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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
ATJGHJSTA. «A.
SUNDAY MORNING. AUG. 16.1868
THE BEOOIL..
Horace Greeley has his moments of de
pression. Having shown to his heart’s con
tent that the nomination of Seymour
defeated \he Democratic party; that
Blair’s policy had utterly ruined it; that
the utterances —distorted in every instance
—of conspicuous Southern orators had de
stroyed what little vitality was left after
Seymour and Blair had finished their
sepulchral task— Horace Greeley has
been seized with a genuine fit of bines and
now confesses that Grant’s election is by
no means sure and, to elect him at all, the
hardest k'rnl of work is supremely neces
sary. So, all the fuss and fury, the exult
ant shout of triumph and the strident
laugh of security pass away, and the cold
gibbering of melancholy calculation is as
sumed. It is like the thin patter of rain
after the thunder-storm and betokens that
there was but little of earnest confidence
amid the jargon and racket which were so
vociferously kept up.
In the same proportion that Greeley
grows lugubrious, the Democratic journals
become eager and animated. The World
darted upon its antagonist the minute he
slunk away, and expedited his retreat with
a vigorous visa tergo —a terrible fire in the
rear. Alluding to Greeley’s discomfiture,
it says:
“ We are neither pleased nor sorry that
the Republican leaders have at last a real
izing sense of their weakness and insecuri
ty. Activity will no more save them than
supineness, so it matters little whether they
prosecute their campaign in a sanguine
spirit of confidence or with the spasmodic
energy of desperatjpn. In fact, everything
they have done for the last ten months is a
gympton of decrepitude, but most of all the
nomination of such a man as Gen. Grant.
Why did they go out of their party to
nominate Mm? Simply because their party
had so sunk in public confidence that they
had no hope of success with any of their
old leaders. But the nomination of Grant
has not helped them. In every election
which has been held since it was determin
ed on, the party has lost ground. And now,
after slighting all their old leaders for a
neophyte, aDd found that he is a weak can
didate, they begin to feel the necessity of
casting aside all that is most character Stic
in their policy. Observe how, in the fol
lowing paragraphs, the Tribune attempts to
befog and snift the issue :
‘“This is the real and only question,’ says
Frank Blair. ‘lt is idle to talk of bonds,
greenbacks, gold, the public faith, and the pub
lic credit. We must have a President who will
execute the will of the people by trampling
into dust the usurpations of Congress known as
the reconstruction acts. I wish to stand before
the convention upon this issue, but it is one
which embraces everything else'
“ Frank was entirely right; this is the real
and only question ; this does embrace every
thing else. Shall the constitutional amend
ment. now solemnly incorporated in the foun
dation of all our law, remain V For this
amendment is the Congressional plan of recon
struction. The subsequent measures were
adopted in order to secure the success of the
amendment; and now that the amendment has
become a part of the Constitution, and is so
proclaimed by the Secretary of State, the mili
tary bills are of no further effect; they pass out
of existence. Military rule at the South, in all
the States which have adopted the amendment,
is at an end. It was never intended to be more
than temporary, and Its aim having been ac
complished, it ceased.
“The real issue now before the people, that
which they must decide at the next Presidential
election, is—Shall the fourteenth amendment
stand as a part of the fundamental law of the
land ?”
“ Out of the general wreck of the recon
struction policy of Congress, the Tribune
deems it useless to try to save anything but
the new constitutional amendment. It
therefore represents the stability of that
amendment as the chief, and, so far as re
gards reconstruction, the sole issue of the
canvass. We will not stop to remark on
the dishonesty of this representation ; our
object is merely to call attention to the
groat ‘change of base’ which the fears of
the 'Tribune impel it to attempt. There is
nothing in ‘the fourteenth amendment’
which forbids the exclusion of every South
ern negro from the ballot box. If they are
excluded, the States will have proportion
ally fewer representatives in the lower
branch of Congress, but the amendment
permits them to regulate the elective fran
chise as they please. The fact that the
Tribune tries to retreat to the position its
party occupied before the reconstruction
acts were passed, is a significant indication
of their great unpopularity, and such a con
fession of weakness as we did not expect
from that quarter.”
New England Morality.— The Herald
says the individuals who represent the cul
ture and intellect of New England have
“no fixed principle in morals.” It avers
that, “ like the pagans of former times, they
have their gods many and their lords many,
and on the summit of their Olympus Theo
dore Parker occupies a place of equal
prominence with Jesus Christ.”
Df, Profundis. —Washburnf,, Grant’s
keepef, is-thus reported prior to the ad
journment of Congress:
“ He desired an adjournment at the earliest
possible moment, for if they went on at the rale
they were going, the Government would have
neither money nor credit left.”
And yet, a repetition of roguery is con
sidered by some men “ tire only hope of the
country.”
Grant on Warmoutii.—The New York
correspondent of the Charleston Courier
states that Gen. Grant, some months since,
said to a gentleman from New Orleans,
“ This Warmoutii, this and and scoundrel,
I had to kick him out of the army at Vicks
burg as a common liar.”
The Negro’s Friend.—Burton, a large,
portly, oily-tongued Yankee, who has been
in charge of the “ Buro ” in Southeast Ala
bama for a year or two, left Eufaula recent
ly with his pockets full of money fraudu
lently obtained from the too-trusting ne
groes of that section.
The Georgia Railroad. —The Journal
and: Messenger thus speaks of the Georgia
Railroad:
*• A recent trip over Ibis road gives ns the
pleasure to state that it is in excellent condi
tion, and reflects great credit upon Col. E. W.
Cole, the efficient Superintendent. We noticed
a beautiful passenger car ou the line, inanulac
lured at the company’s shop in Augusta. It is
of modern style, having anew elevated roof,
whit side ventilation. On the trip we met with
two ol the most gentlemanly conductors in
America—Messrs. Hicks and Purcel.”
The compliments paid to the road and its
ollicers are richly merited. In this connec
tion, we wish to offer a slighL tribute to
Mr. Johnson, Master of Transportation.
There does not exist a more worthy, effi
cient, modest, obliging and devoted man
and official than Mr. Johnson. He is the
most quiet person imaginable, but lie is the
soul of the machine. Ilis very solitude is
“ the supreme of power.
’Tis might half-slumbering on its own right arm.”
llow it is Manufactured.— Grant’s
“enthusiastic receptions” are thus con
cocted. The Cincinnati Gazette gave a
glowing account of a large and enthusi
astic meeting at Van Wert, Ohio. Three
thousand people were declared to lie pre
sent.
The Van Wert Times copies the Gazette's
letter, and significantly adds: “Everybody
here knows that there lias been no sucli
meeting in this county.”
’Rah for Grant and Colfax.
A Dead Failure. —Warmoutii’s cam
paign document is a dead failure at the
North. “ Rebel outrages” are well enough
in their way, but “Radical taxation” ab
sorbs public attention. If it took millions
of money to put the carpet-baggers in
power, the loyal masses are anxious to
know how many millions will lie required
to maintain them.
Trooly Loil Judge. —John Elliott, the
lately appointed scalawag Judge of the
Circuit Court of the Mobile Judicial Dis
trict was arrestetkpn the streets of Mobile
last week, for being drunk and disorderly,
and caged in the calaboose to sober down.
“ Detestable Copperhead !”—Col. M.
\t. Downil, colonel of the Ist regiment of
Minnesota Infantry, is President of a Dem
ocratic Club at Cedar Keys, Florida. Out
upon the Copperhead!
A Very Decided Straw.—We publish
another significant article from the New
York Herald. Bennett secs the way of the
wind.
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Our New York Correspondence.
New York, August 10.
The campaign again progresses with
vigor in behalf of the Democratic nomi
nees. The letter of Gov. Seymour has
given a more positive tone to the councils
of the Democratic committees; and the
discovery which the Radical clamor has
made patent, that nothing but Democratic
success is necessary to overturn the carpet
bag “governments” in the Southern States
is giving a calm and cheerful spirit to the
Democratic masses, which is having good
effect. It is pleasant to discover that noth
ing is required but. to withdraw the bayo
nets upon which Mr. Bullock’s government
rests to have it come down rattling about
his ears. With a Democratic President and
a majority of both Houses in Congress, it
will be as idle to attempt to perpetuate the
carpet-bag dynasties as to endeavor to en
force the Maine liquor law in our large
cities. They will sink out of sight and
make scarcely a ripple in going down.—
That which has not the support of the
dominant public opinion in any community
(and which is dominant is often in a numeri
cal minority) cannot be sustained for any
considerable period of time.
THE RADICALS FRIGHTENED.
The Radical committees are in a state of
great trepidation. Gen. Grant, who ex
pected to prolong his Western tour into
December, has been solicited to return to
Washington forthwith, and it is now an
nounced that he will be in Washington
about the first of September. The state of
the canvass requires immediate attention at
his hands. He is found to be everywhere
falling behind. The Radicals are much
leis anxious to bet on Grant than they
were two weeks ago.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND THE CARPET-HAG
GOVERNMENTS.
The demand for troops from Louisiana,
to “maintain the laws,” does not contro
vert the idea which I last week advanced,
that “ rebel outrages,” as Radical stock-in
trade, were “ played out.’’ “ Governor ”
Warmonth’s “ eali ” is merely for the pur
pose of “cornering” President Johnson;
to compel him to recognize or repudiate,
by some official act, the “carpet-bag'”
State governments. If he a fiord the usurp
ing “ Qjvcrnors ” such military aid as they
may need for the temporary maintenance of
their thrones, Congress will not re-assem
ble in September; otherwise, it probably will.
At this writing it would appear that Mr.
Johnson is completely overawed, and, back
ed by the opinion of Mr. Evarts, Ins new
Radical Attorney General, will give the
carpet-bag Governors all the military aid
he can command ; or, rather the matter
will be left wholly in the hands of the Rad
ical Secretary of War. It is true, we have
rumors this morning that Mr. Johnson is
disposed to rebel against the thraldom im
posed upon him, and take to himself an en
tirely new 'Cabinet. But this is too good
to be true, and.l can scarce'y credit it as
yet.
A cattle plague.
We are having a small panic amdng beef
eaters] caused by reports of the extensive
prevalence of a cattle plague at the West,
and the assertion that a number of diseased
cattle have been sent to this city and killed
and eaten. The facts are, however, only
two lots of infected cattle have arrived up
to this time; of these, thirty-one head were
actually sold for consumption, but stopped
lief >re they reached the retailer’s stall; the
balance are being tried up for tallow. A
number have died en route, all of which go
into tallow. The development of this
“cattle plague” is the in the form of a
peculiar insect or tick, called in South
America the earapato, having the appear
ance of huge warts, and cover all parts of
the cattle which cannot lie reached by its
horns or teeth. The railroad managers
and the proprietors of the cattle yards arc
making great efforts to prevent the bring
ing forward of any more diseased cattle.
We are not, therefore, in any immediate
danger of being poisoned with diseased
beef. '~~~
The origin of this plague, like that of the
cattle plague which prevailed in England,
is believed by the most thoughtful observ
ers' to lie in theextreme hardships to which
cattle are subjected in being gotten to
market; just as plagues have arisen among
human beings who have suffered from fam
ine or the demoralizing influences of long
wars. The Texas cattle which reach this
city are driven five days over arid plains,
without food or water! And they are of
ten several days without food or water,
from the time they are shipped at Buffalo
or Pittsbug, to this market. New York
and vicinity consumes per week an average
of nearly six thousand head of beeves, about
twentv-flve thousand sheep and lambs, and
twenty thousand swine; and to keep up
this great supply from sources, very few
of which are nearer than the Ohio Valley,
extending thence to Texas, is a work of
great importance, and often involves neces
sary privation to the animals ; bat long fa
miliarity with the hardships they endure
causes many to regard them witli indiffer
ence, and permit the existence of many that
might be easily removed. Our Legislature,
last winter attempted to interfere in behalf
of the dumb sufferers by prescribing that
they should he fed and watered at suitable
intervals, but with little result. The ex
citement tiiat lias occurred may, however,
induce a momentary reform.
AN U NDERGUOUND RAILROAD —PERHAPS.
Some days ago the books were opened
for subscriptions to the underground rail
way in this city—the City Central, as it is
called—and which, owing to the action of
the Legislature last year, is as much a cer
tainty as anything which is altogether iu
the future can he. According to the terms
of the charter, the sum of $3,000,000 to its
stock must .have been subscribed ere tlie
construction may be commenced. Money,
it is said, is lying idle in New York await
ing an investment, and this, then, is per
haps a favorable time for obtaining sub
scribers, who, indeed, are coming forward
rapidly, and doubtless the desired sum will
readily be obtained. Capital is wary—an
assertion become trite from oft repeti
tion, and as capitalists seem willing and
ready to invest iu this new and great enter
prise, we may conclude the battle won.
“Not so new, however, is the subject. Some
years have passed since it was first broach
ed, and, like all new ideas, it met with bit
ter opposition, but its advocates steadily
gained upon those adverse to the scheme.
This, indeed, is not to lie wondered at, for
tlie wants of the ‘rapidly increasing popu
lation of the city imperatively demand the
accomplishment of an enterprise like this,
and where such is tlie case, men are usually
found who possess sufficient energy and in
telligence to meet those wants. Every one
who lias traveled upon the horse cars—and
who has not V—can testify to the crowding,
jostling, jamming, pushing and squeezing
almost-to-snfi'ocation process which is un
dergone every morning and repeated every
evening—a process certainly most uncom
fortable to all masculines—to feminines al
together insupportable and to their hoops
absolutely fatal. Os tlie poor, over driven
horses we say nothing, that being the pecu
liar province of Mr. Bcrgh, and one which
we will, in consequence, not intrude ujion.
Time was when these cars were a great in
stitution and truly admirable, but the day
has passed when they sufficed to accommo
date the thronging hundreds who crowd
upon them. No power less than steam will
satisfy the growing demands of the rapidly
increasing population.
Not only is the packing and squeezing
process above referred to a source of great
discomfort, but the time consumed by those
who, living in the upper portion of the eily,
transact their business in the lower part, is
a serious evil, and one felt more sensibly
every year. At Lhe present rate an hour is
required to reach the lower part of the city
by those who reside in tlie upper, even when
ihe weather is fair aud there is no deten
tion from accumulations of suow, etc.—de
tentions so apt to occur in a climate such
is this, where winter reigris three-fourths
us the time. Upon the completion of the
underground railway not more than ten
minutes will be requisite to accomplish this
distance, and even the most ignorant can ap
preciate the difference between ten minutes
and an hour. As usual upon the com
mencement of any great enterprise, num
bers have declared the impossibility thereof,
but these are being reduced to silence by
the reports of able engineers and men of
science, who have for a year or two past
made thorough investigation of the subject.
There is no doubt, also, that the proposed
method of travel by steam will be greatly
preferable in an economical point af view.
This is too obvious to require anyrleinon
stration. The wear and tear of horse flesh
upon the surface roads is immense, and tlie
cost of feeding and stabling is also very
heavy. So much so as to greatly detract
from tlie profits of the roads, if wc" may
credit the assertions of those having charge
of their financial matters.
The underground railway of London
has proved a perfect success, and there
is no reason why the one contemplated
here should not prove equally so. For
horse cars there will always he a de
mand, but. the time is fast coming when
they must be accessory only to a more
economical and a more rapid mode of
travel and one capable of transporting a
far greater number of persons. There can
be no doubt that the surface roads have
increased the travel on the routes through
which they run, and it will readily be fore
seen that the construction of a road afford
ing greatly superior advantages will pro
portionately increase the numbers who will
avail themselves of these advantages and
induce many who yearly migrate to Brook
lyn, Jersey City, Hoboken, and the other
suburbs as being nearer to their places of
business, to remain upon the island. View
ed under another aspect also, the contem
plated enterprise will prove a public benefit,
and that is by enabling the poorer clasess
who are now crowded together in tene
mant houses to remove farther out into a
purer atmosphere, while the buildings
which they at present occupy, and which
are in reality nuisances, can bo knocked
away to he replaced by business houses.
Many there are, of course, who seem to
love filth for its own sake—such will re
main qs they are; —but a cheap, rapid and
certain mode of transit \yotjld enable those
who desire better things to obtain them.
That the railroad in question will cost a
large amount of money, and that the obsta
cles to be overcome are formidable mo one
can deny, but science bus demonstrated
that its construction is perfectly practi
cable, and there is every assurance to
capitalists that the Investment will be a
paying one. The Board of Directors is
composed of some of the most inlluential
and enterprising men in the city. Accord
ing to the charter, it is to be finished as
Forty-second street in three years, and to
the Harlem river in five. The capital stock
is fixed at 110.000,000, shares SI,OOO each.
Willoughby.
[Special Correspondence Baltimore Gazette.
From Washington,
Letter from One Simon Wolf, of Boston., in
Defense of Grant's Order Expelling the
Jews—lndignation of the Israelites in Wash
ington— They Repudiate. Mr. Wolf as a
Representative—lie is Placed in a Dilemma.
Washington, August 11,1868.
The Israelites of this city are fearfully
indignant with a brother Jew, one Simon
Wolf, late of Washington, but now of Bos
ton, for a letter which lias appeared over
his signature in the Boston Iranscripl, and
which was written in reply to a letter in
the Boston Post, signed “ Ajax.” Mr. Wolf
is well known in this city, and lienee his
vindication of, or apology for Gen. Grant’s
order banishing all Jews from his com
mand is duly appreciated by the Israelites
here. In his letter to the Transcript Mr.
Wolf says: “The General, in a moment of
just indignation, and in an hour of great
peril, issued this order, never contemplating
any wrong against honest, patriotic Jewish
American citizens. The order never harm
ed any one—not even in thought,—except
those whom we as Jews despise and hold
iu contempt.” At another point Mr. Wolf,
who now undertakes to speak for the re
spectable portion of the Jewish people,
says: “ The General never meant then,
since or now to proscribe the Jews because
they were such, but simply to banish from
his camp the lazmtroni who infected it.”
The large and highly respectable Jewish
population of the National Capital, embrac
ing as it does many of the leading men in
professional and mercantile pursuits, enter
their earuest protest against Mr. Simon
Wolf’s assumed representative capacity,
and they have requested your correspond
ent to call Mr. Wolf ’s attention to a pamph
let entitled “An Address on the Life and
Services of the Rev. Isaac Leeser, pro
nounced by Simon Wolf, under the auspices
of Elijah Lodge, No. 60, I. O. B. 8., at the
Jewish Synagogue, Washington City, ou
Sunday, March 16, 1868,” (less than live
months since.)
In speaking of Mr. Leeser iu this address
this same Mr. Simon Wolf said “ he was
deeply pained that his fellow-citizens should
so far forget their wonted fairness that they
even bore patiently the infamous order of a
celebrated general, which banished free
American citizens from loyal ground—an
order worthv of a Hapsburg or a Bomba,
but never of an American general in the
nineteenth century. Nothing that trans
pired during the war caused more indigna
tion or deserved more lasting execration.”
Such was Mr. Simon Wolf’s opinion of
General Grant and his military order on the
!sth March last—an order which he now
says was only aimed at the “lazzaroni!”
which infested the general’s camp—only
against such Jews as Mr. Wolf “despises
and holds in contempt.” The Israelites of
ibis city insist that if Mr. Wolf was honest
in his “Address" iu the synagogue in
March, the opinions he now puts forth are
false and cast reproach upon the people he
assumes to represent; and if honest now,
he defiled their sanctuary in March, slan
dered the living and libeled the memory of
tlie dead. Which horn of the dilemm t will
Mr. Wolf select? E.
[From the New York Herald.
Tho Radicals and the People—Prospects for
the Presidency.
Oregon is normally a Republican State,
but this year it has gone completely over to
the Democrats. In the previous election it
had about its usual Repnlican majority,
giving that decision on political issues that
is natural with' a population supplied in a
great degree from regions having the most
active sympathy with the Radical spirit;
yet this year it gives an unmistakably
definite majority the other side. This is a
very significant fact in an election in such
a State, coining immediately after the party
with which it usually acts lias put its
Presidential candidates in tlie field. Ken
tucky is another State whose people have
recently given formal expression to their
political predilections. The election in this
State lias taken place since the naming of
the Presidential candidates on both sides,
and Kentucky not only goes for the Demo
crats—we should expect that—but it goes
their way by such an overwhelming ma
jority as indicates that other political opin
ions have hardly force enough thereto keep
themselves alive. Here, then, are two
States that have gone to the Democrats af
ter their people have been able to perceive
the drift of Presidential movements. One
is an old slave State, not, however, the
most fiercely Detnoe'-atic of the slave States
even in the olden times—a State that did
not nominally go witli the South iu tlie
war, but had its sympathies that way, yet
was thought to be safely enough organized
to do better. for the Republicans than iu
previous years. The other is a free North
ern State, peopled by that sort of communi
ty that our political history shows is al
ways the readiest to be aggressive, to take
side of any party that calls itself the party
of progress, and that is naturally much less
susceptible of conservative influences than
older communities.
From these Tacts of the situation it is
evident that the popular impulse against
the Radicals, which began two years ago
and seemed to Cslminate in the fifty thou
sand majority igainst that party in the
Empire State, has yet lost none of its mo
mentum. It was deeper than most men
thought. It had fast hold upon the ulti
mate convictions of each man, and thus be
came the positive purpose of the mass, and
it is doubtful ifithere Is any power to stop
its progrtStTnominations tiave had
no effect upon it. The sudden recognition
of (he Radicals that they had goue too far
in their assaults on everything dear to the
people, and their consequent halt, came
too late, The promise of honest govern
ment that thev make in presenting the
name of Grant, the assurance that their fu
ture views of national necessities shall be
taken from the standpoint of the command
er who saved the country—all this is quite
unheeded. So }« the threat from the other
side, given with the name of Seymour, that
everything shall be construed in favor
of the men who endeavored to break
the Government to pieces. Popular will
goes forward 5-blind to all, conscious
only of its stored up determination.—
Individuals are nothing. There is no
charm in any name. The contest of
great principles must be carried to its final
result. Such is the popular temper. Only
the deepest sense of the outrages against
the country and its laws, as well as against
humanity practiced by the Radical leaders,
could have brought the people to this mood
and wrought the conviction that no otl\er
danger is so go at as for that party to con
tinue in power. Perhaps, also, there is an
other thought active in the case. There is
"a widespread uneasiness under the burden
of taxation involved by the debt; and though
both parties tend towards repudiation, ttie
people will have their revenge on the men
who made the debt, and who therefore put
the country In position to require repudia
tion. Revolutions always repudiate the
debts of civil war. Such repudiation is the
basis of compromise, for neither one side
nor the other will conscut to repay money
borrowed to put it down. Repudiation is,
then, Very likely the ultimate bourne of this
impulse against the Republicans, and >ye
shall yet see a Congress elected strictly to
repudiate the debt. 111 the meantime the
same impulse must act consistently in
sweeping Republicanism from power at all
intermediate points, of whieh the Presiden
cy is a very important one,
It seems consistent with all the fHets,
therefore, that the reaction against the
Radical legislation and reconstruction shall
go on as it began, sweeping State after
State, and finally sweeping the nation and
giving us another President like Pierce—
only instead of poor Pierce it will be silly
Seymour. Regarding the characters of the
two candidates, it readily occurs that the
parties have respectively got the wrong
men. Seymour is the creature who should
be in the hands of the Radicals—a pitiful
tool to be used as Pierce was used by the
Southern Radicals, into whose hands he
fell—and Grant should stand at the head of
the advancing Democracy, to wreak its
relentless will against Radical power. But
taking the men as they are and the situa
tion as it is, we can only hope that to
whichever side victory inclines it will give
no doubtful voice. Let the decision be
positive—one side or the other—for therein
is our only safety. From an election that
either one side or the other can by any
ingenuity dispute we will have a civil war.
Some of the Southern States are preparing
for this possibility in making laws to take
the vote for President from Democratic
communities and give it to Radical Legis
latures. Should the Republican candidate
be elected only in virtue of these manoeu
vres it will take another war to put down
the protest against him. Should the elec
tion turn on any one of many such contin
gencies peace will be farther away than
ever, and, therefore, it is to be hoped the
Northern people themselves will make the
decision absolute.
A writer iu the Congregationahst proposes a
remedy for sleeping iu church. He says:
“ Take a piece of horse-radish root, of good
size and a finger’s length, to the sanctuary, and
the moment the sermon begins put a piece in
your mouth about the size of a common corn,
bite and moisten it thoroughly wiib the saliva,
and the eyes will not only easily be kept open,
but a tearful attention will also be promoted,
to the exclusion of drowsiness, till the sermon
ends.”
The political campaign in Indiana is now
fairly open. Benator Hendricks has taken the
stump in his own behalf. Carl Bchurz is stump
ing the State for Grant and Colfax,
[ From the Atlanta Intelligencer.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Thursday, August 13.
SENATE. N
The Senate met pursuaut to adjournment ami
was opened with prayer by the Kev. M. Pretty
man.
We omitted to mention in our report ofjycs
terday’a proceedings, after executive session,
that Mr. McArthur moved to suspend tlie rules,
which being agreed to, he reported a resolu
tion, the House concurring, authorizing the
Governor to order an election for representa
tives lor the counties of Telfair and Irwin. The
same was agreed to and ordered to be trans
mitted lortbwitb.
Mr. lligbee moved to go into executive ses
sion.
Mr. Nuuually opposed tbe motion lor the
reason that it was time the unfinished business
was disposed of, (Bradley case,) and besides, it
was his opiniou that all were ready to vote.
Senators bad said that if one could show any
precedent, heretofore established, thev would
vote on the subject, and we have cited to in
stances precisely parallel.
Mr. Smith, of the 36th, said that he had come
here to vote one way or the other ou this vexed
question, and lie hoped the motion would not
prevail.
Mr. Adkins hoped the motion would prevail,
as it would give others lime to look into the
testimony, besides there was a feeling of over
swiftness manifested here.
The Chair. Tbe question is is upon whether
we go into executive session or not.
Mr. Adkins. Welt, sir, 1 hope we will go in-
session, and dispose of the busi
ness there.
The Senate refused to sustain Mr. Higbec’s
motion—yeas, 18 ; nays, lit.
Tbe Senate resumed the unfinished business,
which was whether the decision of the Chair in
tlie Bradley case having been confirmed as tlie
judgment of the Senate, should he reversed.
The decision ot tlie Chair was that as the Sena
tor had resigned, therefore the case was no
longer before tlie Senate.
Mr. Campbell lollowed in a lenglljy speech,
attacking the case as cited iu the United States
Senate as far as regards tlie eligibility of Gen.
Shields, and insisted that the decision of the
Chair was just and equitable.
Mr. Adkins followed and urged the claims of
the Senator from the Ist to eligibility, etc. It
was as absurd as propositions in Geometry, if
we prove it. Tbe President was bound to re
cognize the Governor’s message announcing
tbe resignation.
Mr. Brock said lie had examined the authori
ties, and lie was convinced that the precedent
had been established also in the lower House,
and lie would vote different from tbe way lie
had heretofore done. So you understand my
position. Let it go on the record that Bradley
is ineligible, so that it will he seen for years to
come, let it be a fixed and csrtain fact that A.
Alpeora Bradley cau never hold a scat here for
ever.
Mr. Smith, of tlie 30th, concurred iu Mr.
Brock’s opinion.
The Senate reconsidered tlie decision of tlie
Chair.
The majority and tlie minority reports were
then read.
Mr. Candler called for tlie previous question,
which was sustained ; tbe same being the adop
tion of tbe minority report, whereupon the
yeas and nays were required, and are—yeas, 5 ;
nays, 30.
Those voting in the affirmative are:
Messrs. Adkins, Campbell, Lligbee, Sherman,
Wallace.
Those voting in tlie negative are :
Messrs. Anderson, Brock, Brnton, Burns,
Candler, Collier, Corbitt, Dicitey, Fain, Gra
ham, Griffin, (218 t District,) Harris. Hinton,
Holcombe, Jordan, Merrill, McArthur,
McCutchen, McWhorter, Moore, Nisbet, Nun
lialy, Richardson, Smith, (7th District,) Smith,
(36th District,) Speer, Stringer, Welborn, Winn,
Wooten,
The majority rc port was then adopted which
declares Bradley ineligible. It was adopted by
the sound. Nays hut few.
Mr. McArthur introduced a resolution in
effect seating Mr. Lester. Objection was made
to action on the same because the lilies had
not been suspended. The objection was sus
tained.
The Senate then went into executive session,
after which the Senate adjourned.
ROUSE.
House met. Prayer by Her. Mr. Knott.
The model pro tern. Speaker, Mr. Hudson, in
tbc Chair.
A bill to pay certain claims against W. <fc A.
Railroad was reconsidered and referred to
Judiciary Committee.
Senate resolution to order elections iu Tel
fair and Irwin counties concurred in.
nri.LS ON THIRD READING.
To incorporate the town of Trion. Passed.
To allow Dr. Richards to practice medicine.
Lost.
To incorporate the ■Citizens Bank of Dalton.
Passed.
To fix the pay of grand and petit jurors and
baliffs. Referred to Judiciary Committee.
To levy an extra tax sufficient to pay each
maimed soldier SOO per annum. Laid on the
table.
To exempt James Goode, of Newton county,
from taxation. Lost.
To encourage internal improvements on rail
roads and manufactures. Lost,
To 1 educe sheriff's bond iu Clay county.
Withdrawn.
To declare all laws passed since June, 1865,
valid till repealed. Referred to Judiciary Com
mittee.
To deprive the mayor and marshal of Val
dosta of fees. Passed.
To define the liabilities ot all insurance com
panies in this State. Referred to Judiciary
Committee,
For relief of people of this State—no levies
shall tie made on executions for debts made
prior to June, 1865. One-third to be paid an
nually till all is paid. Referred to Special Com
mittee on Relief.
To change rules of evideuce—allows prison
ers to make statements on their trial; sueli
statements not to be under oath, and to have
only such weight as the jury may he inclined
•to give them. Passed.
The Committee on Public Buildings made the
following report:
The Committee on Public Buildings, to whom
was referred the memorial from the Mayor and
Aldermen of the city of Milledgeville, praying
this Legislature lor the removal ol the seat oi
Government back to the said city, recommend
that no further action lie taken on the memo
rial of the Mayor and Alderman of the oily of
Milledgeville, than to authorize the appoint
ment of a sub-committee of four, from the Com
mittee ou Public Build ngr, to proceed to Mil
ledgeville under sueli instructions as this House
may deem proper. Not takeu up.
The most of the morning session was spent
in reading hills a second time.
Mr. Lee, of Newton, offered the following :
Whereas, The City Council of Atlanta hits
complied witli its obligation to supply suffi
cient buildings for the State government, there,
fore
Resolved , That Atlanta lie the permanent seat
of government ot Georgia, and that the com
mittee to visit the Penitentiary he instructed to
inquire into the practicability of removing the
Penitentiary from the city of Milledgeville to
the Stone Mountiau or Rome other point con
venient to the seat of government.
House adjourned to 10 o’clock, a. rn., to-mor
row.
Br.ow the Hewgao I—Aaron Alpooria’s an
nouncement, a poster 12x18, runs thus :
OGEEECnEESI
HALLY! RALLY!!
“ For your altars and your fires ;
[ Isn't that incendiary P\
For the green graves of > our sires ;
For God and your naLive land.”
THE YEAR OF JUBILEE HAS COME!
Every man, woman and child must go out to the
great political
CAMP MEETING!
AT station no. 1,
Gulf Road, Bryan county, Saturday, 29th, and
Sunday, August 30tb, 1868. Also,
AT BLACKSHEAR,
Wednesday, September 'id.
BgfEach beginning at 10 o’clock, a. in., for
Speaking and Preaching ; aDd Pray for General
Grant and Colfax ; and
A. ALPEORIA BRADLEV, For Congress.
good men and women are invited.
Called by A. A. Bradley.
The Chicagoans encourage races between
milk wagons, and call them aquatic sports.
BY TELEGRAPH.
| .Special to the Constitutional ist.
FROM ATLANTA.
Atlanta, August 14.
In the Senate a sealed communication was
received from the Governor, with a request to
consider it in secret session > also, a document
requesting tlie repeal of section 1021 of the
Code. The repeal puls the Public Printer elect
in office immediately.
In executive session the nominations were
confirmed of Associate fudges of the Supreme
Court. 11. K. McCay, 8 years, aud Hiram
Warner 4 years.
For the Northern Circuit Garnett Andrews,
of Wilkes comity, Judge, and John Mathews,
of Madison, as Solicitor.
In the Macon Circuit Carlton B. Crfll, of
Bihli, Judge, and Ezekiel W. Crocker, of
Twiggs, as Solicitor.
Pataula Circuit, S. W'ise Poiker, of Clay
county, Solicitor.
Southern Circuit, J. R. Alexander, of Thom
as, Judge, and W. B. Rennet, of Brooks, as
Solicitor.
Campbell, colored, moved to reconsider the
ease of Bradley. He urged, iuHengthy and em
phatic remarks, the reconsideration, and he
hoped the Senate would excuse Ills warmth, as
the case was near to him as n colored man, and
was also near to the white race. If Bradley was
sent forth upon the world with this foul impu
tation resting upon him, he would he met by
the sympathies of ninety-two thousand voters
of a downtrodden race. Campbell was still
cavorting when the Senate adjourned.
In the House a nil in her of local mid private
hills were introduced.
Aaron Alpeoria (negro), the “irrepressible,”
appeared on the floor and created quite a seept
salion— offensive at that.
Mr. Rtimph called him a convicted felon, in
a resolution instructing the Messenger to eject
this black nuisance.
Mr. Bryant didn’t want few, eoz Aaron’s little
indiscretion happened twenty years ago.
A point of order was raised by Mr. Scott,
who asked if a seal had ever been tendered the
individual.
Mr. Phillips, of Echols, inquired if it was
not tlie Speaker’s duty to put Bradley out
without a resolution.
The Speaker said there was no rule, but
thought any one obnoxious to the House ought
not to he allowed on the floor.
A vote was taken to suspend the rules for
the purpose of entertaining Mr. KiinqdTa reso
lution. It was lost by 85 to 35.
Mr. Turner didn’t want to vote, and termed
tilt: proposition “insignificant.”
Bradley, at last, walked out,, evidently dis
gusted with the lower House.
Mr. Powell offered a resolution stopping the
“ dead-heads ” on the State Road.
The House adjourned until Wednesday next,
when the Augusta municipal bill comes up for
a third reading. I entertain reasonable hope o
success.
f Associated Press Dispatches.
W ashington.
Washington, August 14—Noon.
Stevens’ remains, with three passenger cars
for the escort, left, fur Lancaster at 10 o’clock.
The Secretary ot the Interior has decided fa
vorably to MeGarraharn and ad versely to the
New Idria Quicksilver Company. This is a
liard blow on Senators Stewart, Conness and
Nye, who had been active in the New Idria in
terest. The local land oflletiee>of California
have been Instructed to hold MeGarraharn
lands out ot market until flirt her action of
Congress.
Washington, August 14 -P. M.
It is understood that Secretary Browning
said, in connection with the MeGarraharn and
New Idria decision, that he could understand
why Senator Conness should be si> active in
the matter, as the decision affected his Stale
and constituents ; but he was at a loss for the
motive which made Stewart and Nye so zealous.
The Cabinet was full, except Welles, Randall
and Schofield.
Roseneranz leaves next week.
Evarts decides that temporary appointments
for the New Orleans collectorsbip and Alaska
officials can he made at once.
There are sixteen applicants for the Now Or
leans eolleetorshlp.
The Cabinet continued in session until 8
o’clock.
Seward’s trip improved bis health.
It is stated that Rollins, at the earnest solici
tation of prominent Republican*, hns deter
mined to retain the Revenue Cominissionership
until after the election.
Revenue to-day, $415,000.
Rev. Mr. Gurley, formerly Chaplain of the
Senate, is seriously sick at Clifton Springs.
Regulations concerning the tax on tobacco
and cigars were issued to-day, and cover forty
two pamphlet pages. Tobacco bonded before
July liOth may be withdrawn for consumption
upon payment of the new tax, and without
being repacked. It may he removed for export
without payment of tax or repacking under
regulations heretofore in force upon order from
the collector in charge of exports at the port of
shipment. Until stamps are prepared, tobacco
and its products must be inspected and brand
ed by a tobacco inspector under regulations
heretofore prevailing, before being removed for
consumption or gale.
A company of Butler Zouaves, when
marching to relieve the guard over Stevens’
dead body, fired a volley down Twenty-first,
street in response to a sjone hurled at them.
A colored waiter standing in the door of a res
idence was shot through the thigh. Th a Ex
press says : “ When they reached the Capitol
some disagreement rose between themselves,
and they had a regular free fight.” The Star,
after speaking of the tiring and its results,
says: “A large crowd immediately gathered,
and for a time there was every prospect of a
serious disturbance, but the -police on duty, ns
well as the reserve#, appearing in loreaprompt
ly, by surrounding the Zouaves, checked fur
ther proceedings, and when order waa restored
allowed them to proceed.”
The President lias recognized Frederick Wil
helm Ilanewinekle Consul of the North Ger
man Confederation at Richmond ; Charles Otto
Witte Consul \it Charleston, S. C.; Johannes
Kruttsehmitt Consul at. New Orleans ; Enrique
Ainsel Spanish Consul at Key West; Manuel
Deßoolva Y. Albert Vice-Consul ol Spain at
Savannah, Ga.
Greorgia.
Atlanta, August 14.
The following nominations of the Governor
i were confirmed by the Senate : Judges of the
Supreme Court, H. K. McCay 8 years Hi
ram Warner 4 years.
Campbell (negro) moved to reconsider llie
action of the Senate on the minority report in
the ease of the expelled negro Senator Bradley.
He predicted il Bradley was sent forth on the
world with this fonl inqwtation on him, he
would be met by llie sympathies of 92,000
voters of bis downlroddeu race. The time
would come when the bones of Campbell
would rise in judgment against the men who
perpetrated such injustice on an innocent man
and brought about such calamities.
Cotton blows in this vicinity are well devel
oped, and the staple of superior quality.
Missouri.
St. Louis, August 14.
Two men, who rented a house near the Ex
press office, had a package addressed to them
purporting to contain a large amount of money.
The messenger who delivered the package was
knocked senseless, chloroformed and robbed'of
97,000. The robbers escaped.
IST ew Y ork.
New York, August 14.
Custom House officials seized the sloop Four
Brothers and broken up the system of smug
gling cigars from Havana in steamer’s hold.
Vessels were found filled with cigar boxes sew
ed up iu canvas bags.
IN’orth. Carolina.
Kalbioh, August 14.
,The Democratic Convention adjourned to
day at 2 o’clock.
Tlie torch-light procession last night exceed
ed anything in brilliancy ever seen in this city.
It was supposed that 3 000 persons were in the
procession, and a number of speeches were
made. The number of actual delegates In at
tendance exceeded a thousand. It was the moßi
grand and imposing political gathering In this
State since 1840.
The convention endorsed the nominees und
platform of the National Democratic Conven
tion unanimously. Several strong resolutions
in reference to State officers were also adopted
T. J. Jarvis, Esq., of the First District, and
Major John Hughes, of Newberne, of tho Se
cond District, were elected Presidential electors
iu their respective districts. The other electors
will be selected by their districts in future.
Tlie influence of the convention is regarded
by its friends to hive been most happy and ex
tensive.
Sontli Carolina.
Columbia, August 14.
A veto by tlie Governor of the Radical mea
sures ol the Legislature creuted Intense leeling
among the extreme members. There is a
breach between the Radical and moderate Re
publicans.
Intelligence received here indicates the arm
ing of negroes in different portions of the
State, with threats of violence. The leaders
publicly say there are captains on every planta
tion. The whites anticipate serious trouble.
The Governor lias failed to make a loan of
one hundred aud twenty thousand dollars.
The members are grumbling because the peo
ple talk of refusing to pay taxes.
foreign.
[ry tub cable. J
London, August 14.
All the journals comment ou Stevens’ death.
The Times, after recounting Steveus’ promi
nent connection with the recent impeachment
project and his views relative to the payment
of 5-20 bonds, concludes : “ Tho duath of Thud
due* Stevens is not now a public loss. His im
peachment policy was of incalculable injury to
his political party, and tlie financial dishonesty
which he encouraged dies with him. He was
a fanatic, a hitter and sell-willed man, hut not
mean or deceitful. He is the last of the lead
ing Americans who had the courage to rlso
above political partizunship.”
The Morning Telegraph lias the following :
“ Stevens was neither good, wise nor gener
ous, but in his time did signal service, and
with all his limits he merits the famous phrase.
■ That was a man.’ ”.
The Daily News concludes : " Tho death of
Stevens leaves no important place unfilled,
either in the lead of his party or in tho coun
cils of the nation.”
Canada.
Toronto, August 14.
Sixteen sporliug men were arrested to-day
lor alleged implication iu the ludiaua Express
robberies.
JVlarino News.
Wilmington, August 14.
Cleared —Pioneer, for Philadelphia.
Markets.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
London, August 14—Noon.
Consols, 03%. Bonds, 71%.
Liverpool, August 14— Noon.
Cotton opened firm, lint unchanged; esti
mated sales, 12,000 ; sales week, 89,000 ; ex
ports, 15,000; speculation, 5,000; stock, 577,-
000, of whieh 240,000 bales are American.—
Breadstuff's quiet.
m ti Livbucool, August 14—Afternoon.
Man cheater udvieeg favorable. "UooV and
Yarns firme>- at better prices. Cotton afloat for
Liverpool, 716,000 bales, of which 7,000 bale#
are American. Breadstuff's heavy. Lard quiet
at 66*. Common Rosin, ss. Sd. Turpentine,
275. Od.
Liverpool, August 14—Evening.
Cotton firmer and active, but not quotably
higher; sales, 15,000 bales. Corn easier. Mess
Pork dull. Bacon advanced; 10s. Gd.
Frankfort, August 14.
Bonds, 75%.
• Paris, August 14.
Bullion increased four million francs.
New York, August 14—Noon.
Gold, 147%. Sterling, 9%. Money, B@4. —
'62 coupons, 1-1% ; North Carolina, 72% ; Vir
ginia, 53; Tennessee, 63.
New York, August 14—P. M.
Money hardening. Governments heavy at a
decline; some eases fully 1 cent; old, 14%®
14%; new, 8%; Ten-forties, 8%, Sterling
quiet at 9%®9%. Gold lower; closed at 147
Border Stale bonds heavy and lower.
New York, August 14—Noon.
Flour active and firm for low grades. Wheat
unchanged. Corn active and le better. Mess
Pork, S2B 70. Lard quiet; steam, 18%® 19.
Cotton quiet and firm at 29%. Turpentine,
45@45%. Rosin steady; strained common,
$2 95. Freights dull.
Nnw York, August 14— V. M.
Colton less active and unchanged ; sales, 850
bales. Flour steady, with a moderate lmsineßS ;
superfine, $7 40®8 25; common to fair extra
Southern, $9 30®10 60. Wheat dull and de
clining; white Slate, $2 75®3. Corn active at
lc. advance; doses quiol; mixed Western,
?l 14®1 18; white Western, *1 25. Oats dull
and declining. Mess Pork lower; §9B SO®
28 75. Lard quiet; kettle, 19® 19%, Whisky
easier. Groceries dull. Turpentine, 45@46. —
Rosin, $2 90@7. Freights lower; corn, 4%.
Baltimore, August 14.
Cotton quiet. Flour firm. Red wheat, §2 70
®2 77. Corn firm ; white, §1 15® 1 20. Rye
firm at 50. Provisions unchanged. Virginia
sixes, old inscribed, 46%®47 ; coupons, 1867,
45@45%.
Cincinnati, August 14.
Flour firm. Corn firmer at 96®97. Whisky
unchanged. Mess Pork, §2B 75@30. Bacon —
shoulders, 13%®13% ; clear sides, 17%. Lard,
18%@19. .
St. Lours, August 14.
Mess Pork quiet at §3O. Bacon easier;
shoulders, 13%®13% ; clear sides, 17%. Lard,
19%®20. Whisky heavy at §1 20.
Louisville, August 14.
Flour—superfine, 97. Mess Pork, 129. Lard,
18%@19. Bacon—shoulders, 14 ; clear sides,
17%. Whisky, «1 30.
Wilmington, August 14.
Spirits turpentine, 41 ; New York casks, 42.
Rosins—lower grades active nnd in better de
mand ; strained, $2 10; No. 2, 92 20. Tar nil
vanced 25c ; firm at 93 25.
Mobile, August 14.
Cotton—Sales, 140 bales, reported on a basis
of 25% for low middling; holders generally
refuse this rate; receipts, 1; exports, none;
receipts for the week, 9 bales ; sales, 270; ex ■
ports—coaslwisc, 253; foreign, none; (stock,
3,847 bales.
Accounts from the iuterior are conflicting,
but as a general rule are not favorable.
New Orleans, August 14.
Cotton dull; middling, nominally, 29; sales,
I new bale, classing middling, weight 5(30, at
34%, lor Liverpool; receipts, 18 bales; sales of
the week, 223 Iwles; receipts, 64 bales ; net 8
hales new; total, 185 bales; exports to New
York, 177 hales; stock, 1,525 bales. Sterling
and New York Sight firm and unchanged.—
Gold, 140%. Cuba Sugar, Nos. 12 and 18, 12%
(2113%. Molasses nominally unchanged. Flour
dull and nominal ; superfine, $8 50@8 75;
choice, sll@l4. Corn, 91 10@1 15; stock
light. Oats dull at 65@67. Hay, $26@27
from store; none on landing. Bran, 1125;
stock light. Mess Pork, 931. Bacon quiet;
Shoulders, 13%@14 ; clear sides, 17%@18. Lard
firm at 19@21%.
Savannah, August 14.
Cotton firm but quiet; middling, 28%@29 ;
no sales; receipts, 79 bales; receipts for the
week, 100; exports coastwise, 292; stock, 1,938.
The weather is very cool, with strong winds
from the Northeast.
Charleston, August 14.
Receipts of the week, 546 bales; sales, 160
bales; ex ts, coastwise, 1,182 bales; stock,
2,238 bales. ’
