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Newspaper Page Text♦ “ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS tEPT FREE TO COMBAT IT."—hffn-mn. - VOLUME XIX. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1807. NUMBER 28. Itlcthli) Jntdlifiencrr. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Wednesday, July IO, I860. maxlnilllaii’s Doom. If the telegraphic disputclies which wc |>uh- lialied in our yesterday morning’s issue are to lie relied upon, and we have no doubt that they are, Maximilian's doom—that of death at the bauds of the ruthless Mexicans—has been sealed. That it would come to this, we have long believed.— A more blood-thirsty, treacherous race, does not breathe than these Mexicans. Instinctively the men are cruel. There is no magnanimity in I hem in their day of triumph; no mercy lor a defeated foe. It was blood at the Alamo, and elsewhere, when Fannin, and Ward, aud the brave Georgians they commanded, overpowered by numbers, were slaughtered after they Imd sur rendered ; and nothing but bfoed could satisfy them after having captured Maximilian. Such a people have no ctekix upon\w.hich s to base a civilized nationality, and like hurburians they should bo treated. We predict that, from this day forth, the Juarez party in that ill-fated coun try, will decline in power, and that he will either meet the fate he has meted out to Maximilian, or become himself a fugitive in some foreign land, lu Europe he dare not seek refuge. Wherever be may, the finger of scorn, we trust, will be pointed at him, till he bo made to feel that he is a murderer, and under the condemnation ol his Maker as such. As for Mexico itself, wc ate like the Now Orleans Picayune when it says: “ Hut il, as an independent and self-governing power, Mexico has one friend left among civilized na tions, we cannot conceive which it is. The very name of Mexico must be obliterated from the roll of nations, and its Indians, like the Caman- chos and Seminoles, be driven to tlu ir holes in the mountains, there to perish out of the earth, or we mistake the feelings of the American and all other people." The news nt Maximilian’s murder has already reached Europe. It has reached Louis Napoleon at a time when he is entertaining Austrian as well as other Princes. Wlmt must be his feel ings when he reflects upon his base abandon ment of the unfortunate Maximilian? W lint the feelings of the princely guests whom he is now entertaining, most of whom are blood relations of that unfortunate Prince V More than all this, what will be the future relations of Austria with the French Emperor because ol his selfish policy in regard to Mexico, by which he meauly sutlered Maximilian to be murdered by the bloody Juarez? We shall see ere many days shall pass. Meeting Last Mgllt. A large and enthusiastic meeting of our fel low citizens of the Republican party, three- fourths of whom were geutlemcn of African de scent, took place al the City Hall last night.— Upon motirth, Col. Furrow was called to the chair, and W. S. Hassford, Esq, requested to act as Secretary. The chairman in a few brief remarks, staled Hint the object of the assemblage was to appoint delegates to represent Fulton county in the Republican .Mass Meeting to be held in this city on to-morrow ; when by motion, it was made the duty of the chairman to appoint a committee ol four to select suitable persons for delegates. The chairman announced the fol lowing gentlemen, who retired to discharge the duty assigned to them: Win. Markham, Esq., Mr. Green, Col. Spaulding and Andrew Jack- son, Esq. After the committee had retired to another room, Robert Yancey, Esq., aroke and invited the Rev. Mr. Turner to lavor themceliug with a speech, when that gentleman was voci ferously called for. Mr. Turner stated that he was taken unawares, and not being prepared to make a speech, begged to be excused, but hoped that his friend, Mr. Simms, wdio was just from Boston, and doubtless had something fresh to say, would address the meeting; whereupon the gentleman from Massachusetts was loudly called lor. Mr. Sinuns lelt a due sense of pride, he said, at tiie compliment paid him, hut objected to the manner in which his brother Turner was dis posed to "dodge the question,” and insisted that he (Mr. T.) should first be heard from. Upon the latter gentleman again being called for, he ad vanced to u position in front of the Chair and addressed the meeting in a brief and eloquent manner, being r requcntly nnd loudly applauded At the conclusion of the address, the committee returned and reported the names of ten persons as delegates to represent Fulton county in the Fourth of July Mass Meeting of the Republican party of Georgia. We regret our inability to give the names of the ten delegates, our memory tailing us nt this writing. They were, we be lieve, about equally divided between colored and white gentlemen. The selection was entirely satisfactory to the meeting, save that it was deemed proper to add two more names, which was done by proposing and accepting W. If. Watson, Esq., and Austin Wright, making twelve delegates in all. Mr. Simms, from Boston, was again called for loudly, aud responded in a speech of some lengl h This gentleman’s style of oratory was of a highly pleasing character, replete ns it was with happy illustrations and humorous anecdotes! Thu next motion was for the appointment o an Executive Committee for Fulton county, which was objected to by Capt. McBarron Tim- money, who slated that a committee of that character was already in existence, of which A. was chairman. Here some discussion ensued, which was parlicipated in by William Markham, Esq,, Colonel Spaulding, the Rev. Mr. Turner, and Captain Timmoney, the latter gentleman slating that the Executive,Committee of which be was chairman was appointed by the League, and that the authority was derived from some organization al Washington City. Mr. Mark ham stated that the committee to which this gen tleman referred might be a very proper one, and doubtless was, Imt that this meeting bad nothing lo do with Leagues, if indeed, such things existed at all, and It was lit that this meeting should ap point one of its own'choiee. Air. Turner Imped that the committee would be appointed, and ie a somewhat etnphulio s|a-eeb gave lire motion tiis zealous support. Til® discussion concluded by oveiTuling the objection of ('apt. McBuitoii Timmouey, when a committee appointed by tire ' chairman retired for the purpose of making a selection. Alter a few moments’ absence they returned and reported the lollowing gentlemen as the Executive Committee ol Fulton county : W. S. Basstnrd, Esq , C. I 1 . Cassin, Esq., Dr. Badger and W. H. Watson, Esq We are not entirely certain lli.it wc report tins committee entirely correct, as we have to rely wholly upon ,.ur memory of the uumes as the Secretary read them out. The Rev. Wesley Pretty man then invited the chairman to lavor the meeting with some of bis counsel, wheu Colonel Farrow, in his usiis 1 felicitous style, promptly 1‘cspouded, remarking, however, that lu - physical condition was such U»al Ire wuodd uol t»* able U* do justice lo Ihe occasion, bn. felt it !• lie his duly to MV souie- thiug. Our engagements were such that we Could not hear the gentleman through, and are iberctor denied the pleasure of making a further reterence to his speech. We rfsoe* taring able to give a synopsis only of au occasion so inter esting I CoDgrru. This is the day fixed by the joint resolution ol the last session lor Ihe meeting of the two Houses ol Congress. That lesolution provides that un less there lie a quorum present on Hurt day in eneli House, the adjournment shall be continued to the regular time of meeting, on the first Moil day in December. The Constitution says the President “ may on extraordinary occasions con- vene both Mouses, or one of them." The July session, if it occurs, will have no such authority, and will owe its existence entirely to the factious necessities ot the dominant party in the legisla tive branch of the government, which aims at supreme authority, aud which, we regret to add, has pretty well succeeded iu destroying the last vestige of constitutional right, and in rendering the co-ordinate departments mere nullifies Assuming that there will he a quorum present, there is much speculation in the columns of the leading Northern journals as to what Congress will do—all agreeing, however, on one point, Lhuldhe reconstruction law of the last session ,will he so amended as to take all action out of the control ol the President and lire Judiciary, and to place Ihe military commanders above re straints or limitations' of any kind whatever.— Having done this, it is thought the conservators of the public weal will at mine adjourn, to await further developments oi the mischief which they will have set on fool. In this connection, we copy a portion ol an arlicle which we find in the New York Herald, of the 29th. The Herald is now recognized as a radical print—it has been doing tire destructives good service lor some time, and will no doubt continue ils labors in that direction until some oilier party offers a higher figure and buys it up. From the present position of the Herald iu the interests of radicalism, its speculations as to wlmt will be Hie course of the majority, may he worth more limn ordinarily attaches toils out givings. Intimating Hurt the President cannot well avoid honoring Congress with a message at the commencement ol this extraordinary session, the article to which we have alluded continues : But, with or without a message from the Ex ecutive, we may salely assume that the treatment id his Attorney General’s opinions by Congress will be “short, sharp nnd decisive.” General Sheridan will he applauded, and General Pope, General Sickles, General Schofield and General Old will he endorsed as goorl and faithful olll- eers, and we dare say that the existing laws, its executed by them respectively, even to the re moval id refractory civilians, will Ire explicitly re alii l ined try Congress. Beyond some such stringent explanatory act of reconstruction, em bracing, perhaps, an ultimatum to the rebel States, we expect little or nothing from tho ex traordinary session. The meeting of a legislative body in Hie northern temperate zone, in the heated term ” of July, is suggestive of a revo lutionary crisis, and July, as attested in the revo lutionary chapter of Franco, tiie United States, and oilier countries, is the most revolutionary month in the calendar. There will he enough, however, of revolution in a single reconstruction hill [or Hie ensuing session ol Congress. -The President’s construction ol the existing laws lias placed Ihe ten rebel Slates completely in the hands of tiie Republican parly, and Congress, alter carefully providing to hold those States in this position, may safely adjourn till October or December. The impeachment committee are said to he ac tively at work again in examining witnesses aud in hunting up evidence for Hie conviction of An drew Johnson of certain "high crimes ar 1 mis demeanors" demanding his removal. But Mr. Johnson need not bo alarmed. He is too useAll to the Republican party where he is to he re moved, ami there arc men who think that sub blitutiug tin- Llou. Ben. Wade for the remnant ol his term would lie jumping out of the frying pan into tho fire. Nor do wc apprehend even a seri ous agitation in July of the confiscation scheme Old Thud Stevens.” A speech from tiie old man will serve fill ihe next session the purpose ol the Radical electioneering game among the Southern blacks. Greeley, wc tear, is asking more than will be conceded, iu asking Hint the door bo closed between them and their expected free farms before their votes are secured iu all the processes o( reconstruction To sum up, wc expect that tiie business of the impending ses sion will he limited to an explanatory reconstruc tion hill nnd some increased appropriations of money to carry out the law -, that the impeach ment committee will ask an extension of time for their investigations, and Hint Hie extension will lx: granted in order lo keep the rod suspended over the President's head ; Hint “Old Tlmd” will la- indulged in a speech or two on confiscation, but that iiis hill will be laid on tho table or post poned, say to the first Monday in December next. A bill which will secure in their reconstruction and restoration to Congress tiie ten excluded ichel Stales as republican States will do for Hie July session, nnd such a hill may be expected.— From Ibis new point of departure all Hie re maining old party lines of demarcation will lie blotted nut and f lic work of a new and compre hensive reconstruction of parties and party issues will begin. An Important Document. We ofler no apology for occupying the space necessary to spread the Address below before Hie readers of Hie Intki.i.iuencek this morning It emanates from a portion of tho citizens of Savannah—gentlemen whose names will lie re cognized—and treats of a subject of general and vital importance to the people Of Georgia. We bespeak for it a careful and intelligent perusal Though specially addressed to the people ol Chatham couuty, ils arguments and appeals ap ply with equal force toother portions of Hie State: AIIDHESS, Ta the ('itken* of Chatham County: The undersigned, your fellow-citizens, actua ted by mi selfish motives, regarding only tin- honor and prosperity of our Stale, and of her people, disclaiming r:i-.y intention to assume the position ol dictators, or to intrude upon your privilege ol private judgment, desire to offer you in nil sincerity, as tin- result of their calm delilieriilious, a few words of counsel concerning your rights and duties in the present gloomy condition of our public allairs. We have learned with regret Hint many ol you have expressed your intention not to register your names us voters under Hie recent acts of tin- Cougie-s of the I'nilerl States, known as the “Military Hills." We ask you to reconsider that resolution before it shall have become a fixed .-mil irrevocable determination, anil to ex amine, iu Hie spirit befitting so solemn a qm-s- fion, tin: grave consequences involved in your decision. We apprehend that many of you are inllu- eneeil by the mistaken idea that adherence to the bile Confederate Government, or service, civil or military, iiinh-r il, cimstilules aground of disqualification and deprives you of the right ol registering your names and consequently ol voting al tiie coming election. If so, we assure you that you are in error. .S'ueit w not Ihe law.— t’vvo elements must combine in order to produce Hie ri-siilt ot disqualification under tile military acts. A ,s-r» on must not only have served or aided the Confederate States during the late war hut he liiust also have preciously taken an oalli to support the Constitution ot the United States on his assuming the duties of some National or Stale office sjwcified or included iu the terms ol the act. Neither service iu the armies ol the •Confederate States, nor civil employment under their Government, nor any amount of aid ol any character which you may have rendered to the Confederate cause, can alone effect your disquali fication. You may have fought under the Con federate King iu every battle during the whole war; you may have invested thousands in Con federate Bonds, nevertheless you are not disfran chised, nor debarred from the right of register- l mg, it (.supposing you to the qualiiica- I lions of age, residence and citizenship) you can I swear that you have never previously lo the war of s**»e-siou tak«*u an nth to support the Con- titutiou ot the Uni Ltd States as a member of Congress or as a civil or military officer of the U nited Mates, or as a member ot a Slate Legis lature. or as an executive or judicial officer of a Stale. The persons included in the terms “ex ecutive and “judicial ’ officers, are“deflned and designated in the opinion of the Attorney Gene ral of the United States,” and in the orders ot General Pope, to which yon all have access through the public prints. So also any one of you may betore the war have held any of the "enumerated offices, and have taken, when entering upon its duties, an oath to support the Constitution ot the United States, yet it he did not afterwards compromit himself by aiding the Confederacy in the manner contemplated by the nets, be is not excluded from the rights ot registering and voting. To create the disqualification intended by the law therefore precious incumbency of one of the designated offices with taking the oath to sup port the Constitution of the Uuited Stales, must he connected with subsequent support ot theC’on- lederate cause of the character contemplated by the military acts. Upon these points there can be no doubt. The remaining qualifications required of the applicant Idr registration are that he is a citizen ol the United States, (native or naturalized,) that he is twenty-one years of age at the time of re gistration, a resident of the State and county lor at least twelve months previous to the day of election. He may have been a resident for a less time before bis registration, but the full period must be completed before be can be a voter at any election. Many others ol you, we learn, intend declining to register your names from the impulses spring ing out of sentiment aud individual pride; im pulses which we appreciate and respect, but which we think to be, under the present circum stances, unpractical and delusive, aud calculated to distract your attention from your obvious du ties and responsibilities. You shrink from wlmt you consider a personal humiliation, in consenting to siibmiL to the dic tation (if those who now wield Ihe power of the General Government, and who choose to exer cise it. despotically. We entreat you to discard these feelings, and to accept our calmer judgment and counsel in this matter. We agree with you in condemning the acts which (’(ingress has passed, hut we do not ac knowledge that there is any voluntary humilia tion in asserting the rights allowed to us by them. Granting that the acts under consideration are unconstitutional, arbitrary, and unjust, that they violate established principles ot political right, and wantonly force the safeguards of social free dom ; yet, until repealed or annulled by a com pel mi* judicial tribunal, they are the laws of the land in which wc live. You can “accept the situation ” with dignity and without sacri fice of sell-respect. Tho war is over, the issues upon which it was waged have been decided against us. You have done your duty iu that contest, but another duty still devolves upon you. The question now is bow lo restore our State to a peaceful position of prosperity and of political freedom. To Ibis end Georgia needs and demands the aid ol all tier sons, 'flic only way in which you can ren der that aid is by qualifying yourselves to be voters al the coming election. You can do that only by registering your names under the pro visions ol the military acts. In no other way can you assume your true positions and grasp once more the power which is your birthright. It you bold back now aud refuse to register, consider wlmt may be the consequences o?your inaction and the responsibilities that will rest upon you. A very few votes mav decide the preponder ance of power at the next election. What fear ful contingencies arc involved in that simple sug gestion. you refuse lo register, you deprive your selves of the opportunity of voting for, or against a Convention, and lor or against Lip; Constitution which that Convention may adopt. If you retrain from qualifying yourselves to be voters, wlmt guaranty have you that the Conven tion may not Inune a Constitution tor your State that will on the very ground ol your default dis franchise yourselves and your sons forever V Why should you disdain to exercise the right of sufirage which 1ms always been yours, be cause it lias also been conferred upon others— when there is more need now than ever before that you should assert it? Many of you who will read this address have served your State faithfully in tho field, under the honest conviction that you were simply do ing your duty. You have earned that hoqpr which duty sincerely undertaken and earnestly performed, always confers. But other obliga ti ms to that Slate still remain to be fulfilled, in order to complete your record of a trust faith- fully discharged. At no time iu the history of our State did she stand more in need of the united and unfalter ing energy and devotion of her sons in her be half. Immolate upon her altar all selfish ideas.— Every duty is stern. Every duty demands some sacrifice of interest or of feeling. He is worth nothing to his friends or his country who is not willing to make such sacrifices at the demand of duty. You fearlessly exposed your lives in defense of your State. W»ll you hesitate now, when she is encompassed by new and fearful dangers to rally lo her aid when she once more calls upon you for support ? Friends! Wc have shown you what we be lieve to he your duty in the present emergency. We entieat you lo hesitate no longer, to look ujion the situation as practical men, in the light ol reason and common sense—and to assert to the full extent all the rights you possess. We pray you do not desert your beloved and bereaved mother, "Georgia," in this her time of desolation and distress, in this her supreme hour of agony and peril. Your friends, Henry R. Jackson, ) TUos! E. Lloyd, | Henry Williams, George t3. Owens, Committee. George A. Mercer, | Win. *3. Basinger, I o. Yates Levy, J Edward (J. Anderson, Chairman. Philip M. Russell, Secretary. Savannah, June 29, 1807. Woman’s Rioiith. A New York paper has this to say of the question of Woman’s Rights which Ins been before the Stale Constitutional Convention now in session at Albany : I In* advocates of woman’.-, rights have met iu lull force :it Albany. Time that luighl he better employed has been wasted listening to the plati tudes ol Mrs. E. Cady Stanton and other mem bers ol the mieciilur .sialnrhood. Surely we have had enough ol tins. The members of the convention could not .veil refuse the fair orator;-, a healing. In doing so they have done enough ; and the public will he glad to see that the Hut frage Committee have di-uni . cj the petitioners with as much grace as possible. It is of no use. The women must wait until the Northern politicians get through with tin* negro, when perhaps their rights will get a show ing. Meanwhile, they can amuse themselves with their domestic duties, and in grateful anti cipation ol the good time coming when they shall possess the blessed privilege of voting and ol mixing themselves up with the dirty politics of the country. Napoleon ami tiik Czar.— 1 The parting be tween the Emperor Napoleon and the Czar of Russia was, so announce the French journals, touching to the last degree Opening his arms Napoleon took Alexander upon the padding which swells out his Imperial breast, and em braced him tightly. Almost sobbing the two sovereigns parted. From this fact, tin.* New York Krprts* gives au opinion that France and Russia will not go to war within the next six months, but when it is added that the French KmjxTor would not ac cept the proffered hands of the sons of the Czar, hut drew each in turn upon the padding, we must I conclude that the conflict ia deferred until next spring, the newly invented cannons which Na- 1 xJeon has perfected probably not being as yet | up to that slaughtering point which would render it agreeable lor France to make an onslaught. Bad Taste.—Ex-Vice-President Jiainiiu, of •Maine, demands the iiupeachmeut of the Presi dent. Is not the reason for this bad feeling to t>e found iu the t u t that, hut for Andrew Johnson, Hannibal Hamlin might now lie the acting Pre sideut ? This cry of impeachment is now con fined lo those who are intensely fanatical and sectional, or intensely selfish or mercenary—the latter hoping, when they displace President Johnson, to profit by the change. “The Fourth ot‘July.” Ninety-one years have passed since the day, so noted in the political history of thirteen of the British Colonies in America, dawned upon tho people that inhabited' ffiom — ninety-one years embracing events most yvonderlul in themselves — many ol them tedotmding greatly to I lie, honor of the men of ’?<! and their descendants, while many of them, it were vt II, were they blotted from our memories and Imm the pages of history. Tho. day itself gave hiitlt to that “ Declaration ot Independence” which not only confounded Great Britain, hut the civilized world. The sel^- evident truths which it proclaimed, that “men are endowed hv their Gieutor with certain in alienable rights,” and that to “ secure those rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from llm consent of the govern ed,” with the lurltier hold declaration Llml” when- ever any form of government beeojnes destruc tive of these ends, it is the riy/it of t he people to alter or abolish it, and jo institute a new govern ment, laying ils fouuduUou on such principles, and organizing its powers iu such form, as to them shall seem most l-kely to effect their safety and happiness,” absolutely startled tho “ mother country.” How these declarations were subse quently maintained; how, alter seven years of war, the patriots who made them,triumphed in the bloody contest; how that triumphgave birth to a constitutional government under which the governed prospered ns-no people of the past ever before did ; and how, when sectional strife began, Imt Constitution continued no longer to he the guide; how fanaticism triumphed over states mauship; and how, through all these events, wc ttre brought down to the present evil times; is it not written V—is it not IdI V Hat h not the (/lory of the houses of the lathers departed from those ot their degenerate sons? it was “The Declaration ol Independence” by the “Hires ot ’70,” that, made the “Fourth of July ” famous, and llml ('(instituted its annual recurrence a day ol rejoicing. In good old times, as it. should he in Ihe present, il. was cele brated, not by Republican and Federalist, Demo crat and Whig,as such, but by all qf every creed or parly, as citizens ol ihe great American Re public, glorying in the political tends ot that de claration, and in the fame of the patriots who framed it, pledging their “Jives, fortunes, and snored honor” to maintain it, and nolfiis mere political partisans. In the days of Washington, Jef ferson, Madison,the two Adams,Monroe and Jack- son, who ever heard ol such a profanation of that glorious.day, as the selling of it up, to the cron- tiop of a political parly V—a spectacle we are in vited to witness to-day in Ibis city, and one from which the wise and patriotic may well revolt.— Celebration indeed! Rather say profanation ol the day, for it. is nothing else. We him with loathing from the programme, let who will par ticipate and play the part assigned to him iu it! Time will correct public sentiment when it has gone astray. We* do riot “despair ol 'the Re public.” There yet remains in it too much' ot wisdom and •»! patriotism for despair to (wel come us. We venerate the memories of tins men who proclaimed on the “Fourth of July, 177(1,” their abhorrence of tyranny and deter mination to resist it. We cherish the principles embruced in their “ Declaration ol Indepen dence.” We (/lory in their patriotism. The pledge they made when they placed their signa lures to that sacred" instrument, no man will dare Hay they tailed to redeem. Tho men of the South claim Ihe right, and it is their privilege— one ol the few that is lctl to them—-to rejoice upon every returning anniversary ol this glorious day, hid 'hey will not make the event one lo swell the numbers by their presence of political partisans, the Northern leaden ol whom are keen-scented alter the spoils of office, and bent upon the further oppression of our people, at their meeting to-day. Hoiithern men, loo, live in the hope, and it is an abiding one with us, iImt the future will correct all the evils ol the pre sent, social and political, and that the time will soon come, when the glorious memories ol the first revolution will bo celebrated as it should lie, and as it was in the past, by every citizen of this Ameiican Republic. J ii h rex—IVIuxliiiillaii. A Washington date says it is believed Juarez reluctantly Consented lo the execution ol Maxi milian. \V lien the mi ssenger hearing dispatch* ‘ from our government relative to sparing the life* of Maximilian delivered his packages to Juarez, the latter inhumed him that he was disposed to spare the lit'#- ol Maximilian, lull the prc-sui e from the Mexican leaders and people for Ins ex ecution was so great, that it would he. almost im possible to res I* l it. The Nashville Union if: Dispatch says as au expression ol tlm general sense of uhleuieucc which ull civilized people must leel at this ice- less tragedy, it limy he worthy of consideration, whether all other governments shall not at mu e suspend all diplomatic intercourse with tie pie sent government ol Mexico, and leave it toils miserable destiny, tin* subject of ils own barba ric feuds, or the law till prey to any power that may subject il h» civilized rules Europe Gives up Mexico —the London Times, alter gravely reviewing the status ol .Mexi co, conus to the coriclu Jo.i •* that the Mexicans must settle their own id fairs, or, at an.V late, in i ltd get aasirtUmc* llom their own side of the Allan tic.” Tins 'ISnos pretty frankly admits that till: js not entirely voluntary wln-n iL says “the Uni ted Stales have forbidden the civilizing agencies of a foreign power” in Mexico. The 'Times speaks truly when il says that Europe would have given Mexico “an organized government, though under monarchical institutions.” The United States forbade this, and now Mexico has, practi cally, no Government. The logical deduction from this conduct is that our Government a hound to give Mexico protection against anarchy aud ruin—which the United Hiatus will do no doubt, so soon an she gels through with the little job of producing ruin and anarchy at home.-- The United .Stales are in a nice condition just now to give libera! institutions and protection to other countries. Shall we go abroad to es tablish that which tvc are destroying at home? And ain't we traveling the same road as gioor God forsaken Mexicsj? A Nice Conspiracy.—A St Louis dispatch states that an investigation Into the reported rob bery of the steamer F W. Brooks, on the levee, on Sunday morning last, of $8,1)00, has disclosed the fuel tfial the owners, Henry A. Huflner and W. A. Kilter, and tier Captain, J. A. Johnson, had entered into a conspiracy to roll and burn the boat, and defraud the insurance companies. All Uie patties have been arrested, and $0,580 of the stolen money recovered. Johnson and Rit ter have confessed their connection with the af fair. The scheme originated with Huflner, who was to buy goods on credit, load the boat, (ol which Johnson was Captain, and Ritter was Clerk,) take them up Arkansas river, sell them for what they could get, rob the boat of the pro ci*( -Is ol the trip, bpru her, and get the insurance, j The lioat was insured for $8,000. IIiinmIu and France. An occasional correspondent ol the Charleston Courier Mends that paper the following in regard to the assembling of crowned heads at Faria, flhd the aomewhat remarkable intimacy between the Czar Alexander, ol Russia, and the illustri ous host of the occasion, Napoleon, the nephew of his uncle: Truly, it this lie uol the general European Congress tliM tho Emperor of the French vainly tried to assemble, il is a near approach to it; and with the advantage that the sovereigns in ques tion deal now with each other luce*to face. In the intervals between gorgeous dinners, fairy halls, expositions, reviews, sight-seeing, and all manlier of jollifications, they must surely find some leisure for interchange of political ideas. Who knows but that, when Alexander and N:i- P‘>1 eon were seen the other night at the Hotel de Vflle, in Hie embrasure of u window, looking down, apparently absorbed in admiration, at the magnificently attired groups ot revelers and the decorations superb beyond all precedent— who knows, l say, but that these two individ uals, so powerful over the destinies of the world, were not then and there discussing the future ot Belgium, or Turkey, or British India? u would he strange, and might lead to por tentous combinations, il tho nephew ol the first Napoleon had exorcised over the nephew of tho first, Alexander the same, sort of fnscinn- lion that, in tho days ol their two uncles, the ('•ie. exercised over the other. U is true that tub treaty of Tilsit was followed by the Invasion ol Russia; on the other hand, the actual repro- HcnlntWe of the Bonaparte dynasty has more sa gacity, if less genius, than its founder, lie is not likely to air.Jn and try the good will of Ids allies, and so convert them into enemies. Al. any rale, be there or he there not any positive results from this meeting, the very faclTof ils oc currence is an immense gain for the host ol the occasion. He had certainly lost ground of late with his people. Iiis discomfiture in Mexico was rudely followed by the sudden stride ol Prussia into a position of first rate dignity and strength, France suspecting all the while that she had been cajoled by Bismarck into the policy that the French frontier toward the Rhine might he extended, in return for convenient, acquies cence. I need not remind you that there has been a somewhat mortified awakening from that dream ; and that even the alliur of Luxembourg has been a drawn game, as played bel'oie the eyes ol Europe. If Frussia abandons, Franco does not acquire it. Ho, on the whole, some thing was needed, 1 repeat, in order to soothe the wounded vanity of the nation. Could anything nave been more happily de vised and more skilfully executed, than this gen tle forcing of flic various potentates to pay to France the personal homage of their presence ns guests? It has long been circulated throughout Europe, though l know not with wliuttruth, that the Czar has spoken openly of Louis Napoleon pitrrena. It is certain that when the latter addressed him in writing as “my brother,” the reply was addressed to "my cousin,” a distinc tion insulting in the highest degree. Neither is there any doubt that, a matrimonial alliance with the newly and self-made Emperor was scornful Iy refused by several ol the leading Courts. May it not well lie asked, therefore, whose is new the triumph? 1 can thoroughly understand the smile of selfsnlisludiou that I noticed on Louis Napoleon’s lips, on the first day when he pa raded Iiis principal captive before the hundred thousand Farisiaiis! ill It Y imlllltll Ills 1*01 it (m Mexli 1 Our dispatches this morning announce the condemnation and death of Maximilian, on the HHli ultimo. The following is a brief synopsis of the events which led to tlilif tragic end : It was exactly three years helore the fall ol Quurclnro that Maximilian landed at Vera Cruz. The original object of Ihe first English, French and Spanish expedition against Mexico was to blockade the Mexican ports, and sequestrate the customs revenue lor Ihe. satisfaction of outstand ing claims. The expedition was preceded by n body ol troops Irom Spain, which, on the I7tli December, 18111, landed al Vera ('riiz without resistance, and being reinforced by other troops of the allies to 28,000 men, soon held the chief towns in the most populous Slates. Negotia lions, however, took place by which England and Spam withdrew their forces Irom the coun try, while Franco continued single-handed to prosecute military operations. In October, 18(111, Maximilian u.ph.1 ton Mexican deputation ask ing him to accept the crown ol Mexico, that he would do :•«» if it were tendered to him by the hands ol tie* Mexican nation. Hix months alter, a second Mexican deputation repaired to the palace of Maximilian in Austria, and announced to him that :m imperial crown had been ( outer red upon him by a vote of Ihe Mexican notable i, ratified by an immense majority of the peoph Maximilian made a speech m reply, anunuucim r that, in fulfillment of the proud.-c lie had made six months before, he would accept the crown which the nation tendered to him. <>i. the same day a convention between France and Mexico was signed by their representatives, and on the I Bill of June following, Maximilian, with hi contort, the Empres Carlolfu, entered the gate. • if the Mexican capital, amidst the enthusiastic welcome nt the people. The only discontent Irom the new order of things, was the faction, headed by the so-called con liliilional President, Ju irez, who promptly iejected friendly overture which were made to him hy Maximilian, Inform uiif the Emperor that the otter of the Empire to himat Miramar, so fur from being the yok e of the nation, was "a iHiculoiis farce, unworthy to he seri'iUMly considered.” It il was a “lurec" the Hail'd older ol theatrical performance^ are re veined, an . the lurec preceded the tragedy. The Einpero*- ut once m ule propositions f<» organize a Mexican army ol one hundred thousand men, besides an auxiliary force of fifteen thousand Europeans Tim Imperialists were generally sueeCMsIul in halite, Imt their victories were bar ren ol practical results, and were purchased at III expense, lip to IffiMI, of $1:15,000,000, nnd a loss to the French army of eleven thousand iin*ii. Tho financial necessities of Mii> muliaii’H govei iimcnl helped lo produce its downhill,which • vent was hastened by the desertion of lie French Emperor, hut im whose intlueuee and promises, Maximilian would never h ive gone i<* Fi.ijmino tmi. Giikhtatkk.- The Dahlmiegu Sif/nul ol the 29lh has an article about mining operation iu that, direction, from w hich wc ex tract as follows ; With the above mentioned object in view, iu: live operations have commenced in the neigh horhood of Bearden’s ford, on the Chcslulce, t.pon the property lor nerly owned hy the Dali- lonega Gold Company, Imt recently purchased hy the Fleming Company, and oil which tin company has commenced their 11 huh* . Huh stuntial damn across Hie river are now made ami iu complete repair, and a thoroughly made ranit), ol siiiy (eel in width, nil aero's a bend o! the river, taking the entire flow of the slrcum, leuv ing about a third ot a mile of the river ready lor mining, with but little additional expense, save the pumping of tin: water from the old river bed. T he intention ol the Lumpkin Chustitlee Mill ing (Jniiipuuy is to drain oj dry llic bed ol the river ami its tributaries hy the method known m mining parlance as limning, mid then to mine its bed, as they would any other deposit ininc.- Aller their beds have been mined, the banks aud old beds are then to bn subjected lo the Same operation, and they, it is believed, will )ield fully twice as much us the present beds, hut they cannot Im elleetually mined until the bed of the river is drained, as tin; pre-sent waters drow n out the miners when they reach the pay gravel, which, iu fact, forms a part of the old bed of tin* river, and hence allows the water lo pass freely through the gruvcl, one of the greatest grievances of the miners of the past. Death ok Colonel Gainer.—The Colum bia T!m/nirer learns that Colonel haniuel Gainer died at Town Bluff, Tyler county, Texas, on the 11th of June. Colonel Gainer formerly livid iu Fort Gaines, Georgia, whence lie removed to Texas. He was a la wyer of high standing and a gentleman of many estimable qualities. A mao so up right into honorable niusLjiave fell many friends, who will receive with pain the news of Ids death. Important Slit Fending.—-'Hip suit of Blanton Duncan, to recover possession of pro- A (’ask of Conversion.-—The London Court , perty confiscated in Kentucky, while lie was in Journal buy»; “ Aii English duchess has gone : tin? rebel army, i (tending in the U nited Slates over to the Roman Catholic Church within a Court at Louisville. He claims that the Brest- few dajs; ” and adds the quiet observation; “It J dent’s pardon re-inyestahim will* tfie title to the | is a short and easy journey now. ” ) property. Washington and its Fi.aoiiks.—A Wash ing letter, written a few days ago, says: General Butler is here, and is preparing to urge forward tho impeachment project. Mr. Huinner is confident of currying fits scheme for forcing upon till the Hiatt ;: ucgr*.' sullrngc and education at tiie public expense. Mr. Hlevens is Just as sure of accomplishing his purpose of dis tributing the lands ot the late rebels iu the •Southern Slates among the negroes and Union soldiers, as lie is that Congress will bold a sum mer session. it. is his last, appearence and last ellbrl. lie doubts not ol success. Senator aud Acting Vu'c-Presidenl, and I'resident for next term—Wade—lias shot far ahead of all bis com petltors for the Fresidmicy, by pledging himself to the policy of an equal division ol all property, personal aud real, iu all the Stales among the poor and laboring classes He no longer coniines his sympathy to the negroes, now that slavery is gone, lie regards every man as a negro, ami entitled to Iiis sup port. as sueu. The poor, laboring whiles are entitled, next to tho negroes, to some considera tion on the part of the ruling Radical powers. Ho will stir the subject ol equal distribution of property in the coming Congress. It is bis great bid lor the next Presidency. ► One ok this Smiths.—The remarkable indi vidual who gave birth to Hits following, we arc happy to stale, is .no connection ol the lalc'la- mciitcd John Hniil.lt. It was Intended lor tho illumination ol the benighted board of registers of Huntsville, Alabama Montoomv.iX, '. i a 'one 2(1,1807. Major IF. /». Ocetrston / Men who were engaged iu the rebellion, and hilVe not taken t he amnesty o.uli, cannot register. Wu. II. Smith, A true copy .* Sup’l. Kegislrtitlon. Win. B. Dccleslou, Caplaiu fifid Infantry, and Brevet Major, U. S. A. Hinilli, my hoy, you are in I hr wrong district, and should put out at once Ibr that happy re gion embraced within the limits ol the bloody Filth. ATmwjtrto Virginia. Tim New Orleans Commercial thus speaks ol the no!ion of Ibis Commonwealth iu providing for her debt; Virginia convenes her public creditors, ex changes her sleeks in public works for her bonds, cancels her loans by one department ol Htato finances to another, and having reduced her pull- lie debt hy this process nearly fifty percent., an nounces that she is prepared to resume the pay ment ol interest with an eslimaltd I dance in the treasury over and above her anmiio expenses.— Has there been such a spectacle oi good lailli ex hibited in history? Therein true loyally- loy ally to obligations—voluntary compliance with ugagemeiils which might have been suspended or denied. GlCTTVsiHiutl.—The Army and Nary Journal, June fitli, 18(17, contains, in a letter from Gettys burg, the following notice ol the manner in which llu* graves of brave Confederate soldiers are treated hy the men who prate about the cru ellies of Andorsonvillo: Along all these nquls the saddest mementoes of the gigantic strugglk are still visible In Ihe scattered graves in Ihe adjacent fields. Another year, however, will obliterate all traces ol where so many rebel leaders aud followers lay buried, lu very lew eases ihe graves are respected, hut as a general thing the ground i^eulllvaled with out regard to the remains ol llu; misguided men who lie beneath it. Another Radical Lit'. Nailed.- The state ment in tho radical papers that the killing of Dun Rice, at JohnsoiiviDe,Tennessee, a lew days ago, grow out of political dificrences, I urns out to bo a lie of tlm first wafer. Rice, and Tom, Warren who killed him, were both members ol tll(* eniinrrv/uivo pnrly, and hud Imlh belonged lo the Confedemfe army. Follties find nothing to do wiLh the matter. Tim organs ol tlm radi cal saints must he hard up when they have to resort, to s icli palpable lying lo keep up the fal tering cor rage nl tho failliliil. Gknlhal Grant.—TIhj New York JleruUl, ifici a grand flourish ot trumpets about making General Grant ['resident, and meeting with hut i feeble response from any direction, lias piielly pi imilted the subject to drop from its .•oliimns It E thought lh.it the Jlerald will iu a lew day- break ('round for Ben. Wade, of Ohio, the representative man ol the repudiation and land grub i h iiieiil. The Dead Co * titution.—The ghost of tlm dead aud huiied Constitution continues to haunt some ol qm editorial brethren, and they write, and publish ailielci daily to keep green in the memory the \irtui s of the dear departed. Il has perhaps never occurred lo them that, chapter hy chapter, the country is making anew Constitu tion. Aud a thundering one it is, too. Mojui.e. - The colored people of Mobile have petitioned General Hwaync for protection under the Civil Rights bill, whi< h they claim n denied them hy the civil authorities They claim office under the rity government, and intimate they • Mil till one halt lie places III the police depart ni'eiit without damage lo the city inlere; Is. While a clergy mini wu preaching in Luiuy, \’a ,on HunJiiy'light, on tlm next “Thou fool, (hi*, night thy soul •hall he required of thee,” it young man in Lhp congregation was seized with pusin i, and a young lady tainted. Both of them, however, ale eonvuieseenl Tin. Vermont Deimu raey^at their Htate con vention, pus ted n reyoliifeui d< < luring “Jell Davis and the Republican..eqil.illy di unionist . ' This, iy: the ('im iuimli limpnri;', ia altogether too eomplinu nlary to tig; Republicans, aud puts them in too good company tor their deserts. JllAltP//..-* All exchange r ays the portrait ol Juarez, the so called Liberal Fnsideut. of Me.xi eo, shows him lo he Olie ol llio'e mongrels of mixed Indian and Spanish blood, W ho rare for three thing a l.nilc, a game cock and their re ligion - u uch as il i The llra. il I'Jmiyrulion llepierter is tlm name of the paper which has been started at Rio de Janeiro hy Mr. W. (Euu fson and tlm Rev. Mr. funis- the latter ol Meridian, Mississippi. What Hiiall iu; Done with the Nkoico. Wc notice ihi-: que; lion continue.* to he elabo rately dEcu xliu ioineofouroelmiiges. After lie- next Fresidenlial eh < ti-m it:; solution is not likely to he a mailer ol unit h dillienily. The bodies of f• »ur persons were a few days ago seen floating down the Missouri river. Three were recovered, and it was found lliaL death was caused by violent lie am Macon. The Journal and Mt. v nycr oi the dd ays: One fmiulred aud four while# and ninety three colored r< gislcred yesU-rduy. Total, one hundred and ninety seven. m Death a-i Charleston. — William Whit Esq., for many y ars proprietor of the Ch.irh ton Hotel, died in that city on hist Saturday. New Fost Okkk k A |w>sl office hits been established on Lookout Mountain. Ten nr and Mr. Culp* nter appointed postmaster. A Negro Captain Drowned A freed man named Frederick Thompson, captain of a ( .dor- id company stationed -it Montgomery, was drowned ill llu* Coosa River, while bathing, a few days ago. ^ ^ I FosrMA„Ti:n Gehkiul. Postmaster General i itaudall was at Savannah a few days ago, and, j after looking into poUal matters there, left fur I Florida. The Indian Wail--Tlm New York World secs nothing but a protracted and bloody Indian war ahead. It says : Nothing (wc arc told) except a contingent war rant is given by Gen. Hlmrman in behalf <*i tlm Government, for tho pay, clothing, food, ifcc., of tlm volunteers now authorized ; and the settlers show that they prefer to satisfy their own hatred by indiscriminate scalp-bunting raf her tlmn place themself os under tlm uncertain control of tho military authorities. This will not assist to con quer or pacify tlm savages iu mass; and it is to he regretted that tho Territorial officials evince so little disposition to ro operate With Gen. Sher man by encouraging such parties to properly or ganize themselves and pursue this warfare In a more reasoning spirit to a legitimate end. We cannot see that. General Sherman is, thus far, to blame for not accomplishing, with five or six thousand troops, tlm task that has been Ig norantly expected of him by people who know nothing about the country, or the difficulties be lias to deal with. Tho forces tlmt might enable him to protect travel on tlm main overland routes are still employed to sustain the military tyran ny in the Southern States; and the people of tho territories are too naturally and selfishly excited to act in live systematic way he desires, Ghabsiioimmchs in Kansas.—Grasshoppers are one of the greatest pests with which West ern farmers have to contend. In Kansas they hayo already commenced tho raid upon vegeta tion, ils will bo boor by the following extract from the Leavenworth Times: A gentleman just returned from Finite county says the gmtftfiioppom are making extensive raids near Weston. One farmer told our informant lluit on Thursday they completely destroyed his wheat, corn ninf blue grass crop, and, iu fact, ealioverylliinif off tho, plantation. They swarm thek'In myrFnds,‘MU( accm lo have taken the whole country for miles around by storm. Tho day being Walin'; tlm earth was rather dry, the farmer took a hundfiil of dirt, and actually tlm hoppers hatched out in Ids hand. It woukfscem llml grasshoppers urn incorrigible, ami it word almost impossible to kill them. Five wore re coolly decapitated and placed under a half bush H measure, biit. five days afterward they wore found still alive. The Wheat Cuniv—Wo have believed all along that (lie wheat crop was being not a little exaggerated, Imt Imd no thought of such a fall ing off as the paragraph below, copied from the Roipo Courier, Would seem to Indicate: The threshing Imffconsiderably advanced, and the fact is developed that the crop in thin section is much less tlmn was anticipated. Many crops do not turn out oim-liall wlmt was expected, yet tlm Whout Is of excellent quality, wlmt there is. lu another jilrtco may bo found tho statement of Mr. A. J. King, iu regard to Ihe crops in Vann's Vulley-r-ono of the best sections in the up country—and so far as tlm threshing lias pro gressed, tlm crop averages a little over four bushels lo Ihe acre. St. Louis hud to pay $0,11*17 50 daluagcs some time since to a man who fell into a bole on tlm street and was injured. Tho Authorities have been quarreling fora whole month over tlm bole, every man laying Urn whole blame on somebody else. Ol course nobody is to blame. Thu hole was carted oil as soon ■>< it proved unfit, lor breaking nocks, and a new one is built now for tlm edification ol the city officials. None of them have fallen into it yet, und it is therefore di'nouncod h# a useless expense, besides being inconvenient to gentlemen of late hours and circular liable. ^ The LaTe Tragedy.—The Constitutional Union says of tlm John Bmoot tragedy : Editorial comment upon tragedies like tlmt which Ims just been so generally justified by this community, is ;x pee Leu us a reflex of public opinion. A man is taken in tulnltvry with an other's wife. The Injured husband, with tlm awful proof before film, shoots tho invader of fils red rights on tlidfipot. Tho community are startled lor the moment on account of a murder ommiltcd. The circumstances are related, and, as in this case, the guilty woman finds little sym pathy. and tlm injured husband many (Wends.— It will not do to say both were bad—one as much to blame as tiie other. Fakdonkd RicnifiLs.— 1 The Bavammli Jlcpubli- n gives the following list of parties who were refused permission to register hy tho board sit ting in that city : Hun. IC ('. AikIithoii, (Mayor; |>ari]onnl October •**, Hum. WIIIIiiiii Law. pardoiiert'July IS, Iluii. Henry It. .1 m l;hoii, uardoncif Muptuiiilxir 7, M l Huh. .1 iiliiin llartrhlg®, pardoned .Tanimry IS, IHfL. ilun. Kiain lH Sorrel, pardoned .January IS. 1807. Hun. Thomas E. Loyd, pardoned Auguat *JS, 18SD. Hun. Levi M. IHiphcII, pardoned .July 21, Mm Di. It. D Arnold, pardoned .June Iff, Ml’,. George A Mercer, pardoned Juno 24, ItiilH. \V. It. HymoiiH, pardoned July f», SVni. M. Nii hols, pardoned . NVin.T. Wood, pardoned.Heptrmpor, IWKI. A Great Crop ok Wheat.—A Washington late of tiie 271 li says: Hon. Mr. Kogan, of Missouri, who lms just arrived here, reports that the appearance of tlm wheat fields, from .Southwestern Missouri to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Is perfectly mugnill cent. Much is the breadth of ground covered, and so fine the condition of the crop, as to afford a sight uunpiaicd In Tore in this couniiy. Wo may, lliciclorc, icasopably expect, in the fall, a return to tlm old prices of breadstiiffs, especially a.* the reports Irom other sections are of the same tenor with this report, from five of the largest wliciit-grmving Slates in the Union. Fooit (Joi.fax. -A correspondent of Ihe (.'in cinnati Commercial disposes of Colfax’s Preside!) I ml aspirations in this wi “Colfax was fmmhoo/lcd by a few crazy fel lows into Ihe belief tlmt be bad a chance, and tin* poor litlle mail hu.i Ihmi worrying himself nigh unto (leatli ever luce. He has been writing lo Ihe Feiiliilis lihoilt VIllegal’ 11 ill ; to tlm U'hli:; Linns about llm Imppy land , lo tlm Jews about Jeiusalem, to tin* F.nplLj i in favor of iuVmci (ion , lo the Calvinists In favor of bell five , lo • lie I 'alholies in favor of the Fope, and to llm Radicals hallelujah for tlm niggers. And as if this wasn’t enough to elect a mao, Im lms Ice lured three thousand Ibiir hundred and fifty-five imies on liiilfalos, In als and wild cals.” Bret Kijgar. The cultivation of beet sugar is quite successful ill Illinofp, Tho newspapers of that Slate speak with confidence of the re Mills of the efforts to maniifiietnrc sugar from the heel, alter the plan adopted in Franco a lew years ago, and since prosecuted with success. The consignment of about thirty thousand pounds of sugar to Ohicago from a maiiuladur mg establishment at ('attswortb is reported. The sugar is said to have been made iu March, and is part of the product ot bust season’s busi ness, the heels having been preserved iu pits through the winter. Fxpcrleuce seems lo be eom hisive in regard to the good saccharine pro pel lie* ol beds grow n in Ibis country. School Books.-- The Petersburg ICxpress says a school book i.* being circulated iu the South wh ich contains the following choice morccau : While all the loyal people of tbocoun'ry were rejoicing because the war Mid ended, President Lincoln, mm ol the moif tlmt ever lived, was cruelly murdered in Washington by a young man hired by Ibr ('oujideraU.s to do. the wicked deed. This is a fair specimen of tho vast majority ot abolition school books lor educating the South under the Freed men's Bureau and the National Bureau ol Kduculfou. New Orleans,—Tho untuidlcd insolence of the black population of New Orleans may bo inferred from au iueklca* tlmt occurred in that city hut Suuday. A brutal, ferocious-looking negro torced bis way into a air and took a scat in a white lady’s lap. A gentleman next to her knocked the scoundrel down, the negroes rallied for a fight, and the car was quickly clearer.— The police interfered and stopped the p.oceed- ings of the violent negroes. •1''xirs An admiring journalist compares B o. Hilt’s Notes on the Constitution and the By Laws to the celebrated letters of Juniu Shade of Sir Philip Francis—don’t that make your boues rattle iu their coffin'

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Weekly Atlanta intelligencer. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1865-18??, July 10, 1867, Image 1