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ATLANTA, GEOBGIA,
Wodnesday^SeptoiTibar 20, 1867.
*• KAD WAY'S KEAD1 BELIEF !”
ICadlral Reconstruction Belief!
Wbat “ Had way’s Ready Relief” is to the
physical system, so is the Relief proposed by the
Radical Reconstructionists of Georgia to the body
politic—both quark remedies, the fir*/, for all
“ the ills that llesh is heir tothe last, for all the
financial distress prevailing throughout the
State; and both potent alike for what each pro
fesses to care. Of the two, we give decided pre
ference to “ Iladway’s Ready Relief,” for, at the
worst, it can only kill, while the other when
“ swallowed ” inflicts disgrace upon memory even
after death. Two of these precious “ Radical
Reconstruction Relief ” measures, we have now
before us, and will place them in parallel
lines for the benefit of our readers and the
public. It will be seen that the one oc
cupying the left side of the parallel col
umns is fathered, by Mr. E. Hulbert, Superin
tendent of Registration in Georgia, when not en
gaged in the discharge of his duties as Superin
tendent, or Agent, of tho Southern Express
Company, an institution that owe9 so much of
its success to our Southern merchants, and
which, wc believe, has resumed its connection
with the “Adams Express Company” of the
North. Whether the two positions are compati
ble, the one with the other; or whether the po
litical doctrines enunciated by Mr. Hulbert in
iii.s circular meet with the approval of the Com
pany lie represents, is a matter of some conse
quence at least to our Southern merchants, and
they will he sure to take some note ol it.
The other “ Radical Rcconstraction Relief"
measure occupying the right of the parallel col
umns, we clip from the Savannah Republican.—
That paper says it has been posted extensively
in Chatham county, and is very sevefe in its
strictures upon if. In justice, however, to Mr.
Markham, we will state that he has through the
columns of the Era denied auy knowledge “ of
the call,” or of the “ names therein announced”
and regrets “ that any one should attempt to
anticipate political opinions for” him. We also
see it stated that Ex-Governor James Johnson
and C. H. llopkius “ deny any complicity what
ever in the movement.” Be this as it may, all
the parties referred to arc members of the Radi
cal Republican Party of this State whose leaders
expect to radicalize it in the coming election by
the cry of “ Relief" or nny other that will pro
mote that end.
THE TWO SCHEMES.
The Savannah Call.
Halbert’s “Convention
and Eelief.”
Let the motto of the Be-
eoimtruction Tarty In Geor
gia he “ Convention and Be
lief.’’
The country 1b heavily in
debt.
Multitude of executions
are ready to bo granted.
The Stay Law is practi
rally dead.
Several Superior Court
Judge*. Hon. Hiram Warner
amoug the number, hnvo
BALLY, RALLY!
A Grand Republican and
Rtlief Mass Meeting in
Chippewa Square, Savan
nah, Oa., Monday, Sep
tember 3Oth, 1867, comment,
ing at 11 o'clock, A. M.
All the white and colored
people in Effingham, Chat
ham aud Bryan counties are
requested to attoud tain
meeting who love the Unt-
ruled the Stay I.a\v, uncon-'ted States and are in favor
stitutloual. jof a State Convention, equal
Judge Warner is now right* to colored voters
Chie^JuBtlce of the Supreme and poor white persons
Conrt of the State.
General Tope has reAised
to grant any relief in the
premises.
Executions will now be
levied and thousands will be
sold out aud rendered bank
rupt, unless something be
done speedily.
Good men will suffer se-
without property, or the
readingand writing qualifi
cation.
Homesteads for all men of
families in the county and
town in which they belong
(paying tho State in seven
years), to stop pauperism
and dignifly labor.
Eight hours shall he a
riously unless some aid isjday’s work-after honrs paid
*oon granted. f°r.
The Convention is now We would reduce rents
our only hope jin cities to ten per cent, on
Lot the platform of all Bo-the taxed value ot houses
construction candidates for let; and no arrests should
the Convention be “ Con- be made on mesne process.
vestion and Rolief," and we! speakers.
hi . „ , „ .Ex-Gov. James Johnson. .
will sweep the State by thou-
It ilhain Markham, G. P. I
sands. L., Georgia.
Seethe ball in motion. Hon. C. H. Hopkins.
Aaron A. Brauley, Esq.
E. IivEBERT. Wnlter L. Clift. Esq.
Voters of Georgia, be not deceived by such
appeals as these! See you not whither they will
lead? Are you prepared for the consequences
which must inevitably lollow the success of the
Radical party in this State at the coming elec
tion ? The adoption of the reconstruction mea
sures themselves will not suffice that party. ’Tis
but “a drop in the bucket” that must be filled to
overflowing ere that party will l>e content.
“Mild and partial confiscation” which the man
Clift, whose name is appended to the Savannah
call, advocates, will give to the homeless,homes;
labor and rents will be regulated, contracts inter
fered with ; the business of the country impeded ;
aud finally,anarchy prevail. As the Savannah Re
publican sax's,so do “we now invoke,in behalf of a
powerless people, the aid of Gen. Pope, whom,we
understand, has been placed in command of this
district, not only to enforce the laws of Congress,
aud sec that the provisions of its reconstruction
programme are faithfully executed, but to pro
tect the citizens of this Territory from all need
less persecutions and outrages. Surely a general
who will deem it his duty to virtually close to
the uoors of an educational institution because a
y outh on commencement day is indiscreet enough
to deliver a panegyric on the State Rights doc
trine, and who believes that the cause of rceou-
Btruction can be advanced by starving out all
journals or getting rid of those editors who fail
to agree and endorse his individual views on re- I
construction, will certainly be brave aud mag- I
nanimous enough to see that the distress and i
woe of a defeated and impoverished people is !
not increased, aud that tliev are not publiciy iu-
A Remarkable Cane.
The following communication has been re
ceived at this office. The writer of it is one of
the oldest, most prominent, and most respecta
ble ol our citizens in Upper Georgia. Assuming
that in the case of the individual now in mili
tary custody, the statement of our correspondent
is correct, it presents, to say the least of it, one
of the most remarkable instances, in the exer
cise of “military authority,” that has occurred
since the close of the war, and since General
Pope assumed command of this military dis
trict Purely General Pope does not refuse to
recognize that principle engrafted in the Consti
tution of the Lnited States which declares that
no person shall “be subject, for the same offense,
to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.” And
yet it is clear, if the statement of our correspon
dent be true, that in the case of Light, who is
now under military arrest and in confinement,
he does refuse to do so. Why is this? What
warrant i3 there for it? Will any one say who
can speak “by authority ?”
Our correspondent asks—“why ha# not the
Press noticed and condemned, in proper terms,
this great violation of the Constitution ?” We
answer that the case has not been made known
to the press till now. It has had no informa
tion—no authentic information in proper form—
of the facts connected with it. Having them
now, it will not fail to perform its duty in the
premises.
With regard to the other queries of our cor
respondent, to-wit: “flow is the Government, or
any one else to be benefitted by this survey ?” —
the survey to which he refers—and “can you
give your readers any light ou the matter V”—
the matter of sending a military guard to Car-
tersville during the session of the Court—we
have no information, not being in the confidence
of the military authorities at these headquarters.
Below is the letter of our correspondent, to
which we invite public attention;
[COMMUNICATED.]
Cartersville, Sept. 14, 1807.
lion. J. I. Whitaker :
Dear Sir—Some time since, at a special term
of the Superior Court of this county, three men
were tried for murder, am. were acquitted. A
short time thereafter one of them was arrested
and confined in jail for the same offense. He
was kept in jail a short time, and was sent from
this place to Rome in irons. This man is still in
prison. I am informed that he was arrested and
put in prison by the order of General Pope.—
The murder is alledged to have been committed
during the war, and the persons accused, tried,
and acquitted, were Confederate soldiers, and
were paroled at t lie end of the war. Their pa
rol protected them from the military, as I under
stand it; and the Constitution of the United
States declares that no person shall “ be subject
far the same offense, to he twice put in jeopardy of
life or limb." It is said that General Pope ad
mits that lie can not try Mr. Light again accord
ing to the Constitution, but yet he keeps him iu
prison.
Of all tho orders of General Pope, I think the
arrest of Light and confining him iu prison, un
der the circumstances, the most indefensible;
and yet there are men mean enough to attempt
to excuse it. General Pope’s soldiers guarded
Light and others while he was in jail; guarded
him while on trial; and when he was acquitted
he was then arrested again by General Pope’s
order and cast into prison. 1 suppose the ver
dicts of juries and the judgments of the courts
will he allowed to stand; provided, they please
the military! Why has not the press noticed
and condemned, in proper terms, this great vio
lation of the Constitution ?
A number of soldiers are now in camps near
Cassville, surveying the line of battle and de
fenses ot the Confederates under General John
ston in 1804. What is this for? Iiow is the
Government or auy one to be benefitted by this
survey ? Can you give the readers of the Intel
ligencer any information on this subject ?
Wc are informed that some one has written to
General Pope, and requested him to send an offi
cer and some soldiers to this place as a guard
during the sitting of the court, and this request
lias been complied with. But what can any
citizen want with a guard? The people are
quiet, peaceable, and orderly. There is about as
much use lor a guard here as there is in the
Intelligencer office to prevent insurrection
among your employees. Can you give your
readers any light on this subject ?
Subscriber.
“ Republicanism and Relief.’’
Under tiie foregoing heading, the Columbus
Enquirer of the 20th inst., contains the follow
ing sensible article:
“This is now the rallying cry of the radical
party in Georgia. It has associated with the
question of reconstruction according to the plan
ot Congress an issue by which every debtor in
(he State is invited to cote himself out of debt.
The Atlanta New Era, a little more moderate
than the out-and-out repudiating radicals, insists
that it is only for “temporary relief,” and not for
an entire wiping out. But in the view which
we take of the matter, its plan is as impractica
ble aud deceptive as the other.
“ These 1 relief’ advocates take the position
that the Stay Law of the Legislature will be pro
nounced unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
of Georgia, and that the decision will go to the
extent ot denying to the Legislature any author
ity to pass a Stay Law. Therefore, say they,
the Convention must take the matter iu hand
and grant, the ‘relief.’ sought for. The decision
may be such as they anticipate; but, if so, it
will be upon grounds that will estop the Conten
tion, as effectually as t lie Legislature, from grant
ing the relief. The Constitution ot the United
States provides that 4 no State shall pass any
law impairing the obligation of contracts;” and
the similar provision in the Constitution of Geor
gia is only responsive to and concurrent with this
prohibition of the federal constitution. The Geor
gia Convention, then, to legalize any plan of relief
not permitted by the present Constitution of
Georgia, must do away with the prohibition in
the Constitution of the United States also. It
seems to us that it will have some difficulty in
doing this. Moreover the idea has found a lodg
ment in our brain (“ rebel ” though we may be
called) that it is not very intense loyalty to the
Constitution or authority ol the United States to
urge such a course bv a State Convention. Ii
the Georgia Convention can disregard and set at
naught this prohibition of the Federal Constitu
tion, wliy may it not nullify any other part of
that instrument, not even excepting the lately
incorporated amendment abolishing slavery?
Let the freediuen beware of a party that claims
the right in State Convention to set at defiance
the Constitution ot the United States!
“The law of North Carolina, which Judge
Chase of the Supreme Court of the United
States pronounced unconstitutional, was a Stay
Law. He did not pronounce it inconsist
ent with the Constitution of the United
salted by a roaming band of political advenlu- States. How, thi n, would a Stax - Ordinance ot
rers and experimentalists ”
On Wednesday last, in San Francisco, a be
between two gentlemen, named Higgins and
ltayes, on the election, that the loser should play
n hand organ the entire length of Montgomery
street, was decided. No such crowd was ever
lief ore seen in that city. Collections were taken
up along the route by prominent men of both
parties for the benefit of the orphan asylums,
and many thousands ot dollars xvere received.
the Convention ot Georgia stand in the Federal
tribunal that set aside this law of North Carolina?
Or. it the Georgia Convention incorporates in the
new Constitution of the State a section or clause
declaring that the Legislature of Georgia shall
have power to p i" “a law impairing the obli
gation of contracts, notwithstanding the prohi-
btton in the Fe leral Constitution, how will
Congress deal xvith a State f7, reconstructed ?
“It really seems to us that this demand for
“relief by the action oi a State Convention
Silver was showered from the windows and I might very consistently have come from a party
housetops, and business wa
—Savannah Advert!
suspended for hours.
A Wisconsin lmsUuid,. alter knocking Lis
wife down and stamping upon her, picked her
up tenderly and asked her forgiveness. We are
pleased to learn that he then hung her.
Referring to Wilson’s Speech the New York
Herald says that “if Republicans can give the
working to defeat reconstruction in accordance
with the plan of Congress. But for a party pro
fessing to favor that plan v> connect with it a
proposition to nullity a clause oi the Federal
Constitution, <eems to as ..a inconsistency such
a* no politicians but the run mad radicals of
Georgia could be rrulltv of.”
Walter T. Colquitt.
The following interesting sketch of this distin
guished Georgian—a man, who, once seen and
heard, will never be forgotten—appeared recently
in Harpers Magazine. Strange that it sbonid
appear in that vile defamer of the South and of
Southern men ; still such is the fact. 3fany of
the readers ol the Intelligencer had personal
knowledge of the distinguished Georgian—some
of them an intimate acquaintance with him.—
All these, and others of our readers, we feel
sure, will thank us for devoting the space we do
in these columns to-day, to a sketch ot one, who,
in his day and time, exercised an influence over
the people—the masses of them—rarely attained
by any other of Georgia’s most distinguished
sons, excepting two whose fame is wide spread
in our land; we mean Alexander H. Stephens
and Robert Toombs. The latter still survive,
xvhile their great competitor who so often met
them in political strife before the people, is gone
“ from whence no traveler returns,” happily re
lieved from witnessing the present degradation
of his native South, and the sufferings of its peo
ple—a South whose rights none of her sons ever
vindicated with' greater eloquence and power.
Intellectually, Colquitt was simply a wonder.
With an intellect which grasped a mastered ev
ery subject, with so little seeming effort as to
take the appearance ot intuition, he possessed,
in a variety and perfection seldom if ever equal
ed. what may perhaps be termed the accompa
niments which at once adorn and give availa
bility and range to pure intellect. The tones
aud modulations ot his voice expressed and
aroused, or soothed at his will, eveiy passion
and feeling of our nature. When for the pur
pose of preparing the way for reaching the un
derstanding, he would quiet all passion and feel
ing and remove all prejudice, his tones were as
soft and sweet as the breathings of the jEoliau
harp; as he spoke of virtue, purity and peace,
they were as gentle and tender as the first coo-
ings of inlancy. Would he move you to sad
ness ?—they were as plaintive as the wail of the
whip-poor-will at the approach of night. Would
lie awaken feelings of cheerfulness ?—they were
:is glad and joyous as the notes of the mocking
bird, as, from the topmost twig of some lofty
tree, she pours forth her melody in greeting to
the opening morn. Would he cheer and inspire
his friends in political contest?—they swelled
out as shrill, clear aud as loud as the clarion’s
blast that calls the embattled hosts to the con
flict of arms. Was it his purpose to arouse feel
ings of anger and rage?—they were as harsh
and as fierce as the yell of the wounded tiger.
Would he inspire feelings of woe?—they were
as majestically solemn as the voice of the roll
ing thunder.
His face was expressive and as much under
his control as his voice; his talent for mimicry
brought everything xvithin its range; he was a
consummate actor, and would render you farce,
comedy, or tragedy with all the truthfulness of
life; or, if it suited his purpose better, exagger
ated into broad and ludicous caricature, or
dwarfed into ridiculous and distorted diminutive-
ncss. With an intuitive perception of the char
acter he measured men at a glance, and weighed
them as in a balance, rarely failing to estimate
them at their true value. With a power of ob
servation which saw, and a memory that retain
ed everything, he possessed that rare power ot
drawing at pleasure upon bis store, which seem
ed unlimited in variety and inexhaustible in
quantity; for be never was at a loss for an apt
illustration to enforce and fix an argument, to
give point to witticism, to add zest to a ludicrous
conception, to gix r e force to ridicule, to make sar
casm more biting, or irony more pungent and
bitter.
Nc man ever possessed greater poxver to win
and hold the attention ol an audience. His ser
vices were sought in all the important criminal
cases within his reach; the court house was al
ways crowded when he spoke; xvhile the others
xvere harranguing the jury the people might
amuse themselves in the court yard, or adjourn
to the neighboring bar rooms, or go ofl to attend
to some little matter until the others were done;
but wlienex'er he arose to address the jury, the
bouse xvas soon filled. It not unfrequently oc
enrred that at the close of these cases the trials
ran into and sometimes through the night. As
Colquitt always made the concluding argument
on his side, it was frequently very late, or per
haps it would be very early when he commenced
speaking on these occasions.
Visiting the conrt house at 12 or 1 o’clock up
on one of these oecasions you would find groups
of men standing in the yard and sitting on the
steps, waiting to hear Colquitt. Entering the
iiousc you see the Judge sitting “ like patience
on a monument smiling at grief.” Before him
stood a laxvyer engaged in the hardest work that
ever fell to the lot of man, making, under, a
sense of duty, a speech to men evidently feeling
no sort of interest in what he is saying, but
shoxving unmistakable signs of weariness and
listlessne3s. Some ot the jury are yawning and
stretching and rubbing their eyes to keep them
selves awake frem mere courtesy. Some are oc
casionally nodding, and perchance two or three
are actually fast asleep. Around the room are
stretched on the benches all others who, from
choice or necessity, have remained.
At length the time arrives for Colquitt to be
gin. The first sound of his voice arouses the
sleepers; the house begins to fill, and in five
minutes the appearance of the jury gives do ev
idence that they had been weary and sleepy a
few minutes before, nor any indications that they
would ever be so again. They were no longer
prisoners of the law for the performance of a
necessary but irksome duty; they were the fa
vored guests at a rich banquet. Words have no
power to convey an idea at all approaching the
reality of his powers as an advocate. No pow
ers of description would succeed in producing
more than a faint and far oft conception of one
of those great jury speeches, which Colquittjhim-
self could never conceive but under the inspir
ing influences of the occasion, nor produce af
ter the inspiration of the hour had passed away.
None of these speeches have ever been report
ed, because they could not be. The phonograph-
er who could have recorded his words must
have had the ability to do it blindfolded, for it
was impossible to keep the eyes oft him while
he was speaking. And even if he had the words
they xvould not be the speech.
A painting of a thunder storm, without the
splash of the falling raiD, the rush and moan and
howlings of the contending winds, the sudden
leap, the vivid flash aDd the lurid glare of the
lightning, the startling burst and the distant roll
of the muttering thunder, would convey to one
who had never witnessed it about as correct an
idea of the reality as wonld the words of one of
Colquitt’s great jury speeches without the sounds,
the intonations, and modulations of his voice, the
expressions ot his face, and the action of his
body. The one might be a better storm than
anybody else could put upon canvas, the other a
better speech than anybody else could put upon
paper; but, “to compare great things with
small,” the spirit of the maker of the storm
would not be iu the one, the spirit of the maker
of the speech would not be in the other.
It never entered into the head of the listener
to suspect that he xvas attempting to make a dis
play, or was speaking for what is usually termed
effect. It seemed to be the earnest effort of an
earnest spirit, forgetful of itself, careless of all
outward surroundings, and laboring only to im
press upon others its own deep and fervent con
victions. His words were of the simplest and
most common sort; his illustrations drawn from
the most familiar things; he disrobed the great
principle of the law of all mystery; dealt with
them as things of plain common sense, made
for and applicable to the every day affairs of life,
aud brought them within the comprehension of
the commonest understanding.
His speeches were unique in their structure.
They exhibited nothing ol that order and ar
rangement establishes by ruie, to which ordi
nary men are compelled to resort He took no
noil's either of the testimony or the arguments ;
yet it was never known that auy important
point of either escaped him. Everything con
nected with the case appeared to be spread out
bodily aud visibly before him, and he picked up
one piece here and another there, as he found he
could work them into most advantage, and the
result proved that he placed them where they
contributed most to the strength of the structure.
He never permitted the minds of his hearers
to become fatigued. If in the discussion of the
law or the testimony he discovered in the jury
symptoms of weariness, he took caie to fix
some strong point upon their minds, and then
he left his work and led them ofl to play ; but
neither he nor his hearers ever forgot where
the}- left off. He frequently found it necessary
to make these digressions ; but his digressions
Were the gambols ot a while, and when he re
turned to his subject he grappled it w ith the
strength of a lion. When he closed his speech
everylaxly felt that it was a finished work, ft
is rarely that an argument is made upon any
subject but somebody thinks lie could have
made some part of it stronger. Men sometimes,
perhaps, U.ought that some part of Colquitt’s
speech might have been omitted without injury,
but never that he had omitted anything that
might have been said with advantage.
[COMJtCNICATED.]
Repudiation.
Mr. Editor: I have seen the “ Hulbert Repu
diation electioneering document,” a copy of
which was given in yonr paper of the 19lh inst
It is indeed a precious document! I wonder how
Negro Supremacy
The Springfield [Mass.) Republican, hitherto a
coustant champion of the principles of the Radi
cal party, has an important and seasonable artx
cle upon that threatening question of “negro su
prcmacy,” which cannot be killed by the scoffs
or jeers of Radical papers in either the North or
many men in Georgia will be gulled by such pthc t>outh. As far and as fast as reason retnrns,
, a CJ TOI , ,, fr>r I the sentiments of the Republican will find re-
chaff . What does Hulbert care about relief f s p 0nses ; n the North ; and, when common sense
the people? What does his party care - Just j reslltues its sway, the Radical party will meet
about as much as the hawk cares for tbe cries ot 1
the little chicken, or about as much as the wolf
cares for the relief of the lamb which he is seek
ing to devour!
That precious document never emanated from
the brain of Huibert. It is the abortion brought
forth by Gaskil? Farrow, et al, which was be
gotten by the Era and other radical sheets a few
weeks since. Hulbert is only the tool—the mid
wife who officiated at its delivery!
He says “ that the Judges of the Supreme
Court will hold the Stay law unconstitutional ;
that Gen. Pope has refused to interfere ; and that
the only relief for the people will lie with a con
vention.” Did you ever see an owl sitting on a
beech tree limb? How wise he looks until he
hoots ? Then his only cry is lioo—lioo ! There is
your man! Pity that he has suffered himself im
posed upon by the tricksters. Auy niuney ought
to know that a Convention can give no relief! If
a Convention were to take any action interfering
with the relations existing between debtors and
creditors, it would be ex post facto, ami would
be set aside by the courts. Besides, a' Conven
tion if one is called, dare not interfere with these
things. Congress would - - not allow it! Congress
conceives that in the passage of a general Bank
rupt law, she has extended all the relief neces
sary for debtors in all sections of the country,
and auy interference iu these matters by a Con
vention called under the reconstruction acts,
would be foreign to the objects of the Conven
tion, and would be rebuked and disailoxved.—
This was strongly intimated by both Senator
Wilson and Judge Kelley in their speeches in
Atlanta. They told the freedmen that two-thirds
of the real estate of the South xvould have to be
sold under the hammer and otherwise within
three years, and advised them to save their
money aud be prepared to buy it.
The pet scheme of the Radical party North is
to force the southern people to sell their lands,
hoping thereby that it will fall into the bauds of
Northern adventurers and the negroes. They
know that they cannot legally confiscate one dol
lar’s worth of Southern property; therefore, po
litically, they are seeking to create a reign of ter
ror in the South—a St. Domingo—the baneful
influence of which is spreading throughout the
whole couutry. Many of the Southern new light
Radicals are cheek-by-jowl with them in these
hellish designs. They don’t care a button for re
lief lor the people, it they can only stand iu fa
vor at the Radical court! The only way for the
Southern people to obtain permanent relief, ami
avert this dire calamity, aud thwart this Radical
scheme, is to defeat their nefarious, reconstruc
tion programme.
Men are misguided when they think that by
supporting radicalism they are supporting the
Republican party. They are do more the same
than were the glorious old Whig party and
Know-Nothingism. The Republican party died
with President Lincoln. Had he lived, then the
Republican party might have lived. Events
have proven that he was the only man that could
have saved it. Had his and President Johnson’s
magnanimous views been adopted and carried
out by Congress, to-day our people xvould have
been rejoicing over a restored Union under the
Constitution of our forefathers. The whole
country would have been prosperous and “blos
soming as the rose.” Our national debt would
have laded away under the general prosperity,
bore alike by all sections of the country. Instead
of this pleasing picture, under the mad scheme
of Congress, our national debt is being increased.
Troops are quartered throughout our land in
time of profound peace. Taxes are more onerous.
One halt of our country is paralized, and it is
fast extending to the other half.
A few days ago a prominent Radical of this
city expressed his platform to be,—
1st. Unqualified negro suffrage and social
equaliiy.
2d. Repudiation of all private and public
debts.
3d. An eight hour system of labor throughout
the country, and extra pay for every minute’s
work beyond that.
4th. A homestead for eveiy man.
5th. A reduction ot rents in all cities.
This is a startling platform, but one that will
no doubt be popular with Radicals. Let us trust
that the good sense of the Northern people will
come to the rescue and save our whole country.
Sidney.
A Platform Upon Which Southern men
Can Stand.
We lay before our readers the following “ de
claration ol principles ” recently adopted by the
Democratic State Convention of Wisconsin. It
embodies a platforqi upon which Southern as
well as Northern men can stand, and as such we
commend it to the observance of every Geor
gian, in the forthcoming political contests:
The Democrats of Wisconsin, by their dele
gates assembled in State Convention here, do
solemnly declare that the objects of their organi
zation are:
1. To preserve civil and religious liberty to
tbe people.
2. To enforce the Federal Constitution as the
supreme law of the Union.
3. To defend the sacred and unalienable rights
of the States to their own local governments.
4. To repeal the existing tariff laws, enacted
tor the protection of a few at the cost of many.
5. To protect the right of labor to adequate
reward.
6. To guard capital from public disorder and
partisan misrule.
To resist the attempt of the dominant party
to abridge the right of representation and the
elecjve franchise.
8. To promote the equality ot the Slates and
people.
9. To abrogate the present reckless aud profli
gate system of public expenditure and unequal
taxation.
10. To oppose the aggressive efforts of the
legislative power to govern the conscience and
dictate the business pursuits of the individual
through arbitrary aud unconstitutional enact
ments on the subject of temperance and religion,
and to repeal laws conflicting with the spirit ot
this resolution.
The Democracy of Wisconsin, bv their dele
gates in convention assembled, do further declare
that the present Republican party, by its palpable
determination to perpetuate the supremacy ot the
military power in the United States; by its at
tempt to preserve the ascendency of a minority
party through the subversion of the government;
by its unceasing aggressions upon the freedom
of speech and of the press; by its open and ac
tive friendship lor the despotic forms of govern
ment ; by its invention of false excuses for ty
ranny ; by its unscrupulous taxation of the peo
ple for the aggrandizement of its power and the
enrichment of its leaders; by Hs odious alliances
with the traditional enemies of Republican insti
tutions ; by its shameless assaults upon the elec
tive franchise; by its substitution of partisan de
crees for the supreme law; by its intended abro
gation of the reset ved rights of the States, and
the permanent maintenance of a national stand
ing army to enforce compliance with its usurpa
tions, has proven false to all its pretensions of
patriotism, false to the government and the peo
ple, and deserves the reprobation of tbe friends
of freedom throughout the civilized world.
A “ Stumper.”—The Macon Telegraph says:
In an article copied elsewhere this morning, the
the fate oi all venal revolutionists.
The Republican says;
Some ot the Northern papers attempt to allay
the fears of the Southern whites on the subject
of negro supremacy by telling them that it is im
possible as a permanent thing; that.the white
population of those States is largely iu the ma
jority ; and after reconstruction power will grad
ually return to their hands. So it must at last,
but how long aDd miserable the conflict will be
no one can tell. The mistake of disfranchising
tbe most intelligent portion of the white
men of the South, while giving suffrage to
the mass of ignorant negroes, becomes daily
more apparent. The prospect is that things will
be much worse before they begin to mend ; that
the new State Governments will be in the hands
of men who will disfranchise nearly all the
whites, and inaugurate schemes of taxation that
will practically be nearly as bad as confiscation
itself. The white Republicans ot North Caroli
na expected to control their recent State Con
vention, and did elect its officers; but the negro
majority voted down resolutions reported by the
committee against confiscation aud in favor of
larger amnesty to the xvhitcs, and were poorly
content with a compromise agreeing to such
confiscation and other measures of reconstruc
tion as Congress shall decree. The speech most
applauded was made by a young mulatto named
Galloway, who advocated a school tax heavy
enough to compel the sale of the land by the
present owners. The most popular leader
among the South Carolina negroes is now a nc
gro named Williams, a religious maniac, who
declares himself to be the spiritual essence of
Thad. Stevens and Fred. Douglass, and tells the
colored men that they whipped the rebs, that
they are the most powerful nation ou the globe,
and they must vote for no one who is not for
their own color; that Lincoln promised them
forty acres ot land, a hundred dollars and six
months’ rations apiece, and they must have it,
if they had t,o whip the blue-bellied Yankees to
get it. Another ambitious negro, named Charles
Brown, writes to the New Orleans Times:
“We intend to show to this city, State, and
the world that we are capable of governing, not
only ourselves, but white men. My former
master (and he was a good man) told me that
white men xvould govern, take care of and pro
tect the niggers, because God gave them the
right and made it their duty so to do. We are
willing to do the same by you. We shall have
no use for Goldman or W aples, or any of their
class, after our next State election. It ib not an
easy matter to disfranchise us after we once have
the elective franchise. Hancock will be pow
erless for evil if we only keep up our secret poli
tical organization. We have commenced orga
nizing our Fire Department, and one year will
find the $120,000 per year now paid to white
firemen, transferred to worthy reconstructed citi
zens of African descent. In a few years it will
not be a question whether there will be schools
for colored children, but, it will be whether
white children will be admitted to our institu
tions ot learning. The bottom rail is on top,
and Yankee, as well as all the minority, must
take a back seat.”
For such folly as this the white demagogues
who misled the negroes are most to blame. For
the present, however, they have almost exclusive
control of the freedmen, and Republicans who
talk honestly to them are met with suspicion.
The Savannah Republican, as sound a Republi
can paper as there is in the country, is threatened
by the freedmen because it is against confisca
tion and disfranchisement. The facts of the sit
uation iu the South are too plain and manifest
to admit of any misunderstanding. And there
seems to be no remedy now except to mitigate
the anticipated evils as much as possible by en
deavoring to inspire the freedmen with xviser
counsels.
The Radical organs now fear that they cannot
carry their most extreme measures, and advise
their leaders to moderate their tone and temper.
This advice comes too late! Thad. Stevens &
Co. will stand or fall by the most ultra doctrines
of their party.—Charleston Mercury.
From the Memphis Avalanche, 17th.
Sketch of George Blekley, tbe Orlffinator
of the Kiifsht* of the Coidea Circle—
Hi* Genius aud Incapacity, etc., etc.
■several of the papers notice the death, recent
ly, in Baltimore, of a singular personage, from
whose life instructive lessons might be drawn.—
This was the notorious George Bickley, the
tounder of the Knights of the Golden Circle—a
man to whom more properly belonged the title
of adventurer than auy other individual in this
couutry. He was a man in whose character
there were many flaws, but his best justification
would be a truthful statement of his life, and
some time when the history of the early stages
of the great rebellion are fully written, the true
character of the talented, handsome, vain and
unscrupulous George vV ashington Bickley may
serve to illustrate it. Few lives have been more
eventful than his. An orphan boy in Virgi
nia, he ran away at the age of twelve years,
and went to Nexv Orleans, and from that
time to his. death, when considerably over
forty years of age, he lived a life of adven
ture, success, reverses and vicissitudes. With
grand ideas, great projects, immense specula
tions, he held that success in great undertakings
xvas scarcely more difficult than in those of more
limited character, and in some respects results
justified his theory. Beginning life with many
disadvantages, lie attained a good English and a
fair classical education. He wrote a very good
work on poisons and their antidotes; he became
a succesful professor in a respectable medical
college; he wrote a number of excellent medical
works, of which another party got tbe credit;
he established, and for some time edited, a very
able mechanics’ paper; he wrote many credita
ble articles in medical journals, daily papers and
literary magazines; be edited for some time a
lady’s magazine; he originated the foundation
of a great institution of learning: he was on
terms of friendship and intimacy with many
distinguished politicians, professional charac
ters and literary gentleman. He engaged, at
one time, in agriculture and vine growing. He
founded, and by years of labor, made the
Knights of the Golden Circle to grow until it
had branches in fourteen States, and comprised
an aggregate membership of seventeen thousand
individuals. Lastly, he married and ran through
tbe fortunes of three wealthy women. A man
who could do all this must have been a person
of more than ordinary activity, and it cannot be
said that his life was wholly a blank. Before
the war he had many grand projects. At one
time he expected to realize a collossal fortune by
the grant of coal mines in the Dominican Re
public; at another unbounded wealth was to be
obtained by a monopoly of the introduction of
American agricultural implements into Russia.
In the formation of the Knights of the Golden
Circle, his inspiration probably came from Gen.
Quitman and Mr. Yancey; but Mr. Bickley did
uot intend to be the tool of any political combi
nation. He actually planned, and his remarkable
success for a time seemed to justify his hopes to
found a great military government in Mexico, ot
svhi-.h he should be Emperor. The care with
which bis plans were elaborated, the curious sys
tem of laws, institutions, checks and balances
which he had devised, showed that the hope of
grasping an empire was the ruling idea of his
life. Fate stood iu his way. We have seen let
ters written to him by both"Miramon and Juarez,
proffering co-operation, grants of land ami other
greai advantages. They wished to have the help
of his Knights without incurring the odium ot
publicly inviting them into the Mexican country.
The failure ot a negotiation to purchase steam
ships from George Law, and the decided stand of
our government in forbidding armed emigration
to Mexico, delayed B’ckley’s plans. Then the
war broke out, aud the order of tbe Knights of
the Golden Circle being composed of Southern
men who were unable to leave the country,
drifted into the rebellion movement, and became’
for a time one of its most efficient promoters.— I
From the Birhmnnd Enquirer & Examiner, 17th instant
BHIpenlnc of tbe Hmilnc* Court—Tho
Military Jaige Sworn In.
Yesterday, for the first time since the death of
the lamented Judge Lyons, the Hustings Court,
so long devoid of a judicial presiding officer,
was re-opened by Judge Advocate H. B. Burn
ham, who has been detailed by Gen. Schofield
for this duty. The occasion was a most remark
able one in the eventful history of our city, and
in the annals of the Richmond bar.
About 10 a. m. the officer, the Mayor, the
commonwealth’s attorney, and nearly every
member of the city bar, had assembled in the
office of the Clerk of the Court, where, amidst
the most intense interest, the imposing ceremony
of administering the oaths took place. The
new incumbent was duly sworn to the following,
to which he subscribed his signature, by the
Hon. Joseph Mayo, Mayor:
I, H. B. Burnham, do solemnly swear that I
have never voluntarily borne arms against the
United States since I have been a citizen thereof;
that I have voluntarily given no aid, counte
nance, counsel or encouragement to persons en
gaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have
neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to
exercise the function of any office whatever un
dor anv authority in hostility to the United
States;"that I have not yielded a voluntary sup
port to any pretended government, authorities
power or constitution within the United States
hostile or inimical thereto; and I do further
swear that to the best of my knowledge and
ability I will support and defend the Constitu
tion of the United States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic; that 1 will bear true faith
and allegiance to the same; that I take this obli
gation freely, without any mental reservation or
purpose of evasion, and that I will well and
faithfully discharge the duties of the office on
which I am about to enter, so help me God.
(Signed) |H. B. Burnham.
Sworn to before me this 16th day of Septem
ber, 1867. Joseph Mayo, Mayor.
I, H. B. Burnham,swear that I have not, since
the tenth day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty, fought in a duel, the issue of
which was or probably might have been the
death of either party; nor have I been knowing
ly the bearer of any challenge or acceptance to
fight a duel actually fought; nor have I been
otherwise engaged or concerned ..directly or in
directly, in a duel actually fought since said
time; nor will I, during my continuance in of
fice, be so engaged, directly or indirectly, so help
me God.
(Signed) H. B. Burnham.
Sworn to before me this 16th day of Septem
ber 1867. Joseph Mayo, Mayor.
1 H. B. Burnham, swear that I will faithfully
perform the duties ot my office of Judge of the
Hustings Court for the city of Richmond, to the
best of my skill and judgment, so help me God.
(Signed) H. B. Burnham.
Sworn to before me this 16th day of Septem
ber 1867. Joseph Mayo, Mayor.
The Judge then entered the court room,
which was densely crowded, when, atter opening
court, the clerk read the following order from
General Schofield, and the above oaths :
Headquarters First Military District, )
State op Virginia, v
Richmond, Va., Sept. 11th, 1867. )
Special Orders, No. 124.
Brevet Colonel H. B. Burnham, Major and
Judge Advocate, United States Army, is hereby
detailed for duty as Judge of the Court of Hust
ings for the city of Ricnmond, Va., and will be
obeyed and respected accordingly.
By command ot Brigadier and Brevet Major
General J. M. Schofield.
William Ennis,
1st Lieut. 4th U. S. Art. A. D. C.,
Act. Asst. Adjt. Gen.
Kerscliel V. Jolunon.
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THAT GENTLEMAN AND THE
HON. JOHN S. BARRY, OP MICHIGAN.
Constantine, Mich., June 18,1867.
Sir—Our last interview, as you will recollect,
was in 1860, at the Fifth Avenue House, and
Jones’ wood, New York, where you and Mr.
Douglass spoke. I need not call your attention
to what has since occurred, further than to allude
to the total overthrow of constitutional govern
ment, according to your predictions then made;
and I may. add, in view of the fact that all ad
ministrative power is in the hands of Puritans
and fanatics, little prospect exists of its restora
tion. Any government outside of the constitu
tion, or under an enforced constitution, is usur
pation and tyranny. * * * *
I am, etc.. Jno. S. Barry.
Hon. Herschel V. Johnson, Augusta, Georgia.
Augusta, Ga., June 24,1867.
John S. Barry, Esq., Constantine, Michigan:
My Dear Sir— * * * Your allusion to
our interview in New York in 1860, calls up
many memories—some pleasant, and more that
are sad. I remember bow faithfully, in my fee
ble way, I warned my countrymen of their im
pending calamities. I had, at that time, well
defined conceptions of the perils that threatened
our then happy and prosperous country. My
forebodings have been realized; tbe South has
been overrun, our prosperity destroyed, our labor
system overturned, our capital swept away, our
social organization fatally remodeled, and our
civil governments substituted by military despo
tism. The whole country—North, South, East,
and West—feels the shock, and constitutional
liberty writhes in tbe throes of expiring dissolu
tion. The future darkness is scarcely relieved
by a single ray of hope. And it seems that we
have not reached the “lowest deep” of our woe.
The ruling powers seem bent upon our still
greater humiliation. The theme is one on which
it is too painful to dwell. Reason seems to have
surrendered the sceptre of statesmanship to blind
and vindictive passion. What is to be the result
God only kpows, and He only can rescue the
country from the worst fate that ever fell upon
a once free, prosperous and happy people.
Perhaps you may be, in some degree, interest
ed in wbat is personal to myself. As you per
haps know, I resisted secession as long as it was
an open question. But when my State resolved
upon it, 1 cast my lot with the fortunes of my
people, feeline confident that we should “ reap
the whirlwind.” I have not been disappointed;
and, though I never cherished an emotion of
hostility to the Constitution, or the Union of our
forefathers under it—though I have spent quar
ter of a century in trying to uphold both—yet
now I find myself, at the end of such a career,
disfianchised and assigned to a position, in re
spect to political and civil rights, inferior to that
of my former slaves. My home is in the track
of Sherman’s march. His army destroyed near
ly everything I possessed, including my private
papers and title deeds, and reduced me from
comfort to poverty. If I were young, and could
be let alone, I might rally from my prostration;
but at my time of life, in view of the present
surroundings, and the darkness that curtains the
future,! scarcely hope to be able to feed and
clothe the family. I say these things in no spirit
of unmanly repining. Poverty is a misfortune;
but I would welcome it if, by the sacrifice, I
could bring back to life the liberties of my coun
try and the glories of tbe old Union. But “ 11-
lium fuil." I am, very respectfully, your obe
dient servant, Herschel V. Johnson.
New York Herald propounds a most trouble-
some question to Thad. Stevens, Mr. Bingham. . age these traits in his character. It would not be
The Thomasville Enterprise has the following:
and their brother Radicals who maintain that
three-fourths of the represented States are com
petent to pass a constitutional amendment. It
is this: 'If the amendment fixing the terms for
the admission of the Southern S'ates, proposed
last year, be a part of the Constitution, by wbat
authority did Congress pass the Military bills,
which are clearly in conflict with said amend
ment? We would be glad to see some of the
Radicals answer it.
Tbe Coming of Kelly.
Refering to tbe coming of Kelly, the Mobile
Advertiser & Register says :
“Kelly is coming South again on an agitation
tour. We trust he may come soon enough to
make the acquaintance nf Bronze John and
Yomito Jack, who take lovingly to fellows of
his kidney.”
We will bet our Moble coteinporary a L ‘pump-
Tjie City Council of New Orleans have elect
ed three negroes As ..staul Recorders of that city
people no better reasons than these leaders give j —an office somewhat similar in its jurisdiction
for the life of their party, it must go.” ! to that of Justice ol the Peace.
, , , , , i 7pn me," or a wooden nutmeg, that neither
A gentleman who kept account send* us worn j ‘ _ 4 , ,
, , ' Bronze John, nor votmto Jacs, wni shake
that .9 o.iya, cm.mg tx-j.L ml -r loth, Dune ha.!
been only eleven fair days. The entire crop tea-
sou has been unusaiiv wet and it is scarcely pos
sible to estimate tbe damage done to the crops.
The weather is still unsettled, and some are ap
prehending a gale before the rains moderate.”
ii.ciiy in Moh'.fe, or New Orleans, dr
Galveston, this season. He is too smart to let
them have a chance to extend to him their cor
dial welcome. Not for the Ridieal Party even
much use for any man who was not unscrupulous
and unprincipled to aspire to be an Emperor. He
had warm Southern sympathies, but sokmeala
turn of mind that he appreciated fully the blunders
made by both great parties of the country. This
brief sketch does not exhaust—id fact, it scarcely
does more than suggest the eventful life and cu
rious character of the subject oi our sketch
whose fecundity of prospects has been rarely
equalled. The suggestion of a new discovery-
in science, or some new application in art at
once inspired him with some grand scheme for
controlling it. The most ordinary incidents
were seized by him as representing El Doradoes
for adventures. Chancing to be detained at Na
poleon, Arkansas, on one occasion, he was in
formed by an intelligent gentleman from Litlle
Rock, of the lamentable condition of the State
finances and the general desire to repudiate the
State debt. Bickley at once suggested a com
bination to buy, on time, an interest in every
paper in the State, the other proprietors to have
entire control and profit, except that they should
advocate measures to advance the State credit,
raking advantage of this, the parties combining
would hriy State indebtedness at low figures and
hn’i it, up so as km'eniize millions on ihe opera
tion. Mi e could give dozens of similar illustra-
tjons, but we liav*>, perhaps, exhausted the pa
tience of our readers and said enough about this
Negro Supremacy.
The Radical organs, tbe National Intelligen
cer of the 19th instant says, “ are exulting over
the announcement that their majority in Ala
bama will be from 40,000 to 50,000. Let them
have the full benefit of the fact; but let the white
men of Pennsylvania and Ohio also remember
that this majority is secured by the excess of
black voters over white, and these black voters
are, in the main, non-tax-payers, and that artful
demagogues have been already instructing them
how, by moderate taxation, they can effect a
confiscation more universal and more deadly
than can be secured by any confiscation law of
Congress.”
It is reported in this city, that, according to the
registration books, the white vote will exceed
the black some three thousand votes only. We
did not anticipate such a result, and think the
repoits are unfounded, notwithstanding the ex
tent of disfranchisement in our State. Our own
information and figuring must have led us great
ly astray, it the result of registration does not
show a majority of the whites over the blacks
in this State of not less than fifteen thousand—
probably over twenty thousand. Time, however,
will tell.
Scraps.
In Providence, Rhode Island, last Thursday,
Joseph A. W. Camm, formerly a cotton broker
in Boston, murdered Benjamin W. Aldrich
Camm had been living with Aldrich’s wife, anu
a party of officers, accompanied by the husband,
went to the house to arrest the adulterous pair!
They were found hidden in a closet, the woman
taken out, and when Aldrich looked in, to see if
Camm was there, he received a pistol bullet
through his head. The murderer was commit
ted for trial.
The Countess Pontalba, (who lived manv
vearsago in New Orleans), recently received iu
Paris $113,000, remitted to her by her agent in
New Orleans, as the proceeds ot some lands in
the suburbs of the city, which she had forgotten
that she owned, and which, after some difficulty
she remembered as a swamp that in her day was
wholly under water.
In St. Louis Patrick Fitzgibbon discovered a
man lying on the pavement at a late hour. He
woke him up and suggested the propriety of his
going home. At this the man drew a revolver
ou Fitzgibbon and discharged it, the whole con
tents entering his left shoulder. He then ran
and made good his escape.
In anticipation that the yellow fever may
reach Mobile, and the place be abandoned by
the government officials, General Spinner, Uui-
ted States Treasurer, has, from prudential rea
sons, thought proper to withdraw all govern
ment funds deposited there, and place them in
some city further North.
Oakes Ames, of Springfield, Massachusetts,
has been awarded the contract for extending
the Union Pacific Railroad eight hundred miles
westward from Cheyenne City at the round sum
of fifty millions.
The steamer Oriental, from New Orleans, is
anchored at quarantine near Boston, with three
cases of yellow fever on board.
Returns to the Attorney General’s office
sho w that large numbers of Southern people are
taking the oath under the recent amnesty pro
clamation.
Miss Harriet Chapman, ot Decatur, Illinois,
sued Isaac Vantrees, last year, for breach of pro
mise, and was awarded $5,000. The gallant
Vantrees found this sum inconvenient to pay, so
a few days ago he married his creditor.
Fred. Wreckman, aged 54, who had been
married only six days to a lady of 26, died sud
denly in .Cincinnati, Sunday night. The wife
was horror stricken on awakening in the morn
ing and finding that she had been sleeping by
the side of her husband’s corpse.
The yellow fever is abating at the Tortugas,
and all the officers are out of danger.
There have been 35 cases of cholera among
the troops at Governor’s Island, New York.
Madam Goldschmidt, ot Cincinnati, was
frightened to death while at the market on Sat
urday, by the sudden announcement made to
her by a servant that her children, whom she
had just left home in good health, were all
dyiDg.
Mr. D. S. Harris, of the firm of Gilbert &
Harris, Memphis, disappeared last Tuesday in a
mysterious manner, and all efforts made to ob
tain information of him having been unsuccessful,
it is feared that he has met with foul play.
A Norfolk lady, while taking a short sea
voyage, last week, struck her $500 diamond
brooch with her fan and sent it flying into the
sea.
A California cucumber, raised in Rock
Island county, 111., measures three feet two
inches in length, and one foot one inch in cir
cumference at the butt.
Eight million dollars lias been raised tor the
construction *f the American Central Railway,
running from Omaha to Fort Wayne, Indiana.
It is commonly called the “Sundown Railway.”
The Indian agent Wright, from Fort Benton,
Montana, is in Chicago. He acts as agent for
13,000 Indians. He says the Indian war is a
great humbug, gotten up and fostered to put
money in the pockets of speculators.
Frederick Hobbs, a young man doing busi
ness in Boston, who has failed twice before, and
who is one of the shining lights in society. at
Charlestown, where he resides, has been detected -
in forgeries to the amount of $10,000 to $20,000.
The Best Two-Mile; Race Ever Run.—
Our special dispatch from Lexington gives us an
account of a brilliant race over the Association
Course yesterday between Lancaster and Lee
Paul, in which the former was the victor, mak
ing the quickest two-mile heat ever run—in 3:351
—and beating the famous time of Asteroid one
and a quarter seconds.—Louisville Courier, Sep
tember 13.
The Victims of the Conspiracy.—In the
proposed improvement by the tearing away of
the penitentiary building, tbe remains of John
Wilkes Booth will be reached. The remains of
Mrs. Surratt, Payne, Harold, aud Atzerodt, with
Wirz, are buried in the order named South of
the eastern portion of the old building, and will
not probably be disturbed. The scaffold, as it
was on the day of the execution of the conspira
tors, is still standing. The Yankee has been
using his jack-knife on the lower beams and
posts, hacking off pieces as relics. It is not
known what disposition will be made of this
structure, nor of the bodies of those interred in
these grounds.—National Intelligencer, Sept. 16.
White Men all Liars.—It is a melancholy
fact, that since the laws ot the State have been
amended so as to allow negroes to appear as
witnesses in all cases, white people have sud
denly stopped telliDg the truth. Not one white
person can be found who regards the sanctity of
an oath, aud wlio hesitates to tell a lie. That
this is the case, it is only necessary to visit the
Mayor’s Court, and listen to the witnesses who
daily appear there. If the most respectable and
highly esteemed citizen of Richmond appears as
a witness, there will be half a dozen negro wit
nesses present to swear that, he is not telling the
truth. Some of these are professional witnesses,
and aie always on hand ready to be called for in
any case that may come up. It is very bad that
white men are incapable ot swearing to the truth
in these latter days!—Richmond Enquirer.
Henry Cosby, a colored gentleman, who, in
his indignation at the rascality practiced on him
by the Loyal League at Mobile, last week, dis
persed the leaguers, has been arrested and fined
$50 by the loyal Alayor Horton, and put in' the
stocks in default of payment. So it would ap
pear that matters are not getting on swiinmiDgly
with the leaguers in that city. The eyes of the
negroes are gradually opening to the scoundrel-
ism of the institution.
The Buffalo Courier thinks “ the bureau of
military justice has bred more crime than it has
punished, and more peijury than ever heaven
will forgive or the country forget.
Nat. Williams, a negro lecturer, has been
arrested and carried to Darlington, S. C., charged
with preaching incendiary doctrines. He will
take his chances before a military commission.
The Bainbridge Argus reports the crops in
that county as anything but promising. The
heavy rains have drowned cut the crop on the
lowlands and prevented picking on higher
ground. In addition to this, the caterpillar has
made its appearance and is doing a vast amount
of damage.
Ex-Mayor Withers, of Mobile, accompanied
by a delegation of Alabamians, is now here,
urging the removal of General Pope. They
urge that the removal of General Sheridan was
prompted by a policy which absolutely demands
the displacement of their military rulers. With-
— — e— re-installment.—New York
ers is anxious for
Telegram.
would tbe valiant Pennsylvanian risk so much j singular fellow, Bickley, who was for some years
as that. j a military pioneer and has lived in obscurity since.
Anticipating the Telegraph.
The following “speeial despatches to the Louis
ville Democrat” are about as reliable as any that
we have received lately:
Washington, Sept. 25.—The registry in all
the Southern States will be re-opened if the
States vote Democratic.
September 25.—A surgeon is operating on
Gen. Boiler’s eye, to enable him to see the Black
Crook. At present he sees more than is intended.
September 25.—There was great excitement
in the naval department to-day over the an-
nonneement in the private dispatches of the Demo
crat of -the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to
Gen. Washington. The success of the rebellion
grieves Secretary Wells very much, and he has
issued orders for the fleet to go to Yorktown to
briDg oft Lord Cornwallis, and to bombard the
town. If Washington is caught, he will be hung
at the admiral’s yard arm. The whole cabinet
is alive to the necessity of quelling the rebellion.
Mr. Sumner has sent to Egypt for a copy of
Pharaoh’s order destroying the infants, intending
to have it enacted. No rebel children shall be
born. Orders to (hat effect will be promptly
issued.
The Money Market, and Politics.—The
panicky feeling in the money market is a theme
with most of the journals. The New York
World’s financial article say3:
The tightness in tbe money market is said to
have been engineered by leading stock firms
locking up greenbacks, and the coincidence of
their movements at the same moment when the
government sales ol gold were larger than usual
is commented upon freely by Wall street, in
terms anything but complimentary to the Treas
ury Department. The event is considered to be
long to the same class of “curious financial strat
egy” which induced Chief Justice Salmon P.
Chase, when Secretary of the Treasury, in April,
1864, to use all the power anil influence of tbe
government to break the New York city banks
and all the Wall street brokers, by locking up
greenbacks. The result of all movements like
that ot to-day and the Salmon P. Chase stock
panic of April, 1864, is to work permanent in
jury to the credit of the government The repu
diation speeches of Gen. Butler and others will
undoubtedly check the sale of our bonds in Eu
rope. The moment is, therefore, not well chosen
to trifle with government credit by injudicious
measures on the part of the Treasury Depart
ment The more gold the government holds the
higher will stand its credit. All sales of gold by
government are a direct injury to American in
terests, and benefit to those of foreign nations,
chiefly British.
Killed.—The Montgomery Sentinel learns
that a Mr. Pritchard, a railroad bridge builder,
was killed on the Mobile and Great Northern
Railroad Friday, about five miles below Pollard,
by the whole train passing over his body. It is
believed that he was drank, and asleep at thq
time, lying on the track.