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Newspaper Page Text‘ERROR CEA.SES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefferson. VOLUME XIX. ATLANTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,1867. NUMBER 39. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Wednesday, September 25, 1867. ’('!><• True Imh«. “Nothin*; can lx- more re|Hignant,” Damf.l Webster once said, “ nothing more hostile, nothing more directly destructive, than excess ive, unrestricted, and unconstitutional confidence in men; nothing worse than the doctrine that official agents may interpret the public will in their own way, in defiance of the Constitution and laws ; or thnt they may set up anything for Hie declaration of that will, except the Constitu tion and laws themselves; or that any public of ficer, high or low, should undertake to constitute himself, or to call himself, the representative ol the people, except so far as the Constitution and laws create and denominate him such represen tative.” Yet, says the <SY. Jjouis Republican, “your gen uine radical is never better pleased than when he finds his leaders doing all tiio.se things which Mr. Webster justly reprehends as so dangerous and destructive to our system of government. Stevens boldly declares that he is w< iking "oyUtyde of the Constitutioniic agrees that he would stultify himself if acting as he lias done he should pretend to lie within the Constitution ; and he ridicules and scoffs at all such Republi cans as profess a reverence of the Constitution utter they have followed his footsteps.” Whatever may he said of J fr. file cent, how ever odious his declarations and acts have made him to the South, Still he has manifested a bold ness which leaves no r >om lor doubt as to Ins position, and the view he tuk<s ol the workings of his Radical compeers. He is, and acknowl edge* that lie is, a revolutionist, and is working out Mile of the Constitution—working as Mr. Webster said, “in defiance oi the Constitution and laws." As a party, the Radicals have not the boldness to make a similar announcement. They shirk the responsibility, while they act the thing out. The Constitution to them is as a dead letter, save when they invoke to calumniate the President, What a lolly it is for them to talk of impeaching the President for a pretended violation of his constitutional duties. Men vio lating the Constitution themselves in their Con gressional enaewneuts, talking of the President doing so—men assuming powers never bestow ed upon them in their representative or any other capacity, talking about the Constitution— men whose acts prove them to he revolutionists, talking about prefer ring the Government be queathed to the people by their ancestors. Truly do we live in evi! times, when such tnen rule when the pernicious doctrines they advocate or promulgate prevail. What care they lor the great lights that have passed away; what for the touchings of a Webster or a Marshall; what for the teachings ot a Washington or a Jeffer son Y Nothing, absolutely nothing! In their lust for office, the Constitution is no more in their way than any oilier thing they have the power to crush, nor will it be till the people come to its rescue, which God grant they may ere many more days sha’l be numbered with the past. Personal—Port Office Department. We had the pleasure of an inlet view on yes terday with Gkn. W. C. Kyle, General Ageut lor the Post Office Department for the Southern States, now cn route for Washington City, from a tour of inspection South. We are pleased to see the General in line health notwithstanding tiie arduous labors in which lie has been enga ged for some time past. We have, of course, no knowledge of the reports which, iu the discharge ot his official duties,he will make at headquarters when tie reaches it. All that we do know is, that there would be far more efficiency iu the postal service of Uie South at many points, it there was less radicalism displayed by those who arc ap pointed to that service, and more attention paid to the interests ot tlac Government. This re mark will apply to-ntliers than those Postmas ters holding civil appointments under the Gov ernment in the South, some of whom are indebt ed entirely to President Johnson for the offices they hold and the bread they eat, but who, bra zenly disregarding their obligations, are his loud est and fiercest calumniators,and hardest andmost active workers iu the cause of the Radical party. The time will surety come when all such as these will have to give w ay tor men who have some gratitude and conscience in them. The Impeachment Policy ot the Radicals. “Leo,” the Washington City correspondent of the Charleston Courier, in one of his recent letters to that paper, touching upon the im peachment question says : “Impeachment will be of no use to the Radi cal party if they cannot suspend Andrew John son’s actions as President, until removal he effected in May, or perhaps not until July next. It is thought that the army and the Generals of the army—Grant and Sherman—will continue to receive and execute orders from President Johnson until lie shall he removed from office in a constitutional aud legal manner. The Presi dent leeis pcrlectly secure in this tact. It i- well known to General Grant’s friends that, while in a civil tend he will personally take the side ot neither faction, he will, as a military man and the General-in-Chiet, receive and obey orders. He will recognize the orders of the Government in fact. The President’s orders will lie carried out by him. lie will consider Jobuson as President until he has been super seded in due process of constitutional law. Cm an TstKORArmc Conor atulatioxs.— The inflowing passed between the Secretary ot State and the Captain-General of Cuba, regard ing the opening of telegraphic communication between the United States and Cuba: Department or State. I Washington, September 9, ls*>7. t To the Captain-General of Cuba—Accept my cordial congratulations on the opening ot tele graphic communication between the United States and Cuba, which 1 trust will promote the commercial intercourse aud cement still more strongly the triendsliip between the lands whose civilization and development date hack to the enterprise of the great Spanish discoverer. Wm. H. Seward. Havana, Cuba, September JO. 1S67. Hon. Iliu. II. Seward, Secretary of State, etc.— 1 accept your felicitation, and congratulate you upon the'telegraphic connection now established between this island, the United States and the Old World. May it influence the development ot commercial interests and friendships between this countrv and the l nited States. JoAquiN Del Mansi ass Borrondo. Geu. Gra«il*» F»«t Driving. One of the edicts ol Gen. Grant’s fast driving propensities is related in the following \V ashing- ton CHy item: “ General Grant, it is well known, is very foud ot a last horse, and when he gets behind one he travels through the streets at a John Gilpiu speed. While tuus amusing himself on Fourth street yesterday evening, he ran over a child ot V. 1,1 o. Harper, Esq., inflicting rather serious injuries. Upon ascertaining the damage he had done, he rode back to Mr. Harper's, expressing many regrets at the occurrence aud offered to pay all expenses for medical attendance, &c.” Inauguration of the Governor or Ken* tacky. Lieutenant Governor Stevenson was inaugura ted at Louisville, on Thursday, vice John L. I Helm, deceased. After prayer by Bishop Smith, 1 of the Catholic Church, Hon. A. J. Smith, May or of Frankfort, on the part of the citizens, made an address of welcome to the Governor. The inaugural was then read. After referring, in eloquent terms, to the political career ot the late Governor Helm, Acting Governor Stevenson proceeds as follows : “ I cordially approve and fully indorse every principle enumerated in the admirable address of the lamented Governor Helm, and will, by God’s blessing, earnestly' en deavor to maintain them during my administra tion of the Government. The oath which I am about to take exacts of me a strict obedience both (o the Constitution of the United Stales and the Constitution of Kentucky.—Charleston Courier. “ B> >lii constitutions were ordained to perpet uate the right of civil liberty and free represen- t at ive government Promises of both were in- teiulcd to uphold, as fundamental guarantees of freedom, liberty of speech, and freedom of the press and rights of conscience, of property, of person and of reputation, the purity of elections and 1 he implicit obedience of the representative to tiie will of his constituents, justly and fairly construed according to their letter and spirit. “ Collisions between Federal and State gov ernments are utterly impossible. They can nev er occur so long as each government restrains itself within the respective orbits prescribed by the framers of each. It is only when one gov ernment overleaps the barriers erected for its re strain* that changes can arise. “To. all ttie demands and exactions ol the Federal Government, within the sphere of its consiiuitional power, Kentucky will always lend a ready support and cheerful obedienoe, while within the limits of the Commonwealth her re served rights must be respected; and I will, while I act as her chief magistrate, always up hold, protect and defend the constitution of the Stale, from assault from without and danger from within, and see that the laws are faithfully executed and obeyed.” Tlie laaue of Hie Day. Commenting upon this topic, the New York Herald of the 15th instant, after referring to the “confusion of tongues among the builders of Babel at Washington,” which lias so turned “ the tide of public opinion against the Radicals and their revolutionary schemes,” says : “ But the republican radical leaders in the present Congress, instead of adhering to and carrying out this sound and satisfactory recon- stiaction platform of the last Congress, have cast it aside and proceeded to a series of revolu tionary measures which, it pushed to the extent designed, will change our whole system of gov ernment and place it under the triple-headed monster oi a negro oligarchy in the South, a moneyed oligarchy in the North, and a general superintending military despotism. These mon strous innovations are all provided in the recon struction acts, the Tenure of Office law, and all the current revolutionary measures of the pres ent Congress! They propose to give the poor, ignorant and credulous negroes, just released from the darkness ol Southern slavery, the po litical control of all the Southern States, from Virginia to Texas inclusive. Next, under the financial system of Mr. Chase, it is quite asman- iiestly the purpose of the radical leaders to fasten upon the North a moneyed oligarchy, compared with which Nick Biddle, with bis old United States Bank, was a mere bagatelle.” “These revolutionary measures and schemes are aggravated in their disorganizing tendencies by that stupid revolutionary Tenure of Office law, according to which it is difficult to determine to- day whether the Executive Department is abol ished or continued, or, if still existing, who is ’egally master ot the position and what are his powers. It is against all these revolutionary and disorganizing doings of Congress, and against the abandonment by the republicans ot their pledges in reference to this aforesaid constitu tional amendment, that this manifest re-action in public opinion has set in. We may look for more of it in the coming Pennsylvania October election, and for a still more emphatic rebuke in our approaching New York November election. We shall probably have from these two great States, this fall, a warning to the party in power that it must turn away from its revolutionary schemes or prepare to wind up its unsettled ac counts and retire from office.” We note not only iu the Herald, but in most of our Northern exchanges, the same encourage ment given to the South, in regard to the forth coming elections in New York and Pennsylvania. Every sign is indicative that the Radical party will be called upon “to wind up its unsettled ac counts and retire from office.” “So mote it be.” Amf.n ! Enco nragement. Under the foregoing heading, the Washington correspondent ot the Boston Post says: “ Ex- Governor F. W. Pickens, ot South Carolina, is in-re to consult with the President touching the affairs in the Second Military District He says the removal of General Sickles has greatly en couraged the industrial classes of South Caro lina, and that confidence in the good faith of the Federal Government is being rapidly restored. General Canby has been.lavorably received, and every one is pleased with the change. Governor Pickens thinks that several negroes will be re turned to Congress.” Very encouraging, indeed, to think that '* sere- rot mgro<’s'' will be returned to Congress from the once famed “Palmetto State,” now “none so poor to do her reverence” in the radical North! IHariiaee Extraordinary. We notice the tollowing item in one of our exchanges: *• Mr. Dawson, of Georgia, and Miss McDaniel of Washington City, were married last week iu Glen wood Cemetery, near that city, by the side of the grave of the bride’s mother ! The Wash ington Intelligencer thinks the idea a very ‘extra ordinary’ one.” “Extraordinary” iudeed ! Perhaps the lady designs to frighten her husband with her moib- ; er’s ghost, should he prove fickle or not fond. ! Mammas aie generally in the way of newly : married couples when alive, but to conjure them when dead is cruel. We wonder how “Mr. | Dawson, of Georgia,” could stand “ the like of sicJi" _ In Fleming’s “Christology," it is said that an unbeliever, visiting the sacred places ot Pales tine, was shown the clefts of Mount Calvary. Examining them narrowly and critically, he , turned in amazement to his fellow travelers, and said, “1 have long been a student ot nature, and I am sure that the rents and clelts in this rock were never done by nature, or an ordinary earthquake, for bv sneb a concussion they must j conversation which lie had with the oenerai a, have split according to its veins, and were weak- ; few days ago, wherein the General remarked, ; est in the adhesion ot parts; lor this,’’ he said, concerning the talk of making him President, “1 have observed to have been done in other j that “he would not be. President of the L nited rocks when separate or broken after an earth- 1 States if the opportunity were offered ; that he quake, aud reason tells me it must always be so. was no politician : that lie hated politics, that But it is quite otherwise here ; for the rocks are j so far as reputation &Dd honor wrere concerned spill athwart and across the veins in a strange ' he thought he ought to be satisfied with what aud preternatural manner ; and there- j of these he already enjoyed ; that holding the , lore, said he, “I thank Gi*d that I came hither ] office of President would mar his present com- to see the standing monument of miraculous | fort, aud drag him into the storms and excite- t,ives evidence to this day ; ments of polities ; that, as the General of th< Approved: [copy.] Sir—You offer me a contemptuous iusult iu pronouncing the infamous lie that this is a mili tary depotism. When you write me a gentlemanly note in re ference to remarks referred to, then I will give it an answer. [Signed ] Morris Shaff. To F. B. Shepard, near Mount Vernon. (copy ) Sir: I have received your envelope, returning my note to you of 21st,"with an indorsement iu your hand and signature. ' There is nothing left me but to demand that sat isfaction which is customary among gentlemen. Yours, Ac., [Signed.] F. B. Shepard. “Vengeance is mine, sa'.th the Lord,” aud it remains to tie seen what punishment will be in flicted upon an officer who murders a prisoner, completely within his power, simply because he has not tlie moral heroism to stand a personal affrout. Unless the Military Commission can make revenge a virtue, aud prove that Cap'ain Scbutl has done a Dublic good while avenging a private injury, and that the sentinels of morality and Godliness—law and justice—are to slumber on their post, while hate's rancorous impulse is gratified, we shall look for condign punishment in this case. By all means let us have justice, pure, undefiled and untrammeled, meted out to the criminal, and thus convince tlie world that the glare of the torch of wrong and oppression shall not shed its lurid rays upon the pathway of a tree people, nor tarnish the escutcheon of a free Republic. General Grant and the Presidency.— A Washington correspondent of the New York Post (Radical) sends the following to that paper : Washington, D. C., Sept. 11, 1S67. To the Editors gf the Evening Post : An officer of Gen. Grant’s staff relates a [From the Savannah Republican.! Dingraclns His l.’nllorm. On the outside of our paper appears, this morning, a thrilling letter, written by Mrs. Col. Shepard, of Mobile, copied from a late Mobile exchange. Of course we liear but one side of the story ex parte evidence, but from the testi mony already adduced belore the military court of inquiry, called to investigate this outrage, the whole affair wears a most infamous aspect, and we sincerely trust that lor the honor of the country, whose flag Captain Schafi has sworn to protect, that this terrible deed will now lie thoroughly investigated, and if the accused is found guilty of one halt tlie charges ot cruelty made against him by the now heart-broken widow, let the uniform he has dishonored be stripped from his recreant limbs, and let him don the striped suit of the penitentiary convict. From the partial examination, we iearn that the fatal shot was fired by Captain Sciiaff upon his unarmed prisoner while in a fit of passion, caused by the taunting remarks of Col. Shep ard. A more ridiculous and childish excuse tor so fearful a crime could hardly be offered, and we opine the military commission, belore whom Captain Schaff will undoubtedly be brought up for trial, will not allow any false notions of professional or political sympathy to warp tlieir judgments or cheat justice out ot its just dues. An officer of tlie United States Army who w ill seek to justify himself in shooting an aged, un armed and defenseless prisoner, on the ground that he could not control his temper, is certainly totally unfit to be entrusted with the command of soldiers, and much less w ith the wielding ot that vast arbitrary power which these military bills confer upon commanders and their petty subordinates. While we are constrained to believe that this blood has been shed and the lite of Col. Shepard iorfeited, solely because of the inability of a United States officer to resist that blind, capri cious rage which was doubtless lashed iDto fury by the bold conduct of his prisoner, who posted him in tlie public stree s; yet, we cannot con sider such frivolous excuses just grounds for his exoneration; on the other hand, every true American, while deeply regretting the awful cir cumstances, will feel tiie warm glow of shame mantling his cheek, aud tlie officers ot the ser vice a sense of humiliation, on learning the par ticulars attending this melancholy occurrence. We believe, with Addison, that “ True fortitude lies in great exploits That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides; Alt else is tow’nng frenzy aud distraction.” Endeavor to conceal it as we may, it is certain Captain Shaff has exhibited something a great deal worse than weakness—cowardice auu posi tive crime—in not conquering liis passion. He has proved his utter unfitness and incapacity to control soldiers, or to be intrusted with power, and we are inclined to think that a man who does not possess more fortitude, a higher sense of justice, and the possession of more wisdom and magnanimity than this case exhibits, is very likely to belong to that class ot soldiers who were not always to be louud in the front work during battle. Lady Carew once truly said that “ The fairest action of our human life Is eco uing to revenge an injury; For who forgives without a further strife, His adversary’s heart to him doth tie; And ’tis a finer conquest, truly said, To win the hear than overwhelm the head.” We learn that Colonel Shepard exoired in Mo bile on the 5th instant, from liis injuries, as will be seen by the coroner’s verdict, which we pub lish below. The Mobile Advertiser, in speaking of the deceased, says: “ Colonel Shepard has been a resident of Alabama for over thirty-years, and, planting and residing near this city, has been as familiar to this people as if lie had lived here during the whole of that period. To say that the deceased had his faults, is to say that he was human.” State of Alabama, Mobile Cognty.—At an in quisition held and taken this fifth day ot Sep tember, A. D. 1867, upon and in view of the body of Frederick B. Shepard, in the city of Mobile, at Trinity Church, then and there lying dead: We, the jury, find that the deceased came to his death from purulent absorption, re sulting from action of the carotid artery in its lower third to relieve a raricose aneurism of the carotid artery and jugular vein, caused by a wound inflicted by a small ball, which wound W’as inflicted by a pistol in the hands of Captain Morris Schaff on the — day of July, 1867. Henry Myers, W. A. Smith, E. Aostill, C. A. Lathrop, G. B. Massey, Seth W. Roberts, Jury. J. J. Delchamps, Coroner M. C. As every detail connected with this tragic oc currence possesses a painful interest, aud with a desire to throw’ all possible light upon it, we subjoin the fatal -correspondence which was the origin of the whole trouble: [copy.] Captain Shaff, Commanding Mount Vernon Ar senal : Sir—I am informed that you, a few evenings since, at the Arsenal wharf, took occasion to criticise me in an offensive manner, and to animadvert on the application whieh I have re cently made to the United States Government tor my cotton, the property of a privase citizen, taken from me iu violation of General Cauby’s order, issued when that officer entered the city ot Mobile, pledging protection to private pro perty ou certain conditions. I feel as much as any one the military despot ism under which the country is suffering ; but certainly that should afford no prescriptive right ot protection to any gentleman wearing the uni form of the army of the United States. A candid reply to this note is requested at your earliest convenience, stating the language employed by you on the occasion referred to above. Yours, &c., [Signed] Frederick B. Shepard, Belle Font, near Mount Vernon Arsenal, July 21,1867. power by which God ot Uic delivery of Clirut. It is understood that the case of General Fitz John Porter will be re-opened by direction of the President, and submitted to a board ot army officers tor a new trial. Number of Peif*D« Excluded from th« Benefits of tbe Amnesty Proclamation. The Northern papers are speculating about the number ot persons excepted by the recent amnesty proclamation of the President. Upon inquiry, we find tbit there is no satisfactory- data upon which to-found a definite calculation; but a reasonable conjecture may be ventured. In the first place, the President and Vice-Presi dent, (Messrs. Davis ami Stephens,) aud the “Heads of Departments” ot the Confederate Government, are unequivocally excluded. Of the latter we learn that there were, from first to last, thirteen in ail, of whom five have been spe cially pardoned at the instance of distinguished Radicals—namely: Messrs. Reagan, Memmiuger, Mallory, Treuhohn, and Davis, the latter ap pointed Attorney-General near the close of the war. About twenty Governors of States, also expressly excluded, remain unpardoned. Five Generals—namely: Lee, Cooper, Johnston, Beau regard, and Bragg; ten Lieutenant-Generals, and about thirty Major-Geuerals, are excluded from amnesty by the express terms Ot the proclama- liou, and remain unpardoned individually. If the language employed in the proclamation, however, shall be held to include Brigadiers with tixe brevet rank of Major-General, the number of the military exclusions will be largely increased—probably to the extent of several hundred. There were but three admi rals in the Confederate navy—one of whom (Forest) is now dead—-and no rank between that ot admiral and captain existed. Tlie persons designated as “agents” ot the Confederate Gov ernment “in foreigu States and countries” will reach, perhaps, two hundred, il it shall be held to embrace other than those accredited to Gov ernments abroad, as it doubtless will, there being no other construction which would admit of ex cluding particularly obnoxious persons without specially naming them. We take it for granted however, that in the mass ot these cases special pardons will now be granted upon application, matter ot course. The above comprehend all those excluded ot the first class, and they will not probably number practically over one hundred, if so many. Ot the number of those excluded as belonging to the second and third classes, nothing like an accurate estimate can, ot course, be made. It is presumable, however, that nearly all who are embraced in the second, that is, those who are chargeable with treating prisoners improperly, have been either tried and convicted or acquitted, or are held to bail, and are, consequently, in cluded in the third. It is sate, therefore, if this supposition be correct, to infer that but few will be excluded under the second and third classes. Upon the whole, after the disposition of the applications lor special pardon now on file, which we hope will be done in the spirit which dictated the proclamation, it is not believed that the entire number of the excluded will finally reach beyond a few hundred.—National Intelli gencer. Righteous Vengeances Long Delayed.— We find the following story in the New York Evening Gazette: Baron Prangen was colonel in the Austrian army in 1849, and chief of tbe military policeat Verona in those days when Austria ruled Italy with a rod of iron. He was exceedingly cruel, and on one occasion had the young Countess Bovina stripped almost naked and whipped un mercifully in the presence of a crowd of soldiers, for an alleged political offense. The Countess was almost crazed with shame and indignation at the outrage. Her death and that of her hus band soon followed. A young man lately met the Baron Prangen at his country seat near Gratz, in Austria. He insulted him, received the desired challenge, and choose Turkish sabres as his weapons. When the duel came off the young man announced liiawielt as the son of the Coun tess Rovina, and hacked the Austrian to pieces. The Life of a Newspaper Man.—For the information of those individuals who foolishly imagine that the lite of a newspaper man is a paradise on earth, and is fraught with untold pleasures and privileges, we give the following sketch of the duties of this unfortunate individ ual, concerning whom such a wrong impression exists. It is taken from Mr. Hunt’s volume on the “Fourth Estate Columbus Sun. The man who once becomes a journalist must almost bid farewell to mental rest or mental leisure. If he fulfills his duties truthfully, his attention must be ever awake to what is passing in the world, and his whole mind must be de voted to the instant examination, and discussion, and record, of current extents. He has little time for literary idleness, with such literary labors on his shoulders. He has no days to spend on catalogues, or in the dreamy discursive researches in public libraries. He has no months to devote to the exhaustion of any one theme. What he has to deal with must be taken up at a moment’s notice, be examined, tested and dismissed, at once ; and thus his mind is ever kept occupied with the mental ne cessity of the world’s passing hours.” Army, he had ail the work he could do, aud, time enough to enjoy the comforts ot his family and home ; and that he, as a soldier, had gained | friends enough in the country without now seeking a place where he should gain no more, bat probably lose those whom he had gained.” From the New York Herald, 15th inBt. Europe. The news report by the Atlantic cable is da ted yesterday evening, September 14. A general amnesty to the Greek insurgents in Candia has been granied by the Sublime Porte. A mixed commission of Ottoman and Greek members will not be sent by the Turkisli Gov ernment to Crete, as formerly reported. The King of Prussia forwarded an autograph letter to France, inviting Napoleon and EugeDie to meet him with the other sovereigns of North Germany, in a German city to be named here after. The postal treaty between the United States and Prussia has been negotiated to a satisfactory completion in Berlin, and the effect will be a large reduction in the rates ot passage between the two countries. The Russian press approves of the recent ac tion of the United States Congress on the sub ject of the war in Crete. Austria has appointed a new Minister to Washington. It is thought that the bark Enoch Benner, from Liverpool to Boston, has been lost at sea with all hands. “ Suspicious ” Italians are being arrested by the Papal officers on the frontier. England has made her first move in the war operations against the King of Abyssinia, a steamer having been despatched from India to explore the coast and find a proper landing place for the expeditionary force. The Doncaster races terminated with fine sport. Hermit won the two hundred sovereigus. Consols were at 94f tor money in London at two o’clock P. M. Five-twenties were at 73J in London, and 76$ in Frankfort. Tiie Liverpool cottou market was more active in the afternoon, with middling uplands at 9£d. Breadstufts and provisions without marked change. By the steamship Deutschland at this port, yesterday, we have very interesting details of our cable despatches to the 3d ot September. Mr. Armstrong, the survivor of the crew of the ill fated little schooner John T. Ford, of Baltimore, furnished a very thrilling account of the terrible sufferings endured by his compan ions and himself previous to the death of the former, with a report of the last moments of the captain and mate of the miniature vessel. The following agreeable correspondence re cently took place by telegraph between two Democratic Governors. We never read any thing in English that pleased us better, New Haven, Conn., Sept. 9,1807. Hon. Henry H. Haight, Governor elect of Califor nia, San Francisco : I congratulate you on our your election. It will gladden the friends of constitutional liber- tv the country through. Jas. E. English. THE ANSWER. San Francisco, Cal., Sept 10,1S67. To Gor. James E. English : Thanks for your dispatch. California has echoed the voice of Connecticut. Yon set us a glorious example. We have bat followed where you led in the sacred cause of constitutional lib erty. H. EL Haight. John C. Calboau. Charleston papers republish Calhoun’s predic tion of 1826, attaching to it much significance. It is as follows: 1 he blacks, and the profligate whites that might unite with them, would be come the principal recipients of the Federal of- ‘fices and patronage, and would iu consequence be raised above the whites ol tlie South in the political and social scale. We would, in a word, change conditions with them, a degradation greater than has yet fallen to the lot of a free and enlightened people, and one from which we could not escape, should emancipation take place (which it certainly will if not prevented,) but by fleeing the homes of ourselves and our ancestors, and by abaDdoningjour country to our former slaves, to become the permanent abode of disorder, anarchy, poverty, misery and wretch edness. The above language, uttered over forty years ago, contains a prediction which the current events of the present day render singularly re markable. It was in itself a prophecy which the author could hardly have believed capable of being realized in so short a space of time. It was received by some as the extravagant exag geration of the possible, rather than what could reasonably be supposed a probable result in this country. By others it was looked upon as the outpourings of a crazy lanaticism; while a third party looked upon it as a deliberately designed effort to excite sectional animosity that would ultimateiy lead to the dissolution of the Union. Like the prophecies of Cassandra, the words of Mr. Calhoun fell upon deaf ears, aud his warn ing voice was lost in the stormy struggle of par ties. Yet his words have come true, and the picture is now before us. The men who charged Mr. Calhoun as a traitor in his heart, and called him John Cataline Calhoun, because he imagined such things possible, were the very men who verified his predictions and filled out his picture. When Bazael the Syrian general, visited the prophet Eliseus, to enquire as to the result of the sickness with which Benadad the King was then afflicted, aDd when the prophet, having answered him, wept. “And Hazael said to him : Why doth my lord weep ? And he said: Be cause I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel. Their strong cities thou wilt burn with fire, aud their young men thou wilt kill with the sword, and thou wilt dash their children, and rip up the pregnant women.— And Hazael said : But what am I thy servant, a dog, that I should do this great thing ? The events that have occurred since Mr. Calhoun’s death, have tended to elevate his character in the eyes of many who treated his opinions, while living with indifference. No one can now doubt his wonderful foresight, his capacity for linking cause and effect, his patriot ism, or his honesty. Mr. Calhoun never intrigued for the Presi dency ; he cared little for office, except when he could make it a means of serving the country; he never made his private feelings subservient to what might be thought his public interests; he was too lofty in his personal independence to play the demagogue. He was, in truth, the only statesman the United States have had in the last fifty years. All the other so-called statesmen that figured in public life during that period were mere trafficers in politics, who never rose above the idea of personal or party rivalry.— Their intellectual acumen never extended be yond the present, they were nearsighted as to the future. They carried into all their public policy the petty spirit of a Yankee horse-swap; their great principle was expediency, and their great penance in every question of political right was compromise. They first compromised the rights of the Southern States in the Territories, next the rights of the States within the States, then the liberties guaranteed by the Constitution, and finally the Constitution itself. Mr. Calhoun was a patriot, it ever there was one. He never permitted his feelings to inter fere with what he believed to be his public duty. In 1837, when Mr. Yan Buren recommended the sub-treasury system, he, though said to be per sonally and politically hostile to that politician, satisfied of the cerrectnees of the system and the advantage to the country to be derived from its adoption, laid aside all personal feeling and became its warmest and ablest defender in the congressional campaign that followed. And so he acted through life, doing what he believed his duty to bi9 country. Even in his last appearance in the Senate, when, too feeble to address that body, the speech he had prepared had to be read, who that was prt sent can ever forget tbe scene; the stooped figure of the aged statesman, listening to his own last warnings to his country, uttered by the voice of another, as they fell upon the breathless attention of the House. The prophet has departed, appreciated by few of the men of his time, but, when the stormy passions ot revolutionary strife shall have died out, history will do him justice. His predictions have been fulfilled, and the land is filled with Hazaels, but we have faith in Providence that history will do them justice too.—Mobile Times. Btshop Pierce of Georgia. We take pleasure hi transferring to our col umns the following complimentary notice ot this eminent divine and Christian gentleman,ot whom Georgia may well be proud, which appeared in the Louisville Courier of the 16th instant—the occasion that elicited il being the Hledicatinn of the Broadway M. E. Church in that city. Says the Courier : “ The service was opened with prayer by Bish op Pierce, D. D., ot Georgia, which was follow ed by several soul-stirring anthems by the excel lent choir. The dedication sermon was then de livered by the eloquent Bishop. He stated in a few prefatory remarks that liis sermon would be entirely practical and confined to the instruc tion and information of liis hearers. After re viewing the mission of Christianity, he took up the subject of religious revivals, and in a clear and comprehensive manner showed that they were the life and spirit of religion. It was a custom inaugurated by our Savior and followed by His apostles. He believed that no church could lay claim to validity without keepiug up revivals, still there were many who discounte nanced and abandoned them. He hoped to see all churches adhere to this divine custom, as it was the true method of infusing the spirit of Christianity into unbelievers and strengthening the taith of believers.” “ The eloquent divine discussed the duties of Christians and tlie rules governing Christianity. The man, who for prudential reasons, omitted the observance of any one of the rules laid down for his government as a true follower of Christ, was just as guilty as if he neglected them all. Such a mau was more culpable tlian the reli gious man who, in au nngarded hour or a weak moment, committed a great sin. There was re pentance in the latter, and forgiveness always followed repentance, but for the mau who would be a Christian on condition of compromise with the Lord, there was no hope, and lie would say to all such, embrace every rule if they would be saved.” Toward the close of his sermon, he adverted in eloquent and enthusiastic terms to the beauti ful edifice which has been erected for tlie wor shipers of Almighty God. It towered up as a fitting monument to the consecration of the Christian religion, and was an honor to the pub lie spirit ot Louisville. It was commensurate with the growing demand of religion in this already populous city, and a glory to the most high God.” Bishop Pierce is a clear, eloquent and for cible speaker. He held the immense assemblage spell-bound for an hour and a half, and was heard distinctly to the remotest parts of the church.— The day was very warm, and the atmosphere close and oppressive, yet there was no nodding or gaping in that large concourse. Every face was illumed with a bright glow of admiration, and every word that fell from the lips of the eloquent speaker was eagerly caught by the sea of upturned faces. It was a great sermon from a great man, and reached the inmost depths of every heart.” Supporters of the Administration only to be Appointed to Office.—It is understood that the President assured a prominent govern ment official who had an interview with him to day, that henceforth appointments to office would be made only from those who gave a lull and hearty support to the administration. Heads ot departments, it is said, fully agree in this de termination of the President. 'Proposed Removal of Judge Advocate General Holt.—The proposed removal of Judge Advocate General Holt from the Bu reau of Military Justice is again agitated. It is un derstood that the subject was brought to the at tention ot Attorney General Stanberry soon after his return to the city. The question submitted to the Attorney General is, whether the Presi dent can lawfully remove Ilolt without first having him tried by court martial. He occupies the same relation to the army as a commissioned officer, and his friends assert that the President cannot remove him without some shadow of cause. The demand lor his suspension from the position he now holds is very urgent. Reduction of Forces in the Freedmen’s Bureau.—The following order was issued to day by General Grant: General Order No. 86. Headquarters of the Army, 1 Adjutant Generals Office. ) Civil Supremacy.—Accompanying the Pres' ident’s proclamation enjoining obedience to the Constitution and laws passed in pursuance there of upon all officers, civil and military, the fol lowing circulars were issued yesterday by the Secretary of the Interior and the Postmaster General: Postoffice Department, I Washington, September 10, 1807. j Sir : By direction of the President of the United States, I transmit herewith, for your in formation and guidance, his official proclamation dated the 3d instant, calling your attention to its requirements. I anv, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Alex. \V. Randall, Postmaster General. From the Louisville Journal. Expense of Registration and Military Occupancy In the Sonth. The expenses of registration in Arkansas are estimated at about a million of dollars. It is said, that, if the expenses of registration in all the other Southern States are in the same pro- portion, the total cost of registration alone—a matter got up in the negro interest—will be full fifteen millions, if not more—all to come from the Federal Government. And then the elec tions, which have never heretofore cost the gov ernment a dollar, will, when conducted through out the Southern States upon the Congressional plan, he not less than five millions more; so that ior registration and elections, w’holly new sources of Federal expense, the amount will be twenty millions, or upwards. Then the cost of the troops that are thought necessary to secure the requisite submission of the Southern people to all the forms and manifestations of tyranny practiced, will, for the present year, amount to forty-five millions, making in all, for the three named items, sixty-five millions. And then there’s the huge aud horrid Freedmen’s Bureau —what is the expense of that ? Sixty millions a year, at least; so that, for the four negro items indicated, we have the startling sum of a hun dred and thirty millions. And divers other mat ters might be named, raising the enormous and vast pile considerably further up toward the sky. And these are not expenses incurred merely in a single year, and to cease with the year. No, it is the intention and expectation of Congress that they shall continue iudefinitely, or at least until everything that the intensest, the most ultra radicalism can desire shall be established throughout the South. A hundred and thirty millions and upwards per year to be paid for the carrying out of the negro plans and negro dreams of the Radicals ! Add this to 'he terri ble yearly interest of the mighty public debt now existing, and consider well' whether our country is to live or die under the awful finan cial pressure. How long will the accruing taxes be paid ; how long, even with the best disposi tion for payment can they be paid, if such a con dition of things is to continue, aud more espe cially it it shall be aggravated, as a thousand siirns indicate that it will he? And when the interest upon the debt shall no longer be pa'd, what will come ? Repudiation. Aud with re pudiation, what? The deluge. Disturbing Public Worship—A High- Handed Military Outrage.—During the present sitting of the Circuit Court at Estillville, a man was tried and convicted of disturbing pub lic worship. As the penalty of such conviction, His Honor, Judge Campbell, sentenced the cou- victed outlaw to pay a fine of fill}' dollars and to be imprisoned lor 'twenty-four hours! As the sheriff was conducting him from the court room to the jail, he was forcibly taken possession ot and set at liberty by the Lieutenant commanding the forces at Estillville. In a few minutes the criminal was on a horse parading the streets, cursing and denouncing rebels, at the same time displaying a pair ot navy pistols! Not a word was said. The law-abiding citizens stood mute while the negroes and scum ot the country, led on by tbe traitors, Bowman and liis Red String bandit, applauded his lawless conduct. Here is a bid lor additional outrages upon the religious gatheriugsol the country—anew stimu lant to break up the channels of morality and virtuous society, to gratify the miserable caprices of some pitiful Puritan, wrapped in Federal uniform. Had the offender been a “ rebel ” or Conservative, the erffdovs little intermeddler would not have said a word. Thus the work goes bravely on. What next?—Bristol News. A negro, who announces himself as a candi date for Congress in Georgia, declares that, if elected, “ I will do all I can to ameliorate tbe condition of the whites.” No doubt, says the Dag Look, he is a much better negro than any white negro which would be elected instead of him. Department of the Interior, I Washington, D. C., September 9,1867. f Sir : Pursuant to the order of the President of the United States, I transmit herewith an official copy of his proclamation, bearing date the 3d instant. You are directed to strictly observe its re- quirments for an earnest support of the Consti tution of the United States, aud a faithful exe cution of laws which have been made in pur suance thereof. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, O. H. Browotng, Secretary. Wall Street—Repudiation, Etc.—The Times' money article, usually written iu the in terest of the “Bulls,” thus alludes to the rumor afloat iu Washington yesterday: “ Some use was attempted to be made of the eccentric discussions of the Public Debt in one or tw oof the daily papers and on the stump in Ohio. The rumors referred to are no doubt out of the whole cloth, though serving, perhaps, to alarm some of our importers into buying gold in the present attitude of the President toward the reconstruction measures of Congress. As to the doubts attempted to be thrown upon the pay ment iu gold coin of the funded public debt, as it matures, or the baser insinuation that Congress may direct its payment iu currency, before ma turity, no sensible” business man is likely to be alarmed by either. Tlie payment of the princi pal in coin is as certain as the payment ot the half yearly interest in coin ; both are secured by the Customs Revenue, made payable exclusively in coin, and both, beyond this pledge, rest se curely upon the public tauli of the people of the United States, which has never been violated on this vital subject, and never will be.” The Times forgets that there are some other things that were supposed to rest securely upon the public faith, which the Jacobin par\y, how ever unsettled, and are still unsettling—and un der the bad example of which Repudiation may take root in other places besides the West. The Constitution of the United Stites and many of its most important guarantees has been “viola ted,” shamefully violated—and it is not for tlie violators to say that public debt contracts are any more “sacred,” or “ binding,” than the su preme law ot tlie land. Until the Constitution is restored, in good faith, in all its parts, and its provisions extended to all States alike, there can be no guarantee of public faith in this matter of debt or anything else.—N. T. Express. Soldier Outrages.—On Saturday and Sun day nights a number of outrages were commit ted by Federal soldiers upon colored persons in this community. In one of the Saturday night attacks the “boys in. blue” came off second best. It seems two of the “defender’s of the nation’s honor” made an assault upan a colored man, iu the vicinity of the carro! in Jackson street— colored man was “game” and managed to do se rious bodily ininry to the fighting loyalists One of them received a severe cut in the shoulder and across the face, which involved the laying open ot the nose in the middle of the centre (scenter.) The partner of tbis_ unfortunate high wayman received a wound—(incised) just below the heart in tlie side. Other attacks were made the same night of minor importance. On Sunday night there were one or two af frays, the accounts of which are so “mixed” we refrain publishing. The colored individual who so gallantly de fended himself on Saturday night is the former servant of Mr. Jacob Danforth. His name is Green.—Augusta Constitutionalist, 18th. Tax on CoHOD~Itemoval from the ©Is* Irict In which It vras Grown. It is contrary to law, the Charleston Mercury of tbe 16th instant says, “to remove cotton from the District in whieh it is raised, liefore the tax is paid on it. To do this involves ihe foriciturc of the Cotton removed besides other penalties. Onr country friends will do well to bear in mind this warning which comes from the United States Assessor at Camden.” District commanders will co-operate with the Commissioners of the Freedmen’s Bureau in re ducing the number of employees and volunteers still retained iu service, by giving details of offi cers and enlisted men of the army to take their places, where it can be done without manifest destriment to the service. By order of General Grant. E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General. The Effects of Wilkes Booth Refused His Family by the War Department.—It is known that at the time of the assassination of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth was stopping at the National Hotel in this city.— The morning following the commission ot the crime, the War Department seized what bag gage he had in the hotel, examined It and allow ed it to remain, though ordering that it should not be delivered to any claimants. The propri etors of the hotel to-day received a letter from C. B. Bishop, the comedian, who writes on be half of Edwin Booth, in which he requests that his brother’s trunk be forwarded to him, as the family are anxious to obtain possession of all of Wilkes Booth’s effects. The letter states that Edwin Booth is prepared to pay whatever fnay be the amount ot liis brother’s indebtedness to the hotel, on presentation of the bill. The pro prietors of the hotel took this letter to the War Department this morning, and requested per mission to forward the trunk, but this request, it is said, was positively refused. The foregoing is from the Waslifngton Cor respondent of the New York Herald, 15th instant. Payment of the Cotton Claims.—The Secretary of the Treasury is now paying the cotton claims that have been adjudicated by the United States Court of Claims. The claims, it will be remembered, were decided by the Court of Claims last winter, and were appealed by Secretary MeCulloch to the Supreme Court, but the Court of Claims decided that there could be no appeal from that Court. The cases were then referred to the First Comptroller of the Treasury lor his decision as to the manner in which they should be paid, and that officer ruled that they should be paid from the cotton fund and not from the Congressional appropriation. This ruling has enabled the Secretary to settle the claims, which It Is understood, is being done as fast as they are presented.— Wash. Cor. N. T. Herald. A dispatch from San Francisco, of the 14th, states that tlie Democrats have a majority on joiut ballot, in the Legislature, of twenty, and two out of the three members of Congress.— They will elect a Democratic Senator in place of Conness, whose term expires. A Radical correspondent has dined with Doctor Butler, and tells what was said on the occasion, but he does not inform us how the spoons were marked.—Norwich Advertiser. Secretary Welles has ordered to be sold in October next, a large number of steamers and sailing vessels for which the Government has no further use. The sales are to be made at the New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington and Norfolk navy yards. An advertisement, of which the following is a translation, appears in a Brussels paper:— “Wanted, a well-dressed man, of good breeding, who has already some pecuniary means, to talk with people in a photographic saloon.” A kink in the coil of the stem line of an ex cursion steamer at Sandusky took oft the leg from each of two young women, on Thursday. Numerous suits are about to be commenced before the Court of the District of Columbia to test the constitutionality of the confiscation act of Congress. A large amount of property in Washington was sold under the act at the com mencement of the late war, the purchasers being authorized to retain possession daring the life time of the original owners. Caleb Cushing and other eminent counsel have baen retained to try the issue. Man m an Article of Food. It was formerly supposed that the relish with which certain savage tribes ate their enemies arose from the gratification of the passion of revenge. Within the last few years, however, it has been clearly shown that some of the bar barian man-eaters are really fond of human flesh for its own sake—tkat they enjoy it as a civilized epicure enjoys turtle-soup or venizon. Your Fejee Islander, now, thinks the greatest praise he can bestow upon any edible is to say it is “as good as a dead roan.” The Fejeans have plenty of provisions; but they consider “long pig”—their pleasant name for human flesh —much finer than pork, beef, or mutton.— A modern traveler tells us that one of these chiefs—the head man of the Raki- Raki—is said, in the course of his luxurious lite, to have eaten nine hundred persous!— It is also stated that your Fejean, as a rule, relish es “ long pig ” most when it lias been roasted alive! Tiie New Zealanders, on the other hand, do not consider man’s flesh as a delicacy, but eat dead heroes and “ wise men ” (whether they have been friends or enemies make no difference,) with the idea that they imbibe the valor and intellec tual qualities of the deceased during the process. Tbe “noble savage" of Terra del Fuego never eats any of liis own people, except when other meat is remarkably scarce, although always read}’ “ to take in ” tlie shipwrecked stranger.— In severe winters, if we are to believe Admiral Fitzroy, the Terra del Fuegoes, “ when they can obtain no other food, take the oldest woman of their party, hold her bead over a smoke made by burning green wood, pinch her throat and choke her,’ after which she is served up to her friends. Tlie barbarians, on being asked why they did not eat their dogs instead ot their old ladies, naively answered that their dogs caught otters, but that the venerable grandmothers and aunts did not. Probably tlie majority of even the lowest order of savages prefer fish and yams to human flesh, but it is nevertheless true that there are several tribes in Australasia, Africa, and the South Sea Islands that actually hanker alter it. There is some consolation, however, in the assar- ance given us by travelers that most of these anthropophagi prefer colored persous to Cauca sians as table luxuries. This fact is certainly en couraging to the missionary interests; but then there are indiscriminate feeders among savages as well as civilized races, so that now and then a missionary sutlers. The King of the Sandwich Islands is dying slowly of disease. Tbe law gives him the right to choose his successor, but his cabinet can, if it likes, reject his choice. The principal aspirants for the royal dignity are his relative Prince Wil liam, a drunken fellow, who has only a small party of native adherents, and a lady married to Mr. Bishop, an American banker, resident at Honolulu, who, it is said, will be supported by the missionaries, tbe nobles, and the foreign re sidents.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Weekly Atlanta intelligencer. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1865-18??, September 25, 1867, Image 1