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AUfit HTA, GA:
HKDNESDAY, MORNING, JILY 25, 1866.
Old Tamilian) and the Administration.
Never. perhaps, wax the old adage, that
polities sometimes makes strange bed
fellows, better illustrated than in the letters
from President Johnson. Secretary Seward
and Secretary Wells to the sachems ot'( old
Tammany, in reply to the invitation to
join in their celebration of the fourth of
•J uly.
Each of tlic distinguished gentlemen
named, availed himself of the opportunity
to endorse the honesty, patriotism, and
purity of the tiuio-lxonpml piiijciplcs,
their sympathy with the avowed plat
form of that party on the overshadow
ing questing of the day. Says the
President: “ I thank you for the cor
dial invitation of the time-honored Socief//
of Tammany. The national tone and pa
triotic spirit of the invitation meet my
hearty approval. * * * There can be
for the patriot no higher duty, no nobler
work than tin obliteration of the jnissions
and prejudice* which, resulting, from our
late sanguinary conflict, have retarded re
conciliation, and prevented that complete
restoration of' oil the Slot/*, which w (ascii
toil to the pears, unit//, strength and pro.v
--pcrit/i of the notion. Nothing could mom
distinctly proclaim the importance, in the
President’s opinion, of the present issues
than these lew words, lie deems a com
plete restoration of all the States amentia!
to the security of the nation, and eulogises
Old Tammany for its views on this sulyoct.
It will, pi course, 1m; said by the radical
organs (lint this is siin|)ly :i mere violent
lit of “Copperheadisrn” which has-broken
•out, and that it yonfirnis their charge tliat
the I'resident has sold out to the Dcmoera
ey. Hut what will they say of Howard,
whose antecedents are not Democratic, and
yet who “rejoices'with the Society.” and
“mourns with th<± Society,” in#a man
ner to show him*dfin with it,
at least, on the question of restoration, and
who, to make the point plainer, defines his
position. Or what can they chafge against
Welles, their honored Secretary of the Na
vy, who dmartis lliiit the society of Old
Taninittiiy “has, at. all linns, and under
till eircuifsninees, in war and in peace, been
faithful to t he Onion of the States and the
rights of the States, who assures them that
at no tiiye during the history of the coun
try have its teachinys been more required
than at present.
It is tfuly cheering to see the leading of
ficers of a great government endorsing the
conciliatory l*oliey of a great party, with
out reference to the differences of the past.
It will he still more cheering to see the
leading spirits of Old Tammany, and Mo
zart, and the supporters of the adminis-'
t rat ion, going up to the Philadelphia Con
vention, act uated by a common purpose,* to
defend the principles of Constitutional lib
erty against the assaults of sectionalism
and centralization.
Whether or not this great tender of con
ciliation shall gather sufficient strength to
prevail against the fearful assaults that are
being made against true national principles,
those who thus forego their life-time as-,
sociations for the public good, command
the approval and admiration of those who
arc now at the mercy of radical rapacity.
Woj therefore, commend the utterances of
old Tammany and Mozart, and of the Presi
dent and the heroic cabinet advisers who.
adhere to him, to the consideration of our
readers.
Importance of Manufactures.
McQueen's statistics of the wealth and
annual income of England, illustrates most
forcibly the importance of manufacturing
as a source of and private wealth,
and as an auxiliary of agricultural in
dustry. It appears from the statistics
that the value of the soil devoted to ag
riculture comprehended, at that time,
twenty six forty-thirds of the total wealth
of the whole Kingdom ; that the value of
England's agricultural soil was nearly
twelve times greater than her whole capital
invested in manufactures and commerce,
that the money employed in her farming
interest comprised more than three
fourths of the capital of England; that the
manufacturing and commercial capital of
England, including her ships, constituted
but about one eighteenth of her national
wealth ; that the agricultural capital of
England, which was then £3,311,000 pro
duced a gross income of Id per cent, while
the manufacturing and trading capital,
which w;ts hut £215.000.000 yielded nearly
a gross income of one hundred and twenty
per wnt.
Commenting upon these facta, the New
York Trilinm says it is that magic capital
of £218,000,000 invested in machinery,
mills, furnaces, factories and mines which
has swollen the firming capital of little
England into the gigantic sum of £3.311,-
000.000. and made a British farm worth
ten times as much as one in wheat-growing
Poland -which only grows wheat, and
buys goods instead of making them. The
bulk of agricultural capital consists of land !
and cattle.
The manufactures of Great Britain have
doubled and trebled her population, sus
mined her immense commerce, built. j
equipped and manned her countless ships,
and thus directly and indirectly increased
the demand for, and raised thv price of,
food and raw materials.
There is food, in these statistical facts,
for the reflection of the people of the
South. While we pay large taxation on
our raw products, and help to nerve the
arms ot Northern artizans by a protective
tariff. our timber rots iu its native forests,
and our rivers—affording the finest water
power on earth—go unchained to the sea.
It we but bad, in addition to our peer
less dime and soil, the industry and capi
tal requisite to build up a fair share of
manufacturing enterprise, the South would
• speedily become the most prosperous por
tion of the continent, or of the world.
i WEEK IX MIDDLE GEORGIA.
Condition of the Country—Energy of the
l.adies of Greensboro’—Tableaux Vi
vaut.
fE<iit#)rint Correapondence of the Chronicle Jt Sentinel.)
The effects and results of the late war
are plainly visible everywhere—differing
hut in degree. The rude, ruthless vio
lence of destruction marks one extreme —
neglect and decay, the result of impover
ishment and exhaustion, mark the other.
The town of Greensboro’ —-just without the
desohlting track of Sherman’s angels—suf
fers in common with her sisters from the
latter causes; and prominent among the
evidences presented, is the condition of the
Cis Cemetery. This (the women ofGreens
boro’, with one accord, decreed should no
longer suffer. To obtain the funds requi
takiuji advantage of the
mencernent at Mercer University, and
claiming the assistance of homeward bound
stuilents—the ladies of Greensboro’ pro
jected a public entertainment for the even
ing of the 11th inst. At the appointed
hour a large audienge assembled in the
Hall of the Lucy Cunningham Institute,
kindly proffered by the accomplished Prin
cipal, Prof. Lane, for the occasion.
Mr. John 11. Seals, in behalf of the la
dies, having pertinently explained the ob
ject and claimed indulgent criticism for
their efforts as neophytes, announced that
the entertainment would consist of
TABLEAUX AND CHARADES.
An excellent Brass Band, under the
leadership of Mr. Thomas West, having
played a brilliant overture, a choir of soft
voices is heard in the distance singing
“Come with me to Fairy Land.” Gradu
ally the sweet sounds approach, and, while
flic last soft note still lingers upon the *ear,
the curtain rises disclosing
THE FAIRY SCENE.
A group of beautiful c liildren dressed in
pure white —tastefully adorned with rose
buds, and violets, and star jessamines—
each with gossamer wings and crowned
with choice flowers, kneel at the foot of a
flower-decked throne; upon this stands
the tiny Fairy Queen, who, holding in her
hand a delicate wand, points forward as if
directing her tiny subjects.
After a short interval, the band strikes
up a lively prelude, which, as if by magic,
becomes Dixißand the curtain rises display
ing
TIIE CAMP SCENE
amid deafening applause—a squad of Con
federate soldiers in bivouac. In the fore T
ground are two soldiers, one pours from a
blackened tin cup, water upon a heap of
corn meal —which the other, kneeling upon
the ground with bared arms, works into the
dough. On the right a soldier is cleaning
his gun by the light of the fire. On the
left, a grpup seated cross-legged on the
ground, play cards with a greasy pack, well
worn by soldier hands. All are absorbed
in the game, while one grasping closely his
own cards in his left hand, leans gently
forward upon his right and peeps slyly upon
his neighbor’s cards. In the centre of the
scene hangs the camp kettle, suspended
from three forked stakes, yoked together
at the top by projecting prongs. By
the side and resting upon the glowing coals
is the fry pan with its scanty rations of
bacon, the handle of which is held in the
left hand by a soldier on his knees and in
his shirt sleeves, who turns the meat with
liis long jack knife. A stack of inusket#
with a hatchet lying by, scattered knap
sacks, and a sentinel at his post, make up
the back ground, and completes the picture.
The next tableaux, taken from Scott’s
Lady of the Lake, is
ELLEN DOUGLASS,
extending her hand to receive the ring
from James Fitz James:
‘'Ellen, thv hand—the ring is thine:
Each guard and usher knows the sign.
Seek thou tlie King without delay:
This signet shall secure the way.
He placed the golden circlet on,
Paused—kissed her hand and then was
gone.
The aged minstrel stood aghast.”
To this exquisite picture succeeded, in
striking contrast, the capital satire, in two
parts, of
WOMAN S RIGHTS.
The lively music from the band ceases ;
at the same instant the curtain is with
drawn, slowly and deliberately, exhibiting
about a baker's dozen of Masculinities busi
ly engaged in household- employments.
One sifting flour; another working dough
in a tray; another darning the many holes
of a long stocking; another sewing up a
rent in a petticoat; one scrubbing; one
scouring; one churning; three soaping,
washing and ynsing clothes ; wiiile promi
nent in the centre of the busy group is
seated a huge specimen, with Atlantian
shoulders, adown whose broad chest flows
a coarse, earrotty beard of tremendous pro
portions. He holds in his huge arms a
delicate, waxen-faced, curlv-head baby,
which now-and again gives eollicky signs of
distress, and utters a cry with the ear-pierc
ing sounds of a cracked elarionette. While
the fond masculinity is vainly consoling, in
harsh notes, the suffering infant, the scene
shifts suddenly and reveals a group of
din'ii it its.
Prominent stands the petticoat sentinel,
trammelled with soldier's harness—belt,
cartridge-box, bayonet, haversack; and/
weighted down by the loaded knap
sack, she labors awkwardly to adjust
her musket in such military style as will
avoid injury to her vac straw bou
rn t. In one corner two old codger-dames
pore absorbingly over a game of chess:
behind them, several young brisk demoi
selles are seated at a game of poker. One
deals dexterously the sliding cards; the
other looking with intense eagerness upon
the pile of bright gold which glitters in the
centre of the table. On the right is seen
the dandy, lounging in lazy elegance, twirl
i ing a gold-head cane with her right hand,
\ the left raised to receive between the fore
and middle finger a huge cigar, and permits
| the rich volume of smoke to curl upward
; from the distended mouth. Hard by the
. daqdy. two sober, sedate, middle-aged con
; noisseurs are seated at a table—one lifting
a bottle of eliquot champagne, examines
the brand critically; the other, having just
taken a masculine sip, with the mouth
puckered to hold the nectar; poises the
glass, while, with half-closed eyes, and
views again, with satisfaction the golden
colored liquid ere the glasses reach the
table. This piece was admirably portrayed.
But while these divinities satirized with
emphasis some of the pretensions of their
own sex, the idea was unequivocably sug
gested that they pronounced with equal
emphasis against some of the pleasures of
the opposite sex.
“Open your mouth and shut your eyes,”
was followed by
REBECCA A?ft) ROWENA.
The beautiful Jewess dressed in pure white
adorned by a single crimson moss rose, and
a red scarf, approaches timidly—bearing
in her hand the present of beautiful pearls
and raising gently the veil, gazes tenderly
upon tjie beauty of the fair Saxon in bridal
may 1 Knight; of
Ivanhoc. But the leadiug feature of the
evermig’s entertainment was the charade
admSably dramatised by a gifted lady, and
entitled—
MRS. WASHINGTON POTTS.
The length of the piece and its numerous
and various characters, prohibitan attempt
at description. It must suffice to say that
all the characters were well sustained, and
the principle ones, Aunt Quimby, Drusa,
Mrs. Marsden, Mrs. Washington Pojtts,
and the Lieutenant were acted in perfec
tion. The denoument- left the audience
in no doubt as to the meaning, to-wit: Al
ways prefer the virtues of a pure heart
and the gifts of intellectual culture, to
shoddy and petroleum. This piece was
repeatedly encored amid shouts of laughter;
hut it gives place to
THE LIGHT OF THE HARAM.
In which Nourmahal, gorgeously dressed,
is disconsolate and
“Sits in her own sequestred bower,
Willi no one near to soothe or aid
But that inspired and wondrous maid
“Nourma, the enchantres:”
from , whom she learns the
“Spell that should recall,
Her Selim’s smile to Nourmahal.” ,
In the second scene, Normahal showers
upon the lap of the Enchantress, flowers
,T “For the enchanted wreath of Dreams,”
and the final scene exhibits Nourmahal at
the Feasts of the Roses, at the close of her
song, in the act of tearing from her face the
mask of the Arabian maid, conscious “that
the charm Is wrought, ’ ’ attempting to kneel
at the feet of Selim', who stands holding
the cup,
“Which all the time of that sweet air
. His hand held untasted up.
As if ’twere fixed by magic there.”
BYRON’S DREAM
was the impersonation of Byron at that
moment when rejected in his suit, he exhibits
the bitterness of the thought “which cur
dles a long life into- one hour” —while the
mood.of Mary Chaworth, serene, decisive,
but halt repentant, amid smiles, is aptly
caught and happily portrayed in the ex
tended hand which beckons him back.
THE SECRET DISCOVERED,
restores mirth to the young people, by ex
hibiting a lover seated by his fair one, each
enraptured with the other, represented
with life-like fidelity, by no “’prenticed
hands.” The grey-haired papa, full of
surprise and trouble, with his eye-glass
upon his nose, ponders a newly discovered
love letter; and curious mama, full of in
dignation, yet cautiously alert to know all,
stealthily approaches, and strains the list
ening car to catch the whispered vows.
LAI.LA ROOKII
was an elaborately gorgeous Oriental
scene. The Princess is seen reposing upon
a rioh divan, half encircled in rose-colored
gossamer curtains—her long black tresses
streaming like lines of lustrous jet, wave
gently as disturbed by the fan of a pheas
ant’s wing in the hands of a fair young
female slave. A troop of Cashmerian
maids stand around, while seated at a be
coming distance is Fadladeen, the Grand
Chamberlain—the accomplished courtier
and profound politician, whose political
creed is a line of the Sadi: “Should the
prince at noonday say, ‘lt is night!’ de
clare that you behold the moon and stars.”
Feramorz, the minstrel, with his lute in
hand, kneeling, describes
That delightful Province of the Sun
Tho first of Persian lands he shines upon.
The last of the Tableaux is
THE GIPSEY SCENE.
A beautiful Gipsey Mother flits to and
fro within her tent—looking after her
charming little brood of children. An aged
Crone Ims seated herself apart freftn others,
and consults fate and fortune by the cards.
The king of the Gipsevs, in a royal costume
of white knee breeches, bright red kilt,
embossed with golden lace, and wearing a
long red cap with a golden tassel, stands in
lurid light before a boiling cauldron. His
right hand elevates his wand, the left
clasps his breast whilst he murmurs an in
vocation to the spirits of darkness.
During the interludes some beautiful
duetts were sung to the piano accompani
ment with great taste and feeling by Mr.
and Mrs. Weller, of New York. " The last
of which “Sleep. Gentle Mother,” from
Verdi's opera “II Trovatore,” was ex
quisitely rendered.
A handsome supper closed the enter
tainment and marked it as a decided suc
cess.
History of a Georgia Radical.—
A writer in the Savannah Herald, says,
George W. Ashborne, who is on the list of
names appended to the call of a Loyal
Lnion Convention, has been for twenty
years a citizen of the State, and may be a
native. He started to study for the Min
istry. but was expelled from school and
excluded from the church. He once kept
a hotel at Thomaston, and afterwards at
Lookout Mountain. He was in Macon
early in the war, where he was in some
trouble, and left for the West, where he
turned up on the staff of some Federal
General. He now returns to do up the
politics of the State so honored by the
radiance of his careen
Tennessee. —A meeting of citizens
from various parts of the State, was held
in Nashville, July 4, to consider the call
for a National Convention at Philadelphia,
August 14, and resolutions were adopted
to send delegates from every congressional
district.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 25, ISO 6.
The Weather, Crops, Ac,
During a recent short visit into some of
the neighboring counties, we had opportu
nities of inspecting the condition of the
crops, and of arriving at an estimate of the
probable yield, based upon personal obser
vation. We give our opinion to our read
ers for what it is worth. An experience
of several years of our life as a practical
planter enables us to speak with some con
fidence of what we saw. We are no alarm
ist ; neither are we in the interest of those
who usually cry “short crops” to influence
the market in their behalf, but our best
judgment is that not one-fourth of a corn
crpp can be realized in middle Georgia.
Never, since the disilstrous season of 1853,
have we seen the prospect half so had as
note. There has been no rain since the
first week in June. This long drouth—
coming on! asm 'Hid, immediately after’ a
most unprecedented season of continuous
rains—has literally dried up the blades,
and, in many instances which we witnessed,
even the stalks of the corn. Owing to the
long rainy season, the crop had not been
worked as well as it ought to have been,
and was consequently infested with grass
and weeds to a considerable extent. These
have taken from the plant a portion of the
moisture left r m the earth, and in that way
■ have very seriously injured the crop.
Really the prospect for bread another
year is alarming. If we should have rain
within a few days, peas might still bo
planted in time to mature a crop. Some
relief can also be obtained by the putting
in of a very large wheat and oat crop in
the fall. Turnips, also if put in good land
well prepared, will furnish excellent winter
food for catttle, sheep, and hogs. All
these crops should engage the earnest and
diligent attention of planters. The
COTTON CROP
is also suffering for want of rain. In many
places the plant has begun to east the
fiery fr<*ut, and the season now is too
short for it to re-cuperato in time to ma
ture anything like a fair crop. The grass
has been conquered on most of the planta
tions which we saw, but the stand of cot
ton, very poor in the beginning, has been
seriously injured in getting out the grass.
One of the best planters in Jefferson coun
ty —one, too, whoso crop has not been in ■
juredby want of cultivation—told us that
he had 550 acres of cotton in cul
tivation, and that he could, not possibly
make more than 100 hales. This land
has made 300 bales in-four years. We
saw thousands of acres where the cotton
was so small as not yet to cover the land,
Hundreds and hundreds of acres in Burke,
Jefferson, Washington, and Johnson coun
ties will not make a bale of cotton to ten
acres. Indeed, the cotton does not look
as well now (17tli July) as it formerly did
on the first of June. In addition to its
great backwardness, it has now to contend
with a parching and exhausting drouth,
which, if it continues many days longer
will cut the crop off almost entirely.
We found the planters in the various
sections very gloomy and foreboding for the
future. If, they said, we could have made
a fair crop of corn, we could have man.
aged to get along another year; but with
corn to buy at a high price, and the cot
ton prospect so bad, m|ny are preparing to
sell out the lands in the fall, and turn their
attention to some other mode of making a
living. The trouble of managing free ne
groes, and the bad seasons combined, have
wrought wonderful changes in the feelings
and hopes of our people.
The Political Explosion at Washington.
No friend of constitutional government
can regret the withdrawal of the jacobin
elements from the Cabinet of President
Johnson. Therefore the, dispatches an
nouncing the resignation of one after
another cause no regret in this section.
The resignations it is said will embrace
Messrs. Dennison, Speed, Harlan and
Stanton. They have been dead weights
upon the President for months, keeping
up an unnatifral semblance of harmony with
the Radicals, which greatly weakened his
power for good, and embarrassed many
who were disposed to support him. The
sloughing off of this element of rottenness
will leave the administration in a healthy
condition, and inspire a degree of confi
dence in its strength and moral power which
will be irresistible.
Radical reports say'that the President
has thrown himself’ into'the arms of the
opposition, and that he will shortly call all
the Senators and Representatives elected
together, and reorganize them as the con
stitutional Congress. While we have no
reason to believe that such will he the pol
icy of the President, we may look for such
straight forward and vigorous action as
. will make the issue with the Radicals di
rect and pointed. We have no doubt of
his capacity to fathom the difficulties which
beset him, and so shape and direct his pol
icy as that the present blow-up will result
.to the good of the nation.
It has been a source of general regret
and surprise that the President retained in
his Cabinet so long those who were known
to be opposed to his policy. The lukewarm
support which has been accorded him by a
majority of hi.s Cabinet, has greatly weak
ened his power to cope with the powerful
and unscrupulous combination against his
plan of reconstruction. The country feels
that a burden has been removed from
the shoulders of the Executive, and it may
be well that-lie has waited for the act to be
voluntary on the part of the refractoey
spirits. There can now be no obstacle in the
way of such a construction of his Cabinet
as will make it a unit.
Let there be no Achans in the camp, but
! a body of bold, just and prudent men, who
have the nerve to stand the storm which
awaits them.
Convention at Blacksliear.
The Savannah Herald , at the suggestion
of numerous gentlemen in the different
Counties, calls a Convention of the Ist
Congressional District, at Blaekshear, on
Friday the 27th inst., to elect delegates to
the National Union Convention, to be hold
at Philadelphia. •
Major Emerson, a Paymaster in the TL
S. army was recently robbed of $7,000.
the national convention.
Getter from Hon. TV. H. Seward.
The following letter from Hon. W. H.
Seward in favor of the National Conven
tion, we clip from the National Intelli
gencer of the ] 6th inst. In introducing it
that paper says ;
We publish to-day the important
letter of Hon. William H. Seward in support
of the objects of the Philadelphia Conven
tion. His reasoning upon the subject is
calm, candid, and just, and cannot fail to
exert that vast influence upon the Ameri
can people that has ever attended any de
cided demonstration by him in political
affairs. It will be seen that Mr. Seward
does not regard any existing party organi
•xatien as able to effect the great want of
the country in respect to the - restoration of
representation in Congress .of the States
which were late the seats of insurrection.
He looks with faith, confidence, and cour
age to the Philadelphia Convention. It is
to be hoped that no step in initiating the
Convention —none in it and none follow
ing it —will operate otherwise than to con
duce to the fruition of the high hopes ot
so patriotic and so experienced a states
man.
Department of State, 1
Washington, July 11, 1866. j
Sir: Excuse me for expressing surprise
that you ask me whether I approve of the
call of a proposed National Union Conven
tion at Philadelphia.
After more than five years of dislocation
by civil war, I regard a restoration of the
unity of the country as its most immediate,
as well as its most vital interests. That
restoration will be complete when loyal
men are admitted as representatives of the
loyal people of the eleven States so long un
represented inCongress. Nothing but this
can complete it. Nothing more remains
to be done, and nothing more is
necessary. Every day’s_delay is attended
by multiplying and increasing incon
venience, embarrassments, and dangers,
at home and abroad. Congress pos
sesses the power exclusively; Congress,
after a session of seven months, still omits
to exercise that power. “What can be
done to induce Congress to act?” This is
the question of the day. Whatever is
done must i>e in accordance with the Con
stitution and laws. It is in perfect accord
ance with the Constitution and laws that
the people of the United States shall as
semble, by delegates, in convention, and
that when so assembled they shall address
Congress by respectful petition and remon-.
stance, and that the people in their sev
eral States, districts, and Territories shall
approve, sanction, and unite in shell re
spectful representations to Congress. No
one party could do this effectually, or even
seems willing to do it, alone ; no local or
f opular organization could do it effectually:
tis the interest of all parties alike; of all
the States, and of all sections —a national
interest; the interest of the whole people.
The Convention, indeed, may not sue;
ceed in inducing Congress to act; hut if
they fail, the attempt can make matters
no worse. It will be a lawful and patriot
ic attempt made in the right direction, an
effort to be remembered with pride and
satisfaction, whether it succeed or fail.
The original union of the States was
brought about by movements of the same
character. The citizens who objects to
the Convention is bound to propose a bet
ter plan of proceeding to effect the desir.ed
end. No other plan is offered or even
thought of. Those who should oppose it
would seem to me to manifest at best un
concern, if not oppression to all reconstruc
tion, reorganization, restoration, and re
conciliation between the alienated masses
of the American people. To admit that
the Convention will fail would be to ad
mit that the _ people of the United'
States are deficient in either the wisdom or
the virtue necessary to continue the exist
ence of the Republic. I believe no such
thing. A great political writer says that
government is a Secular religion, and that
the people of every country are divided
into two classes, each maintains; a distinct
political faith. The one class always fears
the very worst that can possibly happen,
and the other hope under every circum
stances the very best that can in any event
happen.
\V ithout accepting this theory ag abso
lutely true, I think that all men do gener
ally act from a motive to guard against
public danger or else from a positive de
sire to do good. Both classes may, there
fore, favor the present attempt to restore
the unity of the nation.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
William H. Seward. .
Hon. J. R. Doolittle,
Chairman Executive- Committee, &c,
Destitution in South Carolina.—
Owing to conflicting testimony as to suffer
ing for want of food in South Carolina, and
as Gen. Sickles, upon his understanding
Gov. Orr to say that the want was much
exaggerated, had disapproved of the issu
ance of rations. Gen. Howard applied to
Gov. Orr for a clear statement of the case.
Gov. Orr hastens to reply, with a view to
correct Gen. Sickles’ misapprehension of
the statement. He says there is great
need of distributing rations through the
Freedmen’s Bureau in e.very district of the
State. He had, however, urged discrimi
nation, as there were many unfit subjects.
After detailing the districts suffering most,
he says: “I regret extremely that any opi
nion of mine should have been so under
stood as to justify or require the suspen
sion of the issue of rations which it was
proposed to distribute in this State.” He
therefore earnestly requests that the ra
tions should he continued, as estimated by
agents of the Bureau.
Rather Heavy.
The Constitutionalist, which has oppos
ed the movement for Southern representa
tion in the Philadelphia Convention, is
not content with its position of antagon
ism, but gees further and attempts to
direct the action of those who favor the
movement. He opposes the proposition
to give the Governor the appointment of
delegates for the State at large, and
threatens the Governor with his protest if
he should consent to make these. appoint
ments. If the Constitutionalist would
have nothing to do with the whole .mat
ter, as he avers in his present position,
ought he. to assume to dictate to those
who differ with him ? Very good and great
men in Georgia happen to differ with the
Constitutionalist, as to the propriety and
policy of representation at Philadelphia.
We think he ought to be satisfied with a
prpt. gainst the whole movement, with
out -ssaying to direct the counsels of those
who approve it. — Federal Lnion.
Not True.— The Augusta Constitution
alist publishes the platform of the "Na
tional Union Convention at IV ashington,
and says it contains the conditions pre
scribed foY Southern representation in the
Philadelphia Convention.
We are not a little surprised that the
sagacious and reopectable gentlemen who
edit the Constitutionalist, are willing to
risk their reputation for fairness on such a
statement. If the Convention cannot be
put down by fair argument, better yield
opposition and go in for it. — Macon. Tele
> graph.
The Philadelphia National Convention.
In many of the active steps have
been taken to have full and able delegations
to the proposed National Union Conven
tion at Philadelphia, August 14th. In
others there seems to be some misunder
standing as to the ‘manner in which dele
gates are to be chosen. 1 With a view to
give the proper information, the following
Circular, emanating from the
Union Committee, has just been issued
and sent into all the States aniTerrito
*. The indications are that This Con
tion will be one of the most imposing
and important assemblages ever held in
this country:
circular.
Washington, D. C. July 10, 1866.
Your immediate and earnest attention is
invited to the annexed call for a National
Convention, issued by the National Union
Executive Committee, and the accom
panying indorsement thereof by p'rntTrtnfmt
gentlemen who. are well known to the
country.
The undersigned has been duly appoint
ed a committee to facilitate and expedite,
by correspondence and otherwise, such ac
tion as may seem necessary to bring to
gether at Philadelphia a convention of the
ablest men of the nation, without regard to
their party antecedents, who favor gen
erally the restoration policy President
Johnson has advocated as against the dan
gerous course pursued by the majority of
Congress.
We deem it proper to suggest that it is
desirable that there be sent from each
State four delegates at large and two from
each Congressional district who favor the
principles set forth in the call, to be taken
from the supporters of Lincoln and John
son in 1864, and a like number from their
opponents. Also, four delegates from each
Territory, and four from ’ the District of
Columbia. In those States whereof a por
tion of the people were lately in rebellion,
a corresponding number of delegates may
be chosen by the people generally, who ac
cept the principles stated in the cull. It is
not intended, however, that these sugges
tions shall interfere with any arrangements
already made for the selection of delegates.
It is left entirely to the political organiza
tions in the different States and districts
that concur in the principles of the call to
decide whether they will choose their dele
gates by joint oi" separate meetings, or by
their executive committees.
We have been authorized to appoint
temporary executive committees in the
States where the same arc presumed to be
necessary. You are 3 therefore, requested
to act as such committee, and to adofOt im
mediate measures to secure a full delega
tion to the proposed convention, not inter
fering, however, with the action which ex
isting organizations may have taken for
the same object. Your action will be such
as to aid such movements—the purpose of.
your appointment being to provide for the
selection of delegates if no adequate pre
liminary arrangements have yet been made.
The day fixed for the National Convention
is near,’ and _we desire to impress on you
and on all friends of this cause, that it is of
the first importance that district or State
conventions, or State executive committees,
immediately appoint delegates. And it is
particularly requested that a list of dele
gates and committees appointed be_ speed
ily forwarded to the chairman of this com
mittee.
In conclusion we have to add that the
paramount object of this movement is to
bring into a great National Conference
from all parts of our distracted country,
wise and patriotic men, who may devise a
plan of political action calculated to restore
national unity, fraternity, and harmony,
and secure to an afflicted people that which
is so sincerely desired by all good men, the
practical blessings of an enduring peace.
Alex. W. Randall,
Lewis D. Campbell,
Montgomerry Blair.
Tennessee Moving.
We are pleased to see that the good
men and true of the volunteer State are
determined not to yield supinely to the
devices of Congress, and their infamous
governor, to fasten radicalism upon their
State policy, but are seconding tl*e efforts
of the President to maintain constitutional
principles. A call appears in several of
the Tennessee papers, signed by David T.
Patterson, Edmond Cooper, Wm. Camp,
hell, J. XV. Leftwick, N. G. Taylor, and I).
B. Thomas, urging the people of the State
to send delegates to the’Philadelphia Con
vention.
We make the following extracts from
their address:
Since the first Monday of December last
we have watched with intense solicitude
the progress of political events in Wash
ington, and have witnessed with profound
regret the opposition made by the major
ity in Congress to the wise and beneficent
policy of the President of the United States.
Believing, as we most sincerely do, that
under that policy the union of the States
would be preserved, the integrity of the
Constitution maintained, and the inestima
ble right of the people of each State to
representation in Congress distinctly recog
nized, we feejpthat the occasion demands
such Convention, having in view the con
solidation of till who are opposed to extre
mists, as well at the North as at the
South, and who, ignoring all past political
differences, are willing to unite in opposi
tion to the sectional action of Congress,
and in favor of the speedy restoration of
all the States to their practical relations
with the National Government.
Deeply impressed with the importance
of this common object, and cordially ap
proving the political truths embodied in
the call, we earnestly appeal to you to take
such measures as will insure your repre
sentation in the Convention.
In making your appointments we cannot
too earnestly impress upon you the neces
sity of selecting your best representative
men —such as will reflect credit on your
choice, and who do in good faith loyally
accept the national situation ; cordially
endorse the patriotic principles set forth
in the call, and are attached in true al
legiance to the Constitution of the United
States, the union of the States under it,
and the Government established by it.
The people of the State of Tennessee have
a peculiar interest in the objects for which
the convention is called. Seven months
have now elapsed since the assembling of
the Thirty-Ninth Congress, and they are
yet denied the constitutional right of rep
resentation.
The admission of your Senators and
Representatives with no other conditions
than those prescribed by the Constitution
and the laws Ims been repeatedly, but
vainly, urged by the President, and a pro
tracted session is about to terminate with
out even the privilege of being heard hav
ing been' accorded to your represen
tatives duly elected and acknowledged to
possess the requisite legal qualifications.
In addition, you are now gravely called
upon by the majority in Congress, and his
Lxcellency the Governor, to sanction an
amendment to the Federal Constitution
which, if ratified by thp States, will de
prive you of your recognized political pow
er, and lessen the number of yourrepre sen
tatives in the National Legislature, unless
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXV. NO. 31.
you shall at their bidding clothe the negro
wit h the right of suffrage.
This we are unwilling to do under any
circumstances.
We are well assured that you will not
sustain a party which would thus attempt
further to humiliate our noble State, and
to throw a cloud over the patriotism of
Andrew Johnson : and that you will frown
upon men who would subvert the Constitu
tion of our fathers for mere partisan pur
poses ; and that you will cheerfully co-op
erate in a movement whose only object is
the preservation of the rights, the dignity,
the equality, and the union of the States.
FROM MEXICO.
Favorable Reports of the Condition of the
Empire—Tlie Imperial Draft for 50,000
Troops- -Santa Anna, &c.
A correspondent of the New York
World, writes a long letter from the City
of Mexico, under date of June 30th, from
which we make the following extracts:
a (toal 'TfiTTrffflTffn:: *
If one were to judge by the accounts
published in the United States newspapers,
the empire would seem to be on its last
legs ; but happening to be on the spot, I
can assure you that Maximilian was never
in a firmer and more assured possession
of Mexico than at the present time. It
is really amusing to read the accounts
of battles and sieges, which the ready
pijns of correspondents, under Juarist
inspiration, paint to the gaze of the
American people. Excepting the Hermo
sillo massacre, where harmless unprotected
citizeiis—men, women, and children —were
slaughtered in cold blood in the temporary
absence of the Imperial forces, the “Lib
erals ’ ’ have not gained a single victory, or
even got the best in any important skir
mish. The rumors of the capture of a
large train, near Monterey, a few days ago,
and subsequently of Matamoras, may be
true. It is not unlikely. Most of the Eu
ropean troops were being withdrawn from
that sickly region, and the Liberals will not
be permitted to long enjoy their advantage.
But with these exceptions it is not too
much to assert that the Liberals have been
beaten at every point. In fact, it is a reg
ular scamper among them whenever the
French or Austrians make their appear
ance. The Europeans always have orders
to charge if the disparity of numbers is
not more than ten to one ; and a Mexican,
was never yet known to face cold steel,
bayonets being their extreme abhorrence
even when pitted against each other.
THE IMPERIAL DRAFT FOR FIFTY THOUSAND
MEN.
The determination of the Emperor to
maintain himself after the departure of the
Freiich, with every means in his power, is
fully illustrated by the decree ordering a
military draft. At first it will be carried
into effect only in the three cities of Mexi
co, Puebla, and Queretero, which will
furnish, combined, 2,000 men for imme
diate purposes. These cities will then be
exempted from the general conscription
throughout the empire which will be made
somewhere about the month of November.
The present one takes place in July. I
am not informed as to the number to be
raised by the general draft, but, as tlie wax
footing of the army of Mexico is to be a
little under 50,000 men, the draft will
probably call for about that amount. In a
former letter I gave the proposed division
of this army among cavalry, infantry and
artillery.
ORGANIZATION OF THE NATIONAL ARMY.
The army will be organized and model
ed after the French rule. It ought to
make an efficient force. It will be well
uniformed and fed, and the object will be
to inspire the different corps with that sol
dierly ambition which has hitherto been
sadly wanting among the Mexicans. The
draft will call for men of the finest physical
condition; who will do credit to the service.
Hitherto a Mexican army has been com
posed of an indiscriminate mixture of size
and color, many of the companies exhibit
ing every imaginable hue, from jet black to
cream color, while anything like drill and
discipline was unknown. The present
army will be under European officers prin
cipally. The pay of these is already stipu
lated, a General receiving about $7,000 in
gold. This military organization is a twin
movement with the new revenue regula
tion, by which a sum sufficient lor all the
purposes of the Government will be raised
by a uniform system of taxation.
INSIGNIFICANCE OF SANTA ANNA’S MOVE
EENT.
The Santa Anna phase in the Mexican
question excites some interest here, but
neither his friends nor his enemies attach
any importance to his sojourn in the United
States. You may be certain that the ex-
Dietator lias no association whatever with
the empire. In 1862, Marshal Bazine
permitted him to land in Mexico, out of
pity for a harmless old man, who professed
himself desirous of returning to die in his
native land ; but as soon as he reached
Cordova, he commenced his old game of
pronwiciamentos and yritos, and it was
found necessary to send the old fellow
away, as he would not promise any better
behavior. He afterwards wrote an absurd
letter from Havana, excusing his bad faith,
and urging that he did not know what he
was doing at the time ; but only excited
the ridicule of his enemies and the disgust
of his friends. Whatever may be the fate
of Mexico, your readers need not include
Santa Anna in the programme as an ele
ment of the slightest importance. He has
no party and few friends in Mexico, where
his selfishness and perfidy are remembered
as something monstrous even in this land
of excesses.
PROBABLE MOVEMENTS OF THE FRENCH
TROOPS.
Until the army is organized, the French
troops will not be removed; and as the
draft and subsequent drilling will occupy
spine readers may calculate
upon the withdrawal of Napoleon’s army
about a year from the coming fall. They
may, however, be well assured, that Napo
leon will not abandon Maximilian, and
that he never intended to be understood as
meaning to do so when he publicly an
nounced his policy of withdrawal last win
ter. The French soldiers will not quit
Mexico until the empire is placed on a
basis of security and self-support.
Nor can this lie construed into any con
tinuance of a foreign military establish
ment over Mexico. Maximilian, as well as
all other rulers in this turbulent, volcanic
country, must have power to preserve or
der and maintain his government from the
attacks of the disorderly element here, al
ways ready to overthrow where weakness
invites, and to foment revolutions for the
sake of the spoils which political commo
tions usually throw to the surface.
Dr. Craven’s Book. —The Washing
ton correspondent of the Boston Post savs
that “the sale of Dr. Craven’s book in the
District of Columbia is greater than the
sale of any other book ever before offered.
Notwithstanding its extortionately high
price, the scarcity of money and the fear
to spend it, this book is bought by the very
poorest classes of the community with an
avidity that proves how universal is . the
interest felt in Jefferson Davis. Radical,
Conservative, Democrat - and Secessionist
all run after it, cornmqnt on ip all but fight
over it. Pecuniarily, if it sell everywhere
else as it does here, it will be the greatest
literary success of the age.
Strange Affinity of a Spiritualist—He Is
Enchanted by a Clairvoyant Siren-
Takes Several Wives and I.eaves for
South America.
The St. Louis papers contain a long ac
count of the conduct of Col. J. H. Blood,
City Auditor, and President of the St.
Louis Railroad Company, which illustrates
the power of the new doctrine 6f affinity in
rather an unfavorable light.
Col. Blood was an officer in the sixth
Missouri Infantry, and retired from three
years service with honor, and was taken
warmly by the hand, by numerous friends
and admirers. He had acquired some
$30,000 in the service, and was regarded
an excellent business man. '
But the spell of the enchantress was laid
upon him, and he fell from the path of
rectitude, as falls a bright star in the even
ing and disappears behind the horizon.
X\ hen the spiritualists began to inculcate
their strange and fascinating doctrines in
the city, Col. Blood early became a convert
and at this time is President of the Society
of Spiritualists in the city*.
Some two years ago, Colonel Blood, in
his intercourse with the spiritualists, be
came accquainted with a certain Madam
Holland, who had an office on Washington
avenue, and advertised that she could
effect wonderful cures of female com
plaints by means of clairvoyance, Ac.,
Colonel Blood’s wife, an estimable lady,
whom he married in Massachusetts,' was
an invalid, and he took her to this Madam
Holland for medical treatment. Some
time after this visit to the Witch of
Washington avenue, Colonel Blood’s friends
became uneasy on account' of his frequent
visits to the siren, and remonstrated with
him about his extravagant gifts of money to
her. They represented that the woman was
of bad character, whose only object was to
draw money from him; hut he insisted that
she was a good woman, and promised to
retrench his lavish expenditures* He
readily admitted that his conduct as a hus
band was very wrong, and frequently prom
ised to reform, but the moment he came
into the presence of the enchantress lie
seemed to have no will of his own, and
yielded to her command like a slave or a
child. His wife returned from a visit to
the Bast last summer, and hearing of the
conduct of her husband, called on Madam
Holland to persuade her to break off her,
connection with her husband. The shame
less woman informed the virtuous wife that
she had a claim upon her husband as his
wife, and satisfied her that she was actu
ally married to him.
Upon making this discovery, Mrs. Blood
refused to live with her husband, and pre
pared to take the necessary' steps for ob
taining a divorce. Her friends dissuaded
her, honing that matters might be recon
ciled. They succeeded in inducing the
Madam to leave the city, but not until she
had bankrupted iicr victim and blasted the
happiness of a virtuous wile forever. She
was a very cormorant, and continually de
manded money. She sometimes received
as much as five thousand dollars at a time,
and was still unsatisfied.
During these two eventful years, Colonel
Blood became fascinated with another
blood-sucker, a frail woman from Brook
lyn, N. Y.
On account of these irregularities Col.
Blood lost his position as President of the
Railroad Company, and his confidential
friends felt it to be their duty to advise
those who were doing business with hint to
be on their guard. The clairvoyant held
the marriage certificate 'in terrorem over
his head, and the fate of a bigamist stared
him in the face. There was .no hope for
him to redeem his squandered fortune, for
if lie escaped the Scylla of Brooklyn he
would be sure to be wrecked upon the
Charybdis of Washington avenue, lie
therefore concluded that the only course
left for him was to leave the country, and
start life anew in South America. . Accord
ingly he procured from the Mayor a leave
of absence for twenty days, and on Monday
last left the city, lie left his resignation
in the hands of a friend, to be handed in
after a certain time. We are assured that
he took no woman with him, and if Madame
Holland is with him now, she met him at
some other place.
Wheeling into Line.
The indications now are that the South
will be almost unanimous in support of
the Philadelphia Convention movement.
In this State, we are glad to see that the
opposition to the Convention, is daily be
coming less active and decided. Many of
the newspapers which at first looked with
distrust upon the project, or thought that
no good could be accomplished by it, arc
yielding their first convictions and are now
disposed to favor it. Among the latter we
are pleased to find that sterling old State
Rights paper, the Columbus Sun and
Times. In its issue of the 14th inst., that
paper presents the following cogent and
seasonable views in favor of Southern
representation in the contemplated Con
vention, which we commend to the con
sideration of our contemporary across the
street:
Since the writing of our first article up
on this subject, events have occuiTed
which have materially changed our opin
ions of the spirit in which that Convention
was called, the representation likely to be
gathered by it, and the results which may
possibly follow its deliberations.
It is now unmistakably clear, that it will
receive the united and determined opposi
tion of the radical element North and
South ; that the movement is deemed im
portant and* necessary by the President
and his true friends and advisers, and that
it will receive the powerful aid and co
operation of the entire Democratic party
of the North and Northwest.
We have reason to believe that all the
men who may be sent to the Convention,
no matter what mav have been the politi
cal antecedents, will represent constituen
cies unalterably plgeded to the placing of
the control of the Government into the
hands of white' men, and that organized
party which will be arrayed in opposition
to it, will be as firmly committed to the
monstrous and ruinous policy of universal
suffrage.
In a contest upon such an issue we can
not doubt, as to where our allegiance be
longs, or falter in the discharge of any
duty which the occasion imposes upon us.
Throwing aside, therefore, any personal
objections of our own, we yield to the gen
erally expressed opinion that the Sfiuth
should be represented in the Philadelphia
Convention, with an earnest desire and
hope that our own fears may be groundless,
anu that great good may result to the
South and the country by a convocation of
patriotic men, desirous of saving all tliat
a civil war has left of personal liberty and
constitutional rights.
Champagne Statistics.— Statistics re
cently published show tliat 30,000,000 of
bottles of champagne are annually pro
duced in France, and are thus apportioned:
Africa. 100,000; Spain arid Portugal, 200,-
000; Italy, 400,000; Belgium, 500,000;
Holland, 500,000; Germany, 1,500,000;
Russia, 2.<)00,000; France, 2,500,000;
England, 5,000,000; India, 5,000,000;
North America,* 10,000,000. This calcula
tion leaves 1,200,000 bottles unaccounted
for, and takes jio note of the billions of in
ferior wines which are foisted on the un
wary as veritable champagne.