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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME XIX. “ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefferson. - ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21,1867. NUMBER :U. \Uffhli) Jutclligrurrr. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Wedn«*6ay> Auguat 21, (867. HBAbVCAaTEM, TniBD MlI.IT.HV IllfTBKT. I iUkoboi., Alabama a»i> Florida.) • Atlawta, 6i, AutruM It, lat*7. ) General Orders, No. 40. I. The Commanding General lias become sat isfied that the civil officers in this military dis trict are only observing his order prohibiting them from “ using any influence to deter or dis suade the people from reconstructing their State governments under the recent acts of Congress,” so far as their own personal conversation is con cerned, and are at the same time, by their offi cial patronage, supporting and encouraging newspapers which are, almost without excep tion, opposing reconstruction, and obstructing and embarrassing civil officers appointed by the military district in the performance of their du ties by denunciation and threats of luture penal ties for their official actH. II. Such use o! the patronage of their offices ia simply an evasion (perhaps unintentional) of the provisions of the General Order above re- lerred to, and is, in tact, an employment of the machinery ol the provisional Suite governments to defeat the execution ol the reconstruction acts. It!. It ia therefore ordered, That all advertise ments or other official publications heretofore, or to lie hereafter provided for by State of munici pal laws or ordinances, lie given by the proper civil officers whose duty it is to have such publi cation to be made, to such newspapers and such only as have not op|>osed and do not oppose re construction under the acts of Congress, nor at tempt to obstruct in any manner, the civil offi cers appointed by the military authorities in this district, iu the discharge ol their duly by threats ot violence or prosecution or other penalty us soon as the military protection is withdrawn for acts performed in their official capacity. IV. All officers in this military district, and all officers of the Freedmeu’s Bureau, and till Boards ol Registration, or other persons in the employment of the United States under its mili tary jurisdiction, are directed to give prompt at tention lo the enforcement ot this order, and to make immediate report to these Headquarters, of any civil officer who violates its provisions. By couuuaud of Brevet Major General Pope. G. X. Sanderson, ('apt. 8&I U. S. lull & A. A. A. G. For the information of the County and State Officials, who have for a series of years tiulil now, used thecoluinus of the Intelligen cer as their advertising medium, wc published the foregoing military order immediately up on its issuance, and do so again to-day, in order to call their special attention to it, not having doue so before. We feel that we but discharge a duty which we owe to all those who, in the pttHl, iiave so kindly aud so constantly extended their patronage to this journal, to apprize them ol 'the military order which necessarily dissolves the business relations that have hitherto existed between themselves and this paper, aud to advise them, which we most sincerely do, to comply with wbat is required oi them by the aforesaid military requisition. For the pres ent, we refrain presenting, either to them, or to our readers generally, any comments upon this movement of the General in command of this military district. Indeed, it is not necessary now, and will scarcely be so in the future, as it speaks moat emphatically for itaelf. We cannot, however, permit this occasion to pass without tendering to our old Iriends, to whom the order ot General Pope is directed, our acknowledg ments for their numerous favors, and our kind appreciation of their long and earnest friendship, trusting that the day is not far distant when former relations will be restored. In our advertising columns of this morniugit will be seen that the Ordinary of this county gives the proper legal notice of “his change of venue.” Farewell, “Dan!" Pleasant has been our inter course. May the obstacle to its restoration soon be overcome! To you aud to all holding posi tions as county or State officers, that have hith erto used it as an advertising medium, the In telligencer will be regularly sent, that you may continue to read its chronicle of events and its opinions upou the political, commercial, moral, and social condition of the country. Connected with the foregoing, we take the liberty of suggesting to our brethren ot the Georgia press, who have, like the Intelligen cer, become ostracised, to a certain extent, at least, by the military order above rclerrod to, the propriety of conferring together at some cen tral poiut iu the State—Atlanta or Macon—ou an early occasion, in order to determine upou some plan that may, in their best judgment, pro mote the proprietary interests of the press ol the State so situated. If our brethren at Augusta or Macon will name the day and place, the In tklliukkckr will be represented in the meet ing. Slavery and Polygamy.—A California cor respondent of the New York Journal of Com metre calls attention to the practice of polygamy aud slavery on the Pacific coast, within the States and Territories. Both these institutions, he says, prevail among the China settlements aud native American races without hindrance or denunciation. The higher classes of the Chinese iu California are said to import slaves direct from China, and great numbers are ket»t in the State, both male and female, who daily deliver up to their masters all their earnings, and never Miie for or expect their freedom. The Indians enslave all their captives, have as many wives ms they choose, and separate lrom them when tliey please. The same polygamic custom pre vails among the native Mexicans in California. The corresp«H»dein thinks it would be appropri ate and wise if philanthropists who devote so much time to the ex-slaveholders of the South would give their attention to slavery and poly gamy as practiced by tl«e Asiatic races, Indians and Mexicans in California. Population of Milwaukee.—Two years ago a census showed that the population of Mil waukee .was 55,000, and the Sentinel now claims, on the basis of a directory just published, 76,000 liermanent citizens, and also predicts that in 1N70, three years hence, that city will roll up an enumeration considerably over 100.000 A new compass has recently l»een inventi-d anti pno-uied by the Karl of Caithness, a Scot tish nobleman. This compass is said to be a great itupiovemeut on those now iu use, being less sensitive to detrimental influences. It has been tested on the Clyde, and is reported to have given great satis taction. To the Ordiuarlea of Cordon and Owls* nett Counties. Our old Iriends, the Ordinaries of Gordon and Gwinnett counties, are advised that in consequence of the recent “General Order No. 49" of General Pope, we withhold the legal no tices, tearing their official signatures, receutly transmitted to the Intelligencer for publica tion as required by law. We will hold the no tices, however, subject to their orders or direc tions. Our acknowledgments are due both these offle/rs for past favors. We trust that it will not be long before their official business relations with this journal will be restored, and continue as agreeable and friendly as our mutual personal relations have ever been. General Pope’a Order JVo.;49. Our attention has been called to the following which appeared under the above beading, in the “ Kra” of Wednesday morning last: “ This important order, instructing the civil officers to withdraw their business from disunion, fire-eating organs, will be found on third page, head of third column. The order itself is a ve ry significant indication that Reconstruction is a fixed tact, and will be consummated, in spite of the “ late ” Mr. Hill, Herschel V. Johnson and their satelites. The game of tweedledum and tweedle dec is played out, and the irresistible car ol reconstruction will move right forward, and all who can’t go with it, must get out of the way. The lines are now strictly drawn, and all not openly lor, will be set down as against re construction.” It there be a “ disunion, fire-eating” organ in the Stale, we are not aware of it. We know of no dis’oyal paper iu Georgia—none but favor resto/ation, though many do not favor the adop- t ou of t lie reconstruction enactments of Con gress. Is not our neighbor, the “ Era'' too harsh in its denunciations? Will it personate one “ disunion" journal? Will it personate any that is op|Mtsed to the restoration ot the Union as it was previous to the war ? For its defense of Gen. Pope’s “ Order No. 49” we have noth ing to say—that is a matter of opinion, and opinion in Hint matter, we apprehend, will pre vail, whether we dissent from it or not. Uliler Justice Chase. The New York World says : A few days since a brief paragraph found its way among our personal items, to the eflect that Mr. Chase went into the Treasury possessed ot very little private meins, and came out of it, and is now, very rich. We are assured by a gentleman of this city, who is not a political friend of the late Secretary of the Treasury, nor ever an advocate of his financial policy, that the story is utterly without founda tion. He assures us, and ou authority that can not be questioned, that the limited private means of llie Chief Justice are now about the same as they were when lie was appointed to the Treas ury, and that these means, although the same in nominal amount, are in fact of much less value lor the purpose of living than then, wbicb is a condition of tilings we can all understand iu these days of high prices. We regret that in a compilation of brief personal items, this mis statement got into our columns, and it is but justice to give it this prominent contradiction. Ulotfel Radical Leader*. Logan, of Illinois, ou whose motion the Kentucky representatives were excluded from Congress, a saint par excellence of the modern radical school, was a warm friend of Johnson and his policy, until the President refused to pay a claim tor which he was attorney with a contingent fee of $30,000. Forney, more famous for his attempt to suborn evidence to blast the reputation of Mrs. Forest than for uny other act of his life, as late as January of last year urged the President to re move from office all who didn't approve bis policy ; but, tailing to get a fat office for a friend iu whose behalf lie was employed, he be came the most malignant enemy ot Mr. John son, and the most unscrupulous ot the radical conspirators against his administration. Ashley, the mover in the impeachment matter, was a Johnson man to the extent of his limited capacity until the President refused to confer an office upon a Mr. Herrick, of New York, in ac cordance with an arrangement by which Ashley had bought a vote in Congress for some measure for which he was interested; and Ashley next turned up as the author of a motion to impeach the obstinate executive who wouldn’t ratify his con tracts! And we believe there is not a radical leader in Congress whose conduct toward the President may not lie directly traced to some personal dis appointment. And these men represent the ideas ot the “God and morality party” which men once ranking as Southern gentlemen are endeavoring through corrupt means to place in power in Alabama and the other “unreconstructed” States.—Selma Messenger. New Ground lor Confiscation. The Washington correspondent of the Phila delphia Bulletin, (Rep ) in a dispatch dated the 3d instant, makes the following statement: “ A recent letter from Hon. Thaddeus Stevens to a radical triend in this city, states that a bill will be presented at the opening of the Novem ber Congressional session, for confiscating the property ot- all Southern ex-slaveholders who dismiss the freedmeu ior voting the Republican ticket. “ Senator Wilson, it is understood, strongly lavors tliis course, wbicli will probably be adopted. “ The names ot such ex-rebels are to be col lected by the military commanders for refer- euce.” That’s a grand radical idea. Make it a crime to discharge negroes from employment, aud affix confiscation as a penalty ! Then we shall li ive “a Republican form of government” with a vengeance. These ruuipers ought to make a general law so as to include the rich radical manufacturers oi Connecticut, who discharged their while workmen for voting the Democratic ticket at the State election. Of course, in either case the projierty must be confiscated upon the report of some military satrap; as the constitu tional provision against depriving “persons ot life, liWriv or properly without due process of law"—*, e., trial and conviction by a jury—has become obsolete in this, “Ihe ’a-st government 1 lie world ever saw !”—-Sf. Paul Pioneer. Slcklra. In an article beaded as above, the Washington City Motional Intelligencer relates the following piece of effrontery: Politically bred iu the wardineeting school of New Yosk, this committee-man of caucuses has come to hold two sovereign States at the tips of tits gloved fingers, while me men prompted by the pressure of intolerable exaction, or abject from despair, suppress unspeakable disgust, or offer contemptible flattery to feed a vanity that a boy would disown lor ils littleness, yet which | whole communities must deplore for ils cost, i Wb it must be the puerile, yet, as “commander,” | the fearful insolence of a mau in an American ; community whose outrageous effrontery could reach the pitch of the following, which we find j afloat in the Northern press: i “ lu Charleston, as here, smoking is prohibited in the street cars. General Sickles receutly con descended to ride with ordinary folks in the st reel cars, but he lorgot to observe the rule, ‘ no ! smoking permitted.’ The conductor called his I attention to the tact.” “ What did you observe?” said the General. “ I merely desired to inform you,” said the man, in the blandest manner possible, “ that pas- seugers are not allowed to smoke in the cars. It ; is contrary to the rules.” “ Ah, indeed,’’ replied the great man, taking j out his watch w ith the utmost nonchalance. I “ Indeed ! Then you sliali consider the rules sus pended lor llie next half hour.” “ Amelia, for thee—ves, at thy command I’d tear this eternal firmament into a thousand frag ments—I’d gather llie stars, one by one, as they tumbled lrom the regions oi ellierial space, aud put them iu my trow sc rs pockets; I’d pinck the .sun—that oriental god of day, that traverses the j bine arch ot heaven in such majestic splendor— ' I’d tear him iron* the sky and quench bis bright effulgence iu the fountain of my eternal lovefor thee!’’ Amelia—“ Don’t, Henry, it would be so very dark.” A Plain aud Truthful Statement. The Nashville Union <£ Dispatch says, in one ol its recent editorial comments on theiaat elec tion iu Tennessee: “Iu Tennessee, on the 1st of August, the few white men left enlrauchised, with the concur rence of the vast majority of the disfranchised, gave the Radical system of reconstructing States, a full and fair test. They proposed to ratify and guarantee to the colored race the full measure of civil freedom conferred on them in the Fede ral statutes, and all the political rights granted by the Legislature of Tennessee. They asked in return that the blacks should vote the enfran chisement of the whiles. This proposition was refused. It was done alter all the deliberation that the race is capable of giving so simple, fair, and just a proposition. The issue was patiently, laboriously, and sincerely argued to them. Re monstrance aud solicitation were resorted to.— All were in vain. The negroes, knowing that they held the decision in their hands, declared against the equal rights of the white man. In extenuation, it cannot be pleaded that they acted in unadvised ignorance. If llie recent canvass made by the cousei vative party had not occurred, there might be justification for excusing the negro for the responsibility for this monstrous outrage. But as the case stands, he must assume it, anil all the consequences of the issue that he has permitted the white Radicals to lead him to. The negro in Tennessee lists rejected the frank, manly and magnanimous proffer of universal suffrage, anil narrower! the question of the poli tical mastery oi this Stale and the wholeojf the former slave section ol the country, to one of brains and muscle, moral power and physical endurance between himself and the white man. The dominant party will control the current ol events which will lead to a decision of this struggle, and may so do it, that there will tie no attending convulsion; but it will be decided sooner or later, let the consequences lie what they may.” How will it be in Georgia? We apprehend just as it has been and will be iu Tennessee.— The deluded freed men of our State, as far as they have made any demonstration, appear de termined to reject all friendly ailvauces made by their former owners, and to array themselves, politically, aga'iusl them. As far as our own ob servation extends, the former slaveholders of the South have manifested every dispositioa to deal generously and tenderly with the freedmen, and are still inclined to do so; nay, will do so it permitted. Every material interest of both races in the South, demands that there shall be no ar ray of one against the other, as a djstiuct race. He who would promote such a strife is an ene my to both, and, if successful in his malignant efforts, will bring down upon him in the last ap proaching, eventlul future, the execrations of mankind. The freedmen should ponder upon this and banish from their councils counselors so unworthy, and tor the peace and happiness of both races, so much to be ..dreaded. Returned Brazilian Emigrant*. We notice the following piece of interesting information in the Montgomery State Sentinel, of the 10th instant. Those of our fellow-citizens who a short time ago had become stricken with the Brazilian emigration fever, but who were iortunate enough not to make the venture to that great Empire, will doubtless “thank their stars” that they did not do so, after reading what the returned emigrants have reported to onr Ala bama cotemporary. Brazil! why, it is no more to be compared to the “ Sunny South,” despite its present “political situation,” than “ Hyperion to a Satyr.” It is no place for either Alabamians or Georgians. Stay at home both, work and improve your own soil, and let Brazilians take care of Brazil; it is no place for you. Says the Sentinel: We had the pleasure of receiving a visit this morning lrom Captain John Stanfield, long a cit izen ot Dallas, who, in company with twelve others, arrived in onr city yesterday, on their re turn from the great Empire of Brazil. The billowing are the names of the persons who arc iu company with Captain Stanfield, and are stopping at the Central Hotel, awaiting the departure ot a steamer down the river for their several homes : J. M. Harris,of Clarke county; John McCauts, wife, two daughters and son, of Monroe county ; T. A. McElroy, wife and son, of Dallas county; Drew Breazeale, of Dallas coun ty ; Greene E. Jones, of Marengo county, and W. J. DeBerry, of Wilcox county—all Ala bamians, and are all completely disgusted with Brazil, and are content, like sensible people, to remain in Alabama. Captain Stanfield, who is an old and practical man and farmer, gives a minute and interesting account of his experience and observations in- the great Empire, of which such glowing ac counts have been published, and the result of his experience with that country, is, that he intends to remain in Alabama. His account of the miserable condition of the hundreds of poor Americans who have been deluded to go Jp that country is anything but flattering. There are numbers of Alabamians in Brazil without money, and no way to make means with which to re turn home. We would suggest that no greater act of charity could be done, than lor our libe ral-hearted citizens to raise means, and help these poor people to return to their once contented and happy homes in Alabama. Free-Tr*4* A| The New York nently on “ Free-Tr Free-Trade says, let * Protection.” discourses thus perti- id Protection:” '»ere be light Buy your The President and Congress on n Broad ■sane. The New York Herald, in an article on fhe Stanton affair, sums tip very significantly as fol lows : “The whole issue in the South depends upon the spirit in which these laws of reconstruction are applied If the restrictions against rebels are rigorously enforced, while the negroes, with out question, are freely admitted to the suffrage, as they have beeu so lar, the negroes will rule in the work ot reorganization and send whom they please to Congress. If, on the other hand, the restrictions against the Southern whites are somewhat relaxed, and the requirements to suf frage are iairly applied to the blacks, the white majority, where it exists in any Southern State, will be brought into action, and white ascen dancy will lie the result. We believe, too, that under this system Southern reconstruction may be so fairly accomplished as to compel even the Radicals ol Congress to accept it; tor if the idea of universal suffrage has now gone so far that it cannot be arrested, that other idea of a general amnesty is close behind. If Jeff. Davis, on the bail volunteered by leading Radicals,-can be turned loose, surely we need no longer delay in letting ail flic smaller fry of the rebellion" go scot-lree. Now, then, is the time lor President JohnsoD to make the issue we have suggested between bis method of executing the laws ol reconstruction, which means Southern white supremacy, anil llie Stanton method, which means Southern negro supremacy, aud twenty or thirty negroes in the two Houses as a begin ning before tiie expiration of the present Con gress. Let Mr. Johuson prepare at once to try New York and Pennsylvania on this test, and he will discover, before the re-assembling of Congress, that they are not yetj-eady to be jos tled by sambo iu the United States Senate.” Return of a Saharan Traveler.—The A the rue am of July the 13th, says: “Mr. Gerhard Rohlfs, the Saharan traveler, whose departure on a third journey across the desert to Waday, we announced some two years ago, made his ap pearance in London last week, to the surprise ol his geological Iriends, having emerged at Lagos in the Gulf of Benin, and returned to England by tl«e West African mail steamer. He entered the Sahara from Tripoli, and traveled via Gba- dames and Murzuk to Lake Chad, where he was hospitably received by the Sultan of Bornu, who endeavored, in vain, to procure him a safe pass for the more barbarous territory of Waday. Being thus prevented from going east, he struck south for the Benue, and descended that river to its confluence with the Niger, afterwards as cending the main stream to Rabba, and pushing acaoss, through the forest-covered region of Ya- ribba, to the sea-coast. In all his journeys Mr. Rohlfs was much aided by the attachment of his Arab servant, Hamed, who, we hear, will be re warded by the Council of our Royal Geological Society with a silver medal, Mr. Rohlts’s nar- j ralive will shortly be published.” James Henry Livingston, clerk at the Me- ■ tropolitan Hotel, New York, was arrested on Tuesday, charged with secreting himself in the room ot a guest, and attempting to rob him. Livingston is from Syracuse, N. Y. window glass where you can buy cheapest, no matter where that may be. “Protection” says,Jet there lie darkness.— You shall have no glass at all unless you pay a tax on all the material to make it, and then a tax of one hundred pci cent., or -double the value on the article itself. No man, not the very ]to»r- est, can escape this moat oppressive tax. Free-Trade says, let there be intelligence and education. Take oil aH taxes from education in a free republic like ours. “ Protection ” says, let there be ignorance. You shall pay taxes on your paper, your types, your ink, on your books. These are now more than twice as dear as they were before the days of the Morrill tariff. Free-Trade says, let there be abundance.— Buy all over the work], where you can buy cheapest. Let all the n'tkjons of the earth come to you with their goods; and forbid them not. “ Protection ” says, let there bescarcity. You shall not bay where goods are abundant, unless you pay an oppressive tax to make them high. Free-Trade says, let'there be cheapness. If any nation on the globe lias unusual facilities tor producing a certain article, buy it of them, at their cheap price, without any unnecessary tax. “ Protection ” says, let there be dearness.— You shall not buy where you can buy cheap. If you attempt to do so we will punish you with severe and unnecessary taxation. Free-Trade says, let us have a cheap govern ment. Dismiss your army of custom-house men, now numbering many thousands, and set them at work to produce something useful and support themselves. “ Protection ” says, let us have a dear govern ment. Have a hundred thousand custom-house officers to tax you to death, to make everything you want dear and scarce, to take all your money and give you nothing whatever iu return, to eat out your substance like so many consumiug moths. All this is not for revenue, not to support the government, not to pay interest or principal ot the national debt. But a very small amount ol this taxation and national oppression benefits either government or people. Most of it goes into the pockets of already enormously rich inen, who, like the daughter of the horse-leech, continually cry, “ Give, give, give!” Who can hesitate which side to choose ? On Editors. The New York Advertisers' Ornette “ gets otf ” the following on editors: An editor in Marshall, Illinois, has become so hollow from depending upon the printing bu siness alone ior bread, that he proposes to sell himself for stove pipe, at three cents a foot. An afflicted editor, who is troubled witb hand-organs under bis -window, longs ior the “evil days” mentioned iu Ecclesiastes, when “ the grinders shall cease because they are few,” and “ the sound ot the grinding ” shall be “low.” The editor of the Charleston, South Caroli na, Christian Advocate says : “ We acknowledge our indebtedness to the Messrs. Fordlmm, for a dish of very superior soup. We marked it as in side matter, and gave it an early insertion. Our contributors can always send such articles as these without any fear of their being crowded out, or laid over till next week.” Embarrassed and Indignant.—The editor of the Piedmont (Pa.) Journal says: “The lady (?) who yesterday called the atten tion of another to our ps'ched breeches whereat they both laughed so heartily, is informed that a new pair will be purcharpd when her husband’s “little bill” Is settled ; it has been due nearly a year. Notes—1. When you speak disparagingly of a passer-by, and do not wish to be overheard, talk low. 2. Don’t criticise the printer’s dress too closely while wearing silks purchased with money due to him. 3. Tell your husband to send us $23 70 at once, aod save the cost of an entire suit. The Madrid editors, whose articles offended the civilized government of Spain, are to wear spiked iron collars and serve in the galleys for 20 years. Prentice, the man must now be about sixty, and as unlike a poet in appearance as can be imagined. The upper part of bis face and bead is very good, the lower part bad and coarse look ing, giving the idea that the two parts must have belonged originally to different individuals, though the marked inconsistencies of his char acter explain the physiognomical fitness of this discordance. He is rustic and uncouth in his manners, though a good talker, as all journalists ought to be, and extremely careless and rural in his dress. One might mistake him for a dys peptic taiior, seeing him in slippers, woolen jacket and disordered linen, which is his usual working costume. He labors very industriously about half the year, and during the other six months does little or nothing. An Iowa paper is priuted entirely iu red ink. An exchange says that the editor is determined to have bis articles red. A Western editor thinks if the proper way of spelling tho is “though,” and bo “beaux,” the proper way of spelling potatoes must be “pough- teighteaux.” The new way of spelling softly is psoughlieigh. Handbills in Newspapers.—It is against the Post Office law to circulate handbills in newspapers. This is generally known, but not always regarded. The editor of the Jeffersonian, West Chester, sent nine papers to the Wilming ton post office last week, each containing a hand bill. Being reported to the Postmaster General by the postmaster of that city, Major Darling ton, postmaster at West Chester, was directed to collect five dollars upon each paper—forty-five dollars in all. Mr. Hodgson paid the money ac cording. We mention this matter for the infor mation of other publishers, who are more cen surable than Mr. Hodgson. The West Chester Village Record says, as theeditor is a Johnsonite, the fine cannot be ascribed to politics. We might add that the practice which has just lieen pun ished iu Cheslej county, is quite common with our cotemporaries throughout the State. The law is plainly against it, and we hope our co temporaries will be warned by llie example thus made of the Jeffersonian,. The Coming Elections—'When ? When the approaching elections in the several States of, or in the “Union,” the reader will be informed by noticing the following, which we clip from the Savannah Republican : “The next election outside llie unreconstructed States will be tbatof Vermont, which will occur on the 3d of September; and the day after, Cali fornia and the other extremity ol the Union will follow’. A tew days afterwards, on the 9th of September, Maine will be heard from. Nearly a month will then elapse, at the end of which time the great States of Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio will engage in the political struggle—their day of election being the 8th of October. Next will come the elections that occur on the first Tuesday in November—the 5th. They are New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Massa chusetts, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illi nois, Kansas, Missouri, anti Nevada. Colorado will vote on the 12th of November, which will close the list of Fall elections.” The Czar aod the Sultan. The sovereign for whom the French had sac rificed thousands ot lives and millions of money, visits Paris, receives the most costly and elegant entertainment that money and taste can supply, and departs not only without making any dis play of Oriental munificence, but not even do ing wlmt propriety required, and really regard ing everything that was doue lor him with a sort of contemptuous indiffcreuce, as if It was the tribute due from slaves to their master. The Czar, on the contrary, whom the French had fought a tout outrance, not only distributed his wealth by millions, but exerted himself every where by winning manners aud the expression of an interest in all that was done for him, to acknowledge the attentions that were bestowed upon him. He desired eagerly to please, and he was successful. The contrast ot the Sultan in personal appearance was most striking to that of the Czar. The face of the lormer, weakly expressive, as one who had long ceased to feel the slightest interest in anything really noble or worthy ot human attention, and his manner un dignified, boyish, and distrait, really struck one painfully when he thought of the intelligent and sympathetic features ot Alexander, his majestic bearing and easy self-possession, his courteous affability and regard lor the feelings of others.— In addition to these qualities he showed a nice tact, a certain cheerful, though not familiar, bon homie, and, though last, not by any means the least, an accurate knowledge of the French lan guage and customs, which all made a strong im pression upon the Parisians, and had a powerful influence in securing him that popularity of which the attempt upon his life formed the crowning point. The Sultan seemed the precise impersonation of an effete and helpless monar chy on the verge of ruin; the Czar, the no less fitting embodiment of a powerful empire, mighty in the present and full of hopeful promise for the future. Once the Sultan was in no little fa vor as the a'ly of France, and her people were willing to submit to heavy taxation that Turkey might relaiu her place among the European [lowers, in the future, however, his Majesty will find but small assistauce from this source, and another Crimean campaign cannot be look ed for.—Correspondence Boston Advertiser. Schisms ol Ihe Mormon Church. The Nevada Enterprise gives the following particulars of the troubles that have been for some time agitating the Mormons: “It is generally known that there is an irrecon cilable schism in the Mormon Church ; but it is not generally known that the division separates forty or fifty thousand ‘Saints’ from the recogni tion and control of Brigham Young and the Salt Lake church authorities. The branches difler, not only in relation to the legitimate suc cession to the Presidency of the church, but in vital doctrinal [Joints as well, and there is no probability of their ever coming together. The disaffected Mormons are scattered throughout the Western States, and are under the leader ship of Joseph Smith, Jr., son of the founder of the faith. lie lives in Iowa, and seems to be much respected by his neighbors. It was doubt less the intention of the elder Smith to place the mantle of his authority and succession upon the shoulders of the Iowa prophet, but he was killed in prison, and Brigham Young managed to ele vate himself to the church Presidency, while the junior Smith was mourning the death of his father. Such of the Mormons its could not be prevailed ujion to remove to Salt Lake twenty years ago remained in Iowa and Missouri, and recognized the authority of the younger Smith. Their numbers have increased largely, and they now count all of forty thousand souls, it is said. They neither believe in nor practice polygamy, and are altogether a more intelligent body of people than the Utah branch. A large portion of them are natives ot the United States and during the rebellion they were noted for their loyalty to the government. Some months since we published a letter from Joseph Smith, Jr., in \vhich he stated the points of difference between the two sects, and alluded to the disloyalty of the Salt Lake branch. The letter seems to have had some eflect, for his followers have largely increased during the past year. He has made two or three unsuccessful efforts in the way of proselytizing at Salt Lake, and the two bands are irreconcilably hostile to each other.” Decapitation Commenced. We regret to hear that Geueral Pope has re moved A. R. Lamar, Esq., Solicitor of the Coun ty Court of Muscogee county, and appointed Mr. C. W. Chapman, of the Internal Revenue office, to the position. Some time since an order of General Pope whs published, in which he instructed the mem bers of the Boards of Registration to give him information of any civil officers in their districts who liy word or deed “ obstructed” the execu tion ol the Congressional Reconstruction acts. It was doubtless in accordance with this order that the information against Solicitor Lamar was lodged, aud the removal made. Mr. Chapman is a member of the Board of Registration, besides being an assistant in the Internal Revenue office. One would think that he has his hands full of official duties now, especially as lie is not a law yer, and the law ol the State requires a lawyer of considerable practice for the position. But theaqmcity of our exclusive “Southern Loyalist” triends is not excelled even by tbeir patriotism, and it the taking of the “ iron clad” does not entitle a man to a diploma in any profession, then truly republics saved by their fidelity must he ungrateful! Of Mr. Lamar’s ability and impartiality in the discharge ot the duties of the office from which he has been removed, we need hardly speak to this community. Never a word of complaint has beeu made against him on that score. His duty was to prosecute offenders against the law, and we have heard it said that he has procured the conviction of every white man put upon trial in the County Court—a fact that attest at once his impartiality as to color, and the ability with which he conduted the prosecutions. He will re tire from the office with the proud consciousness that he discharged its duties honestly, efficiently, and without tear or favor, and that his taking of! is intended only as a punishment for the open expression of his opinions upou political subjects —a right of every American citizen, which the people in their majesty will vindicate and re-as- sert.— Columbus Enquirer. From nexifo, I The Hlasdalen* of Lnudou. The Brownsville Ranchero copies fhe follow-j [Translated for thoCinctiuiat^Commerciol from L'Inter ing telegrams, directed to the Governor ot San Luis Potosi from the Bolotin Official of Mon terey : “Received at 9.35 a. m., July 12.—To the Gov ernor of San Luis Potosi:—Late yesterday I ar rived at this point, to-day- I start" for Cuatitlan, to-morrow will arrive at Cliapultepeo, and enter the City of Mexico. Juarez.” “From Queretaro to San Luis Potosi—Receiv ed at 10 a. ni., July 13.—On the 8th instant Yidaurri was apprehended at No. 6. San Cafiiilo steet, City of Mexico. He was immediately put in a chapel, and at 44 p. in. he was shot to death by musketry. Escobedo.” The Commander-in Chief, professing a wish to be spared such acts of severity ns that of th;: ex ecution of Yidaurri, orders that the persons spoken of in the decree of June 21st, may have twenty-six hours more in which to? surrender themselves as prisoners. The Traitor Lopez.—The llinehcro of the 25th says: “Col. Miguel Lopez, the traitor, after selling Maximilian and his Generals, went to Puebla to visit his wife. Ilis reception was decidedly cold. His wife advanced to meet him, leading their little son by the hand, and addressed him thus : ‘Sir, here is your son; we cannot cut him in t wo, take him. You are a base coward aud traitor. You have betrayed your country and your bene factor. From this hour we are strangers, for I shall this day retire to my family. Go.’ ’ The same paper says the number of foreigners executed by Escobedo at San Jacinto was 109 ; the number of prisoners executed by’ Diaz, at Puebla, is officially reported by him at 07; hut it is charged that two or three times that many were butchered informally during the surrender aud the two following days. Twenty executions took place at Queretaro, including the Emperor, and it is asserted that the effusion of blood is a daily occurrence there. One hundred and sixty officers remain in confinement, all of whom, it is understood, will be shot. The Ranchero says that an order lrom Juarez, sending all traitors to the States iu which their treason was committed, for execution, greatly increases his popularity and assures his election to the Presidency. Before the Emperor’s death lie ordered a salg of effects to pay off laborers about his house.— Diaz, since the sale, has directed the seizure and confiscation of all such property, where it may be. The same paper of the 23d has an extract from a letter written by an intelligent and re liable American at San Luis Potosi, which says: Juarez by this time must have reached the capital, but is already surrounded by enemies, and very likely will be besieged. The execution ol such men as Mirainon, Mejia, Castillo, and 3fendez, is producing a storm that Mr. Juarez cannot control. General Carlos Mirainon, bro ther of the murdered Miguel Mirainon, is in the mountains near San Miguel Grande, at the head of twenty-five hundred men, and is playing the very devil generally. He is said to be receiving accessions to his command daily. Marquez, with a large aud rapidly augmenting force, is further south in the Tierra Caliente. Reports are coming in lrom all quarters of Mexicans rising to avenge the deal iis of tlmir distinguished leaders at Queretaro. Mexicans and foreigners—especially Ameri cans—here, are disgusted with the damned Lib eral government. Robbing and murdering on a wholesale system is rampant everywhere. The San Antonio Herald copies lrom a Mexi can paper a statement that a brother ot Maxi milian slapped Marshal Baziue iu the face. This led to a duel, in which Baziue was left lor dead ou the spot.— Galveston Metes. national.] years ago, an English preacher ex- Browulow’* militia make a IIaid Into North Carolina. We copy the following account of a recent “outrage in Wilkes” from the Winston Senti nel : One day last week a party of men from Ten nessee, ciaimiug to belong to Brownlow’s mili tia, made a rush into Wilkes county and arrested and carried off’ a young nmu by the name of Wagoner. Wagoner is a native of Johnson county, Tennessee, and at the commencement of the war joined the First North Carolina Cav alry, aud did not visit his home during the strug gle, and since the war was afraid to return home, and settled in Wilkes county in this State, and recently married. The miscreants who carried him off told him they were acting under the au thority of Brownlow, and that lie had also of fered $400 reward Ior him. Wagoner was in the field at work, ami when lie was arrested was refused permission to go to the house for his coat. The captors placed a guard of two men, one on each side, and then placed a rear guard, with instructions to fire off a gun on the approach of any one that had the appearauce of pursuit, and the firing of the gun was llie signal to the guards near Wagoner’s person to kill him. When the party was approaching Taylorsville, the rear guard stopped at a branch to drink, and fell to the rear some thirty or forty yards. Wagoner conceived this to be the best and last chance to escape; he suddenly struck one of the guards and knocked him off a steep embankment, and immediately struck the other and darted oft into the woods. By this time the attention of the whole party was drawn to him, aud they fired a volley alter him, but fortunately his person was not "touched, although several balls passed through his clothing. Alter lying out in the mountains for two or three days and nights, he got safely back to Wilkes, where, it is hoped, he will Lie allowed to remain unmolested. A few „ D claimed in the pulpit: “ My friends, do you wish to know the dreadful condition in which more than six hundred and fifty thousand ol your countrywomen are vegetating? Listen ami tremble. In the midst of our great city twelve thosaud children are cradled by crime, suckled by vice, and are, as it were, re-enforcements des tined to perpetuate tbe great system of iniquity, lu the midst of our city, there are upward of forty thousand men speculating in the deprava tion of morals; four thousand persons are annu ally sentenced to hard labor, and we have in London more than twenty thousand swindlers, thirty thousand thieves, aud forty thousand la g- gars. Aud this terrible army of vice, which never ceases to commit its fearful ravages, spends annually upward of £3,000,000 for spirituous liquors. Twenty-three thousand soldiers of this army are every year picked up dead drunk at the doors of the grog-shops; ouc hundred ami fifty thousand are gin drinkers, and two hun dred and fifty thousand more live in debauch ery.” It a missionary were permitted to despair ol the spiritual state of any body, it will be certain ly in regard to the class of |>ersons which will occupy us to day. I refer to those memliers ot the fair sex who have sold their honor and their virtue. The conversion of these black sheep is a matter of immense difficultica Nevertheless, there are men courageous enough not to shrink lrom so arduous a task. The missionaries who have devoted themselves to this work of charity and pity have received a beautiful name. They are called “ night stars.” They tried, iu the first place, to discover the principal cause of the evil. It is easy to say what it is. It is the extreme misery of the poor creatures who have to live on the labors of the needle. Every year five thousand tit these nu- tortuuate women succumb to the task, ami ten thousand yield to vice iu order not to die of hun ter. Lord Schaltesbu ry assures us t hut t lie mt >st unowned establishments in London compel their seamstresses to work for eighteen or twenty hours without interruption. To keep them awake collec, aud often more stimulating bev erages are given to them; and what wages do they receive lor such extraordinary toils ?” “Come uj) with me into this attic,” said a mis sionary. “Contemplate this young woman whom you see now before you. Her connte- nuuce, ouce fresh aud rosy, was then animated with a gentle smile. She was radiant witli Lie joys of maternity. Look at her now; notice her cheeks how ivan tliey are—how fatally col ored with hectic fever! She weeps; her tears, heavy and scalding, like tho first raindrops of a thunder storm, tell you that she is a fallen wo man. Site has not a chair to sit on ; no bed to sleep in. She must make twelve collars to earn three half-pencc! Do you perceive iu yonder dark corner a package wrapped in an old rag lying ou the straw ? Take off your hat. That package contains a baby which hunger has killed. Its mother is too poor to have it buried. For llie rest, she has no time to think of it; site must work ; she must try to get her twelve collars done, otherwise she will not get her three hall- pence, and must die like her baby.” From the Boston Post. Brownlow Reconatruction. The Tcuncssee election results in a triumph for Brownlow, almost as a matter of course.— Had the same care been given to pacification by the Federal Government during the progress of llie passionate canvass which was exercised on election day, and after the work of Brownlow- ism had virtually been accomplished, there would have been but a poor pretext for complaints which were made by the helpless Conservatives at the close ot the business. The rule of Brown low is the vilest tyranny outside of Mexico in its worst days. He lias had the State of Tennessee in the hollow of his hand. By registration, by disfranchising entire counties, by liis militia force, and by his ribald bullying and blasphemous me naces, lie has managed to hold a State beneath his feet, nine-tenths of whose jn-ople, in a calm state of mind, are auy day ready to say they would gratefully be rid of him. lie has not the genius requisite for a monster, but the despotism of King Bomba and the pliarisaic righteousness of Brigham Young he combines in remarkable proportions. If Tennessee may be styled a case of reconstruction, tbe future ol the South is to be deplored. It would be difficult to say what con dition of either race could be so unhappy as the one which all classes are reduced by the reign of Brownlowism iu Tenuesse. Yet there are men in Congress who have talked of “ recon- Expensive Information.— What happens to a man who doesn’t take the papers :—Ouce in a great while, even in Rock county, a man can be found who is too penurious to take a paper, or who thinks he is too wise or too smart to get any information out of one. An individual of this kind came lo the city on Saturday with a load of wheat, and its lie drove up the street he was accosted by a miller who proposed to buy his grain, and ottered him $2 50 per bushel.— Not having been to town lor some time, and taking no paper, lie was not posted on prices, and thinking this was a big thing he took the offer quick. As he was unloading, the miller discovering the wheat to be of good quality, asked bim if he had any more to sell, and was iuturmed that he had about three hundred bush els. The man of flour then tolil him that he would give him $2 50 per‘bushel for the lot, if he would contract for it that. day. Such an otter was not to be despised, and the farmer, fearlul lest so good a thing might l»e withdrawn, lost no time in making llie necessary contract before flie Mormon—No Disaffection Anions tbe Saints. [Correspondence New York Times.] Great Salt Lake City, July 19, 18(17. A week or two back paragraphs were goiug the rounds of the press, East and West, to the effect that a split among the Mormons in Utah had occurred, or was imminent, and that Brig ham Young had severed. from the Mormon Church three ot the twelve Apostles—Orson Pratt, Orson Hyde, and Amassa Lyman. These paragraphs grew out of statements made by the Union Vedette, the “Gentile” newspaper ot this city. In this instance it is to be apprehended that the Vedette, in Us eagerness to make a point against the Mormons, rather stretched the facts, or at least made them as sensational as possible. I have heard nothing to lend me to suppose that either Orson Hyde or Orson Pratt is not “full fellowship” with Brigham and the Mormon Church. There is some reason to think that Amasa Lyman is not held in such esteem. All the above three gentlemen are thinking men, and each entertains, or has en tertained, doctrines which Brigham contends are heretical. Amasa, as lie is familiarly called here, does not believe in the atonement of s Jesus Christ, which Brigham asserts is a funda mental principle of Mormonism. Amasa also teaches this doctrine to others, and lias done so up to a late date, although a recantation ol his views in that particular, with his name at the foot of the document, was published a few months ago in the Deseret Mews. Hence it ap pears that Brigham thinks Ajnnsa should be tied up a little, and the people warned not to give heed to his doctrine, all of which has been done. Orson Pratt aud Orson Hyde, so far as I have heard, do not now teach doctrines obnoxious to Brigham and the Mormon Church at large. Consequently, I see no reason to conclude that auy Church action has been taken against them by Brigham, nor huve 1 heard that such has been the case of late. I have not heard unything of any split in the Mormon Church in consequence of the non-orthodox doctrines of the three gentlemen named. It is possible that gome of the Mormons believe in those doctrines, but it so, the number is comparatively lew, as there is no stir what ever concerning the matter. 1 do not think that either ot the three would Iiave auy great in fluence as a religious leader in opposition to Brigham Young, even were such opposition contemplated, or an actual fact There was a little passage in the House of Lords recently, between a duke and an eari, which shows in a striking manner the difference between the parliamentary and the congressional way of charging an opponent with untruth. Ot course the enraged style, so common iu Congress and in some of our newspajiers, of denouncing the “ base villain ” us a “falsifier” ora “liar,” would be entirely out of place in either of the Houses of Parliament, es|iecially in the House of Lords. Ilis lordship, therefore, in liis bland est manner, said : “ I beg leave to call the atten tion oi my noble friend, the noble duke, lo an observation which my nobie friend, the noble duke, is reported to Iiave made, and which my noble friend, the noble duke, will find, upon re flection, to be inconsistent with strict veracity.” Of course liis noble iriend, the noble duke, made the proper explanation or apology. There is no doubt that it is quite impossible for two men to quarrel in such a phraseology, or to say any- leaving the mill. When, however, begot out on J tliiug very rude with “my noble friend, the uo- the street, lie discovered that he might just as j [,[ e t | U ke, occurring three times in a single sen- well have had $2 75 or $2 90 for liis wheat as ; l( . nce . Some men in America arc constantly $2 50. So, at the lowest estimate, his failure to j attempting to justify the grossest rudeness and take a paper at $2 00 a year, cost him the neat j vulgarity ot language by telling us what a line little sum of $222 50. A high price for informa- : thing it is always to “ call a spade a spade.” It tion, truly. Moral—take the papers.—Janesville doubtless, a proper and convenient thing. (iVis.) Gazette. i But the illustration is very inapt and silly when The New York Herald of the 9th, says: Money continues superabundant at five per cent on mixed collaterals and at four on govern- menis, while the leading dealers in government i passions.—Charleston Daily News. securities are enabled to borrow large amounts used as an excuse to denounce as liars all who tail to see with our eyes, or lo apprehend with our faculties, or to slate things so its to agree with our prejudices, or caprices, or interests, or at three per cent. This extreme case gives cou rage to the operators for a rise on the stock ex change, and hence the market rallies quickly, which it would not do if the monetary conditions affecting the stock exchange were less favora ble, for prices are high in relation to real values, although it would not be surprising if tliey went higher. The demand for discounts is light, and first-class commercial paper is quoted at G@7 per cent., with most of the transactions at 04- Our First Tribute of 1867 on its Tra vels—New Cotton.—The first bale of new cotton arrived here on the 4th instant per steamer Virgo. It was picked on the plantation of Colonel R M. Henry, Jefferson .county, Florida —sent to F. W. Sims & Co., Savannah, aDd hv them sent to D. H. Baldwin, of Litis city. It will be sold at auction by Mr. J. P. AikeusoD, at 12 o’clock to-day. It classes low middling, good Pautier, a French physician, relates the case of staple. Rainy weather during picking Injured | man who was afflic ted with general dropsy the color. structing” Connecticut, but accept the state of | The fact that about thirty-five millions of coui- affairs in Tennessee as the perfection of Repub- pound interest notes mature on the 15th inst., S lican Government. Why do we hear nothing in appears to exert no material influence either in j Tennessee’s case, of the “guarantees” which {checking or stimulating speculation in stocks, j Congress owes her for the maintenance of a “re- | The crop prospects continue encouraging, and i publican form of government.’ + Milk and Onion Juice in Dropsy.—Dr. The above is clipped from the New York Journal of Commerce, which paper thought the subject too important to pass by in silence. We trust our first bale ot cotton may also be taken as a good omen ot the future of the city which sent the first tribute of tbe comiug crop to the head center ot commerce. May it indi cate the standpoint of Savannah when all her troubles, financial aud political, shall have pass ed away—first in the chain of seaboard cities iu I point ot commerce, education, and consequent j prosperity.—Savannah Jtr.puUUan. Largs pay and little work is the rule of diplo macy abroad. Lord Lyons, the British Ambas sador at Paris, recently appointed, gets $50^100 a year salary, and was paid $40,000 outfit. aDd a double dropsy ol the chest, accompanied -with great difficulty ot breathing and other dis tressing symptoms. Yarioos remedies had been taken without any apparent benefit. Dr. Pau- ticr then prescribed the following treatment:— Three cups of milk porridge taken daily, each to be followed by eating dry bread and onion without any drink. This diet was persevered in for thirty days, but before half this lime had rlajwed the patient was able to leave his bed.— In the following month nothing remained but slight puffings of the feet and ankles. A gener ous diet was then prescribed, and in another month a complete cure was effected. in sections where the wheat lias been harvested it is reported lo have been secured in excellent condition, while the yield per acre was above the averages ot late years. Other crops promise equally well, including corn, aud a cheerful feel ing prevails throughout the west, where money continues unusually easy for the season. Formerly, when negroes voted in New Jer sey, a candidate sent an old negro preacher two barrels of nice potatoes. Next meeting day be exhorted his hearers <m the duty of voting, and the difference between Whigs and Democrats. He told the story of the receipt of the potatoes, and added : “My bredren, some tell you to vote de Whigs, some tell you !<> vote de Democrats, but I tefl you to vole where you get de talers P’ What we are Taxed Tor. A Radical organ, the Binghamplon Republican, thus comments on a recent money-begging cir cular of the Radical national committee now at work in Washington: “ One tact mentioned in the circular is espe cially significant of the change that lias taken place in llie South since the military biiis be came law. When these were enacted there were onlv fifteen Republican journals in the South ; there are now ninety, twenty of which are dailies. These will be sustained best by ma king the State organizations Republican.” “ Since the military bills became law 1” Sig nificant sentence! The military bills increase the Radical papers “ lrom fifteen in number to ninety.” How ? By patronage of course. The people would only sustain fifteen. The military sustain ninety—twenty of them daily. The •• loyal ” organ says “ these will be sustained bet ter by making the State organizations Republi can.” Of course. Public printing. “ Repub lican ” means like Tennessee—“ Republican in form.” The Gainesville Fire.—The Air-Line Eagle, of August 2d says : On last Wednesday morning, early, Gainesville Academy and Ma sonic Lodge, of our quiet town, was discovered in flames, and was totally destroyed. There has been a vacation of the school for the last tew ww-ks, which was to resume yesterday. It was evidently the work of an incendiary but up to Not very many years ago Horace Greeley re- this time no due has been found to the perpe- marked to a friend of an autobiographical ten- I trator of the diabolical deed or the motives dency that he “would as soon think ol running i which prompted the nefarious act. AVe pity the down the Champs Elysees half dressed P* ‘ >n “ hnndml and eivhtv dollars re- Bonner is persuasive. But 1 wretch. One hundred and eighty dollars re- j ward is offered ior tbe scoundrel.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Weekly Atlanta intelligencer. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1865-18??, August 21, 1867, Image 1