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VOLUME XIX.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30,1867.
NUMBER 44.
TUrrfclt) JntfUigfUCcr.
ATLAHTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, October 30, 1867.
On a Credit.
The Milledgeville Federal Union of the 19th
instant, says: “The Convention ordered by Gen
eral Pope, we understand, will be ran on the
credit system. Delegates, and persons seeking
office in the Convention, would do well to re
member this fact. The pay is sure to come
“arter a while,” but aspirants must be provided
with cash, and willing to wait for their “back
rations.”
Our Milledgeville cotemporary is right—the
Convention will have to be run on a credit. All
its expenses will have to be defrayed by the peo
ple through taxation—a people already encum
bered with taxes, who do not ask for, and do not
want a Convention—that is, those of them who
have property and will be able to pay taxes.—
What with the taxes already imposed upon our
suflering people—Internal Revenue, State, Coun
ty, and City Taxes—the addition of another
hundred thousand or two, to defray the expenses
ol the approaching Convention, should one be
called by a vote of the people, will be no trifling
affair. Like the last straw which broke the
camel’s back, so will come this additional bur
den upon the labor and property of our people.
To the Voters ol the Thirty-Fifth Sena
torial District.
One of the most monstrous outrages that could
have been put upon the white race inhabiting this
Senatorial District, was the nomination of the
ticket which flaunts at the head of the columns of
our two city coteroporaries, upon which are in
scribed the names of Jab. L. Dunning and Hen-
hy G. Cole. Most heartily do we congratulate the
many lriends of Judge Irwin, that he has with
drawn his name from that ticket, and that it no
longer bolsters up two individuals, than whom
none are more inimical to our people—the first,
Dunning, for his persistent persecution of, and
efforts to degrade them, and both for their avow
ed fanatical radicalism. It is a wonder to us,
and is a wonder all over Georgia, how another
name upon the same ticket—the name of a gen
tleman who has hitherto commanded the respect
of every Georgian, and the esteem of many of
them- is allowed still to float in connection with
others, with Dunning’s and Cole’s. Sorry com
pany this—ignoble affiliation—Doctor Miller !
The day is past in Georgia, we tell you it is,
when former service, rendered either to a party
or the State, will save from just and severe con
demnation, any one of her sons, who now, in
her hour of tribulation and trial, fails to battle
for her rights, and against her Northern Radical
oppressors and persecutors. Come out from
among them! The voters—the white voters of
Clayton, Cobb, anti Fulton—demand this ol
you!
But wc uro addressing the white voters of this
Senatorial District. Rally to the polls, every
man of you! The power is in your hands to
elect the ticket placed at the head of these
columns. Fail not to exercise it! In a few
days, the ■ outest will be over—in a few days the
ba.tie will be lost, or the battle will be won !—
Wc look to ClaytOD, let her forces be rallied !—
We look to Cobb—a county that has hitherto
proved incorruptible and ever patriotic! We
look to Fultou—Fulton, in which is A&intethat
must be redeemed, regenerated, and disenthrall
ed from the odium of Radicalism, and the Lin
coln Monument Association—whose Chief is a
candidate for the Convention—that has far and
near, even in the Nhrth, been fastened upon her
—we look to all to pronounce judgment against
the ticket that in a secret caucus, of a so-called
/oi/al league, it was resolved to palm off upon the
people, the voters, of this Senatorial District.—
Will there be failure in the effort—will there not
ho a patriotic response to this appeal ? Let the
rally We made, and God will give us the victory 1
Advice to Respectable Freedmen.
The following from the Richmond (Va.) En
quirer, on the eve of the election for a Conven
tion in that State, is so applicable to the situa
tion ol the colored people of this State, and es
pecially in this city, now that the election will
soon come off, that we adopt and recommend it
to their most serious consideration. That paper
says, ami so do we, that—“it is no exaggeration
tossv that nine-tenths of the freedmen in this
oily depend upon the white population for their
daily bread, as well as for shelter. Without the
patronage and employment of the whites they
must starve or seek their livelihood elsewhere.—
In health and in sickness they are more depend
ant upon tlio whites than any class of laborers
over were. And yet, if we are to credit half of
what we hear, these freedmen intend to array
themselves in deadly hostility to the white race
by voting lor men whose Bentiments and doc
trines are at war with the peace and prosperity
of the country I As we know many lreedmen
of intelliirence and respectability, we cannot be
lieve that they are all so devoid of good sense as
to pursue a course so suicidal. They must
know that by voting for such creatures
as were nominated on Monday last, as candi
dates for the Convention, they place themselves
upon the record as enemies of the white race,
and that they wiil utterly forfeit all claims to
i heir kindness and confidence. We beg that all
of our citizens will mildly and kindly, but
firmly, present to the intelligent freedmen with
whom they are acquainted the consequences ol
their folly. They should be taught that their
support of incendiaries like Hunnicutt meets
with the disapproval of their Northern as well
as of their Southern friends, and that they are
forfeiting the respect of the good and patriotic
men of all parties. If the more intelligent of
the negroes shall, after due warning, reject the
counsels of the honest and respectable Republi
cans as well as of the Southern whites, they will
have none but themselves to blame when they
pay the penalty of their folly.”
in addition to the foregoing, we would say to
the resprctable freedmen of Atlanta, and in this
Senatorial District, that no power exists in any
quarter, either to force them to vote for any ticket
i hat may be placed in tlieir hands, to vote for
candidates not of their choice, or to vote at all,
should their inclinations prompt them to stay
away from the polls. On the contrary, they are
at perfect liberty, under the law, to vote or not
m vote, and to vote for what candidate they
please. And all we have, in conclusion, to say
to them is this, be careful l*w you exercise the
privilege, for the first time, conferred upon you
.,v Oougress, lor your future welfare and pros-
i . li.y depend much upon how you exercise the
ri"!iiol suffrage now bestowed upon you. and
1. w yon conduct yourselves towards the w hite
race ■ t the South, among whom, lor wea! or for
woe, your own lot, and that of your women and
children, is cast If you have any friends in the
South—abiding, truthful, and sincere—they will
i i L. found in the ranks of a party doing all
in .t it can to oppress and degrade the South.
\ ■-and be not led to wage political war-
i ,nisi vour former masters, lor they, and
. are \ out true lriends!
l'uuinow Weed, in the New York Commer-
< ’ Adx«rti*rr, confesses “that the whisky frauds
alone would pay the total expenses of the gov-
ei tuneut, less the interest on the national debt.’
ba l rnroRE correspondence.
[*PBCIAL TO THE INTELLIGENCER.]
Baltimore, Oct. 18, 1S67.
One ol the chief attractions of the city at this
time, is the 20th annual exhibition of the Mary
land Institute Fair. The large and spacious edi
fice provided for this purpose is daily and nightly
thronged by visitors eager to witness the display.
The number of inventions, household articles,
articles useful and ornamental, mechanical and
agricultural implements, fancy articles, clothing,
musical instruments, and, in fact, almost every
thing that could be thought of, pertaining to
these several departments, are on exhibition.—
Altogether it is by far the handsomest display of
the kind I have ever seen. It speaks well for
the manufacturing and mechanical enterprise of
Baltimore, whilst in its lighter articles, it illus-
trustes the delicate workmanship and ihe culti
vated taste ol her beautiful women.
The laying ol the corner-stone of the new City
Hall by the Most Worthy Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Maryland Free and Accepted
Masons, was the occasion of to-day. There was
a large tarn out of the Fraternity, and the cere
mony quite an imposing one. On the conclu
sion of the ceremony an eloquent and appropri
ate address was delivered by Mr. J. H. Latrobe,
of this city.
Last night the city was in a 6tate of excite
ment until a late hour, in apprehension ot a ne
gro mob. A regiment of negro soldiers, who
had been on drill, in passing one of the princi
ple streets, fired from their rear a number of
shots, which taking effect in the person ot an in-
nocoul white youth of 16 years, in a few mo
ineuts resulted in his death. So soon as it be
came generally known a large crowd gathered
in the vicinity of the soldiery, and but for the
interposition of a heavy police force, the court
of Judge Lynch would probably have been
opened without ceremony.
As you are aware the Constitution of Mary
land is about to bo subjected to a severe test—
the critical scrutiny of a Radical committee ap
pointed to test the genuineness of its republi
canism. What a commentary is this on what
we were and what we are ! Think of it. Mary
land, one of the States that formed the Federal
Constitution, with no sin of secession on her
skirts, is to be cast into the crucible ai:d moulded
to suit the views of Sumner and Stevens. What
will poor Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware
do ? Each one is to be subjected to a like ordeal.*
The}’ are obstiuate and will not voluntarily come
into the traces—they refuse to admit the negro
equal to the white man—they do not believe
him fit to govern any portion of the country, or
even to constitute an element of its political
power. But, Mr. Sumner first, next Mr. Stevens,
propose a narrow cut to obstinate cases like
their’s.
Long ago, Mr. Sumner, in a letter to a iriend,
declared his purpose of introducing a bill before
the next session of Congress, providing for uni
versal suffrage. Only the other day, Mr. Ste
vens, in a letter to a friend at Washington, iter
ates a similar determination. Such a bill will
no doubt be passed. What will Ohio say to this?
Only the other day, she pronounced against ne
gro suffrage by an emphatic majority. Other
States will follow suit as occasion requires.—
Will these States admit that they have no right
to determine the suffrage question for themselves,
after having voted on the proposition, by tamely
submitting to the arbitrary behests ot a law
breakiug aud Coustitutiou-defyiug Congress ?—
We think not. They are too well aware that
the principles of free government underlie their
right to regulate their own domestic institutions
in their own way, subject only to the Constitu
tion of the United States. Dropping the subject
of politics, if their churches may be taken as a
criterion, the citizens of Baltimore are a very re
ligious people. On every side may be seen im
posing edifices, representing tbe various denomi
nations. Ueury A. Wise, Jr., whom, you will
remember, resigned a rectorship in Philadelphia
in the begiuning of the war, because ot the dis-
plcasuieof a portion of his congregation, at liis
omission to pray for the President of the United
States, is now in charge ol the largest Episcopal
Church in the city. With a talent and genius
not interior to liis father's, he seldom fails to at
tract a large congregation. The Rev. Dr. La-
bern, who also resigned the charge of a church
in Philadelphia, at the commencement of the
war, to share the fortunes of the South, he being
a native Virginian, I was also pleased to find in
charge of a prosperous Presbyterian congrega
tion. Cherishing pleasant memories of Dr. Ltt-
bern, and the peculiar circumstances under
which we became acquairted during the war,
on last Sabbath morning and at night I attended
liis church. In fact, tbe very firsj order ot talent
may be ^ard from the pulpits of every denomi
nation in the city.
The Medical Department of Washington Uni
versity, in which Dr. J. P. Logan, formerly of
your city, is Professor of Principles and Practice
ot Medicine, and Dr. A. J. Foard, Medical Di
rector of the Army ot Tennessee, Professor ol
Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy, commenced
its first regular session, ot five mouths, on the
first ot this month. I learn that the institution
opens under the most favorable auspices, and
that its success is more thau equal to the expect
ation ol its friends. This institution commends
itself to the patronage of the Southern Slates.—
In addition to the superior advantages it affords,
it will be remembered that one student trom
each Congressional District ot the late slave
holding States is admitted to all the privileges ot
the University on the payment ot thirty-five
dollars per session.
Some of the business houses here are imposed
to complain ot the Southern merchants, and
from their statements, the complaints are not
made without cause. They say that in a number
of instances where credit was liberally extended
to Southern merchants just after the close ot the
war, they have failed to meet their engagements,
and have since purchased their stocks ot goods
in New York and paid lor them out ol the means
which they had generously placed in tlieir hands
to'enable them to take a fresh start In other in
stances, after paying for the goods thus purchased
decides that, under the Civil Rights bill, “color
ed persons, equally with white persons, are citi
zens of the United States,” and that no law of
Maryland shall bind them to the servitude of a
previous contract.
From the speech of Mr. Latrobe, to w hich al
lusion was made in a former fcommunlcation,
on the laying of the corner-stone ot the new Ci
ty Kail, I gather some historical reminiscences
in regard to the first settlement of Bal imore.—
In 1662, during the reign ot Charles the Second
ol England, Cecelius Calvert, Lord Baltimore,
was Lord Proprietary of Maryland, and Philip
Calvert was Governor of the Province. In 1723
a town government was organized. In 1729
the Legislature granted a charter for a town on
the north side of the Patapsco, in Baltimore
County, and for laying out sixty acres of land,
then the property of Charles Carrol. Such was
the beginning of Baltimore. Having attained a
steady growth it now boasts a population of
more than three hundred thousand.
The Maryland Institute Fair continues to at
tract crowds day and night. It will remain open
to visitors for several weeks. Baltimore is much
more largely engaged in manufacturing than one
would suppose. In the lihe of agricultural im
plements, the Southern planter may find every
thing here he needs.
I must not omit, in this my closing communi
cation from Baltimore, to make mention of the
“ Maltby House.” Its gentlemanly proprietor,
Mr. A. B. Miller, with his never changing
cheerful face, renders everybody comfortable and
happy around him, whilst his Falstaffian pro
portions testify the substantial and the delicate
repasts w’ith w’liich be daily’ provides them. His
affable and polite clerks are always at their
posts ready to serve the guests.
With one accord the Democracy of the North
will second the advice of the Intelligencer to
the people ol Georgia as to a negative vote on
the Convention question. Let the niggers and
Radicals vote as they please and act as they
please, for the sentence, “thou hast been weighed
in the scale and found wanting,” bas already
been pronounced against them. They may' revel
in power tor a time longer, but their politi
cal days are numbered, and the last will be full
of trouble to them.
The theaters and other places of public amuse
ment are all in full blast. Tbe Black Crook,
about w’hich the New Yorkers have been crazy
more than a year, judging from its extraordinary
success in that city, is soon to be brought out at
the Front street theater in this city’. The scenery
of the Black Crook is grand beyond description.
The morality of the play is questionable—such
exhibitions of flesh aud blood, in their semi
nudity only tend to gratify and excite the baser
passions. The closing scene is sublime and
beautiful. It should be the alpha and omega of
the play.
Yesterday being Sunday, iu tbe morning I at
tended Christ’s Church, oi which Henry A.
Wise, Jr. is rector. Prejudging the character
of his talent by that of liis lather, I anticipated
a discourse teeming with brilliant metaphors,
bursting forth like a mountain torrent in gushes
of impassioned eloquence. In this I was dis
appointed. The prominent feature of his mind
is logical. He reasous w ith the clearness of a
philosopher, while his argument is forcible and
to the point. His words are selected with pre
cision, and his sentences rythmical iu their
flow. In person he is tall and slender, about
six feet in height, with a face and forehead strong
ly indicative of the intellectual. His hair is light
brown, very short and parted in front, with a
light moustache and side and front whiskers.
At night I attended the Presbyterian Church
of which Rev. Dr. Leybern is the pastor. Dr.
Lcybern makes little pretense for one of his
abilities. Ilia force consists in the clearness
with which he presents his propositions. The
most obtuse readily comprehend his meaning.—
His illustrations are pointed with force and pre
cision. Controverting the idea of universal sal
vation, tie compared the situation of the unre
generate sinner in Heaven to that of a wild
Comanche Indian in the library ot the man of
literature.
The weather lor several days has been almost
as warm as mid-summer. With no rain for
some time, the streets are dusty, and ice-w’ater
is as reiteshing as in July’. Russell.
Gerrymandering the State.
It is put up in defence of Gen. Pope, that in
asmuch as the Senatorial Districts of the State,
as established bv State laws, are “convenient di-
[FOR THE INTELLIGENCER. (
Communicated.
I see announced iu your paper, a ticket tor
the Convention, the names .of gentlemen in
whom 1 have implicit confidence, in their deter- j visions,” therefore be is justifiable in adopting
mination to do what they may conceive to be tthem as election districts, and apportioning rep-
best for their country and the people. In the resentation to them, iu tbe Convention, accord-
can mafic by the Chairman o‘ the Executive ! ingly. Very “conveuieDt,” indeed, for Radical
Committee, it was set forth that a ticket purposes, but is it just? Does it give white men
A Platform
[COMMUNICATED.]
for Constitutional Union
men.
ET J. F. STEWART, ROME, GEORGIA.
We are in favor of a restoration of the Union
under the Constitution; and consequently, op
posed to the revolutionary Radical experiment
for reconstructing the Southern States.
IV e are opposed to holding any Convention
tor the purpose ot complying with the demands
ot a Radical revolutionary party. We are op
posed to a Convention called by men who de
clare they are acting outside of the Federal
Constitution—a Convention to be used for the
purpose of disfranchising white men, and plac
ing the Government of Georgia in the hands of
our former slaves—a Convention for the purpose
of changing our form of Government, in view of
securing power in the hands of the old abolition
higher law party. We desire to defeat the object
and-purposes of such Convention, and thereby
preserve our State Constitutions against this
revolutionary attempt to overthrow them.
We desire to return to the Union under the
Constitution, and to obey all the laws in pursu
ance thereof.
We are in favor ot maintaining the liberties
of the African race amongst us, as now guaran
teed by the amended Constitution of the United
States, and by the several State Constitutions.
We are in favor of securing the black race
equal protection with the white, to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness—rendering them
secure in person, property, aud reputation. But
in view of the national welfare, and as well
wishers to the black race, we are opposed to
giving them the right of unqualified suffrage.
We are opposed especially to disfranchising
white mer, and enfranchising the blacks ; aDd
gotten up under that programme was necessarily
to be opposed to a Convention, reconstruction
under the Sherman bill, and negro suffrage. My
conclusions, therefore, are, that tbe ticket com
posed of Dr. Hatubleton, and those with whom
he stands associated, are opposed, not only to
the Convention, but to every measure embraced
in the reconstruction acts. “Therefore, as an
honest man and a voter, I endorse the platform
of principles which these gentlemen advocate,
and call upon the white people of this district to
sustain them at the ballot box by declaring this
to be a white man’s gove-*v ent, especially
when backed up but lately by the great States
of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Another ticket is also before, the people, which
stands pledged to the opposite side ol the ques
tion—for a Convention, reconstruction, and
negro suffrage. Among tbe names which com-,
pose that ticket, I cannot help noticing two ex
tremes. There you will see the name of James
L. Dunning as the man, who is bead aud shoul
ders above all others in this section in advoca
ting the doctrines of the Radical party, negro
suffrage, &c. In this light the people view
James L. Dunning.
Now lor the opposite. I notice upon the same
ticket the name ot Dr. H. V. M. MILLER. We
are all willing to give Dr. Miller credit for his
known abilities, but greatly sstonished at the
company lie keeps. In former years, if I am
rightly informed, he has run upon the Demo
cratic, Whig, and Know-Nothing tickets for office.
And now, to fiud his name, the immortal “ De
mosthenes of the Mountains,” in close alliance
with the Radical party, using his powerful tal
ents, his far-seeing intellect; to secure reconstruc
tion under the Sherman b~'s, which robs the
white man of his rights, secures to the ignorant
negro the right ot free suffrage—which, substi
tutes a negro tor a white man’s government, is so
inconsistent that his numerous white friends are
unwilling to believe it. And I now’ call upon
Dr. Miller to answer through his party organs at
once! Are you in favor of negro suffrage, negroes
holding office, and negroes fitting on juries f If
you are, then let the honest voters know it ! If
you are not, then as an honest man you are mor
ally bound to withdraw from the canvass, and no
longer deceive those who believed that you were
the advocate of these principles when they
placed your name upon their ticket as a candi
date for the Convention. It is due, sir, to the
colored people of this district, who compose a very
large proportion of the voting population, that
they know your sentiment in relation to this
interrogation! They’ are scrupulous of then-
rights, especially as Oldo has already spoken
out, and they will not risk any man who is at
tempting to dodge the issue. Do you favor
negro suffrage, negro jurors, and negroes holding
office ? , - Answer.
——
AncurfaHor Fuiif-ELir, of Cincinnati, has
written a letter in reply to Rey. Thomas Vick
ers, in which he declares that the Pope has
never been opposed to progress ; that it is a
stale slander to say the Catholic Church is op
posed to the circulation of the Bible, and that
he himself is opposed to a union of church and
State, and prefers the condition of the church in
the United States to its condition in Italy,
France, or Spain.
The Empress Eugenie and the Prince Impe
rial were nearly drowned at Biarritz by the
swamping of their boat by a heavy breaker.—
All on baard were thrown into the sea, and
one of tbe sailors was drowned, but the rest ol
the crew were rescued. The speculative field
opened in case this calamity had a fatal ending,
is almost boundless.
Santa Anna.—Private advices from Santa
Anna leave the impression that he will be al
lowed to hold his property, and depart with no
severer punishment than official exile or banish
ment. Taken as he was from an American ves
sel, and beyond Mexican territory, it is among
the strange events ot the times that Mexico dare
retain him so long as a prisoner.—N. Y. Express.
York, S. C.—The Court of Common Pleas lor
York District was opened on Monday morning
by the sheriff. Judge Muuro having signified
his intention not to hold any court in the present
confused aspect of the jury law, the clerk, sher
iff and Magistrate Enloe, proceeded to draw new
jurors lor the spring term, and then adjourned
the court.— Yorkcille Enquirer.
we will use every legitimate means within our
on time, it is alleged that they have made their j pQ W er to prevent the adoption of State Consti-
purchases in New York, when they could have j tut j 0D5 designed to place the Government of the
been made here to an equal advantage, thereby j g out hern States in the hands ot our former
showing a disregard of the obligations under s j iTe3
which they had placed themselves to tbe , yy e never support or sanction the deejra-
Baltimore merchant. The Baltimore merchants ’ j at j nn ot the white race, and the elevation of
and business men. iu my opinion, are too fond j tlje Slacks, as contemplated in the Congressional
of ease to look alter and drum up the Southern i Reconstruction bills.
trade like those of New York, lor lack ot w j]] never sanction the attempted eleva-
greater enterprise they tail to avail themselves 0 [ the negro to a position he has no capacity
i to fill ; but will maintain and forever detend tbe
! exclusive right ot the white race to rule this
great country of ours.
| We earnestly desire that this country should
i be ruled by icisdom,justice, aud moderation—by
I men ot education, good judgment, and general
I intelligence; that ail our citizens, male and
female, young and old, black and white, shall
j have and enjoy forever tbe blessings of Good
j Government.
equality in the Convention ? Does it not give
those Districts in which the negro vote prepond
erates over the white cote, absolute control ot the
Convention, which the registration lists demon
strate, in the unequal and unfair proportion of
104 to 63, when the same lists show a clear ma
jority ot white registered voters in the State, over
the negro registered voters? But oil! it was
“convenient” so to district the State! Would it
not have been as “ convenient" to order the elec
tion by counties? The State laws created Coun
ties as well as Senatorial Districts—tbe former,
that tbe popular vote might have its influence
in State legislation; the latter, that property
and territory might also be represented in
State legislation. When the Senatorial Districts
were created, they had each but one representa
tive, but one voice in our General Assembly,
and they were created, too, at a time when the
negro was regarded simply as property, with no
voice in the elections. We repeat, however “con
venient” General Pope’s district system may be
to him, it is a most untair one, as it gives to the
minority race—the negro—control in the Con
vention over his own, the white race, who are in
the majority, while it thoroughly radicalizes that
body should it ever assemble, another very "con
venient" operation indeed!
of the advantages they posses?. In population
the third c>tv in the UdIod, with every facility of
foreign importation and exportation, her marine
and inland communication all that she could de
sire, Baltimore sits in tlie background, content
to let others reap tlie rewards that rightfully are
hers. Russell.
Ha! timoru. Mo., Oct. 21, 1807.
Chief Justice Obese delivered a decision in this
city a day or two since, which, in my opinion,
wilt operate \> r, much to the pi-ejnd.ee ot the
minor Wacks in this State. Elizabeth Turner,
tcolored) under the laws of Main land, lead bees . - - - __ -
bound to serv e apprenticeship lor a term ot I lever and three from the lera. There were three
years. Dissatisfied witb tbe contract, suit is in- | deaths from yellow leveed tiring the twenty-tour
kituicd for its resolution, and tbe Chief Justice j hoars ending at 5 p. m. Sunday.
The New York Times indulges in this kind of
“Copperhead” talk: “While we would have all
their (the blacks) merits and services luily ac
knowledged and rewarded, we are a little tired
of hearing all the credit giveu to them for the
defeat ot the rebellion and the salvation of the
Union. One reason, perhaps, of our weariness
is, that we don’t believe it all belongs to them.
We cannot help thinking that some ot it belongs
to the white soldiers also.”
Washington, Oct. 18th.—There is to be a
thorough reform and reorganization of all the
Revenue and other Government officers in New
York, Boston, and Philadelphia ; and the Presi
dent, it is said, has given his assurance that the
Democracy shall have control of the same.—
Special Dispatch to the N. Y. Express.
A man in Russia named Kursen, a member ot
a fanatical religious sect, lately killed his own
son and offered him as a sacrifice to God. He
stabbed the little boy of seven several times in
the stomach and after he was dead tell on his
knees in eestaey, imploring God to receive the
offering. After being taken to prison be resolu
tely refused food and died of starvation before
the sentence upon him could be executed.
The Madrid journals reiate a fearful tragedy
which has jdst taken piece in that city. A man,
during a quarrel with the mother of a young
woman, with whom he was on terms of inti
macy, stabbed her in the throat, killing her on
the spot. The daughter having come to the aid
of her parent, received from him also a wound
in the neck and two others in the arm. The
man, then thinking that he had killed both the
women, stabbed himself in the abdomen, arm,
and throat, and expired shortly afterwards.
The Congressional Committee to enquire into
the alleged disloyalty ot the members elected
fiom Kentucky, is in session at Lexington.
Southern railroads owe the Government be
tween six and seven millions of dollar?.
The amount appropriated by Congress to
defrav the expenses of reconstruction in.llie
Southern States, has all been expended.
A dispatch from this city to.the Philadelphia
Inquirer says: John Surratt wiil be kept in
tail till after Congress meets, when application
.vi!! be made for the enactment of n law to trans-
Confiteallon.
We cannot do better than to reproduce for
the benefit of those who favor reconstruction,
the concluding portion of an editorial, from a
September number ot “the Round Table a
literary’ paper published in New York, anti-par
tisan in its conduct on “the condition ot the
South.”
“The plain meaning of the pseudo-Reconstruc-
tion acts of Congress, now being pushed to their
most merciless consummation, is simply this:
1st, To register in the South the entire negro
population and such whites as may unite with
them in supporting the radical party in Congress.
2d, To prohibit the registration of the vast
majority of the whites who have a real interest
in the quiet and prosperity of the country. 3d,
To submit to the voters of the States thus regis
tered the question whether they will or not hold
a convention for the reconstruction of their
States under the congressional plan. Under this
mode of procedure, it may be seen what a hope
ful future lies before the South and the whole
country. Either the States will vote for conven
tion or for no convention. The white vote will
be largely cast against convention; for the
present military rule with all its disadvantages at
least affords protection, while reconstruction such
as has been perpetrated in the State of Tennessee
gives little protection but to negro brigands. The
Radical whites and the negro voters who are in
terested in subverting all decent rule and author
ity will, of course, uuile in favor of Convention.
Now, suppose—although the case is hardly pos
sible—that the Convention is by such a mockery
ot suffrage rejected. Then the Radicals will
avail themselves ot the cry ot Southern contu
macy ; Mr. Stevens’ mild confiscation is brought
into play; the South is wholly ruined by this
villainous atrocity for merely saying, as our gen
erous Congress has invited her to ony, that olio
prefers the rule of military satraps to tlie harder
rule of uninstructed negroes and white bravoes.
On the other hand, suppose—and this is the only
supposition justified by ths registration which is
being made—that a Convention is desired.—
Then it is practically a negro Convention. It
will frame a Constitution that will throw the
whole power of the State into the hands of ne
groes aud white men who hope to profit by the
suffrages of negroes. The proscription ot white
men will be more sweeping than congressional
proscription. Confiscation of the property ol
white men by tlieir negro rulers will follow ; and
the indirect confiscation will be more de
structive than confiscation outright. The ruling
class, having no property themselves, will look
upon the transfer ot their subjects’ properly into
tlieir own possession as tlie oue great end of gov
ernment. With a penniless negro legislature to
tax and defenseless white men to be taxed, the
issue cannot long be doubttul. In every county
taxes will be laid in tlie same way by negroes
upon white men. In the towns and cities negro
councilmen will vote themselves large salaries,
create unnecessary offices for purposes of plun
der, and for like ends undertake enormous jobs
of fanciful public improvement. Justice admin
istered by negro magistrates will be a farce; re
dress ot wrongs will be impossible. Liberty ot
outrage wiil be amply secured. The liberty ot
death will be the only liberty secured to men
whose crime is that they were born white.
“Let the Noriherir people ask themselves
whether this is what they mean. It mu, it is
high lime that they bestir themselves, tor it were
belter to have taken tlie advice of certain gentle
Congressmen and put to death the men, women
and children ot the South at once, than to deliv
er them to such a fate as now impends.”
From the above it is made manifest that the
proposed Conventions in the several Southern
States will not produce reconstruction aud peace,
but will organize permanently all the elements
oi strife, and inaugurate a warof races, so that we
shall have here in our midst, in plain language.
a perfect hell on earth.”
Nor will it prevent confiscation. Such govern
ments as they will organize, will be confiscation
itself No Northern or European capitalist will
invest Ids money in a country where there is ne-
gro supremacy. No good man will come to such
country, and every good citizen in it will get
away if he can. The price of property must
then go down to mere nominal figures, and stay
so as long as such a state of things may last.
Those men ot property who accept reconstruc
tion to avoid confiscation, will be mistaken ; they
are the very ones who are to suffer from depre
ciated prices, and exorbitant taxes levied by ne
groes and their white allies. If Congress should,
on failure of its reconstruction plan, adopt a di
rect system of confiscation, they will receive no
mercy. They have the property, and it is the
property confiscation is alter. Their zeal tor re
construction will be ridiculed, and the part they
took in the rebellion thrown at them, and mag
nified. Then, the sympathy they will receive
from their unfortunate fellow-citizens who reject
ed the degradation, will be infinitesimally small.
This voting for the Radical programme, to avoid
confiscation, has its origin in tear or avarice, or
both, and is unmanly, unpatriotic, and a stain
upon our name and lineage. Let no honest
Georgian do. so !
T he total number ol deaths in la -u.pais for
the v.eek eliding the 15Mb instant. aiuouulgd u»
ei ’htv-four, of which forty-one were from yellow
Jer him t<> some adjoining Siale for fri.U, (a to
a to Le hrawn liv.n uiiiiii *
State to trv him here, ai it is impossible to ob
tain an impartial and unprejudiced jury in
■\YashTntrfbn.
Judge Irwin.
The Opinion says, in noticing Judge Irwin’s
declination as a candidate or the “ Reconstruc
tion ticket,” that that gentleman “ takes occa
sion to place himself upou the record as favoring
the measure of reconstruction.” It is true that
Judce Irwin declares himself in favor of a Con
vention, but we see nothing in his address, fa
voring reconstruction under the Sherman-She.la-
barger bills and the radical programme. His
language is expressive only of an ardent desire
for “ a restoration of tbe Southern States to
their places iu the 1_ nion, under the Constitution
and govern Hu nt of the United States a Consti
tution glaringly violated by tbe Shermau-Shella-
baiger bills. There is as wide a difference be
tween re-'}n- : ‘ruci.- ut under these hills, and resto-
\ ration of the Southern States, binder ihe Const i-
tipi■ as there i.~ between the tbirines&of night,
: aO'tUie light of day.
Judge Irwin is no candidate, aud we do not
believe he would take a seat in the Convention
if he were elected upon that ticket the ticket
•which the Opinion supports.
To tbe White Mechanics aud White La
borers ot Atlanta, and the 35th Senato
rial District.
Iu yesterday’s issue we offered some remarks
as to the effects of the Radical programme upon
property. To-day we shall state its effects upon
labor. By labor we mean white labor, and in
this term we include principally mechanics and
day laborers. We proved beyond controversy
that the reconstruction to ensue from the ap
proaching packed conventions, would run the
price of properly down to merely noniina^ fig
ures. Iu this, we were, and are sustained by tlie
intelligent and impartial journals of the North.
The effect upon tlie value of mechanical aud
other labor will lie correspondingly disastrous.—
If no other consideration was involved, the sim-
i pie reduction ot the value of properly would re
duce the value of labor. It needs no argument
to establish this truth, which the mechanic and
lalioriug man will readily appreciate and realize.
But there are other considerations, which, con
nected with the subject, will conspire to the
farther reduction ol the value ot labor, even
down to the starving point, and to where distress
and misery are certain. It is the great and tear
ful increase ot competition, from adored mechan
ics and laborers, which tlie new system will in
troduce, and make permanent. Heretofore, the
masses ot negroes were engaged in agriculture,
and resided in the country. Emancipation has
had the effect to divert every negro possible from
agriculture and tlie country, to our cities aud
towns, there to labor as*mechanics or day labor
ers, and are thus brought in direct competition
with white men. This influx will increase year
ly, so that shortly all our cities and towns will
have a majority of negro voters. This majority
will elect tlieir own councilmen, and other
officers who will shape the ordinances of the
city so as to favor the colored laborers. White
men who have capital, will be compelled in self-
defense to employ freedmen, as they and their
allies have the taxing and other legislative pow
ers, which they will so wield as to require obe
dience to their wishes. The very increase of
negroes in our cities and towns, ot itself, with
out legislation in their behalf, will put down the
value of labor. But when we reflect, that they
will be the privileged aud exclusive class, and are
made so by the fundamental law, there is no
telling the mere pittance for which the white
man will have to work, and the degradation to
which he will be reduced.
The conferring upon freedmen of suffrage, and
the privilege to sit on juries will produce a yet
greater incentive to move to, aud congregate in
our cities, towns, aud villages, so that localities
not already in their power can easily be made so,
or where the numbers are not sufficiently pre
ponderating, that defect can be remedied with
dispatch and certainty. The negro, from consti
tution and habit, can subsist ou much less than
the white man. But few negro men compara
tively have families, and these many of them
do not support, either because they do uot or
cannot understand their responsibility in this re
gard, or because the women and children by la
bor support themselves, and therefore are sell-
sustaining. By reason of these tilings the value
of negro labor will range much lower than that
of the whites.
The Southern white mechanic an laborer
will not have tlie same privilege as the North
ern. Indeed he will be oppressed and degraded
in contrast. In the non-slave-holding States, it
is a well settled custom, which all will admit,
that the negro as a general rule is only allowed
to perform such labor as the white man will not.
In these States it will be exactly reversed, for it
will come to this it negro supremacy is fastened
upon the country—that tlie white laborer can
only perform what the negro will not.
There is also in this connection a social prob
lem of a very alarming nature, to lie solved. It
is a political truth that the privileged class rules
tlie country, and give shape and fashion to so
ciety. It is tolly to expect this class to act as
servants for, and to submit to dictation from the
proscribed and powerless class. The first to feel
the effects ot negro supremacy will be tlie poor
white men, and all poor men are laborers in
some manner. The more prosperous negro will
look dowu upon and insult the less prosperous
white. His political superiority being estab
lished, he will soon move for liis social
equality and from thence to his social superiori
ty. He will begin by presuming to a seat at the
poor white man s fireside, and from this the
pampered and perhaps rich negro wiil aspire to
the hand of the poor man’s daughter. At thi
beginning we look to: much miscegenation be
tween tlie low and degraded white women aud
tlieir negro associates. To sucli a state of degra
dation as the whites cf the South, and especially
the poor whites, whether laborers or not, will be
reduced when governed by negroes and their al
lies, no language can picture Tbe white men ot
the North having foamed from the state of the
registration in the South, that this state ot things
must come it not arrested, are appalled at it, and
Have beenti a reaction, which will end in a re
peal of the Reconstruction acts, “so-called,” il
we will only hold out a little longer. Then lei
us endure General Pope, General any body else
as our military ruler, rather than accept certain
degradation for ourselves and our innocent and
helpless children. We so write in no spirit of
hostility to the colored element in our midst.—
For many we have respect, and for all sympa
thy, and there abides in our hearts for them the
greatest kindness. We merely say we cannot
live in peace if all power is transferred to them,
and we are bound to try to preserve these Unit
ed States as “a white man’s Government.” We
have no objections to colored men having their
Government, but let it be in Liberia, or St Do
mingo, or elsewhere from whence they mayex-
clude the white men, and we shall not com
plain.
White voters of ClaytOD, Cobb and Fulton—
especially you who labor in the field or in the
workshop, think of what Radical Reconstruc
tion, negro suffrage, and negroe quality will force
upon you and govern yourselves accordingly—
maintain the supremacy ot your race through
tbe ballot box over the negro, or you will indeed
become “tbe hewers of wood and drawers of
waters” for those whom God, physically and in
tellectually, has stamped your inferiors.
Revenue Officers.
Voters of the Thirty-Fifth Senatorial
District, if you are iu tavor of haviug revenue
spies slipping about and prying into every
wagon and ox-cart you drive into town, vote
the Radical ticket, headed by Dunning \ If you
are for freedom from this sort of espionage, vote
the Conservative, auti-Radical ticket!
The Lincoln Monument.
Voters of the Thirty-Fifth Senatorial
District, if you are in favor of being taxed to
erect a monument to Abraham Lincoln in the
city ot Atlanta, vote for the ticket headed by
’ .James L. Dunning. lie forced the City Coun-
j cil of Atlanta to appropriate ten acres of land
l for that object, and will, no doubt, if elected,
j endeavor to have money appropriated by the
1 Convention for the same purpose. It you are
* pposed to this infamous enterprise, vote for
James E. Gcllatt—and the ticket he is upon—
who, as a member of the City Council, voted
against the insulting proposition!
Newt and Other Itema.
These is a Mormon missionary at Columbia.
The Herald thinks “ it a pretty good joke on
Tennessee to have a missionary sent here from
Utah. But Brownlow has given the State such
a reputation that one can hardly be surprised at
any treatment she may receive. Poor old State!
She is entitled to pity and commiseration.”
The New Orleans Picayune, of the 18th inst.,
reports the death of Capt. James H. Hutchins,
at one time commander of the Confederate crui
ser Shenandoah, and says of him“He was born
in Lubec, Maine, and was a resident of this city
(except such time as he was in the service of tbe
late C. S. Navy) tor the last forty years, and lived
to the ripe old age of 66. A genial, warm
hearted man, his many good qualities of head
aud heart endeared him to all with whom he
came iu contact.”
Had there been Congressional elections this
month the Democrats would have gained nine
Congressmen in Ohio and five in Pennsylvania,
according to the reported majorities in the dis
tricts.
Old Madame Rothschild, mother of the
mighty capitalists, attained the age of ninety-
eight ; her wit, which was remarkable, and her
intellectual faculties, which were of no common
order, were preserved to the end. In her last
illness, when surrounded by her family, her
physician being present, she said in a suppliant
tone to the latter, “Dear Doctor try to do some
thing for me. ” “Madame, what can I do ? I
can’t make you young again.” “No, Doctor, 1
don’t want to bo young again; but I waut to
continue to grow old.”
The Truth Well Stated.—An exchange
well says: “ Out of every dollar the laboring
man earns, about sixty cents is taken indirectly
to keep the indolent negroes, to maintain mili
tary despotism over eleven States, and enrich
abolition officials. This is why our poor men
are kept poor, and our laboring men complain
of hard times. It is the high prices and high
taxes that takes their money, and it is the negro
bureau, military despotisms, and abolition offi
cials that make the taxes high. To get rid of
these, Radicalism must be voted out of power.”
The Charleston Courier learns that one of the
principal objects of the recent conference be
tween General Canby, Governor Orr, of South
Carolina, and Governor Worth, of North Caro
lina, was the adoption of some financial meas
ures providing means for carrying on their re
spective State Governments.
Registration in North Carolina sums up one
hundred and sixty thousand voters. It is esti
mated the negro vote for a Convention is forty-
five thousand. It would, therefore, require
thirty-eight thousand white votes additional to
call it. Advices state that the Conservatives
have power to defeat the measure, either by not
voting or voting it down, but if the Convention
assemble they can control it, and it is probable
in that event the Constitution may be found ac
ceptable to white people.
A Wisconsin wine maker was overtaken last
fall by cold weather, and some 5,000 pounds of
bis grapes were frozen up in boxes. Wine made
from these grapes in April was “ one hundred
par uam. uauer iuuu iliat luucrc tiuui me same
quality of grapes in the fall.”
A colored witness was examined in Wash
ington City Court to prove the identity of u
white man the other day:
District Attorney—“ Did you see the man ?”
“ Yes, sir,-I seed him !”
“ Was he a white man ?”•
“ Don’t know sir!”
“ Do you tell me you saw the man and can’t
say whether he was white or black ?”
“ Yes, sir, I seed him, but dare’s so many white
tellers callin’ demselves “niggers” round here,
I can’t tell one from tod’er!”
Witness dismissed—explanation satisfactory.
The President is taking a deep interest in
financial matters, and a considerable portion of
the annual message will be devoted to this im
portant question. Mr. Johnson, it is well under
stood, favors an early resumption of specie pay
ments and a steady contraction of the currency
to that end.
A horticulturist advertised that he would
supply all sorts of fruit trees and plants, especi
ally pie plants of all kinds. A gentleman there
upon sent him an order for one package of cust
ard pie seed, and a dozen mince pie plants. The
gentleman promptly filled the order by sending
niin tour goose eggs and a small dog.
TnE Radicals attribute their recent over
whelming disasters to General Apathy, General
Discontent, and a number of other iotermeddlere
m the elections. They make no allowance, as
yet, for the influence of General Intelligence.
An Elm tree at Hampden, Ohio, furnished
seven thousand feet of inch board?, clear stuff.
The tree was six feet ten inches in diameter, and
weighed sixty thousand pounds. The concen-
; ric circles, which are said to indicate one year
-ach, numbered seven hundred and uinety-lwo.
It was a baby when William the Conqueror
died, and a tour hundred year old child when
Columbus discovered America.
Wendell Phillips, in a raving letter over
the late results in Ohio and Pennsylvania, says:
“Pennsylvania, always for sale and in the mar
ket, has been snapped up by an eager purchaser
in the wrong party.” By this he means that
Pennsylvania has been bought by her own sense
of right, a thing which belongs to another party
than that with which Phillips is connected.—
Wendell is getting more proficient in the art of
vituperation every day. What a magnificent
fish-vender was spoiled in him.
An editor thns logically nudges his delin
quent subscribers*; “We don’t want money des
perately bad, but our creditors do, and no doubt
they owe you. If you pay us, we’ll pay them
and they’ll pay yon.”
Santa Anna, it appears, will escape with
his head, being only banished for eight years
from Mexico. In view ot his unpleasant expe
rience daring hie present visit to that country
he may well sing with Cataline, “ Banished I
what’s banishment but set free from daily con
tact with the things I loathe.”
On being chosen President of the British As
sociation, the Duke of Buccleuch made a speech,
in which, alluding to the phrase “ the bold Buc
cleuch,” he said, that of all the deeds attempted
by men of his race, perhaps tbe boldest was his
taking the chair on that occasion.
A young Englishman of wealth and culture,
recently fell in love with a squaw in Omaha,
Kansas, and married her. ’The next day she got
drunk and turned somersaults in the street The
young Englishman of wealth and culture, at last
accounts, was seeking for a divorce, on the
ground of incompatibility of tastes.
Wilmington, N. C., Oct. 18.—The Republi
cans have nominated Gen J. C. Abbott and 8.
S. Ashley, white, and A. H. Galloway, colored,
for the Convention. Some of the negroes are
dissatisfied because there are two whites and
but one black on the ticket.
Wade has been heard from. A Cleveland
paper says that, oa hearing the news of the
election, be went into a hole and pulled the hole
| is after him, and bas not been seen since.
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