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OOisT STITUTIONALIST.
ATTGUJSTA. GA.
FRIDAY MORNING. SEPT. 20. 1807
11. It is the duty of the military authorii' s
m this District to secure to the people the >■
most freedom off speech and of the press cons ■ '-
enl with law ; riot to restrict either. No sail -
Victory execution, of the late, acts of Congress
practicable unless this freedom is secured awl
its exercise protected by the usual legal mea n.
111. No officer or soldier in this command
•cill hereafter interfere with newspapers vr
speakers on any pretense whatever.
[Gen. Pope’s Order, June Bp.
“ Freedom of speech and of the press, edu. < -
i Mon, equality before the but), ami in 'politi- i l
rights and privileges, are the essentials of any
satisfactory reconstruction in the South."
[Gen. Pope’s Letter to Gen. Grant.
THE TRAIL OF THE SERPENT.
Gen. Jeff Thompson, now an adhere t
of Congress, is popularly supposed to 1 e
the author of a mode of pacifying Nor’ ti
America which required the paralysis .1
every Yankee, male and female. He seems
'to have changed his tactics, in these latter
days; taut, when a free-lance on the Mis
souri border, he evidently believed that
some violent suppression of nature w.,s
necessary in order to exterminate the see 's
of Puritanism, though sifted and refined
through many generations. By what gla
mour or magic he has been converted from
the radical method of cure we hint at, it is
impossible to say; but this, at least, seems
certain that, however he may have relented
from his harsh resolve, the malady exhibits
no sign of abatement, but, on the contrary,
is more malignant a type than in the days
of witch-burning and scarlet letters. But,
though more angry in its manifestations
now, it is the same old disease that blight
ed every healthy body it confronted. In
proof of which, we give an extract from
Judge Story who, treating of the intoler
ance of his people in the seventeenth cen
tury, says:
“ The 1 rntli of history compels us to admit
that from the first settlement down to (lie
charter of William and Mary, in 101)2, our fore
fathers, in proportion as they gathered inlet n il
strength, were less and less disposed to share
it with any other Christian sect.. In the inter
mediate period, the Quakers and Anabaptist,,
and in short all other dissenters from their
creed, were unrelentingly persecuted by fine,
imprisonment, banishment and even death
itself. Episcopalians, too, fell under their special
displeasure; and notwithstanding every effort
of the Crown, by threats and remonstrant'! s,
they stndiously excluded them from every
office, and even from the right of suffrage. No
person but a freeman was permitted to vote in
any public affair, or to hold any ofliee ; and no
person could become a freeman but by being a
member of their own church and recommended
by their own clergy. The single faet that under
this exclusive system not more than ouc-sixlh
of the qualified inhabitants were freemen in
1676, affords an ample commentary upon its
injustice and folly. Five-sixths of the eolojty
were disfranchised by the influence of I lie
ecclesiastical power.”
The same proscription that raged in the
long ago rages at this very day. Then, it
was confined to a circumscribed area; now,
it has spread like a foul ulcer over the
fourth of a continent. All its pseudo-reli
gious instincts have been made cohesive
and, however tabernacles may rejoice in the
nomenclature of denominations, the coali
tion of members is in one great creed, and
that creed meu call Radicalism. liisseuU-i s
from this creed are proscribed, hunted
down and menaced with illiillliy foroVOJ*.
The grand syllogism of Puritanism that :
“ The world belongs to the Saints. We
are the Saints. Therefore the world belongs
to us ” —this grand exposition of faith had
its political parallel in another form and
that form is sought to be made permanent
in the nineteenth as it was in the seven
teenth century. The political syllogism is
thus evolved: None but a freeman can
vote. We the Saints are the only freemen*.
Therefore, we alone can vote.
That was the mean and despicable sys
tem of New England domination prior
to 1700, and we do not hesitate to
state that the gross disfranchisement
practiced upon the South aud threatened
against the North is but an out-cropping c-f
the times when Praise-God-Barebones o■'
Massachusetts held the Northern colonic;
in thrall.
If one of the desceudents of these rule o •
ruin men could describe, after the lapse c.'
centuries, their action as a folly aud au in
justice, we do not despair of some futur
historian who will, in a happier epoch,
brand the Puritanical aggression of on
own day as a blunder and a crime.
“Familiarity Breeds Contempt.”—lt it
astonishing how rapidly men become accus
tomed to things the inopt dreadful, and nat
urally revolting in their character. We re
member with what shuddering horror we
walked over our first battle field; how the
moans of the dying find shrieks of the
wounded froze the very blood within our
veins, and how the feelings of revenge and
hatred, that had animated us but a few mo
ments before, melted in an instant to tender
compassion for the suffering beings before
us. We remember this; but, alas ! we re
member also, with what cool indifference
we learned at last to walk among mounds
of slain and look almost unmoved upon
sights that once would have
“ Shot light horror through our pulses.”
It is not without some shame we make
this confession, though we know it was the
experience of every soldier in the army.—
Frequent contact with death and horror
too surely blinds the sensibilities even of
those who have most of the “milk of hu
man kindness” in their nature.
These reflections were induced by having
seen a few days siuce, while passing an un
dertaker's shop, several of the employees
sitting around a bench upon which lay an
unfinished coffin, engaged in a merry game
of “seven-up.” Around the room stood
side by side the narrow homes of those who
were yet to die. Coffins of every descrip
tion were there, and seemed like grim spec
tators of the game. Eagerly the players
watched the game, and great was the exul
tation when a Jack was turned or a trick
wou. Little they recked of their gloomy
surroundings. Death had no terrors for
them. Even Mark Tapley, We fancy,
would have allowed- there was some credit
iu being “cheerful under such circum
stances.’ Though there are many who
would loudly censure such apparent want
of feeling, and recoil wich horror from the
very thoughts of such depravity, yet we re
member that it was said, “ Let him that is
without sin cast the first stone.”
[AT. O. Picayune.
A Bureau Decision.— A few days ago, a
negro man, co-operating with a Yankee going
about the country swindling and stealing, sold
a horse to another negro man in Thoinasville
for S2O, receiving $5 in cash, ami taking the
purchaser’s note for the remainder. The next
•iry the seller returned to the purchaser and
oorrowed the horse. The following day lie
told the horse again, to another negro man,
"or S2O cash. The first purchaser, learning the
, ;tate of affairs, carried the case before that au
gust judicial tribunal, located iu the basement
..tory of our court house, aud known as the
■'reed jo’s. BiAeau of Thonaasville. After
hearin die evidence, that oracle of Africo-
Radicr wisdom and delectable jurist, decided
tujrt tb last purchaser of the probably stolen
horse was entitled to the property, because lie
[tail paid out the most money.
[ ThomasviUe Enterprise.
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[Editorial Correspondence Savannah News A Ilei .M.
From Europe.
London, August 21), 1807.
The difference one experiences, even at
this season of the year, in crossing the nar
row channel which separates England from
France, is truly astonishing. I left Pat is
ou_a bright and rather sultry afternoi.n,
arrived at Calais under a clear blue sky,
flecked with light silver clouds, lit by a
brilliant moon. Two hours took us across
the channel, where the cliffs of Dover wife
shrouded in a thick fog, and as we sp <1
through the country towards London, the
villages and cottages, 1 lie liay-coeks a; d
wheat stacks in the fields were barely dis
ceruable through the mist, while the at
mosphere would have been well adapted o
a rainy November morning in Georgia;
and such, with the exception of one or two
days when the sun ventured to make his
appearance, has been the character of 1 lie
weal her siuce my return to London, if
-ueh is August, what must a London win
ter be?
Siuce my return here I have revisited sev
eral places of interest, and found some new
objects of attraction which escaped me <>u
my first visit. But after a sojourn of near
ly a month iu Paris, the wire-edge of on. s
curiosity becomes considerably blunted,
aud he is not apt to find much in London
to excite raptures of admiration. Among
the places which I have visited here since
my return is tlie old Guildhall of London, a
building famous in the history of tile great
city, and where Gog and Magog still hold
their court as in days of yore. It is a very
beautiful Gothic structure, and its main
hall contains some very fine old statuary.
It has recently been burnished up and dec
orated for the reception of the Sultan, and
now presents quite a rejuvenated appear
-1 ance.
I paid a visit yesterday to another inter
esting relit of ancient London, the Hall of
Knights Templars, founded by Queen Eliza
beth in 1580. The chief apartment of this
edifice, which is built in the old English
Gothic style, has been used from time im
memorial as the banqueting hall of the
’ English Bar, and by an ancient law or
1 usage it is necessary that each student of
t the Inns must eat three dinners a term for
a Certain number of terms before he can be
’ admitted to full position among the King’s
1 counsel in tin Court of the King’s Bench.
. If la-is not a student in the inns of the
; Temple, he is required to eat six dinners a
term for the same number of terms, and to
stand an extra bottle of wine—l suppose
for each plate. This is one of the curious
old usages which the English people hold
in sudi reverence, and as it is of a com i
vial character, we may rest assured it is not
honored in the breach,.but in the observ
ance. Around the old oaken painted walls
, of the timing hall are arranged the family
arms ami shields of all the distinguished
jurists and barristers of England to as far
back as 1500, and above, upon a broad cor
nice, are arranged suits of armor of James
11., Henry VIIL., and of the Knights Tem
plar, with cross-bows, match-locks, battle
, axes anti swords, representing the three
• eras in which mail armor was worn in
England. At the head of the hall are fine
old life-size portraits of Queen Ann, Charles
[ 1., Charles IL, James 11. and William 111.
1 In the centre of the’liall are arranged mas
. sive oaken tables, witli bench seats for tiie
, banqueters, while the light pours iu from
. lofty Gothic windows of stained glass, in
, some of which are the arms of the Judges
of the King's Bench, producing a most
pleasing effect, and bringing to the mind
’ visions of the long-past feudal ages.
In their preservation of all veneration for
the institutions and monuments of past
ages is. demonstrated the sturdy conserva
tism of the English people; but if 1 mistake
not the signs of the times, a change is about
to tie inaugurated. While Exeter Hall was
teaching its new philanthropy to New Eng
land—while tiie British literature aud pul
pit was laboring to disseminate their
extreme doctrines of abolitionism, and the
equality of the human races, the masses of
England, so long quietly submissive to
political disfranchisement, to the preroga
tive and privilege exercised by the nobility,
imbibed something of the spirit of their
teaching, which in time they applied to
themselves. They accepted the dogma that
all men were equal—that the African was
“a.man and a brother,” and now when
they see that, under the inspiration of this
new born philanthropy, the negro of America
is made tiie political and social equal ol the
White man, they are beginning to think
that, although white, and not so refined or
highly educated as their own aristocracy,
they are still “ men ion! brothers,” and that
if white'Anglo-Saxon American*; anil black
1 Africans are equal, so are the white men of
i England. In this conviction the masses of
England have commenced a movement for
their political enfranchisement, the first
fruits of which we have in the very
important but imperfect reform bill
which lias .just been passed by the Par
liament. This measure lias been reluctant
-1 ly yielded by the aristocracy and their con
i servative supporters. In many of them it
was self-stultification to oppose it, while
others yielded to their fears in the hope that
its passage would appease the multitude,
and prevent the demand for even more rad
• ical legislation. The letter have been dis
( appointed. They have thrown a tub to Die
’ whale, but tiie whale is not satisfied. Al
though a great concession to the people,'
i the new Reform bill is not satisfactory to
theßeform League, who, instead ofdemauci
. iug their organization, as it was hoped they
would, encouraged by their recent success,
; aie already agitatiug for still further con
cessions, declaring their determination to
rest at nothing short of manhood suffrage.
, So much for the equality, teachings of
Exeter Hall, and the British aristocracy.
If they were sincere when they declared the
African sl#ve “ a man and a brother,” they
should not hesitate to welcome their white
fellow-countrymen to the same level, whifcli - ,
according to present indications, they will
surely have to do. If on the contrary they
preached what they felt to be an absurd
and a false doctrine—if in tlieip mock pro
fessions of philanthropy, they took Mr.-;.
Beecher Stowe, John Brown, and their dis
ciples to their embrace, in order that they
might fan into flame a torch of discord for
the destruction of the American Republic,
they have already realized the truth of the
adage, “ curses, like chickens, are sure to
come home to roost.”
It is very plain, even to the superficial
observer, that the Democratic sentiment of
political equality is fast gaining ground in
England. This sentiment springs from no
hostility to the crown or the aristocracy,
who have no cause to distrust .the loyalty
of the masses so long as no attempt is made
to withhold from them t he franchises which
they claim. Unlike France, where Napo
leon is the State, in England the ]>eople are
the nation. In England the crown belongs
to the people, while in Franca the people
belong to the Emperor, in the latter the
masses are just at present pleased with
their master, in the former the people are
content with their public servants. They
lionor their Queen and respect the nobility,
who are welcome tp their palaces, their vast
estates, tlieir pomps and their luxury, but
they must not attempt to exclude John
Bull from Hyde Park, or to withhold from
him his liberties. Withal, IJje English peo
ple arc highly conservative, ardently de
voted to good government, and though the
nobility may grudge the loss of their an
cient prerogative and tiie political enfran
chisement of Die masses, no Englishman
need fear for tiie stability of the govern
ment to which they arc so (irmly and proud
ly attached.
By Die latest telegraphic accounts from
America, I perceive that President John
son lias ventured to dismiss Secretary
Stanton, and snub down some of Die milita
ry satraps who have lieen carrying things
with such a high hand in the South of late.
In this action tiie President lias won Die
approval of all >yhoin I. have heard con
verse on Die subject* iiere. The despotism
of the Military Governors in the South lias
brought reproach and ridicule on Die Uni-
ted States Government, such as it is even
painful for a Southern man to hear in a
foreign country, and has had a wonderful
effect in changing the sentiments and feel
ings of intelligent men in England in re
gard to the American war. Many who
saw in the war only an attempt on the part
of the South to overturn the Government*
and an effort on the part of the North to
maintain the Union, now look upon the is
sue in a very different light. I have heard
more than one intelligent Englishman say
that the conduct of the dominant party at
the North towards the South since the war
has forced him to believe that the distrust
of the South was well founded, and that
the latter was fully justifiable in endeavor
ing to rid herself of all connection with a
people whose subsequent conduct has pro
ven that their aim was domination, regard
less oi every principle of justice, coustitu
tiou or law., The military despotism at
present exercised at the South over a pros
trate aud |unresisting people, is denounced
here as a disgrace to the American name,
while the effort to enfranchise the mass
o's negroes at the South by a people
who only a few years previous to the war
endeavored to disfranchise and proscribe
all foreigners, on the ground that they were
not sufficiently intelligent to be trusted as
voters in a representative government, is
regarded as an exhibition of the most
shameless duplicity and inconsistency.—
When, the other evening in a conversation
with an intelligent Englishman, I replied
that England-hail herseif passed through a
great civil war, that her people had in the
time of Cromwell been subjected to a mili
tary despotism, and were for a time govern
ed without law, by military brigadiers, pre
cisely as the South is now governed, his re
ply was, “Yes, but that was ina different
age. We monarchists, as you Americans
call us, claim to have made some advance
in civilization and in the science of govern
ment since that day. Your country, on the
contrary, is going backwards. Your Gov
ernment, while your people are boasting
that it is the freest and most enlightened
government in the world, is re-enacting the
despotism of past ages, to which English
men of this day look back with horror.”
I could only reply that it was not my
Government, but a faction who having,
through the teachings of British philan
thropy, succeeded in destroying the Ameri
can Constitution and usurping the powers
of Die Congress, had inaugurated the
shameful misrule, despotism aud oppression
to which lie alluded. It is unpleasant to
hear these reproaches of our country from
foreigners, whether we believe them to be
sincere or not, but it is still more humiliat
ing to know that they are justly founded.
Very truly, &c., W. T. T.
Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.
From Washington.
The War Office — Mr. Greeley and Gen. Steed
man—The Editor Checkmated—lnteresting
Correspondence—Chief Justice Chase — Tem
perance in Washington — Ex-Senator Cowan,
&c.
Washington, September 15.
About a month ago Mr. Greeley printed
an editorial in the Tribune, based on a
rumor by the telegraph that General Steed
man had been appointed Secretary of War.
in that article Mr. Greeley says :
“ The appointment of Steednian as Secre
tary of War, monstrous and ridiculous as it
is intrinsically, is in perfect keeping with
Mr. Johnson’s policy, which is always to
choose the worst man in the country lor a
given position. If lie could have found a
successor to Mr. Stanton more obnoxious
to Die people, and less worthy of the office
than Steednian, he would have inevitably
chosen him; but that was impossible. Steed
man is the last man in the United States
who ought to be Secretary of War,” Ac.
Something over a year ago, when Gen
eral Steadman was named as tiie theu prob
able successor of Mr. Stanton, Mr. Greeley
wrote a letter to Mr. Johnson, a copy of
which was retained by the friend of Gen
eral Steadman who delivered Die papers to
Die President. That friend furnishes your
correspondent with Die following copy.
Office 6f the Tribune, New York,
January 28, 1866.—[Confidential.] — Dear
Sir : The journals generally say that Mr.
Stanton bus tendered his resignation and
expects soon to leave Die War Department.
Should this lie tiie case, I venture to sug
gest as liis successor General James B.
Steednian, of Ohio, one of tiie bravest and
truest of our Union volunteers and a capa
ble, devoted patriot. Trusting you are
aware of his merits, I remain yours,
Horace Greeley.
Hon. A. Johnson, President.
As it is very certain that General Steed
man will again tie urged for tiie place of
Secretary oi' War, and as it is even more
than probable that lie may yet be appointed
to that olliec, tiie foregoing editorial and
letter become interesting.
It is stated, upon apparently reliable in
formation, that Chief Justice Chase has
written to the President sustaining the civil
authorities in the judicial cases in North
Carolina out of which arose Die conflict of
authority between General Sickles and Mar
shal Goodloe.
Deputy Commissioner Messmore, who
lias charge of internal revenue matters; in
New York, arrived here this morning and
expects to return to New York to-morrow
evening.
Mr. Rollins, Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, who has been absent some days,
is expected to arrive here to-morrow.
lion. Robert J. Walker is announced for
a temperance speech in this city during tiie
coming week. A regular temperance revi
val is going on here, and in any persons of
distinction have renounced allegiance to
king alcohol. Temperance speeches were
made to-day, simultaneously, in five differ
ent places, aud were all largely attended.
There is no truth in the report telegraph
ed lienee yesterday, that Hon. Edgar A.
Cowan, ex-Senator from Pennsylvania, lias
been appointed Secretary of War. Mr.
Cowan does not seek and would not aceept
the office.
' Mr. Collieot, Revenue Collector of the
Third District of New York, was regularly
suspended by the President yesterday upon
charge of misconduct in office, regularly
filed in the Treasury Department. AV. 8.
Andrews, Second Deputy Collector, has
been appointed to succeed Mr. Collieot.
Data.
Failure of Negotiations for the Bay
of Samana. —The Government on Friday
received important information from one of
the foreign ministers, showing that its
iiegotiotious for the purchase of certain
foreign territory have failed.* It will lie
recollected last winter Assistant Secretary
Seward visited the Island of Samana, or
Atwood Key, one of the Bahama group, for
the purpose of looking into its position for
a United States naval station. It was de
cided to be a valuable one, and negotiations
were at once entered upon for its purchase.
Mr. Bancroft, our Minister to Berlin, re
ceived instructions here last spring, prior
to liis departure, to go via Madrid, and, in
conjunction with Minister Hale, endeavor
to eft'ect the purchase of Samana from the
Spanish Government. Tiie matter was
taken under advisement by the Spanish
authorities, and, after the lapse of some
time, has been peremptorily declined. The
Government, in Die meantime, fearing
failure, opened a correspondence witli tiie
authorities of the Republic of St. Domingo,
ibr tiie purchase of one of its islands for the
sank' purpose ; but the proposition was not
entertained, it, ends for the present all of
the efforts of the Secretary of State to secure
the naval station iu the West Indies.
[Disjsttch to the New York World.
A Saddle-Colored Dahkev Talks to His
White Brethren.— A Quadroon orator, call
ing himself Peter if. Clark, made a speech to
his Radical friends from tiie west Irani, of the
State House last night. Tiie audience, iu nuni
bers, was three times greater than that which
listened to Judge Kelly, member of Congress
from Philadelphia, on Tuesday night, and seem
ed better satisfied with tlieir speaker. And as
n s pea kef, iu manner and in matter, we do the
Quadroon hutesUnple justice when we say, lie
was the superior of the much yaunted hero of
the Mobile riot.
Most of the speech was directed to his negro
suffrage friends ol Caucasian race, informing
them ol their duties. Oil the subject of negro
voting Ids appeal was well spoken,
Ohio, he said, was the heart of the nation—it
was formed like a heart, and he thought that if
Ohio carried Die amendment, it would aid Con
gress in passing a law to enforce it iu the South,
fie wished much to strengthen the hands of
this “ loyal Congress,” for it might he necessa
ry to impeach Andrew Johnson, and that would
lead to war, and lie wanted every loyal heart to
lie ready for the tinergeucy. liis threat was
applauded, and it ended the Octoroon’s speech.
| Ohio Statesman, 12 th.
The GA.nniNEu-TYi.Eit Will Case.— The
celebrated Gardiner-Tylcr will case,-in which a
jury on Staten Island last April gave a verdict
adverse to Mrs. Tyler’s claims under her moth
er’s will, came oh for review before the general
term of the Supreme Court at Newburg, on
Wednesday. Judge Pierrcpout and Mr. Evarts,
as counsel for Mrs. Tyler, moved to set aside
the verdict as contrary to the law and evidence. '
In behalf of Mr. Gardiner an effort was made
to put off Lite case, on accouut of. a quarrel be
tween him and Mr. Watson, his counsel, who
claimed 112,000 fees before lie would transfer
the litigation to new counsel. The conrt re
fused to put off the argument, but allowed till
October Ist for Mr. Gardiner to put in a print
ed argument.
The New York Gazette says Townsend, the
prolific writer, is about to settle down at Wash
ington.
4 u i • i! *
[From the Fernandina CourioK
A. Horrible Outrage in Florida. %
We are called upon to chronicle one Ip
those diabolical outrages which have t®>
frequently, within a year or two pasv
shocked the public mind In the South. It
occurred in this county, on the evening of
Friday last, two or three miles beyond Cal
lahan, on the line of the Florida Railroad,
and about twenty-seven miles from this
city.
A man named James Rollason, with his
family, resides at this locality. Last week,
Mr. Rollason being very ill, the relatives
of the family living in Columbia county
were written to, and two sisters of Mrs. It.
started down to their assistance. Oh arriv
ing at Baldwin their money was exhaust
ed, and they were compelled to continue
their journey on foot. Arriving at a point
on the railroad where Mr. Hill, section
master, had his camp, they inquired of him
how far it was to Rollasou’s, and he in
formed them. They proceeded along the
line of the railroad, but had not gone far
when they were overtaken by a colored
(mulatto) man, whom they recognized as
having seen in the camp. He at once en
deavored to make himself agreeable, and
told them they were not correctly instruct
ed at the camp; that instead of three or
four miles, it was twenty or twenty-five
miles, on the railroad, to Rollasou’s, but
that he knew a near cut across the couutry,
which he would show them, by which they
would reach Rollason’s in an hour’s time.
The young woman at once became sus
picious of him, and declined his services,
saying they could find their way without
him. Being foiled in his plans, the fellow
began to use abusive and vulgar language,
they paying no attention to him, but hurry
ing on as fast as they could, being terribly
alarmed, and he 'following them. Soon
growing more desperate he made a rush for
the elder oue, (who is about twenty-two
years of age,) when her sister, screaming
and with a billet of wood in her hand,
rushed upon the devil, who knocked her
senseless to the ground. The other, trying
to escape, fell over some cross-ties, when he
seized her, and after a terrible struggle, out
raged her person.
When the two sisters reached Mr. Rolla
son’s the horrible affair was revealed to the
family, and the neighbors soon learned me
particulars. It was too late to accomplish
the arrest of the villain that night, but
early on Saturday morning Mr. N. S. Up
church, deputy sheriff, who resides at Cal
lahan, with six men, took the t rain for
Hill’s Camp, where they expected ts
him. Iluylett, the engineer, was given the
points to stop, «fcc. Arriving at the camp
and not finding him, they were informed
tiiat lie left that morning for Baldwin, sav
ing he would return on the freight train
which would leave Baldwin on the arrival
of the up passenger train. Mr. Upchurch
and his posse (except Mr. Henry Mattier,
who went on to Baldwin,) remained at the
camp. The train had proceeded about four
miles, when Iluylett discovered some one
at a distance “ flagging him down.” Ar
riving at the spot, Mattier, well armed, was
on the lookout, and, recognizing the negro
from the description given him, he jumped
from the train, told him he was his prison
er, and that lie “ must go aboard the train
or go to hell.”
He was taken back to Hill’s Camp, where
he was at once identified by the young lady
whom he hail so brutally outraged. Great
excitement was caused by his arrival. The
unfortunate lady was almost frantic, know
ing that men were there with arms in their
hands, to avenge the foul wrong that had
been done her. The incarnate devil was
only saved for the time by the calm coun
sel of Mr. Upchurch. He told those pres
ent that it was best to let the law take its
course; that they, living in the backwoods,
had already been denounced as “ rebel cut
throats,” and that were they to shoot the
scoundrel on the spot, as he richly deserved,
it w ould soon be magnified into “ another
outrage upon a freed in an.”
Mr. Upchurch brought the negro to this
• city on Monday evening, and turned him
over to the military. His name is Frank
Johnson, twenty-five or twenty-six years of
age, and hails from Raleigh, N. C.
[From Qoorge Alfred Townsend's Correspondence
Boston Post.
A New Story of Artemus Ward.
In Spots, August Several,
This letter was written on the bacjtt'of
envelopes in various pilot houses. I make
it a rule to have no method except, the rule
whenever I go traveling. Did you ever
iiear of the late Artemus Ward’s experi
ment in traveling without method ?"lle
left New York by a night boat. Directly
a man spoke to him, saying, “ Going West,
sir V”
Said Artemus, “ I suppose so.” “ Then,”
said the man, “as I’m from the West, we’ll
go drink.”
‘ “Do you drink brandy V” said the npui.
“ I suppose sq,” said Charley.
“ Where in the devil be you going?” sitt-l
the man.
“ Well, I’m going anywhere for a month.
Just as other people lead me. I’ve travel
ed with purposes till I’m sick. A purpose
is worse than, baggage. I’m going on ;
that’s all I know.”
The man said he was in with Brown till
death. He had never done any tiling a pur
pose. “ So,” he said, “ suppose we go to my
state-room and try a hand at poker.”
They played poker till daylight, when
Brown was very tight. He had lost four
or five hundred dollars. A second man
joined them at Albany. “So you two be
traveling by chance, as you may say?—
Well, I’in with you to the death.” They
got oft' the boat, and a hack-driver stfld :
“Where do you want to go, gentlemen?”—
“ Anywhere, go on.” lie drove to a bar
room with much alacrity. There they
made so great a noise that the proprietor
cried: “Where he you going, man?"—
“ Don’t care!” “ Then go out.” They.met
a policeman on the sidewalk. “ Where are
you bound ?” “ Anywhere!” “ Then I
’spose the station-house will suit.” Charley
Brown was pulled up before the Judge next
day; lie gravely gave the name of Gerrit
Smith, and Gerrit was fined for drunken
ness.
“ Where now ?” cried the three purpose
less ones. They saw a sign—“ Utica train”
—and they went to Utica. There a stage
driver hailed them:
“Where be yon going?”
“ Any where!” So they started for Tren
ton Falls.
The third day of lolling there they took
a pony ride up into the wilderness, permit
ting the nags to select their own route.—
Suddenly the original man produced a pis
tol.
“ Hand out your money !” lie cried very
sternly to Brown. ' -
Brown complied with the greatest com
placency.
“ We brought you out here to rot) you !”
said the second liian.
“Then,” said Brown, “you’re fenced
swindlers! We were to travel without
method, and you’ve had a method all along.
I don’t care a nonpareil whether yon sl*>ot
me or not; but I won’t have the traveling
contract broken.”
“We said,” cried the first man, <»ld
bloodedly, “ that we’d follow you to tin;
death. You’re up to that pint now nurtv i
close.”
“ I object to nothing,” said Brown I l
said I would travel anywhere. You skunked 1
me! Put up your irons! we’ll spend all 1
this money together, any way.”
The two thieves laughed. “ you’re cool
enough!” tliey said; “ what are you by
name and business ?”
“ I’m Artemus Ward!”
“ Did you write the visit to the Shakers ?”
“ Yes!”
“ Well, Bill, put up your gun. I thought
tiffs was Artemus! We’ll spend his money
instead of his blood.”
But Charles Brown grew methodical on
the homeward route, and steered for New
York alone.
ARREST of a Forobß. — Chicago, Sept. 14.
Matthews, alias Deprcsher, alias Livingston,
Who obtained $76,000 from the bank of Moses
Taylor & Co., New York, in July last, by forg
ing the name of Cornelius Vanderbilt, was ar
• rested Wednesday uear Blackberry Station, in
this State, by detectives Elver, of New York,
and Ellis, of Chicago. About, SIQ,OOO of the
fnoney was,recovered, the balance having been
expended in the purchase of farms, horses and
stock.
Death of a Humble Historical Charac
ter. —Everybody has seen some pictorial iiius
.traikms of a familiar aneodote: Napoleon in
his grey frock coat attempting to pass a young
sentinel, who had received orders to allow no
one to go by him, and who, Ignorant of the
intruder’s name, ordered him off, saying, “Yon
should not pass were you the little corporal
himself.” The name of this young sentinel was
Jean Coinche. He has just gone down to bis
grave, 88 years old.
Interesting Letter Written by Maximilian
just Before his Death—The Disposal to be
Made of his Body—Madame Miramon to
Bemain with his Mother.
I The following letter was written by Maxi
milian two days before his execution :
jQUEKETA.RO, PRISON OF LAS CAPUCHINAS, )
17th of June, 1867. $
Dear Baron Logo, Minister of Austria to Mexico:
1 am done with this world; my very last
wishes are in regard only to my mortal remains,
which will soon bo freed from all pain, and in
regard to those who must survive me. My
physician, Dr. Basch, will have my body brought
to Vera Cruz. He will be accompanied only by
my two servants, Gull and Tudos.
1 have ordered that my body be transported
without any pomp or solemnity to Vera Cruz,
and that on board the vessel that is to bring it
to Europe no unusual ceremony take place. I
have awaited death calmly, and I wish to be left
in the same stillness while in my coffin.
You will take measures, my dear Baron, so
that Dr. Basch and my two sorvants, who take
iny body in care, may accompany it to Europe
on one of the two war vessels. Over there I
wish to be buried beside my poor wife.
If the news of my poor wife’s death should
not prove true, my body should be placed some
where until the Empress rejoin me in death.—’
Have the goodness to see that the necessary or
ders be forwarded to Capt. Groeller.
Have also the goodness to lake measures so
that the widow of my faithful companion in
arms, Miramon, can go to Europe on one of
the war vessels. 1 reckon the more on the ful
fillment of this request as she is charged by me
to remain with my mother at Viemia.
I again thank you from my heart for the
trouble which you take on my account, and 1
remain your well-wishing
Maximilian, M. P.
The “ Beds ” in Geneva.
PROPOSITIONS FOR THE PEACE CONGRESS—PLAN
OF A GENERAL MILLENIUM.
The following are the three questions pro
posed for discussion by the International
Peace Congress, opened on the 9th instant, at
Geneva:
First. Is the leign of peace, to which human
ity aspires as the latest development of civiliza
tion, compatible with these great military mon
archies which rob the people of their most vital
liberties, maintain tormidaole armies, and tend
to suppress small States lor the benefit of des
potic centralizations, or is not rather the essen
tial condition of perpetual peace bet ween na
tions, liberty for each people, and in their in
tlonal relations the establishment of a eoufede
« ol free democracies, constituting lint Uni
tea States ol Europe ?
Second. What are the means for preparing
and hastening the accomplishment ot lliis con
federation ol free Slates? A return to the
great principles ol lint revolution, now at last
becoming truths ; the vindication of all liber
lies, individual and political; an appeal to alt
the moral energies and to conscience ; the dif
fusion of popular education ; the destruction oi
prejudices of race, of nationality, of sect, of
military spirit; the abolition of standing
armies; the harmonizing of economic intcr
.csts with liberty; the agreement of policy with
morality.
Third. What would he the best means of ren
dering the action of the International Congress
•permanent and effective? The organization of
a permanent association of the friends of De
' mocracy ami liberty.—A. V. llerald.
. Fearful Catastrophe on a Bremen Steamship.
Explosion of a Gun on the Steamship Dutchland
When Coming into Port —Three l'assengcrs
Killed and Two Severely Injured—Great Ex
citement at the Bremen Dock.
At three o’clock yesterday afternoon the Bre
men steamship Dutchland was passing the Nar
rows, inward bound, when the gun was charg
ed in order to lire the usual salute when coming
iuto port. As might be expected, a number of
passengers collected at the spot through curi
osity. Hardly had the report of the gun struck
on the ears of those around, when the deck
was strewn for several yards around witli the
wreck of human beings, timbers, and whatever
movable articles were on deck. The charge, it
appears, exploded the gun, producing frightful
results. Three passengers who were standing
nearest had their heads totally blown from
their bodies, while a fourth passenger and one,
of the crew 6ustaiued serious injuries. The
names of the killed arc Frederick W. Hammer,
a German, aged 25; William Gcge, German,
aged 17, and a native of Russian Poland named
Matekc.
As soon as the steamship arrived at the dock
in Hoboken, the injured men were conveyed
to the Hospital of the Sisters of Charity, where
their wants were carefully attended to.
One ol the crew was washed overboard dur
ing the passage and was lost.
I New York Herald , 15<A.
It May be a Blessing. —Perhaps the failure
of cotton, over which there is so much mur
muring at present, may be a blessing in the end.
If we had been successful in our cotton, there
would he an increased crop next year, much to
the damage of the planter. Last year and the
year before whatever money was gathered from
cotton went to the great West for corn and
oacoir. This year Providence has given us a
good grain crop, and wc will make our own
broad. Therelore, with a moderate cotton crop,
we will have more money for actual comforts
than before, with cotton at the present price ;
we shall have an increase in our wheat, corn,
oats and hay crop next year. This will greatly
enhance our prosperity ; wc can eat bread not
borrowed or bought on a credit, hut raised by
ourselves. Let cotton, much or little, be made,
we will be able to live, and notwithstanding de
crees ot Government officials, our prosperity
will increase, and whether Ireedmen will work
or not, of our bread we shall be sure. Let ns
ktOK not on the dark side always. Let us take
courage and go to work, and much that now
seems lost may be saved.
I Albany ( Ga.) News.
News Items.
Ashes for Irish Potatoes.— For every
three hundred and fifty bushels of potatoes re
moved from our fields, the soil sustains a loss
of ninety-two pounds of po(u6t|.
Consequently, wood nt;hes is one of the most
valuable of manures in the culture of the
potato.
Singular Application for Bankruptcy.
—A man applied to Register Bond yesterday
for the benefit of the bankrupt law, whose lia
bilities amounted to $59. He had to pay SSO
on filing his application. 11 he had raised the
nine dollars he could have relieved himself of
his obligations just as cheaply, and very much
more to the satisfaction ot his creditors than
by the plan he adopted.
\ Richmond Examiner, Sept. 14.
A subscription is being made in Birmingham
in order to compensate the poor Roman Cath
olics who suffered during the Murphy riots.—
Both Romans and Anglicans have contributed
to it, but as yet only 300 guineas have been
raised towards meeting claims amounting to
nearly SSOO.
More Mills Stopping.— Thp great woolen
and stockinet mills having come to a stop the
cotton mills are'now following the example;
and the silence of the machinery at Cohoes is
followed l>y a similar ominous cessation in
some of the mills at Lowell. The Tremout and
Suffolk (Lowell) mills are about to stop run
ning. The Tremout is a cotton and wollcn fac
tory with a capital of #OOO,OOO. Par of shares
lowest price in 1806,880; last quotation
607)£. The original capital of this mill was
$500,000. It was increased a hundred thousand
in 1887 by a stock dividend. The Suffolk is a
cotton mill solely. Par SI,OOO ; present capital
$600,000 • lowest price of stock in (865, 8.55;
last quotation, 005. The original capital of
Suffolk was $150,000. It is one of the necessary
results of the persistent hostility of the restora
tion of the Union, and the bolding of the South
under military rule, that business should lan
guish and prosperity decline. In the general
distrust and anxiety caused hy the revolu
tionary policy of Congress, there can he no re
vival of business and prosperity.
\ Hart ford (Conn.) Times, September 12.
The Disco very op a Volcanic Country.
—The Montana Post Bays an exploring parly,
which has been to the headwaters of the Yel
low Stone river, lias Just returned, and reports
seeing one of the greatest wonders ol the
world. For eight days they traveled through a
volcanic country, emitting a blue flame and
living streams of molten brimstone. The
country was rolling, with long level plains in
tervening ; on the summit of these rolling
mounds were craters, from four to eight feet in
diameter, from which streamed a blaze and a
constant whistling sound. ‘l'he hollow ground
resounded beneath their feet as they traveled,
and every moment seemed as though they
would break through. Not a living thing was
seen in the vicinity. The explorers gave it the
significant appellation of hell.
M. DawsOn, of Georgia, and Miss McDaniel,
of Washington, were marriod yesterday in
Glenwood Cemetery, the spot selected for the
nuptial ceremonies boing the grave of the
bride’s mother. The bride was .attired iu half
mourning. The ceremony attracted a good
many curious people. It was certainly an ex
traordinary idea, yet there is something torch
ing in It after all. —Baltimore Sun.
Some very rich gold quartz has recently been
found in the mountains near Blue river, Ore
gon, fifty miles from Eugene City. The yield
of the specimens brought in, by hand mortar i
Srocess, was at the rate of $3,360 per ton. The I '
iscovery causes great excitement iu that section, i
(From the Memphis Avalanche.
My Once Happy Southland.
BY JIBS, L. V. BROWN.
My once happy Southland, arise in thy might;
Thy green brow is circled by dark clouds of night;
Thy day dream is over—by tyranny hurled—
False chains now enslave thee, thou gera of the world.
Beet hope through the drift cloud is glimmering afar.
No lining of silver guides thy beacon star;
But rolling in blackness they mingle In one—
A ship without compass, a day without sun.
Base traitors who worshipped now cringingly kneel,
Before thy enslavers, who no pity feel
For thee, in thy anguish, but lecch-llke they roll,
And fatten In gore drops dlstl'led from thy soul.
Thy sister In misery clai ms tliee for a mate :
The cauldron is boiling that is seething with fate;
Racli bubble is swelling, ami forging for thee,
A fetter as galling as binds Tennessee.
Thy bride robes are trailing, thy wings drooping lower;
Yet Southland! my Southland, again thou shall soar,
Ascending in triumph, once more thou shal’t see,
Vice leaguers and minions all kneeling to tliee.
Starvation is roaming from rocklaml to sea;
Help I Father In Heaven, our trust is in Thee.
Now groaning in misery we kneel at thy shrine,
Imploring thy mercy—for mercy we piue.
Our sins have been legion—we know that Thy wrath,
Hus kept from encircling for long years our path.
We feet that afUictiou in mercy was sent;
Thy nature is mercy, with stern justice blent.
With Northern Gomorrah we’ve nothing to do,
Corruption forever should firmly eschew.
Oh I near in its vastness, the voice of our God,
My children 1 love thee, pass under the rod I
nark I again hear that voice, a loud clarion peal!
Gomorrah I Gomorrah I my justice shall feel,
Cease, mercy, thy weeping, thy face shall in gloom,
Recorded stands ever, "Gomorrah’s sad doom.
Woes felt by thy brother waked no gentie sigh.
Now burneth my anger ’gainst thy pleading cry.
My sword ready lilted falls fearful with weight,
Olr! wretched Gomorrah, thrice wretched thy fate.
Oh I God of our own Southland, our ship’s floating free,
Her white sails uplifted, turns pleading to Thee.
She drifts without compass, and night hovers near;
No signal gun answers her wild cry of fear.
“ Save, save us, my Father," rings out from the roar,
Above mad, dashing waves fierce lashing the shore.
She circles the whirlpool—far, far out at sea,
No hand now can save her, our hope is In Thee.
Oh 1 unhappy Southland, in God put thy trust;
Our Father in Heaven is loving and jnst"
He’s nearer in anguish, yet seems far away;
The hour Is darkest that heralds the day.
Flohenob, Ala., September 3, 18ti7.
Citizen Attacked by Soldiers. —Lest
evening, about dark, as Mr. Balzeau was return
ing home from a brief gunning expedition on
the commons, lie was attacked by a number of
Yankee soldiers on the corner ol Walker and
Washington streets. A colored boy was some
distance behind Mr. Balzeau with his gun,
liendl' his inability to defend himself. Mr.
Balzeau was knocked down with a slung sho.t
or brass knuckles and severely cut about the
face. After felling tl«eir victim to the ground
the Yankees ran off. This attack, it is needless
to say, was entirely unprovoked, it may be
the gallant deliverers of the nation imagined in
the twilight that Mr. Balzeau was a colored
man.
Death of Mu. Wm. S. Shields.— A tele
gram was received in this city yesterday from
Houston, Texas, announcing the death, on
Monday, the 16th iußt., ol Mr. Wm. S. Shields,
recently a business partner of Mr. Charles
Baker, of this city. Mr. Shields had been lmt
, a short time in Texas, and had concluded to
settle there. lie was a young man of noble
impulses and was beloved by all who knew
him.
The Rioters.— A number of negroes have
been arrested and identified as members of the
mob engaged in the demonstration at Mr.
Spaeth's on Monday night. They have been
placed under bond to keep the peace. One of
the party is Isaac Jefferson, an officer (?) ol a
colored military organization which nourished
some time ago—and,.for aught we know flour
ishes yet—in this city.
Fast!— That is an enterprising agent of tiie
Associated Tress who telegraphs us about Gen.
Beauregard’s dinner speech which lie made in
New York last Saturday, and an account of
which we had by mail forty eight hours since.
The Murder Case. — The examination of
William Griffin, colored, charged with the
murder of his half-brother, Milton Parker,
drags its slow length along. The evidence for
the defense is not yet concluded.
Meckliniiuro Female College.—Particu
lar attention is called to the advertisement of
this institution. The terms arc very reasonable
and should attract the notice of parents and
guardians.
Law Firm.— lt will he seen that Hon. Robert
Toombs and General I). M. Dußose are united
in the practice oflaw, and their office is in Wash
ington, Georgia. They will give especial atten
tion to cases iu bankruptcy.
Leslie’s Gazette of Fashion.— Our friend
Quinn has sent us a copy of Frank Leslie's Ga
zette of Fashion for October. It teems with
latest styles and other matters of interest to the
ladies.
Death of General Griffin at Galveston,
Texas.— Galveston 'Texas, September 15.—Gen
eral Griffin died at 11 o’clock this morning.—
There were seventeen interments to.day.
Fire in Columbia. —A fire broke out yester
day rooming, about two o’clock, in the dwell
ing of Dr. T. J. Roach (situated about two
miles from Columbia, on the Monticello road),
and so rapid was the conflagration that the
family were barely able to escape with their
lives—as the building was entirely in posses
sion ol the devouring element beforeiithe in
mates were aroused from their slumbers. The
dwelling, with its entire contents, was destroy
ed. The light was seen so distinctly in Colum
bia that the alarm was given and the firemen
turned out. Dr. Roach will receive'the heart
felt sympathies of the community, as he is an
old and respected citizen of this district, and
for mauy years a resident of Columbia. We
learn that the property destroyed was partial
ly covered by insurance.— Phoenix, 18th.
1 ‘ Truth Stranger than Fiction.”
A VENT HOLE OF TnE INFERNAL REGIONS.
West Bloomfield, N. Y., Aug. 26,1867.
E litors Rochester Democrat :
We have an “ Institution ” in our town
which, jvere it in Italy or Switzerland, parties
making the “grand tour” would go miles to 1
see, and think themselves well paid for their 1
trouble, and as I have not sceu any notice of it 1
iu the papers I will give you a short account 1
of it. 1
Fifty years ago, some of the early settlers liv
ing near what is now called “ Behe’s Brook,”
(three miles south of our village), conceived
that there was coal or some other valuable min
eral in a locality near the brook, and accord
ingly sunk a sbalt to test the matter. Alter
getting down some thirty feet they perceived
indications of foul air, and fired a bundle of
straw and threw it down the shaft. It instantly
ignited and burned high above the surface,
causing them to retreat on the double-quick
(badly scorched), with the entire loss of bag
gage. It burned a short time and went out, but
the experiment induced them to abandon any
farther investigations. In later years, parties
.flailing in the brook by torchlight, could, by .
touching the surface where the water was still,
ignite it at pleasure, when it would bunfa short
time aud expire.
These facts being well kuown, when the “oil
fever” was at its height, some three years since,
parties here decided to bore for oil. A com
pany was formed, an engine and the necessary
tools procured, aud boring commenced. After
boring about one hundred feet they struck a
crevice which emitted a strong volume of gas.
This gave them renewed courage, and they
bored away for months, until they reached a
depth of live hundred feet, when their courage
and capital being alike exhausted, they con
cluded to abandon it and pocket the loss, as
many a seeker after oil lias done before or siucc.
Since then tb< ! well has remained in statu quo
(tire volume of gas never flagging for a moment)
until about the lirst of July one of our citizens
visited it, to show it to a visiting friend, and
concluded to try an experiment with it. Ac
cordingly lie attached a lead pipe to the curb
ing tube to conduct it outside of tho building,
and applied a lighted match to it, when “presto
change,” quicker than you could say “ Jack
Kobinson,” the pipe melted, the flame follow
ing it up. They used every effort to extin
guish it, lint in vain. It would not “ out” at
their bidding any more than the spot of biood
from tho hand of Lady Macbeth.
It reached the building in less time than I
could write it, nnd in a short time the structure
was it mass of smoking ruins, the heat damag
ing the engiuc past repair, leaving damages of
SI,OOO or so for some one to pay. Since then
it has burned constantly. The iron tubing rises
fifteen feet ibovo the surface, aud a roaring,
surging, leaping column of five or six inches in
diameter rises thirty feet above that, making
the vicinity light as day in the darkest night.—
Thu reflection on the sky can be seem for miles
away.
BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
From Washington.
SCENES AT ANTIETAM.
DELICATE DEMONSTRATIONS.
Washington, September 18.
Just west of the mam stand, and within the
Cemetery enclosure, is a limestone rock 60ine
six feet loug by two or three feet high, known
far and wide throughout Washington county
ns Lee’s rock, from the fact, it is said, that Gen
eral Lee stood thereon during the liercent light,
at Autietaui directing the operations of the
Confederate army. During the day parties of
curiosity hunters were busily engaged in chip
ping pieces of the rock as relics. McClellan's
position during the fight was pointed out, near
a red farm house, in a position a little less com
manding than thnt occupied by Lee.
The following illustrates the harmony of the
ceremonies: The “loud call’’ for Governor
Geary, of Pennsylvania, on the conclusion of
the address ol ex-Governor Bradford, showed
that many Pennsylvanians were present, and
that there was an undercurrent of ill feeling on
accouut of some slight, real or fancied, to their
Governor, in his name not appearing in the
programme. The outcry for Governor Geary,
for the time being, overpowered the calls for
the President, and prevented a word of flu
reading of the poem from being heard. The
brass band essayed to perform a piece with as
little effect, and finally, alter a hurried consul
tation on the stand, Governor Geary was in
duced to present himself and ask that the pro
gramme should be gone through with without
interruption. When he subsequently spoke,
after the proceedings were ended, he showed
considerable feeling The President and mem
bers of the Cabinet left the stand while Gov
ernor Geary was speaking, in order to proceed
to Keedysville, to lake the train, and this, pro
ceeding was taken by some of the friends of
the Governor as an intentional slight. Gov
ernor Geary opened his speech as follows :
Fellow-citizens : After all you have heard to
day, I had supposed you would waut nothing
more. The programme opened and concluded
with prayer; those who have waited must come
in at the last hour; but, my friends, we still
have a place in the hearts of the people. [Ap
plause. | When you come to Pennsylvania we
let everybody speak. We want to hear. Thanks
to Almighty God for His preservation arid care
of the country, we have no gag. | Applause.]
We have no programmes for this purpose.—
| Renewed applause.] We have no gag on our
programmes.
Grant ordered by telegraph this morning a
report of the sanitary condition ol the army in
the fifth military district.
Advices from the city of Mexico ol the Orb
and Vera Cruz of the 13lli', state: Juarez re
fused to deliver Maximilian’s body to Admiral
Tegethoff without a documentary request from
Maximilian’s kinsmen.
Collector Collicott has given bail in ¥50,000.
Revenue to day, $200,000.
The Maryland constitutional election is pro
grossing quietly.
The adoption of the Constitution by a large
majority is certain. It abolishes the test oaih
from Confederates, admits negro testimony in
the courts.
The following ollioers ol the steamer Taconv,
ordered from Pensacola to Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, in consequence of Hie fever, died
At sea : Midshipman, Robert N. Gridin ; Car
penter, Win. Gillis ; Third Assistant Engineer,
Nicholas Cassia.
The Presidential parly arrived safely at oi.c
o’clock this morning.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, in session
at New York, consumed the first day in argu
incuts regarding iion-bomTicial members.
There were five hundred and twelve deaths
in New York last week—a decrease of forty
nine.
Gen. Lee is at Healing Springs, Va. lie lias
been quite ill, but is convalescent.
Edward Spangler writes from Dry Tortuga: ,
September 6t.ii: lie is busy, day and night,
making collins. 11 is fellow-prisoner, Dr. Muilcl,
(the post Doctor being sick), is treating yellow
fever very successtiilly.
Many clerks ol departments arc framing
copies ol the President’s proclamation, re
ceived through their respective chiefs.-
Underlying the levity which the unusual
proceeding produces, there appears to be much
earnest feeling.
The Pastime Base Bail Club, of Richmond,
was'beaten to-day by the National Club, ol this
city—the score standing 11 1 to
Foreign.
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London, September 18.
An informal meeting of delegates to (lie Pan
Anglican Synod,called by Archbishop ol Canter
bury, has been bold. Present: Bishop Ifopkins,
of Vermont, and Odenbeimer, of New Jersey,
and many Episcopal clergymen from the Uni
ted States. .
Ooh Kelly, the Fenian leader, was arrested at
Manchester yesterday, and taken to Dublin.
The funeral of a supposed Fenian director at
Belfast was attended by eight thousand per
sons.
The King of Prussia will review the military
of the Grand Duchy of Badeihncxt week, by in
vitation ol tlie Grand Duke.
T!\e Cabinets of Roriiti and Vienna are nego
tiating a new commercial treaty.
From ISTew York.
New York, September 18.
A party of Southern gentlemen gave a din
ner to Gen. Beauregard at the New York Hotel.
In the course of his remarks, the General staled
that lie had received tempting offers from Eng
lish capitalists to take up his residence in Eng
land as superintendent of extensive engineer
ing works in that country, but he had con
cluded, upon calmly surveying the different
Governments of the world, their status, and
their inherent strength, that this country pos
sessed the most stable Government of any
existing on the face of the earth, and that for
his part he was determined to spend his life
under the flag of the Governmentjthat was the
most stable and least liable to disorganization.
It was nothing short of sheer nonsense to talk
of another rebellion. If they wanted to raise
one they could not; it was utterly impossible,
and will be impossible for them to do so for •
the next generation.
From Richmond.
Richmond, September 18.
Schofield has issued an order altering the
oyster law of the State, so as to prescribe dry
measure instead of liquid measure, and extend
ing the time to ninety days l'or oysters owned
by non-residents to be laid out in Virgiuia
waters, a»d ©rderiug that the tax of three cents
per bushel he paid but ouce, and then by the
persons carrying oysters to market or shipping
them from the State.
The voting on the railroad subscription Clos
ed to-day without altering the result. About
two hundred black votes were thrown out, from
the (act that they had forgotten the name they
registered by and handed in vote under dif
ferent names!
Prom Tennessee.
Nashville, September is.
A delegation from Jackson county lias arrived
with a petition for the removal of the militia,
who are depredating. The delegation includes
Senator Muse, a Radical.
Three militia, implicated in Major Hartinus’
murder, have escaped.
From IST ew Orleans.
New Orleans, September IS.
The yellow fever deaths to six o’clock this
morning were 4(5. The fever is spreading
among the towns in the interior of this State.
A colored judge presided this morning, for
the first time, on the bench of the first district
Recorder’s Court, in this city.
Marine News.
New York, September 18.
Arrived —Granada, Charleston ; llatteras,
Richmond ; Moro Castle, Havana.
London, September 18.
TheVolonte, of Oporto, for New, York was
lost near Madeira. No particulars given.
Savannah, September 18.
Arrived —Schooners A. D. Scull, \V. W.
Pliaro, Philadelphia.
Sailed—Brig Inlo Sawyer, Brunswick, Ga.
Charleston, September 18.
Arrived—Alliance, Philadelphia; sclir W. P.
Cushiug, Philadelphia ; brig Bcilona, Middle
boro, England.
Sailed—Brig Susan Vorhis, Georgetown, S. C.
Markets.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
London, September 18—Noon.
Consols, 04 9-10. Bonds, 72%.
Loni>on, September 18—2, P. M. j
Consols, 94 18-16. Bonds, 72%. f
Liverpool, September 18—Noon.
Cotton 6teady and more doing ; sales, 12,000
bales. Breadstuffs steady.
Liverpool, September IS—2, P. M.
Cotton very active; sales will reach 20.000;
prices not quotably changed. Breadstuffs
quiet. Provisions firmer. Pork, 71s. Tallow
declined, 445. 13d.
New York, September 18—Noon.
Stocks heavy, excited; money 6; sterling 9%
@9%. Gold strong at 145%. ’62 coupons,
110% ; Virgiuia o’s, 50.
New York, September 18—Noon.
Fiour shade firmer. Wheat I@l% better.
Oats I@2 lower. Mess Pork, ¥24 12%@24 25.
Lard and whisky quiet. Cotton dull at 24%
@25. Freights quiet. Turpentine little
easier at 59@G0. Rosin steady; common,
$4 00@6 25.
New York, September 18—P. M.
Stock market heavy and excited ; money, 6@
7. Gold, 145%; United States Five-twenties,
’62, regular, 9%; coupons, 14%@14%: Virginia
6’s, 49@50; foreign exchange quiet at 9%@9%.
Gold market -strengthened by decline of bonds in
Europe, and reports lurther troubles in cotton
trade. Governments dull ; stocks much de
, pressed and almost panicky at close, prices
lulling I@2. Balance in sub-treasury, $120,000,-
000. Gold receipts at Custom House, $b64,000:
gold notes, SB,MIX).
New York, September 18—P. M.
Cotton is steady at 24%@25 ; sales, 900 bales.
. Flour active and advanced 10@20 ; State, $8 40
@ll. Wheat active and I@2 better; amber
State, $2 50; white Southern, $2 40. Corn ac
' live; Western mixed, $1 25@1 27. Oats active ;
Western, 67@69. Provisions steady. Mess'
pork, s24@Ml. Whisky quiet; bond, 36@40.
Groceries quiet and dull. Turpentine, 59%.
Rosin, s4@B. Wool steady ; Texas, 24@29.
Freights steady ; grain, by steam, 7@7%.
Baltimore, September 18.
Cotton is very dull and quotations barely
maintained. Coffee quiet; Rio sold at 17%. —
Flour quiet and somewhat firmer. Wheat firm;
prime to choice red, $2 40@2 60. White Corn,
$1 20; yellow, $1 28. Oats, 62@66. Rye
prime, $1 40. Provisions quiet at former rates.
Sugar and Whisky, nothing notable doing.
Cincinnati, September 18.
Floui firm and in good demand at lull prices.
Corn firm; No. 1, $1 03. Cotton dull and
nominal at 23 ;no demand. Provisions firmer
all aiticles higher. Mess Pork in demand at
$24 ; could not be bought for less than $25.
i Bacon held at M%@lß for shoulders andclear
sides. Lard, 13%.
Wilmington, September 18.
Spirits turpentine quiet at 54. Kosin steady
at $3 00@6 75.
, Weather clear and very warm, and favorable
, to the cotton crop.
Mobile, September 18.
Cotton is m fair demand; sales, 300 bnjes -
I market closed quiet and steady lor middling •
( receipts, 133 hales.
New Orleans, September is.
Sales of cotton. 400 hales ; prices unchanged
low middling. 21%; receipts, 594 bales. Sn> ar
—prime Louisiana, 16. No Louisiana molasses
m market. Flour quiet, firm and unchanged
Corn, better demand and firmer; yellow and
white mixed, $1 15@1 17%; white, $l2O
Oats firm at i->@<s. Pork dull and drooping
at $27 12%. Bacon ■ steady and firm; shoul
: 1( i ; t,,car li, H ; sugar-cured hams.
•■=•'%• Lard firm; tierces, 14%. Gold, 14. W
@145%. Sterling, 56%@59%. New York
sight, % premium.
Charleston, September 18.
Colton is irregular with a declining teiiMeu
ey; sales, 26 bales; middling, 22@22%.
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Savannah, September 18.
Cotton is quiet and unchanged; 4niddlin'>-s
22%; sales, 110 bales ; receipts, 310 bales. ”
Augusta Market.
fIFFIOB DAILY CeNSTITtJTION alist, j
Wrdnksuav, September 18--F. M. (
• FINANCIAL—
GOLD—Weak; buying at 143 and selling at 145.
i HILVKII -Buying at 132 and selling at 136.
COTTON —' The market continues quiet and prices
! unchanged ; say middling, 21®21 ,'J. Hales have hcei
( tuple numerous to-day ;S9 hales lining sold as follows ’
3at 19, 4at 2(1,1« at 21)'i, 27 at 21, 10 at 21 K and 29 at;
2‘2. Receipt*, 7*> balca.
> WHEAT—Noiio in market.
BACON -Shoulders, Ki.'-i; I!. 11. sjjes, 18%; C
K. sides, 1914 ; O. sides, 20; Hams, 22®25 cents
COItN Prime while scarce and in demand ntfl 4..
@1 50; yellow and mixed, Jt Mo® 1 -in.
Jin-Kit News.—No arrivals or departures. River, 4
feet, at the bridge.
Boston, September 16.—The dwelling liousi
of Jnirus Kenes, at East Abingtou,- was burner
last night. Mrs. Kenes and her two daughters
the only children, aged nineteen and twenty-om
years, were burned to death. Mr. Kcnesta ii
New Orleans, llis wife and, two daughters
wore alone in the house.
Portland, September - 16.—Hon. Tbomat
Amory Deldas, a distinguished lawyer, died to
day, aged 72.
Boston, September 16.—M. Eleazer Parlrei
. and Addison Parmentcr, of Wooster, were
drowned Saturday evening by the upsetting ot
. a boat.
The Way it Works.—Charleston is clearly
the most available South Atlantic port ot entry
for Western and all interior freights, and we
instance the movements of two ol our regular
steam fleets to show the advantages of this city.
The steamship Manhattan, Captain Wood
hull, left New York ou Saturday last, in com
• pany with one of the rotmlar steamers for Ba
-1 vannali. She arrived off the liar at 9, p. rn.,
Monday night, and was not able to cross the
- bar for want of range lights on Morris Island.
(Money appropriated for ibis ; why are not. the
" beacons iit V) When the tide suited yesterday
, morning, at 7% o’clock, and Ihe Manhattan
1 was steaming in, the Savannah steamer was
passing our bar going South.
The screw steamship Sea Gull, Captaiu Dut
ton, leit Baltimore, on. Saturday in company
with the steamer for Savannah. The former
arrived and was discharging cargo early on
Tuesday morning ; Ihe latter will certainly not
be, in port before Wednesday.
Twenty car loads of freight were taken from
the Manhattan and Sea Gull, and dispatched to
the interior by last night’s train, and as many
more go forward per catly passenger trains to
Columbia and Augusta to-day; proving beyond
all question that goods for Augusta, and as far
west as Atlanta, can be sent from New York
aud Baltimore via Charleston in the same time
that it takes to get to Savannah, and, as a con
sequence, Montgomery, Memphis, Nashville
and Chattanooga, arc twenty-four (24) hours
nearer New York and Baltimore via Charleston
than via Savannah.— News, 17 t/i.
Death of Another Merchant.— We have
again to mention the death of one of onr old
est and best known merchants. Mr. Edwin E.
Hertz went to the North some months since,
on account ol bis health, which had become
impaired from ids strict attention to business.
He improved somewhat after visiting the
springs, aud his family and friends were in
hope that lie would be back among them in a
short time. They, together with the entire
community, were shocked by the receipt ot a
dispatch aunounciughis death, which occurred
at twenty minutes before three o’clock yester
day evening, at Saratoga Springs. We have
not received any further particulars, and can
now only join iu (be general regret that so
good a merchant, genial companion and good
man h.iR left us.— Savannah Advertiser, 18(A.
At a recent, baptism of nine persons in Deby,
Vermont, by a mothodist minister, four modes
of baptism were practiced. Two of the candi
dates stood at the water’s edge aud were sprin
kled ; some went into the water a little way,
knelt down and had water poured on them, and
some were immersed.
Fish stories are outdone. The Watertown
(VVis.) Democrat states that on the 3d iust. Mr.
Herman Mieske, a very skillful aud successful
hunter on lloricon Lake, with a single shot
from his gun killed and secured 47 ducks.—
With live shots lie hit and took 127 ducks.
Cotton. -We fear the. long protracted rains
which have visited tins section have damaged
cotton to sonic extent. Indeed, if we should
be visited by early Hosts, the damage will pro
bably be considerable. Before the rains ebtn
racnced tho prospect in this region was better
than it. over had been before within tho memo
ry of tho oldest inhabitant.
I*. B.—Tlie first bale of tho new crop brought
to this place, was sold on yesterday (Tuesday)
at 20 cents per pound, ft was raised on the
plantation of Dr. 11. C. Billups, and bought by
Messrs. Center «fc Reaves. Weight, 504 lbs.
\Athens Watchman .
11e\lth op Charleston.—lt will be seen
by the bill of mortality, published this morn
ing, that the total number of deaths in this city
for the past week is only 24. This is less than
for any week since we have been publishing
the bills of mortality, and will compare favor
ably with tlie health records of any city in
America. —Mercury of Tuesday.
A Wondbutdl Yield.—Chas. Liebenau.
metallurgist, of Boisa City, Idaho, gives the fol
lowing figures as the result ofnu assay of some .
picked ore from the Atlanta ledge, of Alturas
couuty: Per ton, 9,720 ounces silver aud 2 40-100
gold, valued—in silver, per ton, $12,636 00:
gold, SSO 11. Total, $12,080 11,
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