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tffironiclc .• $ i tJ. D AUG PST A, GA. i W KI>\EU9A V >IOK \IXU. t>EP TEMBC U 27 c him ;> aI, i mikm h-n E h li. has been shown by facte, that up to Sep tember 5, in the Ualtid States, no less than three thousand one bundled and eighty-one persons had been killel, and nine hundied and thirty five persons wounded, by accidents occuiing on our land and water routo3 of traffic, within five months past. In every icstancOj the fault could l>3 distinctly triced to careless ness somewhere in the preparations of the public vehicles. In many casea to, in bare faced violation of law. Here is a worse aggre gate of hunan massacre, than has marked many a pitched battle Lctween pcwetiul armies with an average of 636 persons killed ani 187 maimed per month ;or twenty-two killed and six maimed, per diem ! Moreover, the victims are not stalwart sol diers rushing with equal animosity and eager ness, prepared and witling, if needs be, to perinh in tho stmek ; but the tendcre&t, the dearest, the most helpless. Tho quiet traveler, the aged parent, the loving wife, the darling child, —theee are the chief victim? of the si uigh ter. Our coasts, cur rivers, and our railroads are dotted with their remains, gashed, torn, disembowelled by shafts and bars ; blistered and charred by steam and fire ; crunched and ground to fragments by the wheels of the relentless Juggenaut that fur months past has driven his ensanguined car and propelled his boat at every point of the compass throughout the United States. For weeks past we havo hardly picked up a journal svlthout having our very poises check ed and our soul sickened by the details of some frightful accident on land or water, in volving the most agonizing death or mayhem of numerous unfortunate railroad or steamboat passengers. Heavy trains are allowed to dash healtoeg Vvllb vibrating rapidity ovar decayed and oth erwise Insecure bridges ; engines are hurled at top speed along trucks occupied by passen ger trains ; crowded boats on tho lakes, seen and each by each, when miles apart, plunge bcadloDg togetuer, both going, through a log, at tho rate of twelve mile3 per hour; steamers on th.i Western rivars register ed to carry 350 passengeis,are laden down with 1,800 wounded, and, consequently, almost helpless soldiers, fifteen hundred ol whom are •oon whirled into eternity “a* one fed swoop , fireworks susceptible of sudden and sponta neous explosion aro piled up, in utter defiance and city ordinances, iw are looms frontier: on busy sireels ; and lying be low other apartments where employees aro at work At an unwary moment, a structure Is in flames, tho inrattos are scorched aud bruised, and human forms are dug out of lire ruins toasted to a crisp ! Yot, withal, day af ter day, the verdict of stupid, venal, coward ly, or heartless juries come in—“no one to (blame." For e.'glit months of 1865, ending August 31, of at cidents made known—for all are not published—there had been 128 on our railways alone, with a total of 266 killed and 1,10!) Wounded. Upon close investigation of the circumstances, as reported, thesa were, with out exception, avoidable. Contrast with this heartrendering exhibit the General Report of the British Hallways Ur the whole year of 18G4 which gives but twenty -one deaths by accident. Now, there aro far deeper reasons for this difference than nmnerciat comparisons of dis tances of (ratio. They are to bo discovered in the condition of tho routes, the character of companies, and the conduct of the employees. Where elso iu Christendom are local laws so openly and till blush in gly violated ; human lives so utterly disregarded; and interests so important, entrusted to bands so completely incompetent and irresponsible as in tho Uni ted States ? And, yet, this is not Republican ism, for that regards public satety as para mount and bolds the life und property of the Individual as sacred. It is not freedom, for it is tyanny more odious iu the dangers that It obstinately spreads in the path of therm wary than any other that exists on earth. No! It is license and negligence become utterly reckless aud criminal. If the businee3 and traveling community, even amid the appalling frequency of accident that thus environs it, will not, by the ways that are easily within their control, manifest their condemnation of tlie companies that tol erate such a condition of things and insist up on the rigid execution of tho local, State, county and chy laws—then will a general cn aelniout by Congre39 prescribing legulations and directing the severest pains and penalties for their indingemout, become necessary to protect us lrom the disorders that tho awak ened indignation of the masses is threatening throughout tie Jand. Them can be no doubt whatever tb it public feo’lDg, along the liues where tbe ruin has been worst and toe bereavement most distress Ing, is excited, as it never was before; and that Ibe utmost diligence of quiet and reflecting cit iians is needed to prevent this blocd-bath.of the innocent from becoming a saturnalia of the guilty Railroad Ccmmcmcaticn.—j'he cffi ora of the Pensacola uud Geoigia Railroad have determin ed to keep the connection of their road with the tfavnuuah and Gulf Road They havo sent North for the iron to replaoo that taken from the Florida Railroad during the war. The Memphis and Charleston Railroad is now opeu from Memphis to Corinth. It is expect eJ It will he open to Stevenson, A!a., Nov. 1 A large lotce is at work on the Savannah & Gulf Railroad betweeu Savannah and the Altamaha. It is thought the road will he in running order Dec. 1. lhere is now an unbroken line o( railroad from Jacksonville. Fla., to the Gulf, striking it at St. Msiks. The railroad companies have sent agents to the North to arrange with seme steamship company to iua two steamers direct from New York to connect with tho rail road to St. Maiks, thence by two more summers to New Orteabs. 'I he Nashville and Chafanooga Railroad has been tumid ever to the company by trio inilita ry authorities. We learn that trains on the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad have commenced run ning, making close connections on the way to New York -theieby greatly shortening the dis tance to the Eastern cities, by tho -upper route. TheCexTKNTioN—Wao » Eiianmi?--Hon j Jas. Speed, the Attorney General, has given notice that persons who have taken the oath j of allegiance under the tblrteeth exception aud those who held petty offices, aud have e.ppiitd to the President tor pardon and whose applica tion has been sanctioned by the Governor, will fre entitled to hold office and vote at elections. »UE SOITtI CAROL!* A rojfTIXTIOX. The South Carolina Convention is under full headway. Among the business transacted on the second day is tho annexed. A committee was appointed to prepare a memorial to the President in behalf of Mr. Davis. Mr. Stephens, and Mr. Trenholm. The ordinance of secession wa3 rc-pealcd by a vole of one hundred and five to three. Tho three dissenters—Messrs Aldrich, Brabham, and WhetstoDe—all from Barnwell District. Mr. Aldrich was the roan who introduced a res olution on tha first day, in reference to awa t ing “calmly the time and opportunity to effect our deliverance from unconstitutional lu’e," all of which was laid on the table. A resolution to restrict the action of the Convention to such matters aa are essential to ret tore the State to its former position, and to adapt i's Constitution to the events of emiEci p itioD, and to call into existence its State gov ! ernment with the powers exercised by it pre : vious to the act of secession, was tabled. Ordinances to abolish slavery, and declaring 1 that its existence shall bo prohibited forever, | except for crime, were introduced and referred ! to committees. Borne of the members took grounds in favor of taxes hereafter being levied on property in the State according to its actual value. A motion was rnide to inquire into the ex pediency of sending a committ?e to Washing ton to get restored, if possible, to their former owners, the lands now occupied by freedmen, which were abandoned during the war. On the question of re-arranging the repre sentation iu the State, there appears to prevai. a difference of view as to the particular model Propositions were made to give the election of Governor and Presidential electors to the pei pie. It was also suggested that the Judges and Chancellors of the State be appointed by the Governor, subject to the confirmation of the Senate. Resolutions were introduced looking to the estab ishment of Supreme and Judicial Dis trict Courts ; and a'so of a Court of Inferior Jurisdiction for the trial of all civil and crimi nal cases where persons of color are litigant or condemed. Quite a discussion took place on the subject of internal improvements. Bonne members <1 sired to havo the State appropriate money to making internal improvements, and also to as ist corporations and companies whose cpeia lions would benefit the commonwealth; others opposed anything of the kind. Tbe*e wip> much debate on the suffrage ques tion, Oue member desired all considered white who had seven eighths Caucasian blood in their veins ; and that all questions of caste, suffrage, and disqualification, by reason of crime or ignorance be reierred to the legisla ture for its action. Another member wanted tho of sulfragt*confcired on ail foreigners who had cu iu the State two years, and in tho district where they voted, six moDths pre vious to election. Resolutions were introduejd declaring all acts pit3s«d since tho oidinance of secession valid which are not repuguant to the Constitution when amended ; aud that the same shall re main in force until altered by.tbo Legislature, or expiring by their own limitation, also con tinuing all officers in the discharge of their of ticial fanoHona until either the expiration of their period or until they are superceded un der ibe provisions of the Constitution. This is the substance of the doing3 of the Convention of tho second day. It will be seen that that body has already laid out much work. Wo hope they will not, on account of the mul tiplicity of mattets they are seeking to attend to. get aitrirejmixed up. iu our opinion the least the State Conven tions do, at the present time, outride of that which is absolutely necessary, the better. Lawlessness is Urrer Georgia.-We regret to learn that much lawlessness exists in Upper Georgia. We are told that a number of cflUers of the Confederate army are afraid to return to their homes. In the upper put of tho Btato crimes are committed daily’. Even as far down &s C'iaijf county, humau life is iutio thought of. A few du/3 s'nuo, a band of m ?n, seme twelve or fonrteen in number, went to tho residence of a young man in ’that county, and took hi uj*out and shot him sev eral Hines, leaving him for dead. The sister of the young mau went to Lis assistance and fining him still alive, dressed his wound3. The band returning shortly after to see if they had effectually accomplished their purpose, found their helpless victim sitting ia the lap of his dider, who was ministering to him, when they again shot hi®, and departed leaving him dead. The federal cfll er in command of the dis trict having been informed of the intention of tho law-breakers, sent two parties of Boldiers to inteicept them who succeeded in capturing ail l ut two. The young man who was killed was charged, by those who shot him, with having been an active Confederate and with having been en gaged iu lighting biuhwackers in that section of the State during the war. A Fechion in Virginia in Relation to Freedmen.— The county Court 0 f Alexandria Cos , Ya., lias made a decision iu reference to the status of emancipated negroes under tho criminal laws of Virginia. Since 1832, free negroes have been upon tbe same footing with slaves in criminal matters, and therefore sub ject to trial and conviction for criminal of fences, simply by a court of oyer and trr .miner without a jury. By this decision of tho Alexandria county court, it is declared that under the eighth ted ion of the bill of rights, tree negroes are entitled to a trial by jury, and can not otherwise be legally convicted of a felony. " Ova National Debt.— The receipts for in terna! revenue for tho present mouth have aver aged about $2 000,000 per day, or at the rate of $700,000,000 per, annum. A nation capa ble of sustaining tsxation to this extent is in no danger ot repudiating her debt or sicking under the burden it imposes, ii wise states m tiship guides her councils, nothing but tbe triumph of dangerous and treasonable pol iticians, who would destroy confidence, crip ple our financial sysUm, and disregard tie honest and patriotic impulses of the American people, can impair the credit and soundness of our securities. The Ts wesske Cottox Crc*.— The planters through middle Tennessee are busily engaged at the present time in getting lh‘ir cotton picked, and the traveler along the line of the Nashville railrcad notices numerous gapgs of negro cotton pickers, busily engaged at that w-oik in the fields along the road, Yte under stand that the extreme dry weather of the past season has bcea very injurious to the crop, aud the yield will f.di far abort of what was hoped for. Gov. Johc son —Gov Johnson has left Mil iedgoville on a visit f or a few days to his horn In Columbus. Kl6tiVß i : «C«aESA I i T. E EUT Next to tRo wonderful prcgrF3? of tho Uni ted States-in growth of territory and popula tion, perhaps the most .stcni-Mcg insatce of rapid advance ia national wealth and power 13 , Russia. After the check that naiioo received by the Crimean war, it vr-r supposed that its ambi tious schemes would bo stopped fer a while Bu* such wa3 not the ca3o. Refraining from pursuing conquest farther in the South, Rus sia, turned her attention to another quarter, and concentrated her forces for conquests in Central Asia. Owing to the formation of the country, but tittle news has been received from that section—enough, however, to show that the Emperor of Russia Uaa succeeded ia carry irg out hi3 plans ia a meaner peifectly agree able to himself. h Some months since we had rumors by cur foreign mails that a Russian army of neatly 50, GOO men had been signally defeated in pitched battl I on the plains of Independent Tartary by the Earn' ot Bukhara; but now, within a few days, the tiuth has reached us an 1 the story is reveised. The Rueslar.3 Carrie 1 everything before them, and their territory has been en larged by some hundreds of miles. It now reaches to tha nnuatamom districts of the Tartar land. A qur#ter of a century ago the Southern boundaries of the Ruessian tenitory were tbe northern edge of the great wastes of the Steppe?, but oicce that rime they have been pushed further, so as to embrace the whole of that vast wilderness and a large part of the region lying still below it, until last year, ac cording to accounts received the lino of the great Empiro reached, from the Ural River and tha Caspian Sea to the TarUr plains. Although Great Britain ha3 not regarded this rapid advance of the Russians from time to time-without apprehe. slon, as a symptom of future c dlisoin, when her own Asiatic boundu. ries shall touch those of the Muscivite, her ag nts and officers in the fir East frankly ac knowledge that, for the present, at least, it is calculated to bent tit. the spread of civilization by subduing the barbarism of the nomadic races of tho interior, and preparing them for a gentler life. In this point of view, wo may cordially hail the onward march of Russian power through regions heretofore inaccessible to the arts and commerce of the Western World. In common with tbs other nations that arc to be ultimate ly benefitted by it, tha people of the United State3 whose ingenious inventions, liberal prin ciples, aud irrepressible trade quickly press in, wherever there i3 an opening, may look forward to their share of the grand results that are to iollow any process which will add one or two hundred millions to the list of consu mers. U. jFAin and Unjust Recently a strike oc curred among some Colored laborers in Savan nah. They were getting one dollar and a bait per day, and demanded two dollars. They had a right to quit work if their contract did not bind them to labor for a certain length of time. If it did, they had not. But the stiikers went further. They threat ened to kill any man who would lake their places it one dollar aLd a half per day. This they had no light io do. They had no light to threaten or annoy others for choosing to work for less, rather than to stand Idle. This is the law of free labor ; and negroes must re spect it, whether lh<*y like it or not. If they “gather in a gang,’’ and “threaten to shoot and kill’’ those who woik for wages that they have it j acted, they will find .themselves run ning against atn ig. The Savannah laborers found this to be the case. They vrert) arrested by the militarv and put in the lock up. Now, the unfair ana unjaat part comes in. Soveial Northeru papers quote the . above case, and assume that had the laborers been white nothing would hive been done with them. This assertion Is simply a barefaced falsehood. Gen. Steedinm, the commander of the Depart ment ot Gecrgi pays ntf respect to color* when crime is committed; or where the public peace is thrr ' r .ed. He deals out equal and exact justice to all without regard to station or posi tion. It matters but little to him who or what the law breaker may bo, or public peace dis turber is. Ho fu#U the duties of Lis position, aud punishes enure without tear cr favor. If the editors of the sensational .Northern journals aro of tlo opinion that white law breakers escape the ; cnalty of their deeds at tho present time in Georgia, they would quick ly be cured of that idea if they would come into this section ( f the world, uuler-s they left their bad traits b( hind ar.d reformed somewhat If editors of Noithern journals will confine themselves to facts about the South, we of ccurs>, can have codling to say But when they hatch up their outrageous stori. s for political <• fifed, wo thick they should bo treated like any other set of rascals. Railroad Matters.— The Mobile & Ohio railroad is iu running order its entne length. We were in eiror some days again staling that through travel was uninterrupted on the East Tenn. & Va ,R. li. A gentleman who has just passed over iho roa< informs us that the bridge over the lloiston, seven miles from B.is tq!, has not keen rebuilt, and that it will bo several days before tho travel writ be uninter rupted from that causa. Pasaecgers going that route at present are delayed, and freight cannot ba gotten through easily. It is said that the Georgia Central Rdiicad Company has obtained iron and rolling stock, on time, from the Government, sufficient to equip tho ectire poadffcm Maccn to Savannah. A. L. Tyler, Etq , of tho Macon and West ern railroad, has been appointed Superintend ent okthe Philadelphia and Erie railroad, iu place of Jos. D Potts, E-.q , resigned. With ihe exception of the TenaeseexL riyer bridge at Decatur, the Memphis and Cirarlod ton road will be completed through to Stevenson, in little evor a month. About is row used for the transfer of passengers and freight. It is said tho Southern Railroad, Mississippi, has reduced its charges fifty ; er cent. Don. A. H. Stephens Parol*.o—We hear it stated that a telegraphic dispatch was re ceived in Atlanta on Saturday, stating (h it Hon A. H. Stephens had been paroled aud would return home. We trust that our informant Is correct. No man could excite greater influence in tho je crgan:zaticn ol Georgia than lion A. 11. Stephens. Ills wiso counsels are greatly need ! ml, and would be more heeded and followed | than the counsel of any other nam A I)x j?ctks> Quetiox StTiLPD -It lias been decided by the adnrimsiration that in aU cases of persons appointed to office in the South who Caunot take the congressional oa\h because of having participated in (he rebellion, they can continue in the discharge of their duties without pay. until Congress shall decide whether such shall be paid, they taking that risk. National Convention of Odd Fallows.— ; The National Convention of Old Fellows is at j present ia season ia Baltimore. Tho Grand j Lire presented bis annual report* in which he, i with no ordinary emotions of pleasure, con- ! grata!atod his follow representatives at being j assembled in another Annual Convention of the Supreme Grand Lodge, under eacu peculi- j arly intere-tia gaud auspicious circumstances; and he expressed h’3 Irghest satisfaction that he wa* permitted to urnst again the representa tives of nearly all the jurisdiction who had been precluded from fellowship and communi cation with the other representatives for tbe list four years. The refiospect of tho year furnishes abundant cause of congratulation that the Order has survived the severe ordeal through which it has passed, and which threatened to imperil its unity. Ho referred to his efforts, which were suc cessful, in re-opening communication with-the Lodges of tho various Southern States. The financial erudition of these jurisdictions rendered it impossible for'them to meet the representative tax imposed by the laws of the Grand Lodge, and he, in hi3 correspondence, indicated that this would be no impediment to the admission of their representatives, and the Grand Lodge remit the tax US’ was done in the case of tho jurisdiction of Tennessee in 1563 Reference is v a!so mado to his sets in conn ction with the Wiidey mon ument, tho formal presentation of which wi!i be made at this session. Other matters of interest to the Order are adverted to by the Grand Sire, who pays a tribute to the memory ofP G. Sire, R. B. Boylston, of S. C., whore death cccuned recently. The report of the Grand Secretary, Josh. Ridgely, was a.so submitted, embracing a de tailed report of tire condition of the Order in various jurisdictions, iu all of which tho Order is in a very prosperous state. During the fiscal year ending Sept, mber Ist of ihe present year, he has received from tho State Grand Lodges and Encampments the sum of $1,403,111, while there was remaining unpaid $218,005, making an aggregate of $1,041,016, a larger sura than has ever been received since the or ganization of the Supreme Ledge. Contribu tions to the Wiidey Monument Fund to tbe amount of $11,473 have b3en received up to the Ist of Jahuary 1865, which had been in creased to nearly $12,000 by interest on the fund invested. The Fenian Organization in the Northern States —We lenrn from reliable sources that the Fenian organic »tion in the Northern States numbers two hundred and twenty-one thou sand men. These men are openly pledged to move any day on the great question of the lib eration of Ireland, and to aid and assist in that noble undertaking. If is a’so stated that a number of subaltern officers Rom tbe Army of the Potomac are now ia Ireland drilling the people and preparing them for the coming struggle. Only about fifty of these officers have left this country fov Ireland within - , months. If eo few liberty ing BpirUg can produce such « profound sensation in England 5s now prevails, setting the government, the press and British subjects in a state of alarm, what will l e ihe effect when two hundred thousand similar souls, a’l animated by the san e glorious sentiment—the freedom of Old E’in—shall land upon the soii of Ireland. Tricks of Designing Politicians. —Were it not for tho bad effect upon the public mind in both sections, tho roorback s-odes started and kept alive by both classes of extremists for political purposes, would be ridiculous, in every sense of the word. These statements, however, a3 matters now stand, have a very damaging influence. Thousan Ia of people who havo not yet recovered from Jhe effect of the war, readily believe almost every thing they read or hear if it suits their ideas. And thug incorrect impressions are made, and ihe coun try injured thereby. If there is any ouo cla a of men deserving of public contempt and scorn, it is, that class of politicians who manufacture up minors merely for effect, regardless of the consequences. They are totally devoid of all principle and honesty of purpose, and ate greater criminals and more dangerous to the welfare of the com munity fhan a highway robber or a midnight inoc-ndiary. The Tobacco Convention at Louisville Iu the Tobacco Convention at Louisville, Ky , eight states wore rept open led. The following preamable and resolutions were passed. Where i.B, The heavy tax on tobacco, and the growing apprehension of a tax on leaf to bacco have greatly lessened the consumption, ar.d prevented producers from planting to Ihe extent they did before the commodity was taxed ; and whereas, ia view of this, tbe monthly report of the Department of Agricui ture, for August, expresses the opinion that the prop ia only barely able to sustain itself, and questions tbe policy of further taxation, as having the effect of checking the production of tbe article, and finally depriving tho Gov ernment of the tax ; Therefore, 1. Resolved, That in tho judgment of this convention tho statistics of the tobacco trade show coiiC ! ufiveiy that an export tax on leaf tobacco of Americau growth would effectually exclude it from all foreign markets imd, qf Gourde; stop its production, thus destroying this imp aidant agricui iural interest and depriv ing us of some twenty million dollars annually in tho adjustment of oar commerciai ex changes with the balance of the world. 2 Resolved, That an excigs tax on leaf to bacco, would, in the judgment of the convett'en be very detrimental to its culture, as the great burdens that would bo imposed upon the grow er, speculator ol manufacturer by the Govern mental machinery or bonded warehouses, as sessors, collectors, etc., would in a short time, reduce the production of the Crop more than an export tax. 3. lt 'Holvj l, That Ibis convention proceed to appoint a committee of three with a s i cre tary to meet a Committee appointed by the Secretary pf the Treasury of the United Stales Government, to adjust the tax now imposed by the Government on manufactured tobacco, so to protect, tho interests of all parties and m »k« its operations as fair and equitable a3 possible. Colored Ft relation in the Southern States.— Taking the census of 1600 us a basis, it will be found that in twelve of tho slave States, embracing eight hundied and eighty- Hi countL .:, tijoio is iu tun hqndred and for ty four ot ibiin an excess of negro popula tion. Alahum i contains fifty- two counties, in t wen lv of which tin re' is ;m excess of negro popula tion. Aiktm-ai has fifty-jive counties, with an excess <«i icgro p lpulation in six. Florida Im.twinly nun i lunth's.nvilh an excess of uegio pcpult!. ion in six Georgia has ono huudini ami thirty < wo counties, wuhan ex e* tri i l in gru populate n in forty three, liouiniium .ms i.ii ty eight, counties, with an ex ci t-s of ixgiu popuiatiou i.i thirty three. Ma ryland haHATri'.y-uyo counties, with an ex cn-.B ol tiejui poiniluliou in five, Mksire’ppi h .st xiy .M.mnir.-, wi'n an excess ol negro pop ulaliuu iu thirty one. North Carolina has eighty hi veu cuuutitH, with an excesss ot ne mo population in twenty. Sjuih Carolina lias tniity II . c ts iuniby, with at, excess or negro p jpuiation n tv, r.ty. Tennessee has sevtnty hve countni, with an excess of negro popula iioa in three, itxu his cue hundred and tit ty one counties, with an excess of negro popu lation in lime Virginia has one hundred and bityeight cnuiiiita, with an excess of negro population ia forty-four. ibis woubl give the negroes a majority in the States cf Louisiana. Mississippi and South Carolina, —Richmond liepuldic, A LETTER FROM F.X.UOV. BROWN. A statement having appeared iu the Chatta nooga G-z He, that Gov.*Brown issued orders curing tho war to cruelly treat prisoners taken m the State Bead, that gentleman has written the annexed letter on the subject: Atlanta, Sept 11, 1865. To the Editor of the Chattanooga Gazette : 1* was represented at 1 passed through East Tennessee that the Railroad men who were in the service of the United States, during Gener al Sherman's march through Georgia, have been informed and generally believe, that I issued an order to the troops under my com mand that they should execute all prisoners taken on the State Road. The report does me gross injustice. I never at any time issued an i order to any troops or persons under any com [ mand to execute, abuse or cruelly treat any | person iu the service of the United States, who | had, or might surrender himself as a prisoner ; nor did I ever encourage or sanction the execu tion of, or any unkind treatment to any per- sons. No part of the troop3 who operated in the rear of General Sherman’s army, while upon the State Road, were at any time under my command. All such, when called out as State troops, were directed to report to the Confed erate General in command, and were subject to his orders, under such officers as he might as sign to the direction of that service. Josiph E Brown. ■ ■-wm-w The Bight cinukuEu Gentry in New York. —A lady relates to a New York paper that while riding down town at the intersection of Broadway and Eleventh street, a young gentleman, neatly and fashionably attired, en tered the stage. He seemed an habib'e of the Fifth avenue or other fashionable quarter. On first entering he took his seat opposite the lady, but a few moments changed it to one at her right side. Immediately he was quite ab sorbed iu reading.the New York Herald, which he held ostentatiously in his right hand. His left hand, towards the lady was quite occupied. After about three minutes intent perusal of the Herald, he arose abruptly and alighted. No suspicion was excited. A few moments later the lady left tha stage, and lound to her dis may her pocket inside of skirt had been emp tied of a purse containing twenty dollars. Tub Elephant cf Former Days. —They have found the tusk of an elephant embedded deep ia the soil at Brattleboro, Vt. It belong ed, the Record says, to a species of elephant long since (xtinct, supposed to be the Elephas Primogenious (or mammoth) Blumenback, that inhabited the northern parts of North America, having wandered across the Siberian plains to the Artie Ocean and Behering Straits and beyond to this country south about the paralell of 40 degs. Their bonea show them to have been about twioe the weight and eae third taller than our mM-ra species. N'KWri SUMM ARY. A lady iu Utica who had recently lost her husband and two children, a few days ago, caused the death of her remaining child—a lovely daughter of ten years—by administer ing poison instead of the medicine tyhicli she thought she was giving. In that part of the State of Alabama which spreads below Tuscaloosa,*sA correspondent pf the Cincinnati Commercial asserts t&8f» ' strata of bituminous coal varying !>•'• ' . **. ' m led iu tbli*u«» ; tie..' alßo t Q o be* oUiw emottM I!,bb ’ and rr ,. * “ m ig&ificent beds of unsur -uiDie are waiting near Talladega for • enterprise of anew regime, and tho upper portions of a*l streams afford abundant water power. For instance, the Black Warrior, from ifb source to Tuscaloosa falls a thousand feet, or five feet a mile, so abruptly as in spring to heap up the llooda as the change of plane at Tuscaloosa fifty feet deep. Vallandiagham has taken tho stump for the democratic ticket in Ohio. Tkad Stephens, the Chairman of the com mittee of ways and means, of tire late congress, and whose position required him to be con stantly informed of the true condition of the finances, and the extent of the public debt, in a recent speech at Lancaster, Pa., said in r egard to this subject that tho popular estimate of 4 000,000,000 was far short of tho actual amount, and that one haif of this debt bears interest, and the interest amounts to $120,- 000,000 per annum. He also stated that thb ordinary expenses of government and the sums icquirca for the army and navy will swell our aunual expenditures to $500,000,000. The unpaid interest on the State debt of Tennessee for four years, up to January, 1865, amounts to $810,653. The unpaid interest on the Railroad bonds for the same period is $3,- 357,000; making a total of $4,207,153 un paid interest. An order has been issued in L miaville threatening all persons with imprisonment, who sell photographs of Wiikes Booth or Sue Muady. It is reported that extensive discoveries of Giver and copper have been made in the Blue, Ridge, in the vicinity of Culpeper Court House, Va. The copper deposits are said to be ex ceedly rich, Lead, iu small quantities, had also been discovered ia theueiguborhood of Or ange Court House, The Methodist Episcopal Conference of Ken tucky is being canvassed in the churches, and an indignation meeting of the members of the Newport Church has been held and the action of the Conference denounced. The Provincial Exhibition ai London, C. W., is new in the full tide of success. The entries are about 7,000. The Quartermaster General has ordered quartermasters, having in their possession money belonging to the “Contraband Fund,” to turn it over to Col. of the Freed men’s Bureau ; this fund is raised by assessing each contraband in the service of the Govern ment five dollars per month for the support o( helpless colored persons. According to t<io peuqus of I8G0„ there were at that time 228 establishments tor the manu facture oi brooms in the United States ; em ploying 1,444 male and 40 female hands ; pay ing for labor, $287,328 ; for material, $874,- 040 ; and producing annually goods to the amount of $1,428,194 —an increase of 52 per cent over the returns of 1850, which amounted to $940,706. An oil well has been sunk near B.mkville, Tcnn., which flows one thousand barrels per 4*?- Pardon seekers to arrive in large numbers at Washington. No more hundred dollar treasury notes of the denomination counterfeited wilt be issued. The Bth and 18th ludiana regiments having done some damage at Indianapolis, their pay has been stopped until they repair the srme. ihe Department of Missouii is being re-or ganix.'d. Some damaging testimony to the accused is being introduced into the boat burners trial at St. Louis, , Ihe Chicago me: chants protest against the internal revenue decision in regard to what constitutes brokerg. The straight out State Rights Democracy ot lowa have nominated Dr. G. S. Bailey, of Van Buren county, tor Governor. AU the Indian tribes have signed the treaty of peace, except the Chickasaw?. ' " ■ No more relations for pardons will be made uni i toe great cumber now cn hand are attended to. Toe census report, of 1860 published two years ago, is full of errors, It j B being revised. Tai; Nkw Comkt Astronoineis tell U3 that Beu* s ib now approaebing Its per- Md.vill soon be visible in the heavens H»y say it u now about 110,000,000 miles dia tant, and on the Ist of November will be"fii to one ot the iour br.ght stars V .bich form the well known square of Pegasus Its ooursa wilt then be southerly, crossing ;h« equator about the middle of Jncember. ft will* then cross its old path in 1816, near where it rftteu into two ennetg At ih » j , r .v ira ilisKrpi n os Februa ry Its®?, r 0m f t ’ Ja earth will be legs fo» u *0 cChjDuO rniies. ibis comet’s period is said io be about s x and ihree-fcurth yeans, Shut tor or Kstuhm.vo Abuy Omcats.— Several cut < ffieeis of -he army have purchased horses and ambulances cf the Lv eminent, and are proceed:.* t 0 iheir h?*' independent or the railroads and Hav:ug escaped death by the lullet and the prison pen they perhaps b,ve no d-ire to como victims ot any of the numerous railw£ ftCClUtJDttj, H3 BOIUO of iht ir Kr<mn - . + unfortunately Lave This mmhns ompanions not irksome either!' ° lh ° d ° f travel ** NEWS SUMMARY. The contracts for mail s rvica ia tho South now made with railroads an-l a v.aiboAts are taken at an average ot 50 per cent. lower l than before the war Ia ono case $27,000 is ' now paid for the service, which the Govern ment gave $150,000 for tlvo years ego. Geueial Curtis Lee has been appoint;d Pro fessor ia ho Virginia Mil ft try Ins Hu! e, to ti'.l the chair formerly occupied by General Jack son. Tho New Fonndlaad fisheries yield well this year, A Montevideo paper announces that a Uni ted States naval expedition of great strength would soon arrive on the South American coast, accompanied by a commissioner, who 32 duty it would Ik> to demand and enforce non interference with the fiee navigation of the Platte river by Brsz !, and the payment by the Government ot that country of four hundred thousand dollars as indemnity tor American vessels destroyed by the Confederates in B’a. ziUau waters. A Bueuos Ayres journal, how ever, says that this story has ro foundation in fact. Hon. J. C. Brc-ckenridge, Gen. Rtplev, Mu jor Helen, and Col. J. Wilson, are now in Canada. Senator Wilson has had an interview with the President and a Iree interchange of opin ions is reported ro have ensued in relation to the policy of re-construction and tbs cause of Mr. Wilson’s supposed disaffection to tlpe Ad - ministration. Tho Massachusetts Senator re marked afterwards to a friend that however he might differ from the President on questions of expediency, yet the latter was unquestion ably honest in his intentions io perpetuate the Union by conciliating the South, and that he had his respect tor intending righi. however he might fail in accomplishing the object. Robberies are becoming of frequent occur rence in Charleston. All the colored troops enlisted in the North ern States, now in North Carolina vro to bo mustered out. Rumors that au insurrection had broken out in Westers Hivti are incorrect. The rebellion iu Uiyti is slill unsubsided. The revolutionary headers are committing great excesses upon the people. Extensive and valuable discoveries of copper have been made in Maryland. Ihe small pox is prevailing at Chattanooga. Iho latest advices from Arkansas report every thing quiet. The Postmaster General baa ordered tho es tablishment of a daily mail, by land, between Savannah and Charleston. Benjamin C. Freeman, a correspondent of the New York Tribune, h-*s been appointed fcy tho President to go on a confidential visit through the Southern States. They are now shipping cargoes of coolies in to the Sandtr eh Islands to supply tho ' necessi ties of plantation labor. It is said that a comliuution of Amcticap, and European capitalists hm Inca formedU» buy and hold Jarge quantities of cotton * lieving that the present large supp> y’. rt last long, - J * 0.000 hog-heads of S 1 *" XI 1 ** *’ bea - Louisiana this year. Before he wft?tb :fewHso() 0()0 nr - oetweeu Cincinnati and Knox .s talked of. F. H. Smith of Birmingham, Ui , wno. has carried an ounce bail in his neck for six months, winch went in at Lis ear irad which doctors have been unable to extract, coughed it out of his throat a few days ago. A clause in the amended constitution of Vir ginia prohibited all from voting or holding office who had in any manner helped on the rebellion. The list disability has already been removed by the State Legislature. .The proclamation of the Governor now submits to the people the question whether the next As sembly shall have the power t f altering the second, namely, as to holding office. It is stated that Gen Joe Johnston is to Ur) the President of the Richmond & Danville Railroad. A disesse called heg diplberia is now rap idly killing out the hogs in Halifax, Ya., and adjoining counties. The animal appears wei> ono morning ; during tho diiy its neck swells, and by the next morning it is dead No cure has been discovered. The census return for 1860 represent 8,777 manufacturing establish mints in tbs Pacific Stales of California and Oregon in that year, with an invested capital ot '523,380 334. pay ing fov raw material consum' and $28,183,620; employing 50,737 male and 07 fern do hands ; paying lor labor $29,030,543, and producing annually goods amounting in value to $71,229, 989, $4-1,927,333 of which were tho products ot gold mining The statement of the Mobile Advertiser that nine hundred negroes had hold a meeting ia that city and decided to go back to slavery, is denied by the other pipers there. No such meeting has iteen held. Hon. Gideon^Veils, Secretary of the Navy has returned to Washington. Ihe most desiTuciivo fire that o»er occured in Maine, swept over the city of Augusta Sept. 16th. The emirs business portion of the city, extending from the passenger bridge to Win throp street, and from the liver to above the railroad track, is in ruins The fire was the work of r.n incendiaiy Loss about a half a million of dollars. The colored people of Norfolk, Alexandria, and Richmond, Va, have recently been hold ing meetings and collecting money for the pur pose of purchas ng a sword for Gen. Butler. i'he issue of five cant fractious;! currency has been stopped by Secretary McCulloch, uud it is expected that the public, through the Treas urer aud Sub Treasurers, will be supplied with two end thiee cents coins to meet (be wants of the community in lieu of the paper issue with* dr,.wn. Investigafor; 100 s management in the pejfij&eter’s and partment of Missouri. The paymaster has been arres ed and a general overhauling of the officers of that department, will immediately take place Since the close of the wav, business at the United Slates Patent Office grai’u illy increases For the week ending September 12, one hun dred and twenty six patents were issued fre, n the office. Cue hundred and thirty-two will bo issued for the week ending on Sept. 19. A writ of habeas coi pus was sued out on the keeper of the O and Capital Prison to produce three men, each ot whom is named Burch from Fairfax, Virginia, who are charged with steal ing Government horses, aud have been put in the Oid Capital Prison, The writ was returned to the Court endorsed as suspended, and signed by “Andrew Johnson, President ” This ended the proceedings, and the Burches will be tried by,the ccuit martial now sitting daily at the Q!d Capitol Prison. The N ishville Union says the difficulty which recently occurred between the Sheriff of Cherokee county, Ala., and a force sent there for stolen cotton by Qca Thomas, will be investigated by a board of officers in a few days. It is an important case, and Gov. Par son* figures in it. petition and statement of grievances from several South Carolina planters had been pre sented to General Bennett, It is complained in this dcQuraent that, the negroes iu many cases positively refuse to enter into labor agreements, while they have made contiacls they fail to comply with the feruis and reiuse to work. General Bennett, in iepiy, announces that the negrofs will bo disarmed, and neither whites nor negroes be allowed to retain arms, except by special permit, and that measures will do taken tc put a stop to the wile com plained of. General Forrest is running a saw mill ir> Mississippi. §!J anus Steele, Use oldest resident of Liv' stvy» county, New if oik, died a few ,j 8 . „ ’.‘ n S~ aged about one hundred. He ' s (ionary soldier, voted foV GwrgawVh S* for the first Present of the United States voted at every Presidential ejection since ’ It is stated, that John Bright will not* vLit this country as reported. A Disuxrrivs ri A ud.—C. K. Dril?, era of the Treasury Department, Wait; u2ton through the city recently from accompanied by nls vsifo and baby. The lat ter is QHQ Us a pair of twins, whicn, on their ar ; rival from *he celestial regions, two months and a half before they were expected, weighed exactly a pound apiece ! He, ihe survivor, is now seven weeks old, and weighs two and a half pounds. He is at present domiciled in a fittle work basket, enveloped in cotton and j watm flinnel, and peeps out now and then with a grimace as if he thought this a very funoy and queer old world. He' is a fearfully little fel low.— iVew Haw (A. PaUid.um. rvr.vrtt summ uiy. A tree cu.ege fqr returned soidiofs h to be <6t;du ud at tin North. Ihe ur muUcture t boots aud shoes in the Son* hern S i’9 in 1860 was represented by !,■* 365 in. »bS’ "at?, with an invested capital of $1 444772. aud producing annually pro— ducts unu) ruling in value to $3 973,313. The cost ot taw material consumed amounted to' $1.611.5; 0, the co t cf labor annually, $1,403,.- 659 ; the number of male hand-? employed, 4 000, and ihe nu , ub ;> r of females 315. A ..’ days s.nce iff B >stoa man named il art Leeds was held for trial on a charge of | larceny o 20.091) feet of gas, of the value of i sus, from the Boston Gas Light Company, the pips3 being connected by some ingenious con | trivanc-! w! h the pipes of the company, with j out the use of tho meter. A valuable led of alum has been discov ered near B’.airsviVle, Pennsylvania. . I Imr e is no epidemic at tire Pennsylvanian oil regi ais, as nported G iv. Anderson hes tendered iho Treasury s!np of O >.o to aMr Fern of Ilyiia, formerly Vie * Pres do t of the State Bank. The recovery of Fiedrick W. Seward is more slow Ilnur anticipated. A vie 7 a ii!v journal is to be started in Nash • vide to sin port President Johnson. A simmer of two hundred lons ia nbcht leaving Hrmburg, under command of Capt. Uwgema u, on ttu exploring lour to the Arctic CCi.an, i.rut is r.v. J to bo the pioneer of an ex pedition up a a large scale. The steamship Western Metropolis, at New \ork from New Orleans, brought 3,000 bales of token, the largest cargo ever brought there in a steam vessel. The crop of wheat in (he old wheat raising count’.cs of the West is the greatest even* known. Kirby Smith is still iu MaUuroras, and rather broken health. Iro visa emigration* tothiw country from Europs during the.first eights non'h , of this year ot over 21,00& Total uuw - ber arrived iu eight mouths ot 186), 135,159 ; in eight months of 1865, 113,799 ; decrease 21*. 360 ' • ,T ie v.-Jne of the shoes sold in Ly&u tfm-p _ the month cf July was but little. gfio' t ( 7f 5i04 OuO, while in Juno over a million d' worth. W ° rC S2ld ’ UUa ia - M ‘ y 13,91 *'*,loo,ooo A turney General Speed bus yiao.ided that i®! 4 ftV, f eeryic6 of the United urn ar ];i ulv >„TV a ur .itcd,States, and ‘ .? tP ° a f e *“ y <y business or oo !' JA “ !” °r en by <y -J it , r citizens, subject. allies to which they V ?.V 10U ; cre 'T uselved amenable un dei tlm .uvaUcr COPY* , otion . pocket recently died in v#ku!ai4vbus ,/ ' Nc V i * J i *. ainou ,, t leaving property to the - - ;* ot «ul*vwL , all of which he accacnn'a .-sth.n fivu or six years in excursions ui.-oiighout ih« v Atious cities of the Union, she tsaVv.l is groat on some ot the Wes | vein rail read? that extra trains are necessary to j aecouiiirodale the community. - -Later re.ports from Sau Dumiogo state that the nicer.t revuiuliou has bccu entirely sue ceesiul. and ;hat the lato President Pimental has submitted to “Protector” Cabal. Peace be gins to reign threughout ihe Republic, and many weaiiby families, who during the recent troubles hr 1 sought a refuge in the Island of Cu'r.vcao, hid returned. Representatives for anew legislature were ihr n»h ,n t. i,t ff. September, aud they wen? t > asi* mb e in v|h capitai on Ihe 24th of the -osmi? y, nth, lhji Spanish residents of San D.tmitm.a c« ‘i* signed l a manifesioin which they ;»t ar t<•:?,*. *iony to the 3 kind and peaceful behavior i Low.i by thei autbo;ilicß of Sa i Domingo t,ov*;nd.nver> body,, The Pro vis onal Government, cf the Rcpub\ioi has abolished the punishment of deat)) f,andail -80 (hat of b in'bhurent for polifivcai ocuscs. _ The Circiunati Gazette saya that the r eports circulated by the Eastern presa relative to tie speedy trial of Jeffeiaon D.vvis and Chief Jui>- U? c C!j isc’a conucctiou with it, are unfounded. The Chief Jit lice has declined all conference on the subject, tied it Is not at ait likely that ho will hoid uvy court ia Virginia or North ! Carolina, utilii alter Congress shall have had an opportunity of legislating in regard to the Circuits in the Southern States. A body of men have left St. Loula to join the Liberal army in Mexico. The National 11 -rse Fait at Hartford, Conn., was a great success. Some say there wore over one hundred thousand people on the grounds. Minnesota is unusally prosperous now, Oata wheat aud corn are all doing well. The two former are now being harvested. The potato crop is very Jino. t here is u largo emigra tion ta some parts c-1 Ihe State; the fear of the Indians being over, largo numbers cf emi grants will seek homes on the frontier. An imme.Qse deposit of coal has been found at Red Falls, twenty miles above Fort Ridgley. Red Falls is now ihe frontier town of the State, and contains nearly 800 inhabitiuls. Oat,rags etui continue to bo committed upon the Union men of East Tennessee. A private letter ficm Marysville, Californa, speaks of an orchard there ia which seventy hands ate kept constantly employed, and widen, during the cherry season last June, yeiided a profit of SIOOO per day—all f :o tu this one fruit. L ist year the proprietor used $10,090 worth of lumber and three tons of; nails making boxes for his fruit. A Splendid now hotel has been onene.l in Stf.. Louie. Ibe budding is six stories *in height, and cor.tains ever three hundred aud tiftj gued rooms, besides the public rooms a servnufs apailmeuH, It is called “the F' . “ era noted,” outh- Hestrueiive fires are raging ia th' , . vaaeo3 Ecciious of Maine. woo< « In the ci irninil Court at defending a negro charg'’' JJ \ f‘ oaie ’ a * aw y er f claimed that under th' ; d With K rand laiceny, entitled to a trial y . Lonuitution, he was Court overrule' 5 y a J ', l . ry I . of The All the U J a PP' Ic atiOD. inanUed \ " ! . rt arouii d VV r ashiogton will be dis j during the present autumn. ~' a 'i r , ai ‘'‘ oCU!n 8 letter to oue of the leaders ..i the Democratic party is j uMished. The gen eral is m favor of a return to civil law, and a general observance of tho constitulicnal rights of b ates. He is with President Johnson on the negro-suffiaga question, A leitcr f,cm a gentieoiua who has recently been down the Mississippi river and tiaveled to rough toe cot run country quite extensively, says he found many Western and Northern men on board the steamboats who were nego tiating for cotton lands. They were sanguine 1 making their*fortunes, and nearly all pro posed to try negro labor fiist, but if that did not pay, then they would discard the negro and employ whim men. : iho drouth has injured the corn crop in alt , pat ts cf Tennessee. ihe military prison at Knoxsville baa been broken up Bix more Springfield mechanics have started •oi St. Petersburg, where ihey are to be en- I ployed lor three years by the Russian govern ment at repair shops on a railroad 500 n> ! ’ long. 'f beii 1 nay ia ©ll2 per month, aD' 4 , jes ex purses to Russia and buck paid. their Ohio papers say that Hon. Jeb r is a candidate f>r United btaU .A. Bingham A little child two aud a Senator. T Boston recently 1 u ®* u the effects of drinking i h« Uoioc a>' wit.l energy -n of New Jersey are working foi tiovo” , determined that iheir candidate tioca* -oor thud be elected and the constitu te . amendment be passed by the new legis ,P6n. C T° l '* lga Ia ,ukj y °P«oed and the - I *autß cieariy dr-twn. I hav« e #°r ffiCt T B “?r dKoldierß of New Hampshire i •r, : ‘. e!ft|J ' Tl League to keep alive X Bpir, U ! uuJ to aid ia caring Ur | who have been disabl. and. General Can by has iseue4 ad important or der, ordering the Brovoa .Marshal General 4 °* LiH depai truant to iurmsh the registers o. voters el the S;af« of Louisiana, with the names or all deserters (residents of that State), ami of all persons also residents of the State, who, a'i#r having been duly en rolled, left ihe jurisdiction in which they j wera enrolled, or went beyond the limits of | United States for the purpose of evading an§ draft duly ordered, and who refused or netr iected to comply with the President’s clamation. The Provost Marshal General ia also to furnish ihe registers of voters with tlm names of ail persons (teeidents of the State) who were exempted from the dra ton accoun of a lie; a;e, who hare under tfe-tf vK-a, at enw time site; the occupation of the d:strict c f rherr mil nces by the Uaited Sbatea forces; evaded tfi: duties and oblig&tioua of. citizen ■nip.