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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
attgujsta. q-a.
FRIDAY MORNING. OCT. 4. 1807.
11. It is the duty of the military authorities
in this District to secure to the people the ut
most freedom of speech and of the press con■ st
ent with law ; not to restrict either. No sa'is
f ictory execution of the late acts of Gongris* is
practicable unless this freedom is secured and
its exercise protected by the usual legal mentis.
111. No officer or soldier in this command
>oitt hereafter interfere with newspapers or
sneakers on any pretense whatever.
[Gen. Pope's Order, June "i>.
“ Freedom of speech and of the press, edu •«-
tion, equality before the law, and in political
rights and privileges, are the essentials of any
satisfactory reconstruction in the South."
[Gen. Pope’s Letter to Gen. Grant.
TIMES GO BY TURNS.
One of the most beautiful poems ever
penned by man is a quaint verse of the
Middle Ages written by an English monk.
It is entitled “ Times go by Turns," and deft
ly and ingeniously does our rhymer prove
that all things earthly are subject to muta
tion and have an appropriate ebb and flow,
whether in the material structure of the
universe or the metaphysical emotions of
mankind. Many creatures —some of them
clever creatures, too—forget the valuable
lessons of Change and accommodate them
selves to the present hour, irrespective of
the volatile future. Os such the Radical
party in the South is measurably compos
ed. They see that a certain faction has
domination and that is reason enough for
them to attach their fortunes to it; they
are solicitous of their individual good, to
day, careless of the good of posterity or
the rich reward that comes of undaunted
suffering for conscience sake. Nparly every
great person enlisting under the black Hag
of Thap Stevens, in the South, has turned
pagan in his faith and persuade;! his fellow
countrymen to despair of the vindica
tions of the coming time, notwithstanding
the attestation of ages that nothing is more
certain than political vicissitude and the
eventual triumph of those who never com
promise their honor for the sake of gold or
place. No glorious enterprise was ever
brought to port by such epicurean philoso
phers and no lost cause redeemed.
There are other men, however, in all sec
tions of this unhappy land, who prefer to
travel the rugged and thorny road of pro
scription, exile, chains and helotry, rather
than kneel to despotism and claim the vile
gifts of purple and fine linen. There are
men who live witli steady glances upon the
future ; who accept the sour cross, to save
their children from its burden ; who gather
fresh strength and courage from every de
feat ; who are content to die with a ileath-
J»ss hope; who, the true kings of thought,
'• Wage contention with their time’s decay,
And of the eardi are all that cannot pass away.”
Such a man we deem the Hon. Chari.es
R. Buckai.ew, Senator from Pennsylvania,
whose recent speech, now before us, is in
stinct with the eloquent anticipations of a
faithful spirit. Commenting upon the turn
of the tide, everywhere visible, to reassure
the weary aud despondent, he thus con
cludes :
“ Now, gentlemen, in this turn of the tide,-tin
this time of change in tin; currents of the polit
ical ocean, our State lias the main, Hie import
ant office to perform. As upon former occa
sions, her decision will he potential-above that
of any other State within this Union. 11. will
be hearkened to by the States adjoining us. It.
Will he heard within the limits of the Mis ds
sippi Valley and upon the shores of (lie Pacific.
Wherever it shall be announced throughout our
country that Pennsylvania has reflected, that
she has formed her judgment, and that she has
declared it by the election ol Judge Sharswood
—(applause)—there will be an acquiescence, a
concurrence, a following after her example
which will give the public administration and
public affairs that purification which they re
quire, that restoration ol ancient principles
which they demand, and without which our ex
periment of free government, in my judgment,
is destined to inglorious failure. Yes, failure,
for no other result is possible. What! Pour
into the ballot boxes of your country hundreds
of thousands of base and ignorant votes, to be
bought by the rich, to be influenced by the
demagogue, to be used by the prostitute, the
venal and the base, and expect purity to remain,
an energetic and 'aithful administration ol the
law, aud security to property and liberty!—
What! Will you escape the fate of former Re
publics when you follow their examble and de
grade suffrage and free institutions ? Will you
go down into the gutter, to the low and ignor
ant elements of society, and bring them for
ward and expect that they will not be used and
misused by base and even by mighty men for
those purposes of ambition and gain which
characterized the career of former republics in
distant ages ? Why, gentlemen, it would seem
that we have read history without profit; that
we open its pages without deriving any in
struction ; that we do not trace the successive
steps by which mighty Rome degenerated, by
which her freedmen and her rabble became her
political masters, by which her soldievs dictated
the choice of her Emperors, by which social
degradation was poure.d into the capital of the
empire and flowed out into all the extremities
of its dominions, until private vice and social
corruption, infecting political life, brought that
proud empire to its ruin. Its grandeur had
been such that even its ruins have tilled the
contemplation of the world.
“ We have not yet, as a republic, lived our al
lotted period. Rome lived for a thousand
years. Britain, from which we drew our politi
cal descent, has lived as a leading nation of the
earth for many centuries, and France aiso
Even Spain has had her glory, not for a quar
ter, or a half, or a single century, but extend
ing through four or five; her annals illustrated
and decorated by poets, historians and heroes.
She has had her period of distinction and re
nown. Russia is rising yet, and her Peter the
Great existed before our nation was born. Wc
have not lived out our time. We have not hail
our share of prosperity and growth and glory.
We deserve to live longer. And how shall we
live longer ? By keeping the Constitution our
fathers made. jApplause.J We shall live longer
by treading out the seeds of civil war when
they appear in our midst, by crushing those
hot and heady passions upon which dema
gogues thrive and by which the sections of our
country may be kept apart in hostile attitude.
We shall live by sneaking oat against wrong in
high places. In short, we will take the securi
ty to ourselves for continued existence and
future glory by tresdiag under foot, those men
who have abused the powers which have been
conferred upon them by the American people,
and by restoring to power an ancient and illus
trious party which for sixty years proved its
fidelity to our institutions and its capacity to
manage our government, and to uphold all the
varied interests of society, social as well as po
litical. By restoring it to that power which it
can now use to the public advantage, and
which it will not pervert, we will take, so to
epeak, a bond of the future, a guarantee against
calamity—a guarantee that our nation shall not
die before her time, but that she shall live in
the annals of future ages to the latest period of
recorded time.” |Great applause.]
The funny man of the New Bedford Mercury
cays, “it becomes every day more doubtful
whether the President is an ’andv thing to have
Jo the house.
Pooit Sambo !—A correspondent of the
Journal & Messenger vouches for the follow
ing colloquy between Governor Brown aml
himself:
“ How do you think, Governor, all this po
litical trouble will end ?” “it will end peace
fully and much sooner than is expected ” said
lie. “ But,” Governor, “ Hie negro will con
tinue to be a source of political anil social dis
cord amongst us.” “ No, sir. In. ten years
there will be scarcely a negro in the country.”
Why, GifVernor, what iu the world will become
of hint ?” He replied to the question by ask- (
ing another. Said he. “ What has become ot
the Indian V”
Horace Greeley is of a different
opinion. Growling and grunting over the
signs of Conservative re-action, he desperate
ly avers that “the time for weeping, wailing
and gnashing of teeth cannot be far dis
tant.” “ And,” continues he, “let it come !”
The woi ds of .Toe B.
Come meekly and mealy ;
But deadlj’s the glee
Os grim Horace Greeley.
Strange Figures. —lt can be shown
that 2,000,000 Radical voters were repre
sented in Congress by 143 members, while
1,600,000 Democrats had but 28. This lop
sided arrangement was brought about by a
dishonest distribution of districts. The
same device is practic’d in the South to
give negro minorities an actual representa
tive majority.
Hayti. —Matters have become gloomy in
Hayti. President Salnave, who deposed
President Geffrard, is on the eve of de
capitation. His finances are drooping, trade
is dull and discontent prevalent. They have
a species of Radical party over there, and
hence, a general discumboberation. Republi
canism is in a beautiful fix between the
manipulations of Hayti, Mexico and the
United States.
Agitation—Reform— The New York
Journal of Commerce deprecates agitation
of political questions, on both sides of the
controversy. Agitation is a disagreeable
thing, but we do not see how reform can
come without it.
[Correspondence New York Herald.
Hayti.
ENGLISH REPORTS OF THE STATE OF AFFAIRS
IN HAYTI.
Havana, September 21, 1867.
The latest intelligence from Port-au-
Prince, to the Bth instant, arrived in King
ston per steamer Crusader, and was re
ceived here by the Spanish steamer Monte
zuma yesterday, via St. Jago de Cuba.
The following items are to hand : The
Government is characterized with hesita
tion, and it is truly painful to see how evi
dent it is that the Executive fears to do
anything, but it should thereby develop the
revolutionary sentiments that are smould
ering everywhere. The country is reported
in the most extraordinary state of agita
tion, and its affairs in a more lamentable
condition now than they have ever been
known since the establishment of Haytian
independence. The prejudices of color
seem to have become greater, and were the
authorities to take notice of this the coun
try would be iu a blaze. liow all is to be
smoothed down ; how the people are to be
pacified, unity promoted, and prejudices re
moved Salnave cannot deline, aqd his Gov
ernment may be said to be thoroughly tit
their wits end- We are feeling the effects
of a wretched administration, they say,
from Port-au-Prince, and the inhabitants of
this unhappy country already deplore (lie
change they have made. The uncertainty
which surrounds us prevents our entering
into any mercantile engagements, for we
do not know the moment everything may
be overturned by another revolution—for
we are really on the verge of one. What
ever the Government may say and lead the
country to believe, there is no mistaking
the fact that the enthusiasm which greeted
Salnave on his arrival has very greatly
cooled down ; both high aud low now
strongly sympathize with Geffrard, whom
they repulsed, and would willingly see him
return to the national palace here for the
restoration of order, the establishment of
peace, the development of commerce ami the
resources of the country.
The financial affairs are worse now than
in the wildest days of the Emperor Soqlou
que. Gold is fabulously high—thirty-four
Haytian paper dollars for one Spanish silver
dollar. Provisions are both scarce aud
high. Ten days ago flour was $lO, gold,
per barrel ; now it is S2O. The people are
positively starving, and misery stalks the
very streets of the capital. Several mer
cantile firms have been obliged to stop pay
ment ; others have closed up in consequence
of the unsettled state of affairs aud left the
island for America.
Delinavie, a town in the south, has been
pillaged, and the Cacos (a body of men
opposed to the Presidency of Salnave) are
still in arms, moving about with that per
sistency and determination of purpose which
proves that they are in earnest, and have
many sympathisers to support and encour
age them. The Government has sent opt all
its available troops after them, but these
‘have neither had the effect of disarming
them, por inspiring them with fear.
It may be interesting to your readers to
know that the word Cacos is not devoid of
meaning. The armed forces who go under
this name are chiefly colored men, and cacos
is the name given to the black parrots
which are to be found in Hayti in great
numbers. The inference is that they are
not only a numerous body,but are the blacks
of the country.
They are still in arms against the Govern
ment in the north. They lawless behavior
of tire people indicates an impending revo
lution, and as the sentiments which they
express, where numbers give courage, are
not easily suppressed, neither are they
easily forgotten. It is all a question of
time, but another rebellion may be momen
tarily expected,
The plundering which goes on now, even
in Port-au-Prince, is a remarkable feature
of the times. Stores are broken into at
night, and fire proofs with iron doors and
solid bolts give way. The acts now being
perpetrated are precisely like those which
were committed two years ago, when her
British Majesty’s ship Bulldog bombarded
the forts of Cape Hayti, and when honora
ble men were dragged from under the
British Consulate and bayonetted.
Although M. Coquierre had a pardon
granted him, aud he returned from Jamaica
to Port-au-Prince, he has been ordered -to
keep himself within doors until the will of
the Chamber, which was assembled since
the 30th of August, shall be ascertained.
Foreign residents have been warned by
Salnave to avoid expressing opinions re
garding the affairs of JJaytl, under severe
penalties if discovered.
A Bequest to the Government.— The
Secretory of the Treasury has received a notifi
cation from the executors of the last will and
testament of Captain Ralph 6. JTretz, late of
San FrancUco, that said testator has left to the
United States the sum of twenty thousand dol
lars, in trust, to be applied toward cancelling
the national debt. The executors express the
hope that “ this legacy may be but the fore
runner of numerous similar exhibitions of
patriotism by other men..’
The captain says in his will that he has been
greatly blessed ; that ho has an undying attach
ment to the Government, the best one tjjatman
has ever been permitted to enioy, and' that as
lie was too old to render service in the field to
put down and punish the great crime of rebel
lion, he feels it to be bis duty to contribute
toward the payment of the debt incurred in
that patriotic work.
Officer Cashiered. —Captain Charles L.
Brown, 37th United States colored troops, has
been tried by eonrt-martial by order of General
Cauby and, found guilty of illegally selling
Government subsistence stores. The court
sentenced him to be dismissed the service, pay
a fine of two thousand dollars and be impris
oned till the fine is paid. The sentence has
been approved by General Canby, who has di
rected Brown to be imprisoned in Fort Macon
till the fine is paid. Brown i6 from Massachu
setts.
Count du Bisson says the British will never
catch King Theodore, because twelve Os his
warriors attire themselves in the same costume
and cannot be distinguished from him, so that
search is well nigh fruitless, I
[From the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion.
A Practical jsfgge*tion to JySfid liners.
sale* Where ‘.tiii^step with the
view to abani|pn pCcountry;s in despair,
and in search is much to
be deplored, msf Invoke our people to re
main on their mips, soil, bear their burthens
with fortitud&\i*trijse to fernM up the,waste
places, ’ 'tigr 4 prhdeht Me’ of conduct
endeavor as ftr as they arc able, to regain
recognition by the suprejne power of their
right of local self-government. If they are
true to'tbemselves, it may be that in time,
friends willingly and able to assist, will
come to their aid. •
Asa meaafcrefSre-populating the aban
doned plantations, it has been suggested
that owners will offer..their lands in small
parcels to correspond with the limited
means of immigrants. A writer on this
subject wisely observes that “ land cannot
be sold in large tracts to actual settlers;
and the true principle is to sell in small
quantities at low prices. The profit must
not be expected to come from the first sale.
It must come from the increased value of
the land retained, which will rise in value
in the market in proportion to the increased
density of the population, caused by immi
gration. There are but few planters who
cannot well afford to sell one hundred or
two hundred acres at a tempting price, and
still have more than they can properly cul
tivate. These are the persons who can
offer the proper inducements to the immi
grant ; and they will have their neighbor
hood settled up, and their property doubled
in value, while those who will not sell
allow one-half or two-thirds of their land
to be altogether unproductive. Cut up the
farms, keep the prices down, make your
natural advantages known, and immigra
tion must come.
The effect of conferring the elective fran
chise on the blacks will give them the
numerical ascendancy in several States,
even under the military bill; and this as
cendancy of numbers will be increased au
hundred fold if the present scheme of ad
justment should be rejected. But if an ef
fective system of immigration is set on foot
and actively carried out by prompt appli
ances, the much dreaded negro ascendancy
will become a myth. Let no one seek to
accomplish this object from motives of re
venge towards the colored population, but
in order to erect a barrier against class and
caste legislation, aud above all, in order to
restore the prosperity and wealth of the
State.
Agricultural Statistics.
The following table represents the pro
duct of grain, potatoes, hay, &c.. in the
States of Georgia aud South Carolina,
during the year 1866, compared with the
product of the whole United States in the
same year, compiled from official returns
for the Banker's Magazine. New York, and
published in the September number of that
work :
YEAR 1866. GEORGIA. UNITED STATES.
Coin, bushels 15,635,909 867,940,295
Wheat, ’u5he15........ 1,272,456 151,999,906
Rye, bushels 69,319 20,864,944
Oats, bushels 985.453 268.141,077
Barley, bushels 11,745 11, 38,078
Buckwheat, bushels... 1,922 22,791.839
Potatoes, bushels 258,221 107,200 976
Tobacco, pounds 1,195,113 388,128,6*4
Hay, tons 46,448 21,778,627
Georgia, at the last census, was the
eleventh State in population, having
1,057,286, or 3.36 per cent, of the whole.
Georgia produced a crop of 263,373 bales
of cotton in 1865-6, against 525,210 bales
in 1860 ; but is deficient in all the crops
above named.
YEAR 1860. SOUTH CAROLINA. UNITED STATES.
Corn, bushels 0,026,242 867,946,295
Wheat bushels ( 42,815 151,999,916
Rye, bushels 53,454 2 i,864,944
Oats, bushels 605,881 268 141,077
Barley, bushels none 11,238,078
Buckwheat, bushels. none . 22,791,839
Potatoes, bushels.... 158,714 107,200,976
Tobacco, pounds 22,200 388,128,684
Hay, tons 70,069 21,778,627
South Carolina had in 1860 a population
of 703,708, or 2.24 per cent, of the whole
United States. In the articles above enu
merated the State depends materially on the
North. Cotton and rice arc the main crops,
the former yielding 510,109 bales in 1860,
and 113,218 bales in 1865-’6.
Official Agricultural Report—The Crops of
the United States,
The Department of Agriculture lias just
issued its report for August, anil September,
which contains the following statement of the
condition of tlie crops as compared witli those
ot 1860. The tables for September pertain
chiefly to the state of the fall crops as far as
heard from.
Wheat. —From the August returns it Appears
that, there is a uniform reduction iri the general
averages of wheat as compared with the July
figures, aud the September estimates, when
harvested, as compared with the crops ol 1866,
drop the figures somewhat lower in a number
of the States, attributable, to a considerable ex
tent, to bad weather while harvesting, as well
as to the fact that in some sections the grain
was found to be shriveled, and thrashed out less
to the acre than was anticipated. The leading
wheat-growing States report the following per
centage of increase at the close of harvest:
Ohio, 130 per cent, Indiana 50, Michigan 33,
Wisconsin 17, Minnesota 25, Illinois 15, lowa,
20, Missouri 10, Kentucky 31, West Virginia6o,
,Virginia 50, Tennessee JO, Georgia SO, Arkansas
45, New York 14, Pennsylvania *O, while only
Kansas and Texas show a failling off from last
year, when the crops in those States were very
largt The returns due October Ist will enable
the department to estimate with a greater de
gree.of accuracy the amount of this great crop
t(K the current year.
d-'Corn,—The prospect for a corn crop con
tinues to improve, and if frost holds off the
general crop may be a fair one ; while a number
of the States return low estimates, others, par
ticularly the Southern States, show a marked
increase overj.be yield 'of last year. Qeprgja
promises double her crop of 1866; Alabama re
ports an increase of 75 per cent.; Mississippi
80 ; Tennessee 21; Louisiana 40 ; South Caro
lina 54, and Arkansas 100. Ohio falls off 30 per
cent, from crops of Inst year, estimated from
the condition of the crop on the Ist of Septem
ber; Indiana 17; Illinois 14; Kentucky 28;
West Virginia 15, and Virginia IQ.
Cottop.—The cotton crop promised well up
to the first instant, when worms were making
their appearance, aud much apprehension was
then felt in various sections for the safety of
the crop. Under the head of “ Extracts from
Correspondence ” we give notes from the sev
eral cotton growing States. At the close of our
returns Georgia promised to yiefcl 53 pej cent,
of her crop of 1866 ; South Carolina, 50 ; Ala
bama, 4? J Mississippi, 24; Arkansas, 18, aud
Teuuessee, 9; while Louisiana and Texas show
a considerable falling off from last year’s crop.
Rye, barley aud oats exhibit no material
change from previous reports, though oats
were severely injured in some sections by ex
treme wet weather during harvest, but general
ly the crop appears superior to tnat of 1866.
Buckwheat shows an average in ac'fps, jyith
prospect of a fair crop.
Potatoes are rotting badiy in many of the
large potato growing States, and the crop will
probably fall below that of fast year.
Sugar Caue and Sorghum.—The leading su
gar producing States show a fair increase over
the crop of 1866. Sorghum is evidently on the
decline in most of the States, without sufficient
reason. The crop now growing is in good con
dition.
Apples and Peaches. —in some States the ap
ple crop promises well, but in a majority the
yield will be from 10 to 40 per cent, -below the
crop of 1886. Peaches were much injured by
rains in July and August, and orchards which
promised well early in the season have proved
entire failures. With the exception of a few
States the crop is grown for home consumption
Or local markets, which fact, together with the
irregularity of yield in different seasons, ren
der it difficult to reduce the various estimates
to average for the State, though we include the
figures.
Hay shows au increase iu almost every State,
and quite large in many of them. Pennsylva
nia returns an Increase of 50 per cent.. New
York 24, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois 28,
Maryland 26. The general average will reach
from 25 to 30 per cent, above the crop of 1866.
The wool clip will probably fall from 5 to 10
per cent, short of the crop of 1866, attributable
to the severe weather of last winter, and conse
quent exposure and destruction of a large num
ber of sheep. .
Masonry and the Cburchhs.— The Green
field church, in the Presbytery of Chillicothe,
Ohio, having suspended a member for joining
the masonic order, an appeal was taken to the
Presbytery. This body, by a vote of fifteen to
ten, sustained the appeal, and restored the party
appealing to the communion of the church A
resolution was also adopted that the Presby
tery, in so doing, did not wish to express ap
probation of the order of masons, or any other
secret society.
Wile and I were looking at some pictures
in which little naked angels were quite con
spicuous. She called the attention of our wee
daughter to them, and remarked: “ Lizzy
dear, if you are a good girl, and go to heaven’
you will be like these angels.” Lizzy looked
up, with a lip that told at once she didn’t appre
ciate the promise, and said : “ 1 want to be
better dressed than that when I go to heaven !”
Tennesgee is expecting an invoice of English
farmers.
[From the lxindon Times, September 17.
The Pan-Anglican Synod.
The London Times on the Council—Anglican
Bishops Beyond England—The Synod Ac
complishing Nothing.
The Pan-Anglican Synod, as it has been
rather idly termed, is certainly in one re
spect an interesting assembly. It illus
trates the remarkable manner in which the
English Church lias been recently copied
in communities of English descent. The
Bishop of Louisiana in the address we re
ported yesterday, observed that before the
Declaration of Independence there was not
a single Anglican Bishop on the American
continent. He has discovered indeed that
this omission was the chief cause of the
success of the United States in their revolt
from our allegiance. If this he a tradition
of American episcopacy it must be regard
ed, we fear, as another instance of the “ nn
historieal ” character of theologians. It is
to be hoped this is not an instance of the
way in which history has been manufac
tured by religious writers. However, the
fact remains, that within a century there
was not a single Anglican Bishop beyond
these realms. There are now no less than
forty-three bishops of the Protestant Epis
copal Church in the United States, deriving
their succession from our own bishops, and
as many as forty-eight bishops* in our colo
nies. A certain class of churchmen has
had quite a passion of late years for export
ing bishops from the- mother country.
Some of these have taken root. Seme have
found the climate ungenial, and have either
died out or are lingering through a hope
less stage of decline. What may be the
result with these forty-eight bishops re
mains to be seen. However, there they
are—a little copy 7 of the Church of Eng
land sent out from home, like an iron
church, “ to be put together on the spot.”
The result that this episcopate- now out
numbers our own. * * * What re
mains, then, to justify all this apparatus of
special services and prayers issued by
archiepiscopal authority, and the ambitious
title of Pan-Anglican Synod ? Nothing, it
seems, but a few details of diocesan ar
rangements, for which, after all, the assem
bly is not competent. There is, it is true,
another purpose much spoken of by the
promoters of the Synod. It is the reunion
of Christendom and the furtherance of “ in
tercommunion.” It is hard to see what the
Synod is to contribute toward this object.
The mother and the daughters retain their
affection for each other, but it is not appa
rent how th° spectacle of domestic affection
can be regared as any sign of general
friendship. The family may be very happi
ly united at home without having made
any r advance toward a union with other
families. The truth is that here again the
Synod has debarred itself from the only
subject which would advance its purpose.
Christendom was divided originally by dif
ferences of doctrine, and if it is to be again
united it must be by again recovering a
substantial unity of doctrine. This is the
point to which all endeavors are and must
be directed. We cannot but feel some cu
riosity, therefore, whether or no the bishops
feel quite satisfied with their position. The
Synod will meet with its hands tied. It is
to promote reunion without touching the
real causes of disunion. Irreverent persons
might deem it a scheme for doing good to
the world by looking solemn, just as the
outward semblance of solemnity is suppos
ed to have a good effect on little children.
Is such a spectacle edifying? Might not
the bishops have done more their object if,
according to their first resolution, they 7 had,
“ each for himself,” given all their energies
to promote the better understanding of the
faith in their own dioceses? The days
are gone by for the mere show of authority 7
to maintain the most respectable system in
the world. The only support for a church
in these times lies in “ manifestation of the
truth,” and that is a task which the Synod
lias been compelled to decline.
[Special Dispatch to the Boston Post.
The Grand Army Conspiracy Against the
South and the Government,
Washington, September 23.—Important ad
ditional facts have come to light pointing to the
treasonable purposes of the Grand Army of
the Republic. At the convention of the “ loyal
Governors” anil other Radicals in Philadelphia,
on the 13th of September last, a committee of
two from each of the States was appointed, and
this committee appointed a sub-committee on
the politieal situation, consisting of Geti. Ben.
Butler, Gov. Harriman, of New Hampshire;
Gen. Seigel, Seuator Ross, of Kansas; Gen.
Schenck, of Ohio ; Col. Hawkins, of New York,
and George W. Paschal, of Texas.
This sub-committee met with the Soldiers’
Convention at Pittsburg, in October following,
and there aided in organizing the Grand Army
of the Republic.
As it was apprehended that the President's
policy would restore the political power of the
rebel States to the Southern whites, this sub
committee was specially charged to take all
necessary steps to defeat such a result. It was
determined that the Southern “loyalists,” in
cluding the negroes, should hold all power and,
when necessary, should be supposed by this
secret army, the members of which were to be
educated up to the point that no change of ad
ministration and no change in Congressional
power was allowed to interfere with this negro
supremacy. As showing the animus of this
treasonable body as organized at Pittsburg, it
is only necessary to allude to the speech made
by one of the members while in secret session.
Ho said be knew “ but little aud cared less
about politics, but that he would bed and if
the war should close uutil every rebel was out
ot office in the South.”
My informant was . present at the meeting,
and reports that this declaration was received
with great applause. Tlios* who doubt the
truth of this statement can have it verified by
inquiring of either member of the sub-commit
ted, aii of whom were actively engaged in in
stilling the idea into such of the veteran sol
diers as they could entrap, that what they
fought for would be lost if the policy of Presi
dent Johnson should succeed, and negro supre
macy in the South would be defeated. Since
the adjournment of the Pittsburg Convention,
this Grand Army of the Republic has swollen
to gigantic proportions, at an expenditure of
nearly two hundred thousand dollars. Sot
only has the enrolment been progressing stead
ily and rapidly among’the negroes at the South,
but the militia of several of the Northern States
have beeu officered iu a manner looking spe
cially to the crisis, when the State troops may
be needed “ outside of the Constitution.”
If this fact be questioned, I respectfully re
fer to Governor Fenton, of New York, who
can tell why Col. Hawkins, late of the Hawkins
Zouaves, and a member of the eub-cofgrnittty,
was placed at the head of tfte' tpilUia organiza
tion of his State. One reference as respectable
as this will suffice, but several others can be
given. In view of the late election results an
other meeting of the oiiginators of the scheme
is proposed to t held for the purpose of re
ceiving the, reports from recruiting and othe.f
offices, and for perfecting their plans Os resist
ance to the Government authorities. These
facts are not less true than startling, and I have
the witnesses who can prove them.
A Double Bereavement. —One of
those heart-rending incidents always at
tendant upon epidemics such as the one
now prevailing, has come to our knowl
edge. During the past week a child who,
with its mother, was visiting some rela
tives at Pass Christian, fell sick and died.
Word was immediately sent to the father
in this city, informing him of his child’s
death, and with the expectation that he
would go over at once. The boat returned
next day to the Pass, but the father did not
come, nor was there even anything heard
fi-om him in reply. Another letter was
written, bat with the same result. But, ou
the third clay, the distracted mother re
ceived the intelligence that her husband
was dead and buried, having been attacked
and carried off by the yellow fever; aud
that, besides being childless, she was a
widow. Thus, in one day, as it were, hus
band aud child had been taken away by the
fell destroyer, leaving the once happy wife
and mother to weep alone for those who
are gone.— Crescent.
Religious Revival.— Quite an interesting
meeting was in progress at Auraria last week,
under the direction of Rev. John K. Murphy,
Pastor of the Baptist Church at this place, and
Rev. T. A. Reed, son of Wm. P- Reed, of this
county. The meeting resulted in the addition
to the ehurch of about fifteen persons, who re
ceived the Ordinance of baptism, by Mr. Reed,
on the Etowah river, below Auraria, on Sun
day evening last.
An interesting meeting is going on here, anil
several eminent divines are expected to be in
attendance. A good feeling seems to be
aroused among our citizens, aud it is hoped
that much good will result from the meeting.
Services will be held to-day and to-morrow, at
the Baptist Church, —Dahlonega Signal.
Two pretty nieces of the late Gen. Philip
Kearney arc about to marry the Hon. Messrs.
Wellesley and Fane, gentlemen of the English
aristocracy. Each of the young ladies, besides
owning immense estates in New Jersey, Is
worth $5Q,000 a year in her own right.
By the Dead.
You are gone away, away!
Here the tabernacling clay—
But the shutters now are fast,
And the door has swung Its last;
And the cold body lies quite still
Asa snow-drift on the hill.
Are you really gone away?
Did you love me night and day.
Are you gone ? I kiss your eyes,
. But they flutter not to rise ;
Long I whisper in your ear—
You would speak if you were here.
You are gone, sweet spirit, where ?
Are you near me in the air—
All invisible to me—
Yet my weeping do you see,
And lean downward close and low,
Watching wistful where I go ?
Do you feel heat of the sun—
Chill of night when day is done—
Clammy touch of drifting snow ?
Hear the wild winds when they blow—
Fluttering leaves and falling rain—
Rivers running through the plain '(
Do you see the purple beatli
On the cliffs, and undemen' h
Azure sr-as and yellow sands,
Poppied cornfields on the lands—
Or is earth its sight and sound
So much loose mist coiling round ?
When at night upon my bed,
Seeking sleep, 1 find instead
Some strange coldness on the brow,
Feel it comiag—goipg now—
Is your presence in the place,
And your breath upon my face?
When by day I take my stand,
Working steady head and hand, *
Comes a warm th'ill to my sou',
Spreading swittly through the whole—
Are you there with touch intense,
Flashing through the bars of sense ?
This I know not, but I know
You are gone from all below;
You will suffer no more pain,
Never weep or grieve again—
I am glad that this is known,
Though I stay here all alone.
You are with the angels, dear,
And they tell you not to fear;
Though surpassing glories blind
Mortal eye and mortal mind ;
And they teach you what to do
In the land with all things new.
I must try to follow on *
To the heaven that you have won ;
I remember what you said,
And the path you bid me tread—
Though I cannot see you near,
I shall think you see me here.
You are gone away, awa> !
Pass the night and pass the day,
We shall meet in that swett place,
Hand in hand, and face to face—
With the resting, there to rest,
With the blessed to he best.
- [ Chambers' Journal.
A Wonderful Story.
The following log-book story may seem
to some almost incredible, and it has lost
nothing of that quality by age and repeti
tion!
In the course of the voyage, that dreadful
disease, the ship fever, broke out among the
crew. One of the sailors, among the first
victims, was accompanied by his sou, a lad
of fourteen years, who was strongly attach
ed to his father, and remained with him
day and night, and never could be persuaded
to leave him for a moment.
A large shark was seen every day follow
ing the vessel, evidently for the purpose of
devouring any one who should die and be
committed to the deep.
After lingering a few days, the sailor died'
As was the custom at sea, he was sewed up’
in a blanket, and for the purpose of sinking
him an old grindstone and a carpenter’s axe
were put in with him. The very impressive
service of the Episcopal Church was then
read and the body committed to the deep.
The poor boy, who had watched the pro
ceedings closely, plunged in after his father,
when the enormous shark swallowed them
both.. The second day after this dreadful
scene, as the shark continued to follow the
vessel, (for there were others sick in the
ship,) one of the sailors proposed, as they
had a shark hook on hand, to make an effort
to take him.
They fastened the hook to a long rope,
and baiting it with a piece of pork, threw
it into the sea, and the shark instantly
swallowed it. Having thus hooked him,
by means of a windlass they hoisted him
on board. After he was dead they prepar
ed to opeu him, when one of the sailors,
stooping down for that purpose, suddenly
paused, and after listening a lew moments,
declared most solemnly he heard a low gut
teral sound, which appeared to proceed
from the shark. The sailors, after enjoying
a hearty laugh at his expense, proceeded to
listen for themselves, when they heard a
similar sound. They then proceeded to
open the shark, when the mystery was ex
plained.
It appears that the sailor was not dead,
but in a trance; and his son, on making
this discover}' when inside the shark, had,
by means of a knife, ripped open the blan
ket. Having thus liberated his father, they
both went to work and righted up the old
grindstone—the boy was turning, the fath
er was holding the old ship carpenter’s axe,
sharpening it for the purpose of cutting
their way out of their Jonah-like prison,
which occasioned the noise heard by the
sqilor. As it was the hottest season of the
year, and very little air stirring where they
were at work, they were both sweating tre
mendously.
The Pan-Anglican Synod. —The special
services in connection with the Synod com-
Uicuced on Saturday afternoon, the 13th of
September, in the Church of St. Lawrence
Jewry, Guildhall, one of the largest and hand
somest churches it) the city of London. The
Bishop ol London was first a ivertised to preach
the opening sermon, but in consequence of his
indisposition the duty devolved upon theßight
Rev. Dr. L. Polk, Bishop of Louisiana. Four
o’clock was the hour appointed for the service,
and at that hour the church was crowded. Tne
congregation is said to haye been the largest
ever assembled on a week day in the city,
except on some national special service at St.
Paul’s Cathedral. At (lie sound of the organ a
procession emerged from the northwest corner
of the church, and moved slowly down the aisle,
about sixty choristers in surplices singing the
processional hymn : “ The Bon of God goes
forth to war.” The Lord Bishop of Louisiana,
U. 8., followed, attended by about thirty clergy
men in their robes :
In the evening a second service was held, and
the sermon preached by the Rev. W. Cad man,
one of the most popular London preachers.
On Sunday, the 15th, the services were re
sumed. The Bishop of Antigua preaching in
the morning, and the Bishop of Nnv Zealand
in the evening.
On the Itjth there were three set vices at the
same chpreli, the preachers ttie Bishops of Ni
agara, British Columbia and Ontario.
On the 17th the Bishops ol Buibadoos, La
baun and Rupert’s Land were to preach.
On the 18th the Bishop of Honolulu, Bishop
Twells, of the Orange Free State, and Bishop
Poser, ol the Central African Mission.
On the 19th the Bishop of Arkansas, the
Bisppp of Vermont, and flip Bishop of New
York.
On Sunday, the 23d, the Bishop of Rhode Is
land was to preach gt 'l'rinity Church, Footing;
the Bishop of lowa at St. Ann’s, Highgnte ; the
Bishop of Montreal at Curron Chapel, Mayfair;
the Bishop of Alabama at St. Peter’s. Beloize
Park ; the Bishop of Quebec at St. Thomas’,
Stamford Hill, &c., &c.
Two of the United States Bishop? were also
to preach at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, and
the Chapel Royal St. James’, to both of which
the public are admitted.
The Savannah Niggek Riot.—ln our issue
ol yesterday morning we mentioned that seve
ral arrests were made after the Chippewa
Square demonstration. The parties arrested
were committed to the barracks and brought
up before the Slayov yesterday morning.
Lieut. Bell, who was in charge of the bar
racks when the prisoners were brought in, pre
sented a miscellaneous assortment of pistols of
various descriptions, razors, knives, powder
and caps, which had been taken from the prjs,
oaers.
There were sixteen of them brought up to
answer, all of wnorn professed perfect inno
cence. Not one acknowledged that he knew
where Bradley lived, or that he had anything
to' do with him. The evidence, however, show
ed that each one was a participant in the crowd
which refused to disperse at the command of
the police.
Wm. Johnson resisted the arresting officer,
and was sentenced to serve days at the
United ,States barracks.
Jim Habersham, Albert Gibbons and Jim
Harris were each sentenced to thirty days.
Cornelia Thompson and Maria Habersham,
who were influential in raising a disturbance,
were each fined six dollars or twenty days ip
jail.
The other negroes who were arraigned, hav
ing only been present out of curiosity, and
proving good characters, were dismissed after
an admonition from the Mayor as to the evil of
being found in bad company. His Honor
considered that they had been already suffi
ciently punished by being locked up since two
o’clock the day before.
One exception was made against John Brown,
who had recently come from Augusta, and re
sisted the officer who arrested him. He was
fined five dollars.— Advertiser , 2d.
A tender-hearted railway engineer says he
never runs over a man when he can help it,
" because it musses up the track so.”
Bale Rope vs. Iron Ties.—At the request of
a merchant we publish the following article, on
this question, from the Missouri Republican ,
as before stated. We express no opinion on
the question :
A question of considerable pecuniary import
ance to persons interested in the cotton busi
ness, is, “ Which should have the preference,
bale rope’or iron ties, for binding or baling cot
ton ?” We have instituted careful inquiries on
the subject, and have ascertained certain facts
which satisfy us that both the planter and the
factor will find the advantages are decidedly in
favor of the rope. We have before us letters
from leading cotton brokers in New York and
Liverpool, from which we learn the following
facts:
1. No loss is suffered by life tare on ro >e
bound cotton in the New York market. But
iron-bound cotton suffers a loss ot two pounds
tare per bale.
2. Iron bound bales are liable to rust. It is
the custom of the trade to demand that all cot
ton stained by rust elia 1 first, be picked off. To
do this the bale must be opened. The iron
ties are cut, and ns they caunot be used to re-tie
the bale without a press, rope must be bought.
A triple expense thus falls on the planter or
the shipper, through the use of iron ties. He
loses the value of the cotton stained and picked
off, the price of his iron ties which after beiug
cut are worthless, and incurs the cost of rope.
3. The leading cotton brokers of Liverpool,
in a letter written in response to inquiries upon
the subject, write that “ the rope bound bales
are much preferred,” by the spinuers. They
say : “ Were there two lots of cotton of equal
quality aud value before us, the one rope bound
and the other iron bound, we should certainly
give the lonner the preference, for by so doing
we should only be carrying out the instructions
of our spinners.”
The spinners complaiu of the difficulty of
opening the iron bound bales, because so tight.,
ly rivited, aud ot the danger there is of firing
the cotton in strikiug off the hoops. They
find, too, that the ropes of rope bound bales
can be disposed ot at a fair price, while the old
iron hoops are worthless.
These are the statements of the highly re
sponsible cotton brokers of Liverpool, Messrs.
Fairc’ough, Howell & Sons, Williams & Cos.,
aud Williams <fc Buckley. Messrs. William
Bryce & Cos , among the best known and most
highly responsible of l1 "' cotton brokers of
New York, after enumerating certain facts
showing the disadvantages of iron ties, aud the
superior economy and profit ot rope, say :
la our own business we have found that
when good machine rope wis used, such as the
best Missouri or Kentucky; there was no diffi
culty from bursting bauds and loss of weight,
although we have handled many thousand
bales, "aud some of them were transported
through long and rough routes, where they had
to be handled many limes. During the past
season we have had so much trouble in deliv
ering cotton with iron bauds that we would
strongly advise onr planter friends to use the
best quality of hemp rope in preference to iron
bands.”
But one advantage is already claimed for
iron ties, and that is in ease of fire. —
But this is by no means free from doubt.
A few bales, placed where tho air can circu
late around them, to keep the iron cool,
would perhaps realize the benefit from iron ties.
But in the presses, warehouses, steamboats and
ships where cotton is stored in mass, iron ties
are of no special service in case of fire. This is
asserted by those who have learned it by costly
experience. In such conflagrations the iron
bands soon become red hot and communicate
fire. Under the heat they weaken aud burst,
giving the entire bale to the free action of fire,
while rope-hound cotton in the same fire, pro
tected by rope which burns, with surprising
slowness, will burn through and through before
the ropes will yield to the action of fire and
break. Facts like the foregoing, viewed intel
ligently, lead to but one conclusion. The pref
erence is to be given to rope for baling cotton.
In the matter of first cost, iron has but an in
considerable .advantage over it; and that small
advantage is entirely lost, iu the two pound tare
demanded upon iron-bound cotton. That tare
amounts to fifty cents per bale, which is equiv
alent to a discrimination of five or six cents per
pound against iron ties —that is, rope at 15
cents per pound is as cheap to the planter as
iron ties at 9or 10 cents. Adding to this the
considerations named, that rope-bound cotton
is subject to no loss from tare, none from rust,
none from the necessity of rebinding, and that
it enjoys the preference in the great markets of
the world, and reasons enough appear for de
termining the quetfion with which we started
in favor of rope for ties.
Gov. Swann has duly proclaimed the adop
tion of the new constitution of Maryland. He
states the certified vote at 46,152 for, 23,036
against the constitution, with 27 blank ballots,
and declares that a majority of votes having
been cast for the constitution adopted by the
convention at Annapolis, on the 17th of August
last, it will go into effect as the proper consti
tution and form of government of the State
(superseding the one now existing) on Satur
day, the sth day of October.
No JODGE YET IN THE OCMULGEE CIRCUIT.—
The business of Baldwin court was but par
tially disposed of, says the Southern Recorder.
No court in Putnam last week, nor can we hear
or there likely being any in the county of Wil
kinson next week. A criminal lies in jail at
considerable expense to the county, who ought
to be tried. Then Jones and Jasper courts fol
low each week successively.
A New Express Company.— The railroad
and steamship companies between New York
and New Orleans have organized an Express
Company to be called the Railroad and Steam
ship Express Company, which will commence
operations in that line of business early in
October. President Wadley, of the Georgia
Central road, is now in New York arranging
the details and laying iq stock for the com
pany. An office has already been opened in
that city, and the necessary wagons, horses and
equipments have been purchased, and are prob
ably now on their way South. The business of
the company will extend from New York to
Mobile and New Orleans via Savannah, and ar
rangements arc bciug perfected with all the rail
road lines intervening for receiving and for
warding freight. ft is proposed to charge a
small per cent, over the usual rates of transpor
tation on all goods, thus aftbiding the public
all the privileges of Express transportation and
at a greatly reduced cost. The formation of
this company will be hailed with pleasure by
the merchants of the South and business men
generally. It has been a desideratum so com
merce, and is in the hands oi meu who have
peculiar facilities for making it successful.
Competition is the file of trade, and we are
glad to see it inaugurated In this particular
branch of business,' The Adams Express,
which has proved a powerful and effective
transportation agent and a great public conve
nience, in spite of its political proclivities, (we
are willing to do it full justice,) will doubtless
continue its operations, thus producing a
healthy check that wifi guard the public against
impositions. —Charleston yews.
It is again asserted by a cable dispatch that,
the Japanese are cruelly persecuting the native
Christians. Since the re-evtablishment of a
friendly intercourse between Japan and the
Christian countries, the opinion has gained
ground that there still are in the country many
thousands of Christians descendants of the mar
tyrs who perished for their faith in the sixteenth
century. The Governments of the Christian
nations will, of course, not fail to intercede in
Behalf ol the sufferers.
A startling leLter from Marshal Baznine is
published in the Liberal papers of France. It
is a confidential circular t.o the officers of the
French army, in which he directs them to make
no prisoners, but to put to death all the cap
tured Liberals. As the Government orgaue do
not deny the authority of the document, it
seems to be genuine. If so, it is the most
powerful defense of Juarez which has yet been
published.
“ The Beautiful.”— This is the subject of
an address delivered at the Louisville Academy,
Louisville, Ga., on the 96th of July ult., by
Rev. Armenlus Wright, of this city. Pub
lished at the request of the Trustees. The sub
ject i3 treated in a scholarly and poetic manner
and is eminently worthy of preservation it has
received at the hands of the” art preservative.”
Fkost. —One of the oldest inhabitants pre
dicts we will not have frost until the 16th of
November. He says the first fog precedes the
frost sixty days, and asserts that the first fog
was noticed on the 16th ult.
BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
"Prom Washington.
Washington, October 2.
Headquarters of the Ahmy, Adjutant
General’s Office, October I.—To avoid risk
of yellow Jever, officers now absent from their
command, who are serving in the fifth mili
tary district are authorized to remain absent
until further notice from this office. By com
mand of Gen. Grant.
K. D. Townsend, A. A. G.
Mower telegraphs Grant the election passed
off quietly throughout Louisiana.
Treasury clerks now work from 9 to 4
o’clock.
Revenue to-day SIOI,OOO.
The Crow Indians refuse to meet the Com
missioners at Laramie in November.
Thousand pounds of bullion were recently
shipped from Gold Hill, Nevada.
The Merchants' Union Express safe at
Brownsville, Nebraska was plundered of
$15,000.
. The Massachusetts Democrats have nominat
ed John Quiucy Adams for Governor and Geo.
M. Stearns for Lieut. Governor.
Two hundred and nineteen towns wore repre
sented by 903 delegates. Unusual enthusiasm
prevailed.
The Branch Mint at Charlotte, N. 0., will
soon he put in full operation for assaying pur
poses only. Mr. Jones, the Assnyer, now here
represents that operations' have recommenced
in miues neglected during the war, and that
receipts are on the increase, not only from lo
calities in North Carolina lint from contiguous
States.
The Secretary of State has letters reporting
the discovery of pure Anthwaeitc coal in Rus
sian America.
Prom Richmond.
Richmond, October 2.
Congressman Shanks, of Indiana, would have
addressed flic blacks this evening. He said he
spoke as one of a parly who had power when lie
said the Southern States been in ihe Union long
ago il they had given rights lo ihe blacks, anil
would never get in till they did. Johnson, if guil
ty would be impeached, and eveu with the aid of
the Maryland rebel militia, which was arming,
would be powerless to do anything. The men
of the North were ready at the tap of the drum
to quell him and militia. He predicted
30,000 majority in Ohio for the Republicans.
Alex. Rives and a colored man were nominat
ed by the Republicans of Albemarle lor Con
vention yesterday. Last night they were burnt
in effigy by »he opposition.
Foreign.
[BY CABLE. |
Florence, October 2.
Quite a serious riot of Garibuldians at Viterbo
has been quelled.
Paris, October 2.
Much distrust exists in political and financial
circles.
Rouber, the Foreign Secretary, Savallette, (he
Home Secretary, and Nigra, the Italian Minis
ter to France, left for Biaritz to confer with
the Emperor.
Vienna, October 2.
Francis Joseph .visits Paris 20th October.
Cable Summary.
New York, October 2.
The Pan-Anglican Synod lias issuod an ad
dress condemning ritualism and popery
urging the unity of the church.
Garibaldi declines giving his parole.
It is reported Napoleon has issued a calmly
worded note to the South German Sovereign:;,
asking pledges against the union of North Ger
many.
Foreign.
| BY STEAMER. |
New York, October 2.
The Scotia, with dates to the 22d ult., lias
arrived.
The Tunes says : Bruces’ deatli is a peculiar
misfortune pending the present intricate deli
cate negotiations with the Government. Not
always disposed to approach Great Britain in a
spirit of generosity and forbearance, the posi
tion is most onerous, and each occupant finds
his labor more exacting than his processor.
Hon. Jonathan Sturges, A. T. Stuart, Judge
Hilton and Bishop Baylcy, arrived on the
Scotia.
From New Orleans.
New Orleans, October 2.
The interments from yellow fever, up to f>
o’clock this morning, were 54.
Iu the case of the old and new School Boards,
Judge Duplantier decided the new board was
appointed when no vacancy existed. The reso
lutions of Council, repealing all ordinances
touching public schools, were null, because they
conflicted with the act of the Legislature, and
were in violation of charter, because passed by
both boards the same day. The Judge decreed
the new board not qualified, and the members
are forbidden to perform the duties of School
Directors of public schools in New Orleans.
No appeal will be taken.
From Charleston.
Charleston, October 2.
Gen. Canby has issued an order prohibiting
provost courts from exercising jurisdiction in
any case involving the title of land, or in any
civil cause where the claim exceeds three hun
dred dollars. He has also signified his inten
tion to modify General Sickles’ order closing
bar rooms throughout the second district.
From Alabama.
Mobile, October 2.
The second days vote stands, blacks, 820 ;
whites, 24 ; and with very few exceptions, for
convention. There were no disturbances what
ever.
From Alabama.
Montgomery, October 2.
Two days’ voting in Montgomery, 4,589. —
First day in Selina, 3,300; first day in Opelika,
150; first day in Wetumpka, 1,000. All for
Convention.
From INT ashville.
Nashville, October 2.
A slight frost was noticed yesterday morning.
Marine News.
New York, October 2.
Arrived —Albemarle, Richmond ; Champion,
Charleston.
Savannah. October 2.
Arrived—Steamers Alabama, New York ; Al
liance, Philadelphia ; schooners J. R. John,
Philadelphia; N. W. Smith, New York ; S. R
Jameson, Roekport.
Sailed—Brig J. A. Devereaux, Boston.
Markets.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
London, October I—Evening.
Consols, 94 3-16; bonds, 72%. Sugar, 25@26.
Liverpool, October I—Evening.
Cotton closed steady; sales, 12,000 bales ;
prices are unchanged. Manchester advices are
favorable.
New York, October 2— Noon.
Stocks irregular. Gold advanced, 144. Sterl
ing unsettled ; time nominally 9%@9% ; sight,
9>g@9%. ’62 coupons, 13. Tennessee sixes,
new issue, 64%. Virginia sixes, 58.
New York, October 3—Noon.
Flour 10(3115 better. Wheat B@fi better. Corn
I@l% better. Rye very firm. Oats dull. Pork
firmer at #24. Lard steady. Whisky quiet.—
Cotton quiet at 22. Freights quiet. Turpen
tine quiet at 58%. Ro6in dull; strained, #4.
New York, October 2—P. M.
Money active; call loans fully 7. Gold closed
firm. Governments closed quiet and fraction
lower.
Sub-Treasury to-day sold 1,000,000 bonds and
bought 1,000,000 Seven-thirties. Sub-Treasury
balance, 114,000,000.
New York, October 2—P. M.
Cotton active; sales, 3,200 bales at 22. Flour
active; State, #8 65@10 90; Southern, #lO 5°
@l4 25. Wheat buoyant; white Michigan,
*3 95@3 07%. Corn active; mixed Western,
II 29%@1 S3. Provisions steady Groceries
limn Naval storps dull. Freights firm.
Louisville. October 2.
Floui active; superfine, #B. Corn unchanged,
new cotton, 12. Pork, f24. Bacon—shoulders, j
14%; clear tides, 18. Lard, 13%,
Baltimore, October 2.
Cotton—rather better feeling ; small sales {
low middling, 21 ; middling, 22@22%. Flour
Sluggish ; shipping superfine, $9 75@10 50.
Wheat stronger ; prime to choice, $2 55@2 65;
receipts light. Corn scarce; white, $1 27@
128 ; yellow, $1 33 @ l 35. Oats steady; prime,
70@72. Rye steady at 40@47. Provisions—
lair Southern demand ; quotations unchanged.
Cincinnati, October 2.
Flour firmer with a fair demand. Corn dull
and lower; No. 1 shelled, 96. Whisky uomb
nally unchanged. Provisions firmer and held
higher. Clear bacon sides advanced % ; there
were buyers but no sellers at 17% at close. Lard
in good demand at 13%.
MobiT.e, October 2.
Cotton-Sales, 750 bales ; receipts, 1,893
bales ; demaud chiefly better lor all grades ;
closed quiet and steady at 18@18% for mid
dlings.
New Orleans, October 2.
Cotton —Sales, 1,15 Q bales ; demand more
general and supply increasing ; prices easier ;
low middling, 18@18% ; receipts, SSB bales’.
Flour firm with upward tendency; triple extra,
SIL 75 ; choice extra, sl4. Corn firm and un
changed. Oats—prime, 80. Pork firm at S2O
@2O 25. Bacon—fair jobbing demaud; should
ers, 15 ; clear sides, 19 ; sugar cured hams, 26%
@27. Lard very firm ; tierces, 15; kegs, 16.
Gold quiet at 143%@143%. Sterling, 54%@
58. New York sight, %@% discount.
Savannah, October 2.
Cotton active ; sales, 376 bales ; middlings,
18%@19; receipts, 1,400 bales.
Charleston, October 2.
Cotton active and somewhat firmer; sales
150 bales ; middling, 18%@18% ; receipts, 490
bales.
Augusta Market,
Office Daily Constitutionalist, ;
Wednesday, October 2-i>: M. (
FINANCIAL
GOLD—Brokers buying at 142 and selling at 144.
SlLVEß—Buyfiig at 132 and selling at 135.
COTTON—We notice a continued avoidance of low
grades of cotton by buyers, and a good demand for
high grades, at 17 Jf for New York middlings and 18
for strict to good and middling fair, of which very lit
tie of the latter is on ihe market, all offering being be
ing below middling. Sales to-day amounted to 368
bales, as follows: 1 at lg, 11 at 16, 2at 16)£, Bat 10X,
28 at 17, 37 at 17if, 15 at 17X, 88 at 17«, and 28 bales
at 18. Receipts, 625 bales.
WHEAT—Red, $2 30@2 50; white, 82 40@2 60.
CORN—White, $1 60@1 05 ; yellow and mixed,
$1 46@1 50.
BACON—Shoulders, 16X@17; li. sides, C.
R. sides, C. sides, 20@20>f ; liams, 22@25.
River News.— No'arrivals or departures. River
at the bridge 3 feet 5 inches.
From Washington.
[Special Dispatch to tho Baltimore Sun.
PACIFIC RAILROAD DIRECTORS—THE CANVASS
IN OHIO—DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS—THE PRE
SIDENT’S RILEY LETTER—INTERESTING PER
SONAL MATTERS, &C.
Washington, September 29.
The President has appointed lire following
gentlemen as Government Directors of the
Union Pacific Railroad: Jesse L. Williams, of
Indiana; Timothy J. Carter, of Illinois; Jas.
S. Rollins, of Missouri, and George Ashman, of
Massachusetts.
A letter received here to-day from a promi
nent citizen of Ohio, who Ims just finished a
tour over that State, contains the following pa
ragraph : “ L liud the Democracy arc very san
guine of Therman’s election, and are taking all
the bets they cau get, while the Radicals are
claiming ten thousand majority. 1 think there
are strong grounds for hope, hut I fear for
success so far as the State ticket is concerned,
though lam of opinion that the Democrats
will carry the Legislature, and the negro suf
frage constitutional amendment is certain to
be rejected.”
Several journals have animadverted upon the
letter of President Johnson, recommending
one Frank Riley to the favorable consideration
of Collector Smythc as one suitable for ap
pointment in the New York custom-house.—
The letter is dated iu December last, and was
found upon the person of Riley when he was
arrested in Chicago, a few days ago, on the
charge of breaking open a safe iu Louisville,
and taking therefrom $16,000.
If is learned upon inquiry of Hie President
that the Riley to whom the letter was given
was known to Mr. Johnson whilst the latter
was Governor of Tennessee; that whilst Nash
cille was invested by the rebel army, Riley sev
eral times performed hazardous service by pass
ing the lines of the Confederates, and return
ing with most important information for Fed
erul officers. On one occasion Riley under
took this service when all others refused to at
tempt it. He came to the White House
December needy, and asked assistance, and, the
letti r above mentioned was given him.
General Slocum, of New York, General
Forest, late of the Confederate; army, were
among the arrivals in this city yesterday. The
latter Jell, last evening for the South.
The Governor of Kansas has sent a letter to
General Hancock, written upon the announce
ment that the latter had been relieved of the
command of the Department ot the Missouri,
and is a very complimentary testimonial of the
appreciation and services of the General iu the
West. Data.
Fries— Supposed Incendiary Arrested.
— lndianapolis, September 30.—Three fires oc
curred at Madison, Indiana, during the last
twenty-four hours, supposed to be the work of
incendiaries. One lumber yard, two carpenter
shops, two dwellings and one stable, contain
ing valuable horses were totally destroyed. Tho
extensive furniture warehouse of II.'F. Rob
bins, was partially destroyed. The latter was
fuiiy covered by insurance.
A man named Wilson, supposed to be the
incendiary, has been arrested.
The Pan-Anglican Synod—Dr. Oolenso’s
Writings Condemned.—London, Sunday
September 29.—During the session of the Pan-
Anglican Synod at Lambeth last week the
writings of Dr. Colenso, Bishop of Natal, on
the subject of the inspiration of the ScriDtures
were discussed and condemned.
TnE Weather and Crops. —Contrary to ex
pectation, on Saturday evening last the absent
clouds again obscured our heavens, and del
uging rains fell throughout this section; and
every evening this week heavy showers have
fallen, greatly to the detriment of every plant
ing interest.
The sugar-cane is running up luxuriantly,
and is lull of sap, but possesses but little of tho
properties of the cane usual this late in the sea
son. An early frost will prevent its sweetening,
and render it almost valueless for producing
palatable syrup. Potatoes are also injured by
the rains, the substance there is in them being
absorbed and exhausted by the demands ol tho
superabundance of vine and leaves. Peas are
said to be shedding their blooms, and really
having but little or no fruit. Much of the corn
is rotting and sprouting in the fields ami cov
ered with mud and dirt.
It is hardly necessary to include cotton in
this report; with but few exceptions this great
staple, upon which so much depeuds that is
essential to our resuscitation and happiness,
has been cut off at least onc-balf. While a very
few Yvill make two-thirds of a crop, many will
make less than one-half, and some almost noth
ing at all .—Bainbridge Argus, 28 th ult.
Large Receipts of Cotton,— The receipts
of cotton yesterday were the largest since the
season commenced—September Ist—and are
as follows : By Central Railroad, 1,418 bales ;
by Atlantic and Cult Railroad, 303 bales. Total,
I,72l'bales. Making the total receipts, since
September Ist, from all sources, 11,021 bales.
[ Savannah News, 2d.
That Conference.—“ The Georgia Con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church will
be organized in Atlanta October lOih. Bishop
Clark, of Cincinnati, presiding.”
That no one may be misled by the above no
tice sent to us for publication, by the Rev. Wes
ley Pretty man, we deem it proper to state that
the proposed organization is a politico-religious
movement, one of the purposes of which, as af
firmed by one of their church organs, Is to '‘see
that the negroes voto right.”
While we cheerfully bid God speed to all
purely religious institutions, restricting them
selves to the holy work of the mortal and re
ligious elevation of the people, we do protest
against their using religion as a cloak tor the
furtherance ot any political creed or party what
ever.
It is an unholy alliance which can result in \
no good, aud may bo productive of much evil. ■
We have already an extensive and complete "
organization ol the Methodist Church in our
midst, whose doors arc ever open to the stran
ger, and are constrained to look upon the pro-,
posed organization ns an unnecessary innova- -
lion.
It is understood in this city that the Rev.
Wesley Prettyman is a shining light In tho
Loyal Leagues of Atlanta secret political or
ganizations that are productive of no good to
white people, while they are having a fearfully
demoralizing influence upon the blacks. ...
f Atlanta Intelligencer.
Mrs. Fanny Kemble has gone to
to see her children. She first appeared In Bos
ton, with her father, John Philip Kemble,
the Tremont Theatre, in 1832, being then 21 '
years of age. Subsequently she was married to
Pierce Butler, of Georgia, (whose death was
noticed recently) from whom she was divorced* .
the affair giving rise to much scandal,