in strongly
also for confiscation. Everywhere the apostles
of agrarianism, repudiation and confiscation are
active; but, as we said, they liegau too late—
they are behind the times. The government is
in advance of them. It will take all the property
of the country and leave only the husks for the
men of “advanced ideas.” The entire property of
the nation may be about twelve thousand millions.
The government takes five hundred millions a
year, which in twenty-four years will absorb the
whole wealth of the nation. But if the national
banks remain in existence, the property of the
country will be devoured by them and the gov
ernment together in much less time. Confisca
tion is going on now at a fearful rate, so that
Ben. Wade, Thad. Htevens, Wendell Phillips,
and all the rest of tlie radical agrarians and lev-
elers may save themselves any further trouble;
there is uo room for them to come in. As to re
pudiation, that must follow, of course, from the
enormous burdens piled upon the people, which
they will be unable to bear, and lrom the gov
ernment leaving them nothing wherewith to pay
taxes. This is the way we arc going. Where
we shall bring up remains to be seen.
The Tumble in Pbices.—The New York
Times notes that the fears awakened by the late
spring, the deluge of rain in May, and the
gloomy reports circulated by the grain specula
tors have not, all combined, been sufficient to
prevent the tumble in prices. The editor says :
We may have had, for certain low-lying and
level lands, an excess of rain, even within the
past week; but for rolling fields and soils com
posed of a sandy loam, the rain and the warmth
of the past eight days have altogether done won
ders. Whatever danger the standing wheat en
counters hereafter is likely to present itself only
in the shape of rust. Two weeks ot settled
weather, such as wc have had for the last sixty
hours, will cause that danger likewise to disap
pear. Dealers begin to see these things at last.
Yesterday the commoner kinds of flour were
quoted (wholesale) at from $6 80 to $8 15 a bar
rel. Higher grades at from $8 50 to $9 30.
How was it a month ago? For the lower
(Trades the wholesale prices was from $10 65 to
$11 85; for the next higher grade, $12 to $13
15. On these kinds of flour alone, then, the av
erage decline, in thirty days, has been $3 75 on
every barrel, or fully 33 per cent. We are still
25 per cent, above the average price, at this sea
son, during the first three years of the war. But
we are improving; and every day’s sunshine now
for the next ten days is so many per cent, addi
tional in favor of the consumer.
Baker County.—A letter to the Macon Tele
graph says: Baker county is doing finely in the
way of crops. Her people are pursuing with
indefatigable zeal the only way to independence
now left to oar down-trodden country. In fact,
the same might be said of the whole of this
greet State. ^
